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The Dream Ticket(McCain and Soros: The Most Dangerous Man in America, Bankrolled By the Most Evil Man in the World) by Srdja Trifkovic “While the natural instincts of democracy lead the people to banish distinguished men from power,” Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America, “an instinct no less powerful leads distinguished men to shun careers in politics, in which it is so very difficult to remain entirely true to oneself or to advance without self-abasement.” Some 170 years and 36 presidents later, the choice presented to the American people at this year’s presidential election does not merely confirm the...

New York Senator Hillary Clinton acknowledges a 3-minute ovation during the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, August 26. Democratic women Senators appears on stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 26, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama watches New York Senator Hillary Clinton addressing the Democratic National Convention on a TV screen in Billings, Montana on August 26. Vice Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden (R) (D-DE) stand at the podium...

I feel compelled the dispel ten myths that I see as pervasively present in American society. These are beliefs that are repeated so often, and with so little opposition, that they are taken as fact. However, they fail to stand up to mathematical analysis, logical reasoning, or both. In no particular order, let me evoke John Stossel and proceed to puncture these oft-unchallenged myths. 1) School Teachers are Underpaid in America : In any free-market setting, no profession will be perpetually underpaid, relative to output produced. Another clue is that private school teachers actually earn less than public school teachers....

Tensions are running high at MSNBC, at least surrounding veteran host Joe Scarborough who seems to be increasingly discontented at his network's decision to market itself as the cable net of choice for Bush haters. That hasn't sat well with the likes of the far left Keith Olbermann who has played a large role in getting MSNBC to pursue this strategy The Democratic convention seems to have only exacerbated those tensions. Last night saw Olbermann caught on an open mic blurting out profane disgust at Scarborough, prompting the latter to verbally call him out while fellow MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews...

I have long wondered why Liberalism in America came to be associated with quasi-socialist policies and big government. In Europe, liberals are "social democrats" from what I understand, while the term "liberal" is applied to free market and what we would call libertarian types. Liberalism is the foundation of this country and originally expressed pro-limited government views not held by liberals today, but in fact held by conservatives today. The classiscal Liberalism of old is much closer politically to Libertarianism or Conservatism today than to what we have come to know as Liberalism. I have seen many anti-liberal sentiments here...

The Battleground Poll, the most respected and thorough of all public opinion polls, released its latest results on August 20th.  Although many people read this poll for the data on voter preference in upcoming elections, for voter opinions about the two major political parties, for what things matter most to voters, I always zip past this data in the first fifteen pages of poll results and go straight to Question D3, which very quietly and totally ignored proclaims the biggest missing story in American politics and which is the only story, in the long run, that really matters. I...

The conservative talk show world is blundering badly right now, Hannity and others keep emphasizing that Joe Biden voted for the Iraq war which Obama opposed. The aim is to show Obama's own (probable) VP pick disagrees with Obama's policies. This will only confuse moderates and conservatives into thinking Obama has chosen a more conservative running mate. Biden is a liberal, if you take a look at his positions, it is an unbroken nightmare of every left wing idea we oppose: Pro abortion plus the promise to appoint liberal judges who support Roe v Wade, full opposition to the Bush...

Amazing...what he says on tape to (apparently) some liberal group.......... http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america/

Governor May Turn Down Convention Invite SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCBS) -- Governor Schwarzenegger and three other high-profile Californians were chosen today to address the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota next month; however, the governor may have to decline his invitation if state lawmakers are unable to pass a budget. Schwarzenegger, who has been selected to speak on the opening night of the GOP convention, is scheduled to speak the same night as former Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, Vice President Cheney and President Bush. While it may seem like the speaking engagement of a lifetime, Schwarzenegger may have to miss...

Anyone else see the huge double cab Ford pickup ole Mr. Biden is driving these days? You cannot miss it if you watch the news and see the feeds coming out of Biden's driveway as the press is convinced that he is Obama's VP pick. It looked like a F-250 but it could be a F-150. Either way, he was using it to haul a cut up TREE to the dump today. I wonder why he had the tree cut down anyway, let alone why he did not recycle it in some fashion. You cannot make this crap up.

A day after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told lawmakers to skip their national party conventions in the next two weeks if they do not pass a budget, the Republican National Convention announced that the GOP governor will have a prime speaking role on the first night of the St. Paul event. Schwarzenegger is slated to speak on Monday, Sept. 1 at the convention, the same night as President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Also scheduled that day is Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat turned independent who has endorsed McCain. After meeting with lawmakers Tuesday, the Republican...

Oddly, this comes after Obama himself praised President Bush for the billions he's sent to fighting AIDS in Africa during the Saddleback forum on Saturday. Wrapping up her segment on Jolie, Roseanne capped it by typing "Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps....it might be good for your asian and african children's self esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)"

Shortly after the Times broke the news that Rachel Maddow was getting her own MSNBC show, Keith Olbermann wrote on his Daily Kos blog that he "had something to do with it." But he added: "You had something to do with it." Then Olbermann brought Maddow on "Countdown" to talk about the forthcoming show.

