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Time to call or email. Tell McConnell and Boehner, no compromise. Listening to Rush right now and these elites in DC need to understand that We The People do not want any more of this marxists agenda..... Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 202-224-2541 202-224-2499 http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) 202-225-6205 202-225-0704 http://johnboehner.house.gov/Contact/

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama Saturday endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special task force charged with coming up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit, though the idea has lots of opposition from both his allies and rivals on Capitol Hill. The bipartisan 18-member panel backed by Obama would study the issue for much of the year and — if at least half of the GOP panel members agree, a big obstacle — report a deficit reduction blueprint after the November elections that would be voted on before the new Congress convenes next year. "These...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, who often says his $787 billion economic stimulus package will save or create millions of jobs, can point to at least 25 jobs saved in Ohio's capital. Obama was to travel to Columbus on Friday to speak at the graduation ceremony for 25 police recruits who owe their jobs to the economic recovery bill he signed into law less than three weeks ago. The recruits are part of a class of 27 who were laid off in January by Mayor Michael Coleman, a Democrat, before they could even start walking the beat. Coleman blamed city...

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A trash-hauling company serving parts of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana says an economy down in the dumps has meant a decline in garbage. Rumpke Consolidated Companies Inc. says waste collections are down 10 to 15 percent. At Rumpke headquarters in suburban Cincinnati, spokeswoman Amanda Pratt says manufacturing has seen cutbacks and residents are buying less, so there isn't as much trash at the curb. The company says its business also has been hurt by a slide in commodities prices. Chief financial officer Phil Wehrman says Rumpke could sell recycled cardboard and newspapers for $130 per ton last...

Blazing Saddles

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798-99 were a series of resolutions passed by the legislatures of these states protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Kentucky Resolutions were drafted by Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Resolutions by James Madison. They are a democratic protest against what Jefferson, Madison and other Republicans considered to be a dangerous usurpation of power by the federal government. The Kentucky Resolution of 1799 was the most radical of the resolutions and asserted that states had the power to nullify the laws of the federal government. As you read, think about how the Kentucky Resolutions...

Imagine being taxed on the number of miles you drive instead of the amount of gasoline you buy. Oregon has tried it. North Carolina is thinking about it, and Ohio is exploring an idea to replace or supplement the state's existing fuel tax with a vehicle miles tax. The Vehicle Miles of Travel tax is being hailed as an innovative way to generate transportation revenue by states that have seen gasoline tax dollars stagnate because of people driving less and cars becoming more fuel efficient. A task force that studied Ohio's transportation needs said that a mileage tax has the...

There have been a number of cases of those who have flown the U.S. Stars and Stripes upside down having been incarcerated, fined, threatened, and personal property stolen. Yet, as stated in section 8a of the U.S. Flag Rules (which is not law, but etiquette): 8a: The flag should never be displayed with the union down {blue field with stars}, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property. Obviously then, flying the flag upside down IS NOT DIRESPECTING THE FLAG! It is an action that is sanctioned within the U.S. Flag Rules...

I googled this question, Who is not going to watch the inauguration and this is what popped up.... How many people like me are not going to watch the inauguration ...How many people like me are not going to watch Then, clicking on to the link, this came up....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Att2fWlVSsw

When Congress convened on March 9, Roosevelt had his ducks in a row to wrangle passage of the Emergency Banking Act. Members of Congress were not given copies of the bill, but were urged blindly to vote for the measure after only 40 minutes of debate. Citing "the serious circumstances which confront the country," House Majority Leader Joseph W. Byrns (D-Tenn.) called on the House members to hastily pass the bill and "send it to the Senate so it may become a law this evening, and thus enable the President of the United States to open the banks tomorrow." Eager...

"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some other members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into the hack and drove over as fast as we could. When we got there, I went to work, and I never worked as hard in my life as I did there for several hours. But, in spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and, besides, some of them had lost...

Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already have started not one, but 4 businesses. But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me “Cory the well driller”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=491_5WxfcgI&feature=related

John McCain is in the fight of his political life. The media lemmings have all but called the race for Obama. Certain so-called Republicans are already assigning blame for a McCain defeat. Question: At this crucial time, will McCain dig deep to prevail during these dark days? No one who doesn't know how to win survives 5 1/2 years tortured in a prison cell. McCain has time to turn his campaign around. This requires a nimble, devastating response to the Obama worldview, specifically his far left economic vision for America. Obama laid out his economic plan on Monday, which included...

Tune in in the next hour, 11:00am now in your area for upcoming interview with Sara Palin:http://lauraingraham.com/site;jsessionid=39D43537C9145F36D8D02653804EE088

U.S. House of Representatives Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 2nd Session (2008) as compiled through the electronic voting machine by the House Tally Clerks under the direction of the Clerk of the House

Obama: Illinois State Senate Confrontation, June 2002 On June 11, 2002, as a state senator, Obama and fellow state senator Rickey Hendon nearly threw down on the senate floor. At issue was a bill that would close a child-welfare office in Hendon’s district. Obama voted in favor of the bill—accidentally, he claims—but Hendon was irate. “There’s a rift between the African-Americans on the West Side and South Side here in Chicago,” says David Mendell, Tribune reporter and author of an Obama biography. “They’re competitive, and [Hendon] was saying that Obama voted against his project because he wanted to placate some...

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Postal Service had a net loss of more than a billion dollars in the third quarter of the fiscal year, the agency said Wednesday. For the quarter ended June 30, the loss was $1.1 billion, which officials blamed on reduced mail volume in the slowed economy, coupled with rapidly rising transport costs because of high fuel prices. The post office is working to deal with its losses by cutting costs. The agency has reduced its staff by about 100,000 since 2000 and is offering early retirement to some clerks, mail handlers and supervisors.

Japan has introduced a new law that ranks as the world’s most aggressive, and possibly most ill-informed, anti-obesity measure. The national law, which came into effect two months ago, requires companies and local governments to measure the waistlines of everyone aged 40 to 74 as part of their annual checkups. The measure, which will cover 44 per cent of the country’s population - that’s 56 million Japanese citizens - stipulates that people whose waists exceed the allowable limit – 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women – will be given three months to get in shape. Failing that,...