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BREAKING NEWS: John Edwards denies affair with campaign worker

Former Sen. John Edwards today denied a story in the National Enquirer that he had an extramarital affair with a former campaign worker who followed him on numerous trips around the country.

Without naming the woman, the supermarket tabloid reported online that "Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught in a shocking mistress scandal that could wreck his campaign." The paper's only source is an unnamed friend of the woman who says the two met at a New York bar about 18 months ago. The newspaper quotes the woman as saying, "Sparks flew immediately. She never expected it would turn sexual since John is married and is running for president. But it soon did--and she fell for him."

The Associated Press reported today that Edwards told reporters, "The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous." He said the story was "made-up."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/

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Researcher: Humans will wed robots
Oct 11 12:41 PM US/Eastern

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The University of Maastricht in the Netherlands is awarding a doctorate to a researcher who wrote a paper on marriages between humans and robots.

David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher at the college, wrote in his thesis, "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners," that trends in robotics and shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will eventually be seen as suitable marriage partners.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20071011-122541-6886&show_article=1

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Sanchez, former U.S. commander in Iraq, calls war 'a nightmare with no end in sight'
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, October 13, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. – The former top commander of U.S. troops in Iraq slammed the handling of the war and gave a bleak assessment of the current situation in Iraq.

“There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight,” retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told a convention of military journalists on Friday.

Sanchez commanded U.S. troops in Iraq from June 2003 to July 2004. His controversial tenure saw the capture of Saddam Hussein and the handover of sovereignty to the Iraqi government, but also the rise of the insurgency and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=49460

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Nobel 'Peace' Prize Awarded to De-Population, Abortion Advocate Al Gore
Previous Nobel Laureate said abortion is greatest destroyer of peace

By Meg Jalsevac
Al GoreSTOCKHOLM, October 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Based on former US Vice-President, Al Gore's work in the climate field, the Nobel Prize organization saw fit to award a shared Nobel Peace Prize on him yesterday at the annual Nobel ceremony held in Stockholm. Many commentators are expressing dismay that the Nobel organization has denigrated all past awards by giving its prize to the politically correct Gore who does not fit any of its founder's definitions for award recipients. In fact, say pro-life leaders, Gore's strong support for world de-population and abortion make him especially unsuitable for the Nobel Prize.

According to the last will and testament of Nobel Peace Prize founder, Alfred Nobel, the purpose of the prize was to bestow the merited honor "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

It is difficult for many observers to comprehend how Al Gore's promotion of his extreme alarmist, widely disputed climate change scenario and his notorious support for abortion "rights" and international family planning policies fit Alfred Nobel's stated purpose for the peace prize.

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07101206.html

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'Mom' and 'Dad' banished by California
Schwarzenegger signs law outlawing terms perceived as negative to 'gays'[sm=shakinghead.gif]
Posted: October 13, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

"Mom and Dad" as well as "husband and wife" have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose.

"We are shocked and appalled that the governor has blatantly attacked traditional family values in California," said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute.

"With this decision, Gov. Schwarzenegger has told parents that their values are irrelevant. Many parents will have no choice but to pull their children out of the public schools that have now become sexualized indoctrination centers."

Link..mom & dad in Cali > [sm=wave.gif][sm=wave.gif]

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Ann Coulter is Not Helping[sm=silly.gif]
By Richard Baehr
I have never been much of an Ann Coulter fan. I tend to prefer substantive argument to flame-throwing. There is plenty of very substantive conservative political argument around. Some of it has appeared on this website the last four years.

There is a history with Coulter of making comments on some radio or cable TV interview program that offend some group or individual pretty much every time she has a new book to sell. For an author who likes to be in your face, such provocation, with the resulting publicity frenzy that accompanies such statements, is undoubtedly good for promoting book sales to her loyal base.

