Chief justice publicly accepts Obama eligibility petition - By Drew Zahn

Attorney Orly Taitz talks to Roberts, who agrees to read Obama-birth docs By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily March 14, 2009 A California attorney lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of Barack Obama's qualifications to be president confronted the chief justice yesterday with legal briefs and a WND petition bearing names of over 325,000 people asking the court to rule on whether or not the sitting president fulfills the Constitution's "natural-born citizen" clause. According to Orly Taitz, the attorney who confronted Chief Justice John Roberts at a lecture at the University of Idaho, the judge promised before the gathered crowd that he would, indeed, read and review the briefs and petition. "I addressed him in front of 800 people in the audience," Taitz told WND, "including university officials, the president of the Idaho State Bar and the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho, and in front of all them, [Roberts] promised to read my papers." Roberts was lecturing on Abraham Lincoln to approximately 1,200 attendees of the annual Bellwood Memorial Lecture Series at the Moscow, Idaho, university. Roberts has been chief justice of the Supreme Court since his nomination by President George W. Bush and subsequent confirmation in 2005. Earlier in the week, Taitz confronted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who told her the issue of Obama's eligibility, which has been raised before the Supreme Court at least four times but has yet to be given a single hearing, still lacked the votes of the required four justices in conference before it would be officially heard. Taitz said, "I told Scalia that I was an attorney that filed Lightfoot v. Bowen that Chief Justice Roberts distributed for conference on Jan. 23 and now I represent nine state reps and 120 military officers, many of them high ranked, and I want to know if they will hear Quo Warranto and if they would hear it on original jurisdiction, if I bring Hawaii as an additional defendant to unseal the records and ascertain Obama's legitimacy for presidency." The legal phrase Quo Warranto essentially means an explanation is being demanded for what authority Obama is using to act as president. An online constitutional resource says Quo Warranto "affords the only judicial remedy for violations of the Constitution by public officials and agents." [Continue reading]

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I'm depressed … but preparing -- By Patrice Lewis

Whatever your views on the cause of our current economy, and whatever your views on what is needed to pull us out, remember this: In the end, the only thing you can depend upon is YOU. You're the only who can tighten your belt, buy seeds, stockpile food, plug those financial leaks... whatever it takes. But don't bury your head in the sand! read more | digg story

Lawmakers trash the Constitution -- By Henry Lamb

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has introduced the "Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009" (HR 875). This new program ignores the 4th Amendment. The administrator can enter and inspect property without a warrant and levy fines without any judicial review. It also includes the NAIS. The lawmakers are ignoring the will of the people and Constitution. From the article:

Scenarios that use food safety and potential cost of a disease outbreak are smoke screens to distract attention away from the fact that for nearly 80 years there has been no major disease outbreak because existing systems make American food the safest in the world. The system proposed by the NAIS and H.R. 875 would not improve food safety, but would give the federal government absolute control over the food supply of every individual and would bring the United States into compliance with the requirements of United Nations agencies that administer global governance.

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Pat Boone: The agenda for my first presidential term

By Pat Boone March 14, 2009 News Bulletin: In a stunning, unprecedented civilian uprising, President Obama, Vice President Biden, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid were recalled and sent packing. Practically overnight, responding to the national emergency, an extraordinary election propelled entertainer/activist Pat Boone into the White House. The new president just revealed his first-term agenda. ... Wow, I had this crazy dream last night! Maybe it's something I ate, or more likely, all the insane stuff we've all been hearing constantly on the news. I say "insane" because the measures and pronouncements being made by our president and our Congress – without consulting at all with the folks who elected them! – are truly the stuff of nightmares. But it's all happening, in real time and right before our eyes. Well, as my dream continued, I saw myself, President Boone, on all media, praying for God's guidance, and then laying out my priorities and commitments to the American people. I believed these were the reasons they had just elected me. [Continue reading]

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Beyond conservatism – beyond Reagan - By Joseph Farah

By Joseph Farah March 14, 2009 My friend and colleague Rush Limbaugh is under siege right now from Barack Obama's minions who have placed a target on his back and declared him public enemy No. 1. I can understand why. Rush's program is, in many ways, a beacon of truth and common sense in an age of lies and disinformation. He also commands the largest audience of any dissenter from the path of socialism chosen by Obama's Democrats and cheerleaders in the Big Media. While the Obama crowd is hoping the nation and the world will put behind them Ronald Reagan conservatism, now personified by Rush, they eagerly embrace the failures of the past with a new brand of supercharged Franklin D. Roosevelt-style Big Government. But are those really the only choices facing this nation? Is the choice really between Reagan and Roosevelt? Is the choice between conservatism and liberalism? Or are there other choices we should consider? For a long time, I have tried to get my conservative friends to consider a more ambitious agenda – especially as our nation has drifted further and further from its roots in constitutionally limited government, individual liberty and personal responsibility. While I love Rush and love Reagan, I have to tell you that liberalism is not the only enemy of freedom. We're losing too much ground too fast. We need an offensive agenda to keep America free and prosperous. It's time to realize that even electing another Reagan, if one were on the scene, is not enough to reverse the destruction wrought upon this country's most cherished institutions since he left office in 1989. [Continue reading]

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Michael Steele should go - By Star Parker

By Star Parker March 14, 2009 From what I see, the Republican National Committee representatives who picked Michael Steele as their new chairman made a mistake. I think Steele ought to step aside. It pains me to say it, but it pains me more to watch the opposition party, the Republican Party, spin aimlessly and leaderless, while the Obama administration shreds to pieces, with ruthless focus and discipline, everything this country stands for. Yes, of course, the defining moment for me is the recent GQ magazine interview in which Steele sounds more like a Democrat than a Republican. Does a woman have a right to choose abortion? "Yeah. Absolutely." Is homosexual behavior something an individual can choose? "It's like saying, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black.'" Should we amend the Constitution to define marriage? "I don't like mucking around with the Constitution." I guess Mr. Steele does like mucking around with his own party's platform, which supports such an amendment. Look, over just the last week, Barack Obama sent to Capitol Hill the most irresponsible budget ever proposed by any president – calling it, as you would only expect from Obama, "A New Era of Responsibility." And he overturned the existing ban on using federal funds to destroy human embryos to do stem cell research – calling it, as you would only expect from an Obama spokesman, "sound scientific practice … instead of dogma in developing federal policy." And what am I writing about? Michael Steele. [Continue reading]

