Randall Terry Promotes Reid/Pelosi “Burn In Hell” Video Contest

Anti-abortion crank Randall Terry is asking people to burn effigies of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as part of what he’s calling a “Burn in Hell” video contest.

Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, said Tuesday that the contest serves as a political and spiritual statement that “gives people a chance to peacefully vent their rage.”

“If Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid force us to pay for child killing and they die unrepentant, they will burn in hell for this,” Terry said in a telephone interview.

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A YouTube video of the contest instructions shows how to …

States Report Stimulus Is Working

A USA Today review of 33 states and Puerto Rico shows that 388,000 jobs have been created or saved.

That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan’s impact.…

House Republicans Honor Tea Partiers and Inflate Their Numbers

Congressmen Tom Price of Georgia, Eric Cantor of Virgina, and Joe “You Lie” Wilson of Texas have introduced a resolution to “express gratitude and appreciation” to those who participated in the September 12 tea party marches, and claimed the crowd went “as high as 1,700,000 marchers.”

So, let me get this straight: The GOP wants to honor the people who ran around likening Obama to Hitler and calling him a communist and a socialist.  Good move. Let’s take a look at the people Republicans want to honor, courtesy of Max Blumenthal.

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On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• President Obama promoted clean energy at a solar power plant today, but can he convince global-warming skeptics of the need for climate legislation? Alan speaks with WFLN radio host Jack Welch, who attended the president’s event.

• Is former Democrat Joe Lieberman about to filibuster health care reform? Alan shares his thoughts on the senator who’s being called “Traitor Joe.”

• Are ghosts something we should fear, or do they want to help us? “Survival Evidence Medium” James Van Praagh, whose latest book is Unfinished Business, joins Alan to discuss Halloween hauntings.…

AP: Palin Received $1.25 Million For Book So Far

Going Rogue, as opposed to the parody book Going Rouge, due to be released the same day, netted the former Alaska governor at least one and a quarter million dollars, according to a just-released disclosure statement.

The document only provides a partial picture of the book deal because it doesn’t cover the three months she has been out of office. Palin doesn’t elaborate on her book compensation, describing the $1.25 million figure only as a “retainer.”…

Reporter Got It Wrong On Scalia

As a result of a wrong report on what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said at a recent gathering, it was stated that Justice Scalia would have dissented in the case of Brown v. Board of Education.  It was actually the Plessy case where Scalia said he would have stood with Justice Harlan, who dissented in that case.  The original report, by Harold Fischer of Capital Media Services, has been amended.  Here is video of the event.…

I’d Jump Overboard…

…before I was pushed.

Newsmax Cruise

In addition to all the wonderful activities aboard the ms Westerdam and in port, this exclusive Newsmax Cruise event includes:

Joe Lieberman Could Back GOP Health Care Filibuster

Laffy goes so far as to call him “Traitor Joe.”

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said “that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill,” Politico reports.

“His comments confirmed that Reid is short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill out of the Senate, even after Reid included the opt-out provision. Several other moderate Democrats expressed skepticism at the proposal as well, but most of the wavering Democratic senators did not go as far as Lieberman Tuesday, saying they were waiting to see the details.”

Said Lieberman: “I’ve …

Scalia Would Have Maintained Racial Segregation (Corrected)

Corrected above.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking at the University of Arizona College of Law, says he would have dissented in the case Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation on the basis of race.

Appearing on stage with Justice Stephen Breyer, Scalia cautioned against “inventing new rights nobody ever thought existed.” Scalia said he advocates an “originalist” approach to the Constitution, warning against an “evolutionary” legal philosophy that he described as, “close your eyes and decide what you think is a good idea.’

What Brown v. Board of Education decided was that, by its very nature, …

US Official Resigns Over Afghan War

Matthew Hoh, the senior US official in Taliban-infested Zabul province, is the first American official to resign over the Afghan war.

A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department.

In September he wrote a letter to the State Department’s head of personnel.

“I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan,” he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department’s head of personnel. “I …

You Know You’re In Trouble When Tom DeLay Is Your Lifeline

From “Dancing with the Stars” to an “expert” on “Millionaire.” But will his new job as a lifeline and his other reality show exploits help him with a jury?

DeLay, Jim Ellis and John Colyandro are accused of money laundering in connection with $190,000 in campaign contributions made to Republican legislative candidates in 2002 when they worked to install a GOP majority in the Texas House of Representatives. The 2003 legislative session was the first time Republicans controlled the House since Reconstruction.

DeLay, who resigned from Congress in 2006, claims the criminal charges against him were pressed by …