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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

Gateway Pundit has much more

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“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.

It’s been a long, tough road to the Democrite nomination. Both candidates must be nearing emotional and physical exhaustion. The once-fresh Obama, now faltering and stumbling as he tries to find ways to explain the indefensible. Hilliary, who even though steeped in the culture of Klintonian lying, shows signs of weariness as though her own struggle to avoid truth has taken its toll. They could both benefit from this wonderful new product, a godsend to politicians: Liagra!

While this particular promotion features a high-profile, prolific, pathological liar young Obama is catching up fast. He appears unwilling to tell the truth, to come clean with the American people on issues. That’s a good sign for an up and coming politician; if his progress continues it won’t be long and he’ll be able to tell a whopper, even on the fly, without even breaking a sweat with the ultimate goal of being unable to tell the truth. Liagra’s patented conscience suppressor positively eliminates that nagging, distracting little voice, leaving the user absolutely unencumbered by morals and ethics. For Obama just the shot in the arm his candidacy needs!

Odd that two women involved in a case that involves government officials would kill themselves. Why is it odd? I should think that the humiliating part is the payment for a sexual act with some freak, not getting caught:

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the 52-year-old woman known as the “D.C. Madam,” committed suicide Thursday morning at her mother’s home in a trailer park in the Tampa area, Tarpon Springs Police told FOXNews.com.

“It was her, and she’s deceased,” said Frank Ruggiero, a public information officer with the Tarpon Springs Police Department. “There’s no question that it was a suicide.”

Palfrey was found guilty on April 15 by a D.C. jury on charges of racketeering and money laundering related to her operating a prostitution ring.

Oh my how I do love to read of tantrums on the left! James Wolcott tells you of the Kossacks dividing over Hillary and Barack, while Matt just realized that he has been marginalized by the very people he helped to put in power.

And then there are the number of people who take issue with a basic request for competence at the Obama campaign with regards to communications. People apparently don’t want Obama sending out talking points or talking to bloggers, preferring that bloggers stay independent. Well excuse me, why do you think Obama surrogates suck on TV? They aren’t getting fucking talking points, you idiots. How do you think this works?

While we’re on Obama, consider the ridiculous defenses of Obama going on Fox News and lying about his intent to ‘take them on’, to which I could refer you to Chris’s post once again. The straw men arguments were just disgusting and out in force.

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

The only voices calling for an end to the Wright Discussion are John Kerry, Jon Stewert, NYT’s, WaPo, and the Obama’s. It appears that the voters are not the ones calling for an end to this, although, based on this poll, I can see why the Obama’s want to MoveOn.

Shall we now MoveOn to Bill Ayers, Alice Palmer, Bernadine Dohrn or Tony Rezko?

These figures are from NewsBusters. Seton Motley exposed a problem with a CBS report that cited Rand Corporation study “that asserts that the cost to the taxpayer for health care for “all undocumented men, women and children” — their words, both spoken and in chyron — is $1.1 billion per year.” The problem with that study is that it examines only “nonelderly participants — those between 18 and 64″. What about the children? What about those older than 64? From the Center for Immigration Studies’ “Costs” report page:

Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household.

Now that’s more like it!

See MM’s May Day, May Day: All-purpose, left-wing grievance day

H/T to HotAir for this video of Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, being herself:

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An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting.

But a spokesman for Conyers says she was the real victim in the hubbub.

According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers “threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun” and made “several aggressive movements” toward Milton “in a threatening manner.”

Milton also reported to police that Conyers said she would “have my brothers (mess) you up.”

David Clark, chair of Detroit’s General Retirement System, backed up Milton’s account.

The following article was written by John M. Murtagh, a victim of Obama’s pal, William Ayers:

Our good friend Terry Trippany, at Webloggin, has Race Baiting Lefties at Crooks and Liars Team Up with Firedoglake To Petition Republicans “To Stop Racist Attack Ads” Targeting Jeremiah Wright, which I would encourage you to read. Jane Hamsher is the proud owner of Firedoglake and her work speaks for itself:

That last picture is of Michael Steele. Here is what he actually looks like:

Jane Hamsher on January 10, 2008:

If either campaign thinks that winning the nomination is worth tearing the party apart by igniting America’s sexist and racist strains to their own benefit, it’s stupid and shortsighted. Just because the Republicans will go there in the general is not a reason to start now.

See the following posts for a good chuckle on Jane’s previous work:

And The Ignorant Statement Of The Day Goes To: Jane Hamsher

LEAVE IT TO A LIBERAL TO BE RACIST AND THEN BLAME A REPUBLICAN

The Fat Lady ain’t singing yet, but she’s clearing her throat. The surging Obama campaign has been stopped dead in its tracks. At worst, it’s an ultimately sinking ship now seriously taking on water. At best it’s in disarray and chaos and has lost it’s forward momentum; it’s dead in the water.

Obama comes out hard against “Reverend” Wright today. But it’s way late. The damage is done. Obama only looks more disingenuous, more pragmatic, less leaderlike by doing so now.

America, the middle America composed of Reagan Democrats and Moderate Republicans, has seen the content of Obama’s character fully exposed for the first time. And it is nothing they can believe in.

The Obamiacs will go on unabated. The ignorant twenty-somethings who think they discovered something new and fresh in Obama probably aren’t understanding any of this or don’t care, but they mostly end up not voting anyway. Who wants to go stand in line to vote when a party’s starting somewhere else?

Watch this

EXCLUSIVE: Senator Hillary Clinton to appear for the first time ever on FOX NEWS’ ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ Wednesday night

Now the candidates are declaring war on the nutroots!

That is the question asked by the NY Daily News. I think Jeff summed it up best:

Barack Obama’s Manhattan campaign office, located in the newsroom of The New York Times, is spinning Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary comments at the National Press Club away from the Illinois senator. The headline says it all: Not Speaking for Obama, Pastor Speaks for Himself, at Length.

He also wrote a book, “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, so if you have the time, it’s a good read! But back to this ‘trick’…

Brent Baker points out: Only ABC Focuses on Wright’s Inanity, All Showcase Shot at Cheney

They aren’t saying it doesn’t happen, they are just saying that “Every incident of misconduct by the Blue Helmets diminishes public confidence in our work and weakens the institution of peacekeeping.” So keep your trap shut BBC!

Not together, although, Obama wanted to come so badly! Obama was on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, and it looked to be a fair and balanced interview. Obama didn’t try to attack Chris, therefore the nutroots are furious! The nuts were promised that Obama would “take on Fox.” I love how the nuts believed that Obama would really go on and make an ass of himself. Greg seems upset, and the nuts see this as legitimizing Fox New, and he will pay! Johnny Dollar has links to the early reactions to this interview and the blogosphere roundup. LGF has the best line of the day; ” The irony here is completely off the scale. These are people who advocate speaking with our real mortal enemies, people who chant “Death to America” and kill American soldiers and civilians, but they’re unyielding when it comes to … Fox News?”

Ballots and signatures:

“I gave some thought to … should people be on the ballot even if they didn’t meet the requirements,” he said. “My conclusion was that if you couldn’t run a successful petition drive, then that raised questions in terms of how effective a representative you were going to be.”

Asked whether the district’s primary voters were well-served by having only one candidate, Obama smiled and said: “I think they ended up with a very good state senator.”

Alice Palmer has a different take on things

Pin and Lies:

This is an absolutely blatant attempt to rewrite history by Barack Obama, documented at ABC News Political Punch.

First, I honestly don’t care much whether a person wears a flag pin, and you can certainly be a patriot without wearing a badge proclaiming it. The issue for me: Obama’s reasons for taking off that pin.