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House Democrats have cleared an impasse over abortion that has been holding up a vote on sweeping health care legislation. A vote is expected on Saturday - after President Barack Obama makes a late morning trip to the Capitol to make one final pitch for the legislation. According to Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, he and other abortion opponents will be given a chance to insert tougher abortion restrictions into the legislation during debate on the House floor. The leadership hopes that no matter how that vote turns out, Democrats will then unite to give the health care bill a...

Dear xxxx, The results of Tuesday's elections in Maine, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and Washington were a mixed bag but there are some clear lessons we can learn. Voters rejected right-wing radicalism. Democrats who fail to stand up for Democratic and progressive principles fail in elections. The Right's lies still work. Despite the stinging loss for marriage equality in Maine, evidence elsewhere shows voters moving towards support of equality for all Americans. The Far Right strengthened its grip on the Republican Party. We have a lot of work to do to educate people, expose right-wing lies and counter the...

I opened ABCNews.com the day after the Democrats and Obama got destroyed in the election and what do you know. This is what is in the right hand column (YOU CAN'T MISS IT) A Look Back The 2008 Election: The 2008 Election PHOTO President-elect Barack Obama waves to supporters during his election night party at Grant Park in Chicago, Tuesday night, Nov. 4, 2008. ELECTION MAP REPLAY: How Obama Won the White House Obama Promises New Dawn of Leadership '08 Election Is One for the Record Books EXITS: Economy Allows Obama to Remake Map WATCH: Obama's Road to the White...

Snip ---- NBC-Universal has been believed to be in play for months, although GE has publicly denied any intention of selling the unit. In recent weeks, minority stakeholder Vivendi has been apparently preparing to exercise its right to sell 20 percent of the entertainment company in an IPO. Comcast has been among those rumored to be interested in buying that equity. --- snip Comcast’s market cap is $48.44 billion. NBC-Universal has fallen in value to an estimated $35 billion in value, from about $55 billion a year ago.

Wow, the hard left agenda is coming out fast and furious. Flash: Protect Iran and shoot down Israeli planes. Flash: Bail out (liberal) newspapers to combat unbridled dangerous opinions being voiced on the Internet. Flash: Turn newspapers into "educational corporations" and then fund them from the government. Flash: Cut our nuclear arsenal more than any of the plans the Pentagon approved because Obama wants to ELIMINATE our nukes Flash: Generals always want more troops, Obama is "skeptical" of his own general's advice. Flash: Chavez to build nuke capability on our doorstep with Iranian help. Flash: Two trillion in health care...

Dear xxxxxx, This past weekend, at the urging of FOX News mouthpiece Glenn Beck, tens of thousands of tea baggers, birthers and other right-wing conspiracy theorists descended on Washington DC, many to show off their extreme hatred of President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders. Among the signs, characterizing the president as everything from a nazi to an illegal immigrant to the Antichrist, more than a few were spotted hailing Rep. Joe Wilson as a new hero of the right-wing extremist movement for his infamous "You lie!" outburst during the president's recent congressional address. One sign even read, "We Are All...

Alliance of Leftist and Islamist LeadersFalse Friends Hatred of the USA is uniting leftist and Islamist leaders. Anti-Semitic propaganda and conspiracy theories are part of the way they see the world says Wolf-Dieter Vogel in his essay | Bild: Here's looking at you, kid: Hugo Chavez's support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has caused some uncertainty in leftist circles | The stoning of adulteresses; torture carried out in the name of Allah – is this the "better world" that Hugo Chavez dreams of? The alleged election victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is, in any case, in the opinion of the Venezuelan leader, "very...

Shortly after the announcement of Ted Kennedy's death, I had already received several interview requests. I declined them, not wanting to be uncharitable to the man upon his death. Since then, I've seen the need to step up and provide some clarification. The issue is a remarkable 1983 KGB document on Kennedy, which I published in my 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (HarperCollins). The document is a May 14, 1983 memo from KGB head Victor Chebrikov to his boss, the odious Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov, designated with the highest classification. It concerns a...

