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• Plate Hate Offers A Remedy To Holiday Road Rage

       Summertime often provides a steady stream of traffic. If you’re not struggling through rush hour traffic on the weekday, come late afternoon Friday, you’re finding yourself coping with congested roads filled with weekend tourists traveling to the mountains, the beaches, the lake or the quaint and once quiet hamlet [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Kempite

• 9/11 Never Forget Coalition Calls For Action

      Today, the families of 9/11 victims gathered together to make an emotional appeal for support from fellow Americans. Led by Debra Burlingame, the sister of Charles Burlingame, the pilot of the hijacked plane that was intentionally flown into The Pentagon, the  “9/11 Never Forget Coalition”  urged all to join them on December [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:44pm EST
  by Kempite

• “HOPE Is Fading Fast” Takes On New Meaning For President Obama

      I wish I could take credit for this little gem but it comes to POLITICS 24/7  from our great conservative compatriots at PatriotRoom.com.    But more than that, I wish I were the creative individual that came up with the snappy play on words and use of imagery that makes the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  by Kempite

• Lou Dobbs Running For Elected Office?

     Last week POLITICS 24/7 listed Lou Dobbs, the financial guru and now former CNN anchor, as a winner of the week. We congratulated him for leaving a news outfit that was beneath him and discussed speculation about him possibly running for US Senate in his home state of New Jersey. Well [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:28pm EST
  by Kempite

• Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down. This Week’s Winners & Losers 11/16/09-11/22/09

    Week of 11/16/09  through 11/22/09 LOSERS Recovery.gov & Vice President Biden   In his State of the Union address, President Obama claimed that a spending package as big as his historic stimulus package, we had to make sure we spend it right. He added “Here in Washington, we’ve all seen how quickly good intentions [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:28am EST
  by Kempite

• Attorney For 9/11 Conspirator Warns Against A Civilian Trial

      Scott Fenstermaker is the attorney for one of the 9/11 Five…….the five enemy combatants who admitted to playing a roll in the attacks of September 11th in 2001. Under the direction of attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama Administration decided that these mass murders, who are responsible for the most [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:32pm EST
  by Kempite

• Senate Overcomes Filibuster of Their Government Healthcare Takeover Bill

      After House Democrats passed a 1,990 page bill that would have the government takeover health care in America, today, in an unusual Saturday session, Democrats in the US Senate have voted to place their own 2,074-page bill that would have government takeover healthcare in America. Democrats claim that the bill is [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:47pm EST
  by Kempite

• Louisiana’s Landrieu Exposed As The Magnolia Madame

      POLITICS 24/7 has uncovered another Capitol Hill prostitution ring. In light of Saturday’s procedural vote to prevent a filibuster that would kill the Senate version of a government healthcare takeover, Politics 24/7 confirms that Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is an active political prostitute and it has been further confirmed that [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:40pm EST
  by Kempite

• Radical Muslims Outsmart Themselves

    Guest Editorial by Mike Duminiak  Somalia is “ruled” by a large number of armed groups. In the classic ‘might makes right’ story, any group of yo-yos with a large amount of fire power can stake out some territory and then ‘rule’ that scrap of land. The people living in that area [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by Kempite

• Rudy The Red Republican Senator In Democrat Blue New York ?

      Politicos are painting a picture that will allow New York state to become a battleground state in next year’s midterm elections. A number of established Albany insiders who forecast the political climate like Al Roker giving the weekly weather, are indicating that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:27pm EST
  by Kempite

• This Week’s Political Winners and Losers

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     Week of 11/8/09 through 11/15/09 LOSERS Eric Holder Once considered one of the most prominent prosecutors in America, Eric Holder’s decision to forego a military tribunal for the five enemy combatants who have plead guilty to planning the attacks of 9/11, is an irresponsible travesty that will have a negative impact of such [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:20am EST
  by Kempite

• The Truth Is Hard To Accept And In The Case Of Iran, Few Do.

      Some realities are so disturbing that we would rather not deal with them. This habit tends to be a political phenomenon that we often encounter and that we often pay a dear price for. For decades our federal government has refused to face the harsh realities of deficit spending. They [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Bows Down To Hirohito’s Son…….Good Going Barry!

