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Five Chaplains Lose Jobs For Praying “In Jesus’ Name”
Post Date: 2008-09-27 00:50:16 by A K A Stone
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Virginia Governor Tim Kaine Urged to Stop Persecution Contact: Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, 719-360-5132 cell, chaplaingate@yahoo.com or Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine (D-VA), 804-786-2211 (press secretary Gordon Hickey). RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept. 25 / Christian Newswire / -- Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is defending why his administration forced the sudden resignation of five Virginia State Police Chaplains because they prayed publicly “in Jesus’ name.” Police Superintendent Col. W. Steven Flaherty single-handedly created then enforced a strict “non-sectarian” prayer policy at all public gatherings, censoring and excluding Christian prayers, then ...
Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis
Post Date: 2008-09-27 00:46:32 by A K A Stone
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Watch Obama Make Fun Of Disabled Veteran
Post Date: 2008-09-12 23:15:53 by A K A Stone
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Yep. The day after 9/11, as part of its "get tough" makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn't use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad: "Our economy wouldn't survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats," [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. "It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail." Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "extraordinary." The reason he doesn't send email is ...
Obama plagiarized 'lipstick speech'?
Post Date: 2008-09-10 20:37:00 by A K A Stone
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Remarks by Sen. Barack Obama yesterday leading up to his controversial "lipstick on a pig" jab at the McCain campaign mirror almost word-for-word a political cartoon published last week in the Washington Post. Much has been made of Obama criticizing McCain's idea of "change" by stating, "You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig." Taking it as an attack McCain's vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, the campaign responded with a video on the Internet today. But less attention has been paid to Obama's statements just preceding the lipstick reference, which appear to be an un-attributed copy of the caption in a Washington Post ...
Obama objects to severance for ousted CEOs
Post Date: 2008-09-09 08:46:27 by A K A Stone
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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – Barack Obama objected to reports Monday that the ousted heads of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may receive lucrative severance packages and asked the Bush administration to ensure their "poor leadership" isn't rewarded. "Under no circumstances should the executives of these institutions earn a windfall at a time when the U.S. Treasury has taken unprecedented steps to rescue these companies with taxpayer resources," Obama said in a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart. "I urge you immediately to clarify that the agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ...
US government takes on big role in mortgage market
Post Date: 2008-09-08 09:00:03 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — Uncle Sam has just become the 800 pound gorilla in the U.S. mortgage market. The Bush administration announced Sunday it was seizing troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a bid to help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis. But private analysts worried that it may not be enough to stabilize the slumping housing market given the glut of vacant homes for sale, rising foreclosures, rising unemployment and weak consumer confidence. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com predicted that 30-year mortgage rates, currently averaging 6.35 percent nationwide, could dip to close to 5.5 percent. That's because investors will be more ...
Obama in Panic over Palin Pick
Post Date: 2008-09-05 10:13:37 by A K A Stone
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Barack Obama's campaign plans to employ high-profile female supporters in an effort to blunt GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's potential to persuade women to vote Republican. ADVERTISEMENT Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius all were scheduled to campaign for Obama in the coming weeks. Republicans say they hope Palin, who made her national debut with a feisty speech on Wednesday, could put some female voters in play. "We respect her. She's a skilled politician, as she proved last night," Obama strategist David Axelrod told reporters aboard the campaign plane Thursday. ...
South Carolina sheriff buys tank to conduct raids
Post Date: 2008-09-05 00:51:24 by A K A Stone
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Don't even think about running an illegal bingo game in Richland County, South Carolina. The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff's Department (that's them above) just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun. Sheriff Leon Lott has charmingly named the vehicle "The Peacemaker," and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the U.S. military is reluctant to use against human targets (it's generally reserved for use against armored vehicles) will "save lives."
Cities Debate Giving Away Public Infrastructure to Bankers
Post Date: 2008-09-04 07:29:52 by A K A Stone
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Cleaning up road kill and maintaining runways may not sound like cutting-edge investments. But banks and funds with big money seem to think so. Reeling from more exotic investments that imploded during the credit crisis, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse are among the investors who have amassed an estimated $250 billion war chest — much of it raised in the last two years — to finance a tidal wave of infrastructure projects in the United States and overseas. Their strategy is gaining steam in the United States as federal, state and local governments previously wary of private funds struggle under mounting deficits that ...
