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Rather flattered that Day by Day Cartoon reviewed my latest book and found a good angle to bash Obama all in one pass. Nice touch getting the plug by a hot redhead in a tub too.

When the news reporters becomes NEWS themselves. Here’s the Shep Smith/Shannon Bream video in context, per Hot Air’s request. Not sure it makes a difference. It starts with Shep revisiting the McDonnell Thesis and why oh why the Deeds attacks didn’t work (old news?) with Carl Cameron. Carl explains … well Shep, its the economy silly. Shep moves on to Shannon Bream who is at an event with Chris Christie, the Republican running in New Jersey. The money stuff is about one minute from the end where Shep jumps ugly on Shannon for not having Corzine too.

Here is video of Shepard Smith apologizing for "lack of balance." Shannon Bream interviewed Republican Chris Christie. After the interview Shepard Smith asked "when will you be interviewing Jon Corzine?" Shannon Bream answered that they have multiple requests in and they will interview him "when it comes through." Shepard Smith reacted by saying "wow, I didn't that was about to happen my apologies for the lack of balance there, if I had control it wouldn't have happened." (Video)

And now, we see, there are groups attempting to commit voter fraud through absentee ballots: A state Supreme Court justice invalidated 39 absentee ballots in question for the Working Families Party primary in Troy after a court hearing last month. County Legislature Majority Leader Robert Mirch of Troy, working with private investigators, obtained affidavits from voters who said they did not cast the absentee ballots and that the ballots were fraudulent. Trey Smith, a former assistant district attorney, has been named as a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations. City Democrats and Republicans have fought over the Working Families Party...

Like Jim Vicevich, I like Shep Smith, but has he "sold out"on the healthcare issue? It’s classic Shep … he gets pretty hot. Senator Barrasso from Wyoming must have been scratching his head and wondering if he had suddenly been transported to MSNBC. I like Shep Smith very much. I think he is honest and sincere, and this certainly will not change my opinion of him, but this is just classic “wrong”.

From left to right: Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith. (Reuters) Three scientists who harnessed the power of light in ways that turned the Internet into a global phenomenon and launched the digital-camera revolution were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.Charles Kao, who was born in Shanghai and has both U.K. and U.S. citizenships, received half the total prize money of $1.4 million. Dr. Kao was lauded for a breakthrough that led to fiber-optic cables, the thin glass threads that carry a vast chunk of the world's phone and data traffic.The other half of the prize is shared...

NASHVILLE — Republican congressional hopeful Robin Smith says that, when she was state GOP chairman last year, then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama labeled her as “everything from racist to terrorist to extremist” after the state party posted a video criticizing Michelle Obama. Mrs. Smith, who is running in the 3rd Congressional District primary, made the assertion in a recently videotaped interview with Helen Smith, a commentator for the conservative Internet Web site Pajamas TV. Dr. Smith, no relation to the candidate, asked why more women do not run for office. “From personal experience I can tell you ... I was...

A man who had claimed to have a copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, attempted to sell it on eBay and then disappeared from contact has reappeared, this time with a video of the document he claims proves Obama's foreign birth. As WND reported, Lucas Smith, a former resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and known by the eBay handle "colmado_noranja," claimed online and in phone conversations with WND to have an authentic document from Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa proving Obama's birth there at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961.

GUESTS Friday, July 24  Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) joins us to talk about the health care reform bill currently being discussed by Congress. Also on Friday, Fr. Thomas Berg will join Arroyo to talk about his organization, The Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, as well as the new NIH stem cell research guidelines and the controversy over New York State's plan to pay women for their eggs. Fr. Tom will also touch on the apostolic visitation to the Legion’s institutions as well as his hopes for the order.

Jacqui Smith has admitted she was not up to being Home Secretary - and should have been given some proper training before she was handed the job. Ms Smith, who is likely to be remembered for claiming expenses for a porn film watched by her husband, said any success she had was down to luck rather than skill. She added: "When I became Home Secretary I'd never run a major organisation. I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of skills.

