House votes to accept $4,400 pay raise

"WASHINGTON - Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000."

Ron Paul voted against this pay increase.

The Yay's and Nay's

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VICTORY!

Senate blocks amnesty bill with 53 'NO' votes!

List of those who voted 'no' and those who voted 'yes' to follow.

46 Y - 53 N - 1 DNV
Senators up for election in 2008 are bolded.
Name	Party	State	Vote
Akaka	Democrat	HI	Y
Bennett	Republican	UT	Y
Biden	Democrat	DE	Y
Boxer	Democrat	CA	Y
Cantwell	Democrat	WA	Y
Cardin	Democrat	MD	Y
Carper	Democrat	DE	Y
Casey	Democrat	PA	Y
Clinton	Democrat	NY	Y
Conrad	Democrat	ND	Y
Craig	Republican	ID	Y
Dodd	Democrat	CT	Y
Durbin	Democrat	IL	Y
Feingold	Democrat	WI	Y
Feinstein	Democrat	CA	Y
Graham	Republican	SC	Y
Gregg	Republican	NH	Y
Hagel	Republican	NE	Y
Inouye	Democrat	HI	Y
Kennedy	Democrat	MA	Y
Kerry	Democrat	MA	Y
Klobuchar	Democrat	MN	Y
Kohl	Democrat	WI	Y
Kyl	Republican	AZ	Y
Lautenberg	Democrat	NJ	Y
Leahy	Democrat	VT	Y
Levin	Democrat	MI	Y
Lieberman	Independent	CT	Y
Lincoln	Democrat	AR	Y
Lott	Republican	MS	Y
Lugar	Republican	IN	Y
Martinez	Republican	FL	Y
McCain	Republican	AZ	Y
Menendez	Democrat	NJ	Y
Mikulski	Democrat	MD	Y
Murray	Democrat	WA	Y
Nelson	Democrat	FL	Y
Obama	Democrat	IL	Y
Reed	Democrat	RI	Y
Reid	Democrat	NV	Y
Salazar	Democrat	CO	Y
Schumer	Democrat	NY	Y
Snowe	Republican	ME	Y
Specter	Republican	PA	Y
Whitehouse	Democrat	RI	Y
Wyden	Democrat	OR	Y
Alexander	Republican	TN	N
Allard	Republican	CO	N
Barrasso	Republican	WY	N
Baucus	Democrat	MT	N
Bayh	Democrat	IN	N
Bingaman	Democrat	NM	N
Bond	Republican	MO	N
Brown	Democrat	OH	N
Brownback	Republican	KS	N
Bunning	Republican	KY	N
Burr	Republican	NC	N
Byrd	Democrat	WV	N
Chambliss	Republican	GA	N
Coburn	Republican	OK	N
Cochran	Republican	MS	N
Coleman	Republican	MN	N
Collins	Republican	ME	N
Corker	Republican	TN	N
Cornyn	Republican	TX	N
Crapo	Republican	ID	N
DeMint	Republican	SC	N
Dole	Republican	NC	N
Domenici	Republican	NM	N
Dorgan	Democrat	ND	N
Ensign	Republican	NV	N
Enzi	Republican	WY	N
Grassley	Republican	IA	N
Harkin	Democrat	IA	N
Hatch	Republican	UT	N
Hutchison	Republican	TX	N
Inhofe	Republican	OK	N
Isakson	Republican	GA	N
Landrieu	Democrat	LA	N
McCaskill	Democrat	MO	N
McConnell	Republican	KY	N
Murkowski	Republican	AK	N
Nelson	Democrat	NE	N
Pryor	Democrat	AR	N
Roberts	Republican	KS	N
Rockefeller	Democrat	WV	N
Sanders	Independent	VT	N
Sessions	Republican	AL	N
Shelby	Republican	AL	N
Smith	Republican	OR	N
Stabenow	Democrat	MI	N
Stevens	Republican	AK	N
Sununu	Republican	NH	N
Tester	Democrat	MT	N
Thune	Republican	SD	N
Vitter	Republican	LA	N
Voinovich	Republican	OH	N
Warner	Republican	VA	N
Webb	Democrat	VA	N
Johnson	Democrat	SD	DNV
Joe Biden is running for POTUS

Mitt Romney's Past Animal Abuse

According to a Time.com article, shocking details of a horrible act of animal cruelty have come to light. The act? Strapping a dog container to the top of a car and then taking it on a twelve hour road trip from Boston to Ontario, all while the a dog was within the container. The perpetrator? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The Romney pet was a dog named Seamus, an Irish Setter.

Article: TIME

Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto Show 6-26-07

FBI wants students to stop travelling

THE FBI IS visiting the nation's top technical universities in a bid to stop students taking their holidays outside the country. MIT, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts, have all had a visit from the spooks to warn them about the dangers of foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive academic research.

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Ron Paul in Arizona

"Dr. Paul addressed a sold-out crowd of ARA members and guests delivering his signature message that harkens back to the fundamental principles America was founded upon: limited constitutional government, personal responsibility, low taxes, free markets, non-intervention and sound monetary policies."



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Rick Perry & Rudy Giuliani Linked To NAFTA Superhighway & SPP

Gov. Perry has received campaign contributions from Cintra and Zachry Construction Company, a San Antonio-based construction firm selected by TxDOT to build out the Trans-Texas Corridor. It has also been established that Cintra is represented in the United States by Bracewell and Giuliani, Republican Party presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's Houston-based law firm.



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Report: Iranian Forces Enter Southern Iraq

According to AFP, the Sun tabloid is reporting that British forces have spotted Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces in southern Iraq. The British defense minister would not confirm or deny the report and refused to make a comment on the matter due to it's sensitive nature.

"An unidentified intelligence source told the tabloid: "It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran -- but nobody has officially declared it.""

Breitbart Article

The Sun Article

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Democrats Plan To Cut Cheney Out Of Executive Funding Bill

"Following Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney's office."



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Bush exempts himself from security too, LA Times to report

"The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight by an independent federal watchdog," the Los Angeles Times will report Saturday.



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City Council Member: "Screw Folk's Constitutional Rights"

Sacramento City Councilwoman Bonnie Pannell voted to restrict access to constitutionally protected material in the public library system. Here is what she has to say on the matter of constitutional rights.

Ron Paul Excluded In Iowa

Kent Snyder, Chairman of the Ron Paul 2008 for President campaign, was recently interviewed by radio host Jan Mickelson of WHO News Radio 1040. The topic of the interview was the arbitrary decision to exclude Ron Paul from a panel in Iowa. The groups Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance decided to bar Ron Paul because they decided, on their own, that Ron Paul is not a credible candidate, despite winning most internet polls and having a large conservative backing.Ron Paul, despite his golden voting record when it comes to taxes, is not welcome in Iowa, or at least that is what Edward Failor would have Iowans believe. Edward Failor is a board member of the Iowans for Tax Relief and a member of the McCain presidential campaign, an interesting little coincidence.



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U.S. military arming Iraqi guerrillas.

"BUHRUZ, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. forces have begun arming nationalist guerrillas and former Saddam Hussein loyalists -- and coordinating tactics -- in a marriage of convenience against al Qaeda radicals in one of Iraq's most violent provinces, senior U.S. commanders tell CNN.

This new alliance, a result of the deepening divisions among Iraqi insurgent factions, was on display earlier this week at a highway intersection in the town of Tahrir. There, a group of some 15 insurgents publicly chanted: "Death to al Qaeda.""

Full Link: CNN

This is the exact same bonehead move we made when the Soviets were at war in Afghanistan, we went in and armed and trained a bunch of guerrilla forces; a move that came back later to bite us in the ass.