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The Only Debate Poll That Counts; McCain 82%, Obama 26% The debate was broadcast on many different stations last night. NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, etc. However, it is widely acknowledged that all of these stations are unapologetically and firmly left-leaning organizations who are, and have been from the beginning, “in the tank” for Obama. Hence, their viewership is similarly inclined. Any poll of the viewers of these “anti-news” organs is going to be artificially skewed and irrelevant. There is another news agent, however. Its viewership is remarkably balanced; there was a figure publicized just two days ago on...

THE PALIN SMEAR EXPOSED AT 9PM EASTERN Dr. Rusty Shackleford, The JAWA Report Andrea Shea King Set Reminder Date / Time: 9/23/2008 6:00 PM Category: Politics Conservative Call-in Number: (646) 478-4604 Dr. Rusty Shackleford and his team at The Jawa Report have published an expose about the Obama campaign that is WHITE HOT. It is so explosive and so detailed, you need to clear your desk, pour a cup of coffee, hold your calls for the next twenty minutes, and be prepared to get educated. It is going "viral" on the internet, and just a news cycle away from...

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views. Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure.

The crowd chanted "Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!" at every mention of her name. The enthusiastic crowd applauded loudly and waved tiny American flags. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.

The world, or at least a small corner of it, was hers a year ago. Doris Murray, mother of four, had won $5 million in the Georgia Lottery on her 41st birthday. She posed for a photograph with big ceremonial check at the Amba Food Store in East Dublin, where she had bought her winning lottery ticket. And, according to a press release from the Georgia Lottery Corp., she declared "This is the best birthday ever." On Monday, Murray was found dead in the same modest block home she had lived in on Barnes Road in the south-central Georgia town...

TAMPA - Former lottery multimillionaire Alex Toth, who was broke and facing tax fraud charges, has died at the age of 60. Toth was scheduled to go on trial in June, accused of filing fake tax returns with his wife, Rhoda, who has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. By the time the couple were charged in 2006, authorities said they appeared to have no assets. The $13 million Florida Lotto money won 18 years ago was long gone, and the Hudson couple were living in squalid conditions, their only electricity coming through an extension cord rigged to their car...

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - David Sneath has worked at a Ford Motor Co. parts warehouse for 34 years, but it didn't take him any time at all to walk out once he discovered he had won a $136 million Mega Millions jackpot. "I yelled to the boss, 'I'm out of here,'" Sneath said Thursday after going to state lottery headquarters in downtown Lansing to pick up his first $1 million check. Sneath, of Livonia in suburban Detroit, said the reality of his win has yet to sink in. "I still haven't touched base with Earth yet," he said. When...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—A New Bedford man who lived a modest life even after winning a $5 million lottery jackpot has died in a fire. Authorities say 85-year-old John Gonsalves Sr. died Thursday after being overcome by smoke in his home. The fire was determined to be accidental, most likely caused by smoking materials. Gonsalves won a $5.1 million Megabucks jackpot in 1994, yet he didn't let the fortune change his life. His son, John Junior, says his father enjoyed the freedom the money gave him, and liked to buy nice clothes and jewelry, yet he wasn't frivolous and remained the...

MISSISSIPPI'S top two Re publicans took sharply dif ferent views of Sen. John McCain as he moved toward the presidential nomination. Gov. Haley Barbour went on the Fox News Channel as returns came in Tuesday to suggest the time was near to stop the contest and accept McCain as the winner. A few days earlier, Sen. Thad Cochran declared that McCain wasn't fit to be president.

ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released the following remarks by John McCain as prepared for delivery tonight in Phoenix, Arizona: Thank you. Tonight, my friends, we have won a number of important victories in the closest thing we have ever had to a national primary. We've won some of the biggest states in the country. We have won primaries in the west, the south, the midwest, and the northeast. And although I've never minded the role of the underdog, and have relished as much as anyone come from behind wins, tonight I think we must...

