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The prospect of Mitt Romney winning the Republican nomination has many conservatives anxious. AWR Hawkins of BigGovernment sums up the sentiment well when he writes: Mitt Romney is always quick to lambast other Republicans for being career politicians, as if this is his first rodeo and he is a political newcomer. However, the truth is he’s been in politics for over seventeen years, many of which have been spent appealing to liberals and moderates and fighting to keep from being identified with Ronald Reagan. Talk to enough conservatives, and you’ll hear basically the same sentiment sooner or later: Romney is...

Set aside 13-14 minutes out of your day today to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vczpvxYfbA8&feature=player_embedded

Great photos at the link.

According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the White House will release a new health-care bill on Wednesday that will be "much smaller" than either the House or Senate versions, according to news reports. The White House said that the new proposal will "borrow" ideas from last Thursday's health-care summit and will be designed to garner bipartisan support. A senior administration official told Fox Obama's proposal will be introduced Wednesday. "In a matter of days, we will have a proposal," Pelosi said, pointing to Obama's forthcoming bill. "It will be a much smaller proposal than we had in the House bill,...

Jim DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund Pac is throwing a moneybomb for Florida Senate hopeful Marco Rubio today. Rubio, as you know, is facing off against RINO Charlie Crist for the party's nomination. Rubio is currently leading the polls, but Crist has lots on money in the bank. Let's help elect a conservative to the Florida Senate. (They're hoping to raise over $100K today, and they're already over $80K.)

You could have seen this coming... The Washington Times reported on Karl Rove's speech yesterday on the political discourse on the Left: Karl Rove teed off this afternoon on the liberal netroots, the coalition of far-left blogs and advocacy groups who are a new power bloc in the Democratic party. "The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse," said Mr. Rove, who served as one of President Bush's top strategists until he resigned this past summer, and is a noted technology nut. "People in the past who have been on the nutty fringe...

These two documentaries make Michael Moore's crap look good by comparison.

Slate's Democratic Debate Drinking Game Get drunk on political discourse! By June Thomas Posted Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003, at 10:08 AM PT This Thursday evening, the nine remaining candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination will meet in Phoenix for the fourth debate of the year. If these events have started to blend together, why not grab a bottle or two of your favorite tipple and bring on the blurriness by playing Slate's debate drinking game. Cheers! Take one drink if: A candidate mentions an ordinary American by name A candidate mentions Bill Clinton A candidate mentions John Ashcroft A candidate...

10:00 pm Eastern, 7:00 pm Pacific. Don't miss it!

Enter the Bush Doctrine The four pillars of the president's strategy for winning World War IV. BY NORMAN PODHORETZ Thursday, September 2, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT In "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" (1947), the theoretical defense he constructed of the strategy President Truman adopted for fighting the war ahead, George F. Kennan (then the director of the State Department's policy planning staff, and writing under the pseudonym "X") described that strategy as "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies . . . by the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly...

THE 'BERGLER' Is the former national security adviser and consultant to John Kerry a sloppy bumbler, or a thief of classified documents? Either way, Sandy Berger wouldn't seem a trustworthy steward in the war against terror. His behavior at the National Archives raises two primary questions: First, what is in the secret documents that Berger took from the National Archives, especially the papers he says he "accidentally discarded"? And second, is a party whose senior leaders condone the mishandling of secret terrorism records equipped to lead the war on terrorism? Berger says he "inadvertently" removed hundreds of pages of material...

Sandy Berger’s Heavy Lifting: The troubling details of the Archives document removal. In Washington this morning, government officials are trying to piece together the facts of the Sandy Berger case in an attempt to understand what the former Clinton administration national-security adviser was trying to accomplish when he took highly classified documents from the National Archives. Berger, who yesterday quit his position as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign, was appointed by former President Clinton to vet Clinton-administration documents before those documents were turned over to the September 11 investigating commission. Berger claims that as he went through a...

Book Description "I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure me out... I'm just not into psychobabble." -- George W. Bush For all his simplicity and affability, George W. Bush has remained, to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, "a mystery wrapped in an enigma." In Bush on the Couch, Dr. Justin A. Frank, a well-respected Washington, D.C.–based psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry, unwraps that mystery, assembling a comprehensive psychological profile of President Bush. Using the principles of applied psychoanalysis -- the discipline of psychoanalyzing public and historical figures pioneered by Freud -- Frank fearlessly builds his case ... and...

Did 'Junk Science' Make John Edwards Rich? By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer January 20, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - The superstar trial lawyer accomplishments of John Edwards, which allowed this former millworker to amass a personal fortune, finance his successful U.S. Senate run in 1998 and catapult himself into the 2004 race for president, may have been partially built on "junk science," according to legal and medical experts who spoke with CNSNews.com ...

...US President George Bush was also among the most influential, with the magazine referring to him as "a radical gambler". Saying the Republican president will be judged by the Iraq war, columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote: "We do know that this unassuming man became a radical gambler with his fate and with humanity's."... ...Richard Clarke, the former head of US counterterrorism, said of bin Ladin: "In death he will become a martyr and further inspiration to radical Islamists..."

Click on the source URL, and scroll down to near the bottom of the page for an advertising image of the yacht and a link to the yacht's registration paperwork.

Scott Peterson Murder Case Moves To Trial Preliminary Hearing Ends After Four Weeks Of Proceedings MODESTO, Calif. -- A California judge on Tuesday ruled that there is enough evidence to warrant trial in the double-murder case involving Scott Peterson. The preliminary hearing concluded quickly Tuesday as the judge ruled Peterson will stand trial on two counts of murder -- one for his slain wife, Laci, and one for the couple's unborn son. Prosecutors called two more police witnesses Tuesday after winning a legal round Monday, when a judge ruled a disputed form of DNA found in Scott Peterson's boat may...

My wife (as a joke, and under the name "Muggs Polecat III") subscribed me to the email list for the Arianna campaign when Ms. Huffington jumped into the recall race a couple months ago. Here's the email I received this morning. Evidently, she spent a more on her campaign than she took in. (Which is undoubtedly how she would have handled California's finances in the unlikely event of her election.) I'm going to suggest she get some money from her buddy, Gay Davis. I've heard he was pretty good at raising campaign cash. Or maybe she can get Cruz to...

China says Paris unfit for Olympics France has protested to China over a report by the People’s Daily, the main Beijing newspaper, that Paris would not be fit to stage the 2008 Olympics because it is a dangerous and dirty city full of rabid dogs. Five cities are vying to host the 2008 Games. A decision will be announced in five months’ time.

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