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Dumpster-diving pays off again for Junior Cub Reporter Biff Spackle. Full-name: Please enter your real name, you will have an opportunity to make up names later Do you have access to a car or other vehicle? Yes No Don't know/don't remember If No, do you know how to hot-wire an ignition? Yes No If Yes, how many homeless vagrants or illegal aliens can you transport? 0-1 Coupe 2-4 Sedan 5-7 Minivan 9-11 Conversion van 12-99 Schoolbus 100-199 Semi with empty trailer Do you know any dead people? No Yes If you had to make up names for some reason, which...

At a recent campaign appearance in Ohio, Sen. Obama was approached by plumber Joe Wurzelbacher, who has concerns about Obama's proposed tax policies. FamilySecurityMatters.org's Pam Meister had a candid conversation with him about his experience.

Rebekah Curtis wrote this for The Creative Minority Report: I'm an amputee, and have had a lot of health and mobility problems over the past couple of years. I just got a new leg, and am finally getting back on my feet. (Pun intended!) Even standing for fairly short periods of time was impossible without a lot of pain a few weeks ago. At the McCain/Palin rally in Virginia Beach yesterday, we stood for around eight hours straight, and I wasn't any more sore than anyone else. But that wasn't what made the day one of the happiest of my...

ACORN has been in the news for their creative get out the vote efforts. From Mickey Mouse to the entire Dallas Cowboys offense, they've managed to get some dude registered (73 times at last count)for nothing more than some smokes. So how do supposedly sober Democrats greet this affront to this most cherished of American rights? With scorn and half-truths of course: From the New York Post we get openers like this one: an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address... One Ohio man is a conduit to voter fraud, something...

Please, America, let's Never Find Out. Just take a couple of minutes to view our ads and I'm certain that you will understand the importance and the urgency of our message. You can see them at http://www.neverfindout.org Our message is so vital to the importance to the future of this great nation that we have committed over a million dollars to protect you and your family from an Obama Presidency. An Obama Presidency will change your life forever--and not for the better. What the outcome is on the morning after Election Day will change your life forever. If it is...

The 2008 election will be known to history as the 401k election. In the past, the economic health was measured by unemployment during the Great Depression. In the Nixon Years it was the Great Inflation. And Jimmy Carter had the misery- index. Grover Norquist explains why this will be the 401K election and the grim scenario Obama’s plan will bring.

In Lake County, IN the Registrar of Voters started examining voter registrations turned in by ACORN. Of the first 2,100 that were examined, 2,100 were found to be fraudulent. Yep, all of them. Drew Griffin at CNN has been doing an amazing job of reporting on various entities connected to the Obama campaign, and here's his report: (MUST-SEE CNN VIDEO AT LINK)

The campaign this year is eerily reminiscent of the election a few years back. Then, too, we had a Republican president who was unpopular and the media was favoring a relatively unknown Democrat. He was a very smart, articulate man who was a good campaigner. He sounded good and persuasive. He was friendly, likeable and really a decent man. He was a liberal with kind of a naive world view. He had no experience in Washington. The press did everything they could to promote his election. But once he was elected, it wasn’t too long until the country was sorry...

sh.... Let me let y'all in on a little secret. Nothing pisses off the illegals and recent legal immigrants than when they have a relative that is here legally and he doesn't help his family out. Doesn't sign appications for green cards, etc.. no money... no help. If you want to really give the guy a suka punch, put out the ads with questions about how he doesn't have close ties to his extended family, why doesn't he help them out? How can he be so blessed in America and yet not try to assist his family to immigrate? Does...

If the third and final debate goes as the first two did, there will be little news and no good news for Sen. McCain. He needs to make--and break--some news at the next debate. So, what should he do? He should propose the appointment of a Special Prosecutor--a career prosecutor with experience prosecuting financial crimes--to look into the mortgage mess. It is the right thing to do. And promise that if one is not appointed by the current attorney general, he will appoint one on Inauguration Day. Specifically, the Special Prosecutor would look into the housing mess, including: --The collapse...