LONG BEACH, Calif. - It's momentum vs. money in a sprint to Super Tuesday that could determine the Republican presidential nominee. Arizona Sen. John McCain has the momentum, after back-to-back victories in the South Carolina and Florida primaries and a series of high-profile endorsements. He added California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Missouri Sen. Jack Danforth on Thursday. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has the money, and is willing to spend more of his estimated $250 million fortune to keep his candidacy alive. He'd lent his campaign $17 million as of September. The battleground: 21 states...

HARACTER COUNTS; some- times it counts in the count. In Florida, Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday won the Republican primary, overcoming big disadvantages favoring former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. What disadvantages? Let us, well, count. Mr. Romney built a huge campaign apparatus in Florida over the last year, while Mr. McCain, since his campaign nearly expired last summer, was able to do very little organizationally in the Sunshine State. Many Floridians voted early--before Mr. McCain picked up the endorsements of Florida U.S. Sen. Mel Marinez and the state's governor, John Crist (to say nothing of Sly Stallone). The number of...

For all his ideological purity, Arizona senator Barry Goldwater’s 1964 pummeling at the polls was one of the weakest showings by a Republican presidential candidate in modern political history. Arizona senator John McCain — not a perfect conservative, but an electable one — may yet be the 2008 campaign’s Barry Goldwater, in reverse.

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For those who believe in miracles, there is the legitimate possibility that John McCain could win the Republican presidential nomination. If so, he’ll make Bill Clinton’s comeback kid of 1992 look like a piker. Of course, the Republican senator from Arizona needs a series of events to break his way, but things are moving in that direction. Remember, McCain entered the 2008 presidential race at the head of the pack. But there was significant resistance to him in the grass roots, his early campaign was poorly managed and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani zoomed past in the polls while...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- A Colorado Springs megachurch instituted security precautions after a shooting at a Denver area mission center earlier Sunday, saving "hundreds of lives" at the New Life Church, senior Pastor Brady Boyd said Monday. A New Life parishioner acting as a security guard shot and killed a gunman who entered the church Sunday afternoon after he had gotten no more than 50 feet inside the building, Boyd said.... Boyd said the female security guard was a hero in preventing further bloodshed, rushing to confront the gunman just inside the church. "She probably saved over a hundred...

A brand new Whit Ayers poll of 600 South Carolina voters — 300 likely Republican presidential primary voters and 300 likely Democratic primary voters — was released Monday. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain are in a statistical dead heat among Republicans with Fred Thompson in a close fourth. And for Democrats, Hillary Clinton is dusting the field with a 19 point lead over second place Barack Obama.REPUBLICANS: Mitt Romney - 20% Rudy Giuliani - 19% John McCain - 17% Fred Thompson - 13% Mike Huckabee - 8% Ron Paul - 3% Duncan Hunter - 1% Tom Tancredo...

The WMUR-CNN poll of likely Republican voters conducted by the University of New Hampshire shows Romney with 33 percent support, up from 25 percent in the same poll in September. Giuliani has declined, slipping to 16 percent compared to 24 percent in September. Those polled also described Romney as the most likely to win the nomination, with 39 percent choosing him and 26 percent saying Giuliani could go the distance. Just 8 percent said John McCain has what it takes to win the nomination, but 18 percent of voters said they would vote for him, the same as in September....

Ron Paul: Utah turnout wows candidate Before a crowd of 1,000, Republican hopeful speaks about foreign policy, war By Sheena McFarland The Salt Lake TribuneSalt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated:09/16/2007 02:38:49 AM MDT More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday at the Union Pacific Depot in Salt Lake City to rally behind U.S. Rep. Ron Paul in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.     Paul, an obstetrician from Texas, was impressed with the turnout.     "Wow. If they only knew you existed over in Washington, they'd change things over there," he said as he greeted the cheering crowd.     Paul...

Miyoshi Umeki, 78, a Japanese-born singer and actress who became the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for "Sayonara" (1957), distinguished herself onstage in "Flower Drum Song" and played a housekeeper on the TV series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," died Aug. 28 at Licking Park Manor nursing home in Licking, Mo. She had cancer. "Sayonara," based on a best-selling James A. Michener novel, was about forbidden romance between U.S. servicemen and Japanese women during the Korean War. Ms. Umeki's naive character marries an Air Force sergeant, played by Red Buttons, and the relationship leads to his persecution...

