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If we look back through history, growth in government has been a modern phenomenon. Beginning in the 1850s and lasting until the 1920s or ’30s, the government’s share of GDP in most of the world’s industrialized economies was about six percent.
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With her new book, They Must Be Stopped, Brigitte Gabriel further details the hard truths about radical Islam, detailing not only the mortal extremes to which Islamofascists are willing to go in their quest for cultural domination, but also the fundamental steps to meet and defeat their challenge.
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While Sen. McCain is being pilloried by his opponent, Barack Hussein Obama, for asserting (correctly) last week that the fundamentals of most U.S. economic sectors are sound, clearly, Sen. McCain has understood for years that irresponsible lending practices for U.S. housing posed “enormous risk... to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.”
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In May 2006, six months after 24 people were killed in a small Iraqi town, U.S. Rep. John Murtha made a startling accusation.
American soldiers, he contended, had killed innocent civilians “in cold blood.”
Missouri top prosecutors announced this week that they will prosecute critics of Barack Obama.
St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch are threatening to bring libel charges against those who speak out falsely against Barack Obama.
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The easiest way to dismiss a case is to prove outright that the other side is dead wrong. However, in the lawsuit against Obama for not being a natural born citizen and thus not eligible to be President, Obama lawyers give a laundry list of reasons to dismiss the case but not the one thing that would kill the case off and terminate all the rumors.
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If this is what Obama plans for the whole country, that should be reason enough to not vote for him. He decides what is truth, then censors anyone who doesn't agree.
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Aafia Siddiqui holds biology and neuroscience degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and Brandeis University. In 2003, she vanished from Pakistan and reappeared on July 17, 2008, outside the governor’s compound in Ghazni, Afghanistan. According to the FBI indictment against her, Siddiqui was carrying “various documents, various chemicals, and a computer thumb drive.”
Sphere: Related ContentThe group in question, Progressives for Obama, also includes among its ranks many former members of the 1960s radical organization Students for a Democratic Society, from which the Weathermen splintered, as well as current and former members of other radical organizations, such as the Communist Party USA and the Black Radical Congress.
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On June 9, 1772, H.M.S. Gaspee, a British schooner enforcing tariffs, ran aground during low tide. Before a rising tide could lift the vessel, a group of Rhode Islanders rowed out and boarded it. They easily defeated the crew, shot and wounded an officer, and set the Gaspee ablaze.
The American Revolution had begun.
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The Democrat political playbook calls for a "pre-emptive strike" and allegations of "voter suppression" where none exist. However, liberal-left organizations perform the Democrat Party's dirty work of registering illegal aliens, the senile and mentally ill, felons and others who are easily manipulated that party handlers.
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When it comes to Sarah Palin, the media has been like a pack of rabid dogs going after every possible aspect of her life. Even some aspects of her life that are not at all possible.
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In the endless stream of dross that passes for news and commentary these days, Michael Barone stands out as an exemplar of a man who can write tersely, accurately and persuasively about matters that are or should be of public interest.
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Now I know how Elvis Presley felt when he shot his television! Watching Barney Frank (D-MA) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) pontificate about how they are going to save the country in it’s time of financial crisis made me nauseous. How is it that these two charlatans can feign concern when they are among the principals responsible for getting the taxpayers into this mess?
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A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.
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The solar wind is slowing, but Al Gore is still spewing hot air. The Oscar winner is promoting civil disobedience to stop energy and economic growth as the first U.S. emissions cap-and-trade program begins.
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“Optimism about housing values also led to a boom in home construction. Eventually, the number of new houses exceeded the number of people willing to buy them.
Sphere: Related ContentOn Wednesday night, President Bush addressed the nation in an effort to convince Congress to pass a bill to “reduce the risk to major financial institutions” and “safeguard American families and businesses.”
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I’m surprised. Usually in cases like this, Obama has his cult followers inundate the offending station with irate, semi-coherent phone calls, like they did recently to try to knock hatemongering smear merchant David Freddoso off the air for the crime of committing journalism critical of The One.
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House Republicans refused to support the Henry Paulson/Chris Dodd compromise bailout plan yesterday afternoon, even after the New York Times reported that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson got down on one knee to beg Nancy Pelosi to compromise.
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Photographic stills and newsreels have immortalized the moment when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich and at Heston airport triumphantly waved the signed agreement in the air.
