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There is a lot of blame to go around over the mishandling of the Iowa Caucus results. However, a good chunk of the blame lies with the Lee County GOP central committee. There were eight precincts in the state, out of 1774, that failed to turn in the necessary paperwork to have their votes certified. Four of those precincts were in Lee County. The central committee met on Monday for the first time since the Iowa Caucus. Many in the crowd of 50 were eager to discuss the numerous failings. “We’re going to talk about the caucuses,” one central committee...

LiberalsPresident Obama: "The average income for the top one percent of Americans has risen almost seven times faster than the income of the average middle class family.  And this has happened during a period where the cost of everything from health care to college has skyrocketed." President Obama: "Now, in this country, we don't begrudge anyone wealth or success - we encourage it. We celebrate it.  But America is better off when everyone has had the chance to get ahead - not just those at the top of the income scale. The more Americans who prosper, the more America prospers." ...

Spike Lee Ridicules Herman Cain: ‘Negro, Please’ Posted By John Nolte On October 19, 2011 @ 3:22 pm In Celebrity News, Politics | 147 Comments The New York Times piece Lee refers to here is the most appalling piece of race-baiting I’ve read in years. You can read my write-up about it at Big Journalism [1]. The reaction the Times was looking for is exactly this kind of thing from Spike Lee.

N.Korea Moves Arms Closer to Border 10/13/11 North Korea has recently moved fighter jets near the Northern Limit Line, the de facto maritime border, and ground-to-air missiles close to Baeknyeong Island. There is speculation that it plans a minor provocation while South Korean president Lee Myung-bak visits the U.S. since any show of unity between the two allies tends to incense the North. "The North Korean military was seen moving mobile missile launchers at a ground-to-ship missile base near the NLL," a government source said. "There's likelihood that the North will launch a military provocation" while Lee is away. The...

Jackson Lee: Blacks not 'brainwashed' into voting for DemocratsBy Pete Kasperowicz - 10/03/11 07:34 PM ET Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said Monday night that she is insulted by the suggestion of Republican fresidential candidate Herman Cain that black voters are "brainwashed" into voting Democrat. "I have no quarrel with the First Amendment and one's right to speak as one desires," she said on the House floor. "But I take issue with Mr. Herman Cain's very insulting and demeaning comment on a whole body politic of people, African Americans, when asked a question why they make… political choices as they've...

A Goodwill worker who spotted a photograph of Confederate General Robert E. Lee has helped the charity make $23,000 in an online auction. The tintype photograph was in a bin, about to be shipped out, when a worker grabbed it and sent it to the charity's local online department. The item was then put up for auction, which closed Wednesday night.

Looks like we might have a chance at a tropical system by monday or tuesday in the Gulf. If so it would be Lee. Here is hoping it develops into a massive rain maker. BigJoeBastardiJoe Bastardi Expecting TPC to hatch western caribbean soon, and thats when it should start getting attention. GFS still too far east on Katia 2 hours ago BigJoeBastardiJoe Bastardi Not paying attention to blogs, but others should start picking this up. The pattern says this almost has to develop.gulf has 5-7 day window 2 hours ago BigJoeBastardiJoe Bastardi Lee to be will be ugly labor day...

A key witness in the beating case of Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium died suddenly, apparently of an allergic food reaction. According to law enforcement sources familiar with the case, Matthew Lee died Sunday after eating a salad that apparently contained nuts, which caused the allergic reaction. The coroner has not determined a cause of death, however.

Pathetic: Rep. Jackson Lee tosses the race card again Posted by Steve M on July 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm | Share via e-mail I’m sick of this. There is just nothing more to say other than “this woman is pathetic.” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) figures there is no reason – other than race – for Republicans to treat the president “so disrespectfully.” I guess she forgets how Democrats and lefties treated President George W. Bush. From The Hill. “I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” said Jackson Lee, a member...

Obama is desperate, public opinion is turning against him and he is running out of time. These little machines and the internet are allowing the public to think without direction from the propaganda bureaus and to voice their opinions with others. Obama's world of state controlled media is disintegrating, the truth is ravaging his media empire like a steak knife ripping through a ripe tomato. To stop the hemorrhaging of popular support through alternative media, Obama has appointed a Director of 'Progressive' Media & Online Response, within the communications department. We are now paying to end our freedom of speech...

