Obama launches 'Keating Five' Internet campaign against McCain
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Barack Obama is firing back at the new McCain attacks that began this weekend with running mate Sarah Palin bringing up Obama’s association with former domestic terrorist William Ayers. Obama launched a multimedia campaign Monday to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain in the “Keating Five.” The Obama campaign overnight began e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website with a 13-minute documentary on the scandal. The e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends. All of this is happening just before the debate in Nashville, which could make for some good fireworks on stage tonight.
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| politico.com: Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating Five
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Nashville debate features townhall format
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All eyes are on Nashville today, the host of tonight’s second in a series of three presidential debates. Tonight’s debate features the townhall format, where moderator Tom Brokaw has hand-picked members of the audience to ask questions. He will throw in some others submitted through the Internet. The questions will purportedly come from undecided voters, which means they will likely all be a version of "what are you going to do for me?" I think you have to be pretty out of touch to be undecided at this point in the game. I expect a bunch of very awful questions. I hope I'm wrong.
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| Fox News: Second Presidential Debate is McCain's Favorite Style
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McCain accuses Obama of lying
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Senaton John McCain accused Barack Obama Monday of lying about McCain’s record. At a campaign rally in New Mexico, McCain said, “Sen. Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed."
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| breitbart.com: McCain calls Obama a liar
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Obama launches 'Keating Five' Internet campaign against McCain
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Barack Obama is firing back at the new McCain attacks that began this weekend with running mate Sarah Palin bringing up Obama’s association with former domestic terrorist William Ayers. Obama launched a multimedia campaign Monday to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain in the “Keating Five.” The Obama campaign overnight began e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a website with a 13-minute documentary on the scandal. The e-mails urge recipients to pass the link on to friends. All of this is happening just before the debate in Nashville, which could make for some good fireworks on stage tonight.
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| politico.com: Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating Five
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Pit Bull Palin continues attacks
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Sarah Palin is continuing her campaign to tie Barack Obama to his friendship with shady characters. Palin kept up the attack Monday, expanding on Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers. Other campaign operatives weighed in as well, including McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, who said "If Obama didn't know in 1995 about the bombings Ayers was responsible for, when did he find out -- because Obama was promoting Ayers' book in 1997, serving on boards with him until 2002, and trading e-mails and phone calls with him as recently as 2005."
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| Fox News: Palin Invokes Jeremiah Wright, Continues Hit on Obama-Ayers Relationship
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Rezko ready to sing
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Federal prosecutors have moved to postpone the sentencing of Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko because, they say, he’s ready to spill his political secrets. Speculation has been buzzing for weeks that the 53-year-old key fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama was whispering what he knows about corruption in Illinois government to federal prosecutors in hopes of getting a lighter sentence. Rezko raised substantial funds for Obama's past campaigns — although none for his current presidential runs.
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| Fox News: Prosecutors Seek to Delay Sentencing of Political Fundraiser Tony Rezko
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Asian markets have better day
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Many Asian markets recovered some of Monday’s losses today. Main indices in South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan all edged higher, perhaps staunching a global market sell-off Monday. Analysts say a late rally on Wall Street Monday also gave U.S. investors a bit of sorely needed confidence. The Dow Jones industrial average, down more than 800 points at one point Monday, recovered in the final 90 minutes of the session to finish down 370 points, to 9,955.50, its first close below 10,000 since 2004.
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| Fox News: Asian Markets Show Signs of Life After Global Rout
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SUPCO clears way for 'Choose Life' plates
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The U.S. Supreme Court, back in session now, will not help groups trying to stop “Choose Life” specialty license plates. The court has declined to accept an appeal from Arizona where an appeals court had ruled in favor of the Arizona Life Coalition. The group has tried for years to get the special plate approved.
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| Fox News: Anti-Abortion Group Wins Fight for 'Choose Life' Arizona License Plates
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Fun with snakes
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Hey girls – you know what’s really fun? Picking up a wild snake and taunting your wimpy boyfriend with it. You know what’s not fun? Learning the snake is poisonous after it has bitten both you and your boyfriend.
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| Baltimore Sun: Couple bitten by snake at Renaissance Festival
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Not quite a perfect plan
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A Texas man had a plan and he executed it flawlessly – except for one thing. He stole 15 newspaper vending machines and took them back to his hotel room where he emptied them of their monetary contents and then left them in the room. Want to guess the flaw in his plan?
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| mysanantonio.com: S. Side motel guest leaves behind 15 stolen E-N racks
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Ralph Rant - Reject Obama for the Right reason
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Oct. 2, 2008 -- People are constantly trying to recuit my help in spreading the latest rumor about Barack Obama. This is why I rarely accomodate them.
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Alexander defends bailout vote
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Oct. 3, 2008 - Sen. Lamar Alexander defends his unpopular vote for the bank bailout bill. (9:33)
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DeMint assails bailout bill
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Oct. 3, 2008 -- This is my presentation of Sen. Jim DeMint's floor speech against the bank bailout bill. (9:04)
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Ralph Rant -- Hillary promises return of 1990s
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April 21, 2008 -- If you are pining for a return of the 1990s, there are a few things you might be forgetting.
