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Neil Cavuto's Common Sense This isn't about banning cupcakes in school. This is about banning personal responsibility in America. Don't you see what's going on here? You can't take care of yourself. Let the food police take care of yourself for you. You can't control your kids' weight. Let the government control their weight for you. You can't read the paperwork on a subprime mortgage you suddenly can't pay, let the government pay it for you. You can't find a level playing field with the rich? Let the government tax them more and level it for you. See a trend...

When Casey Johnson and his wife moved to San Diego County three years ago, they couldn't find a home in their price range. So they did what they thought was the sensible thing. Rather than over-leverage themselves with a risky mortgage, the couple rented an apartment in La Jolla and waited patiently for the housing market to drift back to earth, hoping they hadn't missed their chance to become homeowners. The value of a rate freeze Graphic The value of a rate freeze click to enlarge But now the government-brokered plan unveiled Thursday by President Bush to ease terms on...

Former professional basketball player Jason Caffey had two children with his wife, and at least six other children with women in metro Atlanta, Alabama, Louisiana and Illinois. Professional football player Travis Henry, a Denver Broncos running back with a $25 million contract, has nine children by nine women in four Southern states, including a Lithonia boy fathered out of wedlock three years ago. Caffey, who earned as much as $5 million a season in a 10-year NBA career with the Chicago Bulls, Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks, filed for bankruptcy in Alabama in August. His wife, who lives in...

When used as a noun, the word debate means, "A discussion involving opposing points of view." Using such a definition, the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are engaging in something other than debate. The Democrats agree that President Bush is a lousy president, the war is lost, higher taxes are good and whoever is talking would make the better president. The Republicans, who rarely mention the president, agree Hillary Clinton would be a bad president and each could fight terrorists better than any Democrat, except for Ron Paul, who doesn't want to fight anyone. These things resemble the game show...

At Friends of Fred Thompson our mission is to explain how great a leader and future President Fred will be. We believe to take the measure of a man you must understand his principles. What will be the standards he applies as issues come before him? Fred Thompson has clear principles he has honed through his years of public service. We now have those principles on the Fred08.com website. Here are a few: Individual Liberty. As Jefferson spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, our basic rights come from God, not from government, and that among these inalienable rights is...

Cooler temps have arrived in the Midwest.The country continues to debate & absorb the reports of Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker.Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson's statement about his church attendance is attracting attendance among conservative talk radio listeners.

When a soldier puts on his uniform, he wears more than cloth and insignia. He places himself within the boundaries that the uniform represents. And he solemnly covenants that he will restrain his personal desires and wishes, so as to bring credit and respect to the service he chooses. That respect can mean the difference between an enemy's calculation that we are too strong to attack… or else ripe for the picking. Except in cases where society may have compelled his actions, such as a war-time draft, he who has voluntarily joined that service has done so with full knowledge...

Good morning!Felix, Cat5, heads for central America.Heat continues across the s.west.A year from now, the Presidential campaign "officially" gets underway - Labor Day, '08 - and by then, we'll be so bored of it all we won't care a jot.

Good morning!Illegal immigration crackdown continues.Hurricane Dean aims for Mexico.What will the markets do this week?.Massive flooding in OK and MN, and other parts of the midwest.

Karl Rove is leaving the White House at the end of Aug. Governor Romney wins the Iowa Straw Poll, and Huckabee comes in second.Fred Thompson has not declared his candidacy.

British PM Gordon Brown heads to Washington for his first meeting with President Bush.Iraq triumphs over Saudia Arabia for soccer's Asia Cup.

Elizabeth Edwards called in to a cable news show and said that Ann Coulter’s words had hurt her feelings. Hillary Clinton wailed that the Pentagon Undersecretary had insulted her patriotism. Mean old neocons just keep stomping on liberal sensitivities. Not to be outdone, the Islamic Rage Boy says his feelings are hurt, too. “I do not like being called Islamic Rage Boy, it is not nice; but why should I care what people think of me in this life? The afterlife will decide my fate, not a mousemat.” “I am not happy with people joking about me or making me...

Good morning!A coolish morning here: Global Warming strikes again!( I really should do better to come up with something more substantial for this space....)

We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not failHope your weekend was enjoyable and productive, and you're ready for the week ahead!Let's hope the news stories which reflect in some measure our national interests move away from Paris What's-her-name!

One of our recurrent themes has been the general failure of political leaders in the West to display either a clear or adequate understanding of why the "Market Economy" out-performs all others, or a comprehension of the relevance of the principles involved to virtually every other facet of human inter-action. With the economic collapse of European Communism, even World Socialists began to accept the superiority of a Market driven economy. Yet neither they, nor most Capitalists, have shown any grasp of the actual dynamics. Rather, evident phenomena have been treated much as a correct recognition of the benefits of herbal...

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A court in San Francisco ruled that a roommate-matching Web site may be held accountable for what users say about their preferences. A three-judge panel of the federal appeals court ruled in favor of two California fair housing groups that brought the complaint against Roommate.com, saying the Web site violates the Fair Housing Act by allowing users to specify roommate preferences based on sex, race, religion and sexual orientation, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The ruling took away the main argument of the defense: that a 1996 ruling granting immunity to Internet service providers that...

- This post is an excerpt from the article "A Call to Arms - An American Resolution - What every Jewish, Christian and Muslim American citizen can and should do to help secure our liberties in the War for the Free World", by Sam Adams Part 2 - It is all of our responsibility There is currently a morale problem in this country. This dearth of American pride puts us in a very dangerous position with regards to our prospect for defending ourselves against the current and future threats that are sure to come. Every generation is charged with a...

- This post is an excerpt from the article "A Call to Arms - An American Resolution - What every Jewish, Christian and Muslim American citizen can and should do to help secure our liberties in the War for the Free World", by Sam Adams Part 2 - It is all of our responsibility There is currently a morale problem in this country. This dearth of American pride puts us in a very dangerous position with regards to our prospect for defending ourselves against the current and future threats that are sure to come. Every generation is charged with a...

As we settle into the nighttime of despair, fret not, for the Sun will rise again!!Good morning everyone.Dog is on vacation...Raven is headed to Italy...Carolinamom is firing up her Grass Hog...And the Dems continue to undermine this great country. The confrontation between Capitol Hill and the White House over the Iraq War timetable seems imminent.

Raising G-Rated Kids In A X-Rated World http://www.cbn.com/family/parenting/Burns_G-RatedKids.aspx By Jim Burns HomeWord Fri, Apr 13, 2007 CBN.com – Raising kids in today’s culture is not easy. There’s no question that the way we parent is influenced by the world we live in. And what a world it is! We need to help our children deal with drugs, sexuality, movies, television, video games, the Internet, terrorism, and war. It’s our goal as parents to raise our kids in this X-rated culture to become G-rated people. It can feel overwhelming trying to give our teenagers the tools they need to make godly...