The Senate rejected a Republican measure Wednesday to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. coastal waters, signaling a continued partisan stalemate over energy policy and, more specifically, how to respond to rising gas prices. The bill was defeated in a 42-57 vote. Sixty votes were required for passage. Five Republicans -- Alabama's Richard Shelby, Louisiana's David Vitter, Maine's Olympia Snowe, South Carolina's Jim DeMint, and Utah's Mike Lee -- voted against the bill.

Saturday, April 20, 1861 Robert E. Lee was revered by General Winfield Scott as “the best soldier I ever saw in the field.” Trusting Scott’s judgement, Lincoln... offered him command of the Union army. This offer, however, happened the day after Virginia seceded. Though Lee looked “upon secession as anarchy” and would be willing to sacrifice all the slaves in the South to save the Union, he couldn’t draw his sword “upon Virginia, my native state.” It was two day later, on this date, from his home in Arlington, across the Potomac from the capital, that Lee officially resigned his...

American Minute, with Bill FedererApril 9The Civil War began on Wilmer McLean's farm in Manassas Junction, Virginia, with the First Battle of Bull Run. A Union shell exploded in his kitchen. Wilmer McLean moved to get away from the conflict, yet almost four years later his new home, near Appomattox Court House, Virginia, was the agreed location for General Robert E. Lee to surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant on APRIL 9, 1865. Ken Burn's documentary film of the Civil War stated that the war began in Wilmer McLean's front yard and ended in his front parlor. The Civil War...

Spike's Latest Tweet: "The passing of Elizabeth Taylor brought back a Childhood memory of My late Mother lecturing me that the real Cleopatra didn't look like her."

The previous two-week extension passed 91-9, and Durbin and Schumer already signaled on yesterday’s chat shows that they’re open to the GOP’s new plan for a new three-week extension involving $6 billion in (mostly Democratic) cuts. So the stand being taken here is symbolic, but still welcome. It’s a national disgrace that, at a moment of universally acknowledged fiscal crisis (well, almost), the best Congress can do to solve the problem is make penny ante cuts via bite-sized budgets. And since the increasing absurdity of it means this could be the last short-term extension, it’s smart politics by Rubio, at...

Update: We have been notified by the Republican Party that Ezell Lee has qualified for re-election as a Republican in Senate District 47. As of a couple days ago, no one else had qualified to run for this seat. Original story: In a major hattip to one of our readers, Sen. Michael Watson wrote on his Facebook wall that Sen. Ezell Lee has qualified for re-election as a Republican. Lee has been serving in the legislature as a Democrat going back to 1987. I spoke with another state Senator earlier today who said that Lee has recently started voting with...

Obamacare’s Penalty for Not Buying Insurance Isn’t Penalty ‘Because Penalty is Punishment,’ Says Rep. Sheila Jackson-LeeThursday, February 17, 2011 By Matt Cover Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D.-Texas) told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday that the “penalty” that the health-care law enacted last year by Congress imposes on individuals who do not buy health insurance is not in fact a penalty. The law itself states: “If an applicable individual fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a) [having a government-approved health-insurance policy]… there is hereby imposed a penalty with respect to the individual.” Elsewhere, in a section entitled “Payment of Penalty,” it...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a founding member of the Senate's Tea Party Caucus, has pledged to filibuster legislation to increase the debt ceiling.Lee said a filibuster could be averted only if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) reach an agreement to pass a balanced-budget amendment through the Senate."I'm against raising the debt ceiling and so I'm resisting it," Lee said after the inaugural meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus in the Hart building on Thursday morning. "The only scenario in which I can imagine not using the filibuster is if the leadership...

