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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. ... More About: Health , Senate , Vote , Reach
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 ... More About: Pakistan
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 ... More About: Drawing , Home
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, ... More About: Houston
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 ...
Gun laws are getting looser across much of US
2009-12-12 18:18:00 Gun laws are getting looser across much of US NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars. A change in leadership at the state Capitol ... More About: Laws
Former FBI Official: Dallas Top Target For Attack
2009-12-11 11:23:00 Former FBI Official: Dallas Top Target For Attack DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― A longtime FBI agent warns the City of Dallas could be a top target for a terrorist attack and North Texas law enforcement needs to be prepared. A federal report on terrorism – to be released Thursday – predicts a nuclear ...
Fistgate IV: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Passed Out Gay Bar Guides to Teens
2009-12-10 18:20:00 READER BE WARNED, this is NOT the normal or usual story that my readers have come to expect. This is NOT a nice story, it is sick, it is nasty, it is disgusting and it is ALL about Barack Hussein Obama and his choices of the people he picks for high position (CZARs) and the ... More About: Teens , Schools , Guides
A Different Kind of Christmas Poem
2009-12-09 00:12:00 A Different Kind of Christmas Poem The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a winter delight. The sparkling lights in the tree ...
Mexican soldiers cross into U.S. chasing U.S. citizens
2009-12-08 20:25:00 Mexican soldiers cross into U.S. chasing U.S. citizens El Paso, Texas – A Mexican Army Humvee with a machine gun and several soldiers on foot entered into the U.S. through the Columbus Port of Entry early Saturday morning. The incident happened at about 2:35 a.m. Saturday when the Mexican soldiers were chasing three U.S. citizens, according ... More About: Mexican , Cross , Soldiers
Grandmother gets 44 months in green-card scam
2009-09-24 02:44:00 Grandmother gets 44 months in green-card scam DALLAS (AP) – A Texas grandmother who acknowledged running a scheme in which her family members married scores of foreigners seeking to stay in the United States was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four years in prison. Maria Refugia Camarillo, 72, her graying hair pulled back in a ponytail, used a ... More About: Bush , Illegal Immigration , Card , George W , Green
Opposing the president doesn?t make you a racist
2009-09-23 17:57:00 Opposing the president doesn’t make you a racist Michael Williams, TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION Wednesday, September 23, 2009 As an African American son of the South, I grew up in a time and place where you didn’t have to divine intent or deconstruct code words to find racism. When it raised its ugly head, it was like a ... More About: President , Make , Racist , The President
Pentagon Delays Troop Request for Afghan War
2009-09-22 21:30:00 Pentagon Delays Troop Request for Afghan War WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has told its top commander in Afghanistan to delay submitting his request for additional troops, defense officials say, amid signs that the Obama administration is rethinking its strategy for combating a resurgent Taliban. A senior Pentagon official says the administration has asked for the reprieve ... More About: Bush , George W , War in Iraq
Douchebag of the Week ? Sept. 21
2009-09-21 22:24:00 Douchebag of the Week – Sept . 21 I have seen a lot of blogs that give out their weekly MORON award, Darwin Award and so forth, starting this week I will be awarding my own little accolade to the loons on the left, the moonbat MORONS among us. Those that seek to destroy this nation and ... More About: Douchebag , Barack Hussein Obama
Wilson shout could reverberate next November
2009-09-21 18:52:00 Wilson shout could reverberate next November COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Rep. Joe Wilson may have shouted his way into the toughest election fight of his life. Just ask former Sen. George Allen of Virginia, a conservative darling who suffered a surprise defeat in 2006 after calling an Indian-American campaign worker “macaca” – an ethnic slur in ... More About: Peer Pressure , Wilson
Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements
2009-09-20 20:06:00 Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements MOGADISHU – Somalia ’s al Shabaab insurgents called Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after U.S. forces killed one of the region’s most wanted al-Qaida suspects. The U.S. special forces operation that killed Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, in remote southern ... More About: Foreign , Call
Gov. Perry on recession: ?We?re in one??
