We've had two high-profile serial rapists in the last year. Thankfully, both were caught, and both decided to check out before wasting time on a trial and adding to the prison system. Coincidence or just good fortune? A little Star Chamber justice perhaps?

"And we can't pay for it all," said Mr. Powell ...

Just as we conservatives get ready to celebrate our patriotism on the Fourth of July, a liberal from a prominent family has been accused of spying for Cuba. Write Mary Beth Sheridan and Del Quentin Wilber in The Washington Post about a retired State Department employee: What Walter Kendall Myers kept hidden, according to documents unsealed in court Friday, was a deep and long-standing anger toward his country, an anger that allegedly made him willing to spy for Cuba for three decades. Ho hum. It's not as if this is the first time.

Coup is the word du jour in the Orwellian age of Obama where words take on opposite meaning. Coup is the word used to recklessly define the healthy democracy at work in the Honduras.

President Obama offered a wonkish defense of his embattled health-care reform effort during an hour-long town hall meeting in Northern Virginia yesterday that featured seven questions, including one sent via Twitter and several from a handpicked audience of supporters. [...] The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.

July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Suresh Tendulkar, an economic adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said he is urging the government to diversify its $264.6 billion foreign-exchange reserves and hold fewer dollars. “The major part of Indian reserves is in dollars -- that is something that’s a problem for us,” Tendulkar, chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, said in an interview yesterday in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he was attending an economic conference.

She hasn't even announced her Senate candidacy yet, but New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney's likely challenge of Sen. Kristen Gillibrand in the state's Democratic primary already is stirring dissension among party leaders. The White House has played an active role in clearing the primary field for Gillibrand, who was appointed by Gov. David Paterson earlier this year to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton when President Obama tapped Clinton to be his secretary of state. But former President Bill Clinton is headlining a fundraiser for Maloney in what could be seen as a snub to the Obama White House. And New York Rep. Charles Rangel rebuked Obama for meddling into the primary as Rangel defended Maloney's right to run. "I really don't understand why President Obama got involved in our primary," Rangel told the New York Daily News. "I don't want to use the word wrong, but it doesn't seem like the astute political thing to do." Just days ago, Vice President Biden called Maloney to discuss the race, a sign that the White House didn't want a primary fight next year. Obama already has asked Rep. Steve Israel not to challenge Gillibrand, a request he honored. And White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told reporters last week that the White House would help Gillibrand's re-election bid. Rangel said he hasn't yet decided who he will endorse, but he offered a glowing review of Maloney. "I really cannot say anything negative about a senior member who wants to run and whose polls, at this point in time, appear to be in her favor," Rangel told the New York Daily News. "Nobody can challenge that she's not a hardworking member of Congress," he said, citing her work on behalf of Sept. 11 victims and her landmark legislation protecting credit card holders. "She is certainly one of our most active members." Maloney's record has won her the support of one prominent Democrat. Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Bill Clinton, said the former president will be attending a July 20 fundraiser in New York for the congresswoman. McKenna disputed any suggestions that Clinton is taking sides in the race, saying Clinton's attendance at past or future fundraisers should not be perceived as an endorsement. "We agreed to this event some time ago as a way of saying 'thank you' to Congresswoman Maloney for her efforts on his wife's behalf last year," McKenna said. Bill Clinton also did a fundraising event for Gillibrand, but word of the Maloney event comes as the congresswoman moves toward formally announcing her candidacy. An adviser said this week she is running. Both Maloney and Gillibrand supported Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid, and Bill Clinton had made a point of thanking her supporters. During the Democratic primaries last year, Bill Clinton publicly criticized Obama as untested and unready for the job of president. Hillary Clinton engaged in a grueling and ultimately losing battle with Obama for the party's nomination. Bill Clinton and Obama made amends and the former president campaigned for the Democratic nominee

NAMPA, Idaho, July 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- This marks the first time in the 42 year history of the event that a flyover request was denied by the Pentagon. The event is held ever year to honor the spiritual foundations of our country with a special emphasis on the men and women who serve in the armed forces.

"I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them," Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN's John King, released by the network Friday morning.

Watch the video. Deport these despicable Muzzie vermin. It is sad to see a US citizen abused by a bunch of turd world Muzzie vermin.

She's resigning, effective in two weeks.

Critics of the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation that narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives say energy costs will skyrocket if the bill - as it stands now - becomes law. Manufacturing & Technology eJournal asked readers what actions they were most likely take at their company to offset the inevitable increases in energy costs.

OMG!!!!! Asking the actual people that are in and run manufacturing companies are giving what any sane person would know would happen----Catastrophe. Can't wait for the liberal class warriors to tell us it is all the bad old CEOs or business owners that are at fault for killing more manufacturing jobs and having the rest of the world eagerly pick them up.

*More than 17 percent of those who answered said they would have to shut down their business because there is no way they could handle the kinds of increases being predicted.

BUT BUT the democra....socialists said it is a JOBS bill.....a JOB KILLER BILL! I'm sure this is just due to those manufacturers being greedy.

These are Whining Cock People! Chief Judge of San Francisco is a fucking pervert

The chief judge of the federal appeals court in San Francisco was rebuked but not formally disciplined by a judicial panel Thursday for posting sexually explicit material on his private Web site and failing to remove it when he learned it was publicly accessible.

Dey just going back to da hood in Detroit.

OK This is pure bullshit! This place needs to be shut down.

