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Jorge Vazquez, 32, is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, after he attempted to hire a hitman to murder his wife as a 32nd birthday present for himself.

This day four years ago at 0630 / 6:30 AM AKDT, Trig Paxson Van Palin was born. “Trig is a perfect child born in an imperfect world,” as his mother Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has written and said many times. While many of us wake up groggy, sometimes cursing and staggering around until we get our morning cup of rocket fuel in us, Trig “welcomes each day with thunderous applause and laughter.“

Madison, who's recognized as playing the most significant role in drafting the Constitution, has some of the very most powerful, educational, inspirational, and prophetic quotes of any of our great founders. Most of Madison's famous quotes deal with constitutionally limited government, describing it and justifying it. Reading them causes several bells to go off, because his words illuminate both the "how" and the "why" our government has so drastically bastardized the U.S. Constitution and the founding principles, created to protect us from out-of-control, all-powerful, tyrannical government, which has been the norm throughout history...

Chris Rock apparently doesn’t care whether he’s invited to President Obama’s next birthday party. The comedian used Obama’s 50th birthday bash as material for a surprise stand-up appearance at the Comedy Store club in Los Angeles this weekend. Saying he felt like “he died and went black heaven,” Rock shared a few details about the August birthday party, which was closed to the media. The informal barbecue at the White House was paid for by the Obamas, according to the Washington Post, and featured a celebrity-heavy guest list including Jay-Z, Tom Hanks and Whoopi Goldberg. While Rock called the party...

FORT LAUDERDALE— A marital spat that began when a Plantation man didn't wish his wife a happy birthday and then escalated into a domestic violence charge resulted in an usual bond court ruling by a perceptive judge. Instead of setting bond or keeping Joseph Bray locked up, he ordered him to treat his spouse to dinner, a bowling date and then to undergo marriage counseling. "He's going to stop by somewhere and he's going to get some flowers," Judge John "Jay" Hurley said during the first appearance hearing. "And then he's going to go home, pick up his wife, get...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Each year the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project asks governors from all 50 states to issue a proclamation declaring February 6th “Ronald Reagan Day”. Today, The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project proudly commends the governors -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- who have recognized Reagan’s 101st birthday in their states. “It is wonderful news that thirty-three governors have declared today “Ronald Reagan Day” in their states. It is sad that sixteen Democratic governors place partisan politics above respect for a great President,” said Grover Norquist, chairman of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project. Governors who have issued proclamations honoring Reagan...

Today marks President Ronald Reagan’s 101st birthday. Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan made his journey west to Iowa as a radio broadcaster, then on to California to take Hollywood by storm. He crossed America as a spokesman for General Electric, and then — after discovering the import of conservative values — entered the political arena, where he would ultimately lead his fellow citizens out of a wilderness of self-doubt, helping the country come to see that it could be morning in America once again. We at The Heritage Foundation invite you to join us in celebrating Reagan’s life and...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2nd Division Vet!!!LOVE, HUGS AND PRAYERS!!!

First Lady Michelle Obama is celebrating her 48th birthday tonight with her husband and close friends at BLT Steak in Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House. Tonight’s dinner continues a birthday tradition. In years past, the first lady has celebrated at some of D.C.’s finest restaurants, including Wolfgang Puck’s The Source and Restaurant Nora.

Friday January 6, 2012 will mark the 600th anniversary of the birth of Saint Joan of Arc who was one of the greatest patriots and freedom fighters to ever live.

A man and woman were charged today in connection with the beating death of the woman's 4-year-old son on the child's birthday on Friday, police said.

Happy 236th Birthday to all my Brothers and Sisters.

Lawrence O’Donnell Chides Bill Clinton And Lady Gaga For Inappropriate Birthday Flirtingby Frances Martel | 9:59 pm, October 17th, 2011 Over the weekend, former President Bill Clinton had a several-month late birthday bash in Hollywood, lasting two nights and capped off with a seductive performance by Lady Gaga, who performed a special version of “Bad Romance” and giddily called her performance a “Marilyn moment.” Given that ostentatious displays of power and wealth are public enemy #1 on The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell‘s cringing reaction to the affair (no pun intended) should not have come as a surprise, but it was...

