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Al Gore suggested the fight against climate change is comparable to that against the Nazis. Watch as Hannity takes a crack at Gore...

LOS ANGELES - Millions of fans from around the globe gathered along Sunset Boulevard to pay final respects to California today, as a slow moving funeral procession transported the eccentric superstar state's remains to its final resting place in a Winchell's Donuts dumpster in Van Nuys. The self-proclaimed 'King of Pop Culture' died last week at 160, in what coroners ruled an accidental case of financial autoerotic asphyxiation. The death sent shock waves across the world and sparked an outpouring of grief by rabid fans. "I don't care what the tabloids and the Wall Street Journal say," said a weeping...

What does $10 million buy? Many of you might buy property and become rental owners. Some of you might retire and live a life of leisure. Still others might decide they would like to help out those injured or in need, perhaps including those left in the dust by the federally bailed out and bankrupt GM and Chrylser. I just submitted a proposal to build a four-story, 40,000 square foot museum that should end up costing less than that to build, barring major design changes by the owners. The owners will have a fully functional and operating museum for less...

In light of my recent posts on rejecting the term reverse racism, and commentary on how some blacks use their race to be jerks, I am saddened to bring you this latest installment. The media frequently will not report a hate crime against whites as a hate crime, and authorities are just as bad. Anyone who remembers the Christian-Newsom Murders will understand what I’m talking about. Ohio is the latest such circumstance where a blatant racist group of blacks attacked whites, but they are hesitant to call it a hate crime.

Opponents of President Obama's "Cap and Trade" Legislation have won a temporary victory today as the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee backed off on pushing the bill forward this summer. In fact, Chairwoman Barbara Boxer said it would not be taken up by the Senate until September. This about face by Boxer, who had set a deadline of early August to complete work on the bill, is undoubtedly a result of strong opposition from the American people, the announcement by Democrat Robert Byrd that he will oppose the bill, and falling poll numbers for President Obama . ....

Our country currently finds itself in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and, as during all economic crises, people search for the answer as to why this has happened. Not only have large financial firms been affected, but also mainstays of American industry such as GM and Chrysler, all the way down to the Mom & Pop stores on Main Street. The easy way out is to blame the traditional scapegoats: foreign governments, fraudulent businessmen, and greedy speculators. But the real villain is far more sinister; the organization entrusted with maintaining a stable dollar and touted...

This is good news:A federal judge in June threw out seizure of three fake passports from a traveler, saying that TSA screeners violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. Congress authorizes TSA to search travelers for weapons and explosives; beyond that, the agency is overstepping its bounds, U.S. District Court Judge Algenon L. Marbley said. "The extent of the search went beyond the permissible purpose of detecting weapons and explosives and was instead motivated by a desire to uncover contraband evidencing ordinary criminal wrongdoing," Judge Marbley wrote. In the second case, Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign...

Please check out this poll, I am interested in the outcome. Thanks for looking and clicking.

Scott Rasmussen will be on Rush Limbaugh tomorrow most likely gonna talk about the -8

While Barack Obama continues his foreign tour in Italy, trouble is brewing on the home front. His poll numbers are slipping, as Rasmussen reports here, and Gallup does here. The source of the shift is independent voters, particularly in swing states. The numbers are nothing for the White House to fret about, but clearly the president’s shine is beginning to wear off. The main reason for his slump was a depressing jobs report last week that saw unemployment rise to 9.5%. It is soon likely to hit the red letter figure of ten per cent. The $787 billion stimulus package...

Here is video of New York Congressman Peter King who continues to stand by his strong comments about Michael Jackson. King called Jackson a "pervert" several days ago prior to Jackson's funeral. He tells Bill O'Reilly he stands behind every word he said. He refutes charges of racism that has been leveled against him that his comments were racially motivated. . . . . (Watch Video)

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –8.

"There is nothing that we would have done differently."

Here is video of Louisiana GOP Congressman John Fleming explaining his House Resolution 615 that would call on House members who vote for Government Health Care to choose that option for themselves and their family. . . . . (Watch Video)

Here it comes. Thought crime and hate crime legislation. No one can attest to the vile nature of internet harassment, threats and insults more than I can, but I would never silence my "critics". This law is unconstitutional, a blatant violation of the First Amendment. It destroys the basic tenets of the Constitution.

Here is video of a Good Morning America interview with billionaire Warren Buffett where he said he suspects the unemployment rate could hit 11%, but said he believed the United States will come out of this stronger than ever. Buffett also said a second Stimulus Bill "very well may be needed," but hoped it would be more effective than the first Stimulus Bill which Buffett described as being like "a half a Viagra pill with candy mixed in." Buffett said we are no where near the end of this recession. . . . . (Watch Video)

The Obama administration is currently working to push health care reform down the pipeline at an alarming rate. The reason for this is that President Obama is trying to make good on his promise that sweeping health care reform will be completed by the end of 2009. What’s really important here though is not whether or not he meets that deadline. Hitting that deadline is actually quite irrelevant as the proposed options to fix the system won’t address the real problems in health care. Even worse yet it seems that the administration doesn’t care that the real problems won’t be...

