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This time, conservatives in Tinseltown have collaborated to communicate their ideas, but they’re doing it in jocular way. The movie has a cast that includes veteran stars Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, Robert Davi, and Leslie Nielsen. With this kind of lineup, you’d expect some great performances. And there are, under the master comedy direction of Zucker. The plot loosely follows Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” with Kevin Farley playing the character of Michael Malone, a modern-day Scrooge who wants to abolish the July Fourth holiday. Paris Hilton, who happens to be a Sen. Barack Obama supporter,...

A century ago, Arthur Bentley wrote in The Process of Government that ideals are far less important to the political process than the collective actions and interactions of interest groups.  Oversimplifying, that means that it doesn’t matter so much what politicians profess as what their supporters and adversaries do.  According to Wikipedia, Bentley’s pluralist-behavioralist thinking was a major influence to the “Chicago School”, so named for the University of Chicago.      Well, when it comes to Chicago, there are Schools, and there are schools – as this Presidential campaign amply demonstrates.  Bentley’s thinking merely gives one a good way...

http://experimentumcrucis.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-sarah-palin-cartoons.html

Just take a sec to watch this Jib Jab Movie. I know you've seen it a hundred times already, but an extra special actor has jumped into the movie..... Someone should fire the makeup artist!!! Can Anyone SPELL Lipstick??? Jen

'It's Time For Campaigning!!'~ Turn on your speakers and enjoy! http://www.peteyandpetunia.com/VoteHere/VoteHere.htm

This animation of a pig called, Jubilant, knows that he’s getting a bath and with joy expresses his, changing event.

I can’t seem to fess up to the facts… My spin is worthless… I can’t retract… I can’t sleep… Palin’s on fire… Don’t trust me… I’m a real jive liar!

Now whose got yer Bounce, Baby Bama Baller?!? Dat B SARACUUUDAAHHHH!!!!!!

Double chin chiminy chin chin charoo. Pennsylvania Governess Edwina Rendell has been selected to address the members of the Democratic Convention on Tuesday night, according to press officials. Nanny Rendell, as she likes to be called, is expected to talk about how deep state intrusion has helped growth in her home state of Pennsylvania--and by Pennsylvania, she means Philadelphia and, to a lesser degree, Pittsburgh. Nanny has been instrumental in helping the state lean toward a more centralized, bureaucratic healthcare system, while disregarding other options, like improving a system of free health clinics. "As I like to say a teaspoon...

So I’m sitting there watching a little Animal Planet when the old man comes into the room, grabs the remote and channel surfs to some of them there news outlets. He skips between the venom spewing anchorman, the supermodel newswomen and the anchorperson telling us the world is coming to an end. I don’t pay much attention to it but I notice my sister Copper and my new brother Logan are keenly interested. Before I know it, those two are tail deep into a discussion about the state of the world and the upcoming US election. They go back and...

Hugo Chavez faces political crisis as allies desert him By David Blair in Caracas Last Updated: 9:24PM BST 29/06/2008 President Hugo Chavez, the "socialist revolutionary" leading a global campaign against America's "empire", is facing a political crisis in Venezuela where crucial elections are approaching and old allies have turned against him. Mr Chavez has given Caracas's slum-dwellers free health care for the first time Mr Chavez, a devoted admirer of Fidel Castro, has forged an anti-American front with leaders ranging from President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. At home, however, Mr Chavez is in trouble....

Why do people vote? Genetic variation in political participation A groundbreaking new study finds that genes significantly affect variation in voter turnout, shedding new light on the reasons why people vote and participate in the political system. The research, conducted by political scientists James H. Fowler, Christopher T. Dawes (of UC San Diego) and psychologist Laura A. Baker (of University of Southern California), appears in the May issue of the American Political Science Review, a journal of the American Political Science Association (APSA). "Although we are not the first to suggest a link between genes and political participation," note the...

Ran across this on the net. Just wanted to see what some of you guys had to say. There are some intelligent posts on here and I learn all the time. Anybody ever heard of this site? Is it a teeny group in the backwoods of the net? I'm sure there are so many out there seems pretty intense and I thought it might be interesting for everyone to see what sort of crazy stuff there is out there and because it's pretty complicated to me politically I really wanted to hear the Freeper response.

  Political Islam  http://www.politicalislam.com/ 

I was asked recently - by a child porn advocate, no less - why I write books with chapter titles that are so “offensive.” Citing two such chapter titles – “Fag Hags and Rainbow Flags” and “The Liar, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” – the child porn advocate asked what some of my fellow UNC professors had done to make me sound so “nasty.” I think the question is worth answering. Put simply, I use provocative language in chapters (more often in columns) criticizing a small minority of my fellow professors for two reasons: 1) because they are proponents of...

