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One of the foundational beliefs of the Emerging Democratic Majority (EDM) thesis (of which I am extremely skeptical, as I am of realignment theory in general) is that the GOP's level of support among minorities in the 2004 election was a fluke. That year, African Americans voted for the Democratic candidate 89-10, while Hispanics voted Democrat by a 55-44 margin. EDM theorists tend to believe that the natural level of GOP support among minorities is more like it was in 2008, when Democrats carried African Americans 93-5 and Hispanics 68-29. With this level of Democratic support from minorities, Republicans are...

When a security researcher made personal profile information of more than 170 million Facebook users available to the public on BitTorrent--a peer-to-peer file sharing site--many questioned why he did not attempt to sell that information to an interested party. Names and profile data on that many Facebook users is a potential gold mine of valuable marketing data.

Wait, did Christie convert to Islam?… FYI: This pic is not Photoshopped.

During a campaign stop in Inglewood, California this past weekend, Barbara Boxer’s disrespectful attitude toward our armed forces was on full display when she equated the experiences of Members of Congress with the experiences of those who have put their lives on the line serving our country in uniform. Boxer said this, at an event during which she was supposed to help break ground on new housing for homeless veterans: “We know that if you have veterans in one place where they can befriend each other and talk to each other. You know when you’ve gone through similar things you...

Speak the first a certain way and you are talking about the Book of Job from the Old Testament. Job was a fortunate and pious man who lost everything proving his faith in trial after trial. If you are looking for one of those elusive jobs, you know a little how Job felt. It’s not just that there aren’t any jobs, it’s that no one in the administration or the media really give a darn whether you get one. They’re interested in jobs alright. In the past week, their focus has been on just two of them – Shirley Sherrod’s...

Just over a year ago the Tribune-Review sat down separately with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, to ask about their goals for the 111th Congress. Pelosi presented a lofty case for passing a comprehensive health care bill, taking on Wall Street and “big banks,” and finally instituting serious immigration reform. Boehner, with not enough GOP members in the House to stop her agenda, was blunt: He wanted Pelosi’s job. Surprisingly, both are on the verge of achieving their goals. Gallup’s most recent generic congressional ballot test, which measures voter preferences for a Democrat- or...

SAINT ROBERT, Mo. (July 28, 2010) — State Sen. Bill Stouffer knows he’s in an uphill battle trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton. When he visits military installations, he routinely sees everything from dog kennels to major training facilities named after Skelton, who as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has brought literally billions of dollars to Fort Leonard Wood and Whiteman Air Force Base. So why would anyone ask voters in a county like Pulaski, where Skelton is widely credited with saving Fort Leonard Wood from closure, ask voters to close out Skelton’s congressional career of more...

Israel's president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters. Shimon Peres said England was "deeply pro-Arab ... and anti-Israeli", adding: "They always worked against us." He added: "There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary." His remarks, made in an interview on a Jewish website, provoked anger from senior MPs and Jewish leaders who said the 87-year-old president had "got it wrong". But other groups backed the former Israeli prime minister and said the number of anti-semitic incidents had risen dramatically...

Miss Gillard, Labor, who became prime minister five weeks ago, has had her election campaign hampered by government in-fighting and damaging cabinet leaks. Julia Gillard and partner Tim Mathieson Defeat for Miss Gillard, though still considered unlikely by most other opinion polls and political experts, would sink her plans to place a 30 per cent tax on iron ore and coal mines, to introduce carbon-trading and to build a $33 billion broadband network. Miss Gillard took the leadership of Australia from unpopular premier Kevin Rudd, who was dumped by his own Labor MPs. But their gamble on the country's first...

Click here to find out more! Elton John is leading yet another “British Invasion” in America. He is “invading” American media and pop-culture circles with some very basic – and very healthy – attitudes and behaviors that affirm capitalism and American-styled free market enterprise. Elton may seem like an unlikely spokesperson for such a noble agenda. Yet many of America’s most basic understandings of freedom and economic liberty are grounded in the words of another Brit – Adam Smith – whose magnum opus “The Wealth of Nations” was first published in the historically significant year of 1776. So it’s amusing...

