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  • Surprise: ACORN Finds No Pattern of Illegal Activity at ACORN

    You mean an internal audit of ACORN conducted by far left-wing ACORN stooges didn't turn up a pattern of illegality at ACORN offices? I'm shocked, as I'm sure you are. I fully expected the audit to find a corrupt organization worthy of federal investigation. WASHINGTON — An internal investigation of the' [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Okey Dokey: Vatican’s Midnight Mass to Occur At 10 pm

    Hey, as they say, it's always midnight somewhere. Just not at the Vatican during midnight mass. For some reason. VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will break with tradition this year and celebrate Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at 10 p.m. instead of midnight, the Vatican said Monday. Papal spokesman [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Report: Tiger Woods’ Wife Moves Out

    Elin Nordegren, wife of golf superstar and now-notorious womanizer Tiger Woods, has moved out of the family's $2.6 million home, according to RadarOnline.com. The news comes shortly after yet another woman claimed she had an affair with Woods. Can't really blame her. Would keep living in the same home with a' [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Desperation: Reid Compares ObamaCare Opponents To Slavery Supporters

    There are so many things wrong with this statement that I don't know where to begin. But let's try anyway. For starters, the Republican Party was founded as the abolitionist party, in contract to the Democratic Party that continued to support the institution of slavery. So the history of slavery support' [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Good News: Baucus Took Mistress on Taxpayer-Funded Trips

    First we learned that Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) appointed his mistress as U.S. Attorney without disclosing his affair. His spokesman denied that he only appointed her because she was sleeping with him, but no one outside his office believed that spin. Now The Hill reports that the powerful Democrat took the [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Collins, Lieberman Say “No” To Public Option

    Senators Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) will oppose the government-run insurance option that has been made a central aspect of costly Congressional Democratic health care reform proposals. Apparently the moderate duo understand that such programs are gateways for a government take-over of the health care system and, therefore, shouldn't' [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Analysis: Crist Flip-Flopping in Senate Run

    Charlie Crist realizes he's losing ground to conservative Marco Rubio. As the Associated Press reports today, that has led him to begin flip-flopping on the issues. Well, "begin" isn't quite the word. Crist is a serial flip-flopper. In the most extreme example of Crist reinventing himself, the governor denied endorsing the' [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Amazon Denies Reports of Physical Store Plans

    Disappointing news, actually. A physical Amazon.com store would be quite a positive step, even if the reports claimed the initial locations would be in the United Kingdom. They'd probably quite successful, too. A spokesman for the group said it had no plans to open physical stores after the Sunday Times reported' [...]
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    Fetched: December 07, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Good News: EPA To Declare Carbon Dioxide a Public Danger

    Yes, your exhalations are now officially considered a public danger by the federal government. The fact you continue to breathe is, according to the EPA, a bad thing. WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, [...]
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    Fetched: December 07, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Revealed: The Massive Carbon Footprint of the Copenhagen Meeting

    Fret not, my comrades. I'm sure they'll purchase some carbon offsets from a company owned by Al Gore and all will be right in the world. As we know, buying a piece of paper mitigates the environmental damage caused by flying your private plane halfway across the world. Ms Jorgensen reckons [...]
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    Fetched: December 07, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • White House: Intelligence on Bin Laden? We Don’t Have That

    It's actually a bit more complex of a situation than my title makes it sound. Maybe. Or not. You see, Robert Gates is now an Obama Administration official and as such his job is to protect the current administration. Even if that means attacking the previous administration he served in, or [...]
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    Fetched: December 07, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Flashback: Robert Byrd Not Too Happy About Working on Sunday

    How unhappy was the senior senator from West Virginia and former Klu Klux Klan member? He actually quoted the King James Bible on why no one should work on the Sabbath. Including the part about putting such violators to death. On the floor of Senate. The clip dates back to October [...]
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    Fetched: December 07, 2009, 6:44am EST