In 1948, they had Harry Truman and “The buck stops here!” In 2008, they’ve got Barack Obama and it’s “above my pay grade.” This is definitely not your grandfather’s Democratic Party. Certainly not mine. My grandfather, Ray Futrell, was a lifelong FDR Democrat, the kind who would proudly rather vote for a wife-beating, syphilitic drunkard than for a Republican. In fact, he would find the previous sentence entirely redundant. My grandfather helped push Patton’s tanks across Europe, and one reason for my grandfather’s unshakable party loyalty was his belief that Harry Truman saved his life by dropping the A-bombs on...

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26 struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year old ban on handgun ownership. I am shocked and outraged at the ease with which the court has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the reality of handgun violence. As no other court has done, the Supreme Court interpreted the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in keeping with the conservative National Rifle Association's interpretation that the amendment gives individuals the right to keep loaded handguns in their homes for protection. The 1976 D.C. handgun ban was enacted as...

“Hobbit” Director: America Kills Children And Rapes Continents Posted by Dirty Harry on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Rhetorical: Why do ungrateful, hypocritical multi-millionaires like Guillermo del Toro stay in a country they find so repugnant: “American theatres in the South rejected the first movie, refused to play it, because the word ‘hell’ was in the title,” he says. “Other theatres in the South changed the title on the marquee from Hellboy to Hello Boy, and Heck Boy.” He thought when he was pitching Hellboy II: The Golden Army that people would be less sensitive, but not so. “We actually went...

This is a live blog event that happened 8/16/08 LIVE from Seattle Center: "We the People" all star panel kicks off AM 1090's annual town hall forum has just kicked off here at Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall, where a packed house of progressive activists have gathered to listen to a panel of nationally syndicated talk show hosts talk about the 2008 presidential campaign and American politics. Five of us from NPI are here, liveblogging and taking pictures. The panel includes Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, Sam Seder, Rachel Maddow, Thom Hartmann, and Stephanie Miller, with Ron Reagan moderating. Each host was...

All racist theologies have the same basic core ideas and methodology. Thus it does not really matter if we are talking about the KKK, the Nation of Islam or Black liberal theology, their focus is always on skin and not sin; race and not grace; gossip and not gospel. Racism is always focused on the outward instead of the inward because it cannot deal with the root problem of sin. Hatred and violence feed on bitterness and racist rage. Class envy does not help anyone in this life or in the next. Blaming others for one's own sin and guilt...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will not attend the Republican National Convention if his state’s budget crisis is not resolved before the GOP gathers on September 1. “I will not make any commitments. I will not go on vacation. I will not leave the state. I will not do anything until I have a budget,” he told the Los Angeles Times. His state’s budget deadlock is in its seventh week as California faces a $15.2 billion deficit, The Hill newspaper reports. Schwarzenegger told The Times that he had been in talks with John McCain’s campaign about a speaking role at the...

When: The Islamists obtain a nuclear weapon, they will use it against the United States or one of our allies. When: Our politicians shamelessly finish selling-out to get the Hispanic-American vote, the Mexican Army and its drug cartels will completely control parts of formerly U.S. sovereign territory. When: Liberals enthusiastically give national health insurance, free education, drivers licenses, and sanctuary, to illegal aliens, they not only dishonor the rule of law, but spit in the face of the millions of immigrants who came here legally and proudly became U.S. citizens. When: Conservative and reasoned talk radio is silenced, your voice,...

FLASH! WE OBTAIN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD PICS!!A Scooter's Report exclusive! Through no small expense, we bring you the first up-close photos of John Edward's love child!

Professor's Mooning Video Becomes Hit A video posted on YouTube Aug. 2 exposes the ugly side of competitive debate. And the backside of debate coach Bill Shanahan. At the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) quarterfinals last March, the Fort Hays State University assistant professor got into a screaming match with rival coach Shanara Reid-Brinkley from the University of Pittsburgh. The argument devolved into an ugly exchange of profanity and Shanahan pulled down his pants, mooning the audience.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday for making what she called "totally irresponsible" remarks about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and warned that the Senate might retaliate by revoking Lieberman's committee chairmanship. Pelosi also chastised some of Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters for being "less than gracious" toward Obama, although she praised the New York senator for rallying behind the party's nominee after a bitter primary fight.Pelosi's remark in an interview with KGO Radio talk show host Ronn Owens in San Francisco is certain to anger Clinton backers, including some who are pushing to have Clinton's name...

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti were three paranoid hospital patients in the early Sixties, each of them completely convinced he was the true incarnation of Jesus Christ. The psychologist Milton Rokeach put them all together in group therapy, thinking that they would argue each other out of their messianic beliefs. The good news is that they didn't try to kill each other. The bad news is that they didn't change their messianic delusions one little bit...    