Four States Can Stop Lame Duck Threat Posted on 31 July 2010. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn made it official: Illinois will have a special Senate election just for the lame duck session. Thus Illinois joins Delaware and West Virginia (both having special elections) as the three states whose winners on election day will—barring a disputed election result—be seated for a lame duck session in December. A fourth, Colorado, is less clear but may also be in play. The lame duck session looks increasingly likely—and increasingly ambitious. Sen. Kerry continues to stress that cap-and-trade will be on the agenda, and Sen....

Hey mama grizzlies, it appears as if the White House wants more time with your cubs. Yep, I guess Barack and his socialistic cabal have had a rough go at “fundamentally transforming our nation” in dealing with the increasingly-jaundiced thinking adults who’ve lost the Obama buzz, still dig America, love God and our Constitution, and ask questions (and crap like that). So, like good brainwashers who cannot bamboozle adults, they go in for our babies.Yep, for the sake of socialism and with an eye to “changing our traditions, our history,” as Michelle Obama said, BHO’s boy Arne Duncan is tabling...

John Joseph Merzbacher, a notorious Baltimore child abuser accused of molesting dozens of students at the Catholic school where he taught, could soon be released from a life sentence, under a federal court order handed down Friday. Merzbacher, now 68, is a former middle school teacher at the city's Catholic Community School. He was sentenced in 1995 to multiple life terms after a jury found him guilty of raping a preteen Elizabeth Ann Murphy decades earlier. He has already served 15 years. But his case is now being sent back to state court so he can be offered a 10-year...

There are hndreds of comments on the president's quote from his interview on "The View": When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: "We are sort of a mongrel people." "I mean we're all kinds of mixed up," Obama said. "That's actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it." And people quickly point out the obvious poit - imagine if (Fill in conservative / Republican name here) had said "Blacks are sort of a mongrel race". The roar from the media would be deafening. There...

I am a veteran of the math wars. I was there in 1995 when the shiny new California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test told graders to award a higher score to a student who incorrectly answered a math problem about planting trees -- but wrote an enthusiastic essay -- than to a student who got the answer right, but with no essay. The genius responsible for that math question explained that her goal was to present eighth-graders with "an intentionally ambiguous problem in which no one pattern can be considered the absolute answer." Gov. Pete Wilson's education czar, Maureen DiMarco,...

Police feared the soldier and his family could face retaliatory attacks by British-based Islamists after it was disclosed to the media that he had shot dead several Taliban gunmen at a range of 1.5 miles during during a tour in Helmand.

I’m not much good at timing. I was visiting Jordan on a lecture tour when the Israelis assassinated Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin. Amman closed down and much of my program had to be canceled; Americans weren’t welcome on campuses where student groups were mourning the sheikh and vowing revenge. I was in Indonesia when the Israelis invaded Lebanon; I was able to go ahead with the program, but all the audiences wanted to discuss was the war and America’s responsibility for Israeli crimes. I first came to Pakistan about the time then-Senator Obama called for escalating the drone strikes in...

The prominent “progressive” historian Howard Zinn, whose books are force-fed to young people on many college campuses, was not only a member of the Moscow-controlled and Soviet-funded Communist Party USA (CPUSA) but lied about it, according to an FBI file released on Friday. The file, consisting of three sections totaling 423 pages, was made available on the FBI’s website and released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from this writer. Zinn taught in the political science department of Boston University for 24 years, from 1964 to 1988, and has been a major influence on the modern-day...

            Perhaps the greatest trap opinion columnists fall into is when we disconnect from reality and simply pretend the world is the way we see it. We all do this, but some are more susceptible than others. Take David Brooks, who’s supposed to be the in-house conservative voice of The New York Times op-ed page.“What would happen if Obama sidestepped the fruitless and short-term stimulus debate and instead focused on the long term?” Brooks mused on July 26. Um, David, where’ve you been these last 18 months? Everything about President Obama’s agenda is “focused on the long term.” His health...

The president, Tiny Tim Geithner and much of the complicit media like using phrases like “we have turned the corner,” talking about some sort of economic recovery underway. Joe Biden went so far as to dub this “The Summer of Recovery.” It’s tripe. The almost entirely unreported fact is that personal income, excluding government transfer payments, has been declining and continues to decline, something never before seen in a recovery out the back end of a recession. The need to extend the unemployment welfare again, this time to the not-coincidental election month of November (when you can count on it...

