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MSNBC went full Nazi in a new ad, bizarrely linking conservatives Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy to the Third Reich. The spot promoting host Lawrence O’Donnell began with text reading, “Straight to the heart of moral corruption.” Then, the liberal host lectured, “'We were just following orders' is a statement that is indelibly etched in our consciences as what we should never become. We are following orders is now and always has been the last line of defense for the indefensible here and around the world.” During his commentary, pictures of Iran-Contra figure North, as well as Watergate's Liddy...

With new reports that Jeb's campaign is hemorrhaging cash and slashing staff salaries, it might be time to start asking when, not if, Jeb will drop out. Jeb Bush has been having a rough couple of days. According to Politico, Jeb has decided to cut the salaries of all his campaign staff in an effort to save dwindling funds. Employees were informed that their salaries would be reduced during a conference call this morning. The move to cut staffers salaries makes sense, as Bush has been hemorrhaging cash for a while now. The most recent financial disclosure reports reveal that...

Rising fears about the nuclear crisis in Japan along with disappointing U.S. economic news sent stocks falling Wednesday. Stocks opened lower then dropped sharply in midmorning trading after the European Union's energy chief was quoted as saying that Japan's nuclear crisis could get worse. Japan temporarily suspended work at a stricken nuclear plant after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain there. That came a day after Japan's prime minister said four crippled reactors at a nuclear power plant were leaking dangerous amounts of radiation. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 165, or 1 percent,...

NO Bama Care Rally Grand Junction 2009 08 15 "We gathered in Grand Junction Colorado, peacefully exercising our First Amendment Rights, to protest the President's and the Democrat controlled Congress attempt to gut and ruin our Health Care System. There were thousands in attendance to protest in the morning. In all fairness, the Democrats bused in a bunch of folks from Utah (who were in Montana the day before) to support the changes. There were about equal numbers for and against outside of Central High School, about a quarter mile from where the President lectured in his Town Hall (this...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama remained on the offensive Tuesday on the pace and shape of legislation reinventing health care, against stiffening opposition from Republicans and growing wariness among rank-and-file congressional Democrats. Following a recent pattern, harsh public exchanges ricocheted along Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol amid laborious work on the measure that Obama has insisted be put together before Congress leaves in August for its recess — a timetable a House Democratic leader indicated was slipping. Entering a closed-door Democratic meeting, House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., told another lawmaker: "No one wants...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 (Bernama) -- With his good looks Dr Sashi Tharoor could have been a star in the Indian film industry. Instead, he choose to be a career diplomat and spent the last 28 years serving the United Nations (UN). Now he cherishes another ambition -- to lead the UN, the world's largest and vital organisation. The 50 year-old diplomat is India's official candidate for the UN secretary-general's post which falls vacant when Kofi Annan completes his second and final five-year term in December this year. The London-born United States-educated Indian, who will join three other Asian candidates...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to freeze funding for popular education programs such as Head Start and grants to schools for poor children and those with special needs. Job training programs would face a slight cut, and health research funded by the National Institutes of Health would receive a less than 1 percent gain over current levels. The panel approved a bill providing $143 billion in funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education for the budget year beginning Oct. 1. The so-called Labor-HHS bill was one of three domestic spending bills unanimously...

Six months ago, Free Republic was riding high, and I was proud to be a part of it. It was coming off having blown the cover off of Dan Rather’s use of forged memos against the President. The President was well on his way to winning re-election. It was a great time to be a Freeper. However, things have changed. It started with the justifiable removal of ALIPAC. I supported that move by Jim Robinson, but the ugliness directed towards Alberto Gonzales. He was accused of everything under the sun, and Senator Mel Martinez was viciously attacked for speaking Spanish...

First, this is NOT an April Fool's joke. I am leaving Free Republic. Over the past two years, civility and thoughtful discourse has vanished from this site, replaced with demands for ideological conformity that are straight out of Stalinist Russia or China's Great Cultural Revolution, and unrelenting uncivility if said conformance is not forthcoming. This trend began with the California recall election, where certain posters were allowed to flame the living beejezus out of those who didn't wholeheartedly support Tom McClintock, or thought that he wasn't running a campaign capable of winning. It extended into the Keyes campaign last year,...

Jerry Falwell in Critical Condition U.S. National - AP By BOB LOWRY, Associated Press Writer LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday, battling his second case of viral pneumonia in just five weeks, hospital and church officials said. Falwell, 71, was admitted to Lynchburg General Hospital shortly before midnight Monday suffering from "respiratory arrest," the hospital said in a statement. He was put on a ventilator and stabilized but remained in critical condition, the hospital said. "He's resting comfortably and in stable condition," said Ron Godwin, Falwell's executive assistant. "It's a recurrence of the...

from the April 19, 2004 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0419/p08s03-comv.html Not Reaching for the Remote Now in its 10th year, National TV-Turnoff Week has slowly become a reason for bringing communities closer. About 25 percent of Americans say they watch less television during this week, encouraged by a number of groups. In Shiprock, N.M., for instance, prizes will be awarded for families who've fired up their imagination and developed the best new board games. In other cities, companies are helping sponsor free swim nights at community pools, nature walks, spaghetti dinners, or storytelling events at libraries. Kids in an Illinois community are...