Mitt Romney Wins Illinois Straw Poll - Thursday, August 16, 2007 SPRINGFIELD, IL –Illinois State Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna announced today that Mitt Romney won the Illinois Straw Poll on Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair. “Congratulations to Mitt Romney, whose strong showing today indicates he has begun to put together a strong statewide organization” said McKenna. “There’s no question that Illinois’ demographics closely match those of the United States and this could be an indication as to whom Illinois voters are leaning toward this coming February.” The Illinois Republican Party sponsored the straw poll during its Republican...

Just announced: Romney wins with a third of the vote. Huckabee comes in second.

German authorities said yesterday they have received documents from doping expert Werner Franke which he claims show the Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, was involved in doping. Franke said he has documents from last year's Operation Puerto investigation in Spain which show that the Spaniard, who won the drug-marred race on Sunday, had taken HMG-Lepori as a testosterone booster and an asthma product called TGN. "We can confirm we have received the documents, and they will be incorporated into procedures of the district attorney's office," said Christian Brockert, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office. Brockert said the...

*This can be found on the first page of the Opinion section of today's New York Post* BUSH THE WINNER Why History Will Judge the Prez a Clear Success by William Kristol July 22, 2007 -- I SUPPOSE I'll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one. Let's step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Let's look at the broad forest rather than the often unlovely trees. What do we see? First, no second terrorist attack on...

I suppose I'll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- He's not even officially running for president, but Fred Thompson, star of NBC's "Law and Order" and a former Tennessee senator, is gaining in the polls among Republican White House hopefuls. This news comes as some of the GOP hopefuls who are already in the race recently lost some ground. What's behind the numbers, and does this mean that Republicans are hungry for a candidate who's not already running? Roughly two weeks ago, Thompson said he was considering a run for president. Since then, he has skyrocketed out of nowhere to rank third among GOP White...

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, weighing a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, said yesterday that President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq “makes sense,” even if its prospects for success are uncertain. “We have to give it a try,” Giuliani said in a speech to the West 2007 military conference, sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and U.S. Naval Institute at the San Diego Convention Center. “I cannot guarantee you it will work.” “The strategy makes sense,” he said. “It makes sense to me that at least we would try to hold the areas that...

Giuliani touts experience, but personal life may be an issue BY CRAIG GORDON Newsday Washington Bureau January 28, 2007 MANCHESTER, N.H. - Rudolph Giuliani argued yesterday that his record of cutting taxes, improving security and guiding New York through 9/11 are proof that he could do the same as president - offering his strongest signal yet that he's serious about a White House bid. [...snip] Giuliani is trying to bat down questions from top Republicans about whether his White House ambitions are a popularity-fueled dalliance or something more serious. His speech laid out a point-by-point rationale for his possible candidacy,...

ATTENTION: $200,000 Powerball Ticket to Expire on December 28th A Powerball ticket worth $200,000 will expire soon unless someone comes forward to claim the prize. The ticket, sold in Spearfish, South Dakota, matched all five white balls, but not the red Powerball, in the July 1, 2006 drawing. Thursday, December 28, 2006 is the last day to claim the prize at any of the three South Dakota Lottery offices in Rapid City, Pierre or Sioux Falls. Lotto prizes in South Dakota must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing. If the prize goes unclaimed, state law requires the money...

Reagan won the Cold War. Why do Democrats and Liberal intellectuals in Academia refute this? They really sit there with their legs crossed pretending to know everything? Why don't they talk a lot about the Cold War? Is it because eventually someone will have to say "how did that whole thing end? Who won the global war of ideologies? Oh yeah, Reagan won it for capitalism." Isn't this whole issue pretty seriously overlooked? Well, not anymore, here's an article that will prove it to all the dumbass Liberals out there! June 06, 2004, 4:19 p.m. Russian Revolution How Reagan won...

