NEWSWEEK magazine report that Obama has opened up a '15 point lead over McCain.' And they state that "The NEWSWEEK survey of 1,010 adults nationwide on June 18 and 19, 2008, has a margin of error of 4 points. But the latest evidence of his gaining ground goes well beyond that margin."
Despite the howls of protest from politicians and immigration groups, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has initiated a crackdown on illegal immigrants in the Phoenix area. He says he's enjoying tremendous support from the community and has received $25,000 in donations to help fund the effort...
The existence of ice on Mars was confirmed today by NASA scientists, the first time frozen water has been sampled on another planet. Water in liquid form is an essential ingredient for life.
CBS News and the Associated Press were quick to regurgitate claims that global warming has increased the intensity of earthquakes fivefold in the past 20 years. But had either taken the time to investigate, they would have discovered that both the source's facts and credentials were, if you'll pardon the expression, on very tremorous ground...But the ''study'' the article cited passages from is, in fact, a recently published bit of hysteria entitled Earthquake Energy Rise on Earth
Gallup tracking poll released today shows a statistical deadheat, but don't expect to hear anyone in the Main Stream Media mention this...
The general-election results are based on combined data from June 16-17 and June 19, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,648 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
Steve Schmidt, Sen. John McCain's senior adviser and message guru, wrote a memo called "Words Matter," ripping apart both Obama's rhetoric and actions when it comes to the public finance system for presidential campaigns, on how he runs his campaign, on holding town hall meetings, and on energy, trade and taxes.
They're in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?
The answer, according to computer and security experts, is probably not.
State officials have offered a lung cancer patient the option of having the Oregon Health Plan, set up in 1994 to ration health care, pay for an assisted suicide but not for the chemotherapy prescribed by her physician.
The story appears to be a happy ending for Barbara Wagner, who has been notified by a drug manufacturer that it will provide the expensive medication, estimated to cost $4,000 a month, for the first year and then allow her to apply for further treatment, according to a report in the Eugene Register-Guard.
This looks like an article from the Onion or something, but it isn't. This is what Universal Healthcare would look like in America, so wake up people.- Riley
Few Americans would invite an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, but that's exactly what Minnesota pastor Gus Booth wanted when he stood behind his pulpit and told his congregation God wanted them to vote Republican.
In an election where candidates openly discuss their faith and are regularly seen in churches, and a time when pastors' sermons lead the politics sections of newspapers, one might be excused for not knowing that it is illegal for a church to endorse or oppose a candidate for president.
The crew forgets to activate the break cable for a plane landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The plane slips off the edge of carrier and crashes into the ocean.
Mexico's chief advocate Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo said the U.S. was "in breach of its international obligations" by disregarding a 2004 judgment by the U.N.'s International Court of Justice, which ruled that Mexicans had been denied the right to help from their consulate after being arrested.
Gomez-Robledo said that without urgent action now, five Mexican citizens "will be executed before the conclusion of these proceedings."
Schwarzenegger said Wednesday he opposes lifting a ban on new oil drilling in coastal waters, breaking with President Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
He called California's coastline "an international treasure" that must be protected by a federal oil-drilling moratorium that has been in place for 27 years.
A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl's grounding, overturning her father's punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet, his lawyer said Wednesday
Get this: The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on websites he tried to block, and then posting "inappropriate" pictures of herself online using a friend's computer.
Rarely has so much hectoring produced so little. After all the magazine covers, celebrity sermonizing and U.N.-certified-expert hand-wringing, the fight against global warming got a real-world test in the U.S. Senate a few weeks ago in the debate over a proposal to limit carbon emissions through a cap-and-trade system. After a small dose of the argument, supporters of the proposal couldn't wait to drop it.
Related: THERE IS A SURE-FIRE WAY to make the news these days: Just issue a press release beginning with the words, "New scientific study shows," and have it assert a conclusion that the MSM fervently want to believe--especially if the resulting story would serve to debunk or refute a Bush administration policy. Slam-dunk! Your press release will become news!
When Iowa flooded, your future dinner got soaked. Console yourself with a snack of schadenfreude. Experts say the soggy state could produce less than two-thirds the usual corn harvest. Wet weather kept some 4 million cornfield acres, out of 86 million total, unplanted. Now, floods have killed many already-sprouted stalks.
The list of objectionable figures -- Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Father Michael Pfleger -- surrounding Barack Obama is growing. But the one who is the most infamous garners the least attention: Louis Farrakhan. Let's admit that Obama does not agree with Farrakhan that Judaism is a "gutter" or "dirty" religion and finds his comments that whites are "blue eyed devils" and Jews are "bloodsuckers" to be objectionable.
Bad day at the office ... Barack Obama, and inset, from top to bottom, Montgomery Blair Sibley and Larry Sinclair. His allegations have been sloshing around on the internet for six months, ever since he posted a YouTube video. But after he took a polygraph test and failed, he has struggled to get mainstream media interest in a story he said began in the back of a limousine in Chicago in 1999.
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