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THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO

*  What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.

*  I think there's one more thing Perry can forget, too: Being president.

*  You know what you call a Democrat who makes as many verbal gaffes as Rick Perry? Vice president.

*  According to a U.N. Report out this week, Iran tried to design a miniature nuclear weapon. Investigators say this plot was hatched by Iran's miniature president.
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CONAN

*  Tomorrow is 11-11-11! Or as Rick Perry calls it: "11-11-Wait don't tell me, I will get this. I know there is a third one."  
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LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN

*  I'm worried about Rick Perry. For one, I'm worried that maybe he's too conservative. Two, I worry a little bit about his debating skills. And three, I - Oh, what was three?

*  He had a lapse in memory. He remembered Kris and he remembered Khloe but forgot Kourtney.
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TOP TEN RICK PERRY EXCUSES

10.  There were three reasons why I messed up last night: 1. The nerves; 2. The headache; and 3. Um . . . Uh . . . Oops
9.  I don't know what you're talking about - I think things went well
8.  I was up late last night watching "Dancing With the Stars"
7.  I thought the debate was tonight
6.  You try concentrating with Mitt Romney smiling at you. That is one handsome dude
5.  Uh, El Nino?
4.   I had a 5-Hour Energy Drink six hours before the debate
3.  I really hoped it would get me on my favorite talk show, but instead, I ended up here
2.  I wanted to help take the heat off my buddy Herman Cain
1.  I just learned Justin Bieber is my father
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THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON

*  Everybody's talking about Rick Perry's "performance" at the Republican debate. He had a brain freeze trying to name the three - I forgot what I was talking about.

*  I salute Rick Perry for the way he's trying to overcome this. Today he came out and said he's not one of those slick politicians, that this just shows his human side, and some third excuse he can't remember.

*  It's not a good week for Republican memories. Rick Perry forgot the name of the agency he wanted to cut. Herman Cain forgot there was a harassment settlement. And Ron Paul forgot he has no chance of winning.
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JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!

*  It's 11-11-11. We haven't seen the likes of this since 10 days ago when it was 11-1-11.

*  Most analysts agree the big debate winner last night was Mitt Romney, who stuck closely to his strategy of not being any of the other candidates.

*  If there's one thing I know about Rick Perry, it's that he doesn't go down without a fight and he's already turning last night's negative into a - I wouldn't say a positive, but a double negative.
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LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON

*  Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

*  Look, I know these Rick Perry jokes are a little mean, but tomorrow, he won't even remember them.

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by Adam McManus

 
Over the course of my 20-year career as a radio talk show host, I've met and interviewed a lot of fascinating people.  Many of them are household names which you would recognize instantly. 


Tom Snyder, the 46-year-old owner of the regional Colonial Life Insurance office here in Garden Ridge, has got to be one of the most intriguing people I've met in a long time.  He's not famous.  He's not a political leader.  And he hasn't even written a book.
 
But he's spearheading a unique Christian ministry in our own backyard whose vision is as big as the Texas sky.



Now that he has become a successful businessman, Tom, a member of River City Community Church here in San Antonio, has a passion to give back to the community - especially to the children in demonstrable, life-changing ways.  


That's why he founded Trinity Oaks, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.  At the heart of the ministry are the youth hunts for 10 to 16-year-olds.  Throughout their time, the young people experience firearms safety instruction, target shooting and actual big game hunting.

In the process, Tom wants to give the tweens and teens access to the great outdoors, to build their character, and to teach them the importance of responsibility in our narcissistic culture. 

13-year-old David Defrees poses in front of the bear he killed on a Trinity Oaks Youth Hunt
in Canada with his father, other kids and  volunteer hunting guides on September 3, 2011. "Our goal with youth is three-fold.  First, we want to teach kids that hunting is not just about 'killing animals', but also about building relationships and enjoying God's majestic outdoors.  Second, we want to promote our country's hunting heritage to future generations," said Tom Snyder.  
 
"Third and most importantly, we want to show children of all ages that they have value and let them know there are people who care about them, people willing to listen to them and mentor them.  We have found you can really reach a child and make a difference in his life just by sitting next to a campfire and listening to what he has to say."

