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If Mitt Romney believed Barack Obama his equal, he would fight him from every possible legitimate avenue of attack, just as President Obama is proving there is nothing he won’t do as he clings to lies gutter tactics. Instead, because his adversary is a Black man, he refuses to use the only sure-fire way to shut President Obama up, and drive him from the presidency in disgrace and possibly handcuffs, in defense of America. Romney has the same progressive streak as John McCain, a willingness to suspend reality to the detriment of the country, for a “go along to get...

Kimberly Jo Larkin had the book thrown at her yesterday in a York, Pa. courtroom. The former teacher was sentenced to six to 12 months in prison for her sexual liaison with a 16-year-old student at Paradise School for Boys. Larkin did not deny having sex with the teen, with whom she was intimate at least five times. She simply maintained that their illicit relationship did not begin until after he was no longer her student. But the teen, himself, contradicted Larkin. He was still a student at the Paradise School, he testified in court, when Larkin, then 39-years-old, gave...

By his own admission Barack Obama used drug use and almost certainly passed drugs to his friends. This makes it likely he has committed drug related felonies. Even just passing drugs around in a circle of friends is a “sale of drugs” felony. Nevertheless, it’s not really important whether we have enough definitive evidence to convict Barack Obama in a court room. It is after all, only the seriousness of the charges and not the nature of the evidence that counts. During Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s March 1, 2012 press conference his lead investigator presented a copy of Obama’s draft registration...

More relevant today than ever before- you listening, self-assured Obammunist boneheads? Phil Donahue Show (1979): Donahue:  When you see around the globe the maldistribution of wealth, the desperate plight of millions of people in underdeveloped countries, when you see so few haves and so many have-nots, when you see the greed and the concentration of power... did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism? And whether greed is a good idea to run on? Friedman: Well first of all, is there some society you know that doesn't run on 'greed'? Do you think Russia doesn't run on 'greed'? Do...

Anyone who has watched enough monster movies knows how hard it is to kill the monster. You can set Frankenstein on fire, stab Dracula through the chest with a wooden stake and take the Wolfman to the vet; but sooner or later they come roaring back twice as angry as ever. The Israel Policy Forum, a left-wing group, which mated a few years ago with the Center for American Progress, has split away again to corner that booming market in Jewish organizations that hate Israel; but try to pretend not to when people are watching. With J Street, Jewish Voice...

Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) are rallying this week to pass a bill known as the “Marketplace Fairness Act” that will impose sales tax on internet purchases under the bill of “Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief.” The new tax is a deadly spike being driven into our already handicapped economy. A tax on internet sales would harm America in a time when the economy is already fragile. Many companies have used the internet to sell their products in a quicker and more efficient means. Consumers will now see the prices they pay on...

At a news conference Tuesday in Phoenix that will be live-streamed by WND, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse will present “indisputable proof” the Obama birth document released by the White House is a forgery, according to the posse’s lead investigator...

... "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen," President Obama declared at a campaign stop in Virginia. He goes on to dig an even deeper hole by adding, "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own." ... - Yahoo! Finance, July 16, 2012 President Obama plans to raise taxes on all Americans earning more than $250,000 per year, if re-elected. In other words, Obama plans to stifle the American economic engine. It is easy to sit around complaining about America's "elite, rich." Some U.S. citizens work very hard, but never...

Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s call to the Scottish government to hold a referendum on homosexual marriage because of the intense public interest in the recent consultation has gays objecting with all kinds of lame excuses, suggesting they’re scared of allowing normal Scottish people having a say on the future of marriage.‘Cardinal O’Brien, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, said the marriage consultation received three times more responses than the government’s consultation on the independence referendum, which saw more than 26,000 people share their views. The Scottish government’s consultation on unnatural marriage between men-men, women-women saw more than 80,000 responses.Cardinal O’Brien also...

Barack Hussein Obama's drunk-driving illegal immigrant (half) Uncle Omar (Onyango Obama) is in the news again, but for once not because of his own (mis-) doing.  Although the only difference between him and the illegal, unlicensed, and soused Mexican immigrant that mowed-over a 16-year old girl with his SUV in Minnesota last week -killing her- appears to be dumb luck, he's also got a powerful ally at the very top of the vile regime that's currently running this country.The illegal-immigrant liquor store cashier was first ordered out of the country in 1989, yet he's somehow dodged the law of this land...