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele picked up an endorsement Thursday from a group of bipartisan black ministers who represented what could be a critical voting bloc for the Republican’s U.S. Senate bid. “There is a moral, biblical agenda we believe forms our endorsement of him,” said Bishop Harry Jackson, founder of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and pastor of Hope Christian Church in Lanham. Jackson, who said he was a registered Democrat, said the coalition is comprised of about 60,000 church members in Prince George’s County and the neighboring area. Angel Nunez, pastor of BiLingual Christian Church in Baltimore City who...

There's been a lot of political buzz about Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's 2008 bid for the Republican presidential nomination, and now I know why: In one swoop, his Commonwealth PAC this week hired what could be the A-team of political consultants. "Mitt Romney means business," says media guru Alex Castellanos. The proof: Romney picked one of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's longtime advisers, Sally Bradshaw, who has worked for both President Bushes and was Jeb Bush's chief of staff for a while. What does her hiring mean? "Where Sally Bradshaw goes, a lot of Jeb Bush's people will follow," says Castellanos,...

SEVEN in 10 voters believe John Howard will win a fifth successive election next year, a new poll has found. Only one in five predict a victory for Labor, according to an ACNielsen poll published in Fairfax newspapers today. This is a higher proportion of voters forecasting a coalition win than at any time in the three previous election campaigns – despite successive polls putting Labor ahead. The poll of 1400 people, conducted between October 5 and 7, has Labor eight points ahead of the coalition on a two-party preferred basis by 54 per cent to 46 per cent. After...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. economist Edmund Phelps has been chosen to receive the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics for research on the relationship between employment and inflation. Phelps, 73, will receive the prize, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and the $1.4 million prize that goes with it Dec. 10 in ceremonies in Sweden. An announcement Monday from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised Phelps for his work, which showed in the long-run, the rate of unemployment is not affected by inflation. "Phelps showed how the possibilities...

Nobel winner says feminism can help IranBy Erin Gartner, Associated Press Writer September 15, 2006 RALEIGH, N.C. --Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, said supporting feminist movements in the Islamic world would better promote democracy than military force. "Instead of bringing democracy with cluster bombs, we should support women fighting for democracy," Shirin Ebadi said through an interpreter Thursday during a speech at Meredith College, a women's university in Raleigh. A lawyer, former judge and writer in Iran, Ebadi spoke in Farsi to about 1,000 people about fighting for human rights...

September 14, 2006 Forty-seven percent (47%) of American adults approve of the way that President Bush is performing his job. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. Those are by far the best numbers for the President since mid-February.

Garcia 52.8%, Humala 47.2%

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of "Survivor," was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings. Hatch, 45, was convicted in January. The charges carried a maximum of 13 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres said he issued a harsher than expected sentence because Hatch had committed perjury repeatedly during his trial. "It seems unfortunately very clear to me that Mr. Hatch lied," Torres said. When Hatch was convicted, Torres said he expected to sentence him to...

And the "Idol" Winner Is...by Joal Ryan Mar 23, 2006, 6:35 PM PT This spring, American Idol is the other March madness. Like college basketball fans pouring over brackets, Idol fans are scouring the Web for signs of which singer will emerge the winner of May's finale--and if they're feeling lucky, they're not being shy with their money. "We're seeing almost unprecedented wagering on who's going to be eliminated," Kyle Fratini of the offshore gambling site PinnacleSports.com said Thursday. "We're seeing hundreds and hundreds of individual bets." Among entertainment events listed by the site, Idol is now five times more...

Globalization guru Tom Friedman called Lou Dobbs, "a blithering idiot" in a lecture at Yale Law School last week... Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of bestsellers "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" and more recently "The World is Flat" (which sold a million and a half copies, far more than Dobbs' viewership), begins his answer. "One of the problems", he begins, explaining that we need leaders who can explain the complexity, not who will just stir the pot, "is we have politicians that are making us stupid, who are throwing sand in our eyes." But then he...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2006 – Kelly Perdew was hired as Donald Trump's "Apprentice" in 2004, and he believes his training at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point helped him win the reality TV competition. Kelly Perdew (left), winner of the TV show "The Apprentice," shakes the hand of a fan after autographing his newly released book, "Take Command," during his book signing in Washington Feb. 15. Perdew is a former Army intelligence officer and Ranger, as well as a West Point graduate. Photo by William D. Moss  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Perdew, whose new book, "Take...

Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. yesterday appeared headed for confirmation to the Supreme Court after Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats exhausted their arsenal of questions without landing any devastating blows....

Mobile economy big winner after Katrina Wednesday, January 11, 2006 By ANDREA JAMES Business Reporter When talking about the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, economists often lump Alabama with Mississippi and Louisiana, but a new federal report indicates that the states' economic conditions are drastically different. In the third quarter of 2005, Mississippi had the highest unemployment rate in the country at 7.9 percent, followed by Louisiana at 7.6 percent. Alabama's figure was among the nation's lowest -- just under 4 percent. In quarterly job growth, Alabama ranked 29th nationally, while Mississippi and Louisiana experienced net losses and finished among the...

NEWPORT, Ky. (AP) -- A woman who won a $65.4 million Powerball jackpot with her husband five years ago was found dead at her home overlooking the Ohio River, where she had apparently been for days before anyone found her, police said. Virginia Metcalf Merida's son discovered her body Wednesday. Police were awaiting autopsy and toxicology results before announcing a cause of death. When the woman and her husband, Mack Wayne Metcalf, won the jackpot, they told lottery officials they were going their separate ways to fulfill their dreams. Merida planned to quit her job making corrugated boxes and buy...

Signaling needs significantly more time in Mac OS X (Darwin) than on Linux. The processor plays a minor role: the Opteron at 2.4 GHz is a bit faster than the Xeon 3.6 GHz running exactly the same (x86) code. However, it is clear that the operating system plays a much bigger role: a 2.5 GHz G5 running Linux easily beats the identical system with a 2.7 GHz G5 running Mac OS X. Despite the FreeBSD heritage, the TCP signals are very slow (4 times slower!) on Mac OS X.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 18, 2005) – The youngest winner in the 60-year history of the All-Army Photography Contest captured her award-winning image with a $10 disposable camera. Ten-year-old Brittney Rankin won the civilian division’s monochrome people category of the 2004 All-Army Photography Contest with a photo titled “Shadow Friends.” During a Morale, Welfare and Recreation Summer Youth Photo Class at U.S. Army Garrison-Michigan at Selfridge, instructor Jim Wilkie passed a disposable camera around and each participant took five photographs. Rankin photographed the feet of classmates and their instructor who were reaching high into the air for the...

W NEW YORK - For the fifth straight year, it was a victory Takeru Kobayashi could truly relish. Kobayashi, 27, captured the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest Monday, gobbling a nauseating 49 dogs in 12 minutes — but missing his own world record of 53 1/2, set at last year's July Fourth competition. The win means the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt will return to Japan for the ninth year out of the past 10. New Jersey's Steve Keiner, who won in 1999, is the only American to capture the title in the past decade. Kobayashi, of Nagano, stands 5...

Albanian wins first world Booker Ismail Kadare's most recent novel is Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, beating British authors Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan. The writer, who has lived in France since 1990, will receive £60,000 at a ceremony in Edinburgh on 27 June. Professor John Carey, chair of the judging panel, called Mr Kadare "a universal writer in the tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer". Mr Kadare said he was "deeply honoured" to win the prize. "I am a writer from the Balkan Fringe,...

You’d think before liberals started passing judgment on their opponents, they’d at least pull out the old dictionary every once in a while. Instead, the party of ’tolerance,’ ’compassion,’ and ’inclusion’ continues to take childish potshots at President Bush. The latest “I know you are but what am I” Democrat is Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who last week said the following in the Las Vegas Review—Journal about President Bush: “I think this guy is a loser...He’s driving this country into bankruptcy...He’s got us in this intractable war in Iraq where we now have about 1,600 American soldiers dead and...