Smith, who moved to Florida since losing to John Sununu in the 2002 GOP primary, is now looking at running for the open seat left by retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.).

June 10, 2009 Shepard Smith's assault on Conservatives I'm sure many of my readers were tuned into Fox News this afternoon between 2:30pm-4:00PM I was stunned at the misguided comments of Shepard Smith regarding the Holocaust Museum shooting. Smith was attempting to make a profound correlation between the shooting suspect James Von Brunn and those who publish websites that criticize Barack Obama. One could say that this is subjective and Smith's accusations were really directed at people who are anti-semitic or calling for assassinations. However, Smith removed any “benefit of a doubt” we could have afforded him when he pointed...

Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's reign was on brink, but spokesman said nothing happens in Senate till Smith says so. ALBANY - Blame it on the BlackBerry. Upstate billionaire Thomas Golisano said he began plotting to overthrow Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith after the Democrat spent a whole meeting in late April reading e-mails. "Of course I was upset, I thought that was very rude," he said of the meeting in Smith's office. "When I travel 250 miles to make a case on how to save the state a lot of money ... and the guy comes into his office and...

Coup plotters have always rationalized their devious plots as necessary to realize the will of the people.The Republican-led junta that seized control of the state Senate yesterday was no exception. "This is a new beginning for New York State," propagandized one of the Democratic turncoats that made the coup possible, Bronx Sen. Pedro Espada. "A new beginning of bipartisan government, a new beginning of real reform." What a crock. This was a GOP power grab, plain and simple. The Republicans saw a chance to overturn last fall's election results, which put Democrats in the majority for the first time since...

Former New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith, now of Sarasota, has filed to run for Florida's open US senate seat: "I can no longer sit on the sidelines in the fight for the soul of the Republican party." He called Charie Crist a "movement away from our core conservative values." And Marco Rubio? "Leadership is not about counting votes and making compromises. His experience as speaker of the House makes Rubio a good coalition builder. However, strong political leadership, not wheeling and dealing, will ignite out base and restore our party to power."

The GOP forms a group to combat the left-wing slant of the lamestream media.

We have often contended that unusual, inexplicable, and/or irresponsible actions by a public official is often symptomatic of serious ethical problems or even criminal behavior. In Luzerne County PA, for example, former judge Mark Ciavarella was known for sentencing juvenile defendants to detention programs without benefit of legal counsel, which should have told the community long ago that something was wrong with him. There was; he recently pleaded guilty to charges that involved kickbacks in connection to the construction and operation of juvenile detention facilities. Ciavarella pleaded guilty and now faces more than seven years in prison. British Home Secretary...

t's the clash of the titans, pitting talk-radio god against fierce national gatekeeper. Michael Savage made good on his threat to sue British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for libel, with the official notification letter arriving at her office Monday. Her response: bring it on.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- As Emma Smith described, Joseph Smith was "neither able to write nor dictate a coherent and well-worded letter, let alone dictate a book like the Book or Mormon." But that does not mean that Joseph Smith was uneducated, nor does it mean that he did not have vast knowledge of the Bible. "The Smith family's oral culture was so thoroughly imbued with biblical language, both the Old and New Testament, that its use was fluent, easy and familiar" argued Lavina Fielding Anderson in her presentation "Mother Tongue: King James Version Language in Smith Family Discourse" last week...

"Within a few years of the martyrdom, Gov. Thomas Ford recognized that the events that unfolded in Carthage might transform a common county jail into sacred space...that Nauvoo and the Carthage Jail may become holy and venerable names, places of classic interest like Jerusalem." The governor was right, explained Brian Q. Cannon, a BYU history professor speaking at the Mormon History Association conference May 22 on "Long Shall His Blood ... Stain Illinois: Carthage Jail in Mormon Memory." Carthage Jail became a sacred memorial for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. SNIP And the question of...