LAS VEGAS—Sharron Angle, the media-shy GOP nominee against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), delighted a crowd of conservative activists Saturday with a speech that embraced Arizona’s controversial immigration law and sketched out her tea party-infused values. Delivering the keynote speech to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s annual RightOnline Conference — an event held as a conservative antidote to the liberal blogosphere’s annual Netroots Nation conference, also taking place this weekend in Las Vegas — Angle told a rapt audience of roughly 1,000 attendees of the need to secure the nation’s borders. “Go, Arizona, go!” she exclaimed. “Arizona has taken...

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann canceled a scheduled campaign appearance in St. Louis on Saturday for GOP Senate candidate Roy Blunt after being hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. The 54-year-old Minnesota Republican, who is serving her second term in Congress and running for a third, apparently was admitted to a Washington-area hospital Friday with what her office described as a "sudden illness." She missed several votes on the Gulf oil spill just before the House adjourned for its August recess. Bachmann spokesman Dave Dziok said she was in the hospital most of Friday and that doctors advised her to rest.

Good for Mark! Mark was taking aim at Byron York, among others, for being content with supporting the status quo. Mark pointed out Christine O’Donnell as an example of a must-win conservative who is being passed over by the so-called conservatives in the media. You want to save this country, then you cannot vote for Mike Castle. Mike Castle will be the most liberal Republican in the Senate and he will be more liberal than most Democrats. So, what will it be, conservative media? Is Mike Castle your guy? Mark Levin is right and you know it!

For One Senate Seat in Illinois, Two Elections on the Same DayBy MONICA DAVEY Published: July 31, 2010 CHICAGO — In all the fuss over the Senate seat that President Obama left behind here, and whether it was offered up in a nefarious trade, some people demanded a clean start. Let the voters of Illinois elect someone to fill the vacancy. The simple idea has been granted. But as only Illinois, and its topsy-turvy politics, might execute such things, the new election has been set for Nov. 2 — almost two years after Mr. Obama left the seat and on...

MILLERVILLE, Minn. (AP) -- Eight-year-old Jordyn Patrick's swim lessons recently paid off when she helped save her uncle from drowning in Lake Moses near Millerville. Dan Shea, of St. Stephen, broke his neck after hitting the bottom while diving off a dock July 16.

To Help Fellow Democrats in the Fall, Obama May Stay AwayBy JEFF ZELENY Published: July 31, 2010 WASHINGTON — As lunch was served in the Roosevelt Room of the White House one day last week, President Obama assured the nine Democratic members of Congress sitting around the table that he would do anything he could to help them survive their fall elections. Even, he said, if it meant staying away. “You may not even want me to come to your district,” Mr. Obama said, according to guests, nearly all of whom hold seats that Republicans are aggressively seeking. Three months...

Nicolas Sarkozy's dream of having his own presidential jet to rival America's Air Force One are about to come true with "Air Sarko One", a £150 million aircraft complete with bedroom, air filter system so he can smoke cigars, and a shower. Specially upholstered Airbus A330-200, has just been taken on its first test flight in Bordeaux The specially upholstered Airbus A330-200, has just been taken on its first test flight in Bordeaux, southwestern France, with all internal fittings due for completion by October. The plane will also include a 12-man meeting room, 60 business class seats, top-grade encrypted communications...

It turns out that countries have two economies: the official one and a shadow version. The official economy is the one that governments and banking institutions measure with gross domestic product, tax receipts, social security contributions, employment identification numbers, and the like. The shadow economy is all the money and jobs generated outside the official economy, whether legally or illegally. In more than 50 countries around the world, the shadow economy is at least 40 percent the size of documented GDP. In percentage terms, the biggest shadow economy relative to official economic activity is in the former Soviet republic of...

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resident Obama may not fit the constitutional eligibility requirement that stipulates only "natural born" citizens can serve as U.S. president, conclude the authors of a recently released book. An investigation by the authors found that according to correspondence from the original framers of the Constitution as well as multiple Supreme Court rulings and the legal writings that helped establish the principles of the Constitution, Obama is not eligible to serve as president since his father was not a U.S. citizen.