It’s not new. Democrats use human shields to push every piece of big government legislation they propose. It’s just unusual to find someone like a Neil Cavuto to call Democrats on it. Fantastic ands funny … it’s your Cavuto moment of the day. The noted constitutional authority Sheila Jackson Lee comes on the show to defend her statement that people will die if Obamacare is repealed. In doing so she brings her own background … held by a staffer … in what could be called either a laugher … or a trend? The problem is with the background. It is...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) made headlines this week for claiming that health-care repeal means “killing Americans.” In an exchange with National Review Online at the Capitol tonight, she used China as an example of universal coverage. From the tape: JACKSON LEE: I was with a Chinese delegation in Texas on Sunday, and one [visitor] came up to me and said, ‘What is this debate about health care? We think this is something everybody should have in China.’ That’s what this person said to me; he was baffled. Of course, their system is different. NRO: They’re communist.

The second a massive, unpopular government entitlement program enters its implementation phase, it instantaneously transforms into a sacrosanct Constitutional right. That's the word from noted Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX): Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution. Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare, Jackson Lee said repealing the law by passing Republicans' H.R. 2 violates both the Fifth Amendment's right to due process and the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.

Young people will get a school holiday in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King whose birthday is January 15th. But, will anyone tell them that January 19th is also the birthday of Robert E. Lee?

Washington • In the wake of Saturday’s shooting of an Arizona congresswoman and 19 others, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said Sunday he would likely carry his concealed weapon more often. “I carried it before,” Chaffetz said, noting he has had a concealed weapon permit predating his election to Congress in 2008. “I might do it a little more generally now.” The congressman, who owns a Glock 23 handgun, said he has carried his sidearm before in Utah but doesn’t do so when he’s in Washington. He sidestepped a question about whether more members should carry firearms, saying it is a...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — At an event roughly three years ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords took a question from Jared Loughner, the man accused of trying to assassinate her and killing six other people. According to two of his high school friends the question was essentially this: "What is government if words have no meaning?" Loughner was angry about her response — she read the question and had nothing to say. "He was like ... 'What do you think of these people who are working for the government and they can't describe what they do?'" one friend told The Associated Press...

Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo with Food Network star and girlfriend Sandra Lee in 2009. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/11/05/2010-11-05_table_first_lady_title_for_andys_gal.html#ixzz19gx8xTpV New Yorkers can call her the domestic diva, shortcut cooking queen or the governor's main dish - they just can't call Sandra Lee the First Lady.The girlfriend of Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo won't have any official titles, duties or staff."Sandra would never expect any taxpayer dollar to support the contributions she makes nor would she want to burden the state in any way," Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said.That's smart, say etiquette experts, noting the First Lady title doesn't extend to Lee since the duo haven't...

Realclear Politics Video:Sheila Jackson Lee: Racist Limbaugh Will Be "Eating His Words"

General Lee died at his home at Lexington, Virginia at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 12, 1870.

Discovery hostages knew gunman was ready to dieSeptember 18, 2010 - 6:12am By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press Writer BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - As they lay on the floor of the Discovery Communications' lobby, listening to a gunman James Jae Lee rant about overpopulation, religion and the channel's programming and watching him strap a bomb to himself, two hostages came to the same conclusion: The gunman had no intention of leaving the building alive. Jim McNulty and Christopher Wood tried to placate gunman James Jae Lee the best they could during the Sept. 1 standoff. They lied about their jobs at...

They are over and done with the topic of James J. Lee, despite the mounting number of attacks committed in the name of environmentalism.   Whether or not James J. Lee, who invaded the corporate offices of the Discovery Channel Wednesday armed with explosives and a gun, was a terrorist or not would seem to be open to debate. Certainly PJM has been unable to discover any ties between Lee and any known ecoterror group — despite his radical environmentalist manifesto. At the same time, groups such as the Animal Liberation Front could be expected to disavow any connection to...

Sorry about the vanity but I already in the past few hours have heard multiple references stop not being sure what James Lee motives were or questions about whether he was right-wing or left-wing because he mentioned being against anchor babies. Alan Colmes on my drive home was ranting at Steve Mulzberg that he was against ‘anchor babies’ and that was a right-wing cause. Well I happen to have the book ‘ISHMAEL’ on my bookshelf. I read it sometime about ten years ago and James Lee motives for being against immigration all come from this book as well. It has...

James Lee, the bomb-laden gunman who was killed by police in the lobby of the Discovery Channel, was once convicted and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Mexico...