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You don’t need an advanced degree in economics to understand our country’s ongoing financial catastrophe. Tune out all the gobbledygook: the same basic moral principles that apply to everyday life apply here. You’ll find them plainly stated in the Bible.
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The Democrat-loving mainstream media is missing the boat on Warren Buffet’s take of America’s economic meltdown as …”a sort of economic Pearl Harbor we’re going through.”
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We oppose these measures on scientific grounds, because the assertions of a man-made global warming crisis are opposed by some of the best scientific minds in the world. There is no "consensus" among scientists that man-made global warming is a crisis requiring government intervention.
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Iran is nearing the ability to arm a nuclear warhead even if it insists its atomic activities are peaceful, the European Union warned Wednesday.
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Sphere: Related ContentEarlier this month, a 91-year-old New York man named Morton Sobell admitted, after more than a half-century of public and adamant denials, to having passed U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union, a crime for which he spent nearly 20 years in Alcatraz.
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Why are feminists so bothered by her? Could it be that if she were to be elected, it would be the end of their movement? I mean, what would they say at their next feminist meeting:
Sphere: Related ContentMoving against the dangerous backdrop of the UK having legitimized as legally binding, the decisions by Shari'a [Islamic religious] courts, Representative Tom Tancredo [R-CO] has introduced legislation designed to preclude a similar development in the United States.
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The Jawa Report’s outing of public relations man Ethan Winner as the poster of a professionally-produced anti-Sarah Palin smear video to YouTube has brought the company Publicis to the American public’s attention.
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In the endless stream of dross that passes for news and commentary these days, Michael Barone stands out as an exemplar of a man who can write tersely, accurately and persuasively about matters that are or should be of public interest.
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Finally the obvious truth is free. Morton Sobell, who was arrested with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and served 19 years in prison, has come clean and admitted they were all guilty of espionage against the US for the Soviet Union.
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Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMSU) will be hosting a conference on October 23 that asks the loaded question: “Is There a Role for Shari'ah in Modern States?”
Sphere: Related ContentEvery two years the Old Media engages in its now-familiar mating ritual with the liberal electorate. Acting on cue, reporters and columnists dust off their tired clichés and recycle their flawed arithmetic to show how this year women will--at long last--determine the outcome of the presidential election.
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In his classic 1932 book, Toward Soviet America, Communist Party boss William Z. Foster wrote about how “The United Soviet States of America” will come about. As a result of various capitalist crises, the national government would assume more and more control over the economy.
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The Democrats played politics three years ago to get us into this mess (can’t link to this article enough!) and they’re doing it again now that it’s time to clean it up.
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On MSNBC this week, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter tried to connect John McCain to the current financial disaster, saying: "If you remember the Keating Five scandal that (McCain) was a part of. ... He's really getting a free ride on the fact that he was in the middle of the last great financial scandal in our country."
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One of the most frequently asked questions about the subprime market meltdown and housing crisis is: How did the government get so deeply involved in the housing market?
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The dominant media storyline about the Iraq war holds that the decisions about how to conduct it pitted ignorant civilians -- especially the president and secretary of defense -- against the uniformed military, whose wise and sober advice was cavalierly ignored.
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Anyone intrigued by the forthcoming Che, the lengthy biopic of Che Guevara by director Steven Soderbergh, might consider a homework assignment before hitting the theater.
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Senator Obama apparently is beaming a guiding light for the faithful ones seeking the "epiphany" he promised his followers at Dartmouth College last January:
Sphere: Related Content"[A] light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack."
Western Civilization is now like the Three Gorges valley downriver from the biggest dam in the world, breached. Pouring in is an alluvial torrent of toxic bilge waters of unbridled license, commercialized lust, puerile 24/7 media content of unlimited choices -- all of them bad, institutionalized overconsumption of useless junk with phantom money, mindless self-mutilation and nihilism.
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The federal E-Verify program is a free, easy to use on-line system that provides US employers with a way to verify the employment eligibility of all new hires. It has the potential to end the illicit US jobs magnet, making it the America's best hope for solving the problem of illegal immigration.
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In a revelation tying Barack Obama even closer to radical community organizing, WND has learned that a renowned disciple of the late socialist agitator Saul "The Red" Alinksy wrote a letter of recommendation for Obama when he applied to Harvard Law School.