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       President Obama has begun a tour of Asia. He is pushing for the establishment of free trade agreements, similar to those that we have elsewhere in the world. On his first leg of the trip, the President went to Japan and met with the island nation’s new Prime Minister, Yukio [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:55pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Refuses To Properly Prosecute The War On Terror

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       We must all live with the consequences of our decisions but not all of us make decisions that hundreds of millions of other people will heave to live with as well. Perhaps that is why whom we choose to elect and represent us  in government is much more important [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:56pm EST
  by Kempite

• “Honey, You Remember Dada?

     “I missed you so much.  I’m sorry I went away“ Those are the words spoken by this soldier on his return home from the war.  Who is the one he speaks those words to?  It is to the one who rushes to his side before anyone else can get to [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:15pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Moves Towards A Final Decision Concerning Afghanistan

     If the reports coming out of Associated Press are accurate, President Obama may be prepared to take some measures in Afghanistan which would do us quite well. But those measures will not help us in either the short or the long-term if they are half measures. AP reported the following [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:21am EST
  by Kempite

• Yup, This Is Veterans Day. So What Are You Going To Do About It?

      On this Veterans Day, we have much to reflect on regarding our past and much to think about regarding our future.  We also have many people to honor. The events of last week at Fort Hood in Texas have punctuated the importance of this year’s Veterans Day, and not only [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:56pm EST
  by Kempite

• How Government Run Health Care Will Rip Your Heart Out

      Last week former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop made his views on existing healthcare reforms known to our nation’s legislative leaders. His message to them was, be careful about the reforms they make and also urged that whatever they do, do not make a bill that forces doctors and medical [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:50pm EST
  by Kempite

• The Berlin Wall Came Down, But Now The Washington Wall Goes Up

      This week marked the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is the anniversary of an event worthy to revisit and rethink. Of the dominoes that remained standing during the Cold War, the Berlin Wall’s fall, set in motion, the end of communism in Europe. And not [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:59am EST
  by Kempite

• Connecticut’s Republican Governor, Jodi Rell Will Not Seek Reelection

      Republican Governor Jodi Rell has just announced that she will not seek reelection next November. Her decision will move up the start of the Connecticut race for Governor. This typically liberal New England state is not friendly to Republicans and so many Democrats have already been looking into a run [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:29pm EST
  by Kempite

• The Week’s Best & Worst In Politics-Winners & Losers

    LOSERS Dede Scozzafava The NY State Assemblywoman and Republican nominee for Congress in NY’s 23rd CD, was outed as closet liberal, crashed, burned and decided to take everyone out with her.  She withdrew from the race on Saturday & endorsed the Democrat nominee over the Conservative candidate, Republican Doug Hoffman.  He lost in a narrow race and [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  by Kempite

• Why Did They Vote The Way The Did?

    As riveting as last night’s government healthcare takeover vote was, part of the mystique behind it involved hundreds of individual stories that involved political horse trading, private deals, favors, bribes and even extortion-like coercion. To actually pass this very unpopular and contentious bill took more arm twisting and bone [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:16pm EST
  by Kempite

• Reform Bill Passes The House But It’s A Version That Will Not Fly In The Senate

      While last night’s rare Saturday session of the House of Representatives and their subsequent vote on the big government takeover of the American health care system was at times suspenseful, ultimately it won passage. The vote was quite close though. In the end 39 Democrats opposed the bill and [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  by Kempite

• Healthcare Debate Update: Stupak Anti-Abortion Funding Amendment Passes

      By a vote of 240 to 194, the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which provides language that will have prohibit the House bill for a government takeover of heath care, from allowing any funding of abortion procedures passed. The move which satisfied a the handful of anti-abortion Democrats who were needed to pass [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  by Kempite

• Government Health Care Takeover May Go Down Because of Abortion

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    Passage of the Pelosi-Obama government takeover of health care may all come down to the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment is sponsored by Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan and Republican Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania and what is does is create language in the health care government takeover bill which not [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:40pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Asks Democrats To Walk The Plank On Healthcare Vote