Boston Cabbies Wicked Mad About Green Taxi Rule
Post Date: 2008-09-04 07:27:12 by A K A Stone
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Boston's cabbies are a crabby crew even on the best of days, but they're especially ticked off lately. The police department's hackney division, which deals with all things taxi, has decreed that all cab drivers and operators must convert their fleets to hybrids by 2015. This has, according to the Boston Metro, caused a "measure of frustration and anger among city cabbies." Taxi drivers are hacked about the financial ramifications of the rule. Most drive Crown Vics that can be had used for $6,000 to $7,500, while a new Prius from Boston auto dealer giant Herb Chambers goes for $24,585. That's a lot of scratch for a cab driver who, thanks to out-of-control gas ...
McCain: Palin more qualified than Obama
Post Date: 2008-09-03 08:07:17 by A K A Stone
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Mounting a ferocious defense of his embattled running mate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he is buying a TV ad arguing that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has more experience than the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). A campaign statement, in an effort to rev up conservatives, issued a list of critical media mentions that it called “smears” of Palin, who speaks in prime time at the convention on Wednesday night. The campaign announced: “The McCain campaign will launch a television ad directly comparing Governor Palin’s executive experience as a governor who oversees 24,000 state employees, 14 statewide cabinet agencies and a 10 billion dollar ...
George Bush worst Freudian Slip in history on TV! must see!
Post Date: 2008-09-03 00:18:23 by A K A Stone
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President Bush Seizes Faith Based Churches
Post Date: 2008-09-03 00:14:39 by A K A Stone
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The old cliché “Come shekels, Come shackles” had never been more apparent than on March 7, 2006 when President George Bush gave Executive Order 13397, which literally turned the churches that have taken Faith Based Funds over to the clutches of the Department of Homeland Security. Following is the order in its entirety with a brief comment at the end by Barbara Ketay, of Melbourne, Florida, who is the Legal Associate of the Biblical Law Center and the President of the United States Bar Association. In a subsequent article we will analyze this Order and its consequences further. Executive Order 13397 “Church as a Governmental Agency.” For Immediate Release ...
A Leading Hillary Supporter Defects to McCain
Post Date: 2008-09-03 00:09:25 by A K A Stone
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John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, announced today that he was supporting John McCain for president. Coale, who traveled with Sen. Clinton, President Clinton and her family through out the primary season, complained of sexism, and said the Democratic Party is "being taken over by the moveon.org types" in an exclusive interview with Newsweek.com's Tammy Haddad. He said he tried to prevent Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, from attending an August 18th meeting in Scranton, Pa. with McCain campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina. "I urged him not to go and told him it would embarrass his ...
Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights
Post Date: 2008-09-02 23:46:10 by A K A Stone
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain’s opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign. Obama’s new radio ad, airing widely in at least seven swing states, tells voters McCain “will make abortion illegal.” It’s airing as McCain courts female voters with the addition of the staunchly anti-abortion governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, to his ticket. Democrats had, until now, sought to appeal to women primarily on economic issues such as health care and workplace discrimination; abortion rights ...
Levi Johnston to join Palin family at convention
Post Date: 2008-09-02 20:41:50 by A K A Stone
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he boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska on Tuesday morning to join the Palin family at the convention where Sen. John McCain will officially receive the Republican nomination for president. The boy's mother, Sherry Johnston, said there had been no pressure put on her son to marry 17-year-old Bristol Palin and the two teens had made plans to wed before it was known she was pregnant. "This is just a bonus," Johnston said. The young man's presence could set off a media ...
BREAKING: Democrats Release Sarah Palin's Social Security Number
Post Date: 2008-09-02 19:57:45 by A K A Stone
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The Politico has received an opposition research file from the Alaska Democrats. You can read it in PDF here. In the file, the Democrats have released Sarah Palin's social security number minus the last four digits. Also tied to the information are her various home addresses. Back in 2005, Democrats used Michael Steele's social security number to get his credit record. It is atrocious that the Democrats would not only seek out Sarah Palin's social security number, but release it in opposition research to the press. We need to know who did this. We also need to know what happened. We also need to know if it was used to bolster the Democrats' opposition research. When it ...
