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Clifton Williams arrived at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet and sat in the fourth-floor courtroom where his cousin was pleading guilty to a felony drug charge. As Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak handed down the cousin's sentence -- 2 years' probation -- Williams, 33, stretched and let out a very ill-timed yawn. Williams' sentence? Six months in jail -- the maximum penalty for criminal contempt without a jury trial. The Richton Park man was locked up July 23 and will serve at least 21 days. "I was flabbergasted because I didn't realize a judge could do that," said Williams' father,...

I know HBO probably isn't really looked upon to highly around here (love trueblood, enterouge) But if anybody saw last night's stand up. As a conservative I have never felt more attacked in my life. As usual we were all accused of being racist for opposing Sotomayor....i mean forget the fact that she actually uses race as motivation for her rulings and basically ignores the constitution....it has to be racist why we oppose her... i mean lets all forget how the left treated Gonzelez under the Bush administration....that couldn't be racist... As a half latin person i'm amazed at how...

Remember when environmentalists were looked at like the kooks they were ...even on In Living Color ah the early 90's...cartoons were awesome then too

Is this credible at all? this is audio between Mcrae and he was speaking to an interpreter allegedly...the audio starts at around 3:28 if you don't want to hear this idiot douchebag frank factor make petty insults

I know its still early and releasing your policies this early would probably leave them open to attacks later on. I've really only followed 2 elections closely because i'm not that old, the 2004 and 2008 elections and 2004 i knew a lot less than I did in 2008. But i can't wait until Palin gets more specific and this will give her a ton of credibility if she can write up a proper platform, like is she for a flat tax or like say a huckabee fair tax? will she just cut the current marginal rates like guiliani planned...

I am sick and tired of people saying that clinton had a surplus. I hear joe scarbough make this point everytime and Hannity today not refuting it correctly Granted the deficit with the republican congress was at its best its been in decades in that time period with the deficit going as low as 17 billion but then shooting up to like 120 billion the next year though but clinton fudged up the numbers and took from the social security fund to make it seem like deficits were low...the debt went up every year under clinton so the next time...

Yeah I know there is a bit of a difference between the austrian economics crowd and the usual friedman like supply siders who are conservatives...but both are capitalists and the only difference is really between how we deal with our monetary supply and Schiff has some credibility predicting the economic mess that occured last year...and he's not ron paul who is viewed as a kook and is horrible on foreign policy ...but will garner some of the paul people and will help with the young rebellious college kids..a way to soak up some of the hope and change crowd if...

Last year i kind of just looked at this situation like conspiracy theory but there seems to be some new evidence but i'm a little lost when it comes to the new intricacies of the situation can i get the evidence for and against the birth certificate issue so i can make my own assessment on this, I know rush hasn't touched it that much but Hannity brought up the Major Cook issue I really want to believe this and i trust most freepers but i need to evaluate the facts

I usually tend to argue politics on this site and its a lot like democratic underground with the hatred and mockery of anything republican. I have fun owning a lot of these guys on there. But look at the mockery of men who are praying for their lives and their disregard for life just because. Somebody send this to hotair,newsbusters, hannity...if the left wants to make stories about random hatred on the internet...two can play that game...i will begin with this one...lets scour democratic underground and daily kos and put up disgusting comments that they make every day

Debunkers are saying its a shadow but many on youtube don't believe its a shadow. It does have a resemblance to Jackson as well,if it is him any reason why some spirits stay here on earth?

AllahPundit on hotair.com is basically a nervous negative nelly. His pessimism is unrivaled and he obviously has an issue with Rush and Palin. His style is almost a lot like Joe Scarborough. Considering anonymous bloggers don't have any real identities it wouldn't surprise me if allahpundit was actually somebody like Joe. The whole same we have to moderate to get independents mantra crap

DEVELOPING: Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday, MyFOXTampa.com reports.

No not because its going to end up having good results. It will be the issue that shows Barack Obama to be a failure. Why did Bill Clinton get re-elected? He was forced to move to the right after republicans won in congress. The economy shot up thanks to Reagan's policies and the Internet boom....who gets the credit...The president...even though what he set out to try to do failed If we defeat everything Obama does he will just get re-elected and get another 4 years to pass his crap... Why not suffer for a few years so that we can...

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence. Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases — like interracial pregnancies, he said. “There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding, “Or a rape.”

Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She turned 16 in January. "Why doesn't she age?" Howard Greenberg, 52, asked of his daughter. "Is she the fountain of youth?" Such questions are why scientists are fascinated by Brooke. Among the many documented instances of children who fail to grow or develop in some way, Brooke's case may be unique, according to her doctor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine pediatrician Lawrence Pakula, in Baltimore. "Many of the best-known names in medicine, in their experience ... had not seen anyone who matched up to...

For "Morning Joe", the backstabbing has officially backfired. Over the past several weeks, this site has been tracking the attempt by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to make money bashing his former friends in any and every available public venue. With a new book to peddle, could attacking onetime colleagues from his conservative days fuel sales? New data from the publishing world, as well as radio and TV, provide the answer. To promote the release, the former GOP congressman turned radio and TV host appeared on left-leaning television shows such as The View and did interviews with the New York Times and...

Lets go lonegan only 0% reporting so far

"The seeds of California’s current crisis were planted more than 30 years ago, when voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 13, a ballot measure that placed the state’s budget in a straitjacket. Property tax rates were capped, and homeowners were shielded from increases in their tax assessments even as the value of their homes rose. The result was a tax system that is both inequitable and unstable. It’s inequitable because older homeowners often pay far less property tax than their younger neighbors. It’s unstable because limits on property taxation have forced California to rely more heavily than other states on income taxes,...

this looks pretty interesting catch the vid... its about a family of hippies and environmental freaks.. they adopted an african kid but could only get a white south african and tell everybody ....they tried to get a black kid... this show looks pretty funny and i look forward to it

I am not associated at all with Lonegan's campaign but I am a nj resident and would like to spark a conversation from other freepers aware of the current battle that is a microcosm of the battle between republicans and conservatives. Christie is the establishment republican while Lonegan so far has shown himself to be a true conservative who wants to institute a flat tax of 2.9% in new jersey and wants to cut our horrible spending here in new jersey. Would love all your input and if there are pro christie guys i'd love to hear from you guys...