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The electoral fraud evidence is accumulating to the point where I must conclude that the November election was stolen by the Democrats. In the months leading up to the election, report after report surfaced highlighting significant erosion of support for President Obama.

UPDATE Aug. 27th: Just a quick update on the situation we shared with you last night from the Republican National Convention. We need your help to stop a proposed rule change that would allow a presumptive nominee to "disavow" delegates. Thank you to all of you who have already called your delegates serving on the Rules Committee. Below is a list of states whose Rules Committee delegates have both signed onto the Minority Report. If your state is listed below, there is no need for further calls. If your state is not listed below, please contact your representatives serving on...

The big story of the 2012 Alabama legislative session isn’t what passed, but what didn’t. The session began with two big, controversial issues–charter schools and immigration reform–on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Alabama being one of the few states in the union without a charter school law, a handful of Alabama legislators had made passing such a law their top priority. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Alabama already has the toughest immigration law in the country and there were a lot of people committed to weakening it.

Summary This notice is provided in accordance with IRC section 6039G, as amended, by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. This listing contains the name of each individual losing their United States citizenship (within the meaning of section 877(a) or 877A) with respect to whom the Secretary received information during the quarter ending December 31, 2011.Show citation box

Peter A. Schulkin received his PhD in economics from Harvard and is former Director of Research for the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and former Senior Vice President of a real estate arm of Wells Fargo & Co. He has taught at several universities, including UCLA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: The July 7, 2011, report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration provides summary data from IRS tax returns that show illegal immigrants collected far more in dollars from the IRS than they paid in federal income taxes for each year in the period of 2005-2010, the total six-year...

Noting that the cause of Andrew Breitbart’s unexpected death yesterday was being examined by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, talk-radio host Michael Savage raised the question of whether the conservative media powerhouse – who recently announced he had videos that could politically damage President Obama – was murdered. On his top-rated show today, Savage played an audio clip of Breitbart telling an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last month that he had obtained videos that shed light on Obama’s ties to radicals in the early 1980s who helped propel him to the presidency

(CNN) -- State leaders have ordered that four fluid-injection wells in eastern Ohio will be "indefinitely" prohibited from opening in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area, an official said. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer had announced on Friday that one such well -- which injects "fluid deep underground into porous rock formations, such as sandstone or limestone, or into or below the shallow soil layer," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency explains -- was closed after a series of small earthquakes in and around Youngstown.

Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential matter. She is right to be. In China, India and numerous other countries (both developing and developed), there are many more men than women, the result of systematic campaigns against baby girls. In "Unnatural Selection," Ms. Hvistendahl reports on this gender imbalance: what it is, how it came to be and what it means for the future. In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that's...

Yes, that's correct...a device that costs one half million dollars may have prevented what is on track to become the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The device is called an acoustic trigger (aka. acoustic switch, actuator). It is a remote-controlled device deployed off oil rigs that sends acoustic impulses through the water, triggering an underwater valve or explosives to shut down the well even if the rig is catastrophically damaged or abandoned. All offshore rigs have one main switch to shut off the flow of oil by closing a valve located on the ocean floor. There is also supposed...

'at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on fall of the euro' A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro. Representatives of George Soros's investment business were among an all-star line up of Wall Street investors at an 'ideas dinner' at a private townhouse in Manhattan, according to reports. A spokesman for Soros Fund Management said the legendary investor did not attend the dinner on February 8, but did not deny that his firm was represented. At the dinner, the speculators...

After struggling for two consecutive cycles on the Senate battlefield, Republicans seem poised to make a comeback in 2010. With 37 seats up for grabs — and Democrats defending 19 of them — the GOP is flexing its muscles in Democratic-leaning states like Delaware, Connecticut and Illinois. Recruiting coups by National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn of Texas are one big reason Republicans feel a new sense of confidence. Democrats, meanwhile, are taking on an increasingly defensive crouch as the party in power, which must defend President Barack Obama’s ambitious — and expensive — agenda. Without further ado, here...

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has always been an intensely independent woman. So it should come as no surprise that her decision to resign as governor befuddled many, especially political elites. The chattering class stands ready to write off her political future, spouting their usual insults, calling Palin “a quitter,” “politically tone-deaf” and “Caribou Barbie.” The reality is, each of these characterizations misses the mark. If they truly reflected any political figure, one would expect his or her career to fizzle in a matter of days. To the contrary, Palin deflects the baseless nastiness with poise and experiences a massive surge...

Influential senators working to overhaul the nation's health care system have investments and family ties with some of the biggest names in the industry. The wife of Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, the lawmaker in charge of writing the Senate's bill, sits on the boards of four health care companies. Members of both parties have industry connections, including Democrats John D. Rockefeller IV and Tom Harkin, in addition to Mr. Dodd, and Republicans Tom Coburn, Judd Gregg, Jon Kyl and Orrin G. Hatch, financial reports showed Friday. Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of the Connecticut Democrat, is on the boards of Javelin...

On April 2, 2009, control of the planet’s banks was turned over to the secret decisions of eleven men--board members of a Swiss organization with a troubling Nazi past. Banking wasn’t always that way. . . . My secretary would come into my office every morning at 9:00 a.m. with a room-service smile and an armload of computer printouts. She would place the reports on my desk as if she were serving a fine meal and arrange them just so, with the overdraft report on top, and then slip out of the office as if she were trying not to...

Obama announced on Friday, the creation of a new “Cyber-security Czar” to oversee Internet security. We all can agree that Internet security is important to prevent cyber-attacks, but can we trust this government and administration to handle the task in our best interests, or theirs? The plan involves coordinating federal security systems with private networks which leads me to ask; shouldn’t the government secure their own servers and let the private sector secure their own? Obama stated that his Cyber-security Czar will have direct access to the president which also means that the president will have direct access to the...

In this video still made available by Gary Finch Outdoors, Orca whales are seen near an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, October 2008. It is unclear how many Orcas live in the Gulf, but scientists estimate that as many as 200 can now be found in the waters from north of Key West, Fla to Brownsville, Texas. It was a fish story that even veteran boat captains found fascinating: As many as 200 killer whales feeding on tuna in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. "It was like being at Sea World because they'd come right...

Senate Democrats acknowledged Wednesday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill in its current form. This is unexpected good news. The House passed the stimulus package with zero Republican votes (and even a few Democratic defections), but few expected Senate Republicans (of whom there are only 41) to present a unified front. A few moderate Democrats have reportedly joined them. The idea that the government can spend the economy out of a recession is highly questionable, and even with Senate moderates pushing for changes, the current package is unlikely to see much improvement. Nevertheless, this...

Last week it looked like the Socialist Republican/Democrat Regime in power were all ready to sign the outsized welfare checks for their cronies and best friends and big corporate donors. You know in the name of “spending” to “stimulate the economy”. The Republicans tried for about six minutes there to pretend that they were actually “for capitalism” as they fought against the original stimulus bill that the Democrats put forth last week with much fanfare and blustery. Of course, they were just playing their old game….it wasn’t that the Republicans are against all this confiscation of wealth from those who...

Last year's "8 for '08" were fairly accurate on six counts: the world would continue to dither as Iran's nuclear program advanced, the "consensus" on global warming would start to crumble, Cuba would sail into rough waters, Hugo Chavez would wear thinner, the Cold War would return and the economy would replace Iraq as the top news story. We were too sanguine, however, about the economy's ability to avoid recession and a little early in predicting a reassessment of the Bush presidency. We were also disappointed a Nobel Prize didn't go to Japanese and American researchers who found a way...