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The White House today issued an angry denial following claims that Michelle Obama indulged in a $50,000 shopping spree at a luxury lingerie boutique in New York. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, Agent Provocateur's boutique in Madison Avenue, New York, was partially closed off for the U.S. First Lady. But Kristina Schake, Director of Communications for First Lady Michelle Obama told MailOnline this morning: 'This story is 100 per cent false.' The Telegraph claimed: 'Michelle Obama has risked the wrath of cash-strapped Americans by indulging in a $50,000 shopping spree at Agent Provocateur...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is Dan in Lottsburg, Virginia, great to have you on the program, sir. CALLER: Well, Rush, thanks for being you right off the bat. RUSH: Thank you. CALLER: Longtime listener and the proud owner of two vast right-wing conspiracy coffee cups. RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. CALLER: I, as a Tea Party member, which there are millions of us, I've been watching MSNBC, which you shouldn't do, but I do just to understand what the other side is saying. What would happen, or what would have happened if a Tea Party member...

Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher reports voter intimidation in Harris County, Texas (Houston) by volunteer poll watchers trained by King Street Patriots, a local non-partisan group who started the True The Vote campaign. Tommy leads with this inflammatory paragraph saying: In a story that’s sure to draw comparisons to the New Black Panther Party member who brandished a nightstick at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008, a Tea Party group called the King Street Patriots has been accused of “1960s style” voter intimidation in primarily minority precincts on the first day of early voting in Texas. The group is being sued by...

A freelance audio operator covering a protest at the site of a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero has been reprimanded for his behavior. Andrea Lafferty, who was a speaker at the mosque opposition rally, first noticed the audio operator questioning a man in the crowd who was holding a sign which read, "No Sharia Here." On Andrew Brietbart's Big Journalism, Lafferty writes: He was very aggressive, disrespectful and condescending; apparently, he did not like the man's answers about Shariah and pushed the point: "Why do you feel threatened? What are you afraid of? Why can't you answer...

Beaverton middle school teacher Jason Levin, who founded the now notorious "Crash the Tea Party" website, is no longer a teacher. Jason Levin Levin resigned Wednesday in lieu of termination, said Beaverton School District Legal Counsel Camellia Osterink. District officials would not say why Levin was facing dismissal, but that it followed an internal investigation into his use of public resources and time spent at school. "There was some question whether that conduct occurred during the work day," Osterink said of Levin's work on the website. Reached today, Levin said, "My attorney has advised me not to comment." His attorney,...

(LAS VEGAS) – Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada canceled giving his testimony at an LDS fireside last Sunday night because of angry calls, e-mails and even threats. The Democratic Senator is a member of the LDS Church and was invited to offer remarks at an LDS fireside at the Tule Springs Stake in Las Vegas. The fireside on “Why I Believe” was canceled after the threats were made. His press secretary said there were no threats of violence initiated against Reid but he canceled because of the threats against his invitation to speak. Sen. Reid received a warm welcome at...

Washington (WBAP) - Nerves are rattled in state capitals coast to coast after demands from a group -- apparently based in Texas -- that all 50 U.S. governors step down from office. The FBI warns that the group's rhetoric could provoke violence by others. An FBI special agent in San Antonio would not confirm that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has received the letter, but the document sent to at least 30 other state capitols warns that, unless the governors step down, they will be removed. The Associated Press received a copy of the advisory from the Department of Homeland Security...

Contrary to popular assumptions in today's news media and schools of journalism, the primary goal of a reporter is to seek out and report the truth. A free society is contingent to a large degree on a free press, provided that press freely does its job as it was intended. Thus, despite the government's contention that the ATF/FBI raid of the Hutaree militia group in Michigan over the weekend was due to supposed 'plots to kill police and overthrow the government,' troubling questions remain about the government's handling of this case. The question, therefore, is, 'What is the real truth...

An intelligence note obtained by The Associated Press is warning police officials that an anti-government group's call to remove dozens of sitting governors may encourage others to act out violently.A group that calls itself the Guardians of the free Republics has a plan to "restore America" by peacefully dismantling parts of the government, according to its Web site.As of March 31, more than 30 governors have received letters demanding they leave office within three days or they will be removed, according to an internal intelligence note by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Investigators do not see threats...

