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Obama: Iran is 'breaking rules' Posted: September 25th, 2009 08:54 AM ET PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Iran's newly unveiled uranium enrichment facility "is inconsistent with a peaceful (nuclear) program," President Barack Obama said Friday. "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow," Obama said.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) wants to ban a smoking device that several House Republicans have trumpeted for helping them quit smoking. The battery-operated device, known as an electronic cigarette, looks like a normal cigarette, but contains no tobacco and instead of smoke emits a nicotine vapor when the user inhales. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) have all been spotted using the device on Capitol Hill. But the device, which is sold over the Internet and at select mall kiosks, needs to be tested by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before it is deemed...

Predator drones flown from base in Pakistan, U.S. lawmaker says Sen. Feinstein's surprise disclosure likely to complicate joint campaign against Taliban militants Greg Miller | Washington Bureau 7:06 PM CST, February 12, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. - A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States. The disclosure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, marked the first time a U.S. official had publicly commented on...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin does not have the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard. So says Carly Fiorina, one of John McCain's top advisers and the former CEO of that company....

BIDEN: "This election year the choice is clear. One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need. A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States...BARACK AMERICA!!!"

It's hard for Obama supporters to play the age card any longer, as their potential veep is all of six years younger than McCain. His mouth will be an absolute time bomb. Will he refer to Delaware as a "slave state" again? Will he discuss who's behind the counter at 7-11s? I'm reminded of a Rudy Giuliani response when Biden took a shot at him - "Joe's a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time... But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications - he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run...

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse… I’d like to feel sorry for the guy but, you know? This ain’t his first go-round with the media and I’m sure it ain’t gonna be the last. Was what he said really that bad? Who knows? Back to Jesse… I remember back in the 70’s Jesse Jackson did a spot on Saturday Night Live where he sat behind a news-desk and recited Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” (Click here to see video) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EKOHrYhH3EE). It left a huge impression on me at such a young age. Not because it was eloquent or powerful, but because I...

Breaking on Fox News. Giuliani Files Statement of Candidacy for President No article yet.

Election 2008: Joe Biden tossed his hat into the presidential ring Wednesday, along with some choice racial gaffes. Curiously enough, his fellow Democrats had little to say about this. We'd like to know why. The senior senator from Delaware said he'd run for president as a foreign policy wizard, but in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Observer he didn't exactly show any diplomacy. He badmouthed other candidates and did little to show voters what he has on offer. However, Biden didn't conceal a thing. Commenting on rival Barack Obama, Biden all but told him he was a credit...

Writing the history of our time in song. MIDI - IN DREAMS She was a country star who had been shining I would think about her at night About me I sometimes heard friends whisper They knew that something was not quite right I'd close my eyes and I'd drift away All night inside my mind with her I'd play Things would get hot...dreams sometimes do Oh, dear chunk butt Natalie, I'm wanting you Wet dreams you give to me Wet dreams, wet as could be And that is why they put me in a mental facility But just before...

In an interview, Young was asked whether he was concerned that Wal-Mart causes smaller, mom-and-pop stores to close. ``Well, I think they should; they ran the 'mom and pop' stores out of my neighborhood,'' the paper quoted Young as saying. ``But you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us, selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs; very few black people own these stores.'' Young said he...

One of the most persistent themes in Noam Chomsky's work has been class warfare. The iconic MIT linguist and left-wing activist frequently has lashed out against the "massive use of tax havens to shift the burden to the general population and away from the rich," and criticized the concentration of wealth in "trusts" by the wealthiest 1%. He says the U.S. tax code is rigged with "complicated devices for ensuring that the poor -- like 80% of the population -- pay off the rich." But trusts can't be all bad. After all, Chomsky, with a net worth north of US$2-million,...

Stern weighed in yesterday with the confession that he had a nose job nine years ago — right after the filming of his movie, "Private Parts" — and liposuction not long after to suck out the waddle of fat under his chin. He explained that, while he'd always hated his nose, doctor after doctor told him not to touch it. Finally, he said, one sketched out a simple fix that would pare away his speed bump, so he decided to have the surgery.

In his latest editorial on his website Bob Beckel calls Tom Delay a punk with a big mouth. Of course Mr. Beckel offers no proof to back up the baseless allegations he makes against Delay. Here is the editorial in it’s entirety: Just another Bully A Column by BBP Editor Bob BeckelTom Delay reminds me of a bully in my hometown high school. He scared people, told them he carried a switchblade, and would use it. He was a thug. One day he said something about my sister. He lasted 15 seconds, until he started to cry for his momma....