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...

IT IS Election Night, 2012. The polls have closed. State by state, the votes are being counted, and gradually it becomes clear, to the bottomless horror of some voters and the unbridled delight of others, that Sarah Palin, the Republican presidential nominee, has bested President Barack Obama in the popular vote nationwide. In Massachusetts, where Obama crushed Palin in a 79 percent landslide — the most lopsidedly anti-Palin vote of any state — “bottomless horror’’ doesn’t begin to describe the political reaction. For in 2010, Massachusetts joined the National Popular Vote compact, making a commitment to cast all of its...

A new political movie -- with CLAYMATION appearances by RONALD REAGAN -- will expose the failures of Democrat / liberal economic policy, and show why Ronald Reagan's economic policies were correct. From the team that helped produce and market THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST comes "I WANT YOUR MONEY!" The film uses interviews from well-known public figures, experts, movie clips, dramatic portrayals, music, graphics and even comedic animation to tell the story in the plainest terms of the choice between the Obama and the Reagan views of the role of the federal government in our society. It also examines how...

SAINT ROBERT, Mo. (July 28, 2010) — It’s hard to avoid being attacked during a political campaign, but Pulaski County’s own legislator, State Rep. David Day, says he knows State Sen. Bill Stouffer well and believes recent attacks on him by former State Rep. Vicky Hartzler miss the mark. Stouffer and Hartzler are the two leading Republican candidates to replace U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, a longtime Democrat who chairs the House Armed Services Committee and represents one of the most conservative congressional districts held by a Democrat. Skelton has rarely had aggressive opposition, but this year both Hartzler and Stouffer...

The Corruption Trial of Rod Blagojevich was supposed to be Explosive – What happened? Ever since impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested on December 9th, 2008 he has not only maintained his innocence but insisted repeatedly that he would expose the truth on the stand. After the prosecution rested its case weeks earlier than expected, Blagojevich's defense team rested after only two days – and without the testimony of the defendant who assured the public it would hear his story. Many expected the defense to call well known figures such as: Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin,...

n this economy, even counterfeiters are trading down. After years of knocking off luxury products like $2,800 Louis Vuitton handbags, criminals are discovering there is money to be made in faking the more ordinary — like $295 Kooba bags and $140 Ugg boots. In California, the authorities recently seized a shipment of counterfeit Angel Soft toilet paper. The shift in the counterfeiting industry, which costs American businesses an estimated $200 billion a year plays to recession-weary customers looking for downmarket deals, the authorities say. And it has been fueled in part by factories sitting idle in China. Almost 80 percent...

Gun Permits? Soon you will need to have a "good cause" and bureaucrats in state government get to determine what is a "good cause." Here's a good cause: How about to protect ourselves from a renegade government! Full article: http://888webtoday.com/articles/viewnews.cgi?id=EklpuAAVEkTIqkiXkd

JBS CEO Art Thompson offers an analysis of the week’s news, discussing how Hillary Clinton’s announcement of the U.S. sending $7.5 billion foreign aid to Pakistan is part of the Insiders’ plan to drain the American people and bankrupt the economy. He also discusses how Mexico supports the Federal Government’s Supreme Court lawsuit against the state of Arizona for defending its borders from the influx of illegal immigrants. (VIDEO AT LINK)

RHINEBECK, N.Y. – Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend under extraordinary security at an elegant Hudson River estate late Saturday. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton announced in a statement that their daughter wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky after weeks of secrecy and buildup that had celebrity watchers flocking to the small village of Rhinebeck for the evening nuptials. The site of the wedding, a Beaux Arts riverside estate called Astor Courts, was sealed off from the general public. "Today, we watched with great pride and overwhelming emotion as Chelsea and Marc wed in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts,...

Many Americans are proud of where they come from; this is no less true of the people of the Gulf Coast. Human interest stories have gripped viewers and readers following the news about the BP oil spill, which often highlights the locals’ pride in their roots...Many in Mississippi and Louisiana are also understandably weary of an often unresponsive federal bureaucracy. United States Congressman Gene Taylor (D-Miss), who represents the seacoast, said of the federal response, “I’m having Katrina flashbacks,” and called the current administration’s efforts “incompetent.”...he men and women of the Gulf Coast who take to the water to practice...

