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There is a Washington spectacle, or should I say debacle occurring in Congress. No, this is not a new story, I wish it was new. This is the same old sports event witnessed each year with similar results of mainstream Republican moderates showing no fight as they stampede to the gates of capitulation before the feet of the almighty President Obama and Senator Reid. Republican Party is controlled by establishment elites who act superior to its conservative base. They can point to no distinguishable legislative or policy successes that either advanced a single republican principle or slowed the leftist pace...

Looks like it's time to ask, "Who has the authority to suspend the presidential election?"

With the Texas state primary just days away, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is in the lead to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate, and according to some observers, one of the factors he has working in his favor is fear. In Texas, the lieutenant governorship is a hugely powerful position. Its occupant is the leader of the state senate, meaning he appoints committee chairmen and members, determines the order in which bills are taken up, and decides which committees get to handle specific pieces of legislation. At the very least, everyone has to be aware of the sway...

McDonald's grimaces at Happy Meal lawsuit Photo 12:20pm EDT By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A lawsuit seeking to stop McDonald's Corp from offering toys with Happy Meals must be dismissed because parents can always choose not to buy the meals for their children, the hamburger giant said in a court filing late on Monday. The lawsuit accuses McDonald's of unfairly using toys to lure children into its restaurants. The plaintiff, Monet Parham, a Sacramento, California mother of two, charges that the company's advertising violates California consumer protection laws. The Happy Meal has been a huge hit for McDonald's...

With the temporary recognition of people's right to their property (in this case, their money), we're once again hearing the endless rants from the looters about how the "evil rich" are responsible for all our economic hardships and how respecting their rights will only wreck our economy further (honestly, does hate and jealousy ever get old for these people?). In light of this, and how eagerly dear leader will play it to conceal his own meddling in our economy, I think it's time we give everyone a very clear, very thorough view of who holds the most power over the...

Content from video: In order for a culture to maintain itself for more than 25 years, it requires a fertility rate of 2.11 children per family. With anything less, the culture will decline. Historically, no culture has ever reversed a 1.9 fertility rate A rate of 1.3 is impossible to reverse - because it would take 80 to 100 years to correct itself. There is no economic model that can sustain a culture during that time. If only a million babies are born in 2006, it will be hard to have 2 million workers in 2026. As the population shrinks,...

WASHINGTON - US Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has attained true stardom. This month, she joins House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore and conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh in having her own comic book. Describing the four as "some of the most fascinating and polarizing figures on the national political stage," Bluewater biography comics is publishing separate comic books on each that will be in comic book stores tomorrow. "These four individuals represent some of the most influential and historic figures of the 21st century," said Bluewater president Darren Davis in a statement. "Each has a...

Over a hundred years ago the homosexual act was considered Sodomy and it was identified as an act. It still is Sodomy. IT WAS REFERRED TO AS THE HOMOSEXUAL ACT. BUT IN THE 1960’S IT WAS THEN CONDITIONED. The condition of homosexuality was redefined as a condition rather than an act. It did not change, it was just redefined. What really happened here was while you can criticize an act and you can even say it is a criminal act, how do you criticize a condition that someone suffers with? How can you criticize the act that one commits who...

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The statewide push to hang onto the Bay State's 10 congressional seats after the 2010 census will be tested in the efforts to count illegal immigrants, officials said yesterday. With federal money distributed based on a number of factors, including the population, it is especially important that all residents - regardless of their immigration status - are included in the census, they said. In many countries, a census often isn't done at all or doesn't carry the same weight as it does in the United States. According to Kathleen Ludgate, regional director for the United States Census Bureau's Boston office,...

This week, Democrats broke out the cots and the S'mores, and held a big ol' Senate sleepover for surrender. By pushing an all-night Senate session purportedly designed to debate the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, Democrats hoped to show their sincerity and moral indignation. "How many sleepless nights have our soldiers and their families had?" asked oily Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, who only two years ago compared U.S. soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings." If politics is the...

IT'S TUESDAY -- THAT MEANS THE DOMED ONES ARE WORKING AGAIN, RIGHT? The House won't convene until 2 pm. That's when Tuesday starts for the Legislatured Ones. The Senate isn't doing much better -- the Senate convened on Monday at 2 pm and adjourned at 5:12 -- took no votes. It appears that the Most Powerful Woman in America can't quite get the troops to show up for work. Remember Pelosi? She was the one who promised to "clean house." Well, it doesn't matter which party is in power. The stench of slovenliness wafts all the way to us folks...

I think that it has been well established that "conservatives" or whatever it is they call themselves these days (e.g., storm troopers) in matters concerning politics value little more than the state's power in which they imagine themselves to participate and the supposed glory that war and domestic national securitism brings to them. Now strictly speaking this is a delusion, because their only access to power lies in the accidental agreement of their opinions with those of the managers of the state. This access will evaporate as soon as the state does something that displeases our conservatives. It is always...

As the Democratic primaries reach a critical stage, partisan spirit is running high, and the presidential campaign is already verging on blood sport. George Washington's birthday today serves as a reminder of how presidents can transcend politics and embody the national spirit. From the time he was recruited as commander in chief in 1775, Washington personified the often tenuous hope of unity among the 13 fractious colonies. With most of the early patriot blood spilled in Massachusetts, the second Continental Congress wanted a Southern general who could lend a national imprint to the struggle. Washington shed his Virginia identity and...

WASHINGTON - In an atmosphere of urgency, President Bush and his top foreign advisers sought new strategies Wednesday to speed the transfer of political power in Iraq as a top-secret intelligence report warned that Iraqis are losing faith in the U.S.-led occupation forces. The mood was darkened by a truck-bomb explosion in southern Iraq that killed at least 14 Italians. "We honor the sacrifice of the brave Italian soldiers who gave their lives to help the Iraqi people," presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney sat down with L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in...

Looking Back at Reagan October 2, 2003 Reading Ronald Reagan’s newly published letters reminds me how much I’ve always liked him, even after I stopped admiring him as a president. He was always a modest, decent, good-humored man, with more common sense and a keener sense of proportion than most politicians. And he loved a good laugh. But the very qualities that made him charming and convivial underscored the absurdity of entrusting him, or any man, with the awful power of the American presidency. The superlatives his adulators heap on him seem as wide of the mark as the exaggerations...