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As the nation remembers the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, experts are warning that the U.S. effectively is defenseless against an electro-magnetic pulse attack or a far less expensive radio frequency attack on the nation's critical military and civilian electric and electronic infrastructure, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Two experts – one a communications systems engineer involved in classified programs who works on EMP vulnerabilities and the other a U.S. Defense Department analyst knowledgeable of their impact – said that the nation's sensitive telecommunications and the electronic systems embedded...

The House on Friday morning moved to block federal light bulb efficiency standards without even a roll call vote. An amendment from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) defunding the Energy Department's standards for traditional incandescent light bulbs to be 30 percent more energy efficient starting next year was approved rather anticlimactically by voice vote. The success of the amendment appeared inevitable in the House, where the fate of the incandescent light bulb became a symbol in the fight against federal regulations. Democrats and the White House have opposed the move to block the standards, which were included in a 2007 energy...

MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell ’You and I Are Both White‘ We Don’t Get This Whole Getting Offended Thing Like Muslims Do http://www.theblaze.com/stories/msnbcs-andrea-mitchell-you-and-i-are-both-white-we-dont-get-this-whole-getting-offended-thing-like-muslims-do/

Republican Co-Author of Incandescent-Bulb Ban Seeks Chair of House Energy Committee Monday, November 08, 2010 By Matt Cover Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) seeks the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) may have some explaining to do to fellow GOP colleagues as he seeks the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, given the incoming wave of new conservatives who may not appreciate some aspects of Upton's voting record. Upton joined with Rep. Jane Harman (D.-Calif.) in 2007 to co-author the legislation that effectively banned indoor incandescent light bulbs in the...

Just two weeks after the federal government revived plans to build the FutureGen power plant in eastern Illinois, two of the experimental coal plant's financial backers said Thursday they are withdrawing. The exit of American Electric Power Co. and Southern Co. leaves the nine power and coal companies that are still part of what's known as the FutureGen Alliance searching for new partners to help cover building and startup costs they expect to reach roughly $2.4 billion. The Department of Energy said June 12 that it would provide just over a billion dollars in stimulus money as it agreed to...

The 'He's Just Not That into You' actress, Scarlet Johansson, says shes completely baffled by the fact that men have nipples. She quoted in Chicago Sun Times, "The one thing I don't understand about men is nipples. I don't know if there is one aspect of men that I don't understand other than why they have nipples. Honestly, why? I guess it has something to do with the X chromosome. "What is the function of the male nipple? Maybe we all start as androgynous creatures and then they become men?"

Lebanon - A woman is recovering in a Boone County hospital after injuring herself with a three-foot sword over the weekend. Katherine Gunther put a hole in her left foot in a cemetery early Saturday with a sword she was wielding as part of a Wiccan ceremony...

Congressional Democrats now have their unified response to increasing calls for oil exploration in Alaska and in the waters off our shores: The energy companies, they say, are already sitting on plenty of oil, refusing to recover it. But is that true? “Energy companies are not producing oil or gas on 68 million acres of federal land under their control,” claims Congressman Maurice Hinchey, a New York Democrat. “The fact of the matter is Congress has already allowed oil companies to drill, but those companies are refusing to drill because they want to lock up as much federal land as...

Many people believe that the great harlot that revelations talks about is the cathlic Church and that the daughters of the great harlot is the protestant churches. and that makes sense to me more than any thing else. The catholic Church has claimed to change the saboth day from the seventh day ( saterday ) to the first day ( sunday ). And of course the protestants went right along with it, have you noticed that especialy in long gone days many of the religious people worked harder and worked thier animals harder on what they called the saboth than...

Tens of thousands of SS and other Nazis escaped capture as a result of the Vatican-run "ratlines". Operation Amadeus was exclusively concerned with the flight of SS and Nazi war criminals to the South American continent and their later ferocious covert actions against the indigenous populations justified under the banner of "anti-communism". The principal means of funding Operation Amadeus activities was the hugely profitable narcotics business. Large stocks of SS morphia had been smuggled out of Europe and into "Catholic" South America at the end of the War in accordance with the Sunrise agreement...

AG says Spitzer's office leaked info By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago ALBANY, N.Y. - New York's attorney general issued a report Monday recommending disciplinary action be considered against Gov. Eliot Spitzer's office for releasing information about a top legislator's use of state aircraft.

WASHINGTON -- American actress Drew Barrymore was named a World Food Program ambassador against hunger, the United Nations agency announced Wednesday. Barrymore just returned from a trip to Kenya, where she toured WFP-supported school meal projects, the agency said in a statement. She plans to spend the week in Washington to advocate legislation in the U.S. Congress to increase money for school meals from $100 million per year to about $300 million per year over the next five years. "I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes...

Charlize Theron on Cuba Humberto Fontova/ Monday, Feb. 12, 2007 A Hollywood A-lister (Charlize Theron) recently traveled to Cuba and returned without the paeans to its Stalinist regime that habitually issue from her colleagues after such visits. Pigs worldwide started sprouting wings. During her Cuban visit Ms. Theron helped produce a documentary ("East of Havana") on Cuban hip-hop artists that cast the Castro regime in a negative light. Pigs worldwide started flapping and taxiing down the runway. Last week on ABC's "Good Morning America," Charlize Theron said: "I think the (Cuban) younger generation is starting to say, 'You know what?...

