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GOOD NEWS! Apparently, the problems of the threat of terrorism, the bad economy, the swine flu pandemic, illegal immigration, and the National Debt have all been solved because now the esteemed members of the House of Representatives are going to roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty and get to work solving the next big crisis: College Football. Never mind that pesky constitution. Who needs it? It's so old anyway, you know?

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4115867

Edit by Wes:
So, here's what I want to know: by what authority is congress considering forcing the NCAA to implement a tournament system? Is it supposed to be a anti-trust issue? Is it an issue of so-called "fairness"? If so, is Congress going to investigate American Idol for giving Ricky Braddy the shaft?

I can't even blame Democrats for this one. I wish that I could, but this actually a truly bipartisan effort. That frightens me even more.

Please give us your feedback in the comments section because this absolutely blows my mind. Here are the rules though...NO arguments about the greatness/awfulness of the BCS system. This news story has absolutely nothing to do sports and everything to do with the extremely bloated power of the Federal Government.

Scientists say Swine Flu is actually a weak flu strain:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-swine-reality30-2009apr30,0,3606923.story

Meanwhile, Joe Biden incites panic by saying we should avoid planes and trains:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21925.html

Obama administration says don't call it "swine flu":
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N28343516.htm

Sara Palin signs up for twitter and follows Matt Drudge first:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/04/30/sarah_palin_signs_up_for_twitter

Palin appears on American Chopper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuNjEE4BqzE

A different form of government.
Obama announces partnership between Fiat and Chrysler:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=090430162248.evnijuft&show_article=1

What bias? People magazine's "most beautiful" list includes Barack, Michelle, Rahm, and Turbo Tax Tim:
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE53S6IJ20090429?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Obama has hour-long prime time press conference to launch angry rant at Republicans:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/30/placing-blame-on-the-gop-obama-looks-back-in-anger/

AP calls out Obama for misrepresenting the deficit he created:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_fact_check_obama

Attorney General Holder jokes about releasing Gitmo prisoners into hotels inside U.S.:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gS_wCwVf04MPhiRv1lwDohnZy8gAD97SBFS80

Pelosi calls $3.5 trillion budget "a statement of our national values":
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/29/house.budget/

This is from the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web blog:

"Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon, one of the most prominent Catholic conservative intellectuals in the United States, announced yesterday that she would refuse a prestigious award from the University of Notre Dame rather than appear on the same platform on which President Obama is being awarded an honorary degree," the Boston Globe reports.

The Globe notes that not all Catholics are unhappy with Notre Dame's plan to give the president an honorary degree:

"There are some well-meaning people who think Notre Dame has given away its Catholic identity, because they have been caught up in the gamesmanship of American higher education, bringing in a star commencement speaker even if that means sacrificing their values, and that accounts for some of this," said the Rev. Kenneth Himes, chairman of theology department at Boston College. "But one also has to say that there is a political game going on here, and part of that is that you demonize the people who disagree with you, you question their integrity, you challenge their character, and you brand these people as moral poison. Some people have simply reduced Catholicism to the abortion issue, and, consequently, they have simply launched a crusade to bar anything from Catholic institutions that smacks of any sort of open conversation."

Now read this 2006 Associated Press dispatch:

Nearly 100 faculty members at Boston College have signed a letter objecting to the college's decision to award Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an honorary degree.

The letter entitled "Condoleezza Rice Does Not Deserve a Boston College Honorary Degree," was written by the Rev. Kenneth Himes. . . .

"On the levels of both moral principle and practical moral judgment, Secretary Rice's approach to international affairs is in fundamental conflict with Boston College's commitment to the values of the Catholic and Jesuit traditions and is inconsistent with the humanistic values that inspire the university's work," the letter said.

Himes, it seems, is an expert on demonization.

