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(CNN) -- The Green Party welcomed comedian Roseanne Barr as a presidential candidate Friday, following her Twitter announcement. A spokesman for the grassroots movement said she completed the party's requirements to run under the Green banner and will promote their platform ahead of the 2012 election. Scott McLarty, national media coordinator for the party, said Barr and Jill Stein, the other candidate that met the qualifications, are committed to ending the influence of corporate money on politics and elections and served as active participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement. "She's showing that she really is understanding what the Green...

Being the number two chief of an ultra-minority party is no fun. So it is no surprise that state Rep. Donna Seidel, D-Wausau, the assistant Assembly Democratic leader, declared herself a candidate in the likely recall election against state Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau. Galloway was first elected in 2010, when she upset then-Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker as part of an epic Republican wave that saw the GOP win large majorities in both the Assembly and State Senate. After last summer's Senate recalls cut the GOP Senate majority from a five-seat margin to a one-seat margin, Democrats have been able...

SAN CLEMENTE (CBS) — An employee at the San Onofre nuclear plant fell into a reactor pool last week, but did not present any radiation threat, federal regulators said Friday. KNX 1070′s Tom Reopelle reports the news marks the second recent incident at the plant northern San Diego County Victor Dricks with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the unidentified employee did not receive a significant radiation dose after he lost his balance while leaning over to retrieve a flashlight and fell into the reactor pool in Unit 2 on Jan. 27. “The exposure came largely because he ingested or swallowed...

The only thing that seems clear is that Komen is desperately trying to make the campaign to kill Komen stop — and that is what the venom from Planned Parenthood in recent days has been aimed at. Komen, of course, has never said this week: We will never do business with Planned Parenthood again (as I would love them to do, but I was and am under no delusions). And in this statement they appear to be somewhat consistent there . . . maybe: They have tightened funding guidelines and thus Planned Parenthood did not look eligible, but that does...

It started with the pay cut, and when that didn’t fly they changed to losing collective bargaining rights, and when that fell on deaf ears they claimed the sky would most certainly fall, and when it didn’t they made one last tweak and claimed that it wasn’t necessarily what Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did that justified a recall, it’s just that he went about it the wrong way.

President Barack Obama uses his faith “as a convenience” when it serves him, while at the same time being the most anti-religion president in history, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum charged in an exclusive Newsmax interview. And by saying that Jesus would have called for higher taxes, Obama was completely misreading the bible, touted the staunch Roman Catholic father of seven. “Over the last few weeks, he has done more to assault religion in this country than any president, certainly in recent history, maybe even in history,” said Santorum. The former senator was talking a day after Obama used the...

NEW YORK — Frequent flier miles aren't so enticing when they're taxable. That may be the sentiment among Citibank customers who are receiving 1099 tax forms from the bank to report their frequent flier miles. The forms were sent to customers who were given American Airline miles for opening a checking or savings account last year. That's causing confusion — and possible concern — among those who never before reported their frequent flier miles and other credit card rewards as income.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Air Marshal program is rife with acrimony between supervisors and air marshals, creating a climate of "tension, mistrust, and dislike," according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General, due to be released next week. A copy was obtained by NBC News. Nearly half the members of the program's work force fear retaliation, more than half believe favoritism is tolerated, and one-fourth feel they've been the subjects of discrimination, the inspector general found. Even so, the report says, these problems "do not appear to have compromised the service's mission." The review found no...

Hot on the campaign trail, Newt Gingrich stops by Xtreme Manufacturing in Las Vegas and shares his thoughts on current and future policies, how he will affect change once elected, and the current and future states of manufacturing in this country.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Friday backed prominent conservative James Dobson’s claim that President Barack Obama’s administration would block medical treatment for stroke patients over age 70. Professional medical groups have called such statements bogus. During a forum inside a church, Dobson cited an anonymous caller to a conservative radio show who said “for patients over 70 years of age, that advanced neurosurgical care was not generally indicated.” The caller claimed that patients would be offered “comfort care” unless a panel of bureaucrats approved more significant treatment. “That’s called ‘death panels.’ Sarah Palin was right. That...

Obama-care apparently includes a “contraceptive mandate” that will require all insurance companies in the US to cover sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception. Under this law, all Catholic hospitals will be forced to offer “contraception” to their employees. Perhaps this is what Nancy Pelosi meant, when speaking on Obama-care, when she said “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” There has not been a discernible clamor on the part of Catholic hospital employees for their employers to offer free “contraception.” This is an example of a manufactured issue, one that is motivated by a...

The following article presented in three parts, starting today, was written by a former judge. He doesn’t reveal his full name, but the information contained within the writing is well-worth reading and digesting anyway. It is worth reading because it should stimulate your pursuit to understand the truth behind the formation of America.