Update 17:37 01/10/10 - Reports indicate that police have shot and killed James Lee, and released the hostages.SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Chaos erupted after at least one hostage was taken at the Silver Spring headquarters of the Discovery Channel by what appears to be a crazed radical environmentalist. The armed man has reportedly demanded that Discovery Channel executives run programming geared toward stopping the propagation of "parasitic human infants" in order to save the planet from global warming and pollution.In a document apparently authored by James J. Lee, identified by law enforcement as the gunman, Lee...

Alternatively, when can we expect a memo from Big Sis about these global warming nutjobs?

Alabama Donald W. Stewart Democratic Defeated in primary, Republican victory Jeremiah Denton (Republican) 50.2% Jim Folsom, Jr. (Democratic) 47.1% Alaska Mike Gravel Democratic Defeated in primary, Republican victory Frank Murkowski (Republican) 53.7% Clark Gruening (Democratic) 45.9% Florida Richard Stone Democratic Defeated in primary, Republican victory Paula Hawkins (Republican) 51.7% Bill Gunter (Democratic) 48.3% New York Jacob K. Javits Republican Defeated in primary, Republican victory Al D'Amato (Republican) 44.9% Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic) 43.5% Jacob K. Javits (Liberal) 11.0%

Spike Lee screens oil spill film in San DiegoAssociated Press 07/31/10 11:00 PM EDT SAN DIEGO — Spike Lee has screened his new four-hour documentary on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him. The director showed "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise" at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego on Saturday. It airs in August on HBO. When he was asked if BP cooperated he said, "Nobody was speaking to me from BP." A call to the BP...

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, showed us all just how utterly stupid our “representatives” are. This moron doesn’t represent me and you. This video reminds me of those episodes of Jay Leno, where he goes out on the street and asks people questions about history. In this video, Representative Lee talks about North and South Vietnam. She speaks of how they are living side-by-side today. She talks about..huh? There is no north or south…only Vietnam. Maybe someone should tell this idiot that the war there has long been over. Or maybe…just maybe…she was referring to the United...

This week brought us a Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-umb) twin-spin of lunacy, race hustling and a dose of geographic ignorance. Jackson Lee, who continues to champion the cause of securing American women the same rights that women in China, Algeria, Afghanistan and Rwanda enjoy (okay American ladies, altogether now, “Thanks Sheila!”), was in typical form at the NAACP convention this week. The convention was held in Kansas City, which of course isn’t far from Omaha — home of the beach where D-Day began after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. If possible, support Sheila Jackson Lee’s opponent, John Faulk.

Yesterday was a glorious one for the movement. Nikki Haley won in South Carolina - which really wasn't a surprise. Gresham Barrett embarrassed himself by even staying in the race, but I suppose it was even more entertaining that way... Utah was a less certain situation. In the absence of any credible polling, no one really had a handle on how either candidate was doing. Mike Lee had a great week going in. Everyone on the ground had anecdotal input...which means exactly nothing when the numbers start coming in. Mike Lee is a solid small government candidate. There was a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 21, 2010CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or Levi@FrontLineStrat.com TEA PARTY EXPRESS LAUNCHES PHONE FROM HOME PROGRAM FOR UTAH SENATE RACEThe Tea Party Express (website: www.TeaPartyExpress.org) is unveiling an extensive Get-Out-The-Vote effort on behalf of Conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Mike Lee, in Utah today.The Tea Party Express, and its membership of over 375,000, will engage in an aggressive Phone-From-Home program in order to increase turnout among Lee supporters.“We have the unique ability to immediately activate a vast volunteer base,” said Bryan Shroyer, Political Director for the Tea Party Express. “Our membership is excited about Mike Lee’s candidacy, and...

The canceling of a conservative radio show is being tied to Mike Lee and EnergySolutions, and Lee's opponent is pulling all advertising from the station because of it. Talk show host Bob Lonsberry lost his 10-year-old KNRS morning show on Wednesday due to what his employer said was poor ratings. "His audience numbers were going down," said station general manager Stu Stanek. He said listeners were also asking why the station was delaying Glenn Beck's show until after the drive time. With Lonsberry's contract coming due in a few months, they decided to make changes, Stanek said. But Lonsberry and...