Chairman Joe Biden of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was trying to uphold two resolutions yesterday: one criticizing the [...]administration's Iraq policy and the other Biden's own resolution to himself -- to stop talking so much.[...] Biden's other resolution failed, by a voice vote -- Biden's voice.The Delaware Democrat and presidential hopeful ran the hearing more like a talk show host than a chairman: inviting the other senators to speak and then commenting on each senator's remarks.He opened the hearing with a 3,000-word statement in which he used the word "I" 88 times, including a lengthy discussion of the types...

Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage? This is the question Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s camp is asking about Sen. Barack Obama. An investigation of Mr. Obama by political opponents within the Democratic Party has discovered that Mr. Obama was raised as a Muslim by his stepfather in Indonesia. Sources close to the background check, which has not yet been released, said Mr. Obama, 45, spent at least four years in a so-called Madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia.

I have seen the ads yesterday and now today! One is two gay men and the other is two lesbian women. This is a car ad folks and it is nothing more than a car for for gays and lesbians! I'm totally disgusted and goin to tell Lexus I will not ever buy any of their products! Disgusting!

"The administration's most profound strategic mistake was not finishing the job in Afghanistan — which everyone agreed was the central front in the War on Terror — and rushing to war in Iraq, which was not. Today, Afghanistan is on the brink of collapse and Iraq on the verge of chaos. In addition, five years after 9/11, each member of the so-called 'Axis of Evil' is more dangerous; terrorist attacks around the world have nearly quadrupled; the administration's simplistic equation of democracy with elections has helped empower extremist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas; and Katrina and the 9/11 Commission have...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two months after she caused a stir by driving a car while holding her infant son in her lap, pop star Britney Spears received an unexplained house call from child welfare authorities. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said on Tuesday deputies accompanied workers from the county's Department of Children and Family Services on a Saturday visit to Spears' home in the beachfront enclave of Malibu. The spokesman, Sgt. Ken Cheurn, declined to discuss what prompted the DCFS house call, saying, "It was their investigation." But he said the matter was settled at...

Didn't see any live thread started to day for Hannity's show. Hannity's "points" today. He agrees with Corzine's lawsuit, that got shot down today and also pushing the Israel angle, while he is silent that a official arm of the UK Govt. the Church of England synod, has also called for a boycott of Israel.

This Week, U.S. Senator Trent Lott, From Mississippi, Will End Speculation About Whether He Will Seek Re-Election Or Not. Lott Lost His Pascagoula Home To Hurricane Katrina And Has Said, With Retirement Age Approaching, He May Need To Do Something "More Lucrative". But Mississippi Republicans Have Urged Him To Run Again. Lott Plans To Hold A Press Conference Tuesday Morning To Announce His Decision.

In the grand scheme of things, Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s confusion and mendacity in her testimony to the U.S. House’s committee investigating the Hurricane Katrina disaster will serve the state poorly in its quest for federal help to rebuild. In some parts of her testimony, Blanco seemed confused. Before she made a statement about how she “would not be here today if the levees had not failed,” she said, “What happened to us this year can only be described as a catastrophe of Biblical proportions.” But those kinds of calamities to which she refers were visited upon certain persons and peoples...

Nevada Senator Harry Reid thinks Osama Bin Laden was killed in last month's earthquake in Pakistan. Speaking Wednesday on News 4's Nevada News Makers, Reid says he was informed today that Bin Laden may have died in the October temblor. "I heard today that he may have died in the earthquake that they had in Pakistan, seriously." Reid says that if that is the case, "that's good for the world." When asked about Bin Laden during an exclusive News 4 interview, Reid said, "I'm not sure he is alive anymore. I think perhaps the earthquake took him down. I certainly...

LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson on Friday questioned the system that allowed both him and actor Robert Blake to be found liable for murder after being acquitted in criminal court, calling it "double jeopardy." "I still don't get how anyone can be found not guilty of a murder and then be found responsible for it in any way shape or form," Simpson said in a phone interview from his Florida home. "... If you're found not guilty, how can you be found responsible? I'd love to hear how that's not double jeopardy." Simpson said he had no opinion about Blake's...

Some came seeking help with specific problems they are encountering with city bureaucracy, others for general information about the status of New Orleans' post-Katrina recovery. But just as many seemed in search of comfort and reassurance or a place to vent their anger at perceived injustices in the way the city is struggling back from a catastrophic hurricane. "I lost my dignity," one man said in denouncing what he called insultingly low wages being offered local workers by some contractors. "How do I get it back?" Whether in search of information or group therapy, hundreds of people crowded into a...

WASHINGTON - The Senate is crammed with "lone wolves and immense egos," former Majority Leader Trent Lott writes in a memoir that settles a few scores with fellow Republicans and recounts an improbable partnership with a Democratic president. ADVERTISEMENT In "Herding Cats, A Lifetime in Politics," Lott wrote that Sen. Bill Frist (news, bio, voting record), his successor as majority leader, was one of the "main manipulators" in the events that resulted in his own loss of power. Lott lost his post in 2002 after making racially tinged remarks at a 100th birthday party for one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond."Frist's...

