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My friends and I have cried in our beer long enough about the awful choices we face in the upcoming Presidential election next fall, and we have made it clear how much we regret having to vote for Senator McCain. What I decided to do was to list the 10 most important issues I have, in order of their importance to me, and see how the three present candidates would stack up with respect to these issues.

Dear John, I'm writing because these are crucial times for my country – our country. I don't take political campaign shenanigans lightly, even though I know the whole business costs too much money, takes too much time, avoids critical issues and ultimately gets too dirty. But it leads to the White House and the presidency and "President John McCain" sounds awfully good to you. Yes, yes, I know. Both you and Cindy have said that you want to keep it all on the high road until Election Day – that you don't want to run a negative campaign. I think...

Having not been able to undermine the Iraq War, the Democrat Party must concentrate on another strategy to win the White House. The Democrats must insure that gasoline will be even more expensive in November, and they must keep whispering "recession," despite not having the economic numbers which indicate a recession. "Let's Make It The Economy Again, Stupid," will be their rehashed mantra. The Media can very well continue disparaging the American public, thereby forcing consumer confidence lower, even while there is no appreciable inflation.Recent good economic news must have caused some consternation in the Party of Carter, Dukakis, Clinton,...

Over the past week, and I suspect for the next week, many of us have read, or at least seen, numerous articles on Israel and her 60th anniversary. Many of these articles stated the seemingly obvious fact that the reestablishment of the state of Israel was nothing short of a miracle. In many ways that is very true, but is it the real miracle? Other countries have disappeared only to be reestablished though none waited quite as long as the Jewish state. So, if Israel returning to the list of countries after almost 2000 years is not the miracle, what...

Here's an update from the folks at Pro-Life Corner about the odd behavior at the abortuary in Rockford, Illinos, specifically dealing with this anti-Christian display in one of the windows: Note that the button reads "Jesus says this clinic stays open." Interestingly, this display has some things in common with voodoo altars, (see the Pro-Life Corner article for full details) but Father Euteneuer of Human Life International says, “It's not voodoo nor mockery--it is blasphemy from a demonic industry.” Not included in the article is this pic they forwarded to us of the "Condom Monster" greeting pro-life protestors at the...

The term “La Raza“, or “the Race” originated in a book titled “La Raza Cósmica,” written in 1929 by José Vasconcelos. The book’s title translates to “The Cosmic Race,” and was Vasconcelos’ attempt to explain “the ideology of a future ‘fifth race’ in the Americas; an agglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect a new civilization: Universópolis.”

The harsh British press calls Amy Winehouse, “everyones favorite junkie,” and “everyone’s favorite crackhead.” Others who know her, are less flattering in their descriptions, with a list of slurs against Winehouse, that goes on and on. She is a tragic figure, a talented Pop Star with a death wish to die for, desperately in need of divine intervention. Her issues are so great, her father Mitch wants her committed. She’s a social disaster, a relationship disaster, and a fashion disaster, if she has a guardian angel watching over her, its wings are about ready to fall off.

MERRY FITZMAS!!! Today is the second anniversary of Karl Rove's indictment on May 12, 2006. This amazing journalistic scoop of a non-event was provided by that great investigative team of TruthOut fashion photographer, Marc Ash, deranged drug addict, Jason Leopold, and, of course, the Bostonian Drunkard himself, WILLIAM RIVERS PITT. So how to celebrate Fitzmas? Of course, Pied Piper Pitt himself continues to remain mum in his turtleshell, refusing to even acknowledge the reality of his self-humiliation that has turned him into a Web laughingstock. I could have just reprinted one of the many DUFU Fitzmas threads from 2006....

Raising the minimum wage is nothing more than political snake oil. It makes some politicians look good, but hurts business, raises prices, reduces the number of minimum wage jobs and does nothing to improve those who slick politicians are pretending to help. Proponents of the Minimum wage/snake oil scam claim that raising the minimum wage helps poor families. Dab that tear, then let's look beyond the scam. The Heritage Foundation reports that 53% of minimum wage employees are teenagers or young adults under the age of 23. The other 47% have an average family income of $38,100 per year.

I can’t make this sound any more silly than it already is (which is saying something), so I’ll just cut to the chase: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. … A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a provision requiring “account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms.” No one knew exactly what it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human...

Horror novelist Stephen King talking to High School students had this to say about literacy: "The fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's not as bright." Now literacy is critically important and I applaud efforts to get people to read. But it’s the example he uses that is offensive. He assumes that people who go into the military do so because they have no other choices and because they are illiterate. This is clearly not true. If...

I received this reply to my post: McCain for President; Obama for GQ Model. I will be proudly voting for the candidate who inspires me to be the change I wish to be. This was written by someone who announced they were an “Obama Republican” who posts on FreeRepublic. A few thoughts on this brief reply. “….inspires me to be the change…”? Change is not something you are, it’s a process. It a verb, not a noun. But it’s all of a piece with all of the other vacuous, meaningless slogans that come from the Obama camp like “We are...

Recent news about the global food crisis has caused me to re-post this essay from January of last year. Curiously, Prince Albert of Tennessee has been unavailable for comment. Georgie Cracks Corn I don't know how many State of the Union Addresses since 1973 have pledged commitment to energy independence, but to quote Jim Ignatowski when he was asked how many different illicit drugs he had ingested in his lifetime, it's "exactly a lot." It was still a surprise, however, when our current President touted ethanol last week citing the sustainability myth as just one of its many indisputable virtues....

The recent editorial assaults on Rev. Jeremiah Wright amount to a virtual "lynching" of him. Fifty years ago the southern white Democratic elite would have used the word "uppity" to describe an outspoken preacher like Rev. Wright. Today the predominently white elite that controls the national Democratic Party probably doesn't use the word, but the recent attacks against Rev.Wright indicates the elite may have the same attitude toward black preachers who disagree with the views of the elite. When politicians associate with white preachers who make comments editors disagree with, the editors criticize the politicians. So why when a black...

Schlock-shockmeister, Stephen King, recently told a group of high school kids, "The fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's not as bright." Not as bright? The military requires the ability to read texts at and around the 1200 Lexile mark. For those not in the education field, the Lexile measure is a text difficulty score. The measure is based on semantic difficulty and syntactic complexity. 1200, for instance, is the measure of a novel such as War...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell, but stopped short of insulting the woman leader on Mother's Day. Instead he called her a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism. "Ms Chancellor, you can go to...," he said, pausing for effect and eliciting giggles from the audience, a group of military officers, cabinet ministers and government officials. "Because she's a woman I won't say anything else." The leftist leader, who famously called US President George Bush the devil at a United Nations assembly, slammed Merkel for calling on Latin American leaders to...

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Daniel Finkelstein of London’s The Times has Oprah #9 on a list of 10 potential VIP candidates. He has Hillary in the #1 slot...

Join us today as We dedicate our show to all Military Mom's out there. We are here to entertain, this will be one of the most fun evenings you've had on BTR! No guests, just our best friends on our favorite websites and plenty to feel strong in our conservatism about. We 've got so many laughs lined up.

Get out the kneepads, the MSM wants to have sex with Obama.