<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660</id><updated>2012-02-16T20:16:09.037-06:00</updated><category term='obama'/><category term=']'/><category term='Conservative'/><category term='Freedom'/><title type='text'>NEWSBOY POST</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;i&gt;'By the time I'm through, you will thank me for showing you the way'&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Today Obama is saying, 'I look forward to an imminent social revolution, where the dependent class will overthrow the producing class. I just love Karl, Saul and Vladamir!&lt;br&gt;And quit wondering how I got those friggin' scars on my head.'&lt;/i&gt;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Newsboy Post</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18344276069951664654</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TDOWIf_d-SI/AAAAAAAACEg/KlpcK7hzmZk/S220/NBnewsboypost.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-4142566378463906886</id><published>2012-02-15T17:06:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T17:06:40.948-06:00</updated><title type='text'>NEWS and OPINIONS</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GgBSREwgPwM/Ta2GPrT9XxI/AAAAAAAAD0I/9GKt6FzItws/s1600/NBlittlefattieCompCrop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 96px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 96px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597277515773992722" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GgBSREwgPwM/Ta2GPrT9XxI/AAAAAAAAD0I/9GKt6FzItws/s200/NBlittlefattieCompCrop.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Is Obama's real name Steve Dunham? - Obama's birth certificate reads &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Steve Dunham&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;. His biological father is most likely commie pervert &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Frank Marshall Davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; or his look-alike grandfather &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Stanley Dunham&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; from a relationship with an unknown Negroid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-685UIwXs71M/Ta8X3hknyII/AAAAAAAAD0w/Ii-kRTKAmEE/s1600/newsopinions213x144.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 135px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597719104517032066" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-685UIwXs71M/Ta8X3hknyII/AAAAAAAAD0w/Ii-kRTKAmEE/s200/newsopinions213x144.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/auto-dealers-warn-fuel-efficiency-proposal-will-price-out-millions-buyers/" jquery1329346260890="153"&gt;Dealers: Efficiency Proposal Won't Sell&lt;/a&gt; - American auto dealers claim fuel economy proposals will raise car prices, pushing millions of auto buyers to opt for cheaper, gas-guzzling cars, potentially jeopardizing the benefits of the environmental program&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/15/25-million-tons-tsunami-debris-floating-toward-us-shores/" jquery1329346452921="243"&gt;Japanese Tsunami Debris On Path to Wash Up on US&lt;/a&gt; - Twenty-five million tons of tsunami debris — houses, cars, boats, body parts — is floating across the Pacific&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/dept-homeland-security-concerned-over-threats-from-iran/" jquery1329346452921="247"&gt;Homeland Security Dept. 'Monitoring' Iran Activity&lt;/a&gt; - Officials plan to boost communication with Jewish groups, as Napolitano says Iran situation 'bears watching'&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/15/whitney-houston-squandered-away-multi-million-dollar-fortune-sources-say/" jquery1329346452921="252"&gt;Did Houston Squander Fortune on Drug Habit?&lt;/a&gt; - Despite cashing in on record sales, concert tours, Houston reportedly lost millions feeding her drug habits&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/dolan-obama-says-hes-not-anti-religious-but-hes-getting-harder-to-believe/"&gt;No Compromise on Birth control Policy&lt;/a&gt; - Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan vows court challenges against Obama's birth control rule, which would force religious institutions to pay for employees' contraceptives, after Obama exempted some in compromise&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/media-matters-memo-reportedly-detailed-plan-to-target-fox-news-staff/"&gt;Media Matters' 'Anti-Fox' Doc Blueprints Harass Plan&lt;/a&gt; - Liberal media group reportedly had plan to target Fox News staff — even digging into their personal lives&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/14/concerns-for-whitney-houstons-daughter-mount-after-moms-death/"&gt;Fears Mount for Daughter After Houston's Death&lt;/a&gt; - Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi feared to be suicidal, family says, as she reportedly suffers anxiety&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/interview-offers-glimpse-into-child-killers-mind/"&gt;Mind of a Monster: Video Reveals Killer's Motives&lt;/a&gt; - Child killer offers tell-all interview to Georgia police, explaining why he decided to molest and kill girl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/us-lawmaker-seeks-answers-after-state-department-error-releases-mexican/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="256"&gt;Mexican fugitive on lam again after feds mistakenly order his release from Texas jail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/15/colorado-student-reportedly-quits-choir-over-islamic-song/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="257"&gt;Student quits choir over Islamic song praising 'Allah'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/national-security-archive-names-justice-department-as-most-secretive/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="258"&gt;Watchdog: Justice Department most secretive agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/senators-try-again-for-cybersecurity-bill-absent-kill-switch/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="259"&gt;Senators renew push for broad cybersecurity bill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/santorum-may-request-secret-service-protection/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="260"&gt;Santorum may request Secret Service protection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/will-romneys-good-enough-strategy-be-good-enough-for-voters/" jquery1329346452921="261"&gt;Is Romney's strategy good enough?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/lawsuit-claims-oahu-pet-store-cut-dogs-ear-tail/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="262"&gt;Lawsuit: Hawaii Petco mutilated dog during grooming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/15/philadelphia-man-shot-dead-during-argument-over-chihuahua/" jquery1329346452921="263"&gt;Man shot dead during argument over Chihuahua&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/15/mormons-apologize-for-posthumous-jewish-baptism/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="264"&gt;Mormons sorry for Wiesenthal's posthumous baptism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/couples-valentines-role-playing-ends-in-arrests/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="265"&gt;Couple's Valentine's Day role playing ends in arrests&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/preschoolers-homemade-lunch-replaced-with-nuggets/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="266"&gt;Food inspector confiscates kid's homemade lunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/15/preschool-replaces-students-turkey-sandwich-with-chicken-nuggets-due-to/" jquery1329346452921="267"&gt;DR. MANNY: The 'food police' are out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/15/after-day-medical-experts-prosecution-winding-up-in-university-virginia-murder/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="268"&gt;Accused University of Virginia lacrosse player too drunk to plot murder, attorneys say&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/15/josh-powell-did-not-live-at-home-where-sons-died-in-gas-fueled-explosion/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="269"&gt;Powell set up sham house to mislead authorities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/02/15/official-prison-fire-in-honduras-leaves-272-dead/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="270"&gt;'Hellish' prison fire kills hundreds in Honduras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/house-republicans-push-off-transportation-keystone-bill-amid-bipartisan/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="271"&gt;House GOP push off Keystone bill amid grumbling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/keystone-pipeline-fate-in-us-in-limbo-but-construction-moves-forward-in-canada/" jquery1329346452921="272"&gt;Pipeline construction moves forward in Canada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/02/15/syria-to-hold-referendum-on-new-draft-constitution/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="273"&gt;Syria to hold referendum on draft constitution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/15/man-suffers-heart-attack-while-dining-at-heart-attack-grill-in-las-vegas/?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="274"&gt;Man suffers heart attack at 'Heart Attack Grill'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aol.com/video/massive-water-tornado-caught-on-camera-in-new-zealand/517273245/?icid=maing-grid7main5dl5sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D135883?test=latestnews" jquery1329346452921="275"&gt;Monster water tornado caught in video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/panetta-to-defend-cuts-to-military-in-budget-plan/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="147"&gt;Panetta: Military cuts a test for politicians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/13/republicans-look-to-unpaid-extension-payroll-tax-fault-democrats-for-refusing/" jquery1329246282359="148"&gt;GOP tax 'backup plan' a tough sell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/jury-selection-under-way-in-trial-alabama-man-accused-murdering-wife-on/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="150"&gt;Jury selection under way in trial of man accused of murdering wife on honeymoon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/josh-powell-papers-found-at-washington-recycling-site/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="151"&gt;Powell's papers found at Washington recycling center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/medical-testimony-expected-in-murder-trial-former-university-virginia-lacrosse/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="152"&gt;Medical testimony expected in murder trial of former University of Virginia lacrosse player&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/02/13/navy-auctions-puerto-rico-properties-online/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="153"&gt;Navy auctions multimillion dollar pieces of Puerto Rico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/02/14/santorum-battles-occupy-protesters-tacoma-rally?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="154"&gt;Santorum rally to Occupy: 'Get a job'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/maine-high-school-football-coach-resigns-after-posting-nude-facebook-photo/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="155"&gt;High school football coach reportedly resigns after posting nude Facebook photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/02/13/us-warns-about-travel-to-mexico-as-spring-break-nears/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="156"&gt;US warns about Mexico travels as spring break looms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/02/14/5-people-wounded-in-3-explosions-in-thai-capital/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="157"&gt;Israel accuses Iran in series of Thailand bombings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/#" jquery1329246282359="159"&gt;VIDEO: Israel raises alert level after attacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/obama-calls-on-public-to-pressure-congress-on-payroll-tax-cut-extension/?test=latestnews" jquery1329246282359="160"&gt;Obama urges public to help extend payroll tax cut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/obama-welcomes-chinas-heir-apparent-says-us-china-ties-help-rest-world/" jquery1329246282359="161"&gt;Obama welcomes China's heir apparent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/geithner-defends-budget-plan-amid-gop-criticism-says-deeper-cuts-would-hurt/" jquery1329246282359="162"&gt;Geithner defends budget plan amid GOP criticism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Mij6K4TkKI/TazByj27dNI/AAAAAAAADzI/19wX_II8-rc/s1600/newsopinions234x141.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 234px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597061511277933778" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Mij6K4TkKI/TazByj27dNI/AAAAAAAADzI/19wX_II8-rc/s400/newsopinions234x141.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin021512.php3"&gt;Michelle Malkin&lt;/a&gt; - A Tea Party Senate Takeover&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/morris021512.php3"&gt;Dick Morris&lt;/a&gt; - Obama's phony recovery&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0212/stossel021512.php3"&gt;John Stossel&lt;/a&gt; - Never Trust Government Numbers&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah021512.php3"&gt;Jonah Goldberg&lt;/a&gt; - Free health care? That's rich&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell021412.php3"&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/a&gt; - The 'Progressive' Legacy: Part I&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell021512.php3"&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/a&gt; - The Progressive Legacy: Part II&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone021312.php3"&gt;Michael Barone&lt;/a&gt; - Romney Appeals to White Collars, Santorum to Blue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0212/zezima.php3"&gt;Jerry Zezima:&lt;/a&gt; Stand and deliver, then run&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0212/rhart.php3"&gt;Ron Hart:&lt;/a&gt; Hope for the Hip-Hop-ocrisy at the Grammys&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker021512.php3"&gt;Kathleen Parker:&lt;/a&gt; What really killed Whitney Houston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/oreilly.php3"&gt;Bill O'Reilly:&lt;/a&gt; Why Whitney Died&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/hinkle.php3"&gt;A. Barton Hinkle:&lt;/a&gt; Step away from that cookie and grab some air&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg021512.php3"&gt;Paul Greenberg:&lt;/a&gt; Happy days are here again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/McFeatters.php3"&gt;Dale McFeatters:&lt;/a&gt; Putin has found can't lose campaign issue: Promoting a randier Russia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/milbank.php3"&gt;Dana Milbank:&lt;/a&gt; A Republican death wish?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/ambrose.php3"&gt;Jay Ambrose:&lt;/a&gt; Obama is a joke whose antics aren't funny&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/bennett.php3"&gt;John T. Bennett :&lt;/a&gt; Three Political Grenades in Obama's Pentagon Budget Plan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff021512.php3"&gt;Nat Hentoff:&lt;/a&gt; Janet Napolitano: The new J. Edgar Hoover?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/robb.php3"&gt;Robert Robb:&lt;/a&gt; Obama budget vs. Simpson-Bowles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns021512.php3"&gt;Walter Williams:&lt;/a&gt; Rising Black Social Pathology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell021512.php3"&gt;Thomas Sowell:&lt;/a&gt; The Progressive Legacy: Part II&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen021412.php3"&gt;Mona Charen:&lt;/a&gt; The Free Lunch Is Back&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/smerconish.php3"&gt;Michael Smerconish:&lt;/a&gt; Life inside the (class) bubble&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden021412.php3"&gt;Wesley Pruden:&lt;/a&gt; Over the top to the guillotine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/McFeatters.php3"&gt;Dale McFeatters:&lt;/a&gt; Obama's budget lays down battle lines for the fall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/lowry021412.php3"&gt;Rich Lowry:&lt;/a&gt; Tax, spend, repeat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/york.php3"&gt;Byron York:&lt;/a&gt; After wins, Santorum targets Romney's native state&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/david/limbaugh021412.php3"&gt;David Limbaugh:&lt;/a&gt; President Magoo Needs No Delphic Oracle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/milbank.php3"&gt;Dana Milbank:&lt;/a&gt; Obama's budget games&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/saunders021412.php3"&gt;Debra J. Saunders:&lt;/a&gt; Obama Imposes Will in Contraception Compromise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/jkelly021412.php3"&gt;Jack Kelly:&lt;/a&gt; Fretting libs: The population bomb is a bust, but they still don't get it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas021412.php3"&gt;Cal Thomas:&lt;/a&gt; Losing liberty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0212/steyn021312.php3"&gt;Mark Steyn:&lt;/a&gt; Obama goes Henry VIII on the church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/albom.php3"&gt;Mitch Albom:&lt;/a&gt; Cupid's arrow not what it used to be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/thomasson_dan.php3"&gt;Dan K. Thomasson:&lt;/a&gt; Minor tardiness doesn't warrant court action&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/ahlert.php3"&gt;Arnold Ahlert:&lt;/a&gt; Sandwiches or Freedom?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/lopez021312.php3"&gt;Kathryn Lopez:&lt;/a&gt; White House mandate ignites firestorm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker021212.php3"&gt;Kathleen Parker:&lt;/a&gt; Freedom of loser-ness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/david/shribman.php3"&gt;David Shribman:&lt;/a&gt; Which Ike to like?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/milbank.php3"&gt;Dana Milbank:&lt;/a&gt; Are GOPers playing right into Obama's hands?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/saunders021312.php3"&gt;Debra J. Saunders:&lt;/a&gt; To Make Women Safe, We Treat Them Like Children&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg021312.php3"&gt;Paul Greenberg:&lt;/a&gt; A blank canvas can be a beautiful thing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby021312.php3"&gt;Jeff Jacoby:&lt;/a&gt; A second look at 'The Third Jihad'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/jkelly021312.php3"&gt;Jack Kelly:&lt;/a&gt; Prosperity grows under Republicans: Two theories net different results&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will021112.php3"&gt;George Will:&lt;/a&gt; Is it bribery or just politics?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2012/02/15/quakers_conscience_and_contraception"&gt;Jeff Jacoby:&lt;/a&gt; Quakers, Conscience, and Contraception&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/us-usa-campaign-romney-idUSTRE81D23N20120214"&gt;Romney Goes To Familiar Playbook vs. Santorum&lt;/a&gt; - Steve Holland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_02/2008_obama_coalition_returning035422.php"&gt;Getting Easier to Imagine Obama Winning&lt;/a&gt; - Ed Kilgore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/02/14/Obamas-Budget-Proves-He-Should-Not-Be-Reelected.aspx#page1"&gt;Obama Has Failed the American People&lt;/a&gt; - Liz Peek&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/chart-dont-buy-gop-hype-on-obama-budget-deficits.php?ref=fpb"&gt;Don't Buy the Hype on Budget Deficits&lt;/a&gt; - Brian Beutler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/15/commerce_is_the_culture_war_113130.html"&gt;Commerce Is the Culture War&lt;/a&gt; - David Harsanyi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kennedy/mitt-romney-the-inevitabl_b_1272066.html"&gt;Romney: Inevitable and Unelectable?&lt;/a&gt; - Dan Kennedy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/02/13/a-post-obama-vision-in-100-words"&gt;A Post-Obama Vision in 100 Words&lt;/a&gt; - Joel Pollak&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/opinion/friedman-like-father-like-son.html"&gt;Like Father, Like Son in Syria&lt;/a&gt; - Thomas Friedman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/the-china-post/frank-ching/2012/02/15/331682/UN-veto.htm"&gt;Welcome to a More Assertive China&lt;/a&gt; - Frank Ching&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100137521/sean-penn-should-return-his-malibu-estate-to-the-mexicans/"&gt;Sean Penn Should Return His Estate to Mexico&lt;/a&gt; - Tim Stanley&lt;br /&gt;Michigan GOP Primary: &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/"&gt;MRG: Santorum +10 Mitchell: Santorum +9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0214/No-budget-No-problem!-The-strange-politics-behind-a-budgetless-America"&gt;The Odd Politics Behind a Budgetless America&lt;/a&gt; - Gail Chaddock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/obama_budget_shell_game_9qhKQw7k6R76w6AqpeoZRK"&gt;President Obama's Budget Shell Game&lt;/a&gt; - Michael Goodwin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/02/15/rick-santorum-challenge-forces-new-course-change-for-mitt-romney/LEGoEezzPceN3zeKGOo4VN/story.html"&gt;Santorum Surge Forces Romney to Adjust&lt;/a&gt; - Michael Levenson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/mitt-romney-rick-santorum_n_1277622.html"&gt;Romney's Strategy to Sideline Santorum&lt;/a&gt; - Jon Ward&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57377720-503544/poll-obama-holds-edge-over-gop-hopefuls/"&gt;President Holds Edge Over GOP Hopefuls&lt;/a&gt; - Brian Montopoli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204795304577223003824714664.html"&gt;An Unconstitutional &amp;amp; Illegal Mandate&lt;/a&gt; - Rivkin &amp;amp; Whelan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/15/a_religious_war_out_of_thin_air_113134.html"&gt;GOP Drums Up Phony War on Religion&lt;/a&gt; - Eugene Robinson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/02/remember-when-no-one-understood-why-abc-asked-about-contraception-at-the-nh-republican-debate/"&gt;Remember ABC's Weird Debate Question?&lt;/a&gt; - W. Jacobson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-02-14/recess-appointments-cordray-nomination/53094876/1"&gt;Obama's Recess Appointments an Abuse of Power&lt;/a&gt; - Jonathan Turley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/opinion/give-diplomacy-with-iran-a-chance.html"&gt;Give Diplomacy With Iran a Chance&lt;/a&gt; - Dennis Ross&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_california-demographics.html"&gt;California's Demographic Revolution&lt;/a&gt; - Heather Mac Donald&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/romney-more-electable-than-santorum.html"&gt;Is Romney More Electable Than Santorum?&lt;/a&gt; - Jonathan Chait&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/15/the_gops_emerging_bob_dole_problem/"&gt;The GOP's Emerging Bob Dole Problem&lt;/a&gt; - Steve Kornacki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577221630318169656.html"&gt;Washington's Knack for Picking Losers&lt;/a&gt; - Michael Boskin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/15/the-collapse-of-jon-corzine"&gt;The Stunning Collapse of Jon Corzine&lt;/a&gt; - Ross Kaminsky&lt;br /&gt;Ohio (Quinnipiac): &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_republican_presidential_primary-1600.html"&gt;Santorum 36, Romney 29, Gingrich 20, Paul 9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-14/for-economy-s-sake-congress-should-cut-another-temporary-tax-deal-view.html"&gt;For Economy's Sake, Cut Another Temporary Deal on Taxes&lt;/a&gt; - Bloomberg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2012/02/obama-cant-have-it-both-ways-taxes/273326"&gt;Obama Can't Have It Both Ways on Taxes&lt;/a&gt; - Wash Examiner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=257848"&gt;Iran's Tentacles&lt;/a&gt; - Jerusalem Post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/565679/Obama-Winning-His-War-on-Coal.html"&gt;Obama Winning His War Against Coal&lt;/a&gt; - Wheeling News-Register&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-budget-games/2012/02/13/gIQA3JVxBR_story.html"&gt;Obama Avoids Serious Budget Proposal&lt;/a&gt; - Dana Milbank&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-02-13/budget-OMB-Jeff-Zients/53083436/1"&gt;Many Tough Choices in President's Budget&lt;/a&gt; - Jeff Zients&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577221523379438502.html"&gt;The Senate Hasn't Passed a Budget in Three Years&lt;/a&gt; - William McGurn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/obamas-broken-deficit-promise/"&gt;Obama's Broken Deficit Promise&lt;/a&gt; - Jake Tapper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/great-scott_626645.html"&gt;Great Scott: The Success of Gov. Walker&lt;/a&gt; - Stephen Hayes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/polls-romney-slipping-against-santorum-obama-20120213"&gt;Romney Slipping Against Santorum, Obama&lt;/a&gt; - Steven Shepard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/down-in-michigan-polls-romney-needs-to-find-his-base/"&gt;Mitt Romney Needs to Find His Base&lt;/a&gt; - Nate Silver&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2012/02/13/the-audacity-of-power-president-obama-vs-the-catholic-church/"&gt;Audacity of Power: ObamaCare vs. The Church&lt;/a&gt; - Charles Kadlec&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/13/the_bishops_go_off_the_deep_end/"&gt;Shrill &amp;amp; Extreme Bishops Reject Obama Compromise&lt;/a&gt; - Joan Walsh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204795304577221250667890244.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h"&gt;Intolerance Is at the Heart of the ObamaCare&lt;/a&gt; - James Taranto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/166217/president-obamas-new-foundation-budget"&gt;Obama's "New Foundation" Budget&lt;/a&gt; - George Zornick&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_781061.html"&gt;An Economy Drowning in Obama's 'Fairness'&lt;/a&gt; - Ralph Reiland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearhistory.com/"&gt;Islam's Assassination of the Mind&lt;/a&gt; - Christopher Hitchens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearscience.com/"&gt;Celebrating John Glenn's Orbit: 50 Years Later&lt;/a&gt; - John Wilford&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/12/billionaire-peter-thiel-is-worried-about-america-s-future.html?utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;amp;utm_campaign=in_newsweek&amp;amp;cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bin_newsweek&amp;amp;utm_term=Tina%20Brown%20List"&gt;Peter Thiel Is Worried About America's Future&lt;/a&gt; - Niall Ferguson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-budget-0214-20120214,0,3658449.story"&gt;Athens on the Potomac: America's Budget Debacle&lt;/a&gt; - Chicago Tribune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/opinion/a-responsible-2013-budget.html"&gt;The President's Responsible 2013 Budget&lt;/a&gt; - NY Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577221342883636060.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"&gt;Obama's Budget: The Spending Boom &amp;amp; the Debt Boom&lt;/a&gt; - WSJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2012/02/greeces-woes"&gt;Greece's Woes: A Reprieve, Nothing More&lt;/a&gt; - The Economist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/europe-in-the-rearview-mirror/"&gt;Europe in the Rearview Mirror&lt;/a&gt; - Victor Davis Hanson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/how-obamas-budget-throws-a-big-punch-at-the-gop.php?ref=fpb"&gt;How Obama's Budget Takes On the Republicans&lt;/a&gt; - Brian Beutler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-obama-budget-some-day-my-cuts-will-come/"&gt;You Don't Rein In Spending by Increasing It&lt;/a&gt; - David Boaz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romneys-slide-among-independents-continues/2012/02/13/gIQAYYqGBR_blog.html"&gt;Romney's Slide Among Independents Continues&lt;/a&gt; - Greg Sargent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203824904577215623915733132.html"&gt;Texans Baffled by the Keystone Decision&lt;/a&gt; - Gov. Rick Perry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/keystone-xl-protests_b_1270368.html"&gt;Senate Must Step Up in Pipeline Fight&lt;/a&gt; - Bill McKibben&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/02/12/george_will_on_contraception_flap_this_is_what_liberalism_looks_like.html"&gt;This Is What Liberalism Looks Like&lt;/a&gt; - George Will&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/02/12/the-mad-men-era-contraception/79JgvadT7ySGZRRZgrKNcN/story.html"&gt;The "Mad Men" Era of Contraception&lt;/a&gt; - Joan Vennochi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/02/tucker-carlson-takes-on-the-media-114314.html"&gt;The Daily Caller Takes On Media Matters&lt;/a&gt; - Dylan Byers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/13/is-the-white-house-manipulating-the-media-through-media-matters/"&gt;WH Manipulating Media Through Media Matters?&lt;/a&gt; - Ed Morrissey&lt;br /&gt;Pew Research (GOP): &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html"&gt;Santorum 30, Romney 28, Gingrich 17, Paul 12&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-white-house-budget-20120213,0,6274233.story"&gt;Obama Budget Previews Election Battle&lt;/a&gt; - Hennessey &amp;amp; Parsons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/12/curl-here-comes-obamas-magic-budget/"&gt;Here Comes Obama's Magic Budget&lt;/a&gt; - Joseph Curl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/obama-reelection-heilemann-2012-2/"&gt;Obama Looking Good, But Storm Clouds Ahead&lt;/a&gt; - John Heilemann&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290903/romney-s-case-robert-costa"&gt;Romney Touts His Bay State Record&lt;/a&gt; - Robert Costa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/10/time-for-a-romneycare-mea-culpa/"&gt;Time for a Romneycare Mea Culpa&lt;/a&gt; - Milton Wolf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/opinion/krugman-severe-conservative-syndrome.html"&gt;Severe Conservative Syndrome&lt;/a&gt; - Paul Krugman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/13/contraception_and_the_cost_of_the_culture_wars_113099.html"&gt;Obama's Unnecessary Culture War&lt;/a&gt; - E.J. Dionne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290842/libertine-police-state-george-weigel"&gt;The Libertine Police State&lt;/a&gt; - George Weigel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap-pensions-20120213,0,2131610.column"&gt;Commit a Crime, Collect a Pension&lt;/a&gt; - George Skelton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/party_on_hangover_coming_ZtgzeEcFwIpZ2fjJL8b1uI"&gt;Markets Party On, Hangover Is Coming&lt;/a&gt; - Jonathan Trugman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/13/how_rough_it’s_gotten_for_mitt/"&gt;How Rough It's Gotten for Romney&lt;/a&gt; - Steve Kornacki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/13/can-mitt-close-the-deal"&gt;Mitt Has 3 Weeks Left to Close the Deal&lt;/a&gt; - Jed Babbin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/12/why-obama-should-go-slow-in-syria.html"&gt;Don't Rush Into Syria&lt;/a&gt; - Leslie Gelb&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/world/europe/greeks-pessimistic-in-anti-austerity-protests.html?ref=todayspaper"&gt;Greece in Flames as Austerity Plan Passes&lt;/a&gt; - Kitsantonis &amp;amp; Donadio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/13/our_budget_quagmire_113102.html"&gt;Our Budget Quagmire&lt;/a&gt; - Robert Samuelson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/jack-lews-misleading-claim-about-the-senates-failure-to-pass-a-budget-resolution/2012/02/12/gIQAs11z8Q_blog.html"&gt;Jack Lew Misled Public With Budget Claim&lt;/a&gt; - Glenn Kessler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/?print=1"&gt;Inside Media Matters&lt;/a&gt; - Tucker Carlson &amp;amp; Vince Coglianese&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2012-02-12/Obama-contraception-mandate-Catholic/53064884/1"&gt;Obama's Contraception Retreat Is Not Enough&lt;/a&gt; - USA Today&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-turnaround-20120213,0,3137866.story"&gt;Minority Students Shouldn't Be Trapped in Bad Schools&lt;/a&gt; - Chicago Tribune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-cyber-risk-to-the-us/2012/02/07/gIQA4q7M9Q_story.html"&gt;Guarding Against Cyber Attacks&lt;/a&gt; - Wash Post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view/20220213obama_punts_on_budget/"&gt;Obama Punts on the Budget&lt;/a&gt; - Boston Herald&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2012/02/15/obamas_budget_bomb_he_proposes_spending_increases_while_disarming_america"&gt;Ken Blackwell:&lt;/a&gt; Obama's Budget Bomb: He Proposes Spending Increases, While Disarming America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/reincepriebus/2012/02/15/obamas_budget_deficit_of_trust"&gt;Reince Priebus:&lt;/a&gt; Obama's Budget Deficit of Trust&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2012/02/15/four_dollar_gasoline"&gt;Rich Galen:&lt;/a&gt; Four Dollar Gasoline&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2012/02/15/shariahs_police"&gt;Frank Gaffney:&lt;/a&gt; Shariah's Police?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/crystalwright/2012/02/15/obamas_budget_bomb_worthy_of_the_garbage_can"&gt;Crystal Wright:&lt;/a&gt; Obama's Budget Bomb, Worthy of the Garbage Can&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2012/02/15/obamas_anticonstitutional_pattern"&gt;Laura Hollis:&lt;/a&gt; Obama's Anti-Constitutional Pattern&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/floydandmarybethbrown/2012/02/15/burning_down_the_gop_house"&gt;Floyd &amp;amp; Mary Beth Brown:&lt;/a&gt; Burning Down The GOP House&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/marybethhicks/2012/02/15/frack_nation_digs_up_the_notsoscary_truth"&gt;Marybeth Hicks:&lt;/a&gt; 'Frack Nation' Digs Up the Not-So-Scary Truth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelprell/2012/02/15/the_perfect_candidate"&gt;Michael Prell:&lt;/a&gt; The Perfect Candidate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeshields/2012/02/15/sal_pace_trusts_government_while_congressman_tipton_trusts_you"&gt;Mike Shields:&lt;/a&gt; Sal Pace Trusts Government While Congressman Tipton Trusts You&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/chucknorris/2012/02/14/why_i_chose_newt_over_santorum"&gt;Chuck Norris:&lt;/a&gt; Why I Chose Newt Over Santorum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2012/02/14/liberals_are_the_true_aggressors_in_culture_wars"&gt;Jonah Goldberg:&lt;/a&gt; Liberals are the True Aggressors in Culture Wars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/fredwszolek/2012/02/14/congress_soon_will_soon_voice_stance_on_ambush_elections"&gt;Fred Wszolek:&lt;/a&gt; Congress Soon Will Soon Voice Stance On "Ambush" Elections&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/susanbrown/2012/02/14/obama_the_almighty_conjures_up_the_female_vote"&gt;Susan Brown:&lt;/a&gt; Obama the Almighty Conjures up the Female Vote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/marvinfolkertsma/2012/02/14/god_and_man_at_cpac_facing_the_2012_election"&gt;Marvin Folkertsma:&lt;/a&gt; God and Man at CPAC: Facing the 2012 Election&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/josephinfranco/2012/02/14/contraception_mandate_is_not_an_issue_of_money_but_of_conscience"&gt;Joseph Infranco:&lt;/a&gt; Contraception mandate is not an issue of money but of conscience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelmarsden/2012/02/14/obama_has_it_right_on_birth_control"&gt;Rachel Marsden:&lt;/a&gt; Obama Has It Right on Birth Control&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2012/02/14/be_specific"&gt;Marvin Olasky:&lt;/a&gt; Be Specific&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2012/02/13/a_second_look_at_the_third_jihad"&gt;Jeff Jacoby:&lt;/a&gt; A Second Look at 'The Third Jihad'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2012/02/13/creators_oped"&gt;Michael Barone:&lt;/a&gt; Romney Appeals to White Collars, Santorum to Blue&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2012/02/13/slapping_that_booty"&gt;Mike Adams:&lt;/a&gt; Slapping That Booty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/02/13/the_gop_can_add_15_trillion_to_us_economy_without_spending_a_dime"&gt;John Ransom:&lt;/a&gt; The GOP Can Add 10 Million Jobs and $15 Trillion to US Economy without Spending a Dime&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2012/02/13/what_women_want"&gt;Katie Kieffer:&lt;/a&gt; What Women Want&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/kathrynlopez/2012/02/13/white_house_mandate_ignites_firestorm"&gt;Kathryn Lopez:&lt;/a&gt; White House Mandate Ignites Firestorm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2012/02/13/i_dont_understand_this_compromise"&gt;Rich Galen:&lt;/a&gt; I Don't Understand This Compromise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2012/02/13/god_in_the_media"&gt;Paul Greenberg:&lt;/a&gt; God in the Media&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/2012/02/13/lightbulb_moment"&gt;Rich Tucker:&lt;/a&gt; Lightbulb Moment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2012/02/13/why_oreilly_was_wrong_about_ellen"&gt;Michael Brown:&lt;/a&gt; Why O'Reilly Was Wrong About Ellen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/austinnimocks/2012/02/13/can_we_trust_our_consciences_to_the_state_of_washington"&gt;Austin Nimocks:&lt;/a&gt; Can We Trust Our Consciences to the State of Washington?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/amyridenour/2012/02/13/white_house_birth_control_statistics_dont_add_up"&gt;Amy Ridenour:&lt;/a&gt; White House Birth Control Statistics Don't Add Up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3940451639862292660-4142566378463906886?l=newsboypost.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/feeds/4142566378463906886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/04/news.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/4142566378463906886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/4142566378463906886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/04/news.html' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#000066;&quot;&gt;NEWS&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;OPINIONS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'/><author><name>Newsboy Post</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18344276069951664654</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TDOWIf_d-SI/AAAAAAAACEg/KlpcK7hzmZk/S220/NBnewsboypost.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GgBSREwgPwM/Ta2GPrT9XxI/AAAAAAAAD0I/9GKt6FzItws/s72-c/NBlittlefattieCompCrop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-5318588745663219208</id><published>2011-05-02T10:15:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T10:52:58.254-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Spotting Forged Documentsfor Dummies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GLCBQ_UA1s4/Tb7ITY1w0SI/AAAAAAAAD3c/3ZYhSqvUq-Y/s1600/SigVariatiions1-433x233.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 215px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602135221906493730" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GLCBQ_UA1s4/Tb7ITY1w0SI/AAAAAAAAD3c/3ZYhSqvUq-Y/s400/SigVariatiions1-433x233.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; In these two pictures it is easy to see that the signatures on the document come from different sources. The resolution on the Dunham signature (at top) is higher than the resolution of the Sinclair signature (below) which is composed entirely of "big" pixels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Bb7JRJF9HE/Tb7JJ6smQhI/AAAAAAAAD3k/Jwu5EOH1D4c/s1600/SigVariations2-432x233.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 216px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602136158707794450" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Bb7JRJF9HE/Tb7JJ6smQhI/AAAAAAAAD3k/Jwu5EOH1D4c/s400/SigVariations2-432x233.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A very easy comparison illustrating that the latest Obama Birth Certificate is a manipulated forgery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 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style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3940451639862292660-5318588745663219208?l=newsboypost.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/feeds/5318588745663219208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/05/news.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/5318588745663219208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/5318588745663219208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/05/news.html' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;font-size:230%;color:#000066;&quot;&gt;Spotting Forged Documents&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;for Dummies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'/><author><name>Newsboy Post</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18344276069951664654</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TDOWIf_d-SI/AAAAAAAACEg/KlpcK7hzmZk/S220/NBnewsboypost.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GLCBQ_UA1s4/Tb7ITY1w0SI/AAAAAAAAD3c/3ZYhSqvUq-Y/s72-c/SigVariatiions1-433x233.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-4827449819438502390</id><published>2011-04-26T14:30:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T15:10:57.253-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama's Columbia TranscriptsRevealed?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We've had this document awhile now and we have neither disclosed, or provided to Wikileaks or OpenSecrets.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But now that the Donald seems on the verge of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20057214-503544.html" target="_ "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;spilling the beans&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, we’ve decided it’s time to go public, so we can scoop, or “Trump” him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We can’t know for sure whether this is genuine, but in light of the rest of the history that is slowly being revealed, (e.g., by Stanley Kurtz), these Columbia transcripts that the president has refused to release look quite plausible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We can’t see anything here that jumps out as to why he wouldn’t want us to see them. It’s not like we’re learning anything much new about him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He did have a rough semester in the fall of ’82, but he seems to have bounced back nicely by focusing on courses the final semester that were more in his wheelhouse. So as far as we are concerned, it looks like the real deal to us.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4hNEAdcUCr0/Tbcit-Bb8xI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/wtaiL9MFsWc/s1600/obamacolumbiatranscripts909x1152.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CLICK DOCUMENT TO ENLARGE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 607px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 750px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599982834796983058" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4hNEAdcUCr0/Tbcit-Bb8xI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/wtaiL9MFsWc/s400/obamacolumbiatranscripts909x1152.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-5768675183833389808</id><published>2011-04-17T09:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-17T09:14:54.411-05:00</updated><title type='text'>N E W S   &amp;   O P I N I O N S</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v9dojHaMOj4/Tar0Esdf6rI/AAAAAAAADyY/Ys8Y0MqxcDU/s1600/newsopinions213x144.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596553848452803250" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v9dojHaMOj4/Tar0Esdf6rI/AAAAAAAADyY/Ys8Y0MqxcDU/s400/newsopinions213x144.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/04/n-e-w-s-n-d-p-i-n-i-o-n-s.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Newsboy Post Connects the Dots&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - After investigating the Obama 'Birth Certificate Controversy' for 3 years, WE have concluded: Obama's certificate reads Steve Dunham (his look-alike grandfather Stanley Dunham is likely his biological father from a relationship with an unknown Africanoid.&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/house-vote-gop-2012-budget/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House Approves GOP Budget Plan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - House votes 235-193 for proposal drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan's that would cut $6 trillion over 10 years from Obama's budget and restructure Medicare and Medicaid.&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2011/04/15/2-people-killed-storms-tear-oklahoma/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deadly Storms Rip Across Nation's Midsection&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Nine people killed in Oklahoma and Arkansas after tornadoes, severe storms moved through&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/15/serial-killers/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serial Killers Defy Easy Classification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Serial killers can be hard to classify, hard to catch and hard to identify as they walk among us&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110415/D9MK9KDG0.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consumers feel the pinch of pricier gas and food&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Americans are paying more for food and gas, a trend that threatens to slow the economy at a crucial time. So far, the spike in such necessities hasn't stopped businesses from stepping up hiring or slowed factory production, which rose in March for the ninth straight month.&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110415/D9MK66U01.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scientists: Controllers need naps on the job&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - The best solution to the problem of sleepy air traffic controllers is more sleeping on the job, scientists say. But that would be a radical change for the Federal Aviation Administration. Current regulations forbid sleeping at work, even during breaks. 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Supreme Court Justice Re-Elected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/15/exclusive-dhs-set-star-new-documentary-series-amc?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DHS to Star in Documentary Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/15/qaddafi-forces-reportedly-cluster-bombs-civilian-areas/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Qaddafi Forces Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/15/scientists-controllers-need-naps-job/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scientists: Air Controllers Need Naps on Job&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/15/somali-pirates-indian-hostages-paid-ransom/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Somali Pirates Keep Hostages After Paid Ransom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/15/kids-science-project-sparks-bomb-scare-ohio-water-park/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Science Project Sparks Bomb Scare at Water Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/15/thousands-protesters-demand-reform-syria/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thousands of Protesters Demand Reform in Syria&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/15/obama-administration-unveils-internet-id-plan/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;White House Unveils Internet ID Plan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/15/new-york-mom-drove-3-kids-river-left-dying-declaration-facebook-fatal-plunge?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;N.Y. Mom Who Killed Self, 3 Kids Left Dying Message&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/15/satellite-photographs-black-hole-earth/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Satellite Find 'Black Hole' on Earth?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/federal-city-makes-stand/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tax Day Delayed Due to D.C. Holiday&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/14/japan-ministry-orders-nuclear-plant-operator-compensate-evacuees/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Japan Orders Nuke Plant to Compensate Evacuees&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/states-consider-outlawing-undercover-animal-abuse-videos/#ixzz1JcZIxbPu?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ban Proposes Halt to Undercover Animal Abuse Vids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/bartlett-sanctuary-plan-rescue-chimps-taxpayers/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bartlett Plan Would Rescue Chimps, Taxpayers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/15/illinois-girl-ran-away-home-avoid-arranged-marriage-police-say/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cops: Ill. Girl Ran Away to Avoid Arranged Marriage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/15/president-obama-award-two-medals-honor?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama to Award Medals of Honor to Korean War Vets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/147140/Obama-Job-Approval-Tying-Low.aspx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBAMA BACK TO GALLUP PREVIOUS LOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/04/three-largest-online-poker-sites-indicted-and-shut-down-by-fbi.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Three largest online poker sites shut down by FBI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=35&amp;amp;sid=2345684"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHITE HOUSE PLAN EXPANDS INTERNET 'OVERSIGHT'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054185-503544.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBAMA: 'YOU THINK WE'RE STUPID?'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/obama-disappointed-lack-cool-phone-oval-office/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disappointed With Lack of 'Cool' Phone in Oval Office&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054185-503544.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOT MIC: GOP tried to 'sneak' agenda into budget&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/white-house-president-obama-not-at-all-embarrassed-by-open-mic-moment.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CARNEY: 'Miscommunication'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42592652"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Geithner Warns: Republicans To Blame If Default&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20110415/COL24/110415011/1081/col/Carol-Cain-Prostitution-pot-legalization-could-make-Detroit-attractive-Fieger-says"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DRUGS AND SEX TO SAVE DETROIT?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-momentum-utah-bill-brings-gold-standard/story?id=13377409"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;States Look to Bring Gold Standard Back&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=287225"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUCHANAN: Obama blows up the bridge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42577775/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shortage of ADHD drugs sends parents scrambling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1104/dennis_kucinich_ventriloquist.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kucinich shows off ventriloquism skills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/qaddafi-taunts-as-nato-seeks-more-warplanes-to-hit-his-forces.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Qaddafi Taunts West; NATO Seeks More Attack Planes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377043/Libya-Gaddafis-daughter-Aisha-calls-West-leave-skies.html?ITO=1490"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daughter: 'Leave our skies'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983104576262782606904912.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;USA, Allies Raise Ante&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377124/Cameron-Obama-Sarkozy-Libya-We-wont-stop-bombing-Gaddafis-gone.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now It IS Regime Change!