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While I was reading along at the Merced Sun Star today, I noticed the allow comments on their stories. Not locked down, you have to register and accept our newsletter comments, but just plain old "free speech for everyone" type of comments. The story I linked to (http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/43326.html) is a very local story, but apparently has stirred up quite a bit of controversy... but did they start to crack down on the growing comments? No, the actually had the guts to leave them out there - the good, bad and ugly! I also love the fact that they ask the...

After watching John Stossel's report on 20/20, I decided to challenge you with a quick one minute quiz, see how you do on a series of what should be easy - moderate questions. Take the quiz

Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent for AP has taken it upon herself to inform the world that the sky is falling in No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict. Despite the fact that there is no consensus in the scientific community if there is any warming going on, never mind who or what may be causing a shift beyond normal temperature phases, she opines: Virtually no one disagrees human activity is fueling global warming, and a global treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, aims to reduce polluting emissions. But the world's biggest polluter, the United States, has withdrawn from the 1997...

Reuters writes:Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is expected to visit Afghanistan with the top U.S. aid official to spotlight America's aid work there, officials said last week. Political commentator Mary Matalin will also be on the trip. She said she was not being paid to go and would pay her own way to Dubai but she believed the U.S. government would cover the cost of her visit to Afghanistan from there. The Bush administration has come under sharp criticism for the Education Department's payment of $240,000 to conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to tout Bush's education plan. Spokesmen for...

Did anyone see the funny animation at the end of Fox's 6pm news that Brian was filling in foe Brit tonight? It was a dancing Rummy - anyone know where is came from?

Just watching Jessica Simpson on the AMA's on ABC when has-been model Anna Nicole Smith came out on stage after and could barely walk or talk. She looked bombed! They finally went to black on her and went over to the next performer.

Babs has spoken! Now you can continue your life. From her webpage: In response to the results of the Presidential election last week, I would like to share with you a quote from Thomas Jefferson. Although written in 1798, I feel his words speak perfectly to the strong sentiments of frustration and disappointment 48% of the country feel. "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in...

Now that the Dem's have turned their long knives against John Kerry, and how badly run the campaign was, there's some intersting tidbits coming out in a Newsweek article: Kerry could be cranky. He was not a petty tyrant, like some bosses. He could be generous to his staff, who stayed loyal to him. But "he will whine constantly," said one top aide, quoting Kerry's bouts of petulance: " 'I'm not getting enough exercise, I'm overscheduled, I didn't get the speech on time'—on and on, ad nauseam." Weeee-doggie, now that must make the left-wingers feel at home. Well, at least...

Just watching Jon Stewart on Comedy CentralChuck Schumer just said, "I think we're (meaning the Dems) much closer to the way people feel about the important issues, but we just got out-foxed again" Even Stewart couldn't swallow that and said, "Isn't that what this election showed you? That we're actually the media elite they keep talking about?" Amen to that brother! It was about 20 minutes into the show if you want to catch it when it repeats.

I knew "W" had won, but I couldn't wait to hear Rush's take on it. He didn't disappoint. Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 may be looked back upon as the single best broadcast of Rush's wildly popular radio talk show. Last night I listened to Bob Novak as he leaned back in his chair at a CNN roundtable with James Carville, Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson. He talked about how the Democratic party has lost it's way. He reminded them of when the same thing had happened to Republicans in the 60's and 70's. How it took a good 10 years...

Waging war isn't easy, but the choice forCommander-in-Chief should be. Imagine the American public choosing Thomas Dewey in 1944, or George McClellan in 1864 or even George McGovern in 1972. What message would that have sent to our enemies. Abraham Lincoln did not have a dozen nuanced positions concerning the right of the confederate states to break away. FDR never said the war in Europe was "the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time" even though Germany isn't who attacked us at Pearl Harbor. Richard Nixon did his best to fight a congress that was hell bent...