Parents upset over 'leftist propaganda' videoBy Lisa SchenckerThe Salt Lake Tribune 09/02/2009 10:07:30 AM MDTA school principal has apologized for showing a video at an assembly that a politically conservative group leader is calling "radical, leftist propaganda." Children at Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington were shown a short video called "I pledge" on Aug. 28. The video opens with an image of President Barack Obama and part of a speech in which he says, "Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after...

GORDON Brown is heading for a crushing defeat at the next election with voters believing he is failing our troops in Afghanistan, a vital Sun poll reveals today. Tory David Cameron will sweep to power with a 96-seat Commons majority, the survey predicts. Seven in ten voters think Mr Brown's government is doing a "very bad" or "fairly bad" job of supporting Our Boys in the Afghan conflict. In a further blow to the PM, twice as many voters believe Britain's armed forces would be better off in Mr Cameron's hands than Mr Brown's. Our poll also reveals 51 percent...

This is a long post and not for the casual-minded. Beck is taking some ridicule even from some people on this site -- maybe the "watchers" who can't resist a sniper shot, or maybe just some who think he's too wrought up (mistaking his presentational style as a lack of substance). Wrong. I don't know if Beck has read any of the following, but for those who want to know why this is such a serious moment -- at the same time the Liberals wallow in their memorial barf-fest about Teddy Krapennedy., that lecherous, backstabbing "pen pal" of former KGB...

Socialist Thugs Have Hijacked The Environmental Movement For The Express Purpose Of Driving Our Economy Into Ruin. They Make Demands You Cannot Refuse. It wasn’t that many years ago I would know summer had arrived by the aroma of back yard barbeques; the taste of cold watermelon right from the ice house; the whirr of electric fans; and the clatter of children’s flip flops. Nowadays, summer is ushered in by environmentalists decrying SUVs, air conditioning, and flush toilets. They warned that an awful specter of environmental collapse is looming and we will all perish if something draconian isn’t done soon-...

This is something you should know about. It really is important. And if you come out of this as shocked as I was when I first got a glimpse of The Institute for Social Research, then you really should follow up with this remarkable look at the history of the Frankfurt School and their effect on American life today: THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Neo-communist filmmaker Michael Moore interviewed about his most recent and most blatantly anti-capitalist film: THR: Have you ever considered leaving the U.S.? Moore: Thank you for asking! I had never considered this idea until you mentioned it, and now that you have, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea! I guess if I were going to live outside the U.S., I would live in Texas.

The National Health Care - Setting The Stage For The Anti - Christ The cry and mantra we’re now hearing from the Obama administration and the Leftist Secular controlled Democratic Party is that we have to have a National Health Care bill passed and in place before the beginning of the summer congressional recess. The urgency and subtlety of this bill is quite telling. Some common tactics used by the Left are camouflage, deception, manipulation, connivery and demagoguery to get the agenda that they want. It is the Left’s agenda with this issue - as well as many others -...

Activists affiliated with several dozen groups on the east coast will again descend on the Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia at 2:00 pm on Saturday, September 12, 2009. A protest on May 2, 2009 at the Army’s interactive video recruiting center was attended by 250 people and saw 7 arrests, but failed to generate mainstream print media coverage. This time, demonstrators are being encouraged to form small affinity groups and enter the mall through one of several locations. Protesters are encouraged to express their outrage in creative, nonviolent ways. At 2:00 pm people will come...

"This chart was constructed on the basis of the speeches, public statements and , crucially, the voting records of each of the candidates. During the election campaign, we'll be tweaking their positions as, inevitably, some of them change. We'll also be adding other charts as the campaign continues. When examining the chart it's important to note that although most of the candidates seem quite different, in substance they occupy a relatively restricted area within the universal political spectrum. Democracies with a system of proportional representation give expression to a wider range of political views. While Cynthia McKinney and Ralph...