Today is Hillary Clinton's 64th birthday. Do any Freepers want to wish her a happy one?

Roger George Moore was born in Stockwell, south London on October 14, 1927, the son of a policeman.

Celebrating 236 years of Honor, Courage, Commitment!

Tuesday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), yours truly noted an email from the Associated Press's Images Group which encouraged subscribing outlets to use its "iconic images and videos" to promote the 85th birthday of Fidel Castro, the "Legendary Cuban revolutionary and longtime leader." Today, writing what may be the wire service's last calendar-driven excuse to heap praise on him while he is still alive, the AP's Peter Orsi described Cuban dictator Castro as a "revolutionary icon" with an "outsize persona," who in his prime was "a gregarious public speaker," and while in retirement remains a "prolific writer."

To most news Web sites, what happened at the White House on Thursday night was a private 50th birthday party for President Obama. To an editor at Fox News, it was something a little different. “Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs,” read the headline on an article on The Fox Nation,a conservative arm of FoxNews.com, which is owned by the News Corporation. Below the headline were photos of Mr. Obama and, separately, three black celebrities who attended the party, the basketball player Charles Barkley, the comedian Chris Rock and the rapper Jay-Z. Not pictured were any attendees of other racial...

POLITICO EXCLUSIVE -- The President’s private 50th birthday bash, not listed on his public schedule: His gift to the press corps was a travel/photo lid shortly after 4 p.m., prompting what pooler Julie Mason called “general cheering in WH workspace.” An hour later, the party started… --… with dinner in the Rose Garden, accompanied by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. Then the First Lady and his daughters presented POTUS with a cake, and everyone moved into East Room for performances that included R&B singer Ledisi, and Herbie Hancock. Stevie Wonder came up at the end and sang a...

Markets present unhappy birthday surprise for ObamaBy Dave Boyer The Washington Times 7:34 p.m., Thursday, August 4, 2011 The Obama administration struggled Thursday to explain its plans for turning around the economy as stock markets plummeted for the second time this week. “The White House doesn’t create jobs,” said presidential spokesman Jay Carney. “Together, the White House and Congress create policies that allow for greater job creation.” The steep drop in equities that wiped out all of the gains for the year coincided with President Obama’s 50th birthday. At a celebration in Chicago on Wednesday night, the president said he...

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, I’m narcissistic you see, Happy birthday to me. It’s the perfect romance: a man who loves to be loved and, well, his biggest fan – himself. It’s hard to tell if we should mark August 4 as Barack Obama’s 50th birthday or his 50th anniversary with himself. In ordinary times, a concept now long-forgotten in Washington, we’d commemorate the president’s birthday with cake and candles. This anniversary is appropriately marked by the red ink of debt –- trillions more than ever before. “One nation under debt” should be our new motto as...

U.S. President Barack Obama (back to camera) is hugged by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (R) next to entertainer Jennifer Hudson (C) after performers sing "Happy Birthday" to him to celebrate his 50th birthday before he delivers remarks at a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser at the Aragon Entertainment Center in Chicago August 3, 2011.

<p>Every day, I see Barack make choices he knows will affect every American family. That's no small task for anyone -- and more proof that he's earning every last one of those gray hairs.</p> <p>This has been a busy week in Washington, but today happens to be Barack's 50th birthday. I'm writing to you because this year, the girls and I would like to do something a little different.</p>

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, and former head of the KGB, rules as de facto czar of enormous empire that spans 11 time zones. A confirmed and dedicated Communist, Putin has decided that Russia should publicly honor another fellow socialist on his 50th birthday. From "The Voice of Russia" English language website we read: Russia's Post Office has issued a collection of stamps and envelopes to mark the 50th jubilee of the US President Barack Obama. The US leader is celebrating his birthday on the 4th of August. In one of his recent interviews Mr. Obama said that fifty...