Dems set to toss out filibuster rules on October 15th:
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/04/24/reconciliation-now-has-a-date-october-15.aspx

Hillary Clinton blames the U.S. for the Taliban:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92530&sectionid=3510203

Palin launches her legal defense fund:
http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/

Feds might oust Citi Group CEO:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04242009/business/ceo_stressed_out_165884.htm

Homeland Security Secretary has to apologize to vets:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090425/D97P6KT81.html

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT!!
Democrats refuse to let skeptic testify along side Gore at congressional hearing:
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing

Newt describes environmental legislation as punitive towards Americans:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97P0JM80&show_article=1

Nancy Pelosi is lying about not knowing about waterboarding:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042403339.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Politics aside, this video is genius!  Katie Couric + Auto Tune = Comedy! (give it time to get to Katie...it's worth it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI

Hope but not Change: Obama to continue denying terrorists legal representation:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/25/obama-to-end-representation-in-interrogations/

What Bias?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090424/pl_politico/21522;_ylt=AkeR0mIHbFJm7l3broIhtc4DW7oF


 

Happy guilt day! That's right! It's that special time of year when birds are singing, flowers are blooming and crazy lunatics are demanding that the government deal a final blow to individual liberty in America! After all, it's exhausting trying to use a thermostat all by yourself. It's time to let qualified federal officials handle it for you.

$100 Million? Really? $100 Million certainly is a lot of money. But it pales in comparison to the $3.5 Trillion budget we'll all be responsible for soon. For those of you who aren't too hot at the mathematics, $100 Million is 1/3,500th of the total budget. In other words, he could cut $100 Million twice a day for the next four years and still not even come close to eliminating it. Nice Try.

Wuddyaknow? We weren't just waterboarding for the heck of it http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30335592/

Stupid, Mean Bush! Trying to save American Lives! Can you believe that guy?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/04/21/cns-news-cia-confirms-enhanced-interrogations-foiled-l-terror-plot

Slavery coming to a city near you! Look on the bright side, Lincoln. 147 years ain't a bad run http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090421/D97N3IB86.html

What Bias?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/04/21/all-three-morning-shows-ignore-story-25-billion-awarded-feinsteins-h

Your Hard-Earned Tax Dollars at Work
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041802128.html?hpid=moreheadlines


Miss California and Barack Obama have the Same views on Gay Marriage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noC_A23DoeI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgillreport%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded

Dianne Feinstein not letting a crisis go to waste
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/

Yet another crooked politician (D)
http://static.cqpolitics.com/harman-3098436-page1.html?docID=hsnews-000003098436&cpage=1

Obama=Gorbachev so says the AP
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97LOI9G0&show_article=1

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT!!!
now you're a man-made disaster causing, gun-clinging, religious fanatic, racist, with a mental disorder and FAT!!...and you're personally responsible for Global Warming.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2387203.ece

A special election in MN? Here's hoping.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124000875842430603.html

Veterans are now terrorists. Makes perfect sense for Bizzaro World.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992665198727459.html

Tea Party Attendance Now over 600,000
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=tea-party

Global Warming Alert!!
More Snow Storms...in Late April.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=113806&catid=339

Anarctica growing.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=113806&catid=339

It's official. Janeane Garofalo has finally bid farewell to any remnant of rational thought she may have had at one time. In this video, she manages to call 47 million Americans racist rednecks while simultaneously attempting to insult a half of a million more Americans who support the constitution, by diagnosing them with a severe mental disorder caused by frontal lobe pressure. Her logic is staggering. I must warn you, the unprecedented stupidity spewing from her hyper-ignorant pea brain (that's my diagnosis) might be enough to cause you to laugh at what a colossal joke MSNBC and the left has become. It's actually quite encouraging. When opponents have no answer (philosophically or exemplary) the age old tactic is distraction. In this case, they have no answer, so they result to stereotyping us as racists. Enjoy the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms45EzMR0f8

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Or Here:
mailto:viewerservices@msnbc.com

Or, better yet, send a hand written letter to:
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Obama and Chavez sittin' in a tree...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1736198420090417

Thanks to Drudge for remembering this '06 Chavez quote:
"The United States empire is on its way down and will be finished in the near future, God willing"

The second great depression
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/5166956/IMF-warns-over-parallels-to-Great-Depression.html

Pray for Peace in Israel
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6115903.ece

California has highest unemployment since 1976
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8e244844825401004bc0eeea2e57f5dd.261&show_article=1

Wait. Chris Matthews Criticizing Obama?
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Matthews_Obama_Cuba/2009/04/17/204286.html

You might be a Rightwing extremist if...
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/04/17/video-you-might-be-a-rightwing-extremist-if/

GM Going bankrupt...But Obama said a few months ago that 'bankruptcy is not an option'
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-04-17-gm-bankruptcy_N.htm?poe=HFMostPopular

