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The same people who just voted no on Paul Ryan's bill because it wasn't "conservative" enough, are the same people who voted to make Paul Ryan speaker of the House. Why? Was Ryan more conservative back then, then he is today? Did Ryan promise them something, in order to get their vote. Or is the FC just a bunch of hypocrites. I think honest people know the answer.

Posters depicting President Barack Obama in makeup similar to the Joker from the most recent Batman movie have popped up across Lake County. A U.S. Post Office in downtown Clermont had a couple of the posters glued to a collection box. Clermont Postmaster Willie Montgomery said today that the posters were discovered yesterday. Customers complained about the pasted images, he said. "Everybody that saw those posters found them to be very offensive," Montgomery said. "These are personal attacks on the president. We don't have to necessarily agree with the way they're running the country, but we have to respect the...

Call Me Pelotit (The Real Sins of Sodom and Gemorrah)November 2, 2007 — rabbirussellfox Who was Pelotit? In our biblical stories there are many individuals (many of them women) who are not named in the Torah, but are given names in the midrashic stories of the rabbis. One of them is Pelotit, a daughter of Lot.In this week’s Torah portion we read of the infamous cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and how Abraham pleads with God to spare the cities if only enough righteous people live there. Now our fair state, Oklahoma, likes to think of itself as a righteous...

I need to stop listening to so much Talk Radio Don't get me wrong, I love listening to talk radio, but lately it is getting hard to take anyone seriously anymore. My day usually starts with Atlanta News Radio AM 750 WSB. I then turn to WOKV in Jacksonville, Florida and catch three hours of Neal Boortz, then 3 hours of Rush. I then catch Sean Hannity, either on WOKV or in my car on XM Radio. After that, it is the Larry Elder show.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Christmas war -- or so the culture warriors would have us believe. It's all about "happy holidays" vs. "Merry Christmas" -- the politically correct vs. the religiously correct. One side goes too far by renaming the Christmas trees, while the other side goes overboard by attacking people who thought they were just being nice. This year the Christmas crusaders appear to be winning: holiday is out, Christmas is in. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert got the message. By order of the speaker, the decorated tree on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol -- known...

Robbie Gordon of NASCAR started the discussion, saying that he wouldn't drive in the Indy Car Racing League series until they do something about Danica Patrick's weight 'advantage.''The lighter the car, the faster it goes,' Gordon said. 'Do the math. Put her in the car at her weight, then put me or Tony Stewart in the car at 200 pounds and our cars are at least 100 pounds heavier.' 'I wont race against her until the IRL does something to take that advantage away.'I glanced at the weight of the weight of the drivers in the Indy Car Series. They...

BOSTON— U.S. Sen. John Kerry, in some of his most pointed public comments yet about November's presidential election, invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Monday as he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement on election day. Kerry, Bush's Democratic challenger, spoke at Boston's annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast. He reiterated that he decided not to challenge the election results, but went on to say that "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote." "Voting machines were distributed in uneven ways. In Democratic districts, it took people four, five, eleven hours to vote, while...

Brokaw Astonished Over NYTimes Reporter Being Banned By White House Tue Nov 30 2004 10:09:36 ET Outgoing NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw was asked on MSNBC's HARDBALL Monday if the Bush White House has been tough with the press corps, citing as an example of Dick Cheney stipulating no NEW YORK TIMES reporters on his trips. Brokaw said, "I think they have been too tough. "The idea that this White House has not given Tom Friedman a long, in-depth interview is astonishing to me. I have had a very good relationship with them, I have gotten to interview the President a...

AFTER ZEL MILLER'S SPEECH AT THE CONVENTION, HE HAD SEVERAL INTERVIEWS. ONE OF THESE WAS WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS HOST OF MSNBC'S "HARDBALL". MR. MILLER HAD STATED IN HIS SPEECH THAT JOHN KERRY WOULD USE "SPITBALLS" AS WEAPONS IN THE "WAR ON TERROR". MR. MATTHEWS QUESTIONED MILLER'S USE OF THE TERM AND ASKED MR. MILLER IF HE TRULY BELIEVED MR. KERRY WOULD USE "SPITBALLS" AS WEAPONS. MR. MILLER INFORMED MR. MATTHEWS THAT HE WAS USING A METAPHOR. FURTHER QUESTIONING AND SOFT PROBING OF MR. MILLER'S SPEECH RESULTED IN AN UNBELIEVABLY ANGRY RANT BY MR. MILLER. MR. MILLER WENT TO THE POINT...

<p>A New York Times reporter who was booed off the stage for giving an antiwar address at an Illinois college graduation ceremony said he would expect that to happen in a tyrannical society - not the United States.</p> <p>"I was hurt by it. I was sad. I've been to wartime societies where shouting down speakers is the norm. They are called tyrannies. To have it happen in my own country is depressing," Chris Hedges said at the New School last night.</p>