During the 2010/2011 hunting season alone, Tom personally acted as the lead field guide for every one of the 20 youth hunts attended by 85 young people, 53 of whom were first-time hunters.  Typically, each hunt is comprised of 3-5 youngsters along with their fathers and some volunteer guides. Each youth is assigned to an adult. 

Their goal for the upcoming 2011/2012 hunting season is to have 30 youth hunts attended by 100 kids and 75 first-time children hunters.


Amazingly, Trinity Oaks covers every single expense including the cost of transportation, the lease of the land, the hunting license fees as well as the food, lodging and the mounting of the child's wildgame trophy.
 
All the meat is processed for free by volunteers, ground up and frozen into family packs.  It's then distributed to needy families and homeless shelters throughout San Antonio as well as orphanages in Mexico.


1.  If you would like to suggest a boy or girl between the ages of 10 and 16 to participate in a future Trinity Oaks youth hunt, please call 210.447.0351, and tell them you are a McManus subscriber, or email.
 
2.  If you would like to volunteer to become a guide or firearms trainer for some of the youth hunts, please call 210.447.0351 and tell them you are a McManus subscriber or e-mail.
 
3.  If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Trinity Oaks to ensure that the Youth Hunts and Wounded Warrior Hunts continue, donate on-line here. 

The cost of sending one underprivileged kid on a Christian Youth Hunt is $1,200.  And now, thanks to the generosity of one sponsor, anything that you give up to $100,000 will be doubled.

So, if you give $150 today, your donation will be doubled to $300 and fund one-quarter of the $1,200 cost for one kid to participate in this life-changing ministry.

If you give $300 today, your donation will be doubled to $600 and fund one-half of the $1,200 cost for one kid to participate in this life-changing ministry.

You can also make a tax-deductible donation by check made out to "Trinity Oaks." Send it to: Tom Snyder, Trinity Oaks, 9385 Miller Lane, San Antonio, Texas 78266. (Write "McManus newsletter" in the memo)

UNREST AT OCCUPY VERMONT OCCUPY FOLLOWING SHOOTING DEATH IN TENT

The city closed half of City Hall Park and put a halt to all camping at the Occupy Burlington site Thursday night while police investigate a shooting in a tent that cost a 35-year-old man his life. Meanwhile, the movement's participants mourned a member of their community and planned the future of the encampment.

Just a day after the joyful spontaneity of a Gogol Bordello performance Wednesday night at City Hall Park, Thursday's shooting that police believe may have been self-inflicted spiraled into a tense confrontation between Burlington police and some protesters over access to the park.

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OCCUPY OAKLAND: MAN SHOT TO DEATH NEAR CAMP

A young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was somehow linked to the month-old gathering.

The man, whom several Occupy campers said they did not recognize, was shot in the head about 5 p.m. outside a BART station exit in Frank Ogawa Plaza, at 14th Street and Broadway. He was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he was pronounced dead, said interim Police Chief Howard Jordan.

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OCCUPY PROTESTERS COMING DOWN WITH THE "ZUCCOTTI LUNG"

With wintry weather poised to swoop into the cramped outdoor quarters of Occupy Wall Street protesters, it may not be long before more campers catch what's being called "Zuccotti lung."

That's what demonstrators have dubbed the sickness that seems to be spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days: "It's a real thing," Willie Carey, 28, told the New York Times.

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INVESTIGATOR: HERMAN CAIN INNOCENT OF SEXUAL ADVANCES

Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix.

Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.

Cain has not taken a polygraph but Ward said he does have software that does something better.
Ward said the $15,000 software can detect lies in people's voices.

CBS Atlanta's Mike Paluska played Cain's speech for Ward into the software and watched as it analyzed Cain's every word.  

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COULTER: CHICAGO MACHINE IS BEHIND CAIN SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS

 

The sexual harassment allegations against Republican front-runner Herman Cain can be traced back to the Democratic machine in Chicago and "Obama consigliere" David Axelrod, Ann Coulter contends.

Although Cain never has lived or worked in Chicago, the allegations have "curious" links to the Windy City, President Barack Obama's adopted hometown and the "home of the Daley machine," Coulter wrote Wednesday in an Op-Ed for the conservative website HumanEvents.com.