Official Tea Party crowd: 551,000!
http://taxdayteaparty.com/2009/04/pajamas-media-crowd-estimate/

If you weren't able to make it to one of the Tea Parties today, here's some of what you missed:

Tea Parties could change American politics:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123975867505519363.html

CNBC's Rick Santelli reacts to tea parties- "I'm pretty proud"
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090415092104.aspx

How the tea parties started:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/a-tax-day-tea-party-cheat-sheet-how-it-all-started/

Tea parties are about about America's future, in spite of what the L.A. Times thinks:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/15/tax-day-and-tea-parties-the-writing-on-the-wall/

Let Wing nuts planning to crash tea parties:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/14/tracking-the-tea-party-crashers/

Crowds of 5,000 to 10,000 expected at various locations:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/anti-tax-tea-party-protests-expected/

Hannity says tea parties "quintessentially American":
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=319193

One more thing: Although disrupting legal protests is illegal, ACORN and other "nutty" groups might attempt to infiltrate these peacful and legal grassroots parties and sabotage them. Before signing ANY petition, know what you are signing! Please be courteous and kind. We are the silent majority.

If you haven't made plans to go to a tax day tea party, do it now!!! It's not too late to call a friend and make plans to head to your local tea party and protest the unprecedented spending by our goverment and say no to the oppression that will inevitably follow. Please keep in mind that this is not about liberalism or conservatism, this isn't anti-Obama, anti-Democrat or anti-Republican. It is a grassroots movement (in its purest form) to protest our out of touch and out of control government.

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Fox News to Cover Many Tea Parties Live!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513885,00.html

So is Breitbart
http://www.breitbart.tv/

But the MSM ignoring the Tea Parties. SHOCKING!!
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94902

Wes's prediction:

I rarely ever watch mainstream news covereage because, frankly, it makes me angry most of the time.  However, I was home with my family over the Easter holiday and my folks don't have cable or internet.  Now, I'm well aware that the Obama adminitration has a daily phone call with news outlets to dish out news stories and plan media coverage, but I was disturbed to actually see the results of that cooporation.  Accross ABC, NBC, and CBS there were news stories that went hand in hand on the same topics.  Two of these topics stood out to me as I think that they signal the intentions of the Obama administration in the near future: gun control and illegal alien amnesty.  

I saw a gun control story on at least two of the three networks within 24 hours, the worst of which was an ABC program entitled "If I Only Had a Gun."   It went through lame "experiments" that were supposed to demonstrate that having a gun on you during a school shooting or similar event, you wouldn't be any safer; and it concluded with a child from a crime-ridden neigborhood pleading with Obama to intervene. 

Epitome of Arrogance:
In all fairness, Obama is human. As such, it is not shocking or outrageous that he would accidentally bow when he should kiss or buy the queen an ipod when he should bow. What is both shocking and outrageous, however, is when the president denies bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia when there is a clear photograph and video of the president bowing. I'm not really sure what is happening here. Is this a joke? Maybe it's a Jedi mind trick. Does he not know that the whole world has seen the video? Either this is a case of sheer incompetence or it is the result of a level arrogance unprecedented by any American president.

The Bad News: We are now communists. The Good News: Cheap Cigars!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/congressional-caucus-members-meet-with-the-castro-cousins-in-cuba.html

Print Money Locally? But what about Article I, Section 8?
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-04-05-scrip_N.htm

Umm, this guy should run for office
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/04/07/harvard_student_takes_on_barney_frank_over_economy.html
Pelosi="crazy" says US Rep Mike Rogers
http://southunionstreet.blogspot.com/2009/04/payback-is.html

Defense fund for Palin
http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/04/07/its-alive-the-first-sarah-palin-defense-fund/

Global Warming Alert!

Frost/Freeze advisories...for the South...in April.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/todayinweather.html?from=hp_news5#freeze

Record Lows throughout the country
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/todayinweather.html?from=TIWanchor#reclows

Got some time on your hands? Want to know more about the truth of Global Warming? Watch:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=288952680655100870&hl=en

It's been a long time coming, but it's almost time for another tea party.

Tea Parties Happening All Over:
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/04/03/roff_tea_parties/

More Than 1,000?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92276

More Than 2000?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93779

And still no coverage from the MSM. That's odd.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090402133638.aspx

No Excuses! Find a Teaparty near you on April 15th and be sure to bring a friend!

