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Opinions welcoome. Is your Email inbox inundated daily (as is mine) with campaign fund raising Emails from Trump's campaign organization? If so, what it is your opinion of the style/pitch used in those Emails. I will reserve my opinion till commments quit being added.

Donors to the Republican National Committee gathered this weekend for the first time since Donald Trump’s defeat just down the road from his Mar-a-Lago home — a sign that the institutions of the party remain centered around the former president. The bulk of the RNC’s spring retreat took place a 10-minute drive south of Trump’s club, at Palm Beach’s Four Seasons resort. There, around 360 donors mingled poolside at the beachfront hotel with Republican officials, including chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and co-chair Tommy Hicks. But on Saturday night, guests were shuttled up the road to Mar-a-Lago, where Trump will address the...

The parents of Sam Esquibel know him only as a miracle baby. The Colorado Springs infant survived surgery to remove what was believed to be a tumor when he was just 3 days old. "The doctors said to us, 'This one is for the books,' " mom Tiffnie Esquibel said. Inside the microscopic tumor was what looked like the formations of two feet, a hand and thigh. "To find a perfectly formed structure (like this) is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of," said Dr. Paul Grabb, the veteran pediatric neurosurgeon who performed the operation on Sam at Colorado Springs' Memorial...

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the Washington-based nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) were the key sponsors for a discussion on foreclosures across the country. Mayor Michael Nutter’s Philadelphia Foreclosure Model won praise from mayors that included Manny Diaz of Miami and Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles . There were several other prominent people involved in the conference call, including Bertha Lewis, CEO and Chief Organizer for ACORN, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City , Dan Lindheim, Oakland Finance & Management Agency (spokesman for Mayor Ron V. Dellums of Oakland), California , Mayor Francis Slay...

Barack and Michelle Obama

Can you just imagine if there was actual videotape of the Ku Klux Klan in full white robe and hood dress, standing in front of a polling place with nightsticks, intimidating would be voters from exercising their right to vote on Election Day. Our side has been accused of this kind of stuff for years, especially when the Democrat candidate for President has lost an election. We heard about this kind of stuff going on in Florida back in 2000 but there's never been any video or even a photo that has ever surfaced that has shown such a despicable...

You gotta watch this video from France. Some group called Europalestine.com organized a "boycott" to protest the Israeli's. Boycott's usually mean your not going to buy the product anymore right? Not for these French. Instead it means to steal what you can while screaming about the "criminal" Israeli's.... [video at site] A reader to Powerline notes it is even more disgusting then first glance: This video is even more grotesque than you think. It was shot in a suburb of Paris called Aulnay-sous-Bois. The next-door town to Aulnay is called Drancy, about 1 mile away. Drancy was used by the...

Is this the VERY beginning of the downward spiral of our currency? I am beginning to notice that the Euro and Pound are going up daily. The Euro was at 1.23 now at 1.35 and the Pound previously 1.36 to 1.50...is this the beginning of inflation? Oil rising as well...this could be the tip of the "turd" ready to erupt. Hey, printing all that $$$ will eventually have consequences, there really is no escape from that. Never in the history of man kind has "throwing money" at a crisis helped...NEVER!

There has been an ongoing effort in the liberal, secular Mainstream Media here in the United States and in the Global Media abroad to demonize Israel at every opportunity. As I was following the many different news outlets especially during the recent Gaza War, I was astounded over the anti-Israeli bias. This Bias was so blatantly obvious that even a fan of MSNBC couldn’t miss it. The Mainstream Media was hell-bent on slamming Israel on all fronts of the war in Gaza, and Hamas knows this.

I demand that someone be fired over the AIG bonus "scandal"! And it's not anyone who works for the company. Tim Geithner needs to go! Team "O" wants us to believe that they did not know about the AIG bonuses until two weeks ago, March 5th. This is all a big fat fu*king lie! Who are they trying to kid? Seriously! This is preposterous that President Obama is blasting AIG and his "outrage" is creating chaos! Chris Dodd knew about it when he secretly placed an amendment into the CRAPUulus Socialism Bill over a month ago? Did no one bother...

