Kennedy 'joked about Chappaquiddick'

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Biographer reveals deadly incident was a 'favorite topic of humor' Posted: August 28, 2009 ~ 9:21 am Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily One of Sen. Ted Kennedy's favorite topics of humor was the incident at Chappaquiddick Island, Mass., in 1969 in which he drove off a bridge and left behind a 28-year-old woman who drowned, according to a biographer who reminisced about the iconic Democrat on a Washington, D.C., talk show this morning. Edward Klein, speaking to WAMU guest host Katty Kay, said one of Kennedy's "favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick." "He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?'" said Klein, a former Newsweek foreign editor and former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine. [CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY]

Klein's revelation on the "Diane Rehm Show" can be heard here:

RELATED COMMENTARY: How sick was Ted Kennedy? ~ By Joseph Farah

How sick was Ted Kennedy? ~ By Joseph Farah

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By Joseph Farah Posted: August 31, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 I didn't think it was possible for me to be more disgusted by the sick and twisted life of Ted Kennedy than I was based on what I knew at the time of his death. I was wrong. I heard something Friday that gave me even more appreciation into the indecency, immorality and inhumanity of the late senator. Of course, none of the fawning news media bothered to pick it up. I guess it would have been considered bad taste during our national mourning period for the pervert. Fortunately, it's on the record now, for future – perhaps wiser and nobler – generations to ponder and evaluate. Ted Kennedy enjoyed sharing Chappaquiddick jokes with his close friends – including his biographer, Ed Klein. Do you believe this? Here's what Klein told National Public Radio last week in an interview with Katty Kay, filling in for host Diane Rehm: "He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?'" Klein said one of Kennedy's "favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick." I know. I know. You don't believe me. You think I'm making this up. So, please, don't take my word for it, listen to it for yourself. "I mean, that is just the most amazing thing," Klein said. "Not that he didn't feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too." [CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE COLUMN]

Dirty secret No. 4 in Obamacare ~ By Chuck Norris

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By Chuck Norris Posted: August 31, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Flying under the radar last week was a new government report that forecasts that the national debt will double over the next decade. The White House has projected a cumulative $9 trillion deficit between 2010 and 2019, while the Congressional Budget Office estimates a more optimistic $7.1 trillion based upon the expiration of Bush tax cuts. What this means is that Washington's out-of-control spending will likely turn the nation's already-staggering $11 trillion debt into an astronomical $20 trillion. But there are at least two ginormous expenses that are excluded in these projections. First, both projections from the White House and CBO incorporate their belief that the deficit will decline quickly over the next three years, as they assume less bailouts are needed and the economy rapidly grows. But isn't there also the real possibility that the economy will not recover as quickly as they hope? Every additional bailout or stimulus (large or small), and every margin of error in their three-year prospective climb-out of the economic pit, will inflate our nation's debt balloon even more. The second expense is far less speculative – and it has to do with about one-fourth of America. The 72 million baby boomers (people born in America from 1946 to 1964, excluding immigrants), the largest generation America has produced, are going into retirement over the next two decades and will face the golden years of declining health and rising medical costs. Under current law, if the government were to add the projected baby boomer costs of Medicare and Social Security to its debt tab, it would send deficit projections into the abyss. Here's the primary problem: Medicare is bankrupt. Medicaid is bankrupt. And Social Security is bankrupt. Though boomers have paid into these programs via their taxes for decades, there are not enough benefits to offer them, now and even less in the future. The problem is compounded when one understands that the number of people in the United States ages 65 and older is expected to double by 2030, and so is the amount expected to fund their retirement and health care in their twilight years, which relatively few are prepared to handle themselves. So what is the U.S. government to do, especially when it is already projected to have a $20 trillion dollar debt in 2019 (let alone what it will be in 2030)? [CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING ENTIRE COLUMN]

Town-hall clash! Arrest threat over Obama 'Joker' poster

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Officer to protester: This ain't America no more Posted: August 28, 2009 ~ 10:57 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily Editor's note: Earlier reports that Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. is a police officer were in error. Further investigation has revealed Officer Cheeks is a member of the Fairfax County Public Schools' trained School Security Officer team. To contact the school's security force, e-mail Fred Ellis, the director of safety and security for Fairfax County Public Schools, or Jim McLain, the security coordinator. This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health-care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a security officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama. The officer's response? "It ain't no more, OK?" A video of the town hall held earlier this week by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., shows an unnamed protester standing on school grounds carrying a sign that read "Organizing for National Socialist Health Care – The Final Solution" and depicted Barack Obama in the Joker's makeup. Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. then told the protester that even though others were holding signs, his sign was unacceptable because of the depiction of Obama. "But you got this with a picture," Cheeks said, explaining why the protester was being singled out from the others. "That's the difference. This has got a picture on it. That don't have a picture on it. "Sir, leave the picture down," the officer said. "If you put the picture back up, you'll be charged with trespassing." [CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING ENTIRE COLUMN]