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President Bush details progress in Iraq
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March 26, 2008 -- In a speech that was widely underreported, President Bush makes the case that there has been both political and economic progress in Iraq.
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Obama 'stands by his man'
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Mar. 23, 2008 -- If Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination for president, and wants to put a woman on his ticket, he should forget Hillary, and recruit the late Tammy Wynette. Why? Listen.
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Weak dollar, high oil prices not natural
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March 7, 2008 -- Economist John Tamny argues that the high price America has to pay for oil today is largely a product of the weak dollar, which he says is the fault of bad policy on the part of the Bush administration.
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Bill would ban smoking in cars
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Feb. 12, 2008 -- State Sen. Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville) drew a lot of fire for sponsoring a bill that would ban smoking in cars with children present. Here's the interview that started it all.
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Sen. Alexander on health care, taxes
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Jan. 8, 2008 -- Sen. Lamar Alexander discusses his 2008 wish list, including health car and tax changes.
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Ronald's Reagan's biggest blunder
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Nov. 26, 2007 -- Ronald Reagan was a very good, if not great conservative president, but he wasn't perfect and not everything he did was conservative. Now, two of the front-runners in the 2008 presidential race are eager to repeat his biggest mistake. This premeditated Ralph rant sounds the warning bell.
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Al Qaeda's 20-year plan
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Oct. 26, 2007 -- Our sworn enemy, al Qaeda, has a specific goal and a plan to meet it. Here's your mini-course in that plan. (approx 10 minutes)
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Sen. Corker Defends SCHIPS vote
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Oct. 19, 2007 -- U.S. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee defends his vote to expand the government healthcare program, SCHIPS. (about 9 minutes)
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Saving Private Fred
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July 16, 2007 -- Here's a premeditated Ralph rant on one of my biggest pet peeves -- the estate tax, aka "death tax." People don't have much fondness for the "rich" people the tax effects. Maybe it's because they don't know anyone like Fred.
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Al Gore on Iraq - then and now
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June 13, 2007 -- It can be very enlightening to revisit speeches that people made in the past. This is a review of a speech that Al Gore would probably prefer you forget.
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Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector on illegal workers
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May 25, 2007 -- The author of oft-cited research on the social cost of immigrant labor discusses, defends and elaborates on his report.
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Premeditated Ralph Rant -- Targeted Taxes
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May 21, 2007 -- People put way too much thought in to what makes a tax "fair." Government should be priced the same as any other product. You pay the same price as Bill Gates for a gallon or gas or milk. Why should government services be different?
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God is not great?
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May 8, 2007 -- British born journalist and author Christopher Hitchens writes a book blaming religion for most of the world's problems. His beef is not just with religious fanatics, but mainstream religious beliefs too. He defended his thesis on Nashville's Morning News with Ralph Bristol.
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Premeditated Ralph Rant -- Gas taxes
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May 8, 2007 -- It seems some Tennessee lawmakers want to raise gas taxes because their parts of the state don't get enough highway dollars. But can this be true? Some of the gas tax revenue doesn't even go to highway construction and maintenance? Not just some -- a lot.
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Tenet: We all thought they had WMD
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May 2, 2007 -- Former CIA Director George Tenet defends the information he gave to President Bush that was used to justify the war with Iraq, but strangely refuses to say whether he thinks the Iraq War is an integral part of the overall war with terrorists.
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The China Connection
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March 12, 2007 -- Dr. Tim Kane of the Heritage Foundation, an economist and expert on international relations, discusses U.S.-China economic relations. If you're a protectionist, this might burn your ears. (approx 16 min)
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Is Islam a peaceful religon -- part 1
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Feb. 27, 2007 -- Author Robert Spencer discusses the question, "Is Islam a peaceful religion?" Part One -- Runs 14:17
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Is Islam a peaceful religon -- part 2
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Feb. 27, 2007 -- Author Robert Spencer discusses the question, "Is Islam a peaceful religion." Part 2 -- Runs 18:50
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Click here to see view the albums in Ralph's photo gallery.
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Social Security Calculator
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Use this Heritage Foundation calculator to see what your payroll taxes would have produced for your retirement if they had been invested in a conservative portfolio of stock and bonds.
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Distribution of Federal Income Taxes
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October, 2007 -- This is the latest IRS table reflecting the distribution of personal income and personal income taxes for Americans.
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The Founders' Almanac
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Find notable events, useful quotations, primary documents and other information about and from the nation's Founding Fathers.
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Snopes.com
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When you receive an e-mail with information you think might be suspect, check it out before forwarding it. This is one of the best sites for checking the veracity of items forwarded to you.
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 Ralph Bristol is a 30-year veteran of radio and TV broadcasting. He is a US Air Force veteran and holds a BS degree from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Ralph was a radio and TV reporter, anchor and news director in Missouri and Illinois before joining WORD Radio in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC in 1995.
In the spring of 2007, Supertalk 99.7 WWTN beckoned Ralph to Nashville. Ralph defies political labels, and has no partisan loyalties, but can best be described as a libertarian/conservative. Ralph writes and speaks extensively on education, tax and economic issues. In his spare time, Ralph terrorizes golf courses, invents useful things with sharp tools and dead wood, and entertains audiences with irreverent humor and contrarian insight. Invite him to speak to your group at your own risk. |
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