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“Not even Harry Potter” can bring down rising gas prices and nobody knows when they will stop rising, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday. “No-one has the ability – not even Harry Potter – to simply wave a magic wand and say that we’re going to have gas prices at $2 or $2.50 or $3. It just doesn’t work that way,” said Salazar, whose department controls oil and gas drilling on federal lands. The comments came after a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on energy issues. Salazar said prices were set by “global economics.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said tonight that Rush Limbaugh is losing credibility and called the nation’s most popular talk radio host’s comments about a law school student “embarrassing for our country.” The Democratic majority leader, in an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, said “mainstream Republicans don’t accept all this crazy stuff taking place.” “What we need are the Republicans to get back to where they were,” Reid said on the liberal show. “We don’t have Republican leaders who can lead them down the path to bring about real change in the country.” Limbaugh last week called Georgetown Law School...

Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot after 18 months of rigorous training in the UK and the US, the Ministry of Defence has said. The third in line to the throne was awarded a prize for best co-pilot gunner at a dinner on Wednesday at his RAF training base in Ipswich, Suffolk. He and 20 others who graduated now have limited "combat-ready status". Previously, the prince has hinted of his wish to return to Afghanistan after his first tour of duty was cut short. Last April, he suggested it would be pointless to train as a helicopter...

NRA's Wayne LaPierre praising Harry Reid.

(excerpt)“Barack Obama and his mission has failed because it lacked a certain kind of moral courage, a kind of moral vision ... a kind of courage we are in need of,” said the King of Calypso.

Actually, truth be told… ‘Every Dem Senator Including Obama Voted Against Raising Debt Limit In 2006…‘ H. J. Res. 47 [109th]: Debt Limit Increase resolution 3/20/2006–Public Law. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.) Amends federal law to increase the statutory limit on the public debt from $8.184 trillion to $8.965 trillion.

The majority didn't rule when it came to naming the new city and county government center in Fort Wayne. Mayor Tom Henry announced Monday the center's name will be Citizens Square. The most popular choice for the building in an online poll was the Harry Baals (balls) Government Center, with 23,817 votes.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indiana mayor who won four terms in the 1930s and 1950s is proving less popular with modern-day city leaders, who say they probably won't name a new government center for him because of the jokes his moniker could inspire. Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting to name the new building in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. But Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said that probably won't be enough to put the name of the city's longest-tenured mayor on the center. The issue is pronunciation. The former mayor pronounced his...

A Harry Potter star was beaten, called a ''slag'' and threatened with death after she met a young man who was not a Muslim, a court heard today. Victim Afshan Azad, 22, played Padma Patil, a classmate of the teenage wizard, in the blockbuster Hollywood films based on the children's books by JK Rowling. She was assaulted and branded a ''prostitute'' after meeting a young Hindu man, a relationship which brought anger from her father, Abul Azad, 53, and brother, Ashraf, 28, Manchester Crown Court heard. The frightened actress later fled through her bedroom window after threats were made to...

The lame duck Congress was supposed to limp out of town this Friday, but yesterday Mr. Reid announced that in the dwindling days before Christmas he plans to pass the bipartisan tax deal, the New Start arms treaty with Russia, the immigration Dream Act, a "lands bill," and a bill to let gays serve openly in the military. Oh, and yesterday he also dropped on his colleagues a 1,924-page, $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2011 that no one but a few Appropriators have read, if even they have.

Text of H.R. 3082: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 HR 3082 EAH In the House of Representatives, U. S., December 8, 2010. Resolved, That the House agree to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3082) entitled ‘An Act making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.’, with the followin

The DREAM Act got a last-minute reprieve on the Senate floor last night as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the bill and gave its advocates more time to whip up the votes it still needs to break a Republican filibuster. The moment involved a bit of the Senate’s signature procedural drama. A motion to end debate—which requires 60 votes that haven’t yet materialized—was scheduled to take place just hours after the House made history Wednesday night, passing the decade-old DREAM Act for the first time in either chamber. But 15 minutes after the 11 a.m. “cloture” vote was supposed...

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) made only one prediction for Tuesday's elections: Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will hang onto his seat. On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Durbin said he wouldn't speculate about new party leadership, specifically whether he'd vote for New York Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) to take over helm of the party, even if Reid keeps his seat. Durbin said he promised Reid he wouldn't discuss possible changes in party leadership until after the elections. Durbin's name also is circulating as a possible choice to take Reid's place regardless of the outcome on Tuesday.