MILITARY: Website of Wuterich's lawyers hacked Mark Walker February 3, 2012 A hacker group known as Anonymous took responsibility Friday for defacing a website and stealing files and emails from attorneys who represented Camp Pendleton's Frank Wuterich in a case involving the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians. Wuterich's lead attorney, Neal Puckett, confirmed the intrusion and apparent theft from him and his partner, Haytham Faraj. ....Snip.... Puckett said he has filed a complaint with the FBI over the hacking. The group that got into his website says it plans to release information it found about the Haditha case. Puckett said...

President Obama quoted C.S. Lewis on Thursday morning, and normally that would have made my day. The president is good at talking about his Christian faith, as he did at a National Prayer Breakfast, and ought to do more of it if he wants to relieve Americans of some of their most basic misconceptions about him. But more than I want to hear him tell how the Rev. T.D. Jakes drops by the Oval now and again, I want to know why he repaid Sister Carol Keehan, who carried health-care reform around on her back for him, with a betrayal...

Samsung’s products could be banned in Iran, over an ad it didn’t produce 3rd February 2012 by Nancy Messieh An Israeli commercial may be on the verge of causing Samsung’s products to be banned entirely in Iran, as well as bringing an end to Iran’s trade ties with South Korea. A commercial produced by Israeli TV station Hot, depicts Israeli Mosaad agents disguised as Iranian women, and while looking at a Samsung Galaxy Tablet, they accidentally blow up an Iranian nuclear plant. The entire advertisement can be seen below: According to Press TV, Iran’s Head of the Parliament’s Energy Committee...

Greetings, As you know we were expecting word out of Georgia today and we got it. Late this afternoon Judge Malihi issued his ruling against all four Plaintiffs. We caught up with Swensson/Powell's counsel, Mark Hatfield, late this afternoon to get his initial take on the ruling. Here is what he stated “obviously we are disappointed w/the decision, but there are a couple of items in the ruling that we are looking at. First, the Judge never made any ruling on who has the burden of proof even though he indicated in chambers prior to the hearing that making the...

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Reid: Senate will not pass a budget this year 5:02 PM 02/03/2012 ADVERTISEMENT Senate Democratic leaders do not plan to propose a budget this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Friday, saying that they had already done so with the debt-ceiling agreement. “We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year — it’s done, we don’t need to do it,” Reid said, according to The Hill. Democrats have said that the agreement reached to raise the debt ceiling set spending for Fiscal Year 2012. North Dakota Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the Budget...

This is a slam dunk for Newt. He goes after Romney, the Soros-approved candidate, on his comments about the very poor and torches the idea that the ‘safety-net’ is anything but a spider web that traps the poor: It isn’t good enough for the Republican party to nominate Obama-lite. Now, let me tell you what the difference is. If you’re a genuine conservative, first of all you don’t say that you don’t care about the poor. If you’re a genuine conservative, you believe that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and...

Congress should investigate cooked employment booksThe White House hyped the news Friday that January payrolls had risen by 243,000. The hitch is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also dropped 1.2 million from the calculated workforce. Somehow this net loss of a million workers in a single month was transformed into an improvement in the unemployment rate. As the old saying goes, figures can lie, and liars can figure. “Job growth was widespread,” the BLS reported, but most Americans sense that something isn’t quite right with the numbers. The most important change was the deep decline in the workforce. While...

Clarksburg, MD—Two different research groups have independently made the same important discoveries on how Alzheimer’s disease spreads in the brain, according to a February 2 New York Times story. The groups’ findings have the potential to give us a much more sophisticated understanding of what goes wrong in Alzheimer’s disease and, more importantly, what can be done to prevent or repair damage in the brain. The Times reported on the research teams of Bradley T. Hyman, MD, Ph.D., at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Karen E. Duff, Ph.D., of Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Each research group...

Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. He was 81. He died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center, his lawyer, Jay Julien, said. Mr. Gazzara lived in Manhattan.

RENO, NEV. — The remaining candidates in the winnowed Republican presidential field are attacking one another with abandon, each day bringing fresh headlines of accusations and outrage. But Mitt Romney and Ron Paul haven’t laid a hand on each other.

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“In this epic adventure thriller, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology — computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights — has mysteriously blacked out … forever.”

Judge: Obama eligible to be Georgia candidate A state administrative law judge on Friday flatly rejected challenges seeking to keep President Barack Obama from being a candidate in next month's Georgia primary. In a 10-page order, Judge Michael Malihi dismissed one challenge that contended Obama has maintained a Hawaiian birth certificate that is a computer-generated forgery, has a fraudulent Social Security number and invalid U.S. identification papers. He also turned back another that claimed the president is not a natural born citizen. Last month, Malihi heard testimony and took evidence in a hearing boycotted by Obama's lawyer. With regard to...

