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Public shifting blame for recession.....

Bernanke's reappointment has been widely expected to move through the Senate fairly smoothly.

The Obama's administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11...

"It really doesn't matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war has been lost,"

Echoing comments made by a Democratic lawmaker Wednesday night, two Republican members of the Joint Economic Committee today called for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign.

Why the president can't wait to come home....

Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham, skewers Attorney General Eric Holder's .... Must see video

Support for the war in Afghanistan has ebbed to a new low...

U.S. House plans jobs bill before year end....

Cheney to endorse Bailey Hutchison for governor tonight...

Palin slams 'sexist' Newsweek cover...

According to the poll, 28 percent of Americans say Palin is qualified to run the White House...

Liz Cheney suggests Cheney/Palin ticket...

President Obama Bows Down To Hirohito's Son… Question Is How Low Can He Go

Why NYC terror trial is a major mistake...

Major Nidal Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood shootings and will be tried in a military court. The Army apparently sees no reason to treat the case as one of terrorism...

Chris Christie, an aggressive former prosecutor who racked up a perfect conviction rate in public corruption cases and became the darling of New Jersey's Republican Party establishment, has unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular Gov. Jon Corzine. .

Congress has exempted itself from Public Option Predictably, however, the Heller amendment was defeated, with all 21 committee Democrats voting against it. That vote is indicative of the reality that any bill requiring Congress to be covered by the same health care as the public has the proverbial snow ball in Hades' chances of being enacted.

A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn't have to customers who couldn't pay back the loans.

Urged on by President Barack Obama, Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives hustled on Thursday to round up support for a sweeping healthcare overhaul headed to a close floor vote on Saturday.

There's a national element to the election. Voters across America are in a bad mood...

If the public option is in there as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote....

Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the health care bill passed last night by the House of Representatives is "dead on arrival to the Senate."

He is now talking to doctors at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.FBI agents and military investigators are waiting at the hospital to interview him.

Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS), has put an unusual spin on the bank's activities. He says his firm is doing "God's work." This may seem like an audacious statement....

Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, reshaped the legislative landscape when he offered an amendment restricting the sale of insurance policies covering abortion through the proposed national health insurance exchange...

Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), in a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee, confirms that failure to comply with the terms of the law that the Democrats passed last weekend could put people in jail.

10 Years Later, Looking at Repeal of Glass-Steagall...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Be Sent to New York for Trial

Obama Refuses To Defend Bombing Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Climate change beliefs among voters...

Bakers wanting to start the season with a freshly baked pumpkin pie might be hoping they have a can of pumpkin stashed in a cabinet somewhere. Bad weather in parts of the country has caused an early shortage of canned pumpkin, although some grocers say they’ll have it on shelves soon — and in plenty of time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Dale Brooks, operations manager for Crest Foods in Edmond, said their stores haven’t had canned pumpkin in stock since April. "I’ve had a few people ask for it,” he said. "I’m supposed to be getting some in next week,”...

I used my song "World Peace" as background audio to create a new video. Liberals wont like it. But I hope you all do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFQmu0sIzw

Free Republic used to be the most up to date web site where you could go for the latest news. Now it's been overrun with so many personal blogs and opinions that it's a chore to wade through all the personal stuff to find the real headline news. Even religous post like the daily rants of Joel Osteen, (whom I detest because he's a fake getting rich off gullible Americans)is allowed to be posted on a regular basis but you're not allowed to refute anything he says. Why is he not being put in religion where he belongs? The categories...

GM killed the beautiful electric street cars! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NcwTbpIDQ You see them all over Europe; but who killed all the electric street cars in America? Answer: GM – The same people you bailed out this year with billions upon billions of free tax payer money! Criminal conspiracy chargers were pressed resulting in a fine of one dollar. Meanwhile, places that lost their street cars like LA, will need 150 billion to replace just a small portion of the electric street car system! How beautiful the world would be if the USA wasn’t run by elites who legally bribe their politicians. I...

PHILADELPHIA -- Jim Johnson, whose attacking defenses helped the Philadelphia Eagles to one Super Bowl appearance and five NFC title games, has died. He was 68.

