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ISSUED: Friday, January 16, 2009 -- 11:01 PM Pacific Time OBAMA HONEYMOON OVER: CONSERVATIVE GROUP UNVEILS TV AD AGAINST OBAMA AT INAUGURATION (SACRAMENTO) – A conservative political action committee is rejecting calls for conservatives and Republicans to “go along” and “get along” with President Elect Barack Obama. The Our Country Deserves Better Committee (www.OurCountryPAC.org) has instead unveiled a new television ad campaign that criticizes Obama’s push for massive big government spending and a series of corruption scandals among top members of his team as “not the change we were promised.” The television ad campaign will begin its broadcast run...

Obozo list. It should be revised and published to make freepers aware of the movie, music, tv, and celebrity choices. 1. Stephen Spielberg 2. David Geffen 3. Jeffrey Katzenberg 4. Barbra Streisand 5. Tom Hanks 6. Anne Hathaway 7. Demi Moore 8. Ashton Kutcher 9. Leonard DiCaprio 10. Matt Damon 11. Sean Puff Daddy Combs 12. Beyonce 13. Jennifer Aniston 14. Robert Redford 15. Whoopi Goldberg 16. Kate Winslet 17. Emma Thompson 18. Dustin Hoffman 19. Adam Sandler 20. Sean Penn 21. Madonna 22. Will Smith 23. Brad Pitt

I am appalled by the thought of comparing Obama to Lincoln. This is what HE wants and it is the pinnacle of arrogance on his part. This is an absolutely absurd notion that could only be seriously entertained by a nation of people ignorant of their country's history, who were inculcated with revisionism from the time of their childhood onward. I wrote about this a couple months ago before it became fashionable. Above is the link to the column at www.BlackJFK.com explaining WHY this is an OUTRAGE. November 17, 2008 "We knew Abraham Lincoln; Abe Lincoln was the father of...

California controller to suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants John Chiang announces that his office will suspend $3.7 billion in payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, because with no budget in place the state lacks sufficient cash to pay its bills. By Evan Halper and Patrick McGreevy January 17, 2009 Reporting from Sacramento -- The state will suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants and other payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, Controller John Chiang announced Friday. Chiang said he had no choice but to stop making some $3.7 billion in payments in the absence of action...

Friday January 16, 2009 Dissenters from Catholic Teaching Not Being Fired Often Enough from Seminary Posts: Vatican Report By Hilary WhiteROME, January 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Vatican report on the moral and intellectual life of US seminaries, begun in 2005, has said that the main problems lie with professors who overtly or subtly dissent from Catholic moral teaching. Such professors, the report said, are not frequently enough fired from their positions. “Quite often,” the report said, “the Visitation discovered one or more faculty members who, although not speaking openly against Church teaching, let the students understand - through...

Christopher Gadsden's face and name may not be immortalized on any bill or coin, but this firebrand designed a symbol which, even through the swirling mists of time, is a reminder of the birth of the nation and the spirit that carried it to freedom. June 14 is Flag Day. On that day, of course, we remember the Stars and Stripes and the men who fought under that banner for freedom. Gadsden gave us another great flag, one that flew prominently during the American Revolution, under which many men fought and died. Gadsden's was the blazing yellow banner that sports...

Another case or Rat Lungworm disease has been diagnosed in the Kapoho-Kalapana area of Puna and more unreported cases have been revealed. The outbreak has been tied to organic farming.

CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Hi there, everybody. Breaking news tonight: The president-elect reacts to a new taped threat apparently from Osama bin Laden. Bullet point number one; Al Qaeda's leader speaks out for the first time in months. In that audio message, bin Laden called for a jihad against Israel and vows to open new fronts against the U.S. In an interview just aired on CBS, president-elect Obama says killing bin Laden is one way, but not the only way, to stop him. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, CBS NEWS) BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENT-ELECT: If we have so tightened the noose that...

Robert Bork talked about his book A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments (Intercollegiate Studies Institute; November 15, 2008). The book collects more than sixty articles from the past forty years on topics ranging from President Nixon to St. Thomas More, from abortion to antitrust policy, and from civil liberties to natural law. It also includes several of his judicial opinions and transcribed oral arguments. He was interviewed at his home in McLean, Virginia, by guest interviewer Eugene Meyer. Robert H. Bork is the author several books including Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline and The Tempting...