Video of the exchange can be seen below: Video courtesy of DissentFromDayOne on youtube.com

Czar's 'communist manifesto' scrubbed from Net

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Founded group with 'commitment to fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism' Posted: August 30, 2009 ~ 7:15 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2009 WorldNetDaily Last week, WND reported the official communist-oriented manifesto of a radical group founded by Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was published in full on the Internet. Just hours later, the manifesto was removed and the entire website was taken down. It is, however, still available in web archives. As WND previously reported, Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist. Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. STORM's official manifesto, titled, "Reclaiming Revolution," had been published on the Internet. A WND review of the 97-page treatise found that the manual describes Jones' organization as having a "commitment to the fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism." "We agreed with Lenin's analysis of the state and the party," reads the manifesto. "And we found inspiration in the revolutionary strategies developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Tse-tung and Amilcar Cabral." [CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING ENTIRE COLUMN]

Multi-state car dealer plans birth-certificate billboards

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Huge signs by interstate will be seen by 300,000 per day in Denver alone Posted: August 30, 2009 ~ 6:55 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily A top-rated talk radio host in Denver, Colo., has received some good news about his hopes to erect "Where's the Birth Certificate?" billboards in front of hundreds of thousands of drivers a day when a local businessman heard his radio show and agreed to donate the sign space. Now, WND has learned, that businessman is planning on donating signage in multiple states to get the message out that Barack Obama has yet to prove his constitutional eligibility to serve as president. As WND reported, Peter Boyles, who hosts the top-rated morning program on Denver's KHOW-AM, has been fascinated with the president's refusal to release his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate to verify his qualification to serve as commander in chief and has dedicated many hours of his program in recent weeks to discussion of all sides of the eligibility issue, much of which has been based on WorldNetDaily's extensive coverage. [CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING ENTIRE COLUMN]

Czar: 'Spread the wealth! Change the whole system'

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Using White House position to push communist policies? Posted: August 30, 2009 ~ 7:09 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2009 WorldNetDaily Just days before his White House appointment, Van Jones, President Obama's environmental adviser, used a forum at a major youth convention to push for what can easily be interpreted as a communist or socialist agenda. As WND previously reported, Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist. Jones' appointment was announced on March 10. Two weeks before he started his White House job, however, Jones delivered the keynote address at Power Shift '09, which was billed as the largest youth summit on climate change in history. A reported 12,000 young people were at the D.C. Convention Center for the event. During his speech, available on YouTube (or see below in this blog), Jones threw around terms like "eco-apartheid" and "green for some," and preached about spreading the wealth while positing a call to "change the whole system." In one section of his twenty-minute speech, Jones referenced "our Native American brothers and sisters" who, he claimed, were "pushed," "bullied," "mistreated" and "shoved into all the land that we didn't want." "Guess what?" Jones continued. "Give them the wealth! Give them then wealth! No justice on stolen land ... we owe them a debt." "We have to create a green economy, that's true, that's true. But we have to create a green economy that Dr. King would be proud of," he exclaimed. [CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING ENTIRE COLUMN]

Van Jones | Power Shift Keynote (complete) This video is courtesy of energyaction on youtube.com

Federal Reserve Board fights to keep its secrets

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Warns disclosing where money went would cause 'irreparable harm' Posted: August 29, 2009 ~ 12:25 am Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily The Federal Reserve Board, despite being ordered to disclose to whom it awarded roughly $2 trillion in discount "stimulus" loans, is fighting to keep the information under wraps as a protected "trade secret." Earlier this week, a U.S. district court judge rejected the Fed's argument that the names of borrowers are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and ordered the board to release the information by Monday, Aug. 31. The Fed's board of governors, however, has now filed a motion asking the judge to delay enforcement of the order, seeking time to appeal and arguing that disclosing which banks borrowed the funds could lead to a backlash from the banks' customers and stockholders. [READ ENTIRE STORY]