A new survey from a Democratic polling firm released Monday provides further evidence that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall's once-substantial lead is continuing to slip. The Public Policy Polling survey still showed Udall leading by 6 points. But that's 9 percentage points lower how Udall polled in July's PPP survey. Other polls also show Udall's lead -- once in hovering near double-digits -- slipping in recent weeks; observers say high gas prices, among other issues, is helping Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer.

Mark Udall's Day Off Udall's Day Off - The Trailer

HOW TO BE A GOOD LIBERAL In order to be a good liberal you have to believe... that there were no charities before welfare, that there was no art before federal funding, that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high, that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding, that taxing the use of gasoline or other energy will reduce the use of gasoline or other energy, but taxing work and investment will not reduce work and investment, that the right to the pursuit of happiness is morally repugnant because it is selfish, that...

Rielle Hunter compared John Edwards with Gandhi and went around trashing his cancer-stricken wife, it was reported Sunday. A Newsweek writer who courted her as a source during Hunter's affair with the presidential candidate portrays Edwards' mistress as a charming but hugely indiscreet muddlehead who called reporters with New Age babble about Edwards' "old soul." Asked about Elizabeth Edwards, who is unusually well-liked by political operatives and reporters, Hunter told reporter Jonathan Darman, "She does not give off good energy. ... I've only met her once.... She didn't make eye contact with me." Darman wrote of meeting Hunter, a former...

Mark Warner's Broken Promises

ABC Radio news just announced Sen. John Edwards will admit to the affair with Rielle Hunter in an interview with the network, but insists the child is not his. We return you to your regularly-scheduled FReeping.

EFCA, or the “Card Check” bill, introduced by Democrat Rep. George Miller (CA) and passed the US House of Representatives failed the Senate cloture vote with no Democrats voting in opposition. In a recent statement, Executive Director Brian M. Johnson said, “it should be no surprise that the left in Congress and the Communist Party are beholden to carry out the anti-democratic bidding of Labor Union bosses. Campaign contributions from Big Labor to the left translate directly into votes as not one Democrat in the Senate opposed this measure which strips the private ballot voting right of the American worker!”...

OK What is the name of the blonde Conservative Christian who is on the stacked panal. This gal has a ton of fortitude. To go to work and defend what so many of us here at FreeRepublic views are and put up with the 3 full of poop coming out of there mouth women. Some days I think she is having an influence on the woman who sits next to her. Not Barbara the other side the gal who has the special needs son Jeffery. But the Obama name comes up and all 3 of these woman spew stupidity and...

Tom Udall says that a recent campaign of attack ads by his opponent for the seat being vacated by U.S. Senator Pete Domenici reflects desperation. Republican Steve Pearce, New Mexico’s second district congressman, has television commercials on the air and took out a full page ad in the Albuquerque Journal with a picture of 60s-era protesting hippies that accuses Udall of being aligned with “hysterical left wing allies.”

Are liberals more profane than conservatives? Online, the answer seems to be yes. Profanity, those taboo words banned from the broadcast airwaves, is a feature of many people's daily lives. It's much less so in the establishment media world. TV and radio broadcasts are legally prohibited from using it, most newspapers (including this one) have traditionally refrained from its usage. That's not the case with the Web, where bloggers and readers face no such restrictions. That likely comes as no surprise; what may be surprising, however, is to what degree profanity seems to be a feature more common on one...

Are you a threat to what it means to be an American? If you are a member of the NRA, Right to Life, Christian Coalition or the home school community – Mark Warner would say “yes.” Mark Warner wants to live in the past and ignore our future. This is why his campaign is focused on his tenure as governor, but nothing before or after it. In May of 1994 Mark Warner said the following: “One of the things you are going to see is a coalition that is just about completely taken over the Republican Party in this state...

ENERGY POLICY: "If every American... would just inflate their tires... we wouldn't need any more drilling... and I wouldn't have to answer these dumb@ss questions..." SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY: "If every American... would just save $100 per week... we wouldn't need any more Social Security... and I wouldn't have to answer these dumb@ss questions..." LABOR POLICY: "If every American... would just join a union... and pay the d@mn dues... so I could plan on being re-elected in four years... I wouldn't have to answer these dumb@ss questions..." MEDICAL CARE FOR EVERY AMEREICAN POLICY: "If every American... would just eat healthy... and...

Since Hardball host Chris Matthews is reportedly considering a Senate run against Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter in 2010, it gave Quinnipiac University a "thrill up their leg" to go ahead and poll the matchup. [...] As it turns out, despite his ubiquitous presence on election-night specials and on afternoon cable, the MSNBC talking head isn't that well-known among Keystone voters, as 55% say they don't know enough to have an impression of him. 28% have a favorable impression of their prodigal son, while 15% view him unfavorably.