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Is liberalism anti-intellectual? - By Ellis Washington

Under the pretext of an imminent economic depression, Obama will use the machinery of government to repress our God-given natural rights of the people on an unprecedented scale. Unless Obama's anti-intellectual, Marxist moves are stopped; this country will no longer be called USA but USSA – the United Socialist States of America. read more | digg story

Agent accuses Sutton of cover-up in drug murders - By Jerome Corsi

Informant in case handled by prosecutor of Ramos-Compean seeks asylum By Jerome R. Corsi © 2009 WorldNetDaily A Mexican national's appeal in federal court for asylum because of his work as an American government-paid informant against the drug cartel marked another chapter in a case in which a former Drug Enforcement Agency special agent continues to allege the U.S. government – including U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton – is hiding its complicity in the cartel's murder of more than a dozen people. Guillermo Eduardo Ramirez-Peyro, better known as "Lalo," appeared in federal court earlier this week to fight extradition, arguing his life would be in jeopardy if he were forced to return to Mexico. Lalo, according to Sandy Gonzalez, a former special agent in charge at the DEA office in El Paso, Texas, wore recording devices and taped at least one of the tortures and murders of more than a dozen people between July 2003 and January 2004. The murders allegedly were orchestrated by the Santillan family, headed by Heriberto Santillan-Tabares, a top operative in the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel. Gonzalez told WND he believes Sutton was aware of the "House of Death" murders, prompting a letter in February 2004 to the prosecutor alleging possible criminal violations by U.S. government officials. "Instead of investigating my complaints, Sutton complained about me to the DEA and the Justice Department in Washington," Gonzalez told WND. "My superiors in Washington told me to leave this matter alone and to be quiet." Gonzalez asserts the mainstream media have left unreported the active role of El Paso-based U.S. Attorney Sutton, the Department of Justice, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement [ICE], the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Homeland Security in an ongoing, elaborate cover-up. Gonzalez says that although Santillan was prosecuted under drug and murder charges, Sutton allowed the drug kingpin to plead guilty to the drug charges, with the agreement the murder charges would be dropped. Sutton's office did not respond to repeated requests by WND for comment. The Department of Homeland Security also did not respond. The Drug Enforcement Administration referred WND to the Department of Justice, but the DOJ did not reply. [Continue reading]

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Eligibility bill hits Congress - By Drew Zahn

Representative files law requiring candidates show birth certificate By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily A freshman representative has introduced a bill to the U.S. Congress that would require presidential candidates to provide a birth certificate and other documents to prove their eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., filed H.R. 1503, an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which increased required campaign fund disclosure and was later amended to establish the Federal Elections Commission. According to the Library of Congress' bill-tracking website, H.R. 1503 would "require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of president to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution." George Cecala, a spokesperson for Rep. Posey's office, told WND that constituents had been calling, questioning whether Barack Obama – who has publicized a Certificate of Live Birth, but not his official birth certificate – has demonstrated that he meets the Constitution's requirement to be a natural-born citizen. "Those are legitimate constitutional concerns," Cecala said. "Folks have brought the issue up, and the court really hasn't clarified. And I think American citizens have a right to have answers from their government." [Continue reading]

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Distorted textbooks used to erode religious understanding??

Authors Warn That Many Textbooks Distort Religion By Lauren Green Jesus was a Palestinian? That's what one public school textbook says. Although Jesus lived in a region known in his time as Palestine, the use of the term "Palestinian," with its modern connotations, is among the hundreds of textbook flaws cited in a recent five-year study of educational anti-Semitism detailed in the book "The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion." Authors Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research found some 500 imperfections and distortions concerning religion in 28 of the most widely used social studies and history textbooks in the United States. Ybarra, a research associate at the institute, called the above example "shocking." A "true or false" question on the origins of Christianity asserted that "Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus." The teacher's edition says this is "true." But even though Jesus is the founder of Christianity, the question ignores the fact that he was Jewish. And Ybarra said, "The Christian scriptures say that he preached in Judea and Galilee, not Palestine," a term that was used at the time as a less specific description of the broader region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Ybarra says part of the problem is that publishers employ or contract with writers who are not experts in the subject, or they may use out-of-date information. Or they may bow to special interest groups. "They're under pressure from all kinds of minority groups, religious groups, and they try to satisfy everyone and that results in content that is dumbed down to the lowest common denominator," he said. "And so, in that process, things can be missed. Errors can survive." [Continue reading]

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FoxNews: Police Union Accuses Ayers in Deadly 1970 San Fran Bombing

A San Francisco police union has accused former domestic terrorist William Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, and his wife in a 1970 bombing that killed one sergeant, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The union, in a letter to a conservative organization lobbying for arrests in the case, accused Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn of bombing a city police station. On Feb. 16, 1970, a bomb placed on a window ledge of Park Station killed Sgt. Brian McDonnell and injured eight other officers, the Chronicle reported. [Continue reading]

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What You've Just Seen...