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'I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO CAIN'

After Herman Cain's accuser Sharon Bialek's press conference with her new lawyer Gloria Allred, Michael Savage declared: "I've watched a lot of things in my life and I've never seen anything like what they're doing to Herman Cain." 

Savage continued: "Is it possible that Cain's accuser came on to him, and he rejected her because he's a decent man? Hell hath no fury like a homely woman scorned. She's waited 12 years to get even. Why should you believe her?": 

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NEWSMAX POLL: IOWA WOMEN VOTERS DESERTING CAIN

Republican women are starting to turn away from scandal-plagued presidential candidate Herman Cain, an exclusive Newsmax/InsiderAdvantage poll shows.

 

The pizza mogul is still ahead in the crucial state of Iowa, but his lead over one-time front-runner Mitt Romney is dwindling, the survey shows.

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POLL: CAIN TOPS 3-WAY RACE WITH ROMNEY, GINGRICH

In the Republican race for the presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich's support continues to slowly grow, and he is now tied with Mitt Romney for second place, while Herman Cain just edges both of them out for the top spot. Both Cain and Romney have lost support since late October.

 

In a new CBS News Poll, 61 percent of Republican primary voters say the sexual harassment accusations against Cain won't make any difference in their vote, but 30 percent say the charges make them less likely to back him, and that rises to 38 percent among women. Cain has lost support among women since last month - from 28 percent in October to 15 percent now. He has lost ground with conservatives and Tea Party supporters as well.
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RUSH LIMBAUGH:  RICK PERRY VS. DAVID GREGORY

 

Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to imagine something happening in the debate last night.  I want you to picture Rick Perry.  Picture Rick Perry speaking.  And then I want you to picture Rick Perry turning to Herman Cain, pointing at him like he does at Romney when he's talking to him, I want you to imagine Rick Perry saying to Herman Cain, "As far as I'm concerned, you have lost your standing with the sexual harassment charges.  And if there's a Grand Wizard in this party to tell you to get the hell out of it, I'd support 'em."  What do you think would happen if Rick Perry had said something like that?  That's what David Gregory said, he just didn't say it with a Texas accent.  He said it with an elitist northeasterner accent.

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PERRY ANXIOUS TO CHANGE SUBJECT TO TAXES, IMMIGRATION, EU DEBT CRISIS

After a day packed with TV interviews about an embarrassing mental lapse in Wednesday night's debate, Rick Perry finally got back to talking about policy issues in a Thursday night interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren.

 

 

During a day of damage control, the Texas governor tried to re-focus the discussion on his flat tax plan. Wednesday night, he also talked about the European debt crisis and immigration.

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ONCE WRITTEN OFF, GINGRICH SURGES

After stumbling badly out of the gate, Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign is showing surprising signs of life - rising in the polls and even attracting rising support from evangelical voters who have long been cool to the former House speaker.

 

"I definitely think it ends up Newt versus [former Massachusetts Gov.] Mitt Romney at some point after the caucuses and primaries are under way," said Iowa House Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer, a Republican who has endorsed the Georgian in her state's key January caucuses.

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S.C. PROTESTERS DISRUPT MICHELE BACHMANN SPEECH

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was about 10 minutes into a foreign policy speech in South Carolina on Thursday when she was drowned out by the shouting of protesters.

About 30 people rose in unison and began shouting a scripted message during Bachmann's address aboard the USS Yorktown, a World War Two aircraft carrier.

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JUDGE KAGAN TO TRIBE ON DAY OBAMACARE PASSED: 'I HEAR THEY HAVE THE VOTES, LARRY!! SIMPLY AMAZING.'

On Sunday, March 21, 2010, the day the House of Representatives passed President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan and famed Supreme Court litigator and Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe, who was then serving in the Justice Department, had an email exchange in which they discussed the pending health-care vote, according to documents the Department of Justice released late Wednesday to the Media Research Center, CNSNews.com's parent organization, and to Judicial Watch.

"I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing," Kagan said to Tribe in one of the emails.

