WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday confirmed Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman as ambassador to China, giving the Republican the task of nurturing a sometimes shaky relationship that President Barack Obama sees as crucial to solving many of the world’s most …

The Cubs are still upset about the old goat the Florida Marlins paraded on the field in a recent series, which was meant as a joke to remind Chicago of their curse. But it’s not like the Cubs haven’t seen an old goat on the field this year, they did play an inter-league game with the Tigers and their manager Jim Leyland. – The San Diego Chargers fined cornerback Antonio Cromartie $2500 for his Twitter message criticizing the training camp food.

President Obama turned 48-years-old this week. He invited officer Crowley, proffessor Gates and Joe Biden for the big cake summit. Former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Ill this week and has been successful in getting the North Korean government to release two American female journalists. His one request was that when released, they don’t wear a blue dress. A 49-year-old Illinois man drove his riding lawn mower to the gas station for beer because he has a revoked license and a previous DWI.

Swastikas And Comparisons To Hitler Are On Display At Town Hall Protests Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress, Aug 7 2009 Earlier this week, House Speaker Pelosi came under heavy criticism from the right wing for her dismissal of the town hall tea parties as nothing but “ Astroturf .” She also noted the disturbing fact that participants have been “ carrying swastikas and symbols like that.” The conservative site Wizbang called her claim a “ crock .” Rush Limbaugh said that Pelosi was “ deranged ,”

REASON #1 Barack Obama’s ratings have been plummeting lately, mainly because he has promised change as the basis of his campaign, and so far the situation has only deteriorated further. REASON #2  Obama’s healthcare plan is a failure. It has met fierce resistance all across the nation by some of the same people who voted for Obama. People cannot expect the same government who cannot successfully run a cash for clunkers program to devise a universal healthcare system.

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it’s staggering really. the leftists in this country – sanctioned by the president of the united states – have resorted to intimidation and violence to shut down the non-violent anti-obamacare protestors attending townhall meetings, with their elected representatives, around the country. and when you have barack obama tell more then half the country to ‘be quiet and get out of the way’, we have thuggery in the white house. send all the thugs you want, we’re not going away.

I have been saying that sooner or later, the Rushpublican screech machine that is so desperately trying to protect the bonuses of the health insurance CEOs is going to produce an armed fanatic hellbent on killing them dirty libruls who want to turn America into a minority-owned Communist state.That was roughly the fear that motivated Tim McVeigh, and he made himself felt in a big way.

By MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press WriterRicardo Alonso-Zaldivar in Washington contributed to this report.ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama’s health plan “downright evil” Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans.“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in

Published: Friday, 7 Aug 2009 | 2:02 PM ET By: Reuters President Barack Obama said Friday the latest U.S. unemployment figures showed the worst may be over in the economic crisis but acknowledged there was more work to be done to put the economy back on track. “This morning we receive additional signs that the worst may be behind us,” Obama said in an appearance in the White House Rose Garden after a government report that the U.S. jobless rate in July fell for the first time in 15 months.