Without indepth analysis or examination of what caused the loss of control in the House of Representatives and possibly the US Senate, a moderate Republican group is blaming GOP defeats on Conservatives. “Tonight the American people made it clear that our party’s decision to ignore the middle of the American electorate was a disastrous...
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Recently, Toronto Sun columnist Rachel Marsden wrote about the expected Democrat takeover of both houses of the US Congress. She compared voting out the Republicans and voting in the Democrats with firing your babysitter and hiring Michael Jackson.Elections have consequences. One of the consequences for voters giving control of the US Senate and House...
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In a society embracing the philosophy of pragmatism, in which there are no independent standards of right and wrong, there is no limit on depravity or tyranny. The road to serfdom and inhumanity becomes gradually steeper and slipperier with each step along it. A quote from The Sunday Times , 5 November 2006, in...
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The U.S. armed services have requested a $160 billion supplemental appropriation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the remainder of fiscal year 2007
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A leading supporter of the gay marriage ban approved by voters this week says it’s just the first step in an effort to build a “culture of marriage” in Wisconsin.
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Liberty Letters Quote of the Day “One of the graduates sitting with us today, articulated it this way: ‘The people we see as enemies are not enemies at all. The people are the prize. They are the ground we must take; they are the victory.’ “What this brilliant statesmen was saying is that darkness...
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With 97 percent of the state’s precinct’s reporting, the child custody measure trailed 57 percent to 43 percent.
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Help recruit 1,000,000 families who will agree not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club (owned by Wal-Mart) on the Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving. Here’s why: In a show of support to help homosexuals legalize same-sex marriage, Wal-Mart has agreed to automatically donate 5% of online sales directly to the Washington DC Community...
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For the U.S. troops fighting in Iraq, the war is alternately violent and hopeful, sometimes very hot and sometimes very cold. It is dusty and muddy, calm and chaotic, deafeningly loud and eerily quiet. The one thing the war is not, however, is finished, dozens of soldiers across the country said in interviews. And...
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A recent study in the Journal of Sex Research links depression in women to casual sex. This flies in direct contrast to a campus culture that tries to celebrate “uncommitted sex.” The problem is it flies in the face of our internal nature, and is the case in most emotional matters, comes down hardest...
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New York — NewsMax has learned that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will likely leave his post next month. After a rocky series of Senate confirmation hearings, Bolton was sent to the U.N. by President Bush in August 2005 under a recess appointment. That allowed the president to bypass Senate confirmation...
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Religion should be an expression and celebration of the human spirit, but alas it is frequently just the opposite. Case in point: The Vatican urged Israel to ban a gay parade this week in Jerusalem, saying the march in the city considered holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians would offend the faithful. Thousands of...
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Democrats In Drag: Third Way Fall From Grace, Part 3 Read Foreword, Part 1, 2, 4 The most-heralded achievement and high water mark of Republican leadership since the revival of America’s military superiority under Ronald Reagan is, without question, the coming forth of the Contract With America during the election of 1994. Its 100-day...
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A supremely self-assured former congressman and chief executive, he arrived at the Pentagon determined to “transform” the US military into “leaner and swifter forces”.
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There are certain people you never forget. One is a man I knew who was an anomaly in more ways than one. He was a politically conservative Jewish septuagenarian living in Westchester County, NY, within the gravitational pull of the Den of Iniquity (that would be NYC). Possessing a genius IQ and intrepidity to...
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The stereotype is usually that Republicans are the ones who practice sexual McCarthyism and seek to root out queers for a public square flogging, but Bill Maher helps point out that the left has taken that title away — if the right ever had it in the first place. Maher, who dressed tastefully as Crocodile Hunter Steve...
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Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa took the initial step in his long-shot bid for the White House Thursday, establishing a presidential campaign committee and seeking an early jump on 2008.
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The hundreds of Republican staffers are going to face a hostile marketplace on K Street as unemployed Republicans flood the market.
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The city is paying $2.7 million to settle a lawsuit from a black firefighter who claims he suffered racial discrimination after co-workers served him spaghetti laced with dog food.
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U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns conceded defeat to Jon Tester on Thursday, acknowledging that a tight election had gone to the Democrats’ favor, Burns’ campaign told The Associated Press.
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