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In another clip from the same January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in which Barack Obama promised to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to build coal-burning power plants, he also made an interesting admission about his entire energy plan. Obama told the editors that his policies would make energy prices “skyrocket” as the energy industry passed along the exorbitant costs of his cap-and-trade policy: Energy prices skyrocketing will leave the economy in tatters, as we saw earlier this year. While no one doubts the need to start transitioning to better sources of energy, the manner in which that gets...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will speak at her son’s Army deployment ceremony on 9/11 and spend two days with ABC News crews later this week as part of a McCain campaign plan to increase Americans’ comfort with her as a leader. Campaign and network officials had said on Sunday that her first television interview would be a sit-down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News.” But it turns out that she is spending much of Thursday and Friday with Gibson — at the ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, and at her home in Wasilla, Alaska. Campaign aides said the anchorman will...

I still remember where I was when I heard that the student who committed the Virginia Tech massacre had released a press packet including a video, a manifesto and photos of himself holding various weapons. I was just leaving a TV studio (having spoken about something else). Bursting with anger, I asked one of the producers if I could use his computer and posted on the web an urgent plea to NBC News (the organization that had first received the packet): "Don't publish it!" They did, of course. And so did every other news outlet. The killer's picture, his disordered...

Election 2008: A leading British newspaper calls the architect of the successful surge in Iraq the second most influential conservative in America. Gen. David Petraeus has changed the political future of Iraq. Will he change ours as well?... "I asked him if he was planning to run in 2008," Khadim related, "and he said, 'No, that would be too soon.' "

Dear Friends, As a nation we are in an urgent hour! As I've recently talked to prophetic friends in ministry, the Lord seems to be highlighting six main issues to pray about for America over this election season. Everyone is sensing that as a nation, we are once again at a critical crossroads with these upcoming elections. On Saturday, October 21, over a dozen leaders will be praying together and sharing what God has been speaking to them concerning our country on the issues of Israel, abortion, the homosexual cultural agenda, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, homeland security and...

NEW YORK, May 16, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The New York Times announced today a new online offering called TimesSelect, which for a modest fee will provide exclusive access to Op-Ed and news columnists on NYTimes.com, easy and in-depth access to The Times's online archives, early access to select articles on the site, as well as other exciting features. While most of the news, features and multi-media on NYTimes.com will remain free and available to users, the work of Op-Ed columnists and some of the best known voices from the news side of The Times and The International Herald Tribune...

Drug withdrawal a travesty for MS sufferersMichael Fumento (archive) April 28, 2005 | Print | SendThe yanking from the market of both Vioxx and Bextra, members of a new generation of pain relievers called COX-2 inhibitors, has critics ripping raw flesh off the Food and Drug Administration. Inevitably, both the agency and pharmaceutical companies are under intense pressure to over-scrutinize new drugs. But over-caution can also cause tremendous, as multiple sclerosis sufferers using a recently-pulled drug called Tysabri can attest.Tysabri belongs to an incredibly promising new class of biotech drugs called monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonals have repeatedly shown an ability to...

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The re-election of President Bush is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray and agree with Bill O'Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield,...

Just wondering - has FR considered implementing an RSS feed? One that would alert to pings and mail, and maybe threads deemed important, would, I think, facilitate discussion here, without having to constantly check back.

I'm finding that certain html tags are not being recognized at FR. I started using an html editor for some simple markup, and it's font color tags and Div indent tags aren't working. I tried using the [code] tag to show coding, but that didn't work either, so I'm substituting { and } for < and >. Here is how the editor (Nvu, excellent freeware) would mark up a passage: {div style="margin-left: 40px;"}{span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"}Then he answered and said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, "Not by might nor by power, but...

A Redmond teenager, missing for eight days, was found alive yesterday at the bottom of a woodsy ravine by a member of her church who said a vision led her to the girl. Laura Hatch, 17, was found in the back seat of her smashed car, about 150 feet below Northeast Union Hill Road in Redmond, according to the King County Sheriff's Office. She was last seen in Redmond on Oct. 2. Family and friends had been searching for her since then. Hatch was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where she was being treated for severe dehydration, a possible blood...

