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If you've been waiting for home prices or interest rates to fall further before you buy a home, it's time to rethink your strategy. If you act soon, you'll be able to take advantage of historically low prices and interest rates that won't be around forever. And if you're a first-time buyer and you act very soon, you can still take advantage of an $8,000 tax credit. Here are five reasons to take the plunge now. 1. You may get a fat tax credit. The first-time home buyer's tax credit is worth 10% of the home's purchase price, up to...

Sorry for the poor quality of the water rally. I didn’t bring a tripod and it’s off VHS tape on a handheld camera. These clips show things you didn’t see on YouTube or on FOX. Everyone’s seen their footang and the crowd. This is how the event was set up and shows the work that went into it. Clip 1 http://www.rhyner.com/video/hannity.avi Clip 2 http://www.rhyner.com/video/hannity2.avi

Houston year-over-year job loss nearly 100,000 Houston-area employers sharply pared their payrolls, cutting 95,100 jobs between August 2008 and August 2009, the Texas Workforce Commission reported today. That represents a 3.6 percent loss of jobs over that one-year period. “We’re still bleeding,” said Joel Wagher, labor market analyst for Workforce Solutions, which manages employment services, education and training for the area. “We’ve lost jobs in almost every major sector except for education and health services,” said Wagher

Home » News » Milwaukee County Milwaukee County DNA of 12,000 felons missing from state registry By Gina Barton and John Diedrich of the Journal Sentinel Posted: Sept. 16, 2009 A fellow prisoner posed as Walter E. Ellis in 2001 and gave a DNA sample for him, keeping the accused serial killer out of a statewide database and letting him avoid capture for years, according to a state Department of Justice memo.It wasn't an isolated incident. DNA for about 12,000 felons convicted since 2000 is missing from the database, the department said Wednesday. Even today, the failures in the system...

Not... one... single... new... detail. But five minutes worth of telling us how great the bill is and how he hopes for bi-partisan support. "Bill is very similar to what Obama said in his recent address." Cue Twilight Zone music.

<p>Over the past decade, American families and businesses have seen their health-care costs skyrocket. Today, employer-based coverage for a family of four typically costs more than $13,000.</p>

Kudlow just gave a teaser for "ACORN gets Cracked" - a report on the ACORN voter registration fraud and prostitution sting and $53 million in tax money. I'll post when that segment comes on.

Evangelicals believe in many things: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, church attendance, homeschooling, Fox News, abstinence, personal holiness, toupees, leisure suits, mission work, Dockers, golf, spanking, and dinner, early and often. But the natural starting point for identifying evangelicals by their beliefs is with their best-known doctrine: hell....IN A HANDBASKET Evangelicals believe certain people are going to hell -- you, for example, unless you already happen to be an evangelical. But behind the hellfire and brimstone talk are core beliefs that have deep meaning for evangelicals. Here are the three most important ones:CORE BELIEF #1 -- Every person has...

CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. representative's shouting down the president led to potential tourists canceling plans to visit South Carolina, state and local tourism officials said. Out-of-state residents who said they've vacationed for years at Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and other resorts have e-mailed their destination sites to say they don't plan to return, McClatchy Newspapers reported. Last week, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted "You lie" as President Barack Obama discussed his healthcare reform package during a joint session of Congress. Wilson later apologized to Obama, but has been roundly criticized from both sides of the aisle....

I started following David Shuster today on Twitter after a friend commented that only 30,000 attended Saturdays rally and her info came from his Twitter. It's ticking me off that Liberals are allowed to get away with this lying. Can anyone comment on these 2 Tweets from Shuster? The 1st Tweet I'd like clarification on: I've covered rallies at dc capitol for 20 years. When the crowd goes only as far as 3rd st, it is 50,000 or less. And the 2nd Tweet: Freedomworks says their dc demonstration attracted 30,000 people. Park police official says that is being "generous." So...

In light of Lou Dobbs' reported plans to help lead the upcoming lobbying campaign of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) -- an organization designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Media Matters for America reviews some of the most egregious conspiracy theories, hate speech, and undisclosed conflicts of interest in Dobbs' immigration reporting. [Keep reading at mediamatters.org/reports/200909140005]

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Chris Wallace just on Fox. Reported that Pelosi will make Joe Wilson come to the front of the House (the "well"), hang his head in shame, and apologize to the full House about what a bad boy he was for calling-out Obama on his healthcare lies. Wilson reiterated that he will not do so. Pelosi then expected to call Wilson to the well for a public humiliation and perhaps punishment. Story just keeps getting better and better. In related news, Wilson has recieved over $ 1M in new donations; Lib hackers have shut-down his site. In SC, his popularity is...

Just on Fox. North Korea is going ahead full-bore with its fission bomb program, this time to detonate a U238 bomb. The first two used Plutonium. They went out of their way to tell Obama to pound sand first. Another foreign policy triumph from The Most Open and Honest Administration in American History.

Breaking on Fox. Another Obama foreign policy disaster. The race now is between whether foreign enemies or Obama will destroy us first.

Thousands Pack D.C. To Protest Spending, Taxes Fiscal conservatives converge for 'March on Washington' Jose Luis Magana / AP [Pic in URL] Demonstraters fill the streets in the nation's capital Saturday to protest what they consider the federal government's out-of-control spending. Video Derrick Ward. WASHINGTON - Thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending. The line of protesters completely filled Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the...

Wilson told Obama he was sorry shortly after the incident on Wednesday, but has refused requests to apologize on the floor. Wilson's office says the congressman considers his initial apology sufficient. He has also been telling supporters he will continue to speak loudly about the issue and "not be muzzled." VIDEO INCLUDED IN LINK http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32797625/ns/politics-health_care_reform

Conservatives celebrate No. 1 book By PATRICK GAVIN | 9/10/09 3:48 PM EDT Wednesday night at Morton's, Michelle Malkin — and those who love her — celebrated her new book. Consider it a "Who's Who" of the conservative movement in Washington. Attendees included: Pat Sajak, Mary Matalin, Tony Blankley, Mary Katharine Ham, Matt Latimer, Pat Buchanan, Bill Kristol. Malkin, wearing a grey-short sleeved dress with taupe pumps, made some brief remarks, which included some jabs at the women on "The View" for their critiques of her book, and thanked her husband, Jesse, who made one of his very infrequent "DC...

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Speaker Pelosi on President Obama’s Health Reform Speech: ‘The Time to Act Is Now; And We Will’ Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement tonight after President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on the urgent need for health insurance reform: “Tonight, President Obama made a forceful case to the Congress and the country for long-overdue health insurance reform. We are closer than ever before in history to real progress on this issue that touches the lives of every American and impacts our economy: ensuring stability and security for Americans with health...

A New York Times reporter taken hostage by militants was rescued from a hide-out in northern Afghanistan early Wednesday in a daring raid that left his translator, a British soldier and civilians dead. Journalist Stephen Farrell was kidnapped Saturday while interviewing villagers in the northern province of Kunduz about NATO air strikes that reportedly left as many as 90 people dead. Farrell's interpreter, one of the British commandos sent to rescue them and several others died when a firefight broke out during the raid. According to the Times, Farrell called an editor at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and declared, "I'm out!...