Where does all this stuff that you�ve heard about this morning � the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it � where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic. We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been...

Bo (woof) In Commentary: They say only the good die young, maybe that’s why I’m a ripe 16 and a half years old. Here’s the story of an elected official, Mayor Cochran, who died at the age of 12. Yup, a mayor that was elected to office at the young age of eight, serving four years before his death. "Junior Cochran, the mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky has died at the age of twelve. A little young for a mayor you might think, but that’s 84 in dog years! Yes that’s right (con't @ http://boknowsonline.com/2008/06/09/mayor-to-rule-rainbow-bridge/#more-499)

My 2008 election parody with my comedy acting students -

WASHINGTON - Five years ago this week, a federal election regulator predicted that corporate sponsorship of political conventions would eventually be as common as it is for football bowl games. "I look forward to the day, by 2008, when Americans can turn on their TVs and watch the Nokia Democratic Convention, or the AT&T Republican National Convention," joked Bradley Smith, then a Republican member of the Federal Election Commission. That day has pretty much arrived. The Democratic and Republican conclaves this summer in Denver and St. Paul, Minn., will be financed overwhelmingly by private money from some of the nation's...

LOS ANGELES - Want a skybox perch to see John McCain speak at the Republican National Convention, passes to hot GOP parties that week, pampering from the concierge and private wheels to tool around town? Want a chance to mingle with celebrities like Warren Beatty and Al Franken at the Democratic National Convention, and maybe even get face time with Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton? It's yours, for a price. Committees raising money for California delegations to the national conventions are asking wealthy donors to make six-figure donations in exchange for VIP-level treatment and seats to witness history. The...

Here's the RNC's new. I had not seen it linked here before.

PD James: Political correctness ruining society Last Updated: 2:57AM BST 02/05/2008Police hampered by a 'culture of blame' says PD james Modern life is bedevilled by political correctness, PD James, the crime author, said last night. There was a growing risk that Britons would live in "ghettos" and experience little contact with other people, she said in a speech on policing in the 21st century. Baroness James of Holland Park, who is best known for creating the detective Adam Dalgliesh, told an audience in the Palace of Westminster: "Our society is now more fractured than I, in my long life, have...

Folks, it is time that we every day Americans say, “enough” to the trashing of everything we hold dear. America needs an American Tea Party, a rally in Washington DC protesting political correctness and the far left movement of our country. Most of us want to say, “Merry Christmas!” Most of us know speaking English is best for all Americans. Most of us are not offended by public prayer. Most of us know partial birth abortion is murder. While I have dear homosexual friends, most of us believe marriage should remain between a man and a woman. Most of us...

CRAIG’S LIST Upee (Boysee, ID) – Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig made a list. He’s checking it twice. He’s gonna’ find out who’s naughty or nice. ‘Cause Santa Claus isn’t comin’ to town. Fashioned after the ever-popular Internet buy, sell, and swap Web site, Craigslist, Senator Larry Craig has listed his close encounters of the worst kind on his new Craig’s List Web site. In exchange for a plea deal with the Hennepin District Attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Senator Craig agreed to create a Web site listing the names of his partners in grime. Due to space limitations, we are...

OMAHA, Neb. - U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel writes in a new book that the United States needs independent leadership and possibly another political party, while suggesting the Iraq war might be remembered as one of the five biggest blunders in history. "In the current impasse, an independent candidate for the presidency, or a bipartisan unity ticket ... could be appealing to Americans," Hagel writes in "America: Our Next Chapter," due in stores Tuesday. The Associated Press obtained an advance copy. The Nebraska Republican, who announced last year he wouldn't seek a third term or the GOP presidential nomination, had been...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans do not read political blogs, the online commentaries that have proliferated in the race for the U.S. presidency, according to a poll released on Monday. Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive. Political blogs, in which writers, pundits and other participants voice opinions in online forums, burst into the spotlight in the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Some of the most high-profile blogs are influential on campaign strategies, media coverage...

Shouting matches, near-violent confrontations and police officers called in to quell tension. Houston, Dallas, Austin, Laredo. It didn't matter where. Problems were encountered at caucus sites across Texas. The scene was repeated over and over Tuesday night in to Wednesday morning. And it has Democratic Party leaders, like Harris County chairman Gerry Birnberg wondering if change is needed. "It should be considered. It will be considered, as to whether or not all of the delegates should be elected through the primary or part of the delegates should be selected through a caucus system. I think that's a discussion we should...

It's decision day. Polls are open across Texas. In the lead-up to the big day, the candidates spoke with us in interviews heard only on KTRH. Some outlined their policy platforms, others just shared their thoughts. On the campaign trail, candidates attempt to craft messages that speak directly to the communities they visit. "We have to help communities like Houston get more federal resources to pay for healthcare, education and law enforcement. I don't think the taxpayers of Houston should be picking up the costs of the failed immigration system," Senator Hillary Clinton told KTRH making two references to Houston...