Betrayal of a naive hacker: Why are our MPs doing nothing to help Asperger's victim Gary? - because he is not a teenager just feecking about but a 43 year old adult moron - and these pleas he has aspergers is a load of crap - his pic shows him sat with his mothers arm around his shoulders at 43 years of age he should know better makes me want 2 smack him in the mouth little creep - let them have him - they have better doctors than us and they will soon say if he is unfit for trial- it's not like they are forcing him 2 flyout on an Airpig is it? - the shock could kill him they say - what a heap of absolute crap - he is not brain dead and he knew what he was doing and knew it was wrong

Will the New York City school system be compelled to commemorate Islam on Sept. 11? It has been widely reported the New York City Council passed a resolution Tuesday recommending the school system shut down to commemorate two of the most important Muslim holidays, however the reports did not note the holidays fall on Sept. 11 in some years.

A Texas Southern University student wrested a gun away from a teenage robber and shot the boy in the neck at a bus stop just off the college campus before noon Tuesday, police said. The accused robber, a Yates High School summer student, was shot in the neck. He was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital, where his condition was not immediately known. According to Houston police homicide detectives, the 19-year-old TSU student was sitting at a Metro bus stop at Tierwester and Cleburne just after 11 a.m. when three teenagers approached, flashed a handgun and made demands. A struggle ensued and the TSU student managed to get the gun away from one of the robbers, police said. During the struggle, the gun discharged, striking one of the teens in the neck, but investigators said it was not clear whether the shooting was intentional or accidental. Gotta love Texas

THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again By MATT TAIBBI The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled-dry American empire, reads like a Who’s Who of Goldman Sachs graduates. By now, most of us know the major players. As George Bush’s last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to funnel trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street. Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton’s former Treasury secretary, spent 26 years at Goldman before becoming chairman of Citigroup – which in turn got a $300 billion taxpayer bailout from Paulson. There’s John Thain, the rear end in a top hat chief of Merrill Lynch who bought an $87,000 area rug for his office as his company was imploding; a former Goldman banker, Thain enjoyed a multibillion-dollar handout from Paulson, who used billions in taxpayer funds to help Bank of America rescue Thain’s sorry company. And Robert Steel, the former Goldmanite head of Wachovia, scored himself and his fellow executives $225 million in golden parachute payments as his bank was self-destructing. There’s Joshua Bolten, Bush’s chief of staff during the bailout, and Mark Patterson, the current Treasury chief of staff, who was a Goldman lobbyist just a year ago, and Ed Liddy, the former Goldman director whom Paulson put in charge of bailed-out insurance giant AIG, which forked over $13 billion to Goldman after Liddy came on board. The heads of the Canadian and Italian national banks are Goldman alums, as is the head of the World Bank, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, the last two heads of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York – which, incidentally, is now in charge of overseeing Goldman – not to mention … But then, any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain – an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Welcome to the USofGS

what is priceless in this moment of economic disaster is the unimaginably shallow and selfish comments from an LA Times editorial. From their point of view, the worst thing that could probably happen, post economic crisis, is there could be (gulp)... less government control!

Progress?

When President Obama announced on June 9 that some financial institutions would be allowed to repay Troubled Asset Relief Program dollars, he said the massively expensive TARP bailout had made money for the federal government. "It is worth noting that in the first round of repayments from these [TARP recipients], the government has actually turned a profit," the president said. Indeed, TARP supporters have long held out the hope that the program might be profitable. But now Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has come up with a proposal to spend any TARP profits before they can be returned to the taxpayers. Last Friday, Frank introduced the "TARP for Main Street Act of 2009," a bill that would take profits from the program and immediately redirect them toward housing proposals favored by Frank and some fellow Democrats. I hope he dies from a weird ass disease

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At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.

Rare copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence found gathering dust in BRITAIN'S National Archive - An original first print of the United States Declaration of Independence has been discovered gathering dust in Britain after nearly 250 years.

Horror as two-year-old girl is strangled to death by 8ft pet python - A two-year-old girl has been strangled to death in her bed by a pet python which escaped from its cage in the middle of the night.

A new law that went into effect Wednesday bars Oregon gas station attendants from topping off your tank, part of a new Department of Environmental Quality policy intended to reduce the health risk of gasoline vapors.

We need to petition Hussien's EPA to make this nation wide. Maybe we can even have it extend to lawn mowers and cans! What a glorious day indeed! Lets have a big round of applause for most progressive Oregon and it's DEQ!

Can be jokes or photoshops/real pictures. Enough time has passed. Actual cause of Jacko's death? FOOD POISONING. He ate an eight year old wiener. For the french and mentally challenged, but I repeat myself: Jacko is Michael Jackson.

More than a million and a half Canadians say they can't find a family doctor...In England, people wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth...A British paper reports that one hospital tried to save money by not changing bedsheets.

Michigan prison officials scrambled in the last week to reincarcerate 62 paroled sex offenders who were released without appropriate treatment

More examples of the over-competence from the "Planet of the Apes". Touching, literally...

Hussien's blatherbot short circuits and get's owned by the press.

Oh my, even NPR is looking for the CHOPE? What gives?

Welcome to Obonga's socialist regime.

I'll give the idiot credit for this one. Then again a broken clock is right on occasion..

Too bad he didn't kill the scum.

Better be careful. Obonga's Gestapo might go after him.

A true pity. A pity he didn't die.

Putting things into perspective: What If George W. Bush had ...

I understand he is to be buried with his American Express travelers checks,... RIP Karl.

]Every model except one, the Dodge Challenger, saw double-digit sales declines. Sales of the muscle car jumped 34 percent to 1,369 units.