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Hillary Uncensored: Campaign Finance Shenanigans

Seeded on Tue Nov 6, 2007 1:40 AM EST (Google)

This shocking video details more tawdry campaign finance behaviors - perhaps even rising to the level of criminal activities. Anyone who is concerned about fraud and corruption in our election process should view this video.

politics, hillary-clinton, hollywood, judge, criminal, benefit, stan-lee, obstruction-of-justice, peter-paul, gala

How Huckabee Could Rock the 2008 Vote

Seeded on Sun Nov 4, 2007 6:26 AM EST (The Washington Post)

Seeded by Dr Danny (Clipped by Tom Bombadil)

"Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly," A.J. Liebling once famously noted. "They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch." But in the case of Mike Huckabee, the opposite might be true.

politics, republican, gop, arkansas, election-08, mike-huckabee, southern-baptist, election-race

35 Errors Discovered in Al Gore's Film by Noel Sheppard. October 21, 2007. 21:25 EST

Seeded on Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:42 AM EDT (newsbusters.org)

Seeded by Larry H-189743 (Clipped by Tom Bombadil)

"NewsBusters readers are well aware of the recent controversy involving Al Gore's schlockumentary 'An Inconvenient Truth'."

politics, an-inconvenient-truth, al-gore, science-and-public-policy-institute

William Jennings Huckabee

Seeded on Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:09 PM EDT (contentions)

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's silver-tongued performance at the October 18 Values Voters forum in Washington, DC, together with his rising poll numbers in Iowa where he is in second place, has shaken up the GOP.

politics, arkansas-governor-mike-huckabee, republicans, mitt-romney, values-voters, conservatives, washington, dc, gop, baptist-preacher

The Evangelical Crackup?

Seeded on Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:17 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Today the movement shows signs of coming apart beneath its leaders.

religion, republican, evolution, california, hillary-clinton, barack-obama, democrat, abortion, john-edwards, mitt-romney

Racy Costumes for Kids?

Seeded on Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:31 AM EDT (NBC15online.com)

With Halloween less than a week away, a lot of you have probably been doing some costume shopping. It's not just ghosts and goblins giving a scare. Some parents say, it's also the racy new costumes for girls.

halloween, children, families, girls, costumes, racy, inappropriate, sexualization-of-children, perverts, childraising

Paging FEMA: Newsvine Tracker Thingy Broken

Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:52 AM EDT

One of the questions that the "reporters" failed to ask at the now infamous FEMA "press conference" the other day was this: "What in the frickety frack is wrong with the Newsvine Tracker System?" Another one could have been: "Is this problem simply limited to articles Tom Bom …

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satire, dick-cheney, wmd, fema, rant, loose-change, press-conference, brownie, blame-bush, grassy-knoll

Edwards Attempts to Stifle Student Media

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:45 PM EDT (NewsObserver.com)

A UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor said John Edwards' presidential campaign tried to kill a student's video story about his campaign headquarters.

politics, john-edwards, university-of-north-carolina, chapel-hill, journalism, freedom-of-the-press, first-amendment, intimidation, threats, students

Louisiana: Bucking a Trend

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:31 PM EDT (The Economist)

WHEN it comes to the business of elections, Louisiana likes to confound conventional wisdom.

politics, louisiana, bobby-jindal, governor, kathleen-blanco, hurricane-katrina, new-orleans, george-bush, mary-landrieu, republican

A Meaningless Football Game?

Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:51 PM EDT

This article is not really about football. Keep reading ....

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sports, family, football, father, alabama-crimson-tide, tennessee-volunteers, john-parker-wilson, eric-ainge, dj-hall, phillip-fulmer

Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:29 AM EDT (Michael Yon: Online Magazine )

Some months ago, a soldier in Baghdad wrote a piece on the way war can degrade the morals and affect the judgment of combat soldiers. His story was published at face-value in The New Republic magazine.

us-news, scott-thomas-beauchamp, new-republic, media-bias, hating-the-military, armed-forces, soldier, baghdad, combat, iraq

Flashback: al-Qaeda Detainee Spoke of Fire Plot

Seeded on Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:47 PM EDT (USA Today)

Does anybody remember this little news item from the Summer of '03?

us-news, al-qaeda, terrorism, california, fires, fbi, san-diego, los-angeles, malibu, wyoming

CNN Memo: Use Fires to Push "Planet in Peril"

Seeded on Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:26 PM EDT (Drudge Report)

According to notes from CNN's Monday news meeting network president Jon Klein tells employees to use the California fire tragedy to "push" their "Planet in Peril" special, but warns reporters not to "irresponsibly link" the fires to "Global Warming."

us-news, cnn, planet-in-peril, commercialism, opportunism, tragedy-exploitation, politicization, global-warming, climate-change, california-fires

Key Scratching: Is it Time for Sharia Law?

Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:56 PM EDT

These days, it's unwise to make anyone angry on the road.

