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President Bush inherited a recession, a stock market slump, a corporate corruption scandal and then had that whole economic morass topped off with a terrorist attack which cost the American economy greatly. From these economic doldrums, President Bush has cleared the way for an economic boom the likes of which America has never seen. Oh, to be sure, a lot of people don't see it - because the MSM simply will not tell the people the truth about what is happening in the economy. But for anyone paying attention, it is clear that we've never had it so good -...

K-Lo gives it a name and Levin sums it up rather nicely. Right Diagnosis [Kathryn Jean Lopez] I've worried I have Bush Derangement Syndrome. David Frum says we've divorced. But I think I have it figured out — I have Bush Estrangement Syndrome (BES). Mark Levin definitely has it. Laura Ingraham — as you know if you've heard this — has it. 05/31 03:32 PM The President Is Losing Me I guess it's legacy time over at the White House. The president is imitating Arnold Schwarzenegger now. Does the president have any conservative domestic initiatives that he's actively pursuing? If...

Governor Darrell Flyingman of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma put things in realistic perspective when he arose to speak. He talked about the thousands of acres of land either ceded or stolen by hook and crook from the people of his nation over the years (in Oklahoma). He said, "I consider this to be a site of a massacre (Washita battlefield, OH) and not a battlefield as it is named and I will do everything within my power to see that the site is renamed as the Washita Massacre rather than Battlefield. Gov. Flyingman said that he felt...

Deep-six the Law of the Sea by Phyllis Schlafly Posted: 05/21/2007 Borrowing the famous words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away," we can now see that old treaties never die, they can be resurrected years or even decades after taking what we thought was a knockout punch. President George W. Bush is scheduled to announce any day that he will breathe new life into the old United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which President Ronald Reagan rejected in 1982. Bush's National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley has asked Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

Commencement today marks new beginning for school he founded LYNCHBURG -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell planned to save America through his students, 3,598 of whom will graduate today from Liberty University inculcated with his evangelical, conservative vision. "The reason he built this place was to change the world," said Liberty student Mark Krom. "It's easy for me to buy into that. He was training champions for Christ." Falwell, 73, died from a heart condition Tuesday in his campus office. Thousands have come to the campus to view his body over the past several days. Falwell, in repose in a coffin...

I purchased this book last year, and found it to be one of the best references for facts in Terri Schiavo's case. Reading this book is like sitting down with Cheryl and Jan, and listening/watching them present the actual evidence and truth about so many things that the mainstream "pro euthanasia" media has refused to tell. You will see the actual hospital documents, police reports, and so much more. I will warn you though, that once you learn about the judicial misconduct, FL laws broken, the details of Michaels malpractice case,(money was paid under the claim that Terri had a...

For a taste of the old South, you can attend a Civil War battle re-enactment. Or you can visit Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. This fundamentalist school - catchphrase: "Brains are no substitute for God" - forbade interracial dating among its students until 2000. The place is easy to mock, and people often do. The Bob Jones rulebook bans all the things that other students think make college fun: booze, cigarettes, fornication. Mark Lopez, one of the 4,200 smartly dressed and unfailingly polite students at Bob Jones, says he applied there because he wanted to study "conservative Christian music":...

...Many will be shocked to read on the following page a Beltway fixture such as the Washington Post’s David Broder suggesting that Bush is “poised for a political comeback.” This is one chief executive whose much-maligned “failings” are really his strengths, whose “stubbornness” and “insularity” we hear of from the media gossip mills, and his alleged refusal to listen to bad news, are examples of a tenacious commitment to principle. Nearly six years without a terrorist attack on the U.S.: It is hard to imagine any other of today’s political figures — Republican or Democrat — exhibiting the forcefulness to...

When Frank Zappa penned the hit single "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" back in 1974, his words were meant as a warning to Eskimos to avoid the spots "where the huskies go." Yesterday Russian authorities were forced to repeat the American singer song-writer's advice for altogether different reasons after putrid smelling yellow, green and orange snow fell across a substantial swathe of Siberia.The bizarre phenomenon caused consternation across the affected regions of Omsk and Tomsk, where government officials told locals to stay indoors, tie up their pets and avoid either consuming the snow or using it "for household or technical...

The US criticised China today for conducting an anti-satellite weapons test in which an old Chinese weather satellite was destroyed by a ballistic missile. “The US believes China’s development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of cooperation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area,” National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. “We and other countries have expressed our concern to the Chinese.” US intelligence agencies believe China conducted the test on January 11.

A Ford, Not a Lincoln By James P. Estrada January 18, 2007 The passing of President Ford has led to the seemly unavoidable melancholy look back to his presidency with an inevitable comparison to presidencies past and present. Ford himself once said that he was “a Ford and not a Lincoln”, and so we got a Ford and not a Lincoln Presidency out of this man. There are those that would say Ford was a great president and cite reasons from his unifying the country after Nixon to his seamless handling of the Mayaguez incident, where US Marines boarded and...

Whether viewed by Floridians with reverence or disdain, Jeb Bush transformed Florida politics during his eight-year tenure, to the benefit of the Republican Party. BY BETH REINHARD breinhard@MiamiHerald.com To size up Jeb Bush's political legacy, look no farther than the punctuation that followed his first name on his trademark campaign bumper sticker: Jeb! The signature slogan captures the governor's atomic impact on Florida politics, for better or worse. He lifted the Republican Party onto the broad shoulders of his six-foot-four frame and into the stratosphere, sweeping up untold millions of campaign dollars, stacking hundreds of influential boards and courthouse benches,...

Theresa Marie Schindler was born to Robert and Mary Schindler on December 3, 1963. She was the first of three children the Schindlers would have. Terri was a shy, but comical, child who had an affinity for music, animals and the arts. She kept a small circle of friends and was dear to schoolmates, neighboring families and her own extended family. Following high school, Terri came into her own. She developed a knack for sketching and doodling. She enjoyed outings with her friends. She was an adoptive mother to the family’s dog, Bucky. Terri attended Catholic School while growing up...

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Contact new members of Congress! (this database contains "freshmen" members of congress for the 110th Congress - also note that nearly a dozen races are still undecided)LIST ALL NEW MEMBERS The implications of our American elections are not always clear but the power behind those elections is always evident: Democracy. Get to know the NEW members of the 110th congress Call them or send them a message of congratulations! Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Maryland | Michigan | Minnesota...

SACRAMENTO — With a second term ensured, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to use the next four years to showcase California as a one-of-a-kind model of bipartisan cooperation — and to forge a legacy that will be a springboard for his next political move. Riding the momentum of his victory and a string of legislative accomplishments this year, he hopes to work with Democrats and Republicans to expand access to healthcare, improve teacher accountability in California schools and build enough new prisons to ease rampant overcrowding. --snip-- Even before Tuesday's election, he was looking beyond Sacramento. Aides said he may run...

LOS ANGELES - California voters have launched a wave of public works projects unseen in the Golden State in decades, and in doing so may have handed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a victory that will define him for his second term and beyond. The approval Tuesday of every bond initiative Schwarzenegger had asked for _ four propositions totaling $37.3 billion _ sets the stage for the building of roads, schools, housing and flood-control projects at a level that could dwarf the state's 1960s building boom that became Gov. Pat Brown's legacy. Passage of the bonds _ the biggest in the nation's...

Hugh turnout in Loudoun county (turnout in 2004 was 70%). Loudoun is outside of D.C. just beyond the "blue" suburbs. MORE INFO at...

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New Jersey falls victim to the anti-marriage forces.