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I wish a lot more people could understand and appreciate the irony of this. I don’t have any love for the Iranian government, but for officials of our own to be this blatantly hypocritical doesn’t reflect well on us, either. From Reuters…

U.S. says Iran election results are ‘cooked’
Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:52pm EDT

By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, at loggerheads with Tehran over its nuclear program, cast strong doubt on the fairness of Iran’s parliamentary elections on Friday and said any outcome of the poll would be “cooked.”

“In essence the results are cooked. They are cooked in the sense that the Iranian people were not able to vote for a full range of people,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said of the poll.

Iranians voted on Friday in an election likely to keep parliament in the control of conservatives after unelected

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Actually, as of the most recent report it’s $107.44 to be accurate. And there’s little doubt it will be up quite a bit again by the end of the week.

Average gas price right now around here in north-central North Carolina is $3.19 per gallon.

Why is the cost of gas and everything else skyrocketing? It’s not that there’s a dwindling supply as many people will argue. No, right now it’s more because of the depleting value of the U.S. dollar. With diminished buying power comes high prices across the board.

And lowering the interest rates combined with pumping more Federal Reserve notes into the system is not going to do a damned thing to help matters. In fact, they will make things considerably worse by further driving down the dollar’s value.

Nor will this “stimulus package” pushed on us by George W. Bush and Congress do anything. “Stimulate the ...

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George W. Bush will deliver his final State of the Union speech as President tonight.

As always, he won’t dare speak the truth about the condition of this country to the American people. Too much “legacy” is at stake to do anything other than to BS people as he’s done throughout his term.

So it falls to me to go where most politicians, the mainstream press, the partisan sycophants, and the useful idiots fear to tread, and lay down the real smack on the true state of the union…

– You will hear Bush tonight repeat that “America is strong” or that “our union is strong”. This is a damned lie. The truth of the matter is, America is not only not strong, America is dying. In fact, America may be dead and beyond resuscitation already.

– We have precious little industrial infrastructure left. Bush and his buddies have ...

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… the first news in what became known as “the Monica Lewinsky scandal” came out, when Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report broke the word that Newsweek was sitting on a story about a sexual affair between President Bill Clinton and a 23-year old White House intern.

Those were very crazy days. Can’t believe it’s been ten years already. I still remember watching Clinton on live television wagging his finger at everyone and claiming that “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky!”

I have a friend who teaches history, who predicted all the way back in 1992 that Bill Clinton would be the first in a long series of presidencies that lacked honor and ability and real sense of duty. When the Lewinsky scandal came out, I couldn’t help but think back to what he said. And now ten years later, in the closing months of ...

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I will never vote for Barack Obama to be President. Let me be absolutely clear about that. You’ll never see me trying to persuade others to vote for him either. But if he seriously believes this, then I’ll absolutely agree with the man on this much. Obama has stopped wearing the American flag pin that is seen adorning just about every politician in this country.

Why? Because since 9/11, Obama told an Iowa TV station, the pin has become “a substitute” for “true patriotism.”

He’s right.

And it’s going to be interesting to see how many “patriotic conservative” pundits come out of the woodwork to condemn him about this. I think Obama is doing something perfectly conservative: he’s choosing not to wrap himself up in the flag and portray phony patriotism. Obama’s patriotism, if it’s really there, is going to be on display for whatever it is. For however the ...

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According to The New York Times:

Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.

The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.”

After reading the story, I had ...

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220 years ago today, on September 17th, 1787, the Constitution of the United States – the supreme law of this country – was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Although it could be said that the Constitution was only really “enacted” after nine states agreed to ratify it (New Hampshire became that ninth state in late June 1788), today is by and large considered to be the Constitution’s “birthday”.

If you would like to read the Constitution (and you really should), here is the full text – including subsequent amendments – hosted by the National Constitution Center....

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Fred Thompson has said he’ll announce his presidential candidacy on September 6th.

Ummmm… isn’t the announcement of an announcement the logical equivalent of the announcement itself?

This is part of the reason why I’m so disgusted with modern politics: it’s become too much about pomp and pageantry and public bravura, and so very little about substance.

It’s like this: the President of the United States is a position of service. Those who fully comprehend that won’t play games with even candidacy for it. A real leader would simply say “Yes I’m a candidate”, without being a protracted prima donna about the matter....

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The U.S.S. Grunion, a submarine that was last heard from on July 30th, 1942, has been discovered on the floor of the Bering Sea.

From the story…

The mangled remains of a World War II submarine were found in the Bering Sea on Wednesday night, more than six decades after the U.S. Navy vessel disappeared with a crew of 70 off the Aleutian Island of Kiska.

The discovery of the USS Grunion culminates a five-year search led by the sons of its commander, Mannert Abele, and may finally shine a light on the mysterious last moments of the vessel.

“Obviously, this is a very big thing,” the oldest son, Bruce Abele, said Thursday from his home in Newton, Mass. “I told my wife about it when she was still in bed and she practically went up to the ceiling.”

A remotely operated vehicle snapped pictures and captured three hours

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