Do Medical Workers Have the Right to Religious Freedom? President Barack Obama is considering an astonishing proposal that would eliminate the religious freedom and right of conscience for doctors and other medical workers in favor of the so-called "right" to abortion. http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=728&Screen=alert&IssueId

On both sides of the Atlantic, investors are finding very different experiences when buying country-specific debt. Wednesday, Germany sold €4 billion ($5.49 billion) of debt, but low demand forced the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, to retain about one-third of the issue. That fueled concerns that subsequent auctions from Spain, France and the U.S. also would fall short of expectations and be a sign that the global market was starting to balk at government-bond issuance. It would be especially troubling for the U.S. The vast lending and spending undertaken by the U.S. Treasury Department and the incoming Obama administration will have...

I must admit, and I do so with delight, that I am an apostate of the new religion. With the advent of The One, so too comes the era of religion of the state, complete with all the vestiges of the paganism it recalls. To deny its sanctity is blasphemy of the highest order for the state is all and its prophet is infallible. The development of this new religion has been long in the making and its arrival heralds a new day for the oppressed and down trodden. No longer will the oppressed masses lie at the mercy of...

Teens Pledge Alligiance to Obama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI

I'm always trying to look out for wasteful spending and I'm not trying to be a miser but....... Since when is Ice a requirement to live. I'm watching newscast's of Ike relief stations and seeing bunches of people carrying bags of ice that will likely be half melted before they get it home. Of course I'm not against relief of life neccesities including shelter, food, and water...but aren't we already digging deep into our pockets plucking people out of their flooded home's when they had been told numerous times over many media outlets, probably in multiple languages (for their own...

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Valerie Bowman Jarrett (my note: Obama's Karl Rove) from Savaagepolitics.com (not affiliated with Michael Savage) Valerie Bowman was born on November 14, 1956 in Shiraz, Iran. Her father, Dr. James Bowman, ran a hospital for poor children. Her mother, Barbara Bowman, is an early childhood education expert and co-founder of the Erikson Institute for child development. Her maternal grandfather, Robert Taylor was the head of the Chicago Housing Authority in the 1940s. At age 5, she and her family moved to London for one year, then moved to Chicago in 1963. She received a B.A. in...

Observing the Sarah Palin phenomenon, does anyone feel like they're trapped in a singularly creepy remake of "Night of the Living Dead"? George W. Bush has been a political corpse for years. But Palin resembles a female version of Bush, brought back from the grave to win the election. You wouldn't think that the Republicans would want to exhume Bush. After all, his presidency has been a historic disaster, and the American people know it. But Bush was successful at one thing: winning elections. With its policies and ideology in ruins, Bush's political game plan is all that the GOP...

or the first time all year, John McCain has topped Barack Obama in a New Mexico poll. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows McCain attracting 49% of the vote while Obama earns 47%. Although the two-point lead is not statistically significant in a poll with a four-point margin of sampling error, it’s quite an improvement for McCain from August. At that time, Obama was ahead 48% to 44% (with leaners included). Since then, the Republican has gained ground among Hispanic voters and those not affiliated with either major party.

A CNN reporter this week didn’t seem to know or care that a fake photo showing a bikini-clad, rifle-toting Sarah Palin had been widely debunked days earlier as a fraud, the latest in series of incidents involving apparent misstatements or inaccurate reporting by the news network. “(John) McCain has been really good about painting (Barack) Obama as this lightweight … They don’t want that to come back on Sarah Palin, and people say, yes, she looks good in a bikini clutching an AK-47, but is she equipped to run the country?” CNN’s Lola Ogunnaike said in response to a question...

John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate has made a huge difference in her home state. McCain now leads his Democratic opponent nearly two-to one, 64% to 33%, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state. It is the first poll taken since Palin, who is extremely popular in Alaska, joined the GOP national ticket (crosstabs available for Premium Members).