God’s Universal Health Care Plan ~ by Garland E. Harris

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By Garland E. Harris God has a plan for universal health that doesn’t involve the government. Although God would heal the land of any of His people that complied with His Word. Bible, Authorized King James Version: 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. If the land of a people is sick, then the food grown on that land will not be able to provide the proper sustenance for the people of that land and the people will get sick, sicker and sickest. There is so much to be dealt with in food growth, production and distribution that it is outside of the scope of this article, but God has provided health care for all people regardless of the current food problems. First, God designed the body to heal itself. Almost every doctor and health care professional knows this. A doctor can set a broken arm, but the bone refuses itself together. Once a cause is removed, if removed in time, the symptoms will disappear. Even a tiny splinter would kill you if it wasn’t battled until it is ejected from the body and the wound is healed. There are many herbs and foods that serve man by aiding in or jump starting the healing process for the body. Psalms 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; The apex of God’s health care or healing plan is in the awesome power of His Word, whether it is spoken, written or incarnate (Jesus Christ). Psalms 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. God’s Word is healing in itself, because it is light instead of darkness. God’s Word is life and makes life available to all those who believe it no matter where they live or who they are. God is so gracious and loving that even unbelievers in Jesus Christ can be and are healed divinely at times as long as they believe to be healed. So, I would like to prescribe to you the healings in the Bible. Take at least one of these a day and pray (believe) to receive. And please note that there are no incurable diseases. Only your negative believing can make a disease incurable. God can and will heal them all. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN]

Glenn Beck's Plan: I Can Lose Everything ... But My Honor

From GlennBeckDailyClips on youtube.com or on www.glennbeckclips.com August 28, 2009 - Segment 6 Keith Ablow remains for the first part of this segment. (Did you watch Segment 5 yet?) You are not alone. Glenn is not alone. We are not alone. In the finale' of the Friday show, Glenn will show you something very inspirational, you are going to be in for a very special treat, so be sure to watch this video all the way through. Oh, did I mention? Glenn will make an announcement, too, at the end of this segment.

Glenn Beck's Plan: Sticks and Stones ...

From GlennBeckDailyClips on youtube.com or on www.glennbeckclips.com August 28, 2009 - Segment 5 Glenn goes over the list of names he's been called - just this week! Remember when were taught as little kids that being called names can't hurt us? We learned to say, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." Ridicule and bullying has been going on for a long time, by both sides of the political spectrum. Joining Glenn in this segment is his guest, psychiatrist and Fox News contributor (and Glenn's friend), Keith Ablow.

Glenn Beck's Plan: Demand Answers From Your Government with Boldness

From GlennBeckDailyClips on youtube.com or on www.glennbeckclips.com Friday, August 28, 2009 - Segment 3 This is the 3rd segment of Glenn Beck's show on Friday where he lays out his plan. Don't be afraid to ask questions of the government (like at the town hall meetings), and boldly demand answers from your government.

Glenn Beck's Plan, Step 1: Fear Not!

From GlennBeckDailyClips on youtube.com or on www.glennbeckclips.com Friday, August 28, 2009 Glenn Beck lays out his plan on this show. This first segment gives a background of what is facing us (the Marxists in the White House), and step one of his plan: Fear Not!

The Health Care Math Everyone Avoids ~ By Jeremiah Norris

From IBD Editorials

By JEREMIAH NORRIS Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 4:20 PM PT The health overhaul debate has generated plenty of heat. Yet no one has offered a solution to one vital and unavoidable dimension: the future. In 20 years the country will have many more retired people as a proportion of the population. The population will therefore suffer from far higher rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer. If a public option will exist for health insurance, the cost of paying these bills will be an intolerable burden on the dwindling band of economically active U.S. taxpayers. The costs of treating chronic diseases already weigh heavily on the health sector. Nearly half of Americans suffer from one or more chronic (long-lasting) diseases. These are frequently only manageable rather than curable and come with a big price tag. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 75% of every dollar spent on health care is for treatment of patients with one or more chronic conditions, rising to 96% in public programs. These costs will increase massively the next 30 years. The management of diabetes requires expensive monitoring and drugs for the life of the patient. One-third of children born in 2000 will develop diabetes. Obesity is another portent of trouble ahead for U.S. medical care: 67% of Americans are officially obese — with an alarming increase in children and teenagers. The Milken Institute predicts that by 2015, 75% of Americans will be obese, significantly contributing to the rise in chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and renal failure. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN]

Obama Wants Control Over the Internet

From Obama Been Lying (Tyrant President - Killer of Freedom)

August 29th, 2009 Here is the 55-page draft of S.773, the bill that would give Obama the power to shut you up: (http://www.politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.revised.cybersecurity.draft.082709.pdf)

• permits the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a “cybersecurity” emergency

• president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” in regards to “non-governmental” networks and do whatever they feel is necessary.

• include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals”

• requirement that some computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded a cybersecurity professional license

• Section 201: permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.”