The issue with Coulter is not whether she can sell books, but whether she helps or hurts the side of the political debate she claims to support. In my opinion, Coulter has never been a big help to the effort to build a conservative and Republican majority. Her most recent comments on the relationship of Christianity to Judaism, made on the CNBC show " The Big Idea" with Donnie Deutsch on Monday of this week , may prove particularly damaging.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/ann_coulter_is_not_helping.html [:'(]

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Faith-Based Prisons Multiply Across U.S.[sm=christianity.jpg]

Saturday, October 13, 2007

RICHMOND, Texas — Killer-turned-artist Manny Hernandez on the prison where he's finishing an eight-year term: "It's a blessing to be here."

Fellow murderer and inmate Raymond Hall likens it to heaven.

"I love this place," says their warden, Cynthia Tilley. "It's so calm."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301600,00.html

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Gore gets a cold shoulder[sm=icon_smile_cold.gif]

Steve Lytte
October 14, 2007

ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/gore-gets-a-cold-shoulder/2007/10/13/1191696238792.html

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Vatican official insists he's not gay

By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer Sun Oct 14, 1:06 PM ET

VATICAN CITY - A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay[sm=Llol.gif] as part of his work.

In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica daily he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about "those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity."

Vatican teaching holds that gays and lesbians should be treated with compassion and dignity but that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered."

http://news.yahoo.com/video;_ylt=AnaadrSiVmkRIpHZNcoOnThbbBAF

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Hanged witch in Massachusetts sparks allegation of 'hate crime'[sm=rollingeyes.gif]
Halloween celebrated with sorceress in noose, pagan worshipper likens it to lynching blacks
Posted: October 14, 2007
2:51 p.m. Eastern

In the state made famous for persecuting witches in the late 17th century, a modern day sorceress in Massachusetts is burning mad about a neighbor's Halloween decoration depicting a witch hanging from a noose, calling it a hate crime against her religion.

"I want to see him take it down," said Kelly Lynch of Chicopee, Mass. "Look at what's going on in Louisiana. That would be the same thing. If a black family had ... crosses outside of their house or nooses hanging from their trees, it's basically the same thing."

The witch is hanging from wooden gallows in front of a home on East Street, but Lynch finds the decor offensive.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58142

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Obama Reaches Out to Religious Voters
By ERIC GORSKI | Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The invitation appeared one Sunday in Joanna Chase's church bulletin: Come to a "faith forum" and join a conversation about the intersection of religion and politics.

Living in New Hampshire, Chase is accustomed to pitches from presidential hopefuls, especially those focusing on values-voting Republicans. But this one came from the team of a Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama.

The candidate himself wasn't on the bill. But about 50 people showed up to talk about the war, poverty and trying to seize back the moral mantle some in the GOP claim. The night also featured an Obama video and a campaign altar call _ an invitation to become a "congregation contact" and rally support for the candidate.

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/10/16//ap/politics/d8sa6cjg0.txt

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Dental Patients Pull Out Own Teeth[sm=icon_smile_faint.gif]

Updated: 15:04, Monday October 15, 2007
Falling numbers of NHS dentists are forcing many patients to go without treatment or even try pulling out their own teeth, a study has revealed.

Almost a fifth (19%) of those questioned said they had missed out on dental work because of the cost.

The research found 6% had even resorted to treating themselves because they could not find a dentist.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0%2C%2C30100-1288338%2C00.html

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Cheney and Obama are distant cousins: Mrs. Cheney

Tue Oct 16, 6:01 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins.

So says the vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, who said she discovered that her husband of 43 years is eighth cousins with the senator from Illinois.

The two men could hardly be more different. Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/pl_nm/usa_politics_cheney_obama_dc

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Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged

BY DAVID HINCKLEY and TINA MOORE

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.

Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night. Elliot, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy.

"Is this an attempt by the right-wing, hate machine to silence one of our own?" he asked on the air, according to Talking Radio, a blog. "Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? [sm=Llol.gif][sm=Llol.gif][sm=Llol.gif] Are they trying to silence intimidate us?"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/16/2007-10-16_air_america_host_randi_rhodes_wasnt_mugg.html

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Hillary's Cell Phone Spying to be Probed

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:42 PM

By: Newsmax Staff

Republicans plan to skewer presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton over her position on government surveillance, capitalizing on allegations in a recent book that Clinton listened to a secretly recorded conversation between political opponents.