This story has been around. The rumor is, something like this actually happened... somewhere, sometime... This is just one of those remarkable stories that must stay "viral." It's a story that we must all stay aware of, and remember. God actually DOES use us all. We ARE part of His Creation, and part of His Word. Our actions speak volumes. read more | digg story

Cold case: Will Ayers be brought to justice? - By Melanie Morgan

Melanie Morgan writes, "Almost 40 years ago, one of San Francisco's finest was murdered in a bomb blast. Yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., a former FBI informant, a former San Francisco police sergeant and an investigative reporter said they know who killed Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell on Feb. 16, 1970." Was it Bill Ayers? [read more] digg story RELATED STORY: FoxNews: Police Union Accuses Ayers in Deadly 1970 San Fran Bombing

From 'global warming' to global holocaust - By Joseph Farah

As Barack Obama adopts the radical "global warming" agenda of Al Gore, it's time to consider where this extremist, anti-people, Luddite, Malthusian concept of apocalyptic, man-made climate change inevitably leads: Population control; and most people understand global warming is a scam designed to empower government, preferably at the global level. read more | digg story

Obama's war on the American Dream - By David Limbaugh

Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush. This self-professed uniter is sowing distrust and divisiveness among Americans by demonizing groups of people and appealing to our baser instincts of envy and jealousy, in defiance of God's commandments against coveting. ... So much for the American Dream. read more | digg story

The Cloward-Piven strategy - by Robert Chandler

There is plenty blame to go around for the financial crash. Yet, there is a distinct odor of the shadowy Cloward-Piven strategy as the taproot of abusive practices that triggered the crisis. The strategy's goal is to bring about the fall of capitalism by overloading and undermining government bureaucracy.

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Lies in plain sight - By Erik Rush

When the government has appropriated or sufficiently devalued all private resources, we won't have the means to resist, we'll be destitute, and we'll be beholden to anyone who has the means to provide us aid. And guess what? That very government will be the only entity capable of providing us with that aid. State control will be the only hope. read more | digg story

Rush cashes in on Democrat demonizing - By Joe Kovacs

Rush Limbaugh, the most listened to radio host in America, says recent efforts by the White House and Democrats to demonize him are actually helping his show in financial success and personal popularity. "Revenues at the EIB Network in the first quarter of 2009 are up 13 and a half percent over first quarter revenues of 2008," Limbaugh announced. read more | digg story

Come What May: WHEN DOES LIFE REALLY BEGIN? (Movie Trailer)

If college student Caleb Hogan argues what he truly believes, he stands to lose the most important competition of his life — and the support of his mother. If he softens his stance, he might win the coveted title...but lose the heart of his teammate Rachel in the process. "Come What May" is a vivid reminder that choosing what’s right is never easy...

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Timothy Geithner: Dumber than Nancy Pelosi on a Cough Syrup Binge

How the World Works: Another great rant explaining the facts behind current events. See the video below, or click here.

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Liberal Hypocrisy Over Limbaugh Comments

by Demosthenes The liberal lunatics are at it again. Weeks after the Obama administration and the rest of the left-wing crackpots declared radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh the Republican party’s “leader,” they’re hard at work demonizing the entertainer, with the White House calling their demonization of Rush “fun.” The declaration of Limbaugh’s trumped-up status as leader of the party has been reported all over the media as if the words spoken by the Messiah’s administration become fact just by their utterance. Now they’re calling for his head and demanding apologies from all Republicans for a comment about their beloved Teddy Kennedy. Ignoring the fact that he’s a radio talk show host, not a politician or leader, why should anyone but Rush himself have to apologize for the comments? That’s nearly as bad as having to listen to eight years of the media calling Ann Coulter—a private opinion columnist—one of Bush’s “top aides.” These people may be conservative, but they’re not politicians. We don’t go around demanding the entire Democratic party apologize for every kooky thing Al Franken or Michael Moore says. But, even putting that aside, why should Rush have to apologize? His comment, for those who haven’t heard, was that before the health care reform bill passes, “it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy memorial health care bill.” But the idea of having the bill named after Kennedy has been all over the place in the Democratic party. Their main complaint is that he joked about Kennedy dying. Kennedy has a brain tumor and the prognosis indicates he probably only has months left to live, especially after suffering another seizure a few months ago. So, while what Rush said is probably true, he’s some kind of devil for joking about it. [Continue reading]

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Glenn Beck - Interviews - Glenn Beck talks with Chuck Norris

You will learn something you may never have known had it not been for this Glenn Beck interview with Chuck Norris (text transcript). From the article (interview):

GLENN: If we're both sitting there and there's a nuke and you've got the red wire and the green wire and we're both sweating and you're like, I don't know, I'm going to go with my instinct, I think I'd like a little bit more. NORRIS: Hey, actually I did a movie like that called President's Man. Listen to this. No one knows about this. But in 2000 I did a movie of the week called President's Man and what I do as President's Man, when the FBI and the CIA can't take care of a situation for the president, I come in and take care of it for him. And so we did one. It was so successful that CBS wanted me to do another one. So I started thinking about a story for another movie and I was talking to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and I said, Kay, I said, what is the greatest threat we have in America? And she says, our greatest fear is Osama Bin Laden's going to sneak a nuclear device into our country. And I said, oh, really? So I got my writers together. We wrote a story about Osama Bin Laden sneaking a nuclear device into America and hiding it actually in Chicago, which we didn't know at the time, and he calls the president and says, "I want you to release my holy warriors from the 1993 bombing or I'm going to explode this nuclear device in your country." So I get called in -- GLENN: Wait, wait, this is in 2000 you did this? NORRIS: Yeah, this is in 2000. So anyway, I go to Afghanistan, I kidnap Osama Bin Laden, and I bring him back to the United States for trial. Then during that time -- and then the attorney general's a Muslim as well, Osama, and they get into a debate about the interpretation of the Qur'an and the, you know, the attorney general says the Qur'an talks about tolerance, you know, not war. GLENN: Did you make this movie? NORRIS: Oh, yeah. Anyway, so I do the movie, I finally find the nuclear weapon, disarm it at the last minute like Jack Bauer did. I was trying to find the right wire to cut down to two seconds. Anyway, we deliver this movie to CBS on September 7th, 2001. GLENN: Holy cow. NORRIS: Then four days later, of course, 9/11 hits. So now CBS doesn't know what to do. You know, the name of it was called Ground Zero was the name of the movie. GLENN: Has it ever been seen? NORRIS: No.

