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You don't need a big showy celestial event like an eclipse to have a magical moment with the night sky. Sometimes, the subtler experiences are just as moving. Head out in the evening on Sunday, Nov. 7 to witness the scenic crescent moon posing with Venus nearby. While Sunday will see the moon and Venus at their snuggliest, you'll have an extended window for some great planet-spotting opportunities. "From Nov. 6th through the 11th, watch the moon glide past Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter after sunset in the south/southwest," NASA said. Jupiter and Saturn will appear to move closer to Venus...

Now that Donald Trump has clinched the Republican Party nomination for president, we as a nation need to ask ourselves some serious questions: What is the sickness in our nation’s soul that has placed this carrot-colored monstrosity so close to the most powerful office in the world, and what can we do to fix it? How many newscasters will kill themselves live on-air on Election Night if he wins? (I’m setting the line at three and taking the over.) What do we need to do to bury the Trump campaign so deep before November 8, searchers will need a methane...

I thought it might be interesting for Freepers to record their experiences while voting and their impressions of the electorate's mood. I'll start. I am in South Florida, a Congressional district where 12-term Republican Congressman E. Clay Shaw is in a close race. Despite the intense liberal sentiment in this district, I have yet to meet anyone who is voting against Shaw. Both my mother and sister are extreme left-wing Democrats, but they will be voting for Shaw because his office helped them unsnarl some bureaucractic problems with the Federal govt. Mom got a replacement Social Security card and sis...

Dear Media Outlets, Democrat Party, Code Pink and other Assorted Bastions of Liberal Nonsense, Just for your information: You can parade out any number of accusations against Republicans, Conservatives and/or Christians; you can lie about the War in Iraq; you can put your crappy, empty-headed “experts” on the News shows; you can bring out Michael J. Fox and try to make me feel sorry for him; you can pretend that John “Carry” actually has a brain in his arrogant, wussified, traitorous head, you can send a blizzard to the Midwest, you can accuse MY President of all sorts missteps, BUT...

O X I D A Y 28 OCTOBER, 1940 LEST WE FORGET THE 28th OF OCTOBER, 1940! THE FIRST ALLIED VICTORY IN WWII The magnificent Greek holiday Oxi Day is celebrated every year in Greece on October 28th and mostly remembered for General Ioannis Metaxas' strong reply of 'OXI' (no) to Mussolini's request to allow Italian troops to come into Greece at the beginning of WWII. The result of this stern message was powerful, and in the end, helped to maintain Greece's course of neutrality for generations to come. Nevertheless, the Italians did invade Greece, but were subsequently driven back...

This summer I gave two speeches that defined the unique challenges that confront the United States as we conduct a new world war. I gave those speeches-one in Washington at the National Press Club, and one here in Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Press Club-because I believe that now more than ever we need to study the past, learn from events, and take proactive measures to protect our freedoms at home and provide a safer world in which to exercise those freedoms. I am here again today talking about this issue because Islamic Fascism continues to rear its ugly head. And...

After looking at the news for the past 10 days or so, I have to wonder how Democrats can possibly fail in their efforts to take both the House and the Senate. The national atmospherics don’t merely favor Democrats; they set the stage for a blowout of cosmic proportions next month. No, that’s not a prediction, since Republicans still have a month to “localize” enough races to hold onto one or both chambers of Congress. But you don’t have to be Teddy White or V.O. Key to know that the GOP is now flirting with disaster.

SIERRA VISTA — Arizona Democratic candidates for state and national office say there is a change in the air that will lead to more candidates from their party being elected in November. But the state’s top Democrat, Gov. Janet Napolitano, added a sense of reality when she told nearly 200 people attending a brunch Saturday that nothing should be taken for granted. The party faithful, she said, will have to get out and vote to ensure Democratic victory in statewide and Legislative offices, as well in congressional elections. Napolitano said she, too, foresees a new direction for the state if...