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-libya-usa-rebels-idUSTRE73D68S20110414?feedType=RSS&amp;amp;feedName=topNews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rebels in 'hopeless disarray'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/04/14/town-worker-sues-gloucester-township-nj-over-workplace-harassment/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUIT: Black Worker Taunted, Locked In Cage By White Co-Workers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/04/14/woman-draws-beard-on-her-face-robs-gas-station/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Woman Draws Beard On Face With Marker, Robs Gas Station&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/amc-enters-unscripted-arena-orders-two-docu-series-from-top-producers/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;READY FOR HER CLOSEUP: Big Sis to star in documentary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TSA SINGLES OUT PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT TSA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704628404576265060852516194.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feds move to seize 5 Internet poker websites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/lady-gaga-costume-20110415-ncx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Woman Kills Family Cat To Use In Lady Gaga Concert Outfit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377305/Obama-addresses-birther-issue-directly-whirlwind-day-Chicago-fundraising.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBAMA: 'I was born in Hawaii... I don't have horns'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/88778/-i-ny1-exclusive---i--donald-trump-slams--evil--bush--praises-obama/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YESTERDAY: TRUMP PRAISES OBAMA; BUSH 'EVIL'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/14/donald_trump_obama_has_been_the_worst_president_ever.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'CARTER WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/88778/-i-ny1-exclusive---i--donald-trump-slams--evil--bush--praises-obama/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'BUSH WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/14/donald_trump_obama_has_been_the_worst_president_ever.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'OBAMA WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wfsb.com/news/27541598/detail.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chevy Volt Sparks Garage Fire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/04/14/2-year-old-san-diego-prodigy/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VIDEO: 2-Year-Old Prodigy Raps Presidents, Capitals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/04/14/serial-animal-torturer-wanted-in-el-monte/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: Serial Animal Torturer On The Loose In Los Angeles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/118358/37/Live-Video---Deer-Stands-Guard-Over-Goose"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deer stands guard over goose that lost male mate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/04/14/brutal-fights-caught-on-tape-at-hayward-high-school/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Violent Brawls Erupt Between African-American, Latino Students At High School&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/04/14/woman-sues-match-com-after-sex-assault-by-man-she-met-online/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Woman Sues Match.com After Alleged Sex Assault&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/15/korean-pop-star-rain-wins-time-100-poll-again/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO JOKE: Korean Pop Star Rain Wins TIME 100 Poll&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/156379-house-clears-ryans-2012-budget-plan-conservatives-want-more-cuts"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOUSE PASSES $6 TRILLION SPENDING CUT PLAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42600584/ns/weather/?gt1=43001"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9 dead in severe heartland storms; southeast bracing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WATCHES/WARNINGS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/04/15/2011-04-15_rep_calls_for_houston_to_get_nasa_shuttle_enterprise_not_intrepid_schumer_says_f.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NY POL SLAMS TEXAS: When Houston is worth visiting, maybe then you'll get a space shuttle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110415/pl_afp/usvote2012obama_20110415045805"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBAMA: Republicans will make USA 'Third World' nation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/15/2168425/south-fla-customs-stops-5-pests.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;South Fla. customs stops 5 pests never seen in USA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/jackson-push-bennett-lawsuit-119861339.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NBC: Rev. 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- America, the Dependent&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ann Coulter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - On this aborted fetus, the Dems plant their flag&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Charles Krauthammer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - The grand compromise&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/hanson041011.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Victor Davis Hanson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - Dreamland, USA&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2011/04/15/obama_blows_up_the_bridge"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Pat Buchanan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - Obama Blows up the Bridge&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/david/limbaugh041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;David Limbaugh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - Obama: Incorrigible Statist and Debt Menace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wesley Pruden&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Curdling the cream in everybody's coffee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suzanne Fields&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Women's Work Is Never Done . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/lowry041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rich Lowry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: The Trump moment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/milbank.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dana Milbank&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: If progressives ran the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/west041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Diana West&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Let's COIN another strategy: Pull out our troops now&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/simon041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roger Simon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Obama to Soak Rich and Please Dems&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linda Chavez&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Spare Us the Hypocrisy, Mr. President&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen041511.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mona Charen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Obama's Equivalent of 'Death Panels'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/hicks041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marybeth Hicks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Menu is mandated at the Nanny Cafe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: The Doctor Who Saw What He Did&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Larry Elder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Why Isn't Obama 'Racist' for Ignoring Black Africa?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/saunders041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debra J. Saunders&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Romney and Obama --- Bipartisan Brothers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tyrrell041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bob Tyrrell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: The Boone Pickens Bill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/ahlert.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arnold Ahlert&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Trumping the Debate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Jacoby&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: The myth of 'Herbert Hoover economics'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/milbank.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dana Milbank&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Faith in political apostasy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone41411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Barone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: When Politicians 'Bicker,' They're Really Negotiating&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cal Thomas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Atlas Shrugged: The Movie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will041411.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George Will&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: The curse of free money&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983104576262782606904912.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;U.S., Allies Raise Ante on Ouster of Gaddafi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - WSJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-libya-usa-rebels-idUSTRE73D68S20110414?feedType=RSS&amp;amp;feedName=topNews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Libya Rebels Appear Hopelessly Disorganized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Mark Hosenball&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2065113,00.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Donald Trump's Big Show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Michael Scherer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-government-is-not-a-household-and-shouldnt-be-run-like-one/2011/04/13/AF21jOjD_blog.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gov't Shouldn't Be Run Like a Household&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Ezra Klein&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/04/13/longterm-debt-how-about-shortterm-implosion/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Presidency in Serious Trouble&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - John Podhoretz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983104576262763594126624.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Obama Growth Discount&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Phil Gramm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/15/democrats_can_win_the_budget_debate_109562.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dems Must Aggressively Fight GOP on Budget&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Joe Conason&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/14/sen_rand_paul_dares_liberals_to_bring_huey_long_rhetoric_to_a_tea_party.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unless You Spend Less Yr-to-Yr You're Not Cutting Anything&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Rand Paul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/04/14/no-fallout-is-necessary"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facts &amp;amp; Fiction About The Budget Deal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Quin Hillyer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/all-the-presidents-sanctimony/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All the President's Sanctimony&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - NY Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53246.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President Obama Re-Elect's First Job: Reconnect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Mike Allen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/86589/obama-election-republicans-2012"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given Current Trends Election Will Be Very Close&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - William Galston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://peggynoonan.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Is Likely to Lose&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Peggy Noonan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/opinion/15krugman.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Ryan's Plan Is a Sick Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Paul Krugman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/debt_fix_wise_men_suckered_by_bam_wla6LatTPEpNbdJg8hbrJN"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bowles, Simpson Suckered by Obama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Charles Gasparino&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/opinion/15iht-edlibya15.html?_r=3&amp;amp;ref=global"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Libya's Pathway to Peace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Obama, Cameron &amp;amp; Sarkozy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/15/lines_in_the_sand_109564.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama's Lines in the Sand&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Eugene Robinson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/percent-296492-ryan-gdp.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Cuts vs. Smoke &amp;amp; Mirrors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Charles Krauthammer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/13/charles_krauthammer_on_obamas_speech_it_was_a_disgrace.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The President's Speech Was a Disgrace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Charles Krauthammer&lt;br /&gt;Obama Job Approval: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gallup 42% Rasmussen 49%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RCP Average 47.1%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730104576260911986870054.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama's Rhetoric vs. Reality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - WSJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2011/apr/13/barack-obama-usdomesticpolicy-reticent-fiery-speech"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fiery Words: Obama Ready to Fight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Michael Tomasky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-approval-rating-gallup,0,7897019.story"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Job Approval Hits 5-Month Low in Gallup&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - LAT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-cook-report-trump-s-a-joke-20110414"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Donald Trump's a Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Charlie Cook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/small-cap-investors-paying-too-much-for-risk-2011-04-15?link=home_carousel"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grantham: Stock Risk Back to 2007 Levels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - MarketWatch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Tax+Day+truth%3a+You%27ll+pay+for+Obama+spending&amp;amp;articleId=4bc804a1-6354-499f-97ca-fde474837cf6"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tax Day Truth: You'll Pay for Obama Spending&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - NH Union Leader&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-gop-donors-20110409,0,7472271.story"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Many Top GOP Donors on the Sidelines in 2012 Race&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - LA Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1007-other/156251-centrist-dem-group-to-offer-housing-market-reform-plan"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Centrist Dems To Offer Housing Market Reform&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - The Hill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53227.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Florida Sees Shift in Hispanic Vote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Politico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704547604576263263538598414.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debate Continues Over Actual Extent of the Spending Cuts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - WSJ&lt;br /&gt;Oliver North: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Busted" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2011/04/15/busted"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Busted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brent Bozell: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Justice and Decency" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozell/2011/04/15/justice_and_decency"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Justice and Decency&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donald Lambro: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Obama's Speech Solves Nothing" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2011/04/15/obamas_speech_solves_nothing"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama's Speech Solves Nothing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Floyd and Mary Beth Brown: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Obama Invents a New Word: Tax Expenditures" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/FloydandMaryBethBrown/2011/04/14/obama_invents_a_new_word_tax_expenditures"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Invents a New Word: Tax Expenditures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cal Thomas: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Atlas Shrugged: The Movie" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2011/04/14/atlas_shrugged_the_movie"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atlas Shrugged: The Movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Larry Kudlow: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Tax and Debt Bomb" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/LarryKudlow/2011/04/14/tax_and_debt_bomb"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tax and Debt Bomb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cliff May: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Clunker Energy Policies" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2011/04/14/clunker_energy_policies"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clunker Energy Policies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hugh Hewitt: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="The House GOP Loses Its Way" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/14/the_house_gop_loses_its_way"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The House GOP Loses Its Way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Ransom: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="A State Sponsored Racist" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnRansom/2011/04/14/a_state_sponsored_racist"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A State Sponsored Racist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jackie Gingrich Cushman: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Leadership Lessons from the Civil War" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JackieGingrichCushman/2011/04/14/leadership_lessons_from_the_civil_war"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leadership Lessons from the Civil War&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brad O'Leary: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Another Obama Constitutional Grab in the Works" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/BradOLeary/2011/04/14/another_obama_constitutional_grab_in_the_works"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another Obama Constitutional Grab in the Works&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Howard Rich: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="New Media Catches Obama Bribing the Fourth Estate" 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src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_kgrcI7BSeE/TaYWZPZtbQI/AAAAAAAADxA/Pdz5mGyVPL0/s400/newsopinions250x144.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/http//newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/04/n-e-w-s-n-d-p-i-n-i-o-n-s.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama 'Birth Certficate' Mystery Solved?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Obama's certificate reads Steve(n) Dunham (his grandfather is likely his biological father - strong resemblance). When he was 18 years-old Obama officially converted to Islam when he spent 8 months in Pakistan.&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/13/gop-leaders-raise-alarm-tax-talk-obama-deficit-plan/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Outlines His Vision&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - In what might be the first battle of 2012 campaign, president outlines $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan that ends lower tax rates for America's top earners, while attacking GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's plan as 'deeply pessimistic.'&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/13/senator-warns-faa-sleeping-air-traffic-controllers/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Senator: Airport Control Napping 'Has to Stop'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Sen. Rockefeller slams FAA after reports of third air traffic controller this year falling asleep on the job&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/13/latest-remains-ny-beach-victims-long-island-serial-killer-726616671/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are N.Y. Beach Murders the Work of Confessed Killer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Latest set of remains found near remote New York beach may be victims of another serial killer &lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110413/D9MISD682.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consumers buy more retail goods in March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Consumers spent more in March on furniture, electronics and at restaurants, but also paid more for gas. Retail sales increased 0.4 percent last month, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. It was the ninth consecutive monthly gain. The increase shrank to a 0.1 percent when...&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110413/D9MIRO001.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Job &lt;strong&gt;openings rise to highest point since Sept.'08&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;- Businesses in February posted the largest number of job openings in more than two years, evidence that hiring is picking up as the economy grows. The Labor Department said Wednesday that employers advertised 3.1 million available jobs that month, the most since September 2008....&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/13/philadelphia-condom-campaign-targets-kids-young-11/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Years — Old Enough for Freebie Condoms?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Philly campaign to reduce STDs is raising eyebrows for offering free condoms to kids as young as 11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/13/us-still-flying-strike-missions-libya?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;U.S. Still Flying Strike Missions in Libya&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/12/taxpayer-calculator-us-costs-libya"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;U.S. Costs in Libya&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/calculator/military-action-in-libya.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taxpayer Calculator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/13/flights-resume-japan-airport-hit-tsunami/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evacuees Slam Japan Nuclear Plant Operator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/13/egypts-mubarak-hospitalized-heart-problems/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mubarak, Sons Detained in Corruption, Abuse Probe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/04/13/text-of-obama-speech-on-the-deficit/?mod=WSJBlog"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBAMA CALLS NEW TAXES 'SPENDING REDUCTIONS IN TAX CODE'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53113.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CANTOR: Raising taxes 'is not the answer'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/arizona-senate-approves-"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AZ passes bill requiring proof of US birth for prez candidates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/parents-year-girl-pat-airport-procedures-changed/story?id=13363740"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: PARENTS FURIOUS AFTER TSA FRISKS 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba030UmbkCo"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Such pretty hair, you have'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/04/screening-of-6-year-old-at-msy.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TSA DEFENDS: Terrorists will 'manipulate societal norms to evade detection'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/13/biden_falls_asleep_during_obama_budget_speech.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIDEN FALLS ASLEEP DURING OBAMA DEBT SPEECH?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/air-ambulance-lands-at-reno-airport-while-air-traffic-controller-sleeps-119778219.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another air traffic controller falls asleep on the job&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-04-12-Donald-Trump-would-seek-donors-for-presidency-bid.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trump will ask voters to 'invest' in White House bid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/the-nanny-state-cant-last/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ron Paul: The Nanny State Can't Last&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20110413/NEWS08/104130343/?odyssey=modnewswelltextIndyStar.comp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PAPER: Will Mitch Daniels seek presidency? Sounds like it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/13/woman-raped-deserted-denver-airport-concourse/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Woman Raped in Deserted Denver Airport Concourse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/13/federal-government-orders-14-mortgage-lenders-reimburse-homeowners/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gov't Orders 14 Lenders to Reimburse Homeowners&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/13/pawlenty-clears-non-announcement?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pawlenty Clears Up Non-Announcement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/13/joran-van-der-sloot-reportedly-linked-peruvian-prison-stabbings/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Van der Sloot Reportedly Linked to Prison Stabbings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/inhofe-scared-crap-out-airport-workers-192645"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPORT: Sen. Inhofe intentionally landed plane on closed runway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42566061"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BoA: Buy Crude, Could Hit $160&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&amp;amp;sid=459668"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: Seattle school renames Easter eggs 'Spring Spheres'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376367/The-secret-lives-presidents-Larry-Flynt-reveals-sordid-details-sex-lives-founding-fathers-beyond.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BOOK: Larry Flynt exposes sex lives of former presidents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cnn_tries_diverse_approach_m8Y3cI2WEBlKUVhi8GE0fO"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CNN mulling Chris Rock for 7 p.m. show?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/13/student-dies-accident-sterling-chemistry-laborator/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yale student dies in 'terrible' lab accident&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/04/13/news/doc4da58c22c4b1f135149346.txt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hair got caught in lathe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/cbo-budget-deal-cuts-this-fiscal-years-deficit-by-just-353-million-not-38-billion-touted/2011/04/13/AFFJnkWD_story.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPORT: Budget deal cuts this year's deficit by just $353 million, not $38 billion touted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/flashback-cantor-beyond-comprehension-li"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOP Set To Raise Debt Limit From Level GOP Leader Called 'Beyond Comprehension' in 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/155509-hoyer-joins-obama-in-calling-past-vote-on-debt-ceiling-a-mistake"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hoyer joins Obama in calling past vote on debt ceiling 'mistake'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/155689-lefts-angst-grows-over-obamas-shift-to-center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left's angst grows over president's 'shift to center'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_17831739?source=rss"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AP POLL: Support for Obamacare drops to 35%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/155781-graham-vows-to-bring-senate-to-standstill-over-40000-project"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Graham vows to shut down Senate -- over $40,000 pet project!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53072.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MYSTERY: White House visitor logs still leave many out&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/04/13/collinsville-teacher-ousted-for-ordering-students-to-remove-underwear/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SNAP: Teacher Ousted For Asking Students To Remove Underwear To See Wh Soiled Pants&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/13/us-palestinians-israel-obama-idUSTRE73C05V20110413"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama to push new state of Palestine in September?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/fayyad-to-request-5-billion-to-launch-palestinian-state-1.355757"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fayyad to request $5 billion for launch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6b27e2fbbd79bdad13c33a76c25592f8.4a1&amp;amp;show_article=1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clinton urges Arab leaders to move faster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/13/study-shows-white-house-visitor-logs-transparent-point?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Study: WH Visitor Logs Transparent, to a Point&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/04/13/general-electric-gets-punked-yes-men/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Electric Gets Punked by Prankster Group&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/13/chief-mom-drives-ny-river-killing-3-kids/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tragedy in Hudson River As Mom Kills Self, 3 Kids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/mubarak-still-hospital-health-unstable-source-20110413-053711-530.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mubarak still in hospital, health 'unstable'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/12/syrian-soldiers-shot-protest"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPORT: Syrian soldiers shot for refusing to fire on protesters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_SYRIA?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-04-13-07-22-27"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In new protest, women block main highway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703841904576256512991215284.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rebels Hijack Gadhafi's Phone Network&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/12/libyan-rebelscolombian-female-snipers-fighting-for/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REBELS: Female snipers from Colombia fighting for Gadhafi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/12/china-blocks-coastal-waters-enlarges-military/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;China blocks coastal waters, enlarges military&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.9news.com/news/article/193134/339/Children-told-to-be-tested-for-HIV-after-flu-vaccines-reused-"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children told to be tested for HIV after flu vaccines reused&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/13/501364/main20053556.shtml"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;U.S. STILL BOMBING LIBYA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Emerging-economies-face-apf-451940140.html?x=0&amp;amp;.v=5"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RISE OF NEW WORLD POWER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/13/georgia-police-search-missing-mother-5-seen-leaving-home-rent-movie/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Georgia Cops Search for Missing Mother of 5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/13/pelosi-elections-shouldnt-matter/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pelosi: 'Elections Shouldn't Matter as Much'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/13/california-teachers-union-draws-rallying-cop-killer/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Calif. Teachers Union Supporting Cop Killer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9MIQNBG0&amp;amp;show_article=1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AP: GE to return $3.2 billion to US Treasury&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/7518946.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO SPACE SHUTTLE FOR HOUSTON&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7518917.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Political calculations?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576250672504707048.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Male-female pay gap? Study finds women make 8% more than men&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/nancy-pelosi-elections-shouldnt-matter-much-they-do_557307.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Elections Shouldn't Matter as Much as They Do'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53068.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hillary Clinton campaign still owes consultant $329,000&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/world/asia/13japan.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Japan Tries to Explain Delays in Reporting Radiation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/russias-nuclear-chief-says-japan-exaggerating-crisis-20110413-061813-594.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Russia's nuke chief says Japan exaggerating&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/85295.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIRMED: No. 4 reactor's spent nuke fuel rods damaged&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8S6ioMbWB39l8yKCFIl9ajgXSBw?docId=CNG.b4703df1fdcf51f580e9189db2dc7b5c.501"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;32 more bodies found in Mexico, ups total to 120&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518704576259332428064652.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;U.S. Warns of Mexico Peril&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NJ-Wastes-Millions-on-Clothing-Allowances-for-State-Workers-Report-119773899.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPORT: NJ Wastes Millions on Clothing Allowances for State Workers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Wild-Hogs-Search-And-Destroy.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feral pigs rampage through Texas city&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/04/13/tennessee-titans-wide-receiver-reportedly-arrested-car-chase/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NFL Player Reportedly Arrested After Car Chase&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/13/sidney-harman-media-owner-husband-ex-rep-jane-harman-dies/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sidney Harman, Newsweek Owner, Dies at 92&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/13/ivory-coast-pm-says-captured-strongman/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ivory Coast President: Gbagbo Will Face Charges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/13/russia-space-chief-promises-new-spaceship-soyuz/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Russia Space Chief Promises New &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/13/russia-space-chief-promises-new-spaceship-soyuz/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spaceship&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncjXFKWvQZA/TaLl_VFf8MI/AAAAAAAADwQ/oa6MZ0A3i-U/s1600/opinionsimportant4.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; 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- Make 70 the New 65&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/steyn041111.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - America, It's Your Fault! How's That For Change?&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0411/bernie_g.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bernard Goldberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - What's the Difference Between Libs in Politics and Libs in the Media?&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell041311.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; - Taxes and Politics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg041311.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Cut Off Its Water, Or: It's Time NPR Grew Up and Supported Itself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah041311.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jonah Goldberg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Free Speech and Burning Korans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/lowry041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rich Lowry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: ‘Coming apart at the seams’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/simon041311.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roger Simon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Obama Faces Problem on Left, Not Right&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/milbank.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dana Milbank&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: One man's revolution is another's political expediency&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/prager041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dennis Prager&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Moral Monsters in Afghanistan and Moral Idiocy in America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/roger_l_simon.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roger L. Simon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Poli-Wood - Who Killed 'The Kennedys'?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff041311.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nat Hentoff&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Legacy of 'giant of broadcast journalism' continues&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/roger_l_simon.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roger L. Simon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Poli-Wood - Who Killed 'The Kennedys'?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff041311.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nat Hentoff&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Legacy of 'giant of broadcast journalism' continues&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frank Gaffney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: No way, Huawei: Preserving our great wall between China and security technology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/kass.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Kass&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: China stretches the bounds of decency with cow-human-breast milk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/saunders041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debra J. Saunders&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Academic freedom and scientific integrity --- until your discovery reveals an unacceptable truth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/dave/weinbaum041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave Weinbaum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Want letters? Write about abortion and race&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/david/limbaugh041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Limbaugh&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: GOP Didn't Win Budget Battle; Silver Lining: Neither Did Dems&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mona Charen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: The Arab Street and Lies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/jacobus.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheri Jacobus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Dems too crazy to win&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Uncertain Trumpet, Or: Eric Holder Sees the Light, Dimly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns041311.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter Williams&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Eat the Rich&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cal Thomas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: A Life Lesson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell041211.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Another Spending Cut Plan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone41111.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Barone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Spending cuts are hot in the political marketplace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker041111.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kathleen Parker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Demonizing the GOP, losing the budget battle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg041111.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Where It's At&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/york.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Byron York&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: Reforming entitlements is key to a strong military&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/morris041111.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dick Morris&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: IT'S NO DEAL, IT'S A SELLOUT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will041011.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George Will&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: An Arizona city's sports mania encounters a hard check&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/oreilly.php3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bill O'Reilly'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;: The Beck Factor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253751', 'Obama+Urges+Cuts+and+Taxes+on+the+Rich');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/us/politics/14obama.html?hp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Urges Cuts and Taxes on the Rich&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - NY Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253753', 'The+Umpire+Strikes+Back');" href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/86630/obamas-speech"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Umpire Strikes Back&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Jonathan Chait&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253743', 'Haven%26%23039%3Bt+We+Heard+This+Before%3F');" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/264519/not-just-size-debt-michael-tanner"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haven't We Heard This Before?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - National Review&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253558', 'Next+Fight+Will+Be+About+Trillions%2C+Not+Billions');" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-04-11-column11_ST1_N.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next Fight Will Be About Trillions, Not Billions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - John Boehner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253747', 'Feeling+the+Pinch%3A+U.S.+Hit+with+Rising+Prices');" href="http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/mark-mellman/155657-price-of-food-gas-reverses-fiscal-gains"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feeling the Pinch: U.S. Hit with Rising Prices&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Mark Mellman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253750', 'A+Spirited+Defense+of+Progressive+Values');" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_04/028933.php"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Spirited Defense of Progressive Values&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Wash Monthly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253740', 'Spare+Us+The+Moralizing+Mr.+President');" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/12/hurt-spare-us-hollow-sermons-on-taxing-the-very-ri/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spare Us The Moralizing Mr. President&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Charles Hurt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253742', 'The+President%26%23039%3Bs+Befuddling+Strategy');" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/13/obamas_befuddling_strategy_109539.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The President's Befuddling Strategy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Ruth Marcus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253735', 'Will+Daniels+Seek+Presidency%3F+Sounds+Like+It');" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20110413/NEWS08/104130343/?odyssey=modnewswelltextIndyStar.comp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will Daniels Seek Presidency? Sounds Like It&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Indy Star&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253701', 'GOP+Has+Changed+the+Conversation');" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/13/presidents_call_to_inaction_to_be_withdrawn_109530.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOP Has Changed the Conversation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Tony Blankley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253713', 'President+Must+Make+Case+for+Shared+Sacrifice');" href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=D1F1976D-0713-45D2-A4F8-55834877348B"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President Must Make Case for Shared Sacrifice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Robert Borosage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253727', 'GOP+Hates+Anything+That+Helps+Ordinary+People');" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/12/howard_dean_on_gop_they_hate_the_welfare_state.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOP Hates Anything That Helps Ordinary People&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Howard Dean&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253697', 'Storm+Clouds+Ahead+for+President');" href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/against-the-grain/storm-clouds-ahead-for-obama-20110412"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Storm Clouds Ahead for President&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Natl Journal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253710', 'Obama+for+America+II+Gets+Ready+to+Roll');" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-barack-obama-campaign-headquar20110412,0,35674.story"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama for America II Gets Ready to Roll&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Chicago Tribune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253721', 'The+NY+Times+Anoints+a+GOP+Front+Runner');" href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/04/12/times-anoints-gop-front-runner/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The NY Times Anoints a GOP Front Runner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Jonathan Tobin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253700', 'Prepare+for+the+Worst+in+New+Mideast');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/opinion/13friedman.html?_r=1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prepare for the Worst in New Mideast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Thomas Friedman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253720', 'Why+Europe%26%23039%3Bs+Debt+Crisis+Isn%26%23039%3Bt+Over');" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-europes-debt-crisis-isnt-over-2011-04-12?link=home_carousel"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why Europe's Debt Crisis Isn't Over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - MarketWatch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253718', 'Using+Older+Measure+Inflation+Actually+Near+10%25');" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42551209"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using Older Measure Inflation Actually Near 10%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - CNBC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253724', 'Is+Finance+Swallowing+Would-Be+Entrepreneurs%3F');" href="http://www.forbes.com/2011/04/12/financial-sector-mba-entrepreneurs-opinions-contributors-carl-schramm.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is Finance Swallowing Would-Be Entrepreneurs?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Forbes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253726', 'The+False+Debate+on+the+Debt');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/the-false-debate-on-the-d_b_848457.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The False Debate on the Debt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Robert Scheer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253684', 'How+Romney+Can+Win+GOP+Nomination');" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-path-mitt-romney/2011/04/11/AF54kFRD_blog.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Romney Can Win GOP Nomination&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Chris Cillizza&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253648', 'Romney+Has+No+Chance');" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-12/mitt-romney-for-president-2012-health-care-tea-party-mean-he-wont-win/?cid=hp:mainpromo4"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Romney Has No Chance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Mark McKinnon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253723', 'Mark+Zuckerberg+Invented+Facebook.+Get+Over+It.');" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2291046/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Zuckerberg Invented Facebook. Get Over It.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Slate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253699', 'The+Facts+About+American+%26%23039%3BDecline%26%23039%3B');" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576251292725228886.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Facts About American 'Decline'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - WSJObama Job Approval: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reuters/Ipsos 46% Gallup 44% Rasmussen 48%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253728', 'Dumbing+Down+War%3A+Suicide+By+Policy');" href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_731901.