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Franklin Graham: Obama won because ‘we’ve turned our back on God’
Franklin Graham, the son of Rev. Billy Graham, says that President Barack Obama’s re-election is just further evidence that “we’ve turned our back on God.” In an interview that aired Friday on the ABC Family Channel, CBN’s David Brody asked Franklin Graham where the country is going now that a…
Alabama secessionist blames government for closing topless car wash
An Alabama man who started a petition calling for the White House to allow his state to peacefully secede from the Union says he’s angry that the government forced him to close his topless car wash. Disaffected Americans have created hundreds of “We the People” petitions on the White House…
Court records: Anti-abortion rep. pushed for wife’s abortions, slept with patients and coworkers
A tea party-backed, “pro-life values” Republican congressman from Tennessee in 2001 testified that he encouraged his ex-wife to have two abortions and had affairs with patients, co-workers and others. Last month, The Huffington Post reported that Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) had an affair with a patient that resulted in the…
Florida man threatens to ‘hunt down’ and kill President Obama
Police in Melbourne, Fla., are holding a man over threats he made on Facebook to kill President Barack Obama, reported Florida Today. On Nov. 1, Christopher Castillo wrote on the social network that if Obama were re-elected, he would “hunt down” the president and “watch the life disappear from his…
Fox News captions illegal border crossings with ‘The Hispanic Vote’
A Fox News segment on Thursday that stereotyped immigrants crossing the border as “The Hispanic Vote” will probable not do much to help reverse the trend that allowed President Barack Obama to win re-election with large percentages of minority voters. During a discussion about what Republicans could do to be…
How did Voter ID laws affect the 2012 election?
By Suevon Lee, ProPublica Elaine Schmottlach has been a ballot clerk in the small southeastern New Hampshire town of Nottingham u2013 population, 4,785 u2013 for the last 25 years. Yet when it came time for her to vote on Nov. 6, she had to show valid photo identification as required…
Maine Republican chair cries voter fraud because ‘dozens of black people’ voted
Charlie Webster, the chairman of Maine’s Republican Party, sees “dozens of black people” voting on Nov. 6 as evidence of voter fraud because “nobody in town knows anyone who’s black.” In an interview with WCSH’s Don Carrigan earlier this week, Webster said that Democrats were winning elections because they blocked…
Georgia lawmakers meet over Obama’s ‘mind-control’ UN dictatorship plot
Georgia state Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers recently convened the Republican caucus at the Georgia State Capitol to discuss an alleged conspiracy between President Barack Obama, non-governmental organizations, state government entities and chambers of commerce to create a United Nations communist dictatorship. Mother Jones‘ Tim Murphy on Wednesday reported that…
Obama dares McCain: Go after Susan Rice and ‘you’ve got a problem with me’
President Barack Obama on Wednesday lashed out at Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for their “outrageous” attacks on U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice “because they think she’s an easy target” and dared them to “go after me” instead. During a press conference on Wednesday,…
Beck: Obama ‘set up’ Petraeus to ‘discredit the military’
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck is accusing of President Barack Obama’s administration of a manufacturing former CIA Director David Petraeus’ sex scandal as a plot to “discredit the military.” “This is a set up,” Beck said on his Tuesday broadcast. “This is spontaneous, they just found out? Bull crap. They…
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