'Rules' for ConservativesThese 'rules' have a three-fold purpose – to illustrate the hideous and mean-spirited tactics of the Statists, have fun ridiculing them and put forward some Conservative “Stratergeries” to use back at them. Saul ‘Lewinsky’ uses the term “enemy” in referring to their political opposition, speaking volumes on the mindset of the radical left. Instead of being fair and open-minded, with only ‘good intentions’, this is how they really see the opposition. Numbered 1 through 13, there are really only about half that number, being just the same tired ideas repeated a few times. Half the list drones on...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - During his commencement address at Notre Dame on Sunday, President Obama said he was in favor of what he termed a "sensible conscience clause" as well as a reduction in abortions. In response two U.S. congressmen yesterday held a press conference and sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to publicly forgo his efforts to rescind the Bush era conscience protection regulation.The Obama administration in February began the process of repealing a conscience regulation instituted by the Department of Health and Human Services under President Bush late last year. The measure...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series might well have been influenced by her country's experience in the years before the Second World War, and some of the characters seem to have historical or contemporary counterparts. Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge (Neville Chamberlain) does not wish to believe that Lord Voldemort (Hitler) has returned, and he uses the media to smear anybody who says otherwise. Fudge instead accuses Professor Dumbledore (Winston Churchill?) of assembling a private army with which to take over the Ministry of Magic as opposed to defending it against the Death Eaters: obvious counterparts of Nazis. The Death Eaters'...

She led a charge to restrict the word "terrorism," instead urging government employees to refer to the phenomenon as "anti-Islamic activity." She had been labeled a "pocket dictator," with some of her practices referred to by media critics as "truly Big Brother stuff." She attempted to introduce a giant government database to track all citizen e-mails, phone calls and Internet activity. Meet Jacqui Smith, the British home secretary who today made public a list of individuals banned from the U.K. since October, including radio superstar Michael Savage. She announced she decided to release the list so others could better understand...

In June 1828 Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism, joined the Methodist Church [probationary class] in Harmony, Pennsylvania. This was a strange thing for this prophet of a new religion to do, and seriously challenges the story he put out ten years later about the origin of his work. That later story claims that in 1820 Joseph Smith had seen two glorious personages, identified as the Father and the Son, and was informed that the creeds of all the “sects,” or various denominations, “were an abomination” and he was twice forbidden to join any of them. In retelling this...

How many people in need of a message of comfort during tough times turn to the book of Habakkuk? I am perhaps less spiritual than most for I do not think immediately of this wonderful book. For starters a man with a weird name wrote it and secondly it is in a weird section of the Bible. By this I mean that every person that has tried and failed to read the Bible through, a wonderful thing we should all strive to do multiple times a year in my opinion, has failed somewhere between the begats and Numbers. The general...

Rep. Chris Smith / Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Washington D.C., Apr 22, 2009 / 04:33 pm (CNA).- During a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) questioned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about whether the Obama administration is seeking to weaken or overturn pro-life laws and policies in other countries. Secretary Clinton responded to his questions, affirming that the U.S. government’s definition of reproductive health includes access to abortion. Rep. Smith began his comments by criticizing Secretary Clinton’s reception of the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in Houston in March. Secretary Clinton said...

"Don't get your hate on". LOL!

While President Obama may believe America is arrogant, I think he is totally wrong. America is not arrogant; it is ignorant.

Congressmen Chris Smith Washington D.C., Apr 2, 2009 / 01:25 pm (CNA).- In an impassionate address to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Congressmen Chris Smith (R-NJ,) argued that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the speech delivered immediately after, in Houston, Texas, during Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award  were completely  inexcusable. Smith said that Clinton’s visit to the Catholic Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, where she presented a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the American people, was “a very nice gesture.” But the gesture...

