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Here is video of White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton saying that it is “not true” that President Obama told Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl in a private meeting that he will not complete the Border Fence because there is no chance Republicans will support “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” if he does. Kyl told a Tea Party Crowd that Obama told him exactly that in a private Oval Office meeting. Burton would not use the word “lie,” but he said emphatically it is “not true.” Let’s see, do I believe Sen. Jon Kyl or Barack Obama is telling the truth. That’s...

It is funny – or blatant chutzpa – that Democrats are attacking some Congressional Republicans, such as Burton, for wanting the rule of law to apply despite public outrage against BP, while these very Democrats defended (or didnt attack) just days earlier a Democrat member of Congress, Mr. Eldridge, who physically attacked a student who merely asked Eldrige a question. The way I see it, Dems: Bring it on! Let’s show a clip of Eldridge’s behavior side-by-side with Republicans demanding that the courts or current regulation, rather than-Obama arm-twisting, should decided how BP pays for their mess. Take it to...

As "Avatar" comes to the end of a historic three-month run, Walt Disney Studios' "Alice in Wonderland" took most of the 3-D screens and opened to an eye-popping $210.3 million worldwide.

Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN-05) issued the following statement about the security failures surrounding al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day: "The details surrounding Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to kill hundreds of Americans on Northwest Flight 253 amount to what is a phenomenal breach of security. This al Qaeda operative offered no shortage of red flags, but none caught the eye of intelligence and security officials. Reports indicated that the laundry list of warning signs includes Mr. Abdulmutallab, who was on the terrorist watch list, buying a one-way ticket with cash, not checking...

Pressure the Pentagon to dismiss charges against three Navy SEALS Rep. Dan Burton: Save the SEALS PetitionRepresentative Dan Burton (R-IN) is leading the Save the SEALs mission to pressure the Pentagon to dismiss charges against three of our magnificent Navy SEALS who are accused by savage barbarian Ahmed Hashim Abed of punching him in the mouth; or the stomach, or something. SNIP The SEALs are an elite force, not prone to impulsive behavior. In fact, a superhuman self discipline is a job requirement. Terrorists, on the other hand, are instructed by HQ to cry abuse when taken into custody by...

Megan Kelly pierced the veil of yet another White House lie on this morning’s America’s Newsroom. Her guest was White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton, who dismissed the idea that the White House was compiling an “enemies list” as silly. Burton explained the purpose of having asked people to send the White House the email addresses of anyone making “fishy” claims about Obama’s plan to ration health care and sentence the elderly to earlier deaths, to tax the healthy to pay for substance abusers and illegal immigrants, and to reduce the supply of doctors by imposing government restrictions on...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former state Democratic leader John Burton was accused of sexual harassment Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by the director of his non-profit organization dedicated to helping California's homeless children. Kathleen Driscoll, who is on medical leave as executive director of the San Francisco-based John Burton Foundation, filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court. "Burton made inappropriate sexual advances on a regular and ongoing basis, used vulgar and profane language and publicly humiliated Driscoll with sexual comments and behavior," the lawsuit stated. "Burton has a long history of being abusive, crass and profane."

Another federal agency, and another appointee of President Bush's, is stuck in the klieg lights of ethics allegations. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked Wednesday why Lurita Doan, administrator of the General Services Administration, allowed a White House aide to brief her managers on the Republican Party's prospects for 2008. Doan calls herself an "unabashed entrepreneur." She has also raised $200,000 for the Republican Party. GSA is the government's landlord and office supplier. In her testimony, Doan preferred to emphasize her entrepreneurial efforts. But Democrats were interested in other things: a contract that she tried to award...