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dumbing Down War: Suicide By Policy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Pitts Tribune-Review&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253730', 'Tax+and+Spending+Myths+and+Realities');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/opinion/13wed1.html?partner=rss&amp;amp;emc=rss"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tax and Spending Myths and Realities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - NY Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253711', 'States+Rebel+Against+ObamaCare%26%23039%3Bs+Exchanges');" href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/04/states-rebel-against-obamacares-insurance-exchanges"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;States Rebel Against ObamaCare's Exchanges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Wash Examiner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253729', 'Hugo+Chavez+Grooms+a+Militia');" href="http://www.economist.com/node/18529829"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hugo Chavez Grooms a Militia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - The Economist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253733', 'Some+Senate+Dems+Willing+to+Consider+Social+Security+Changes');" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/155675-some-senate-democrats-are-willing-to-consider-social-security-reforms"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Senate Dems Willing to Consider Social Security Changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - The Hill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253734', 'Senators+Offer+Bill+to+Protect+Personal+Data');" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703385404576258942268540486.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Senators Offer Bill to Protect Personal Data&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - WSJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253731', 'Liberal+Groups+Plan+to+Spend+%24200+Million+in+2012');" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/adapting-to-campaign-finance-rulings-democrats-build-big-spending-network/2011/04/07/AF3oq4QD_story.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Liberal Groups Plan to Spend $200 Million in 2012&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Wash Post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a onclick="return trackclick('253732', 'Congress+Removes+Wolves+from+Endangered+Species+List');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/us/politics/13wolves.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congress Removes Wolves from Endangered Species List&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - NY Times&lt;br /&gt;Jeff Jacoby: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="The Indispensable Freedom of Association" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2011/04/11/the_indispensable_freedom_of_association"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Indispensable Freedom of Association&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julie Gunlock: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="New York Welcomes the Unhappy Meal" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JulieGunlock/2011/04/11/new_york_welcomes_the_unhappy_meal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New York Welcomes the Unhappy Meal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Humberto Fontova: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="'Marco" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HumbertoFontova/2011/04/11/marco_rubio_presents_a_clear_and_present_danger,_says_former_state_dept_chief_of_staff"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marco Rubio Presents a "Clear and Present Danger", Says Former State Dept. Chief of Staff&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Ransom: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Tea Party Brokers Budget While Obama Retreats" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnRansom/2011/04/11/tea_party_brokers_budget_while_obama_retreats"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tea Party Brokers Budget While Obama Retreats&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ken Blackwell: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Second Thoughts on the Goldstone Report" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2011/04/11/second_thoughts_on_the_goldstone_report"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second Thoughts on the Goldstone Report&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Star Parker: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Return America to Main Street" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2011/04/11/return_america_to_main_street"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Return America to Main Street&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Barone: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Spending Cuts Are Hot in the Political Marketplace" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2011/04/11/spending_cuts_are_hot_in_the_political_marketplace"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spending Cuts Are Hot in the Political Marketplace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salena Zito: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Can Obama Evoke Lincoln Again for 2012?" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2011/04/10/can_obama_evoke_lincoln_again_for_2012"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can Obama Evoke Lincoln Again for 2012?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Austin Hill: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="President Trump?" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2011/04/10/president_trump"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President Trump?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doug Giles: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="You Can Slaughter Christians, But You Can't Burn a Koran" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2011/04/09/you_can_slaughter_christians,_but_you_cant_burn_a_koran"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You Can Slaughter Christians, But You Can't Burn a Koran&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3940451639862292660-1647186673483409482?l=newsboypost.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/feeds/1647186673483409482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/04/n-e-w-s-n-d-p-i-n-i-o-n-s.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/1647186673483409482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/1647186673483409482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/04/n-e-w-s-n-d-p-i-n-i-o-n-s.html' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;font-size:240%;color:#000066;&quot;&gt;N E W S&amp;nbsp; 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WIDTH: 227px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 163px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TCCvLpLFglI/AAAAAAAAB70/5dNvTWh9v0s/s400/Topstories1320x240.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/03/t-o-d-y-s-w-o-r-l-d-n-e-w-s.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Obama 'Birth Certficate' Mystery Solved?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; Obama's certificate reads Steve(n) Dunham (his grandfather is likely his biological father - strong resemblance). When he was 18 years-old Obama officially converted to Islam when he spent 8 months in Pakistan. ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/03/t-o-d-y-s-w-o-r-l-d-n-e-w-s.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Do These Pics Show Obama's Had Brain Surgery?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - There are the birthers who question Obama’s nationality. And now there are…the brainers? It seems the latest theory surrounding Barack Obama is the presence of what appears to be scars on his head. Scars that, if true, haven‘t been explained and some say show he’s had brain surgery ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/al-qaeda-capitalizing-arab-spring-build-power-shore-weaknesses/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Al Qaeda Looks to Capitalize on 'Arab Spring'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Al Qaeda and other violent Muslim extremist groups hope to take advantage of Middle East uprisings ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/08/navy-showboats-destructive-new-laser-gun/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Navy Shows Off Futuristic Laser Weapon on Cruiser&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Navy tests lasers, able to destroy high-speed targets, on speeding cruiser and will soon add to its full fleet ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110408/D9MFHSN02.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;US corn reserves expected to fall to 15-year low&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Rising demand for corn from ethanol producers is pushing U.S. reserves to the lowest point in 15 years, a trend that could lead to higher grain and food prices this year. The Agriculture Department on Friday left its estimate for corn reserves unchanged from the previous month.... ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110408/D9MFJ3B01.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Oil nears $112 as dollar falls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - A drop in the dollar helped push oil near $112 per barrel Friday, setting a new 30-month high. If crude prices keep climbing, experts say, gasoline prices could hit $4 a gallon across the U.S. this summer. Pump prices have jumped from $3.07 to $3.74 per gallon since the beginning... ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110408/D9MFJ5CG2.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;IRS awards $4.5M to whistleblower&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award. The accountant's tip netted the IRS $20 million in taxes and interest from the errant financial-services firm. ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/04/08/man-sexually-transmits-insect-borne-disease-wife/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt;Biologist Gets First Ever Mosquito-Borne STD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Scientists study case of man who contracted virus via mosquito bite and transmitted it to wife through sex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/154963-schumer-likens-house-conservatives-to-a-flea"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCHUMER TO TEA PARTY: YOU ARE A FLEA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/schumer-cuts-planned-parenthood-never-ne"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCHUMER: 'NEVER, NEVER, NEVER,' DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-williamsburg-mayor-president-obama-coming-to-visit-this-weekend-20110406,0,6881733.story"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GETAWAY WEEKEND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/04/08/michelle-planning-pricey-shopping-williamsburg/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPORT: Michelle plans upscale shopping&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2011/04/obama-family-may-visit-williamsburg-weekend"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Long-planned family trip'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vagazette.com/articles/2011/04/07/news//doc4d9da89df0225539456348.txt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Rest and relaxation'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/no-weekend-getaway-for-the-obamas/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: Trip shut down&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/08/trump-chats-rnc-chairman?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trump Chats with RNC Chairman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/08/barefoot-bandit-working-plea-deal-end-sprawling-case-attorney-says/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Barefoot Bandit' Working on Plea Agreement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/dead-strong-aftershock-rattles-japan/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3 Dead After Strong Aftershock Rattles Japan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/israeli-military-strikes-gaza-militants-following-bus-attack/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel Strikes Gaza After School Bus Attack&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/04/08/mcilroy-quiros-lead-pack-round-masters/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MASTERS: Couples Climbs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/no-weekend-getaway-for-the-obamas/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/leaderboard" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LEADERBOARD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-08/oil-climbs-above-111-a-barrel-on-libyan-armed-revolt-weakness-of-dollar.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OIL JUMPS 2% -- IN A DAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42496641"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Investors worry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42496641"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; about end of 'cheap money'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42479791"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOLLAR TURNS TOXIC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ab3ca48-6207-11e0-8ee4-00144feab49a.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fever for Gold, Silver Grips Investors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42494282"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gold soars to new record&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110408-710701.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Silver reaches 30-year high&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/iraqi-forces-storm-settlement-iranian-exiles/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gates to Iraq: Show 'Restraint' on Iran Dissidents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/ivory-coast-leader-forces-wont-capture-gbagbo/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ivory Coast Leader: Forces Won't Capture President&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/08/cops-investigate-possible-link-long-island-beach-victims-atlantic-city-murders/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cops Eye Link Between N.Y. Bodies, N.J. Murders&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/08/fbi-joins-search-missing-1-year-old-colorado-woman/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FBI Joins Search for Missing Colorado Woman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/04/08/manny-ramirez-retires-baseball-instead-undergoing-mlb-drug-treatment-program/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rays' Manny Ramirez Retires Due to Drug Policy Issue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/gates-u-s-troops-could-stay-in-iraq-for-years-1.140502"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gates: U.S. troops could stay in Iraq for years&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374434/Nato-bomb-raid-Brega-leaves-13-Libyan-rebels-dead-jets-blast-wrong-convoy.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MESS: Botched NATO bomb raid leaves 13 Libyan rebels dead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/08/111825/nato-admits-deadly-airstrike-but.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'We didn't know they had tanks'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NATO_LIBYA?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-04-08-08-25-00"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No apology&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42496271/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rebels paint roof vehicles bright pink to avoid friendly fire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/07/501364/main20051760.shtml#ixzz1IrtMwlxl"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;U.S. general: May consider ground troops&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374793/Massacre-Camp-Ashraf-Iranians-help-Iraqi-soldiers-kill-25-refugees.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iranians call for international help as Iraqi soldiers run down refugees, killing 25&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.112577a8eb11c3faae5fd089fa64221f.161&amp;amp;show_article=1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gates urges restraint&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8438932/Syria-government-troops-in-violent-reaction-to-fresh-protests.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;22 dead in Syria as gov't has violent reaction to new protests&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/international/uk-to-hire-twitter-czar-for-232000-20110408-ncx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UK To Hire 'TWITTER Czar' For $232,000 Salary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/04/07/philadelphia-man-gets-prison-for-youtube-threat-of-lawmaker/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man Gets 2 Years In Prison For Threatening Rep. Cantor In YOUTUBE Video&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=15050759"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inmate accused of strangling cellmate over snoring&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/08/dems-foul-vote-change-gives-lead-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dems Crying Foul Over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/08/dems-foul-vote-change-gives-lead-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Wisconsin Vote Change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/#"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VIDEO: Reversal of Fortune in Wisconsin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/08/opponents-gun-free-zones-universities-unlikely-hero-nevada-woman/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rape Victim Fights for Gun Rights on Campus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/man-stole-judges-gavel-654390"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man arrested for stealing judge's gavel from courtroom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374804/Bored-stiff-Student-yawned-hard-lecture-close-mouth.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Student yawned so hard during lecture she couldn't close her mouth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/displayBreaking.htm?StoryID=119573"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legislature Passes Bill to Extend In-State Tuition Rates -- to Illegal Aliens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374850/Man-shot-dead-fighting-life-nuclear-sub-HMS-Astute-docks-visits-Southampton.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two shot on British nuclear submarine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/08/house-votes-repeal-fcc-regulation-internet-access/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House Repeals FCC Regulation on Internet Access&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/13-bodies-2-mass-graves-mexico/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13 More Bodies, 2 Mass Graves Found in Mexico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/04/08/puerto-rico-smugglers-use-mail-ship-cocaine/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Puerto Rico's Drug Traffickers Using U.S. Mail&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/syrian-security-forces-kill-protests/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bloodbath in Syria as Troops Kill Dozens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8438045/Russia-wants-red-button-rights-for-US-missile-defence-system.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wants 'red button' rights for US missile defense system&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/04/pew-poll-obama.php"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Poll: Obama Struggling With Whites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/base_in_the_hole_Vi2ap6WzciDqa77LNBhKrK"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Even black voters slip&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/dozens-protesters-wounded-clashes-yemen/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2 Killed in Yemen Anti-Government Protests &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/08/irs-awards-45m-whistleblower/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whistleblower Receives $1.4M Reward From IS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/08/fast-moving-texas-wildfire-scorches-50000-acres/?test=latestnews"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fast-Moving Texas Wildfire Scorches 50,000 Acres&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/08/2-texas-firefighters-fired-nude-photos-men-station/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Texas Firefighters Axed Over Nude Photos at Station&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1374632/Smartphone-cold-turkey-Scientists-prove-youngsters-suffer-gadget-withdrawal.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Smartphone cold turkey: How youngsters suffer gadget 'withdrawal'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/outrage-after-officer-pepper-sprays-baby-squirrel-20110408-ncx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outrage After Officer Pepper Sprays Baby Squirrel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TB9bnfN_HhI/AAAAAAAAB6k/P1EkiqmA11k/s400/opinionsimportant4.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 153px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TB9bnfN_HhI/AAAAAAAAB6k/P1EkiqmA11k/s400/opinionsimportant4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah040711.php3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Jonah Goldberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt; - China Sees the Evil of Plastic Bags ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/hanson040711.php3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Victor Davis Hanson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Did We Give Up on Libya? ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2011/04/08/is_tribalism_the_future"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Pat Buchanan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt; Is Tribalism the Future? ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone40711.php3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Michael Barone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Ryan steals march on Obama as fiscal crisis looms ► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter040711.php3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ann Coulter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt; - Thanks for raising my taxes --- what else can I do for you?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer040811.php3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Charles Krauthammer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; - After Ryan's leap, a rush of deficit demagoguery &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden040811.php3"&gt;Wesley Pruden&lt;/a&gt;: Tripping the clumsy Obama three-step &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/bernie_g.php3"&gt;Bernard Goldberg&lt;/a&gt;: An Idea Whose Time Has Come --- and Gone &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/crosby040811.php3"&gt;Greg Crosby&lt;/a&gt;: When Smoking is Okay &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields040811.php3"&gt;Suzanne Fields&lt;/a&gt;: Crashing Into College &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen040811.php3"&gt;Mona Charen&lt;/a&gt;: Hamilton: The Original Self-Made American Who Also Made a Nation &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/david/limbaugh040811.php3"&gt;David Limbaugh&lt;/a&gt;: Trump, Not as a 2012 Candidate, but as a Blueprint &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/west040811.php3"&gt;Diana West&lt;/a&gt;: We need to leave Afghanistan — now &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/lowry040811.php3"&gt;Rich Lowry&lt;/a&gt;: Paul Ryan, adult &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin040811.php3"&gt;Michelle Malkin&lt;/a&gt;: TSA follies: See SPOT fail &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder040711.php3"&gt;Larry Elder&lt;/a&gt;: Only Idiots Think Hillary Will Run --- Let's Hope They're Right &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tyrrell040711.php3"&gt;Bob Tyrrell&lt;/a&gt;: The Race Is On &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas040711.php3"&gt;Cal Thomas&lt;/a&gt;: Supreme Court win might be as important as Brown V. Board of Ed &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2063653,00.html"&gt;Springtime in Cairo: Egypt Wonders What Comes Next&lt;/a&gt; - Joe Klein &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-06/janitor-justice-arrives-four-years-early-commentary-by-margaret-carlson.html"&gt;Janitor Justice in Wisconsin&lt;/a&gt; - Margaret Carlson &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/07/paul_ryans_growth_budget_109477.html"&gt;Paul Ryan's Growth Budget&lt;/a&gt; - Larry Kudlow &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/from-the-childrens-congre_b_845644.html"&gt;Robbing Poor Children&lt;/a&gt; - Marian Wright Edelman &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704101604576246900648182340.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"&gt;A Ronald Reagan Budget&lt;/a&gt; - Daniel Henninger &lt;a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/86322/ryan-budget-debt-deficit?passthru=ZWRiODJmZGVhZjRhZmE0MGIxMzk4OTc3NmI1NmMzOTk&amp;amp;utm_source=Editors+and+Bloggers&amp;amp;utm_campaign=5617448081-Edit_and_Blogs&amp;amp;utm_medium=email"&gt;Ryan's Budget Is a Wildly Cruel Document&lt;/a&gt; - Jonathan Chait &lt;a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1297.xml?ReleaseID=1584"&gt;Obama Hits Losing Trifecta in Florida&lt;/a&gt; - Quinnipiac &lt;a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/against-the-grain/the-truce-shall-set-you-free-20110405"&gt;The GOP 2012 Field &amp;amp; the Truce&lt;/a&gt; - National Journal &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576244782887423062.html"&gt;Petraeus Misfires on Quran Burning&lt;/a&gt; - Dorothy Rabinowitz &lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-06/how-humanitarian-interventionists-are-distracting-attention-from-the-mideast-and-americas-needs/"&gt;Libya a Distraction From Vital U.S. Concerns&lt;/a&gt; - Leslie Gelb &lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_holder_must_resign_qHeha3gcT6IGcZESKKndlK"&gt;It Is Time for Eric Holder to Go&lt;/a&gt; - Rep. Peter King &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/06/sen_chuck_schumer_on_budget_tea_party_is_the_problem.html"&gt;Tea Partiers Are the Problem&lt;/a&gt; - Sen. Chuck Schumer &lt;a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/04/06/paul-ryans-adult-conversation"&gt;It's the Tea Party vs. President Obama&lt;/a&gt; - Peter Ferrara &lt;a href="http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2011/04/07/nobody_expects_the_protestant_reformation_106233.html"&gt;Nobody Expects a Protestant Reformation&lt;/a&gt; - Rod Dreher &lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/spin-cycle/2011/4/6/glenn-beck-fox-agree-to-divorce/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL1"&gt;Glenn Beck, Fox Agree to Divorce&lt;/a&gt; - Howard Kurtz &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/07/navarrette.debt.burden/index.html"&gt;Public Is Worried, But Not About a Shutdown&lt;/a&gt; - CNN &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-06/obama-summons-lawmakers-to-white-house-in-bid-to-avert-shutdown.html"&gt;Obama, Reid, Boehner Meet Again on Budget&lt;/a&gt; - Bloomberg &lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/6/obamas-smart-campaign/"&gt;Obama's Campaign Talk vs. Actions&lt;/a&gt; - Frank Donatelli &lt;a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/shaky-future-health-care-all"&gt;Shaky Future of Health Care for All&lt;/a&gt; - The Root &lt;a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/4657406-417/with-friends-like-karzai-u.s.-doomed"&gt;With 'Friends' Like Karzai, U.S. Doomed&lt;/a&gt; - Chicago ST &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/07/egyptian_democracys_growing_pains_109470.html"&gt;Egyptian Democracy's Growing Pains&lt;/a&gt; - David Ignatius &lt;a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/159716/americas-class-problem"&gt;America's Class Problem&lt;/a&gt; - Robert Scheer &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/exclusive-interview-bill-gross-of-pimco/2011/03/29/AFI5qXuC_blog.html"&gt;Pimco's Gross: U.S. Headed to Greece, Portugal&lt;/a&gt; - Jennifer Rubin &lt;a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/04/obama-clean-energy.html"&gt;Inside Obama's Energy Lecture Series&lt;/a&gt; - LA Times &lt;a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/new_iowa_map_pits_incumbents_against_each_other-204503-1.html"&gt;New Iowa Map Pits Incumbents Against Each Other&lt;/a&gt; - Roll Call &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704530204576234943545596656.html"&gt;Regulator Criticizes GOP's Fannie, Freddie Ideas&lt;/a&gt; - WSJ &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52350.html"&gt;New Regulations Fire Up Health Care Debate&lt;/a&gt; - Politico &lt;a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153079-gop-says-5000-non-citizens-voting-in-colorado-a-wake-up-call-for-states"&gt;GOP Says 5,000 Non-Citizens Voted in Colorado in 2010&lt;/a&gt; - The Hill Cliff May: &lt;a title="From Benghazi to Tel Aviv" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2011/04/07/from_benghazi_to_tel_aviv"&gt;From Benghazi to Tel Aviv&lt;/a&gt; Michael Reagan: &lt;a title="The Great Budget Train Wreck" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/04/07/the_great_budget_train_wreck"&gt;The Great Budget Train Wreck&lt;/a&gt; Ed Feulner: &lt;a title="A Better Way to Reform Welfare" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/EdFeulner/2011/04/07/a_better_way_to_reform_welfare"&gt;A Better Way to Reform Welfare&lt;/a&gt; Howard Rich: &lt;a title="Expand Voters’ Rights to Recall Politicians" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HowardRich/2011/04/07/expand_voters’_rights_to_recall_politicians"&gt;Expand Voters’ Rights to Recall Politicians&lt;/a&gt; Steve Chapman: &lt;a title="Reforming Medicare for the Real World" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2011/04/07/reforming_medicare_for_the_real_world"&gt;Reforming Medicare for the Real World&lt;/a&gt; Jackie Gingrich Cushman: &lt;a title="The 2011 Budget Setup" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JackieGingrichCushman/2011/04/07/the_2011_budget_setup"&gt;The 2011 Budget Setup&lt;/a&gt; Mike Adams: &lt;a title="Feminists Are No Better Than Frat Boys" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2011/04/07/feminists_are_no_better_than_frat_boys"&gt;Feminists Are No Better Than Frat Boys&lt;/a&gt; Jeff Jacoby: &lt;a title="Judge Goldstone Takes It Back" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2011/04/06/judge_goldstone_takes_it_back"&gt;Judge Goldstone Takes It Back&lt;/a&gt; Hugh Hewitt: &lt;a title="Winning the FY 2012 In The Fall Budget Means Winning the FY 2011 Showdown Now" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/06/winning_the_fy_2012_in_the_fall_budget_means_winning_the_fy_2011_showdown_now"&gt;Winning the FY 2012 In The Fall Budget Means Winning the FY 2011 Showdown Now&lt;/a&gt; Marybeth Hicks: &lt;a title="Lax Parenting Is Something to Regret" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MarybethHicks/2011/04/06/lax_parenting_is_something_to_regret"&gt;Lax Parenting Is Something to Regret&lt;/a&gt; Dave Ramsey: &lt;a title="Dave Says There is No Future in Futures" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DaveRamsey/2011/04/06/dave_says_there_is_no_future_in_futures"&gt;Dave Says There is No Future in Futures&lt;/a&gt; Michelle Malkin: &lt;a title="The Democrats' Friends 'n Fat Cats Protection Plan" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2011/04/06/the_democrats_friends_n_fat_cats_protection_plan"&gt;The Democrats' Friends 'n Fat Cats Protection Plan&lt;/a&gt; Brent Bozell: &lt;a title="NBC's Naked Ambitions" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozell/2011/04/08/nbcs_naked_ambitions"&gt;NBC's Naked Ambitions&lt;/a&gt; Hugh Hewitt: &lt;a title="A Decisive Moment for Life" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2011/04/08/a_decisive_moment_for_life"&gt;A Decisive Moment for Life&lt;/a&gt; Oliver North: &lt;a title="All Quiet on the Southern Front?" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2011/04/08/all_quiet_on_the_southern_front"&gt;All Quiet on the Southern Front?&lt;/a&gt; Donald Lambro: &lt;a title="Develop U.S. Drilling For Energy Independence " href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2011/04/07/develop_us_drilling_for_energy_independence"&gt;Develop U.S. Drilling For Energy Independence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3940451639862292660-2673677186409386122?l=newsboypost.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/feeds/2673677186409386122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/03/t-o-d-y-s-w-o-r-l-d-n-e-w-s.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/2673677186409386122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3940451639862292660/posts/default/2673677186409386122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newsboypost.blogspot.com/2011/03/t-o-d-y-s-w-o-r-l-d-n-e-w-s.html' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;font-size:240%;color:#000066;&quot;&gt;N E W S&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;O P I N I O N S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'/><author><name>Newsboy Post</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18344276069951664654</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TDOWIf_d-SI/AAAAAAAACEg/KlpcK7hzmZk/S220/NBnewsboypost.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TCCvLpLFglI/AAAAAAAAB70/5dNvTWh9v0s/s72-c/Topstories1320x240.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-6649255868632487318</id><published>2011-03-29T09:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T16:55:29.606-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freedom'/><title type='text'>The Obama Administration Scandals:Scorecard of His First Two Years</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The relationship between government and the governed becomes that of predator and prey. Welcome to Obama's lawless America. Obama thwarts the laws on the books in favor &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fiTZ044qd4o/TYeUThcUyAI/AAAAAAAADrA/CFAndvBiUXs/s1600/obamamoneyanim.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 380px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 183px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.randomfunnypicture.com/pictures/751animated-obama-money.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;of his own agenda, including unions, immigration enforcement and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Me and the brothas can spend my 'Obama stash' quicker than a cracker on a Saturday night!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;Obama Administration &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;Scandals:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;"&gt;ir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;"&gt;st Two Years&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TSS_G2i-I5I/AAAAAAAADYw/dm6SBr5I7MI/s1600/cultureofcorruption.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 201px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 253px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558777964524348306" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TSS_G2i-I5I/AAAAAAAADYw/dm6SBr5I7MI/s400/cultureofcorruption.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;Scorecard on 30 Obama Scandals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (updated): &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BLOGSPOT.COM SCREW UP: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION!! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Prosecutes CIA for defending country Prosecutes Navy Seals for assaulting most wanted terrorist. Joseph Sestak's quid pro quo BP do-nothing Hides $17.5 billion "stimulus" in NJ AmeriCorp firing in violation of federal law Obama’s three places of birth Obama’s natural-born citizenship?? Obama’s multiple SS numbers ACORN pimps out Clinton Foundation gave ACORN $250,000 VP Biden's daughter in cocaine bust Biden's brother and son named in offshore Ponzi scheme Rahn Emanuel (too numerous to mention) Obama prez campaign accepted AIG donations House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (being there) Cong Barney Frank, Freddie Mac scandals Sen Chris Dodd, AIG bonuses, Countrywide insider deals Gov. Richardson-pay to play scandal (withdraws) No. 2 at HUD Ron Sims (violates Public Records Act as Seattle area County exec) Tim Geithner-Tax cheat (confirmed) Tom Daschle-Tax cheat (withdraws) Killefer-Tax cheat (withdraws) DOL Secy Hilda Solis - husband tax cheat (confirmed) Senator Roland Burris lied about "pay to play" contacts Auto rescuer appointee Steven Rattner (massive pay-to-play NY pension scandal) )(stepped down) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Louis Caldera, White House Military Office (ousted for $357,000 flyover NYC) Green Czar Van Jones ousted - San/Fran Communist w/ arrest record. Married Obama economic advisor Charles Phillips tell longtime mistress he's divorced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's a Larger List: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.correntewire.com/obama_scandals_list_200"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;200 Obama Scandals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also view 1,800 Reasons to Regret Voting for Obama (If You Did!) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://conservativeamerican.org/obama-administration-scandals-list/page-one-1-50/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PAGE 1 #1-50&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; TO &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://conservativeamerican.org/obama-administration-scandals-list/page-36-1751-1800/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Page 36 #1,751-1,800&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;37 Other Democratic Party Scandals:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Cong Charles Rangel-Tax cheat (ousted from chairmanship) Sen. Al Franken--voted in w/ ACORN registrations John Edwards in love child payoff w/ campaign funds Gov Blagojevich-pay to play scandal (impeached) Baltimore Mayor Dixon-indicted on perjury, theft charges Racine Mayor Becker-arrested for child porn, soliciting minors Hartford Mayor Perez-arrested for bribery Birmingham Mayor Langford-arrested on federal charges Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick-served 99 days jailtime Portland Mayor Adams-admitted he had gay sex with teen intern Chicago Alderwoman Troutman-plead guilty to tax fraud and mail fraud Monica Conyers John Coyner’s wife, Detroit City Council President guilty in Detroit bribery case Tim Mahoney (D-FL) - Offered $121,000 payoff and $50,000 a year job for two years to quiet former mistress/staffer Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-LA) tried on 6 counts including bribery (hid $90,000 cash in freezer) NY Gov. Spitzer - fed's wiretaps out involvement in prostitution ring. Cong Alcee Hastings ex-judge, impeached/convicted for bribery (elected to House) Cong Carnahan (D-MO) lien filed on home for $17,364 unpaid roofer bill Mass State Sen Dianne Wilkerson arrested on federal bribery charges (stuffed bribes in bra) Carol Moseley Braun nailed for stealing $249,000 from her campaign treasury Mass State Sen J. James Marzilli indicted for accosting four women (resigned) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Dem/Socialist--ILL) husband’s bank fraud Ex-leader of Young Democrats sentenced in Child Porn case North Carolina Dem activist sentenced in child porn w/ kids as young as 6 John Kerry's Band of Brothers member on-stage at DNC Convention (convicted for child porn) Aide to Sen Barbara Boxer received/distributed child porn (convicted) Child molester back working for Democrat in Hawaii Legislature Wisconsin Dem mayor charged with child-sex crimes Left-wing radio personality Bernie Ward (possession/distribution of child porn conviction) Barney Frank's ex-boyfriend ran prostitution ring at residence. Barney Frank's current live-in grows marijuana on premises. Hawaii senator got TARP funds for bank he founded. Sen. Diane Finstein steered govt money to husband's businesses. Cong. John Murtha - massive fraud and corruption. Sen. Charles Schumer - crashed IndyMac by causing a run on assets. 42 Dem officials arrested in NJ corruption bust. WV Alan Molohan -- created/funded phony non-profit. Bexar County (San Antonio, TX) Democratic Party missing $200K&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Latest News on Obama's Birth Certificate Controversy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2685052/posts"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supremes Fearful of Discovering 'Who the Hell is Obama'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Court Rejects Appeal Challenging Obama EligibilityThe Supreme Court has rejected for the second time a challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president over the unsubstantiated claim that he was not born in the United States. The court did not comment Monday on its reasons, but it has turned away several similar appeals stretching back to shortly after Obama's election in November 2008.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php?pageId=272641"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supremes' 'Avoidance Behavior' on Eligibility Called 'Appalling'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - An attorney who has been working with a case challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president says it is appalling the Supreme Court justices are allowing the constitutional rule of law to be destabilized by their "avoidance behavior," and it's even worse that two of Obama's appointees apparently participated in the recent case conference. "Their defiance of the court cases, their attitude they don't really need to adhere to the law, is really unparalleled," said Laurence Elgin, one of the experts working with the Constitutional Rule of Law Fund and website and monitoring the case brought by attorney John Hemenway...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=264897"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Stunner! Supremes Have Scheduled Conference on 'Legal Challenge to Obama's Eligibility' to Occupy Office&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Challenge to Obama getting 2nd conference before court In a stunning move, the U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled another "conference" on a legal challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office... &lt;a href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2675406/posts"&gt;Comments at Forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hillbuzz.org/2011/02/17/blue-team-action-item-research-why-the-supreme-court-is-compelled-to-hold-a-new-hearing-on-obamas-eligibility-to-hold-the-presidency/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Why the Supreme Court Has Been Compelled to Hold a New Hearing on Obama’s Eligibility&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Drudge has linked this story from World Net Daily that notes the odd decision by the Supreme Court to hold a new “conference” on Obama’s eligibility to hold the presidency. Let’s research WHY the court could be compelled to do this. It MUST have something to do with the fact that Obama has no birth certificate on file. &lt;a href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2663737/posts"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► WTF!! Celebrity journalist Mike Evans (finds horse's head in his bed) now says he MISSPOKE (numerous times)when he said that Hawaii Guv told him he was unable to find Obama's original birth certificate (Read comments at FreeRepublic.com)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=261033"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Lawsuit Filed Seeking Why Barack Obama Uses SS Number Assigned to Connecticut Resident&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=261033"&gt;Born in 1890 — That's a real WTF!!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=3255"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;♠ Background Info&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/exclusive-investigative-reports/the-mystery-of-barack-obama-continues/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;♠ More Background Info&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-audio-of-mike-evans-telling-second.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► UPDATE: Mike Evans Told 3 Radio Stations Abercrombie Told Him No Obama BC in Hawaii (Video)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; - Friend of Governor says he was told by him, "There is NO Barack Obama Birth Certificate in Hawaii ... absolutely no proof at all." (Transcript: Radio Interview) Mike Evans, of Hollywood Reporter, has been a friend of Gov. Abercrombie's for "decades." Evans spoke to him yesterday. "Neil and I spent a lot of time together during Obama's Inauguration. He promised me that he when he became Governor, he was going to cut thru all the BS and find absolute proof that "Barry" was born in Hawaii. Well, I spoke to him YESTERDAY and Abercrombie told me "He searched everywhere using his powers as governor, and... There is NO Barack Obama Birth Certificate in Hawaii ... absolutely no proof at all that... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_BIRTH_CERTIFICATE?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-01-27-16-37-58"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Five Hawaii Democratic Representatives Want Release of Obama Birth Info&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/27/politics/main7288553.shtml"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Hawaii's Health Director Quits Amid Controversy Over Obama Birth Records?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=255489"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Game-changer! Arizona, Montana, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Texas Aiming to Pass 2012 Eligibility Law Requiring Obama to Produce Birth Certificate to Run Again&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/friend_says_abercrombie_to_him.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Friend says Abercrombie told him, 'There is no birth certificate!'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=254401"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Hawaii Official Now Swears: No Obama Birth Certificate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebraziltimes.com/blogs/1487/entry/39434/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Indiana Paper Explains the Birther Controversy: The Accidental Birther or Born in the U.S.A.?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://drkatesview.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/too-late-abercrombie/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► It's Too Late Governor Abercrombie, You've Committed Perjury&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110122/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_birth_certificate"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► Hawaii's Governor Won't Release Obama Birth Info, Says It's Against State Law&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.politico.com/global/news/110119_boehner_healthrepeal_ap_328.jpg%22"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hannity joined Drudge, Limbaugh and Boortz with coverage of Gov. Abercrombie's 'no-results-yet search' for the elusive Certificate of Live Birth for the mysterious Mr. Obama &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/01/jerome-corsi-challenge-to-hawaii.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;► World Net Daily's Dr. Jerome Corsi Challenge to Gov. Abercrombie: "Use Your Authority &amp;amp; Release Obama's Typewritten Hospital Generated Long-Form Birth Certificate"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" id="top" href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2523741/posts" target="_self"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBAMA'S HIDDEN DOCUMENTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lest we forget: Why would he hide every scrap of his past history? Why are these docs off-limits? &lt;/strong&gt;(1) Certified copy of original birth certificate (2) Columbia University transcripts (3) Columbia thesis paper (4) Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups (5) Harvard University transcripts (6) Illinois State Senate records (7) Illinois State Senate schedule (8) Law practice client list and billing records/summary (9) Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother (10) Medical records (only the one page summary released so far) (11) Occidental College Transcripts (12) Parent’s marriage Certificate (13) Record of baptism (14) Selective Service registration records (Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service? (15) Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007 (16) Passport records for all passports (17) Scholarly articles (18) SAT and LSAT test scores (19) Access to his grandmother in Kenya (20) List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists (21) Punahou grade school records (22) Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education. (23) Page 11 of Stanley Ann Dunham's divorce decree. (24) Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents? 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We don't miss much, but always check the feeds in the right column for breaking stories. — Newsboy Post staff&lt;/span&gt; =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TCCvLpLFglI/AAAAAAAAB70/5dNvTWh9v0s/s1600/Topstories1320x240.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 156px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485576960703038034" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TCCvLpLFglI/AAAAAAAAB70/5dNvTWh9v0s/s400/Topstories1320x240.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/obama-administration-mounting-pressure-botched-gun-trafficking-investigation/"&gt;White House Under Fire Over Failed Gun Sting&lt;/a&gt; - The Obama administration and the Department of Justice face scrutiny over botched gun trafficking sting that funneled more than 1,700 smuggled weapons from Arizona to Mexico. ► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/radiation-seawater-soil-spreading-japan/"&gt;Japan Fears Spread of Contaminated Seawater&lt;/a&gt; - Radioactive water seeping from crippled Japan nuke plant spreading to seawater and soil, officials say ► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/obama-takes-podium-defend-explain-libya-mission/"&gt;Obama Taking the Stage To Make Case on Libya&lt;/a&gt; - The president to speak tonight on the military's next steps in Libya — and to defend the mission ► &lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110328/D9M8APUG0.html"&gt;Consumer spending and incomes rose in February&lt;/a&gt; - Americans earned a little more and spent a little more in February, thanks to a tax cut. But a big part of the extra money went to cover higher gas prices. Consumer spending jumped 0.7 percent last month and personal incomes rose 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said. ► &lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110328/D9M8AFEG1.html"&gt;More people signed contracts to buy homes in Feb.&lt;/a&gt; - More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in February, but sales were uneven across the country and not enough to signal a rebound in the housing market. Sales agreements for homes rose 2.1 percent last month to a reading of 90.8, according to the National Association of... ► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/mystery-surrounds-disappearance-24-year-old-disney-cruise-line-employee/"&gt;Mystery Deepens in Disney Cruise Ship Disappearance&lt;/a&gt; - Parents looking for answers after Rebecca Coriam vanished during Disney cruise from L.A. to Mexico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/eyewitness-gunfire-tear-gas-syrian-city/?test=latestnews"&gt;Witness: Gunfire, Tear Gas in Syrian City&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/egypts-mubarak-relatives-reportedly-house-arrest/"&gt;Mubarak, Family Under House Arrest&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html"&gt;SOROS 'CHARITY' GROUP PLOTS 'GUERILLA WAR', 'SABOTAGE' ON FOXNEWS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/somali-terror-suspect-ask-judge-release-1227562615/?test=latestnews"&gt;Somali Terror Suspect Seeks Release in U.S.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/truck-bomb-explodes-afghanistan-killing-13/?test=latestnews"&gt;Truck Bomb Explodes in Afghanistan, Killing 20&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/media-matters-breaking-law-its-war-fox-news"&gt;Is 'Media Matters' breaking the law?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/March/Iranian-Regime-Video-Says-Mahdi-is-Near-/"&gt;IRANIAN VIDEO: ISLAMIC MESSIAH IS 'NEAR'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-kill-team-20110327"&gt;MAG: NEW 'KILL TEAM' PHOTOS RELEASED&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370758/Shocking-video-shows-U-S-troops-cheering-airstrike-blows-Afghan-civilians.html"&gt;REPORT: Troops killed Afghan civilians and tried to cover&lt;/a&gt; U.S. soldiers hacked off part of dead man's skull? &lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/motorcyle-kill-20110327"&gt;VIDEO: Two on motorcycle gunned down...