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Hit the road jack wagon, you hate-America agitator, and don't come back. AMF! You were nothing but a usurper and domestic enemy that divided our country. Barry's domestic legacies will be "The Porkulus," which lived for 8 years in CR's, which deepened the economic pain. The disappearing Middle Class. Eight years of massive debt and his catastrophic social engineering of our military. The U.S. military is in deep trouble. Our new Secretary of Defense (retired Marine Corps General James Mattis) will no doubt be dealing with topics such as Navy ships that breakdown, Air Force planes without spare parts...

Looking for info on this picture. Look behind the coffee pot... anyone know the painting hanging on the wall? I was watching Kojak and just at the end of this scene, that takes place in a NY hospital, I noticed this. Does anyone know if this scene/painting has been written about since Sept. 11th? Just something I'm thinking about today.

All 14 Senate Democrats will be in Madison on Saturday for a rally - Will Thank Supporters All 14 Democratic state senators who left Wisconsin three weeks ago to delay action on a controversial Republican budget repair bill are planning a news conference Saturday in Madison. After that event, senators are expected to appear at a rally at the Capitol, where they’ll thank the people who’ve been protesting the bill. Sen. Chris Larson says his message for demonstrators will be that this is only the beginning. He says it's time to step up recall efforts against Republican senators and rally...

I always run into this one: Does anyone know how to search FR posts containing TSA, DoD, DoJ, SoS or DHS in their titles?

Bedfordshire Police Instructions regarding Terrorist & Dangerous Criminals THESE ARE INSTRUCTIONS HANDED OUT TO ALL OFFICERS AT C.I.D COURSES AND ANTI-TERRORISTS COURSES IN THE BEDFORDSHIRE FORCE/SERVICE UNITED KINGDOM

[Maryland governor] Martin O'Malley is expected to be elected chairman of the Democratic Governors Association in Washington on Wednesday, a position that would give him a turn in the national spotlight. As chairman, O'Malley could fatten his list of donors with names from other states, deepen relationships with a network of emerging Democratic leaders and recruit new faces to the party. It would also afford an opportunity to install loyal staffers in key national positions. The position proved a stepping-stone for former President Bill Clinton, current Health Secretary Kathleen Sibelius and current Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, among others.

WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio stepped out of a meeting in the Capitol on Monday and an army of reporters rushed him, thrusting recorders in his face. He cracked up laughing, as if to say, Come on, I'm just the new guy from Florida. But the new guy is, for now, one of the hottest things in national politics, a face of the Republican resurrection, the man who improbably toppled a popular governor to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Obama Meets Obama Sunday at the White House Halloween-fest, Obama met his Joker:Obama Meets Obama

KABUL, Afghanistan - The war in Afghanistan enters its 10th year Thursday with key players hedging their bets, uncertain whether the Obama administration is prepared to stay for the long haul, move quickly to exit an increasingly unpopular conflict, or do something in between. Fearing that his Western allies may in the end abandon him, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has started to prepare his nation for a withdrawal of international forces by shoring up relations with neighboring Pakistan and reaching out to insurgents interested in reconciliation. Fewer people are talking about establishing Western-style democracy in Afghanistan. Instead, the focus is...

A Texas Republican who steadfastly has prodded the federal government to better secure the U.S.-Mexico border has introduced legislation requiring the Defense Department to make National Guard troops available to states on request. Rep. Ted Poe, in response to what he called the federal governments failure to answer the repeated requests of border state governors to protect the nation's international borders, has offered the National Guard Border Enforcement Act to ensure that border states "have the needed resources to protect their citizens from the ongoing border-related violence." The bill is endorsed by 20 Republican members of the House. "The...

Americans from coast to coast got burned this summer, but they aren't reaching for the aloe vera. Instead, 14.6 million unemployed Americans have been burned by the "Recovery Summer" that never was. And if Congress doesn't renew the Bush tax cuts soon, the problems will only get worse. On June 17 the Obama administration kicked off its "recovery summer" public-relations campaign to promote the anticipated successes of Congress's use of Keynesian economic strategy -- translated: more government spending -- to reboot the economy.

