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News just on FOX: An Acorn Field Director has "flipped", is now working with Nevada Attorney General on case against ACORN. Nevada Acorn offices raided, field manuals on how to commit Voter Registration Fraud seized.

WASHINGTON -- Reparation for the legacy of slavery and peonage may not come in the form of a check, but it must come, speakers said Friday at a forum sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation....Others said the apology for slavery that the House passed last year and the Senate passed this year were good first steps, and singled out U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., who was on Friday's panel, for authoring the House resolution... [snip]

Senators are negotiating on Senator Max Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 proposal and it hasn't even been written yet. Of course, to state the obvious, the fact that they're negotiating on something that hasn't been written means no one has read it yet either. And, to add even more insult to injury, it’s now clear they have no intention of letting you read it. You read that right. On an almost straight party-line vote, Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee squashed an amendment by Senator Jim Bunning that would have required Baucus’ ObamaCare bill to be posted on the Internet – for...

The United States was self-sufficient in energy until the late 1950s when energy consumption began to outpace domestic production. At that point, the nation began to import more energy to fill the gap. In 2008, net imported energy accounted for 26 percent of all energy consumed.

Win a $33.18 grant from the Iowahawk Endowment for the Arts Like you, when I read that a cabal of art-hating reactionary philistines had forced the resignation of Yosi Sergant from the National Endowment for the Arts, I was sickened. This was followed by shame, then fear. And then, finally, the realization that here was a golden opportunity for cheap blog traffic.

Somebody at FoxNews is keeping Obama on instead of Glenn Beck's show and I think Obama is purposely blathering on about nothing just to keep us from watching Glenn Beck's show.

As I reported yesterday, talk show host and MSNBC’s lowest rated host Ed Schultz Wednesday stated Republicans “want to see you dead,” “kinda like it” when women without insurance get cancer, and suggested Sen. Olympia Snowe allow cancerous tumors to spread through her body for two weeks before seeking treatment. Last night, he offered wimpy “clarifications” that neither apologized for his outrageous remarks nor clarified anything. At one point, he made a defense out of his character, saying, “for clarification, those of you who watch ‘The Ed Show’ or listen to the Ed Schultz radio show, you know exactly...

General Debate of the 64th General Assembly Statement by H.E. Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of the State of Israel The United Nations, New York, 24 September 2009 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and...

Breaking... revealed that Paul Kirk, the Kennedy life-long suck-up unlawfully selected by MA Gov. Patrick to take Ted Kennedy's seat tomorrow, September 25, is the executor of Ted's will. Not Ted's widow, Victoria. That's true love and trust, huh?

<p>DENVER (AP) — A federal judge in Denver has ordered the release of the father of a man charged with plotting to detonate homemade bombs.</p> <p>The father, 53-year-old Mohammed Zazi (ZAH'-zee), is charged with lying to investigators. He has not been charged in the alleged bomb plot.</p>

When I marked the recent anniversary of Peter Jennings's passing with a column about an embarrassing incident in the ABC newsman's career, a couple of readers chastised your gentle correspondent for speaking ill of the dead. So when Edward Kennedy died not long after, I decided to err on the side of decency and keep mum for an appropriate interval. OK, interval's up. The whitewashing and lionizing of Ted Kennedy was nauseating - though hardly unexpected from a media establishment that for decades has been in such embarrassing thrall to the Kennedys. Back in 2003, Kennedy - whose behavior during...

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/23/video-glenn-beck-explains-mccain-comment-boils-fake-frog/ He was talking talking, grab frog from container, talking talking, I wasn't really paying much attention to what he was saying, as I was watching the hand where he was holding the frog. Is he going to throw the frog into the water....is he..is he...talking talking...watching, is he, watching, is he. He throws frog into water. MY GAWD, he thew the frog IN! And it didn't jump out. MY GAWD! HE really DID IT! Talking talking, oh its a FAKE FROG! I ROLLED ON FLOOR LAUGHING

God. "I try to be close to God at all times and the Constitution protects us," added the president in relation to international pressure for his government. Alone. "We are alone but survival," said this afternoon President Roberto Micheletti in an interview on CNN. Ban Ki-moon. "The secretary general has decided to suspend the technical assistance currently provided by the Organization to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras," said a statement issued Wednesday. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, ruled Wednesday that the conditions for organizing elections in Honduras are not united and announced the withdrawal of electoral assistance. "We...