Is 'String' the next big thing?: Theories about cosmic evolution dangle by a thread by Gary Bates Most people have heard of the expression ‘the big bang’. Its usage is so prevalent among mainstream scientists and the media that it has become the accepted ‘fact’ for how the universe began. However, there are an increasing number of secular scientists who are sceptical of this theory of cosmic evolution, and much of their scepticism has been caused by increasing discoveries that fly in the face of big bang theory. In May 2004 ‘An Open Letter to the Scientific Community’ signed by...

Phillies lead series 1-0. 8:29 pm ET TV: FOX PHI: B. Myers (0-0, NA) TB: J. Shields (0-0, NA) ----------------------------------------- Rain in Philly could alter World Series schedule ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)—Rain in Philadelphia’s forecast this weekend could alter the World Series schedule—and pitching plans for both teams. Game 3 between the Tampa Bay Rays and Phillies is slated for Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park, but there is a 70 percent chance of rain in Philadelphia that day, according to weather.com. Baseball spokesman Pat Courtney said if the game is postponed, it would be pushed back to Sunday and...

- OK……To the people whom I can't stump! Let's see if you get this one right Who Am I I am under 45 years old, I love the outdoors, I hunt, I am a Republican reformer, I have taken on the Republican Party establishment, I have many children, I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor's office. Did you guess Scroll down...... I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900

The 'Redeem Team" does it, beating Spain in a close game tonight.

MAJOR McCOOL REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR TROOPS AT CAMP ARIFJAN, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FReeper's and GOE just received an e-mail from Major Dennis McCool requesting items that our troops can use immediately. He recently led the Resolve to Win march from North Carolina / South Carolina to Washington, DC. He is now the Director of Installation Support at Camp Arifjan (Kuwait). Camp Arifjan is where troops deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan. Major McCool is a 60 year old Army retiree, (10/65 – 11/85), a Vietnam Veteran, who was voluntarily recalled to active duty, and served in Iraq from December 06 to...

I approach the Birth Certificate issue with a healthy dose of skepticism, yet there are just too many anamolies in this story to simply dismiss it. Now, just as things seem to be reaching a tipping point in this whole story, Obama takes a week-long vacation to Hawaii. Why Hawaii, why now? And why does he say he's going to see his grandmother after ignoring her for years? If the adoption theory is true, then the original COLB is sealed somewhere in the Hawaii DOH files. The original COLB should list Saetoro as Barack Obama. If somehow Barry could get...

Someone hit me with this......Guess I've been Barack Rolled...LOL Barack Obama sings...Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give you up". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4

You know how Obama thinks there are 57 states? Someone should ask him what it's like working with 113 other senators. There is this song that Ray Charles sings, we sang it all the time in choir; Fifty Nifty United States from thirteen original colonies; Fifty Nifty stars on the flag that billows so beautifully in the breeze. Each individual state contributes a quality that is great. Each individual state deserves a bow, We salute them now. Fifty Nifty United States from thirteen original colonies, Shout 'em, scout 'em, Tell all about 'em, One by one,til we've given a day...

A Washington , DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of 'why' our country is in trouble! 1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!) 2. I got a call from a candidate's staffer, who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information, then she interrupted me with, ''I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts.'' Without trying to make her look stupid, I calmly...

A local weatherman gets more than he bargained for http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/08/08/natsot.ia.snake.in.pants.kcci

This is true love. A must watch. SO AWESOME!! READ STORY FIRST A son asked his father, 'Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?'. The father who, despite having a heart condition, says 'Yes'. They went on to complete the marathon together. Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying 'Yes' to his son's request of going through the race together. One day, the son asked his father, 'Dad, let's join the Ironman together.' To which, his father said 'Yes' too. For those who don't know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever....

46- year old Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been compared to that of the Kennedy’s. But would the democratic candidate be quite so handsome without a nose job in his past? Make Me Heal looks at the rumors of an Obama rhinoplasty. Early pictures of law student Barack Obama reveal a geeky kid with a big nose and hair to match. The nose in his early pictures is quite wide and very round. Fast forwarding several years to the current presidential campaign, and Obama’s nose looks more refined at the tip, which is likely the result of a conservative rhinoplasty...

Summary: A yellow Lab named Wille Bean Roscoe P. Coltrane is running for mayor in an Alabama town.

McCain went shopping with a woman and accidentally knocked over some cheese and applesauce. Comments? lol... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-mX7TG6-4