     High Drama grips Washington, DC today in a way that has rarely ever been matched before. Few votes have ever been quite as transformative as the healthcare and insurance reform bill which Democrats and Nancy Pelosi are proposing on behalf of President Obama. The political intrigue being witnessed on this [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by Kempite

• Voters Made Clear How Congress Should Vote on Healthcare Reform

     Democrats are scrambling to pass a version of health and insurance reform that would have government control it. Currently they are trying to hold true to a scheduled rare Saturday but as more arms are twisted and language in the bill is tweaked, the Hose leadership is suggesting that [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:52pm EST
  by Kempite

• We Mourn Those Lost In Fort Hood Massacre and Must Honor Their Lives

     In what was one of the worst mass murders on an American military base in history, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist, went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas, days after he learned that he was being deployed to the Iraqi or Afghani war front. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  by Kempite

• Protesters Storm Congress To Prevent Passage Of Government Health Care Takeover

       Today, an unknown number of Americans will be gathering on the East Front Steps of the U.S. Capitol at 12 noon.The purpose——to make sure that that the House of Representatives understand that there will consequences to face if they pass their recent 2,000 page initiative that will have government [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:37am EST
  by Kempite

• National Review & POLITICS 24/7 Join Forces. Of sorts.

  National Review, a magazine which I have always greatly appreciated, just moved up a few notches in my book.  . Through their internet  site which mirrors their magazine, National Review Online or NRO , recently linked to POLITICS 24/7 in order to convey a  message about the 2009 elections. Author Jim Geraghty posted the image [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  by Kempite

• ATTN: DEMOCRATS; “Put Your Weapons Down, And Your Hands Up!”

      It’s said that  history has a way of repeating itself.   After seeing the results of the 2009 elections, it  looks like it is doing so right now.  Before the wheels started falling off the Republican bandwagon in 2006, Republicans suffered big defeats in both Virginia, and New Jersey, in 2005. Those [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:09pm EST
  by Kempite

• Chris Christie Wins New Jersey!! Republicans Win ‘09 Big!!

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    So far, in Republican strongholds like Monmouth and Ocean County, Chris Christie is over performing! Christine Todd Whitman was the last Republican to win statewide office in New Jersey and she did so, in part, due to racking up large pluralities in Monmouth and Ocean. Chris Christie is winning those [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:26pm EST
  by Kempite

• Exit Poll Proves Voters Are Not Voting For Christie, They’re Voting Against Corzine

     As the composition of today’s election for Governor of New Jersey begins to become clear,   an exit poll has shown some good news  and some bad news. When Chris Christie voters were asked whether they voted for Christie or against Corzine, 42% of them answered that they voted against Christie. This [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  by Kempite

• Fearful Jersey Democrats Start Campaigning For Chris Daggett

      In one of the most corrupt states in the Union, sleazy politics should come as no surprise to anyone.  But when an incumbent Governor and his state party stoop down to sleazy tactics in the closing hours of an election, you know they’re losing it———-figuratively and literally. PolitickerNJ.com, the state’ s premier [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  by Kempite

• Early 2009 Election Projections; Christie & Hoffman Win!?

      While most of the contests in the 2009 elections are local , the most focus and attention is on statewide elections, a special election and the nation’s largest city. POLITICS 24/7 is not taking much of a gamble by projecting two term, incumbent Mayor Mike Bloomberg the winner in New York [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:19pm EST
  by Kempite

• Poll Shows Incumbents Are At A Disadvantage In Today’s Elections

      A new poll conducted by Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates between the 27th and 29th of October has found that as voters go to the polls on this Election Day, they are anything but happy. Of likely voters only 27% of the respondents consider health care the top issues of concern [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:20am EST
  by Kempite

• Foxx Cried Wolf And It Must Be Denounced By Fellow Republicans

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     “I believe that the greatest fear that we all should have … to our freedom comes from this room, this very room, and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill,” “I believe we have more to fear from [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:17am EST
  by Kempite

• Election Eve 2009 Offers a Mix of Blowouts & Nail Biters But Republicans Look Good