As Senators Clinton and Obama shore up voters' loyalties, campaigning across the Lone Star state is exhaustive. Former Governor Mark White knows what it's like to run a campaign in a state the size of a nation. "The airplanes don't fly much faster today than they did then. And Texarkana is still just as far away from El Paso as it was then. Getting around the state is a major problem, but there's a couple of advantages if you are trained right. The minute the plane takes off, you can start your nap and then you wake up just as...

Obama in San Antonio: immigration shouldn't be 'political football'2/19/2008 8:16 PM By: Associated Press SAN ANTONIO -- Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama said that immigration should not be used as "a political football." The Illinois Senator addressed a rally in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in San Antonio Tuesday. Obama said security of the border has to be combined with a pathway to citizenship for people who are already in America. Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton will be debate Thursday night in Austin. The Texas primaries are March 4. Obama is expected to hold a rally Tuesday night in...

    Where the minds of a nation go for understanding...     The Stripes...

A Conservative Caucus within the Republican Party, a concept (vanity) Historical perspective: In 1968-9 there was a movement within the Democrat party to form a new left alliance. This alliance was formed of neo-communists, socialists, far left liberals and antiwar activists. It’s purpose was to effectively move the direction or take over the Democrat party. The intention was, first, as a caucus within the party to direct and shape national policy. Its long term goal was to take over the party. It partially succeeded when McGovern was nominated. It has continued to this day. I was a college student, what...

Politicians knew it. The community knew it. The police knew it. If you really wanted to connect with voters in troubled northwest Oakland, ... , all roads led to the late Yusuf Bey and his Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue. Bey and his followers knew they had political clout. They used it to great advantage in obtaining money from the city, lenient sentences from judges, and a virtual hands-off approach from the Police Department - even though evidence now shows that the bakery's leadership was implicated in serious crimes. Jerry Brown - former governor, now state attorney...

A group that lobbies for needle exchanges, for allowing more immigrants with HIV/AIDS to legally enter the country, and for condom distribution in prisons received a $303,000 federal earmark pushed by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). That was one of 261 earmarks Clinton personally helped usher through Congress. That's more earmarks than any other member of Congress seeking the presidency, according to an analysis by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW). This specific appropriation is from the Department of Justice and is aimed at fighting methamphetamine use - that's what the Gay Men's Health Crisis Center is supposed to...

Former executive spooks some, but not all, faculty By ABRAHAM MAHSHIE of the Tribune’s staff Published Friday, December 21, 2007 Faculty reaction to the naming of Gary Forsee as the new University of Missouri System president yesterday ranged from fear and anger to satisfaction and confidence. "I’m alarmed," said John Kultgen, a retired MU professor of philosophy who wrote a letter to curators when Forsee’s name first surfaced asking to "please, please do not view the university as a corporation that turns out a standardized product or just another bureaucratic structure reaching for a larger share at the public trough."...

10. Have Your Wife Fight Your Battles for You: The John Edwards Military Strategy Handbook 9. The 2008 National Organization of Women Swimsuit Calendar 8. “Hillary Clinton’s Dramatic Readings of the 10 Greatest Speeches in American History” Two-Disc Set 7. The Dennis Kucinich Unidentified Frying Object Vegetarian Hibachi Grill 6. A Home Visit by the Ron Paul Blimp 5. The Collected Works of Neil Kinnock edited by Joe Biden 4. Anything That Contains the Words “Universal” and “Comprehensive” or That Claims to be “For the Children” 3. Five Hundred Shares of New York Times Common Stock 2. Free Membership in...

Debate revived over staffers as political workersTuesday, December 18, 2007 By Tracie Mauriello and Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG -- As a statewide grand jury explores allegations that a group of key House aides tied state payroll bonuses to campaign work, debate is resuming about whether legislative staffers should be restricted from political activities. "When you have elections and people have to raise money for elections, you're going to have people participating who are expecting something. That's democracy humming in the background, like I-95," said William Chadwick, a former prosecutor brought in to examine operation of the House Democratic...

MANAMA, Bahrain, Dec. 6, 2007 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the broad perspectives he’s received in Iraq over the last two days have convinced him Iraq is on the right track and that Iraqi leaders understand they need to move more quickly to keep up with security gains. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates greets local leaders in Mosul, Iraq, during a trip to Iraq's third-largest city, Dec. 5, 2007. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison, USAF  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Gates today wrapped up a whirlwind visit to Iraq, where he met with Iraqi government...

http://www.opensecrets.org/ Want to find out who's giving money to whom? Your senators? Your congressman? Your neighbors? All you need is a zip code.................