  • Surprise: NASA Hiding Its Global Warming Data, Too

    Remember this when proponents of the theory of anthropogenic global warming insist the falsified data from the Climate Research Unit (See: ClimateGate) is no reason to doubt their theory. After all, so many other reliable scientific outlets have proven and accurate data, right? Eh, not so much. It turns out that [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Senate Rejects McCain Attempt to Stop Medicare Cuts

    Senator John McCain (R-AZ) put forth an amendment that would stop Democrats from gutting Medicare through their Senate health care reform legislation. Democrats rejected the amendment a little while ago. WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected an attempt by Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) to strip Medicare spending [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Heartache: Swedish Man Fails In Pursuit of Lactating

    Apparently the male body can't carry out female functions simply because its owner will it to be. Go figure. The Swedish dad who's spent the last few months attempting to squeeze milk from his breasts has thrown in the towel, with nothing more than "sore breasts" to show for his efforts. Student' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Breaking: Militants Attack Army Checkpoint in Pakistan

    Even as initial reports are still coming out about the market bombing in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, Reuters reports that dozens of militants have attacked a Pakistani army checkpoint in Wana, the main city in South Waziristan. The wire service says dozens of Islamist militants attacked the checkpoint using rocket-propelled [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Breaking: Bomb Explodes Near KFC in Pakistan

    A bomb has exploded near a KFC fast food restaurant in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. There's no word yet on casualties, but BBC News quotes local police saying there are vehicles damaged and store windows smashed in the nearby area. Update: A motivation for the bombing? The Associated Press says the [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Shock: Baucus Confirms He Nominated Mistress As US Attorney

    The office of Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has confirmed that he was having an affair with his state officer director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her for U.S. Attorney. Baucus is no longer married and now openly lives with Hanes, but a source for Roll Call confirms he was carrying on [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Flashback: Obama Supported WH Officials Testifying Before Congress

    Barack Obama might not like his cronies testifying before Congress now that he occupies the Oval Office, but he took a very different position as a candidate last year. At the time Obama said: I think that nobody is above the law. If there are specific assertions of executive privilege, then, [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Barney Frank Endorses Joe Sestak For Pennsylvania Senate

    Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has decided to endorse Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) over Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) for the 2010 senatorial race in the Keystone State. Frank is the first member of Congress to back Sestak for the Democratic primary. That news must sting for Specter, a thirty-year incumbent. He's spent [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Breaking: Amanda Knox Found Guilty on All Counts

    To no one's great surprise, 22-year-old Amanda Knox has been convicted of all charges against her, including murder. She has been sentenced to 26 years in prison and she'll have to pay millions of dollars in damages to the victim's family. Why no surprise in this verdict? For any number of' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Two Georgia Banks Shut by Regulators

    Regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation closed two banks in Georgia on Friday, bringing the number of bank failures in the United States this year to 126. A total of $961 million in deposits were shared by Buckhead Community Bank and First Security National Bank in Atlanta and Norcross, respectively. [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Breaking: Blast at Russian Cafe Kills At Least 100

    Is this the latest act of terrorism in the Russian Federation? We've had train bombings that left dozens dead, now there are explosions ripping through cafes (nightclubs?) leaving at least 15 dead. What's going on? MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A blast has ripped through a nightclub in the Russian city of' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Rollingstone Mag to Launch Restaurant, Lounge

    It's not my cup of tea per say, but the music-oriented magazine has a bi-weekly circulation of 1.4 million. Good enough news for a slow day? You 'betcha! Of course, the restaurant and lounge will be opened in Los Angeles, more specifically at the Hollywood and Highland Center. It's pretty close' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Verdict Coming Soon in Amanda Knox Case

    Amanda Knox is an American college student on trial in Italy for the murder of her British roommate. Professor Wikipedia has some background on the case here. The trial of 22-year-old Seattle girl has been going on for about a year now. Anyway, court officials now tell the Associated Press that, [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • CNN: Obama Approval Below 50% For the First Time

    Barack Obama has a higher disapproval rating than approval rating for the first time in a CNN poll. Just forty-eight percent of American adults approve of the job Obama is doing, while fifty percent disapprove. That represents a 7% drop in approval since last month alone. "American adults" is usually the [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Comcast Buying Support for NBC Acquisition With Support for ObamaCare?