      As voting on Election Day 2009 is about to begin in just a mere few hours, most of the races taking place in America are municipal elections.  These local elections are in many ways, the most important ones.   The effects of the leaders elected on the local level have some [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:45pm EST
  by Kempite

• Scozzafava Endorses Liberal Bill Owens and Says Goodbye To Her Assembly Seat

      After accepting the fact that she was outed as the liberal that she is, Assemblywoman and Republican nominee for Congress in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Dede Scozzafava, ended her campaign. She saw the writing on the wall and realized that her liberalism did not appeal to the people [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  by Kempite

• If Republicans Want To Win Big In 2010, They Must Scozzafavarize RINO’s

      Regardless of whether third party candidate, conservative Doug Hoffman, wins the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District on Tuesday or not, the fact that a district wide and nation wide backlash forced liberal Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava out of the race, was already a dramatic victory of [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:52am EST
  by Kempite

• Establishment Republicans Get Knocked Out By Anti-Establishment Republicans In New York

      In the wee hours of the morning POLITICS 24/7 had learned that that the National Republican Congressional Committee was withdrawing resources from the special election to fill the vacancy in the 23rd district congressional district of New York.   POLITICS 24/7 noted that between a cessation of ads and a withdrawal [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:16pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Republicans Do The Election Slide & Shift From Scozzafava To Christie

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      One of the most intense and controversial races taking place this Tuesday is in New York State, where on November 3rd, a special election will be held to fill a vacancy for Congress in the 23rd Congressional district. The seat, a long held Republican seat since 1871, was previously held [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 5:37am EDT
  by Kempite

• Hold Your Nose And Vote For Chris Christie. Make Him Good For Something.

      I do not like Chris Christie. He is arrogant. It is a quality that, several years ago, as an incumbent, cost Christie the nomination for Freeholder that he was trying to be reelected to. He is inarticulate and unimpressive in speech, uninspiring as a leader, and he is unusually vague on [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Scary House Version Of Government Run Health And Insurance Hits In Time For Halloween

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     Nancy Pelosi’s House version of government-run health management, care and insurance has been released in a glorious, 1,990 page package which includes a 13-page bill that repeals the sustainable growth rate caps on Medicare spending. Pelosicare, which must be incorporated into Obamacare and Reidcare, costs more than $200 billion and [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:28pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Corzine Starts Pulling Ahead In The Homestrech of New Jersey’s Race For Governor

      For the first time since the 2009 campaign for governor of New Jersey took shape, Quinnipiac has disastrous Democrat Governor Jon Corzine ahead of even more disastrous Republican candidate for Governor, Chris Christie. What makes this story remarkable is that the Governor’s late lead is not  just a little one. While still [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 1:18pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Government Insurance. You Can Opt Out Of It, But You Will Still Pay For It.

      Democrats are gleeful over a recent decision pushed for by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to include a “public option” in their proposed government run health management and insurance reform bill. Believing that they are geniuses, Senators like Reid, Max Baucus and Chuck Schumer think they have reached a [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:40am EDT
  by Kempite

• Christie Is More Likely To Lose Than Corzine Is To Win

      As we go into the closing days of the hotly contested race for Governor of New Jersey, except for one poll which has Corzine leading by 9%, fewer polls have Governor Corzine getting reelected by anywhere from 1 to 4 percent than have Chris Christie winning by the same [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:30pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Gallup Poll: Conservatives Outnumber Liberals By Two To One

      As the leadership of the Democrat party lurches further and further towards liberal extremism, a Gallup poll reveals that most Americans identify themselves as being politically conservative and not just by a small margin. Twice as many people identify themselves as Conservative than they do liberal. According to Gallup [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:14pm EDT
  by Kempite

• President Obama Sends A Message To Cuban Dictator Raul Castro

     President Obama asked Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Mortatinos to deliver a message from him to Cuban figurehead, dictator Raul Castro, or the dying dog who is really in charge, Fidel Castro.  Reuters reports that President Obama wants Mortatinos to let them know that if Cuba wants a better relationship with the United States, the Castro’s have [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:35pm EDT
  by Kempite

• If This Is The Most Ethical & Transparent Government Ever, Why Are We Getting So Screwed?