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Border blunders - By Barbara Simpson

Mexico, especially along the U.S. border, has turned into a virtual shooting gallery because of drug and weapons trafficking. Thousands of assault weapons are smuggled into Mexico every week. But pay attention: It could be used as a pretense to reinstitute the U.S. ban on the sale of assault rifles as Atty General Eric Holder is now suggesting. read more | digg story

Out of chaos, a new world order - By Joseph Farah

Henry Kissinger wrote a very important article in the International Herald Tribune Jan. 12, [2009], and it was meant as a signal – marching orders, if you will, for a disparate band of elitists determined to bring about a new form of global rule that will supersede our notions of national sovereignty, limited government and personal freedom. [Read this story] digg story

Embrace enemies, slap friends - By Roger Hedgecock

As Uhbama and Congress take an inherited recession and turn it into a depression, a parallel meltdown is occurring in matters of foreign policy. The core of Obama's foreign policy can be expressed simply as "Embrace enemies, slap friends." While Obama embraced Hamas, Russia, Cuba, Iran and the Taliban, he slapped Israel and Great Britain. [Read this story!] digg story

Raising a white flag in the drug war - By Vox Day

Like every previous left-wing pseudo-war (LBJ's "war on poverty"), the Conservative's "war on drugs" has been a complete debacle, has cost billions of dollars without realizing a single one of its objectives, and has accomplished little more than increasing the size and scope of federal power. There's nothing conservative about the war on drugs. read more | digg story Related Story: Troops coming to border war - By Patrick J. Buchanan

Chuck Norris may run for president of Texas

On Glenn Beck's radio show last week, Chuck quipped in response to our wayward federal government, "I may run for president of Texas." That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state. [Read Chuck's column at WorldNetDaily] digg story

Going Through a Dry Spell - By David Wilkerson

Have you ever watched other Christians get blessed while you feel nothing? They testify of God’s answers to their prayers and shed tears of joy. They seem to live on a mountaintop of happy experiences while you just plod along, loving Jesus but not setting the world on fire. All true believers experience dry spells at various times in their lives.

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Famed pastor predicts imminent catastrophe

A respected pastor, best-selling author and founder of a major ministry to teens predicts "an imminent earth-shattering calamity" centered in New York City that will spread to major urban areas across the country and around the world – part of what he sees as a judgment from God. David Wilkerson, author of "The Cross and the Switchblade," a book about his ministry to troubled New York street kids that was later made into a movie starring Pat Boone, tells readers of his blog this weekend that he is "compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message" about his prediction. [Continue reading]

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Obama: I Am Not A Socialist

Barack Obama has declared to The New York Times that he is not a socialist. Regarding the picture on the right, that would be referring to the Obama Minions at the New York times...

Barack Obama has declared to The New York Times that he is not a socialist. “Let’s take a look at the budget – the answer would be no,” Obama said when asked directly. “If you look at our budget, what you have is a very disciplined, fiscally responsible budget, along with an effort to deal with some very serious problems that have been put off for a very long time.” [Continue reading at The Right Perspective]

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A Good Thing to Dream About!

I do my best to go through all the email I receive. However, I have to resign myself to quickly scan through everything I get sent. Now and then, there will be one that catches my immediate attention. Like this one, that stated in the subject line, "My dream on 01/31/09...", that I received from my great friend and Sister in the Lord, Rev. Gerri. read more | digg story

Vaccine maker's snafu sparks pandemic scare - By Drew Zahn

An Illinois-based vaccine manufacturer is being investigated after an experiment gone very wrong led scientists to discover the company had released a contaminated product feared capable of starting a world-wide avian flu pandemic. The Canadian Press originally reported this story.

By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily An Illinois-based vaccine manufacturer is being investigated after an experiment gone very wrong led scientists to discover the company had released a contaminated product feared capable of starting a world-wide avian flu pandemic. The Canadian Press reports that Baxter International's European research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria, supplied materials contaminated with the deadly avian H5N1 influenza virus to a research company that then sent portions to labs in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. The labs thought they were receiving the less deadly, but more readily communicable, human H3N2 virus. When the Czech facility, however, injected a group of ferrets with the virus, the animals died – something that does not happen with H3N2 – prompting scientists to realize an error. What the scientists were dealing with, in fact, was something far more dangerous. Baxter's Austrian lab had sent a mix of H3N2 seasonal viruses and unlabeled, live H5N1 viruses. H3N2 is highly communicable, but less harmful. H5N1 is less easily transmitted to humans, but often lethal. If both strains, scientists fear, were to incubate in a single subject, a hybrid virus could be birthed capable of both sweeping the globe and killing in its wake. [Continue reading]

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No He Can't - By Anne Wortham

Anne Wortham is an individualist liberal who happens to be black and American - So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. ~ rjwusa

By Anne Wortham Fellow Americans, Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America. I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America. Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them. I would have to be wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. [Continue reading]

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The Party of Rush

Who's in charge of the GOP? When someone finds out, let the rest of us know. By Rick Moran For nearly 20 years, Rush Limbaugh has bestridden the political landscape with a power and influence that transcended his talk radio niche, crossing over into the rarefied air of cultural icon. With a combination of a hail-fellow-well-met joie de vivre and a biting, sometimes vicious adder-like tongue, Limbaugh has parlayed a well-honed shtick that combines popcorn sized bites of conservative wisdom with large chunks of political red meat into a career that has made him one of the wealthiest personalities in radio. Limbaugh does not fit any of the comfortable definitions that liberals and the media love to apply to conservatives. Calling him a mere talk show host is simply wrong. Limbaugh has crossed the cultural divide and, like President Obama, he has become more than a political figure (or entertainer) and achieved a peculiar kind of celebrity. [Continue reading]

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The Black Sphere

Where a smart black man takes on a dumb Obama. . . the last man Kevin wants fighting for him. Click here to go to The Black Sphere blog digg story ~ Submitted by lilamae

Atlas Shrugs: THIS IS GOOD!