A posting of an unredacted instant message sessions between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page has apparently exposed the identity of the now 21 year-old accuser... ABC RELEASED TRANSCRIPT OF ONE CHAT BETWEEN FOLEY AND A MAN WHO WAS 18 AT THE TIME OF THE INSTANT MESSAGE EXCHANGE.... NETWORK STATED THE MESSAGE WAS TO 'UNDER AGE' TEEN... DEVELOPING... ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER; FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD

On 'The SPEED Report,' Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on SPEED, SPEED NASCAR reporter Bob Dillner reported that the winner of the first race in the Chase for the Nextel Cup and his Richard Childress Racing teammate had a performance advantage. As darkness falls upon New Hampshire International Speedway, we have learned that there was an issue with the winning car of Kevin Harvick and also his teammate, Jeff Burton, in postrace tech. That issue surrounded the actual rim of the race car. The team apparently manipulated that rim to act as a bleeder valve to release air pressure from...

On Saturday, March 26, 2005, while watching "Viewer Favorites" on your public television station, I was shocked and offended by the singer Eric Burton - formerly of the group "The Animals" - wearing a Che Guevara shirt while performing a song on a segment of your presentation. As a Cuban American, as a writer and a filmmaker, I am acquainted with the Che as a mass murderer who executed, without trial, many Cubans at La Cabaña fortress in Havana as well as in the Sierra Maestra Mountains before 1959.

Clink in the URL above for the new Tim Burton "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" trailer. The song will worm its way into your brain. Depp, on the other hand, looks disturbingly like Michael Jackson.

MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews didn't like it one bit Thursday night when Rep. Dan Burton, who was on hand to discuss Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to Congress, accused him of airing a biased report that painted Allawi as a Bush administration puppet. After "Hardball" correspondent Norah O'Donnell explained in her news package, "It was as if Allawi's comments had been written by President Bush's speech writers," Burton blew the whistle. "I was a little disappointed that Norah O'Donnell indicated that President Allawi's speech was written by the White House," he told Matthews. "That is a bias that...

Faced with multibillion-dollar cost overruns on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge east span project, the Schwarzenegger administration on Monday blamed Bay Area officials and said the Bay Area must find the money itself to finish the project. The surprise announcement throws the seismic retrofit project – just one-third done – into limbo and appears to jeopardize a planned 2011 finishing date.

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's most powerful Democrat is trying to quietly kill a pair of bills backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would crack down on special-interest influence in the state Capitol. With less than three weeks left in the Legislature's two-year session, Senate President Pro Tem John Burton said Wednesday that he would continue to block the measures, which would temporarily stop campaign consultants from lobbying the politicians they helped put in office. ``They're dead,'' Burton said of the bills. After the bills won support in the Assembly and a key Senate policy committee, Burton redirected them -- against the...

<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget doesn't ``blow up boxes'' as he promised, but at least it lights some fuses.</p> <p>Legislative Democrats, on the other hand, have responded by crawling into boxes and pulling down the lids. They'll have to do better than crying, ``Save the status quo.''</p>

<p>SAN JOSE -- This time around, Assembly Member Nicole Parra is leaving nothing to chance.</p> <p>The Hanford Democrat is determined to leave this weekend's state Democratic Party convention with an official party blessing for her re-election bid this coming November against Bakersfield Republican Dean Gardner.</p>

<p>Senate President Pro Tem John Burton called Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal "unworthy" Monday in an opening skirmish of what promises to be another extended budget battle.</p> <p>"I don't see any hope and aspiration there," the San Francisco Democrat said, referring to Schwarzenegger's description of California last week as "an empire of hope and aspirations."</p>

<p>Senate President Pro Tem John Burton promised Monday to fight the governor's new budget plan, arguing it provides a big tax break to car owners paid for by service cuts to the poor and disabled.</p> <p>The San Francisco Democrat, who holds status as perhaps the Capitol's most influential lawmaker given his tenure and his party's majority hold on the Legislature, drew a bright line between himself and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on what might be considered the first day of budget negotiations.</p>

<p>A strange and wonderful thing has happened as liberals have watched Republicans tighten their grip on the U.S. House of Representatives: They have suddenly discovered the threat to competitive elections posed by "gerrymandering," or the process of politicized Congressional redistricting. And they're right.</p>