For reasons I have never understood, some people think it would be a good idea to put the government in charge of their families' health care. Most who favor government health care would admit that socialism, whenever and wherever it has been tried, has been not just a failure but a debacle. Still, they seem willing to give socialism a try where it matters the most. The United Kingdom, which has as much experience with socialized medicine as nearly any country, is moving to decentralize its system and put patients and doctors back in charge. This change is driven by...

Snip....It isn’t accidental. Listen to Obama talk about something that doesn’t have to do with race: I, I, I, Me, Me, I, I, Me, I just think, seems to Me, Michelle & I, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me. The subject shifts to race, and all of a sudden it’s we, we, we, we, America, Ms. Sherrod, bloggers, talk shows, Cambridge police, we. He stops talking about Himself, because He’s cataloging sins…things that have been done wrong. When that happens, He isn’t part of us anymore. Suddenly, He can grind out entire paragraphs without mentioning Himself one single...

SAINT ROBERT, Mo. (July 28, 2010) — As one of the two leading Republican candidates seeking to replace U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, State Sen. Bill Stouffer said he rather than former State Rep. Vicki Hartzler or any of the other candidates is best qualified to replace a conservative Democrat with a conservative Republican in Congress. Speaking Wednesday morning at the Sunshine Café in St. Robert, Stouffer said anyone who wants to unseat Skelton after more than three decades needs to be able to understand farmers and rural Democrats. “I think I am the...

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A US National Guard vehicle guards covered under camouflage fabric sits atop a mountain next to the border fence near Sonoyta, Mexico, Thursday, July 29, 2010-- The 1,200 National Guard troops expected to arrive Sunday on the southwest border for reinforcement won't finish deploying until late September, federal officials say, stirring confusion and anger among Arizona lawmakers who thought the deadline was Aug. 1. President Obama announced in May he would send National Guard troops amid growing concerns about border violence stemming from illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Many called for a military presence along the U.S-Mexico border to...

JOHN FROST and his wife had been unhappily married for much of their 25 years together when his company relocated him in 2000. So when he moved from Virginia to Knoxville, Tenn., he left her behind. At first, it wasn’t clear what would happen next. Would she follow him? Or would they end up divorced? The answer: neither. “After a few months,” Mr. Frost said, “we both realized we liked it this way.” Technically, the two are married. They file joint tax returns; she’s covered by his insurance. But they see each other just several times a year. “Since separating...

Sarah Palin joins “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the 2010 midterms, the Obama Administration, and her own political future.

Ezra Klein is the poster child. As the founder of the disingenous activist "Journolist" Ezra Klein was just 22 (!!) when he kicked it off in 2005. So now this "genius" journalism/polisci grad, full of life-long wisdom (not) is 26 and has helped dishonestly elect a bogus potus. Isn't it nice that the child Ezra decided to cram his world-wise ways and extensive years of life lessons down our throats? I've said all along, these snot-nosed INFANTS right out of journalism school, full of nonsensical "change-the-world" activism put into their heads by constipated, radical, stale liberal/marxist professors--are a real hazard...

To Assist in Elections, Obama May Stay Away By JEFF ZELENY WASHINGTON — As lunch was served in the Roosevelt Room of the White House one day last week, President Obama assured the nine Democratic members of Congress sitting around the table that he would do anything he could to help them survive their fall elections. Even, he said, if it meant staying away. “You may not even want me to come to your district,” Mr. Obama said, according to guests, nearly all of whom hold seats that Republicans are aggressively seeking. Three months before the midterm elections, the president...

THE Howard Government claims it used Kevin Rudd to leak information that was damaging to his enemies within the Labor Party. Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has revealed Mr Rudd, at the time an ambitious backbencher, would seize on information given to him about his Labor rivals - and regularly feed it to the media. "We used him mercilessly to embarrass (Labor's then foreign-affairs spokesman) Laurie Brereton," Mr Downer told The Sunday Telegraph. "We would give Rudd information to use against Brereton, and he would use it." Last night, Mr Rudd told The Sunday Telegraph from his hospital bed: "Mr...