I'm Tired By Robert A. Hall I’ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired. I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth around” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it. I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them—with their own money. I’m tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women’s rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won’t multiculturalism be beautiful? [Continue reading at Atlas Shrugs, or see the original at Old Jarhead.]

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Glenn Beck on FEMA - Erase and Rewind?

Glenn Beck on FEMA camps. Glenn Beck does a U-turn on going ahead with the Fema report he promised us. Wonder what was in it? (Apologies about the jump in sound/volume level about a thirdway in...) See the video below, or click here

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Peace through begging - By Ellis Washington

Reagan's foreign policy with Muslim dictatorships and other various evil empires like North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Libya, China and the old Soviet Union was characterized by the philosophy "Peace through strength." It can now be argued that Obama has replaced that foreign policy philosophy with "Peace through begging" or even "Peace through treachory." read more | digg story

We're all inner-city blacks now - By Star Parker

Blacks are not given enough credit for being trendsetters in America. Blacks discovered the politics of victimhood, then the rest of America started catching on. Blacks bought into dependency and the welfare state. Now the rest of America has bought in. If we have any luck, some of the better instincts of blacks today will also set trends. read more | digg story

Does America deserve a Christian burial? - By Joseph Farah

Things are looking grim for America right now. The patient is in critical condition and chief physician Barack Obama and his medical team are prescribing and administering potentially lethal doses of the very drug (more debt) that sent her to the emergency room. We're in for some very rough times. Is it time for last rites? read more | digg story

It's time for another tea party - By Pat Boone

As conservative voices were clamoring to remove billions in self-serving and non-emergency programs, Obama announced his proposed longer-term agenda that would saddle Americans with a $3.6 trillion budget! And as we saw on TV, he sounded like one of the British kings, or the Egyptian pharaoh... It's time for the tea party to start – right now! read more | digg story

What is a socialist? - By Patrice Lewis

According to Dictionary.com, socialism is "Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy." Socialism might sound lofty to liberals, but those of us in Flyover Country know better. read more | digg story

States get assertive with 'King' Obama - By Henry Lamb

The 10th Amendment isn't hard to understand. Even Harvard graduates can easily understand this simple language. Yet, it is blatantly ignored by President Obama and the majority of Congress who are rejecting this portion of the Constitution they swore to defend. Rep. Ron Paul and a few others have raised their voices in opposition to this trend. read more digg story

Troops coming to border war - By Patrick J. Buchanan

There are two sure ways to end this war swiftly: Milton's way and Mao's way. Mao Zedong's communists killed users and suppliers alike, as social parasites. Milton Friedman's way is to decriminalize drugs and call off the war. Which is the greater evil? Legalized narcotics for America's young or a failed state of 110,000 million on our border? read more | digg story

Stephen Baldwin Slams Hollywood

Baldwin stated a fact that says, "Family programming and animated films make more money." When it comes to the violent and vulgar content, Baldwin Says; "Hollywood just stands around and says, ‘Oh well, the parents are responsible for whether or not those kids should watch that content.’ That’s just not true,” Baldwin insists.

By: Rick Pedraza Actor and media personality Stephen Baldwin says the “vulgar and offensive” content in Hollywood productions is one reason why the United States now has such high rates of unemployment, suicide and teen pregnancy. “The fact that they churn out more content that is gratuitously violent, sexual and vulgar, when in fact more family programming and animated films make more money – there’s you’re agenda problem,” Baldwin tells CNS News. Baldwin, attending last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington to sign copies of his new book, “The Death and Life of Gabriel Phillips,” tells CNS News that Hollywood produces too many anti-family films while pro-family films are the ones that sell, and that Hollywood is wrong for saying it’s “solely up to the parents” to control what their children watch. [Continue reading]

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Let's put Iran back to 1850s - By Hal Lindsey

There was a report in yesterday's Jerusalem Post that bore the disturbing headline "Israel Seriously Considering Iran Military Op." A report entitled "Preventing a Cascade of Instability," which was put out by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argues that military action should be taken to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. read more | digg story

Don't mess with Rush - By Melanie Morgan

The Democrats who schemed up the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy are back at it again. The razor-lipped cue ball known as James Carville and Paul "the Forehead" Begala think that they have struck gold in attacking the giant of talk radio, my friend Rush Limbaugh. They want to turn him into the big, bad bogeyman of the GOP. They are now enabling Rush! read more | digg story

Addicted to that Rush - By ilana mercer

Desperate times call for desperate distractions. The Steele-Limbaugh spat fell into Obama's lap. The president is losing it, and he is now realizing that he is not the magic man he imagined he was. Democratic henchmen – Paul Begala, Stanley Greenberg, James Carville and Robert Gibbs – began picking a fight with Limbaugh. And it's good for the GOP.

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Susan Estrich Warns Democrats About Dangers Attacking Rush

By P.J. Gladnick Susan Estrich is worried. Very worried. She believes that the current coordinated Democrat strategy of attacking Rush Limbaugh is completely counterproductive. And she's right: He talks for hours every day. He gets paid to talk. Just talk. Doing it well is no small thing; witness the number of people who have tried to be him, or be the NOT-him, and failed. But he doesn't have to build a coalition. He doesn't need the votes of the other side to earn his check. He doesn't have to write the legislation, convince Olympia Snowe, raise money to keep the lights on, put his name on the ballot. All the things he doesn't have to do give him the freedom to be as effective as he is at what he does. Trying to beat him at his own game when your own game is played by a different set of rules is a losing proposition. He knows that. [Continue reading at NewsBusters]

Echoing Estrich's views is Peter Daou, a Democrat political strategist who worked on the campaigns of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Daou posted his worries about the attack Rush strategy on his Huffington Post blog nervously titled, "Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh?"