• White House will engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with the federal government. “Cyber” is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks

• If your company is considered “critical”, you get regulated. Who you can hire, what info you must disclose, and when the government can take control of your computers and network

First off, this goes against the 1st Amendment on many levels. The US Constitution limits government and favors the people. The Obama Administration and the demacrooks in the Senate are trying to change that. This is a gross violation of privacy. [READ COMPLETE STORY]

RELATED STORY: Democrats echo Truman and threaten to nationalize Internet

Democrats echo Truman and threaten to nationalize Internet

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Posted by Neil Stevens (Profile) Saturday, August 29th at 9:29AM EDT In 1952, during the Korean War, the United Steel Workers of America had gone out on strike. The union was demanding pay increases beyond what steel firms said they could afford to pay, unless they were to raise prices beyond what would be approved by the government’s Wage Stablization Board (set up for the war to attempt to keep costs in line despite inflationary government policies). President Harry Truman, Democrat, unilaterally declared the steel firms to be at fault for the strikes, which were set to cripple Defense contractors’ ability to keep the war supplied. So, the President nationalized America’s steel manufacturing plants with the plan of dictating his own terms to the unions, appeasing them as part of his political base, while keeping afloat an early front of the Cold War. The Supreme Court two months later shut the President down, denying the administration’s claim that he had broad implied or residual powers to do whatever he wanted as President of the United States. Had he relied on the Selective Service Act to take control, he might have gotten away with it, but he refused to use it because it had too many pesky controls to protect property rights. Had he relied on Taft-Hartley to stop the strikes, he might have gotten away with it, but he refused to use it because the unions were his allies. So today, it is surely with the case of Youngstown Sheet & Tube co. vs Sawyer in mind that the Congress debates giving President Barack Obama, Democrat, sweeping authority over Internet Service Providers, including the authority to nationalize whatever Internet resources he declares to be important. S. 773, a bill by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, has a 55-page draft bill that would create new “emergency” powers for the President, a ‘cybersecurity’ Enabling Act of sorts, that would give the President the authority broad powers over any “non-governmental” computer networks, whether public or private, that are declared by the President to be “critical.” On its own, this power is already dangerous, and even frightening to anyone in the industry. Whether large or small, we all who operate on the Internet invest in online capital. Large firms spend billions on the task, and now the Democrats want to nationalize it at the drop of a hat. This is threatened theft on a scale not usually seen outside banana Republics. (Emphasis mine) [READ FULL STORY]

MY COMMENT: This bill sounds quite insidious, to say the least. The author, Neil Stevens, hits it on the nose in this column. Be sure to read the comments at the end of the column, too. As one comment (by MathMom) mentions, "The internet is the lifeline of the Right. The Left has co-opted the major media outlets and all “news” magazines. ABC and NBC won’t air an ad opposing government-issued health care. Our way of getting the word out is by the internet. If Bambi takes that over, the US is over." It could not be better said! Neil Stevens is on twitter as presjpolk

Ted Kennedy: 'A coward beside heroes' ~ By Ellis Washington

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By Ellis Washington Posted: August 29, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009

Such desecration of hallowed ground. A weed beside the rose. Assured, not he with them would die, Yet, worthy, thought he, with them to lie, A coward beside heroes. ~ Anonymous

At the time of this writing, the cortege of limousines is traveling from the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport to the JFK library in Boston behind the hearse bearing the remains of Sen. Ted Kennedy who died of brain cancer Aug. 25. Nevertheless, during this solemn occasion I do not join the legions of sycophantic TV hosts of the government-controlled media and their guests to laud this man, for I find absolutely nothing praiseworthy in him. Ted Kennedy began his political career 47 years ago. I was just 14 months old. I understand that Kennedy actually began his career on the same day that liberal doyen Eleanor Roosevelt died. How fitting is it that the two patron saints of liberalism had their careers begin and end on that same fateful day of Nov. 7, 1962. JFK had a similar coincidence occur at his death on Nov. 22, 1963. Two thousand years ago, at the trial of Jesus, Roman Procurator Pontius Pilate asked the Socratic question: "What is truth?" I echo Pilate's query in the context of Kennedy: Was Sen. Ted Kennedy a man of truth? For 47 years, Sen. Kennedy made his bones on one singular premise – Take money from people who earned it and give it to those who didn't earn it. That has been the modus operandi not only of Kennedy, but the entire Liberal-Progressive Axis of the Democratic/Republican Party going back over 100 years. For example, the first progressive national leader was President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) who in a speech titled "The New Nationalism," used the curious phrase "human welfare" and further said, "Personal property is subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it." Later President Woodrow Wilson (1913-21), another unabashed progressive, said that "a true leader" uses the masses like "tools" and that "men are as clay in the hands of the consummate leader." These overtly fascist conceptions of power demonstrated 100 years ago were the seeds of the modern-day liberalism of FDR, LBJ, Ted Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Furthermore, these Machiavellian ideas are a gross perversion of the U.S. Constitution and the original intent of the Founding Fathers to any person who has learned to think logically and understand history and law from an intellectual as opposed to a socialist point of view. In the comments section of a Washington Times article, "Senate's liberal lion falls to cancer at 77," by Stephen Dinan, there were these interesting lines that summed up the true legacy of Ted Kennedy and the behind-the-scenes machinations of the old patriarch, Joseph Kennedy ("Mr. Fix"):

A memorial to Edward "Ted" M. Kennedy, who enlisted for a two-year term in the army in 1950. To Ted Kennedy, whose father used personal influence to get Ted an assignment as a guard to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE) in Paris; which kept him out of the Korean War, in which thousands of brave American young men were dying.

