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Thank you for inviting me. It is an especially high honor for me to pay tribute to those whose devotion to the greatest country in the world gave me and my family the greatest gift of our lives: freedom. Sixteen years ago, we left the former Soviet Union for the United States to seek refuge from a cruel and despotic government, not unlike millions of others who risked their meager possessions and indeed their lives, because the ills they have suffered at the hands of their governments have become insufferable and because they were all bound by a common cause,...

Just announced on TV. Good, populist move I think. He said he has discussed the issue with security personnel and it will be okay.

That’s the money line from tonight’s Fox News “12 in ’12″ presidential profile; skip ahead to 3:00 if you don’t want to watch it all. He made this same point, albeit in a more elaborate way, at the Values Voter Summit in September. Let me gently suggest that this bumper-sticker version is doing him no favors, since it can’t help but alienate every last libertarian who sees it. His idea, as explained in greater detail at the VVS, is that God and government are forever jockeying for position as moral beacons in the public’s imagination. The bigger government gets, the...

If nothing else, Michigan Republican Rep. Fred Upton has a lot of nerve to campaign to succeed California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton is wholly unsuitable for the job, as a stroll down Memory Lane quickly reminds us: » Upton was one of only 34 House Republicans to support the Democrats' Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 that removed millions of acres of federal lands from oil and gas leasing, thus helping drive up energy costs for consumers. » Upton was one of 29 House Republicans to support creation of...

LOS ALAMITOS - Raquel Ramirez, 30, spent eight years in the U.S. Army. Two of those years were in Afghanistan where she had several jobs: gate guard, paratrooper and assistant gunner in a Humvee column. In the column, her role was simple – stay low and be ready to take over if the main gunner was killed. In a worst-case scenario, she'd have to pop out of the armored vehicle's top hatch and keep the guns firing until the convoy reached safety. Raquel Ramirez, 30, from Capistrano Beach, struts her stuff during a veterans fashion show in Los Alamitos to...

from Wiki: "If she wins, as is likely, she will be the first woman[3] and first black[4][5], as well as holding the distinction of being the first Asian-American attorney general in California and the first Indian American attorney general in the United States of America owing to her Indian descent.[6][7]" We don't post from Wiki, so check it out link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris The California Dems want everyone to forget she favors the criminals much more than the victims, but elect her because she is the racial trifecta!

The U.S. Air Force has begun peering into the far blue yonder for a futuristic aircraft to replace Lockheed Martin Corp's F-22 fighter, a move that has cheered the aerospace industry. The Air Force in a written solicitation this week sought concepts for a next-generation tactical aircraft to begin operating in roughly 2030, apparently with a pilot aboard. Experts cast such a system as a would-be successor to the radar-evading F-22 Raptor, the top U.S. air superiority fighter. The single-seat, twin-engine F-22 was designed as a response to Soviet combat aircraft in the 1980s and is barred by law from...

Said he never ran for anything, but was indeed thinking about a run for the President.

Just coming in...plane crash in Indonesia...developing...

Just received this through Infragard: For your situational awareness: (U) Community Policing: "Fake AV pushers poison US election search results" (U) "The US midterm elections are taking place today, and scareware pushers aren't sitting with their hands crossed - they have poisoned related search results. Search combinations such as "2010 midterm election", "midterm election results", "midterm election latest polls", "midterm election season" and "midterm election latest polls gallup" offer search results that take potential victims to a blank page. A blank page? That seems harmless - until you check out its source code and see that it contains the URL...

It's one of the greatest days of your life as you are finally getting married. An English speaking Swiss couple had a Muslim as a "minister" of their wedding. The so-called "minister" cursed at them in Dhivehi and called them "infidels" and an assortment of other disgusting and heinous wishes. The "minister" wished harm upon their children, and for them to be born with a skin disease. The other staff members stood by and let the "minister" curse them for the entire ceremony. The Vilu Reef hotel in the Maldives apologized to the wedding couple for the conduct of their...

While the debate over how to best tackle the spread of HIV is alive and well in South Africa, a Pastor in Cape Town has taken the topic to a controversial new level by claiming that Jesus Christ was HIV positive. In a series of sermons delivered at Luhlaza High School in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, Pastor Xola Skosana declared that Jesus Christ had “put himself in the shoes of people who experience brokenness” and had channeled the suffering of his followers by experiencing their same sickness, pain and marginalization, reports the BBC. Local’s dismay at the content of the...

Islam taken by it's very word is license to steal, rape, kill and terrorize. To help you understand how the prophet and his followers made a living in Medina, I have taken these verses from the Quran and the Sahih Bukhari Hadith, which are self explanatory and need no analysis from me. Read them and make up your own mind. I have only taken a snap shot and would encourage you to do your own research by using the Islamic websites www.thenoblequran.com and www.searchtruth.com for the Quran and Hadith. It's mind blowing and does make the Somali Pirates look tame...

The new Sixth Sense technology will enable security forces to identify suspicious behavior and objects using two simple video cameras.

www.MeetChrisCoons.com Do you believe America is headed in the right direction? Chris Coons has boasted that he will “rubber stamp” the current agenda of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Do you like America’s direction? Now you decide. Delaware faces a simple question. Do voters agree with Christine O'Donnell that….? o America’s budget deficits are out of control at over a trillion dollars a year. Elite insiders of both parties have been to blame. No more excuses. Period. o Soaring interest payments on government debt threaten to spiral out of control and cripple our future. We are headed toward national bankruptcy....

If the recent New York Times poll is right, women are breaking for Republicans in the midterm election. While the paper of record doesn't explicitly break down the race or ethnicity of the women polled, it can be a safe bet that the polling shift comes mainly from white women. Women, as a group, have been voting for Democrats over Republicans since 1982 - the year exit polling started breaking down voters into groups. It's usually the nonwhite women combined with a large minority of white women that pushes that group to the Democratic side. White women, in general, have...

Eminentoes Jon Stewart's Comic Relief 2010 By George Neumayr on 10.28.10 @ 6:08AM Once upon a time jesters courted kings. Now enfeebled kings court jesters. Panting after the approval of the smug comedian Jon "Stewart," Barack Obama taped an interview for The Daily Show on Wednesday. The smirking jester is also scheduled to hold a kind of charity benefit for his sickly king this weekend, a Comic Relief 2010 called The Rally to Restore Sanity. Obama and the Dems are suffering from a debilitating political disease, but Jon, Whoopi, Robin and Joy, among other celebrity jesters, stand ready to help...

Charlie Crist confirms Meek/Clinton talks: Meek schedules press conference tonight Charlie Crist said on MSNBC that he doesn't expect Kendrick Meek to drop out of the three-way U.S. Senate race: "I think that all three of us will be on the ballot.'' But he said he knew about the Clinton conversations. "How would I know?," he said, answering a question host Keith Olbermann said had been asked by the Meek campaign. "Because I had numerous phone calls with people very close to President Clinton. It's true.'' http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/charlie-crist-confirms-meekclinton-talks-meek-schedules-press-conference-tonight

These are funny and short but to the point in a clear and clever way! They will remind people what is at stake November 2 and will help educate those who don't quite get it yet. Runaway Spending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0biod6sHFpo The Making of Obama Care http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQSISIhVrM

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