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With the Iowa Caucuses scheduled for January 3, 2008, we are now less than five weeks away from the first votes being cast for the next President of the United States, whoever he may be. With that in mind, it might be useful to take a look at some polls. Polls from 2004 [...]
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A very scary development out of Slovakia today: Slovak authorities indicated that two Hungarians and a Ukrainian were intercepted trying to sell their weapons-grade uranium powder to undercover investigators. Early indications are that the uranium was probably from Russia or some former Soviet state. It wasn’t enough material for a full-fledged nuke (this was only about a [...]
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She Who Must Not Be Named continues to pull the strings over at CNN. Earlier tonight, the liberal network offered up liberal question after liberal question during a Republican debate. That alone is bad enough. What’s worse is when Anderson Cooper allowed retired gay general Keith Kerr to waste debate time to [...]
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Wanna play a guessing game?
Ready: Who said this back in 2004?
“That’s why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for. So I thought the President had an absolute responsibility to go to the U.N. and say, ‘Look, guys, after 9/11, you have got to demand that Saddam Hussein lets us [...]
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Bill Clinton tried it in 2000 and now Bush is giving it a go late in his presidency: Mideast peace among Israelis and Palestinians. The time is always right for a lame duck President who wants to build a legacy to try to get the irreconcilable to reconcile. If it works, you’re awesome! If it [...]
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The Washington Redskins’ Pro-Bowl Safety, Sean Taylor, died of a gunshot wound this morning at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The circumstances of the death are unfortunate. He was shot by an intruder, about a week after someone tried to break into his home. The intruder fired twice, hitting him in the leg. The shot tore a major [...]
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Iraqi leaders from different parties have met and discussed the future. After deliberations Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gave a speech today outlining the short-term future of their country. It includes the end of UN mandates, a strategic partnership with the US economically and with a post World War II-style base structure that leaves 50,000 US troops [...]
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The Washington Compost has a piece today saying that the Feds have routinely asked for cellphone tracking with a very low standard for warrants. The by-line is misleading when it states that “Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause.” The piece even says that there is probable cause, just a lower and delayed standard. The government has [...]
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Kevin Rudd will become the new Prime Minister of Australia after his Labor Party defeated John Howard’s Liberals in today’s Australian Federal Election. After running a campaign in which he described himself as an economic conservative, Australian swing voters will be in for a huge surprise in the very near future, kind of like [...]
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A thorough and detailed Heritage Foundation study of IRS data and political affiliation have found that the Democrats are the true “party of the rich” in this country at this time. While rich people do not bother me (in fact, I’d like to be one of them some day!), this Washington Times story demonstrates that the blue areas [...]
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This abortion story from Texas is merely a narrower example of the faulty logic underlying our nation’s laws against murder. In most states, murder is illegal except when the victim is located in his or her mother’s womb. In Texas, the exception to murder laws no longer depends merely on location (the womb), but on [...]
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Proof that the Iraq War is going well doesn’t come from the good news on the ground, or the accounts of the troops and Iraqi Government, it comes from the fact that the MSM has decided to resurrect the long-dead Plame issue, this time with former Press Secretary Scott McClellan levying the charges. So, now [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from all of us here at AOR! It’s a time to give thanks for what and who we have in our lives. Millions of Americans are on the road today going to visit family and friends. All but a few of us will be having turkey today, then dozing off [...]
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The Second Amendment is a topic the Supreme Court usually doesn’t touch, but that is about to change. Due to the D.C. Circuit’s decision to overturn our capital city’s ineffective ban on handguns, the Supremes have decided to give themselves a literacy test. The text of the Second Amendment is as follows: “A [...]
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In case you missed this, a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and gang-raped by seven men last year in Saudi Arabia. After the trial and re-trial, the rapists got 2-9 years. The victim got 200 lashes for being alone with an unrelated man before the incident! That’s up from the customary 90 lashes because she went to the media with [...]
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Tennessee Senator Lamar! Alexander (R) is right to be upset at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for its recent lawsuit against a Salvation Army thrift store in Framingham, MA, which required its employees to take a year to learn English, and then to speak English to the customers on the floor. The rule was [...]
