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"The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being..." (Historian J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S.) There is nothing like having your finger on the trigger of a gun to reveal who you really are. Life or death in one twitch — ultimate decision, with the ultimate price for carelessness or bad choices. It is a kind of acid test, an initiation, to know that there is lethal force in your hand and all the complexities and...

This is old news with a new interpretation. Obama’s stage at the 2008 Democratic convention was designed in the style of the Pergamon Altar, a Greek Temple, which is mentioned in the book of Revelation as the “seat of Satan” or the “throne of Satan,” depending on the translation. The biblical reference is not just to the altar, but to Pergamos as a center of the all powerful Roman state as well as a regional center of pagan worship and persecution of the early Christians. The pagan religion was the state cult and a man could become a god in...

Obama's empty jobs vow: Castles in the sandSunday, August 7, 2011 Fresh from signing a debt-ceiling increase that provides no shelter from the storm ahead, President Barack Obama stepped before the cameras in the Rose Garden last week and vowed to renew his focus on jobs and the economy. And where will these jobs come from? Supposedly, from key government "investments." In other words, from the same failed government policies that have stifled economic growth and threaten more damage. "Obama does not have much presidential persuasion left. He is running out of capital," says James Thurber of American University's Center...

At least two people are dead and five others wounded in separate overnight shootings in Chicago, police said. A 16-year-old boy, identified as Marshaun Taylor of the 6900 block of South Bell Avenue by the Cook County medical examiner's office, was shot dead this morning about 12:35 a.m. on the 6900 block of South Oakley Avenue in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the city's South Side, said Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines.

With the United Nations General Assembly meeting next month, the US is still continuing efforts to restart Israel-Palestinian peace talks, presumably with the intention of dissuading the Palestinians from seeking statehood recognition from the UN. However, the Palestinians are repeatedly declaring their intention to go to the UN regardless of where the peace process stands. According to the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency, Palestinian Authority Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad Al-Malki expressed that same sentiment in an interview published by Ma’an on August 3. In relatively blunt and clear language, Al-Malki made it clear that regardless of what format the Americans...

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico —An entire 20-man police force resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials said Thursday. The officers’ resignation Thursday left the 13,000 people of Ascension without local police services, Chihuahua state chief prosecutor Carlos Manuel Salas said. State and federal police have moved in to take over police work..Ascension is southwest of Ciudad Juarez, the border city across from El Paso, Texas, that is one of Mexico’s most violent cities.

I never imagined anyone like Michele Bachmann when I envisioned the country’s first female president. In fact, I imagined someone quite different. In the aftermath of the defeats of Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton on the national stage in 2008, I created President Charlotte Kramer, the fictional heroine of my novel “Eighteen Acres.” I wanted to spend some time with the woman who ultimately cracks that final glass ceiling in American politics, if only in a book. Kramer was a fantasy president — a principled conservative with Margaret Thatcher’s clarity on foreign affairs and Clinton’s stoic tolerance of the...

Banning satellite dishes on listed buildings and private homes could be a breach of human rights, an equality watchdog was warned. Thousands of historic buildings and rental properties have made desperate attempts to prevent the dishes being installed on their brick work. But an EU ruling suggests that banning the dishes will infringe the right to freedom of information, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said. The quango issued guidance which details a recent case at the European Court of Human rights that could become a landmark case in satellite dish battles. Two tenants in Sweeden took their government...

America's credit rating being downgraded is a crucial moment not just for the United States but for the world. The world’s most powerful nation and its President have been humbled in full global view. More fundamentally, the Western political class has been found sadly wanting in its inability to cope with a long-brewing crisis as the balance of global economic power shifts to Asia. The interconnected nature of globalised economics and politics means there is no hiding place from the woes of the nation we have grown used to exercising leadership since 1945 and since the end of the Cold...

Commodities, except gold, will likely fall when markets open on Monday due to a U.S. ratings downgrade and a worsening debt crisis in Europe but panic shall be avoided. Bullion should benefit from renewed risk-aversion while outlook for demand for oil, base metals and grains deteriorates. Strong economic growth in China -- the world's top copper consumer, No. 2 oil user and major buyer of grains -- as well as tight global supplies for some raw materials including coal and iron ore, will provide certain support and some investors may see weakness as a buying opportunity. "It should be an...

