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Like him or not, Dr. Escoffery is a qualified candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida. Florida Primary is less than 3 weeks away (24 August 2010) and I can only assume that the "AfD" tag was placed by someone who does not want anyone to know who he is because they consider him a "threat" to Marco Rubio. If you are a Wiki fan please comment on the "AfD" tag and request that his page NOT be deleted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Escoffery Thanks

The Republican National Committee failed to report more than $7 million in debt to the Federal Election Commission in recent months - a move that made its bottom line appear healthier than it is heading into the midterm elections and that also raises the prospect of a hefty fine. In a memo to RNC budget committee members, RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen on Tuesday accused Chairman Michael S. Steele and his chief of staff, Michael Leavitt, of trying to conceal the information from him by ordering staff not to communicate with the treasurer - a charge RNC officials deny. Mr. Pullen...

While many conservative organizations immediately decried a federal judge's decision last week to invalidate the federal ban on recognizing gay marriages, tea party groups have been conspicuously silent on the issue. The silence is by design, activists with the loosely affiliated movement said, because it is held together by an exclusive focus on fiscal matters and its avoidance of divisive social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Privately, though, many said they back the decision because it emphasizes the legal philosophy of states' rights. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro in Boston struck down parts of the Defense...

Republicans still have time to transform their concern about the explosion in the size of our government into a directed political force that sweeps elections this November. The single person who can now do the most to make this happen is RNC Chairman Michael Steele. How? By resigning. The latest mark against Steele is the apparent exposure of a personal belief deeply at odds with Republican philosophy. Yesterday, Mr. Steele said of the war in Afghanistan that “this was a war of Obama’s choosing.” ... Indeed, major donors have deserted the RNC. The DNC has led the RNC in fundraising....

It’s hard to imagine a greater victory for the conservative legal movement than the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which overturned D.C.’s ban on handguns. Not only did the Court definitively settle the long-contested question of whether the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms, but it did so using the language of “originalism”—the school of thought, long championed by conservatives, that says the Constitution should be read according to its original public meaning. It was therefore surprising when a leading conservative jurist, Judge J. Harvey Wilkinson III of the U.S....

According to Gallup, "White single women, unmarried, widowed, divorced, and separated" voted "overwhelmingly" for Obama. On this Memorial Day, this crucial slice of Obama's base of support without whom he would have been elected owe this nation an apology. Blacks; Hispanics; and Moslems voted tribal politics. But this group was more than liberal, it included a large segment of conservatives and independents who had soured on Bush. Today with $13 trillion in debt- almost $12 trillion of it accumulated in the last six months alone, a burgeoning government; a foreign policy in tatters from Iran, to N. Korea to the...

Jesse Jackson on the immigration law in Arizona. He says Gov. Bill Richardson is "suspect" under this law.

Downtown Los Angeles witnessed a white supremacist group rallying against illegal immigration on Saturday, which consequently sparked a counter-rally that drew about 500 people. On the south lawn of Los Angeles' City Hall, police officers stood between the white supremacists and counter-demonstrators. For one long hour about 50 members of the National Socialist Movement waved American flags and swastika banners. According to what the police shared, five counter-protesters were arrested for throwing items. The white supremacists who were wearing flack helmets and black military fatigue uniforms yelled ‘Sieg Heil’. After that, their respective speakers took the platform to mock counter-protesters...

While SNCC was founded as a legitimate and important civil rights organization in 1960, it has morphed into a black nationalist organization associated with the black panther party and other fringe militant organizations. Members have explicitly called for racial violence. They have discriminated against white volunteers. Eventually, SNCC turned away all white volunteers, rejecting the proud tradition of the civil rights movement in the South. They became the black version of the Ku Klux Klan. Yet Eric Holder attends their convention as a speaker.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is developing an action plan that will focus on reducing health disparities between minority and white populations. Sebelius made her remarks Wednesday at a convention of the National Action Network.