In the book “Her Way,” former New York Times investigative reporter Jeff Gerth and Times investigative reporter Don Van Natta Jr. wrote that during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, “Hillary’s defense activities ranged from the inspirational to the microscopic to the down and dirty.

“She received memos about the status of various press inquiries, she vetted senior campaign aides; and she listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack.”

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/hillary_snooping/2007/10/16/41399.html

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Jena Six and Race-Mongering

By Nick Guariglia



Every few months or so, this country’s well-known race-mongers get their manufactured event to which they can summon the exuberance of the idiotic youth they easily puppeteer. Shirts, rallies, bullhorns, organizing behind the barricades, sticking it to the man – all of the pseudo-sincere exercises which underscore the triteness of mass racial empathizing – were on display during the latest absurdity, the so-called “Jena Six” incident.



It is the worst of traits to simultaneously allow yourself to be so effortlessly swayed in both opinion and action, while remaining just lazy enough not to look into the issue to which you are being manipulated. If you fit this description, you probably think the Jena Six episode is evidence of a bigoted American suburbia, stuck in its xenophobic close-mindedness of yesteryear; a violation of human rights – as one professor put it – enough to coerce a presidential mea culpa at the alter of the General Assembly of the United Nations.



How low have our journalistic standards plunged when we are looking to MTV to uphold such integrity? Perhaps this redeems the station which once utilized “Vote or Die” scare tactics, downright lying to the voting constituency about the possibilities of a military draft before the 2004 election. The Associated Press got all the nitty-gritty facts of the Jena case wrong as well, seeking more Rubin “Hurricane” Carter-type sensationalism.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=1385008

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Man crisscrossed border with TB[:'(]

By Sara A. Carter and Audrey Hudson

A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the past year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was warned by health officials on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected, but it took Homeland Security officials more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors, according to Homeland Security sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Homeland Security took a further week to tell its own Transportation Security Agency.

Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a highly contagious illness and also resistant to the two most commonly used drugs to treat TB. It is the same dangerous strain of tuberculosis that concerned health officials when Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer, slipped into the U.S. from Europe via a flight to Canada. The story set off alarms that the system had failed to identify the contagious passenger, which led to congressional hearings in June.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071018/NATION/110180087/1001

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Stark Raving Mad: Congressman Accuses President of Deriving ‘Amusement’ from American War Dead

http://breitbart.tv/html/6912.html

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An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Denny Henry / EPA

By Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 19, 2007
NEW YORK -- Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.

And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes.

All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate -- Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center

Many of our NYC Chinese deliverymen, dishwashers, etc. live 7-8 to a room...how is it possible for them to be so politically astute & generous.

And are Clinton's fundraisers acting like the SOUP-PRANOS?????

W/ two you get eggroll.[:'(]

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Here piggie, [sm=pig.gif]piggie![sm=pig.gif] Billions in fed trough
Millions earmarked for La Raza radicals, Charlie Rangel library, more 2008 pork
Posted: October 19, 2007
1:33 a.m. Eastern

WASHINGTON – It looks like Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is going to get his wish – $2 million in taxpayer funding for a library commemorating his 37 years in the House of Representatives.

The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public service will serve as a repository for his "papers," and the congressman will have his own office in the Harlem complex. The facility has already attracted some $25 million in funding from private sources.

Rangel suggests the project will someday be "as important as the Carter and Clinton libraries."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58239

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Maher helps security kick out rowdy protester[sm=thumbsup.gif]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Maher can add "security guard" to his job description alongside comedian and political commentator.

Maher helped security give the boot to a rowdy protester from the studio of his weekly HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, and it was all captured on live television.