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GRAMMY NOMINEE'S VIOLENT 'OCCUPY' ANTHEM: 'STRUNG UP YOU'LL BLEED,' 'YOUR BLOOD IS OUR PAINT'

Despite the violence of the anti-war protests, the '60s demonstrations were about giving peace a chance. The Occupy Wall Street crowd has a new anthem that is anything but peaceful. The song tells how opponents will have their "body destroyed" or when "strung up you'll bleed, like the pig you became."

The song "We Stand as One" was recorded by Joseph Arthur, who has collaborated with rock greats like Peter Gabriel and REM's Michael Stipe. Arthur was nominated for a best recording package Grammy for his 1999 EP "Vacancy," according to his bio. Arthur has "previously been recorded a decade earlier by Gabriel for a Princess Diana tribute album."

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AIR FORCE BASE MORTUARY WORKERS DUMPED SOLDIERS' REMAINS IN LANDFILL

Officials at an Air Force base mortuary responsible for handling the remains of dead American soldiers dumped the ashes in a Virginia landfill without telling the relatives of the fallen heroes, according to a report.

Between 2003 and 2008, the Dover Air Force Base mortuary cremated soldiers' body parts and handed the ashes over to military contractors, who unceremoniously ditched them in a landfill in Kings George County, Va., The Washington Post reported.

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MARIO BATALI COMPARES WALL ST EXECS TO HITLER AND STALIN

And Wall Street thought Italian bonds were tough to stomach.

Bankers are fed up with chef Mario Batali after he uncorked a tirade against Wall Streeters, comparing them to brutal dictators Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin.

On Tuesday, Batali said, "So the ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys."

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GEEZER BANDIT STRUCK IN LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA

An armed elderly-looking man who robbed a bank inside a grocery a store in La Jolla was the so-called "Geezer Bandit," according to the FBI.

The bandit entered a Wells Fargo Bank located inside a Vons at 7544 Girard Avenue on September 30 about 6:30 p.m., officials said.

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MOVIEMAKER SAYS KILLING 'NON-HUMANS' IS THE REAL HOLOCAUST

The Los Angeles-based maker of "180 the movie" says it accurately points out that the Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust and the unborn children killed in America's abortion industry both were portrayed as non-human, and the Anti-Defamation League should be praising, not condemning, the project. 

The stunning, 33-minute video opens with individuals revealing their lack of knowledge about who Adolf Hitler was, and what he did. It points out those groups he attacked he portrayed as non-human. The story line then picks up the issue of abortion in America, and notes how those who are killed are described as not yet human. 

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MAN DESTROYS MOTEL ROOM OVER LACK OF TOILET PAPER

 One man made sure a Charlotte motel was going to pay for him running out of toilet paper.

Upset about the lack of toilet paper that was available in his room, a man destroyed $2,090 worth of hotel property on Monday, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police report. The identity of the man remains unknown.

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PATERNO LAWYERS UP

Joe Paterno has reached out to a prominent Washington criminal defense lawyer to represent him in the Penn State sex abuse case, a source close to the case told NBC News.

 

 

J. Sedgwick Sollers, who once represented President George H.W. Bush in the Iran-Contra affair, was contacted by Paterno's advisers on Thursday. But Sollers has not yet met with Paterno, and a formal retainer agreement has not been signed.

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SO MANY MISSED CHANCES: REPORTS ABOUT SANDUSKY STRETCH BACK TO 1995

The Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case has already cost the jobs of football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier. State and federal investigators continue to unravel the case and might bring additional charges.

 

More than one tip has already come into the tipline that police have set up for potential victims.

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COACH WHO REPORTEDLY WITNESSED BOY BEING RAPED AT PENN STATE RECEIVED 'MULTIPLE THREATS'

A Penn State assistant football coach who reportedly told Joe Paterno in 2002 he witnessed a young boy being sexually assaulted in a shower won't be at Saturday's Nebraska game because of "multiple threats," the university athletics website said Thursday night.

 

A graduate assistant at the time, Mike McQueary told a grand jury he had witnessed former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, now 67, assaulting the boy at the campus football complex.

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N.Y. MAN DROPS 198 POUNDS IN JUST 10 MONTHS

 

A little healthy competition has helped Jay Wornick not only keep his New Year's resolution, but completely obliterate it.