A video uploaded by an Occupier under the YouTube account VforVendetta12345678 shows anarchists and radicals have put together a "Welcoming Committee" to protest the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, FL on August 27-30, 2012. Within the video the group states, "Black bloc and Anon Bloc tactics are being encouraged because some say liberal protests get nothing done" and that they are "In no way welcoming", while showing pictures throughout of anarchists performing various acts of vandalism. They continue, "These protests often result in property destruction and clashes with police, when the more radical groups branch off. If you hope...

We are 15 TRILLION dollars in debt. Barack Obama is has added $1 TRILLION dollars to our national debt and hasn’t signed a budget in three years because the Democrats in the Senate will not vote one into law. Since 1986 the national debt has risen from 2 TRILLION dollars to the mess we have today. Here’s how much ONE TRILLION dollars is: spending $60.00 each hour it would take over 31 years to spend a TRILLION dollars. There is NO prosperity in this country and anyone who says we are recovering economically is a liar fool or Obama stooge....

Officers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) expressed their disappointment at the content of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent speech to the organization’s annual meeting. Clayola Brown, member of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors, found fault with “Romney’s assumption that Black people want jobs. The white man still owes us for 300 years of slavery. We don’t need to be told that Mr. Romney will push policies that get us jobs. The time for us to work is past. It’s time for us to get paid.” Board member, Amos Brown, called Romney’s address...

If we can’t find a way stop Barack Obama’s shredding of our Constitution by his arrogant use of Executive Orders we are certainly headed for a Constitutional crisis not seen since the Civil War. Obama’s continued assaults on the rule of law to win support and reelection from those with no stake in our country are now coming at a dangerous pace. His narcissistic “L’État, c’est moi” (“I am the state”) delusion must be stopped or at some point a state governor will refuse to comply with one of his Executive Orders –even one backed up by the Supreme Court....

In a sign of the times, the London Summer Olympics will be defended by anti-aircraft guns and surface-to-air missiles... just as they were in Ancient Greece. G4S, the world's largest security company, was to provide 12,000 security personnel, but has so far only managed to come up with 4,000. In another sign of the times, not all of their security personnel speak English. So instead the British government will be deploying 3,000 troops, all of whom hopefully do speak English. This isn't the first time that the Olympics have come to London. They came in 1908 when the likely threat...

...you can get arrested for expired tags on your car-  but not for being in the country illegally! You know you live in an upside-down country when... Your government believes the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money. A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher "cute"- but hosting sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable. The Supreme Court can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom while sitting in front of a display of the...

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? ~ Paul Ryan… Promoting Prosperity– By: Larry Walker, Jr. –In the United States, real gross private domestic investment currently represents 14.1% of real GDP, or $1.9 trillion. But it only represented 12.6% in 1993, after the Clinton tax hikes. Then in 1997, the Republican-led Congress passed a tax-relief and deficit-reduction bill that was at first resisted but ultimately signed...

So, it wouldn't just be blasphemy (that's already covered by the death sentence), but "insulting Islam" (...and we all know how difficult that is) and those homicidal "clerics"... Once again we see that any accommodation to Islamic law results in demands by and more accommodation of the most brutal, backward and bloody ideology on the face of the earth. Notice the media using "conservative" to describe these savages. More Orwellian language. "Saudi Arabia considers law against insulting Islam" Reuters July 15, 2012 (thanks to David) Saudi Arabia is studying new regulations to criminalise insulting Islam, including in social media, and...

President Barack Obama signed his executive order stopping deportation of some young illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children a scant 13 days before Justice John Roberts flipped his no to a yes allowing the President’s premier legislation to become the law of the land just as Obama’s reelection campaign ramps up. Now some observers are wondering if questions asked about the Roberts’ private adoptions in 2005 during his confirmation hearings might have had a “lingering” effect. According to underneaththeirrobes.blog.com, “Perhaps the children were born in Ireland but were in Latin America immediately prior to their adoption.” The...

In the second part of our five-part series on The Olympics (Part 1 here) we ponder the impossible to predict - the medal count. As Goldman notes: Economists like to think that the toolkit of their profession helps them explain many things or, as some would claim, everything that is interesting about human behavior. In the context of the forthcoming Olympic Games in London, therefore, the key question is whether economic variables can help explain and predict success at the Olympics itself. At one level, this seems like a daft question even to consider. It is hard to imagine...