I don't buy into this 'brilliant' strategy of elevating Rush Limbaugh in the hopes that it will tarnish Republicans. ...There's precious little benefit in making Limbaugh more of a central player, in engaging him directly from the White House podium, in raising his stature, in stamping, sealing and approving the years he's spent bashing his political opponents. [Continue reading at NewsBusters]

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The manufactured home crisis - By Craige McMillan

Unlike most parts of America, manufacturing in Washington, D.C., is still booming. Guided by the expert hands of Frank, Pelosi, Waxman, Schumer and Reid, a handful of "underwater" homeowners with delinquent mortgages have morphed into an international crisis, with banks failing and stock markets headed down the toilet. read more | digg story

About your tax cut … By Jane Chastain

"A chicken in every pot" is the temptation waved under the noses of voters by politicians of every political stripe. It's an alluring promise. Little wonder that the average life of a democracy is a mere 200 years. Obama was elected on the idea that he was going to reward 95 percent of us at the expense of the top 2 percent. That will work, right? read more | digg story

Larry Elder: It's not the economy, stupid – it's Limbaugh

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," the newly installed President Obama told Capitol Hill Republicans. Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, just days ago, called the popular conservative radio talk show host "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party." If things go wrong, just blame Rush Limbaugh. read more | digg story

Sebelius mocks abortion law - By Jack Cashill

Phill Kline, former Atty General of Kansas, was trying to enforce the law that he had helped to write as a State Representative. Dr. George Tiller ("The Killer") was doing many late term abortions. Kline tried to subpoena the patient records, and began a descent into a hell that Governor Kathleen Sebelius helped keep on high broil. read more | digg story

Olbermann's plastic ivy - By Ann Coulter

Keith Olbermann just had to point out that Rush Limbaugh made an error in his CPAC speech. There is utterly no purpose to these lame "gotchas," except that Olbermann is so insecure and wants people to know how scary-smart he is. That's why Keith is always talking about his "Ivy-league" education at a school that isn't: The Cornell ag school. read more | digg story

Is it time for revolt? - By Joseph Farah

It's very dangerous to advocate this position. It's very risky. But someone has to stand up and start talking about it. Is it time for people of the light to start denying the U.S. government the money to practice this kind of evil? Is it time to be out on the streets protesting against all this new regime is doing to undermine the Constitution? read more | digg story

Fox & Friends, and the Implosion of Mercy - By John Kubicek

To: Fox & Friends, I'm there for you. I know all too well how technology can come back to bite us. Thus, I can also feel for you, too. There are times when the news cycle depends on immediate release of the story, and getting it recorded "live" as it happens. But if that effort isn't correctly executed, there is another option. Think: Rahm Emanuel.

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How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year

So, what does John McCain's beautiful daughter, Meghan McCain, have to do with this column? (By the way, Meghan, I'm available.) If your answer was, "Duhhh.... she has the same last name as the author?", you get a big BONK. Sorry, try again. The answer is this: This is the perfect example of Rule 5. Now, go read the column by Robert S. McCain. In this column, Robert Stacy McCain (The Other McCain) writes about how to get known in the blogosphere, and thus gives us the Five Rules to blogging success. Continue reading, and may you become wildly successful! digg story

And there is hope! A Conservative Prodigy - By John Kubicek

That last month, February 2009, was a very bad month. Nothing but doom and gloom. Cold weather. Fear and crisis. Irresponsible government spending. The 401k becoming a 201k... The futility of it all. And then, out of the ash heap of society, comes a new ray of sunshine. A new sign of hope! We haven't lost yet; our future is waiting in the wings. read more | digg story

Era of big government - By Craig R. Smith

"The Era of Responsibility?" That is laughable!! This budget pulls off the mask Obama wears. He detests helping anybody in any way unless the government is involved in the process. He is putting his trust in a broken system that has proven, time and time again, to be the most inefficient and wasteful purveyor of spending the world has ever seen.

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Tea time in the U.S. - By Doug Powers

In 1773, the Boston Tea Party consisted of colonists protesting Britain's "Tea Act" by throwing tea into the harbor. Why tea? Because the colonists were too far away from British parliament to throw them in. What do protesters hope to accomplish with these new tea parties? If just one polititian finds a need to take swimming lessons, it's worth it. PS: Watch out for those earmarks for Congressional Swimming Lessons..... DOUGH!!!!! read more | digg story

Obama's fairy dust - By Barbara Simpson

This man who is president has spread the fairy dust of his campaign across Congress and his administration. It contaminates everything as it spreads across the country. This Obama spell is everywhere – seeping into the very fabric of the country. You might say Obama is "magical" in his ability to blind followers to the truth of what he's doing.

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Conservatives rally at CPAC - By Roger Hedgecock

Organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) expected some 7,000 grassroots conservative activists for a conference that started in 1973 with a few dozen. Instead some 9,000 showed up. Most heartening was the outpouring of young people. Reflecting that same spirit over the same weekend, "tea parties" were held across the USA.

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Obama + Congress = Economic chaos || By Chuck Norris

Ronald Reagan was right, "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." The political and financial math is easy to calculate. It doesn't take an MBA to figure it out. If you do the math, you'll see we're on the wrong path. read more | digg story

States Rights - Posted by Mary K. Washburn

The federal government has usurped many of the states' rights and that has contributed to it becoming more and more bloated as well as removing many of our rights. What would happen if ....? read more digg story, submitted by tasine

Renewing the 'Old Deal'? - By Joseph Farah

As America continues to feel its way through a dire economic crisis, our elected leaders in Washington seem determined to repeat the mistakes of the past. In fact, they fail to even see that they were mistakes, despite the clearest of evidence. The so-called "economic recovery" plans of 2009 are policies that were tried by FDR and failed. read more | digg story

Rush Limbaugh knocks them dead at CPAC (Full Video)

The King of Talk Radio at his best.

Rush Limbaugh Gives Speech To CPAC (part 1)

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Paul Harvey (1918-2009)

Broadcasting legend Paul Harvey has passed away at the age of 90.

