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..."They came in for the purpose of starting trouble. You could tell that they planned it. I thought he might have something else, like a gun."

Morrisette and his partner, Mito Aviles, both 28, defended the display. "If it's a political statement, it's that their politics is scary to us," Morrisette said of the McCain-Palin campaign. "This is our palette and this is our venue of expression.

Finally it comes out. One of the people that OK'd looking into Joe Wurzelbacher's official records was none other than a strong Obama supporter that "just happens" to work for the state of Ohio in a high position of authority. But of course she claims that it was merely a routine check with no political motivations. Uh huh. Inspector general investigating access to Joe the Plumber's personal information Ohio's inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on "Joe the Plumber." Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job...

From Greta Van Susteren. This is a little choppy, but the point seems to be that a student named Tiffany found out that a fraudulent voter registration was turned into an actual fraudulent vote. It seems that her investigative work got the vote withdrawn, but Obama's Brown Shirts (Legal Division), cannot stand for mere children screwing with the budding oppressive regime of Our Leader. So they send intimidating letters that they are "watching" her? Is that what we have come to?

Sarah Palin is not considered to be a friend of the gay community, but the Republican vice presidential candidate seems to be looming over the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival. First, a rumor got started that city officials were going to ban Sarah Palin drag queens at its upcoming costumed street party, which draws some 500,000 people annually. The rumor turned out to be false, but tonight comes word that a mannequin has been outfitted to look like Palin -- with glasses, a beehive wig and a red business suit -- and is hanging from a noose outside a WeHo residence....

First there were multiple arrests for campaign sign theft, then punches were thrown at a protest in Bakersfield and now a San Diego family is reporting vandalism that they think is tied to their support of Prop 8. Watch Video Prop 8 Fight Gets Ugly close Watch Video Punches Thrown Over Prop 8 close The Lopez family woke up Saturday to find three tires slashed outside their Bay Park home. Susan Lopez believes the message is in response to her Yes on Prop 8 sign. With signs secured, Lopez says her opinions cannot be compromised. And she says neither should...

Never have I ever seen a display of disgusting vile grafitti Twenty-five residents of a Gainesville neighborhood woke up this morning to discover their homes had been spray-painted with an obscene comment about the 2008 presidential race. Several businesses were hit as well. “This is clear voter intimidation,” Corey A. Stewart, At-Large Chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, said. “The residents targeted by these hoodlums all had McCain for President yard signs in their front yards.” “Having your home defaced with obscenity because of political beliefs is a hate crime” Stewart said, “This is terrorizing the community.”

Barack Obama's campaign killed all interviews with a Florida TV station after Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, faced tough and critical questions from a reporter at the Orlando station, the Orlando Sentinel reported . During a satellite video Thursday, WFTV's Barbara West quoted Karl Marx and asked Biden how Obama's comment to "Joe the Plumber," about spreading the wealth wasn't being Marxist. "Are you joking?," Biden asked. West replied, "No."

Yesterday, we had mandatory poll watcher training. There was a lot of info that we went over, but at the very end, the person in charge of the GOP election day activities told us that the Obama campaign had successfully sued to get a copy of all of the email correspondence between him and the Supervisor of Elections. This information included all of our names and addresses. He told us to expect a letter from the Obama attorneys, threatening us with jail time if we "interfere in the election process". Welcome to the Obamanation! Lawsuits for everyone! Bring it, ya...

First I need to credit "Mrs L" at Hillary Clinton Forums for this post on the thread of the same name. Today In The Gulag Of Manassas Park ObamaManiacs Show Their Class I guess rabid supporters of Barack Obama aren’t too concerned about losing the Christian vote, now that they’ve deployed satanist vandals to spray paint expletive-ridden denunciations of John McCain on people’s houses in Virginia Oaks. As campaign operations go, this is pathetically stupid, although not too terribly surprising. For more Obamamania goodness, go to the jump…

William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire posted: October 22, 2008 William Ayers is a communist. But don't take my word for it. He said so himself: We are a guerilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. And not some nicey-nice peace-and-love kind of communist. Through his group the Weather Underground, Ayers was planning to "seize power" in a violent communist takeover of the United States: We need a revolutionary communist party in order to lead the struggle, give coherence and direction to the fight, size power and...

A Democrat in Maryland paid the price for defying “The One”. His house and property was vandalized.

Barack Obama told his followers to “get in their faces,” and that’s exactly what they’re doing in Ohio. SOCIALISM is Alive

More than 3,200 supporters -- most of them educators -- have signed a petition protesting what they say is the "demonization of Professor William Ayers," asserting that his violent actions as the co-founder of the Weather Underground were just "history." Barack Obama's ties to Ayers have been questioned during the presidential campaign by critics who call the professor a "domestic terrorist." Among the people who signed the petition are No. 5, Columbia University professor of Arab studies Rashid Khalidi, and No. 814, former University of Colorado at Boulder professor Ward Churchill.

Talk radio isn't exactly known for its lack of bias, but during yesterday's Kevin Miller show on KDKA-AM (1020), the concept of fairness appeared to have won a skirmish. In a segment that could have been either stunt or statement, KDKA executive producer P.J. Kumanchik read an announcement from CBS management addressing accusations that talk host Miller, whose show airs from noon to 3 p.m., is unfairly biased against Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. Citing a number of e-mails and phone calls from listeners criticizing Miller, Kumanchik offered Democratic presidential candidate Obama a three-hour air shift, usurping Miller's air time....

The recent countywide trend of disappearing campaign signs has turned some ordinary citizens into crime scene detectives. In Encinitas, one News 8 views is using his own surveillance system to catch thieves in the act. Video

For the past three days, Michele and Bob Sundstrom and their five children have been painfully aware of the SUV parked in front of their house with a message painted on the rear windshield that says: "Bigots live here." Their neighborhood near Blossom Hill Road has suddenly become the center of a political tempest over Proposition 8, the ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage. The Sundstroms said they were stunned on Sunday afternoon when two women parked a Chevrolet Suburban in front of their home and began painting slogans on the SUV to counter the family's huge "Protect Marriage Yes...

Several protesters tried to block the motorcade of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Grand Junction, Colorado on Monday afternoon, but police dragged them out of the way in a dramatic encounter. The incident — just feet from the car carrying Palin — was captured on video by CNN affiliate KKCO-TV.

FULLERTON – Vandals used gold spray paint to scrawl anti-Proposition 8 messages on commercial and residential buildings in the downtown and east Fullerton over the weekend, police said. The "Prop H8TE" message was found on the Bank of America and Union Bank on north Harbor Boulevard, and on a retail store in the 500 block of north Harbor. Additional tagging was found on houses near Dorothy Lane. In addition to the spray-paint vandalism, 500 "Yes on 8" signs valued at $10 apiece were reported missing throughout the city by a Yes on 8 community organizer, MacDonald said.

College conservatives say the excitement of a historic presidential election — which could send the first black American to the White House — has become clouded by an atmosphere of intimidation and hostility on campus. “People on campus who say they’re the most tolerant, they simply do not walk the walk,” said Brand Kroeger, chairman of the George Washington University College Republicans and head of the D.C. Federation of College Republicans. Mr. Kroeger said he has been flooded with calls from students who feel they cannot express their views in favor of Republicans for fear of being shouted down. GW...