It looks like Tom Brokaw might have inadvertently given his candidate a hot foot. While interviewing Kerry, he asked a couple of very basic questions that Kerry should have had stock answers for. Brokaw: The flip side of that is that if you had been president, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. Because you... Kerry: Not necessarily at all. Brokaw: But you have said you wouldn't go to war against him... Kerry: That's not true. Because under the inspection process, Saddam Hussein was required to destroy those kinds of materials and weapons. Brokaw: But he wasn't destroying them... Now,...

I would like to offer a short prayer that everyone in the country can agree with for our election next week. With attribution to Msgr. James H. O'Neill who wrote General Patton's prayer at Bastogne. Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate lawsuits with which we will have to contend. Grant us fair voting for election day. Graciously hearken to us as citizens who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from election to absolute winner, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and...

It struck me as humorous yesterday when it came out that NBC's embedded reporter would contradict a NY Times October surprise that was meant to put Kerry over the top. That night I was watching Hannity & Colmes as Sean Hannity was showing his interview with President Bush. After a couple of segments showing the interview, they had some Democrats on to "balance" it. I don't remember they guy's name, but when Hannity asked him to comment on the Washington Times story about Kerry not meeting with the entire UN security council, he bristled and said that the story was...

On Tuesday November 2, 2004, the entire world will hold it's collective breath. Most of old Europe will be hopeful that the stupid American population will be able to understand John Kerry's super-intelligent, nuanced, complex, many-shades-of-gray, multilateral positions that call for more understanding, tolerance and consideration. In fact they are so sure that George Bush is the wrong choice, the UK's Guardian newspaper is calling for his assination! Let's look at what might happen if George Bush actually wins re-election. Well, first off we know that unless he wins all 50 states by at least 20% of the vote, it's...

Boston mayor, Tommy "mumbles" Menino, wants to ban not only liquor sales during the World Series, but has also asked bar owners not to tune their televisions to the games! He is also asking the plethora of colleges to ban booze from campus. He somehow thinks that it couldn't have been the fact that there were thousands and thousands of people packed into a small area of the city where there wasn't enough Police to handle them - nah, no chance of that. So instead of coming to the conclussion that there were a small number of people that acted...

Liberal bomb thrower Ted Rall has another hit piece on Bush. As usual, Rall lies, distorts and proselytizes. Let's look at his flawed arguments one by one. 1. He stole the 2000 election. Voting to "reelect" an illegitimate commander-in-chief who seized power by judicial coup d'état is a tacit endorsement of how he got into the White House in the first place. How the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore is irrelevant. As a federal court, the five runaway Supreme Court justices had no right to agree to hear the case. Under our system of government, elections--and election...

Joe Biden is a liar. It's been proven at least once, and suspected many other times. I've noticed a strange trend to Joe Biden's off-the-cuff stories lately - they always appear to take place where nobody else can question it's veracity. According to the Washington Post, during his 1988 presidential campaign, Biden delivered a speech that included, without attribution, lines from a speech by British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock. Following that, the Washington Post reported other occurrences of deceit, including: "a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during his law school years; the senator's boastful exaggerations of his academic record...

Have you ever wondered why hardcore Liberals are so sure that their perspective is the only one? While reading through my daily dose of Liberal pap tonight, I spent a few minutes following a thread entitled, "I propose only positive Kerry news be posted from now on". Here's the lead off post:I don't understand why some people here seem so eager to post any news item or poll that depicts the Kerry campaign or its standing in a negative light. They may think they are being informative, but all they are really doing is denigrating the morale of people here...

While watching the debate, I noticed John Kerry said, "I was hunting in Iowa last year with a sheriff from one of the counties there, and he pointed to a house in back of us, and said, "See the house over? We just did a drug bust a week earlier, and the guy we arrested had an AK-47 lying on the bed right beside him." How can that be, the assault weapon ban was still in effect last year? So how could a criminal have an illegal weapon that was banned? He must have mis-spoken. I'm sure the NY Times...