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The United Conservative Party has formed a majority government. With 2,012 of 7,337 polls reporting, premier-elect Jason Kenney’s party is leading or elected in 63 ridings, with the NDP leading or elected in 23. There are 87 ridings in Alberta, and 44 are needed to form a majority government. The result makes history, in that it marks the first time an Alberta government has gone down to defeat after only one term. After sweeping to power on a wave of dissatisfaction with the reigning Progressive Conservatives in 2015, Rachel Notley’s NDP could not replicate their unprecedented “Orange Crush” or convince...

Barack Obama and his gang think you’re an idiot. The sad part is that they are 43% right. Byron York reports on Valerie Jarrett’s recent appearance on Meet the Press during which she made quite apparent that she and her boss really believe Americans are blatantly stupid. Jarrett shared this thought: On "Meet the Press" December 26, top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said President Obama's "biggest regret" is that the severity of the economic crisis forced him to "spend almost every waking hour in Washington focusing very hard on solving that crisis" and thus kept him from traveling...

The NAACP is calling on Sarah Palin and Dick Armey to forcefully denounce what the civil rights group calls racism in the ranks of the tea party movement. In a call with reporters to tout a new report on some tea partiers' ties to hate groups, NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous slammed the former Alaska governor for working with the Tea Party Express, whose now-expelled leader, Mark Williams, ignited a firestorm earlier this year after a string of racist and anti-Muslim comments. In response to a question from The Upshot, Jealous charged that the Tea Party Express, a prominent tea...

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka charged Thursday that if Republican political star Sarah Palin is not more careful in her choice of words, the political movement she has helped to create will be linked with McCarthyism, the 1950s-era crusade by Sen. Joseph McCarthy to brand political enemies as communists. Mr. Trumka’s comments about his strained relations with Ms. Palin came at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters, where he was asked how his previous critical words about the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee squared with his call for union members to save their anger for “corporate lapdogs” and Senate Republicans. The comments were...

You probably never heard of Van Jones, and you may never hear of him again. Until last week, he was President Obama's adviser on "Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" in the White House Council on Environmental Quality. But he is no longer. Now he's out of a job. And therein lies a tale that should make all of us angry or nervous. One man railroaded Jones out of his job: Fox News anchor and radio talk show host Glenn Beck. You remember him. He's the nut who called President Obama a "racist" on "Fox and Friends" last July 28. There...

Sorry to find and tell you this way, I have the sad duty to inform you that CommiesOut passed away last night. God rest a true patriot, and a man who stood for the finest attributes in humanity: loyalty, integrity, curiosity, honesty, and hard work.23 posted on 5/26/02 1:36 PM Pacific by Carry_Okie