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Yesterday's edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight included a report from Kitty Pilgrim on product recalls from China and the administration's efforts to reduce importation of unsafe products. "Bush administration officials are going through the charade of tougher enforcement with few results," according to correspondent Pilgrim. Using the term "charade" prepared viewers for where this segment was going: KITTY PILGRIM, reporter: HHS Secretary Leavitt says he is optimistic the Chinese government will approve the opening of three FDA offices in China some time soon. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says if recalls continue at the current rate, it will be...

arry sinclair emails to inform us that he has "arrived in dc and over the next three to five days will be making one hell of a lot of noise." among stops in dc mr. sinclair plans to visit the democratic national committee to inquire as to why the complaint filed by him against senator barack obama last fall "has been ignored." mr. sinclair also plans to file complaints to the fbi over threats against his life and the life of his family members.

RFFM.org Commentary Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan recently wrote a book which is highly critical of the George Bush administration. The only reason I know who Scott McClellan is stems from the fact I am insane. I spend too much time watching and analyzing politics. And, if you don't know who McClellan is, I would suggest you use this fact on a resume to prove you care about the people in the world who matter. However, if you had a chance to watch and read comments from the dominant media concerning McClellan and the revelations in his literary...

Charity: Aid workers raping, abusing children [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/27/charity.aidworkers/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail] “LONDON, England (CNN) — Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries, a leading European charity has said.” Circulation of the following pictures is encouraged. Please copy as opposed to linking, as it uses this site’s bandwidth. Children as young as 6 have been forced to have sex with aid workers and peacekeepers in return for food and money, Save the Children UK said in a report released Tuesday. After interviewing hundreds of children, the charity said it found instances of rape, child...

Short answer: No. Are they more secure than they were January 19, 2001? I believe all evidence points to the affirmative. For your consideration:In 2000 there were approximately 9000 border patrol agents. By the time Bush leaves office that number is projected to double to 18,000. Apprehensions and deportations are up. Illegal crossings are down. The ever-expanding Val Verde County jail is filled with would-be yardmen and maids, immigrants awaiting deportation. They’ve been caught in a law enforcement dragnet known as “Operation Streamline,” a zero tolerance program that began here and has since spread both east and west along the...

Criminal defense attorney Douglas R. Slain (pictured) has a great post about an outrageous misuse of child pornography laws. The target, of course, is male--in this case Alex Phillips, a 17-year old high school student from La Crosse, Wisconsin. Slain writes: "Phillips may not be the brightest crayon in the box, but his story is one that once again calls into question the legislative sanity of some of the overreach of our laws regarding what constitutes 'child pornography.' "It turns out that Phillips at some point in the last year was friendly with a 16-year old girl called HLK (14...

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Liberals are ecstatic over the latest “Tell-All” from Scott McMullen while Conservatives really don’t know how to react. Consider the dynamics of Scott McMullen and determine if you, the reader, would really want to have a guy like this anywhere around you? His friends and co workers say he never gave any indication that he was annoyed, disgruntled or even mildly disturbed at the things he saw being done within the White House. Their claim, pretty much in unison, is “This is not the Scott we knew”. Only Nancy Polosi, with her lack of appreciation for anything American, “entirely agrees”...

She's not conceding. She's not going gently into the night. However, she will be fighting all the way to the Democrat convention...and possibly beyond as you can see in this Daily KOs KOmmie THREAD titled, "Wes Clark: Hillary Will Take Fight to Convention." And if Wes Clark said it, you can be sure it is true since Wes is entirely a creature of the Clintons. This is why all the support for Clark by the DUmmies a couple of years ago was so laughable. They actually thought Weasley Clark would run against Hillary Clinton in the primaries. Of course,...

Non-compete clauses for tollways would be a non-starter under a policy the Texas Transportation Commission will consider Thursday. Such language in toll road contracts, which generally prohibit a toll road owner (such as the Texas Department of Transportation) from building or expanding a nearby free road, or require compensation for doing so, have been controversial in Texas and elsewhere. TxDOT’s contract with Cintra-Zachry, a Spanish and American consortium that will build and operate a southern section of Texas 130, requires TxDOT to pay up if it makes certain highway improvements within 10 miles of the road. The commission Thursday will...

The man portrayed by the left as evil incarnate is saying Barack Obama will win by a landslide in November. This isn't supported by the polls at this time, but with more than five months to go, anything can happen. We already know one Murdoch who's hosting overseas fundraisers for Obama, so it wouldn't be a shock if her father jumped on board.AUSTRALIAN expatriate Rupert Murdoch today predicted a Democratic landslide in the US presidential election against a gloomy economic backdrop over the next 18 months. Mr Murdoch has yet to endorse a US presidential candidate but considers Barack Obama...

As all the left wing pundits are promoting Scott McClellan’s new “Tell All” book about the Bush administration it’s been revealed that the publisher is a close ally of George Soros and has published Soros’ books along with a multitude of other left wing authors.

In the small town of Winnemucca Nevada a man bent on performing a mass shooting at a bar was stopped by an armed CCW permit holder who happened to be in the right place at the right time. The alleged mass murderer had already killed two victims & had injured two others with gunshot wounds, but after reloading to resume his shooting spree he was shot & killed by an armed CCW permit holder who was also at the bar. The alleged mass murderer & his two dead victims were already dead by the time Police arrived on the scene...

They do jobs others refuse to do.

With Obama being shamed into going to Iraq and/or Afghanistan, there will be plenty of military hardware and personnel for his handler's photo-op pleasure. Of course, for the rest of us, there is always the likelihood that he will be set up for a photo op in some kind of military thing that is going to look damned ridiculous and funny a la the Tank Riding Michael Dukakis or the Bunny Suit Wearing John Kerry! I am willing to bet money his handlers are sweating...I can just hear the conversations now: OBAMA HANDLER #1: "No tanks. For God's sake, we...

In one of the most remarkable speeches ever given by a Federal Reserve official, or for that matter any U.S. governement official, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, a voting member of the FOMC in 2008, told an audience at the Commonwealth Club of California, in a speech titiled, Storms on the Horizon, the truth about the current state of the United States economy. He started by warning about the current inflationary problem...

[How to fix health care? When it comes to the current state of heath care services in the United States, there are no easy answers. However, most people I've spoken to — both within and without the industry — agree that the way we are providing health care services in America now just isn't working, and that something must be done. Both Democrat presidential candidates are touting a public/private system of universal health care; the Republican candidate favors tinkering with the current system. Other proposals include getting rid of all government involvement in the health care industry, full-on British/Canadian-style socialized...

I'm buying a new car tomorrow and writing a check for cash. I told a co-worker that I was doing it and he said "the dealer won't take that personal check". My question which is only valid in the next 16 hours or so..is that true? Can't the dealer hold the money against me or something?

The audience for Internet video will hit one billion viewers by 2013, driven by increasing broadband penetration and the rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world’s population, according to ABI Research. That’s 1 in 6 people in the world that could be the potential audience for your Internet video! “The rapid expansion of broadband video creates opportunities,” notes ABI analyst Cesar Bachelet. “A wide variety of actors aim to gain a share of this fast-growing market: not only content owners such as the BBC and NBC Universal, and Internet portals such as AOL and Yahoo!, but...

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