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People are basically good, right? It’s a truism drilled into us by any number of self-help books, magazines, talk-show hosts, and pop therapy.
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Sphere: Related ContentStanley Kurtz has been investigating the Chicago Annenberg Challenge files in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle, and he has reported on his results in the Wall Street Journal. I have written before on Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist bomber, who claims to have set bombs at the U.S. Capitol, and Kurtz notes that Obama has tried to play down his long and close association with Ayers.
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ABC News reports that President Bush has hooked up with Barry O for bailout talks.
Do you have a sick feeling in your stomach?
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The intensity of the sun's million-mile-per-hour solar wind has dropped to its lowest levels since accurate records began half a century ago, scientists say.
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Democrats haven’t won a majority of whites since 1964. The party leadership is worried that Obama can’t win if he doesn’t improve Democrats’ appeal to the white working class. Is the term “Bubba” helping or hurting Obama?
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Barack Obama said in an early debate that Bill Ayers was just a guy in his neighborhood that he didn't exchange ideas with but that now appears to be a blatant lie.
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Have America’s ethical scales tilted now to moral relativism? That would explain, in part, liberals’ and leftists’ ongoing orgiastic adoration of Barack Obama and deranged detestation of Sarah Palin and John McCain. That would also clarify the unfolding moral anarchy.
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Some of today's leading feminists are rather upset at the thought that Sarah Palin might be the new standard bearer for feminism. Here is how Gloria Steinem described Palin's ascension into the discussion of feminism and culture wars.
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A few stories out of the Keystone State this week, when taken together, may spell bad news for Obama bin Biden.
First Joe Biden, the gift that keeps on giving, trashes coal as an energy source.
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Is the Alaskan legislative investigation of Sarah Palin corrupt or are McCain and Palin just stonewalling a legitimate investigation? What are the primary disqualifications of those who are conducting this investigation?
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According to a new Zogby poll, one-third of Arab-Americans reside in the five battleground states, and the majorities are voting for Obama - especially if they are Muslim.
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In the Fox News/Rasmussen weekly poll, John McCain is up in Virginia, Ohio and Florida but is down in Pennsylvania, Michigan and in the national polling. This polling report indicates that support has not necessarily increased for Barak Obama but has slipped for McCain.
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When faced with the choice of supporting his well-connected developer friends making millions in Chicago's Plan for Transformation, or his district's poorest public housing residents, the former community organizer was an expedient politician. He followed the money.
Sphere: Related Content“Peace” is apparently the word on the lips of British politicians whenever the omens point, in stiff armed salute, to catastrophe. In 1938, Neville Chamberlain gave his now infamous speech, ‘Peace in our Time,’ in which he announced that Germany would be allowed to annex Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.
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The financial debacle of a $1.4 trillion pool of subprime mortgages of which at least half are unpayable and 25% are irrecoverable did not start in a political vacuum. For years, the American political Establishment badgered the banking industry about the "racism" implied in its loan portfolio.
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My sense is that the attention that most Americans are paying as the power brokers of our government re-mold our future is not too deep.
Sure, we're watching to see which Wall Street firm emerges as the basket case du jour.
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As the influence of Islam grows in Europe and America, the role of the mosque in society should be understood by all non-Muslims.Richard Braun and John Marion summarize the importance of the mosque and its central role in the growth and promotion of Islam.
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Today, Kurtz finally gets the story out on Obama's relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers in an article for The Wall Street Journal.
No wonder the Obama Camp wanted to keep this man quiet.
As I am doing my research on the issue of Islam I sometimes come across articles speaking about interfaith dialogue. Interfaith sounds well and good but the question is what are the actual results of these meetings?
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I’m writing to you about death, one of your favorite themes. Your adult life has revolved around it. You’re from the Revolutionary Guards, the military organization that was created in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in the 1970s.
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Obama's refundable tax credits are phased out as incomes rise, so his proposal amounts to, as my American Enterprise Institute colleagues Alex Brill and Alan Viard have written, “marginal rate hikes in disguise” on those with incomes as low as $27,000. - So much for looking out for the little guy or gal.
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Rarely does a week go by where there is not another incident of a muslim man raping or attempting to rape a British girl or woman. I have documented many of these attacks - see THE MUSLIM RAPE RAPE RAPE OF BRITISH GIRLS for a recent blog on the subject.