A short while back, I had lunch with a Christian friend of mine I hadn’t seen in a while. Roger owns the largest Microsoft consulting company in our area of the country, is a good businessman, and a solid believer.We got to talking about work and he surprised me by saying “I really don’t like doing business with other Christians.� When I asked him why, he told me that once the other business finds out he’s a Christian, they take what he called “extensions of grace�. He explained that it could take the form of not paying on time, not...

There was once an America that built its shining cities on a hill in the name of virtue. That nation has been replaced by another nation that builds housing projects in the name of guilt. We used to elect the best men for the job, or at least we believed we did. Now we hold elections of guilt, deciding which oppressed minority has been most shamefully overlooked, before casting our vote for a more diverse and equitable society. Our American exceptionalism now is a small thing that takes place in the shadow of guilt. It is rarely mentioned now without...

The wail across the vast, reasonable U.S. citizenry has been dismay and outrage that Barack Obama undid then-President Bill Clinton's Welfare Reform, which was worked-out with Congress and voted upon and passed by both Chambers of Congress. With a few words, maybe written, but with no name other than a "policy directive," freeloaders may continue to freeload, living on your money and mine, with no need to provide for themselves - no need to show up at employment agencies, no need to find temporary work - no need to do anything but whip out the EBT card and cash the...

According to the The New York Post, sales were up in many of the major tabloids. And why wouldn’t they be? The TomKat split has everything that makes for a great headline: super wealthy Tom, with an estimated net worth of $250 million, what with his fabulous $30 million mansion and private plane. It’s a life most of us can’t imagine.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued notice that it is rewriting the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reform law of 1996. Specifically, HHS is notifying states that they may waive the law’s requirement that welfare recipients must seek work to be eligible for benefits. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) denounced the move calling it “a blatant violation of the law. The whole point of the work requirement was to get people to pull themselves out of poverty. The purpose of this reform was to convert welfare dependency from a way of life into just a temporary condition....

“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, ‘My GOSH, you’re RIGHT! I NEVER would’ve thought of that!” -Dave Barry I read Mark Steyn’s book, After America some time ago. It is a compelling discussion about world demographics, birth rates, and the illegal [and non-assimilating] immigrant populations flooding into America and the rest of what is left of Western Civilization. Also discussed in this article are the long-term effects of decisions about married adults not having kids in America anymore. I seem to recall reading in numerous places...

Here is a chart from reader Tim Wallace showing social security and disability stats for June of 2012 compared to June in prior years. click on chart for sharper image Chart shows those receiving benefits. Those not in the labor force claiming a disability is much higher. Not in Labor Force - With a Disability, 16 Years and Over In terms of effect on unemployment stats, the above chart applies. Beneficiary Data Beneficiary Data in first chart is from Social Security Online. Here are additional charts from the site. Number of Beneficiaries by Type Number of Beneficiaries as of...

For those who are unfamiliar with the site, Lawyers.com is owned by legal services powerhouse LexisNexis. They bill themselves as “the biggest law-oriented website on the American internet [and are focused on providing] interesting, objective, and helpful legal information to people all over the country.” Their supervising producer contacted me early in June seeking help in putting together a story on open carry that would fit their model of short “web-only … legal-related news stories that explain the law [simply] to three-million unique visitors to Lawyers.com per month.” After they put together a reporter and film crew, I agreed to...

YEAH, WELL WE DIDN'T WANT TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11 9/11 accused donÂ’t want hearings during Ramadan (Boston Herald) THE BARACK THAT DIDN'T BARK The only truly interesting thing about the dueling Romney-Biden NAACP appearances is the man who was absent from the show. Obama. As with Sherlock Holmes' dog that didn't bark, the interesting thing about this is the case of the Barack that didn't show up to bark, deliver a few jokes, remind everyone that he is the epitome of the NAACP's accomplishments-- including white people who might be considering casting their vote somewhere else. The contrast between...

The relentless war against the family in Britain continues in the highest court of the land. Baroness Hale, the veteran ‘lifestyle choice’ radical who, as a member of the UK Supreme Court, is the country’s top female judge, has called for cohabiting couples to be given more legal rights. … But marriage is an institution which inescapably confers obligations on those who enter into it. It is a solemn commitment—the most solemn commitment—one person can make to another. It entails, above all, obligations between the spouses. The benefits that accrue to marriage are ineradicably bound up with those obligations. …...

Artificially Raising Taxes Reduces GDP- By: Larry Walker, Jr. -"Tax increases appear to have a very large, sustained and highly significant negative impact on the economy.” ~ Christina Romer, just prior to leaving the Obama Administration -U.C. Berkley Professor and President Obama’s former Chair of his Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Christina Romer, published a paper in 2010, concluding that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP, about $160 billion today, reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent, or $480 billion at current GDP figures. And according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, per...

