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The new darling of  Fox News  as a result of the recent Supreme Court ruling in their favor affiming the First Amendment right to stage anti-gay protests near military funerals is Margie Phelps the church’s attorney and daughter of founder Rev. Fred Phelps.   Margie was the guest of Fox on their lineup of shows including Chris Wallace, Glenn Beck and Shawn Hannity.   She has won the praises of Sarah Palin for her remarks concerning President Obamas up coming trip to Hell.

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In her interview with Chris Wallace,  Margie Phelps revealed that American soldiers are worse than Al Qaeda terrorists and that “the president is going to be king of the world before this is all said and done, and he is most likely the beast spoken of in the Revelation.”     Where would the average American be without the services provided by Fox News?    Mz Phelps spoke without interrouption and at length.   If you remember when President Obama granted Fox an interview he was interrupted about 75 times in a 12 minute interview.

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Dick Morris is a Fox favorite and a certified Democrat hater but he looks pale when compared to Margie Phelps so it is no
wonder thet Roger Ailes is hot to add her viewpoints to the Fox circle of commentatos.      Ailes said "the little Clinton hating guy with the hooker and foot fetish can't hold a candle to Marge".     If you happened to miss the interview don't worry Fox will be showing it around the clock for the next 10 days or so.

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Overjoyed with the Court’s decision, Phelps still thought it likely that the nine Supreme Court Justices were going to hell, and was confident that President Obama would be going there as well.   Phelps repeatedly concluded that any positive event was “God’s will,” while events she viewed less favorably were a “curse.”    Therefore, she concluded that Chris Wallace and Fox News were messangers from God sent to help her spread the word.

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I couldn't reach God for a comment but after reading some of his writings I found that he professed to love everybody and thought we ought to forgive each other and feed the hungry and heal the sick.     I found no attachment of profit motive to any of these activities.    

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There are about 11 family members living at the compound known as the Westboro Baptist Church and almost no one is allowed
inside with the exception of Fox News and perhaps Sarah Palin who said she supports the courts decision in the Westboro  Case.

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Palin says   "When we're told we can't say 'God bless you' in graduation speeches or pray before a local football game it is
ridiculous.   I wouldn't call for any limit on free speech, and it's a shame some folks tried to twist my comment in that
way.  I was simply pointing out the irony of an often selective interpretation of free speech rights."     Palin strongly
voiced her support of the decision of the Supreme Court.

The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.   The decision upheld an appeals court ruling
that threw out a $5 million judgment to the father of a dead Marine who sued church members after they picketed his son's
funeral.

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Go to places where women are receiving private medical care or our soilders are being burried and you will find these Christians hard at work making decisions for others.      Occassionally they even shoot (and Kill) doctors and nurses as they exercise their freedom to make choices for others.     We are so lucky that our Supreme Court, the smartest judges in all the land, saw no reason to place any restrictions on any of this behavior.      Now if our government will fail to enforce any rights or laws that might apply to the soilder or the woman seeking medical treatment then the Christians can make the law of the land be as they please.      Our government seems willing to look the other way.     We've got the perfect storm.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the court.

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Justice Samuel Alito dissented.     Roberts said free speech rights in the First Amendment shield the funeral protesters, noting that they obeyed police directions and were 1,000 feet from the church.

According to News reports, Westboro leaders said shortly after the ruling that the church intends to "quadruple" the number of demonstrations it holds nationwide going forward.   Fox will be there live on the scene covering each one and will devote some hours of programming to telling the story of and history of Westboro Baptist Church.     The rest of the media is only a half step behind.      I can see it now, 11 members of the Westboro Church and 300 satellite trucks and 675 news personnell.      Newspaper, Magazine and Radio.

Huckabee, Preacher, Guitar Player, Holds record for Most Prisoner Pardons

Mike Huckabee, a canidate for book of the month author and a right wing radio guest, will have the church members on his Fox Show.   Mike is a Baptist also in addition to a pal of Chuck Norris.   Mike has pardoned more hard core criminals from prison than any
other head of a state in the entire history of the United States.   Huckabee is deep in thought these days trying to figure
out where President Obama grew up and how he can use that knowledge to sell more books.   Marge Phelps and Mike Huckabee
may at a future date co host a Fox Show.

You're probably thinking what do the members of this church do?   How do they differ from Jerry Falwell Jr. or Pat Robinson?   Does Fred Phillips have a College to guide young minds in his path of thought?    Jerry and Pat even have a Law School and George W Bush during his eight years as President hired every Regent College and Liberty University lawer who could pass the bar.