...I wanted to address the Lifetime series of "The Dirty Girls Social Club" again. First, I should let you all know I haven't heard a peep from anyone at the network since I last posted. I have talked to my co-executive producer, Nely Galan, who talked to an exec at the network who, I am told, told her that they have no problem with me at the repitch meeting. Rather, they just want to meet with everyone but me in order to "bond". Okay. ... Basically, there's a thing that happens in Hollywood. Moneylust. They all want to make money,...

The government made a mistake in annexing all of east Jerusalem following the Six Day War, Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres said at the Labor Party's Jerusalem Day celebration at the capital's Gerard Behar Center on Sunday. "Whoever thinks that 240,000 Arabs from East Jerusalem could be annexed while Jerusalem stays a Jewish capital is as mistaken as those who say the city can be divided with fences and walls," Peres said. "If there isn't peace in Jerusalem, there won't be peace in the country, and if we don't leave the Gaza Strip, there won't be peace in Jerusalem," he...

PHILADELPHIA - Freddie Mitchell has talked his way out of Philadelphia. In a move that was no surprise, the Eagles released Mitchell on Friday, cutting ties with the wide receiver after four seasons where he never lived up to his promise as a first-round pick. "We appreciate everything Freddie has contributed to the Eagles organization over the last four years," coach Andy Reid said. "By releasing him now, it gives him the opportunity for a new start with another team in the NFL." Mitchell, picked in the first round out of UCLA in 2001, made more news off the field...

Bill Clinton's remarks at Davos may end being more controversial than Eason Jordan's. Other blogs, especially Little Green Footballs, have been all over the story. Here is the latest. It is now fully evident that a gloablist left-leaning elite uses Davos as an exercise to get similarly-inclined Americans to denounce their own country and pay homage to the icons of "progressive" politics - meaning, basically, anti-Americanism. How anyone could classify the mullahs of Iran as "progressive" and keep a straight face is beyond my understanding. It demonstrates how illogical and twisted a group the global anti-Americans have become.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose country is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, said that the world should get used to high oil prices. "The world should forget about cheap oil ... it won't happen," Chavez told a news conference in the Indian capital on Saturday, saying that the new price range for oil would remain between 40 dollars and 50 dollars. "That is the new band for oil," said Chavez, whose country is the only South American member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Chavez, on the second day of a visit to India...

THE MESSENGER Meet the Badass Democrat Washington Can't Afford to Lose by Josh Feit Kirstin Brost agreed to be interviewed on the condition that we do it over drinks at her favorite hangout, the Five Point Cafe--the lumpen prole bar near the northern edge of downtown. The alcohol was having its effect: The salaried Democratic Party official ended up telling me that she still "doesn't know what John Kerry's position on Iraq was" and that Al Sharpton was the best candidate in the Dem field. ("Howard Dean had nothing on Al," Brost, 27, says with a smile.) She also allows...

Boasts tie suspect to killing in Plainfield S. Plainfield native held in'83 shooting Domenico Anastario talked too much, authorities said . That was his mistake. The Florida man's bent for boasting eventually ended in his arrest for a 21-year-old Plainfield killing, police said. Anastario, 44, told a friend he got away with shooting a man to death on a dark Plainfield street in 1983. The friend, who turned out to be a police informant, relayed the tale to Edgewater, Fla., police detective David Gamell. At first, Gamell was skeptical. "When you commit a murder, you don't tell anyone," Gamell said....

During the absolute sham that happened on the floor of the United States House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon, Rep. Maxine Waters of California finally admitted for the official record what many of us have known for a long time - Michael Moore runs the Democratic Party. Waters took to the well of the House near the end of what can very loosely be called a debate on the question of objecting to the certification of the Ohio electoral votes of the 2004 presidential election. In a quivering voice that betrayed either an oncoming eruption of tears or outright fury,...

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The ever-colorful Teresa Heinz Kerry, whose ``shove it'' comment to a journalist made headlines earlier this year, says some of the words she chooses may be inappropriate because English is her second language.      ``My intent and my expression is real, but the actual use of the words may be out of place,'' she said on the daytime talk show ``The View.''      Heinz Kerry is a native of Mozambique, where Portuguese is the official language.      But the potential first lady said she does not regret anything she's said this campaign season. ``I have not said very much at all except people...