    As you probably know by now, cable provider Comcast has decided to purchase entertainment giant NBC Universal for about $30 billion. This acquisition has many in Washington cautious about approving the deal, as a distributor would end up controlling the content it broadcasts. (The Weather Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC, and [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Nile River Ferries Collide, Dozens of People Missing

    I've always been intrigued by the Nile and its long history of supporting (and often harming) civilization. So this grabbed my attention when I saw it on BBC News. Two passenger ferries have collided on the river, leaving dozens of people missing in the water. While rescuers continue searching for survivors,' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Houston Mayor To Seek Governor’s Mansion

    Bill White, the mayor of Houston, has abandoned his bid for U.S. Senate in order to seek the Texas governor's mansion. Under election laws, he'll be able to transfer the $4 million he raised for his senate campaign to his gubernatorial campaign. White, a wealthy Democratic attorney, immediately began slamming Governor' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • House Ethics Committee Investigating House Democrat Over Credit Cards

    The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, over his role in an investigation of credit card companies. The Washington Post reports that Thompson, originally elected in 1992, pressured major credit card companies into donating to his political ambitions by threatening them [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • The NSFW Reading List of Obama’s Safe School Czar

    Yes, there's evidently a safe schools czar in the Obama Administration. It's one of the several dozen powerful bureaucratic positions not subject to Senate confirmation and yet in control of taxpayer funds and federal governmental functions. The position is currently filled by Kevin Jennings, who evidently has a thing for [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Admitted Child Rapist Begins Luxury Chalet Arrest

    Were it you or I that had admitted to drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, we'd be rotting in a prison cell by now. We'd be some big guy's "girlfriend", hoping we don't drop the soap in the communal shower. But Roman Polanski is a Hollywood and, evidently, European lefty darling,' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Ouch: Retail Sales Actually Fell in November

    Which would be especially bad news because, as we all know, Black Friday receives its name from the idea that so many sales are made that day that companies come into the black (or profit). So retail sales actually falling from October to November, largely due to a disappointing Thanksgiving [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • McClatchy: Obama Admin Giving Different Explanations on Afghan Deadline

    What exactly does the Obama Administration mean by saying that we'll begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July 2011? It depends on who asks. That's the analysis from McClatchy today. It would appear that the Obama Administration is giving different reasons to different people. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is giving different' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Great Unemployment News Not Really Great News

    The unemployment rate fell from 10.2% to 10% today, as employers cut fewer jobs than expected in November. The media and left-wing will jump on this as proof that their policies are working. And they'd be right, right? Not so fast. The unemployment rate measures the percentage of the workforce out' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • White House: Social Secretary Testifying Would Violate Separation of Powers

    Because I'm sure the intention of the Founding Fathers was to protect bureaucratic party hosts from testifying before Congress in regards to a massive security breach at the home of the president of the United States. I believe it was Madison who said, "Freedom, true freedom, requires that the White House'" [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Democrats: Hey, How About Yet Another Tax on Investors?

    How moronic is this move? Even the Obama Administration is essentially saying, "Yeah...thanks, but no thanks." And yet, very powerful Democrats in the U.S. Senate are pushing this measure. Because we all know nothing stimulates the economy like government taking even more money away from companies and investors. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • NY Post: Bill Joel’s Daughter Attempted to Commit Suicide

    Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of singer Bill Joel and model Christie Brinkley, was rushed to the hospital this afternoon after attempting to commit suicide by drug overdose, the New York Post reports. A family spokesman says she's now stable and conscious. A female called 911 just after noon today, telling the [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Good News: White House Forgot It Told McChrystal to Defeat Taliban