Sitting here doing laundry and started thinking about what television series had/has the best theme song. I have two and I can't decide. Bonanza and NCIS (Original series) Anyone else?

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Tea Party ‘terrorists’? The ruling class comes ungluedJeffrey T. Kuhner **SNIP** Leftist expediency now requires that the most heinous, reckless and degrading comments be used. Tea Partyers are not simply being slandered, they are being dehumanized. Ironically, it is liberals who are paving the way for potential political violence. Terrorists, hostage-takers, suicide bombers, neo-Nazis, the Christian Taliban — all of the epithets regularly thrown at Tea Party members by rabid progressives — eventually foster one overriding emotion: hatred. It is not much of a leap for some deranged Democratic activist to conclude that the only way to defeat the phantom...

A number of influential thinkers had concluded that the era of U.S. dominance was coming to an end. The military was overstretched, debt was overwhelming, the East’s new economies were taking over and no one was listening to the Yanks. SNIP A few things should be kept in mind. First, pay attention to what happened when markets plummeted Thursday: Precious metals, the euro and the loonie also tumbled as investors fled to the safety of U.S. Treasury securities. The greenback remains the world’s haven. Despite two years of deliberate currency devaluation (and more to come), the U.S. dollar remains the...

File under: It’s Always Good To Keep Things In Perspective - If you think the federal government’s credit rating being downgraded was bad, S&P also downgrade Fonzie from AAAYYY to AAAYY+. Ok, on with the news... Why Won’t These Racist Terrorist Hostage Takers Embrace The New Tone Of Civility? This week we avoided economic collapse when Congress passed a watered-down deficit deal. For our troubles we were treated to a stock market meltdown and a credit rating downgrade. Considering those were the things liberals told us would happen without a deal, it’s not surprising the left-wing flying monkey brigade immediately...

Home | World | Obama Turning to Witch Doctors For Economic Advice Obama Turning to Witch Doctors For Economic Advice By Nelson Umerogwa 15 hours 53 minutes ago Font size: Decrease font Enlarge font Obama Turning to Witch Doctors For Economic Advice WASHINGTON DC - USA - An increasingly desperate Barack Obama has ordered twelve witch doctors from Kenya to be flown to the White House, CNN has reported. "Obama is so desperate that he's turning to voodoo to get the U.S. economy back on track," a Treasury employee told CNN. The White House was tonight being prepared for the...

A large majority of post offices that have been targeted for closure are in Republican districts. More than 2,500 of these post offices are in GOP districts while about 1,000 are in districts represented by Democrats, according to a review by The Hill. There were fewer than 100 stores where the district could not be determined because the zip code is represented by lawmakers in both parties. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has stressed that politics played no role in determining which sites to shutter, noting that it adhered to a strict methodology for choosing them. The USPS used a...

Eighty-eight years ago this week, Calvin Coolidge took office upon the sudden death of President Warren Harding. Like the current administration, the Harding-Coolidge administration faced a tough recession from 1919-1921. But unlike the current administration, the Harding-Coolidge and Coolidge-Dawes administrations cut taxes, balanced budgets and slashed government spending, reducing federal debt by over a third in a decade. The economy grew, averaging just over 7% from 1924 to 1929, the years of his presidency. So did Coolidge's popularity. He was so popular that even during the Great Depression's height song-writer Cole Porter compared his lover to the "Coolidge dollar." Ronald...

Today, There's A Much Bigger Story Than The S&P Downgrade Joe Weisenthal Aug. 7, 2011, 7:02 AM Worried about the Monday open? You probably should be, but really, the S&P downgrade isn't the big worry. It's Italy.Italy has the third largest bond market in the world (after the US and Japan), and it's teetering on the brink of disaster. The belief in Germany is that existing bailout mechanisms aren't sufficient to save the country and that expanding them isn't the right idea, since at that point you're talking about placing massive risk on Germany's sovereign debt itself. The last backstop...