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The Top 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations: 1. "I can see Russia from my house!" — Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the TV comedy show "Saturday Night Live," broadcast Sept. 13. 2. "All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." — Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1.

The year 2008 was politically the most exciting and unusual in a generation. It hosted a long, divisive and drama-filled campaign season that featured the rapid rise and fall of Rudy Guiliani, Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee, the unlikely rise of John McCain and Barack Obama, and the eventual bitter defeat of Hillary Clinton. It brought us an unusually long and brutal primary with emotional charges of racism and sexism, the rise of the Superdelegate, and the explosion of Sarah Palin upon the national stage. All of this was followed by a rough and tumble presidential campaign whose outcome may...

Quote of the Year Co-anchor Chris Matthews: “I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My — I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. ”Co-anchor Keith Olbermann: “Steady.”

A report about why global warming due to carbon dioxide is flawed hypothesis based off of crappy math models. Some of these guys are from the UN's IPCC who left because they so strongly disagreed. Oh, also to give you an idea of how many scientists that is compared to those who think global warming is occurring thanks to carbon dioxide: "The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers. " Here's the senate.gov link to where these quotes come from: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6 Here...

At the end of 2006 we brought you the funniest political quotes of 2006. At the end of 2007 we brought you the funniest political quotes of 2007. Now that we’re nearing the end of 2008 it’s time for the top ten funniest political quotes of 2008. That’s the pattern and the premise. No further set-up required. Here’s The List for 2008, the top ten funniest political quotes of 2008.

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping...

Quote from Jesse Helms in 1987 to the President. "A careful examination of what is happening behind the scenes reveals that all of these interests are working in concert with the masters of the Kremlin in order to create what some refer to as a “New World Order.” Private organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the Dartmouth Conference, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Atlantic Institute, and the Bilderberg Group serve to disseminate and to coordinate the plans for this so-called new world order in powerful business, financial,...

Aristotle: “… it is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens: upon the same principle, if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the laws, for the supreme power must be placed somewhere; CHAPTER XVI [1287a] We will next consider the absolute monarch that we have just mentioned, who does everything according to his own will: for a king governing under the direction of laws which he is obliged to follow does not of himself create any particular...

Media MIA On Emanuel's Crisis CommentBy Seton Motley November 21, 2008 - 08:33 ET Remember the years of media flak President George W. Bush received for his alleged use for political gain of first the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and then the related Afghanistan and Iraq Wars? Will the press be as vociferous now? Incoming Obama Administration Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, speaking on Wednesday on and to the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, stated outright his desire to make political hay with the ongoing travails of the U.S. and global economy: "You never want a serious crisis...

If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their Own hands; they may a point teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision for the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation...

Check out Google's new quotes feature, it puts quotes by each candidate side by side on each issue and you can hit a button to spin the quotes and see another quote on the same topic...

RED ALERT Tip: Two quotes from the Obama-Khalidi videotape  You know the videotape that shows Barack Obama toasting PLO terrorist Rashid Khalidi? The one that the Los Angeles Times refuses to release? "The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it," said the newspaper's editor, Russ Stanton... How frickin' stupid do they think we are? Someone gave the Times a videotape so it wouldn't be released? And they can't publish a transcript? I guess that's the kind of...

Obama’s thoughts on how racist the founders and our constitution is. Apparantely it, and America, are deeply flawed. I’m sure Obama wants to fix this through revolutionary, radical change!

The audio recording of Barack Obama espousing his socialist philosophy of “redistribution of wealth” is all over the Internet and Fox News today (although the other media outlets are ignoring it), but there’s another disturbing section on that tape that has so far escaped notice. The link to the audio is here: Chicago Public Radio - Audio Library: Odyssey.At about 15:30, Obama compares what was going on in the United States during the time of Brown vs. the Board of Education to ... Nazi Germany. Yes, really. Here’s the quote: “...just to take a, sort of a realist perspective...there’s a...

Obama Bombshell Audio Uncovered. He wants to Radically Reinterpret the Constitution to Redistribute Wealth!! In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama is discussing the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth!!! This Video Exposes the radical underneath the rhetoric!!! A great video showing this redistribution of wealth started before 2001...as revealed in this radio interview at that time. It is scary how he calls it a tragedy that there was not redistribution of wealth done with the Civil Rights movement.

In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama is discussing the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth. This Video Exposes the radical underneath the rhetoric!

The only poll that counts is the one where you close the curtains and pull the lever. Don't let the Obama Worshiping press run you off. That is their goal: Discourage you, depress you and keep you from voting for an American hero. Read these quotes, then go vote. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself...

Quotes: Machiavelli – CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESSNote the distinction between the terms; either you are liberal or you are mean. This is according to the view of the citizen; either you give to them, or you do not.Some politicians have gone to great lengths to portray the rich as another type of citizen, almost an enemy of the people. In doing so, they now have the masses believing that taking from the rich is a noble cause; especially if they are to receiveservices from this legal plunder. START EXCERPT COMMENCING then with the first of the above-named characteristics, I say...

Joe Biden's Twenty-five Greatest Verbal Hits 25 Joe Biden Quotes: What He said Then Only one way to go for Joe Biden...Twenty-five Joe Biden quotes to compare and contrast with what the Delaware senator told the nation last night in the vice-presidential debate. Check back often for updates. Did we miss any reader's favorite Joe Biden verbal moment? If we did, readers can leave their favorites in the comments at the end of this article. “John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the...

Frederic Bastiat Perverted Law Causes Conflict As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose — that it may violate property instead of protecting it — then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious. To know this, it is hardly necessary to examine what transpires in the French and English...