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This report just broke from an Arabic site called “Lebanon News.” The Arabic Lebanon News (Tayyar.org) is the number one Lebanese online news site (ranked number eight of all sites in the nation) and has significant coverage throughout the Arab world. What follows is the rough Google Translation of the site’s report on the Ambassador’s gruesome murder: Sources AFP that “the U.S. ambassador to Libya was raped sexually before killing by gunmen who stormed the embassy building in Benghazi last night to protest against the film is offensive to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh),” The sources said that “Ambassador was killed...

From a friend at work, this is the John Stewart people at the DNC catching the left in some, shall we say, inconsistent moments. Just thought this was funny. Good demonstration of how hard it is to see your own lens. My favorite line? "I would never call a redneck a name." Or something like that. Enjoy.

IIRC, there are some loopholes in Obamacare. For example, membership in one of the established health cooperatives like Medi-share would exempt a person from the Buy-Or-Be-Taxed provisions. This might be one way to avoid paying the "abortion tax." Another loophole is membership in an established religion that specifically prohibits participation in insurance schemes. However, since such religions are far and few between (Islam and Amish are the only two such faiths I know of), the law violates the Establishment Clause. The government is essentially favoring the exempted religions based on their religious content. Thus it is "establishing" a particular religion....

But the biggest drop has been in the Wisconsin chapter of AFSCME, the powerful union that represents state, county, and municipal workers. In the past year, more than 30,000 members have deserted the collective. According to the Journal, when Walker first proposed his fiscal reforms in early 2011, AFSCME’s Wisconsin membership stood at a healthy 62,818. By February 2012, the labor behemoth had shrunk to 28,745. “It’s a profound shift,” says George Lightbourn, the president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and the state’s former secretary of administration. “It’s similar to what Indiana experienced after Governor Mitch Daniels changed the...

Pardon the vanity, but I hate living in Illinois, and I just have to vent about it a bit … So I go to the annual extended family Christmas gathering, and this year, because I am a card-carrying Tea-Partier, my two socialist aunts team up to give me a book called Plot Against America, by Philip Roth. This is a book that basically says the people in flyover country who are not urban liberals are naturally prone to become Nazis, given the right political environment. Roth makes this point by hypothesizing an America where FDR loses the 1940 election to...

Gov. Palin tonight will reveal on Greta Van Susteren's On the Record which declared candidate she believes has the best chance of beating Obama in 2012, according to promotional language on Fox News' home page and in a promo video. Ed. Note: If the foregoing is true, we can reasonably conclude that all reconsideration, "earthquake" and other such efforts should cease. Further, this pick may or may not constitute an official Palin endorsement of a declared candidate.

Please read this special message from our friend, Time for Newt. . [snip .. my name goes here] "Smartest guy in the room." "A genius." "Brilliant." "Fantastic to listen to." "I would love to see him debate Obama." "But he can't win." If you're like me, every time Newt Gingrich's name comes up, this is the kind of thing you hear. Conservatives love him. He's clearly the smartest guy on the stage and the candidate best suited to take the fight to Obama. So why does he always get ignored? Because the liberal media and the establishment have been telling...

Today on WABC, Larry the Cable Guy talks about his Wasilla encounter with Todd & Sarah Palin....

It is generally conceded that the use of brass musical instruments has greatly increased in this country during the last ten years. Few persons, however, have any accurate idea of the appalling progress which this terrible vice has made. There is probably not a village in the whole country without its habitual and shameless players on the cornet, while the number of those who are addicted to brass instruments, either openly and to an extent which they call “moderate” or secretly and to a ruinous excess, is estimated by trustworthy statisticians to amount to fully 3 per cent of our...

“There will be a time when loudmouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the better of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails.” - Margaret Thatcher Maybe Governor Palin really is Alley-Cat smart. But then I never was in doubt. Just look at her improving poll numbers while her future opponents and longtime-foes implode. If this keeps up, people will be BEGGING for Sarah Palin to get in the race.

Does anybody know if there’s going to be a gathering of FReepers in connection with the Indianola event? If so, what are the plans? I’ve heard from a few folks who would be interested. If we are getting together, we need a plan, where, when, what to wear, etc. I’m thinking of making up a “FReepers 4 Palin” t-shirt for myself if we do this. Thoughts? Info?

1:09 p.m. | Updated DES MOINES — Sarah Palin arrived at the Iowa State Fair even as Rick Santorum was speaking on the fair soap box and Tim Pawlenty was grilling pork on a stick. Ms. Palin came, reportedly in black Suburbans, to the cattle barn — and was immediately surrounded by a crush of reporters and fairgoers.

Rush: "We are the hostages, we are equal time, we are paying the ransom all the time…you wanna talk about craven villains, look no further than the Oval Office...the new civility...now anybody who disagrees with the Democrats are terrorists, racist terrorists...We are now all Sarah Palin" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8JHLQfQwM

We’ll provide more information when it becomes available but the Undefeated, a movie about Governor Palin’s political career, will debut this Tuesday at the Pella Opera House in Pella, Iowa at 5 PM CST. It’s unknown whether the Governor herself will make an appearance at the Undefeated’s debut.

The people have spoken and they want to see a Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama showdown in the 2012 election. Although Palin’s Republican peers Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and now Jon Huntsman have officially declared their candidacy, the American public is throwing their support behind “Mama Grizzly” for the 2012 Election – on T-shirts that is.

In response to Fox's brand new practice of calling Governor Palin "Contributor Palin," some of my Facebook buddies have started a campaign where we're putting "It's Gov. Palin to You" in the subject line and sending a strongly worded missive to one or more of the following emails: studiob@foxnews.com hannity@foxnews.com oreilly@foxnews.com kelly@foxnews.com yourcomments@foxnews.com It's time to stand up for what's right. That's all.

Don’t be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I’m a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump’s towers. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats joined hands, raised taxes and made dazzling promises of urban renewal. Then we wised up to the eminent-domain thievery championed by our hometown faux free-marketeers. America, it’s time you wised up to Donald Trump’s property redistribution racket, too.

Here is another fine example of the trend of violence in fast food restaurants. Two black females beating the hell out of a white patron, while several black employees stand by and watch. One black male manages to provide the facade of assistance to the white victim in this brutal attack. The two black females exit, then re-enter the store to continue the beating, until a an older white woman att More..empts to stop them from dragging the white victim outside into the parking lot. note: the black male employees have disappeared from camera view, even though they are plenty...

"I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare."

Republican pollster John McLaughlin agrees that Trump’s remarks may be part of a larger, and potentially effective, campaign strategy. “Just like Obama won the nomination as the most anti-Bush candidate, the Republican nomination is going to be won by the most anti-Obama candidate,” McLaughlin said. “He’s positioning himself to be the most aggressive candidate against Obama. If you want to win a primary that’s the way you win a primary.”