National Issues:

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Before the U.S. House of Representatives, November 20, 2008

"Madame Speaker, many Americans are hoping the new administration will solve the economic problems we face. That’s not likely to happen, because the economic advisors to the new President have no more understanding of how to get us out of this mess than previous administrations and Congresses understood how the crisis was brought about in the first place......." Click here to read more.

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Wall Street Journal: Franken Stealing Election

By: Jim Meyers
"Democrats won the White House and increased their majorities in the Senate and House, but some in their party wouldn't mind adding to their jackpot by stealing a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken.
That's the thrust of an editorial in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal about the still unresolved race between Franken and incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota.
On the morning after Election Day, Republican Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. By that evening, his lead had shrunk to 477, and as of Tuesday, the margin was just 206 votes.
This lopsided bleeding of Republican votes is passing strange considering that the official recount hasn't even begun, the Journal observed.
It's not unusual that state officials, in double-checking the initial election results, would find and fix errors. What is unusual is that nearly every "fix" has gone in favor of Franken.
In one case, Minnesota's director of elections announced on Friday, three days after the election, that she had forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car.
In Two Harbors, a liberal outpost near Duluth, Franken picked up an additional 246 votes, while none of the other contests in that precinct recorded any changes in their vote total.
According to conservative statistician John Lott, Mr. Franken's gains so far are 2.5 times the corrections made for Barack Obama in the state, and nearly three times the gains for Democrats across Minnesota Congressional races, The Journal reported.
The newspaper notes that the post-election process is being overseen by Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, an ally of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), of fraudulent voter-registration fame.

Franken and fellow Democrats are now pushing to turn what should be a straightforward recount of existing legal ballots into a "complete do-over", pressuring election officials into accepting tossed ballots, according to The Journal, which concludes:
With their party only three Senate seats from the 60 needed to break a filibuster (and two still not decided), Democrats have a political incentive to cut corners to steal a seat if they can get away with it..." Click here for more.

And also MDE Senate Race:

“You’d think Democrats would be content with last week’s electoral rout. But judging from the odd doings in Minnesota, some in their party wouldn’t mind adding to their jackpot by stealing a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken.
When Minnesotans woke up last Wednesday, Republican Senator Norm Coleman led Mr. Franken by 725 votes. By that evening, he was ahead by only 477. As of yesterday, Mr. Coleman’s margin stood at 206. This lopsided bleeding of Republican votes is passing strange considering that the official recount hasn’t even begun.
The vanishing Coleman vote came during a week in which election officials are obliged to double-check their initial results. Minnesota is required to do these audits, and it isn’t unusual for officials to report that they transposed a number here or there. In a normal audit, these mistakes could be expected to cut both ways. Instead, nearly every “fix” has gone for Mr. Franken, in some cases under strange circumstances.” Source: Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2008..."
Click here for the complete story.

Democrat takes lead in Alaska Senate race

By GENE JOHNSON – 8 hours ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Just as Sen. Ted Stevens appeared ready to take his criminal record back to Congress — perhaps opening a door for Gov. Sarah Palin to replace him — his re-election bid faltered.

Democrat Mark Begich, who trailed Stevens by more than 3,200 votes to start the day Wednesday, jumped to an 814-vote lead as state officials resumed their count of early and absentee ballots. The tally late Wednesday was 132,196 to 131,382, with an estimated 30,000 ballots remaining to be counted, some on Friday and some next week...." Click here for more.

Both Parties Zero In on Georgia Senate-Seat Runoff

"WASHINGTON -- Advocates on both sides of the aisle are racing to sway a runoff in Georgia that will help determine whether Democrats gain a supermajority in the Senate.

The contest between incumbent Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin -- neither of whom won more than 50% of the vote on Election Day -- is key to Democrats' bid for the 60 votes needed to overcome procedural tactics that could complicate President-elect Barack Obama's legislative agenda. Two other races, in Alaska and Minnesota, also remain undecided...." Click here for more.

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Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction

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Emanuel on Freddie Mac Board During Scandal

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Much, much more on National Politics here.

U. S. SUPREME COURT AWAITS RESPONSE TO
BERG'S WRIT OF CERTIORARI
FROM OBAMA, DNC and Co-DEFENDANTS

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Muslims Demanding America To Bow To Sharia Law

Islamic courts in UK to deal with divorce disputes

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Rising Gun Sales

Guns flying off the shelves with election in balance

Guns 'flying off the shelves' at local stores

Gun Sales Rise, NBC

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Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry!

Palin on clean coal - video

Shocking Audio: Obama Promises to Bankrupt Coal Industry

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56-year-old residing in Boston slum ignored judge's order 4 years ago

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango

Immigration judge denied Kenyan woman’s request for asylum in 2004

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Ex-CIA Expert: Obama Took

Millions

in Illegal Foreign Donations

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Gwatney Shooting

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The presidential debates can be found at:

http://www.myspace.com/mydebates

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* Judicial Appointments: What's on Tap from Obama or McCain?

BATFE Adds Theft To Its Crimes

* Lieberman Calls Obama 'Naïve,'

May Bolt Party in Future

* "America, this is what a feminist looks like"

* 'Obama Nation's' Corsi held in Kenya

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Missouri Prosecutors,

Sheriffs 'Target Anyone

Who Lies' About Barack Obama

* RNC Demands FEC Probe Obama's Donations

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Not after 9/11

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France Prosecutes Bridgette Bardot For Insulting Muslims

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Obama Tax Plan: Back To Welfare?

Dropping poll numbers for Obama

spurs media attacks on McCain/Palin

Guns & Obama

Obama, Voter Fraud & Mortgage Meltdown

* With One Month To Go: Why McCain Will Close and Win

* THE LIES BIDEN TOLD

* My Palin Pledge to All Female Palin Haters

Ku Klux Klan Protesters Interrupt

Obama Event

The group of mostly African American men held signs that read, “Blacks against Obama”, “Jesse Jackson hates Obama”, “Obama aborted my copy of the Daily Squib”, “Obama for gay marriage” and “Obama endorsed by the KKK.”

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* Palin/Pickens meeting

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AP Whines Palin 'Banned' Them From Chat with Foreign Leaders; No Such Concern When Obama Did

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Venezuela Dictator Vows to Bring Down U.S. Government

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The Ayers - Obama Connection