***WARNING: GRAPHIC***&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/27/somali-leader-splits-time-homeland-crisis-family-life-new-york/?test=latestnews"&gt;Somali Prime Minister Puts Life on Line to 'Regain the Dignity' of His People&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/china-moves-extend-jailing-outspoken-blogger/?test=latestnews"&gt;China to Extend Sentence of Outspoken Blogger&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/27/lawmakers-aim-break-budget-impasse-congress-returns/?test=latestnews"&gt;Lawmakers Aim to Break Budget Impasse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/03/28/kabbalah-centre-said-to-be-subject-of-grand-jury-investigation"&gt;REPORT: Kabbalah Centre Said to Be Subject of Grand Jury Probe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.2bf80f7e0d48e79cc0cac11cdf4e053e.e1&amp;amp;show_article=1"&gt;Obama to defend actions in Mideast&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b91c0058-58ab-11e0-9b8a-00144feab49a.html"&gt;Lines drawn between Libya, Syria stance&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/libyan-rebels-seize-oil-complexes-capture-gadhafis-hometown/story?id=13235691"&gt;Fierce Fight Erupts for Gadhafi's Hometown&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110328/wl_nm/us_libya_france_britain"&gt;France, UK urge supporters to drop him now&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/obama-press-secretary-gibbs-join-facebook-executive-branch/?test=latestnews"&gt;Ex-Obama Press Sec'y Heading to Facebook?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2011/03/28/arod-alex-rodriguez-slumlord/?test=latestnews"&gt;Yankees Star A-Rod a Slumlord?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE72R0EL20110328?sp=true"&gt;RUSSIA: No UN mandate to attack forces&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42293485"&gt;Unrest in Syria, Jordan Poses New Test&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-27/u-s-won-t-intervene-in-syria-unrest-clinton-says-on-cbs.html"&gt;Clinton: USA won't intervene [for now]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/27/us-syria-idUSTRE72N2MC20110327"&gt;Assad deploys army in port to keep order&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iM3QEDJs1BQJsmbaJ7btst1--7mg?docId=CNG.82fce0d1e069b2865b114176f57c0264.3d1"&gt;ISRAEL DEPLOYS NEW MISSILE DEFENSE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370464/Children-revolution-The-Yemeni-boys-taking-stand-country-teeters-brink.html"&gt;Yemeni boys taking a stand; Country teeters on brink&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_CHAVEZ?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-03-27-20-03-25"&gt;Chavez urges Venezuelans to cut calorie intake&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42250806"&gt;Gold Replacing Dollar as World Reserve Currency?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/27/2011-03-27_poisonous_cobra_gives_bx_zoo_the_slip.html"&gt;Poisonous Egyptian cobra escapes Bronx Zoo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/03/28/doctors-warn-about-facebook-depression-in-teens/"&gt;Doctors Warn About 'FACEBOOK Depression' In Teens&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/03/28/man-lives-in-glass-apartment-inside-mall-of-america/"&gt;Man Lives In Glass Apartment Inside Mall of America&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110328/wr_nm/us_china_blogger"&gt;Prominent Chinese blogger charged as crackdown deepens&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.html"&gt;REPORTER CONFINED IN CLOSET DURING BIDEN FUNDRAISER&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/panama-38756-city-beach.html"&gt;UPDATE: BURGER KING bikini brawler faces felony charge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/bk-brawler-told-cops-real-whopper-430982"&gt;WHOPPER: Gave cops phony name&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/03/28/new-jersey-woman-accused-of-dumping-dog-down-trash-chute/"&gt;SHOCK: Woman Arrested For Dumping Starved Pit Bull Down Trash Chute -- In 22-Story Building!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SPENDING_SHOWDOWN?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-03-28-09-39-33"&gt;Time short, tempers flare in budget showdown&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/short-term-funding-measures-have-agency-budget-officials-finding-ways-to-save-20110328"&gt;Temp Funding, Threat of 'Shutdown' Forces Agencies to Trim&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/03/28/qa-juan-seplveda/?test=latestnews"&gt;Latino Schools 'Struggling the Most'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/03/28/pawlenty-announces-his-money-team?test=latestnews"&gt;Pawlenty Announces Money Team&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/slowing-bp-oil-spill-administration-slowed-flow-information-claims-coast-guard/?test=latestnews"&gt;Coast Guard Rips WH for 'Muted' Oil Spill Response&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/11-year-old-girl-gang-raped-california-park-bathroom/?test=latestnews"&gt;11-Year-Old Girl Gang Raped in California Park&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/152025-activists-to-begin-fasting-monday-to-protest-gop-budget-cuts"&gt;Fasts to begin; Protest against cuts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8410193/Prince-slips-off-for-a-secret-country-stag.html"&gt;Prince William slips off for secret stag weekend&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8410157/Anarchists-plan-to-target-royal-wedding.html"&gt;Anarchists 'plan to target royal wedding'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704438104576219190417124226.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories"&gt;JAM: U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/couric_offered_min_RzCp8FH3z98CK7NGgsinoL"&gt;COURIC OFFERED '60 MINS'&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_THREE_MILE_ISLAND_ANNIVERSARY?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-03-28-08-16-25"&gt;Vigil marks 32 years since Three Mile Island&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/ufo-sighting-spooks-lafayette-colorado-town/story?id=13235459"&gt;UFO Sighting Sets Colorado Town Abuzz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TB9bnfN_HhI/AAAAAAAAB6k/P1EkiqmA11k/s1600/opinionsimportant4.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 215px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485203605113740818" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TB9bnfN_HhI/AAAAAAAAB6k/P1EkiqmA11k/s400/opinionsimportant4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;► &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/york.php3"&gt;Byron York&lt;/a&gt; - Obama fails to grasp the gravity of going to war ► &lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/28/wapo-why-is-obama-pursuing-a-drill-brazil-drill-strategy/"&gt;Ed Morrissey&lt;/a&gt; - Obama Pursuing a 'Drill, Brazil, Drill' Strategy? ► &lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2011/03/28/why_liberals_hate_clarence_thomas_and_sarah_palin"&gt;Star Parker:&lt;/a&gt; Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin ► &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/28/libya-better-future-conference"&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt; - Shape of Libya's "Better Future" Elusive ► &lt;a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/03/timothy-p-carney-obama-aides-find-moral-clarity-libyas-foggy-war"&gt;Tim Carney&lt;/a&gt; - Obama Aides Find Moral Clarity in a Foggy War ► &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/steyn.php3"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/a&gt; - Do-gooders in a land with no good guys&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/douglas.php3"&gt;Alan Douglas&lt;/a&gt;: Dogs in Danger &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/pennington.php3"&gt;Rod Pennington&lt;/a&gt;: The 10 things Obama will look for in a new secretary of state &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/lopez032211.php3"&gt;Kathryn Lopez&lt;/a&gt;: Parents need to step up in style wars &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker032811.php3"&gt;Kathleen Parker&lt;/a&gt;: Has Nikki Haley doomed her promising career? &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/ahlert.php3"&gt;Arnold Ahlert&lt;/a&gt;: The MSM Kills the "Kill Team" Story &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/saunders032811.php3"&gt;Debra J. Saunders&lt;/a&gt;: Gadhafi: The Mad Dog Who Trumped the World &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/jkelly032811.php3"&gt;Jack Kelly&lt;/a&gt;: Murky mission in Libya: Neither our objectives nor our role is clear &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/kondracke1.asp"&gt;Mort Kondracke&lt;/a&gt;: There's hope for better schools --- if Congress helps &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone032811.php3"&gt;Michael Barone&lt;/a&gt;: The Eyes of Texas Are Sparkling in the 2010 Census &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby032811.php3"&gt;Jeff Jacoby&lt;/a&gt;: Gingrich vs. Gingrich &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will032711.php3"&gt;George Will&lt;/a&gt;: College daze: The insanity of the application process &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/oreilly.php3"&gt;Bill O'Reilly&lt;/a&gt;: The Triumph of Evil &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047869-503544.html"&gt;Obama Seeks to Mollify Critics with Speech&lt;/a&gt; - Mark Knoller &lt;a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/85856/the-speed-paradox"&gt;Libya &amp;amp; The Timeliness Paradox&lt;/a&gt; - The New Republic &lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/27/the-routinization-of-humanitarian-war/"&gt;The Routinization of Humanitarian War&lt;/a&gt; - Mickey Kaus &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52012.html"&gt;Stronger Rules Will Rein in Debt&lt;/a&gt; - Pete Domenici &amp;amp; Alice Rivlin &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-28-1Aschooltesting28_CV_N.htm"&gt;When Test Scores Soared in DC, Were Gains Real?&lt;/a&gt; - USAT &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_grann"&gt;Murder and Politcal Conspiracy in Guatemala&lt;/a&gt; - New Yorker &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28douthat.html"&gt;Four Questions Obama Must Answer About Libya&lt;/a&gt; - NY Times &lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-28/obamas-libya-speech-why-consistency-in-foreign-policy-is-overrated/"&gt;President Obama's Moral Case for War&lt;/a&gt; - Peter Beinart &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2289568/"&gt;Our Sons &amp;amp; Daughters in Libya - Fighting for France&lt;/a&gt; - Will Saletan &lt;a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/28/charlie-foxtrot-over-libya"&gt;Obama Will Try to Explain the Inexplicable&lt;/a&gt; - Jed Babbin &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-27/only-qaddafi-s-ouster-defines-success-in-libya-commentary-by-albert-hunt.html"&gt;Only Qaddafi's Ouster Defines Success in Libya&lt;/a&gt; - Albert Hunt &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704425804576220350402194830.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"&gt;Republicans Are Winning the Budget Fight&lt;/a&gt; - Fred Barnes &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/28/the_surprising_new_class_politics_109353.html"&gt;Midwest Voters Already Shifting From GOP&lt;/a&gt; - E.J. Dionne &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/28/the_gathering_storm_economy_remains_too_vulnerable_109365.html"&gt;The Economy Remains Too Vulnerable&lt;/a&gt; - Baltimore Sun &lt;a href="http://www.realclearmarkets.com/"&gt;The Floating Dollar as a Threat to Property Rights&lt;/a&gt; - Imprimis &lt;a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/28/give_tarp_a_break_109356.html"&gt;Give TARP a Break&lt;/a&gt; - Robert Samuelson &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/03/27/gingrich_vs_gingrich/"&gt;Gingrich vs. Gingrich&lt;/a&gt; - Jeff Jacoby &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-republicans-hispanic-problem/2011/03/27/AFiMXokB_story.html"&gt;The Republicans' Hispanic Problem&lt;/a&gt; - Chris Cillizza &lt;a href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_fever_returns"&gt;Violence Returns to Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt; - The American Prospect &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-obamas-push-for-mideast-peace-whose-side-is-he-on/2011/03/24/AFdkaikB_story.html"&gt;In Push for Mideast Peace, Whose Side Is Obama On?&lt;/a&gt; - Wash Post &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cyber-war-20110328,0,6416856.story"&gt;The Threat of Cyber War Is Very Real&lt;/a&gt; - LA Times &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/drill-brazil-drill-says-the-us/2011/03/25/AFHba4kB_story.html"&gt;Drill, Brazil, Drill, Says the U.S.&lt;/a&gt; - Wash Post &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704517404576222581494405442.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"&gt;Senate's EPA Showdown&lt;/a&gt; - WSJ &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28mon1.html?ref=opinion"&gt;Who Will Rescue Financial Reform?&lt;/a&gt; - NY Times &lt;a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/03/ge_rakes_in_profits_but_pays_n.html"&gt;GE Rakes in Profits But Pays No Taxes&lt;/a&gt; - NJ Star-Ledger &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-28-aviationbill28_ST_N.htm"&gt;Congress Seeks to Bridge Differences on Air-Travel Bills&lt;/a&gt; - USA Today &lt;a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicaid/152023-dems-question-hhs-menu-of-medicaid-cuts"&gt;Democrats Say Potential Medicaid Cuts Are Cruel&lt;/a&gt; - The Hill &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576228380521718412.html"&gt;Supreme Court to Hear Campaign-Finance Case&lt;/a&gt; - WSJ &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-congress-small-20110327,0,323219.story"&gt;House GOP Passing Smaller Pieces of Legislation&lt;/a&gt; - LA Times Star Parker: &lt;a title="Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2011/03/28/why_liberals_hate_clarence_thomas_and_sarah_palin"&gt;Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin&lt;/a&gt; Alex Cortes: &lt;a title="A Solution to the GOP’s Defunding Problem" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/AlexCortes/2011/03/28/a_solution_to_the_gop’s_defunding_problem"&gt;A Solution to the GOP’s Defunding Problem&lt;/a&gt; Brian Birdnow: &lt;a title="Politicians, Media &amp;amp; “Kinetic Military Actions”: Libya In Historical Perspective" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/03/28/politicians,_media__“kinetic_military_actions”_libya_in_historical_perspective"&gt;Politicians, Media &amp;amp; “Kinetic Military Actions”: Libya In Historical Perspective&lt;/a&gt; Mike Adams: &lt;a title="Resentment Studies" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2011/03/28/resentment_studies"&gt;Resentment Studies&lt;/a&gt; Steve Simpson: &lt;a title="First Amendment Protects Freedom of Speech, Not Equality of Speech" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SteveSimpson/2011/03/28/first_amendment_protects_freedom_of_speech,_not_equality_of_speech"&gt;First Amendment Protects Freedom of Speech, Not Equality of Speech&lt;/a&gt; Bruce Bialosky: &lt;a title="Selective Thoughts" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBialosky/2011/03/28/selective_thoughts"&gt;Selective Thoughts&lt;/a&gt; Mike Needham: &lt;a title="House Republicans Blinked on Spending, So Now What?" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeNeedham/2011/03/28/house_republicans_blinked_on_spending,_so_now_what"&gt;House Republicans Blinked on Spending, So Now What?&lt;/a&gt; Lurita Doan: &lt;a title="Obama: The Absent-Minded President" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/LuritaDoan/2011/03/28/obama_the_absent-minded_president"&gt;Obama: The Absent-Minded President&lt;/a&gt; Christopher Prandoni: &lt;a title="Democrats Attempt to Enable EPA Power Grab" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherPrandoni/2011/03/28/democrats_attempt_to_enable_epa_power_grab"&gt;Democrats Attempt to Enable EPA Power Grab&lt;/a&gt; John C. Goodman: &lt;a title="Ponzi Schemes" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2011/03/28/ponzi_schemes"&gt;Ponzi Schemes&lt;/a&gt; Terry Paulson: &lt;a title="Risking Civil Dialogue" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/TerryPaulson/2011/03/28/risking_civil_dialogue"&gt;Risking Civil Dialogue&lt;/a&gt; Katie Kieffer: &lt;a title="FDA Headbangs With Condoms, Not Cigs" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KatieKieffer/2011/03/28/fda_headbangs_with_condoms,_not_cigs"&gt;FDA Headbangs With Condoms, Not Cigs&lt;/a&gt; Austin Hill: &lt;a title="Collapse of the Obama Worldview" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2011/03/27/collapse_of_the_obama_worldview"&gt;Collapse of the Obama Worldview&lt;/a&gt; Ken Connor: &lt;a title="Slouching Toward Mediocrity" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2011/03/27/slouching_toward_mediocrity"&gt;Slouching Toward Mediocrity&lt;/a&gt; Steve Chapman: &lt;a title="Obama and the Ghost of ྀ" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2011/03/27/obama_and_the_ghost_of_68"&gt;Obama and the Ghost of 1968&lt;/a&gt; Salena Zito: &lt;a title="GOP Foolishly Ignores Recall Battle in Wisconsin" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2011/03/27/gop_foolishly_ignores_recall_battle_in_wisconsin"&gt;GOP Foolishly Ignores Recall Battle in Wisconsin&lt;/a&gt; David Stokes: &lt;a title="Of Sweatshops And Classrooms" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidStokes/2011/03/27/of_sweatshops_and_classrooms"&gt;Of Sweatshops And Classrooms&lt;/a&gt; Paul Jacob: &lt;a title="Beautiful losers" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2011/03/27/beautiful_losers"&gt;Beautiful losers&lt;/a&gt; Doug Giles: &lt;a title="Glee’s Not for Me" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2011/03/26/glee’s_not_for_me"&gt;Glee’s Not for Me&lt;/a&gt; John Ransom: &lt;a title="Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnRansom/2011/03/26/email,_hate_mail_and_comments_from_readers"&gt;Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers&lt;/a&gt; Mario Diaz: &lt;a title="Republicans Should Not Play Nice on Judicial Nominations" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2011/03/26/republicans_should_not_play_nice_on_judicial_nominations"&gt;Republicans Should Not Play Nice on Judicial Nominations&lt;/a&gt; Paul Driessen: &lt;a title="And the Beat-Down Goes On" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/03/26/and_the_beat-down_goes_on"&gt;And the Beat-Down Goes On&lt;/a&gt; Kathryn Lopez: &lt;a title="Parents Need to Step Up in Style Wars " href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KathrynLopez/2011/03/26/parents_need_to_step_up_in_style_wars"&gt;Parents Need to Step Up in Style Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Yesterday's Top Stories &lt;/span&gt;=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/obama-administration-mounting-pressure-botched-gun-trafficking-investigation/"&gt;White House Under Fire Over Failed Gun Sting&lt;/a&gt; - The Obama administration and the Department of Justice face scrutiny over botched gun trafficking sting that funneled more than 1,700 smuggled weapons from Arizona to Mexico. ► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/radiation-seawater-soil-spreading-japan/"&gt;Japan Fears Spread of Contaminated Seawater&lt;/a&gt; - Radioactive water seeping from crippled Japan nuke plant spreading to seawater and soil, officials say ► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/obama-takes-podium-defend-explain-libya-mission/"&gt;Obama Taking the Stage To Make Case on Libya&lt;/a&gt; - The president to speak tonight on the military's next steps in Libya — and to defend the mission ► &lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110328/D9M8APUG0.html"&gt;Consumer spending and incomes rose in February&lt;/a&gt; - Americans earned a little more and spent a little more in February, thanks to a tax cut. But a big part of the extra money went to cover higher gas prices. Consumer spending jumped 0.7 percent last month and personal incomes rose 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said. ► &lt;a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110328/D9M8AFEG1.html"&gt;More people signed contracts to buy homes in Feb.&lt;/a&gt; - More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in February, but sales were uneven across the country and not enough to signal a rebound in the housing market. Sales agreements for homes rose 2.1 percent last month to a reading of 90.8, according to the National Association of... ► &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/mystery-surrounds-disappearance-24-year-old-disney-cruise-line-employee/"&gt;Mystery Deepens in Disney Cruise Ship Disappearance&lt;/a&gt; - Parents looking for answers after Rebecca Coriam vanished during Disney cruise from L.A. to Mexico &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/eyewitness-gunfire-tear-gas-syrian-city/?test=latestnews"&gt;Witness: Gunfire, Tear Gas in Syrian City&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/egypts-mubarak-relatives-reportedly-house-arrest/"&gt;Mubarak, Family Under House Arrest&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html"&gt;SOROS 'CHARITY' GROUP PLOTS 'GUERILLA WAR', 'SABOTAGE' ON FOXNEWS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/somali-terror-suspect-ask-judge-release-1227562615/?test=latestnews"&gt;Somali Terror Suspect Seeks Release in U.S.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/truck-bomb-explodes-afghanistan-killing-13/?test=latestnews"&gt;Truck Bomb Explodes in Afghanistan, Killing 20&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/media-matters-breaking-law-its-war-fox-news"&gt;Is 'Media Matters' breaking the law?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/March/Iranian-Regime-Video-Says-Mahdi-is-Near-/"&gt;IRANIAN VIDEO: ISLAMIC MESSIAH IS 'NEAR'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-kill-team-20110327"&gt;MAG: NEW 'KILL TEAM' PHOTOS RELEASED&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370758/Shocking-video-shows-U-S-troops-cheering-airstrike-blows-Afghan-civilians.html"&gt;REPORT: Troops killed Afghan civilians and tried to cover&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/motorcyle-kill-20110327"&gt;VIDEO: Two on motorcycle gunned down...***WARNING: GRAPHIC***&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/27/somali-leader-splits-time-homeland-crisis-family-life-new-york/?test=latestnews"&gt;Somali Prime Minister Puts Life on Line to 'Regain the Dignity' of His People&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/28/china-moves-extend-jailing-outspoken-blogger/?test=latestnews"&gt;China to Extend Sentence of Outspoken Blogger&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/27/lawmakers-aim-break-budget-impasse-congress-returns/?test=latestnews"&gt;Lawmakers Aim to Break Budget Impasse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/03/28/kabbalah-centre-said-to-be-subject-of-grand-jury-investigation"&gt;REPORT: Kabbalah Centre Said to Be Subject of Grand Jury Probe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.2bf80f7e0d48e79cc0cac11cdf4e053e.e1&amp;amp;show_article=1"&gt;Obama to defend actions in Mideast&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b91c0058-58ab-11e0-9b8a-00144feab49a.html"&gt;Lines drawn between Libya, Syria stance&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/libyan-rebels-seize-oil-complexes-capture-gadhafis-hometown/story?id=13235691"&gt;Fierce Fight Erupts for Gadhafi's Hometown&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110328/wl_nm/us_libya_france_britain"&gt;France, UK urge supporters to drop him now&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/obama-press-secretary-gibbs-join-facebook-executive-branch/?test=latestnews"&gt;Ex-Obama Press Sec'y Heading to Facebook?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2011/03/28/arod-alex-rodriguez-slumlord/?test=latestnews"&gt;Yankees Star A-Rod a Slumlord?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE72R0EL20110328?sp=true"&gt;RUSSIA: No UN mandate to attack forces&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42293485"&gt;Unrest in Syria, Jordan Poses New Test&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-27/u-s-won-t-intervene-in-syria-unrest-clinton-says-on-cbs.html"&gt;Clinton: USA won't intervene [for now]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/27/us-syria-idUSTRE72N2MC20110327"&gt;Assad deploys army in port to keep order&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iM3QEDJs1BQJsmbaJ7btst1--7mg?docId=CNG.82fce0d1e069b2865b114176f57c0264.3d1"&gt;ISRAEL DEPLOYS NEW MISSILE DEFENSE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370464/Children-revolution-The-Yemeni-boys-taking-stand-country-teeters-brink.html"&gt;Yemeni boys taking a stand; Country teeters on brink&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_CHAVEZ?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-03-27-20-03-25"&gt;Chavez urges Venezuelans to cut calorie intake&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42250806"&gt;Gold Replacing Dollar as World Reserve Currency?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/27/2011-03-27_poisonous_cobra_gives_bx_zoo_the_slip.html"&gt;Poisonous Egyptian cobra escapes Bronx Zoo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/03/28/doctors-warn-about-facebook-depression-in-teens/"&gt;Doctors Warn About 'FACEBOOK Depression' In Teens&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/03/28/man-lives-in-glass-apartment-inside-mall-of-america/"&gt;Man Lives In Glass Apartment Inside Mall of America&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110328/wr_nm/us_china_blogger"&gt;Prominent Chinese blogger charged as crackdown deepens&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.html"&gt;REPORTER CONFINED IN CLOSET DURING BIDEN FUNDRAISER&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/panama-38756-city-beach.html"&gt;UPDATE: BURGER KING bikini brawler faces felony charge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/bk-brawler-told-cops-real-whopper-430982"&gt;WHOPPER: Gave cops phony name&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SPENDING_SHOWDOWN?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-03-28-09-39-33"&gt;Time short, tempers flare in budget showdown&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/03/28/qa-juan-seplveda/?test=latestnews"&gt;Latino Schools 'Struggling the Most'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/03/28/pawlenty-announces-his-money-team?test=latestnews"&gt;Pawlenty Announces Money Team&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/28/slowing-bp-oil-spill-administration-slowed-flow-information-claims-coast-guard/?test=latestnews"&gt;Coast Guard Rips WH for 'Muted' Oil Spill Response&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/11-year-old-girl-gang-raped-california-park-bathroom/?test=latestnews"&gt;11-Year-Old Girl Gang Raped in California Park&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/152025-activists-to-begin-fasting-monday-to-protest-gop-budget-cuts"&gt;Fasts to begin; Protest against cuts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8410193/Prince-slips-off-for-a-secret-country-stag.html"&gt;Prince William slips off for secret stag weekend&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8410157/Anarchists-plan-to-target-royal-wedding.html"&gt;Anarchists 'plan to target royal wedding'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704438104576219190417124226.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories"&gt;JAM: U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/couric_offered_min_RzCp8FH3z98CK7NGgsinoL"&gt;COURIC OFFERED '60 MINS'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/27/wisconsin-department-moving-implement-anti-union-law-despite-court-order/?test=latestnews"&gt;Despite Court Order, Wis. to Put Labor Law in Place&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/27/thousands-march-los-angeles-organized-labor/"&gt;Thousands March in Calif. for Organized Labor&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/mystery-surrounds-disappearance-24-year-old-disney-cruise-line-employee/?test=latestnews"&gt;Search Intensifies for Disney Cruise Worker&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/03/28/stories-from-main-street-montvale-school-ditches-books-chalkboards-for-laptops/"&gt;High School Ditches Chalkboards, Textbooks For Laptops&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41959553/ns/business-us_business/"&gt;TSA grounds whistle-blowing witch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/27/japan-idUSL3E7ER06020110327"&gt;Radiation levels at nuclear plant reach new highs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/28/facebook-depression-affect/?test=latestnews"&gt;Could 'Facebook Depression' Affect You?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/03/28/pending-home-sales-unexpectedly-rise-february/?test=latestnews"&gt;Pending Home Sales Up in February&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Yesterday's Op-Ed Columns&lt;/span&gt; =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= &lt;/span&gt;► &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/york.php3"&gt;Byron York&lt;/a&gt; - Obama fails to grasp the gravity of going to war ► &lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/28/wapo-why-is-obama-pursuing-a-drill-brazil-drill-strategy/"&gt;Ed Morrissey&lt;/a&gt; - Obama Pursuing a 'Drill, Brazil, Drill' Strategy? ► &lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2011/03/28/why_liberals_hate_clarence_thomas_and_sarah_palin"&gt;Star Parker:&lt;/a&gt; Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin ► &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/28/libya-better-future-conference"&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt; - Shape of Libya's "Better Future" Elusive ► &lt;a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/03/timothy-p-carney-obama-aides-find-moral-clarity-libyas-foggy-war"&gt;Tim Carney&lt;/a&gt; - Obama Aides Find Moral Clarity in a Foggy War ► &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/steyn.php3"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/a&gt; - Do-gooders in a land with no good guys&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/douglas.php3"&gt;Alan Douglas&lt;/a&gt;: Dogs in Danger &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/pennington.php3"&gt;Rod Pennington&lt;/a&gt;: The 10 things Obama will look for in a new secretary of state &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/lopez032211.php3"&gt;Kathryn Lopez&lt;/a&gt;: Parents need to step up in style wars &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker032811.php3"&gt;Kathleen Parker&lt;/a&gt;: Has Nikki Haley doomed her promising career? &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/ahlert.php3"&gt;Arnold Ahlert&lt;/a&gt;: The MSM Kills the "Kill Team" Story &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/saunders032811.php3"&gt;Debra J. Saunders&lt;/a&gt;: Gadhafi: The Mad Dog Who Trumped the World &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0311/jkelly032811.php3"&gt;Jack Kelly&lt;/a&gt;: Murky mission in Libya: Neither our objectives nor our role is clear &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/kondracke1.asp"&gt;Mort Kondracke&lt;/a&gt;: There's hope for better schools --- if Congress helps &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone032811.php3"&gt;Michael Barone&lt;/a&gt;: The Eyes of Texas Are Sparkling in the 2010 Census &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby032811.php3"&gt;Jeff Jacoby&lt;/a&gt;: Gingrich vs. Gingrich &lt;a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will032711.php3"&gt;George Will&lt;/a&gt;: College daze: The insanity of the application process &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/oreilly.php3"&gt;Bill O'Reilly&lt;/a&gt;: The Triumph of Evil &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252813', 'Obama+Seeks+to+Mollify+Critics+with+Speech');" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047869-503544.html"&gt;Obama Seeks to Mollify Critics with Speech&lt;/a&gt; - Mark Knoller &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252825', 'Libya+%26amp%3B+The+Timeliness+Paradox');" href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/85856/the-speed-paradox"&gt;Libya &amp;amp; The Timeliness Paradox&lt;/a&gt; - The New Republic &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252826', 'The+Routinization+of+Humanitarian+War');" href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/27/the-routinization-of-humanitarian-war/"&gt;The Routinization of Humanitarian War&lt;/a&gt; - Mickey Kaus &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252824', 'Stronger+Rules+Will+Rein+in+Debt');" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52012.html"&gt;Stronger Rules Will Rein in Debt&lt;/a&gt; - Pete Domenici &amp;amp; Alice Rivlin &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252842', 'When+Test+Scores+Soared+in+DC%2C+Were+Gains+Real%3F');" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-28-1Aschooltesting28_CV_N.htm"&gt;When Test Scores Soared in DC, Were Gains Real?&lt;/a&gt; - USAT &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252841', 'Murder+and+Politcal+Conspiracy+in+Guatemala');" href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_grann"&gt;Murder and Politcal Conspiracy in Guatemala&lt;/a&gt; - New Yorker &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252779', 'Four+Questions+Obama+Must+Answer+About+Libya');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28douthat.html"&gt;Four Questions Obama Must Answer About Libya&lt;/a&gt; - NY Times &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252802', 'President+Obama%26%23039%3Bs+Moral+Case+for+War');" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-28/obamas-libya-speech-why-consistency-in-foreign-policy-is-overrated/"&gt;President Obama's Moral Case for War&lt;/a&gt; - Peter Beinart &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252799', 'Our+Sons+%26amp%3B+Daughters+in+Libya+-+Fighting+for+France');" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2289568/"&gt;Our Sons &amp;amp; Daughters in Libya - Fighting for France&lt;/a&gt; - Will Saletan &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252796', 'Obama+Will+Try+to+Explain+the+Inexplicable');" href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/28/charlie-foxtrot-over-libya"&gt;Obama Will Try to Explain the Inexplicable&lt;/a&gt; - Jed Babbin &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252790', 'Only+Qaddafi%26%23039%3Bs+Ouster+Defines+Success+in+Libya');" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-27/only-qaddafi-s-ouster-defines-success-in-libya-commentary-by-albert-hunt.html"&gt;Only Qaddafi's Ouster Defines Success in Libya&lt;/a&gt; - Albert Hunt &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252792', 'Republicans+Are+Winning+the+Budget+Fight');" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704425804576220350402194830.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"&gt;Republicans Are Winning the Budget Fight&lt;/a&gt; - Fred Barnes &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252787', 'Midwest+Voters+Already+Shifting+From+GOP');" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/28/the_surprising_new_class_politics_109353.html"&gt;Midwest Voters Already Shifting From GOP&lt;/a&gt; - E.J. Dionne &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252795', 'The+Economy+Remains+Too+Vulnerable');" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/28/the_gathering_storm_economy_remains_too_vulnerable_109365.html"&gt;The Economy Remains Too Vulnerable&lt;/a&gt; - Baltimore Sun &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252803', 'The+Floating+Dollar+as+a+Threat+to+Property+Rights');" href="http://www.realclearmarkets.com/"&gt;The Floating Dollar as a Threat to Property Rights&lt;/a&gt; - Imprimis &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252777', 'Give+TARP+a+Break');" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/28/give_tarp_a_break_109356.html"&gt;Give TARP a Break&lt;/a&gt; - Robert Samuelson &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252759', 'Gingrich+vs.+Gingrich');" href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/03/27/gingrich_vs_gingrich/"&gt;Gingrich vs. Gingrich&lt;/a&gt; - Jeff Jacoby &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252781', 'The+Republicans%26%23039%3B+Hispanic+Problem');" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-republicans-hispanic-problem/2011/03/27/AFiMXokB_story.html"&gt;The Republicans' Hispanic Problem&lt;/a&gt; - Chris Cillizza &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252804', 'Violence+Returns+to+Jerusalem');" href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_fever_returns"&gt;Violence Returns to Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt; - The American Prospect &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252784', 'In+Push+for+Mideast+Peace%2C+Whose+Side+Is+Obama+On%3F');" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-obamas-push-for-mideast-peace-whose-side-is-he-on/2011/03/24/AFdkaikB_story.html"&gt;In Push for Mideast Peace, Whose Side Is Obama On?&lt;/a&gt; - Wash Post &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252785', 'The+Threat+of+Cyber+War+Is+Very+Real');" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cyber-war-20110328,0,6416856.story"&gt;The Threat of Cyber War Is Very Real&lt;/a&gt; - LA Times &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252801', 'Drill%2C+Brazil%2C+Drill%2C+Says+the+U.S.');" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/drill-brazil-drill-says-the-us/2011/03/25/AFHba4kB_story.html"&gt;Drill, Brazil, Drill, Says the U.S.&lt;/a&gt; - Wash Post &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252800', 'Senate%26%23039%3Bs+EPA+Showdown');" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704517404576222581494405442.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop"&gt;Senate's EPA Showdown&lt;/a&gt; - WSJ &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252806', 'Who+Will+Rescue+Financial+Reform%3F');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28mon1.html?ref=opinion"&gt;Who Will Rescue Financial Reform?&lt;/a&gt; - NY Times &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252805', 'GE+Rakes+in+Profits+But+Pays+No+Taxes');" href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/03/ge_rakes_in_profits_but_pays_n.html"&gt;GE Rakes in Profits But Pays No Taxes&lt;/a&gt; - NJ Star-Ledger &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252808', 'Congress+Seeks+to+Bridge+Differences+on+Air-Travel+Bills');" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-28-aviationbill28_ST_N.htm"&gt;Congress Seeks to Bridge Differences on Air-Travel Bills&lt;/a&gt; - USA Today &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252809', 'Democrats+Say+Potential+Medicaid+Cuts+Are+Cruel');" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicaid/152023-dems-question-hhs-menu-of-medicaid-cuts"&gt;Democrats Say Potential Medicaid Cuts Are Cruel&lt;/a&gt; - The Hill &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252810', 'Supreme+Court+to+Hear+Campaign-Finance+Case');" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576228380521718412.html"&gt;Supreme Court to Hear Campaign-Finance Case&lt;/a&gt; - WSJ &lt;a onclick="return trackclick('252807', 'House+GOP+Passing+Smaller+Pieces+of+Legislation');" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-congress-small-20110327,0,323219.story"&gt;House GOP Passing Smaller Pieces of Legislation&lt;/a&gt; - LA Times Star Parker: &lt;a title="Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2011/03/28/why_liberals_hate_clarence_thomas_and_sarah_palin"&gt;Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin&lt;/a&gt; Alex Cortes: &lt;a title="A Solution to the GOP’s Defunding Problem" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/AlexCortes/2011/03/28/a_solution_to_the_gop’s_defunding_problem"&gt;A Solution to the GOP’s Defunding Problem&lt;/a&gt; Brian Birdnow: &lt;a title="Politicians, Media &amp;amp; “Kinetic Military Actions”: Libya In Historical Perspective" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/03/28/politicians,_media__“kinetic_military_actions”_libya_in_historical_perspective"&gt;Politicians, Media &amp;amp; “Kinetic Military Actions”: Libya In Historical Perspective&lt;/a&gt; Mike Adams: &lt;a title="Resentment Studies" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2011/03/28/resentment_studies"&gt;Resentment Studies&lt;/a&gt; Steve Simpson: &lt;a title="First Amendment Protects Freedom of Speech, Not Equality of Speech" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SteveSimpson/2011/03/28/first_amendment_protects_freedom_of_speech,_not_equality_of_speech"&gt;First Amendment Protects Freedom of Speech, Not Equality of Speech&lt;/a&gt; Bruce Bialosky: &lt;a title="Selective Thoughts" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBialosky/2011/03/28/selective_thoughts"&gt;Selective Thoughts&lt;/a&gt; Mike Needham: &lt;a title="House Republicans Blinked on Spending, So Now What?" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeNeedham/2011/03/28/house_republicans_blinked_on_spending,_so_now_what"&gt;House Republicans Blinked on Spending, So Now What?&lt;/a&gt; Lurita Doan: &lt;a title="Obama: The Absent-Minded President" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/LuritaDoan/2011/03/28/obama_the_absent-minded_president"&gt;Obama: The Absent-Minded President&lt;/a&gt; Christopher Prandoni: &lt;a title="Democrats Attempt to Enable EPA Power Grab" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherPrandoni/2011/03/28/democrats_attempt_to_enable_epa_power_grab"&gt;Democrats Attempt to Enable EPA Power Grab&lt;/a&gt; John C. Goodman: &lt;a title="Ponzi Schemes" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2011/03/28/ponzi_schemes"&gt;Ponzi Schemes&lt;/a&gt; Terry Paulson: &lt;a title="Risking Civil Dialogue" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/TerryPaulson/2011/03/28/risking_civil_dialogue"&gt;Risking Civil Dialogue&lt;/a&gt; Katie Kieffer: &lt;a title="FDA Headbangs With Condoms, Not Cigs" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KatieKieffer/2011/03/28/fda_headbangs_with_condoms,_not_cigs"&gt;FDA Headbangs With Condoms, Not Cigs&lt;/a&gt; Austin Hill: &lt;a title="Collapse of the Obama Worldview" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2011/03/27/collapse_of_the_obama_worldview"&gt;Collapse of the Obama Worldview&lt;/a&gt; Ken Connor: &lt;a title="Slouching Toward Mediocrity" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2011/03/27/slouching_toward_mediocrity"&gt;Slouching Toward Mediocrity&lt;/a&gt; Steve Chapman: &lt;a title="Obama and the Ghost of ྀ" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SteveChapman/2011/03/27/obama_and_the_ghost_of_68"&gt;Obama and the Ghost of 1968&lt;/a&gt; Salena Zito: &lt;a title="GOP Foolishly Ignores Recall Battle in Wisconsin" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2011/03/27/gop_foolishly_ignores_recall_battle_in_wisconsin"&gt;GOP Foolishly Ignores Recall Battle in Wisconsin&lt;/a&gt; David Stokes: &lt;a title="Of Sweatshops And Classrooms" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidStokes/2011/03/27/of_sweatshops_and_classrooms"&gt;Of Sweatshops And Classrooms&lt;/a&gt; Paul Jacob: &lt;a title="Beautiful losers" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2011/03/27/beautiful_losers"&gt;Beautiful losers&lt;/a&gt; Doug Giles: &lt;a title="Glee’s Not for Me" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2011/03/26/glee’s_not_for_me"&gt;Glee’s Not for Me&lt;/a&gt; John Ransom: &lt;a title="Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnRansom/2011/03/26/email,_hate_mail_and_comments_from_readers"&gt;Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers&lt;/a&gt; Mario Diaz: &lt;a title="Republicans Should Not Play Nice on Judicial Nominations" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2011/03/26/republicans_should_not_play_nice_on_judicial_nominations"&gt;Republicans Should Not Play Nice on Judicial Nominations&lt;/a&gt; Paul Driessen: &lt;a title="And the Beat-Down Goes On" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2011/03/26/and_the_beat-down_goes_on"&gt;And the Beat-Down Goes On&lt;/a&gt; Kathryn Lopez: &lt;a title="Parents Need to Step Up in Style Wars " href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KathrynLopez/2011/03/26/parents_need_to_step_up_in_style_wars"&gt;Parents Need to Step Up in Style Wars&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TK3o2CcTYdI/AAAAAAAAC6Q/70O3CpaQhMA/s1600/NewsHighlights293x150.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 123px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525328332919628242" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TK3o2CcTYdI/AAAAAAAAC6Q/70O3CpaQhMA/s400/NewsHighlights293x150.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=232073"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;U.S. Supreme Court Confers on Obama Eligibility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Is the president a 'natural-born citizen' as our Constitution requires? Is this the case that will break the presidential eligibility question wide open? The Supreme Court conferred today on whether arguments should be heard on the merits of Kerchner v. Obama, a case challenging whether President Barack Obama is qualified to serve as president because he may not be a "natural-born citizen" as required by Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution. Unlike other eligibility cases that have reached the Supreme Court, Kerchner vs. Obama focuses on the "Vattel theory," which argues that the writers of the Constitution believed the term "natural-born citizen" to mean a person born in the United States to parents who were both American citizens. "This case is unprecedented," said Mario Apuzzo, the attorney bringing the suit. "I believe we presented an ironclad case. We've shown standing, and we've shown the importance of the issue for the Supreme Court. There's nothing standing in their way to grant us a writ of certiorari."If the Supreme Court decides to grant the "writ of certiorari," it may direct a federal trial court in New Jersey to hear the merits of the case, or it may choose to hear the merits itself. The court's decision on the writ could be announced as early as Wednesday.If any court hears the merits of the case, Apuzzo says it will mark the "death knell" for Obama's legitimacy. "Given my research of what a natural-born citizen is, he cannot be a natural-born citizen so it's a death knell to his legitimacy. What happens on a practical level, how our political institutions would work that out, is something else,"Apuzzo told WND. Apuzzo observed it is "undisputed fact" that Obama's father was a British subject. A hearing on the merits "is also a death knell because it would allow discovery so we would be able to ask him for his birth certificate, and we don't know what that would show," according to Apuzzo. "We might not even get to the question of defining 'natural-born citizen.' If he was not born in the U.S., he'd be undocumented, because he's never been naturalized. We don't even know what his citizenship status is. Hawaii has said they have his records, but that's hearsay. We have not seen the root documents."Another attorney who has brought Obama eligibility cases to the Supreme Court, Philip Berg, agrees that discovery would sink Obama's presidency. ~~~ By Brian Fitzpatrick - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="source" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=232073" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;WorldNetDaiily&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; UPDATE: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/29/scotus.birther.appeal/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Justices turn aside another challenge over Obama's citizenship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts. The justices without comment Monday rejected a challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr., a Pennsylvania man who sought a trial in federal court forcing the president to produce documents regarding his birth and citizenship. Kerchner's attorney, Mario Apuzzo, had argued in a petition with the Supreme Court that Obama did not fit the definition of a "natural-born citizen" required for the nation's highest office,...~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="source" href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/29/scotus.birther.appeal/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CNN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=231773"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Rush Limbaugh: 'Imposter' Serving In The White House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Radio host Rush Limbaugh is again calling into question the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as president, declaring him to be a phony. "We have an impostor for all intents and purposes serving in the White House," Limbaugh said today. The comment from the top-rated host came during his analysis of the disclosure that Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, a purported representative of the Taliban negotiating with the Afghan government, actually turned out to be an impersonator.Limbaugh said: "The impostor got into the equivalent of the White House in Afghanistan. Did they not ask this guy for some kind of identification? They clearly didn't. They clearly didn't ask this guy for his birth certificate. How in the world could they trust in a leader and even give money to somebody who has not been properly vetted? Well, because it happened here in the United States. We have an impostor for all intents and purposes serving in the White House."He added, "Do you realize that if this Taliban leader had tried to buy antihistamines from ... any kind of drug store, he would have had to produce a photo ID – not to vote, and not to be president – but to buy antihistamines." ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=231773"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;WND.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=231817"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Michael Savage on what's 'trickling' from Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; An admission at the outset: Michael Savage is my favorite talk radio host. One must possess a nimble mind and facility for knowing what's going on in the world to pull off talk radio. Yet I would argue that an equally important ingredient is fearlessness. Michael Savage is indeed fearless (as a "professional" name, Michael Savage is preferable to Michael Alan Weiner). In any event, a new book by Savage is a real treat, especially for those of us who believe the country is in serious trouble at the hands of the Man from Kenya. Savage, who has no qualms about calling Obama a Marxist, outlines several issues needing immediate attention if history's greatest democratic experiment is to survive. In this latest book, "Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama's Attack on Our Borders, Economy and Security," Savage reveals some startling information:Almost 30 percent of our prison population is made up of illegal aliens! This is madness! The value of American homes has "declined" by nearly $5 trillion since the housing crisis began. That's trillion with a "T". ~~~ Jim Fletcher - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="source" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=231817" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;WorldNetDaiily&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conservativeusa.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Impeachment Is in the Mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Conservatives have long been waiting for impeachment to come to Ca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;pitol Hill. Soon, it will come to their mailboxes.Constitutional conservatives around the country will soon receive a 17-page package from the National Campaign for an Impeachment Inquiry, an undertaking of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conservativeusa.