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     House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised the “most ethical government ever”. President Obama promised “hope” and “change”, and both promised transparency in government. Neither have demonstrated any indication of either. President Obama’s changes are leaving Americans with pocket change as he spends money that we don’t have and taxes that [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 9:50pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Republican Party Accused of Attempted Murder By Fair and Balanced Journalist

      Those big bad vast right wing conspirators in the mainstream media at Fox News are at again. They just can’t stop showing their conservative bias. Or is it the other way around.? In what is probably the best example yet of just how fair and balanced those loyal liberals in [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 4:05pm EDT
  by Kempite

• “President Needs To Take Responsibility”. So Says One Special Lady

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     It is not often that POLITICS 24/7 posts the writings of others unaffiliated with this blog, but today is an exception. There are many good reads by many good columnists, authors and pundits but few have been offered on this day which are as significant as this piece written [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
  by Kempite

• President Obama’s Approval Ratings Drop Like A Rock

     Here’s a challenge for our ever so open minded, factually challenged, rewriters of history and poor prognosticators of the future who are otherwise known as the radical liberal left. While you glaze over the details and facts surrounding such things as government run health management and care reform, the war [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:25pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Cheney Named “Keeper of the Flame” and Sheds Some Light On Obama Lies

     As a general rule of thumb, it is not a good thing to lie. We teach little children not to do it and we should be able to expect our nation’s leaders not to do it. But last night as the Center For Security Policy held it’s annual “Keeper of the [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 6:08am EDT
  by Kempite

• Heene Family Balloon Boy Episode Put To Music & The Other “Great American Balloon Hoax”

      People can be quite creative.  Different perspectives on the same issue can often lead to new way of looking at things and often spark creative interpretations.  Case in point.  This music video from GirlsGoneLeo at YouTube offers a wonderful musical parody that interprets the Colorado Balloon Boy hoax to the [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Illegal Immigrants Don’t Want Illegal Alien Halloween Costumes Sold

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  They also don’t want to be arrested or deported but what does that have to do with anything?    Okay; so the latest liberal list of demands and rants of political correctness are coming from “pro-illegal immigration policy” punks. As Halloween approaches and stores begin to kick off the time of year [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 6:34pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Conservative Hosts and Ones View of “Bass-Ackwards” Democrat Tactics

     I am not big on many of today’s top conservative commentators.  I feel that many of them are not as much believers as they are performers and through their performances, they exaggerate and become unduly inflammatory.  I state “unduly inflammatory” because the existing facts about liberal intent, motives and actions [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:11pm EDT
  by Kempite

• All The World’s a Stage And On It The Balloon Boy’s Family Are Stars

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      All the world’s a stage, and on it we no longer live reality.  Today fiction does not imitate reality.  Today we tend to make reality imitate fiction. Case in point: As a national watched this silver, Jiffy Pop shaped balloon sail through the air, they held their breath riveted by the shocking scenario [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:25pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Justice Department To Announce New Medical Marijuana Policy

      The Obama justice department is expected to announce on Monday that it will not continue federal prosecutions of those who legitimately use marijuana for medicinal purposes and those who sell marijuana  for medicinal use.  They are expected to stipulate that this decision will not apply to interstate transactions. The move [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 11:28pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Fox News Isn’t News But MSNBC, CNN and All the Other Networks Are?

     According to White House “Special Advisor to the President”, David Axelrod, Fox News is not a news network. During a tour on the Sunday morning television circuit, the guru behind President Obama’s election effort told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos “It’s really not news — it’s pushing a point of view. And [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 11:05pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Use of the Nuclear Option In Healthcare Reform Could Backfire on Democrats

       A  man given little mention and no attention could become the key roadblock to attempts to pass healthcare based on a procedure called “reconciliation”. Between that man and, ironically, a rule created by a long time Democrat Senator, Democrat’s hopes of passing health care management and care reforms through [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 10:14pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Global Warming Accumulates In Pennsylvania

    Guest editorial by Mike Duminiak Global warming, long considered more an idea than a physical entity has been proven in spades today. The fluffy white material believed to be the eroded remains of melted glaciers superheated to the point of freezing by rising global temperatures began falling from the sky [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
  by Kempite