We should think about the Chinese. We are going to hear more from them. Several lives ago, after Saigon fell, I was free-lancing around Asia, and went to Taiwan to await the next war, which didn’t come. I’d been there before, to visit friends in the military. This time I stayed, signed up for intensive Chinese at Gwo Yu R Bau, actually a newspaper but with a language school attached. My abode was an apartment shared with a tiny Japanese mathematician named Sakai, two Chinese graduate students, and Ding Gwo, a local kid who wanted to be a rock guitarist....

Maybe we need to wake up. The other day I went to the Web site of Bell Labs, one of the country's premier research outfits. I clicked at random on a research project, Programmable Networks for Tomorrow. The scientists working on the project were Gisli Hjalmstysson, Nikos Anerousis, Pawan Goyal, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jennifer Rexford, Kobus Van der Merwe, and Sneha Kumar Kasera. Clicking again at random, this time on the Information Visualization Research Group, the research team turned out to be John Ellson, Emden Gansner, John Mocenigo, Stephen North, Jeffery Korn, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Bin Wei, Shankar Krishnan, and Suresh...

Mitch McConnell just called-out Obama on Afghanistan, insisting that O make a decision on the request for more troops in Afghanistan. McConnell also wants Generals McChrystal and Petraus to come to Congress for a hearing about how they believe the war is being conducted. White House responds that it takes time to make these decisions ("Present!") and is clearly annoyed that anyone in Congress would question Obama. Developing.

TEHRAN, Iran — A military aircraft taking part in an army parade crashed near Tehran on Tuesday, state television said, as the Fars news agency reported seven people killed in a plane crash in the same area. The television gave no further details of the incident. Earlier the official IRNA news agency said a plane "which was conducting manoeuvres during the parade crashed in the village of Vali Abad," near Tehran. Fars quoted the Iran Red Crescent relief chief Ahmad Esfandiari as saying that relief workers had found the bodies of seven passengers from a plane which crashed in an...

From: Linebaugh, Andy [NEA] [mailto:ALinebaugh@nea.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:51 PM To: State-Affiliate-Communicators-Plus-NEA [NEA] Subject: ACORN TPs and more The following talking points were sent this afternoon to state affiliate executives and presidents from President Van Roekel As you may know, ACORN has been in the media lately and this has generated questions from members and leaders concerning NEA donations to ACORN. In the event that you receive inquiries, I would like to provide you with the following talking points: · NEA was stunned and appalled, just like many of you, by the actions of some ACORN employees, which...

Things Sean Hannity Would Never Say Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Jack Hunter Digg!Digg Stumble Upon Newsvine SlashdotSlashdot Add to Mixx!Mixx Diigo Google Delicious Reddit Facebook On yesterday’s drive home I listened to Sean Hannity, as I often do. Hannity was upset, as he often is, about President Obama ”weakening” American defense - scrapping missile defense shields in Europe, not escalating troop levels fast enough in Afghanistan, ignoring an Iran on the verge of getting nukes - you know, not being “conservative.” “You’re a great American!” one lady caller told Hannity. While I’m not sure how great an American...

Budget chief contradicts Obama on Medicare costs Sep 22 05:49 PM US/Eastern By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer Comments (1) Email to a friend Share on Facebook Tweet this Bookmark and Share WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress' chief budget officer is contradicting President Barack Obama's oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn't see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul. The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, told senators Tuesday that seniors in Medicare's managed care plans would see reduced benefits under a bill in the Finance Committee. The bill would cut payments to the Medicare Advantage plans...