Barack Hussien Obama has a new advisor, notorious liberal Hollywood elitist George Clooney.  England’s “The Daily Mail” is reporting the Clooney, the two-time Sexiest Man Alive, is an unoffical advisor to Obama. A Democratic insider states in the piece that: “George has been giving him advice on things such as presentation, public speaking and body language and he [...]

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Friends, because the Monroe Rising hasn’t had a chance to post a story yet on the ongoing Olympics in Beijing, I figured this would the be the perfect opportunity to do an update on the games so far. Here is an up to date Olympic Medal Count, which shows that the USA has a 22-20 [...]

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Republican Congressional hopeful Chris Lee is calling on Federal legislators to get back to work. He has an on-line petition for people to sign requesting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi call Congress back in to session. Recently, members of Congress went on a paid five-week vacation without solving our energy crisis.  Western New Yorkers are paying [...]

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According to this morning’s Democrat and Chronicle, Former Executive Director of the Monroe County Water Authority John Stanwix pled guilty for a “conflict of interest.” Nearing his planned retirement in December 2002 as executive director of the Monroe County Water Authority, John A. Stanwix prepared for his future. In October 2002, he accepted $25,000 from [...]

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Remember a few weeks ago when Al Gore was telling us that we should move off of oil within 10 years? Turns out he’s in the oil business. Gore is a member of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers a major venture capital firm. The over $300 million green portfolio set up with Gore has many [...]

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