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Found: Cure for the liberal virus ~ By Pat Boone

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By Pat Boone Posted: August 29, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 It was at the Hutchinson Cancer Clinic in Seattle, several years ago I first saw live cancer cells under a microscope. It's forever seared into my memory. Dr. Fred Hutchinson, founder of the renowned clinic and research center, was showing me around. He asked me, "Have you ever actually seen cancer cells? Would you like to?" Of course I said I would, and he took me into a laboratory and produced a number of slides. I looked through the high-powered microscope – and gazed at the embodiment of evil. Little black, iridescent globs, almost radiant from within, pulsing with menace, looking like miniaturized Darth Vaders from Star Wars. "Doc, this is ghastly, frightening! What in the world can fight these things?" I asked. "These," he said. And he stuck another slide under the scope. I was now looking at what looked like a bunch of Little Orphan Annie eyes, perfectly round clear circles. I asked, "These little circles, they can fight those evil blisters?" "They can absolutely lick cancer totally; I'll show you," he said. And he then showed me a progression of slides, and I'll never forget what I saw. In stages, those little circles – lymphocytes or white blood cells – moved up to and around the black blisters, completely covered them, and smothered them out of existence. They created an environment in which the cancer cells couldn't function, and they just dissolved. In my mind, I saw a subtitle tickertape moving under the slides, right out of the Bible: "Be not overcome with evil. Overcome evil with good." Doctor Fred went on. "Every body contracts cancer cells from time to time, unknown to the person. Most of the time, a healthy blood stream will deliver those lymphocytes where they're needed, and in sufficient quantity, and the cancer cells are dissolved and expelled. We here, and around the world, are trying to find the way to send that army of white blood cells to the places where the cancer cells have established a foothold. When we accomplish that, we'll lick cancer." I then asked the obvious question. "Do we know how cancer starts, where the black filthy cells come from?" And, as I remember it, he said the medical research world feels there's some virus that infects otherwise healthy cells, and chemically distorts or corrupts their DNA. Those cells go on living in the organ, and reproducing – but now controlled by a different blueprint. They have become outlaws, renegades and as they grow they disrupt the functions of the organ, contaminate and ruin it; and they can eventually spread through the body, using the bloodstream, and cause death. There's something fearfully like that going on in our body politic. A deadly virus has been loosed throughout our system, and wherever it takes root, it changes the functions and the structure that gave us the grandest, strongest, freest system of government the world has ever known. I call it liberalism. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN!]

GOP's Bachmann zings heckler at health-care town hall

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'I've given birth here probably more times than you, sir' Posted: August 29, 2009 ~ 12:25 am Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., gave health-care town hall attendees in Lake Elmo, Minn., not only something to think about in her comments condemning President Obama's government health-care plan, but also something to smile over when she zinged a heckler with an impromptu remark that elicited uproarious laughter from the crowd. Bachmann had been arguing, "I would far prefer to have American medical care than I would health care in the U.K. any day of the week," a comment which brought cheers and applause from the approximately 400 who squeezed into a junior high school auditorium to hear her speak, with another roughly 400 watching via closed-circuit in the school's cafeteria. But when she held up a stack of papers she claimed were headline reports from U.K. newspapers carrying stories of poor health care under socialized medicine, an unidentified man attempted to interrupt. Bachmann was in the middle of highlighting a story about 4,000 U.K. women forced by a lack of hospital beds to give birth in hospital hallways, when the heckler became too loud to ignore. "That happens here!" the heckler shouted. "Not here," Bachmann attempted to argue. When the heckler insisted she was wrong, Bachmann responded with an impromptu zinger: "I've given birth here probably more times than you, sir," she said. The gathered crowd erupted in laughter. [Video of the exchange can be seen in the FULL STORY - Click here]

MY NOTE: I highly recommend reading the full story. There is a long list of various town hall events and related stories, and is excellent material for you to check out. RELATED VIDEO: 1 of 10 Bachmann Healthcare Town Hall 8-27-09 Lake Elmo, MN (and more you can see from there)

The great escape from responsibility ~ By Thomas Sowell

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By Thomas Sowell Posted: August 25, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care, the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation – that is, something outside the control of the individuals directly involved. Education is usually discussed in terms of the money spent on it, the teaching methods used, class sizes or the way the whole system is organized. Students are discussed largely as passive recipients of good or bad education. But education is not something that can be given to anybody. It is something that students either acquire or fail to acquire. Personal responsibility may be ignored or downplayed in this "non-judgmental" age, but it remains a major factor, nevertheless. After many students go through a dozen years in the public schools, at a total cost of $100,000 or more per student – and emerge semi-literate and with little understanding of the society in which they live, much less the larger world and its history – most discussions of what is wrong leave out the fact that many such students may have chosen to use school as a place to fool around, act up, organize gangs or even peddle drugs. The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. Differences in infant mortality rates provoke pious editorials on a need for more prenatal care to be provided by the government for those unable to afford it. In other words, the explanation is automatically assumed to be external to the mothers involved, and the solution is assumed to be something that "we" can do for "them." [READ ENTIRE COLUMN]

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif. He is the author of 28 books, including "Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy."