I have noticed that many leftist/socialist/communist regimes end in bloodshed. Well save a few, like Poland. Any reasons why that happens and why the end in bloodshed? Nazis Germany-World War II Soviet Union-Christmas Day Coup Fascist Italy-World War II. Benito Mussolini was executed and hanged in public. Salvador Allende-September 11, 1973 Coup Communist Romania-Nicolae CeauÅŸescu got executed Baathist Iraq-America invaded Iraq in 2003

Is a left-wing attempt to scare off advertisers from Fox News host Glenn Beck’s highly rated cable news show being orchestrated with some high level help from the Obama White House? Perhaps. Newsmax has learned that the co-founder of the African-American political organization Color of Change, which is calling for Beck's ouster, is civil rights attorney Van Jones. In March, President Obama appointed Jones to serve as his so-called "green-jobs czar," responsible for stimulating job growth in the environmental sector. "I don’t have proof that the White House asked Color of Change to help it fight back against Glenn Beck,"...

WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program.

Health care protesters (a.k.a. “angry mobs” trying to shut off debate) have been spotted carrying signs sporting the P.J. O’Rourke quote, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” Equally popular is some form of the famous observation by columnist Carol Platt Liebau that, “A government bureaucracy controlling your medical care is likely to combine the efficiency of the Post Office with the compassion of the IRS” — which has been misattributed to Ronald Reagan among many others, and has been repeated and adapted ad infinitum. Now comes Barack Obama...

Feds consider conspiracy in Tiller deathPublished: Aug. 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A federal investigation is underway to determine if more than one person was involved in abortion doctor George Tiller's death, Kansas authorities said. Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Kan., is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Tiller May 31 at the church where Tiller served as an usher. Roeder pleaded innocent and is being held in a Wichita jail on $20 million bail with trial scheduled for Sept. 21. Federal agents, who declined to comment on an investigation,...

Dear xxxxx, This August is the make-or-break month for health care reform. Can you come to an event with Rep. Tom Perriello in Ruckersville tomorrow? Right-wing extremists are crashing tons of events—so it's up to us to make sure the majority of folks who want reform get heard. We need to make sure Rep. Tom Perriello knows that constituents are counting on him to support health care reform with a real public health insurance option that will expand coverage and bring down costs for all of us. We have numbers on our side, but Rep. Perriello won't know it unless...

Conservative viewpoints on healthcare reform suggest that people should set aside in personal, pre-tax Health Savings Accounts what they expect to spend on health care over the course of the next year. They argue that this will help stop people from over-using the system, because it will cost them a lot more to go to the doctor if they have to use post-tax dollars to do it. Conservatives also suggest that a system of tax credits could mean that whatever people pay for health care could be taken off their taxes come the following April. The fallacy in all of...

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3179840 As some of you may have noticed, recently the Republican Party has begun cracking down on the "birthers", realizing that openly supporting the most crazy members of your party is, well, problematic for appealing to non-crazy people. This, of course, leads to even more crazy, as they turn on their leaders for hiding the "truth". It's a drat shame to let all this crazy go to waste, when properly cultivated and raised it could be so much more. So welcome to the first FreeRepublic Infiltration Contest! We're going to infiltrate freerepublic as agents provocateur. This can take several forms;...

An interview with newly elected Senator Obama in 2004 by no less than Randi Rhodes! Oh how delicious is the Irony!

“I suppose in all honesty, I’m a liberal,” said the late Walter Cronkite in a snippet of a 1996 interview that Chris Matthews played last night on his program Hardball. “But I would like to define liberal,” Cronkite continued. “I think that the great problem with this label is it has been seriously misused for political purposes.” (Snip) Cronkite saw “liberal” as a broad term meaning essentially a admixture of everything good, kind, sweet, and fuzzy. And in that regard, he didn’t know what he was talking about ...

BOSTON – Supporters of a prominent Harvard University black scholar who was arrested at his own home by police responding to a report of a break-in say he is the victim of racial profiling. --------- snip "Gates continued to yell at me, accusing me of racial bias and continued to tell me that I had not heard the last of him," the officer wrote.

Republicans unveil chart depicting bureaucratic nightmare of Dem government-run health care... Developing...

Burner charged with desecrating a flag A teen claimed she was "making a statement" when she lit an American flag on fire with a cigarette lighter and then stomped on it in the middle of traffic, according to police. The incident occurred just hours after Americans celebrated Independence Day with fireworks celebrations across the region. Two officers said they saw Rebecca Ellen McKimmie, 18, of Ocean City, Md., light the flag on fire early Sunday morning while standing between two lanes of traffic near the Route 50 Bridge. Police said once it was lit she then stomped on it in...

