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One thing that fuels the debate among the supporters of Ron Paul and those that think the US Congressman from Texas that is running for the Republican nomination for the US Presidency is that most believe he would have no chance of defeating Hillary Clinton. The "Libertarian Leaning" candidate was hit in the face with a bit of that recently when he was included in a poll by Zogby poll that asked "Whom would you NEVER vote for for President of the U.S.?" I was more than a bit shocked when it was revealed that those polled put Dr. Paul...

It’s been an amazing few days to be a supporter of Ron Paul and freedom. Our successful events in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with your generous online donations, made yesterday far and away our most successful fundraising day in campaign history. On behalf of Dr. Paul and everyone in campaign headquarters – Thank You for keeping our momentum going! Jonathan Bydlak Fundraising Director Ron Paul 2008

Dear Rush: Pardon my French, but you’re full of s***! As I listened to your show last week, you chose to criticize and attack conservative Americans like myself who feel the Republican Party does not deserve to win in November. Rush, since when did you become such a shill for the GOP? Choosing the party over the base is a very disappointing move to this long time listener. I’m very disappointed in you, Rush Limbaugh, you’ve lost touch with the reality that is life for the common man in America. I heartily recommend you take pause and reconsider your programming...

In an Oct. 13 editorial, the AJC called on Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to "look in the mirror first" on congressional ethics. Reid has been a friend and mentor to me for almost a decade. He is one of the most ethical men I know. Max Cleland was U.S. senator from Georgia from 1997 to 2003, and Georgia's secretary of state from 1983 to 1996. This story is simple. In 1998, Reid bought land. In 2004, he sold it. For the six years in between, he told everyone — including Congress — that he owned the land. The...

Education The public education situation in this country has become a chronic example of wasteful and ineffective government spending. It is a travesty that we have to relinquish our tax dollars to under-educate and indoctrinate our children. The public school system’s standards are so low that we have high school students who literally cannot read. The majority of the public school students have no idea about world events, government, geography, history, or grammar. On the flip-side, their knowledge of modern pop-culture is amazing.The Republican idea of vouchers lends a solution to the failed school system. This idea has been fought...

Esquire Puts One Of Their Own On The Cover -- McCain mccain2.JPG Sen. John McCain is the subject of a very positive yet appropriately elegiac profile in the coming issue of Esquire. Written by Chris Jones , it's slated for the cover. The thesis: McCain is worried about the country he loves. And he's running for president, certainly for the last time, to save it. And because of who he is -- because of his iconoclasm, his war experiences, his conviction – “you’re inclined to believe him and to believe that he’s correct.” Esquire is an upscale, un-conservative gentleman's magazine....

by Mark Finkelstein June 28, 2006 Over the last couple days, I've received four emails from one liberal reader of these columns, repeatedly asking me why conservatives are so 'angry and mean-spirited'. I tried explaining that while anger is common to the human condition, in no way do conservatives have a monopoly on the emotion. To the contrary, I cited a recent study revealing that, even when controlling for relevant variables, Republicans tend to be happier than Democrats. Since I was unable to prove the proposition to the reader's satisfaction, I very much hope he was watching this evening's Hardball....

Single-issue people. They're out there... on every thread. No matter what the topic, they try to link it to their pet issue in some way, shape, or form. They are... The Thread Hijackersâ„¢. While little can be done to stop them, and it is probably best to ignore them, I find it much, much more fun to mock them. Sure, being passionate about an issue you care about is a good thing, but thread hijacking is annoying and, to be honest, turns off people who might otherwise agree with you. So, on to the mocking. I'd like to coin the...

SESTRIERE, Italy – Unbent, unbowed and ultimately unsuccessful, Bode Miller said in an interview yesterday he is skiing away from these Olympics on his own terms — content without any medals and impressed by the local nightlife. “I just did it my way. I’m not a martyr, and I’m not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here,” Miller said in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press soon after he skidded off the slalom course in his fifth and final race, completing an 0-for-the-Olympics.

Are America's youth graduating from college with a language proficiency that goes beyond "duh"? That's a question that has puzzled educators and literary experts as they perused recent adult literary assessment results that show reading proficiency among college graduates has tumbled in the past decade. An astounded Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association, said only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. "That's not saying much for the remainder." Experts admit to not knowing how to explain the decline in reading comprehension. What's disturbing, said Mark S. Schneider, commissioner of the...

There Are Plenty of Reasons for Optimism October 18, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence (Highly recommended by poster while you read along with Rush) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, folks, I realize... I'm going to be honest about this. I know a lot of you are down in the dumps out there, maybe not to the degree that the left thinks you're down in the dumps. Some of you down there a little downcast, a little concerned about the future, a little worried about it because of the things going on with the CIA leak...

Has anyone here ever been banned from FR and you are a sincere conservative, not just some troll? If so, why were you banned? Just a question..

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DEAN'S DEBACLE Democratic National Committee (DNC) fund raising under the chairmanship of Howard Dean shows a disappointing $16.7 million raised in the first quarter of 2005, compared with $34 million reported by the Republicans. That tends to confirm dire predictions by old-line Democratic fund-raisers of a fall-off in money if Dean became chairman. He had promised to bring in heavy individual contributions, as he did in his 2004 campaign for president. But the DNC in the first quarter received only $13 million from individuals, compared to $31 million for the Republican National Committee (RNC). A footnote: A recent DNC fund-raising...

The 2004 election is months in the past, but Sen. John Kerry still seems to be on the campaign trail. As he tries to carve out a postelection life, the Massachusetts Democrat repeatedly has invoked his run against President Bush as his party's presidential nominee. Last week, he both took credit for Mr. Bush's recent embrace of increased death benefits for troops killed in combat and criticized the president for betraying the message of the election, which he said was bipartisanship. And on Wednesday, Mr. Kerry brought up the 2004 campaign during a Senate Finance Committee hearing as he attacked...

I have been BANNED along with the likes of CJR812...Wex606 etc...if you are looking for INFO on them...My EX-Friends Screename (AIM) is WEX812...odd co-incidence and has a house in County Wexford Ireland. THE ONLY SCREEN NAME I REGOCNIZED IN THAT LIST WAS IRELAND201 AND MURPHY....Obviously...they make sense...Ireland my home country...201 my area code...and Murphy my last name... IM NOT CJR812 CoRoge08 Wexfordboys...NONE OF THEM!!!! PLEASE stop banning me

The purpose of this lesson is to satisfy the California State Language Arts Standards for use of electronic and internet sources, reading comprehension, writing, and analysis of public debate; and Social Science Standards for democracy in action, the American political process, and participation in public debate.

Site has jpg of New York Electoral College Certificate of Vote. Page Three has 31 votes for President going to John L. Kerry of Massachusetts.

I see fr is being sued for Scientology/Civil Rights. Apparently Jim Robinson is involved in a Lisa McPherson style assault and battery. Anyone know anything?

For the past 25 years when Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, why did Saddam Hussein not use those weapons of mass destruction against the US or Israel, or hand them over to the Al-Qaeda terrorists or the terrorists in the west bank, even though during the past 25 years, on and off, the following were done which angered and humiliated Saddam Hussein (1) Israel destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactors in the 80s (2) Through the Iran-Contra scandal, the US supplied arms to Iran in the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s (3) In the 90s, the US ousted Saddam...