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13-Year-Old Republican of the Apocalypse

Jonathan Krohn was a featured speaker at today's Conservative Political Action Conference. He's also a published author! read more

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Patrice Lewis: Washington socialists need a good spanking

Maybe America is learning that discipline can make a difference with spoiled brats. Maybe we're realizing that a good spanking is in order for the out-of-control socialists in Washington. Maybe that's why there are "tea parties" springing up all over America. And Obama has only been in power for less than a couple of months. Time for a spanking! read more Note from blog editor: By the way, had I followed my usual title format with the title followed with " - by (author's name)," the title to this story would have been, "Washington socialists need a good spanking - by Patrice Lewis." That sounded a little inappropriate, if you know what I mean. Or then again, Bawney Fwank would have loved it... LOL digg story

Meet the D.C. hypocrites - By Henry Lamb

Democrats and three RINOs just spent nearly $800 billion to: 1) stimulate the economy; 2) create or save 3.5 million jobs; and 3) reduce dependence on foreign oil, according to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. These goals could be achieved, however, with no new spending at all. read more digg story

'Living within our means' - by Joseph Farah

Whatever happened to the idea of leading by example? While Washington is borrowing a trillion here and a trillion there, the president is lecturing the rest of us to start living within our means. Not content with bankrupting the government, Obama and the Democrats seem intent on literally bankrupting the U.S. - and perhaps the world's - economy. read more

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Feds grant eminent domain as collateral to China for US debt

The United States has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Republic of China an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA, as collateral for China's continued purchase of US treasury notes and existing US currency reserves! Secretary of State Clinton and Obama really are out to ruin this country. read more | digg story, submitted by indygirl

2 Hawaiian bandits: 1 on Oahu, 1 in D.C. - By Melanie Morgan

While in Hawaii, Melanie and her husband were robbed. In the meantime, another person from Hawaii, Barack Hussein Obama, is robbing us by raising taxes of various forms and one will surely be a Global Hoaxing tax. Melanie also shows evidence that the higher income tax rates are aimed at Conservatives by decreasing deductions for charitable giving.

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Wake me when this nightmare's over - By David Limbaugh

Certain highbrow right-wingers accused Mr. Limbaugh of hyperventilating. They told us knuckle draggers that Obama is pragmatic and centrist and that we should just calm down and give him a chance. We responded that we didn't have the luxury of being calm, because if we let our guard down, Obama would rush through his agenda... which he is doing.

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The Pakistani time bomb - By Hal Lindsey

There are major issues in Pakistan, one being that the Taliban now controls Swat, in Northwest Pakistan, a region the size of Delaware, and Al Qaida is allowed to openly operate in. The other issue is that Pakistan may have up to 100 nuclear warheads, and have ballistic and cruise missiles capable of delivery. If Pakistan falls, what could happen?

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Daily Show: Obama Is Antichrist, Hitler or Both

A little tongue in cheek for you today. The Daily Show's Jason Jones looks at the raising concerns that Obama is the Beast and/or the twin of Hitler, and it's getting the mainstream media's attention.

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What on earth is bugging Michael Medved? - By Joseph Farah

WorldNetDaily has a fantastic relationship with most radio talk-show hosts. But there is one talker, Michael Medved, who for some reason makes it a regular practice of insulting, abusing and ridiculing WorldNetDaily, as well as Joseph and his friend and colleague Jerome Corsi. So, why is Medved so angry about WND? Does it seem a little bit strange? read more | digg story

The president's plan to stimulate poverty - By Jane Chastain

In the description on digg.com for this story, I wrote: "With the passage of the so-called economic stimulus bill designed by the Democrat-run Congress and promoted by President Obama, the perverse incentives that actually reward states for enrolling and keeping people on the public dole are baaack! But Barack Obama had praised the welfare reforms of 1996 during the election campaign. Go figure..." Another great digg user and friend, indygirl, submitted the same story, only from the other WND url, and she said it in a way I liked better than my description: "1965, L. Johnson initiated a welfare system that for many people became a way of life. Not until 1996, when a Rep[ublican] Congress forced President Clinton to change welfare reforms was a 60% drop in welfare caseloads seen. Obama praised these reforms during his campaign, but now he seems bent on trapping ignorant people into poverty and control." It was the part when indygirl wrote, "he seems bent on trapping ignorant people into poverty and control," that was the perfect follow-up to what I had stated above. Well, except for the fact that she submitted the story first... Please note: I'm the guilty one of submitting a duplicate story to digg.com. The reason I submitted it again is because many readers of WorldNetDaily have to choose between the worldnetdaily.com or the wnd.com urls. Many of the people that see the article at WorldNetDaily or WND go to the digg page directly from the article. I am providing the links to both of the digg pages dealing with this column by Jane Chastain below. read the column digg the story I submitted digg the story indygirl submitted

A vast ocean of intellectual diarrhea - By Erik Rush

We need to be capable of successfully navigating the vast ocean of intellectual diarrhea that has become our conventional wisdom. The alternative media and online news outlets have made a dent, but the fact remains that millions of voting Americans still get their information from the far-left establishment press.

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Ayers already turning on Obama - By Jack Cashill

You did not have to be a weatherman to know that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers would quickly blow cold on the Obama presidency. On Monday, less than five weeks into the Obama era, Ayers blasted Obama's decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan as a "colossal mistake." Now, Ayers is the potential extortionist who lives in the neighborhood.

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The Cal Ripken president - By Ann Coulter

Are we going to have to hear about this for the next four years? Obama is becoming the Cal Ripken Jr. of presidents, making history every time he suits up for a game. Recently, Obama also became the first African-American president to order a ham sandwich late at night from the White House kitchen! That's going to get old pretty quick.

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Race-baiter Eric Holder - By Joseph Farah

So why is Holder elevating extremists like Du Bois and Malcolm X and Paul Robeson, another card-carrying Stalinist, at the expense of unifying political and social figures like Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver? The answer is simple. It is the extremists and socialists and haters with whom Eric Holder more clearly identifies.

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Heads will roll - By Barbara Simpson

Barbara asks if America's multiculturalism will lead to allowing "honor killings" by Muslims as prescribed by their Sharia law. Media coverage is always low key and virtually non-existent. Octuplets and a rampaging chimpanzee get headlines; a beheading gets a media pass. It's not acceptable to say or think anything untoward of Muslims or Islam.

