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ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports from Chicago: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will likely hold a press conference toward the end of this week, ABC News has learned. The embattled governor, arrested last Tuesday, has yet to respond to charges that he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama's former Senate seat. Instead, the reclusive lawmaker has stayed silent, only saying that he looks forward to speaking at the appropriate time. On Wednesday morning, Blagojevich told reporters outside his Chicago house that he is eagerly anticipating the chance to state his case. "I can't wait to begin to tell my side of...

CHICAGO — The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama's election. The meeting of justices will coincide with a vigil by the filer's supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation's highest court. The suit originally sought to stay the election, and was filed on behalf of Leo Donofrio against New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells. Legal experts say the appeal has little chance of succeeding, despite appearing on the court's schedule. Legal...

Excerpt of the email thread between Corsi and the editor of API. This could end up being explosive if true. # sbdon 15 Oct 2008 at 3:07 pm Here is the email exchange between Corsi and API posted on AmericaRight (NOTE: The times are off, most likely because of the time difference and other factors.) From: Jerome Corsi To: [Address Blocked] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:27 PM Subject: J.Corsi on Michelle Obama story Jim I am the person who called you about your Michelle Obama article today. You refer to me in the article — We are getting inundated...

Mother of missing Caylee Anthony seeks jail release to help in search Amy L. Edwards and Walter Pacheco | Sentinel Staff Writer 10:16 AM EDT, July 22, 2008 The grandmother of missing 2-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony wants her daughter out of jail to help search for the toddler, but admits her daughter cannot tell police the truth about the girl's disappearance or why she has lied. "I don't think she can tell police anything," Cindy Anthony said this morning on CBS's Early Show. "She has her reasons why she can't be completely honest." Cindy Anthony alluded that 22-year-old Casey Anthony...

English First warned fans of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dr. James Dobson and other syndicated talk shows that a proposed FCC regulation would drive their favorite programs off the air. On January 24, 2008, the FCC published a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" in the Federal Register which, if ultimately adopted, would impose a back-door version of the discredited "Fairness Doctrine" upon America's airwaves. The FCC's proposed regulations claim that radio station "programming -- particularly network programming - often is not sufficiently culturally diverse" and that the FCC seeks "to ensure that broadcasters serve their communities, especially traditionally underserved audiences," such...

JOHN McCAIN Who is the real John McCain? McCain dumped his first wife after she had been disabled in an auto accident. Although this woman had worked tirelessly to get him released from captivity as a POW in Vietnam, he did not hesitate to betray her with other women upon finding her crippled when he returned home. In fact, McCain developed a serious reputation as a womanizer during the years following his release. Finally, he acquired a fortune through his second marriage and settled down with his second wife, Cindy. According to the Phoenix Gazette of May 19, 1987, "the...

http://www.petitiononline.com/mrktrfrm/petition.html If you care about the HONESTY of the stock market AND/OR our troops, please sign this petition to stop the process of naked shorting stocks in the market. Force Protection (FRPT) builds the best armored vehicles in the world that protect our troops. They have been on the Reg SHO list for a LONG time with 17m shares naked shorted. This is counterfeiting stock. Just like counterfitting money. Should be equally illegal, but it's not apparently, as the SEC will not enforce the rules. One wonders if the powers behind this have ulterior motives past driving a company into...

WASHINGTON, Sept 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hear expert testimony on transracial foster parenting and adoption. The Commission will examine whether transracial foster care and adoption serve the best interest of children, whether MEPA has been successful, and how well the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is enforcing the Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA). Congress enacted MEPA because of concerns that many children languished in foster care as prospective parents of a different racial group were not provided the opportunity to adopt them. MEPA's broad goal is to abolish racial discrimination...

Feds: Falcons QB, cohorts executed pit bulls that failed fight tests JULY 17--NFL star Michael Vick was indicted today on a federal conspiracy charge for his alleged role in a dog fighting venture that operated from a Virginia property owned by the Atlanta Falcons quarterback. A copy of the indictment, filed today in U.S. District Court in Richmond, can be found below. The 27-year-old Vick, whose nickname is listed as "Ookie" in the indictment, allegedly established the Bad Newz Kennels in early-2001 in Smithfield, Virginia. It was this property, for which Vick paid $34,000, that the star athlete and his...