2009-09-19 05:43:00 Gov. Perry on recession: ‘We’re in one?’ Texas political blogs are buzzing over Gov. Rick Perry ’s comments about the recession on Thursday during a Houston appearance in light of today’s news that the unemployment rate is higher in the state than it’s been in more than 20 years. Here’s what Perry said: “Why is Texas kind of ... More About: Recession
Dueling rallies in Iran turn violent
2009-09-19 00:51:00 Dueling rallies in Iran turn violent TEHRAN, Iran – Hard-liners attacked senior pro-reform leaders in the streets as tens of thousands marched in competing mass demonstrations by the opposition and government supporters. Opposition protesters, chanting “death to the dictator,” hurled stones and bricks in clashes with security forces. The opposition held its first major street protests ... More About: Iraq , Afghanistan , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Rallies
The $1,300 mission to fell ACORN
2009-09-18 20:56:00 The $1,300 mission to fell ACORN The proposition was outrageous, outlandish, and right up James E. O’Keefe III’s alley. Hannah Giles was on the phone from the District, and she was asking him to dress like her pimp, walk into the offices of the ACORN community activist group, openly admit to wanting to buy a ... More About: Mission
Happy Birthday Cassandra Peterson
2009-09-18 00:51:00 Happy Birthday Cassandra Peterson Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish ... More About: Entertainment , Happy , Happy Birthday
UNMC Researchers Note Growth Of Bacteria From Iraq
2009-09-17 17:37:00 UNMC Researchers Note Growth Of Bacteria From Iraq OMAHA, Neb. — A dangerous bacteria is finding its way to U.S. hospitals, and researchers said the super bug is connected to men and women who are back from serving in Iraq. Experts said acinetobacter baumannii is not a significant problem yet, but two University of Nebraska Medical ... More About: Health Care
Attacks kill at least 21 in Mexican border cities
2009-09-16 19:23:00 Attacks kill at least 21 in Mexican border cities TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – Firefighters found six bodies inside a burning car in Tijuana, and 15 people were killed in three separate shootings in another northern Mexican border town besieged by drug violence, authorities said Tuesday. Near Mexico’s southern border, meanwhile, the bullet-ridden bodies of eight men ... More About: Cities , Kill , Attacks , Rick Perry
US special forces targeted al-Qaida in Somalia
2009-09-16 01:02:00 US special forces targeted al-Qaida in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – The U.S. helicopters, guns blazing, swooped over a convoy carrying a top al-Qaida fugitive in rural southern Somalia. Elite commandos rappelled to the ground, collected two bodies, and took off on a cloud of red dust. The raid took just 15 minutes. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, ... More About: Special , Special Forces , Al-Qaida , Forces
Sen. Kay *Bailout* Hutchison bails out on defunding ACORN
2009-09-15 17:01:00 Sen. Kay *Bailout * Hutchison bails out on defunding ACORN I recently found this great blog, The Right Side of Austin and I am using their story on this. Kay *Bailout* Hutchison is a traitor to ALL THINGS TEXAS, and all that we stand for. She bailed out on the vote to defund ACORN. You would think she could ...
Schools Wrestle With Pledge Policy in Classroom
2009-09-15 02:38:00 Schools Wrestle With Pledge Policy in Classroom It’s a new school year, but an old fight is brewing in American classrooms. Teachers and administrators around the country are scratching their heads once again over the Pledge of Allegiance. The courts have consistently ruled that students have the right not to recite the pledge in public schools. ... More About: Schools
Thousands march to US Capitol to protest spending
More articles from this author:2009-09-12 20:49:00 Thousands march to US Capitol to protest spending WASHINGTON (AP) – Thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending. The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, ... More About: Glenn Beck , Spending , Protest , March 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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