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What has happened to the Democratic Party? One wants to ask what has happened to the Democratic Party that is has given birth to such a ruthless movement.

“The calculator asks you to input the value of your 401(k). Then, it recalculates what your 401(k) will be worth under four different tax scenarios”

Vilmar has a post up wondering how on earth Obama is so far ahead in the polls when all this ACORN dirt is making the news. And evidence of registration fraud is rampant. What gives? The truth is simple: It doesn’t matter because there is no truth. There are no morals. There are no standards. It’s as simple as that. The media has lost all credence. Period. We no longer have truth, we have “truthiness”. The propagandists have won. Technology has advanced to the state where any document can be forged by almost anyone. Papers, film, video, sound recordings ......

The Sun Times today gave a major clue that Barack Obama will indeed go down with Tony Rezko, sooner rather than later. It looks as though Rezko is about to turn on Alexi Giannoulias, the 30-year old State Treasurer of Illinois (who was elected only because Obama backed him). Here’s where all the clues are…and then we’ll walk you through the local Chicago politics on how today’s hint by the Sun Times has us convinced, for the first time ever, that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could indeed send Barack Obama to jail. We need to repeat that: we never believed, until...

In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay Barbara Slavin Friday, October 10, 2008 At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval. Mr. Obama's conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House...

Pollster John Zogby says the presidential race is still too close to call and could come down to the very last weekend before voters decide if they like or distrust Barack Obama. With non-stop favorable coverage by the media, Obama should be twenty or more points ahead. The report at the link below says: Zogby’s latest poll, released yesterday in conjunction with C-Span and Reuters, shows Obama and John McCain in a statistical dead heat, with the Illinois Democrat up 48-45 percent. Zogby said the race mirrors the 1980 election, when voters didn’t embrace Ronald Reagan over then-President Jimmy Carter...

As the election grows closer, it's clear that Barack Obama has a very good chance of becoming our next president. Such an admission might get me accused of defeatism, but at present the trends do favor the Democrats. This possibility and this post by lauraw at ace's site got me thinking about what an Obama presidency would be like. Since Obama is such a cipher and the press has shown little inclination to examine his life or beliefs, this is a difficult exercise. Still, it's possible to guess some of what's to come based on what the blogosphere has discovered...

As Gov. Palin attempted to make a campaign speech, she was interrupted by a hippie, er protester.Click here to view the video. Palin stops her speech, looks directly at the heckler and says the following "Bless your heart sir, my son is in Iraq fighting for your right to protest".... Visit RUF for the video and the rest of the story!

Top Ten Excuses I Didn't Know My BFF Willy Ayers Was a Terrorist" 10) Community organizing takes up a lot of time. 9) Jeremiah Wright vouched for him. 8) I’ve always been a supporter of Don’t Ask Don’t tell. 7) It wasn’t on the teleprompter. 6) I was busy that day picking up my $105,849 check from Fannie Mae with my good buddies Doodad Pro and Good Will. 5) How was I supposed to know? After all, he looked like all the other guys on the dollar bill. You can continue reading at Creative Minority Report http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2008/10/top-ten-excuses-i-didnt-know-my-bff-was.html

In the 1920s, Vladimir Lenin charged a select group of communist espionage officers with a long range covert influence project. Their goal: To undermine the culture, society, and economy of the USA. To weaken America in preparation for a socialist revolution. The communists targeted the three transmission belts of American culture: Academia, the Media, and Hollywood. Recent research reveals the unbelievable extent of their success. Today we see the results in Obama’s campaign talking points, the Media’s assistance, and Hollywood and Academia’s slavish toeing of the party line . ...KGB chiefs were regularly slaughtered, along with millions of other Soviet...