Dulles, Virginia – Sean Hannity, nationally syndicated radio personality and the co-host of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, has teamed up with Freedom Alliance to raise money to provide college tuition for the dependent children of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who have been killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty. Over the past two years, Hannity and his listeners have contributed over $4 million to this great cause. Hannity, 77WABC Radio – America’s #1 News Talk Radio Station – and Six Flags Great Adventure, along with Freedom Alliance, will host the third annual “Hannity Freedom Concert” on...

Tucker Carlson Starts Anew With MSNBC Show By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) - With the real Tucker Carlson sitting beside him in a conference room, MSNBC chief Rick Kaplan grumbles at something the televised Tucker Carlson says on a taped run-through of the new prime-time talk show "The Situation." "You disagree?" Carlson asks his boss. "You're just wrong," Kaplan replies. They make an odd couple. On the right, the bowtied conservative. On the left, the friend of Bill Clinton now running his second cable news network. But they're longtime pals whose fates are now linked. Carlson's talk show, which...

Sen. Harry Reid Reveals Sharp Tongue May 10, 1:55 AM (ET) By LAURIE KELLMAN WASHINGTON (AP) - In an institution that prides itself as a last bastion of civility, the Senate's new Democratic leader has on occasion turned to playground taunts and name-calling in his four-month tenure. After accusing President Bush of lying about his role in a fight over judicial filibusters, Sen. Harry Reid last week called the president a "loser." And Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan? He's a "political hack," according to the formerly soft-spoken Nevada Democrat. Reid returned to the Senate floor Monday with a more conciliatory...

London, England, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Harry has agreed to apologize personally to the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. The prince, who is third in line for the British throne, has been dogged by criticism since he was photographed at a party wearing a Nazi uniform. After talking with his father, Prince Charles, the 20-year-old agreed to meet Dr. Jonathan Sacks, Britain's leading rabbi, before or after the Jan. 27 celebration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Times of London reported Saturday.

Wow what a respnse. There is alot of substance here. You guys have me convinced she's the bestest NSA ever. Freedom is on the march! PS I admit if proper spelling is a sign of intelligence I am a moron

Tax protester faces kiddie-porn charges A Montgomery County man who has publicly dared the Internal Revenue Service to arrest him for not paying federal income taxes was charged yesterday in federal court in Philadelphia with possession of child pornography. IRS agents seized 10 computers from the Hollywood home of Larken Rose more than a year ago, but have yet to charge the tax protester with any tax crimes. The child pornography was "inadvertently discovered" by an IRS agent who was examining one of the computer's hard drives, an FBI agent alleged. FBI agent Beatrice A. DeFazio said the computer images...

Bush opposed the McCain-Feingold bill in the 2000 GOP primary, tried to kill it in Congress, and then signed it when it passed. http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry022102.shtml Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it. Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it. Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it. Bush is against nation building; then he's for it. Bush is against deficits; then he's for them. Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again. Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli...

Morton Kondracke just said that Madeline Albright, former US Secretary of State, said to him in a holding room before an interview "I wonder when George Bush will drag Osama bin Laden out of hiding? Just before the election?"Kondracke said he was stunned. He said "You can't be serious!" He said that Albright was not laughing when she said what she said.

UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Ruweished camp By Dina Al Wakeel   AMMAN — UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Thursday urged Jordan to continue hosting refugees who fled Iraq during and following the US-led war, the UNHCR said. In a statement sent to The Jordan Times, the agency said Jolie commended the Kingdom's role in historically providing both Palestinians and Iraqi refugees with shelter during the hardship of war. “In the very short time I have been here, I have come to appreciate the specific constraints Jordan is facing,” the goodwill ambassador said. “But I really hope Jordan...

<p>Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante got credit but did not have to attend a basic speech class at Fresno State in the late 1990s because a professor decided in 15 minutes or less that the Fresno Democrat would have earned at least a C based on his public utterances.</p>

...Freerepublic.com will collapse under the sheer weight of the stupidity generated there daily. It will be reborn as Fascists-R-Us.com....

Hi everybody! I'm new to Free Republic and I really love the site!! Its so refreshing to find like minded people on the internet. I am from rural Oregon. Anyway, I just want to say " I love Bush!" He is incredible. I can't wait to get my next tax cut in the mail... I only got 150 or so dollars back the first time, but its nice to know I'm getting money back AND we've got the BIGGEST military machine in the history of the planet! I am excited about the next six years. Hopefully we can end this...

Ashleigh Banfield, PC-feminist, avidly advanced the notion last night on her MSNBC show that the DC-area sniper could be a woman. Ashleigh was interviewing a former FBI profiler, Greg McCrary. As an aside, I found McCrary to be the most informative and articulate of the TV experts I've seen to date on this issue. In any case, Ashleigh, proudly dedicated to promoting a woman's right to choose any profession, even that of serial murderer, said a couple things that would be funny were it not for the tragic context. First, in hypothesizing about the perpetrator, she referred to "the guy."...