 

According to the Post-Standard of Syracuse, Wornick's wife, Angela, challenged him in a weight loss battle. The loser would have to get the other person's name tattooed on them. With the prospect having to be inked permanently looming over his head, the 30-year-old went from 366 pounds on Jan. 1 to an astounding 168 pounds on Nov. 7.

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 MAN FINDS LOST DIAMOND RING IN PILE OF TRASH

We've all accidentally thrown something valuable away in the trash, but what if that something was worth more than $10,000? Would you swim in a pile of waste to find it?

One Margate husband was faced with that conundrum and he didn't think twice.
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CAIN GETS BACK TO CAMPAIGNING AMID SCANDAL

Republican Herman Cain drew large and enthusiastic crowds while campaigning in Michigan, his first foray among voters since his White House bid was rocked by allegations that he sexually harassed four women more than a decade ago.

"Over the last couple of weeks, I've been through hell," Cain said at a stop in Kalamazoo.

"But here's the good news: It didn't kill me or slow me down one bit," he told the crowd of more than 400 who packed a hall to hear him speak.

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10 REASONS CHRISTIANS SHOULD REJECT ROMNEY

We've all heard the controversy about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's faith. Is he a Christian? He claims to be, yet 75 percent of American Protestant pastors disagree with the statement: "I personally consider Mormons to be Christians." Wherever you stand, here are the top 10 reasons Christians can never vote for Mitt Romney - and they have nothing to do with his Mormon faith.

1.    Romney forced homosexual marriage upon Massachusetts.

When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided in 2003 to recognize homosexual "marriage," ignoring the voters and the Constitution, the court admitted it did not have power to issue licenses or force participation by justices of the peace to solemnize the weddings.

But as governor, Romney didn't wait for the legislature to act, he just ordered the marriage licenses and weddings to go forward, all by himself. Earlier this month, Romney said in New Hampshire, "What I would support [nationwide] is letting people who are of the same gender form - if you will - partnership agreements."

And despite the over 2,500 pedophilia cases now on record involving homosexual Scout leaders, Romney once stated, "I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation."

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ANYBODY BUT ROMNEY

Molotov Mitchell says Republican is 'even worse than Obama'

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 LIBERAL MITT'S GREATEST HITS: WHAT ROMNEY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE 

Liberal Mitt's Greatest Hits: What Romney Doesn't Want You to See

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GINGRICH: PERRY BETTER SHAPE UP, OR HE'LL HAVE TO SHIP OUT

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich isn't afraid to address the subject of his competitor Rick Perry, who risks flaming out of the race after his debate snafu Wednesday. Former House Speaker Gingrich says he carries to animus toward the Texas governor, who simply must improve his campaign performance or get prepared to be booted from the race, The Hill reports.

Gingrich is seeking to take over Perry's former mantle as the chief conservative competitor to front-runner Mitt Romney.

"I'm very sympathetic to Gov. Rick Perry. He's a very smart man," Gingrich told Fox News. "He's the longest-serving governor in the history of Texas."

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GINGRICH GETS BOOST IN DONATIONS, STAFF

As other Republican presidential hopefuls are seeing their fortunes slide, things are looking up for Newt Gingrich.

Rick Perry had his "oops" gaffe, Herman Cain has been dogged by old sexual harassment allegations, and Republicans just can't seem to warm up to Mitt Romney as a nominee. Meanwhile, the former House speaker is taking in more donations and adding staff and volunteers in key states.

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AS CAIN, PERRY SCRAMBLE, GINGRICH SEEKS AN OPENING

Mitt Romney chugged ahead Thursday as the conservative-fueled drive to deny him the Republican presidential nomination reached a difficult new phase: Once-surging rivals Rick Perry and Herman Cain scrambled to control serious damage, while an old face sought new ways to exploit their problems.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich could emerge as the newest hope for conservative activists who doubt Romney's commitment to their priorities. But Gingrich trails Romney and others in organizing in key states such as Iowa. And he will have to prove that his long and sometimes troubled political history can withstand closer scrutiny.

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GROUP OF CONSERVATIVES FORMS AGAINST ROMNEY CANDIDACY

While more and more politicos are coming to see victory by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as an inevitability, one group of conservatives doesn't view it that way, The Hill reports.

