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Immelt: The one thing that actually works, state run communism a bit– may not be your cup of tea, but their government works."

In another potential blow for the president's Ohio reelection campaign, Jeep, the rugged brand President Obama once said symbolized American freedom, is considering giving up on the United States and shifting production to China. Such a move would crash the economy in towns like Toledo, Ohio, where Jeeps are made and supplied, and rob the community of the economic security they thought Obama's auto bailout assured them. Fiat SpA (F), majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued the following statement, October 12. Full text follows: Last night, the following statement was made during the Vice Presidential debate regarding the decision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force virtually all employers to include sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion, in the health insurance coverage they provide their employees: "With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution—Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital—none has to either refer...

If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. http://youtu.be/C-ZO7XOpwa8

Apple could face disruption to its iPad sales in China after a court rejected its claim to own the iPad trademark in the country and a rival sought to halt sales of the tablet device in two Chinese cities. The developments are the latest in a long-running dispute between Apple and Proview Technology (Shenzhen), a struggling Taiwanese-owned company that registered trademarks for the name IPAD in many countries long before Apple conceived its smash hit tablet computer. >SNIP< Huizhou Intermediate People’s Court has scheduled a hearing in the other for January 7. “We are starting with these two cities, and...

Rep. Darrell Issa, who has been investigating the Fast and Furious operation for nearly a year, declined on Friday to call for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to resign over the botched undercover probe that led to hundreds of weapons being “walked” to gun smugglers in Mexico. Mr. Issa, California Republican, said the operation is not about Mr. Holder or Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, both of whom he has criticized strongly over their handling of the failed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive’s (ATF) investigation. “It is not about...

In another move to reduce headcount and costs, Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday that it has launched a voluntary layoff program to reduce headcount by 6,500 employees. The reduction targets salaried employees that report to corporate headquarters and provide internal business services.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Beset by a weak jobs report, President Barack Obama on Friday called for swift action by Congress to raise the nation's borrowing limit, saying the uncertainty over the debt ceiling has hindered hiring in the private sector.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Thursday that he is a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to the communist country that exiled him -- China. "Still I am a Marxist," the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived with an entourage of robed monks and a heavy security detail to give a series of paid public lectures. Marxism has "moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits," the Dalai Lama, 74, said. However, he credited China's embrace of market economics for breaking communism's grip over the world's most populous country...

TSA Patdowns At Santa Fe Prom Video at link.

A document posted online by WikiLeaks reveals that there were strategy discussions regarding the adoption of a "North American Union" – called the North American Initiative in this case – at the ambassadorial level in the United States government. The concept of a North American Union largely has been ridiculed by many in government and media. The Wikipedia entry on North American Union calls it a "theoretical economic union" that has "been the subject of various conspiracy theories." However, WND has built an extensive library of reports that document progress toward the idea, and best-selling author Jerome Corsi's book, "The...

Karl Marx and the Internationale Karl Marx and Satanism Probably never in history has such a deceptive folklore surrounded a political figure as that which continues to encircle the legend of German-born Karl Marx, co-author of the Communist Manifesto, and the much-celebrated “father” of Communism. Even if we read about Marx in a typical, modern encyclopedia we get a benign picture of him. He is usually painted in glowing terms, such as the “founder of democratic socialism.” However, there is recent evidence that Marx was far less interested in the travails of the common man than he was in doing...

A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country. "I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada. "That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world.

"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus." – John F. Kennedy, Nov. 20, 1962, president's news conference -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not...

The Truth About Communism (As told By Ronald Reagan) Part 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceTg4AtwaTo&feature=related Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUawezkjxo&feature=related Part 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDIQh3abfI&feature=related Part 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABvq7DZPDw&feature=related Part 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi2FpoSnMAk&feature=related Part 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6OIeDz40eY&feature=related Part 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru8q0DLJw7Q&feature=related Part 8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blv69ejghmw&feature=related Part 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqT8uUZxuEU&feature=related Part 10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxxVtuS2Pw&feature=related Part 11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XS58NwjdyI&feature=related Part 12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XS58NwjdyI&feature=related Part 13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ksHHmb2d9o&feature=related

Investigators have found concrete evidence on computers used by Pfc. Bradley Manning that link him with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a U.S. defense official said. The disclosure came as Defense Secretary Robert Gates pledged Thursday to "aggressively investigate the leak" and find ways to prevent further breaches, and told reporters that he had invited the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist the probe. Defense officials said the FBI was investigating whether civilians aided Pfc. Manning in providing the information to WikiLeaks, a Web-based group that this week released 76,000 secret reports from Afghanistan. Pfc. Manning already was...

A 12th Russian spy acting inside the US worked at Microsoft before his arrest and deportation, suggesting that he and the other Kremlin agents apprehended in the country were seeking inside information on technology as well as personal contacts. Before Alexey Karetnikov, 23, was picked up for immigration law violations on June 28 he had tested codes at the world’s biggest software company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday.

EL PASO, Texas -- New information has emerged on the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Two federal sources familiar with the investigation told ABC-7 that Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka was a well- known juvenile smuggler. In addition to having a long rap sheet, he was also on El Paso's juvenile smuggler's list and was charged with alien smuggling back in 2007.

As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote for health-care reform, tea partiers reportedly shouted the "N-word" at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name. Tea partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill. Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they've been threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene phone calls they got....

A nutball shot two security guards at a Pentagon-area Metro station in D.C. yesterday. As Patterico reports, he hated Bush and littered the Internet with 9/11 Truther rants. Guess which party he registered under in 2005 and was actively registered under as of 2008? DEMOCRAT. EMID 15324137 STATESOURCE California DATAACQUIRED 20080121 PrefixTitle MR LASTNAME,FIRSTNAME,MIDDLENAME Bedell,John,Patrick SOURCEIDVOTER 30048 DATEOFBIRTH 5/20/1973 PLACEOFBIRTH CA REGDATE 20051006 GENDER M PARTY Democrat ACTIVECODE ACTIVE STATUS ResAddr1,ResAddr2,ResCity,ResState,ResZip 110 Georges Dr Hollister,CA STATEHOUSE 28 STATESENATE 12 USCONGRESS 17 LASTDATEVOTED 20051108 Stop playing games, MSM.