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The group led by pastor Fred Phelps, was exercising its freedom of speech in displaying signs reading "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "Fags Doom Nations" at the funeral of a fallen Marine.    So they share the thoughts on gays with Jerry and Pat.   The Kansas-based church preaches that the U.S. war dead are God's punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality so thats a major difference right there as Jerry and Pat are located in Virginia, Not Kansas.

Did the Supreme Court make the right decision?   Watch a Fox News report about the decision and tune into the discussion
of the matter 24 hours a day.

After Marge Phelps or Fred Phelps or both become employees of Fox News how long will it be till they throw their hats in the 2012 Presidential race?

Can Fox promote these people as well as it has promoted Sarah
Palin, Mike Huckabee and lesser known politicians to the very top?    With the help of its republican and tea party
audience the answer is a big 10-4, Watch Fox Go.

Sarah Coins New Word

Refudiate Becomes Word of the Year in Oxford American Dictionary:

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Congratulations to Sarah Palin, Her Invented word “Refudiate” has been named the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2010 Word of the Year. The word “Refudiate,” which is a non-existent word in the dictionary, and used by Sarah Palin in a tweet back in July cause many criticism on her vocabulary.  This word got “famous” and now Oxford American Dictionary has announced this word as “word of the year”.
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Rangel Guilty on 11 Ethics Counts

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Rep. Charles Rangel, once one of the most influential House members, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules and now faces punishment. The veteran New York lawmaker immediately denounced the verdict as unfair.

An ethics panel of eight House peers deliberated over two days before delivering a jarring blow to the 20-term New York Democrat's career. Rangel was charged with 13 counts of financial and fundraising misconduct.

The conviction also was another setback for Democrats who lost control of the House to the GOP in the midterm elections.

Rangel, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is not expected to resign. He is 80 years old and remains a dominant political figure in New York's famed Harlem neighborhood.
He was forced to step down last March as Ways and Means chairman when the House ethics committee, in a separate case, admonished him for taking two Caribbean trips paid for by corporations.

At his one-day trial on Monday, Rangel was reduced to pleading for a postponement — arguing that his lawyers abandoned him after he paid them some $2 million but could afford no more. The panel rejected his request, and Rangel walked out of the proceeding.
Rangel reacted bitterly to the conviction.

"How can anyone have confidence in the decision of the ethics subcommittee when I was deprived of due process rights, right to counsel and was not even in the room?" Rangel said in a written statement. "I can only hope that the full committee will treat me more fairly, and take into account my entire 40 years of service to the Congress before making any decisions on sanctions."

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He called the panel's findings "unprecedented" because there was no rebuttal evidence. He complained that the rejection of his appeal for more time violated "the basic constitutional right to counsel."

Rangel, echoing a statement he made in August in a speech to the House, added, "any failings in my conduct were the result of "good faith mistakes" and were caused by "sloppy and careless recordkeeping, but were not criminal or corrupt."

New York Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who attended Rangel's fundraiser in August while campaigning to clean up New York politics, said, "It's obviously a sad situation to experience.
"It's important that people have full faith in the integrity in public service, so it's painful to watch," Cuomo said Tuesday at a press event near Rochester. "But we'll see what happens at the end of the process."

Only last spring, Rangel wielded significant power in the House from his position as the main writer of tax legislation. He was not present Tuesday when the verdict was announced.

The full ethics committee will now conduct a hearing on the appropriate punishment for Rangel, the silver-haired, gravelly-voiced and sartorially flashy veteran of 20 terms in the House.
Possible sanctions include a House vote deploring Rangel's conduct, a fine and denial of privileges.

The congressional panel, sitting as a jury, found that Rangel had used House stationery and staff to solicit money for a New York college center named after him. It also concluded he solicited donors for the center with interests before the Ways and Means Committee, leaving the impression the money could influence official actions.

He also was found guilty of failing to disclose at least $600,000 in assets and income in a series of inaccurate reports to Congress; using a rent-subsidized New York apartment for a campaign office, when it was designated for residential use; and failure to report to the IRS rental income from a housing unit in a Dominican Republic resort.

The ethics panel split 4-4 on a charge that Rangel violated a ban on gifts because he was to have an office — and storage of his papers — at the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.

Two counts charging him with misuse of Congress' free mail privilege were merged into one.