The Vatican--which recently endorsed an iPhone prayer app and gave its blessing to gadget evangelism--is displaying further receptivity to technology with Saturday's announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will get his own YouTube channel. According to the Associated Press, the Vatican TV Center and Vatican Radio are collaborating with Google on the project, and texts and video of the Pope's speeches, as well as news about the pontiff, will be posted directly to the channel. More details on the project will be released next week, the Vatican press office said. Given past tech-friendly moves by the Vatican, the YouTube announcement is...

San Francisco, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Organizers of the Walk for Life West Coast say they expect such a strong turnout at the western version of the March for Life that it will show the pro-life community strongly enthused despite the election of abortion advocate Barack Obama as president. While media pundits and pro-abortion groups may have written off the pro-life community as a result of the elections, Walk for Life co-chair Dolores Meehan says that wouldn't square with the truth. Meehan says the election results should not be interpreted as Americans saying they don't care about abortion or Obama's strong...

PITTSBURGH - Trash talking, hard hitting, spitting, fighting and nail-biting finishes. Everything you want in a football feud can be found between the teams in Sunday's AFC Championship game. Basically, everything the Pittsburgh Steelers once shared with the Cleveland Browns. Stealing the latter franchise in the mid-1990s wasn't enough for the city of Baltimore. Crabtown had to net Cleveland's biggest rival as well. The Ravens have become Public Enemy No. 1 in Pittsburgh while the Browns aren't even on the most wanted list. Steelers players don't deny it, either. "Each and every year we play Baltimore, it's one of those...

2008-2009 Top Ten Conservative Colleges January 2009 Young America’s Foundation is pleased to release our fifth annual “Top Ten Conservative College” list in response to the frequently asked question of which schools we recommend to those seeking conservative colleges. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students begin their college search. Admission guides, seminars, advice from friends, and help from advisors all offer different perspectives. Presented with so many options, confusion often clouds this important decision-making process. Given the requests for Young America’s Foundation’s recommendations, and to aid in making the right decision, we are proud to release our fifth annual...

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Part I: Non-ContradictionChapter I: The ThemeSynopsis“Who is John Galt?” The words come from the mouth of a bum to Eddie Willers, as he walks down the streets of New York. Willers notes the un-maintained spire of a building, whose gold leaf has pealed off and never been fixed. It’s September 2. Eddie enters the office of Jim Taggart, president of the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad (“From ocean to ocean!”) to inform him that there has been another wreck on the Rio Norte Line. The track is shot, and people are giving up on using the line. Jim says that eventually there...

In an interview with ECR on Jan 15, Pamela Hall, United American Committe and pro-Israel activist, gives us a street-level view of the Hamas protests in NYC. According to Ms. Hall, a surprising number of the protesters are students in the NYC school system, protesting on class time. NYC students are being radicalized with your tax dollars, chanting profanities and threats to Israel and her Zionist supporters. Hear her talk about the protests, the students, and the surprising reaction she got from school administrators. ..

The next 8 years will be extremely rough for American hunters and livestock farmers. Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama’s pick for “regulatory czar,” : “[A]nimals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law … Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian like obligations and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients’ behalf.” “We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It’s time now.”...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced Arab "traitors" and "hypocrites" in the Gaza crisis, in a message Friday to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, the state news agency IRNA reported. "Be proud of your patience, courage and sacrifice... Your Jihad up to this day has exposed America, the Zionist regime and its supporters, the United Nations and the hypocrites among the Islamic nation," Khamenei said. "The Arab traitors should know that their fate will not be better than that of the Jews in the Battle of Ahzab," he said, alluding to one of Prophet Mohammed's wars.

WASHINGTON – The economic crisis that will dominate Barack Obama's first 100 days as president, and beyond, will give him a rare chance to enact big portions of his agenda that otherwise might have languished for months or years. Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt has a new president been poised to pack so many ambitious, costly — and, under more normal circumstances, highly contentious — projects into one fast-moving bill. As in 1933, a frightening economic collapse makes the quick political work possible, choking off longer debates and possible opposition that many of the initiatives would have faced in better...

Obama: tight noose on bin Laden as good as capture After the Sept. 11 terror attacks, President Bush vowed to smoke out Osama bin Laden and bring him back "dead or alive" -- like those Old West wanted posters. Republican presidential candidate John McCain liked to say he would follow bin Laden to "the gates of hell" -- and at one campaign stop at a New Hampshire gun factory, offered to use one of their products to do away with the al Qaeda leader. In an interview that aired tonight on CBS, President-elect Barack Obama, even as he called al...