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I am not sure what is going on but the Ohio Secretary of State website is showing McCain slightly ahead with 18.5% of precincts reporting. The SoS is in charge of the vote counts. Now, all the networks are showing the same results for Ohio - Obama up by about 9% with 16% of precincts reporting. How can this be? Are the networks getting a different vote count feed? Also, the vote totals on the SoS website are lower than the networks but the precinct percentage is about the same. Maybe explainable and Obama ends up getting Ohio but I...

Our church provides Christmas presents for foster children and families where the father is in prison. This year, my family and another family have signed up to get gifts for a family of five children. They need coats and clothes, which we are getting along with toys. However, the oldest child asked for a computer. I wanted to see if anyone out there on FR had an old one they would be willing to donate (if you are in Maryland outside DC, I can pick it up. Otherwise, I would be willing to pay shipping). If you are interested, please...

Fax a Senator for FREE from the WEB. You don't even need to get up from your computer! Three steps: 1. Don't know who to fax? Here is a list of GOP Senators being targeted by the pro-amnesty crowd to flip. 2. Need a fax number? Go to http://www.grassfire.org/19042/targets.htm (Ignore the prices, you are just after the fax numbers). 3. Fax for free from the Web. Put your message in the text box. Go to http://faxzero.com/ Easy-Shmeazy. I faxed Mitch McConnell the following:Security first, Senator! Please do not betray your country! We do not want this bill. Come on! You...

U.S. Representative, District 8 41% of precincts reporting Votes Percentage Mac Collins (R) 21,731 52.1% Jim Marshall (D) 19,941 47.9% U.S. Representative, District 12 35% of precincts reporting Votes Percentage Max Burns (R) 15,461 51.5% John Barrow (D) 14,550 48.5%

The Corner is reporting that John Kerry will hold a news conference at 2PM to discuss his recent comment.

Congress yesterday sent the bill to build 700 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border to President Bush, who will sign it in a ceremony Thursday morning in the White House Roosevelt Room. The decision to have a public ceremony is a reversal for the Bush administration, which had appeared reluctant to tie itself so publicly to the enforcement-only measure. Although Mr. Bush had committed to signing the bill, aides had said consistently over the past few weeks there would not be a signing ceremony. But Republicans in Congress had demanded a public signing, with leaders saying the bill is...

A Mexican group is under investigation by Mexican and U.S. authorities for providing financial support to the Hizbullah terror organization, according to media reports. The probe which began three months ago in response to a request by the United States was revealed in a news report Thursday.

Saying it is a "utility malfunction". Evacuations are occurring in several high rise office buildings.

The U.N. atomic agency has found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian site linked to the country's defense ministry, diplomats said Friday. The finding added to concerns that Tehran was hiding activities that could be used to make nuclear arms. The diplomats, who demanded anonymity in exchange for revealing the confidential information, said the findings were preliminary and still had to be confirmed through other lab tests. But they said the density of enrichment appeared close to or beyond weapons grade _ the level used to make nuclear warheads.

Just crossed the DJ Newsire: A local television station says an oil pipeline has exploded in Nigeria and dozens are feared dead.

Just came across the wire. Headline only at this time.

Just hitting wires at 1:17 EST. Headline only.

This past Monday, I drove with my two oldest daughters, ages 8 and 11, from Maryland to the River Center in Baton Rouge. The River Center is home to about 5,000 evacuees. We had a load of clothes and children's books. At a gas stop on the Tennessee/Virginia border, we talked with the woman behind the counter about our trip. Turns out she had a bunch of stuff in the trunk of her car that her church had donated. She gave us clothes, shoes, toys and a baby blanket her mother had knit for her children. We drove all night...

CNN and MSNBC have had Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others on all day claiming that the Federal response to the disaster has been slow because the victims are poor and black. The Congressional Black Caucus openly advocates that position and CNN and MSNBC are more than willing to carry their water. They have all slipped into madness. It is more than an outrage. They are selling these lies to victims of the disaster and crushing their hope. So much so, that the people at the convention center are now convinced that they are being punished by the government because...

Today's culture wars can be directly traced to the cultural transformations of the 1960's. As a matter of fact, that critical decade represented nothing less than a cultural revolution of sorts--a revolution Stanley Kurtz describes as "both a fulfillment and a repudiation of the vision of America's founders." Kurtz makes his case in "Culture and Values in the 1960's," a fascinating essay published in Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, recently released by the Hoover Institution Press. Edited by Peter Berkowitz, Never a Matter of Indifference is a thought-provoking collection of essays on moral character...

Glaciers in the Antarctic are retreating at an increasing rate, in what scientists said on Thursday was a clear sign of climate change. Most of the glaciers on the Antarctic peninsula, near the southernmost tip of South America, have retreated over the past 50 years as temperatures have warmed, according to a study from the British Antarctic Survey and US Geological Survey. Inland glaciers appear to be accelerating their descent to the ocean, threatening to raise the sea level. David Vaughan, one of the authors of the study, said: "The widespread retreat of the glaciers on the Antarctic peninsula over...

Friday October 15, 2004--The Presidential debates are over and the election is just two-and-a-half weeks away. The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 49% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. Voters surveyed last night declared the third and final debate a tie, with fans of each candidate thinking their man won. The number of voters who prefer Bush over Kerry on both national defense and the economy has returned to the levels that existed before the first debate. In the South Dakota...

Thursday October 14, 2004--The debates are over and there's less than three weeks until Election Day. The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%. The Tracking Poll is based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. All but a few of the interviews for today's report were conducted prior to the completion of last night's debate. Prior to the debate, our latest rating's for the President's handling of the economy and the situation in Iraq provided further evidence of an evenly...

Bush 49%-Kerry 44% Among Likely Voters Released: October 4, 2004 By two-to-one, voters who watched the first presidential debate believe that John Kerry prevailed. But the widely viewed Sept. 30 showdown did not result in a sea change in opinions of the candidates. As a consequence, George W. Bush continues to have a much stronger personal image than his Democratic challenger, while voters express more confidence in Kerry on key domestic issues like the economy and health care. The latest national poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Oct. 1-3 among 1,002 registered voters,...