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's campaign has reaped more than $340,000 from law firms seeking legal work from his agency, The Post has learned. The massive sum from firms that represent -- or are in line to represent -- the Comptroller's Office in lucrative class-action lawsuits accounts for 8 percent of DiNapoli's entire fund-raising haul since 2008. Such firms have collected hundreds of millions in legal fees in recent years, drawing cries of "pay to play" from critics of how DiNapoli and his predecessors have managed the state's $125 billion pension fund. Donations to the state's top fiscal officer have come under...

AP Exclusive: Reid Got $1M in Land SaleBy JOHN SOLOMON and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY Associated Press Writers Oct 11 01:13 PM US/Eastern WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show. In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews. The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay...

Chemical leak sickens dozens at Las Vegas poolBy the CNN Wire Staff August 27, 2010 7:01 p.m. EDT (CNN) -- A chemical leak in the pool area of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, sickened as many as 100 people Friday, sending 12 of them to local hospitals, according to a spokeswoman for Clark County. It was not immediately clear what kind of chemical was responsible for the fumes, which caused some of the hotel's guests to have difficulty breathing, said Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling. About 200 people were evacuated from the area, Welling said. Video of...

New poll: Nevada voters unimpressed by Harry Reid’s cloutBy Holly Bailey Fri Aug 13, 3:20 pm ET Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made his influence in Washington a central argument in his bid for re-election, insisting that "no one can do more" for Nevada than he can. But a new poll finds that most voters in the state don't think his clout is so important that he can't be replaced by someone else. A new Las Vegas Review-Journal/Mason-Dixon poll finds that 51 percent of Nevada voters believe Reid's clout is "not too valuable to give up," whereas 45 percent...

Now that Harry Reid is the arbiter of all things Hispanic, he needed his own movie poster. (Click here for the larger version.)

A few days ago, Sharron Angle launched a new format to her website, giving the campaign a more professional looking web portal. Harry Reid’s campaign, however, took the code from the prior Angle website and launched a website called “TheRealSharronAngle.com.” The fake website was what, in internet terminology, is called spoofing, where a seemingly real website is created, usually to obtain information under false pretenses (frequently referred to as “phishing”).

Polling suggests most Republican candidates for statewide seats will be defeated in November. Two candidates, however, are in prime position to become the first Republicans in over a decade to serve in their respective seats. Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan and Harry Wilson are the GOP nominees for attorney general and comptroller, respectively. Donovan received the GOP nod and avoided a primary when Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci decided not to challenge Donovan in a primary. Wilson gives the party a great shot at beating, as Republicans would call him, “unelected” Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. Donovan, prior to becoming district...

Senator Reid says that greed is to blame for the 11 deaths and massive oil spill in the gulf. (see video) I just find it funny (and sad) that this is said just a day after Obama demanded that the finger pointing needed to stop. I guess that did not include them.

<p>Joe Lieberman threw a fundraiser for Harry. The Dump Dodd team threw a protest. I love these people.</p>

"The staff of a popular Mormon blog announced Monday it has chosen embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the 2009 Mormon of the Year, even as several top Republicans called for his resignation. During the past year, Reid was the "most visible and influential Mormon politician in the world," Kent Larsen II, organizer of the annual contest at timesandseasons.org, said in a phone interview. "What most made Harry Reid Mormon of the Year was his overall presence in the news and issues that affect peoples lives." While Reid's faith is not discussed as much as that of other Mormon...

It was an experience his youngest son has already been through. But yesterday the Prince of Wales was able to witness for himself the badlands of Afghanistan. Pictures of Charles donning full combat gear while inspecting a machine gun at a British camp bore a striking resemblance to those taken of Prince Harry in similar poses two years earlier. The key difference was that for Harry it was all for real. Charles was paying an unprecedented and surprise fact-finding visit to the UK's frontline troops. It is a trip the prince, the Commander in Chief of ten regiments, had wanted...

According to my friend and fellow columnist Eugene Paslov, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is “a quintessential Nevada conservative.” That's like calling Rush Limbaugh a “progressive.” Quintessential is a big word so I looked it up in the dictionary: “The essence of a thing in its most concentrated form,” which doesn't transform Reid into a conservative. In fact, our senior senator has moved steadily to the left since he first went to Washington more than 20 years ago. I agreed with my friend Gene Paslov when he wrote that “Sen. Reid is in the best position to negotiate with...