And what do you mean to be? The kind old Bishop said. As he took the boy on his ample knee, And patted his curly head. We should all of us choose a calling, To help Society's plan. Then what do you mean to be, my boy. When you grow to be a man? I want to be a Consumer. The bright-haired lad replied. As he gazed up into the Bishop's face, In innocence open-eyed. I've never had aims of a selfish sort. For that, as I know, is wrong. I want to be a Consumer, Sir. And help the...

The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan. The message, conveyed through an intermediary and intended for President Barack Obama, reportedly expressed impatience that the White House had not yet transferred five former senior Taliban officials out of Guantanamo Bay military prison. U.S. officials have been considering moving the detainees to Afghan custody in the Gulf state of Qatar as one of...

LONDON – Four men inspired by al-Qaida have admitted to planning a terrorist attack on the London Stock Exchange and the homes of two London rabbis, whose details have not been published. Mohammed Chowdhury, 21; Shah Rahman, 28; Gurukanth Desai, 30; and Abdul Miah, 25, pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Wednesday. Five other men pleaded guilty to other terrorist offenses. All will be sentenced next week. They were arrested in December 2010 in a large-scale anti-terror raid by police. It emerged that those who admitted to the London Stock Exchange plot also discussed sending five mail...

The Oakland, Calif., chapter of the US Occupy movement overwhelmingly endorsed a proposal in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. According to Twitter accounts by pro-Palestinian activists pushing the proposal, the statement won nearly unanimous backing in a vote Wednesday following a brief discussion. A lengthy statement on the Occupy Oakland website attacked US aid to Israel and suggested that Israel had "prodded" the United States into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Oakland branch of the Occupy movement, which focuses on what it sees as economic discrepancies in the United States, has become increasingly...

The Obama administration's decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no matter their beliefs on contraception. The regulation, finalized a week ago, raises a complex and sensitive legal question: Which institutions qualify as religious and can be exempt from the mandate? For a church, mosque or synagogue, the answer is mostly straightforward. But for the massive network of religious-run social service agencies there is no simple solution. Federal law lays out several criteria for the government to determine which are religious. But in the case...

GAZA CITY – Dozens of Palestinians threw shoes, sticks and stones at UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it crossed into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, protesting against what they saw as a slight against Palestinians jailed in Israel. No one was injured during the hostile welcome and the vehicles, which crossed into the Hamas-ruled territory from southern Israel, pushed through the crowd and sped away. Ban is visiting the region to try to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. “I thank the people of Gaza for the warm welcome,” he told a news conference, provoking laughter among local journalists....

On the surface, the Komen Foundation's reversal of its Planned Parenthood grant cut-off shows the left's power to enforce conformity. What it really reveals is that Planned Parenthood doesn't need taxpayer support.

A man who discovered that the daughter he raised was not really his can sue the biological father for $190,000 -the estimated cost of raising her for 15 years - the Connecticut State Supreme Court has ruled. Eric Fischer saw the red flags. When his youngest daughter was born, his wife Pamela Tournier's close friend and business partner Richard Zollino rode home in the limo with the new parents. For the next 15 years, Zollino was omnipresent at the girl's musical recitals as well as her eighth grade graduation. And his youngest daughter did not look like his other two...

Over at Hot Air, Wolf Howling penned a comment that perfectly sums up my feelings about the Florida primary. I’ve spent the last few weeks watching Romney run the most intellectually dishonest campaign against Gingrich that I could imagine. Romney isn’t making the case that he has a better conservative pedigree, nor that his vision for America is superior or more conservative than Gingrich’s. He spent 17 million doing nothing but trying to delegitimize and demonize Gingrich with gross distortions of history. I haven’t seen anything like this since what the left did to Sarah Palin. And the last time...

Newt Gingrich's presidential ambitions could hinge on the outcome of Tuesday's Minnesota caucuses, along with Colorado's caucus on the same day, says a story in the Huffington Post. Gingrich was leading in recent polls in Minnesota, but he's the only one of the four remaining Republican contenders not to visit the state in the week before the caucuses. The story says Mitt Romney is expected to fare quite well in upcoming contests in Nevada, Michigan and Arizona: But Colorado and especially Minnesota, both non-binding contests to be held on February 7, are different kettles of fish. And they are likely...

2012 State of the Union-May It Be the Last Pack of Obamer Lies We Must enure; More Political TidbitsHERE

The Barrio Azteca, an enforcement arm of the Juarez cartel, is gunning down cops in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico -- just over the border from El Paso, TX -- as reported by Christopher Looft for InSight. Eight crime fighters have been murdered over the last month, and the narco terrorists have threatened to murder a cop a day until the city's police chief resigns whom they accuse of protecting rivals from the Sinaloa cartel. The drug cartels never have balked at killing law enforcement, and they repeatedly have targeted American officials on both sides of the border: in March 2010 the...

