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Help needed in passing urgent message to Rush Limbaugh! He said he couldn't sing along with Lang-Lang piano anti American performance at the White House State Dinner because he would be blasted for singing in Chinese. Please TELL RUSH (and Paul Shanklin!)that the White House Microphone picked up the President singing along in English! Not only did he know the words to the tune played by Lang-Lang, He took great pleasure in singing "we will fight the American jackals" and destroy them with our weapons! I only hope Paul Shanklin knows the words of the tune so he can fill...

I've just finished watching HOURS of live video taken a mile under the Gulf of Mexico. Amazing drama, right up there with the Moon programs, Apollo 13 stuff, of B.P.'s efforts to capture the gusher of oil now flowing. All was proceeding to plan, and in spite of HUGE OBSTACLES, the final steps were being taken to prepare for a "CAP" that would hopefully collect most of the oil gushing from the well, diverting it to ships on the surface. This wasn't the ultimate fix, it was just the best hope of minimizing the leak for the next six to...

Higgens was paid by dozens of foreign students -- mostly from the Middle East -- who were paying him to sit in class, take exams and write papers for them so their student visas would remain valid. Investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the demand was so great that he hired employees, including a blond woman who they believe posed as an Middle Eastern man to take a test. Agents are continuing to investigate the case and believe Higgins had several co-conspirators.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A large Pacific storm moving through Central and Southern California has brought high winds, waves and lightning, prompting tornado warnings and pier closures.

SANTA ANA – An Anaheim Hills mother who survived a brutal attack that ended the lives of her husband and daughter appeared in court Tuesday to describe the events of that horrid day during a preliminary hearing. Leela said Murtaza, who sat at the end of the counsel table wearing a dress shirt, a sweater and glasses, was the man who slit her throat. "Murtaza put a knife underneath my chin," she said as she moved her hand from left to right across her throat. Leela said she spent two months in the hospital recovering from her injuries, including four...

The Washington Post says, "Even though it was called a vacation, the trip to Obama's childhood home was hardly the holiday most Americans seek." My three questions to you are: 1) How many days long was your last vacation? 2) How long ago was it? 3) Did you contact your work while gone?

I want to track the biggest Rhino's roaming the GOP so I can support any active opposition they have. How hard would it be to set up a web site where visitors could vote for the top ten rhino's, blog about their party backstabbing,keep abreast of their opponents, and help rid the GOP of these smelly animals? WWW.RHINOHUNT.COM! With a "Safari Jungle Theme," it would help track of the likes of Collins, Snow, Graham, McCain! The biggest Rhino of the week should end up in a large kettle surrounded by local natives, or their heads superimposed on a four legged...

If you need to recall what National Pride feels like, take a moment to view this video. Please keep the comments to the event of Oct. 30, 2001. (The MSM gave King Obama enough accolades over his 1st pitch already!)Video of a great American moment!

WASHINGTON—In a major step toward developing a state-of-the-art Recovery.gov website, a contract was awarded this week to Smartronix, Inc., a Maryland information technology firm. The company will build the new website for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, an independent agency that manages Recovery.gov and monitors spending under the $787 billion Recovery program. The initial outlay, $9,516,324, covers many facets: redesign and construction of a new website; installation of hardware and software infrastructure; hosting and operations for the website; more robust data storage; an enhanced content-management system; and contract labor support and other features. If the Recovery Board exercises options...

Arrests of illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border have fallen to levels unseen since the 1970s as the ailing U.S. economy and enhanced enforcement appear to be deterring people from trekking north."The apprehension level is on track to dip to about 550,000 for this federal fiscal year, the lowest level since 1975, when 596,796 immigrants were caught, according to Border Patrol statistics."

A visiting professor was the speaker. He gave a rousing talk on overthrowing the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" in America. How would this be accomplished? By taking over the Democratic Party through its left wing. The speaker said it was possible to elect a stealth socialist president, who would effect a peaceful transition to socialism during the next great economic down-turn. Capitalism would be unmasked as a bankrupt system. The people would then support a new socialist system. All businesses would be nationalized by the government and run like the Post Office. This socialist president, said the speaker, could be...

A common chemical ingredient in plastics has been linked to smaller penises and incomplete descent of testicles in baby boys. Phthalates, which are added to plastics to keep them soft and pliable, are linked to a feminizing effect on boy fetuses whose moms had above-average levels of the chemical in their urine while pregnant. Moms who had the highest amounts gave birth to boys with more feminine characteristics.

Dear John and Ken, Your show will gain nation-wide notoriety and accomplish more in the fight against illegal immigration than any other if you sponsor a listener funded $10,000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of company owners or CEO’s responsible for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. Think of the possibilities: Involve your audience with raising the reward money… I know four people that would each send $250 today. Hold fundraiser remotes at Ayers Hotels! Get the public and illegal workers focused on the scumbags that are fueling the problem, those that hire illegal immigrants. Provide ICE with...

People in the Las Vegas neighborhood saw all the cameras and trucks and buses and police on the streets Thursday, and they began to trickle out of their houses to find out what was going on. Soon, as a sherbet-orange desert sunset filled the sky, they got their answer, as New York Sen. Hillary Clinton began walking up the street of low-slung houses near Eastern and Washington avenues, accompanied by the area's representative, state Assemblyman Ruben Kihuen. Clinton hugged Kihuen around the shoulders and asked about his family, and then the two began knocking on doors, the same doors Kihuen...

Blunt: Democrats Schedule Contentious SCHIP Vote While Members are Home, Responding to Wildfires 10/24 7:52 am (PR) Story 3865 WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after House Democrats announced they plan to push through controversial SCHIP legislation tomorrow while a number of members from southern California are back in their districts responding to the wildfires: "The scope, scale and severity of the fires raging in southern California are of a magnitude few of us have ever seen. What's important right now is that members from the area be given the...

SANTA CLARITA – Authorities scrambled to locate nine drivers believed to have escaped a deadly freeway inferno as officials reopened the West Coast's main interstate Monday and offered a first look inside the blackened tunnel. Thirty-one vehicles were involved in the pileup in the curving, darkened tunnel on Interstate 5, but the California Highway Patrol has accounted for only 23 people, including two men and a 6-year-old boy who died in the fire. If all of them were at the wheel at the time of the crash, excluding the boy, that leaves nine unaccounted for drivers. The number could be...

Since the "Honorable" Mesa County Judge Bruce Raaum has again set bail for Hillary's friend Norman Hsu, are there any federal crimes he's committed that he can be arrested for on his release from this Andy Taylor jail? What is the background of Judge Raaum?

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) of Missouri: "Until our country gets serious about enforcement against employers, all the laws we pass won't make a difference."

Who wants to join me in burning effigies of our Republican Voter Registration Cards!

LOS ANGELES -- A big rig reported stolen turned up in Carson, Calif., but its five-ton load of fertilizer was gone, police said Monday. Lt. David Young of the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Station said authorities were concerned because fertilizer can be used to make explosives, but he said this was likely the work of thieves -- not terrorists.