• A New York Story: Senator Found Not Innocent But Not Guilty

     On his New York State Senate Web site the top story his office offers reads “Senator Monserrate Celebrates Central American Culture and Heritage in Corona, NY”. It’s not exactly an intriguing or compelling story about courageous or innovative leadership that tackles any of the problems facing troubled New Yorkers [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:46pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Maine Senator Susan Collins May Be Second Republican To Support Healthcare Reform

     After the Senate Finance Committee voted 14 to 9 in favor of their version of health management and care reform, today Democrats met behind closed doors to try to merge House and Senate versions of health insurance and care reforms into one bill. While that was going Maine Senator Susan [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Democrats Afraid of a Return To Average Black Voter Turnout Numbers

     According to a Aaron Blake at The Hill, Democrats are fearing that a drop off in African-American votes in coming elections that do not feature President Obama on the ballot, could be quite detrimental to their election and reelection efforts. This fear is playing itself out in the elections for [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:57pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Wall Street Makes Successful 10k Run But Economic Ruin Awaits

     The Dow Jones hit the 10,000 mark at 1:19 p.m. The first time we had ever hit that mark was in March of 1999. Ten years ago. Since then the Dow exceeded that level but after the economic downturn of last year, we fell far below, not only those [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
  by Kempite

• From The Wreckage of 9/11 Comes The USS New York

    Through heavy fog, the USS New York lefts its moorings at Avondale, Louisiana and set out on a voyage to its namesake, New York City. After three years of construction at Avondale, people lined both sides of the Mississippi to pay tribute to a vessel that was born out of [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 8:12pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Blanche Lincoln & Olympia Snowe Will Support The Baucus Healthcare Bill in Committee

    Ahead of the actual Senate Finance Committee vote on health  management and care reform, Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln and Maine Senator Olympia  Snowe  have  declared that they will be supporting it in committee. Lincoln was the only Democrat of the the thirteen Democrats on the committee whose vote was doubtful.  As one of [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:11pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Senate Finance Committee Vote On Healthcare Focuses On Olympia Snowe

      The Senate Finance Committee is about to vote on the administration’s everything or nothing push for health management and care reform packages. The committee’s chairman, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has pieced together a version of the bill that is more than likely to pass the 13 to 10 Democrat [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 11:21am EDT
  by Kempite

• Reckless Debt Accumulation & Misleading Environmental Policy: Vote No On Ballot Question #1

      On November 3rd, those voters in New Jersey who realize that there is an election is going on will be deciding who their assemblymen and state senators will be. They will also be choosing who the Governor of the state for the next four years will be. The choices [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:01am EDT
  by Kempite

• Hillary Clinton Wont Run For President, Looks Forward to Retirement and Denies Being Marginalized

      In a prerecorded interview conducted by NBC’s Ann Curry on the Today Show, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that she will never run for President again. She added that the job she is doing is a 24/7 responsibility and that she is looking forward to retirement. The response [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
  by Kempite

• New Jersey’s Largest Newspaper Pokes Democrats & Republicans Right In Their Eyes and Endorse Chris Daggett for Governor

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      The Star-Ledger is one of New Jersey’s largest newspapers. It mainly serves Northern and Central New Jersey, where the largest portions of the state’s population exists. Like most newspapers, they are struggling for readers. With 24 hour news outfits on radio and television and the internet, they are hardly [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 2:52am EDT
  by Kempite

• Science Fiction Becomes Reality

      Guest editorial by Mike Duminiak Researchers in Oregon have successfully raised monkeys created from the genetic material of one male and two females. The research is the first major step in using “good genes” from a third party to partially genetically engineer a child from two other main parents. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:20pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Hate Crimes & National Security: How Democrats Fit Square Pegs Into Round Holes

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      House Speaker Nancy Pelosi celebrated what she carefully phrased as “the passage of the Matthew Shepherd and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act”. She continued with her statement by adding that it was passed “as part of the conference report on Defense Authorization for fiscal year 2010 (HR [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 11:21pm EDT
  by Kempite

• President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize For Nothing: News and Analysis