Someone must have sat him down and explained how we got into this financial mess, cuz he just laid it out on FOX in his own editorial. Better late than never, Shep.

In the past, I have supported the work of Jim Minnery, president of the Alaska Family Council. But Mr. Minnery crossed the line with his recent hit-piece, an email sent to thousands of Alaskans criticizing our new Supreme Court justice -- Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen, one of two finalists whose names had been submitted to Gov. Sarah Palin. The governor appointed Judge Christen to the Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday. Judge Christen is the second woman in state history to serve on the high court. I have known Judge Christen for almost 20 years. As a mother and wife,...

The subtitle is "The Bible and LDS Scriptures Prove Conclusively that Mormons Are not Biblical Christians" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Historically, only until recently have Mormons wanted to be called Christians, preferring not to be included with Christian denominations, which Joseph Smith said were, "all wrong ... all their creeds were an admonition in his sight, and that those professors (Christians) were all corrupt" (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith, 2:18-19). Mormons have preferred to be called "saints"; however, in the recent years the LDS church has spent millions in an intense "PR" campaign aimed at moving the church into the mainstream of...

Ever wonder what today's Mormon Church would be like if Joseph Smith had never practiced polygamy? Here's just a few of the lasting legacies due to Joseph Smith "restoring" the doctrine of Polygamy: 1. Creation of Temple Endowment In order to keep Smith's Polygamy a secret, he came up with the temple endowment with its oaths of secrecy. On Wednesday, May 4th, 1842, Joseph Smith initiated nine men into his new inner-circle called the "Holy Order," the "Quorum," the "Holy Order of the Holy Priesthood," or the "Quorum of the Anointed." For the first year, only a very select few...

OGDEN, Utah -- Using the Bible as an entry point can help people better understand the mystery that is Joseph Smith, a prominent scholar of LDS Church History advocates. Utah State University professor Phillip Barlow said the Bible is a key to seeing Joseph Smith through different eyes Monday evening in a special public lecture at Weber State University's Lindquist Alumni Center. Speaking on "Joseph Smith, the Bible, and the Modern Mormon Mind," Barlow, the Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at USU, said the Bible "represents a DNA strand of Joseph Smith's thinking." He said the U.S....

A rare 1841 copy of the Book of Mormon that likely belonged to Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, is now owned by the LDS Church, the gift of a church member who wishes to remain anonymous... Her name imprinted on the base of the book's spine identifies it as Lucy's book, likely a "presentation copy" from the 1841 edition published in England. Because of superior and less-expensive printing and binding, the edition was made there, commissioned by LDS Church apostles on a mission in that land and acting at the behest of Joseph Smith. It was...

Dutch MP Geert Wilders is "seriously considering" taking steps to sue Jacqui Smith over her decision to ban the controversial film-maker from the UK. The legal action would have the backing of the Dutch Government, in a move which could aggravate the diplomatic row over the ban between London and Amsterdam. Mr Wilders said he was looking to take legal action against the Home Secretary for "blatant discrimination" in the High Court or International Court in the Hague.

Former Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.) is thinking about running for the Senate again in 2010, but not in the state that sent him to Washington the first time.Smith, who moved to Florida since losing to John Sununu in the 2002 GOP primary, is now looking at running for the open seat left by retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.).According to the New Hampshire Union-Leader, Smith has sent an e-mail to supporters seeking their input on the race.“The purpose of this letter is to simply ask for your opinion as to whether I should be a candidate,� Smith said, according to the...

What's the deal with Sheperd Smith? He seems to have a tingle going up and down his leg all day long. Has anyone else noticed this? January 20, 2009 Time for Healing? It depends on what their meaning of "healing" is by MrArbitrage After 8 years of the venomous vilification of George W. Bush, liberals in the "mainstream" media, some of whom actually called for Bush’s assassination (veiled as a joke) – now say they want a new tone! “It’s time for the healing. they say” How magnanimous. Marketwatch columnist Marshall Loeb wrote a piece today titled “How Obama Can...

