The Associated Press runs down their arguments and finds them … well, let’s just say factually deficient

I bet this warms your heart Bon Bon! MM has more

Saying “I divorce thee” three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you’re a resident of Maryland, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday.

Yesterday, the Court of Appeals rejected a Pakistani man’s argument that his invocation of the Islamic talaq, under which a marriage is dissolved simply by the husband’s say-so, allowed him to part with his wife of more than 20 years and deny her a share of his $2 million estate.
The justices affirmed a lower court’s decision overturning a divorce decree obtained in Pakistan by Irfan Aleem, a World Bank economist who moved from London to Maryland with his wife, Farah Aleem, in 1985.

Both of their children were born in the United States.

In 2003, Aleem’s wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

Over the past 30 years:

Which party blocked the development of new sources of petroleum?– Democrat
Which party blocked drilling in ANWR?Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off the coast of Florida?–Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off of the east coast?–Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off of the west coast?– Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast?– Democrat
Which party blocked building oil refineries?– Democrat
Which party blocked clean nuclear energy production?– Democrat
Which party blocked clean coal production?– Democrat

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Lebanon has declared war on us, says Hezbollah

Writes the Times:

Mr. McCain predictably criticized liberal judges, vowed strict adherence to the Founders’ views and promised to appoint more judges in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. That is just what the country does not need.blockquote>

Uncommitted Democratic superdelegates in Congress overwhelmingly say they won’t necessarily back the presidential candidate who wins the most primary delegates. Instead, electability will be very important in their decision. Of 42 lawmakers interviewed by The Hill, only four said they regarded the primary vote as decisive.

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Video: Obama responds to Ayers and the Old Glory Boogie

How true

OBAMA WINS NCCLINTON TAKES IN

Dem Scenarios: An End, A Beginning, A Nightmare

HALPERIN’S TAKE: Things You Will Hear Most Often on Cable TV Through Wednesday (Depending on What Happens…).

1. “She did what she had to do.”
2. “She didn’t do what she had to do.”
3. “John McCain is the big winner tonight.”
4. “No matter what, Clinton can’t overtake Obama’s lead in elected delegates.”
5. “There is no way the Democratic Party is going to take the nomination away from an African-American who is the winner of the elected delegate race.”
6. “It was the fight over the gas tax that did it.”
7. “This leaves us right where we were.”
8. “Look at how he did with white, working-class voters in the exit poll.”
9. “People are going to start telling her she needs to get out of this race.”
10. “Once again, he missed a chance to put her away.”
11. “Evan Bayh – he really worked it.”
12. “She’s a fighter.”
13. “He looks tired.”
14. “No doubt about it, the Democratic Party is in chaos.”
15. “Could there be a dream ticket?”
16. “This thing goes on and on.”
17. “Unbelievable!”
18. “Reverend Wright really hurt him.”
19. “Reverend Wright really had no effect.”
20. “This is really about 2012.”

They can’t even agree on that?

I wonder how that happened?!?!?

Promise? What Promise?

Democrats say a six-month extension of jobless benefits will stimulate the moribund economy and they characterize the new college aid for veterans as a war-related cost.

But they come on the heels of tossing out their fiscal responsibility rules for a $168 billion economic rescue package of tax rebates for most Americans three months ago and a $50 billion measure two months earlier rescuing some 20 million middle-class taxpayers from an average $2,000 in higher taxes.

Deficit hawks in both parties worry that the stimulus bill opened the door to further deficit-swelling legislation. They view the rule — dubbed “PAYGO” in inside-the-Beltway slang for pay-as-you-go — as a key bulwark against Congress’ propensity to spend outside its means.

So welfare stimulates the economy? Really? That is about as intelligent as allowing the Teamsters to police themselves.

Corruption?

Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the union he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption, according to officials from the union and the Obama campaign.

It’s an unusual stance for a presidential candidate. Policy makers have largely treated monitoring of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as a legal matter left to the Justice Department since an independent review board was set up in 1992 to eliminate mob influence in the union.

Sen. Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, has declined to take a stance on Teamsters oversight. During his eight years in office, President Bill Clinton took no action to end the special board. Democratic presidential nominees in 2000 and 2004 — Al Gore and John Kerry — didn’t address the issue, according to Teamsters officials.

Friends of Barack

This is pitiful:

“When the first snippets came out, I thought it was important to give him the benefit of the doubt,” Obama said of Wright, “because if I had wanted to be politically expedient, I would have distanced myself and denounced him right away, right? That would have been the easy thing to do.”

Huh? Let’s take a look at that:

“When the first snippets came out, I thought it was important to give him the benefit of the doubt.”

Really? Why?

When Obama heard the “first snippets” that Wright believed the U.S. government “lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color” and that the United States deserved to be attacked on Sept. 11 because “we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Obama then decided to give Wright the “benefit of the doubt”?

“It didn’t make financial sense for me to keep paying a mortgage on a home that was basically owned by someone else.”

Former major league baseball player Jose Canseco…”said on Thursday he had lost his California mansion to foreclosure — one of the first celebrities to publicly admit being a statistic in the U.S. housing crisis,” the Associated Press said.

In comments to the TV show “Inside Edition,” Canseco says, “It didn’t make financial sense for me to keep paying a mortgage on a home that was basically owned by someone else.”

More from the Associated Press: “Canseco, 43, one of the most flamboyant U.S. baseball players until his retirement from the major leagues in 2001, told the celebrity TV show ‘Inside Edition’ that it did not make financial sense to keep his 7,300-square-foot home in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. ‘Inside Edition’ said it had foreclosure documents showing Canseco owed a bank more than $2.5 million on the house.

Obama May Levy $15 Billion Tax on Oil Company Profit

The plan would target profit from the biggest oil companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than $80, according to a fact sheet on the proposal. The tax would help pay for a $1,000 tax cut for working families, an expansion of the earned- income tax credit and assistance for people who can’t afford their energy bills.

As with every tax, someone pays for it, and it won’t be the company.. Why not cut the funding to Planned Parenthood? $336.7 million in taxpayer funds which added to their profit of $114.8 million and increased its total assets to $1.12 billion.

The Dow Jones industrials cross 13,000 as dollar soars and optimism rises about economy