"Hannity's America - Obama & Friends: A History of Radicalism" This was a very good and informative segment. I wonder how we can get a DVD of this 1 hour show out to folks. This is the sort of real journalism that needs to be pushed in the masses most especially in Republican swing states. Sean Hannity has done an outstanding job to do what the other mainstream new agency's like CNN, ABC, NBC and other simply ignore. As Americans we need to understand what is on the potential plate by electing someone like Obama to the presidency. This would...

There's nothing wrong with "guilt by association" if the person you're associating with is guilty of something... The McCain campaign needs to spin the Ayers connection much better. It doesn't matter when Obama met up with Ayers, or how many meetings they ever had. It's about the fact that Ayers went from domestic terrorist to "respected community leader", to the point where Ayers was throwing well attended fundraisers for Obama, and they sat on boards together. Bill Ayers should never have acheived such respectable positions in the first place. Bill Ayers should be sitting in jail, not on boards! But...

I like hearing this: ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of his association with a former 1960s radical, stepping up the campaign's effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the tumultuous Vietnam War era four decades ago. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, served on a...

Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin squared off Thursday night in the only vice presidential debate of the 2008 campaign. Ratings were expected to be strong.

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Here’s the news The Battle for Main Street, Hometown, U.S.A: Sept 29, 2008, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd committed an act of domestic, economic terrorism. Don’t wait for the claim of responsibility from their organization known as ALL SPENDA. Obama Bin Phonein will not call that in, he does not want us to get a fix on his position. We should expect the release of tapes demonstrating that Bin Phonein is still alive, it’s all Bush’s fault and that all American’s will pay dearly on April 15th 2009. The follow up attack of April 15th is being conducted under the...

Gov Palin just gave us another lift . Post debate the GOP narrative should all be about all the lies Biden told. If Gov Palin had made them , Everyone in America would know about them by now. I was expecting to wake up today to adverts , surrogates and party members pushing this .Instead nothing .All i hear is the Obama campaign talking point about how Biden was full of detail , how Gov Palin avoided questions, how MSM bogus polls show Biden won etc. Their website does not even mention them. What is going on ? . Is...

Guns and Church Since I identify with the people who fall into Barrack Obama's elitist description about people of faith who keep firearms I'm not very happy with Barrack Obama's recent remarks.

Now this analysis will come at you in a very Stephen Colbert - like fashion...go with on this. 1) She's got great legs. Certainly better than that of Joe Biden's. I'm not going to lie, I have not yet seen Joe Biden's legs, but I'm pretty sure Palin's are better. 2) Both Vice-Presidential Candidates decided to go with their "YAY America" style by sporting an American Lapel Pin. Evidently, someone from Camp Obama let Biden in on a little secret: "America doesn't like it when you say paying taxes is patriotic, here just put this on instead!" Here is where...

Why is it important to see Obama's college records? Because the media has created fantasies around Obama on every issue. You should start dispelling them with the easiest one, i.e. the fantasy of Obama's "academic degrees and honors". Obama has been fighting desperately to block all access to his college records. Even his public "thesis" at Columbia mysteriously disappeared. The media just swallowed the official Obama's "academic degrees and honors" without checking his actual grades, his scores on standardized tests, his academic writings if any, etc. All the decisions to admit Obama to colleges, to give him "academic degrees and...

I don't think anyone can deny what is happening. Maybe it's for the best. This should be a lesson so that in the future we only nominate REAL conservatives for president. In the long run, a McCain loss will probably make it better for all conservatives and for the party we need to reclaim.

Now that the Senate has dressed up the bail out our arrogant Congressmen/women will feel free to ignore the will of the people and vote for the same 750 Billion Giveaway. It’s the same 750 Billion disguised by another 100 Billion in lipstick. In lock step these congressional scoundrels will defy their constituents. They know there is safety in numbers, so if they all approve the giveaway constituents will throw up their hands in disgust and reelect them anyway. Those Congressmen/women voting with the people and against the giveaway should be reelected and the others should be voted out. It’s...

