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Michelle Email: Come To Barack's Birthday Party!

Michelle Email: Come To Barack's Birthday Party!

Today, in its latest round of oh-so-personal emails to supporters, the Obama campaign sent out a missive purportedly from First Lady Michelle Obama. This was yet another charming letter begging Americans to send $3 for a chance to win a

Jesse Jackson Jr. Vanished Because of 'Mood Disorder'

Jesse Jackson Jr. Vanished Because of 'Mood Disorder'

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has gone missing from the House of representatives since June 10 with whereabouts unknown, is, according to his doctors, being treated for a “mood disorder.” What does that mean? Who knows? Jackson’s spokesman released this

Chicago: Socialists Scream for Free Palestine and Free Abortion on Demand

Chicago: Socialists Scream for Free Palestine and Free Abortion on Demand

Fifteen hundred socialists recently convened in suburban Chicago at the International Socialist Organization’s annual conference. As in previous years, attendees consumed Marxist propaganda on government education, government health care and how to best end capitalism. Sessions included: “The battle for the

Is President Obama Shutting out the Black Press?

Is President Obama Shutting out the Black Press?

According to the National Newspaper Publishers Association also known as the Black Press of America, President Obama is avoiding Black media outlets. This past June, the NNPA held its annual convention in Atlanta. One discussion panel, “Get Out the Vote,”

Head of NAACP Compares Voter ID to Selma and Montgomery

Head of NAACP Compares Voter ID to Selma and Montgomery

Benjamin Jealous, the race-baiting head of the NAACP, tried to follow the Obama administration’s lead and cry racism at every opportunity at the NAACP convention, comparing the NAACP’s “fight” against voter ID laws that have been passed in several states to the

Obama's Tax Policy Was Born in Europe

Obama's Tax Policy Was Born in Europe

I’m not a big fan of government conspiracy theories, largely because the people in Washington are too bloody incompetent to do anything effectively. Heck, sometimes they can’t even waste money properly even though they have lots of practice. But it recently crossed my

Obama: Confused About the Declaration

Obama: Confused About the Declaration

Former President George W. Bush endured any number of insults to his intelligence while in office. It didn’t matter that he had graduated from both Yale and Harvard, worked in business, ran a Major League Baseball enterprise, or successfully served

New Optimism About Stemming Spread of AIDS Virus

New Optimism About Stemming Spread of AIDS Virus

By LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical WriterWASHINGTONAn AIDS-free generation: It seems an audacious goal, considering how the HIV epidemic still is raging around the world. Yet more than 20,000 international HIV researchers and activists will gather in the nation’s capital later this

Obamanomics 101 With Ohio's Sherrod Brown

Obamanomics 101 With Ohio's Sherrod Brown

President Obama can’t be in the battleground state of Ohio selling his Keynesian politics every day, but U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was running on the same platform back when the president was still organizing Chicago communities. See how easily

Media Refuses to Make Obama Pay Price For Lies

Media Refuses to Make Obama Pay Price For Lies

Other than his rather bizarre wistful recalling of how great things were in Nixon’s America, yesterday in an off-teleprompter stump speech, President Barack Obama told two humongous whoppers. First, he distorted the Clinton years, as though those years in any

911 Goes Dark In Chicago

911 Goes Dark In Chicago

911 in Chicago went down late Monday night. And no one knew why.  From 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. police officers were unable to receive emergency calls from the dispatch center. Instead, dispatchers used their radios to transmit emergency messages to the police.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Won't Be Back Soon

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Won't Be Back Soon

Local CBS affiliates are reporting that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) won’t be returning imminently, one day after he took a leave of absence for “exhaustion.” According to sources close to Jackson, he’s “facing a serious health challenge.” Staffers don’t

Stockton official: Mediation with creditors fails

Stockton official: Mediation with creditors fails

(AP) Stockton official: Mediation with creditors failsBy GOSIA WOZNIACKAAssociated PressSTOCKTON, Calif.In opting to become the nation’s largest city to seek federal bankruptcy protection, this river port of 290,000 took a rare financial step of last resort after struggling with the

BCS Defeated in Overtime; College Football Playoffs Begin 2014

BCS Defeated in Overtime; College Football Playoffs Begin 2014

(AP) Presidents approve college football playoffRALPH D. RUSSOAP College Football WriterWASHINGTONCollege football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead. A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved the BCS commissioners’ plan for a four-team playoff to