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DULUTH, Minn. - The driver of a car that struck and killed a dog in Minnesota is suing the dog's owners for damage done to his vehicle.

Jeffery Ely was driving near Duluth, Minnesota, on January 4th when Fester, a miniature pinscher, ran into the road.

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With nearly 13 million online users, the rapidly expanding virtual world Second Life is a risk for children, who could be sexually exploited, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said Monday.

Kirk sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting a consumer-alert warning about its dangers.

Mt. Prospect Mayor Irvana Wilks said the community has been concerned about Internet predators.

"This Second Life is a new scare, unchartered territory," Wilks said at a news conference Monday with Kirk at the Mt. Prospect Police Department. "It hits home."

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Little-Known But Exploited Loophole Allows Politicians To Drive, Maintain Expensive Cars, SUVs On Taxpayer Money

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Christopher Ruddy, NewsMax: Imagine if President Bush, after 9/11, simply declared war on oil and put the whole nation behind ending our crippling dependence on it.

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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.): America became a great nation because at key moments in our history our national leaders were willing to make sacrifices to preserve freedom and opportunity for future generations. Yet, that tradition is being abandoned today in Washington. Congressional leaders have decided that sending money home for pet projects, appeasing special interests and catering to well-heeled lobbyists are more important than giving future generations the hope and opportunity that was sacrificed for us. Politicians have found it easier to make the easy decision now and hope they do not have to deal with the difficult decision tomorrow.

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The most influential US political pundits:
Telegraph.co.uk unveils the fourth installment of its list of the 50 most influential political pundits in America.With just over six months before United States citizens choose their 44th president, the 2008 election is already proving to be the most fascinating and potentially one of the closest contests in living memory.Telegraph.co.uk unveils the fourth installment of its list of the 50 most influential political pundits in America.With just over six months before United States citizens choose their 44th president, the 2008 election is already proving to be the most fascinating and potentially one of the closest contests in living memory.

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www.heritage.org
June 20, 2007
How Farm Subsidies Harm Taxpayers, Consumers, and Farmers, Too

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Do we really want everyone to cast a vote?

www.slate.com

Stop Blaming the Insurers
Exposing three myths about the costs of private health insurance.

www.minnesotamonitor.com
Michele Bachmann uses freedom of the (taxpayer-paid) press to promote herself

www.examiner.com
Congressional junkets picking up steam

thehill.com
Pelosi buys $16K worth of flowers

usgovinfo.about.com

Salaries and Benefits of U.S. Congress Members

www.nytimes.com

What Would You Drive, if the Taxpayers Paid?
Modest or more luxurious, the cars are all paid for by taxpayers. The use of a car -- gas included -- is one of the benefits of being a member of the House of Representatives.

There are few restrictions on what kind of car the members can choose, and there is no limit on how much they can spend. But the benefit can be politically sensitive, given the growing concerns about automobile emissions and an economy that has left many people struggling to pay for the rapidly rising cost of gas, which was averaging $3.63 a gallon nationwide earlier this week.

www.thesun.co.uk

ILLEGAL immigrants are sneaking OUT of Britain because they are sick of our weather and hospitals.

online.wsj.com

Windfall Profits for Dummies

"when you tax something, you get less of it, but Mr. Obama seems to think he can repeal the laws of economics. We tried this windfall profits scheme in 1980. It backfired. The Congressional Research Service found in a 1990 analysis that the tax reduced domestic oil production by 3% to 6% and increased oil imports from OPEC by 8% to 16%. Mr. Obama nonetheless pledges to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, which he says "costs America $800 million a day." Someone should tell him that oil imports would soar if his tax plan becomes law."

We need to declare war on oil.

Here's how such a "war" might work. The president and his administration would have emergency powers to develop, design, create, and implement alternative energy sources -- just like the president can do during a full blown war. And since this would be a war, the trial lawyers and environmental extremists wouldn't be allowed to bring millions of dollars of time-consuming law suits to stop the implementation of these energy sources.

Here's just some of the areas the U.S. could focus on:

Nuclear energy. Its increased use could dramatically lower America's dependence on oil. France gets about 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear power, according to the latest statistics. As of June 2007, the production cost of nuclear power stood at 1.72 cents per kilowatt-hour -- compared to 9.63 cents for petroleum.

It's environmentally friendly and we first led the world in this technology. Yet no new nuclear power plants have come on line in the U.S. since February 1996.

Geothermal energy. You may not know this, but Iceland gets 99 percent of its electricity from geothermal means.

Drill deep into the earth and you get heat. Pour water down the hole and it vaporizes to steam. Steam can turn turbines to create electricity. Advocates say that a fully developed geothermal energy program in the U.S. could provide all American energy needs 2,000 times over.

Geothermal plants already provide thousands of megawatts of electricity to Northern California and Nevada.

Wind power. This natural form of energy also is feasible. American wind energy installations currently produce enough electricity on a typical day to power the equivalent of more than 2.5 million homes, but the potential exists for far more wind power production. Pickens says whole sections of the Midwest could harvest enormous energy from such wind farms.

Coal liquification. This process converts coal into petroleum. Coal liquification been used for some time, but it's costly. Already, the U.S. Air Force is increasingly using synthetic fuels made of coal derivatives, which are far cheaper than jet fuel.

Our government could back developing new technologies to make this work on a mass scale. The U.S. has an abundance of coal. U.S. recoverable reserves are estimated at 275 billion tons, the most in the world.

We need to work at every level to end our oil dependency. Congress needs to pass tax and other incentives for companies to research and develop new energy sources. At the same time, Congress has to incentivize consumers to help create the market for alternative energy.

Make no mistake -- if we waged this war, we all would win.

Sharpton is threatening,

Old hippies ....
www.recreate68.org

Obama ally Doug Wilder:
" And if you think 1968 was bad, you watch; in 2008, it will be worse."

www.nydailynews.com



Throw all these nutjobs together in Denver.Things are gonna get touchy.
So CRACK may not be far off the mark.

www.drudge.com

Corky has been neating that dog.

www.americanthinker.com
Stay tuned as we figure out who created the fake tape. If it can be traced to the Obama campaign, it will probably severely damage him in Indiana and probably elsewhere.



So do you Obamaniacs suppose the Clinton's secretly created this tape to create this controversy? How Rovian.

hotair.com

Video: Clinton operative didn't call Indianans "white n*****s" in 1992 Update III: Dirty trick? Update: Character witness

newsbusters.org
The second expletive, he said, appeared to have been entirely fabricated, with new audio dubbed onto the original movie

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