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Welcome to the 5th installment of the FR Weekly Cooking Thread. Looking for something new to make or made something new that came out great? Would you like to share a tried and true recipe for fellow FReepers to add to their 'go-to' recipe stack of Family favorites? Here's the place to share and explore your next favorite recipe.

Reagan re-election campaign's famed 1984 TV commercial... I can remember this playing on TV like it was yesterday. And back in late Summer/Fall 1984, I had the pleasure of seeing Reagan speak live twice... once just once 100 ft from the whistle-stop tour's platform. He ended his speeches in those days with "you ain't seen nothin' yet!"- while going on to bring our country 8 of the best years it's ever seen... [YouTube] Video/more at Reaganite Republican  Have a great weekend, FReeper patriots~ More Gipper's Greatest features -here-

Administrators at California State University’s Fresno campus may have been so anxious to pass the federal DREAM Act that they did not question the legality of the actions of the Student Body president promoting it, a self-described student activist claimed.

...Of the three agencies charged with administering different facets of labor-employer relations, none has been more blatantly pro-union than the NMB over the past two years. Founded in 1934, the National Mediation Board is charged with overseeing labor-management disputes in the railroad and airline industries. The three member board—currently comprised of two former union officials and a Bush holdover—showed its true colors soon after its members were assembled. In its first major decision, the NMB ruled that transportation unions only needed to receive a majority of votes cast as oppose to a majority of all workers votes for the union...

A new move by the Obama Administration may actually move education reform further than No Child Left Behind ever did. “Civil rights advocates are blasting new federal legislation that allows states to classify teaching interns as ‘highly qualified teachers’ and regularly assign them to schools with mostly poor, minority students,” The Washington Examiner reported on January 5, 2011. “The amendment to the federal No Child Left Behind Act was signed Dec. 22 by President Obama as part of an unrelated spending bill.” “The measure nullifies an earlier decision by the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals that California illegally...

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

010 was a year in which American influence waned, as others stepped in to the vacuum. While we did nothing to prevent Iranian development of nuclear weapons, the Israelis introduced a computer virus that perhaps set back Iranian ambitions by two years. We ended the year with an ill-conceived START treaty that ensures Russian dominance with tactical nuclear weapons. What will President Obama's foreign policy be in 2011? Here are 11 predictions you can take to the (world) bank. 1) President Obama will bow deeply to a falafel stand owner, mistaking him for a wealthy Gulf Emirate potentate. Upon being...

Now here’s an interesting lesson into the act of civil disobedience. Bomb the Pentagon, lead a domestic terrorist group that was responsible for 30 bombings, destruction of property and deaths, and suggest that you cannot rule out committing additional bombings, you become a folk hero of the radical left, a close confidant of a sitting president, and hold a position as a professor in higher academia. Alternatively, give your country nearly 18 years of unblemished military service as a high ranking military officer until you request proof that the orders you are given are, in fact, made by someone with...

...The appeal brought on by business owner, Nick Sprayregen, would have been a much needed challenge to the dreadful 2005 Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London which ruled the government may use the power of eminent domain to expropriate property for private to private transfer under the ambiguous title of “economic development." As a result of the 2005 decision, the government’s power of eminent domain has become almost limitless, providing victimized citizens with few means to protect their property. Several states have independently passed legislation to limit their power to eminent domain, and the Supreme Courts...

...Brown has been quite vocal in his support for the dreadfully mis-named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would force public ballots upon laborers voting for or against unionization. This is the devious initiative known as Card Check. Apart from overriding state laws and handing even more power to radicals in the current administration, Card Check would open a door for large-scale voter intimidation, a tactic often used by union bosses to supplement their dwindling membership. It seems as if, in Brown’s mind, the freedom to vote as one wishes should be held only by people like himself: we are...

All four of the formally declared candidates for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC) have confirmed their participation in the Monday, January 3 debate at the National Press Club. Hosted by Americans for Tax Reform and The Daily Caller, the debate will begin at 1:00 p.m. ET. As of today at Noon, the formally declared candidates are Saul Anuzis, Maria Cino, Reince Priebus, and Ann Wagner. The event details are as follows: When: Monday, January 3, 2011 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 p.m. ET (Doors open at Noon). Where: National Press Club (529 14th St. NW), 13th Floor,...

The Associated Press might actually be onto something in its education coverage. “An Associated Press-Stanford University Poll on education found that 68 percent of adults believe parents deserve heavy blame for what’s wrong with the U.S. education system — more than teachers, school administrators, the government or teachers unions,” Donna Gordon Blankenship wrote in an AP story that went out on December 12, 2010. “Only 35 percent of those surveyed agreed that teachers deserve a great deal or a lot of the blame.” “Moms were more likely than dads — 72 percent versus 61 percent — to say parents are...

There's been a bunch of great recipe threads lately and a few FReepers thought it would be great to have a weekly cooking thread....so here it is! For this charter thread it would be great to dish out one of your favorite recipes for fellow FReepers to enjoy. Do you have a great recipe planned for the upcoming week or looking for one? Hopefully this thread will get the cooking juices flowing. Planing on making this a weekly thread with post starts on Sat/Sun

Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention. “Data should be collected on employment rates, salary information, and in acknowledgement that income is not a complete measure of a school’s return, alumni satisfaction rates,” Harvard’s Bridgett Terry Long writes in a December 2010 report published by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Most might agree on all of the above but Long wants the feds to do it. “The role of the federal government would be threefold,” Long writes in the CAP report, which is entitled “Grading Higher Education: Giving Consumers the...

"President Barack Obama passed a tragic milestonetoday as the military announced the death of the 1,000th solider to die since he took over as Commander in Chief. Army Sgt. First Class James E. Thode, 45, of Kirtland, N.M., became the 1,000th soldier to die since Obama took office. He is survived by a wife and two children. SFC Thode died Dec. 2 at Sabari District, Khowst Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1457th Engineer Battalion, 204th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Salt Lake City, Utah..." Complete coverage at...

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For Immediate Release - 29 November 2010 2:30 p.m. EST U.S. Supreme Court orders were posted at 10:00 a.m. on 29 Nov 2010. See below. Certiorari for our case was denied. The two justices appointed by Obama who had a direct financial conflict of interest (their very jobs and appointments to the court) in the outcome of this petition and case did not recuse themselves even though they should have! Their recusal was called for in our petition on page 36. The two justices and the court ignored that. There were recusals declared by these two Obama appointees in many...

Rio and the Old West How Rio copes with murderers. How the Old West coped with them. By Julio Severo Nevertheless the title, the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has nothing to do with the American Old West. Not because there was no violence in the Wild West. There was, but not as much as one sees in Rio in the 21st century. Injustice that has been plentiful in Rio was not plentiful in the Wild West. Just like in Rio, all the outlaws in the Old West carried weapons for their crimes. But, very differently from Rio, in...

It seems likely that the more primitive a government is, the more they are ruled by base animal instinct. For example, Americans live in an advanced nation where prosperity is widely spread. Thus, our government wastes time debating sophisticated policies like ethanol subsidies and gay marriage. In a place like North Korea, which is basically a feudal society ruled by one insane family, the debates are over food and power. Thus, American requests for multilateral negotiations over nuclear arms miss the mark. The ONLY thing that the Kim family cares about is staying in power. If that means that half...