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The following ad is just the latest example of how Mike Huckabee is the funniest Presidential candidate. Those who have heard the jokes before will appreciate the ad. Those who haven’t may be confused.
Huckabee could impress the nation if he connects with enough niches because his sense of humor is unmatched among his [...]
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This story from the Baltimore Sun’sblog, “The Swamp,” illustrates a few important things about the Democrat primary. It deals with Barry O’Bama taking a shot at She Who Must Not Be Named, saying that her run for the presidency is the fulfillment of her and her husband’s political ambition from 20 years ago. Some Clinton [...]
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After a series of anti-Mormon phone calls made there way through some important battleground states lately, Mitt Romney called this action ”un-American” and blamed McCain-Feingold for the emergence of 527s and 510c4’s that establish shadow groups that openly and insidiously can do the dirty-work of an opponent’s campaign while feigning independence.
While “un-American” is a strong word, he [...]
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As a Senator, she avoided any program that would ask her difficult questions. As a Presidential candidate, she planted questions to which she could offer canned responses. Now CNN protects She Who Must Not Be Named by preventing an audience member from asking the witch a difficult question. Even her campaign praised Wolf Blitzer for [...]
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I was a little tired of CNN’s lovefest coverage of She Who Must Not Be Named’s pre-coronation gala (aka last night’s “debate”), so I looked for some other topic to distract me from the She-Witch, Barry O’Bama’s terrible performance, Edwards faking it as usual, and the always fun wimpy cast of second tier “also-rans” (all they need is face-paint, honking horns and [...]
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San Francisco Giants slugger and current homerun king(*), Barry Bonds, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for perjury and obstruction of justice. This stems from his December 2003 testimony where he was given immunity by federal prosecutors in exchange for spilling the beans on his alleged steroids use and the use of other high-profile athletes.
Apparently, Bonds [...]
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Why’d he do it? New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is a liberal who up until today didn’t care about the will of the people on illegal driver’s licences, only interest groups and gullible voting blocs. The polls on New Yorker’s impression of his illegal driver’s licence scheme were well known for a long time.
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Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, one of those Democrats who ran as a moderate only to reveal his true left-wing colors after being elected, finally found a government program to cut. His target is abstinence-only sex education.
Although Kaine should be encouraged to continue in his newly-acquired desire to reign in government, he probably should have started [...]
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The referee scandal is finally exposed after all these years, and all of the sudden the Celtics are the only undefeated team in the NBA. Hmmm.
Seriously though, the Celtics being good again makes it feel like the 1980s all over again. That can’t be a bad thing.
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The second tier debate in the Republican primary has been over for a while now, and the winner is Mike Huckabee. According to SeeBS, the former Arkansas Governor is surging in Iowa and may be in a position to challenge Mitt Romney on caucus night. (Huckabee’s surge has been reported by legitimate polling [...]
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OK, that title might be a bit much. She Who Must Not Be Named is not truly evil, just completely misguided and wrong… until/unless she gets power, then her potential evil qualities will have to be reevaluated at that time.
Still, the 19-year-old college plant at the SWMNBN campaign rally earlier this month, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, thought that the voters had [...]
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She Who Must Not Be Named was nearly beamed by some falling flags at a campaign stop in Waterloo, Iowa, yesterday, which happened to be Veterans Day. As you can see from this video, the symbolism is priceless: the woman who plays more politics with the troops and her position on Iraq than any serious [...]
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Says Juan Carlos, King of Spain, to Commissar Hugo Chavez of Venezuela after Chavez accused the last Spanish leader with a pair, Jose Aznar, of being a fascist while also trying to speak over current socialist Prime Minister Zapatero. That may be divisive rhetorical nonsense in the Americas, but in Spain that’s a real insult to most middle [...]
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The new Robert Redford/Tom Cruise/Meryl Streep movie, Lions for Lambs, has generated some controversy. I have no idea why. It seems like the typical anti-war movie wrapped in a pseudo-intellectualism that tends to bring up more questions than it answers which I guess is supposed to get us to “think” like the writers do. Some have even [...]
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