Barack Obama has taken populist rhetoric and pandering to new heights this election, literally promising ever increasing rebates and credits to solve the economic and social problems that plague each group he talks too. While critics have attacked and outlined the costs of each his new government proposals, few people recognize the extent of his promises, his overall abuse of populist rhetoric, and his overuse of rebates and tax credits as ways of securing votes. Here is an overview of the promises Obama has made and their associated ANNUAL Costs...

Howard Kurtz has dug up a lot of information about Obama and his writings while he was in Illinois. This stuff is awesome. It is a very long article and well worth the entire read. I've got a few choice quotes here and as I go through there will be updates below. Bottom line: Danger

I need your help today so that People For the American Way can do what we do best... turn back the Religious Right! Dear xxxxxx, Whether the Religious Right succeeds in writing homophobic discrimination into the Constitution of our most populous state is up to us... and what we do in the next 30-90 days. With just three months to go before Election Day, the Right's pouring millions of dollars into their effort to roll back marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples by passing Proposition 8 in California. I really need you to help with a donation so we...

Well before Senators Barack Obama and John McCain rose to the top of their parties, a partisan shift was under way at the local and state level. For more than three years starting in 2005, there has been a reduction in the number of voters who register with the Republican Party and a rise among voters who affiliate with Democrats and, almost as often, with no party at all. Jim Webb, arms crossed, at a rally in 2006, won his Senate race in Virginia with strong support from inner suburbs. While the implications of the changing landscape for Mr. Obama...

I hadn't heard gushing like this since the Flood of '92 was lapping at my second-story windows. Only this time the gusher was not the Mighty Mississippi, but someone nearly as wide, i.e., the film director Rob Reiner (Misery, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men) in an interview with the Politico. Asked how things might be different when Obama wins the presidency, Reiner gushed: There'd be love and respect, but I think you'd have it even bigger than Clinton. With someone like Obama, I think the whole country, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change,...

The local Arcata California University radio station KHSU came under fire this week amid a hasty management resignation over uber-liberal programming. (depiction of our troops as bloody kikkers ) and possible financial mis management. There is a new sheriff in town…meet Vice President, Rob Gunsalus.

At least one family member has tried to silence those who have the temerity to disagree with him. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has demanded that Exxon stop funding "global warming" skeptics — implying dire consequences from the Senate speech politburo if his wishes are defied.

People are mighty miffed at the price of gasoline and my favorite presidential candidate, Sen. Obama, does not seem to be offering much. Yes, he talks about a grand “go to the moon” scheme of “alternative energy” development a la Kennedy and like Mitt Romney. But he’s tied to orthodox Democratic objections to more drilling and to nuclear power, both of which people sense are needed. More important, Obama has not brought his own more progressive thoughts into a clear focus that people can understand as meaningful. It’s not just about “alternative energy”. It’s about how you cut the cost...

For those who came in late, moonbats are trust-funded, medicated, middle-aged, white-guilt-ridden blogging lefty losers who inflicted Deval Patrick upon the working people. The moonbats now yearn to elect Sen. Barack Obama, a Deval on steroids. If you are a guy with a ponytail, chances are you’re a moonbat - if you have a wide-brim leather hat too, the odds rise to 100 percent. If you’re a woman and you bring knitting to public meetings, consider yourself positively ID’ed. Like most people, I know ’em when I see ’em. But if you are wondering whether or not you are a...

Quite a shame how the liberal Hollywood elite run the west coast. Attacking Jon Voight on his viewpoint while the Huffington Post has the usual liberal rats speaking out against President Bush and comparing him to Hitler??? What has happened to our country? I thought we had a first amendment.... Shameful how one is allowed and the other is not. WAKE UP AMERICA!!

Congressman Nick Lampson, Representing the 22nd District of Texas Website | About | Issues | Legislation | Newsroom | 22nd District | Contact | Dear XXXXX, Last week I introduced The Domestic Drilling Act (H.R.6593) and The Consumer Energy Supply Act (H.R. 6578) to address our energy security needs in both the short- and long-term. As we find ourselves competing with rapidly growing nations such as China and India for energy, it is clear that we must increase supplies to reign in skyrocketing prices. Both pieces of this legislation would increase domestic supplies of energy and put more oil...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 30 -- Sen. John McCain last week delivered one of his sharpest critiques yet of Sen. Barack Obama's Iraq policies, carefully reading a prepared speech that accused his Democratic rival of failing the commander-in-chief test and promoting ideas that would force American troops to "retreat under fire." But just hours after his crisp performance, the Republican presidential candidate blurred his own message with an offhand comment to a television interviewer that Obama's proposal for a 16-month time frame for removing combat troops from Iraq might be a "pretty good timetable." That seemed to run counter to...