Too Much (Sung to ‘Too Much’ by Elvis Presley) A TCH 2010 Parody Production Well Harry, tries to shove through (uh-duh) too much… Tries speed legislation (uh-duh) you putz! Wants fat bills too (uh-duh) no cuts “We’ll see what lies can move you (uh-duh) to us” You’ll do all the givin' if you wanna go on livin' ‘Cause we got you in Dutch Well, who spends all my money (uh-duh) too much? I have to hear baloney (uh-duh) too much When I want some reasons (uh-duh) you're gone Voting through more treason (uh-duh) you’re Barry’s pawn Now we’ve got TEA...

Harry Reid, read my lips: There's no such thing as 'Negro dialect'By Michael Meyers Special to NYDailyNews.com Tuesday, January 12th 2010, 3:48 PM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid really put his foot in his mouth when, last year, he told two reporters that white voters would vote for Barack Obama because Obama was a "light-skinned" African-American who did not speak "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." He's since apologized - to Barack Obama and to every "African-American" in his Rolodex. But he's sorry for the wrong reasons. Reid has only backed off of his word choice; he has...

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Barry, Harry, & Nancy: Ascent of the gods (excerpt) David Horowitz said nearly a decade ago that the Left (liberalism) was akin to religious faith (The Art of Political War, p.192). BadEagle.com first called it all Communism. That is to say, Marxism, Socialism, Leftism, Liberalism, and Progressivism were all the same. These labels were simply a series of disguises, each designed to make tyranny more acceptable in Western society. Today, conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter simply call it the Democrat Party.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington Nov. 3

I'm not a Chiropractor ( but I saw one twice this week). This is Harry Reid in the photo from Drudge.com. Looks like this man is dealing with some stress. Any advice on how poor Mr. Reeeeid can get his posture back? PS (great play on words) Person A: I have a week back.Person B: When did you hurt it?Person A: About a week back.  

The director of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - the two-part final cinematic chapter based on the series of seven books - says Daniel Radcliffe will do several nude scenes in the upcoming movie, one of them of the steamy variety....a monster tortures Harry's friend Ron (Rupert Grint) with images of Harry in some sort of tryst with Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), with whom Ron is passionately in love.

Listen to Candidates Bucking For United States Senator Harry Reid Seat in 2010 Part 4 We have had candidates that have been campaigning for US Nevada Senator Harry Reid Seat in 2010. On October 17, 2009 we have had Doctor Robin Titus Republican Candidate for US Senate on the Veterans In Politics Talk Show on All Talk Radio. Listen to what they have to say and do your homework be an educated voter. We will have more candidates as the filing dates come closer. If you are thinking about being a candidate for US Senator representing Nevada in 2010; Or...

When legislation of significant importance is attached to an unrelated bill as an amendment to avoid getting 60 votes, this tactic needs to be immortalized. Let's call it "Reiding the Bill" or "Reiding the legislation". Let's all give Harry Reid his due fame.

After this heathcare is rammed down our throats by the misfit from Nevada I hope the there is a new term used freely in Congress for it. Let's call it Reiding the bill.

Senator Reid the Veterans In Politics has not forgotten what you said about the war! In 2007 United States Senator Harry Reid told the American citizens that the war in Iraq is lost (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYZEGot-xU4). Immediately after that the Veterans In Politics played a commercial on KDWN indicating that Senator Reid has surrendered our military, has no confidence in America, and has destroyed the moral of all military service members. Senator Reid refuses to be a guest on our show, because he does not have the back bone to face us. Let’s show Senator Reid exactly who is LOST! Steve...

. . someone who buys ink by the barrel. This apocryphal adage from somewhere in the 19th century may have to be updated for the next generation, but it remains familiar to many of my own cohort. Except, obviously, Neveda Sen. Harry Reid, who has rankled the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal

Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez Nevada Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is behind in the polls and now is throwing his political weight around. We’re still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid. On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal’s director of advertising, Bob...

Princes William and Harry spoke passionately today about their desire to serve their country in the armed forces - with the older royal hinting he would like to follow in his sibling's footsteps and fight on the front line. The royal brothers made their comments as they held a photocall for the world's

Longtime Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas died on Monday at age 73, the team announced. Phillies team president David Montgomery announced Kalas' death, saying "we have lost our voice."

LONDON: The security cover for Britain's Princes William and Harry has been stepped up over fears that IRA terrorists are plotting to assassinate the royals, a news report said on Sunday. Scotland Yard fears the Princes, who are officers in the British Army, are prize targets for Irish Republican Army (IRA). The number of close protection officers guarding the two royals on each shift has been increased, Britain's Sunday Express reported today. The threat level has been upgraded following the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland. "The Princes are regarded as legitimate targets by these...

