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Chuck Norris Picture Gallery According to a new USA Today/Gallup Poll, Obama is the man Americans admire most. And that fixation has focused recently upon his fitness, which some say even contributed to his victory in the election.  Those who doubt Obama's pro-organic positions are referred to an array of nutritional news stories, blogs, photos and video streams of him eating, golfing, playing basketball, working out at the gym, etc. This past week, one of the largest Internet searches was sneaking a peak of the hearty and shirtless president-elect on the beach at his $9 million Hawaiian holiday getaway. There's even a Website committed to every possible link between food, drinks and Obama, Obamafoodorama.blogspot.com, including Barack's favorite trail mix and his beer of choice, the "audacity of hops." While many admire Obama's physique and others commend his athletic ability, critics are busy lambasting some of his present actions as not what he pitched on the campaign trail. They say proof is in his personal consumption practices, which include periodic binges of fast and fatty foods and nicotine fixes. . Read On

 

 

I'll have to check my calendar, but I'm pretty sure that 2008 had 62 months in it. At least that's how it felt. There were more projects this year than any before, and I fear it will pale in comparison to the year that lies ahead. On January 19th I'll launch my new live 5:00 pm show on the Fox News Channel, and there are a bunch of other exciting things coming in 2009 that I can't even tell you about just yet (mostly because I'll start to get pre-tired). But there's time for all that and more.

Right now, I want to look back at 2008 and feel blessed for having made it through -- these have been some of the toughest times any of us have ever lived through, and we're still standing.

As I've been talking about this year, I keep repeating this line from the last Rocky movie that says something like, "It's not how hard you hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward." Rocky says that's how winning is done, and I think it also speaks to the very heart of being an American. I got hit, you got hit, but we took it on the chin and we keep moving forward to the next year...toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I never lose sight of those very worthy goals -- they're as essential now as they've ever been.

So as you and I say goodbye to 2008, I'll say thanks again for yet another great year and I'm glad we're greeting 2009 together. I wouldn't want it any other way.

Have a happy and healthy 2009! Reported by Glenn Beck

   
   

Sarah Palin, Vice President?  INACCURATE-Gov. Sarah Palin spent part of Wednesday countering what she considers inaccurate descriptions of how much education her daughter's fiance has, an effort culminating at the end of the day with her first public statement about her new grandson. Palin was in touch with a celebrity magazine, a national news service and the Anchorage Daily News to question reports that her future son-in-law, Levi Johnston, is a dropout. She left a phone message at People magazine saying neither her daughter, nor Johnston, are dropouts. "You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time," Palin said, according to the magazine's Web site.  Palin also e-mailed editors at the Anchorage Daily News on Wednesday, questioning Read On

This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Republican vice presidential candidate, and her boyfriend Levi Johnston at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. People magazine reports that Palin gave birth to her son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008.
   
   
CITIZEN OF THE WORLD  When Candidate Barack Obama declared himself a "citizen of the world" before thousands of cheering German socialists, and later pledged to "rejoin the World Community," those weren't just his usual platitudes about "change." Those words sounded the trumpet for his specific and far-reaching globalist agenda. Obama plans to use his presidential power to get the Democratic-majority Senate to ratify a series of treaties that would take us a long way toward global rule over our money, our laws, our military, our courts, our customs, our trade, and even our use of energy. Here are the treaties he says he wants. The UN Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which Reagan rejected in 1982, is high on Obama's list. LOST has already created the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica and given it total regulatory jurisdiction over all the world's oceans and all the riches on the ocean floor.   Corrupt foreign dictators dominate LOST's global bureaucracy, and the U.S. would have the same vote as Cuba. Likewise for LOST's International Tribunal in Hamburg, Germany, which has the power to decide all disputes. Read On
 
 
It is indeed a marvelous first day of the new year, since l979 the long battle in shutting down 250 Sexually Oriented Businesses out of 350 gets another serious mandate after eleven years in Federal Court, the Fifth Circuit, and finishing February 2008 in the US Supreme Court .  The Houston Area Association for Decency speaks thankfully to their 2,500 volunteers spread across our huge metropolitan area of Houston who kept the hard work addressing the shutdown of pornographic businesses which broke the 1500 foot rule where children are found, and citizens, elected officials, police, vice squad, and attorneys for the city of Houston.  "The citizens of this city make the difference, like Bart Jones of the Briargrove Neighborhood Association," said Karen Kristopher with the Houston Area Association for Decency.  Read On
 
 

Here's the deal. For over 35 years the US has had civil rights laws protecting health care workers from participating in procedures they find unethical or immoral, like abortion. Yesterday the Dept. of Health & Human Services issued a regulation to ensure compliance with those laws. Bottom line: If a health care entity gets government funding and violates conscience laws, the funding can be terminated, even retroactively, as in the entity may have to give $ back to HHS.That's basically it. To reword, according to the Wall Street Journal:[The rule] says hospitals, pharmacies and other entities that be charged with discrimination and lose federal funds if they pressure employees to take part in treatments to which they object on religious or moral grounds.... A brouhaha erupted in July when someone inside HHS leaked a rule draft definition of abortion stating life began at conception, "whether before of after implantation."  Read On

 
 
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