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Conservative Caucus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; (TCC). The conservative watchdog organization bills the mailing a “national ballot of 5,000,000 registered voters” on “Whether Congress Should Launch An Impeachment Inquiry Into President Barack Hussein Obama’s Assault On Our Constitution.” It will include a survey and “Special Report” asking recipients to note whether they agree with each reason the report offers. The ballot begins: The purpose of this survey of 5,000,000 registered voters is to show pro-freedom, pro-Constitutional members of Congress that there is broad public support for the new Congress to conduct a full Inquiry into whether President Barack Hussein Obama has kept his oath of office to faithfully “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. ”If this inquiry concludes that he has not, Impeachment proceedings would then begin.Those who receive the survey will &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/10/obama-impeachment-mailer.php?page=7"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;get to answer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, point blank: “Do you think the new Congress should immediately launch an Impeachment Inquiry into whether or not President Obama has faithfully protected and defended the Constitution of the United States, as required by his oath of office?” The package reviews the Obama administration’s shameless and pervasive violation of the U.S. Constitution and its desire to remake our form of government. Rahm Emanuel vowed never to “let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” The report &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/10/obama-impeachment-mailer.php?page=13" modo="false"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;continues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, “Now we know what Rahm Emanuel meant by that statement. He meant that the Obama Administration planned to use the economic recession to permanently and fundamentally transform America.” ~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conservativeusa.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Conservative Caucus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Contrary to what feds tell us...new study shows U.S. states bursting at seams with illegal aliens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Until recently, the federal government told us that there were 12 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a few months ago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano lowered that number to 10.8 million. Despite the fact that the official number is contrary to the Border Patrol’s own data, a recent study shows that the illegal alien population in several U.S. states has exploded in recent years. Using data from the Pew Hispanic Center, the financial trading website known as Insider Monkey published a study last week listing the top ten states with the largest growth in illegal alien populations ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Examiner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18523.xml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Shariah: The Threat to America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as "shariah." It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate "second opinion" on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government. This study challenges the assumptions underpinning the official line in the conflict with today's totalitarian threat, which is currently euphemistically described as "violent extremism," and the policies of co-existence, accommodation and submission that are rooted in those assumptions. On September 15, 2010 the Center for Security Policy presented its Team B II Report, Shariah: The Threat to America, to Congressmen Trent Franks and Pete Hoekstra on Capitol Hill. Present at the event were Team B II members Frank Gaffney, Andy McCarthy, Lt. Gen. Soyster (Ret.), David Yerushalmi, Amb. Hank Cooper, Michael Del Rosso, Christine Brim, Stephen Coughlin, John Guandolo, Adm. "Ace" Lyons, Tom Trento, Patrick Poole, Clare Lopez, and Diana West. ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18523.xml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Center for Security Policy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; ~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18523.xml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;See Videos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; ~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/upload/wysiwyg/article%20pdfs/Shariah%20-%20The%20Threat%20to%20America%20(Team%20B%20Report)%20Web%20Version%2009302010.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Read the report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-problem-of-inbreeding-in-islam/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Problem of Inbreeding in Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; There is a dire phenomenon rising in Europe that is crippling entire societies and yet the continent sleeps, refusing not only to confront the destructive elephant in the room, but also to admit its very existence. The troubling reality being referred to is the widespread practice of Muslim inbreeding and the birth defects and social ills that it spawns. snip Massive inbreeding among Muslims has been going on since their prophet allowed first-cousin marriages more than 50 generations (1,400 years) ago. For many Muslims, therefore, intermarriage is regarded as being part of their religion. In many Muslim communities, it is ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-problem-of-inbreeding-in-islam/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pajamas Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/547571/201009161912/The-Shariah-Threat.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Sharia Threat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Islamofascism: A panel of national security experts concludes that Shariah law is a totalitarian ideology that is being used by advocates of tolerance to undermine the security of the United States. Challenging the prevailing political correctness regarding tolerance, outreach and endless apologies to the Muslim world for defending ourselves against terrorism, the 177-page report by the Center for Security Policy, "Shariah: The New Threat To America," objectively analyzes the assault on the West by Islamofascism and warns of the grave threat posed by those who seek to use Shariah law to undermine America's legal system, Constitution, national security and way of life. The report, whose authors included former defense, law enforcement and intelligence officials such as Clinton administration CIA Director R. James Woolsey and Andrew C. McCarthy, former assistant U.S. attorney in New York, a career counterterrorism prosecutor during the Clinton administration, was released Wednesday at a Capitol Hill press conference. ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/547571/201009161912/The-Shariah-Threat.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Investor's Business Daily&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bigpeace.com/teamb/2010/09/17/what-is-shariah/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;What Is ‘Shariah’?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; NOTE: The United States is under attack by foes who are openly animated by what is known in Islam as shariah, or Islamic law. According to shariah, every faithful Muslim is obligated to wage jihad – whether violent or not – against those who do not adhere to this comprehensive, totalitarian, political-military code. A team of experts coordinated by the Center for Security Policy has recently produced a ground-breaking report, Shariah: The Threat to America, describing in detail precisely what shariah is and what it means for all of us. What follows is extracted from that report, issued on September ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bigpeace.com/teamb/2010/09/17/what-is-shariah/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;big peace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;► &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7986528/Muslims-will-become-majority-in-Europe-senior-Vatican-official-warns.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Muslims will become majority in Europe, senior Vatican official warns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; European Christians must have more children or face the prospect of the continent becoming Islamised, a senior Vatican official has said. Italian Father Piero Gheddo said that the low birth rate among indigenous Europeans combined with an unprecedented wave of Muslim immigrants with large families could see Europe becoming dominated by Islam in the space of a few generations. "The challenge must be taken seriously," said Father Gheddo, of the Vatican's Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. "Certainly from a demographic point of view, as it is clear to everyone that Italians are decreasing by 120,000 or 130,000 persons a year. ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7986528/Muslims-will-become-majority-in-Europe-senior-Vatican-official-warns.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;UK's Telegraph&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BLOGSPOT.COM SCREW UP: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and Don't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Call Our Troops Homophobes!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Pentagon's poll on "don't ask, don't tell" is beyond idiotic. Instead of asking whether the troops&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TQLA-gxINNI/AAAAAAAADPo/6OAv9Uhmkls/s1600/sodecadence-neworleans.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 350px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 323px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549209871054288082" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TQLA-gxINNI/AAAAAAAADPo/6OAv9Uhmkls/s200/sodecadence-neworleans.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; support repeal of DADT, the Pentagon asked only if they can learn to play nice with the gays.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;↔ &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;We're off to join&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the Army, and we're&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;happy as can be!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Even more absurdly, the Pentagon polled all military "personnel" -- and their spouses! Only a small portion of what is known as "the military" actually does the fighting. The rest is a vast bureaucracy along the lines of the DMV. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TRUOCarRVnI/AAAAAAAADT8/w1Lb2tHg-jo/s1600/obamadragpics350x205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 350px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 205px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554361150114715250" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TRUOCarRVnI/AAAAAAAADT8/w1Lb2tHg-jo/s400/obamadragpics350x205.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;↔ &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hey boys! How ya&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;like your "new look"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;camo uniform?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And ya gotta admit,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;your commander is&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;s-m-o-k-i-n' h-o-t!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Today's military features "victim advocates" and sensitivity training facilitators, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services personnel and a million other goo-goo positions. How did we ever take the shores of Normandy without a phalanx of "sensitivity training" counselors? No one has any need to be reassured that the military's "social action" staff will enjoy working with gays. Whatever a career in "social action" entails, it better be gay-friendly. Frankly, it's appalling the Pentagon's poll of all military personnel and their families didn't produce better numbers for the gays. We're interested in what the men who fight think. As the Pentagon study itself reports: "A higher percentage of service members in war-fighting units predicted negative effects." So gays openly serving in the military will harm the "war-fighting" part of the military, but the "social action" part will thrive! Naturally, Marines are the most resistant to overturning "don't ask, don't tell," with 58 percent of those in combat opposed. Who cares if the Pentagon's sexual harassment task force supports gays in the military? The combat units don't, and they're the ones who do the job. The rest of us shouldn't get to vote on gays in the military any more than we get to vote on the choreography of "Chicago." Military combat is a very specialized field comparable to nothing in civilian life. There has to be a special bond among warriors -- and only one kind of bond. The soldierly bond gets confused if some guys think their comrades are hot or if they suspect their superior is having a relationship with a fellow soldier. It's the same confusion that results from putting girls in the military. When an officer makes a decision, nothing should enter into it except his views on the best military strategy. The military part of the military has valid reasons for wanting to separate the idea of martial ardor and sexual attraction. Combat units can't have anything that interferes with unit cohesion, such as, for example, platoon members who are dating one another. Racial prejudice is not the same thing as sexual attraction, so please stop telling us this is just like integrating blacks in the military. A Military Times survey in 2005 found that nearly half of all women in the military claim to have been the victim of sexual harassment -- ludicrously more than women in civilian life. By contrast, two-thirds of minorities said they were treated better in the military than in society at large. The Pentagon's report found that service members "repeatedly" said that allowing gays to serve openly would "lead to widespread and overt displays of effeminacy," as well as "harassment" and unwelcome advances. (To which I would add, "and the occasional leak of massive amounts of classified documents.") Gays in the military understand this better than heterosexuals in civilian life. According to the Pentagon's survey, only 15 percent of gays currently serving said they would want their units to know they're gay. (Also, 2 percent of gays currently serving giggled when asked about their "unit," which is down from 5 percent from last year.) There are far more discharges for pregnancy and "parenthood" than for homosexuality. In the past five years, less than 1 percent of all unplanned military discharges (i.e. not due to retirement or completion of service) were for homosexuality. Here's a record of the discharges for 2008, according to the Defense Department: -- Drugs: 5,627 -- Serious offenses: 3,817 -- Weight standards: 4,555 -- Pregnancy: 2,353 -- Parenthood: 2,574 -- Homosexuality: 634 The main lesson from these figures isn't that we should have gays openly serving in the military, but that we need to get girls out of the military, inasmuch as they are constantly being discharged for pregnancy, parenthood and weight issues. According to a 1998 Department of Defense report, most discharges based on homosexuality involved "junior personnel with very little time in the military" and "the great majority of discharges for homosexual conduct are uncontested and processed administratively." More than 98 percent of discharges for homosexuality were honorable. So gays and girls can join the military, get taxpayers to foot the bill for their education and then, when it comes time to serve, announce that they're gay or pregnant and receive an honorable discharge. Indeed, there's no proof that all the discharges for homosexuality involve actual homosexuals. Why can't the Army and Marines have their own rules? Why does everything have to be the same? Whatever happened to "diversity"? Maybe we could have an all-gay service! They'd be allowed to wear camouflage neckerchiefs (a la Paul Lynde) and camo capri pants. To avoid any sexual harassment claims, they'd have to have their own barrack, which we could outfit with a dance club, a cosmo bar and a counseling center called "The Awkward Place." Their band would mostly play show tunes, and soldiers captured by the enemy would be taught to reveal only their name, rank and seasonal color analysis ("I am Private First Class Jeffrey Smith and I'm a 'winter.'") They wouldn't be allowed in combat, however, for the same reason women aren't –- it takes them too long to get ready. Most people have no clue what military life is like, least of all the opinion makers in New York, Los Angeles and the nation's capital. The military is not representative of the country at large. It is disproportionately rural, small-town, Southern and Hispanic. We ask our troops to do a lot for very little money. Sometimes they die for us. The least Democrats could do is not pass grandstanding bills while self-righteously denouncing our servicemen as homophobes. ~~~ By Ann Coulter -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;anncoulter.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elites Should Blame Selves for Falling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for this Messianic Fool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have you noticed among the Obama-supporting elite a desperate agony upon realizing that he is not quite the messiah he made himself out to be and which they&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TQVwu3zUx8I/AAAAAAAADQI/fQlEv_ivXvQ/s1600/obamamessiah350x249.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 282px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 209px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549966066359519170" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TQVwu3zUx8I/AAAAAAAADQI/fQlEv_ivXvQ/s400/obamamessiah350x249.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; so willingly embraced?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Many Leftists are disgusted with Obama for supposedly betraying the cause on a number of issues, which tells us how irredeemably liberal they are. But their sense of betrayal runs deeper than ideology. It's not just their belief that he's abandoned them on numerous policy issues. It's also their belated discovery that he's not superman.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So we're witnessing a number of liberal and conservative elites scapegoating Obama for their own foolishness in deifying him. I say "scapegoating" because no one has a reasonable right to rely on another person's self-portrayal as messianic. If they bought into his claims to personal transcendence, then they are more culpable than he is, and their anger is transferred hostility, redirected from themselves to the now-exposed mortal. The elites' investing of supernatural hope in Obama was a product of their worldview, which diminishes, perhaps even erases, God's role and looks to man for salvation. Their subsequent deflation was inevitable because no mere human being is transcendent. My assessment gains further credibility when you consider that some of these former Obama disciples are still torn, not quite willing to let go just yet of their fantastical expectations -- their faith. So in their essays, we can detect both resentment and a sense of residual hope that Obama will return to his godlike state. At once they berate him for betraying them in his holding himself out as almost otherworldly and yet plea for him to return to this very same resplendent glory that they now ambivalently reject. Newsweek's Eleanor Clift reminisces about Obama's halcyon days -- his period as a consummate presidential campaigner -- when he would overcome each difficult challenge by rising to the occasion. "He came through the crucible each time because he realized he would otherwise lose." Clift observes that the left-wing MoveOn.org is running ads "calling on the president to 'be the president we fought to elect.'" She says, "The rest of us (non-Republicans) are craving the leadership we know he's capable of, and time is running out." The New York Times' Frank Rich attributes "the baffling Obama presidency" to a form of Stockholm syndrome, whereby "the hostage will start concentrating on his captors' 'good side' and develop psychological characteristics to please them -- 'dependency; lack of initiative; and an inability to act, decide or think.'" "Obama," Rich argues, "has seemingly surrendered his once-considerable abilities to act, decide or think." Rich says that Obama is neither the naive centrist the left is making him out to be nor the socialist conservatives claim he is. "The real problem is that he's so indistinct no one across the entire political spectrum knows who he is." Obama should have broken out of his Stockholm chains and stood "firm on what matters to him and to the country rather than forever attempting to turn non-argumentative reasonableness into its own virtuous reward." Put aside Rich's distorted perspective in thinking that Republicans have been the aggressors in their relationship with Obama or that he has been conciliatory rather than the bully he's actually been. What's more noteworthy is his disgust with Obama for not being the super-liberal, super-aggressive, super-decisive, super-competent chief executive he and his ilk believed he would be. Rich seems to believe less than some others in Obama's potential redemption. Michael Lerner writes that liberals "believe it is critical to get Obama to become the candidate whom most Americans believed they elected in 2008." He recommends a primary challenge from the left, which "would pressure Obama toward much more progressive positions and make him a more viable 2012 candidate." The New York Times' David Brooks, who has sometimes been mistaken for a conservative, begs Obama to make yet another speech (this time on tax reform) and to reclaim the greatness the Brooks "intellectuals" projected upon him. "If Obama moved vigorously on this sort of tax reform, starting at the State of the Union, he would vindicate my description of him, which would be nice." I suppose he means the one in which he lusted after the crease in Obama's pants. These examples and many others show the pure folly in so many having invested so much in a man about whom we knew so little and what we did know was troubling. The elites' uniform disenchantment with Obama says much more about them than it does him, namely that they are hopelessly lost in the intoxication of their intellectual elitism and the mire of their crippling worldview and that they didn't have a clue about Obama when they formed their little cult and still don't as they stumble upon, kicking and screaming, his abundant failings. ~~~ By David Limbaugh - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://davidlimbaugh.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;davidlimbaugh.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hillary Is Up to Her 'Old Tricks'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Wikileaks documents show that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has, as&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e9/jddrive/116jkiasmall.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 336px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 268px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e9/jddrive/116jkiasmall.gif" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Voltaire said about the Bourbon kings of France, learned nothing and forgotten nothing. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;↔ I'm ready for —&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Dancing with the Stars"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Her request that American diplomats at foreign postings and the United Nations gather personal data about their foreign counterparts is eerily reminiscent of her use of private detectives to unearth negative information on those who were politically inconvenient during the husband’s campaigns for president and his White House tenure. At the time, I called these operatives, the “secret police.” Now, apparently, we call them the “diplomatic corps.” The Wikileaks documents show that you can not only not teach an old dog new tricks, but you can’t stop her from doing the ones she has always done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Wikileaks information indicates that Hillary – and her predecessor Condoleezza Rice – instructed American diplomats to gather information about “office and organizational titles; names, position titles and other information on business cards; numbers of telephones, cell phones, pagers, and faxes,” as well as “internet and intranet ‘handles’; internet e-mail addresses, web site identification-URLs; credit card account numbers; frequent-flier account numbers; work schedules, and other relevant biographical information.” The New York Times explains that this information could be used to develop intelligence about the activities and whereabouts of foreign diplomatic personnel. Seems like old times. In the 1992 presidential campaign, the Clintons retained private detectives to learn negative information about the women who were accusing Bill of improper conduct so as to provide blackmail material to cow them into silence. During his White House tenure, FBI files on prominent Republicans somehow ended up on the desk of an operative who was hired pursuant to Hillary’s recommendation after a career as a bar bouncer. Linda Tripp, whose efforts led to the denouement of the president’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, found the details of her personnel file splashed all over the newspapers. A subsequent federal lawsuit found that her file information had been released improperly and a U.S. District Court judge levied a heavy fine on the government for the violation. The fact that this current State Department covert operation was initiated under Secretary Rice does not lessen Hillary’s guilt for having pursued it. Mrs. Clinton, not Miss Rice, has run for president and is presumed to continue to be interested in the job. Her addiction to spies, dumpster divers, sleuths, and negative research operatives have always been a cause for concern. The jury has been out on how well Hillary is performing as Secretary of State. I have always been critical of her riding on her husband’s name to achieve fame and power. But when she was appointed Secretary of State, clearly despite her husband rather than because of him, I felt it prudent to withhold judgment. This is, after all, the first real job she has ever gotten on her own. So far, we don’t see any huge achievements. But we do see some modest ones. She has evidently succeeded in getting Russia to stop its sale of advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, arms which would have made an Israeli strike at Iranian nuclear facilities impossible. She has also done a great deal to strengthen sanctions against the Iranian government to the point where they may really be biting. Bush’s and Rice’s failure to do so was a big black mark against them in their records. But these Wikileaks make one wonder if she has really learned anything at all. She always goes for the jugular and loves the politics of personal intimidation and destruction. It is because she is so well suited and adept at this form of political combat that she was instrumental in her husband’s success in beating back the impeachment efforts that stemmed from his lies under oath in the Paula Jones litigation about his affair with Monica. Now she appears to have transformed the diplomatic corps into a spying operation, giving us yet another intelligence gathering agency. But, in doing so, she has undoubtedly alienated our allies and damaged our diplomats’ credibility. Who is going to leave his credit card unguarded after a diplomatic lunch after hearing about the new Hillary spygate? Maybe it was too much to hope for to have thought that she had grown in office. ~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/hillary-is-up-to-her-old-tricks/#more-2311"&gt;DickMorris.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024551-503544.html"&gt;Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State is "My Last Public Position"&lt;/a&gt; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has once more reiterated that &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45915.html"&gt;she will not run for president in 2012&lt;/a&gt;, going so far as to refer to her current role in government as "my last public position." And she appeared to rule out taking any other public role, saying that instead she expects to return to private life as an advocate for women and children around the globe. She said she had enjoyed an interesting and rewarding public career and will be ready to get back to the advocacy work she did as a young lawyer. Clinton has repeatedly laughed off rumors that she may seek the highest office in the country, and she was notably &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/12/politics/main6950505.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1"&gt;out of the country during the midterm elections&lt;/a&gt; when Democrats lost control of the House. ~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024551-503544.html"&gt;CBSNews&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2033771,00.html"&gt;WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Says: Hillary Clinton 'Should Resign'&lt;/a&gt; Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, "should resign." Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel over the diplomatic-cable dump that Assange's organization loosed on the world this past weekend. Stengel had said the U.S. Secretary of State was looking like "the fall guy" in the ensuing controversy, and had asked whether her firing or resignation was an outcome that Assange wanted. "I don't think it would make much of a difference either way," Assange said. "But she should resign if it can be shown that... ~~~ &lt;a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2033771,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Time&lt;/a&gt;Mag &lt;a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/30/wikileaks-fallout-should-hillary-clinton-resign/"&gt;WikiLeaks Fallout: Should Hillary Clinton Resign?&lt;/a&gt; Should Hillary Clinton resign as secretary of state due to the WikiLeaks revelations? My friend Jack Shafer at Slate makes a good case. His reason: Clinton, like predecessor Condoleezza Rice, signed orders instructing U.S. foreign service officers to spy on the diplomats of other nations. Cables went out under her name telling State Department officials overseas to collect the fingerprints, facial images, DNA, and iris scans of African leaders, to obtain passwords, credit card numbers, and frequent flyer accounts used by foreign diplomats, and to gather private information on United Nations officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. ~~~ By &lt;a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/30/wikileaks-fallout-should-hillary-clinton-resign/"&gt;David Corn&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a class="source" href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/30/wikileaks-fallout-should-hillary-clinton-resign/" target="_blank"&gt;Politics Daily&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/World/Story/A1Story20101130-249948.html"&gt;Hugo Chavez: Clinton should resign over WikiLeaks&lt;/a&gt; Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Monday called on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to resign after the leak of embarassingly candid US diplomatic correspondence by WikiLeaks. "The empire stands naked... Mrs Clinton should resign," Chavez said in a speech, using his favorite description of the United States. "It's the least you can do: resign, along with those other delinquents working in the State Department." Chavez zeroed in on a diplomatic cable with a request to the US embassy in Argentina for information on President Cristina Kirchner's "mental health." The message asked if she was taking medication for "nerves and stress."... ~~~ &lt;a class="source" href="http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/World/Story/A1Story20101130-249948.html" target="_blank"&gt;AFP via AsiaOne.com&lt;/a&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tea Party Targets Big Businesses that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;upported Obama's Agenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Turnabout is Fair Play. The Democratic Party and the Obama administration have been punishing companies forever, and the Tea Party is taking one of the plays from the Dems' playbook.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Tom Borelli, Director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project is teaming up with Freedomworks President Matt Kibbe to promote responsible, sound business practices, and beginning next year, the two will begin encouraging supporters to boycott big business that lobbies for a “progressive” agenda. Once companies start feeling the pain, they’ll think twice. And hopefully that will lead to companies lobbying for limited government. “If you look at President Obama’s healthcare legislation and cap and trade, there’s only one reason those things got as far as they did – they had big business support,” said Tom Borelli. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;According to Kibbe and Borelli, companies that get involved in lobbying for legislation that hurts consumers should feel the consequences in their balance sheet. Now, they are doing everything they can to make sure that happens. Their primary focus will be on companies that lobbied for legislation like cap and trade and healthcare reform – two cornerstones of the Obama agenda. “Big business has had huge impact on public policy,” Borelli told the Daily Caller. “It’s time to make business pay the price for lobbying for big -business politics,” he added before singling out The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the member companies of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/02/the-untold-story-of-waxman-markey-uscap-and-the-green-industrial-complex/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;U.S. Climate Action Partnership&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; (USCAP) as potential targets. “PhRMA was a huge backer of Obamacare,” said Borelli. “Members of Congress gave [USCAP] credit for cap and trade passing the House. These policies are very unpopular with conservatives and Tea Party activists. It’s reasonable to hold them accountable just like we hold politicians accountable.” The timing of Kibbe and Borelli’s project is no coincidence. The two groups just released a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.usnews.com/documents/whispers/NCPPR_Conservative_Voter_Survey.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;poll&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Tuesday that showed when consumers are told about a company’s lobbying for progressive legislation, their opinion of the company drops dramatically. General Electric, for example, started out with a 51 percent favorable image among self-identified conservatives. However, when participants were told about GE’s support of liberal policies like cap and trade, as well as CEO Jeffrey Immelt’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/ge-obama-affair-and-jeff-immelt-s-harsh-words" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;coziness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; with the Obama administration, that rating fell to 20 percent. The poll also questioned consumers about Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson – an American manufacturer that lobbied heavily for health reform and cap and trade through USCAP. The polls found that the company’s favorable rating fell from 69 percent to 16 percent once participants were told about its lobbying practices. “If [these companies] had lobbied for real reform, we might have actually gotten significant reform,” said Borelli. “But instead, these CEOs jumped on the Obama bandwagon to cut a deal for themselves.” “Our whole idea is to focus on a few companies until they say ‘uncle’,” he added. Although Kibbe and Borelli are probably the first to organize a systematic effort to channel Tea Party angst into punishing big business, conflict between the two isn’t anything new. Tea Partiers have blasted big business in the past for supporting progressive policies that they believe go against the principles of limited government and the free market. That animosity is reciprocated on the part of big businesses that view the Tea Party as hostile and too unwilling to compromise. And as a recent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_43/b4200066170117.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;cover story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; in Businessweek pointed out, with polarizing candidates like Christine O’Donnell and Joe Miller, the Tea Party is the last place businesses that depend on the government will look to support. “Ultimately what we’d like to do is get companies back to lobbying for limited government,” Borelli told the DC. “The left has been punishing companies forever,” he added. “We’re just taking one of their plays from their playbook. Once companies start feeling the pain, they’ll think twice. ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/26/tea-party-targets-big-business/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Daily Caller&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;How Dems use Alinsky's Rules to Demonize Big Business&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;and Tea Party Candidates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Besides Big Business, the Dems demonized Tea Party candidates like Christine O’Donnell and Joe Miller using Alinsky rules.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: How to Obtain 'Groupthink' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;"What follows is for those who want to change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; the world — from what it is — to what they believe it should be ...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;From&lt;/span&gt; Saul Alinsky's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;13 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;Rules for Radicals:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; (How to eliminate dissent and get what you want). These rules come in handy for things like trying to sway public opinion to change the criteria while keeping the main process secret from the masses:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;Rule 5.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rule 13&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.' ... From Preface to Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals": by Saul Alinsky (Author) "When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments and carry out your attack.... One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angles are on one side and all the devils on the other." pp.127-134"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;God Bless Barack Hussein Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Read on before your blood pressure elevates!&lt;/em&gt; As Americans grow outraged at the fast theft of their&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee218/tink-le/ObamaSuspenders.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 250px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 444px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee218/tink-le/ObamaSuspenders.gif" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt; rights on everything from light bulbs, to TSA airport pat-downs, to our medical care — the Obama Administration simply escalates the outrages.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Old media and me said I was&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;special, and you didn't question us.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;So who's the fool — f-o-o-l!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;That's why I'm glad Obama came along and woke us all up again to the exceptionally brilliant American way and made us fight to preserve it from this silly, vain incompetent.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;I suppose the above heading is a bit startling coming from me (Clarice Feldman) this fall Sunday, but I mean it. In literature &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;deus et machina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; refers to a plot device which resolves something which appears to pose an intractable problem.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;And, as I explain, I think Obama is ours — a character who appears out of nowhere with a cast of appointees so preposterous and an agenda so irrational and offensive to Americans that he has shocked us out of our torpor, inducing millions of us out of our comfy chairs and heading to the barricades.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;It was Alexis de Tocqueville who first termed the United States exceptional. (See article by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aei.org/issue/24842"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;James Q. Wilson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;) In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville discussed American exceptionalism in Democracy in America, and he is still correct. There was then and there continues to be now in this country a remarkable commitment to liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, and laissez-faire values. He gave three explanations for this state of affairs: we came to occupy a vast, largely empty, and isolated continent; we have benefited from a legal system that involves federalism and an independent judiciary; and we have embraced certain "habits of the heart" that were profoundly shaped by our religious tradition. Of these, Tocqueville rightly said that our customs were more important than our laws, and our laws more important than our geography. What is remarkable today is that a vast nation of around 300 million people still share views once held by a few million crowded along the eastern seaboard.[snip] America was slow to adopt welfare programs, social security, unemployment insurance, and government-supported health care, while Europe adopted these policies rapidly. We have kept our tax rate lower than it is in most of Europe. The central difference is not that Europeans are either smarter or dumber than we, but that a parliamentary system permits temporary popular majorities to make bold changes rather quickly, while a presidential system with a powerful, independent, and internally divided Congress requires that big changes undergo lengthy debates and substantive accommodations. On occasion, America acts like a parliamentary system, as it did under Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression and under Lyndon Johnson when they commanded extraordinary majorities in both houses of Congress. We are exceptional then, but not because we are so special, so much better than people of other nations. Rather it is because God graced us with founding fathers who were brilliant at understanding human nature and who had spent considerable time studying what constitutes good governance and they codified those thoughts in a gorgeous federal republic guided by a written constitution. Founders who, perhaps alone in history ceded their power to the people in the belief that self governance by free men beat any other system known to man, It is our obligation in every generation to preserve and protect what the Creator and His agents, the authors of the Constitution, devised for us. We've not been paying as much attention to our duties as we ought to, but we're waking up and Obama will learn, if he hasn't yet, that this is not Africa or Europe or South America with some Johnny come lately illusory version of democracy in which all power comes from the top and elections and branches of government are meaningless checks on overweening central power. As Professor Wilson observes, twice before -- under Roosevelt and Johnson -- when the Democrats controlled all three branches of the government the United States acted as a parliamentary government. Many, especially in academia and the media who see themselves as arms of the political elite, prefer this system. They feel they are smarter than the rest of us and should decide how we live. We tend to believe in distributed intelligence, that the decisions based on self-interest of millions of citizens produces far better results than central planning. Obama neither respects nor understands this distinction. And with the aid of Pelosi and Reid rammed down our throats major, system-altering legislation like ObamaCare and spent more money than anyone could have imagined on preposterous programs like Cash for Clunkers, TARP, and the GM bailout. He has reserved for himself the power to liberate from such strangling regulation those he likes negating the American core concept of equality under the law. (See this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; list&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; of the 111 organizations he's waived from ObamaCare restrictions). Perhaps if he'd proceeded more slowly -- as he might have were he not motivated by such extraordinary arrogance and egotism -- he might have succeeded in moving us further down the road to European style socialism just as its significant weaknesses have become evident even to Europeans who long embraced it. But he didn't, As Americans had an opportunity to see beyond his smoke and mirrors Hope and Change fantasy to what , with the aid of his Congressional cohorts, he was really about , we dug in hard and fast and the midterms should have been to any rational person a sign to change course. But it doesn't seem to be the case. As Americans grow outraged at the fast theft of their rights on everything from light bulbs to medical care, the Administration simply escalates the outrages. This &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhkQoiaf7Uc&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; of the maltreatment of air travelers at the hands of a huge TSA bureaucracy, which is more successful at pilfering from our baggage and assaulting us than it has been at stopping terrorism, brings together a sample of the anger brewing around the country at TSA. To make matters worse, as innocent travelers are being abused and beaten and embarrassed by these screeners in what we all know is but a theatrical effort to show the government is doing something to protect us, the President and his Attorney General are insisting on treating captured terrorists &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/holder-strikes-out-in-first-gitmo-civilian-trial/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;like burglars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;, ignoring the fact that civilian trials operate under different rules, far more favorable to defendants than do military commissions. In sum, the administration is treating innocent citizens with more disregard than it treats confessed terrorist murderers. Still, the Administration doesn't get it. It still is working on expanding its regulatory overreach to the internet (net neutrality); energy production and costs (using the EPA to achieve what it could not get through proposed cap and trade legislation). Even our ability to use mobile phones which have proven so valuable to commuters and families who must juggle children's' activities and adult obligations is in their sights. Transportation Secretary LaHood is threatening to disable all mobile phones in cars. I can't think people who commute, work from their cars, or have complicated choreographies to get to and from work, their kids' schools and activities will stand for that. And then there are the locovores and organic foodies. The administration wants to extend the FDA authority over the small farms that produce this stuff. The cost of this program will add to the already overweight federal workforce and so overburden these small farmers with compliance details that they will go out of business. (Maybe they can get jobs frisking kids in airports or checking that all mobile phones in cars are really disabled, or building sidewalks to nowhere but they will be out of the farm business.) Newsweek which just was auctioned over for $1, continues its Obama adulation and apologia with a cover equating him to the Hindu god Shiva and a suggestion that he is the god of everything and the job is too big for one man. The job is a hard one. Certainly it is over the head of Newsweek's presidential preference Obama, who had not one thing besides a campaign well structured to appeal to those ignorant of his beliefs and thin resume.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;But the founding fathers never imagined that there would be a succession of shivas to do this job. That's why they made it a representative republic. That's why they made us the deciders in chief of our lives and governance. That's why I'm glad Obama came along and woke us all up again to the exceptionally brilliant American way and made us fight to preserve it from this silly, vain incompetent. ~~~ By Clarice Feldman - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/clarices_pieces_god_bless_bara.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;American Thinker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;Kajillionaire Soros Tells Progressive Donors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;— Obama's 'A Short Sale'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;Hungarian émigré, political activist, Media Matters funder --- and to hear &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://theblaze.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Glenn Beck&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; tell it, Puppetmaster of the coming One World Government&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TBkA6ajvTCI/AAAAAAAAB28/AwC7unngslw/s1600/soros-obama.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 323px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 342px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483415024861924386" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TBkA6ajvTCI/AAAAAAAAB28/AwC7unngslw/s400/soros-obama.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; George Soros is reportedly pulling on some strings&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your time is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;up, Sonny Boy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;According to reporting by HuffPo’s Sam Stein, Soros told a private gathering of progressive donors that “Democratic donors (should) direct their support somewhere other than the President.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;An adviser for Soros later told Stein that Soros was not suggesting a primary challenge to President Obama ...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;From The Huffington Post: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;According to multiple sources with knowledge of his remarks, Soros told those in attendance that he is “used to fighting losing battles but doesn’t like to lose without fighting." ~~ &lt;a class="source" href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-george-soros-throws-president-obama-under-the-bus-to-progressive-donors/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaite%2FClHj+%28Mediaite%29&amp;amp;utm_content=FaceBook" target="_blank"&gt;Mediaite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"I Think Speaker Pelosi Has Been&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;an &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Outstanding Partner for Me''&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to run for House Minority Leader – and faces dissent among Democratic House members – President Obama was asked at a press conference if he feels the Democratic Party would benefit from new blood and new leadership.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lawatchdog.com/PelosiWiggleDancer.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 263px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 526px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.lawatchdog.com/PelosiWiggleDancer.GIF" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;↔ &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Looka me —&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Barry thinks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm hot!"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;“I think Speaker Pelosi has been an outstanding partner for me,” the president said. “I think Harry Reid has been a terrific partner in moving some very difficult legislation forward.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;And I'm looking forward to working with the entire leadership team to continue to make progress on the issues that are important to the American people."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;”Polls indicate that Pelosi is polarizing, and some Democrats have expressed concern that Democrats lost the House because she pushed an agenda that was too liberal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.claycountyprogress.com/articles/2010/11/10/news/doc4cdaf5bed6510536643032.txt" target="_self"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC, this week said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; that he would challenge Pelosi. “It will be very tough,” he said. “It is probably a race we can’t win. But we need a moderate voice in the Democratic Party.” Even some of Pelosi’s allies in the House have expressed misgivings about her run for House Minority Leader. “If the Red Sox came in and lost every game of the year and they kept the manager at the end of the year, that’s a problem," &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2010/11/09/democrats_divided_over_pelosi_leadership/" target="_self"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., told the Boston Globe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. “That’s what we seem to be on the verge of doing." The president said “what we will naturally see is a whole bunch of talented people rise to the top as they promote good ideas that attract the American people when it comes to jobs and investment and how to grow the economy and how to deal with our challenges.” ~~~ By Jake Tapper - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/11/as-pelosi-faces-dissent-in-democratic-ranks-president-obama-offers-praise.