• http://taxdayteaparty.com/
• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55223597239
• http://maps.google.com/maps/...
• http://www.teapartyday.com/

Obama holds another campaign town hall....IN FRANCE:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/03/curl-france-obama-takes-no-questions-french/

In spite of pandering, Obama fails to secure NATO troops for Afghanistan:
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDdlYWFlMTUzN2I4YzNkZDZjNWI4MDk5MTFkOTI4ZjQ=

British newspaper mocks Obama - "The World's Greatest Orator":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/g20-barack-obama-nick-robinson-question

Russian president Medvedev calls Obama "my new comrade":
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090403/twl-russia-us-g20-diplomacy-missile-7e07afd.html

Obama nods to British queen but BOWS to Saudi king:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/03/obamateurism-of-the-day-12/

French presidents wife avoids Obama's kiss:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2359022.ece

Obama to lift travel ban to Cuba:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879435046687885.html

Obama's press secretary to media- "I appreciate your simply regurgitating what I say on such an easy basis":
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDdlYWFlMTUzN2I4YzNkZDZjNWI4MDk5MTFkOTI4ZjQ=

Inside the propaganda machine:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20852.html

Obama threatens Bank CEOs- "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20871.html

Turbo Tax Tim Geithner failed his mission before Obama nominated him:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040203227_pf.html

House of Representatives earmark computer crashes because of too many earmark requests:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0409/There_are_so_many_earmarks_in_the_House_that.html

New York governor has forgotten 9-11:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/david-paterson-binghamton-shooting-911.html

Hope! Tea parties planned for nearly 2,000 American cities:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93779

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hostage_shooting

Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of those lost in this senseless crime. 

Obama admits "keeping score" with those who oppose him, brings Chicago politics to Washington:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862834153780427.html

Turbo Tax Tim Geithner considers ousting more CEOs:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/01/business/econwatch/entry4911030.shtml

No wonder Turbo Tax Tim can't do his taxes...he can't do math:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/04/gao-says-geithn.html

Rush weighs in on the Obama administration's tax problems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGOzWxAMlo&feature=channel_page

Iran rebuts White House reports of "warm talks" at G20 conference:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_us/print

Obama's iPod to the queen loaded with HIS OWN speeches!
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/01/confirmed-queens-ipod-includes-obamas-speeches/

What would be your share of "cap and trade"?
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/01/what-will-you-give-up-to-fight-global-warming/

Obama's administration claims FEC has right to censor books/documentaries:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/government_claims_power_to_ban.html

Not again!  Obama buys an iPod for the Queen:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/b...

News flash! Queen already owns an iPod:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4100000/newsid_4104900/4104922.stm

Obama's welcome in Europe not as friendly as last time:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSL196972720090401?sp=true

Obama blunders with the media on day 1 of his Europe trip:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/01/curl-schedule-leaves-obama-media-no-show/

"GIVE Act" would prohibit youth volunteers from participating in church:
http://www.thevoicemagazine.com/politics/512-obama-youth-brigade-church-attendance-forbidden.html

Obama's tax promises go up in smoke:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D979POSG0&show_article=1

Congressional procedure is severely broken:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/01/cap-and-trade-reconciliation-and-the-death-of-deliberation/

Flashback: the goof we missed on Inauguration Day
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/01/obamateurism-of-the-day-10/

Obama's Aunt Zeituni gets another year of illegal welfare:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ix0bDGZsyyFxorqqZSmhWGd8mjVQD979OV104

Taliban calls Hillary's terrorist reconciliation offer a "lunatic idea":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090401/pl_nm/us_afghanistan_taliban

Sen. Ted Steven's guilty verdict to be overturned...a little too late:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102589818

Another Obama appointee has problems paying her taxes:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/03/31/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4908247.shtml

Barney Frank introduces bill to control all salaries:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Beyond-AI...

Obama insults England...again:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/200...

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) spends $777/month of tax dollars on Cadillac lease:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/03/31/2009-03-31_house_bigs_spending_tax_bucks_on_autos_r.html

Surprise! Democratic fund machine, George Soros, gets slapped for market manipulation:
http://news.id.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=2954977

Understanding the ideological mind of Obama:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/obamas_most_telling_answer.html