Last update: 2/14/2007 1:03:00 PM More Than 1200 Movie Night Events Nationwide Thursday Members Will Watch Film, "Ground Truth" and Petition Members of Congress WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Congressman John Murtha will deliver a videotaped message to tens of thousands of MoveOn members across the country this Thursday night in an effort to help block President Bush's attempt to escalate his failed policy in Iraq. The action will coincide with the viewing of the new film, "The Ground Truth" -- a powerful documentary told through the eyes of veterans of the Iraq war. The movie reminds...

<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)--With only a slim, two-year record in the U.S. Senate, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama doesn't have many controversial congressional votes which political opponents can frame into attack ads.</p> <p>But his eight years as an Illinois state senator are sprinkled with potentially explosive land mines.</p>

British Lord Stings Senators Rockefeller and Snowe: 'Uphold Free Speech or Resign' PR Newswire - December 18, 2006 09:58 WASHINGTON, Dec 18, 2006 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists. (http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061212_monckton.pdf). Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, writes: "You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to 'senior elected and appointed government officials' who disagree...

No story yet but very interesting headline...

CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Questions have multiplied since police began their investigation into the weekend shooting of a disbarred lawyer and his wife, who lived on the same cul-de-sac as former President Clinton. Police said Tuesday that 58-year-old Carlos Perez-Olivo's story of a mysterious roadside ambush that killed his wife and left him wounded is "unusual-sounding," and have not ruled out the possibility he had something to do with the shootings. No arrests have been made and police said the lawyer was permitted to leave Northern Westchester Hospital late Monday. He apparently returned to his home on a Chappaqua cul-de-sac....

=DJ No Talk of Bipartisanship In US House GOP Leader Racehttp://www.amtddj.inlumen.com/bin/djstory?StoryId=Crv1b0aebqLqWmdu1nJC 11/17/2006 Dow Jones News Services (Copyright © 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) By John Godfrey Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--While talk elsewhere in Washington may be of bipartisanship and consensus next year, the newly elected U.S. House Republican leadership plans to fight Democrats every step of the way, Republican aides and lawmakers say. Leading up to federal elections last week, Republicans warned of the dire consequences if Democrats took control. Outgoing U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., even predicted it would "destroy our country." Democrats have...

11/16/2006 Dow Jones News Services (Copyright © 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) COLUMBIA, Missouri (AP)--A Midwest hotel chain has pulled the Cable News Network and CNN Headline News from its guest rooms and lobbies in response to the cable network's broadcast of an insurgent video showing Iraqi snipers shooting at U.S. troops. CNN is a division of Time Warner Inc. (TWX). The Oct. 18 CNN broadcast, which featured edited portions of a tape the network said it obtained from the Islamic Army of Iraq rebel group, crossed the line from journalism to propaganda, said James Thompson, president of the...

A few freepers and myself have been loosely tossing around the idea of forming an LLC, investment group, etc., to buy/start a television station that is solely for the conservative viewer. I believe there is a huge need for an outlet that doesn't pander to the left or refrain from the truth due to concern over hurt feelings, etc. I, and others, really look forward to hearing the thoughts and ideas from others more knowlegeable as to the best way to go about this. Buy MSNBC? Contact Sinclair?

DJ 8 US House Races Still Uncalled; Vote Officials Drag Feet 11/10/2006 Dow Jones News Services (Copyright ? 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) WASHINGTON (AP)--Eight House races remain without winners after Tuesday's election, and some state officials aren't rushing to end the disputes. Rep. Deborah Pryce, a member of the House Republican leadership, is ahead in her central Ohio race by 3,536 votes. In the Columbus, Ohio-area, elections officials are delaying the count of more than 9,000 provisional ballots by one day so it doesn't disrupt the much-vaulted Ohio State-Michigan football game on Nov. 18. Elections officials in that...

What's the though process on Steve Forbes running in 08? I watch him often on Saturday's on Fox's stock shows and he's extremely knowledgeable and conservative and seems to me, would make a good choice for 08. I don't know enough about him though to emphatically state that so I'm looking to the freepers for input.