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ABCNews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;♠ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2010/11/14/hell_no,_she_wont_go!/page/full/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hell No, She Won't Go!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; With great power comes great responsibility. When things go well, the person in power tends to get the credit, and when they go poorly, that same person will bear the brunt of the nation's outrage. Nowhere does this maxim ring more true than in Washington, D.C, and this election cycle the American people sent a clear message to the party in power: We reject your policies and your agenda, and we hold you responsible for the mess you've created. Since (with the exception of the President) no one represents the face of the Left more than Nancy Pelosi, a sizable ~~~ By Ken Connor - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="source" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2010/11/14/hell_no,_she_wont_go!/page/full/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Townhall.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; ♠ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/k1124_11_12.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Is outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mentally stable?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Is outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mentally stable? Sanity — at least for Democrats — is subjective. Yet, following the Republicans' historic election landslide, it was assumed that Mrs. Pelosi would step down as House Democratic leader. Some even thought the unpopular San Francisco liberal would resign from Congress. After all, it was Mrs. Pelosi who became the poster child for the radical leftist agenda pushed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. The GOP successfully nationalized the election by making Mrs. Pelosi the very symbol of limousine liberalism, a leader who presided over an out-of-control, out-of-touch and arrogant Congress. ~~~ By Jeffrey Kuhner - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="source" href="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/k1124_11_12.asp" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The World Tribune&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;''You Can Take Your Olive Branch and&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;Shove It, Democrats!''&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;On the eve of a historic midterm election upheaval, President Barack Obama tried to walk back his gratuitous slap at Americans who oppose his radical progressive agenda.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/animated-obama-02.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 432px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 432px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.moonbattery.com/animated-obama-02.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;↔&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I probably should have used the word 'opponents' instead of 'enemies' to describe my political adversaries"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;It was a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'forgot my trusty &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;teleprompter'&lt;/em&gt; problem. Obama finally recognized the idiocy of this remark on Monday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Here is an ironclad certainty: It's too little too late for the antagonist-in-chief to paper over two years of relentless Democratic incivility and hate toward his domestic "enemies."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Voters have spoken: They've had enough. Enough of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner's rhetorical abuse. Enough of his feints at bipartisanship. Whatever the final tally, this week's turnover in Congress is a GOP mandate for legislative pugilism, not peace. Voters have had enough of big government meddlers "getting things done." They are sending fresh blood to the nation's Capitol to get things undone. Just two short years ago, Obama campaigned as the transcendent unifier. "Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states," he proclaimed. "We have been and always will be the United States of America." It's been an Us vs. Them freefall ever since. "We don't mind the Republicans joining us," Obama taunted a few weeks ago. "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back." "They're counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home," the fear-mongering agent of hope and change jeered on the campaign trail last month. "You would think they'd be saying thank you," he sneered last April, when millions turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests. "I want them just to get out of the way" and "don't do a lot of talking," he scoffed in response to prescient critics of the federal trillion-dollar stimulus boondoggle. In addition to labeling GOP opponents of his open-borders policies "enemies" who needed to be "punished" by Latino voters, Obama accused them — that is, us — of lacking patriotism. "Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values," he told viewers of the Spanish-language network Univision. Democratic leaders have taken their cue from Team Obama's persistent politics of polarization. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called vocal citizens who protested the federal health care takeover bill during the town hall revolts of 2009 "un-American," too. Remember? "These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American," Pelosi and Hoyer blasted in an op-ed piece for USA Today last summer. "Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades." This from the woman who called for a vengeful government investigation of grassroots opponents of the Ground Zero mosque. Obama's pal Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, whom the president hailed as an "outstanding" member of Congress, accused Republicans of wanting elderly people to "die quickly" and of presiding over a "holocaust in America." Vice President Joe Biden hailed Grayson as a "guy who doesn't back away from a fight, and doesn't back down from what he believes in" and told him at a fundraiser: "We owe you one, buddy." No mention of Grayson's smear of a female Federal Reserve adviser as a "K Street whore." In California, entrenched incumbent jerk Pete Stark derided immigration enforcement activists at a town hall by asking: "Who are you going to kill today?" To an elderly constituent who opposed the health care bill, Stark retorted: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine." As voters who have been maligned by the ruling majority as stupid, unwashed, racist, selfish and violent headed to the polls Tuesday, Democrats released "talking points" attacking Republican leaders who "are not willing to compromise." But "no compromise" is exactly the message that un-American Americans delivered to Washington this campaign season: No more compromising deals behind closed doors. No more compromising bailouts in times of manufactured crisis. No more compromising conservative principles for D.C. party elites. No more compromising the American economy for left-wing special interests. No more compromising transparency and ethics for bureaucratic self-preservation. Let us be clear, in case it hasn't fully sunk into the minds of Obama and the trash-talking Democrats yet: You can take your faux olive branch and shove it. Thank you. ~~~ By Michelle Malkin - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.michelle/malkin.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;MichelleMalkin.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Massive Vote Fraud: Mad Dems' Final&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Recourse to Maintain Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The reports of vote fraud are rolling in from all over the country. A Craven County, NC resident&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/voting-fraud-concerns-nc-and-nevada"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;attempts to vote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/hRlDA1MBZ3wBfs1*nRSR8YPTz4H0JVQuD1hbb2O2NH56TKRO*fJof0aISiIrovVKqh37sxKuktUYhuJERQ*3-I3*KmGTwHyW/obama_x1.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 228px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/hRlDA1MBZ3wBfs1*nRSR8YPTz4H0JVQuD1hbb2O2NH56TKRO*fJof0aISiIrovVKqh37sxKuktUYhuJERQ*3-I3*KmGTwHyW/obama_x1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt; straight Republican ticket but his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TMo3Ug5DxVI/AAAAAAAADCM/9gUAV3vKCwQ/s1600/obamaMalcolmXanimated.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;choices come up straight Democrat four times, despite receiving assistance from poll workers.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;↔ &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do I look like someone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;who would steal elections?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;NC's Lenoir County, registered Democrat Ervin Norville also &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enctoday.com/news/screen-69164-kfpress-touch-voters.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;tries to vote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; straight Republican but finds that his ballot has the names of several Democrat candidates selected. Boulder City, NV resident Joyce Ferrara &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25511115/detail.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; that when she and several others went to vote for Sharon Angle, they found that Senator Harry Reid's name was already checked off. In Dallas County, TX' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://texasgopvote.com/2010-elections/texas-elections/problems-reported-across-texas-early-voters-poll-watchers-harassed-what-you-can-do-001961"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;congressional district 30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;, Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson's name was the only one on the ballot in a few locations (no, she isn't running unopposed). And some states have been late in mailing out military absentee ballots, whose recipients, interestingly, are known for their Republican leanings.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;These happenings are generally referred to as "mistakes" and "glitches," but if that's all they are, then we're witnessing a truly historic anomaly. Because either the mainstream media is now suppressing stories of mistakes and glitches benefitting Republicans, or the laws of probability have suddenly been rescinded and tossed coins are coming up donkey tails every time. Welcome to American elections, Venezuelan style. I have long said that this election would see vote fraud of unprecedented magnitude&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;And it does seem that a perfect storm of such criminality is brewing. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just struck down an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote, a treasonous act that facilitates vote fraud. Of course, some liberals are more forthcoming about their intentions; in Portland, ME and New York City, there is a push to allow non-citizens to vote. Not to be outdone, San Francisco seeks to allow even illegal aliens to cast ballots in school elections. Hey, why not? They're not illegals - they're undocumented Democrats. Then there is the matter of the fox guarding the polling house. It has now been learned that the technicians who work on the Nevada voting machines that have been checking off Harry Reid's name are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a leftist organization that has given tens of millions of dollars to Democrats. (By the way, do you remember all the complaints about "antiquated" paper ballots after the 2000 election? I knew that all the talk about "hanging chads" and the need for modern technology would lead to vote fraud. After all, now elections can be swayed by a well-placed, skilled hacker and there's no paper trail.) Add to this the fact that the left is more brazen than ever. For one thing, laymen liberals, like their judges, are very influenced by precedent. And the liberal delusion that George W. Bush stole the 2000 election - thus drawing first blood - gives leftists a handy rationalization for actually stealing elections. Second, Barack Obama's DOJ's refusal to prosecute the Philadelphia Black Panthers - despite videotape evidence of their voter intimidation - sends the message that the left has almost carte blanche to sway elections by any means necessary. Most of all, though, we have to remember that leftists are, well, leftists. They are simply much more corrupt than those on the right. I know, this sounds like blind partisanship, so I'll explain. I'll introduce this with a point once made by former military-intelligence man Ralph Peters about how you could understand the Taliban: You have to view them as aliens. His point was that most people have trouble conceiving of mindsets radically different from their own and, consequently, often mistakenly assume that others operate by the same principles they do. Even liberals recognize this phenomenon - when they warn of "ethnocentrism." I, however, am more concerned about conservocentrism. If you're an average bright-eyed conservative and you really want to understand leftists, begin by viewing them as aliens. Because they really aren't like you, and the difference isn't simply ideology, either. They truly are far more dishonest, deceitful and manipulative than conservatives. In explaining why this is so, I'll again draw an analogy to Islamists. Many have pointed out that Western and Islamic thought dictate very different things with respect to honesty. While the West's formative religion, Christianity, teaches that lying is a sin, period, Islam states that lying to an infidel for the glory of Allah is a good. In other words, Christians can lie, but they must commit what they consider a sin to do so. Muslims can do so with what they view as divine approval. Another difference is that Islamic thought includes a concept known as "dual truth," which basically states, writes American Thinker's Patrick Poole, "that what may be true in the realm of religion may be contrary to what is true in nature." Thus, even if an action is forbidden in Islamic texts, Muslims may be able to take it in the "real world." It's always convenient when you have more than one "truth" with which to justify behavior. This brings us to liberals. Like Islamists, they have more than one "truth" from which to choose, something they readily admit to with pronouncements such as "That is your truth; someone else's might be different." To be precise, however, they use the word "truth" loosely, as a synonym for taste, and don't actually believe in Truth, properly defined (i.e., divinely ordained morality). They are moral relativists. What does this mean? It means the sky - or perhaps I should say the netherworld - is the limit for behavior restrictions. Unlike Islamists, they don't have to find their justifications in medieval texts or complex philosophical contortions, as their credo is simple: "If it feels good, do it." Without belief in anything that transcends man to use as a yardstick for behavior, they ultimately have nothing left to use but the "god within," which is just a gussied-up name for emotion. And their emotion-driven ends really do justify their means. If they feel conservatives are "evil," conservatives must be. And if they feel that any tactic necessary to vanquish that evil is fair game, it must be. Understand that beneath the light of their deified feelings, lying, cheating or stealing to win elections is not merely justifiable - it is a "good," and one they do with the only approval they need: self-approval. They are aliens from a planet much like the Hell described by the Devil in an old comic strip (in The New Yorker, I think) when he said, "There's no right or wrong down here. It's whatever works for you." It is a place where there is a wall of separation between man and Truth. And the truth is that in this election, as in every one, some races will be close enough so that vote fraud can be a factor. So how should we proceed once results are in? First, conservatives need an attitude adjustment: They have to understand the nature of their enemy (as outlined above) and become warriors. We mustn't for a moment entertain the notion that the best thing for the nation after a suspicious loss is to concede the race graciously. Rather, the best thing for the nation is to oust the alien vote-snatchers from power by any moral means necessary. Second, we must recognize that razor-close races almost always go Democrat for a reason (think: Al Franken in Minnesota) and view every such loss as a probable vote-fraud scenario. Then we must analyze exit polling - which has become a very precise science - for discrepancies between its findings and election results. And when they are found, the matter must be sifted to the very bottom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Alien vote-snatchers are worse than murderers. They not only steal votes but also our future; they undermine the rule of law and threaten the republic itself. In a saner time, they would probably be hanged. And if it becomes apparent that the government - the Eric Holder DOJ, judges and others - has become so corrupt that it will preserve its power by negating the votes of the people, then we should consider our Founding Fathers' words: "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...." Let's see if the attempt at alteration works this November 2. ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/the_democrats_final_recourse_m.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;American Thinker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; - By Selwyn Duke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Was a Marxist-Lenninist, Anticipated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Revolution in the U.S.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;Obama's Presidential Victory: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the 'mole,' who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;— Frank Chapman (Democrat Student Socialists' Alliance - Obama's Marxist friend)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;Dr. John Drew, who knew President Obama when he was a student at Occidental College,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TMSPPFUkGvI/AAAAAAAADA0/IC0pT7e4VkI/s1600/obamasmokingjoint.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 317px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 331px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531703731607050994" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TMSPPFUkGvI/AAAAAAAADA0/IC0pT7e4VkI/s400/obamasmokingjoint.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt; says Obama at that time 'was looking forward to an imminent social revolution, where the working class would overthrow the ruling class.'&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;↔ &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Mind if I Bogart this joint,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;my friends. It's good for a&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;mole's soul!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;Drew, who was the founder of the Democratic Student Socialist Alliance – states that as a Sophomore, Barack Obama was a self-described Marxist Leninist.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Obama’s attraction to this radical ideology as a young college student could explain his absolute determination as President to pass the current “progressive” agenda of the liberal left. Unlike John, who transformed into a church going, Ronald Reagan conservative, President Obama never described a similar political evolution away from socialist thinking for himself.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Below is the transcript of a fascinating interview with Dr. Drew who knew Barack Obama at Occidental College, and was a fellow Marxist at the time. It can be heard &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://glenmeakem.com/2010/10/16/october-16-17-dr-paul-kengor-guest-hosts-the-glen-meakem-program/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. Dr. John Drew is interviewed by Dr. Paul Kengor (Author of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=6074365c-92da-4270-a977-aa6bfccb53eb"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;”) as he guest hosts the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://glenmeakem.com/2010/10/16/october-16-17-dr-paul-kengor-guest-hosts-the-glen-meakem-program/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Glen Meakam Show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. John Drew was the founder of the Marxist club, as he describes it in the interview. He got to know young Obama fairly well, and notes that Obama described himself at the time as a Marxist-Lenninist, and anticipated a revolution in the United States. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://glenmeakem.com/2010/10/16/october-16-17-dr-paul-kengor-guest-hosts-the-glen-meakem-program/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;To listen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, click on "play now" following the words "Standard Podcast" at the top of the page, and scroll to 41 minutes on the podcast scroll bar that will appear as the podcast loads. Drew notes that he has not been interviewed by the major biographers of Obama. I have little doubt as to why. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;TRANSCRIPT:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Q: I interviewed you for my book Dupes a year ago and you had contact me a couple of years ago because you read a piece that I wrote for American Thinker and it was called "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/dreams_from_frank_marshall_dav.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;" and it was on Obama's background and youth. Frank Marshall Davis was an actual Party member and that's something, John, I spent two or three years on investigating, but there's no question about it... the documentation is there, a 1957 Senate report called him "and identified member of the Communist Party", there's an FBI file that's 600 pages, and I took ten or twelve pages from that report and put it in the appendix of my book. It even lists Davis' Communist Party card number, which was 47544, so very clear. Why is all of this relevant? Well, I think it explains, at least to some degree, that -- if he's not a Communist, he's at least very far to the left -- and has some very left-oriented views. But you met Obama when he left Frank Marshall Davis in 1980 coming from Hawaii and went to Occidental College. So tell us about when Obama got there and when you met. A: I see myself as Barack Obama's missing link from his exposure to Communism through Frank Marshall Davis and his later exposure to Bill Ayers and Alice Palmer in Chicago. So, as far as I can tell, I'm the only one of Obama's extended circle of friends who's spoken out and verified that he was a Marxist-Leninist in his sophomore year of college, from 1980 to 1981.I met him because I graduated from Occidental College in 1979 and I was back at Occidental visiting a girlfriend. I met him because of the relationship which I'd started my senior year at Occidental -- Q: By the way, tell us where Occidental is. We're way out here in Western Pennsylvania. A: Sure, Occidental College is in the Eastern Los Angeles area. It's a very prestigious, very beautiful, sort of very garden, rose-garden sort of college, with three- or four-thousand students Q: And pretty competitive, I mean Obama would have had to have good grades and been a good student to get accepted there. A: Yeah, my sense is because of affirmative action, guys like me were going to Occidental instead of even better schools and guys like Obama were going to Occidental instead of, uh, less challenging schools. A lot of very successful people were there, were part of Obama's social circle at the time. Q: Now, was Occidental known for radical left politics? Would that have been an attraction for Obama? A: Yeah, I'm certain that it was. It was considered sort of the "Moscow" of southern California. There were a lot of Marxist professors, many of whom I got to know pretty well, not just there but also at Williams College in Massachusetts. Two of the same Marxist-Socialist professors were on the staff with me at Williams. Q: So, that might have been an attraction for him? I'm trying to think, what would have made him go to Hawaii to Occidental? Do you think Frank Marshall Davis could somehow have been an influence in having him choose Occidental? A: I don't have any evidence of that... Q: Because they won't release his records, I called them -- A: Yeah, I think that's odd. I don't know, I got straight A's my first year, it sounds weird, but I don't talk about it, Paul, you'd think that if Obama did well he'd release those transcripts. Q: Now, this is speculation, but do you think those files might hold a letter of recommendation from Frank Marshall Davis? Right? Why not? A: Wow. Q: Davis was a mentor. Davis writes about him in Dreams From My Father very warmly, in fact Obama writes that Davis gave him advice on women, on race, on life, on college. So, he must have recommended Occidental, but it's sad we have to speculate. If they'd just release these records... A: Well, this is what I know for sure, and this is why I'd sought you out, to be helpful to the historic record, is to verify that Barack Obama was definitely a Marxist and that, it was very unusual for a sophomore to be as radical, or as ideologically attuned as young Barack Obama was. I think people like David Remnick [a biographer],&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;they make it sound like Frank Marshall Davis had no impact on Obama and that his friend Mohammed Hasan Shandoo (See photo of Obama and Shandoo in right column) somehow converted him to Marxism at Occidental. And my impression is that Obama was the leader of that group and Obama was already very ardent and committed to Marxism.&lt;/span&gt; And Shandoo struck me as somewhat more passive. So it doesn't fit the story that I read in Remnick's story The Bridge. Q: And Remnick did not contact you, did he? A: No! No! ...Well, Remnick interviewed my girfriend, Carolyn Bosch -- she's on three or four pages -- and they interviewed a guy named &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Gary Chapman, a guy who was very active in the Democrat Student [Socialists'] Alliance.&lt;/span&gt; Q: I like David Remnick. I use his book in my Compartive Studies class at Grove City College. A: He's a sharp guy. And he's got some good facts in there, but he didn't want to hear from little Dr. Drew... Q: ...You said that Obama was introduced to you at Occidental as a Marxist because you were one at that point. A: Yeah, that's embarrassing, but I had studied Marxist Economics at Sussex College in England. I had a junior year scholarship over there, and did my senior honor's thesis on Marxist Economics when I was at Occidental College. And I actually founded the Democrat Student Socialists' Alliance, under a different name, in 1976... it was as Marxist as you could get, but they come up with a more general name while I was away in England. Q: ...John, you had told me before, and I'm reading from my book, that "Obama was already an ardent Marxist in the fall of 1980 when I met him. I know it's incendiary to say this, but although he said in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Dreams From My Father that he'd 'hung out with Marxist professors', he did not explain in that book or clarify is that he was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;100% in total agreement with those professors. &lt;/span&gt;A: Yeah, you've got that exactly right. Obama believed, at the time I met him, this was probably around Christmas time in 1980. I'd flown out on Christmas break from Corness, where I was in grad school. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;And Obama was looking forward to an imminent social revolution, literally a movement where the working classes would overthrow the ruling class and institute a kind of socialist Utopia in the United States.&lt;/span&gt; I mean, that's how extreme his views were his sophomore year of college....I was a comrade, but I was more... the Frankfort School of Marxism at the time. I was, I felt like I was doing him a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and Caroline and Shandoo were hoping for was really kind of a pipe-dream. And that there was nothing in European history, or the history of developed nations, that would make that sort of fantasy, that Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of revolution, come true. Q: So you had a realistic sense that, even though you liked these ideas, that you knew they wouldn't really work? A: Right... [There were some] who were puzzled why they didn't see Marx's predictions come true, and weren't interested in the role of psychology or false consciousness in preventing a revolution from happening. I was a card-carrying Marxist, but I was more of an east coast, Cornell University Marxist at that time. Q: But Obama thought it was practical. He thought it could happen in America? A: Oh, yeah! He thought I was a little reactionary... or insensitive to the coming needs of the revolution! He was full-bore, 100% into that very, kind of simple-minded Marxist revolutionary framework. Q: And, also at this time, this is 1981, Jimmy Carter was President [?] and Ronald Reagan was yet to call the Soviet Union 'the Evil Empire' when he becomes President. Did you have talk about the election, about Reagan. I mean, that must have really upset Obama? A: You know, it's so long ago. My clearest recollection was that we were more concerned with more U.S. intervention in Latin America and the repression of Communist and Socialist forces like the Sandanistas and things like that... this sound weird, but there was part of me at the time that was ready to go off and fight with the Sandanistas against the Contras. I was pretty crazy, Paul... Q: Now this gets to a critical point and I know Obama supporters want me to ask this... to be fair, look where you were then and where you are today... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;A: Oh, yeah. Now I'm a Ronald Reagan, church-going, Baptist conservative, so... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Q: So, what about Obama. That's the... trillion dollar question? ...We have to know this stuff about our Presidents, you can't leave this about biographies... A: Well, I think that he, I've challenged President Obama to explain how he evolved this Marxist-Leninist viewpoint he had in his sophomore year of college. And he's just never articulated how he changed. In fact, he's buried and, I think, lied about his ideological convictions of his youth. And we can trace it all the way to Alice Palmer, I think, in 1995 [the Illinois state senator who he replaced]... who attended the Communist Party "Politburo" event. Or she was part of a big international Communist convention in Moscow! Q: ...And Palmer was with Obama in the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn when -- and The New York Times even wrote about this -- there was sort of a political blessing, where Palmer identified Obama as his chosen successor... A: ...Well, I think I can knock down some doors here but stating that he had a very consistent ideology, I think, probably from the time he was in [Hawaii] to the time he was with Palmer and Ayers in Chicago. I think his current behavior demonstrates that he still has some ideological convictions. When ever he talks about taxing the richest two-percent? &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;I think he knows that will harm the economy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; To him, the redistribution of wealth is extremely important. And he never took economics or science like I did. He went straight to law school, never had any business experience, never had a payroll to meet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;And I think he's locked in a very dangerous mindset, where if he didn't fight to redistribute the wealth that he'd be violating [his] ideology.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;...You see people like Van Jones, who's an admitted Communist, you see Anita Dunn, who's praising Mao Tse-Tung, to me, it's like Obama's Marxist-Socialist ideology is hiding in plain sight! It's frustrating to me. It seems to me like people should be up in arms about this! ...I think whenever he talks about people clinging to their guns and religions due to economic stress, that's just the standard Marxist argument... he's still using the standard Marxist architecture, the way he talks about things. I think he's surrounded by people who share that mental architecture!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#003333;"&gt;..I feel like our nation's life is at stake. Yes. It is. The time for action grows near.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;h/t: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/10/exclusive-transcript-obama-at.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;directorblue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President Obama's Tax Piracy: A Marxist's Death&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Blow to Capitalism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;Starting on January 1, 2011, President Obama's economic recovery policy will begin the implementation of comprehensive, across the board, tax rate increases&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e59/beyster/brush.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 299px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 259px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e59/beyster/brush.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt; for every major federal tax.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;↔ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;i&gt;You can't touch me!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;i&gt;I'm a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in a mystery and topped with intriguing conundrums.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;i&gt;So, F*** off — You F***ing Fools!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The full breathtaking scope of those tax increases, and how they will harm every family in America, is discussed in my latest work,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/President-Obamas-Piracy-Encounter-Broadsides/dp/1594035563"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;President Obama's Tax Piracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;, published as part of Encounter's Broadside series.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;That series now includes 17 publications by such outstanding authors as Steve Moore on economic policy, John Bolton on national defense and American sovereignty, Betsy McCaughey on Obamacare, Michael Ledeen on Obama's betrayal of Israel, Michael Mukasey on terrorism, Roy Spencer on "global warming," and John Fund on Obama's election fraud, all in the tradition of Thomas Paine's Common Sense pamphlets. Among the bonehead increases that beckon to shove the economy back into recession is a nearly 20% increase in the top two income tax rates, counting the phase-out of deductions and exemptions. The top capital gains tax rate is scheduled to soar by nearly 60%, counting the application of Obamacare's new 3.8% tax on investment income. The tax rate on dividends is scheduled to nearly triple, from 15% to 43.4%, counting the new Obamacare tax as well. The Obamacare legislation also increased the Medicare HI payroll tax rate by 62% for the nation's employers and investors. On our current course, the death tax will rise from the grave next year with a 55% top rate. At least that was the plan. But the Democrat Congress left town without ever making good on candidate Obama's pledge to the American people in 2008 to avoid any tax increase on those making less than $250,000 a year, by extending all of the Bush tax cuts for everyone below that income level. That means under current law federal income taxes will now increase next year for virtually every American. The bottom income tax rate of 10% will soar by 50% to 15%, and every other income tax rate will rise by a similar amount. The child tax credit will be slashed by 50% from $1,000 per child to $500 per child. The marriage penalty will also rise from the grave to tax more heavily those who are married rather than those who are just living together. A family of four earning $50,000 per year will pay more than $2,100 in higher taxes. A single mom earning $36,000 per year will pay over $1,100 more in taxes.Married senior citizens earning $40,000 per year will pay more than $1,400 in higher taxes. If you have been listening to President Obama's rhetoric, you would be thinking how could failing to extend the Bush tax cuts result in all these tax increases on everybody, since Bush supposedly cut taxes only for the rich. That is why you should not be listening to President Obama's misleading, manipulative, deceptive rhetoric. Baghdad Bob Economics In case you have forgotten Baghdad Bob, he was the Saddam Hussein propaganda minister who called a press conference just before American forces entered Baghdad in 1991 to announce that those forces had been massacred in the desert by Saddam's military machine. With Saddam gone, Baghdad Bob now has a new gig. He is in charge of economic and tax policy propaganda for the Democrat party. You can see the results of his work on national television all of the time. Joy Reid, Keith Boykin, and Christian Weller show up to argue that cutting tax rates for employers and investors causes recessions and economic calamity, such as the financial crisis. Indeed, President Obama is saying the same thing all the time with his rhetoric about "the failed policies of the past" that "got us into this mess." That's not even Keynesian economics. Rather than John Maynard Keynes, or even Karl Marx, that economic "logic" follows more in the tradition of Jim Jones, and the Jonestown school of economic policy. Joy Reid adds to this body of work her "argument" that increasing real savings and investment for retirement would only cause another bubble in the markets. Reid was voted Netroots Blogger of the Year, which shows how much deep trouble our country is in as long the people identifying themselves as Progressives are anywhere near the levers of government power. I explain in my Broadside publication how President Obama has consistently followed exactly the opposite of every plank of Reaganomics. As a consequence, we can rightly expect that America will now suffer exactly the opposite results, unless those economic policies are quickly overturned by new Congressional majorities. In 1983, President Reagan's third year, his tax rate cuts became fully effective, and real GDP zoomed upward over the first 4 quarters of recovery by 7.7%. That recovery flowered into a generation-long, 25-year economic boom, interrupted only by two short, shallow recessions, following President Bush's budget deal increasing tax rates in 1990, and the 9/11 terror attack in 2001. Art Laffer and Steve Moore have rightly called this Reagan boom "the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet." Indeed, more wealth was created in America during this 25 year boom, from 1983 to 2007, than in all the prior 200 years of American history, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter, combined. That is why Steve Forbes has rightly called it an "economic Golden Age." The mirror image opposite of this economic performance would be the natural, logical result of following the mirror image opposite of Reagan's economic program, including the counterproductive incentive effects of Obama's comprehensive federal tax rate increases, the costs and burdens of Obama's reregulation hitting next year, and the continued drain of private sector resources due to President Obama's supposedly stimulative spending increases and deficits. Laffer explains: [W]hen the U.S. economy comes to 2011, the train's going to come off the tracks…. The tax boundary that will occur on January 1, 2011 tells me that GDP growth in 2010 will be some 6% to 8% higher than GDP growth in 2011. A year on year decline from trend of some 6% to 8% in GDP growth would represent a larger collapse than occurred in 2008 and early 2009. We see signs of that already even in this year's economy, which, again just the opposite of Reagan's performance, should be the peak economic year in President Obama's reign of error. Economic growth is in a tailspin, falling from 5% in the fourth quarter of 2009, to 3.7% in the first quarter this year, to 1.6% in the second quarter. Unemployment is rising again, with the economy continuing to lose jobs every month. The stock market has been long stalled, mired 30% below its record highs over 14000 in the Dow. This weak economy couldn't be a worse time to raise Federal tax rates across the board. With President Obama's current economic policies, the probability of a renewed, double-dip recession is over 100%. Further confirmation of that can be found in Don Luskin's insightful &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521822940983434.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; in Monday's Wall Street Journal, "The Trade and Tax Doomsday Clocks." He explains how President Obama's impending policies of comprehensive tax rate increases and exploding trade protectionism follow exactly the policies of the 1930s that put the "Great" into the "Great Depression," as Amity Shlaes recounted it in her prescient book, The Forgotten Man. Luskin's conclusion, "That means instant double-dip recession, starting at midnight, Dec. 31." Luskin's article includes a chart showing how closely the stock market has been tracking the market of 1936-37 over the past year and a half. We are right now at a peak on that tracking chart, just before a nearly 40% market collapse in 1937, reflecting the renewed collapse of the economy that year back into the "depression inside the Depression." This is where President Obama's Jonestown school of economics, and all of his Baghdad Bob TV talking heads are taking us. The "Rich" and Their Fair Share But the economy be damned. We need President Obama's comprehensive tax increases so the rich will pay their fair share. Don't we? Even before President Obama was elected, official IRS data showed that in 2007 the top 1% of income earners paid 40.4% of all federal income taxes, almost twice their share of adjusted gross income. The top 5% paid 60.6% of all federal income taxes, while earning 37.7% of adjusted gross income. The top 10% paid 71.2% of all income taxes, while earning 48% of adjusted gross income. This is before all of President Obama's tax increases. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of income earners paid only 2.9% of all federal income taxes. Indeed, the bottom 95% of income earners paid 39.4% of all federal income taxes. That means the top 1% of income earners pay more federal income taxes than the bottom 95%! Which should lead you to ask regarding "the rich," just what would be their "fair share"? IRS data also shows that those on whom President Obama wants to increase taxes, earning more than $200,000 a year, constitute just 3% of taxpayers. Yet, that 3% pays more in income taxes than the bottom 97% combined. This is why I call it "President Obama's Tax Piracy." My Broadside goes on to demonstrate the falsehood of the charge made by Obama and the Democrats that Republicans cut taxes only for the rich, and never "gave a break to folks who make less." When President Reagan brought his supply-side economics to Washington, the top 1% of income earners paid 17.6% of all income taxes, compared to 40.4% in 2007. That is because with the lower tax rates, incomes boomed along with the economy, and high income taxpayers had the incentives to pull their money out of tax shelters and invest it in the real economy, fueling the boom. This is why Jack Kemp used to say, "If you want to soak the rich, cut tax rates." I go on to explain in the Broadside how Reagan and the Republicans actually abolished income taxes for the poor and the "working class," and almost completely abolished them for the middle class, defined as the middle 20% of income earners, specifying exactly what taxes were cut and when to accomplish this, again before President Obama was even elected. But Don't We Need the Money? But wait a minute, the talking heads tell us. Don't we need the money from President Obama's impending tax increases? Haven't you heard of the deficit? President Obama's budget projects that his tax increases on "the rich" (singles making over $200,000, couples making over $250,000) would raise $678 billion in increased revenues over the next 10 years. The Obamacare legislation projected another $210 billion from the increased payroll taxes on those workers, for a total of nearly $1 trillion. But these tax increases won't raise anywhere near the revenue projected. Over the past 40 years, every time capital gains tax rates have been cut, revenues have increased, and every time capital gains tax rates have been increased, revenues have declined, as fully documented in my Broadside. Moreover, dividends paid soared after Bush cut the dividends tax in 2003, resulting in more revenue rather than less. President Obama's crushing dividends tax increase means that only 35 cents on average would be left out of a dollar of corporate earnings paid as dividends. That will result in a collapse in dividends paid, as corporations keep the cash to invest themselves, again resulting in less revenue rather than more. With the top 1% of income earners already paying more in income taxes than the bottom 95% combined, the notion that still more can be gained from them by raising their tax rates is daft. Just the prospect of Obama's higher tax rates is already causing the capital strike we are presently seeing, with corporations holding $2 trillion in uninvested capital, and banks holding $1 trillion in excess, unlent, reserves. The collapsing dollar is further reflecting capital flight to the more capitalist emerging markets in the leading, formerly third world economies. If the impending tax rate increases become reality, we will see a full scale capital and currency rout worthy of the banana republic that President Obama is making out of America. Moreover, if those tax rate increases do produce a double-dip recession, then revenues will collapse, and the deficit will soar to 2½ trillion. Greek salad, anyone? With Kool-Aid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;~~~ By Peter Ferrara - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2010/10/06/president-obamas-tax-piracy/print"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;AmericanSpectator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy at the Institute for Policy Innovation, a policy advisor to the Heartland Institute, a senior fellow at the Social Security Institute, and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under the first President Bush. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marxist Roots of Obama’s Rage: Beyond His&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Anti-Colonialism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The Marxist connection still remains far more controversial than Obama’s “anti-colonial” views because of communist parties that engage in subversion and espionage against&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7015/obama08wq9.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; the United States, and who use agents of influence to manipulate U.S. policy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101016/capt.26fd2b988d8749a494aa9d2cb41502c8-26fd2b988d8749a494aa9d2cb41502c8-0.jpg?x=400&amp;amp;y=251&amp;amp;q=85&amp;amp;sig=3Ftny6tUTRDBBLNSENHwSA--"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 350px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 218px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101016/capt.26fd2b988d8749a494aa9d2cb41502c8-26fd2b988d8749a494aa9d2cb41502c8-0.jpg?x=400&amp;amp;y=251&amp;amp;q=85&amp;amp;sig=3Ftny6tUTRDBBLNSENHwSA--" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I'm not a demon — do I look&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;like a freakin' demon?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;In his powerful new book, Paul Kengor notes that “The Communists could not succeed without the dupes.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;His book is titled, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/DUPES-Americas-Adversaries-Manipulated-Progressives/dp/1935191756"&gt;"Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century."&lt;/a&gt; But the key question, never completely answered in his book, is whether Barack Obama is a dupe—or something else.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Kengor cites evidence that Obama is a Marxist, noting his deep relationship with Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis. Nevertheless, Kengor acknowledges that it is a “riddle” how much of the Davis worldview—about the world, its events, and the dialectic of history—was passed on to Obama, who mentioned Davis in his memoir, Dreams from My Father, as just “Frank.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;It is to Kengor’s credit that he explores the evidence in his book and credits those who developed the information during the Obama campaign. Kengor, a professor at Grove City College and the executive director of its Center for Vision and Values, is the author of the best-selling book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. He understands the communist problem that Reagan fought in Hollywood and in his own foreign policy as President of the United States.Although the cover of Dupes features a photo of then-Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev planting a kiss on the cheek of then-President Carter, it is the current U.S. president, Barack Hussein Obama, who generates the most controversy, based on a careful analysis of his associates and Communist Party USA mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Those who read Kengor’s book will wonder why they were not given this information during the 2008 presidential campaign. ~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-marxist-roots-of-obama’s-rage-part-one/"&gt;Part 1 Continued&lt;/a&gt; - By Cliff Kincaid - &lt;a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-marxist-roots-of-obama’s-rage-part-one/"&gt;Accuracy in Media&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The Marxist Roots of Obama’s Rage, Part Two&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;In a Washington Post op-ed based on his new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Dinesh D’Souza argues against the notion that Obama is a socialist. “Some have described the president as being a conventional liberal or even a socialist,” &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100705485_pf.html" rel="external"&gt;he writes in the Post&lt;/a&gt;. “But liberals and socialists are typically focused on poverty and social equality; Obama rarely addresses these issues, and when he does so, it is without passion.” But D’Souza, president of &lt;a href="http://www.tkc.edu/" rel="external"&gt;The King’s College&lt;/a&gt;, a Christian institution, acknowledges that Obama’s signature legislation, introduced when he was a senator, was the Global Poverty Act, which argued for the transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S. to the rest of the world through the United Nations. He cites my research on this controversial piece of legislation in a footnote. In order to collect the money, Marxists like Fidel Castro have long argued for a global tax. Obama &lt;a href="http://www.aim.org../aim-column/obama-endorses-global-taxes-on-eve-of-u-n-summit/" rel="external"&gt;endorsed&lt;/a&gt; consideration of that approach at the recent U.N. meeting. Yet D’Souza contends that the Global Poverty Act reflects the “anti-colonial paradigm” and not a Marxist view about transferring the wealth. He contends that “Anti-colonialism is the idea that the rich countries got rich by looting the poor countries…” What D’Souza fails to grasp is that “anti-colonialism” was a tactic of the communists, in order to discredit the United States and other Western powers. Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a member of the Communist Party USA. Davis Speaks: In the last known recorded interview with Davis, available at Washington University in St. Louis, he openly discusses his relationships with Paul Robeson and Harry Bridges, without of course disclosing their communist affiliations. He says he knew Bridges and Robeson and that Robeson urged him to go to Hawaii. In the interview Davis also ridicules one of the congressional committees that tried to get him under oath to discuss his involvement in the CPUSA. It had treated him as a “hostile” witness. Since Davis is dead and Obama won’t speak the truth about him, Paul Kengor’s book &lt;a href="http://dupes-book.com/" rel="external"&gt;Dupes&lt;/a&gt; notes that one of the important issues is “defining” the Davis influence over Obama. It is clear, from Obama’s own book, that Davis functioned as a mentor in some regard. “I was intrigued by old Frank,” Obama wrote, “with his books and whiskey breath and hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes.” He said Davis gave him advice on life and college. Avoiding Scrutiny: All of this should have been reviewed by the FBI. But the loophole in our system is that a candidate for elected federal office, such as the presidency, can avoid a background check by law enforcement authorities. On the other hand, employees who work for the president are supposed to undergo background checks. ~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-marxist-roots-of-obama’s-rage-part-two/"&gt;Part 2 Continued&lt;/a&gt; - By Cliff Kincaid - &lt;a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-marxist-roots-of-obama’s-rage-part-two/"&gt;Accuracy in Media&lt;/a&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stanley Kurtz: Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;and the Untold Story of American Socialism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Obama’s Radical Past: And his connection to socialism isn’t all ancient history, either.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TLUrhy1uGgI/AAAAAAAAC74/6atB5Pxgkds/s1600/kurtzradicalinchief2.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 229px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 331px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527371977249921538" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TLUrhy1uGgI/AAAAAAAAC74/6atB5Pxgkds/s400/kurtzradicalinchief2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Obama’s connection to socialist ideologues didn’t end with his recruitment into the ranks of community organizers. &lt;/span&gt;↔ &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1439155089/ref=nosim/nationalreviewon"&gt;Available at Amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;It began there and blossomed into a quarter century of intricate relationships with both on-the-record and in-all-but-name socialists.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;In the afternoon of April 1, 1983, Barack Obama, then a senior at Columbia University, made his way into the Great Hall of Manhattan’s Cooper Union to attend a “Socialist Scholars Conference.” There Obama discovered his vocation as a community organizer, as well as a political program to guide him throughout his life. The conference itself was not a secret, but it held a secret, for it was there that a demoralized and frustrated socialist movement largely set aside strategies of nationalization and turned increasingly to local organizing as a way around the Reagan presidency — and its own spotty reputation. In the early 1980s, America’s socialists discovered what Saul Alinsky had always known: “Community organizing” is a euphemism behind which advocates of a radical vision of America could advance their cause without the bothersome label “socialist” drawing adverse attention to their efforts. A loose accusation of his being a socialist has trailed Obama for years, but without real evidence that he saw himself as part of this radical tradition. But the evidence exists, if not in plain sight then in the archives — for example, the archived files of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which include Obama’s name on a conference registration list. That, along with some misleading admissions in the president’s memoir, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=0307383415"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Dreams from My Father&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;, makes it clear that Obama attended the 1983 and 1984 Socialist Scholars conferences, and quite possibly the 1985 conclave as well. A detailed account of these conferences (along with many other events from Obama’s radical past) and the evidence for Obama’s attendance at them can be found in my new book, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=1439155089"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;. The 1983 Cooper Union Conference, billed as a tribute to Marx, was precisely when Obama discovered his vocation for community organizing. Obama’s account of his turn to community organizing doesn’t add up. He portrays it as a mere impulse based on little actual knowledge. But that impulse saw Obama through two years of failed job searches. Clearly he had a deeper motivation. The evidence suggests he found it at the Socialist Scholars conferences, where he encountered the entrancing double idea that America could be transformed by a kind of undercover socialism, and that African Americans would be the key figures in advancing community organizing. The 1983 conference took place in the shadow of Harold Washington’s first race for mayor of Chicago. Washington was not only Obama’s political idol, he was the darling of America’s socialists in the mid-1980s. Washington assembled a “rainbow” coalition of blacks, Hispanics, and left-leaning whites to overturn the power of Chicago’s centrist Democratic machine. Washington worked eagerly and openly with Chicago’s small but influential contingent of socialists, many of whom brought the community organizations and labor unions they led onto the Washington bandwagon. America’s socialists saw the Harold Washington campaign as a model for their ultimate goal of pushing the Democrats to the left by polarizing the country along class lines. This socialist “realignment” strategy envisioned driving business interests out of a newly radicalized Democratic party. The loss was to be more than made up for through a newly energized coalition of poor and minority voters, led by minority politicians on the model of Harold Washington. The new coalitions would draw on the open or quiet direction of socialist community organizers, from whose ranks new Harold Washingtons would emerge. Groups like ACORN and Project Vote would swell the Democrats with poor and minority voters and, with the country divided by class, socialism would emerge as the natural ideology of the have-nots. Figures pushing this broader strategy at the 1983 Socialist Scholars Conference included ACORN adviser Frances Fox Piven and organizing theorist Peter Dreier, now a professor at Occidental College and an adviser to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. That is to say, Obama’s connection to socialist ideologues didn’t end with his recruitment into the ranks of community organizers. It began there and blossomed into a quarter century of intricate relationships with both on-the-record and in-all-but-name socialists. I’ve spent the last two years in the archives unraveling the connections. Here are a few. By the mid-1980s, James Cone, Jeremiah Wright’s theological mentor, had struck up a close cooperative relationship with the DSA. Cone and a prominent follower spoke at the conferences Obama attended. Shortly after the 1984 conference, Cone joined Reverend Wright in Cuba, where they expressed support for the Cuban social system as a model for the United States. Wright touted his Cuba trips to his congregation for years. Obama would have quickly discovered Wright’s ties to the liberation theologians he’d first learned of at the Socialist Scholars conferences. The connection helps explain Obama’s choice of Wright as his pastor. A little-known Chicago training institute for community organizers, the Midwest Academy, is in many ways the key to Barack Obama’s political rise. The Midwest Academy was closely allied to the DSA, which sponsored the Socialist Scholars conferences in New York. Most Midwest Academy leaders remained quiet about their socialism. Inspired by the success of the American Communist “Popular Front,” and by 19th-century American reformers who used populist and communitarian language to achieve socialist ends through incremental legislative means, the Midwest Academy’s leaders advocated a strategy of stealth. In the ’70s and ’80s, theory was put into action in a series of “populist” coalitions quietly controlled by the socialist leadership of the Midwest Academy and the DSA. The Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, for example, fought a series of legislative battles against oil and gas companies. Its signature proposal was its call for a public energy corporation to “compete” with private companies. Officials from the Midwest Academy network trained Obama, supplied him with funds, and got him appointed head of Illinois Project Vote. Years later, Obama sent foundation money to the Midwest Academy. Barack and Michelle Obama ran a project called “Public Allies” that was effectively an extension of the Midwest Academy. Alice Palmer, the Illinois state senator who chose Obama as her successor, was once a high official in the Midwest Academy network. Several Midwest Academy leaders advised Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Academy founder Heather Booth is now a key figure in coordinating grassroots support for the president’s budget, health-care, and financial-reform plans. The leaders of the Midwest Academy were eager to avoid public exposure of their socialism. Yet they trusted Obama enough to put him on the board of their satellite organization, Chicago Public Allies, and to succeed one of their own as state senator. As I detail at length in Radical-in-Chief, deceptions and glaring omissions about his radical past reach far beyond Obama’s involvement with the Socialist Scholars conferences and the Midwest Academy. Archival documents reveal that Obama lied during the 2008 campaign about his ties to ACORN. New evidence confirms that Obama has hidden the truth about his relationships to Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. The unknown story of Obama’s deep involvement with a radical group called UNO of Chicago is revealed. The claims of candidate Obama and his mentors that he shunned Saul Alinsky’s confrontational tactics turn out to be a sugary fairy tale. The obfuscating techniques of Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father, are exposed. The pattern of misdirection upon which President Obama’s political career has been built has its roots in the socialist background of community organizing. ACORN, Reverend Wright, and Bill Ayers were all routes into that hidden socialist world, and that is why Obama has had to obscure the truth about these and other elements of his past. More important, the president’s socialist past is still very much alive in the governing philosophy and long-term political strategy of the Obama administration. As we move into the first national election of the Obama presidency, Americans are confronted with a fateful choice. Either we will continue to be subject to President Obama’s radical and only very partially revealed plans for our future, or we will place a strong check on the president’s ambitions. Knowing the truth about Obama’s past is the best way to safeguard our future. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/249390/obama’s-radical-past-stanley-kurtz"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;By Stanley Kurtz - National Review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; — Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=1439155089"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Book Thrown from Crowd Narrowly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Misses Barack Obama's Head&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;It was an astonishing moment when a book was hurled at the head of President&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/11/article-1319448-0B8FE15E000005DC-901_306x316.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 274px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/11/article-1319448-0B8FE15E000005DC-901_306x316.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia. The flying missile narrowly missed hitting the President.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;It is not clear what the book was (speculation has it as a pocket size edition of the U.S. Constitution - Wrong! See below), where it came from in the crowd, or why it was thrown at Mr. Obama - who while fixated on his teleprompter, appears to be oblivious to the danger.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The rally was clearly an eventful one — shown here is a naked man being led away in handcuffs by police.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TLNrxlFispI/AAAAAAAAC7M/o53Y5Py7wBQ/s1600/nakedman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 228px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526879667226849938" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TLNrxlFispI/AAAAAAAAC7M/o53Y5Py7wBQ/s400/nakedman.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Er - what? An Obama fan recoils upon sight of naked man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It is not clear if the man was involved in the book-throwing incident, but he's been identified as 24-year-old &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gawker.com/tag/juanjamesrodriguez/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Juan James Rodriguez&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, and the words on his chest are "battlecam.com."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Rodriguez is attempting to claim the $1 million &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/offered%20by%20billionaire%20entrepreneur%20Alki%20David"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;offered by billionaire entrepreneur Alki David&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; to the first person to streak at an Obama event in this wacky publicity stunt — provided that his video-sharing website is written on the streaker's chest. Mr. David told the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/man-streaks-front-obama-1-million_501259.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Weekly Standard &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;that he has every intention of paying up, once he sees the video.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Unlike the moment in 2008 when an angry Iraqi journalist hurled a shoe at then-U.S. President George Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, this bizarre incident has gone largely unreported by the U.S. media. The surprisingly nimble Mr. Bush ducked the shoe - and the moment became immortalized with online parodies and internet video games. But the incident was also marked with controversy as U.S. media questioned why the Secret Service - whose members are supposed to be willing to take a bullet for the President - were not close enough to Mr. Bush to deflect the attack. It is expected that the same questions will be asked about yesterday's incident. It came as Mr. Obama tried to rally voters in Phildelphia with three weeks left before congressional elections on November 2nd. UPDATE: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfByY5dPzG-Vx3IkNIhmDT8Tqn_QD9IPJMAO3?docId=D9IPJMAO3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Officials Release Man Who Tossed Book Near Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; WASHINGTON (AP) The Secret Service says it questioned and released an overexuberant fan of President Barack Obama who had tossed a paperback book near the president at a Philadelphia rally on Sunday. Spokesman Ed Donovan said the man had written the book and hoped the president would read it. Donovan said agents concluded the man posed no danger. Obama seemed not to notice the book that landed near him on an outdoor stage after he finished speaking to a large crowd Sunday. The president had turned his back to shake hands with people on another side of the stage. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NEWSBOY POST doesn't believe any of this. Here's what we think really went down. The Secret Service interviewed the book throwing gentleman — and determined he was a ‘life-long liberal Democrat’ with no ties, present or past, real or imagined, to the Tea Party movement or anything conservative. This is probably the correct analysis for we heard so little detail about this incident. Occam’s Razor would suggest that the Democrat Party and their media allies see no propaganda value in further reportage. If, in fact, the book thrower could be tied to the GOP, the Tea Party or even angry white men in general, it would have been a leading news item for the past 24 hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;FINAL UPDATE: Obama Streaker Needs a Good Lawyer! &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Savings/obama-streaker-juan-rodriguez-million-prize/story?id=11871753"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Obama Streaker Juan Rodriguez Gets a Pittance of $1 Million Prize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Billionaire Alki David Said Streaker Didn't Get Close Enough to Obama, but Will Pay Bills, Rent The New York man who ran naked through an Obama rally last weekend in hopes of nabbing a $1 million reward from a billionaire Internet mogul, will have a year's worth of rent and his sister's hospital bills paid for, after reportedly admitting he didn't get close enough to the president to earn the jackpot. Juan Rodriguez, 24, told billionaire Alki David that he would try again to fulfill all of the requirements of the mogul's Internet dare, according to a statement issued this ~~~ &lt;a class="source" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Savings/obama-streaker-juan-rodriguez-million-prize/story?id=11871753" target="_blank"&gt;abcnews.go.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;FINAL UPDATE: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Book Tosser Identified as Sajid Ali Khan, a Crackpot Obamabot&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The man who threw a book at Obama in Philadelphia yesterday&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EgYvDmtd6sQ/TLM3SATnEyI/AAAAAAAAABQ/-RqL-qrVyCg/s320/sajid+khan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 184px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EgYvDmtd6sQ/TLM3SATnEyI/AAAAAAAAABQ/-RqL-qrVyCg/s320/sajid+khan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a New York antiques dealer named &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://knol.google.com/k/sajid-khan/-/2whdi0jnjfq1x/0#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sajid Ali Khan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;He's a Pakistani Muslim (which comes in handy if you make a threatening act toward the President), a self-styled 'wisdom coach,' and a fanatical supporter of Barack Obama. His book, "How To Become Wise" is the magnum opus of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://obama-book-man.blogspot.com/2010/10/revealed-man-who-threw-book-at-obama.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sajid Ali Khan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. See Below. It's a shame the President didn't pick up the book which &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://knol.google.com/k/knol-bulletin-board-2010-for-authors-and-visitors#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Khan claims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; landed some distance from the President's feet. Rather bizarrely given that he was arrested for it, he’s written &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://knol.google.com/k/knol-bulletin-board-2010-for-authors-and-visitors#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;a web posting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; celebrating, what he has called, his day of “daring, courage and lunacy”. Khan, a self-styled 'wisdom coach', who scribbles furiously online about why “wisdom is a fragrance of the brain”, “why the man’s sperm is tiny while the woman’s egg is huge” and - a particular bugbear - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://knol.google.com/k/horniness-a-spreading-epidemic-that-must-be-stopped#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"why horniness is a 24/7 epidemic that must be stopped"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; was trying to get a copy of a book containing all his musings in front of Obama.On a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://knol.google.com/k/knol-bulletin-board-2010-for-authors-and-visitors#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;rather eccentric community page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; at google’s knol platform, Khan describes what happened himself. &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;SK&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Yesterday was one of the most dramatic days of my life. Daring, courage and lunacy was all involved. I went to the President Obama rally, in Philadelphia. Usually I am able to place myself at a point where I can shake the hand of the President and talk to him. This time I was one fence away so there was no way I could speak to him. There was five rows of people between me and the President. I was still about 10′ away from him. So I held up my book and as soon as he looked at me I tilted the book to show him that I wanted to give it to him. I did it a few times when he looked towards my direction. The President is extremely intelligent and is always looking for new ideas so I could see that he took several good looks at the book. But he did not say anything. I realized that it was going no where. So I tried to focus on Vice President Biden. I tried to jester towards him, I kind of felt that he did not mind my throwing it to him. So I threw the book towards his feet. The book almost floated in a magical curve. I thought it would land off the stage but it floated and landed in front of the Vice President. I made a V sign and gave him a thumbs up and he enjoyed the whole episode and was smiling and gave me back a thumbs up. As if saying he got it. A secret service officer ran up to the stage and picked it up and soon I was surrounded by the secret service. I was interrogated by a few officers. They said it is a very serious crime to throw an object at the President of the United States, even if it is a book and I am to be locked up till they made sure I meant no harm. However the Chief Officer was very professional and I told him if the Vice President welcomed my behavior then how come it is a crime. Anyway one officer ran a background check and he finally said that my record is clean and that I am good. I explained to the chief officer the whole idea how I need to take my work to the President. He said that this is not the way. I talked to him for over an hour. He said that according to procedure he will file a report and send it with the book to the White House. Then he let me go with a warning that if I did anything like this again I would be banned from any future rallies. The unlucky part is that when the book landed on the stage President Obama was almost off the stage shaking hands with the front row. I am sure he would have taken the book right there if he saw it next to him. Also there was no way I could have thrown the book at him. So I was very cautious and threw it away from him. Any way I am doing all I can. I met at least one very promising senior officer from New York City. We immediately bonded and chatted for a little while. He asked me to email him my work! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://obama-book-man.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-here-it-is-book-that-was-hurled-at.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;Re&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://obama-book-man.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-here-it-is-book-that-was-hurled-at.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;vea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://obama-book-man.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-here-it-is-book-that-was-hurled-at.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;led - Here's the Book That Was Thrown at Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So here it is - the book that was hurled at President Obama&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EgYvDmtd6sQ/TLQwfK_9pMI/AAAAAAAAABU/7etp3lbd3js/s320/how+to+become+wise.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 280px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EgYvDmtd6sQ/TLQwfK_9pMI/AAAAAAAAABU/7etp3lbd3js/s320/how+to+become+wise.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; at Philadelphia this weekend. It's a shame the President didn't pick up the book which &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://knol.google.com/k/knol-bulletin-board-2010-for-authors-and-visitors#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Khan claims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; landed some distance from the President's feet. If he had, he would have enjoyed such pearls of wisdom as: - Treat your spouse as the Nobel Prize of your life, feeling proud, honored, loved, and respected in being at her/his service. If you do not treat her/him like this, then put your mind to work on your brain and ask yourself what is wrong. - Learn from the mind and body training of Tiger Woods. Tiger Wood’s dad did not tell Tiger, ‘You are the best’. He did not develop a phony confidence in Tiger Woods. He made him become the best through learning and practice, learning and practice, learning and practice and more learning and practice. Tiger Wood’s confidence comes from being a champion and not from a phony self-image of being a champion. If you really want to read more of this stuff, there's plenty &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://knol.google.com/k/sajid-khan/how-to-become-wise-part-2-my-first-book/2whdi0jnjfq1x/1360#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Post-Achievement Prize Winner of the Day:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;First Lady&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Michelle Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Following in her do-nothing, Nobel Peace Prize-winning husband’s footsteps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TK4wZisiRzI/AAAAAAAAC6o/UHd5ELlpHys/s1600/michelleobama347x400.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 347px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525407008198641458" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TK4wZisiRzI/AAAAAAAAC6o/UHd5ELlpHys/s400/michelleobama347x400.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;, First Lady Michelle Obama scooped up a laughably undeserved honor today: Forbes Magazine named her the “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/10/michelle_obama_the_most_powerf.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;most powerful woman in the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.” How nice to see her husband spread the wealth in the Era of Post-Achievement.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Editors: &lt;em&gt;It all came down to matters of grace, style, elegance, and fashion sense – but most of all, who you were married to.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Let’s review. Mrs. O &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/02/the-noble-“sacrifice”-of-michelle-obama/"&gt;failed&lt;/a&gt; to clinch the &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/18/olympic-sized-boondoggle-what-valerie-jarrett-and-michelle-obama-are-up-to/"&gt;Chicago Olympics bid&lt;/a&gt; with her &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/02/quote-of-the-day-the-first-ladys-tall-olympic-tale/"&gt;phony emotional pitch to the world.&lt;/a&gt; She &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/30/house-dems-to-mrs-obama-no-we-wont-raid-food-stamps-for-your-pet-project/"&gt;failed&lt;/a&gt; to convince Congress to pass her pet $8 billion Big Nanny nutrition bill. And she’ll be campaigning this month for a &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/10/06/the-two-faces-of-michelle-obama/"&gt;bunch of crony fat cats and entrenched incumbents&lt;/a&gt; as Democrats gird their loins for major upheaval on Capitol Hill. Through marriage to Barack Obama, she has “achieved” &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/09/michelle-obama-private-citizen-with-piles-of-public-perks/"&gt;cushy public jobs and plum corporate advisory roles.&lt;/a&gt; This is what makes her “powerful.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Sasha Brown-Worsham at &lt;a href="http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/110637/michelle_obama_a_powerful_marriage"&gt;Cafe Mom&lt;/a&gt; says it well:: Michelle Obama is not the Most Powerful Woman in the World, despite what Forbes might say. Sure, she has strong arms and equally strong convictions. She’s a lawyer who attended the best schools and worked hard to get there. No one could deny that she’s an accomplished, intelligent woman. But the most powerful woman in the world? Hardly. She’s married to a powerful man — President Barack Obama — and because she’s the First Lady, she has a pulpit from which she can talk about breastfeeding, childhood obesity, and literacy. She has causes and strong opinions and isn’t afraid to express them, but her pulpit isn’t her own. The reason she has such a powerful platform is her husband. The other women on the list — Irene Rosenfeld, the CEO of Kraft Foods; Oprah Winfrey; Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany — are all powerful because of plans they set in action, tasks they set and goals they met. Just being someone’s wife ought not to be enough to earn top honors. After all, what is power? If power is defined as influence, then yes. Michelle Obama has it and then some. But how she earned that influence is troubling. Do we want a future of young women thinking they don’t have to drive the car themselves since as long as they get into the right passenger seat, they are headed somewhere good? Michelle Obama may be a strong woman. I’m sure she is, but she isn’t in her position because of her merit as anything other than a wife. It’s important that we value the domestic sphere and it’s powerful in its own right, but in a list comprised of mostly self-made women, her number one spot is awkward. Even Lady Gaga has done more on her own to deserve her spot on the list. Sarah Palin, who espouses views many find reprehensible, is still a more self-made woman. And she — with her incredible influence — is ultimately more powerful. Michelle Obama is accomplished and brilliant, but ultimately, she’s the wife of someone powerful. Do we really want our young girls thinking that’s the only true way to achieve power? &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/wealth/power-women"&gt;SEE FORBES COMPLETE LIST&lt;/a&gt; The list includes such has-beens and head-scratchers as Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Huh? ~~~ By Michelle Malkin - &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/10/07/post-achievement-prize-winner-of-the-day-michelle-obama/"&gt;michellemalkin.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One Trillion Attend 'One Nation' Rally&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sounds like another leftist "Big Lie?" Try this one. At liberal blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://crooksandliars.com/" target="_self"&gt;Crooks and Liars&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;we find this cute headline. "Here's Your Enthusiasm Gap: One Nation Rally Draws More Attendees Than Glenn Beck's “Whitestock.” Well, that's the type of hyperbole you'd expect from this crud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://badblue.com/temp/101003-anim-gif-020.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 450px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 263px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://badblue.com/temp/101003-anim-gif-020.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/10/15-photos-from-onenation-rally-youll.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Compare and Contrast Crowd Shots: OneNation vs. 9/12 Rally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; (15 pics here)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;The truth is found at &lt;a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/" target="_self"&gt;Gateway Pundit&lt;/a&gt;: "Figures. CSPAN Uses Tea Party Rally Crowd Shot for Leftist 'One Nation' Rally." And this one is more like it. "Tens of dozens attend progressive ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;The Animated GIF above depicts the real story.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Attendance Estimates: 40K for One Nation Rally vs. 400K for 9/12 Rally &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Connie Hair with &lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39260"&gt;Human Events&lt;/a&gt; attended the rally, and here's her report: &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A crowd of about one trillion people attended the hard-left progressive One Nation rally on the Mall Saturday in Washington, D.C. Leave aside for a moment that there are around seven billion people inhabiting the entire planet, attendees came from as far away as Alpha Centauri and Uranus to attend the rally in support of Barack Obama and his big government agenda. All of these people want free health care (they already got the free lunch and T-shirt when they were bused in). In all seriousness, if you weren't watching MSNBC's kind coverage (their drop-in shots were few and far between due to low turnout), you'd find there were actually a few thousand people surrounding the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall, herded into and held in that limited area by pre-set fencing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitpic.com/2u1rmu" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;as seen here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. (h/t Amanda Carpenter) The One Nation rally had empty streets and by all reports parking spaces aplenty. As also shown in the fenced-in photo linked above, the side overflow areas lacked any crowds whatsoever. Photo after photo from Twitter throughout the day showed gaping holes in the "crowd" shots. The One Nation event attendance was dwarfed in size by the Restoring Honor rally in August hosted by radio talk show and Fox News host Glenn Beck which boasted a crowd in the hundreds of thousands. Check out the footage from HUMAN EVENTS of the overflow fields and crowds &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38815" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and compare. A photo gallery of One Nation "crowd" shots is available &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/10/02/GA2010100201796.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; from the Washington Post. Speaker after speaker at the event demanded more government giveaways and wealth re-distribution from their leaders. And gay rights. And amnesty. And free education throughout everyone's lifetime from cradle to great grandma getting her Ph.D. Self-proclaimed Communist and former Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones apologized for the crowd size saying more people would have attended but times are tough. "The earth is overheating, the earth is heating up," Jones proclaimed amid tirades about wind farms and recycling. One "collegian" speaker called for a "re-spurring of community organizing." That's exactly what America needs -- more community organizers. Al Sharpton stepped up to let folks know that "America is not one color, and not one gender." Harry Belafonte, friend and supporter of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, showed up to call the Tea Parties "evil." "We will not be divided and turned against one another," Jessie Jackson declared from the stage then went on to demand more race-based job opportunities. Favorite signs included: "Tax the Rich, Socialist Party U.S.A." and "Jobs for Justice" Best tweet of the day: @radishthegreat: If they put as much effort into working as they do demanding other people’s money, they could be the “rich” they hate The event organizers included such noble American groups as the Communist Party U.S.A., Democratic Socialists of America and the International Socialist Organization. The Big Peace website has an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bigpeace.com/taylorking/2010/09/21/communist-pro-terrorist-anti-israel-groups-sponsor-naacps-one-nation-counter-rally/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;extensive piece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; on the rally organizers, pointing out that among the NAACP and some of the more traditional Big Labor organizations backing the march are nestled such gems as the American Muslim Association of North America whose leader, Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, whose appointment was not renewed this summer by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights due to his ties to Hamas and David Duke. (h/t Kristinn Taylor)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TKieILWugsI/AAAAAAAAC5k/X1a1nA1u-QM/s1600/unionrallytrash2453x362.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523838806294168258" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TKieILWugsI/AAAAAAAAC5k/X1a1nA1u-QM/s400/unionrallytrash2453x362.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;↔ &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;This trash always leaves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;their trash behind&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;As is always the case when the hard core environmentalists protest in the streets, they leave their trash behind for someone else to pick up. This photo was taken after the One Nation rally on 10/2/2010 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. They left our Mall littered with their pre-printed Union signs and garbage. Very classy. It's not about the environment. It never has been. Going green is all about wealth re-distribution and control by "elites" over every aspect of our lives and businesses through energy regulation. More trash photos, signs and low crowd turnout &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-nation-of-commies-unions-other.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;at this link&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. All in all, the rally presentation and signs will give Democratic candidates heartburn nationwide with one month left until America speaks at the polls. Connie Hair writes daily as HUMAN EVENTS' Congressional correspondent. She is a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference. You can follow Connie on Twitter @ConnieHair. ~~~ By Connie Hair - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39260"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Human Events&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why Barack Obama Hates America!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The best way to verify a theory is to test its explanatory power. Our theory, derived from Obama’s testimony, is that he adopted his ideals from his father, and we know that his father’s ideals were anti-colonial ideals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TKFXY29pNGI/AAAAAAAAC38/rDIp_w6wkCk/s1600/obamaroootsofragebook.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 226px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 340px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521790702715483234" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TKFXY29pNGI/AAAAAAAAC38/rDIp_w6wkCk/s400/obamaroootsofragebook.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Here is the second of three-parts excerpted from Dinesh D’Souza’s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255/ref=pd_sim_b_16" target="_blank"&gt;The Roots of Obama’s Rage: Barack Obama and His Private War Against the West&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/p/1596986255"&gt;Available at Amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=sv_b_3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ranked #1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Based on this, we are in a position to examine the merits of our theory by checking it against what Obama is actually saying and doing. If the theory can account for Obama’s major policies and enable us to predict what he is going to do in the future, then we are really onto something. If Obama is vehemently opposed to a world defined in America’s image, to Pax Americana, then we would expect him to be cagey and defensive about displays of patriotism that convey America’s leadership in the world. Sure enough, a Time photograph from the presidential campaign shows Obama at a fundraising event with several other Democratic politicians. The magazine noted that the national anthem was playing, but the photo shows that Obama does not have his right hand over his heart. And he’s the only one: everyone else does! Network video footage of the event confirmed that Obama was the lone holdout in this traditional display of patriotic allegiance. Once again, this could be dismissed as an isolated episode, and was so dismissed by Obama’s defenders. But a few months later, Obama announced that he would no longer wear a lapel pin with the American flag as had become customary for politicians and also many other public figures since the 9/11 attacks. “You show your patriotism by how you treat your fellow Americans,” Obama said. The pin, he contended, had become “a substitute for true patriotism.” On the face of it Obama’s comments are nonsensical; how can an American flag somehow undermine genuine patriotism? What Obama means of course is that patriotism of this sort is morally objectionable to him because of its associations with American invasions and American power. Obama clearly prefers the kind of patriotism that is not associated with the 9/11 attacks and America’s subsequent actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In Obama’s ideology, we show our love for our country not through jingoistic flag-waving and foreign expeditions, but rather by agitating for domestic policies that take from the haves and give to those who don’t have as much. Next let’s consider Obama’s response to the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As torrents of black oil gushed toward southern shores, Obama sounded lethargic, almost bored, with what was going on and what needed to be done to stop it. Even Democratic strategist James Carville expressed amazement at Obama’s personal and emotional remove from the situation. “I have no idea why they didn’t seize this thing. I have no idea why their attitude was so hands off here.” Listening to Obama talk on the subject, TV host Keith Olbermann responded: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.” Finally, addressing the TV cameras on May 14, 2010, Obama managed to work up some enthusiasm. Time and again he condemned “British Petroleum”—an interesting term since the company long ago changed its name to BP. Given our anti-colonial theory, it’s no surprise that Obama wanted to remind Americans of what BP used to stand for. He was equally outspoken in whacking the other oil companies for their “ridiculous spectacle” of “pointing fingers of blame.” Actually these companies were not responsible for the spill, and the only blame, in addition to that of BP, belonged to the Obama administration for its Katrina-like incompetence in responding to the disaster. Addressing the nation on the spill on June 15, 2010, Obama stressed that Americans “consume more than 20 percent of the world’s oil, but have less than 2 percent of the world’s resources.” Obama went on to say that “for decades we’ve talked and talked about the need to end America’s century-long addiction to fossil fuels.” Unfortunately, “time and again the path forward has been blocked” by, among others, “oil industry lobbyists.” Now, on the face of it, this is a perfectly reasonable statement from a liberal politician who thinks this is what the American public wants to hear. But ask yourself, what does any of this have to do with the oil spill? Would the oil spill have been less of a problem if America consumed a mere 10 percent of the world’s resources? Of course not. The point is that for Obama the energy and environmental issues reduce to a simple proposition: America is a neocolonial giant eating up more than its share of the world’s resources, and in doing so America is exploiting the scarce fuel of the globe; consequently, this gluttonous consumption must be stopped. This is the heart of Obama’s energy and environmental agenda: not cleaning up the Gulf or saving the environment in general, but redressing the inequitable system where the neocolonial West—and neocolonial companies like BP—dominates the use of global energy resources.~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39178"&gt;By Dinesh D'Souza - Human Events&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Also Read these 3 D'SOUZA'S Articles:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;♠ &lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39190"&gt;The Real Reason Obama Supports Reverend Wright&lt;/a&gt; (Part 3) Approximately two decades ago, while he was working as an activist in Chicago, Obama came to the Trinity Church in order to hear its pastor Jeremiah Wright. Obama was not particularly religious; in fact, when pastors asked which church he attended, he typically hemmed and hawed. But, in The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes, “I was drawn to the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change.” Trinity, Obama had heard, was that kind of church. Obama’s interest was sharply boosted when he saw a sign spiked into the grass outside the church building: FREE SOUTH AFRICA. In the Reverend Wright, Obama encountered a man who frequently wore a dashiki or other African garb. A charismatic figure who was also an intellectual, Wright was capable of moving between the First World and the Third World, and of blending literary and political references with his biblical themes.~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39190"&gt;By Dinesh D'Souza - Human Events&lt;/a&gt; ♠ &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem_print.html"&gt;D'Souza: How Obama Thinks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad. The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem_print.html"&gt;By Dinesh D'Souza - Forbes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;♠ &lt;a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/dineshdsouza/2010/09/16/the-obamorons-strike-back/"&gt;The Obamorons Strike Back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;During the 2008 election campaign I coined the phrase “Obamorons” to describe the uncritical cheerleaders of Obama–the people who would leap to his defense even if he drove a truck over his aged grandmother. Love-stricken TV host Chris Matthews comes to mind, complete with thrills running up his leg, as does English major Maureen Dowd, lifestyle columnist for the New York Times. The Times itself is a leading Obamoron outlet.Well, the Obamorons are now in a mad fury, and this time the culprit is &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html"&gt;my cover story&lt;/a&gt; in the September 27 issue of Forbes. The story is adapted from my new book &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255"&gt;The Roots of Obama’s Rage&lt;/a&gt;. Let me just say that if the Forbes article so upset these guys, wait until the book comes out. It may prove extremely difficult for the Obamorons to digest; perhaps it will have to be administered as a suppository. Leading the Obamoron charge this time was &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/24514488468"&gt;White House press secretary Robert Gibbs&lt;/a&gt;. Gibbs was reacting to Newt Gingrich’s comment that my article offered the most “stunningly insightful” analysis of Obama that he had read in six years. Gingrich’s reference to “Kenyan anti-colonialism” raised Gibbs’ ire. Gibbs said he had “no idea” what Gingrich was talking about. He should have stopped there: if you have no idea what someone is talking about, it’s a good idea to shut up. But Gibbs went on to link Gingrich and me with the birther thesis: the charge that Obama was not born in the United States.~~~ &lt;a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/dineshdsouza/2010/09/16/the-obamorons-strike-back/"&gt;By Dinesh D'Souza - Forbes&lt;/a&gt; * * * * * * * * * * Dinesh D'Souza is the president of King's College in New York City. He is a former White House domestic policy analyst and research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His best-selling books include &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illiberal-Education-Politics-Race-Campus/dp/0684863847/ref=sr_1_10?s=gateway&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1285356743&amp;amp;sr=8-10" target="_blank"&gt;Illiberal Education&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/End-Racism-Principles-Multiracial-Society/dp/0684825244/ref=sr_1_9?s=gateway&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1285356743&amp;amp;sr=8-9" target="_blank"&gt;The End of Racism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whats-So-Great-about-America/dp/0142003018/ref=sr_1_4?s=gateway&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1285356743&amp;amp;sr=8-4" target="_blank"&gt;What's So Great About America&lt;/a&gt;, and his latest, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1285356360&amp;amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"&gt;The Roots of Obama's Rage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Is Not a Muslim or a Socialist — The Truth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Is Far Worse!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Hidden Rage of Barack Obama: Even before his new book hit the shelves two days ago, the Left was already in a tizzy over Dinesh D’Souza’s look at the moral and intellectual foundation of Barack Obama’s ideology. