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Glenn Beck: Politico Piece On Gov Palin Is An “Out And Out Lie,” Demands Retraction – Courtesy of PalinTV

Influencing Public Opinion by Ari Bussel I am reminded of many elections ago in the city where I grew up. It is a small, yet most powerful city, and the then-mayor was running for re-election to the City Council (mayorship is done by rotation between the five councilmembers). I was on the Mayor’s Steering Committee, thus very close to the events. The person who headed the committee is a person of the highest level of integrity. It was thus known that any action approved by her would withstand the strictest scrutiny and adhere to the most honorable practices. There were...

Rep. Deal (R) stepping down, making House vote on ObamaCare that much closer By: David Freddoso Online Opinion Editor 03/01/10 10:13 AM EST Soon-to-be former Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga. An e-mail alert from Congress Daily: Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga., announced today he will resign from Congress to devote his "full energies" to the governor's race, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. One of seven Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for governor, Deal will step down from the House next Monday. The earliest Deal would be replaced is probably late July, when Georgia holds its 2010 primary election. Among other things, this...

TelePrompter lets Commander-in-Chief Down as He Mispronounces ‘Corpsman,’ Mangles French Posted By Michael Walsh On February 5, 2010 @ 5:20 am Surely, the White House has someone on the staff who can teach the President how to pronounce the word “corpsman.” It would also be great if someone in media knew what a corpsman is, but the Harvard-educated press’s knowledge of anything having to do with the military is limited to the phrases ”baby killers” and “exit strategy,” so there’s probably not much hope there. And maybe somebody else could point out that the Haitian Creole word for America —...

The Obama Administration has been searching all over the country for a new location to hold the 9/11 terrorism trials now that New York looks like a no go. Among the many problems they face are cost and security, with cost being the number one concern. Those in charge of finding a location have run into roadblocks at every turn. This past weekend they announced what is believed to be the perfect location and should fit into the new budget without a problem. The question of security has yet to be addressed but they are confident it will work...

Martha Coakley’s plan to coast into the general election without a campaign (or issues!) has effectively been thwarted by a surprisingly feisty, scrappy Scott Brown. While clueless Beltway GOP officials, pundits and other insiders continue to write off or ignore the race, it is clearly heating up here at home...

Lawyers for a terrorism suspect once held at Guantánamo Bay who is now facing prosecution in Manhattan asked a judge on Tuesday to dismiss his case on the ground that his nearly five years in detention denied him his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

BY MELANIE HAIKEN OF CARING.COM She may have started her public career as a fluffy pin-up girl, but Farrah Fawcett couldn’t have ended it with more dignity in her role as a public figure. Diagnosed three years ago with anal cancer, Fawcett talked openly about her battle with a type of cancer that’s particularly embarrassing to talk about. With her mane of beautiful hair, white teeth, and sun-tinged skin, Farrah was the picture of health and the quintessential California girl (though she hailed from Texas), adorning many a teenage boy’s wall in her famous red tank top. Thanks to the...

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has asked Perez Hilton to apologize for slurs he hurled at Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. GLAAD was responding to a video posted by the celebrity blogger, whose legal name is Mario Lavandeira, in which Hilton gave his version of events after Will.i.am posted a video describing their recent confrontations at and after the MuchMusic Video Awards. Said Hilton in his video: "I made the split-second decision -- that I was gonna say what I thought was the worst possible thing that thug [Will.i.am] would ever want to hear" -- which was...

A rare piece of good news recently came out of the Middle East: An American-backed (or, rather, Bush-backed) political coalition defeated Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanese parliamentary elections. And ever since, President Obama’s supporters have desperately made every stretch to credit him – and particularly his Cairo speech – for the victory, in an attempt to justify the less-than-impressive foreign policy route of his young administration.

I have had it with the slander from the anti-life camp! Enough is enough. I don't know about anyone else from the pro-life side, but I am getting a bit fed up with these pro-abortion ghouls slandering us by making it seem like we're all a bunch of "anti-choice, terrorist extremists". I am nothing but a low level blogger with a very modest audience, but I wish someone with a little more recognition would get up on a soapbox and put these people in their place once and for all. Being non-violent is one thing, but we don't have...

