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I heard on tv that Gov. Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney, Gov. Charlie Crist, Rob Portman, Senator Sam Brownback, Senator Joe Lieberman were invited to Senator McCain's ranch, and some (or all) are potential running mates. So I'm doing some research on them, and would like to hear what other FReepers think about these people. Of course, it's not a "done deal" that any of these will be the running mate, and it could be someone entirely different. I also like Sen. John Thune, Governor Palin, J.C. Watts, Michael Steele and a few others.

We have a fair idea who John McCain may be considering for VP, but who will Obama choose? Some names being mentioned are: Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson and Sam Nunn. It is a rather large pool, but here are some names no one has mentioned. Cynthia McKinney, she seems to embody the sentiments of many of Barack's closest associates. She has been credited with telling Jet Magazine that the "white, rich Democratic boys club wanted [her] to stay in the back of the bus." Well here's her chance to ride shotgun for the driver. Robert Byrd, the reformed Klansman can...

...while standing in for Senator Edward Kennedy and delivering a commencement address at Wesleyan University , Obama urged the graduates to look past material gains and work for the “collective salvation” of the United States. He said that if he is elected he will call upon the students and the nation to “be unified in service to a greater good. I intend to make it a cause of my presidency.” The man who has nice suits and a big house, told them, “You can take your diploma, walk off this stage and chase only after the big house and the...

“Don’t Worry, Be Trusting” (Matthew 6:24-34)Welcome to the Non-Worriers Hall of Fame. In our exhibits you will meet some of the most famous non-worriers in history. These are the champions of carefree living, down through the centuries. Stress was a stranger to these advocates of the anxiety-free life. Here in our first display we meet Alfred E. Newman, the goofy-looking cover boy of Mad Magazine. Alfred’s motto is as famous as his gap-toothed grin. It’s the simple question, “What, me worry?” Next in our Hall of Non-Worriers we come to the well-known singer Bobby McFerrin. Bobby captured the airwaves in...

I am putting together a series of posts regarding my Presidential Campaign Platform. I am not actually running for President of the US for a few reasons. One reason is that I am 33. Another reason is that I have no political experience. And lastly, I am a very reasonable person who does not enjoy lying, therefore no one would ever vote for me. The first part of this series will be the issue of oil and the environment. There is some evidence out there that we are warming the planet through our use of fossil fuels. If you doubt...

Naomi Campbell, one of the most famous and beautiful women in the world, and known for her Intemperate behavior, will be immortalized in sculpture. She has been posing for photographer Nick Knight, who is using three-dimensional scanners to create the sculptures...

RFFM.org Also Honors All Who Paid the Ultimate Price to Defend Our Freedom An Interview With Doug Sterner, Creator of Home of Heroes web site Interview by Dan Gura, Contributing Editor Gura writes, "Today I offer something not on the lighter side, but one which will make you stand a little straighter, a little prouder to be an American." Do you know who Jason L. Dunham is? How about Paul Ray Smith? You should because they are two of America’s finest sons; they are heroes in the War on Terror. These days the press doesn’t seem to care very much...

Presidential PsychosisThe general definition of psychosis is defined as a mental state which is characterized by losing touch with reality, among other things. Many words have been written in the past 16 years or so about our 42nd president and his lawful spouse, and some even touched upon this subject. I hope to add my own observations to this timely topic. If physicists search for a unifying theory to explain the universe, then political scientists should look upon these two denizens of the lowest strata of power hungry crawlers as the political equivalent. The unifying thread is an almost incomprehensible...

Lets not keep requesting for same sex marriage. Lets demand that one woman and one man marriges no longer get the benefits that type of marriage receives from federal and state government. When they realize that they have no power of decision making over the health of their mate, that neither one can inherit the social security or the estate they have built and that they loose all the benefits just for the entitlement of one man and one woman marriage certificate. That will stop the religious and political push to change the US Constitution or any state constitution.

Amsterdam CDA municipal council member Lex van Drooge was recently asked to move to a different seat on a KLM flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam, since the Muslim woman sitting next to him had objections about sitting next to a man. The council member had been a work-trip to Istanbul together with a group of Amsterdam politicians. He says that at beginning of the trip back he was asked by a stewardess to move elsewhere in the plane. Later it turned out this request was from his original headscarf wearing neighbor. Van Drooge says that apparently we don't know how...

Jefferson’s vision for news called for a multitude of voices, competing in a freewheeling marketplace of ideas. By the end of his life in 1826, he had watched news make steady progress toward this vision. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America of that time, marveled at the ability of individual newspapers to attract and organize like-minded citizens into “Associations,” each representing a different voice. But, soon after his death, Jefferson’s vision for news not only stalled, it reversed itself, and continued in the opposite direction through most of the 20th century. Ironically, each of the...