US First Lady Michelle Obama walks past a statue during her visit to the Capitoline museum on July 8, 2009 in Rome. The visit, attended by several First Ladies was organized on the sidelines of a G8 summit in L'Aquila.

Ann Coulter wrote a great piece describing the "Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome." As usual Ann is on the money, sarcastic, funny and tells us like it is! Governor Palin has deeply disappointed her enemies. People who hate her guts feel she's really let them down by resigning. She's like the ex-girlfriend they're SO over, never want to see again, have already forgotten about -- really, it's O-ver -- but they just can't stop talking about her.

This is a short video in which author Dick Morris talks about the chapter on Sharia in the West from his new book Catastrophe.

Just great to see traditional campaign ads come out with no election in site.

In a poll sponsored by Expedia.com, 4,500 international hotels were asked which country’s tourists were they least excited to see come through the lobby. The answer? Of course, the French. According to the responses, the French were seen as cheap, arrogant, and unwilling to speak the languages of the places they visited. Isn’t this how Barack Obama characterized Americans who traveled abroad, as knowing nothing more than “merci beaucoup”? A spokesman on French radio explained away the poor performance in the survey by saying that the country of France is so superior that few French ever feel the need to...

Since my appearance on MSNBC regarding Sarah Palin has generated so much conversation, I felt it might be a good idea to expand upon the points I made while debating the commentators. I realize my comments fly in the face of conventional wisdom and are contrary to the analysis given by most Republican consultants. That understood, I think there are three good reasons that the Palin resignation could (key word: could) be a good move for her on a long term basis: 1) The money angle (as Charlie Cook covered this week). 1. The Palin’s aren’t wealthy. They haven’t reached...

Obama’s First Military Order byPaul L. Williams, Ph.D.thelastcrusade.org Don’t shoot back!Don’t pick the poppies!And don’t bother the women and men in burqas!These are the new rules of engagement for leathernecks in Afghanistan. Sound incredible?They’re true.Welcome to the modern Marine Corps under Commander-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama

The Des Moines Register reports that the Iowa GOP is courting Palin to campaign and headline their chief fundraiser. Go to Conservatives4Palin, because the DesMoines Register cannot be used at FR due to copyright. Conservatives4Palin on Palin stepping up in Iowa.

Yelling "Death to Mojtaba" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGKFtVwX40E

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DR. BETSY McCAUGHEY TO SPEAK AT SECOND STATEN ISLAND TEA PARTY Former Lt. Governor Targets Obama Health Care Plan Staten Island, NY, July 9, 2009 – Dr. Betsy McCaughey, the former Lt. Governor of New York State, health care policy expert and staunch patient rights advocate, has agreed to speak at the Staten Island Tea Party at the Park, on Sunday, August 2, 2009. Dr. McCaughey has been an outspoken critic of government run health care as far back as the Clinton Administration, and was credited at that time with exposing so many flaws in “Hillary-care” that...

International Organizations = Global Incompetence L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) - President Barack Obama and other leaders at the Group of Eight summit have struck a new agreement on fighting global warming. Consider the ridiculousness of this statement by our president: “We have agreed for the first time that average global temperatures must rise by no more than 2C."This is folly. Why not demand the wind stop blowing? It spreads air pollution around and messes up women's hair-dos. Why don't they just have Obama rebuke the global atmosphere? "Peace, be still!" No, wait. That was Jesus calming the seas...Santa Claus and Witches...

Maybe Congress believes that the "other white meat" is good for you, because the health care bill is loaded with it, even though people are already choking on the price tag. In one more example that the Democratic Party-run congress is just not listening to the will of the people, both the house and Senate versions of the developing Obamacare legislation has special "pet projects" designed to make the representatives more popular in their districts. Included are projects that have nothing to do with providing universal health insurance such as adding lighting to a playground or clearing a walking path...

In this Columbia Conservative Examiner exclusive, we have a chat with Mike Yost, conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Yost is running in a district that is heavily Democratic--a meandering, side-winder snake-like area that was heavily gerrymandered to favor liberal Democrats and minorities. But this year there is a much better chance for a conservative to win. The key will be GOP financial support and the support of conservatives all across the nation.

I very troubling photo of the troubled "King of Pop"

I received a letter from the PA Department of Revenue stating that I had not paid Use Tax in 3 years and they were allowing me to catch up without penalty. They included a brochure explaining what Use Tax is. I had never read anything that had led me to believe I owed this tax. I thought it was a tax on rentals & leases. Boy was I wrong. Use tax is tax on anything you purchase that is normally taxable and that you did not pay tax on. For example, let's say you purchase something off the Internet for...