Somebody’s Having a Birthday Party and You’re Not Invited That is, if you belong to a union. In case you live under a rock and haven’t heard, Barack Obama turns 50 today. And, the place to be tonight is the Aragon. The party starts at 7:00. But don’t bother to show up if you’re a union member. The White House hired a non-union crew for the event tonight. A confidential and trusted union source contacted me today to report that the crews called in to work Obama’s birthday bash are non-union. Union members are OUTRAGED that Obama would turn his...

Just like at his 2009 Inauguration, Obama will celebrate his 50th Birthday tomorrow with millionaires, billionaires and corporate jet owners.Let’s hope he can get that Satan Sandwich signed into law on time so he won’t be late for his big Me-Me-Me moment.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIKINI: 65 Years In The Life Of The Two-PieceSimone Foxman | Jul. 5, 2011, 5:31 PM From ridicule to ubiquity, the bikini has come a long way over the past 65 years. It was on this date in 1946 that French fashion designer Louis Réard hired a nude dancer to sport his two-piece creation after the runway models he approached refused to wear it. But despite provoking controversy -- centering around everything from morality to skin cancer to liposuction -- it is clear that the teenie weenie suit is here to stay. Click here to see the most...

Enjoy your special day and don't forget to call your mother! We miss having someone in the white house who actually wants the best for our people and respects the Office that you held (and goes to Congress to use our troops in a war, has a budget, gets his high-level staff confirmed by the Senate)

JOURNALS OF CONGRESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1775 . . . . . . . . The Congress met and agreeable to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration &c. After some time spent thereon, the president resumed the chair, and Mr [Samuel] Ward reported, that not having yet come to a conclusion they desired him to move for leave to sit again. At the same time they desired him to report some resolutions which they had come into. The resolutions being read, were adopted as follows: Resolved, That six companies...

Some 1,500 people showed up outside the house of a Hamburg girl celebrating her 16th birthday on Friday, after she posted an invite on social networking site Facebook but mistakenly listed the party as a public event. "Unfortunately, she forgot to mark the celebration as private," police spokesman Mirko Streiber told news agency DPA. The girl, named as Thessa, cancelled the party after 15,000 people RSVP'd to her "sweet sixteen" birthday bash via Facebook. Police broke up the party at 1:55 am on Saturday morning. More than 100 officers were at the scene. Six revelers were arrested on suspicion of...

San Diego mayor says July 4 fireworks, even birthday parties, are in doubt after court rulingBy Associated Press Updated: Wednesday, June 1, 3:26 AM SAN DIEGO — The city’s Fourth of July fireworks displays aren’t the only celebrations in doubt after a judge ordered rigorous environmental reviews of large events, Mayor Jerry Sanders says. Birthday parties may be at risk if more than 75 people are invited. Sanders says Friday’s ruling by Superior Court Judge Linda Quinn in a lawsuit over a La Jolla Cove fireworks show applies to the roughly 20,000 park permits that the city issues each year....

Three men were shot and wounded at separate parties around the city overnight, including a man shot at his own birthday party. At 1:24 a.m. in West Englewood, a 35-year-old and 42-year-old were shot at a party in the 6300 block of South Seeley Avenue, according to a release from police News Affairs. The 35-year-old who was celebrating his birthday was shot in the lower back and taken in good condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.

We wish Trig a very, very happy birthday!

NATICK — Two men pleaded not guilty today in Framingham District Court after Natick Police said they started a fight during a child's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday. Donald Jean Estime, 32, of Brockton, and Ezekiel L. Tavares, 36, of East Boston, were both arrested Saturday at 5:19 p.m. and charged with assault and battery and disturbing the peace. According to a police report, the pair were at Estime's son's birthday party and appeared to have been drinking. Estime got into an argument with his son's mother's cousin because Estime was harassing that man's daughter who was...

Happy Birthday fatima!!!

Driven by an unshakable sense of duty and a love of life in the air, Chuck Yeager has spent decades pushing the boundaries of aviation and military service. Chuck Yeager’s Early DaysBorn on Feb. 13, 1923, and raised in the hills of West Virginia near the town of Myra, Charles “Chuck” Yeager entered military service as soon as he could, joining 17 classmates who enlisted after high school graduation to fight in World War II. After spending nearly two years working his way from a plane mechanic to a flying sergeant in bases in Nevada, California and Ohio, Yeager and...

