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By genuflecting to tyrants, the president has made the US an international laughingstock "Could there be something to all the talk of an Obama effect, after all? A stealth effect, perhaps?" So asked Helene Cooper, the New York Times' diplomatic correspondent in a news analysis of the massive anti-regime protests in Iran published in Sunday's Times. It took US President Barack Obama eight days to issue a clear statement of support for the millions of pro-freedom demonstrators throughout Iran risking their lives to oppose the tyranny of the mullahs. And after eight days of vacillating and hedging his bets and...

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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: President Obama with a joint press conference this morning with Angela Merkel, she is perhaps unique on the world stage among all the European Union leaders in that she is not spellbound and she's not rendered a little high school cheerleader when Obama comes to town. A story here from Baden-Baden Germany: "Last time Barack Obama came to Germany, he was campaigning for the White House, met Angela Merkel, and was treated like a rock star by hundreds of thousands of people in Berlin. But today there's an undercurrent, however slight, of resentment against the United States...

CHICAGO – Illinois' lieutenant governor says his state has become an "international laughing stock" and he wants to form a panel to find ways to clean up corruption. Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn told WLS radio Monday that the public's highest priority should be urging scandal-tainted Gov. Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY'-uh-vitch) to resign.

A college has renamed the traditional Christmas and Easter breaks in a bid to avoid offending students from other religions. The college's new calendar shows that both of the traditional holiday periods have now been re-branded as 'end of term breaks'. Critics have complained that the decision by Yorkshire Coast College is nothing more than 'political correctness'. Tory MP Robert Goodwill said: 'I have heard that some people refer to the Christmas period as the Winterval, which is worse. This is absolutely barmy. 'We are a Christian country and, to be honest, religious tolerance in this country is about respecting...

Senator Larry Craig lied, say cops THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThursday, August 30th 2007, 7:57 PM   A Minneapolis police officer has accused Senator Larry Craig of lying in an interview after his arrest.  WASHINGTON - The officer who arrested Sen. Larry Craig in a police undercover operation at an airport men's room accused the senator of lying to him during an interrogation afterward, according to an audiotape of the arrest.On the tape, released Thursday by the Minneapolis Airport Police, the Idaho Republican senator, in turn, accuses the officer of soliciting him for sex."I'm not gay. I don't do these kinds...

Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio will introduce articles of impeachment relating to Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday, according to a release from his office. His spokeswoman did not have a statement or further details on the Tuesday press event or the articles Kucinich plans to introduce.

SYDNEY (AFP) - A top Islamic cleric's mockery of the convict ancestry of many white Australians met with a mixture of amusement and anger from the government. Prime Minister John Howard laughed off the jibe by the controversial Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali, but some of his ministers suggested the cleric should leave the country. Hilali made the comments in an interview on Egyptian television while explaining a controversy he provoked last year by comparing scantily dressed women to "uncovered meat" inviting sexual attack. He said Australian law guaranteed freedoms to the point of insanity and suggested that...

On site report from Kristinn at a Cindy Sheehan anti war rally being held at the Independence Mall outside the Constitution Center. , Cindy said that she is determined t not only wants to see George Bush impeached but she wants to see him tried for Crimes Against Humanity. She states is so determined to see this done she says she will live for 1000 years. She went further by saying that even if she were involved in a fiery plane crash she would walk out alive just to see this done. Kristinn yelled out to her as she was...

Branding condoms with famous names is not a new trend in China. In September 2005, the Guangzhou Rubber Group produced two condoms with the brand names Clinton and Lewinsky.

Presidential election protests will call for ballot-by-ballot recount MONTERREY, Mexico - Supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to Mexico City on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount. Protesters gathered outside the country’s 300 electoral districts before heading to the capital, where a mass rally is planned for Sunday to denounce official results showing conservative Felipe Calderon as the apparent winner of the July 2 election. Carrying signs that read “Vote by vote! No to electoral fraud!” and wearing yellow, the color of Lopez Obrador’s Democratic Revolution Party, dozens of...

MARTINEZ, Calif. (Court TV) - An expert witness testifying on behalf of murder defendant Susan Polk told jurors Monday that he could no longer be a neutral witness because "there was an injustice being carried out" and Polk was "being held on false charges.""You haven't sat here and heard all the evidence. You don't know if she's being held on false charges," Assistant District Attorney Paul Sequeira said to the witness, retired Texas forensic pathologist Dr. John Cooper. "I see that the autopsy evidence exonerates her," Cooper said. Cooper previously testified that Polk acted in self-defense when she stabbed her...

DALLAS - Vice President Dick Cheney was hunting illegally - without the required $7 stamp on his license for quail - when he accidentally shot one of his hunting partners, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said Monday. And so was Harry Whittington, 78, who was recovering Monday from a shotgun blast to the face, neck and chest. In its report, the state agency that oversees hunting and fishing said it found that neither Cheney nor Whittington had purchased the game bird stamp required to hunt quail in Texas, although both had valid hunting licenses. Both will get warning citations, and...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN's Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday. Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.</p>

First he shocked TV viewers and his colleagues by pretending to be a cat and lapping milk from Rula Lenska's hand. Now George Galloway is set to attract further derision after performing a dance routine on Celebrity Big Brother - in a tight-fitting, red leotard. The Respect MP, already under fire for taking part in the show instead of representing his constituents, ad-libbed a dance routine for his latest stunt....

I am writing this urgent message because I was once a witch. I lived by the stars as an astrologer and numerologist casting horoscopes and spells. I lived in the mysterious and shadowy realm of the occult. By means of spells and magic, I was able to invoke the powers of the "controlling unknown" and fly upon the night winds transcending the astral plane. Halloween was my favorite time of the year and I was intrigued and absorbed in the realm of Wiccan witchcraft. All of this was happening in the decade of the 1960’s when witchcraft was just starting...

Wow, if this is true Minnesota is gonna be a huge free for all in '06. Everybody and their brother will run for this seat. The DFL still has a large reservoir of talent even though the GOP has pulled to almost parity in recent elections. Opinions anyone?

Panicked Evolutionists: The Stephen Meyer Controversy The theory of evolution is a tottering house of ideological cards that is more about cherished mythology than honest intellectual endeavor. Evolutionists treat their cherished theory like a fragile object of veneration and worship--and so it is. Panic is a sure sign of intellectual insecurity, and evolutionists have every reason to be insecure, for their theory is falling apart. The latest evidence of this panic comes in a controversy that followed a highly specialized article published in an even more specialized scientific journal. Stephen C. Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science...

Halftime of the Orange Bowl featured a number of musical acts. Last on stage was Ashlee Simpson, famous for her hilarious lip-synching disaster on Saturday Night Live. Well, everything went according to plan this time, but the entire Orange Bowl jeered when she was introduced, and jeered when she was done singing. If it hadn't been so funny, it might have been sad...