In this trailer released by WB, Dumbledore narrates the story of Tom Riddle. We see glimpses of the inferi, more orphanage footage, the gates of Hogwarts as Harry and Luna travel up to them, Harry under his invisibility cloak on the train, Dumbledore grabbing a chain from the cave, a close shot of Narcissa, Draco working on the wardrobe, explosions in Diagon Alley and fire at the Burrow, Harry battling off the Inferi, Fenrir Greyback, Harry shouting at Snape, the bridge collapsing, and another "Once again, I must ask too much of you, Harry."

The future of energy and climate policy is starting to take shape, if comments by Senate majority leader Harry Reid at a clean-energy conference in Washington, D.C. are any guide. ...There’d been plenty of speculation that Congress would bundle together energy-related provisions and a climate bill in the same package. That way, the bitter pill of stricter regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions – and higher costs for energy – would be offset by a new round of goodies. ... Sen. Reid said he’s decided that renewable-energy and climate change “are two separate issues, and we need to make this as easy...

We know that most lawmakers did not read the spending bill before they voted on it and it appears that Barack Obama didn't either. Despite the president's continued claims that there are no earmarks in the bill, Politico.com is reporting that $8 billion have been allocated for high-speed rail grants to select states. This news was welcomed by Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who has lobbied for a Las Vegas to Los Angeles railway for years. A spokesman from Harry Reid's office, however, denied this was an earmark, saying the funds are for competitive grants that would be awarded by the...

The British media is in one of its periodic fits of moralizing hysteria and convulsion over the fact that Prince Harry called a fellow officer a "Paki" -- a not-particularly-derogatory diminutive of "Pakistani" -- during Army training three years ago when aged 21, and long before his recent front-line service in Afghanistan. (Perhaps I could still sue someone over the fact that as an Australian in London I was frequently called an Aussie, but that's another story.)

Prince Harry of England has been forced to apologize for calling an army comrade a “Paki.” His reference to “our little Paki friend, Ahmed” — captured in a video recorded three years ago, when Harry was attending Sandhurst military academy — was almost universally denounced. When I declared on my blog that I was unaware “Paki” had attained slur status in England — “How does the omission of two syllables change this from a description of someone’s nationality to a racist epithet?” — a commenter retorted: “There’s no way an American would use the word ‘Jap’ to describe a Japanese,...

The LIHEAP lie: Harry Reid's slick trickWednesday, Jul. 30, 2008 In June, Sen. Judd Gregg co-sponsored legislation to double funding for the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). It has been reported that on Saturday, Gregg voted against his own bill. Not true. Here is what happened. On Tuesday, Republicans voted with Democrats to open debate on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act. To avoid a vote on offshore drilling, Reid refused to allow any amendments to the bill. Republicans, holding out for amendments, offered to allow a vote on the LIHEAP bill if...

Reid would rather avoid issue of guns in U.S. parksA GOP senator’s proposal could embarrass Dems in election year By Lisa Mascaro Mon, Mar 17, 2008 (2 a.m.) Washington — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid owns 10 guns, and although he doesn’t hunt, he often takes the grandkids out for target practice when he is home in Nevada. At a media event for the new Clark County shooting range in 2006, he brought his own shotgun — the one his dad gave him as a 12-year-old — and blew away the flying clay pigeon on the first try. But just...

AN Australian women's magazine has apologised for breaking a global media blackout on Prince Harry's frontline deployment in Afghanistan. In its latest issue, New Idea magazine says it is sorry it was not "alert to the possible ramifications" of running the story about Harry's secret tour of duty, which appeared in the magazine and on its website in January. Few people noticed the initial report, but a scandal erupted after US website the Drudge Report picked up the story and broadcast it around the world, breaching an agreed global media blackout. "We did not knowingly breach any embargo and were...

"Good Morning America" co-host Chris Cuomo joked on Monday's show that Britain's Prince Harry "has been over in Afghanistan fighting because he's expendable." Fellow host Robin Roberts appeared somewhat shocked by the comment and sputtered, "What did you say?" Cuomo, who was previewing an ABC special on the royals, didn't back off his assertion and reiterated, "It's true. The reason that Harry is allowed to be in Afghanistan is because he's not the heir to the throne. William's not allowed to be there." -snip-