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JImmy Carter's first slander against many white Americans of good will on Sept.14 was far too broad and too mean and likely intended to freeze dissent.

"Can you believe these gas prices?"

Michigan conservative film festival will challenge Michael Moore in Traverse City on Friday and Saturday.

TRAVERSE CITY - Few area residents had ever heard of the Texas-based American Film Renaissance or Cheryl Felicia Rhoads before founder Genie Aldrich announced the Traverse Bay Freedom FilmFest that opens Friday. Aldrich calls her FilmFest a conservative alternative to the larger Traverse City Film Festival, which opens Wednesday. That festival is the baby of Michael Moore - an Oscar-winning liberal filmmaker whose name is decidedly well known nationally, inspiring both admiration and acrimony. Aldrich spearheaded what early announcements dubbed a "counter festival ... in response to Michael Moore" after appearing at a June 6 Traverse City Commission meeting.

Conservatives in northern Michigan have established the Traverse Bay Freedom Film Fest for July 29 - 30 to answer Michael Moore who is using public land for his own film festival July 28-31 also in Traverse City, Michigan. The Freedom Film Fest will show main stream movies such as Charlotte's Web for kids and Raiders of the Lost Ark. It will also show conservative political films such as "Michael Moore Hates America" and others.

GOP Vixen is proud to exclusively break this story of The Traverse Bay Freedom Film Fest days before the official press conference: On Friday, Michael Moore began selling tickets for his inaugural heartland film fantasy, the Traverse City Film Festival in Northern Michigan. Moore plans on showing 30 films at four venues from July 27-31, hoping to "save this art form," he told the Traverse City Record Eagle. Moore swore that he was just out to show great films; his lineup announced Friday includes pedophile drama "The Woodsman," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "The Assassination of Richard Nixon,"...

As of 11 PM Pacific Time on Tuesday night, Nov. 23, Republican candidate for Governor of Washington state, Dino Rossi, was still leading by 287 votes in the official recount out of 2.8 million cast. But, you guessed it, there is only one county that has not yet reported and it is King County in the Seattle area. King County officials continue the pattern of last week in finding magical mystery ballots. This time they found 700 more ballots previously rejected by the machine and they are trying to divine the voter's intent. Its Broward County, Florida all over again.

The American Left Wing will not let go of their conspiracy theories about Ohio. Some lunatic business professor still is trying to explain why the exit polls favoring Kerry in the early part of the day were so far wrong. Well even a busted clock is right twice a day. Warren Mitofsky, the pollster who did the Election Day exit polls for the consortsium of MSM organizations has a simple and good explanation. More Republicans than Democrats refused to talk to his pollsters after they voted because they were wearing MSM badges. The Left will do anything they can to...

A national newspapers sold in airports all over the country with letters starting with the abbreviation for United States of America has a story that John Kerry still has $15 million in his campaign fund and the Democratic National Committee wants to know why he did not spend it against Bush or donate it to other Democratic candidates down the line. Let the recriminations begin! The newspaper can be found on the web, think abbreviation for our country plus the word meaning this 24 hour period. (The newspaper has complained to Free Republic about links to its stories as a...

Do NOT let anyone ever tell you that your vote does not count.

Do I hear Gomer Pyle saying "Sooprise, sooprise?" Suddenly the vote counters in Democratic King County are "finding" a few more thousand "provisional" ballots than they thought they had. The thought that Dino Rossi could be the first Republican governor of Washington State in 20 years has the Dems a little terrified. Rossi, like Sen. Slade Gorton four years ago, has been leading since Election Day on Nov. 2. This morning he led by 1,900 votes. Tonight the Democrat leads by 150 votes out of 3 million cast.

I knew it!! The History Channel special on the Berlin Wall on now says that De-classified Russian files say that Russians would have backed down if Western Allies had bulldozed the barb wire put up to start the Berlin Wall on August 12-13, 1961. The poor people of East Berlin were kept in prison for 28 years because Jack Kennedy was scared to challenge Nikita Khruchev after the collapse of the Bay of Pigs invasion just four months before. Appeasement never works. France, Britain, and USA had the right to full transit in all sectors of Berlin and if they...

Do you remember how fast the TV networks called Florida for Al Gore in 2000? BEFORE 8 PM Eastern Time? BEFORE the polls closed in the Florida panhandle located in the central time zone? Gore lost the state by 500 votes. Now fast forward to 2004. Its 3 and one-half hours after the polls close in the panhandle and four and one-half hours after the polls close in the rest of the state and the networks are still saying Florida is "too close to call." Funny, Bush wound up winning Florida by FIVE FULL PERCENTAGE POINTS over Kerry with a...

A thread yesterday asked where to find copies of the county by county USA map showing which counties carried for Bush and which ones for Kerry. Real Clear Politics has posted both the 2004 and the 2000 county map. The map is revealing for 2004 because it shows how many GOP friendly counties are located in otherwise "blue" states such as California and New York. It is possible to drive across America from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans on red counties only. That is not possible with the non-contiguous blue counties. I don't know if that proves much except that...

No matter where you are from, the oldest state society in Washington, DC (which apologizes for going blue by mistake) cordially invites you to one of the oldest Inaugural celebrations since President Lincoln in 1861. If you are from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri or Indiana or anywhere, you may come to the Illinois Inaugural Gala at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC on Wednesday night, January 19, 2005.

Kerry called Bush, the right thing to do, Kerry will talk at 1 PM ET and Bush at 3 PM ET.

"These five current issues concern actions that are intrinsically evil and must never be promoted by the law. Intrinsically evil actions are those that fundamentally conflict with the moral law and can never be deliberately performed under any circumstances. It is a serious sin to deliberately endorse or promote any of these actions, and no candidate who really wants to advance the common good will support any action contrary to the non-negotatiable principles involved in these issues."

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry are tied with two days remaining in a tense race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Sunday. Kerry and Bush were deadlocked at 48 percent in the latest three-day national tracking poll, which included one day of polling taken after the airing of a videotape from Osama bin Laden. Kerry led Bush 47-46 percent on Saturday.

A reader writes to National Review's Clifford May to remind him that eight Marines were killed in Iraq in the last 48 hours and so were some Army soldiers. There are Zarqawi and other terrorists, some related to Al Quaeda, and some just Party of Return Baathists, who are doing every thing they can to influence our elections and policy by killing our troops. The Kerryites love to call Iraq a mess but they can never see how much bigger a mess it might have been if we had followed Kerry's advice, waited to 2006 or 2007 when Saddam was...