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Tancredo’s bill, dubbed the “Jihad Prevention Act,” would bar the entry of foreign nationals who advocate Sharia law. In addition, the legislation would make the advocacy of Sharia law by radical Muslims already in the United States a deportable offense
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The dirty little secret of Big Labor's massive support for the Obama campaign is the anticipated end to state right-to-work-laws and secret ballots in unionization campaigns.
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As if more evidence was needed to question the direction of the U.S. State Department's Muslim outreach we note their current effort to elevate Khalid Latif, director of NYU's Islamic Center and the New York Police Department's Muslim chaplain.
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Here at the 2008 Blogworld and New Media Expo, there is plenty of evidence that rapid change in the blogosphere will alter the way that bloggers blog and the news consumer gets information.
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"The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable." James Madison
Sphere: Related ContentExtensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.
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A dubious and dangerous idea seems to be gaining strength — that government caused the financial crisis by giving capitalism free rein. If anything, it hasn't done enough of that.
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We thought it was impossible for the National “Jewish” Democratic Council to sink any lower in terms of depravity and pure opportunism.
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As a nation, we recently commemorated the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, one of the most horrific attacks against the United States in our nation’s history. It was a day of national mourning with memorial services, moments of silence and special events for the victims’ families as every New Yorker and folks all across the country touched by that fateful day shared recollections, stories and tears.
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With Morton Sobell's recent admission that both he and his comrade Julius Rosenberg were Soviet spies, “the end has arrived for the legions of the American left wing that have argued relentlessly for more than half a century that the Rosenbergs were victims, framed by a hostile, fear-mongering U.S. government.”
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Everything that you are about to read might be wrong.
Roll Call’s annual attempt to rank the riches of Members of Congress is hampered by one fundamental flaw: It is based on the lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms, which are extraordinarily unreliable sources of information.
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Many opponents of Sarah Palin have criticized her for her alleged lack of experience, and for issues of influence involving her pastors, her troopers, and her children.
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This is a system that combines elements of a market economy with elements of a planned economy.
Sphere: Related ContentIf, as seems to be the case, Axelrod hired Winner and Associates to do this, then there had better be a disclosure somewhere in Obama's FEC filings that he's hired this company through Axelrod. ... Trouble is, boys, we got copies. Of everyf******thing.
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Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Mark your calendars. The Obama/Biden ticket is about to "change." I think you all know that I get information from all sorts of places.
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On this coming November 4th there is a real possibility that we could lose our country. If we allow this dangerous and inscrutable candidate to actually become President of the United States of America the ramifications are unfathomable.
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We wonder what those same voters think of Obama's sincerity now. In the past few weeks, Obama has thrown so many false accusations against John McCain that just keeping track of them has become difficult.
The reason I’m bringing up Alinsky 26 years after he wound up in a place where he could personally autograph his book for Beelzebub is because his disciples are still very much with us.
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Left-wing protestors supporting construction of controversial Muslim house of prayer in city of Cologne clash with police.
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At least since Ronald Reagan vs. Jimmy Carter in 1980, the question of religion in public life and, more specifically, the meaning of “the separation of church and state,” has surfaced in presidential elections.
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More than 50 leaders from pro-life organizations have formed a new coalition to put Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of abortions, out of business.
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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN), is, once again, involved in voter fraud across the country.
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John McCain is a man of strong faith—a faith tested by torturous hardship few men have faced.
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After listening to either uninformed or patently lying Democrat operatives on Fox News, this Saturday morning ...
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'New Map' Looks Much Like the OldAs the presidential campaign winds its way down the home stretch, the electoral playing field that is emerging appears very similar to the final maps of the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. Sphere: Related Content
Lots of people seem to think so. And there are quite a few comparisons.
First, watch the video:
Barack Obama is keeping those researchers over at Fact Check .org pretty busy lately and yesterday they called him out on falsehoods and "rank misrepresentation",
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A common refrain on editorial pages this past week has been that free-market "zealots" have been the losers in the federal interventions of AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and whoever is next.
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I was saddened to read this morning of the passing of a fine old gentleman in Boise Idaho. ...
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Much has been made recently
of Sarah Palin's stance on abortion. Nuanced, multiple personality Frank Schaeffer states that Palin is a joke candidate only on the ticket as a sop to pro-lifers. End of story. There you go, Palin is the polarizing presence on the ticket.