The Daily Beast's Meghan McCain on why the far-right pundit, who says McCain needs to shut up, won’t be getting her wish—and why telling moderates to get out of the party is bad for the GOP. BY MEGHAN MCCAIN Michelle Malkin, the conservative pundit and author of the recent book Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, was asked during a live chat on Politico’s The Arena on Friday which conservative political figure or commentator needs to shut up. Guess who her answer was? Yeah, that’s right—yours truly. So Michelle Malkin successfully rounds out...

The left is smarter than many give them credit for.Do you doubt that the new Eric Holder Justice Dept, along with the FBI, is not already monitoring Free Republic?The enemy of the left is an idea with a gun. How many here advertise they have weapons and are willing to use them? How many express their desire for armed revolt after some particular "trigger".Remember, every post is time stamped...making it VERY EASY for LEO with a Search Warrant to pull logs from Jim, his ISP, YOUR ISP...and to find out with certainty WHO YOU ARE.Be careful what you post.That is...

Brzezinksi fears class warfare. Not Mika. Zbigniew. And not Barney Frank on the Meet the Press. Real, blood-in-the-streets riots. Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser expressed his concern about the possibility of riots on Morning Joe today. To stave them off, he proposes the creation of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, whose contributors would be the fat cats who have made out well in recent times. View video.

My dictionary defines "moderator" as "the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting." On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions. But there is nothing "moderate" about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She's so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out. In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same...

He’s so old that his young-enough-to-be-his-daughter trophy wife, for whom he dumped the woman who loyally waited for him while he was a POW, is old.

BALTIMORE -- A Kansas church has been ordered to pay $3,150 for costs and fees associated with a summons and complaint filed by the father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the extremist group. Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., is suing the Rev. Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church after church members demonstrated at the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, of Westminster, and posted pictures of the protest on their Web site. Lance Snyder was killed in Iraq in March. Members of the Topeka church claim U.S. soldiers are killed as God's punishment for America's tolerance of...

The fanatical American Baptist minister, Fred Phelps, is on his way to Sweden. "We'll hunt down your king," he said ominously to Expressen. "It doesn't make any difference where he tries to hide." Phelps' hatred of the royal family and all things Swedish is linked directly to his equally virulent hatred of homosexuals. He praises homophobic crimes, including murder. When controversial Swedish minister, Åke Green, was convicted of inciting hatred of homosexuals following an anti-gay sermon, Phelps saw red and turned his attention to Sweden. "You're doomed to spend eternity in hell," he continued. "All you Swedes and your Swedish...

Two Oakland police officers working undercover at an anti-war protest in May 2003 got themselves elected to leadership positions in an effort to influence the demonstration, documents released Thursday show. The department assigned the officers to join activists protesting the U.S. war in Iraq and the tactics that police had used at a demonstration a month earlier, a police official said last year in a sworn deposition. At the first demonstration, police fired nonlethal bullets and bean bags at demonstrators who blocked the Port of Oakland's entrance in a protest against two shipping companies they said were helping the war...

This is my first time posting here, so I'm sorry if I messed something up. I think the Crawford rally is a really great idea, and I was glad that somebody took it upon themself to go through with it when Clear Channel backed down. But I've got an idea for a another rally, perhaps to be held simultaneously. Has anyone considered camping out in front of Cindy Sheehan's home in Vacaville and demand that she come out and answer a series of ridiculous questions, loudly calling her a fascist for not letting the rally use her front yard, and...

In his new and stimulating book on George Orwell, Why Orwell Matters, the radical journalist Christopher Hitchens asks why the left for so long excoriated the original Mr Blair. He writes: “George Orwell spent much of his youth investigating the condition of the working class in England, and not merely in describing it but in tabulating the relevant statistics. When Spain was menaced by fascism he was among the first to shoulder a rifle and feel the weight of a pack. His commitment to the egalitarian ideal was so thorough that it can seem positively old-fashioned . . . Yet...

I saw a few threads here yesterday about the Inglewood cop thing. I expected to see comment posts all about revulsion at the PC media's latest propaganda. I expected to see criticism of the Uncivil rights leaders (racebaiting demogogues) that will use this to spread hatred of white people everywhere and justify criminal behavior (and of course take from our wallets). But I didn't. Instead I saw a very few brave conservatives standing up for law and order being relentlessly bashed by a much larger bunch of, well, I don't know what. As to the matter discussed: The criminal idiot...