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Looking to see who's voting for Sarah Palin for President?

E.J. Dionne’s excellent column in this morning’s WaPo sums up the Democrats’ dilemma quite well. Dems have the right ideas, but they are losing the message war: If you want to be honest, face these facts: At this moment, President Obama is losing, Democrats are losing and liberals are losing. Who’s winning? Republicans, conservatives, the practitioners of obstruction and the Tea Party. The two immediate causes for this state of affairs are a single election result in Massachusetts and the way the United States Senate operates. What’s not responsible is the supposed failure of Obama and the Democrats to govern...

I think Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are both good men, and they both need to withdraw from Republican presidential politics. The running gun battles between the Huck and Mitt camps are not healthy for the conservative movement. Huck is a slick, smiling gut-fighter who easily lapses into thinly disguised anti-Mormon conceit and liberal tinged populism. Mitt is a wildly successful businessman who is also an ideological chameleon. I am tired of the bickering between these two men and their fervid supporters. Like matches and gasoline, each man is good in his own way, but mixed together they cause a...

November 21, 2008, 1:15 p.m. Americans Flunk Basic CivicsBut boy, do we know our American Idol. By Deroy Murdock However you regard the outcome of the November 4 election, it was heartening to watch 125 million Americans cast their ballots at precincts from coast to coast. Unfortunately, they and the many millions more who skipped the whole thing collectively know frightfully little about the government we just reaffirmed, the principles that undergird it, and the basic documents in which those ideas are enshrined. Thus, Americans slouch into the 21st century — a free and confident people blissfully unaware of...

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they...

It's apparent that a combination of fervent believers and a small number of psychopaths and/or infiltrators have dominated the birth certificate discussion. The early evidence was in their favor and everyone should have been skeptical of the low res images on Kos, smears and politifact. The new evidence is not and is not being addressed objectively. The Certificate There are photos at FactCheck like the one linked above ( http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_5.jpg) To the credit of the believers there are a variety of photos at Factcheck that don't all look like the same artifact. Also we know that Factcheck is not an...

McCain rips repubs throughout the election and didn't attack BO. Now that he got his clocked cleaned...his aides are out trying to destroy Palin. With him sitting on the sidelines not saying a thing, he is showing his true colors. Country First my ass....he is trying to keep his own legacy a float by letting this happen. This shows his true political cowardice. I am a conservative through and through. The only reason that I decided to support McCain is the addition of Palin to his ticket. She is a conservative and it scares the Dems and the RINOS. It...

The opening day of firearm deer season drew many students out of area schools and into the woods Friday. Jacksonville High School lost 20 students to the call of the hunt Friday, according to Principal Kurt Spilker. “They had to bring in their permit and show it to us,” Mr. Spilker explained. “It’s still an absence, but it’s an excused absence.” At North Greene High School, 40 students were missing Friday, and although high school secretaries couldn’t say for sure how many of the absences were hunting related, the women were sure that many of the no-show students were out...

Revising and extending my remarks: We're receiving lots of complaints lately from freshly banned liberals, trolls and malcontents. Well, Free Republic has not changed and will not change. We are NOT "fair and balanced." Never will be. We are biased toward God, country, Life and Liberty. Marriage, family and traditional values. Constitution, inalienable rights, private property and limited government. Small government, small spending, small taxes. National security, national sovereignty, strong defense and secure borders. Individual rights, individual responsibility and self-government. Privacy, individual and family security, self-defense and right to keep and bear arms. Rights to freely exercise our religion, freedom...

WICHITA, KS, November 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two pro-life volunteers participating in a round the clock prayer vigil were sickened last week, after being exposed to fumes from an oily substance that had been spilled across the driveway at George Tiller’s late-term abortion clinic. Operation Rescue, citing a similar incident that occurred in 2007, alleges that the spilling of the substance in such close proximity to where pro-life volunteers were participating in the 40 Days for Life campaign was an intentional “chemical attack.” One of the pro-lifers, Jennifer McCoy, was treated for four hours at a local hospital emergency room...

Suck it up! Get on the offensive. November 13, 2008Last Sunday I gave callers 30 minutes to whine, complain, worry, snivel, posture, and generally go through whatever stages of grief worked for them following the election results putting Senator Obama into the White House. After all, we need time to "process" and "deal with it," don't we? (If you missed the show, you can download it at www.guntalk.libsyn.com)Are you kidding? Suck it up! I have a plan. Many gun owners are living in a fantasy world, meaning they don't know what's going on, don't know how to put it into...

It’s time for new leadership in the pro-life movement and, thankfully, that leadership is now beginning to rise up all across America. This is happening under the banner of the Personhood Movement, which recognizes the personhood of all unborn children and the fact that they are therefore protected by the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. For more than three decades, the existing leadership of the pro-life movement has pursued a strategy of regulating abortion rather than ending it. Instead of insisting on our nation’s most important founding principle of the protection of the unalienable God-given right to life for all,...

SAN FRANCISCO — Frustrated by a 28 percent increase in homicides during the past year, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has proposed a sweeping measure banning handguns, injecting the city into the national debate over gun control.

Guess Who is Speaking at the PSM Conference at OSU? By Andrew L. Jaffee, October 30, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The Palestinian/Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) movement has lined up a list of very questionable speakers (list; schedule) for their planned conference at the Ohio State University (OSU) on November 7th - 9th. This is not surprising, given the PSM's and parent International Solidarity Movement's (ISM) known support for terrorism, illegal activities, and sometime enabling of terrorism. Adam Shapiro, an ISM co-founder, will be speaking on Sunday, November 9th. Here are some quotes Shapiro has made in the past: This is no...