TV host Bill O'Reilly suffered "the worst day of my life" yesterday after being thrust into a sleazy sex scandal - one so explosive, it has forced the talk-show loudmouth into silence. "I have been advised to keep my big mouth shut, and I have promised to do that," O'Reilly told the Daily News from his Fox News studio yesterday. But he didn't. "This has been the worst day of my life," O'Reilly said. "I am getting hounded by the press, and I knew I would be. I knew that they were going to kill me, but what am I...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Optimism was supposed to be on display yesterday........... --SNIP-- .......but someone forgot to give Teresa Heinz Kerry the positive message. As 1,000 people waved signs reading "American Optimism," the would-be first lady ripped President Bush. "There's a lot we know isn't going right," Heinz Kerry said after assailing Bush's agenda. "But the most insidious and probably most debilitating of all of it is the lack of dignity and respect perpetrated on the American people. That is not American." Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt called the remarks "shrill and angry attacks."

Frederick Davis, 54, is accused of theft, charged with using his sister's 1987 white Dodge van without her permission, being drunk and wrecking it Aug. 30 in Westwood. But it was Davis' mouth that got him into trouble Tuesday -- and will cost him an extra year behind bars.Davis, 54, was in the courtroom of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Ruehlman when the judge declared Davis mentally competent to stand trial on the theft charge.Ruehlman said he knew Davis was mean, not mentally incompetent, but wanted a mental health professional to confirm it."I felt maybe there was mental...

BERKELEY, Calif. (Jan. 22, 2004) -- Keyshawn Johnson was mugged at gunpoint, robbed of money and jewelry but unhurt, police said. They said the wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was accosted up by two men as he was talking on his cell after walking out of a barber shop. "Johnson gave up his money and jewelry and the suspects fled," Lt. Eric Gustafson said. No arrests have been made. Johnson, a two-time Pro Bowl receiver, was deactivated for the final six games of last season, and the Buccaneers plan to either trade or release him. He was the...

MIDI - RHIANNON Arianna rings like a bell through the night...well, actually it's screaching She is a loud mouth and hypocrite...we're tired of her preaching Irritating, that she is...like Streisand, Hillary or Cuomo We feel sorry for her poor ex-husband, 'cause she turned him homo Davis and his RATS will be gone but she is out to spoil it Hey, Arnold, relive your movie scene...stuff her head in the toilet Irritating, that she is...like Streisand, Hillary or Cuomo We feel sorry for her poor ex-husband, 'cause she turned him homo She had turned him homo Arianna...Arianna...Arianna...Arianna Where she has...

MIDI - BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA Power has gone out...and New York is darkI will hit it now...right out of the parkHere's the soundbite, friends...I know it will flyThey'll never pin a thing on Bill and I Blame it on that guy from Texas...who is presidentBlame it on that guy from Texas...it is evidentThe entire right wing I really despiseI'll blame him because I have thunder thighsBlame it on that guy from Texas...it's all his fault Join in and you'll see...it will work for mePeople will believe...he made me scream out, "You FJB!" Don't get in our...

MIDI - NEVER MY LOVE You ask me because I was wrong, will I apologize Never Dubya...never Dubya You wonder because I'm a fool will my friends now ostracize Never Dubya...never Dubya This is worth mentioning twice...those of us on the left never pay a price...no price I know that I had flapped my gums and I really looked like an *ss Never Dubya...never Dubya I am afraid you won't see me crawling on broken glass Never Dubya...never Dubya This is worth mentioning twice...those of us on the left never pay a price...no price...no price Never Dubya...never Dubya Never...

If you did not see Hannity and Colmes tonight, please watch the repeat. If one did not know the vulnerability of some of our military in a certain location, they do now. I am so upset by this, because I believe it was solely done for Hackworth to get air time. If he was so concerned about the lives of those involved, he should have address this to military authorities and not blather this over the media. Please watch Hannity and Colmes repeat tonight.

Larry Elder has the unpleasant misfortune to be seated next to Ed Assner (spelling mistake on purpose) at an event. He was discussing with Assner how he was wrong on Mumia and other issues and wanted Assner to come on his show to debate. Assner admitted that he was "Not equipped to go on the show and debate." How surprising is that. The left shoots off its mouth but is not prepared with facts to debate. Nitwits.

MIDI - IT'S A HEARTACHE He is a liar…Terry is a liar…with his pants on fire Everyone should know Some fabricator…what a fabricator…tells truth see ya later Everywhere he goes That guy is slimy…he is very slimy…he can kiss my hiney Everything's for show He should really be ashamed…he's been taking from this game…big bucks He's defending Clinton still…he's a lowlife scumbag shill…he sucks He is pathetic…Terry's so pathetic…although energetic Wind him up and watch him perform You cannot trust him…no, don't ever trust him…Ashcroft, will you bust him Let us see our FBI swarm (musical break) He should...