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President Bush Live Press Conference.. Might be very interesting...

President is taking congress to the woodshed on obstruction of war funds.

CC27 should be back tomorrow. Still "in training". Welcome.

Last day as "substitute" pinger for CC27. Welcome.

Pinch hitting again for CC27. Welcome all posters and lurkers. I'm pinging and running. CC will return soon. Till then, fire away. I'll be away for a while.

Posting thread in CC's (still in training) absence. Welcome lurkers and posters.

Sorry for the late ping. Someone asked me to do the honors and I just read the mail.......

ChicagoConservative is "in training" for the next few days and has "hired" me to fill in. No mention of payment amount but I'm guessing it is immeasurable.

Senate now voting on confirmation of Mukasey for Attorney General

The Judicial Hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to a circuit judge is playing on C-SPAN 3

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to serve as the 110th Justice of the United States Supreme Court now completed, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson issued the following statement: “I have decided to vote in favor of Judge Samuel Alito to serve as the 110th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. I came to this decision after careful consideration of his impeccable judicial credentials, the American Bar Association's strong recommendation and his pledge that he would not bring a political agenda to the Court.”

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. gasoline deliveries, a key measure of demand, fell almost 4% in September to log their biggest year-to-year decline in more than a decade, the American Petroleum Institute reported Wednesday morning. "Motorists apparently found ways to manage fuel use and travel more efficiently in the face of higher September gasoline prices following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita striking along the U.S. Gulf Cost," the API said in a monthly report. At the same time, September domestic crude output fell 22% from a year ago to 3.95 million barrels per day -- its lowest level since 1943, the...

Public Advocate President Eugene Delgaudio will be announce on Wednesday morning, Aug. 10, at 11 a.m. in front of the Supreme Court that Public Advocate of the United States, a Virginia based national pro-family group is withdrawing its support for Judge John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court. The move comes as a result of Roberts' support for the radical homosexual lobby in the 1996 Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans,

<p>THE PRESIDENT: Nearly five months ago, I nominated John Bolton to be America's Ambassador to the United Nations. I chose John because of his vast experience in foreign policy, his integrity and his willingness to confront difficult problems head-on. I told the nation that John Bolton would provide clear American leadership for reform at the United Nations. I told them that he would insist upon results.</p>

Bill passsing at moment 212-210, with 13 votes remaining....

Updated: 10:55 a.m. ET July 27, 2005 WASHINGTON - Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter announced Wednesday that confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts will start on Aug. 29, interrupting the last week of congressional August recess.

Just announced on FOX news......Former Senator Fred Thompson to assist in SCOTUS search..........

Traffic halted on roadway linking France and ItalyBREAKING NEWS The Associated Press Updated: 1:42 p.m. ET June 4, 2005CHAMBERY, France - A tractor-trailer burst into flames inside an Alpine tunnel linking France

Following four community public hearings in Ohio about election irregularities and voter suppression – two in the capitol, Columbus, and one each in Cincinnati and Cleveland – a clear pattern and practice of voter disenfranchisement is emerging. ................. skip... Exit polls on Election Day from both the polling firm Zogby International and CNN projected John Kerry winning the state of Ohio. University of Pennsylvania Professor Steven Freeman calculated the odds that the exit polls in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania all being wrong are 250,000,000 to one. Pollster John Zogby, President of Zogby International, is quoted as telling the Inter Press...

SURPRISE - Three "undecided" voters on MSNBC have just declared they voted for.............drum roll please.............Kerry/Edwards. Who would have thought it?