      I can hear it now. This time next year, the distinguished chairman of the Nobel Prize committee steps up to podium and reads aloud before the world;   The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 is to be awarded to the legendary Osama bin Laden for his extraordinary efforts in bringing the [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 6:52pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Hidden History of the Confederacy Reveals Some Good Advice

   Guest Editorial by Mike Duminiak     In the simplification of history in order to spoon feed it to children in public schools, we often lose sight of many important lessons. In public schools children are taught that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and that the Confederacy was [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 4:28pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Governor Corzine Tries To Appeal To Voters By Changing His Name

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     In what, to date, has been an issueless and unenthusiastic race for Governor of New Jersey, incumbent Governor Jon Corzine, (D) has shaken things up in dramatic ways. Just days before state ballots are prepared for printing, the Governor has gone to court to have his name legally changed. After [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 2:55pm EDT
  by Kempite

• New Jersey’s Race for Governor: An Unbelievably Pathetic Political Exercise

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      The race for Governor of New Jersey is one that has been a truly wasteful political exercise. It is by far the most shallow, useless and pointless race for office to have taken place since Missourians elected their dead former governor, Mel Carnahan to the U.S. Senate over then [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 12:42am EDT
  by Kempite

• The Means and Way for Charlie Rangel To Resign As Chairman of Ways and Means

     The Ways and Means Committee is an extremely powerful panel to be a member of . The Committee has jurisdiction overall taxation and tariffs and revenue raising activities and activities that include, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment benefits, and all other federal welfare programs and benefits. They clearly do more [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 12:30am EDT
  by Kempite

• Who Can Win a U.S. Senate Seat For Republicans In New York?

      In 2010, along with a race for Governor, New York will be electing two United States Senators.  Chuck Schumer’s term is up and a special election to fill the remainder of Hillary Clinton’s unexpired term will also be held. Currently the seat is occupied by Kristen Gillibrand, an Upstate [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 6:34am EDT
  by Kempite

• Mazel Tov: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is Jewish

     In what looks like a case of methinks thou doth protest too much, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly was born Jewish. The son of a supporter of the Iranian President has disclosed that Ahmadinejad was born of Jewish descent with the surname Saburjian. Apparently records show that Ahmadinejad changed the [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Trust and Taxes: New Ad Offers A Preview of the 2010 Midterm Elections

     As usual, the party in power is not looking strong as they head into the midterm elections of 2010. Many of next year’s races are already shaping up and although anything, anything can happen to change the current outlook, it is never too early to start setting a tone [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 12:59pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Losing The Olympics Could Be An Important Lesson For President Obama and Chicago

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      The first round of votes regarding where the 2016 Olympics are to be held was completed. And then the Chair of the International Olympic Committee came to the podium and spoke these words. “The city of Chicago, having obtained the least amount of votes, will not participate in the next [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 4:02pm EDT
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• Race To Replace President Obama Is Already Shaping Up With Tim Pawlenty

      Freedom First. It is a true rally cry for America, especially these days. But for one man those two words are the sparks for a fire in his belly that he hopes fuels a drive to make him President. Freedom First is Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s newly organized Political Action Committee [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 3:10pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Congressman Alan Grayson: “Die Quickly”, Please!

  So Democrats were highly offended by Republican claims that the liberal plan for government run health management and care actually created bureaucratic political appointed panels designed to determine the type of treatment that severely ill people should be granted and what has been called end of life counseling. That very [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Attempt to Rehabilitate Dan Rather’s Reputation Is Dismissed

      Dan Rather, the disgraced television journalist and news anchor, just lost the chance to get richer and to rehabilitate his deserved disgraceful reputation. After trying to fake the facts about President George W. Bush’s record in the National Guard in order to promote his own liberal biases against the former [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
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• Dems Begin To Derail Their Own Party’s Public Option

     In a close vote which moderate Democrats made the difference, the Senate Finance Committee voted down amendments to health management and care reform legislation that called for the so called public option. With 10 Republicans and 13 Democrats on the finance committee, Democrats who do not see any merit [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 3:53pm EDT
  by Kempite

• President Obama and the 2016 Olympic Games

      I may not be happy with it, but Barack Obama is my President. From a politically partisan perspective I believe that he should be attacked as relentlessly as partisans on the other side of the aisle attacked President George W. Bush. But unlike those on the left, I believe [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
  by Kempite

• When Will They Grow Up?

