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Why did the chicken cross the road?
2011-01-17 00:35:00
Why did the chicken cross the road? SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because gosh-darn it, he?s a maverick! BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change! JOHN McCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation ...
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Man wounded in Tucson shooting arrested at meeting
2011-01-16 02:30:00
Man wounded in Tucson shooting arrested at meeting A victim in the mass shooting north of Tucson attending a special town hall today was arrested after his outburst at another man who spoke in support of gun ownership. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it arrested Eric Fuller, 63, who was wounded in the knee ...
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GOP leaders: Anti-immigration stance hurts party
2011-01-15 18:34:00
GOP leaders: Anti-immigration stance hurts party CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Republican speakers at a conference on reaching Hispanic voters urged the party to tone down its rhetoric on immigration and to take up comprehensive reform in Congress, warning that the party could lose ground with the country’s increasingly diverse citizenry if it doesn’t. “(Hispanics) ...
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GOP picks Priebus to head party
2011-01-15 00:37:00
GOP picks Priebus to head party OXON HILL, Md. (AP) – The national Republican Party , coming off huge election victories but facing a $22 million debt and an internal war over identity, ousted chairman Michael Steele Friday and chose Wisconsin party chief Reince Priebus to lead in the run-up to the 2012 presidential race. The ...
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The Ghost of Thanksgiving Yet to Come
2011-01-13 18:55:00
This is one of those ‘gems’ that I find in my email box from time to time. A friend in East Texas knows I need material for the blog and he sent this one to me. Thank you Mike, you are a true inspiration! The Ghost of Thanksgiving Yet to Come ?Winston, come into the ...

Busted! Pima Sheriff Knew Loughner was Dangerous
2011-01-12 22:48:00
Busted! Pima Sheriff Knew Loughner was Dangerous Calls for Dupnik to resign mount, click here, Mark Williams predicted.  As I predicted, this one has been a no-brainer from the instant that bumbling Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik first opened this trap blasting Sarah Palin, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, political debate and our democratic republican form ...
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In Tucson, Guns Have a Broad Constituency
2011-01-11 21:07:00
In Tucson , Guns Have a Broad Constituency TUCSON ? ?I have a Glock 9 millimeter, and I?m a pretty good shot.? The quip, by Representative Gabrielle Giffords, was made in an interview last year with The New York Times, when tensions were running high in her district. It speaks not only to her ability to ...
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Talk Radio Hosts Reject Blame in Shooting
2011-01-11 03:05:00
Talk Radio Hosts Reject Blame in Shooting TUCSON ? During Tucson?s first rush hour since a weekend shooting left six people dead and 14 wounded, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, talk radio hosts pushed back against arguments that their heated political rhetoric had played a role in the tragedy. Phone calls poured in to stations across ...
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Carolyn McCarthy readies gun control bill
2011-01-10 19:23:00
Carolyn McCarthy readies gun control bill One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday. McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down and her son seriously injured in a shooting in 1993 on ...
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The Shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
2011-01-09 19:14:00
The Shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords On Saturday afternoon I posed this question to my friends on Facebook: Here’s what’s bugging me: We KNOW the guys name, we know a kid and the Judge are dead and other people are shot, we KNOW Giffords was shot through the brain, and is still alive… What we ...

Police Officers FIRED for being TEA Party Members
2010-10-26 21:28:00
Police Officers FIRED for being TEA Party Members Today I received a plea for help from the Tawakoni Area TEA Party. They have a Mayor that is out of control and hates the TEA Party too. He has fired 2 long time officers for no other apparent reason than the simple fact that they belong ...
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Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push
2010-10-26 02:29:00
Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) – President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party’s prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses. Nor was his greeting totally friendly in Rhode Island where Obama has pointedly declined to endorse his party’s candidate for governor. Obama can “take his endorsement and shove it,” declared Democrat Frank Caprio, battling Republican-turned-independent Lincoln Chafee in a gubernatorial race rated tight in the polls. Chafee endorsed Obama during the 2008 campaign for the White House. In a little more than five hours in the state, Obama was booked for a factory tour and for a pair of fundraisers that party officials said would bring in $500,000. Full Story Here: Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push I know, for a fact, the ...
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RINO of the WEEK Award
2010-10-23 21:14:00
RINO of the WEEK Award Soon we start Operation RINO Watch. I am firmly convinced that on November 2nd the GOP will win a substantial majority in the House and possibly a one vote majority in the Senate. That’s also what the polls are predicting. I am also convinced that the Conservatives of this nation are about to be screwed over by the GOP once the elections are done. I am certain that regardless of the numbers, very little will actually change for the better and I predict we will see a resurgence of RINOism like never seen to date. I believe we’re going to see a ‘reach across the aisle’ that will make John McCain proud. I see a strong possibility that we’ll see elected officials that are, at this time, believed to be Conservative, turn to bi-partisan politics as soon as their seat at the dinner table is safe. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he’d work with President Obama to find areas of compromise, where possible, if the GOP wins back the House. Boe...
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Tea Party ‘founder’: Palin, Gingrich a ‘joke’
2010-10-22 18:24:00
Tea Party ‘founder’: Palin, Gingrich a ‘joke’ A financial blogger and ex-CEO credited with being one of the original “founders” of the Tea Party has come out against the movement, saying it has been hijacked by the very people it was protesting and is now obsessed with “guns, gays and God.” In a “message” to the Tea Party Wednesday, Karl Denninger declared that he “ought to sue” anyone who uses the Tea Party name “for defamation.” “Yeah, that’s a joke,” he writes. “But so are you. All of you. Especially Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, and douchebag groups such as the ‘Tea Party Patriots.’” Denninger writes: “Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than the Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with the Republican Party’s own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecti...