In the land of the Pharoahs… May 23rd, 2009 . by Fred Remember building the pyramids? Either 20,000 or 100,000 - depending on which historian/archeologist you believe - sweating Egyptians, each hooked to a long rope, the other end of the rope attached to a giant, multi-ton block of stone, pulling with all their might, under a hot sun? Sounds like fun, huh? And only 2.5 million more multi-ton blocks to go! (That’s just for the largest of the three pyramids - the others are there, waiting, too!) People laboring for the state. Without pay. However willingly or unwillingly (we...

Neophyte politician Barack Obama met his match in Dick Cheney a mature, experienced statesman. Obama may think Rules for Radicals techniques will work on Dick, but he is dealing with a valiant, unmovable warrior. Obama is used to undying adulation and goes largely unchallenged in spite of minimal strategic policy details. Obama hasn’t a clue what he is doing and Dick Cheney is neither flummoxed nor threatened by bravado. Barry picked a fight with the wrong guy and if anyone should be anxious about the outcome it should be Obama.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the "idol of Zionism" should be broken in order to "save humanity." "Free nations will not bow to the idol of Zionism and would break it, although it has already been broken,"Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the city of Eslamshahr, not far from Teheran. The Iranian president claimed there was growing positive sentiment towards Iran worldwide, saying, "The Islamic Revolution is being exported to the world now. People in different parts of the world, even in the US and Europe, are currently talking about fighting against Zionism," he claimed. He said that...

Click on the source URL or here for first of five part interview of Philip Berg regarding Obama's citizenship status. IMHO, Berg sounds highly credible. A lot of in-depth information here if you listen to all five parts.

Very good news from The Nation: >Remember when Pat Buchanan ran a number of hard-right, fringe campaigns for president in the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000? Well, guess who was supporting him: From an AP report in 1999: Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a campaign swing through Alaska. Buchanan’s strong message championing states rights resonated with the roughly 85 people gathered for an Interior Republican luncheon in Fairbanks. … Among those sporting Buchanan buttons were Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin and...

Forgive the somewhat vanity, but I know Freepers are News conscious so I just was wondering - on August 9th, these were some of the headlines floating around the world... Libya says Mediterranean Union will divide Africa Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi has reaffirmed his critical stance towards the Union for the Mediterranean - the brainchild of French President Nicolas Sarkozy - saying it will divide the 53-nation African Union. Sarkozy floats idea of joint commissioners French president Nicolas Sarkozy is considering proposals that countries of "similar culture and language circle" should share a commissioner in the new model European Commission,...

Joe Horn, the infamous neighbor in Pasadena TX who shot two suspected burglars in the back in broad daylight last November, has been cleared by a Texas Grand Jury. According to the Houston Chronicle, Horn "confronted" two men who had allegedly broken into a neighbor's house. Horn had called 911 where his conversation with the operator had been taped: “Move,” Horn can be heard saying on the tape. “You’re dead.” Boom. Click. Boom. Click. Boom. Horn redialed 911 and told the dispatcher what he’d done. “I had no choice,” he said, his voice shaking. “They came in the front yard...

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=18355 Yesterday, 11:32 PM Area 504 Fantasy vs. Reality -- time to face the truth? This post is for any of you who still hold out hope that Hillary will emerge from Denver as the Democratic Presidential candidate: First, I want you to know that I respect all of you. But I'm looking at this whole situation from a different point of view, and I just don't see what you all are seeing. Second, I've been away from news most of the day and didn't hear any reports about the Hillary/Obama "Unity" meeting. But I doubt that anything that happened...

Well, at that moment I was playing President of the Imaginary States of America. That's one of the old Air Force One 707's, and it's mounted in spectacular fashion at the Reagan Library. When you take the tour they take a souvenir photo at the entrance. I did the standard arms-round-the-family one, then asked for another. The only photoshopping was to take out the hanger behind the plane and replace it with a night scene of Tuzla. I think that considering the amount of sniper fire I was taking, I look remarkably calm and collected. It's good to be the...

