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Though you won't hear about this one in the New York Times, Governor Palin scored another win yesterday. More than 18 months after her resignation as Governor of the State, she continues to fight legal battles that began following her 2008 run with John McCain to lead our nation. This win comes from the Alaska Supreme Court, which issued a ruling yesterday clearing her and then Alaska Attorney General, Talis Colberg. In November 2008, following her return from the Vice Presidential trail, Governor Palin came under unprecedented legal attack. Among those legal challenges was a law suit filed by Ben...

On Wednesday evening, Wisconsin state senators finally voted to end collective bargaining for government employees, bringing to a close three weeks of protests and public controversy. Upon hearing the news, leftist demonstrators outside the state capitol went berserk, forcing the Republican senators to leave the capitol. The vote sidestepped Senate Democrats’ much-reported stalling tactic of fleeing the state to prevent a quorum. Instead of waiting until their absent colleagues deigned to do their jobs, last night the Republicans removed fiscal provisions within the bill, enabling passage without a 20 member quorum. The final vote was 18 Republicans in favor, 1...

Knights of Columbus to reassemble the creche in front of the borough building as part of a larger holiday display as soon as Tuesday ---snip--- Members of council after the meeting said they expected the nativity to be back in its place in front of the borough building as soon as Tuesday morning. It will join the Christmas tree, wreaths and other holiday decorations already on the lawn. After the vote, Milioto applauded the residents of Canonsburg for their tenacity and cooperation through the process. "Tonight was a display of peaceful government working together," he said, acknowledging that all of...

"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president," President Obama told Diane Sawyer of ABC News in January 2010. Liar. President Obama has a pattern when it comes to his political rhetoric. If he talks about foreign policy, he tells the truth; if he talks about domestic policy, he lies. That's because President Obama feels that while the rest of the world deserves honesty, the American people can be manipulated for their own good.Normally, President Obama has utilized this dichotomy of dissemblance to press for socialism, both foreign and domestic

If the polls are any indicator, these elections portend a revolution: one that could resemble the Reagan Revolution in raw political force, thanks to the tea party movement. As the congressional campaign season hits its homestretch, it is readily apparent that there will be more at stake in these mid-term elections than at any time since 1994. They present us not simply with the choice of Republican candidates versus Democrats, but of candidates fighting for small government versus those that support the swollen beast liberalism has created. In truth, the views of Sarah Palin are pitted against those of House...

Texas Rangers Notch First World Series Win October 30, 2010 8:55 PM ARLINGTON (AP) – Mitch Moreland hit a three-run homer in the second inning, Josh Hamilton added a solo shot in the fifth and the Texas Rangers beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2 on Saturday night to close to 2-1 in the World Series. With former President George W. Bush watching from a front-row seat, winner Colby Lewis allowed two runs and five hits in 7 2-3 innings. Neftali Feliz pitched the ninth for the save, completing a five-hitter. Down 4-0, San Francisco came back on solo home runs...

I just finished a review of the CA House races, reading all the polls, forecasts, and projections. It looks like there are 12 races that are mostly off the radar and mostly un-polled where a Republican has a chance to pickup democrat seats. In CA-1 Loren Hanks(R) has an opponent who has voted with Pelosi 98.5% of the time. Hanks is a solid conservative and needs support. http://www.hanksforcongress.com In CA-11 David Harmer has a slight lead in recent polls of Jerry McNerney. He is well funded but could still use help. http://www.harmerforcongress.com There is no reason that there should be...

BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Kyle Busch made NASCAR history Saturday night with an unprecedented sweep of three national races in one week, completing the trifecta with a victory in the Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Opponents of immigration enforcement are calling the temporary injunction against parts of Arizona's anti-illegal-immigration law a death blow to state enforcement. The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund called it a “warning to other states” that want to enact similar legislation. As the author of the new law, SB 1070, I can honestly say that July 29, when the pared-down law went into effect, was a victory. Many key provisions are still in effect. Local police have more power to enforce immigration laws. Sanctuary cities are outlawed. Illegal day laborers are likely to be arrested and the employers' trucks that pick

Chris Matthews, during his syndicated The Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, warned viewers that a big win for Republicans in the upcoming midterms could lead to a bunch of "oddballs" coming to Washington. Matthews, citing a New York magazine article by Jennifer Senior, alerted his audience that if the Tea Party is successful in November it could be reminiscent of the Republican class of 1994 when a bunch of "nutty standouts" arrived. Matthews then went on to list two groups of Republicans who were elected in 1994 and placed them in two groups: "the black helicopter crowd

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been hammered for months from the left and right, with prognosticators in both parties predicting that Nevada voters will send him packing come November. But Reid, his reelection team and some Senate Democratic insiders are eyeing a bank shot to victory — one that involves enough voters picking third-party candidates or even “none of the above” to let Reid win reelection with less than 50 percent of the vote. Reid trails former Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden by 8 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll released Sunday by the...

INDIANAPOLIS – So Butler went nearly 11 second-half minutes without a basket and won. The Bulldogs shot 30.4 percent from the field and beat Michigan State 52-50 anyway. They dished just five assists and got outrebounded and the Bulldogs – the Butler Bulldogs! – are going to play for the national title on Monday. And you want to discount their chances now? Butler in the finale is improbable. The last school from a smaller conference without a major football program to play for the title was Indiana State in 1979. The Sycamores had Larry Bird though. Butler, on the other...

My fellow disappointed conservatives, former conservatives, and disgusted conservatives, it is time for all good Republicans to come to the defense of David Frum and to endorse his critique of radical right-wing talk-show rhetoric. If you've left the party in disgust, call up your friends who are still members and get them to do it for you. I am not writing this because David Frum is my friend, although he is. I am writing this because I have just come back from London, where I got a close-up look at the state of the British Conservative Party, once the intellectual...

Work at FIRE long enough, and sooner or later you're bound to think you've seen it all when it comes to censorship on campus. After nearly four years here, I certainly thought I could no longer be shocked by the suppression of student speech. But a story from East Texas this week has floored me. Here's what happened: On February 25, Texas A&M-Commerce's student newspaper The East Texan featured a front-page story reporting that two members of the school's football team had been arrested on drug charges. But many of The East Texan's readers never got to read that story...

When you're an MSMer, you're an MSMer all the way--even when faced with facts that might make you like, well, ridiculous . . . Mike Allen, appearing on Morning Joe, has declared the NY-23rd race a "real toss-up" despite a new poll from a respected organization showing Doug Hoffman with a 17-point lead. The claim by Allen, Politico's chief political correspondent, was so absurd that, on the spot, host Joe Scarborough offered 3:1 odds to Allen and anyone else wanting to place a few kopeks on Dem Bill Owens.

Third parties don't work, the Republicans are as bad as the Democrats, most of the existing politicians are universally corrupt. How and who is anyone going to plan, organize, determine new candidates and accomplish taking back our government from all of the corrupt bunch in Washington, D.C. I do not see leadership, organization or any serious effort to keep all of us going in a direction that will get us the candidates and the votes to win...any thoughts out there guys and gals?

At a word from President Barack M.Fing Obama, slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy emerged alive at dawn today from his tomb at Arlington National Cemetery. The assassinated former President, who appeared alongside the Dear Leader at a press conference in Washington, D.C. late this morning, quipped that he was "rested and ready, but not necessarily tanned" after nearly 46 years in the grave. The Dear Leader modestly declined to comment on Kennedy's miraculous resurrection. However, he did announce that the former president's younger brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA), had also been resurrected by his command after more than...

Washington (NNN) - Reliable sources indicate that U.S. President Barack Obama, fresh off of the stunning choice to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, is due for yet another major honor. Inside sources, who declined to be named, merely referred to it as a "major award", although one source -- decidedly off-record -- provided the No News Network with the following glimpse of what the trophy will look like.

Detriot Lions Beat The Washington Deadskins 19-14 end losing skid at 19