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Video of Senator Vitter cornering administration hack Rebecca M. Blank on the Obama administration's willful disreguard for the jobs of the people in the Gulf. (or worse)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2009 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates used the strongest terms in trying to persuade the Associated Press to refrain from running a graphic picture of a Marine taken shortly after the servicemember was wounded in southern Afghanistan, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said here today. Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard later died on the operating table Aug. 14. The Marine’s family in New Portland, Maine, asked the Associated Press not to run the photo, which was taken by Julie Jacobson, who was embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The AP put...

Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages By Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 22, 2009; A01 If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past. Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts. What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with...

Over the weekend, anti-war protesters gathered in Washington DC to march on the Pentagon, reminiscent of a similar march back in 1967. There was plenty of coverage of this demonstration, and that of sister demonstrations around the world. What many of you might not know was that there was a gathering of people who not only support the troops, but are tired of the anti-war crowd getting all of the publicity. Surprised? If you depend on news sources like the Washington Post, New York Times, and television stations like ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, then it's no wonder that you...

Iraqis Disregard Threats to Repair Damaged Roads Local contractors disregarded terrorist threats to repair roads and allow Iraqis to travel uninhibited. U.S. Army Cpl. Michael Molinaro FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq. Sept. 6, 2006 -- “Iraqis helping Iraqis” was the theme in the Rasheed district Aug. 25-28 as locals helped patch together a road that had been blown apart by terrorists. Local contractors disregarded terrorist threats and ventured out to repair the roads and allow Iraqis to travel uninhibited. “The workers did a great job and worked very hard for two days to complete this monumental task,” said Staff...

STARVATION: DAY 7 Minister to Jeb Bush: Disobey court order D. James Kennedy says governor must 'disregard' judge to save Terri Posted: March 24, 2005 5:00 p.m. Eastern With all legal remedies apparently exhausted, a prominent evangelical Christian leader is urging Jeb Bush to disobey a judge's order barring the Florida governor from intervening to save the life of Terri Schiavo. In a statement shortly after Judge George Greer's decision today, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., minister D. James Kennedy pointed to Bush "as the only legal authority who can save the life of Terri Schiavo. " Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge...

My dad was reading Patterson's book, 'Reckless Disregard' and read to me the section about how Kerry, using his own video camera, went back to the scene of his 'battles' in Vietnam a few days after they occurred and had himself filmed recreating incidents, running through the jungle in bandoliers. Unfathomable, what sort of person would think to do something like that... no honorable soldier, for certain. It only makes sense when one considers that he knew... before even setting foot in Vietnam...what his motivation for being there was: politics. And that makes me shudder with digust.

John Kerry woke up last Tuesday morning confused and agitated. As he realized, his propensity towards prevarication and exaggeration are now well known by voters. In politics, that stuff usually works with a significant segment of the population simply because they are uninformed. Didn't work as well this time, though. Voters are starting to laugh at Kerry. Or even worse, voters are starting to disregard Kerry. Quite often, campaign staff, reporters and Republican hecklers make up a significant part of the crowd at his lightly attended campaign appearances. Clearly, the Kerry campaign is having a few little problems. One problem...