Sen. Smith Calls for Budget Reform Says Transparency Needed Before Taxpayer Money is Spent ROANOKE, VA-- The State Senate had only 34 minutes to review $77,000,000,000 in taxpayer spending when it passed the Commonwealth's two year budget last spring. The sprint to pass the now battered budget prevented taxpayers and even most legislators from reviewing the final spending proposal. Senator Ralph Smith (R-Botetourt) has introduced SB 934 this session to ensure that does not happen again. The legislation would require the conference committee report to be posted on the General Assembly's website for 72 hours before legislators could vote on...

Modalism is the name given to an ancient heretical teaching that denies that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons within the one Divine Being or Godhead. Instead, it teaches that they are only three different modes in which one Divine Person (the God of the Bible) has revealed Himself at different times, just as a single actor might play several different parts in a movie. As the late Sir Alec Guinness did long ago in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Kirk Douglas did in Man From Snowy River (1982), or Kate Hudson did more recently in Alex and...

Dallas police said Tuesday early tests connect a former Utah state trooper to Monday's series of rush-hour shootings in Garland and Dallas. Two people were killed and another was injured in the shootings Monday evening. Dallas police said they think Brian Smith, 37, a former Utah trooper who shot himself early Tuesday morning during a standoff in Garland, shot and killed a big-rig driver in Dallas. They declined to comment on the other death in neighboring Garland because it was outside their jurisdiction. "I certainly believe that he is going to be linked to the Dallas offenses -- the three...

I recently stumbled upon a very interesting website from a company that designs and builds high-end, high efficiency homes and commercial structures. Tedd Benson (founder of Bensonwood, Inc.) takes his own industry to task for their complicity in the current housing collapse. According to Tedd, the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) ignored the public good and continued to lobby for loose or non-existant credit standards in order to keep the housing bubble inflated. But for how long? The current bust, which may have broader implications far beyond our wildest nightmares, was both inevitable and predictable. Tedd ends his blog entry...

Sen. Chambliss (R-GA) is going to win in his State, Smith (R-OR) will lose. I think that Sen. Coleman (R-MN) will barely win his re-election (with 48% reporting, he is actually trailing the rat), but who knows? Any news/internals from AK?

Barney Smith before Smith Barney

The well-publicized story of Joseph Smith's First Vision is not a true account of the origin of the Latter-day Saint movement. The facts are decided against it! First, the historical evidence shows that Joseph Smith, Jr. could not have been stirred by an 1820 revival, to ask which church was true. Second, early Mormon statements do not support his claim that in 1820 he learned through a visitation of the Father and the Son that all existing churches were wrong. Third, the details known about Joseph's early life contradict his assertion that in 1820 he had such a divine visitation...

Should Christians mourn on July 4, given what a disaster the United States has been for the world? Much of the Religious Left thinks so! Undoubtedly speaking for many left-wing seminary faculty and clergy, Ted Smith of Vanderbilt University penned an editorial for this month’s Christian Century magazine called: “The Fourth of July: How Does a Christian Celebrate?”

There’s some idea out there in the world that Will Smith "owns" the July 4 holiday weekend in terms of box office. I guess this is because of "Independence Day," one of my favorite movies, and "Men in Black," also quite good, released, respectively, in 1996 and 1997 on that weekend. Alas, all good hype must come to an end. "Hancock," with which Sony is hoping to have a merry July 4, 2008, may not duplicate Smith’s previous successes. It is one of the worst family holiday weekend releases of recent memory — and jaw-droppingly so. And that’s hard to...

Smith Act of 1940 The Alien Registration Act of 1940, usually called the Smith Act because the antisedition section was authored by Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia, was adopted at 54 Statutes at Large 670-671 (1940). The Act has been amended several times and can now be found at 18 U.S. Code § 2385 (2000). § 2385. Advocating Overthrow of Government. Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the...