Once upon a time, on a farm in Virginia, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat. She called all of her neighbors together and said, 'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?' 'Not I,' said the cow. 'Not I,' said the duck. 'Not I,' said the pig. 'Not I,' said the goose. 'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did. --- Read on to identify these lazy animals ...

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Why did Nancy Pelosi sink the rescue package and Barack Obama and Harry Reid allow her to do so? The harshest voices in the leftosphere were certainly screaming at her. Kos posted "Pelosi thinks we're stupid" yesterday morning which ranted at the Speaker, and Michael Moore thundered away at "biggest robbery in the history of this country." Pelosi buckled, and with her went a trillion dollars in long accumulated wealth, nursed over decades into retirement accounts. Where was Obama? "Just trying to stay out of the battle," Rudy Giulianai told me yesterday about the Democratic nominee. "You know, 'Let me...

I began the day depressed at our chances, perhaps this could be a boon for McCain if he gets on the side of the House Republicans. It's amazing how when the will of the people goes against the Democrats, some how that's bad.

"This week, 28 million copies of a right-wing, terror propaganda DVD are being mailed and bundled in newspaper deliveries to voters in swing states. The 60-minute DVDs, titled Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, are landing on doorsteps in a campaign coinciding with the 7th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a shadowy outfit whose financial backers are unclear. [..] Although supposedly a 501 c(3) non-profit, this week the Clarion Fund’s website featured an article supporting John McCain. Yesterday, the Patriot-News in PA reported on the DVDs...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican presidential nominee John McCain is planning a visit to Des Moines on Tuesday for a round-table discussion with small business people. McCain plans to meet with a few small business people during a meeting at EFCO, a company that makes concrete forms. The round-table discussion is scheduled to last an hour, beginning at 10 a.m. McCain's wife, Cindy, is expected to join her husband during the visit. Although McCain will meet with only a few business people, his campaign says about 200 local employees will be in the audience.

After watching the debate live and now having had a couple days to fully absorb what was all too obvious that night: McCain won--oh, my mistake--John. It's hard to not be partisan when saying who won--especially since each candidate did express their positions rather clearly, but I'll give it a shot. I try to imagine what it would have been like if I'd just woken up from a coma, or had never heard of either candidate before. What would I admire in each of them? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Are they smokers or non-smokers? The most important answers...

Question for the group. How can these attacks by the Democrats go unanswered? If someone doesn't take up the fight, we'll be living in the People's Republic of America come January. Now, the Dems are spinning that this (the financial meltdown) is a failure of the markets not a failure of government (CRA), which it most assuredly was. It's like falling through the looking glass. Is anybody there?

Slow starting but gets really good really fast...

Every single pundit and political analyst in America today is spinning the result of yesterday’s debate towards his own personal ideological preference. Generally though, most do agree that John McCain did a lot better than Barack Obama, because he was able to continually (and effectively) get his main talking point through, “Mr. Obama doesn’t understand”, without appearing condescending or angry. McCain was able to constantly tell the audience that the problem with Obama was not his “bad faith” or lack of motivation, but simple naivete and inexperience. Barack Obama, on his part, was simply unable to get his talking point...

Compares Governor Sarah Palin's experience with Senator Obama's and highlights some of his many gaffes and "ugh" moments without a teleprompter...

Former weatherman Mark Rudd, who worked closely with William Ayers is a signer with the group, ”Progressives for Obama“.

Who won the first presidential debate Friday night? Sen. John McCain Sen. Barack Obama

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This is a video you should see if you want to understand what caused this crisis...post it everywhere!! Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o!!

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It looks like Obama has firmly declared he will be at the debate, while McCain has allowed a little wiggle room by "requesting" the debate be postponed -- and "challenging" Obama to agree. Regardless, this "staring contest" over whether or not to debate tomorrow night, could have real political ramifications. McCain's opening salvo was shrewd and bold, but Obama's comeback was good, too ("Part of the president's job is to deal with more than one thing at once.") Following are some thoughts on how McCain might respond to Obama's insistence on continuing with the debate: 1. McCain could still show...