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Grab your Indian gear - The American Tea Party happens on Friday

As many of you may have heard, there is a revolt brewing over the Democrats' grotesque tax and spending boondoggle. A trillion dollars belonging to future generations of Americans has been blown on absolute garbage. The Liberals are abuzz about how Obama has done more in 30 days than any president in history. On that, I would agree. It took us 232 years to get to a $1 trillion national debt. Obama doubled it in 30 days. Yesterday the Frankenstein Democrats in the House unveiled their monster Omnibus spending bill (one wit noted that the Omnibus is the Stimulus's retarded little brother) with another $410 billion of pure pork products, including 9,000 (pigs') earmarks. [Continue reading]

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Rothschild Agents Take 10 Key Posts In Obama Administration

Top: Rice, McFaul, Kagan, Slaughter, and Wolin Bottom: Emanuel, Summers, Orszag, Rouse, and Sutphen

"Six former Rhodes Scholars (educated at Oxford University in Britain) and four others associated with the London School of Economics are serving in key posts in the Obama administration. That's not good." By Michael Collins Piper American Free Press 02-21-2009 Our greatest founding father and first president, George Washington, probably wouldn't be ready to celebrate his birthday on Feb. 22 if he were alive today. Having led the 13 colonies to independence from the British Empire in 1783, following the course of a difficult eight-year struggle by those freedom-loving American colonists who followed him, Washington (who lived from 1732 to 1799) would most assuredly be appalled to see that the liberties achieved from the American Revolution are now being flagrantly defied by a number of figures who populate the upper ranks of the administration of Barack Obama. Six former Rhodes Scholars (educated at Oxford University in Britain) and four others associated with the London School of Economics are serving in key posts in the Obama administration. That's not good. Here are 10 of the key "British"-that is, Rothschild -operatives now ensconced in the Obama administration (more can be expected): Susan Rice - ambassador to the UN; Michael McFaul - head of the Russian desk at the National Security Council; Elena Kagan - solicitor general of the United States; Anne-Marie Slaughter - State Department policy planning staff; Neal S.Wolin - deputy counsel to the president for economic policy; Ezekial Emanuel - senior counselor at the White House Office of Management and Budget on health care policy; Lawrence Summers - head of the National Economic Council; Peter Orszag - director of the Office of Management and Budget; Peter Rouse - senior advisor to the president; Mona Sutphen - deputy chief of the White House staff. The truth about the Rhodes Scholarships is not known to the average American who is constantly told by the mass media that Rhodes Scholars (such as former President Bill Clinton) are among "the best and the brightest." [Continue reading at rense.com]

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Senator questions Obama eligibility

Shelby: 'They said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate' WASHINGTON – A U.S. senator has weighed in on the continuing controversy over Barack Obama's eligibility for office by saying he has never seen proof the new president was actually born in Hawaii. "Well, his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate," Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told constituents in Cullman County. "You have to be born in America to be president." WND has reported on multiple legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President." [Continue reading]

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It'll be worse if Obama succeeds - By Roger Hedgecock

Does the president really expect to generate the optimism necessary to get the economy growing again with the doom and gloom rhetoric? Obama's speech on housing contained the word "crisis" more than 30 times. Even Bill Clinton, while praising the "change" in Obama's first month, voiced a need to hear the "hope."

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80+ year-old economic survivor guide - by Chuck Norris

An old Spanish proverb says, "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy." I believe that value will hold, in or out of a recession. And being that his 87-year-old mother lived through the Great Depression, her value (and those like her) will actually increase through these tough economic times, because their insider wisdom can help us.

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Barack Obama: American History’s WORST PRESIDENT EVER

He takes Bush’s position on warrantless wiretaps. He hires cronies for political appointments. He increases the deficit by a trillion or more (and that’s just his first month!) He stops giving detainees trials. He hasn’t closed Gitmo (issued an order to try, but Bush tried too). He will still do renditions. He wrote caveats into his own Executive Orders... ~ gbudavid Here is what Scott of floppingaces.net wrote:

Ya know, after I wrote the WORST PRESIDENT EVER line the other day, I expected a great deal of gripe from the left. It hasn’t come. It probably hasn’t been noticed bigtime. Still, I don’t make the comment as lightly as someone at MSNBC might. PR and name recognition isn’t my goal, and so those words don’t come from me as marketing tools or flippant. [Continue reading at floppingaces.net]

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No Habeas Rights For Obama Detainees - Bush Right Again

Obama Stays the Course on Bagram The Justice Department today said it would adhere to the Bush administration's position that detainees imprisoned at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their confinement in U.S. courts. Last month, U.S. District Judge John Bates gave the new administration an opportunity to refine its position in cases involving four detainees incarcerated at the Bagram prison, located on a converted Soviet base about 30 miles north of Kabul. They are seeking the same rights as prisoners held at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- more than 200 of whom are challenging their detention in habeas proceedings in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Acting Assistant Attorney General Michael Hertz filed the government's response today. Here it is, in full: "This Court’s Order of January 22, 2009 invited the Government to inform the Court by February 20, 2009, whether it intends to refine its position on whether the Court has jurisdiction over habeas petitions filed by detainees held at the United States military base in Bagram, Afghanistan. Having considered the matter, the Government adheres to its previously articulated position." The approximately 650 prisoners in the hardscrabble Bagram prison are being held there indefinitely and without charge. The prison is closed to journalists and human rights activists, and while it has long been dubbed "the other Guantánamo," Bagram detainees lack the same privileges, such as regular access to lawyers. While the Guantánamo population has dwindled to about 245, Bagram has added more than 100 prisoners since 2005, according to the Defense Department. President Obama has ordered a task force led by the attorney general and the defense secretary to review overall policy on detainees. A report is due in six months. A Justice Department spokesman declined to speculate on whether the government's position may change following the review. [Continue reading]

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