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The question is below the article. The libs want Rachel Maddow on their calendar? OKAAAYYY, whatever, lol!

Help us out here in MA, we need all we can get! Freep the poll about half way down on the right hand side of the page about whether Joe Kennedy should run for his uncle's seat. Thanks in advance!

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The attention of the nation and the world was drawn to the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Wednesday night when President Barack Obama accused the Cambridge police of acting "stupidly." Obama said he doesn't know all the facts about the arrest last week, but during a prime-time news conference, Obama said blacks and Hispanics are still singled out for arrest disproportionately. Read more....

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A rifle-toting convenience store owner said he decided to show mercy on a would-be robber after seeing the man collapse into tears and claim he was only committing the crime to support his starving family. The Long Island store owner provided the bat-wielding man with $40 and a loaf of bread and made him promise never to rob again. "This was a grown man, crying like a baby," Mohammad Sohail, owner of the Shirley Express convenience store about 65 miles east of New York City, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

The co-founder of a group dedicated to fighting illegal immigration plans to challenge former GOP presidential nominee John McCain for his Senate seat in the Republican primary. Chris Simcox is expected to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat from Arizona Wednesday along the Arizona-Mexico border, FOX News learned. Simcox is the co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group devoted to border security. On Tuesday he resigned as president of the group in anticipation of his run for Senate. "John McCain has failed miserably in his duty to secure this nation's borders and protect the people of...

Could marijuana be the answer to the economic misery facing California? Democratic State Assembly member Tom Ammiano thinks so. Ammiano introduced legislation last month that would legalize pot and allow the state to regulate and tax its sale - a move that could mean billions for the cash-strapped state. Pot is, after all, California's biggest cash crop, responsible for $14 billion in annual sales, dwarfing the state's second largest agricultural commodity - milk and cream - which brings in $7.3 billion annually, according to the most recent USDA statistics. The state's tax collectors estimate the bill would bring in about...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing next week to ask key justice officials and regulators what they need to prosecute wrongdoers in the financial crisis, the chairman of the committee said on Thursday. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, said he had invited officials from the U.S. Justice Department, the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and all the bank regulators to the hearing. "I'm not morphing into Joe McCarthy, but I am going to have them tell me what they need for criminal prosecutions and the civil recovery of funds," Frank told a...

Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd has been in typically indignant form this week, opining on the financial crisis. Before his Tuesday hearing on Bernard Madoff, he demanded that regulators get to the bottom of any crime: "American investors deserve an explanation and the responsible parties must be held accountable!" And yesterday the Connecticut Senator denounced Wall Street bonuses and said, "I am urging -- in fact, not urging, demanding -- that the Treasury Department figures out some way to get the money back." Pardon us, Senator, but how about taking your own advice?

France's hard-line new immigration minister is set to implement legislation that would allow DNA testing of new arrivals. Eric Besson, who was appointed this month, has said the tests would establish which foreigners were claiming visas by making up fictious family ties with those already settled in the country. Civil liberties groups have reacted furiously to the controversial scheme, which was approved by the French parliament 15 months ago but does not come into effect until the appropriate minister has signed the legislation. Until now that move had been delayed by protests. But Mr Besson has now said he wanted...

Fellow Freepers and Palin Patriots, we can do it in Liberal Country! Freep this one too! (Scroll down in middle of page.) March on!

All Palin Patriots, freep this VP debate poll from the heart of the liberal NE. It's down in the middle of the page.

Senior Democratic officials are expressing serious concerns about the political risks posed by Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High tonight. From the elaborate stagecraft to the teeming crowd of 80,000 cheering partisans, from the vagaries of the weather to the unpredictable audience reaction, the optics surrounding the stadium event have heightened worries that the Obama campaign is engaging in a high-risk endeavor in an uncontrollable environment. A common concern: that the stadium appearance plays against Obama's convention goal of lowering his star wattage and connecting with average Americans and gives Republicans a chance to drive home...

Andre Luiz de Castro Martins was in and out of court more than a dozen times in the past six years for charges including assault and battery with a car, malicious destruction of property, and threatening to kill his girlfriend. Most recently, he had been charged Friday for driving without a license. It was the fourth time since 2002 that he had been charged for driving without a license. Another time, he had been charged with driving on a suspended license. Links Gunfire felled Brazilian man But despite a history of run-ins with the law and having overstayed a tourist...

When launched last fall, the Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America (FSPA) was labeled an “evil,” “soft-money” group; it was no surprise its activities would immediately be denounced by Senator John McCain. After all, for years Senator McCain has been a vocal opponent of soft-money groups operating independently of federal campaigns. Unfortunately, it is McCain Feingold “campaign finance reform” that reconfigured the playing field and created these groups. And, even more unfortunate for the GOP is that liberal groups have made it an art form. Reports indicate “hundreds of millions” in soft money will be spent this election year....

WASHINGTON - President Bush is asking Congress to spend money to help businesses root out illegal workers but he did not request additional funds to help legal immigrants become American citizens more quickly. In his budget proposal issued this week, Bush asked for $100 million to expand E-Verify, the system employers use to check whether they are hiring documented workers. He didn't ask Congress to allocate money to chip away at millions of citizenship and other immigration applications that flooded the government last summer, before an increase in the agency's filing fees. Instead, Citizenship and Immigration Services will rely on...

HYANNIS — Nearly a year after a large and widely criticized workplace immigration raid on a leather manufacturer in New Bedford, immigrants on Cape Cod are worried about smaller and quieter raids that appear to be occurring in local homes. Last night, more than 100 immigrants and immigration advocates gathered at the Federated Church on Main Street to learn their rights in case they are confronted by law enforcement and immigration authorities. "One month ago, the immigration police took many people from Brazil," audience member Fausto Sanchez, 48, of Hyannis said. Fausto, an Ecuadorian immigrant who said he pays taxes...

<p>Kerry, demonstrating a child-like inability to let go, on Tuesday dragged out the swiftboating analogy in an e-mail responding to what he called "disgusting lies" that "they" are floating that Obama is a secret Muslim and refuses to observe the Pledge of Alliance.</p>

<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia's only state run by the Islamic opposition party will get stricter about enforcing separate lines for men and women at supermarkets, an official said Tuesday.</p>

CAIRO, Egypt - Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father — except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket. The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is better way to defend Islam than militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West. Omar — one of bin Laden's 19 children — raised a tabloid storm last year when he married a 52-year-old British woman, Jane...