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The following is what I heard on an NPR (National Public Radio) broadcast this morning, sometime in the 8:30 - 9:15 am EST hour. (Wish I could post a transcript of this NPR segment, I don't know if NPR eventually posts either transcripts or podcasts, but if they do I don't believe it will be posted this soon.)The "Takeway" program's host said he heard from an Evangelical pastor (not named) in Pennsylvania that [paraphrased] many evangelicals there voted for Trump on the assumption that God would "eliminate" President Trump and install Mike Pence in his place The word "eliminated" is...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ— A Rutgers lecturer living in Brooklyn was taken to a Manhattan psychiatric hospital after the Rutgers University Police Department tipped off the New York Police Department about an inflammatory tweet he sent. Kevin Allred, who is white, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan by the NYPD for a psychiatric evaluation on Tuesday after his Nov. 10 tweet, which said: "Will the 2nd amendment be as cool when I buy a gun and start shooting at random white people or no...?"

BRIDGEWATER— After the story of a lesbian, ex-Marine waitress who claimed she was left an anti-gay note in place of a tip caught worldwide attention, she promised she'd donate the replacement "tips" she started receiving from supporters to the Wounded Warrior Project. But the organization, which supports injured service members, couldn't verify it had yet received any donations from Dayna Morales, who has been off the schedule at Gallop Asian Bistro since a couple claimed the note was a fake, Patch reports. [snip]

Here is the full equation: early voting + bribes* + Dems busing their bribees to vote early Obama victory * bribes = (1) Obama's unconstitutional gift to 800,000 illegal immigrants last June (2) beer & pizza parties on college campuses + rides to the polls (3) the usual Dem GOTV "walking around money" that gets spread around in urban areas every election

First, I'm a woman. (Seems to be an important qualification if one is to be allowed to have an opinion on "womens' bodies.")I'm used to being attacked by the harridans of the Left, who claim that if you're a pro-life, then you're NOT A WOMAN.But I'm not used to hearing conservatives knee-jerk to the idea that something is "idiotic" just because it's politically incorrect ... according to those same rabid harridans of the Left.I think, like Akin did, that a woman's endocrine system CAN sometimes "shut down" the process of conception, or implantation, as a result of traumatic stress suffered...

The mainstream media have gleefully pulled the "RAPE" card. We conservatives should recognize this for what this is:There is no real issue, no real "outrage" over what Akin said. In fact, what Akin said is generally true, albeit inartfully said.No, what is really going on here is the Left's campaign of distraction. Dangle a shiny object, blanket the airwaves and other media with non-stop "discussion" of this "controversy," and distract voters from real issues.Here is what Akin should do: 1. Call a news conference. Have a pro-life ob/gyn/physiologist stand up and answer questions on this topic. I.e., tell the world...

Question for reporters in the mainstream media:You've investigated every rumor, no matter how trivial or bizarre, that was purported to be revealing of the character of Governor Palin. Now, will you investigate this? Anyone?1. Did terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn babysit Barack Obama's children?Comment posted by "hydeparker," Just One Minute blog, August 13, 2008: I live in Obama's neighborhood and know some of the Obama / Ayers crowd. Ayers and Dohrn have babysat the Obama kids personally. The families are personal friends, not just professional acquaintances. Posted by: hydeparker | August 13, 2008 at 01:41 PM 2. Did the...

Washington ProwlerInnocents Abroad By The Prowler Published 2/2/2005 12:07:29 AM UGLY AMERICAN OF THE WEEKSo much for Sen. Joe Biden's audition as a future Secretary of State. At least if you ask the Iranians. Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Biden agreed to serve as a host and leading U.S. representative at a dinner with senior Iranian government officials...[snip] Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi was the highest-ranking Iranian official present at the event....[but] for the first hour and half of the dinner others had to lead the discussion, because Joe Biden was a mysterious no-show. Just as...

Update 11:50am Eastern 10/10. Here’s the Baltimore Sun’s nutroots-approved follow-up piece on the Frost family, using a single, rotten comment by a stupid RedState commenter to tar all conservative bloggers as hatemongers. Interestingly, the Sun asked the Frost parents to verify their claimed income and the couple declined. Also, the Sun reported that all four of the children attend private schools, not just two. The paper is silent on when the family started receiving claimed tuition breaks and how much the family spent on private-school tuition each year prior to the accident–i.e., at a time when they chose not to...

By all accounts, Robert Levy, now the 60-year-old mayor of Atlantic City, was a fine soldier during his two tours of Vietnam.The former lifeguard came home with two Bronze Stars. He was a native son who, before enlisting, had risen above his own family's prejudice to marry a local African-American woman. After his homecoming, he remained in the military until he became eligible to retire, with 20 years of service. But at some point, Levy began to embellish his service record in Vietnam by saying he had been a member of the Green Berets, the elite special force of the...

