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Feel free to go directly to the article and learn what is open and what is closed but, this whole "Man Made Disaster" is much ado about nothing.During a shutdown, you can:Get help from 911: All emergency services will continue as usual, including law enforcement and emergency and disaster assistance.Get caught by a red light camera in D.C.: Red light cameras will still be running, and tickets will still be sent out, which brings us to the next item on the list...Get mail: Employees of the United States Postal Service are exempt from furloughs.Get your Social Security benefits: Payments...

"They think that they can run the okey-doke on ya, bamboozle ya." -B.Obama

In a belated expression of remorse for the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki sixty years ago, Congress has authorized the Army to launch apologetic nuclear strikes on two American cities. The selection of cities is not final, but they will most likely be Dallas and Houston in a nod to the Democratic desire to attack cities in a "red" state. Former President and legendary humanitarian Jimmy Carter explained, "While sitting next to my good friend Michael Moore at the Democratic National Convention, he reminded me of his words about 9/11: 'If someone did this to get back at Bush,...

A woman from St. Paul was wounded this week near Cincinnati during a freeway shootout that killed the assistant to top-selling rap artist T.I. Janice Gillespie, 22, part of an entourage that included T.I., was hospitalized in stable condition. The rapper, whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., was not hurt. But Philant Johnson, 26, his assistant, was slain during a shootout Wednesday. The shooting was the latest in a string of violent incidents involving hip-hop artists during the past month. Cincinnati police said the 3 a.m. shootout between Harris' entourage and unidentified locals may have carried over from...

Where the racism's found by Dan Brockway, Staff Writer, The Keystone I find it both funny and disturbing how the Left in America has managed to make conservatives look racist. It’s ironic that the Republican Party (the party of Abe Lincoln- emancipator of the slaves) is often labeled racist, while the Democratic Party (the party of Thomas Jefferson who raped his own slaves) is seen as the black man’s best friend. It’s scary because most of America buys it. Even in recent history, conservatives in Congress have been more African-American friendly than so-called “progressive” liberals. Sixty-two percent of Democrats in...