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vandalism, car, sharia-law, road-rage, cowardice, elf, earth-liberation-front

Cheney: No Nukes for Iran

Seeded on Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:53 PM EDT (CNN)

The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech Sunday saying that the U.S. will not tolerate a nuclear Iran.

world-news, iran, nuclear-weapons, china, russia, un, united-nations, sanctions, military, vice-president-dick-cheney

Sexual Misconduct Plagues U.S. Schools

Seeded on Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:12 PM EDT (CNN)

Students in America's schools are groped. They're raped. They're pursued, seduced and think they're in love. An Associated Press investigation found more than 2,500 cases over five years in which educators were punished for actions from bizarre to sadistic.

education, schools, america, child-abuse, sexual-predators, public-schools, children, seducer, pervert, predator

Is Ann Coulter the Britney Spears of Conservatism?

Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:24 PM EDT

As promised, I have decided to address the continuing saga of Ann Coulter. Because I am one of a relatively small handful of conservatives here on Newsvine, people are often calling upon me to defend or explain what Ann Coulter has to say.

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politics, ann-coulter, pundit, rhetoric, conservative, liberal, left, right, divisive, controversy

Is Bush A Child-Hating Liar?

Seeded on Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:21 PM EDT (The Baltimore Sun)

Is President Bush a liar who hates children? That's what many of his critics now are asking. Why else, they say, would he refuse to sign a bill providing health insurance to poor kids?

politics, president-george-w-bush, schip, childcare, insurance, children, uninsured, congress

Pelosi and Congress Botch U.S. - Turkey Relations

Seeded on Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:10 PM EDT (MSNBC)

Turkey's top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.

world-news, turkey, us, iraq, kurdistan, kurds, muslims, world-war-one, genocide, nancy-pelosi

The Real Clarence Thomas

Seeded on Tue Oct 9, 2007 10:29 PM EDT (OpinionJournal.com)

But if Justices Stephen Breyer or Ruth Bader Ginsburg are the apple of liberal groups' eye, does that mean that they are unfit because they must be biased? Liberal attacks on Justice Thomas echo segregation-era hate speech that would be called racist if leveled at any other black …

politics, supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas, frederick-douglass, harry-reid, ruth-bader-ginsburg, stephen-breyer, thurgood-marshall, joseph-biden, racism, bigotry

Clarence Thomas: The Man and the Myth

Seeded on Tue Oct 9, 2007 12:18 AM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

It would be hard to think of anyone whose portrayal in the media differs more radically from the reality than that of Justice Clarence Thomas.

politics, clarence-thomas, thomas-sowell, supreme-court-judge, high-court, 60-minutes, cbs, rush-limbaugh

Clarence Thomas is no Puppet

Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2007 11:42 PM EDT (ABC News Blogs)

Clarence Thomas is blunt when asked how he is "similar" to fellow conservative Antonin Scalia. "Oh no, no," he says. "How I 'followed' Justice Scalia."

politics, supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas, antonin-scalia, thurgood-marshall, racism, bigotry, plessy-v-ferguson, george-bush, harry-blackmun, legal-precedent

Iowa Surprise for Repubs?

Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2007 11:29 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

The latest Iowa Poll, published Sunday in the Des Moines Register, has drawn attention largely because of what it shows about the Democratic race: Hillary Clinton is now leading in the state.

politics, mike-huckabee, iowa-caucus, republican, democrat, hillary-clinton, rudy-guiliani, sam-brownback, fred-thompson, mitt-romney

Kudlow To Monitor Matthews at GOP Debate

Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2007 10:53 PM EDT (Examiner)

"It was a stupid, stupid thing to say," said Kudlow, responding to Matthews' comment that the Bush administration has "finally been caught in their own criminality." Kudlow acknowledged Matthews was a friend of his but said, "He can go off the deep end at times."

politics, chris-matthews, msnbc, cnbc, larry-kudlow, dick-cheney, gop, republican-debate, detroit

Christians for Self-Defeat

Seeded on Sun Oct 7, 2007 11:52 PM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

Evangelical Christians never had it so good, but they seem not to know it. Instead of supporting the candidate who most shares their values -- Mitt Romney -- they seem hell-bent for the proverbial cliff.

politics, dr-james-dobson, evangelical-christians, mitt-romney, mike-huckabee, john-mccain, defense-of-marriage-amendment, gay-marriage, iowa, jesus-christ

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Hillary Uncensored: Campaign Finance Shenanigans
Source: Google
This shocking video details more tawdry campaign finance behaviors - perhaps even rising to the level of criminal activities. Anyone who is concerned about fraud and corruption in our election process should view this video.
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The Bible among objects prohibited at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
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Organizes of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing have published a list of "prohibited objects" in the Olympic village where athletes will stay. To the surprise of many, Bibles are among the objects that will not be allowed.
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Should the Bible be re-edited to be more Christian?
If I had been Constantine and realized that the whole of the old testament could confuse the teachings of Christ.
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"The Bible is as relevent today as today's newspaper"
I truly enjoy reading the discussion board on OrlandoSentinel.com. There was story this past weekend about the split in the Episcopal Church over "gay issues". I decided to read the discussion board. This quote just stuck out to me.
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So... this is Lutefisk?
Everybody gave my ancestors a hard time about haggis, so what I've been wondering is how did my wife's ancestors avoid the same castigation over lutefisk? Lutefisk is a traditional dish of Norway, named because in part it is made with lye.
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