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At approximately 4:30 p.m. today, rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democrat of Florida, appeared with Gregg Jarrett on Fox News Channel. As part of her prepared talking lies she repeated the falsehood that Scott Brown "voted to deny rape kits to rape victims," "refused to insure his own employees" (he has no employees, and so on. Jarrett asked her why, then, did Coakley lose her lead, and Wasserman-Schultz erupted in a sputterstorm before stridently returning to whatever she had been given to memorize. I am truly hoping that someone caught this and can YouTube it or otherwise make it available, because it...

President Obama set out for a weeklong family vacation Sunday facing the first stiff headwind of his presidency, with public polls showing his popularity has dipped as he has attempted an overhaul of the nation's ailing health care system. A series of national surveys has confirmed what was becoming clear as large groups of protesters rallied outside the speeches and town-hall events the president hosted last week in Western states. The Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll released Sunday showed that 41 percent of voters strongly disapprove of Mr. Obama's performance as president, compared with 27 percent who strongly approved. Rasmussen...

Geez, Senator Lott is really unhappy with "talk radio" and some of his colleagues: The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” At some point, Mr. Lott said, Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in “younger guys who are huffing and puffing against the bill.” I think that this is a complaint that the old days were more fun for senators, and that the senators especially don't like the new media's ability to inform, inspire and direct public opinion. The end result of...

May Catholic clergy refuse communion to politicians who publicly support abortion rights? Who gets the right to choose in that case? This deeply theological question has lately assumed an odd prominence in American political life. This week, for example, according to news accounts, 18 Catholic House Democrats, including Reps. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), Patrick J. Kennedy (R.I.) and Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.) publicly rebuked Pope Benedict XVI for reaffirming during a recent Mexico City trip that legislators who vote to permit the killing of the unborn have excommunicated themselves and may be refused communion during Mass. "Do you agree with the excommunications...

A NATIONAL LAUGHINGSTOCK ONCE MORE by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher January 23, 2006 For many Americans, Milwaukee is best known for Hall-of-Famer Bob Uecker, homosexual pedophile and cannibal-turned-serial-killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and most recently, voter fraud on a larger scale than any other major U.S. city, with the exception of Philadelphia, where in all likelihood, Democrats there are probably still casting Benjamin Franklin's ballot every two years.In a news story that broke nationwide 14 months ago when it happened, five operatives with the Wisconsin Democratic Party were arrested for slashing tires on a fleet of vans rented by the Wisconsin...

Near North Congress Avenue in Lake Park, Target and Wal-Mart both plan the souped-up versions of their stores called, respectively, Super Target and the Wal-Mart Supercenter. Expected to open next year, the stores in north Palm Beach County will be roughly a mile apart. It's just one example of how the retail giants are vying to snag South Florida sites as the population continues to boom and commercial-development land disappears. Their expansion is not without opposition. Some communities are concerned about store size and the impact on traffic and nearby residential areas. Yet it's the lure of grocery dollars that...

With avenues to keep Terri Schiavo alive closing in the state of Florida, they were opening in the nation's capital Thursday . The tide turned decidedly in favor of the parents who want to prolong their brain-damaged daughters life. Just a scant eight days before the court ordered deadline to remove her feeding tube, Republicans on Capitol Hill rallied around the case that has become a 'cause celebre' of conservative and religious groups. Florida Sen. Mel Martinez and Rep. Dave Weldon's bill to require the incapacitated without living wills to be appointed attorneys before life support is terminated, introduced on...

Terri Schiavo's Estranged Husband Plans Feeding Tube Removal Tuesday by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 22, 2005 Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's estranged husband Michael plans to remove her feeding tube on Tuesday, even though a hearing on whether to renew a stay preventing him from doing so won't take place until Wednesday. The current stay is in effect until Tuesday afternoon, when the Florida 2nd Court of Appeal is expected to finalize its decision against a claim by Terri's parents saying starving their daughter to death would violate her religious liberties. Once the mandate in that decision is...

By now I'm sure you've heard of www.democraticunderground.com ... a website where your Democrat neighbors can go to trade ideas and thoughts about this year's election. One of our alert listeners lifted a few postings on this website that I thought you might enjoy. Here, my friends, are your loving, compassionate Democratic neighbors at work. Why don't we all sit back and let them chose our next president ... waddaya say? Here's the first post: As we've heard again and again recently, if we are going to beat this bunch of rule breaking GOP misanthropes, we're going to have to...

I find your remarks, you attitudes and your stupid red map extremely offensive. How long do you think people will remain "dumbed up" with respect to your old-white-men racist crap. Why not publish a map by population rather than by acreage? That is how VOTING operates. I am sure you know this, but it is another distortion coming from you and your kind. You and the Republicans have had a dirty little secret for two generations...they have courted your votes, but would not be caught in the same room with you at the White House or the ranch in Crawford....

Dems try to stop photo ID requirement for voters Monday, September 23, 2002By John M.R. Bull, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Correspondent HARRISBURG -- A Republican bill that would require voters to produce photo identification at the polling booth is an "appalling and disgraceful" attempt to suppress Democratic voter turnout, some state Senate Democrats said today. The bill, pushed through the House by Republicans in June, has languished in the Senate, and Democrats fear it will gain final passage in the days before the November election. Republicans who support the measure say it would cut down on voter fraud, preventing people from voting...