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I must be dreaming but Shannon Bream just narrated a piece on Trump which interrupted Greta on Fox and showed Trump as the winner.

Like his mentor Jack Kemp, he’s pro-immigration.This week, there was a new development in the House: Paul Ryan may be the key to passing comprehensive immigration reform. But that should hardly come as a surprise. Long before he was a vice-presidential nominee, Ryan was an adviser to former New York congressman Jack Kemp at Empower America, a conservative think tank. It was there, in his early twenties, that Ryan began to share Kemp’s politics. Beyond fiscal issues, that meant supporting pro-immigration policies, such as an expanded guest-worker program. Kemp often spoke passionately about how immigration was necessary for economic growth...

So how is it possible that some of the most successful and intelligent people in the United States cansuddenly become stupid the moment they walk in the door of Congress? Or alternatively, how is it possible that these intelligent and successful people suddenly become unlucky? Is there any logical explanation? Isn't it much more likely that the people in congress are just as lucky and intelligent as they were the day before they were elected? And if that is true, how can you explain the "stupid" things that these intelligent and successful politicians do?

With three weeks left until election day, it's highly unlikely Democrats in Washington will take up any gay rights issues before there is a new balance of power in the capitol. Gay rights activists, however, are intent on reminding President Obama and his party that they're not satisfied with what's been accomplished so far. The president was attending a Democratic fundraiser in Miami last night, held in the back yard of NBA star Alonzo Mourning's 12,000-square-foot mansion, when air horns could be heard blaring across the water, according to pool reports of the event. The noise was reportedly not loud...

Talk about a grand ol' party. The "family values" Republican National Committee spent $1,946 at a West Hollywood strip club last month, records show, but a spokesman insisted Monday that RNC chairman Michael Steele was not among the revelers. "The chairman was never at the location in question, he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable," said RNC spokeswoman Doug Heye, who added that the committee was investigating the expenditure. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/29/2010-

White House correspondent Helen Thomas told Robert Gibbs that since Obama will not “take on” the NRA it makes it seem he “backs away from everything.”

...former President Bill Clinton told off some 9/11 truthers that were heckling him during a 50-minute speech he was giving at a fundraiser for his wife in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tuesday. Sadly, he didn't say anything about Rosie O'Donnell. However, as reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, what the former President did say -- as shouts came from the crowd about 9/11 being an inside job -- was rather delicious...Early in his speech, Clinton was sporadically heckled. One heckler shouted that 9/11 was a fraud, and Clinton bristled. "No, it wasn't a fraud. I'll be glad to talk about it if...

Bill Clinton addressed a crowd in Minneapolis, Minnesota at a fundraiser for his wife's campaign on Tuesday. Clinton's 50-minute speech, which started about an hour behind schedule, was derailed briefly by several hecklers in the audience who shouted that the 2001 terrorist attacks were a fraud. Rather than ignoring them, Clinton seemed to relish a direct confrontation. "A fraud? No, it wasn't a fraud," Clinton said, as the crowd cheered him on. "I'll be glad to talk to you if you shut up and let me talk." When another heckler shouted that the attacks were an "inside job," Clinton took...

China denounces "brazen" North Korea nuclear test 2 hours, 42 minutes ago China said on Monday it firmly opposed North Korea's nuclear test, denouncing it as "brazen" in unusually strong language, and demanded Pyongyang stop any action that could worsen the situation. China also urged North Korea to return to six-party talks it has hosted aimed at dismantling the North's nuclear programmes. The talks, which have been stalled for nearly a year, also group South Korea, Japan, the United States and Russia. "The DPRK has ignored the widespread opposition of the international community and conducted a nuclear test brazenly on...

'THE DEVIL CAME TO THE UN YESTERDAY... Bush, I have the feeling you are going to live the rest of your days as a nightmare... We need a psychologist to analyze Bush... YANKEE IMPERIALISTS GO HOME'...

/begin my translationKim Jong-il to Visit China around Aug. 28From multiple sources from China and Japan... wonder if it is about nuclear test[2006-08-23 11:30]  Multiple sources informed us that N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il is due to visit China around Aug. 28.Chinese diplomatic sources told us in the morning of Aug 23, "Currently senior figures of N. Korean military are staying in China as an advance to team for Kim Jong-il's visit, doing necessary preparations." However, the exact date is not revealed.The sources said, "It is our understanding that these senior military figures are working on his visit schedule which...

/begin my translation Behind Story: Tense Diplomatic Exchanges Between N. Korea And China (After Security Council Resolution) N. Korean Ambassador waited out for 2 hours at China's Foreign Ministry...China's Vice Premier waited out for 6 hours in Pyongyang(Hong Kong = Yonhap News) Chung Juho Correspondent: N. Korean government vehemently protested at China, conveying their outrage, after UN Security Council passed a resolution against N. Korea in July 15, according to reports. Zheng-ming, a monthly news magazine in Hong Kong, reported on Aug. 8 in its latest edition, tense diplomatic moments between N. Korea and China, right after the resolution against...

CRATER LAKE, Ore. (AP) - A camper brandished a club and threatened to kill two park rangers, then was shot dead by one of them, a park spokesman said Thursday. The man encountered the rangers as they answered a call about a domestic disturbance at a campground at Crater Lake National Park after dark Wednesday, said park spokesman Mac Brock. When the rangers tried to talk to the man, he became increasingly hostile and wandered around the campsite despite orders to stay still, Brock said. "Still brandishing the club, still ignoring warnings to stop, he directly approached the rangers and...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on Thu, Jul. 21, 2005 Brownback wary of Roberts’ record By MATT STEARNS The Star’s Washington Correspondent Brownback WASHINGTON –– Sen. Sam Brownback isn’t sold on John G. Roberts, Jr. just yet. Not by a long shot. The senator from Kansas is saying and doing some of the things a Republican member of the Judiciary Committee is supposed to be saying and doing about President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee: talking up Roberts’ resume and calling for a fair confirmation process. But Brownback, one of the Senate’s leading social conservatives, has concerns about Roberts’ views on key issues, such...

This Bush supporter is about to turn. For months we have heard all the valid reasons for ridding thEE world of Sadam Hussein, over and over and over again. Tonight, the word is that Bush will answer press questions on Iraq and, yet again, assure us all that no decision on war has been made. Great! The markets can continue to collapse, anti-war demonstrations go on, Bush's re-elect poll numbers plummet and Wart Hog Helen gets to ridicule Bush some more. Well I've had it with Bush. The guy really isn't very smart afterall. And that guy Powell of his...

Sources have exclusively told CBS News Chief Washington Correspondant Bob Schieffer that influential Republicans-some of them inside the Bush White House-are now urging the President to work behind the scenes to get Trent Lott to step down as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.However some Republicans have risen to Lott's defense.Senator Arlen Specter , (R-PA) said Lott's comments should be accepted as an 'inadverdent slip and his apolgy should end the discussion.''I know Trent Lott very well from working with him in the Senate for the past 14 years and can vouch for the fact that he is no...