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A few people have asked me why I care so much about politics and what is going on in congress. They ask me why I get so excited and upset at other peoples' actions. Why do I care? I'll tell you why I care. I'll give you four very good reasons why I care and then several more in addition to those. The four primary reasons are named Nichole, Bobby, Lena, and Caroline Rose, my children. Everything that congress, government, or politicians do or vote on affects my children in some way. If it doesn't affect them immediately it will...

On Tuesday, May 26th Barack Obama is heading to Las Vegas to do a fundraising event with Harry Reid. The Dems are desperately trying to protect Harry Reid's re-election bid which polls show is in serious jeopardy. The Our Country Deserves Better Committee - with whom I work - is going to be launching our "Defeat Harry Reid" campaign that week including news conferences in Reno on May 25th (day before Obama arrives) and in Las Vegas on May 26th (day that Obama arrives for the event). We'll also be unveiling a second tv-ad that will join this TV...

Of all the members of Congress who are up for re-election in 2010, Senator Harry Reid is by far the most culpable for the out-of-control federal spending, taxpayer-funded bailouts and push for higher taxes. As Senate Majority Leader he has pushed through trillions of dollars in new spending, ran up our national debt, pushed for tax increases and cut sweetheart deals with lobbyists in order to push through federal bailouts.

The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions about Our Nation By Michael Medved Crown Forum, $26.95, 280 pp. If your holiday get-togethers included a college student home for "Winter Break" fretting about professors preaching that America is land of inequality, founded on genocide and slavery for the benefit of corporations and imperial militarists -- and that all this Christmas stuff violates the secular founding of our diverse nation — I have an essential ingredient to include in a second semester care package. Michael Medved's The 10 Big Lies about America: Combating Destructive Distortions about Our Nation is a...

The Our Country Deserves Better committee today released the following web-ad highlighting the superior executive experience that the Republican vice presidential candidate,Sarah Palin, holds over the Democrat presidential candidate, Barack Obama. bngvbThe ad also exposes the fact that Obama's supposed strength, his communication skills, are not all that they are so hyped to be. CLICK HERE - TO WATCH THE NEW AD

Great news. This new ad by Move America Forward skewers the anti-war liberals for their shameful conduct and has now been picked up by OurCountry.com I know the ad has already been on Fox and was shown on C-SPAN a few times as well. Watch the ad at OurCountry here: WATCH THIS BUTT-KICKING AD Screen captures: The ad is also up online at YouTube: YouTube Version of Anti-Liberal Ad

Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward, has produced a promotional video for Move America Forward's "THESE COLORS DON'T RUN" national caravan that will head across the nation - and then join forces with the "Gathering of Eagles" event in Washington, D.C. You can watch the video here: CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO!

AP) LOS ANGELES The marches against proposed immigration legislation are spreading in Los Angeles. Some 1,500 L.A. students who have walked out of class are gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall. L.A. school district officials said some 1,000 students from Los Angeles High School on the 4600 block of Olympic Avenue have walked out and are reportedly heading toward Hollywood High School on the 1500 block of North Highland Avenue. Hundreds of students have already left Huntington Park High School, some scaling fences that school officials locked to avoid a walkout. L.A. school district spokeswoman Monica Carazo said students have...

Relations ... the very word gives one the positive mindset of working as a team to accomplish established goals. Throughout the past 228 years, Americans have fought through their own differences of opinion to achieve great successes for this nation. What myself, and tens of millions of others, are interested in knowing is your interpretation of the term relation. Webster's defines it as "an aspect or quality (as resemblance) that connects two or more things or parts as being or belonging or working together." This column wasn't created to accuse Muslim organizations of having ties to terrorist networks. That issue...