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Ralph Reed, one of the top GOP strategists in the country and Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition tells The Brody File, "There is a nascent and growing curiosity in the faith community about Trump.  Evangelicals will like his pro-life and pro-marriage stances

An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters.

Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenonemon before - but they also report that there are now less mosquitos than they would expect, given the amoungt of stagnant, standing water that is around.

Rand Paul: Newt Gingrich has More Positions on Libya Than Wives

PAUL: I was happy to see that Newt Gingrich has staked out a position on the war, a position, or two, or maybe three. I don't know. I think he has more war positions than he's had wives.

While the self-described Tea Party patriot lists his occupation as "farmer" and "gospel singer" in the Congressional Directory, he doesn't mention that his family has received more than $3 million in farm subsidies from 1995 to 2009, according to the Environmental Working Group.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday took the unusual step of announcing that it would allow pharmacies to continue to produce less expensive versions of a drug long used to reduce the risk that women will give birth prematurely.

The move was aimed at defusing a controversy that erupted after the agency approved the drug Makena to prevent preterm births. Makena's owner, KV Pharmaceutical of St. Louis, is charging $1,500 a dose for the drug. The same compound had been available for years for about $10 to $20 a dose.

That quote does not clearly state that back in February the Food and Drug Administration gave KV Pharmaceutical of St. Louis exclusive rights to produce a progesterone shot used to prevent premature births in high-risk mothers. Nor does it tell the entire tale.

The public domain drug progesterone become popular when research fully paid for by the government through the National Institutes of Health showed it was very effective at preventing preterm birth...

This egregious case is a prefect example of two of the biggest problems with brand name drugs in this country. Government patents and exclusive rights are meant to be a reward to private spending on innovative research, but, like this case, much of the innovative research is actually being paid for directly or indirectly by the taxpayers while private companies reap the rewards. link

NFL players being NFL players; some of them are going to go, especially if their Alma mater is playing.

I was also pondering the notion that some of our own players, Houston Texans, might try to slip in using a the tried and true groucho marx disguise.

Then click on the article and this headline becomes:
"US: Gadhafi isn't close to breaking point"

Why can't we get any consistency about what is going on.  Even the two headlines, similar, but they have different meanings, one is somewhat hopeful, the other is dismal.

I'm tired of being in the dark, no one seems to have the same thing to say, from Obama to the Media to discussions here.  How are we suppose to understand and take a position when all we are getting is conflicting piles of non-sense.

Where is this headed, and I know it's been discussed to death in the last post(s), my question is more to do with not getting any reliable and/or consistent information.  

I remember how it felt at the time when I saw them.

I can also remember, for what it is worth, how it felt to see Clinton's denial about his dalliance with Ms. Lewinsky. It is interesting to revisit the footage and know that he is lying and yet remember whatever part of you either believed him or at least suspended disbelief.

Right now, when I see members of this administration talking - about just about anything - I have a similar feeling. It sounds OK. It looks OK. But something is off.

And it seems to me that when we are talking about war and peace and the sacrifice of many lives there should be no doubt.
No fog. No mincing of words. Nothing unclear.

Did I mention it's all legal?

"The Examiner reports that Wisconsin Republicans claim that no one else can republish a video of United States Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) complaining about how he is 'struggling' to get by on his $174,000 salary without their permission, even though they originally released the video on YouTube for the whole world to see and now the GOP is trying to take legal action to stop anyone else from republishing the video. The tape caused a stir for Duffy, a first-term conservative best known for his past as a reality TV show star on MTV's The Real World after Democrats flagged the comments about his taxpayer-funded salary which is nearly three times the median income in Wisconsin and criticisms began to flow Duffy's way. Here's a one-minute clip, excerpted from roughly 45 minutes of video of the public Duffy townhall, that the Polk County GOP doesn't want anyone to see."

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Pioneer Anomaly Solved?

During the last decade or so, the Pioneer Anomaly has become one of the great unsolved puzzles in astrophysics.

The problem is this. The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were launched towards Jupiter and Saturn in the early 1970s. After their respective flybys, they continued on escape trajectories out of the Solar System, both decelerating under the force of the Sun's gravity. But careful measurements show that the spacecraft are slowing faster than they ought to, as if being pulled by an extra unseen force towards the Sun.

This deceleration is tiny: just (8.74±1.33)×10^−10 ms^−2. The big question is where does it come from.

Spacecraft engineers' first thought was that heat emitted by the spacecraft could cause exactly this kind of deceleration. But when they examined the way heat was produced on the craft, by on board plutonium, and how this must have been emitted, they were unable to make the numbers add up. At most, thermal effects could account for only 67 per cent of the deceleration, they said.

is clearly troubled by the conflict between Ting's testimony and Steve Hoskins', and is grilling prosecutors about whether they knew about some of the conflicts beforehand outside the presence of the jury.

interrupting each other and quarrelling over the defense's allegations that prosecutors have played fast and loose about providing information they are obligated to turn over that would reveal evidence exculpatory to the defendant.