Members of the group are resisting the candidacy of the former Massachusetts governor, starting a website NotMittRomney.com this week.

Conservative activist and group spokesman Ali Akbar said the group is open to the possibility of turning into a political action committee, but is happy now to serve as an online community for conservatives opposed to Romney.

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PERSONHOOD AND NATIONAL REPENTANCE

As I watch Americans enduring the political farce that is tragically still likely to determine their fate as a free people, I have been led to revisit the profound insights of the poetic Russian thinker, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. His ordeal at the hands of the Communists ironically exercised his innate capacity for truthful reflection, so that his meditations on the course of human nature in his time sometimes offer startling confirmation of the truth that it is a mirror, of God's Creation.

I cannot but doubt that it was mere coincidence that I was reading Sozhennitsyn's essay on national repentance as Mississippians voted to defeat the proposal to make explicit their state's commitment to the founding principle of the United States, which acknowledges that all humanity shares the consequence of being made in the image and likeness (persona) of the Creator, so that the assault against the lives of nascent children assaults the Creator God whose powerful will is present even, or rather especially, in their outwardly powerless innocence.

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JERRY SANDUSKY RUMORED TO HAVE BEEN 'PIMPING OUT YOUNG BOYS TO RICH DONORS,' SAYS MARK MADDEN

In April, Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State for much of the cover-up of Jerry Sandusky's alleged child rape that has been exposed in the past week. While it didn't raise many eyebrows back then, six months later it looks to be incredibly accurate.

On Thursday morning, just hours after legendary head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired by the school's board of trustees, Madden was asked on WEEI's The Dennis and Callahan Show what he believes the next piece of news will be.


What he said was twice as shocking as anything that's been released thus far.

"I can give you a rumor and I can give you something I think might happen," Madden told John Dennis and Gerry Callahan. "I hear there's a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation -- and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross, I will use the only language I can -- that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors. That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak."

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FIFTH WORKER AT 'HOUSE OF HORRORS' ABORTION CLINIC PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDER

A former abortion worker has pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in relation to the deaths of an abortion client and an infant born alive during a botched abortion at Philadelphia's notorious "House of Horrors" abortion facility.

Lynda Williams, 43, entered her guilty plea yesterday.

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CHURCH DISMISSES GOD'S COMMANDMENTS

Richard Rives warns casual Christianity tempts Divine judgment

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OBAMA'S VIRGINIA DEFEAT

Of all the noise of this week's state election results, what mattered most for Election 2012 came out of Virginia. It was the sound of the air leaking out of the Plouffe plan.

That would be David Plouffe, President Obama's former campaign manager and current senior strategist, who is focused today on how to cobble together 270 electoral votes for re-election. That's proving tough, what with the economy hurting Mr. Obama in states like Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania that he won in 2008. The White House's response has been to pin its hopes on a more roundabout path to electoral victory, one based on the Southern and Western states Mr. Obama also claimed in 2008.

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TEENAGER IS MAYOR-ELECT IN SMALL EASTERN IOWA TOWN

Decision 2011 ends with an eastern Iowa high school senior now holding the title mayor-elect.  Voters in Aredale, in Butler County, cast 24 write-in votes for 18-year-old Jeremy Minnier.  It was enough to defeat incumbent mayor, 76-year-old Virgil Homer, who got just eight votes.

That might seem like low voter turnout, but in Aredale, that's more than 40 percent of the town's residents.  We talked with the teenage mayor who says he's ready to lead his hometown.

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FIRST LADY: A TRIP TO TARGET, A DAY AT THE BALLPARK, NOW A STOP AT NASCAR

The White House is dispatching Michelle Obama to serve as Grand Marshal of the Nov. 20 season-ending NASCAR Ford 400, a move that seems clearly designed to woo NASCAR voters while also burnishing the first lady's credentials as a regular gal.



Mrs. Obama, who has incurred some bad publicity for taking luxurious jaunts to South Africa and Spain while often being photographed in expensive clothing and accoutrements, has lately been spotted shopping at Target and hanging out at the baseball park, attending the first game of the World Series.