As New York City plays host to a conference which will shape the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) into final form, most 2nd Amendment supporters are concerned that stealth language or overly broad applications woven into the document will serve to separate Americans from their right to keep and bear arms. After all, why else would preliminary versions of the Treaty be so difficult to obtain and U.N., pre-conference position statements remain consistently absent from the internet? Barack Hussein Obama leads the most anti-gun rights Administration in the nation’s history. Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and recently appointed, ATF...

Dear Freepers, HiTech RedNeck struck out on the two other jobs whose locales were inquired about earlier: Madison WI and Bentonville AR. While a formidable challenger, HTRN had even more formidable competitors and did not win out. Stinging off of the Wisconsin loss (which had looked a lot like a win until the very end) HTRN signed up for two new job boards: corp-corp.com and engineerjobs.com. They looked rinky dink compared to the classy, complex Monster and Dice, but they were ranked high by Google, and I was thinking any new ports in a storm. Well, very shortly HTRN's email...

“Where’s the Controversy in Saving Lives?” asks Melinda Gates, in a blog post defending her $560 million campaign to spread “family planning,” in all its forms, throughout the Third World. She invited visitors to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website to “watch this video and let me know what you think.” So I watched her video and this is what I think: Mrs. Gates has deliberately ignored the link between “family planning” and sexual promiscuity and abortion. She says the aim of her campaign is “simply giving a woman the opportunity to decide when to become a mother.” She...

FOX is confirming that Steven Tyler is leaving American Idol! Wow. Here’s the press release, with quotes from Steven. Well, he and his band got the career boost they needed, at least. I have to wonder, though, if he left or was pushed? In the end, except for a few lulz, he was pretty useless as a judge. It will be interesting to see who takes his place. Steven Tyler has decided to depart his role as a judge on AMERICAN IDOL. Tyler served as a judge during the 10th and 11th seasons of IDOL. “After some long…hard…thoughts…I’ve decided it’s...

Is Obama’s federal government getting ready to put a huge red X mark on the Hoover Dam which supplies most of the American West with its life sustaining water? Having this scenario play out is quite plausible as Barack Obama’s Executive Order # 13547 in support of the global Law of the Sea Treaty (L.O.S.T.) seeks to take control of our water and any form of precipitation from sky to ocean! Total water control will give the American president and his global cohorts total control of all U.S. citizens if this initiative is not stopped by still free citizens. Because...

Here are just a few of the things I miss since America entered the golden age of Hope and Change in January 2009. o Optimism o Going for minutes, hours, even days, without worrying about what weird insanity the government is dreaming up next o Having money o The Border Patrol o Looking up at the moon and thinking, "America - we own space!" o Having a president whose background isn't more closely guarded than the formula for Coke o Going on vacation without the TSA auditioning me for "Stella Does Dallas" o Jobs o Not feeling like I have...

Pope Benedict XVI has stated it clearly: homosexuality is incompatible with the priesthood. But Elizabeth Scalia, a writer/blogger for First Things and The Anchoress on Patheos, disagrees. In a blog post which may be found here, Ms. Scalia writes, "If Christians have any interest in reaching out to the gay community, if we have any hope to speak a message which can touch their hearts as well, we absolutely must be willing to live as their family. Behind his blundering obscenity, behind his facile attempts to explain Scripture away, behind the blatant hypocrisy of his behavior toward those who disagree...

I attended Tuesday's small, yet spirited, rally against the decision by the Board of Health-at Chairman Bloomberg’s urging-to prohibit the sale of sugary drinks above 16 ounces at restaurants and food carts throughout New York City. There were many civically-minded New Yorkers in the crowd-such as the man seen above-brought together by the capricious whims of our current mayor.

Why would Americans buy 150,000 more guns last month than a year ago? All told, gun sales, which skyrocketed in 2008 in advance of the presidential election then fell back somewhat to normal in 2009, are up 27% overall this year compared with 2011 numbers.

Last Thursday, yet another example of the corrupt attempts at appeasement of our enemies within and without was displayed in the rotten-to-the-core decision by three of a five-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to uphold the insanely unjust conviction of 1st Lt. Michael Behenna for unpremeditated murder of a known al Qaeda operative who was suspected of orchestrating a bombing that injured and killed members of Lt. Behenna’s platoon. You may recall this awful story of an American hero Army Ranger caught in the upside-down world of a military machine so compromised by leftist ideology...