How free Americans became pigs at a trough ~ By Patrice Lewis

From WorldNetDaily

By Patrice Lewis Posted: August 29, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 I frequently receive e-mails from readers professing admiration for our (ahem) "simple" life. (For those unfamiliar with our lifestyle, we have a homestead farm, a home business, and we homeschool our kids.) What many people don't understand is the sheer hard work the "simple" life entails. Difficult? Undoubtedly. Worth it? Unquestionably. We live this way because we're big believers in personal responsibility. We try to be responsible for every major aspect of our lives – our jobs, finances, health care, food and children's education. To us, it's simply what grown-ups do. Apparently, that's what makes us different. It's not that we live rural or milk a cow – it's that we're independent. Do you have any idea – any inkling at all – how much more streamlined our nation would be if everyone preferred independence and refused to allow others, especially the government, to be our mommies and daddies? Thomas Sowell had a superb article this week on the issue of personal responsibility. "Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care," he wrote, "the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation – that is, something outside the control of the individuals directly involved." External. That means you've shoved the responsibility for your education, your income or your medical care onto someone else. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN!]

My recommendation: What will it take to restore common sense and rein in out-of-control government? Get Glenn Beck's latest book, inspired by Founding Father Thomas Paine, "Common Sense".

The defining issue of our time ~ By Henry Lamb

From WorldNetDaily

By Henry Lamb Posted: August 29, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Everyone agrees that the nation needs health-care reform. If this is true, why can't one side or the other actually win the battle for congressional votes and reform the health-care system? The progressives in Congress, mostly Democrats, want a system in which the government provides health care to everyone. Some go so far as to claim that health care is a basic human right. This side of the debate believes that it is immoral for people who need health care not to get it, and that government is the only entity with the money to provide it. The conservatives in Congress, mostly Republicans, realize that before government can provide health care for anyone, the money to pay for it must first be taken from the people who earn it. This raises a question: If the money to pay for health care must first be taken from the people, why not let the people keep their money and pay for their own health care? The answer is this: Some people earn enough money to pay for their own health care, and some don't. Therefore, government must take enough money from those who earn it to pay for the health care needed by those who cannot pay for their own care. The progressives in Congress, mostly Democrats, consider this to be a perfectly legitimate function of a socialist government: Take from those who have, and redistribute to those who have not. The conservatives in Congress, mostly Republicans, consider this to be theft, a penalty upon the successful, and absolutely abhorrent to the Constitution and to the notion of equal justice under the law. Where the Constitution first authorizes taxation (Article 1, Section 8) it requires that taxes "… shall be uniform throughout the United States." This establishes the principle of equal taxation. Not until 1913 does the 16th Amendment authorize taxes on income. The Amendment does not require uniform application, and the progressives in Congress were quick to abandon the principle of equal taxation under the law, in favor of the socialist principle of taking from those who have and redistributing to those who have not. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN!]

What if Obama is ineligible? ~ By Joseph Farah

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By Joseph Farah Posted: August 29, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 I've been asked the question dozens and dozens of times recently: "What if Obama is ineligible, then what? What would it mean for the country? Could the nation withstand the shock and the upheaval of unseating the first black president?" What the questioners are talking about is not the constitutional procedure for removing an ineligible president from office. They are talking instead about the real-world ramifications. Often, there is the suggestion that there would be race riots in major cities. When I first encountered this question, I dismissed it as irrelevant, speculative, placing the cart before the horse. But the more I run into it, the more I realize this nagging thought might indeed be the root of much of the resistance to a full examination of the facts. I don't know what would happen across America if Obama were to be found ineligible. I don't know, and, in a sense, I don't really care. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN]

Are Pelosi's lies impeachable? ~ By William Tate

From American Thinker

By William Tate August 28, 2009 Nancy Pelosi is a liar. And not just the typical, sniveling, inside-the-Beltway-talking-head prevaricator, either. Nancy Pelosi is a wide-eyed, stare-you-in-the-face, What-planet-are-you-from? liar. Proof is provided in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. Rather than just regurgitating Democrat talking points -- Why is it I always have the feeling that Rahm Emmanuel is barking questions into Chris Matthews IFB? -- about recently released documents on the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs), the WSJ actually read the reports. [READ COMPLETE STORY]

Glenn Beck: Obama Is Just Like Saul Alinsky

From 0bamasecrets on youtube.com Posted on youtube.com: June 16, 2009 There is a reason why I have posted this video on the blog this morning. In this segment of "The One Thing," Glenn Beck is comparing Barack Hussein Obama to Saul Alinsky, who wrote about community organizing in "Rules For Radicals." This is the kind of background information that you need to help you to "connect the dots" and understand what the underlying agenda really is of this "Change and Hope" President. To assist you even further, be sure to see other segments of Glenn Beck which you can see at GlennBeckClips.com or GlennBeckDailyClips at youtube.com.