I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will The Government Quit Putting Out Fraudulent Employment Statistics?Michael SnyderFeburary 3, 2012 On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3 percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are hungry for some good news. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payrolls jumped by 243,000 during the month of January. You can read the full employment report right here. Based on this news, pundits...

Since President Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971 the United States has jailed tens of million of its' citizens. In 2008 alone 1.5 million American were arrested and 500,000 were imprisoned. At a cost of $45,000 per prisoner per year over 22 billion dollars were spent in prison costs alone for just those busted in 2008. I would imagine the costs to the courts, parole officers and police departments are equally large. And then there is the unmeasurable societal cost of a lost income to a community and the breakup of families effected should it be a mom or...

On January 28 pro-lifers gathered to pray at the New Woman All Women abortion mill in Birmingham, Alabama, one week after there had been two botched abortions committed in the span of 30 minutes there. During that week the clinic, apparently stressed for business, had prepared a huge “Call for Abortions” sign, which you’ll see in the following little video clip. Apparently angry about all the pro-life attention to their botches the week before, the clinic had also prepared another more ominous sign, photo above. You’ll also it in the video to the left of and a little behind the...

The January jobs report–hiring surged, while unemployment fell–sent a spike through the markets on Friday, but CNN's Erin Burnett says there's a catch. "This is a really good jobs report," Burnett told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "It's been five months in a row that we've seen the unemployment rate drop. That is very, very significant." But for a full economic recovery, expect the unemployment rate to rise. "At some point before it recovers, it actually needs to go up again." As Burnett explains, the jobs report only includes Americans who have been actively searching for a job in the last month–but...

In front of the White House a man is sitting on a park bench in the throes of depression. He is surrounded by 43 presidents. In the forefront, purposefully ignoring the depressed man is President Obama, whose right foot is stepping on the Constitution. James Madison is next to Obama, pleading with him to stop. This tableau is called “The Forgotten Man”, a painting by Jon McNaughton, an artist who is known for his politically-charged work. The painting, which uses objects such as discarded dollar bills as symbols and scraps of paper with individual constitutional amendments scrawled onto them, has...

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich ...again criticized Romney for his controversial comments about poor people he made to CNN Wednesday. “If you’re a genuine conservative, first of all, you don’t say that you don’t care about the poor,” Gingrich said. “My goal, the exact opposite of Gov. Romney, my goal is not to ignore or forget the poor. My goal is to turn the safety net into a trampoline to allow the poor to rise and be like the rest of us.” Gingrich said Romney’s controversial comments about the poor were an “example of what we don’t want in a...

<p>Right-to-Work laws protect employees from being fired or denied a job merely because they refuse to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union.</p> <p>Indiana is poised to become the nation's 23rd right-to-work state -- and it comes just in the nick of time.</p>

Written by a housewife in New Brunswick , to her local newspaper. This is one ticked off lady... "Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not, started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001and have continually threatened to do so since? Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from the capitol of the USA and in a field in Pennsylvania ? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or...

Following the outcome of the Republican primary in Florida, the contest moves on to Nevada this weekend as pundits speculate whether the campaign for the Republican nomination for President is all but over and that Mitt Romney is the eventual nominee. In reality they could be correct if money begins to dry up significantly for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Certainly, Gingrich and Santorum and Ron Paul, for that matter, would love to be in Romney’s shoes today. Despite Romney’s dominance in the race, Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul are expected to be around for a good while to come, but...

Today's unemployment news gave the Obama administration a bit of good news for the upcoming election — and really just a bit — but Gallup had already provided a big dash of cold water yesterday. In their look at partisan trends on a state-by-state basis, there has been a dramatic shift in favor of the Republican Party over the last four years. In 2008, when Obama won his first term, 18 states were solidly Democratic while only four were solidly Republican. It’s now 12 to 10, and that’s not even the extent of the bad news for the White House:...

It's been more than 1,000 days since the Senate has passed a budget, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is unconcerned. In fact, he says he has no plans to bring a budget to the floor in 2012, either. He argues the 2012 budget is already done because last summer's debt-ceiling deal included a few spending caps. Essentially, Reid wonders: Why do we need a long-term spending plan when we can stumble into some spending caps here and there? The Hill was first to this story: “We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year —...

Monsters Among UsA commonly held piece of wisdom asserts that you can judge a country by how it treats its weakest members, and in this case, its children. As a nation, we should be judged harshly and swiftly. What prompts this post, aside from general disgust with how our society allows child molesters and rapists to go without so much as a harsh wrist slap, is a story that comes from Los Angeles, California. Enter Mark Berndt, teacher at Miramonte Elementary School. He was charged with 23 acts of lewd behavior in the classroom involving his pupils. What do these...