The charges said the solicitation for the Rangel Center targeted foundations and businesses that were seeking official action from the House, or had interests that might be substantially affected by Rangel's congressional conduct.

However, Rangel was not accused of using his influence to pass or defeat legislation.

During Monday's trial proceeding, the chief counsel for the House ethics committee, Blake Chisam, told the jury that Rangel could have received permission to solicit nonprofit foundations. However, he could not have used congressional stationery and staff as he was found to have done.

Rangel had previously acknowledged some of the charges, including submission of 10 years' worth of incomplete and inaccurate annual statements disclosing his assets and income.
He also admitted he initially did not report his rental income from a unit he owned at the Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic.
An apartment in Harlem's Lennox Terrace complex housed the Rangel for Congress and National Leadership PAC political committees, when the lease terms said the unit was designated for living purposes only.

Chisam had told the jury that other tenants were evicted at an increasing rate for violating the same lease terms.

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Lisa Murkowski Makes History

But Joe Miller Not Conceding

Murkowski Becomes First Incumbent Senator in U.S. History to Wage a Successful Write-In Campaign
Sen. Lisa Murkowski defied the odds and defeated her Republican opponent Joe Miller to become the first incumbent, and only the second person in history to wage a successful write-in campaign for a U.S. Senate seat.

The Associated Press projected the incumbent senator will win the Alaska Senate race, beating Miller, the Tea Party favorite, who was backed by Sarah Palin.

 In a historic election that pitted Republicans against Republicans, Murkowski emerged victorious by a narrow margin. As of Tuesday evening, Murkowski had won more than 90 percent of the write-in votes and had a lead of more than 10,000 votes over Miller.
Despite her lead, Miller today refused to concede, saying he is "less cautiously optimistic" but he will wait until military ballots from overseas are counted to make a final decision. Miller assailed the elections division, questioning whether the agency sent out military ballots in a timely manner. He is also challenging the decision to count ballots that were misspelled, but which election officials say showed voter intent.

"We also want to make sure going forward the state of Alaska imposed the statutory standard, that we don't end up having in the future the same sort of thing we had in this race, where you have an unelected bureaucrat that basically makes the call," he said on Fox News today. "We essentially got one super-voter right now that is applying inconsistently the standard that they developed just 36 hours before the count began."

The Desert Storm veteran was counting on support from military voters, whose ballots have yet to be counted.

Miller also suggested that he may request a recount, specifically a hand recount, of all his ballots.

"To suggest that we aren't going to, not necessarily take advantage but ensure the integrity of the vote by applying the same sort of count to our votes ... I just think it's kind of disingenuous," he said. "Sen. Murkowski is going to do what she's going to do. We aren't going to stand in the way of her press conference obviously tonight but we're going to make sure we maintain our position, that the integrity of the vote matters and especially these military votes matter."

Miller may have to pay for the recount himself if he wants one. If there is a difference of 20 or fewer votes, or less than 0.5 percent, the state pays for the recount. If not, the candidate requesting the recount has to pay $15,000. All of that money is refunded if the votes were indeed miscounted.

With today's win, Murkowski becomes the first incumbent senator to win through a write-in campaign.

The only other person to win a U.S. Senate seat in a write-in campaign was Strom Thurmond, who ran in South Carolina in 1954. No write-in candidate has ever been successful in Alaska.
Murkowski went quickly from the bottom to the top. She lost in a brutal primary against Miller, a virtual unknown, who received an important endorsement from Palin and whose coffers were filled by the Tea Party Express, which helped several other candidates to victory.

Miller painted Murkowski as a Washington insider who supported President Obama's agenda and programs like the $787 billion stimulus bill.

Even though she eventually lost to the Tea Party candidate, in one of the biggest upsets of the primaries, Murkowski wouldn't give up. She waged a write-in campaign on the Republican ballot and spearheaded a campaign -- funded mostly by her own money -- that focused on not only her record but getting voters to remember the spelling of her name.

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America's Third War: Uncovering Border Tunnels

Scores of trucks pass through Otay Mesa, California, each day, loading and dropping off cargo at various warehouses located just yards from the U.S.-Mexico border. One warehouse bearing the name "Medi Int Enterprises" -- an alleged storage facility for toilet paper -- seemed to be running business as usual, equipped with a front desk and receptionist. Yet, on Nov. 3, 2010, Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents found they were storing much more than bathroom supplies.