In the library's history section all the shelves are crowded together. In the Middle East, opposing polemics are wedged up against each other. Alan Dershowitz rubs shoulders with Tony Judt who leans onto George Gilder who balances out Norman Finkelstein who flakes bits of paper on Benjamin Netanyahu. Though located in the history section, most of these books are not history. They are long opinion pieces, arguments for and against the Jewish State. On the left there are vituperative diatribes and on the right there are earnest defenses. The Holocaust Industry contends with The Case for Israel, The Jewish Lobby...

In defense of Brad Pitt’s mom by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2012Hollywood and the American left love diversity, except when it offends their "progressive" value system.Witness the reaction to actor Brad Pitt's mother, Jane, who publicly opposed President Obama's re-election. Mrs. Pitt's pro-life, anti-gay marriage statement to her local paper last week enflamed the Tolerance Mob. And her mere expression of dissident political views exposed the glittering hypocrisy of the left-wing "No H8" campaign.In a letter to the editor for Missouri's Springfield News-Leader, Mrs. Pitt responded to another reader who argued that Christians should not support Mitt Romney because of his...

After watching the NAACP tell Romney's he's 'too white' to listen-to (then booing him), I just happened upon Stacy McCain's take on how Mittens carried himself... he makes a superb  point: Today I watched Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention and was impressed that he did not pander. Yes, portions of his speech were aimed specifically at his audience — Romney talked a lot about education reform as a means of promoting opportunity — but for the most part, Mitt gave his standard Republican stump speech, saying the same things to the NAACP I’d heard him say to crowds in Iowa, New Hampshire,...

By Were George Zimmerman Black, nobody would know Travon Martin’s name. Obama wouldn’t be claiming either one looked like his son, just as he hasn’t previously claimed any of the thousands of anonymous Black youths killed by their peers. Black on Black crime doesn’t get to Obama or Eric Holder. Actually, Black crime, or crimes committed by Blacks, don’t seem to warrant anything less than their scorn. New Black Panthers threatening and menacing Whites at a polling place during an election is ignored. Victims and perps wrong colors. You’re a racist for caring. Barack Obama using a fraudulent Social Security...

Since its debut back in 1998, ESPN the Magazine has tried to find a hook to rival the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Well, the editors at “the Mag,” as they refer to their publication, may very well have found it with their annual “Body Issue,” which just arrived at newsstands. It boasts multiple covers, the most shocking of which features New England Patriots tight-end Rob Gronkowski, in all his naked splendor, striking a full-frontal pose, save for a strategically-placed dot covering his package. And Gronkowski is not the only athlete that put out for ESPN’s Body Issue. Another 26 jocks...

Say that you get a tempting offer from a Nigerian prince and decide to invest some money in helping him transfer his vast fortune from Burkina Faso or Dubai over to the bank across the street. The seemingly simple task of bringing over the 18 million dollars left to him by his father hits some snags which require you to put in more and more of your own money. Eventually you have invested more than you ever would have ever done up front, just trying to protect the sunk cost, the money that you already sank into Prince Hussein Ngobo’s...

Saturday, July 7th, 2012, Barney Frank slobbered his vows to his "partner" in a mockery of legitimate marriage. Not oogie enough for you? At the reception, Nancy Pelosi danced to "It's Raining Men."

When you hear talk about Barack Obama winning Pennsylvania in November remember that’s all it is: “talk.” Obama won Pennsylvania 55/44 in 2008 beating the hapless John McCain by 620,478 votes. But that was then and this is now. “…. serious obstacles to an Obama victory not the least of which is the Commonwealth’s successful efforts to foreclose a large amount of Democrat voter fraud. The Pennsylvania voter ID law has the potential to singlehandedly stop 750,000 fraudulent votes; more than enough to overcome Obama’s margin in 2008 if all other factors were equal which they are not. Pennsylvania’s Democrats...

Secret Message in Lincoln’s Pocketwatch, 1861 ‘In 2009 the Smithsonian found a “secret” message engraved in Abraham Lincoln’s watch by a watchmaker who was repairing it in 1861 when news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Washington, D.C. ‘In an interview with The New York Times April 30, 1906, 84-year-old Jonathan Dillon recalled he was working for M.W. Galt and Co. on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, where he was repairing Lincoln’s watch. The owner of the shop announced that the first shot of the Civil War had been fired. Dillon reported that he unscrewed the dial of the watch,...