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A dangerous dance for the NRCC Whatever you think of Sarah Palin, the NRCC’s treatment of her in the run up to tomorrow’s fundraising “gala” has been atrocious. And I don’t just mean in a “that’s not how you treat someone” sort of way. I really mean it in a “that’s not how you raise money and win elections” sense. The anonymous suggestion that “You dance with the one who brung ya,” said the [campaign committee] official, who stressed that event organizers were still happy to have Palin appear and be introduced. is patently absurd and borderline offensive. As...

Conservatives are demanding that Senate Republicans take a harder line on Sonia Sotomayor, with new signs of tension between the Hill GOP and elements of the Republican base over the direction the opposition should move in the Supreme Court fight. In a letter to be delivered to Senate Republicans Tuesday, more than 145 conservatives – including Grover Norquist, Richard Viguerie and Gary Bauer — call for a filibuster of Sotomayor’s nomination if that’s what it takes to force a “great debate” over judicial philosophy. But in an interview with POLITICO, Manuel Miranda – who orchestrated the letter – went much...

egal Name Obama or Soetoro? ACT NOW August 12, 2008 · 5 Comments Barack Obama is running for President as… well, Barack Hussein Obama. That’s his legal name, right? Or is it. There is now evidence indicating that his actual valid Birth Certificate on file in Hawaii says Barry Soetoro. That was the Indonesian identity that Obama acquired when Lolo Soetoro adopted him. His original Birth Certificate, presumably in the name Barack Hussein Obama, was sealed. That’s our theory. It seems that Obama put a fake Birth Certificate on his official campaign website because he wanted to hide his Indonesian...

ACT NOW: Contact Hawaii Attorney General August 8, 2008 · 15 Comments SAMPLE LETTER Mark Bennett, Attorney General 425 Queen Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Telephone: 808-586-1500 Fax: 808-586-1239 E-Mail: hawaiiag@hawaii.gov Attorney General Bennett, This letter requests the attention of your office in the investigation of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. In June, Sen. Obama published an image of a Hawaii Certification of Live Birth (COLB) on his campaign website next to the words “the truth about Barack’s birth certificate.” It is still there (see http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert). Since that time, at least two forensics and documents experts have concluded that this image of...

It's a multi-culti, viral moment, calculated specifically for the YouTube Generation and riding the wave of Obamamania right on time for Super Tuesday: acoustic guitar, black-and-white footage, rapper will.i.am., sporting a fedora and looking thoughtful, crooning softly against a backdrop of Barack Obama's rousing concession speech on primary night in New Hampshire. Add in an eclectic contingent of celebrities -- John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Scarlett Johansson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- echoing key Obama phrases in English, Spanish and Hebrew. THIS STORY Clinton and Obama Trade Victories ISSUES: Democrats In 9 Races Cite Desire For Change On a Mission to Translate Belief...

(CBS) Sunday Morning commentator Ben Stein has a few words for the Minneapolis police's behavior in the arrest of Sen. Larry Craig, and for the Republican leadership's response - and they're not very flattering. The whole story of Senator Larry Craig, the Republican of Idaho who announced his resignation yesterday, is a nightmare of out-of-control police and weak politicians. Senator Craig has been the innocent victim of a set-up by the evil-minded police of Minneapolis-St. Paul that Stalin would have admired. Here's the deal: Senator Craig went into a men's room at the Twin Cities airport. He entered a lavatory...

WASHINGTON — In an unusual move, the Republican National Committee is investing heavily in television advertising in Senate races in Ohio, Tennessee and Missouri in what officials describe as a firewall strategy designed to limit Democratic gains in the Nov. 7 elections and maintain the GOP majority. The move reflects a desire on the part of Ken Mehlman, the Republican Party chairman, and other strategists to exercise more control over the drive to retain a majority, according to several Republican officials. They said the decision has caused friction with officials at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which historically has been...

<p>Three times as many Americans think Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be removed as think it should remain and — if in her place — most Americans say they would prefer the tube be removed.</p> <p>When asked to consider what action they would take if they were Schiavo's guardian, a 61 percent majority says they would remove her feeding tube and 22 percent would keep the tube inserted, according to the latest FOX News national poll conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corporation.</p>

<p>I'll 'fess up. This is how bad it got watching Nomah.</p> <p>Game 4; you know, the second Wakefield game. Sixth inning. One out. Todd Walker's on first with a single. I turn to the guy next to me and say, "Well, let's hope he strikes out. That's not too bad. Then Manny can get up with a man on."</p>

Hate Mail, Threats Go to Man With Judge's Name By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE St. Petersburg Times ST. PETERSBURG -- A judge named George Greer has ordered the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive. A George Greer who isn't the judge wants people to stop calling him to complain. "The first call I got was about three years ago," said Greer, 79, a St. Petersburg retiree who is listed in the phone book but has no connection to the case. "Now they're sending me hate mail, enough to make me concerned." Concerned enough, Greer said, to carry...

Crusade is blind to hard facts of medicine MELONE E-mail: Click here Archive By MARY JO MELONE, Times Staff Writer Published September 21, 2003 The fact of Terri Schiavo's life, the possibility of her death, is a regular subject in the ethics classes Dr. Robert Walker conducts at the University of South Florida medical school. Dr. Walker, an associate professor and head of the school's division of medical ethics and humanities, made another presentation last Thursday, one day after Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer handed Schiavo's parents another defeat and set still another date for the removal of her feeding...

<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) Child killer David Westerfield told detectives interrogating him after the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, ''My life is over,'' and he asked the detectives to leave him alone with a gun.</p> <p>A newly released videotape of the interrogation, conducted three days after Danielle was reported missing, shows Westerfield sitting in a small room fielding questions from two detectives, who pleaded with him at one point to admit to the crime and tell them where to find the girl.</p>

For a songwriter who tries to be as concise and clear as possible, Bruce Springsteen can be strangely misunderstood. The mere fact that he had written a song prompted by the shooting of Amadou Diallo set off a hair-trigger response from police supporters. In a case that divided the city, the four police officers who fired 41 shots at Mr. Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, testified that they thought he was reaching for a gun when he was apparently reaching for a wallet. They were acquitted of murder charges. Reacting to the title of the song, "American Skin," ...