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SOLDIER GETS LIFE SENTENCE IN AFGHAN THRILL-KILLINGS

 A U.S. soldier accused of exhorting his bored underlings to slaughter three civilians for sport was convicted of murder, conspiracy and other charges Thursday in one of the most gruesome cases to emerge from the Afghan war.

The military jury sentenced Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, of Billings, Mont., to life in prison, but he will be eligible for parole in less than nine years.

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HOLDER SHARES APOLOGY LETTER WITH PRESS BEFORE SLAIN AGENT'S FAMILY

Politico reported Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder sent a "private letter" to the family of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, apologizing for his death. But friends of the Terry family have told The Daily Caller that no such letter has made it to the Terry home.


"Eric Holder has told the grieving family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry that he is 'sorry for the loss of your son' and offered to meet with them," reporter Tim Mak wrote.

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NETWORK TV SHOW PORTRAYING THIS AS 'ALL-AMERICAN'

According to The Learning Channel, its coming new "All-American Muslim" program is a "powerful series" taking viewers "inside the rarely seen world of American Muslims." And it uncovers a "unique community struggling to balance faith and nationality."

Critics, however, say it is nothing more or less than a video version of jihad.

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DETROIT PRAYER EVENT RATTLES MUSLIM COMMUNITY

Detroit, which has one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East, is reportedly bracing itself for a 24-hour prayer rally by a group that considers Islam among the ills facing the United States.

The gathering at Ford Field starts Friday and hopes to tackle issues such as the economy, race, same-sex marriage and abortion. But the decade-old organization known as the TheCall has characterized Detroit as a "microcosm of our national crisis" in all areas, including the "rising tide of the Islamic movement," MyFoxDetroit.com reports.

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JUDGE ENDORSES CENSORSHIP OF OLD GLORY

The same federal judge who said it was perfectly fine for a homosexual judge in a long-term relationship with another man to rule on a dispute over homosexual marriage - a ruling from which he might benefit - now has concluded that it's all right for a school to censor clothing displaying the American flag because there were students who threatened violence against those wearing the clothing.

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PENTAGON CHIEF HIT WITH 'ANTI-AMERICAN' CHARGES

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta partnered with a group that promotes world government to co-chair an initiative to regulate U.S. oceans and cede them to United Nations-based international law, a new book reveals.

Panetta also keynoted the conference of a pro-Soviet, anti-war group during the height of the Cold War, and has previous unexplained close ties to the Institute for Policy Studies, a pro-Marxist think tank accused of anti-CIA activity.

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HOW TO END WASHINGTON CORRUPTION

There's really only one way to end Washington corruption - and Jack Abramoff, without question the most notorious lobbyist in American history, offers the solution in his post-prison memoir, "Capitol Punishment."

The solution is simple - so simple, so obvious and so profound - you can be certain it will never be implemented without a ground-up political revolution.

What does Abramoff say?

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MICHAEL MOORE MEETS JACK ABRAMOFF

Media green rooms can make for some strange confrontations, but fewer stranger that the one that took place in MSNBC's studios when left-wing documentarian Michael Moore was finishing up a segment with host Lawrence O'Donnell and former lobbyist and new bestselling author Jack Abramoff was walking in for the next segment with his publicist.


There were some tense moments for mega-flack Janet Fallon who feared Moore, the gadfly anti-establishment filmmaker, might take a swing at her client - the embodiment of inside-the-beltway power.


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DEMOCRATIC SENATOR CAUGHT FUDGING TRUTH

It was only last week that the Huffington Post began asking elected officials named in Jack Abramoff's new book as recipients of his clients' cash about the charges.

The denials came fast and furious.

Some, like Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., not only denied taking any money from Abramoff, they denied ever meeting with him, ever laying eyes on him and ever being in the same room with him. And they called Abramoff a liar for making the charges.

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EGYPT CLOSES GREAT PYRAMID AFTER RUMORS OF RITUALS

Egypt's antiquities authority closed the largest of the Giza pyramids Friday following rumors that groups would try to hold spiritual ceremonies on the site at 11:11 A.M. on Nov. 11, 2011.

The authority's head Mustafa Amin said in a statement Friday that the pyramid of Khufu, also known as Cheops, would be closed to visitors until Saturday morning for "necessary maintenance."