Are you feeling better off today than you were six months ago? Perhaps more importantly, do you think you will be better off six months or six years from now? Quite frankly, I don’t see how you can possibly think you will be more prosperous in the years to come because it is rather apparent that the Democrats want us all to be poorer. Why do I say that? Let me count the ways: 1. Obama and Pelosi are trying to share your wealth. Remember when Obama told Joe the Plumber that “I think when you spread the wealth around,...

If Barack Obama's idea of ending the occupation in Iraq is to transfer most of the troops to Afghanistan, he won't have accomplished much.

Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll reported Obama’s approval rate at an all new low yesterday and today doesn't appear anymore hopeful for the president...

Read it all at BrainTerminal During the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the control of its first African-American majority leader, [State Senator Malcolm] Smith, top Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers. But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs. The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been...

Early this morning, while most Americans were asleep in their beds, Barack Obama was protecting the world, one degree at a time. In a decisive maneuver to control the earth’s climate change, the U.S. president and his comrades at the G-8 summit promised to keep the world’s temperature from rising over 3.6°F (2.0°C). Details of the president’s plan are still sketchy, though the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House and due for debate in the Senate is likely a first step. Obama may then contact the Defense Department, which has been largely idle now that the president has begun to...

Watching excerpts of Michael Jackson's funeral on the news last Tuesday and being lionized as an iconic civil rights leader by the likes of Rev. Al Sharpton, I couldn't help but think of the sheer irony and folly behind such outlandish adulation being bestowed on the late drug abuser and child molester. According to some these folks MJ helped even make it possible for BHO to get elected as POTUS. This is really weird considering the fact that Michael Jackson did everything possible to become a white person including destroying his body with ceaseless skin bleachings, facelifts, and nose jobs...

I just realized I am a liberal. This revelation came to me after reviewing the issues a certain liberal candidate for office outlined. On every issue she listed I found I was in concurrence. I think you too will come to the same conclusion. Here is the list of the issues (in bold and italicized): Pro-choice? You bet! I completely concur. I think people should have the choice to send their kids to parochial or private schools just like many ...

Defendants, Obama, USA, Congress, Senate, House, Cheney, and Pelosi have filed a motion to dismiss plaintiffs' complaint/petition. Their main argument is that the plaintiffs do not have standing and that all the defendants have immunity from all of plaintiffs' constitutional claims. The current defense motion to dismiss the complaint/petition was returnable Friday, July 20, 2009. Plaintiffs’ opposition was due by Monday, July 6, 2009. The defendants took over 4 months to file their motion. I was only given 2 weeks to respond. Given the critical importance of this case, the complexity and novelty of the constitutional issues, and the need...

One look at Michael Jackson and one could see that Jackson was a man given over to his idiocracies. From the facial reconstructive surgeries to the melanin drained from his skin and the sad "Betty Davis" eyes epitomized how superficial change from the traditions of our fathers (in Jackson’s case his hair, skin, nose and chin) combined with a totally narcissistic escapist fixation on a fantasy world filled with frivolities and excesses was the untimely cause of his death. Likewise such behaviors will be the premature ruination of any people directly or any nation indirectly. Yes it is true that...

Congressman Barney Frank wants to prevent unemployed homeowners from losing their houses by giving them government money to pay their mortgages.

Even some of the drive bys know they can't keep defending the porkulus when the economy keeps getting worse

Ahem !!, Excuse me Mr. President are you listening? Obviously he isn't. The latest set of Rasmussen Polls report that the public is losing confidence in President Obama, they think that the government is doing too much, and their confidence in the economy is falling quickly. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows only 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –8. This is a drop of 16 points in the past month....

Well, actually just one scene ... A Facebook friend posted this shot from a Free Honduras rally. Translation for you gringos is underneath.

Tanking.

Homelessness is an epidemic. As Americans, it is our right and privilege to help reach the needy. As Christians, it is our duty. What are the real problems and real solutions? "How do we reclaim our park benches back from the homeless?" I listened to a city official ask a group of business men and women last Tuesday. Sound heartless?

Conroe, TX — Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday Governor Palin is committed to campaigning for his re-election bid & that he welcomes the support of The Governor. Perry, after a luncheon speech to a Lions Club in Conroe north of Houston, said: He intends to complete the full four years if he's re-elected next year to a third term. "Sarah and I were friends well back before she became a national star, She'll be here."

The Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index today shows President Barack Obama's rating plummeting to -8. The Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll shows 30% now "Strongly Approve" of Obama's performance as President, while 38% "Strongly Disapprove." This is a five-point drop since just yesterday. . .

A long time ago, in a much simpler time, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve System were created by men seeking power and they understood that power came through the control of money, if you wanted power over the government. The fed was born of that concept. In 1987, William Greider, a writer for Rolling Stone wrote the definitive book on the fed, entitled, “Secrets of the temple, how the federal reserve runs the country”. William Greider wrote an amazing book, you can read online here. But, the title should have ended in “runs the world”. In 1980...