      When Bill Clinton was President of the United States, with childlike thinking, he could do no wrong. Anything and everything he did had an excuse and could be excused away. While running for President, when it became impossible for candidate Clinton to deny smoking marijuana during his college years, he [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 2:58am EDT
  by Kempite

• Conservative Columnist, Speechwriter and Language Arts Historian William Safire Passes On

      “Is the sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care” Those where the words once spoken by a man who found a passion for the defense of proper grammar and the origins of the usage of contemporary phrases. They are the words of [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 6:12pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Those Who Refuse To Buy Mandatory Obamacare Face Fines And Prison

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      Does the Constitution allow for the government to mandate that one purchase health insurance? That is a question which may eventually make its way to the Supreme Court of the United States for as the debate on how to make sure that all Americans have access to affordable health care [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 1:22am EDT
  by Kempite

• The Free World Has A New Leader

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      After days of highly publicized speeches given at the opening of the United Nations’ general assembly, one man has emerged as the true leader of the free world.  In between speeches from leaders sane and insane of  nations large and small, rich and poor, powerful and weak, one person [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:34am EDT
  by Kempite

• Paul Kirk Picked By Patrick For Kennedy’s Senate Seat

      Michael Dukakis losses out again. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, tapped Paul Kirk,  a former chairman of the Democrat national Committee, Kennedy staffer and chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s board of directors to fill Ted Kennedy’s vacant senate seat until a special election is held in January. Kirk was [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Million Med March Demonstrates That Not All Doctors Want Government Run Healthcare

      The left likes to use phrases such as “the majority of Americans want healthcare reform”. They try suggest that because of that they are right and everyone else is wrong. But that distortion exceeds the bounds of sincerity. The phrase is true but what the left neglects to mention [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 3:23am EDT
  by Kempite

• Sneak Preview Of Movie Shattering The Myths Of Environmental Extremism Hits Youtube

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     Not Evil Just Wrong is a new movie that is essentially a response to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and its makers have just issued a sneak preview (see clip below this post) Not Evil Just Wrong shatters many of the myths perpetuated by An Inconvenient Truth and prove it to [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 5:37pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Michael Dukakis Is Ready For A Political Comeback

     Since 1953 only one other person who wasn’t a Kennedy held the seat that  JFK used to propel himself to the Presidency with. That person was Benjamin Smith.  Smith was a roommate of John F. Kennedy at Harvard. Essentially, Smith was used to fill the vacancy created when JFK [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 4:13pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Moummar Quadafi : Obama Should Be President Forever

     In what can be best described as a “who let the nuts out moment”, immediately following President Obama’s apologetic speech for America at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, madman Moummar Qadaffi of Libya took to the podium. The terrorist rambled on and on about reforming the U.N., moving  [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:46pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Ditherer in Chief Is About To Lose a General and a War

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     President Obama has called our involvement in Afghanistan “a war of necessity”. The necessity has prompted the President to continue our war effort. The fact that we can not abandon the cause is obvious to most. Leaving an unstable government to deal with a resurging Al Qaeda backed Taliban [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 2:13pm EDT
  by Kempite

• AMBER ALERT -Huntsville, Alabama Area

      Help find this beautiful girl – believed to be in Huntsville, Alabama area.   JUDI JUAREZ Caucasian female 13 years old Brown eyes Black hair 4′6″ and 100lb The State of Alabama is activating an Amber Alert at the request of the State of Tennessee, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Judi Juarez, a Guatemalan female, was last seen at [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:32pm EDT
  by Kempite

• Former Governor Pataki Mulls Over a Run For Senate as Rick Lazio Runs For Governor

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        Former New York Governor George Pataki has made it known that he is considering returning to the politics.  The former undefeated, three term governor of the Empire State rejected to run for a fourth consecutive term. His retirement set the stage for an ill equipped state GOP to put up [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 6:23pm EDT
  by Kempite