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The Democrats are working on a re-brand following their near-spectacular collapse from the days when they controlled the entirety of the legislative and executive branches, and are set to officially unveil a new slogan for the 2018 elections: "A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages."The slogan will be officially unveiled on Monday, per Vox's Jeff Stein.If this sounds familiar, it's basically a rip-off of the tagline of the pizza chain Papa John's, which is "Better ingredients, better pizza."While this is truly a terrible slogan, at least it's not anything the DNCC was toying around with at the beginning...

The single-biggest mistake in the Paulson bank-rescue-plan marketing effort has been the failure to explain clearly how taxpayers are going to recoup $700 billion used to buy toxic assets at auction in order to unfreeze the banking system. In other words, folks don’t understand how taxpayers will be paid back, and may actually make profits, which will enable the new government debt to be erased after the Treasury bank-rescue is completed. Here’s the key point: Any loan package bought by the Treasury will be 100 percent taxpayer owned. Period. Let’s walk through this hypothetical for a moment. Through a market-driven...

Our friend Paul Green is running as the Republican candidate in California State Senate District 6, which includes most of Sacramento County and all of Sacramento City. Paul is an outstanding community and conservative leader, with a strong track record of persistence and success in the initiatives he has pursued. He is serious, thoughtful, hard working, and acts on his convictions rather than on what he was told by the last and loudest people he met with. In other words, he is not your typical California politician. Not surprisingly, he faces a tough battle against his heavily funded opponent,...

In yet another embarrassing setback for the Bush administration, a dramatic shortfall of video footage of the deceased Justice Rehnquist was evident on Saturday night as news outlets were forced to repeat an ad nauseam cycle of the Justice's limited video appearances without showing anything new or interesting. "Unpreparedness of this magnitude is what we have come to expect of these right-wing ideologues in the White House" was a common theme of comments offered by Democrat officials familiar with the matter. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D - MA) blasted the administration as being caught flatfooted in a situation where it should...

Guess Who's a GOP Booster? The CEO of CBS's parent company endorses President Bush. Friday, September 24, 2004 12:01 a.m. From The Asian Wall Street Journal With the scandal at CBS still festering, questions are being raised about whether a felony was committed when the network broadcast apparently forged memos in an attempt to discredit George W. Bush. Yesterday, the chairman of CBS's parent company chose Hong Kong as a place to drop a little bomb. Sumner Redstone, who calls himself a "liberal Democrat," said he's supporting President Bush. The chairman of the entertainment giant Viacom said the reason was...

There will be an Anti-Tax Rally next Sunday on the west steps of the Capitol in Sacramento to protest the tripling of the car tax and raising of the sales tax, plus whatever else the left-wing 'rat weasels in the California Legislature and their enabler, Gray Davis, have in mind to "solve" their self-inflicted budget crisis. Join theAnti-Tax Rally In Opposition to Soon-to-Be EX-Gov. Gray Davis' Proposals to: Triple the Car Tax & Hike the Sales Tax by 7% Sunday, June 29, 2003 State Capitol in Sacramento West Steps 1:00 pm to 3:00 pmGuest Speakers! Come join us! Get involved!...

It was a spirited rally at the west steps of the California State Capitol. The crowd size was estimated at about 3,500 folks from all walks of life. Good speeches, music, signs and lots and lots of flags! There were zero pro-Saddam protesters in evidence. Here are some pics courtesy of Mrs SFConservative: Note the small sign with an appropriate sentiment toward Saddam: Blasting Tiny Tommy: A biker seemingly using an old-growth redwood for a flagpole: A couple of signs directed at the weasels: Yours truly: ... and obverse ...

--- snip ---Another striking fact about this march in support of global terrorism was the presence of prominent Democrat officials on the platform. In San Francisco, the most powerful Democrat legislator in the state John Burton screamed, "the President is full of shit" and that the President was "fucking with us," while encouraging the general sentiment that America rather than Iraq was the outlaw state. In Washington, Democratic hopeful Al Sharpton attended and DC ex-congresswoman Cynthia McKinney read a speech with the following claim: "In no other country on the planet do so many people have so little as they...

ARI FLEISCHER: And with that, I'm more than happy to take your questions. Helen. HELEN THOMAS, Hearst Newspapers columnist: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up. FLEISCHER: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the President, as he said in his statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel. THOMAS: My follow-up...

    ( 1 of 1 ) United States Patent 6,371,482 Hall, Jr. April 16, 2002 Method and apparatus for generating numbers to play in a lottery based on astronomical events Abstract A method and device for generating hot sheets for lottery numbers based upon previously drawn numbers and astronomical data. A player selects at least one number for input. The input number is then searched for in a database containing historical data of at least one comparison lottery including the number and date of previous draws. It is then determined when the number selected by the user was...