Big Brother Really is Watching
2010-10-21 20:51:00
Federal Agents Urged to ‘Friend’ People on Social Networks A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that encourages federal agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the government released a handful of documents, including a May 2008 memo detailing how social-networking sites are exploited by the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS). As of Thursday morning, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Digg had not commented on the report, which details the official government program to spy via social networking. Other websites the government is spying on include Twitter, MySpace, Craigslist and Wikipedia, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which filed the FOIA request. “Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuel a need to have a large group of ‘friends’ link to their pages, and...
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That Nagging Feeling
2010-10-21 17:33:00
All of my regular readers know how much I admire the writing of my friend and fellow Southern Conservative, J.D. Longstreet. Once again he has made a post that is too good to not share! And it is 100% accurate. I hope the skeptics and GOP followers will pay attention and learn from this wise man. That Nagging Feeling A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet It is a sad commentary on politics in America when an American cannot trust his or her own political party. Unfortunately, that is exactly where we are as the end of democrat dominance in Washington looms. Anxious voters are asking themselves, and each other, if the GOP will have the intestinal fortitude to take the fight to the democrats — and ALL The Way To The Wall, if necessary. THAT is the question nagging conservative voters especially those who are involved with the Tea Party movement in America and those republican voters who support the Tea Party movement. It is that “nagging feelingâ€� I referred to in the title to t...

GOP group challenges outright citizenship birthright
2010-10-20 18:09:00
GOP group challenges outright citizenship birthright PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers in 15 states Tuesday announced a nationwide effort to change the way the 14th Amendment is interpreted and stop granting citizenship to babies born in the USA to illegal immigrants. A national coalition called State Legislators for Legal Immigration is coordinating the effort. Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce said Kansas lawyer Kris Kobach, who helped draft Arizona’s tough immigration law now on appeal in the federal courts, is working with him and Republican state Rep. John Kavanagh to draft a bill that all the states could use as a model on the citizenship issue. Pearce said a bill draft is written and will be ready for consideration when the Arizona legislative session starts in January. Full Story Here: GOP group challenges outright citizenship birthright The 14th Amendment, long argued and much abused. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adop...

Obama seeks to boost Hispanic achievement
2010-10-19 19:22:00
Obama seeks to boost Hispanic achievement WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama wants his administration to focus harder on improving Hispanic educational achievement. At the White House on Tuesday, Obama is signing an executive order intended to do just that. Obama says improving education will help the U.S. compete in a growing global economy. The order is supposed to help communities share best practices, strengthen public-private partnerships and ensure that federal programs meet the needs of Latino youths and adults. The order also establishes a government-wide working group and a separate presidential advisory commission. The signing comes two weeks before crucial midterm elections in which Obama is counting on Hispanics to vote Democratic on Nov. 2. Full Story Here: Obama seeks to boost Hispanic achievement The last line of the original story says it all. The Race Baiter in Chief is playing the RACE CARD in a slightly different manner, that’s all. Obama is pan...
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O’Donnell says GOP establishment not helping her
2010-10-18 02:29:00
O’Donnell says GOP establishment not helping her WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of Delaware is calling out the Republican establishment in Washington for not helping her underdog campaign. In an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that aired Sunday, the tea party favorite said she has asked the National Republican Senatorial Committee for help but that the group is standing on the sidelines even though her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, is getting a boost from his party. A spokesman for the Republican committee, Brian Walsh, has noted that the group gave O’Donnell the maximum direct contribution of $42,000 and is working with her campaign. The committee is not spending heavily on ads as it is in closer races elsewhere. Polls show Coons with a strong lead. Full Story Here: O’Donnell says GOP establishment not helping her Maybe she can cast a spell and make the GOP get behind her. What? Just sayin’&hel...

Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency
2010-10-17 20:34:00
Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency The election of the first black president in U.S. history was supposed to usher in a post-racial era in America. But a series of controversies since then, from the White House “Beer Summit” to the conflicts between the tea party and NAACP, shows that race is still a hot-button issue. “As a society, clearly we’re not over race,” said Hettie V. Williams, lecturer in the African American History Department at Monmouth University. Unlike the racial disturbances of the 1960s and ’70s, the race-related controversies of the past two years have, for the most part, played out over the airwaves and across the blogosphere, not on the streets of America’s cities. Full Story Here: Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency Race DOES remain a HOT TOPIC…for the RACE BAITERS. That, my friends, is the face of a MAD MAN, an America hating MAD MAN that isn’t white, isn’t black, isn&rsqu...
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Group wants prayer discontinued at council meetings
2010-10-15 20:06:00
Group wants prayer discontinued at council meetings The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter to Rowlett Mayor John Harper on Aug. 27 requesting that that the council disallow invocations during city council meetings. “Our national organization, which works to protect the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, has written to you previously about constitutional concerns in Rowlett. I am writing again on behalf of a concerned Rowlett resident and taxpayer and other Rowlett members of the Freedom From Religion to urge you to discontinue the practice of scheduling city council meetings with prayers,� stated Rebecca S. Markert, staff attorney for the organization, in the letter. Harper publicly acknowledged receipt of the letter during the Mayor’s Update portion of the Sept. 21city council meeting. “I don’t like the idea of doing away with the invocation. That letter should be thrown in the garbage,� stated Rowlett resident Fred Witzell d...
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FBI walks tightrope in outreach to Muslims
2009-12-20 20:30:00
FBI walks tightrope in outreach to Muslims WASHINGTON – At a retirement party last week for the head of the FBI’s Washington field office, Muslim and Arab leaders presented the guest of honor with a crystal plaque. It thanked Joseph Persichini Jr. for reaching out to the local Muslim and Arab communities. Yet even as the ...

Senate Dems reach 60 vote threshold on health bill
2009-12-19 20:28:00
Senate Dems reach 60 vote threshold on health bill WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic leaders secure the support of Sen. Ben Nelson to provide the 60th and deciding vote for sweeping health care legislation in the Senate, capping a year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority. ...
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Pakistan officials: U.S. missile attacks kill 17
2009-12-18 14:33:00
Pakistan officials: U.S. missile attacks kill 17 MIR ALI, Pakistan – Two U.S. missile strikes — including one believed to be the largest ever using Predator drones — pummeled targets inside the main sanctuary for Qaida and the Taliban along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 17 people, local intelligence officials said. The drone attacks ...
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TexasFred’s Famous Christmas Cookies Recipe!
2009-12-17 22:05:00
TexasFred’s Famous Christmas Cookies Recipe ! Ingredients: 1c of dark brown sugar 1c (2 sticks) butter 1c of granulated sugar 4 large eggs 2c of dried fruit, such as dried cranberries or raisins 1tsp salt 1tsp fresh lemon juice 1c coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans 2c all-purpose flour 1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila (silver or gold, as desired) Instructions: Take a large bowl, sample the Cuervo to be sure ...

Milblogs Go Silent For CJ
2009-12-16 22:29:00
Milblogs Go Silent For CJ You may remember this post, where I posted about CJ from A Soldier’s Perspective and the grief he is getting from his children’s former school. What’s worse is that his command in Alabama did not back him up. Luckily, many prominent milblogs are, and a lot of them are going silent ...

Mass. 2nd-grader sent home for crucifix drawing
2009-12-16 00:02:00
Mass. 2nd-grader sent home for crucifix drawing TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) – An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child’s father said ...
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In Texas, a showdown at GOP corral
2009-12-14 18:23:00
In Texas , a showdown at GOP corral AUSTIN, Texas – Rick Perry, the state’s swashbuckling Republican governor, says his opponent spends tax dollars too freely. She’s too liberal. She’s too Washington. She doesn’t get what he calls “Texas values.” One might imagine Perry’s opponent to be a Democrat, but she is Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas ...

Houston biggest US city to elect openly gay mayor
2009-12-13 20:40:00
Houston biggest US city to elect openly gay mayor HOUSTON (AP) – Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff. Several other U.S. cities, including Portland, Ore., Providence, R.I., and Cambridge, Mass., have openly gay mayors, ...
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Fistgate and Kevin Jennings – Obama’s Safe Schools Czar
2009-12-12 22:17:00
Fistgate and Kevin Jennings – Obama ’s Safe Schools Czar Lately there have been many Conservatives in an uproar over a perverted homosexual that has been given the position of Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education. His name is Kevin Jennings. Jennings holds degrees from Harvard ...