New Outrage Over Ground Zero Mosque

He wants your money. The developer of the so called "Ground Zero Mosque" is applying for federal taxpayer money to help him build the controversial and contentious project. The funds are designated to help lower Manhattan recover from the 9-11 terrorist attacks, which took place just around the corner from the proposed mosque and cultural center location. Sharif El-Gamal, the head of SOHO Properties, says the money will be used for a variety of services for Park51, as the project is called. In a statement, El-Gamal said he is, "…committed to exploring all sources of revenue and funding to build the community center," noting that the request for a reported $5 million would help provide "social service programs....such as domestic violence prevention, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural arts exhibits and immigration services."

Spreadin' the glove: TSA infecting U.S.?

Those latex gloves Transportation Security Administration agents wear while giving airline passengers those infamous full-body pat-downs apparently aren't there for the safety and security of passengers – only the TSA agents. That's the word being discussed on dozens of online forums and postings after it was noted that the agents wear the same gloves to pat down dozens, perhaps hundreds, of passengers, not changing them even though the Centers for Disease Control in its online writings has emphasized the important of clean hands to prevent the exchange of loathsome afflictions.

Anchor babies away! Congress eyes '180-degree turn' - Representative calls for hearings, decision on immigration laws

A U.S. congressman says the new Republican majority in the House will have a series of hearings on the issue of "anchor babies," and the resulting decision is predicted by a law professor to reveal how the 112th Congress will make a "180-degree turn on immigration." Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, told WND the issue over the newborn children of illegal aliens who come into the United States – and whether they then can bring in their extended family legally through the citizenship acquired by the newborn – will be discussed in the hearings.

Only Peace Through Strength Makes the U.S. More Secure

Much is at stake for President Obama in the lame duck session. New START, an offensive arms control treaty with the Russian Federation, is capturing the stage as the most important foreign policy issue before the new Congress is sworn into the office in January. However, concerns with New START are real and transcend the accusations that Republicans seek to obstruct the vote in the lame duck for political reasons.

Miller Sues Over How Murkowski Ballots Were Counted

Alaska's bitterly contested Senate election went to state court Monday when Republican Joe Miller sued the state over the way write-in ballots for his GOP rival have been counted. Miller is trying to stop the state from using discretion in determining voter intent on write-in ballots cast for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Associated Press last week called the race for Murkowski, who had a 10,328-vote lead over Miller. Her total includes 8,159 ballots contested by Miller observers. Excluding those, she had a 2,169-vote lead. Murkowski mounted the write-in campaign after losing to Miller in the GOP primary. Miller's lawsuit was originally filed in federal court, but U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline ruled Friday it was a matter for a state court to decide.

North Korea fires artillery barrage on South

North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells onto a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing one person, setting homes ablaze and triggering an exchange of fire as the South's military went on top alert. In what appeared to be one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-53 war, South Korean troops fired back with cannon, the government convened in an underground war room and "multiple" air force jets scrambled. The firing came after North Korea's disclosure of an apparently operational uranium enrichment programme -- a second potential way of building a nuclear bomb -- which is causing serious alarm for the United States and its allies. Some 50 shells landed on the South Korean border island of Yeonpyeong near the tense Yellow Sea border, damaging dozens of houses and sending plumes of thick smoke into the air, YTN television reported.

Those Who Want to Bankrupt Us vs. Those They Demand Pay for It

Now, this screening business -- (interruption) yeah, Snerdley, I'm gonna get to Dancing with the Stars. I'm not gonna lead with it, but we're gonna get to it. Thursday we got a call asking if we'd like to chat with Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas on the program today about their finals tonight on Dancing with the Stars and I passed on the opportunity. We don't really do interviews and have guests on the program, but Dancing with the Stars did call and offer them as guests on the program. So we'll get to that 'cause the country's in a tizzy over this. The left's in a tizzy. The left's in a tizzy about a lot of stuff, ladies and gentlemen.

NY Jury Acquits Gitmo Terrorist

Now, continuing with the audio sound bites. Related to this there was a terror trial verdict in New York. Last Wednesday night on CBS Evening News -- now, this slipped past most of the media, but it was pretty big, and I think this shows why we cannot allow terrorists to go to civilian trials, especially in New York. Remember when the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed civilian trial was first proposed? What did I, your host, suggest? I said, "Do you think it's automatic that they can't get a fair trial in New York? Do you think there aren't some people in New York who hate America enough to find these guys not guilty? Hell, just go to the Upper West Side, you know, randomly pick people coming out of Zabar's and you'll find a jury that might acquit Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, certainly go down to the Village, any number of places."