A Detroit-based group is calling for a national protest early next month after a meeting with Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick regarding nooses found in a Central Michigan University classroom. The Rev. Charles Williams II, leader of the National Council for Community Empowerment, also demanded Monday that Burdick take legal action immediately against the student who said he hung the nooses on Central Michigan University's campus. Williams said in a press release that his organization requested a meeting with Burdick and that the group “has yet to receive return correspondence.” Williams staged a press conference in front of the Isabella...

It’s been a while since I had the time to make posts here, but I seek your help. Can you post (and discuss) any CONSERVATIVE political art on this thread? Is that an oxymoron? I hope not. I seek any conservative art, preferably Clinton-bashing in the way that the sophomoric liberals bash Bush and Cheney at any opportunity. The reason is this: I was at an arts conference this week in NYC. Of course, I was surrounded by liberals, who assume that you share their beliefs. (I kept my mouth shut this time, but I won’t next time….thus the reason...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A wide-open presidential race and a willingness by candidates, interest groups, unions and corporations to buy TV time will lead to historic spending for political and issue-advocacy advertising in the 2008 election cycle, an analysis shows. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has spent the most on TV advertising so far among presidential contenders. The cost to try to influence the 2008 election could exceed $3 billion, according to TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, CNN's consultant on political television advertising. This is nearly twice as much than what was spent in 2004 when political and issue-advocacy television...

...In 2005, Emily Brooker, a social-work student at Missouri State University, was enrolled in a class taught by a professor who advertised himself as a liberal and insisted that social work is a liberal profession. At first, a mandatory assignment for his class was to advocate homosexual foster homes and adoption, with all students required to sign an advocacy letter, on university stationery, to the state legislature. When Brooker objected on religious grounds, the project was made optional. But shortly before the final exam she was charged with a "Level 3," the most serious, violation of professional standards. In a...

LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Constitution prevents California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from becoming President of the United States. But it doesn't stop him from being an ex-President -- or, rather, acting like one. Schwarzenegger has already graced the covers of America's major news magazines -- more the domain of heads of state than heads of states. Speculation is that, because Schwarzenegger can't run for another term as Governor in 2010, he'll move to take on the Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator, Barbara Boxer, instead. I'm not so sure. First of all, there's the reality that Arnold might not win. After all,...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2007 – There is encouraging evidence of political reconciliation in Iraq despite legislative stalls on key issues, including oil revenue sharing, the top U.S. military commander there said here today. (Video) Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that an oil revenue-sharing law has been proposed in Iraq’s Council of Representatives, but no legislation that governs the disbursement of the country’s lucrative resource has been passed. “But Iraq is actually sharing oil revenue. … In fact, (it is) very similar to what is likely to happen...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2007 – The provincial reconstruction team in Iraq’s Salah ad Din province is hard at work with local leaders to promote organization in governance, economic development, and rule of law, the team’s leader said yesterday. Steven Buckler, speaking with Internet journalists and “bloggers” in a conference call, said the Salah ad Din PRT has about 50 members. “A third of them are our security personnel, who escort us in the Humvees when we go into town,” he explained. The other two thirds, 35 or so, are a mix of civilian and military members. “We're in town five,...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2007 – Iraqi government development at the community level is progressing even as American and Iraqi forces launch a new offensive targeting terrorists fleeing the major cities for refuge, President Bush said today in his weekly radio address. Bush said that as the surge in combat operations continues, so does a surge by provincial reconstruction teams that have helped rebuild many local governments in areas that once were considered lost to terrorist control. The number of the reconstruction teams has doubled in the country, he said. “They bring together military, civilian, and diplomatic personnel to help...

Hillary Clinton's new campaign ad... with a Twist!Funny YouTube Video... you just new this was coming!Hillary Clinton "Obey or Be Destroyed" Ad  

Take the Conservative Identity Quiz and find out whether you're a Faith-Based Fighter, Flag-Waving Everyman, Free Marketeer, Values Guardian, Anti-Government Gunslinger, or Freedom Crusader. It's a fun and surprisingly accurate quiz excerpted from the book "How to Win a Fight with a Liberal," and which is featured on FightLiberals.com.

Sean Penn has experienced backlash for talking openly about his political beliefs, but sees such discussion as more respectable than promoting movies. "There's baggage attached to coming out publicly on stuff, but there's baggage - in my view, more damaging baggage - to goin' and (appearing) ... on Jay Leno's show, philosophizing about 'Uncle Buck' or whatever you're hawkin'," the Oscar-winning actor tells Esquire magazine in its September issue, on newsstands Wednesday. Penn, 46, has bitterly criticized President Bush, toured Iraq to observe the war there and helped rescue workers with door-to-door searches for survivors after Hurricane Katrina swamped New...