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How quickly do you all think the mainstream media will ignore this bombshell story about Raphael Warnock and his church? Gonna guess if Free Beacon didn’t break this story we’d have never known about this shockingly bad story. Keep in mind, this is a church and this guy is a PASTOR.

One of the major planks in Donald Trump’s campaign platform, if not the top priority, has been a stalwart insistence that voluntary commerce and trade with other countries weakens America’s economy and costs American jobs. Moreover, he insists that he knows best how to manage it all in the best interests of America. Indeed, Trump has not only proposed slapping a 45 percent tariff on all goods made in China, and massive tariffs on other countries like Japan and Mexico, but he repeatedly declares that he will personally impose punitive taxes on Ford Motor Company if it follows through with...

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said Friday he wouldn’t break up Goldman Sachs amid questions about his wife’s involvement in the giant Wall Street financial firm. >p? “I don’t believe the government should be targeting anybody,” Cruz said in an hour-long appearance on CNBC’s "Squawk Box." “But I’ll tell you, if you’re looking at who Goldman is supporting, it ain’t me.” Cruz's wife, Heidi, has run Goldman Sachs' private wealth business in the Southwest, although she's on a leave of absence during the campaign. Cruz has taken heat for failing to disclose a loan from the company during his Senate...

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Michael Moore holds up We Are All Muslim sign at Trump Tower [photo]

Ann Coulter was just on Fox and Friends. She was crying over the fact that Romney got decimated in South Carolina. She offered a few talking points from the Romney camp including: 1. Newt is the lease conservative of all Candidates running. 2. Newt is unelectable because of his failed marriages. 3. The Freddy Mac non-issue. 4. John K asked a legitimate question and he is a completely fair and honorable reporter. 5. South Carolina is going back to it democratic roots and backing someone who calls Obama a socialist. She laid out the establishment talking point that everyone who...

(CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA) -- In his daily press briefing Thursday afternoon, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the White House would have never invited Leslie Macko to pose with President Obama had they known about her criminal past. "Had that type of information been made available," said Gibbs. "She would not have participated in the event here." Macko, a Charlottesville resident, stood next to President Obama as his example of the need to extend jobless benefits.

NEW YORK (AP) - Sting isn't a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world's problems. In an interview, he jokes that Obama was "sent from God," but in a serious tone, he also said that Obama was the best person to handle the world's "mess." The English-born Sting says he's fascinated by American politics and those opposed to Obama. He says Obama's opponents are "aggressive and violent and full of fear."

A conservative political action committee Tuesday vowed to pour money into primary challenges against any Republican who votes for President Obama's economic rescue package. "Republican Senators are on notice," said Scott Wheeler, executive director of the National Republican Trust PAC (NRT). "If they support the stimulus package we will make sure every voter in their state knows how they tried to further bankrupt voters in an already bad economy."

SHOCK: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the "atrocious economic policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Carter told reporters on a stopover in Brussels that "profligate spending," massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 were behind the market turmoil and economic crisis.

FIRST Matt Damon, now Pamela Anderson has spoken out against Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin saying:"I can't stand her. She can suck it!" Anderson, 41, was recently in Toronto speaking out against the abuse of animals in Hollywood. When asked by E! News Weekend Canada about Palin, she has some choice words for the Republican hopeful. The reporter asked Pam if she saw a recent Newsweek article, which showed a gigantic bear hide in the office of Palin’s house. “I can’t stand her,” Pam blurted out. “She can suck it!”

Brangelina fan, she isn't. Roseanne Barr came out swinging against Angelina Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, over the weekend. The comedienne called Jolie an "evil spawn" and labeled Pitt as "vacuous" on a blog posted on her Web site, Roseanneworld.com. According to Barr, the power couple, "make about $40 million a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more."

Authorities in New Haven, Conn., have launched an investigation into the establishment of the radically violent MS-13 street gang in their city after a second case of apparently gang-related vandalism within a week. According to reports from WTNH-TV, part of the effort may be to set up surveillance cameras at a Vietnam memorial that has been vandalized twice in just days. "You don't like to have a camera out here where people come and pay respects but certainly you don't want to have something like this to happen to something so meaningful," a New Haven spokesman, Rob Smuts, told the...

At Airbase Anaconda in Iraq, Brig. Gen. Gregory Couch pondered the irony, "We're swearing in new American citizens in one of Saddam Hussein's theaters, a place that was accustomed to a different type of spectacle." For Veteran's Day 2007, 178 U.S. military men and women serving in Iraq became citizens of the country for which they are fighting, the United States. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff made the trip to Iraq's largest airbase to preside over the legalization ceremony of servicemen and women who traced their birthplaces to more than 53 nations scattered around the globe.

Rosie O’Donnell, who abruptly left “The View” on ABC last spring after drawing attention and ratings for her opinions on everything from the Iraq war to her co-hosts, is in serious discussions to return to television atop a new soapbox: a prime-time show on the cable news channel MSNBC, according to executives on both sides of the negotiations who have been briefed directly. Under one scenario, Ms. O’Donnell would be given the 9 p.m. slot each weeknight on MSNBC, where she would go head-to-head with two heavyweights of cable talk: “Larry King Live” on CNN and “Hannity & Colmes” on...

Fed•neck \ˈfed-ˌnek\ (noun): Democrat government official who believes NASCAR fans are filthy, disease-carrying Republican hicks I always knew the government elite looked down their noses at NASCAR fans, but I had no idea they thought these fans literally carry a contagious form of red state rash. Due to this fear, the thought of attending races caused a group of fednecks to seek protection. Recently, several Democrat House staffers were on a "fact finding mission" for the Department of Homeland Security. Apparently, part of this duty involves attending NASCAR races, beginning with one at Talladega just over a week ago. Democrats...

eaner's Coffee, the third-largest retail coffee chain in the Midwest, announced they will change the name of all 79 of their current stores to Biggby Coffee. The company said the reason for the change is because the current name is a disparaging term for Hispanics. Until I ran across the story about the name change, I thought the moniker was in reference to the coffee beans through which the hot water is filtered. I feel so naïve now. The announcement of the name change got me to looking around and evaluating who should be next. It's a surefire bet that...

Best-selling author John Grisham, taking his first major public step in presidential politics by planning to host an event Sunday near his home in Charlottesville, Va., for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, said the current administration is built around "bad people with evil intent" and contends President Bush played politics as thousands died in Iraq. Grisham talked about this weekend's event during an interview Thursday to discuss his new book, "Playing for Pizza," a fictional account of a Davenport and University of Iowa football player trying to revive a fractured career in Italy. "The war is an immoral abomination that...

Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill Rodham, are being completely honest in this presidential campaign of theirs. I know, I know, it's startling, but the Dynamic Duo of Deceit and Deception is, for once, being very up front on two major campaign themes without parsing words with an atom splitter. Those two themes are "we'll be safer" and "you will no longer be invisible to your government." This might sound hunky-dory to some voters, but the methods they'll use to attain both are what deserve scrutiny. As you know, another fundraising scandal has been swirling around Hillary – a revelation...