    Back in October of this year, the Obama Administration held a war room meeting on Afghanistan. General Stanley McChrystal, the four-star general Obama himself appointed to lead the fight against the Taliban, was teleconferenced into the meeting from Kabul. He was asked to explain what he had been doing since [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Video: Republican Senators Stress Need to Protect Medicare Benefits

    Republican Senators aren't sitting by quietly as their Democratic counterparts gut $500 billion from Medicare, jeopardizing access to health services for millions of America's seniors. Earlier this week the GOP introduced an amendment that would've restored the half-trillion to the Medicare program and ensured our parents and grandparents would've continued to' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Obama: Socialized Healthcare Is My Jobs Program

    We're all screwed. “What has happened is a lot of the debate in Washington has been around health care, so people think, well, I guess they must not be working on jobs,” Obama said Friday in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “No, we’ve been working on jobs the whole time. Health care is part' [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Dems Now Targeting Private Sector Insurance Exec Pay

    Because what would a day in Washington be without Congressional Democrats overstepping constitutional boundaries and interfering with the pay practices of private companies? Actually this case goes beyond the regular unjustified (and unconstitutional) interference in the private sector. The target is insurance executives -- an obvious attempt to demonize the private [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • NBC: Obama To Send Even Fewer Troops Than Expected

    Despite receiving requests from commanders on the ground for another 40,000 troops to win in Afghanistan, Barack Obama is now expected to send just 30,000 additional troops -- down form the 34,000 troops it was reported he would send just last week. That from two major news outlets (NBC and [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 6:44pm EST

  • Surprise: ACORN Considering Changing Name

    How terribly predictable. ACORN is looking to wipe away its absolutely destroyed reputation following the now-famous undercover video sting that showed its employees helping further the underage sex trade and commit tax fraud. So, like countless organizations found committing crimes and infested with corruption, it's considering a branding change. ACORN, the troubled [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 3:44pm EST

  • Swiss Justice Minister: Hey, Let’s Overrule The Will of the People

    Swiss voters decided to ban minaret construction in their country the other day, outlawing a major symbol of the spread of Islam and its culture throughout Europe and much of the world. The ban doesn't actually ban mosques, the practice of Islam, or even require that present minarets be taken' [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 3:44pm EST

  • OC Courthouse Retreats; Xmas Tree Placed Back in Lobby

    If you don't remember this case, here's some background. Basically the Orange County Superior courthouse removed a Christmas tree dedicated to toy donations for poor children. Why? Because one member of the public complained about a potential religious symbol being present in a courthouse. So the administration threw away twenty years' [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 12:44pm EST

  • Iranian Government Approves Plan to Build 10 New Enrichment Sites

    State-run media in Iran reports that the government in Tehran has approved a plan to build ten new nuclear enrichment facilities. The announcement is in direct defiance of the international community, coming just two days after the IAEA voted to censure the Islamic Republic for failing to halt its pursuit of [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 3:43am EST

  • Fail: Black Friday Sales About the Same As Last Year’s

    Unemployment in the double digits, real unemployment even higher, the credit market still frozen like a bag of peas in the freezer section, and consumer confidence still shockingly low. To think there might not be a surge in the number of people running out to buy robotic hamsters. CHICAGO – Shoppers [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 3:43am EST

  • West Nile Virus Discovered in Palm Beach County

    West Palm Beach - West Nile Virus has been detected in Palm Beach County for the first time since November 2007. Local health officials recommend residents try to avoid mosquitos as much as possible, staying indoors at dawn or dusk. People should also wear longer clothing, use insect repellant with DEET, [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 3:43am EST

  • Ouch: Bystander Holds Up ClimateGate Sign on CBC

    The American left-wing media aren't the only outlets refusing to report on ClimateGate. BBC News is generally avoiding the story, as is its counterpart in Canada. This censorship has some understandably upset, especially considering that CBC is funded with taxpayer money. So one enterprising bystander decided to bring the issue front' [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 3:43am EST
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