Woman accused of contempt for dinner blessing

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Judge finds event was 'voluntary gathering outside of school' Posted: August 27, 2009 ~ 12:15 am Eastern By Alyssa Farah © 2009 WorldNetDaily A Florida school district worker whose husband read a prayer at a private banquet has been cleared of contempt accusations brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The case arose after the Santa Rosa County School District in January agreed to eliminate all religious activity, including prayer, at school-sanctioned events. However, district worker Michelle Winkler was at a private banquet held at a Naval base to honor non-instructional school district employees and her husband read a brief blessing prior to the meal, according to reports of the case. The ACLU alleged that subjected her to contempt charges. Two other district employees also are facing charges for a similar but separate incident. [READ ENTIRE STORY]

Reclaiming sovereignty of the people ~ By David Limbaugh

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By David Limbaugh Posted: August 28, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 It's true that Barack Obama's approval ratings began at the North Pole and are already hovering around the equator. But given what he's said and done, it is quite remarkable, frankly, that they aren't firmly planted at the South Pole. The deceptions and contradictions are astounding. His premises for policy change are consistently duplicitous. He's embarked on a course to deliberately bankrupt the nation; he is at war with mainstream American values; he is undermining our national security during wartime (prosecuting our protectors – and otherwise); and he's pursuing unprecedented government control of the private sector. Just look at his handling of Obamacare. His stated goals aren't arguably fraudulent, but verifiably so. He says he's motivated to cut costs, but the Congressional Budget Office, even using static economic analysis, says Obamacare would increase costs by $1 trillion. This is without factoring in the inevitable inflation that would occur from further dissociating health care demand from market prices. Obama also continues to use the counterfeit figure of 47 million uninsured when he knows that only a fraction of those are American citizens who both can't afford insurance and are not eligible for government assistance. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN]

The media-government incest brothel ~ By Craige McMillan

From WorldNetDaily

By Craige McMillan Posted: August 27, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 America was designed with a watchdog press that the founders believed would naturally allay itself with the citizens against government excess. Why? Because the press was composed of small, individual businesses, most often printers. That's why the founders specifically protected the press from the government by including it in the First Amendment. Unfortunately, the founders failed to see several rather nasty developments:

• The rise of media conglomerates, which absorbed most of the nation's once-independent voices (which has been encouraged by government);

• Ongoing incest between the conglomeratized press corps and the government itself (the revolving door);

• The infestation of the press by special-interest groups, including government itself.

A perfect example of this is Jon Leibowitz, a top federal regulator, and his wife, Ruth Marcus, a columnist for the Washington Post. Of course, they use different last names in real life. Now the federal regulator will be hosting a panel on the press' role in America. Bloomberg, to its great credit, had the decency to mention the relationship in its reporting on the upcoming conference. [READ FULL COLUMN]

Will a 'red' help blacks go green? ~ By Aaron Klein

This one, from WorldNetDaily, goes back to April 2009. Don't you think you should ask why you haven't heard about this until now? What else is being kept from us?

White House appoints 'radical communist' who sees environment as racial issue Posted: April 12, 2009 ~ 7:26 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2009 WorldNetDaily JERUSALEM – The man appointed as a special environmental adviser to the White House recently was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader. Van Jones, president and founder of Green For All, a nonprofit organization that advocates for building a so-called inclusive green economy, has been tapped to serve as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to the White House blog, Jones' duties will include helping to craft job-generating climate policy and ensuring equal opportunity in the administration's energy proposals. Jones, formerly a self-described "rowdy black nationalist," boasted in a 2005 interview that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class "justice." "I'll work with anybody, I'll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward," he told the left-leaning East Bay Express in a 2005 interview. "I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends." [READ FULL STORY]

