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Anyone that's familiar what the bible, anything like that, when Jesus said that you're going straight to hell if you didn't treat the less of his brothers and sisters, and what did he say, he said he was hungry. They give him food stamps. – Tax evading Congressman Charlie Rangel The demons are emerging from their pits, folks, and they're slithering toward the TV cameras. Cheatin' Charlie is not "familiar" with "the bible, anything like that." If he were, he would understand that "You Shall Not Steal" and "You Shall Not Covet" are two of the Ten Commandments, and that...

WASHINGTON - The Senate has rejected a Republican energy plan that calls for opening an Alaska wildlife refuge and some offshore waters to oil development. Supporters of the measure couldn't get the needed 60 votes to overcome a Democratic-led filibuster threat. Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said more domestic oil production is needed to keep prices in check and to reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports. Opponents said areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and coastal waters that have been off limits to drilling for 25 years ought to remain that out of bounds to oil companies....

WASHINGTON (AP) - There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war. The declassified document being released Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war. It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or...

SAN ANTONIO--More than one political venture has met an unseemly end in the hardscrabble landscape of South Texas. It was here, in 1948, that Box 13 gave Lyndon Johnson a dubious 87-vote primary victory, crushing former Gov. Coke Stevenson's Senate aspirations. It was here, two years ago, that a bitter primary fight for a House seat shattered a friendship between two Hispanic Democrats. And it was here, this month, in a rematch of that contest, that a blogger-led quest to defeat a mainstream Democrat and drive the party further to the left smashed head-on into the realities of local politics....

WASHINGTON - The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll might sound like a broken record, but the tune grows louder as congressional midterm elections get closer and closer: President Bush is once again facing the lowest job approval rating of his presidency, the lowest percentage of Americans who believe the country is headed in the right direction, and an electorate that greatly prefers a Democratic-controlled Congress over a Republican-controlled one. Yet the poll also shows something else that goes beyond the November midterm elections: A strong majority believes Bush is experiencing a long-term setback from which he’s unlikely to recover....

Neither man lied. Indeed, the reverend and the former president on Tuesday both spoke several obvious and undeniable truths. That they were jaw-droppingly uncomfortable truths - the current president, after all, was seated directly behind them - was, you just have to figure, the whole point.

In the Iraq war so far, the U.S. military has deposed a dictator who had already used weapons of mass destruction and would have used them again. As we now know, Saddam Hussein was working with al-Qaida and was trying to acquire long-range missiles from North Korea and enriched uranium from Niger. Saddam is on trial. His psychopath sons are dead. We've captured or killed scores of foreign terrorists in Baghdad. Rape rooms and torture chambers are back in R. Kelly's Miami Beach mansion where they belong.

    Big Lie DemocratsBy Brandon Crocker Published 11/17/2005 12:07:13 AM When Bill Clinton left office in January 2001, he was convinced that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and active WMD research and production programs. George Tenet, the Clinton appointed head of the CIA, told George W. Bush prior to the war that the case that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction was "a slam dunk." Almost all of the Democratic members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, seeing much of the same intelligence reports given to the White House, and with direct access to the intelligence communities...

Failed presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry is blaming the White House for the alleged abuse of terrorist suspects at U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. "This administration created the atmosphere and the capacity for this to happen," Kerry told the western Massachusetts newspaper The Republican on Thursday, during his first swing through his home state since losing the election last year.

Did President Bush mislead the nation to war? In a live, unscientific Internet poll, MSNBC readers are overwhelmingly saying yes. With more than 6,000 votes recorded, the survey shows a lopsided 94 percent believe Bush misled the American people, with only 6 percent saying no.

Democrats lost the evangelical vote decades ago. As the last election showed, they are now in danger of permanently losing Catholics. But the left has devised an ingenious technique for winning back disaffected Catholics – insult their Church and its leader. And they thought of this all by themselves? As part of the campaign to defeat the Republican push to end the judicial filibuster, on May 17, 2005, MoveOn.org, PAC ran an ad appealing to anti-Catholic paranoia. The broadside was an altered photo that showed Pope Benedict XVI standing outside the Supreme Court’s chambers. The pontiff appears to be holding...

NEW YORK - A video screen showed President Bush boarding a plane for Washington. His purpose: To get to the White House and sign Congress' bill asking federal courts to review the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. Joan Bokaer of TheocracyWatch.org offered her take on the action. "There's something strange about the folks running our country," she quipped. The audience of 500 people responded with some appreciative chuckles. Bokaer, from a social action center affiliated with Cornell University, was speaking at a conference last weekend that denounced conservative Republicans on matters like mercy-killing, abortion, gay marriage, research using human...

Democrat charged with voting twice on election day

2004 Political Winners and Losers--Every election year, the game of politics defies the old maxim: "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." What matters in politics is the power and glory of winning — the satisfaction of getting out the vote and out-maneuvering, out-spinning, out-messaging, and out-weaseling the competition

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Ramadan, Happy Feast Day of the Nativity, Happy Zarathosht Diso and, Happy Bodhi Day. We hope we didn't miss anybody. ‘Tis The Season; Let’s Learn From Linus Merry Christmas! The problem is, in many places you can think it; just don’t say it or display it. Before we begin, this is not an assault on Hanukah, Ramadan, or Kwanzaa. Instead, we decided to do some research and see for ourselves if the media’s claims that Christmas is under attack are true. This year the debate is especially interesting because of the rumored and...

Americans are living in a dream world. The country they think they live in does not exist. The "Rights" they think they have are gone. The so called "free people" of America are in fact chattel slaves, property, and actually are classified as "enemies of the State" by the current rulers of America. The enemies of this country who are living in this country have managed to confound and confuse everyone, by writing laws that our congressmen have never read when they vote on them and installed in our educational systems those who refuse to teach the truth to our...

Dearest Elite and Most Enlightened Maureen: Ours is a Nation wherein we are the drooling, Neanderthal, war-mongering Red-Staters. You are the freethinking, lucid, peace-loving Blue-Staters. We are the toothless, barefoot, OshKosh B’Gosh Conservatives. You are the handsome, well-cultured, stylish Liberals. We are the hate-filled, dogmatic, fanatical Christians. You are the tolerant, agnostic, atheist, new age, pantheist, moral relativist…whatever…(man that’s a mouth full! Pick one will ya!?). These are the “truths” you hold to be self-evident – that not all American’s are created equal. But alas – woe, so very woe are we. There’s a rift in the time/space continuum. Our...

For the past 21 years, I have been observing our 60’s liberal brethren and sistren. I have come to some conclusions I would like to share with you. I BELIEVE that the Liberal Democrats think our constitution is a "living document", and they have been trying to "kill it" for over 40 years. I BELIEVE that Liberal Democrats are indistinguishable from Communists. Their party platform matches that of the Communist Party, as do their stated goals. They have used Language to "redefine" many words in our language to mean the opposite of their original language. Their goal, of course, is...

Evansville,Indiana police sent a case file to prosecutors Wednesday, accusing a Democratic precinct committeeman of voter fraud. "Please Freep this Poll: Do you think the timing of the absentee ballot investigation is politically motivated?"