Utah Senate candidate Mike Lee (R) unveils his own big endorsements, Illinois adds a big spender to the Senate race and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) won't be going to Colorado after all. I'll see your senator and raise you a congressman Lee was thought to be losing momentum in his bid for the Utah GOP Senate nomination after his rival, Tim Bridgewater, rolled out endorsements from Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and fourth-place convention finisher Cherilyn Eagar (R). But Lee was able to fire back this week with endorsements from Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and the Tea Party Express, which helped...

Tea Party Express takes sides in Utah battlePosted: June 15th, 2010 08:23 AM ET From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser Utah Senate hopeful Mike Lee was endorsed by the Tea Party Express on Tuesday. (CNN) – With one week to go until Utah's primary, one of the two Republican Senate candidates in the race is getting a major endorsement.The national Tea Party organization Tea Party Express Tuesday backed Mike Lee in the battle to succeed fellow Republican Bob Bennett.The move comes four days after Bennett endorsed Tim Bridgewater, the other candidate in the contest.Bridgewater and Lee finished first and...

"As Pro-Palestinian Flotilla Activists Gather in NYC, Jewish Group Urges State Dept. to Probe Links to Terrorism" Thursday, June 17, 2010 By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – Tensions in the Middle East over the recent Gaza flotilla incident could surface in New York City on Thursday evening, when a pro-Palestinian group hosts flotilla activists at a public meeting Jewish activists have tried to thwart. An organization called Al-Awda (The Palestine Right to Return Coalition) is holding a meeting in a Brooklyn church featuring a leading official in IHH, the controversial Turkish organization behind the attempt to break Israel’s...

Two members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) wrote a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday in which they called "for a lifting of the blockade on Gaza" in the wake of an attempt to break it this week. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the CBC, and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), one of two Muslim members of Congress, said that the blockade has helped contribute to a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. "The United States must also work with its allies to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza," they wrote. "Recent events are undoubtedly linked to the...

Pelosi Tells Mills College Grads To 'Be Ready' John King May 15, 2010 The 500-plus students who received degrees and certificates at Mills College in Oakland on Saturday were sent into the world by another graduate of a women's college: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In a commencement speech that steered clear of partisan politics, Pelosi emphasized the personal side of her ascent to power as the nation's first female speaker. "My message is: 'Be ready,' " the 1962 graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., told the students and their families and friends gathered on Toyon Meadow in the heart...

Until this past year, I would never have guessed Sen. Bob Bennett would be a top target of RINO hunters. He's made some very unpopular moves, like supporting the TARP bailout, but his ACU rating has been quite high. Nonetheless, I've been rather excited to see the RINO hunters so successful that they can move down to what I would have guessed was a low priority target. But are Utahans about to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire? Mike Lee is currently leading polls among delegates to the Utah state convention. But Lee is proudly trumpeting...

I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be in Virginia next week, speaking at the following events. If you can come, I would really like to meet you. 4/17/10 - Frank Stringfellow SCV Camp in Fairfax, VA. I will be speaking on Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. 4/19/10 - A.P. Hill SCV Camp in Colonial Heights, VA. I will be speaking on JEB Stuart. 4/20/10 - Charlotte County Grays SCV Camp in Keysville, VA. I will be speaking on Stonewall Jackson. 4/21/10 - Old Brunswick SCV Camp in Lawrenceville, VA. Again, I will be speaking on...

The Obama Era has become a protracted, nightmarish Whack-A-Mole game of tax increases and bureaucratic self-enlargement. In sector after sector of American life, another scheme to expand government and wrench more earnings from Americans' pockets pops up. Its next targeted sector? The Internet. Take a look at the following introduction of a nationwide tax upon Internet goods and services, inserted within page 58 of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) National Broadband Plan released this week:

Not so fast, dear libertarian friends and fellow fans of guns. Steve Lee is actually a proponent of government-defined gun control, as long as he can have his guns as “toys” to blow up cars. Here is an interview with Steve exclaiming the goodness of Australia’s oppressive gun control laws. Steve dear – most of us, especially those of us living in high-crime areas of the United States, actually prefer to exercise our natural right of self-defense as versus collecting guns as toys and shooting at cars with rocket launchers. Just a thought. Thanks to David Codrea for the tip....