Glenn Beck Closing in on Van Jones

From ACCURACY in MEDIA

AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | August 25, 2009 "Is Glenn Beck finished?" is the headline over an article on a left-wing website, insisting that a campaign against Beck's Fox News Channel program has cost him 36 advertisers and that his show may be cancelled as a result. The campaign against Beck is being waged by a group called Color of Change, whose co-founder, Van Jones, is now Obama's green-jobs czar. Not coincidentally, Beck has repeatedly singled out Van Jones for criticism, citing evidence of his communist past. The source of this evidence is New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, the same researcher who originally unearthed the fact that Obama's mysterious mentor "Frank" in Obama's book Dreams from My Father was Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. We confirmed that identification with a separate source and ran with the story last year, even obtaining the 600-page FBI file on Davis. It also came out that Davis was a sex pervert, doper, and pornographer. The Obama campaign eventually confirmed Frank's identity but tried to play down his relationship with Obama. Most media gave the scandal a ho-hum. Trevor Loudon, who deserves far more credit than he gets for smoking out the communists in and around the Obama Administration, broke the Van Jones story back on April 6 and has run several follow-ups. Among other things, he revealed that Jones was a leading member of a Marxist organization known by the acronym STORM, which means Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. A 96-page history of the organization mentions how several STORM members had traveled to Cuba in the summer of 1999 as part of the Venceremos Brigade. This is the group that was originally sponsored by the Castro regime and the Weather Underground. To add to the mystery, it turns out that "Van" Jones is not even his real name. His real first name is Anthony; he says he changed it because "Van" sounded cool. Various accounts say that he has been arrested twice. Aaron Klein of World Net Daily then wrote a story on Jones, citing Loudon's work. Since then, Beck and others have seized on it. Now, some more of this fascinating story can be told. I have been engaged for months in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests with the Obama Administration for information about Jones and how he was hired. It seems clear that Jones has undergone, with powerful sponsors and benefactors, an extreme makeover. Beck, to his credit, is trying to peel away the protective cover. He needs our support to remain on the air and pursue this story. The trail will most certainly lead beyond Jones himself. [READ ENTIRE STORY]

RELATED STORIES: Obama Appoints "Former" Communist To White House "Green Job" Will a 'red' help blacks go green? ~ By Aaron Klein

White House stonewalls on 'radical' adviser

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Won't explain how admitted 'rowdy communist' became 'green jobs czar' Posted: August 27, 2009 ~ 12:15 am Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2009 WorldNetDaily JERUSALEM – More than five months after the Obama administration announced the hiring of its "green jobs czar," Van Jones, the White House has refused to explain whether it knew of Jones admitted black nationalist and radical communist history and just who hired the adviser. Also questions continue to fester about how Jones, who has an arrest history, passed security clearances for his White House position. Cliff Kincaid, an editor at Accuracy in Media, attempted to answer some of these questions when he used the Freedom of Information Act in April to request immediate access to all documents relating to the appointment of Jones to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he serves as special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation. The council, which hired Jones, replied that it "searched its records system and found none responsive" for Kincaid's request. The council recommended more information be sought at the White House Press Office, which did not respond to Kincaid's requests about how Jones was hired. [READ ENTIRE STORY]

Shake 'n' Bake Soviet America ~ By Erik Rush

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By Erik Rush Posted: August 27, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 The communistic model that grew out of Soviet Russia has always consisted of the avaricious human garbage who cannot prosper in a merit-based system co-opting the power structure and enslaving those who are not a waste of nucleic acids. This has nothing to do with race, nationality, ethnicity or gender; it has to do with the philosophical excrement that finds a ready haven in the hearts and minds of men and women. Utilizing a formulaic strategy and aid from willing participants in Congress, Barack Obama participated in bringing the U.S. economy to its knees via the accursed Community Reinvestment Act before even being elected. Since his election, and in the aftermath of the economic implosion of late 2008, Obama hurriedly and wantonly spent what will ultimately amount to trillions of taxpayer dollars. He has effectively taken over the U.S. auto industry and appointed a shadow government of over three dozen "czars" who answer only to him. At present, he is attempting to transfer one-sixth of the American economy to control of the federal government via "health-care reform," and has an attorney general who is taking steps to dangerously compromise our intelligence agencies at a time of war. Obama has employed dedicated communists, former Black Panthers and other subversives to administer government and craft sinister and insidious forms of legislation that will secure unprecedented and perilously potent authority for his administration. Throughout 2007 and 2008, I and certain of my colleagues charged that, if elected, Obama would attempt to actualize the Marxist vision he had held all of his adult life (but cloaked with help from the establishment press) and substantially weaken the U.S. as a world power. We were ridiculed, maligned and slandered. Now that this is in fact occurring, although the deceived and true believers deny it and continue to support Obama, many ordinary Americans are now feeling the sting of derision from those who seek to relieve us of our constitutionally guaranteed liberties. Convince the American people we're not communists, get into office, and take over … To my knowledge, the above was never actually uttered by anyone now in government. It may be an oversimplification, but at this juncture, I will debate anyone alive as to its accuracy respecting our current president, his minions and his benefactors. [READ ENTIRE COLUMN]