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Today’s announcement by the NFL is a victory for people of faith, and sports fans across America,” Shuler said.

Is it too late to take my vote for this douche back?

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Obama is closing the poll gap in Ohio and Texas. I don’t know if tonight will move the needle. But I have this creeping sense we’re watching history in the making. Not just that we’re seeing Obama emerge the way that he is, but that he is wresting control of the Democratic party from the Clinton machine.

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“U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, is pleased that the National Football League will allow religious organizations to show the Super Bowl as a fellowship event.

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL today announced their decision. The league no longer will object to churches and other religious organizations showing the Super Bowl, as long as no admission fee is charged and the showing occurs at the religious organization’s normal location, according to a press release from Shuler’s office.

Brian McCarthy, vice president of communications for the NFL, said the league “never objected to churches or other non-profit groups showing the game.

“It was admission fees and the size of the screens that had been the issue,” McCarthy said via email. “When asked about the policy, we would explain that churches should not charge an admission fee since the game is on television for free. We would also explain how the Copyright Act stated that the screen used to show the game must be no larger than a size commonly found in private homes.”

The bottom line, though, as McCarthy put it, is this: We will no longer object to organizations showing the Super Bowl regardless of screen size.”

Shuler and Rep. Joe Pitts, R-PA, worked together on the issue and had planned to pursue legislation. Shuler had sent a letter to Goodell earlier this month about the issue, then began working with Pitts on a law to exempt churches from copyright laws.

The NFL will implement this policy for the 2009 Super Bowl. Shuler and Pitts’ legislation will no longer be necessary.

“Today’s announcement by the NFL is a victory for people of faith, and sports fans across America,” Shuler said. “

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDAiWWuvRg&eurl=http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/

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Barack Obama has won the Democrats Abroad Global Primary, according to the International Chair for the Democrats Abroad, Christine Marques.

Marques tells CNN the results of the week-long vote were:

Barack Obama – 65 percent, Hillary Clinton – 32 percent, with the rest of the candidates pulling in less than 1 percent of the vote each.

Democrats Abroad will send 22 delegates to the Democratic Convention, with half a vote each, carrying a total of 11 votes.

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LCV Releases 2007 National Environmental Scorecard
Conservation Council of North Carolina Applauds Shuler’s 75 percent Score After Replacing ‘Dirty Dozen’ Member Taylor

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) and Conservation Council of NC applaud lawmakers for their work during the first session of the 110th Congress to move America toward a clean energy future and to prepare for the challenge of addressing global warming.

LCV President Gene Karpinski said LCV’s 2007 National Environmental Scorecard, released today and available at http://www.lcv.org/scorecard, shows that last year “marked a turning point for the environment, and proved that electing pro-environment candidates is a critical first step toward enacting sound environmental policies that will protect our planet and our future.”

“The progress of 2007, including passage of the first increase in fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in a generation, was largely due to new leadership in both the House and the Senate, and to the many new members who came to Congress determined to bring about a clean energy future,” Karpinski said.

“Seventy-one out of the 89 candidates LCV endorsed in 2006 (80 percent) won,” he said. “Elections have consequences, and LCV’s success in helping elect pro-environment candidates already has reaped environmental policy results. We are delighted that not only do the LCV-endorsed new members have an impressive average score of 87 percent, but many of them also championed key legislative priorities.”

North Carolina Members

“Here in North Carolina, LCV is pleased that Rep. Heath Shuler (D-11th), who scored 75 percent, has replaced ‘Dirty Dozen’ member Charles Taylor (R-11th), who had a paltry lifetime score of 5 percent,” Karpinski said.

“LCV also applauds Reps. David Price (D-4th) and Melvin Watt (D-12th) for scoring an impressive 95 percent, and Rep. Brad Miller (D-13th) for scoring 90 percent,” he said. “We are disappointed that Patrick McHenry (R-10) scored an abysmal 0 percent, and that Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) each scored a poor 7 percent.”

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Barack Obama: Un Candidato Luchando Por Nuestra Nacion

http://gawker.com/359398/barack-obama-un-candidato-luchando-por-nuestra-nacion

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Turnout on the first day of early voting was up all across Texas, according to initial numbers from the Secretary of State’s office. But Houston and Dallas were off the charts — the numbers show a 10-fold increase over 2004. In Harris County four years ago, only 728 people showed up for the Democratic primary on the first day of early voting. Yesterday it was 9,243.

In Dallas, the first-day turnout jumped from 913 in 2004 to 8,615 yesterday. That would seem good news for Obama. Other urban counties such as Travis (Austin) and Bexar (San Antonio) showed six-fold increases. In El Paso, it tripled.

Turnout was up too in the Rio Grande Valley, an expected Clinton stronghold, but the increase wasn’t as dramatic. In Hidalgo County, the number of voters rose from 3,858 (2004) to 5,793 (2008).

David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager, told Texas reporters this afternoon on a conference call that the campaign has emphasized ushering supporters to the polls early and was very encouraged by the early voting numbers so far. Early voting ends Feb. 29.

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w00t!!!!!

Good point there, Barry. I was just talking about this with my wife – who benefits from this? Your analysis makes perfect sense, but probably because I’m a cynical bastard.

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Hypothesis: The NYT’s endorsed McCain back in December because they had this story in their back pocket and also knew that he would have trouble moblizing the GOP to vote for him in force? Several of the news programs last night mentioned that the NYT began asking questions on this subject back in Oct 2007.

Sounds like a build’em up and tear’em down strategy to me.

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Everyone expects both candidates to get slimed, so why not innoculate him early with something that is BOTH unsubstantiated and old, AND comes from the “liberal” NYT? This gives the yakking heads on the right something else to talk about other than how much they distrust McCain.

All the Bubbas out there will hear about him for the next month is: “Hey if the NYT is going after him, maybe he’s not so bad.”

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I’m not going off on a “the MSM is liberal!!1!1″ tirade, but if they had run a story like this on a Dem, we’d be up crapping all over it. Kind of like this hit piece:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/124171,CST-NWS-obama05.article

That said, just because it’s a hit piece doesn’t make it not true. Like I said, we’ll see.

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11th Congressional District Republican Debate
Thursday February 21, 2008
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St.

Notes:
John Armor
Spence Campbell
Carl Mumpower

I can’t make it. I’ve got racquetball then the Obama/Clinton debate at Drinking Liberally. Someone get us the skinny.

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Drudge ran this piece on his front page in DECEMBER.

These facts don’t add up to The NYT hates McCain and Drudge is a paragon of virtue.

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