According to two knowledgeable sources, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel. ---snip--- While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent $17,514 on private aircraft in the month of February alone (as well as $12,691 on limousines during the same period). There are no readily identifiable private plane expenses for Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine in the DNC’s last three months of filings. --snip--- Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele...

Wow...I thought that language was offensive but it is in Obama census - so please enlight me here - what is a "negro"???

From the recent attack on an IRS building in Austin, Texas, to assassination plots by skinheads on Obama, "anti-government 'patriot' groups—militias and other extremist organizations that see the federal government as their enemy—[have come] roaring back to life," reports the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil-rights organization that tracks active hate groups nationwide. The SPLC's just-released annual report entitled "Rage on the Right" found that extremist organizations saw "an astonishing rise," increasing 244 percent from 149 to 512 over the past 12 months. SPLC has added 363 new groups to its annual list, compiled using a combination of hate-group...

Los Angeles — My classroom lay in ashes. The acrid smell of asbestos permeated the thick air in the "C" building, where police had cordoned off the area with bright yellow tape, forbidding the entry of staff and students. The entire wing of our language building would be closed for an entire six weeks. Collateral damage done to the adjacent classrooms meant that a slew of teachers would be "traveling", juggling books, tests, overhead transparencies, and supplies, like gypsies, bivouacking through lunch areas, track bleachers, even lawn areas of the senior quad. Why was an entire school put on hold,...

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was passing out a memo Tuesday advising Democratic campaign managers to define their opponents early and to highlight the differences between moderate voters and tea party-style conservatives.

Californians are pretty sure President Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A., but not at all sure about the tea party movement, according to a new Field Poll. Conversely, the survey found that those who identify strongly with tea partiers are not at all sure about the president's true nation of origin. "It's an interesting phenomenon that they are not only rebelling against the growth and size of government, but they are actually questioning the authority of the president," said poll director Mark DiCamillo. Doubts about whether Obama was born outside U.S. soil, and thus constitutionally ineligible to be president,...

President Barack Obama has admitted he failed to unite Americans and change the way Washington works during his first year in office. With his approval ratings falling below 50 per cent, Mr Obama confessed his disappointment at not delivering key pledges of his campaign. "What I haven't been able to do in the midst of this crisis is bring the country together in a way that we had done in the inauguration," he told People magazine. "That's what's been lost this year ... that whole sense of changing how Washington works." Mr Obama, who will mark a year in office...

Did you ever notice that when liberals start criticizing conservatives, they start out by telling us how intellectually inferior we are? Have you noticed how angry it makes them that anybody, as intellectually lacking as we are should have the audacity to question them and their superior intellect? They know what's good for us lesser beings and that if we weren't such a bunch of uncultured rednecks, we would see the error of our ways, we would just drive our pickup trucks, drink our beer, clean our guns and leave the weightier things like governing to them. It's called arrogance...

This is in follow-up to my post on Tuesday: "The Day I asked a question and got the MOTHER of all answers" The implications of the following account is that the President's REAL NAME did not appear on any ballot, in any state. That's just one of MANY implications. Let me preface by saying an AMENDED birth record could indicate that the President was adopted by either Lolo Soetoro and/or His grandparents, the Dunhams. My story: I have serious reasons to believe that Janice Okubo and/or Director Fukino, Department of Health in Hawaii are under duress. Something is preventing Director...

In 2005, when I was working as a speechwriter in the South African parliament, a far-left faction of the ruling African National Congress spun a yarn that accused the leader of the opposition, the intelligence minister, and the Mossad of colluding to frame Jacob Zuma, the faction's chosen presidential candidate. Intelligence agents loyal to Zuma bugged the opposition's parliamentary offices and produced a bogus document that they claimed was a transcript of Internet chats between Zuma's supposed opponents. It was all nonsense, but the conspiracy theory galvanized Zuma's supporters, who soon pushed him to the top of the ruling party...