Mo Brooks, who slammed U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith in the Republican primary for questioning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sanity, had no problem calling her a socialist at a "Fire Pelosi" rally in Huntsville on Wednesday. Brooks, a Madison County commissioner, will oppose Democrat Steve Raby in the Fifth District race Nov. 2. About 120 people cheered the Republican National Committee’s "Fire Pelosi!" bus as it pulled into a parking lot at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Most held "Fire Pelosi" signs that were distributed to the crowd before the bus arrived. "Socialist" and "Communist" were the words of...

Forget the positive 'economic indicators' you keep hearing about in the news. Statistics released from the U.S. Census Bureau today bear out the grim reality that many people are facing as a result of the Great Recession: More people slipped below the poverty line last year -- 3.8 million more--for a total of 43.6 million Americans, the highest actual number of people since the government started tracking poverty 51 years ago and the third straight year of increase. That brought the national poverty rate to 14.3 percent in 2009, up from 13.2 percent in 2008, the bureau says. That rate...

Federal mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will cost the U.S. government $53 billion over the next decade under so-called "fair-value" accounting, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Thursday. The CBO estimate contrasted sharply with that of the Obama administration, which forecasted $44 billion in savings from the lenders under a different forecasting method. House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) formally requested the CBO report.

Rep Tom Perriello, D-Va., made a startling confession: “If there’s one thing I’ve learned up here (in Washington) and I didn’t really need to come up here to learn it, is the only way to get Congress to balance the budget is to give them no choice, and the only way to keep them out of the cookie jar is to give them no choice, which is why – whether it’s balanced budget acts or pay as you go legislation or any of that – is the only thing. If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing”...

Medford police were ordered to patrol Joey Vento's home and that's kicked up a new controversy for the owner of Geno's Steaks in South Philadelphia. Vento's last controversy -- his "order in English" signs -- landed him on the Glenn Beck show and made national headlines. He's been a huge advocate and long-time supporter of veterans and local police. In fact he donated a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to the Medford police department this year and that seems to be the real rub here. The motorcycle and the fact that Vento doesn't even live in Medford. He lives in the neighboring township...

The economy is still growing, but just barely. The latest wave of downbeat economic data, including Friday’s report on gross domestic product, have renewed fears that we could be headed for the second half of a “double dip” recession. It is even possible that the apparent economic recovery is a mirage, and that the recession that began in December 2007 never really ended. Increasingly it seems that the unprecedented measures taken in 2008 and 2009 to revive the economy are not working because the recession is unlike any this country has seen in the past 60 years.

Too few in Washington have been digging into the scandals behind the collapse of the “government-sponsored entities” (GSE's) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their role in helping trigger the global financial crisis. Their collapse has cost taxpayers $146 billion thus far. Freddie Mac sought an additional $1.8 billion in taxpayer support just last week. There is no end in sight, as the Obama administration, through executive fiat, has placed no upper limit on the taxpayer liability for these two monstrosities. One reason official Washington isn’t too interested in Fannie and Freddie is the role political corruption played in their...

How many more months must Americans endure near-double-digit unemployment, little or no new-job creation, economic stagnation, a topsy-turvy stock market, and sagging consumer confidence before Washington politicians concede the "summer of recovery" is mostly a mirage? They've spent nearly $8 trillion since 2007, including nearly $2 trillion on economic stimulus programs and an equal amount for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and similar bailouts. They've effectively nationalized Fortune 500 corporations, taken over the health care sector, and set the regulatory stage for more bailouts and takeovers, but the needle is still stuck. Worse, recovery isn't likely for many months ahead...

The $20 billion victims' compensation fund established for the Gulf oil spill may use revenue from BP's oil and gas drilling as collateral, according to details released Wednesday by the White House.