I used to wonder if Obama had a mind nimble enough to be President. Now, I’m wondering if he has enough on the ball to be a moderately successful contestant on “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?”. Behold, the Obamessiah’s fearsome grasp of where the hell he is on any given day. At first, it seemed as if Barack Obama might just be speaking figuratively, as is his wont sometimes. “How’s it going, Sunshine? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody. It’s good to be in Sunshine!” Obama declared on taking the stage this afternoon for a...

Investor's Business Daily -- In 2006 alone, according to the American Petroleum Institute, U.S. oil companies paid some $138 billion in taxes to the IRS — and that doesn't include special oil severance, sales and use taxes companies also had to pay. Internal Revenue Service (Table 6, p. 41) -- In 2005 (the most recent year for which data are available), the bottom 75% of all individual taxpayers (about 100 million taxpayers out of 132 million total) paid about $130.9 billion in income taxes. Adjusting by the recent average of about $5 billion in annual increases in tax revenue from...

Join Honest and eeevil as we speak tonight at 8 pm est, with the Honorable Lou Barletta of Hazelton, Pa., now running for U.S. House of Representatives. See http://loubarletta.com . Listen as Mayor Barletta fills us in on his perspective on the latest attempts to shove Amnesty on the unwilling citizens of the U.S. Hear the Mayor's live response to the incredible admissions his opponent made relative to Demrat plans and the War. Go to http://honestconservative-cookiedough.blogspot.com and you will see a list of links related to tonights show. Our borders are still open folks! WE will also be talking to...

Jello Biafra Favors Talk Radio Censorship After struggling for years against censorship of his work, one might expect an aging punk rocker to have a particular respect for free expression by others. And as a supposed "anarchist", advocating governmental intervention to suppress free speech would seem out of the question. For former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra, however, hypocrisy apparently knows no boundaries. Biafra is once again in the news after syndicated talk host Michael Savage played "California Über Alles" soon after news of Ted Kennedy's cancer broke, resulting in an angry response from left-wing Internet sites. Savage maintains Kennedy's...

  Senator Obama is one of key leaders in a campaign to make Juneteeth Day a National Holiday in the United States. Juneteeth Day occurs on every June 19th, the anniversary of General Granger announcing the emancipation of slaves in the South West. The Holiday would be celebrated on the third Friday in June. Here's what the NYT wrote about it on 2004: "Most gatherings are decidedly upbeat, but the sobering reason for the holiday has also been part of Juneteenth's growth. Dr. Ronald Myers, the leader of a movement to make Juneteenth a national holiday, says June 19 should...

BREAKING NEWS -- Representatives of several Western governments have recently announced that an international team of bureaucrats and state-employed economists have finally uncovered a long-sought scientific formula for defeating the natural Law of Scarcity. For hundreds of years now, politicians and bureaucrats the world over have struggled in vain to devise a form of political method to overcome what has long been known as Say's Law; named after the French classical economist Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), who was the first scholar to promulgate the very elementary concept that it is only an increase in productivity which can raise the living standards...

This is one of the most disturbing VIDEOS I have ever seen. And yet is is also strangely fascinating. If you dare to watch it you will feel somewhat guilty as if you have been given a too private glimpse at someone with serious mental health issues. In fact, I probably wouldn't have even posted it had the person in the video, who now calls herself Rasa von Werder, was not at one time the famous stripper, Kellie Everts, Miss Nude Universe in 1967 who was also featured in Playboy Magazine. At one time she had an incredible body....

No level-headed American would advocate Nazi-style 'medicine' in which animal experiments are bypassed and testing is FIRST performed on humans. Dr. Sharon Camp, President of AGI, conceded in a 16 January 2008 e-mail to Brent Rooney that the Alan Guttmacher Institute could not cite one published animal study of vacuum aspiration (aka 'suction') abortion and later risk of premature birth; 'suction' abortion is the most common abortion procedure in the U.S. and Canada. Lawyer Michelle Obama, according to a 22 May 2008 report by LifeNews ...

Urban legends help Obama while hurting McCain and therefore our country We recently showed [http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1118] how the National Jewish Democratic Council cut out part of a statement by John McCain to suggest that he, like Obama, is open to unconditional discussions with terrorists and rogue governments. Half-truths, out of context statements, and blatant falsehoods are the National Jewish Democratic Council’s stock in trade, and we have exposed NJDC for this on many occasions. NJDC is therefore a Republican asset that will do Barack Obama far more harm than good in November. We must caution those who are on our side...