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I'm trying to understand FR's embrace of the Donald, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this one. I too had a favorable first reaction when I heard him talking about building the wall in absolute terms, and his rejection of the concept of amnesty for illegal aliens. I also admired that he was the first politician in a long time that would fight back against the media and left-wing attacks, instead of trying to appease the left. However, that admiration quickly wore off when I researched Trump and found clip after clip of the man, in...

A new Rasmussen Reports polls gives GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum a double-digit lead going into the Louisiana primary on Saturday, putting the former Pennsylvania senator on solid footing to carry some additional bragging rights out of another Deep South nominating contest. The survey shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney running second and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich running a distant third

Envia has figured out how “to improve energy density at the anode and cathode and store more lithium.” In short, he claims to have doubled energy density and halved the cost of lithium-ion batteries. And he says that his breakthrough isn’t theoretical—packs are already built on an automotive scale and are being tested by automakers around the world. It’s impossible to verify all that, and Kapadia won’t tell me which automakers he’s working with, though GM is presumably one of them. Specifically, Envia says it has reached an energy density of 400-watt-hours per kilogram in auto-grade lithium-ion cells, and achieved...

He left the military base where he was stationed in Kandahar in the early hours of the morning and then opened fire on local people.

Does anybody know of a list of which Senators support and which Senators oppose the Law of the Sea Treaty.

I just finished watching the latest episode of "Chuck" on the DVR. Chuck vs. The Seduction Impossible. In this episode the bad guy (girl)is upset that her childhood home was strip mined by an American company and she is planning revenge by flooding the American Economy with one trillion counterfeit dollars to "crash" our economy. That made we think, has any American company ever strip mined a small village in Kenya?

Two people I know just e-mailed me that when they went to check the headlines before starting work, "FOXNEWS.COM" had been blocked by the Navy Network administrators, but they could still access CNN and MSNBC. The following message was all that showed up on the screen when they tried to get to FOX News. "Access to this site has been denied in accordance with Navy policy to safeguard the security posture and/or to maintain the operational integrity of the NMCI."

It does not take a pollster, partisan or psychic to see a harbinger of things to come in Massachusetts voters’ choice of a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. If Barack Obama’s next three years in the White House are anything like his first, he will surely be a one-term president. And for black America, that’s the good news. Because if history is any guide, the truly awful news is that the smart money is on Sarah Palin to replace Obama in the White House. Foreshadowing a Palin presidency is a perfect, gathering storm of economics, politics and tribalism,...

Beck recently claimed that a state-wide recount in Florida in 2000, would have resulted in a Gore Victory.

WASHINGTON (Sept. 27) -- Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. The efforts of his sister and the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan got Raddatz's policy REINSTATED WITHIN 3 WEEKS of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown.

Poll: "Should Congressman Wilson get down on his knees and beg forgiveness for calling Obama a liar about three minutes after Obama publicly called him a liar?"

This morning Drudge had the headline "Dear Leader" under the giant picture of Obama in front of the white house. Apparenty the picture was created by using 4th graders as a source of slave labor.

A memoir by George Obama, the president's half brother and a resident of Huruma, Kenya, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2010. George Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama—20 years apart in age—did not grow up together and did not meet as children. George is the youngest of the senior Obama's seven children and was born six months before his father died. Little is known about George Obama. The book, tentatively titled "Homeland" and to be written with author-journalist Damien Lewis, will tell of George Obama's...

Good news fellow conservative EV enthusiasts. This venerable American company that was a leading auto maker about 100 years ago has reinvented itself. New models are being designed by European Engineers and are being built in India, so that they can be in a showroom near you soon. Just curious, global warming BS aside, how many Freepers would pay 23K (112 mile range) or 33K (300 mile range) for an all electric sedan with a range of 150-300 miles if it cost between $2.00 and $4.00 worth of electricity to achieve that range. (charging time would vary depending on type...

I am sitting in the Airport in Boston waiting on a flight to Richmond. I was seriously trying to figure out what smelled so bad, when the DNC Chairman set down about five feet from me. I don't know if that is the source of the smell, but it is a distinct possibility.

A friend of the daughter of Vice President Joseph Biden is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows Ashley Biden snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware. An anonymous male "friend" of Biden took the video, said Thomas Dunlap, a lawyer representing the seller. Dunlap and another man claiming to be a lawyer showed The Post about 90 seconds of 43-minute tape, saying it was legally obtained and that Biden was aware she was being filmed. The Post refused to pay for the video.

With a 300-mile range and 45-minute QuickCharge, the $49,900 Model S can carry five adults and two children in quiet comfort – and you can charge it from any outlet, without ever stopping for gas. World’s first mass-produced electric vehicle offers performance, efficiency and unrivaled utility, making it the only car you’ll ever need.

Beck was rambeling about something and mentioned that Rush said that Beck was only saying something to get ratings. Unfortunately, I didn't hear exactly what Beck's original comment was that supposedly provoked Rush. It was right at the end of his show.

The police in our town used to be fairly hands off when it came to protests, a part of the general liberal façade of Chapel Hill. So we had hoped to occupy that intersection for as long as possible, as has usually been possible in the past. We still, after all, had to smash the money piñata, read out the public death sentence for capitalism, and draw and quarter the capitalist effigy. But the effigy was to remain intact, as the pig with no further warning stopped his car, got out, and charged those of us in the back pushing...