Which is it Barack? Are you a moron or a liar? Or both? On Monday you claimed your Uncle (not further identified) help liberate Auschwitz. Since it was the Soviets who liberated Auschwitz, that left people wondering who your communist uncle was? So your campaign scrambled to get out the word–No, he meant his great uncle and he meant Buchenwald rather than Auschwitz. There, that settled it. So I have one question–how in the hell did your uncle get to Buchenwald. Was he in a row boat? Looks like Great Uncle Charlie was in the Navy. Service records for Charles...

Gaffe n. A clumsy social error; a faux pas Prevaricate v. To stray from truthfulness or sincerity. Was Barack Obama's latest whopper--about his uncle liberating Auschwitz and then hiding in the attic for six months: was it a prevarication or a gaffe? What others have said: "In one of his more egregious and easily demonstrated lies, made even more so by the day he decided to let it loose on, Obama has rewritten WWII history such that the allies liberated Auschwitz." --Purple Avenger, Ace of Spades HQ"Is there a point at which the media will start calling Barack Obama out...

Barack Obama did something important yesterday. He proved that a neophyte politician can learn enough on the job to be a credible presidential candidate.  But what he still lacks is the power and stature to heal his divided party. In a Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace, Obama appeared poised, charming and reasonable.  Wallace pressed him gently on a number of issues: taxes, the effect of his race on his competitiveness, and the war, among others.  Gone were the flutters and flusters of the ABC Pennsylvania primary debate, the abrupt reactions in the post-Ohio press conference.  You can’t credit...

With oil prices skyrocketing, and everybody agreeing in saying that the US should be out of OPEC's grip, there are divergent opinions on how to do it. Me, I want to see a Manhattan/Moon shot type of project, where the US focuses right now on getting out of the grips of OPEC and a petroleum based economy. I know, I know, some elite Rush conservatives on FR will say that I am a heretic, for not waiting for pure economic theory to come through, but hey you Rush elitists, the pure economic theory is not working and people are hurting....

'Misspoke' is rapidly on it's way out the door as a fake excuse for minor hyperbole on one end of the extreme and out and out lying on the other. The archive capability of today's technology means that your past sins, real or "misspoke" are there for all the world to see. Every action, every word, every printed stated or thought is accessible as a cross reference against current ones. It shouldn't be a danger to anyone who's memory matches their actions. It's a huge danger for those whose memory about their actions are made up to suit the moment...

Moreover, when Thompson filed his disclosure form with the IRS, he revealed that $72,000 of the $3.4 million raised is to be used for the general election. Former FEC General Counsel, Larry Noble told the Washington Post "I think it's problematic. Clearly it's a red flag."

In the Parker case, a 2-1 majority of the D.C. Circuit found that the DC city council's prohibition on handguns, and its ban on using any firearm for lawful self-defense, were violations of the Second Amendment. Today, the full Circuit denied the DC government's petition for a rehearing en banc. The decision states: "Appellees' petition for rehearing en banc and the response thereto were circulated to the full court, and a vote was requested. Thereafter, a majority of the judges eligible to participate did not vote in favor of the petition. Upon consideration of the foregoing and appellees' Fed. R....

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This is true Professor Wichman E-mail Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country Status: True. Professor Wichman E-mail Hooray for Michigan State University (The Spartans) and Professor Wichman! Well, what do we have here. Looks like a small case of some people being able to dish it out, but not take it. Let's start at the top. The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman. Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish...

What is wrong with people nowadays? Some of you may remember back in July of 2004 my niece Emma was seriously injured and had to have half her skull removed, along with half her brain. The Doctors and the Police determined that this was not accidental and charged my sisters boyfriend, who was taking care of her at the time, with 2 counts of aggravated child abuse. Well the trial ended today and he was found not guilty on the first count which they said he had no criminal intent to injure my niece. Forget the fact that out of...