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Mark Warner is up for reelection in 2014. He won basically because his name was Warner and he was replacing a man named Warner who'd been senator for over thirty years. Warner voted for Obamacare. Let's begin to get behind a draft Cuccinelli for Senate campaign!! We can win the seat in Virginia with a solid conservative like Cuccinelli!

One Day of Fighting. Ten Different Perspectives Fallujah 2004 Garrett Anderson and Antonio de la Torre have been creating digital films together since they met at a high school digital media production class in the year 2000. Several of the students from that class are working in similar professional fields today. Garrett served as a U.S. Marine infantryman from 2003-2007; during which he deployed to Iraq as well as Afghanistan and continued to collaborate with Antonio when visiting home on vacation. The two filmmakers decided in late 2011 to interview members of Anderson’s former platoon who fought alongside each other...

The White House on Tuesday refused to state its position on legislative proposals aimed at formalizing President Obama's promise that people who like their existing coverage should be allowed to keep it under the new health care law. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., introduced bills permitting insurers to reinstate plans that fall short of the coverage requirement under ObamaCare after insurance companies began sending out millions of cancellation letters, often citing the new health care law as the reason. House Republicans intend to vote as early as next week on Upton's legislation. Senate Democrats spoke dismissively...

Now that true horror stories of Obamacare's wrecking ball are finally reaching the public, the White House doesn't like "anecdotes." Live by tale-telling; die by tale-telling. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney huffed that stage-four gallbladder cancer survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby's personal account in The Wall Street Journal of seeing her health insurance plan canceled and her access to doctors cut off was "sensational." Not a shred of compassion for her predicament. No sorrow for her loss. Must. Attack. Messenger. There are millions out there like Sundby who are using Facebook, Twitter, Twitchy.com and a new website called...

Now I know why I take Fox News in small doses. I was watching Fox & Friends this morning and caught Brian Kilmeade blaming the Tea Party candidate for Cuccinelli's loss. Hello! Cuccinelli was backed by the Tea Party! He was most likely referring to the fake Libertarian candidate backed by an Obama bundler. Blaming the so called "Tea Party" candidate for the results of the VA race is flat out lying! No more Fox News for me! Not even small doses!

The disastrous rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has challenged the president’s famous promise: “If you like your plan, you can keep it; if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” But according to Catholic and other Christian critics, Obamacare appears also to say that if a person likes his morals, he can’t keep those either. Scott Griswold, a Catholic insurance agent in South Carolina, said health insurance has been part of his insurance business for more than two decades. But the ACA’s mandates have made him decide that his conscience won’t...

Nov 6 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp is looking for thousands of good men - and women. The world's biggest coffee chain said on Wednesday it would commit to hiring at least 10,000 veterans and spouses of active military in five years. It also said five new and existing U.S. Starbucks cafes on or near military bases will share a portion of each sale with non-profit organizations that help veterans re-enter the workforce. Many U.S. companies have committed to hiring thousands of military veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seattle-based Starbucks said it will have specialized recruiters to match the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States will provide an additional $75 million (£46 million) in aid to create Palestinian jobs and help them improve roads, schools and other infrastructure. US officials say the aid is designed to boost Palestinian public support for faltering peace talks with Israel by showing them tangible benefits from the process. Kerry announced the aid in Bethlehem, where he is meeting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Kerry earlier met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. The new aid brings the US contribution to a Palestinian infrastructure programme to $100 million (£62...

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The Royal Netherlands Air Force has launched an investigation after a Lockheed Martin F-16AM pilot accidentally strafed the control tower at the Vliehors range on the island of Vlieland during a training flight on 4 November. During the incident, several live rounds from the aircraft's 20mm cannon caused minor damage to the tower. Two controllers who were inside the building at the moment of the attack were not injured.

Republicans turned back several challenges by Democrats as the GOP retained a solid majority in the Virginia House of Delegates. Democrat Jeremy McPike narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Scott Lingamfelter in unofficial returns Tuesday, but several other Republicans survived and the GOP kept 10 seats vacated by Republicans.

Pro-amnesty activists have followed through on their promise to use a Terry McAuliffe gubernatorial victory in Virginia to lobby for comprehensive immigration reform, as several have been removed by police from Republican Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign headquarters demanding amnesty after McAuliffe won the race.The demonstrators reportedly stormed into Cuccinelli's headquarters right after McAuliffe was declared the winner, and at least one stole the stage using it to push for amnesty.“At the #Cuccinelli watch party, a few #immigration protestors interrupted and asked for #immigrationreform; were escorted out by police,” Telemundo tweeted.“Police remove about 5-10 pro-immigration reform protesters from @KenCuccinelli HQ. #VAGov,” Politico’s Emily...

How does a Democratic fund-raiser from the Clinton era manage to turn scandal into triumph? How does a former head of the Democratic Party whose character is more than a little questionable manage to turn his background into a stint living in the Governor's Mansion in Virginia? That's easy. All you have to do is accuse your opponent of waging a war on women. Never mind if it's the truth. Just spend millions of money telling the lie and it becomes the truth for a lot of people. Just ask Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli. Even though Cuccinelli closed the...

Tuesday, November 05, 2013 The American Iron Curtain Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog In March 1946, Winston Churchill told a Missouri audience, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia." >Today a new iron curtain is descending. It encloses the small Missouri town where Churchill gave his speech and all the great capitals of a great nation. Behind the iron curtain...

The ex-chief of staff for House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) helped Democrat Terry McAuliffe beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia’s gubernatorial election race. Boyd Marcus, the chief of staff for Cantor until 2003—who later teamed with another GOP operative Ray Allen to found the firm Marcus Allen, which Cantor employed until earlier this year—joined the McAuliffe campaign after Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, with whom Marcus campaigned, did not win the GOP nominee in Virginia. “I was looking at the candidates, and I saw Terry McAuliffe as the guy who will work with everybody to get things done,” Marcus...

At the end of the race, Cuccinelli was closing in on Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who eked out a two-point victory on Tuesday despite exit polls that showed McAuliffe was up by seven points. According to the Washington Post, Chris La Civita said that financial support from national Republican sources dried up on October 1.

dissident n. a person who opposes official policy, esp. that of an authoritarian state.We live in a nation where the constitutionally respectful are becoming increasingly outnumbered by those who neither understand the underpinnings of our founding nor recognize the benefits that flow from those foundational values. In place of legitimate constitutional scholarship in our educational system, we see a systematic and unrelenting effort to overturn the original concepts of our Constitution in favor of some "living" replacement -- an "updated" document made for a diverse and evolving population, or so we are told.Those who hold offices created by the Constitution itself...

Hitler's health insurance is cancelled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USG_gjaEYak

During his 'Ask Ed Live' segment on Tuesday's The Ed Show, Ed Schultz had a question via Twitter asking, "What do Christian values mean to Republicans?" He responded saying he believes Christian values exist, but that politicians use them to justify what they want to win. "...when you put it to politicians and political operatives, it now becomes a crutch to justify anything they want in the political arena connected to scripture, and oftentimes they turn out to be totally hypocritical." He concluded saying that 'Christian values' to Republicans are just a stepping stone to get what they want in politics....