Palin's Ex-Brother-in-Law: Investigation Found Serious Concerns (Rogue Cop)
Post Date: 2008-09-02 02:59:06 by Murron
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EXCERPTS: Palin's Ex-Brother-in-Law: Investigation Found Serious Concerns By Lisa Demer Michael Wooten is 35, a state trooper since March 2001 and an Air Force veteran. He's a father of young children who has been married and divorced four times. The accusations are detailed in two thick binders, the result of a nearly yearlong investigation by troopers. When the investigation appeared to stall, Sarah Palin -- more than a year before she was elected governor, and about two months before launching her campaign -- pushed trooper commanders to take action against Wooten. At one point, Palin and her husband, Todd, hired a private investigator. Wooten recently gave his union ...
To rebut rumors, Palin says daughter, 17, pregnant
Post Date: 2008-09-01 12:46:33 by A K A Stone
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ST. PAUL (Reuters) - The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said. "We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all ...
Lefty Bloggers Go After Palin's Daughter
Post Date: 2008-08-31 23:41:05 by A K A Stone
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The lefty blogosphere hasn't stopped perpetuating the rumor Sarah Palin "faked" her last pregnancy and are now humiliating her daughter Bristol on the blatantly incorrect suspicion she is the real mother of baby Trig. "Sarah Palin is NOT the Mother" is the title of this DailyKos blog that accuses Bristol, a completely fit looking adolescent teen, of having a "baby bump" in a photo they allege was taken March 9th of this year. "Sarah, I'm calling you a liar" wrote blogger ArcXIX. "And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the ...
Thousands flee New Orleans as Gustav nears
Post Date: 2008-08-31 14:51:26 by A K A Stone
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NEW ORLEANS -- Thousands of cars and buses clogged the highways from New Orleans as residents abandoned their homes today in a massive mandatory evacuation to escape Hurricane Gustav, which churned toward the Gulf Coast with powerful winds topping 125 mph. The storm had downgraded slightly overnight from its Category 4 status, with winds in excess of 156, but forecasters expected the tempest to strengthen as it approached the mainland. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin had earlier described Gustav as "the storm of the century," packing far stronger winds and storm surges than even Hurricane Katrina, which raked across New Orleans three years ago, causing 1,800 deaths and vast ...
Sarah Palin: conservatives find the girl of their dreams
Post Date: 2008-08-31 12:38:56 by A K A Stone
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When Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight as John McCain’s running mate in Dayton, Ohio, and promised that women could “shatter that glass ceiling once and for all”, it was an electrifying moment in a presidential election that had already produced its share of upsets and surprises. History was on the march again the morning after Barack Obama became the first African-American to accept his party’s White House nomination. After the fireworks, the 80,000-strong crowd who had cheered Obama to the skies at the Mile High stadium in Denver woke up with a hangover. “We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling,” said Camille Paglia, the ...
MORE GOOD NEWS: McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School
Post Date: 2008-08-30 08:21:14 by A K A Stone
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Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin wants creationism taught in science classes. In a 2006 gubernatorial debate, the soon-to-be governor of Alaska said of evolution and creation education, "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of education. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both." (Read about Palin's views on ANWAR and polar bears on our sister blog, Threat Level.) Asked by the Anchorage Daily News whether she believed in evolution, Palin declined to answer, but said that "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class." "I'm ...
Catholic hospitals betray mission
Post Date: 2008-08-27 21:48:17 by A K A Stone
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Update: Defense of Catholic hospitals betray mission Friday July 24, 2008 Researchers respond to accusations against the interpretation of the original data on sterilization. See Defense-of-Catholic-hospitals-betray-mission.pdf and Further-analysis-of-sterilization data.pdf at Sterilization and abortion practices in Texas Catholic hospitals Catholic hospital medical research whistleblowers & Wikileaks staff Monday June 15, 2008 A new study reveals sterilization and abortion practices in Catholic hospitals. Enlarge A new study reveals sterilization and abortion practices in Catholic hospitals. Enlarge In a study of sterilization and abortion practices in Texas Catholic hospitals ...
Source: Bill Clinton will not attend Obama's Invesco speech
Post Date: 2008-08-27 00:04:35 by A K A Stone
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DENVER (CNN) – Hillary Clinton will be on hand for Barack Obama's acceptance speech, but according to a source close to former President Bill Clinton, he will not: the source tells CNN that Clinton will not join his wife at Invesco Field Thursday night.
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