<p>"On the occasion of what it calls 'the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous decision' in Bush vs. Gore, the group Democrats.com is hosting a gathering to review plans for the future," United Press International reports in its "Capital Comment" column.</p>

Bush Orders Oil Exploration in Yet Another Wildlife Area Crawford, Texas - August 5, 2001 -- In a surprising move, clearly capitalizing on the momentum gained by House approval of his Energy Bill, President George W. Bush announced an Executive Order authorizing immediate drilling for oil and gas in another wildlife refuge, coincidentally also named ANWR. Located in a swampy area between Virginia and Maryland, the American National Weasel Refuge is known as a decrepit area with few local species worth protecting. As with its acronym-sake in Alaska, the 2000 acres slated for oil drilling are uninviting territory as shown ...

Four Years Later December 30, 2004 / Washington, D.C. (Associated Press) After four years of legal wrangling, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner of the 2000 presidential election yesterday. Bush, a Republican, will take the oath of office at noon today and serves until Jan. 20, 2005, a term of about three weeks. Then he gives way to the winner of the 2004 presidential election, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Greenspan (formerly Clinton). Facing a drastically shortened presidency, Bush attempted to strike an optimistic tone last night. "We have a lot to accomplish in the next three weeks," ...

A great grass-roots rally on the North steps of the California State Capitol. The crowd size was estimated by the media at 5,000; for once I think they did not low-ball it. Like last week, we marched around the Capitol grounds, to a continuous chorus of car horns and hoots & hollers from people driving by. Quite a number of FReepers in evidence. No organized opposition was visible. Just one Naderite-laden VW bus (what else would you expect) with anti-Bush slogans on the windows and one guy in a passing Greyhound bus proudly signaling his single-digit IQ. Without further ado, ...

V.P. Candidate Joe Lieberman Text By The Associated Press Text of remarks by Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, at the Vice President's residence, as transcribed by eMediaMillWorks, Inc.: Good afternoon. How are you? Since the counting of the Florida vote began, Vice President Gore and I have had a simple and fundamental goal: To ensure a full, fair and accurate count of the votes in this election, one that honors our Constitution and reflects the will of the American people. The votes have all been cast. Many of them have not yet been counted. But the time for electioneering ...

POA CHANGES ITS STORY!! October 12 (sic), 2000 California: Gore Still Leads Feinstein Leads Campbell for Senate Governor George W. Bush is narrowing Vice President Al Gore’s lead in California after the second Presidential debate. According to the most recent Portrait of America (POA) telephone survey of likely voters, Gore has 44%, Bush 40%. In the previous POA survey, Gore led 45% to 39%. In the race for the United States Senate, incumbent Democrat Diane Feinstein leads Republican Congressman Tom Campbell 45% to 36%. Feinstein held an eight point advantage (46% to 38%) in the previous POA survey. CALIFORNIA Date ...

October 12 (sic), 2000 California: Gore Still Leads Feinstein Leads Campbell for Senate Governor George W. Bush is narrowing Vice President Al Gore’s lead in California after the second Presidential debate. According to the most recent Portrait of America (POA) telephone survey of likely voters, Gore has 44%, Bush 40%. In the previous POA survey, Gore led 45% to 39%. In the race for the United States Senate, incumbent Democrat Diane Feinstein leads Republican Congressman Tom Campbell 45% to 36%. Feinstein held an eight point advantage (46% to 38%) in the previous POA survey. CALIFORNIA Date of Poll % ...

The RNC has done us a favor by starting a timeline of Algore version releases. We are on release 7.0 at this point. The history is summarized in this table: ReleaseMajor Upgrade FeatureRelease Date Al Gore Version &nbsp;&nbsp;1.0The "Average Joe"March 1999 Al Gore Version &nbsp;&nbsp;2.0"Underdog" AlOctober 1999 Al Gore Version &nbsp;&nbsp;3.0"Alpha Male"November 1999 Al Gore Version &nbsp;&nbsp;4.0The "Crusading Reformer"March 2000 Al Gore Version &nbsp;&nbsp;5.0Negative AlApril 2000 Al Gore Version &nbsp;&nbsp;6.0A "Thinking Man with a Heart"June 2000 Al Gore Version &nbsp;&nbsp;7.0Class Warfare WarriorJuly 2000 As more and more groups need to be sucked up to, and at a faster and faster ...

NAME THIS COUNTRY: 709,000 regular (active duty) service personnel 293,000 reserve troops Eight standing Army divisions 20 Air Force and Navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft 232 strategic bombers 13 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles 500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads Four aircraft carriers 121 surface combat ships and submarines, plus all the support bases, shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a naval force &nbsp; Is this country Russia? . . . No Red China? . . . . . . . . . . . No Great Britain? . . . ...

&nbsp; ANTHROPOLOGISTS have a new tribe to study. Described as "half Hippie and half Yuppie", its members haunt gourmet markets and chic coffee houses, sipping organic, decaf double-lattes while studying internet stock prices in the Wall Street Journal. The Bourgeois Bohemians - "Bobos" for short - represent America's new upper class. Bobos have elbowed aside the Wasps - white Anglo-Saxon Protestants - to dominate the cultural and political elite in the early 21st century. David Brooks, a conservative social critic and journalist who first identified the Bobo, describes the new breed, in British terms, as "a cross between Essex ...