Guttenberg victim was daughter of 9/11 pilotThe woman killed in this morning's fire at the Galaxy Towers was the daughter of the pilot of the hijacked jet that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, authorities said this afternoon. Wendy Burlingame, 32, was the daughter of Charles F. Burlingame III, who was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 on Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists took control of the plane and flew it into the Pentagon, killing all 59 people on board and 125 people on the ground. She was found dead in her apartment, apparently of smoke inhalation, after a fire...

Michael Scheuer, former head of the "bin Laden desk" at the CIA, was interviewed on the John Gambling radio show on WABC radio (NYC) this morning.Here are a few points Scheuer made, as well I can remember (there is no transcript of the interview yet as far afaik): 1. Clinton was presented with a near perfect opportunity to kill bin Laden around December 23 or 24, 1999. (IIRC on the dates.) Clinton refused to pull the trigger in that instance NOT because he was afraid of human collateral damage, Scheuer says, but because Clinton was afraid shrapnel would hit a...

(CBS4) BOSTON Criminal charges could be filed Thursday against a Vermont woman who caused a disturbance aboard a London-to-Virginia jet that was diverted to Logan Airport. 59-year-old Catherine Mayo is being held by federal authorities in Boston. Investigators say she was a claustrophobic passenger who became upset and interfered with the flight crew on United Airlines flight 923 Wednesday morning. The pilot declared an in-flight emergency and landed the plane at Logan. The Boeing 767 was escorted by two F-15 jets based out of Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod. Passengers say Mayo paced the aisles and peppered...

District ordered to pay legal fees Student sued over T-shirt ban. Warren Hills district facing payment of nearly $600,000. Wednesday, June 21, 206 BY LYNN OLANOFFThe Express-Times WASHINGTON TWP. | Warren Hills Regional School District was ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in legal fees incurred by a former student who sued after school officials banned him from wearing a "redneck" T-shirt. The plaintiff says the federal magistrate's ruling proves school officials were in the wrong when they suspended him for three days in March 2001 for wearing a Jeff Foxworthy T-shirt. "I'm glad they had to answer for what they...

November 09, 2005 Mary Mapes Names Names ("Anonymous" Ones) Posted by Bill An excerpt from page 201 of her new book: Within minutes of Buckhead's original posting, Freepers began to repeat and embellish Buckhead's thoughts. Not surprisingly, they all agreed with him, they all agreed with one another, and they all agreed this should be pursued aggressively. Freethinkers they are not. The Freepers and their lockstep like-minded fellow travelers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim. CBS was like some sunburned, overweight Florida tourist with a cut foot, floundering and flapping...

Sean Hannity just announced that Major General (ret) Paul Vallely will go on air on the Hannity radio show TODAY, Monday Nov. 7, 2005, to reassert that "that if anybody outed Plame, it was Joe Wilson himself" (quoting Hannity).Vallely has been threatened with a lawsuit by Joe Wilson's lawyer if he does not retract statements he made last week on the John Batchelor show.Click on link above for WABC's website, then click on "listen now" to hear program.

Paul Vallely, on air last night on the John Batchelor show, said he met Joe Wilson in 2002 in the "green room" of a cable network's studio.Both Vallely and Wilson were waiting to go on air. Wilson, at that time, was packaging himself as an expert on Iraq.Vallely said that since he and Wilson found they had some acquaintances in common, they began talking. In the course of the conversation, Wilson told Vallely that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.This conversation, Vallely said, took place in 2002, several months before Plame's alleged "outing" at the hands of Karl Rove and...

Open Up, Mr. President [snip]...It is not surprising that your White House distrusts and/or despises the media, the CIA, the State Department's career officers, the United Nations and a host of other institutions that you could not control...People in those institutions were out to defy and/or get you.But you and yours helped them accomplish the mission. One lesson available in this story is that amateurs are no match for the CIA in disinformation campaigns. The spies are far better at operating in the shadows than you politicians will ever be. They have a license to dissemble.The hidden management of...

Would somebody please tell me what, specifically, has FEMA director Mike Brown done wrong? Or failed to have done in as timely fashion as humanly possible, under the circumstances?I've read every article I can find on Brown posted in the last few days. Can't find a single thing written by a knowledgable person that pinpoints what Brown has done wrong.Yeah, there are lots of grandstanding media types hyperventilating over Brown's "failure" and "incompetence."There are even some on the right whom Tony Snow is calling "bed-wetters" for their over-reaction to events -- and for jumping into bed with the Left in...

excerpt from transcript of Howard Dean's performance on 'Meet the Press' yesterday, May 22, 2005 (all emphasis mine): ...MR. RUSSERT:  Well, the--but several heads of the American Medical Association endorsed banning third-term abortions because they said life of the mother is one thing but the health is a much different issue.  It can be defined in so many different ways, it was a major loophole.DR. DEAN:  You know what I'd prefer to see, frankly?  I'd prefer to see medical practice boards around the country, state by state--because people do believe different things about this in different states....  I'd prefer to...