Maher was talking science during one of his weekly panel discussions when a protester in his audience stood, held up a smuggled-in sign reading "9/11 is a cover up fraud" and shouted comments to the same effect.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-10-20-maher-security_N.htm

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White House helped craft 'gay'/transsexual rights bill
Family-values advocates oppose sex-based workplace privileges
Posted: October 21, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


Staff members for President Bush have helped congressional staffers work on "religious exemption" language for a new "anti-discrimination" proposal that actually would codify in federal statutes an anti-Christian bias, and that will make it harder for him to veto, according to an activist group.

"Americans For Truth has learned that a White House official has boasted to pro-family leaders attending a private administration briefing that White House staffers were involved in the negotiations to craft expanded religious exemption language for the new ENDA bill," according to Peter LaBarbera's Americans For Truth organization.

"At the briefing, the White House official did not commit to the assembled evangelical leaders that the president would veto [ENDA], saying that they will wait to see the bill's final language, according to our source. This is troubling in that vetoing ENDA in any form is regarded as a 'no-brainer' by pro-family activists, who are counting on Bush to stop it," he continued

LINK

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Alan Keyes excluded from FRC event[:'(]
Posted: October 22, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Gordon James Klingenschmitt

"When the salt loses its savor, it is fit only to be thrown out and trampled upon," said Jesus Christ, referring to the Pharisees and "gatekeepers of power" in his day. Today's paraphrase: When our own church leaders forsake truth, God insists they be replaced.

Some of you know I've endorsed Ambassador Alan Keyes for president, because I believe he's the most Christ-like candidate we have in the Republican primary. Alan bears the political scars to prove his deep commitment to the cause of righteousness and freedom in America. Nobody can dispute his decades-long sacrifice of personal fortune and reputation to fight tirelessly beside pro-life protestors, pro-marriage families, Minutemen border guards, Ten-Commandments judges, tax-cut conservatives, strict Constitutionalists and, yes, chaplains who pray in Jesus' name.

So why did the Family Research Council, or FRC, intentionally exclude Alan Keyes from their "open invitation to all candidates, even Democrats" event this weekend in Washington, D.C.? While giving the prime-time speaking slot to Mitt Romney, FRC not only excluded Alan Keyes from the speaker's podium, even after repeated requests to include him, they didn't even list him as a choice in their straw poll.

Keyes No-Speaker

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Dick Morris: Hillary VP Will Be Bill Richardson

Monday, October 22, 2007 5:39 PM

By: Newsmax Staff

Political strategist Dick Morris says Hillary Clinton will “cruise” to the Democratic presidential nomination – and probably choose New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as her vice presidential candidate.

In an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal in John Edwards’ home state North Carolina, Morris was asked if there was any scenario that could lead to Edwards gaining the Democratic nomination.

“He is dead in the water,” Morris opined. “No, there is no scenario…

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Hillary_Bill_Richardson/2007/10/22/43179.html

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Call to Action: Harry Reid Files for Cloture on DREAM Act

By the Editors

America: once again, it’s time for us to act.***[sm=flagamerican.jpg]



According to NumbersUSA, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture on S.2205 – Senator Dick Durbin’s stand-alone DREAM Act – which could bring it to a vote either today or tomorrow.



Cloture is the only way for a time limit to be put upon consideration of a bill. It effectively shuts down any further debate and forces the senate to vote, although thirty hours of debate after cloture is invoked is permissible under strict rules.



S. 2205, which is cosponsored by long-tenured Republicans Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), is, essentially, the same amnesty offered up for consideration by Durbin as an amendment (SA 2919) to H.R. 1585, the Defense Department (DoD) authorization bill for fiscal year 2008. The Senate passed that bill October 1 without ever taking up the DREAM Act amendment or amendments concerning increased worker importation. At that time, Leader Reid announced he would push for passage of the DREAM Act before the Senate is scheduled to adjourn for the year (i.e., on or about November 16). [CLICK HERE to read a Washington Times article detailing Reid's comments on the DREAM Act.]

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