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With the party conventions and the 2012 presidential elections inching closer and closer, the media has been reporting on the constantly changing horse race between former Governor Romney and President Obama in great detail with weekly national polls, petty arguments between the candidates, and the vetting of each other’s pasts. Fed up with this coverage and the lack of attention to the real issues facing America, Obama and Romney have stunned the country today in announcing to join their campaigns and run together.

The first mammogram is the worst. Especially when the machine catches on fire. That?s what happened to me. The technician, Gail, positioned me exactly as she wanted me (think a really complicated game of Twister ? right hand on the blue, left shoulder on the yellow, right breast as far away as humanly possible from the rest of your body). Then she clamped the machine down so tight, I think my breast actually turned inside out. I?m pretty sure Victoria?s Secret doesn?t have a bra for that. Suddenly, there was a loud popping noise. I looked down at my right...

Elections are supposed to be decided by voters on Election Day, not by judges later on. But once state and local courts inject themselves into postelection controversies, without any legal justification, the only institution that can get rid of their interference is the Supreme Court of the United States. Yet the U.S. Supreme Court is now being attacked for taking this election out of the hands of judges. The very same liberals who were telling us just days ago how terrible it is to criticize courts, despite the grotesque double standards being used in the Florida recount, are now leading ...

Please Mr. Gore, I am appealing to your liberal nature. Feel sorry for me. I am a victim. I had a life a month ago, but I lost it. I know it's not in the refrigerator, because the refrigerator is bare, I haven't done any grocery shopping for a month. I hope it wasn't in one of the empty pizza boxes I threw out. Maybe it's buried under the pile of unfolded laundry. Maybe I stuffed it in the middle of my box of unpaid bills. I know I'm going crazy. I am afraid to take a shower, that takes ...

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Oak Lawn expert weighs in on count By Kristen McQueary Politics Writer Election-law expert Burt Odelson of Oak Lawn, a partner at Odelson & Sterk of Evergreen Park, spent several days last week monitoring the ballot recount in two Florida counties as a consultant to George W. Bush's legal team. Bush's advisers are relying on Odelson's expertise from a precedent-setting 1990 Illinois Supreme Court case in which Odelson was involved. In the case — which Odelson said the Florida Supreme Court misinterpreted — the judge who was ordered to recount about a dozen ballots ruled that dimpled chads should ...

HOW DID TAPE END UP ON THE BALLOTS? I have read, as most of you have, that there were numerous ballots discovered with the Bush chad replaced and taped. When asked how a ballot ended up with tape on it, Broward County canvassing board member, Judge Lee was quoted as saying, that the voter must have changed his/her mind before mailing in the ballot. I have been trying to get answers to these questions: 1. Do absentee ballots sent out from Florida counties have punch holes? 2. If so, how does this work, is there an instruction sheet explaining ...

Why the U. S. Supreme Court should hear the case. It is my understanding that President-elect Bush and his attorneys are arguing before the Supreme Court on two issues. 1. Whether post-election judicial limitations . . . violate the Due Process Clause or 3 U.S.C. § 5, which requires that a State resolve controversies relating to the appointment of electors under "laws enacted prior to" election day. 2. Whether the state court's decision, which cannot be reconciled with state statutes enacted before the election was held, is inconsistent with Article II, Section 1, clause 2 of the Constitution, which provides ...

In the lobby of the House of Representatives when a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support, rather . . . The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker -- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for ...

Dear Fellow Americans, As you are probably aware, if the voting results in Florida stand, as they are, George W. Bush will be our next President. This will have a catastrophic impact on our vital --no, indispensable entertainment industry. Barbara Streisand, Martin Sheen, Susan Saradon, Whoopie Goldberg, Alec Baldwin -- among many others -- have sworn to leave the country, if George W. Bush becomes President of the United States of America. This is where YOU can help. We need volunteers to help pack and load moving vans. We also need airfare for these irreplacable national treasures, so they can ...