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Here is the first of three-parts excerpted from Dinesh D’Souza’s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255/ref=pd_sim_b_16" target="_blank"&gt;The Roots of Obama’s Rage: Barack Obama and His Private War Against the West&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Barack Obama is a radiant figure on the world stage. He looks the way an American president should look, and he talks the way many in the world want the American president to talk. As a personality, he conveys dignity and calm; he seems to be what Aristotle called the great-souled man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Obama is also a consequential president. Less than two years into his first term, he has revamped the Bush administration’s foreign policy: no more invasions, no more preemptive wars, plans for withdrawals both from Iraq and Afghanistan, a new approach for punishing terrorists, and in general a very different understanding of America’s role in the world. At the same time, Obama has transformed the relationship between American citizens and their government. He has passed the most significant raft of laws since the Great Society: the bank rescue plan, the auto industry bailout, the stimulus package, sweeping regulation of Wall Street, a complete remaking of the health care system. So far, conservative opposition to Obama has been shrill, focusing on several familiar themes: Obama is not an American citizen; Obama is a pawn of radical extremists; Obama is an unscrupulous power-seeker; Obama is a Muslim; and Obama is a socialist. These javelins, however, have at best grazed Obama; they have not fully found their target. Was Obama born in America? The best evidence is that he was. He was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961. His birth was mentioned in two local papers, the Honolulu Sunday Advertiser and the Star Bulletin. This makes him a “natural born” American, as the Constitution requires of a president. No evidence has been produced that Obama is anyone’s pawn. Sure, there are radical elements associated with him, but quite possibly they are his pawns. Obama is certainly ambitious, and like most presidents he seeks power, but power to do what? Power for what end? I certainly don’t think that Obama is a closet Muslim extremist who seeks to destroy America from within. The charge of socialism, now furiously leveled against Obama, seems to bring us closer to the mark. Here is a president who has no business background and very few people with business experience around him; as he goes about slicing the economic pie, it is not clear that he has any idea how to make a pie. More troubling, Obama is a president who spends the taxpayer’s money with shameless promiscuity. Still, the charge of socialism isn’t quite right. Even if it could account for Obama’s economic policy, it certainly could not explain his foreign policy. To grasp Obama’s story, we have to put aside the multicultural mantras and the conservative boilerplate and enter Obama’s world. Imagine a little boy growing up in the sunbathed beauty of Hawaii, soaking in the culture, hearing about how the innocent natives were crushed and overrun by horrible invaders and profiteers. Imagine a slightly older child on a bicycle on the crowded streets of Indonesia, learning from his stepfather the harsh code of a developing country, shaped out of the history of European colonialism. Now imagine a young man undertaking a journey to Kenya, for many people a journey to nowhere, but for him a journey to his own past, where through inner soul-searching and conversations with relatives he discovers who his father really was, and what he must do to make good on the dead man’s unfulfilled dreams. This is Barack Obama. But for him these aren’t imaginings; they are memories. These memories are formed out of the indelible ink of experience, and they have by his own account marked the man. By attentively examining his experience as he tells it himself, and as elaborated by others who have researched his background, we can understand Obama in a way that he has not been understood before. He is his father’s son, and his dreams are derived from his father’s aspirations and failures. Everyone who knows Obama well says this about him. Obama of course makes the same point in his title Dreams from My Father and his whole book is an elaboration of how he internalized his father’s dreams and goals. Obama calls his memoir “the record of a personal, interior journey” a boy’s search for his father and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American. And again, “It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself.” Who was Barack Obama Sr.? First and foremost, he was an anti- colonialist. This Obama was an economist, and as an economist he was influenced by socialism, but he was never a doctrinaire socialist; rather, his quasi-socialism sprang from and was integrated into an anti-colonial outlook that was shared by many of his generation, not only in Africa but also in Asia and South America. I am not suggesting that Obama has a comprehensive knowledge of anti-colonialism. I admit that Obama must occasionally and pragmatically bend to the realities of a given situation or to the exigencies of politics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Still, Obama’s anti-colonialism is deeply felt, and it suffuses his writings and speeches. In fact, it is the moral and intellectual foundation of his ideology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;In a sense, I am saying nothing more than what Obama himself says: that his father’s dream has become his dream. It is a dream that, as president, he is imposing with a vengeance on America and the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39159"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;By Dinesh D'Souza - Human Events&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;D’Souza’s &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255/ref=pd_sim_b_16" target="_blank"&gt;The Roots of Obama’s Rage: Barack Obama and His Private War Against the West&lt;/a&gt; provides a belated but desperately-needed explanatory framework for Obama. Finally we have a key that actually opens the lock. No, Obama is not a Muslim. No, Obama is not a socialist. The truth is far worse. First of three-part series. Adapted from &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1285356360&amp;amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"&gt;The Roots of Obama’s Rage&lt;/a&gt; by Dinesh D’Souza (Regnery, 2010.) Which is available in stores and on Amazon today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desperate Discredited Dems Deploy Diggers on&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;Republican Rivals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republicans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WMpSC7nK3os/S0Q6vWnHcGI/AAAAAAAAEVc/GkWLmMxSjj4/s400/demc-rats+from+sinking+ship.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WMpSC7nK3os/S0Q6vWnHcGI/AAAAAAAAEVc/GkWLmMxSjj4/s400/demc-rats+from+sinking+ship.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;, using lawsuits, tax filings, reports from the Better Business Bureau and even divorce proceedings (Obama's favorite dirty trick) to try to discredit their opponents and save their Congressional majority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Opposition research and attack advertising are used in almost every election, but these biting ads are coming far earlier than ever before, according to party strategists. The campaign has intensified in the last two weeks as early voting begins in several states and as vulnerable incumbents try to fight off an onslaught of influences by outside groups.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;↔&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Hell with Ħøpéy-Çhäŋgéy! — It's every Rat for himself!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;As they struggle to break through with economic messages, many Democrats are deploying the fruits of a yearlong investigation into the business and personal histories of Republican candidates in an effort to plant doubts about them and avoid having races become a national referendum on the performance of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="meta-per" title="More articles about Barack Obama." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;President Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and his party. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="New York Times profile of race" href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/ohio/13"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In Ohio, Representative Betty Sutton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; calls her Republican rival, Tom Ganley, a “dishonest used-car salesman” who has been sued more than 400 times for fraud, discrimination, lying to customers about repairs, overcharging them and endangering their safety. She warns voters, “You’ve heard the old saying, buyer beware!” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="New York Times profile of race" href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/arizona/5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In Arizona, Representative Harry E. Mitchell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; accused his opponent David Schweikert of being “a predatory real estate speculator who snatched up nearly 300 foreclosed homes, been cited for neglect and evicted a homeowner on the verge of saving his house, just to make a buck.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="New York Times profile of race" href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/new-york/24"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In New York, Representative Michael Arcuri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; introduces his Republican challenger, Richard Hanna, as a millionaire who “got rich while his construction company overcharged taxpayers thousands, was sued three times for injuries caused by faulty construction and was cited 12 times for health and safety violations.” Negative ads can be successful, whether or not they are fair and fully accurate, particularly if they lure an opponent into responding or if they define a political newcomer before he can define himself. But they also carry risks, especially in a year when voters are frustrated about the economy and impatient with politics as usual. “Our strongest piece of opposition research on Democrats is their voting records,” said Representative Pete Sessions of Texas, chairman of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Committee’s Web site" href="http://www.nrcc.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;National Republican Congressional Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. “While character assassination seems to be the strategy for Democrats this year, the American people are supporting Republican candidates because they are providing an alternative.” A debate has broken out among some Democratic officials about the effectiveness — or wisdom — of running such pointedly negative advertisements with five weeks remaining in the campaign. But party strategists said candidates did not have the luxury of waiting until the final stretch to go negative, particularly if the goal is to localize the races. “When you’re talking about whether an individual really belongs in Congress, you’re not talking about the national issues,” said Steve McMahon, a Democratic consultant who creates television advertising for several candidates in the party. He added: “Anytime you get personal in campaign advertising, there’s always a risk that it goes too far to be credible or it backfires altogether. That risk is typically mitigated by research that’s done in advance to determine the correct tone and what will make the ad credible.” So far, many Republican candidates are forcefully defending themselves but not taking the bait by starting their own personal offensives. A review of television advertisements presented since &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="meta-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about Labor Day." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/l/labor_day/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Labor Day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; showed that the Republicans were basing theirs almost entirely on the records of Democrats on health care, the economic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="meta-classifier" title="More articles about economic stimulus." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/united_states_economy/economic_stimulus/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;stimulus package&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and the first vote the Democrats cast when Congress convened in 2009: for making &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="meta-per" title="More articles about Nancy Pelosi." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/nancy_pelosi/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Nancy Pelosi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; speaker of the House. Even many of the critical Republican advertisements produced by the candidates or the party are done with a softer touch. (Outside groups, which are investing record amounts of money for a midterm election, do not always follow suit.) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="New York Times profile of race" href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/texas/17"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In Texas, Republicans are trying to defeat Representative Chet Edwards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, a moderate Democrat who remains likable to many residents in his district, which includes the Crawford ranch of former President &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="meta-per" title="More articles about George W. Bush." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. An advertisement suggests that Mr. Edwards has changed in Washington, with a narrator calmly saying, “After 20 years, he’s not independent.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="New York Times profile of race" href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/north-dakota/1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In North Dakota, Rick Berg,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; a Republican trying to unseat Representative Earl Pomeroy, a Democrat, decided to make his latest ad about negative ads. “Isn’t it time North Dakota has a congressman who will change Washington and not change the subject with a negative ad?” Mr. Berg asked. The Democratic ads are like a prosecutor’s case, carrying no rebuttals or countervailing facts. Yet for all of the protestations that arise every election year about negative advertising, there is plenty of evidence that the attacks are effective, particularly against candidates without a deep connection to voters. This year, as Republicans work to gain at least the 39 seats they need to take control of the House, many of their nominees have never run for office and come from business backgrounds, which often include a trail of documents. For more than a year, a large team of researchers at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Committee’s Web site" href="http://dccc.org/content/home"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; has been digging into the backgrounds of potential Republican candidates. It is political detective work, with every piece of a candidate’s past fair game, so long as it is a part of the public record. In some cases, aides have been sent to districts for a closer look as they compile thorough dossiers, which are ultimately approved by a team of lawyers before the information is turned into television commercials. Some of the material is rooted in policy, including the “Fair Tax,” a national sales tax pledge signed by many Republicans, which Democrats say would raise sales taxes by 23 percent. Many of the findings, however, are not rooted in legislation or policy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Roll Call article" href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_25/politics/49880-1.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In Tennessee, a Republican candidate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; accused his Democratic challenger of unearthing a divorce proceeding containing an accusation about intimidating his wife with a gun. In South Dakota, a poor driving record became a part of the dialogue after it was revealed that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Rapid City Journal article" href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_268757a4-b876-11df-a43e-001cc4c03286.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;the Republican nominee for Congress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; had received 20 speeding tickets and numerous citations for failing to appear in court, running stop signs and not making payments, which twice resulted in arrest warrants. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, who leads the Republican recruitment effort in the House, said he warned candidates to conduct their own research before deciding to run so they were not surprised by anything dug up by Democrats. “It’s called winning ugly,” Mr. McCarthy said. “But a lot of time it backfires, because people in their communities know them.” Jim Renacci, the Republican nominee in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="New York Times profile of race" href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/ohio/16"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ohio’s 16th Congressional District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, has owned a car dealership, nursing homes, an arena football team and other businesses. Four years ago, he was assessed nearly $1.4 million in unpaid state taxes, interest and fees, which he ultimately paid. The issue has been replayed again and again in television advertisements from his opponent, Representative John Boccieri, and Democratic groups. “There are lemons, and then there’s used-car millionaire Jim Renacci,” an announcer said in an advertisement last week, as images of an old rickety station wagon appeared on the screen before segueing to an unflattering photograph of Mr. Renacci. In an interview, Mr. Renacci dismissed criticism about his business background, saying: “He’s going to go over my 30-year experience and try and find this little thing or that little thing. As far as I’m concerned, you always know you’re doing well when your opponent is attacking.” ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/us/politics/26dems.html?pagewanted=2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;NY Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In Open Letter Opposing the "Pledge to America,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;by Barack Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dear America,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;I write to you today to urge you to reject the Republican's "Pledge to America." First off, what's this "to America" garbage? That's not very self-aggrandizing...is it? What gives? Where's the self-worship? Did they not learn anything from me? After all, I put the ME in Amercia!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;And there's also no personality behind it. For crying out loud I made women swoon for CHANGE (they didn't know I actually meant bus fare, but whatever).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;That said here are a few reasons you need to reject the "Pledge to America."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;1) First off, it's only 21 pages long, how do you fit change into 21 freakin' pages? My health care bill totally kicks its ass. I swear its like the only thing wimpier in paper than the this pledge is that Declaration of Independence. (2) They want to stop TARP? What the hell is TARP? I thought we called it TARD . . . (3) I think its really wrong to try to put caps on spending after all government reports have already said I'm going to take the debt to $20 trillion. Think about all of the people who worked hard to prepare those reports....we're going to make liars out of them. (Take it from me, nobody likes a liar) (4) Why should laws need constitutional authority? Why should a constitution have anything to do with the laws we write? Furthermore, what is a constitution anyway? (5) There's nothing about absorbing terrorist attacks, at least I have a dang &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"&gt;sponge.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;lt;----(psst!)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;(6) I'm pretty sure they'll get us all killed if they impose harsh sanctions on Iran? Besides, we can't even get a grip on stopping Fox News.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;(7) Do we really have to take 3 days to read a bill? Pssh! It took more time to print my copy of ObamaCare&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;(8) Speaking of ObamaCare -- they'll repeal that over my death paneled body. So there you have it America. I strongly suggest you consider these reasons, and by "strongly" I mean "don't make me get all George Orwell up in here!" (Michelle came up with that one) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TJwnmC2-gmI/AAAAAAAAC3U/ukuXJK8s_Ms/s1600/obamasignatureblack.png"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 278px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 74px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520330777805357666" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ehtYejeKDkQ/TJwnmC2-gmI/AAAAAAAAC3U/ukuXJK8s_Ms/s400/obamasignatureblack.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Oh yeah and God Bless Americcccccaaaaaa...GREAT! I just gacked all over my brand new golf balls. Thanks a lot America! --------------------------------------------- THIS WAS SATIRE - The Looking Spoon is a conservative humor/satire/art/commentary blog by Jared H. McAndersen, visit &lt;a href="http://www.thelookingspoon.com/"&gt;The Looking Spoon&lt;/a&gt; to see more posts and art. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOP Ready to Roll: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" id="top" href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_self"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Pledge to&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; America" Unveiled&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;by Republicans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;House Republicans, led by John Boehner, plan to unveil their "Pledge to America" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;this morning at a hardware store in Sterling, Virginia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. This advanced copy reveals few surprises, but gives voters a basic idea of what Republicans will do if they take over the House next year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;It is also a clear pledge to the Tea Party with its focus on Constitutional principles and government spending. "With this document, we pledge to dedicate ourselves to the task of reconnecting our highest aspirations to the permanent truths of our founding by keeping faith with the values our nation was founded on, the principles we stand for, and the priorities of our people" the members say in the opening. "This is our Pledge to America."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;a class="linkIcon read" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017335-503544.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#990000;"&gt;Pledge to America: The Full Text&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The GOP plan is to stop the Bush tax cuts from expiring for all Americans, not just the middle class as many Democrats would like. Republicans would allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income. And they would repeal and replace health care with "common-sense solutions focused on lowering costs and protecting American jobs." The Pledge also promises to reform the way Congress works by requiring each bill to have Constitutional citations and by giving members at least three days to read legislation before it comes to the floor for a vote. The Republican plan would take spending back to 2008 pre-TARP and stimulus spending levels and would put in place strict budget caps. But it's unclear how much money would actually be saved given the funding promises in the GOP pledge on extending and adding tax cuts, repealing but replacing health care, and increasing defense spending. ~~~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017335-503544.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CBSNews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The final draft of House Republicans' legislative agenda for the next Congress, a 21-page "Pledge to America." "The need for urgent action to repair our economy and reclaim our government for the people cannot be overstated," the introduction says. It continues: "With this document, we pledge to dedicate ourselves to the task of reconnecting our highest aspirations to the permanent truths of our founding by keeping faith with the values our nation was founded on, the principles we stand for, and the priorities of our people. This is our Pledge to America." &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;HIGHLIGHTS: "Pledge to America:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Jobs: &lt;/span&gt;♠ Stop job-killing tax hikes ♠ Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income ♠ Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit ♠ Repeal small business mandates in the new health care law. &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Cutting Spending&lt;/span&gt;: ♠ Repeal and Replace health care ♠ Roll back non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels before TARP and stimulus (will save $100 billion in first year alone) ♠ Establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending going forward ♠ Cancel all future TARP payments and reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Reforming Congress:&lt;/span&gt; ♠ Will require that every bill have a citation of constitutional authority ♠ Give members at least 3 days to read bills before a vote &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Defense: &lt;/span&gt;♠ Provide resources to troops ♠ Fund missile defense ♠ Enforce sanctions in Iran &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CEO's See Obama as Bad Hire, Others Say&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;He's Just Another Dem Liar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The Presidency and Voter's Remorse: He doesn't look or sound radical. President Obama, in fact, is so calm, almost regal, he&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.investors.com/image/VOTERS-REMORSEweb.gif.cms"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 209px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.investors.com/image/VOTERS-REMORSEweb.gif.cms" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; makes government takeovers and redistribution schemes seem almost reasonable. But the facade is wearing thin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003333;"&gt;Fortune 500 leaders who believed Obama's moderate rhetoric, and even raised cash and voted for him, have soured on him. They now believe he's bad for business and hostile to the American free enterprise system.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Even die-hard Obama fan Tom Wilson, head of Allstate, says the president could have used some executive experience on his all-academic economics team. Not a single former corporate executive is in Obama's Cabinet or among his top economic advisers. "I think it was a hiring mistake for the administration," Wilson told CNN last week. Wilson also suggests Obama convene a summit with business leaders to clear the air. "I'd spend less time on the G-20 and more time on the U.S. 100," he advised. Problem is, CEOs have walked away from prior White House luncheons shocked at (1) Obama's dismissive reaction as they try to explain the harm of his anti-business policies and (2) his shallow understanding of business and economic matters. They're not just put off by the president's harsh depiction of "fat cat bankers" and other anti-business bashings. They're more disturbed by his arrogant ignorance. "The truth is that not even the Franklin Roosevelt administration was as hostile to and ignorant about free enterprise as this administration is," said publisher Steve Forbes. Few before the election dared call Obama the "s" word. Independent voters, who ensured Obama's victory, generally considered him to be a centrist or slightly left of center. Now they view him as extremely liberal. And by Democrats' own polling, a solid majority — 55% — of all likely voters now think "socialist" is a more accurate way to describe Obama. Hate to say we told you so. But we did. In 2008, we ran a 16-part series called "The Audacity of Socialism" that warned that Obama was a closet socialist and, if elected, would lead the most anti-business administration in U.S. history. As proof, we offered countless examples of Obama's past associations with not just socialists, but also out-and-out communists, and dug into his voting record as the most liberal member of the Senate. We also explained how Obama used his training as an Alinsky street organizer to disguise his radicalism and appeal to the middle class. Our series was panned by some as over the top and alarmist. But the record was there for anyone to see. If only others had called things by their proper names back then, to vet rather than anoint, we might be well into a robust recovery now, possibly even closing in on the Dow's pre-crisis peak of 14,000. Instead, we have an economy that's a basket case, tied up by reams of new government red tape, and a market mired in uncertainty, trading in a narrow band reminiscent of the 1970s. The reason: We have an administration that meddles in virtually every part of the economy, "injecting uncertainty into the marketplace and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses," said Verizon Communications Chairman Ivan Seidenberg, an early Obama supporter now suffering buyer's remorse. Capital is the lifeblood of the economy. Yet Obama is deliberately trying to downsize the financial sector. He says his sweeping new regulations are designed to clamp down on bank profits and shrink the sector as a share of the U.S. economy. "What I think will change, what I think was an aberration, was a situation where corporate profits in the financial sector were such a heavy part of our overall profitability over the last decade," he says, adding that his "more vigorous regulatory regime" will "inhibit" the industry's growth. Think about it: The president is engineering a controlled starvation of America's most important industry — financial capital — as punishment for allegedly causing a crisis that anti-bank community organizers and housing-rights zealots like him caused. Intel CEO Paul Otellini, another early Obama supporter, now thinks the president "does not understand what it takes to create jobs." Yet he denies Obama is "anti-business." It's time we stopped giving this president the benefit of the doubt, stopped holding back candid criticism. Too much is at stake. The signs that he's implementing a radically anti-capitalist agenda are too many and too obvious to ignore. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Given Obama's background, what could possibly make anybody think he would be pro-business? As we argued before the election, it's no coincidence that:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;• Practically every hero, mentor, adviser or friend in Obama's life has supported Marxism, including: Raila Odinga, James Cone, Dwight Hopkins, Jeremiah Wright, Frank Davis, Jim Wallis, Saul Alinsky, John McKnight, Cornel West and William Ayers, who launched Obama's political career in his living room. • He was drawn to Marxists as a student and regularly attended "socialist conferences" (his words) at Columbia University. • He devoted his first memoir to his late communist-sympathizing father, who proposed massive taxes and redistribution of income in Kenya. ("What is more important is to find means by which we can redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all," wrote Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Harvard-educated economist, in a 1965 policy paper completely ignored by the big media. "This is the government's obligation.") • He eschewed the private sector after college to work as a community organizer for radical Alinsky groups in Chicago, agitating against banks and other businesses.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Ward Connerly, a conservative former University of California regent, says he's known many community organizers and all believed capitalism was evil and needed to be replaced by socialism. "Every community organizer I've known believes that the system is inherently flawed," he said. "Capitalism doesn't work in their view, because it doesn't distribute enough of its benefits to enough people." Perhaps Obama has outgrown such idealism? Not a chance. "My views are not so much more refined than they were when I labored in obscurity as a community organizer," Obama revealed the year before he launched his run for the White House. Obama's not a liberal in the tradition of Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter or even Roosevelt. Obama's a liberal like we've never seen before. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And he's planning to do even more damage to the economy, making November's election one of the most important in history&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/548002/201009211903/More-CEOs-Seeing-Obama-As-Bad-Hire.htm"&gt;Investor's Business Daily&lt;/a&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Burn Pelosi, the Establishment's Wicked Witch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Not Christine,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;Our Good Witch&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Forty-four years ago, Bob Dylan released an album with the incendiary title&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"While the Establishment Burns."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/10-03-christine-o-donnell-delaware.jpg/8587179-1-eng-US/10-03-christine-o-donnell-delaware.jpg_full_380.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 322px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 253px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/10-03-christine-o-donnell-delaware.jpg/8587179-1-eng-US/10-03-christine-o-donnell-delaware.jpg_full_380.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6392/covermb6.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; That could serve as a metaphor for what seems to be happening to the Washington establishment in general and the Republican Party establishment in particular.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The Tea Party Express roared through several primary elections last Tuesday, shaking the foundations of the Republican and media establishments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;In a remarkable exchange on Sean Hannity's Fox show, Karl Rove, George W. Bush's "architect" within the political establishment, said that Delaware Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell can't win in November. He then gave the Democrats enough negative sound bites about O'Donnell for them to use in their TV ads for far-left Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons. The days when it was more important to preserve party over principles, as O'Donnell put it in an election night interview with CNN, may be coming to an end. Conservatives are tired of being taken for granted and their agenda ignored by the Republican establishment, especially when those they vote for get in power and too often vote with Democrats. If ever there was a Republican in name only, it is Rep. Mike Castle, a 40-year incumbent whom O'Donnell defeated. Tea Partiers think their candidates have convictions that matter to them and they are refusing to put party first. The full force of the Washington and media establishments will now be brought to bear on O'Donnell and other Republicans identified as Tea Party candidates or just strong conservatives. "Fringe" and "extreme" are just some of the labels that are already being applied to them. They will also be called "ignorant wing nuts," and in O'Donnell's case loaded with "too much baggage." Who is free of baggage, including several current and former members of Congress? Conservative candidates should ignore it all and tell voters: "You elected this president and this Congress to bring change to Washington. They haven't, so we need to change them if we truly want to transform the country and return it to its founding principles, among which are living within our means." This nation needs an occasional turnover, even revolution, not only to "throw the bums out," but also to reboot the system and remind ourselves of what America was designed to be and what we have instead become. The establishment won't go quietly because they have large amounts of turf to protect, so they must be dislodged, evicted, even burned out in a metaphorical sense. The big media treated the anti-establishment rebellion of the '60s as something good. They will treat this attempt to overthrow the establishment as something bad, mainly because they are now the establishment. When Dylan sang, "The Times They Are A-Changin'," the pot-smoking, free love, anti-establishment hippies sang with him. If overcoming the establishment then was a great idea (it wasn't in view of what and who replaced it), overcoming today's establishment is a better one. The establishment hates people it can't control and who are not beholden to those who run it. Conservative candidates who are scoring well understand this is a contest between the Washington establishment and the rest of the country. The establishment has one set of interests and the country has another. The conservatives are beholden to the people. The establishment is beholden only to itself and those it chooses to admit to the inside-the-beltway inner circle. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Conservatives can now sing Dylan's lyrics.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;This verse especially resonates&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;"Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway; don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside and it is ragin' It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;For the times they are a-changin'.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;To put it perhaps less elegantly: step aside establishment, or conservatives will step right over you.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas091710.php3"&gt;Jewish World Review&lt;/a&gt; - By Cal Thomas * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Americans Wonder if an Ex-Crack Addict Makes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Good President&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Newsbusters' P. J. Gladnick writes about&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/author?auth=117"&gt;Phil Bronstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;'s&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;(The Former Mr. Sharon Stone) article "Should Obama Have Smoked Crack?" Says Gladnick: 'Crack' Humor Attempt Backfires — As your humble correspondent has learned, writing humor can be very dangerous since it can easily backfire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#003333;"&gt;Such was the case with the &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=72279"&gt;STORY BELOW&lt;/a&gt; ("Should Obama Have Smoked Crack?") written by the former Mr. Sharon Stone (they're divorced) aka Phil Bronstein, Editor-at-Large of the San Francisco Chronicle.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;BACKGROUND:&lt;/span&gt; Remember, Barack Obama admitted using drugs in his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," but never revealed if or when he stopped. Obama wrote in a section of the book about his college days. &lt;a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/12/telebama_rotating.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 264px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 264px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/12/telebama_rotating.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I blew a few smoke rings . . . Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."&lt;/em&gt; Obama wrote that he stopped short of shooting heroin when it was offered to him by a friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I'd looked at him standing there, surrounded by big slabs of salami and roast beef, and right then an image popped into my head of an air bubble, shiny and round like a pearl, rolling quietly through a vein and stopping my heart. …"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;~~~ &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201359.html"&gt;Senator Obama Admitted Trying Cocaine in a Memoir - Washington Post - January 3, 2007&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Back to the comments on the Bronstein piece . . . P. J. Gladnick continues: Just from the very title of his piece, "Should Obama Have Smoked Crack?" you just know Bronstein was going to run into trouble. Some readers didn't know he was trying to be funny and were outraged. Other readers realized he was attempting to write humor but felt it was really lame. So here is Bronstein's backfiring humor attempt: Bronstein wrote: ... His druggie past is not helping him shape the overarching grit of his public character nearly as much as it could be. Weed and cocaine? Who's going to be impressed with that, when his hugely successful contemporaries like Oprah Winfrey have the truly dark and evil specter of crack in their background? ...He needed some rock in that pipe of his youth. If he'd had a crack addiction then instead of an effete taste for powdered cocaine and pot, people might be a little more respectful of him now.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;It would have been an even tougher journey to the top. The big dog bite needs teeth sharpened by real adversity. Read the Full Article below. By P.J. Gladnick - &lt;a class="source" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/09/15/former-mr-sharon-stone-obama-crack-humor-attempt-backfires" target="_blank"&gt;NewsBusters.org&lt;/a&gt; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Should Obama Have Smoked Crack?&lt;/span&gt; By &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/author?auth=117"&gt;Phil Bronstein&lt;/a&gt; - Editor, San Francisco Chronicle Barack Obama is a reformed doper, so of course &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4894639-503544.html" target="_blank"&gt;he's against legalizing marijuana&lt;/a&gt; Another disappointment for the legions of politically progressive fans who'd taken to Obamania as though it was its own opiate. Who is this guy, anyway? He's said he smoked dope and snorted coke in his youth. So where's the empathy, man? But forget about its effect on his policies. His druggie past is not helping him shape the overarching grit of his public character nearly as much as it could be. Weed and cocaine? Who's going to be impressed with that, when his hugely successful contemporaries like Oprah Winfrey have the truly dark and evil specter of crack in their background? Not the previously supportive &lt;a href="http://nyt.com/" target="_blank"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;, whose columnists are tearing Obama apart for being an elitist wuss. "Even many Democrats," &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/opinion/12rich.html?ref=frankrich" target="_blank"&gt;wrote Frank Rich&lt;/a&gt; last Sunday, "have become lukewarm in their conviction that their president 'understands the problems of people like you.'" His poll numbers on the "understanding" issue "have imploded," Rich notes, dropping from 72 percent who thought he did when he started the job down to 50 percent now. People who think he doesn't understand have doubled from 24 to 48 percent. The problem is not just that he's an ideological jellyfish, too conservative for the left and too liberal for the right. It's that, as diverse and interesting as his background is, he was never down enough to make himself truly credible. He needed some rock in that pipe of his youth. If he'd had a crack addiction then instead of an effete taste for powdered cocaine and pot, people might be a little more respectful of him now. It would have been an even tougher journey to the top. The big dog bite needs teeth sharpened by real adversity. If our culture and society has faith in nothing else, we believe deeply in the redemptive power of resurrection. When you've seen us from the bottom, from underneath, you may not be like us but you can certainly understand us. Look at our heroes, like Oprah, and our cable stars whose lives we sometimes mimic and always watch hypnotically, collapsing and expanding like a lawn chair. We believe in someone who's been to the edge because they've also cleansed themselves in the purifying mist of confession. But it has to be a confession about something considered really bad, not a bored Ivy Leaguer's afterthought. During a meeting of local Democratic high-rollers I snuck into in 2004, career diplomat and Secretary-of-State hopeful Richard Holbrooke was strategizing for Presidential candidate John Kerry. The question came up about Kerry's haute, silk-stocking image: "Should he have gone to Disneyland for vacation instead of skiing at Sun Valley?" If you had to ask, it was already too late. Of course Kerry got monster-trucked by GW Bush and voters who thought the Sun Valley patrician lacked the capacity for understanding real people. Today Obama has a Kerry problem. Or a Dukakis tank problem. Maybe it's a Democrat problem. What happened to the of-the-people party? Frank Rich, who remains a fan, nonetheless describes "Obama's meandering path," his "loophole-ridden compromise[s]," his "indifferent White House," the view that he's an "out-of-touch elitist," and he says the Iraq speech was "as persuasive as a hostage video." Yes. Hostage to his ambivalence and ambition. He looks like a Yuppie not a Survivor. "How did the first president of color," &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/opinion/12dowd.html?_r=1&amp;amp;ref=maureendowd" target="_blank"&gt;asks Maureen Dowd&lt;/a&gt;, "become so colorless?" Crack could have helped put some color back into the Obama narrative. It is a drug that disproportionately haunts African American communities. Think coke and its Paris Hilton or some no-brainers on The Hills. Crack is the gutter drug. Just read the nearly bottomless well of top-selling autobiographies about surviving and triumphing over crack addiction, including, "Night of the Gun," from the Times' own tough-minded media critic, David Carr. That's why Oprah body-slammed faux-memoirist David Frey for making up his crack story. You have to have really been there. Cokeheads are boring, like Kerry skiing. Crack heads are interesting, at least when they've cycled through. Without that sense of steely resolve built on a visit to hell, Obama has been unable to truly define himself in office. The danger: he leaves it to others to define him. The President wrote in his memoir about being a potential "junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed. I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind." Now that he's long sober, he risks pushing the question of who he is out of other people's minds. Today, it often looks like Barack Obama may still be unsure of who he is. Fortunately for him, Newt Gingrich knows. The former House Speaker &lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/anntelnaes/2010/09/gingrich_thinks_obama_has_a_ke.html" target="_blank"&gt;said recently&lt;/a&gt; that Mr. Obama has a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" view of the world. What the hell does that mean? No one's sure. But it sounds at least as hard-nosed as crack. &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=72279"&gt;San Francisco Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; - By &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/author?auth=117"&gt;Phil Bronstein&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="mailto:pbronstein@sfchronicle.com"&gt;Email&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/twitter/topics/contributor?q=PhilBronstein"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;It's Obamanomics, Stupid! Voters Enraged Over&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:#003333;"&gt;Obama's Spending!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;At a backyard town-hall meeting in Fairfax, Va., Monday, President Obama explained why Christine O'Donnell was going to beat Mike Castle in the GOP's Delaware Senate primary: "They saw the Recovery Act," he said. "They saw TARP. They saw the auto bailout.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.randomfunnypicture.com/pictures/751animated-obama-money.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 414px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 170px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.randomfunnypicture.com/pictures/751animated-obama-money.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; And they look at these and think, 'God, all these huge numbers adding up.' So they're right to be concerned about that."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;↔ I spend a billion Benjamins a minute — of other peoples' money — you suckers!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Of course Mr. Obama was speaking generally about the public mood. Let's call it his "generic" explanation for the current voter impulse to wipe out GOP incumbents now and Democrats in November.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Here's your bumper sticker for the 2010 elections: It's the Spending, Stupid.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Did the president didn't mention the two $3 trillion-plus budgets passed on his watch or the trillion-dollar health-care entitlement. They, the voters, are not "concerned" about Uncle Sam's spending floating toward the moon. They are enraged, furious, crazed and desperate. Pennsylvania's shrewd Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, scripting the new conventional wisdom, says the tea party movement supporting Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Joe Miller in Alaska proves the GOP is in the grip of crazies. With luck, none of his audience will wake up from this delusion before November. Back in April, the New York Times/CBS did a poll of tea party supporters. When asked, "What should be the goal of the Tea Party movement," 45% said, "Reduce federal government." That is, cut spending. Everything else was in single digits. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="U301265629509JHB"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;I'm convinced that beneath all the economic turbulence in the land is anxiety that's been building for years as public spending has continued to grow. What was a chronic "concern" has exploded this year into a broad public movement—in Washington, California, New York, New Jersey and indeed across Europe.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;This isn't "concern," Mr. President. It's a crisis. Look at the astonishing numbers in the Rasmussen poll released last week. Nearly seven in 10 respondents (68%) want a smaller government, lower taxes and fewer services. The party breakdown: GOP, 88%; Democrats, 44%; and Other, 74%. In short, the independent voters who decide national elections have moved into the anti-spending column. I don't think they'll leave any time soon. In a note on last week's poll, Rasmussen points out that the only time it recorded a higher shrink-the-government number, at 70%, was in August 2006. That was just ahead of the famous off-year election in which Republican voters withheld support for their party's free-spending members in Congress. The Obama White House holds that the spending concerns Mr. Obama cited Monday—the stimulus, TARP, the auto bailout—were necessary. Whatever any individual merit in this stuff, it hit most voters at a moment when nearly any big government outlays were going to be written off as "more spending." When Mr. Obama said the health bill was "paid for," naturally polls showed that no one believed him. Why should they? This loss of faith predates the Obama presidency. I called Scott Rasmussen this week to discuss the roots of the anti-spending mood, and he suggested that the American electorate's desire for pushback against the growth in federal spending dates at least to 1992 and Ross Perot's third-party presidential bid, which drew 18.9% of the popular vote. Indeed, Mr. Rasmussen argues, you can find evidence of the turn in Jimmy Carter's "efficiency in government" efforts. Until Barack Obama, the only Democrats who had a chance of winning the presidency were Southern governors with a reputation for fiscal moderation. But after Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992, he immediately tried to pass the mammoth health-care entitlement known as HillaryCare. After 17 acrimonious months, it died in August 1994. That November, voters gave control of the House to the GOP for the first time in 40 years. It was about more than Newt Gingrich's charm. So this year the Democrats, who control Congress because of voter disgust with the Republicans in 2006, passed a health-care entitlement. And this year voters will transfer power back to the Republicans. The most important and startling number in American politics today is Congress's approval rating: 23%. This is a no-confidence vote. The second branch of government is losing the country. Surely it's about the spending. What else? That Congress hasn't spent enough? If voters give control of the House to the GOP, the party desperately needs to establish credibility on spending. Absent that, little else is possible. Independent voters now know that the national Democratic Party, hopelessly joined to the public-sector unions, will never stabilize public outlays. &lt;a name="U301265629509F0G"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In a sense, the GOP's impending victory is meaningless, a win by default. If the Republican rookies entering Congress next year don't do something identifiably real to stop the federal-spending balloon, voters two years from now will start throwing the GOP under the bus. Absent action, the political rage and cynicism on offer in 2012 could make this year's tea parties look like, well, a tea party. &lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/39154568/"&gt;CNBC.com&lt;/a&gt; - By Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;The Eternal Flame of 'Muslim Outrage' Was Lit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;a Long,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#003333;"&gt;Long Time Ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Shhhhhhh, we're told. Don't protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don't burn a Koran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.danzfamily.com/archives/blogphotos/06/345-muslim-outrage.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 388px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 310px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.danzfamily.com/archives/blogphotos/06/345-muslim-outrage.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; It'll imperil the troops. It'll inflame tensions. The "Muslim world" will "explode" if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the "Muslim world" not ready to "explode"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways. Just a few months ago in Kashmir, faithful Muslims rioted over what they thought was a mosque depicted on underwear sold by street vendors. The mob shut down businesses and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. But it turned out there was no need for Allah's avengers to get their holy knickers in a bunch. The alleged mosque was actually a building resembling London's St. Paul's Cathedral. A Kashmiri law enforcement official later concluded the protests were "premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere." Indeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world's atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfe
