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Ace of Spades Headquarters Decision Desk (AOSHQDD) is looking for some volunteers to assist with Election Night coverage and aggregation of numbers. snip.. Our goal has been to have a fully functioning alternative for election night results, I have no ties to this website, other than a daily drop in to catch up on news, etc. If there are any FR people who want a way to assist, this might be it. They have been working to be a legitimate alternative to the Lame Stream Media and the AP, who all use the same polling and stats to call races,...

Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points,...

1T. Rasmussen (11/1-3)** 1T. Pew (10/29-11/1)** 3. YouGov/Polimetrix (10/18-11/1) 4. Harris Interactive (10/20-27) 5. GWU (Lake/Tarrance) (11/2-3)* 6T. Diageo/Hotline (10/31-11/2)* 6T. ARG (10/25-27)*8T. CNN (10/30-11/1) 8T. Ipsos/McClatchy (10/30-11/1) 10. DailyKos.com (D)/Research 2000 (11/1-3) 11. AP/Yahoo/KN (10/17-27) 12. Democracy Corps (D) (10/30-11/2) 13. FOX (11/1-2) 14. Economist/YouGov (10/25-27) 15. IBD/TIPP (11/1-3) 16. NBC/WSJ (11/1-2) 17. ABC/Post (10/30-11/2) 18. Marist College (11/3) 19. CBS (10/31-11/2) 20. Gallup (10/31-11/2)21. Reuters/ C-SPAN/ Zogby (10/31-11/3) 22. CBS/Times (10/25-29) 23. Newsweek (10/22-23)

THE BIG LEAK: USA eavesdropped on Israeli Embassy in Washington... Developing... Only a tease, for now. This is going to get ugly, right before Obama's speech? Drudge, you magnificant bastard...

President Obama started his reelection campaign last Spring. But things will really get going next Thursday night. That’s when Obama will offer a series of small scale proposals that at best will help the economy on the margins. But they may help Obama get reelected. Here’s why. The White House itself, in a report released yesterday, predicted that economic growth will remain weak through much of next year and that the unemployment rate will be about at 8.5 percent on Election Day. OBAMA HAS ALREADY FAILED TO FIX THE THE ECONOMY. IT’S OVER. So what’s going on here? snip...

Let's try something productive here. I'd like to start this tread as a repository for serious questions that can presented to the various conservative pundits, candidates, grass-roots activists, etc. that frequent Free Republic (FR). We know that FR is in the top 10 Conservative websites and that a significant amount of information posted here is seen by the above persons. Lets make a list of questions using past articles, quotes, etc. from the Democrats that can/should be present at debates, interviews, town halls, speaking engagements, etc. If we do this thoughtfully, fact-based, researched and meticulously, it will be a gold...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' political ideology at the midyear point of 2011 looks similar to 2009 and 2010, with 41% self-identifying as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.

Post them if you got them.

Last week, in an effort to limit the damage to congressional Democrats in November’s elections, President Obama set out in pursuit of the youth vote, traveling to several college campuses to rally the young activists who were so important to his presidential campaign. “What I want to do is just to speak to young people directly and remind them of what I said during the campaign,” he told reporters on Monday. But rather than listen to the president talk about what he said two years ago, young voters should look at what he has been doing ever since. In fact,...

Did anyone else thing the same thing I did when they saw the new RAT Logo?

With the midterm election less than two months away, all signs point to a punishing defeat for Democrats in the House of Representatives. Since July 1, there have been 111 polls released on U.S. House races in 79 districts. Some were commissioned by news organizations; others came from the campaigns themselves or political groups (a detailed list is posted at Rove.com). Ninety-seven polls were conducted in seats held by Democrats while 14 were in Republican districts. snip...

As investigators attempt to determine the cause of the Transformers 3 accident that sent a 24-year-old extra to hospital with brain injuries, Paramount, the studio behind the film, is suddenly contradicting eyewitness and police reports. Michael Bay's Transformers 3 was wrapping up filming in Hammond, Indiana — after spending the past few weeks shooting throughout the Chicago-land area (the photo above is from earlier in Chicago shooting, and not from the incident in question) — when a stunt reportedly malfunctioned. The result? 24-year-old first-time extra and aspiring actress Garbiela Cedillo was sent to the hospital with serious head trauma in...

Murkowski Presser in 15 Minutes. I hear the "C" word. No, the other one. No, the other one. Concession. Buzz buzz: Claim that staffer says she's calling her family as a prelude to concession. Understand that this stuff isn't really super-vetted but it's all I'm hearing and besides I heard something like this three hours ago but wasn't allowed to say anything. That's all he's got.

If you or I was involved in drug laundering of as little as 2 dollars and fifty cents we would be in prison. Wachovia bank, now part of Wells Fargo via a merger, has laundered countless sums of Mexican cartel drug money and will get off with a slap of the wrist. The reason ...Wells Fargo is too big to fail. Please consider Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico...

There are an estimated 163 million orphans worldwide. In the United States alone there are over 500,000 children currently in foster care. More than 120,000 of these children are “permanent wards of the state” that do not have the hope of ever returning to their biological families due to severe abuse or neglect. These children are legal orphans. They are waiting for families to adopt them. But the reality is that most of these children will turn eighteen and “age out” of the system, living life alone rather than be adopted. Snip...

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Here is a "create your own NASCAR car design" where you can vote on and/or create your own. There is one in particular, here among FRee Republic that has caught our attention about a week ago. It's a clean yellow car with a Gadsden Flag on it and some pro US slogans. The KICKER IS, the winning car will be BUILT and RAN !! Click the link and vote for NO TREAD. Even if its just so that the purple one with ponies or the red one with Lucky Charms doesnt. Here is the link again, it only takes a...

Pure Vanity. After viewing the picture at Drudge, this is immediately what came to mind.

OK, so today I drive by the Monoliths and notice the dates on the lower corners of each side. I start googling them and finally go to the website and find the following... ...some elements of the artwork remain elusive — including a cryptic series of dates ranging from September 23, 1899 to January 15, 2096. According to Morgan, there is no right or wrong answer for what the dates mean, everyone will come up with a different solution. “I want to spur a variety of thoughtful interpretations, rather than a quick and intuitive reaction,” Morgan says of his work,...

UPDATED: It's been confirmed that "voter intimidation" claim in #NY23 is a #fail. http://bit.ly/2fFg1L 13 minutes ago from TweetDeck Turnout in Virginia said to be about 45%. #vagov #73wire about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck 73Wire Update: Voter intimidation in NY23? http://bit.ly/OJzYn #73wire about 1 hour ago from twitterfeed 73Wire Update: EXCLUSIVE: Hoffman Plattsburgh Precinct Worker’s Tires Slashed http://bit.ly/2QBrRP #73wire about 1 hour ago from twitterfeed