Consider first an op-ed article in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times by Martha Nussbaum, a well-known professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago. The article was headlined “Terrorism in India has many faces.” But one face that Nussbaum fails to mention specifically is that of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Islamic terror group originating in Pakistan that seems to have been centrally involved in the attack on Mumbai.

Sarah Palin: 'Time-out or flame-out?'The governor's resignation is an act of either liberation or self-destruction. Posted July 4, 2009 7:45 AM by Mark Silva Sarah Palin's stunning declaration of independence from "politics as usual,'' standing up for her "beloved state of Alaska'' while standing down as governor 18 months before the end of her first term, has been interpreted variously as a bold venture into a new realm of political leadership or as an irreversible, destructive act of political self-immolation. "Being right is better than being popular,'' Palin declared with characteristic defiance, standing by the dock of her lakeside home...

Cap and trade and a finite number of other big tax increases, socialized health care, amnesty for illegal immigrants, much bigger government, more "red tape" and more government regulations, more failures of businesses big and small, more "activist judges", no more capitalism,...What's the point in even seriously running conservative candidates, at each and every political level, when all "leftist damage" on all issues really can't be successfully "fixed" and replaced by conservative, free market, capitalistic solutions and for as long as forever as humanly possible?

NEW YORK (AP) — Jane Fonda has undergone surgery to replace her left knee. The Oscar-winning actress had the operation Tuesday, and blogged about it beforehand. In a wistful post titled "So Long Old Knee" on her Web site, Fonda wrote that her knee joint was to "be sawed out and in its place will go a titanium rod and ceramic joint." According to Fonda, it had been "a strong, faithful knee." She said it helped her "up a lot of steep mountains and across rugged terrain." And she recalled smooches by former husband Roger Vadim (vah-DEEM'), who liked to...

Dear xxxxxx, Creigh Deeds is poised to continue the same tradition that allowed Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, and President Barack Obama to make so much progress. But it won't be easy, and it couldn't be more important. Simply put: there is "A Lot Done, More To Do." To give President Obama the partners he needs in Richmond, and to keep Republicans from unraveling the progress we've made, we must apply the lessons we've learned to the task ahead and do everything we can to win in November. This is your Democratic Party, so we want each and every activist to...

There are not many mere words which will cause my normally quietly-simmering, red blood to boil over, but the things David Letterman has said on his show regarding a 14 year-old girl, and his ensuing non-apologies are in this league. That he now claims the remarks were aimed at Bristol Palin, a few years older than the younger sister, Willow, who was in New York with her mother, when he joked about her "being knocked up by Rodriguez" in the 7th inning, is a ridiculous ruse aimed at covering his own scrawny backside. David Letterman should lose his public forum...

The media is a abuzed about this, and the lefty blogs are acting as though this being some nuance of the right. Wrong. Let’s not forget that Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, both antisemitic and neither considered spokesmen for the right. But after some research it appears the shooter, James Von Brunn is in fact - despite the protestations of the Kos Kids - a registered democrat from Maryland. So much for the “Right Wing Conspiracy”. Fact is that most of the Holocaust Denier crowd is from the left. Many of the groups follow the writings of Naom Chomsky, the...

Furthermore, Huffington is not a cheerleader for the economic "green shoots" thesis, which isn't what you'd expect from someone purportedly pushing a pro-Obama agenda. In fact, she calls the recovery theme "misleading and unjustified," and chastises the mainstream media for contributing to the "financial euphoria" - after having mainly missed the economic meltdown.

I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my horse. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it. I voted Democrat because when we pull out of...

United in Hate:The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror By Jamie Glazov WND Books, $25.95, 264 pp. How do the same Hollywood lefties who demonize Mormons for campaigning against Proposition 8, which would have approved gay marriages in California, turn around and embrace Islamists who execute homosexuals? How does an icon of the New Left like Tom Hayden - the former Mr. Jane Fonda - who waxed rapturously about North Vietnam's promise of an atheist workers' paradise of equality, then endorse what would seem its polar opposite in radical Iraqi Shi'ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, whose ideology openly preaches religious tyranny...