SarahPAC suggests donation for Palin's birthdayby Becky Bohrer / Associated Press Fairbanks Daily News Miner Feb 09, 2011 JUNEAU, Alaska - Sarah Palin turns 47 on Friday and her political action committee wants donors to help give her a "special surprise." In a solicitation letter Wednesday, SarahPAC Treasurer Tim Crawford says nothing is more important to Palin than making sure her PAC has the funds needed to elect "more common-sense conservatives in 2011." **SNIP** Crawford writes that a donation will be a welcome surprise on Palin's birthday, considering what he calls "the increasingly vicious attacks from her enemies on the...

I take particular notice of famous Americans (conservative) favorite reading material when they were young. Departed Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist turned me on to one of his favorites, " The Road To Serfdom," by Friedrich Hayek, who pretty much told all on the evils of socialism. Abraham Lincoln loved the Bible as well as Shakespeare, Byron and Burns. George Washington was not only Biblically literate, he had excelled in sciences and manner. Notice these "Rules Of Civility," Washington memorized, which are suggested behaviors quite the opposite from what today's Glee/MTV Skins kids are taught. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt...

The news that President Obama decided to read a biography of Ronald Reagan during his Christmas holiday in Hawaii might be taken as a sign that Reagan’s triumph over liberals is complete. Can anyone imagine John F. Kennedy admitting he was reading a biography of Calvin Coolidge, or Jimmy Carter taking in lessons from Dwight Eisenhower? This represents the culmination of a remarkable turnabout in Reagan’s reputation, most notably among liberals, who might have been expected to do to Reagan what an earlier generation of partisan historians did to Coolidge. Instead, we have seen a raft of books from liberal...

With Gov Sarah Palin set to deliver the keynote speech at the much-anticipated Reagan 100 celebration at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, CA, there is much interest in the theme chosen for the event: A Time for Choosing, the pro-Goldwater oratory that launched Ronald Reagan's political career on the 1964 TV program Rendevzous with Destiny... and raised $8M in the waning days of Barry Goldwater's campaign. I here present the famed Reagan speech in it's entirety, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA... [YouTube] "A Time for Choosing" video/more at Reaganite Republican Additional Gipper's...

JOIN US FOR A VERY SPECIAL REMEMBRANCE OF PRESIDENT REAGAN'S  100th  BIRTHDAY!Last year I invited everyone who reads my blogs or listens to my radio show to write a note to First Lady Nancy Reagan on the occasion of President Reagan's birthday on Feb. 6th.   After we collected your sentiments, I sent them to author and friend Burt Boyar who delivered them in person to Mrs. Reagan with whom he shares a special friendship. We're doing it again this year -- President Reagan's centennial birthday -- and I invite you to join us again for this very special remembrance...

Michelle Obama was there to mark the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr., but the crowd waiting at Stuart Hobson Middle School in Washington, D.C., had a surprise for her. As the First Lady and her husband, President Barack Obama, along with their children Sasha and Malia, entered the cafeteria at the school Monday, she was greeted with a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday." While the president looked relaxed and enjoyed singing along, the First Lady – who was celebrating her 47th birthday – looked embarrassed and hugged Sasha from behind.

Michelle Obama's 47th Birthday Michelle Obama turns 47 on Monday. From wedding-day pictures to her best style moments, see pictures of the first lady through the years.

Joan of Arc was the greatest freedom fighter in history and today is the 599th anniversary of her birth.

Jong-un’s birthday is now holiday, says report December 24, 2010 North Korea has declared a public holiday to mark the birthday of leader Kim Jong-Il’s youngest son, a report said yesterday, as the regime grooms him to take over power from his father. Good Friends, a Seoul-based welfare group with contacts in the North, said the propaganda department in the northeastern city of Hoeryong had since mid-October held lectures for ruling party secretaries at each factory, workplace and public institution. The lectures, among other topics, mentioned the accomplishments of “Young General” Kim Jong-un “as well as the honor and pride...