PRINCETON, NJ -- The Republican National Convention in New York ends Thursday with President George W. Bush's acceptance speech, after which the presidential campaign will kick into a new level during the last two months before Election Day. Here is a review of a number of key points about the election gleaned from recent Gallup Poll analyses of the people's views and perspectives. 1. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry are holding tough in their core states. Looking at the average of likely voter preferences in the two-way race across the two latest Gallup Polls, Bush has a 20-point lead...

Over 30 years ago they put away their medals and their uniforms. They buried their anger and bitterness and moved on with their lives--and they waited. Revisionists are trying to change history, claiming the returning Viet Nam veterans didn’t suffer all that much when they returned home. All that talk of being labeled animals has been exaggerated over the years. But the veterans know better. They were there. On the radio last week, one man related that he had unpacked the uniform that he wore home from Viet Nam all those years ago. It had not seen the light of...

For Immediate Release August 19, 2004 Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow I am convinced that the language used in my citation for a Bronze Star was language taken directly from John Kerry's report which falsely described the action on the Bay Hap River as action that saw small arms fire and automatic weapons fire from both banks of the river. To this day, I can say without a doubt in my mind, along with other accounts from my shipmates-there was no hostile enemy fire directed at my boat or at any of the five boats...

The War Mode Francis Frangipane I was seventeen years old, a senior in high school, and was slouching into my desk when a student easily twice my size entered the room. Suddenly he saw me, and in a storm of spit and fire, burst toward where I was sitting. I was unaware of any reason he would be upset with me, so I wasn't prepared when he grabbed me by my neck, picked me up and began rearranging my facial features. It seemed that a prankster had written a derogatory remark about him on the inside cover of his notebook...

(Excerpts only:) For the second time in a year, your paper has published an article [news story, July 10] falsely suggesting that my wife, Valerie Plame, was responsible for the trip I took to Niger on behalf of the U.S. government... But that is not the only inaccurate assertion or conclusion in the Senate report uncritically parroted in the article. Other inaccuracies and distortions include the suggestion that my findings "bolstered" the case that Niger was engaged in illegal sales of uranium to Iraq. In fact, the Senate report is clear that the intelligence community attempted to keep the claim...

Turkey's prime minister has repeated an accusation that Israel was practising "state terrorism" against Palestinians. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israelis were persecuting Palestinians just as Jews were persecuted during the Spanish Inquisition 500 years ago. Israel was "bombing civilians, killing people without any considerations - children, women, the elderly - razing buildings using bulldozers," he said. Israel has called for "more solidarity" from Turkey, its closest regional ally. Mr Erdogan was giving his first interview to the Israeli media since he caused dismay in Israel last month by calling its military operations in the southern Gaza town of Rafah "state...

For nearly her entire life, Muniyamal Krishnan has worked around human waste. In her job as a "human scavenger," she has cleaned latrines and carried buckets of waste on her head. Obviously, she didn't choose this line of work; it was all she could get -- and for religious, not economic reasons. Krishnan is an "untouchable," the lowest caste in Hindu society. For millennia, the "untouchables" have suffered unimaginable discrimination at the hands of their fellow Hindus. As a result, millions have converted to other faiths, including Christianity. But now, Hindu nationalists, with the Indian government's blessing, want to deny...

Vowing to fight for coexistence and mutual respect among mankind around the world, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday laid the cornerstone of Jerusalem's Museum of Tolerance, and paid tribute to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. "The world should know we are not building a bunker. Israel is looking forward past the suicide bombers, the terrorists, past the blood, the violence and the hatred to a time people can live side by side in peace and coexistence," Schwarzenegger said in the keynote address at the museum groundbreaking ceremony in central Jerusalem. In an emotional, highly personal...

<p>Gospel of Inclusion? Its Episcopal disciples leave little room for Scripture.</p> <p>MINNEAPOLIS--This week, the Episcopal Church's triennial Convention was the site of a media frenzy. On Tuesday, church leaders meeting here took the unprecedented step of approving as bishop a practicing homosexual, the Rev. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. At press time, they seemed poised to give local communities permission to bless same-sex unions.</p>