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OBAMA TO WATCH COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME ON CARRIER THAT BURIED OSAMA BIN LADEN

President Obama will be aboard the carrier vessel that buried Osama bin Laden on Veterans Day Friday, but not for an event related to terrorism or military action - he'll be there for a basketball game.

Obama will be attending the "Carrier Classic" in San Diego, a college hoops match-up between North Carolina and Michigan State.

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POLICE WARN PENN STATE STUDENTS AHEAD OF HOME GAME

Penn State University students were warned by local police not to take to the streets on Saturday at the football team's final home game to protest the sacking of legendary coach Joe Paterno amid a sexual abuse scandal.

State College Police Department Captain John Gardner said he plans to have every officer working at the game against Nebraska, where some fear students may protest the ouster of Paterno after 46 years in charge of the team.

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THRILL-KILLS IN AFGHANISTAN

Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years.



A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians, illegally cutting off pieces of their corpses to keep as "souvenirs" and planting weapons to make the men appear as if they were Taliban fighters killed in legitimate firefights.

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DEATH OF THE EURO


PREPARATIONS were under way last night for the break-up of the euro as Europe's debt crisis spiralled out of control.


As Treasury officials worked through the night to soften the impact on Britain, David Cameron warned that the single European currency was facing its "moment of truth".

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BIDEN TO CONTINUE COLLECTING RENT FROM SECRET SERVICE

Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the landlord, can count on at least 12 more months of rental income from the agency that protects his life.

Federal spending records show the U.S. Secret Service approved a purchase order on Nov. 2 to pay Mr. Biden $26,400 for agents to stay at a cottage on lakefront property he owns in Delaware.

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VICTORY SINKS IN FOR 22-YEAR-OLD MAYOR-ELECT OF HOLYOKE

Victory is soaking in for the man who's now the state's youngest mayor.

Alex Morse is 22 and just out of college. "I decided about a year and half ago and did some soul searching and decided that I was ready for this position," he says.

He beat out the incumbent, with deep roots in town - by a sizable margin. Mayor-elect Morse announced he was running in January when he was a senior at Brown University.

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BILLY CRYSTAL RETURNING TO HOST THE OSCARS

Billy Crystal is doing it again.

The 63-year-old comedian and veteran Oscar host said Thursday on Twitter that he is hosting this season's Academy Awards "so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions."

"Some of the best moments of my career have happened on the Oscar stage," said Crystal in a later statement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "I am thrilled to be back there."

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NIXON'S SECRET WATERGATE TESTIMONY RELEASED TO PUBLIC

In long-secret testimony, Richard Nixon swore to grand jurors that the famous gap in a White House tape was merely an accident.

The 18½ missing minutes of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff were considered crucial in determining the president's role in covering up the Watergate scandal that drove him from office. Under oath, after he left office, he was no help to investigators probing what was said during the gap.

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REGGIE LOVE, OBAMA 'BODY MAN,' TO LEAVE WHITE HOUSE BY YEAR'S END

Reggie Love, a key member of the Obama entourage, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year.

Love, 30, is a popular, gregarious figure in the White House with a unique relationship with the president. A onetime forward for the Duke Blue Devils' basketball team, Love started out as a staff assistant in Obama's Senate office after college, rising to become his personal assistant, known as the "body man."

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BRITAIN FALLS SILENT TO REMEMBER WAR DEAD

The tribute started at 11am, the time the guns on the Western Front fell silent at the end of the First World War in 1918.

Ceremonies nationwide commemorated fallen servicemen and women from both World Wars and later conflicts, including the 385 British personnel who have died since operations began in Afghanistan in 2001.

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YOU GET USED TO BEING SHOT AT

America's combat veterans say they want the nation they served to pause today, Veterans Day, to reflect on the heroes who walk among us and those for whom walking is no longer possible. They want us to remember the men and women that remain in harm's way, still on the field of battle.

Lance Cpl. Evan Reichenthal, 20, of Princeton had dreamed of being a Marine since the seventh grade. He enlisted in July 2009 and by December 2010, he was in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, with 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines. This is his story:

"It's a third-world country, very basic. It's extremely hot during the day and cold at night. It's deserts, emptiness, the occasional farmland.

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