Declan Power-Sunstein, born last month to power couple Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein, has been hailed as the Obama administration’s “first baby.” Even the infant’s father, Cass Sunstein, gave a shout-out to the president, noting he and Power met and fell in love while working on the campaign trail for Obama. “All three of us are grateful to the President,” Sunstein wrote in an emailed birth announcement several weeks ago, which boasted the newborn “looks like a basketball player just like his mom. … Twenty one inches, seven pounds eight ounces, one inch vertical leap.” But the Power-Sunstein offspring...

GULFPORT — Harrison County sheriff’s investigators went to Austin, Texas, on Friday to interview the couple wanted in the capital murder of a man found dead in a rural Gulfport hotel. Austin police arrested David Lee Obermiller, 21, and Bethany Nicole Goodenough, 20, Thursday night after finding them asleep on a sidewalk at or near the University of Texas campus, said Harrison County Sheriff Melvin Brisolara. It’s against the law in Austin to sleep in a public place, the sheriff said. The couple are accused in the robbery and slaying of Thomas “Tommy” Corbin, a Vancleave man found dead...

Mississippi State Representative Jim Evans (D) unleashed a racial tirade this week on his political "analysis" of the upcoming Jackson mayoral election in this week's Jackson Advocate (on newsstands now!). Rep. Evans is Chair of the Constitution Committee under House Speaker Billy McCoy (D). Evans is also husband to Sara O'Reilly-Evans, who is currently the City Attorney in Jackson under Mayor Frank Melton. Evans talks of "cuffes" and "coons" when referring to black politicians that cowtow to "the man" (he is black, by the way). He talks of many of our city leaders as white supremacists and robber barons. For...

When I was young and adventurous, during my third trip to Europe, I was accompanied by four friends, all of us poor and thus traveling in winter, when prices were lower. At the time, I believe the standard book was Europe on $25 a Day; we were managing it on circa six bucks a day, per person. One January night, we ended the day in a village buried in the valleys of the Pyrenees Mountains, on the Spanish side, about fifty miles south of the borders with France and Andorra. It was as far as the bus went, so we...

Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo. Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast. Their decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday before the Spanish central criminal court, the Audencia Nacional, in Madrid. But the decision is likely to raise concerns with the human-rights community on...

Here’s another story that underlines how ludicrous the media have been in insisting Barack Obama was a natural choice for traditional Catholic and evangelical Christian voters: CNSNews.com correspondent Fred Lucas reports Obama finished stocking the advisory committee of his faith-based initiative with a bang: one new selection was Harry Knox, director of the "religion and faith program" of the gay-left Human Rights Campaign. Just last month, Knox described Pope Benedict XVI and certain Catholic bishops as "discredited leaders" because of their opposition to same-sex marriage. In addition to his remarks about the Pope, Knox also criticized the Catholic Knights of...

<p>A "friend" of Vice President Joseph Biden's daughter, Ashley, is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows her snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware.</p> <p>The anonymous male acquaintance of Ashley took the video, said Thomas Dunlap, a lawyer representing the seller.</p>

In the days since the economic “stimulus” vote, Republicans have been grousing about the Democratic congressional leadership’s failure to observe its own rule that representatives should have at least 48 hours to read, analyze and ponder their position on a bill before it’s actually brought up for a vote. Those interested in House procedures, transparency and a rational approach to such matters have a point. Only hours after the full House voted that the final bill would be posted on-line for 48 hours prior to a vote, the Democratic leadership met secretly without any Republican members present to draft the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s popularity has fallen to a new low for the year, with 60 percent of likely voters now viewing her unfavorably according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Friday. Even worse news for the California Democrat: A whopping 42 percent characterize her job performance as “very unfavorable.” The trend looks bad for Pelosi as well. Just two weeks ago, 53 percent of those surveyed viewed Pelosi somewhat or very unfavorably, and her “very unfavorable” rating was 36 percent. A 7 point favorability decline in two weeks suggests Pelosi’s popularity is in a serious tailspin. Despite this week’s...

<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A CNN journalist and seven other people have been arrested for standing on top of sandbag levees in the Fargo area.</p>