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If someone with the computer talent could take the first part of this old movie clip and edit into or after a Biden touchy gaff it would make for great humor and would likely go viral. I don't have the talent.

Given Obama is our first Black President, which says so much about the fairness of the American people, I would like to start a petition drive that would spot President Obama a number of points in the upcoming 2012 election. In other words, as with many other positions and conditions in our society, President Obama deserves a handicap to make things "fair." My only question is: "How much of a handicap does everyone think is fair? 5 points, 2 points...how much?

Dear Friend, This is an urgent SOS for your help. The Democratic Party, starting with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and their operatives at the state level are engaged in many "dirty tricks" to keep the Nader/Camejo candidacy off the state ballots. Using limitless amounts of money, corporate law firms, obstructers, harassers, and utterly vacuous lawsuits, these Democrats are crudely bent on denying millions of voters the opportunity to vote for the progressive Nader/Camejo ticket and the future justice and prosperity of our country. Their obstructions are a disgrace to a Party that calls itself Democratic. They are intimidating our...

Oregon swift boat veteran placed on leave VIDEO Watch this story TOOLS Email this story to a friend Printer-friendly Version OREGON CITY - There's more trouble today for Clackamas County prosecutor Al French. He's the Vietnam veteran who called John Kerry a liar in a political commercial, then admitted that he had never witnessed Kerry in combat. Now, The Oregonian reports that he's been put on a 30-day paid leave. That's because he may have lied about a long-ago extramarital affair with a secretary. French's former boss says French was asked about the alleged affair 10 years ago, but denied...

"Did the Jews Kill Jesus?" (Feb 13, 2004) The question has once again emerged due to Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie "The Passion of the Christ," and it once again sends a chill to the Jewish blood coursing through my veins. It is a chill not easily warmed by discussions and articles like that of managing editor Jon Meacham’s in Newsweek magazine. Numerous discussions have emerged in hope to dissuade a speculated awakening of anti-Semitism as a result of viewing Mel Gibson’s "Passion." To avoid such a reaction, most of these discussions do one of three things. They weight the culpability...

There is a Djinn, an evil genie, inhabiting the Arab soul. Its Arabic name is al-Hasad, the Demon of Envy. For Moslems, envy is haram, behavior explicitly prohibited by the Prophet Mohammed himself. In Sura (chapter) An-Nisa' 4:32 of the Koran, Allah through Mohammed says: "Envy not one another." A Hadith or saying of Mohammed admonishes Moslems to: "Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood." In another, Mohammed warns that no Moslem may go to Paradise after death unless "his heart be free of envy." Three...

Mon April 7, 2003 THE ANTIDOTE TO LIBERAL ENVY-APPEASEMENT Jack Wheeler I began to realize how Liberal Envy-Appeasement is The Root of the Problem when I was speaking at colleges back in the 1980s about anti-Soviet resistance movements in Soviet colonies such as Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, and Afghanistan. Students would invariably turn a discussion of Soviet imperialism into an assertion of moral equivalence between the USA and the USSR: "How can you criticize the Soviets when we're just as bad? What about what we did to the Indians?" I would be asked. "I haven't done anything to the Indians," I...

Sat March 29, 2003 THE SOURCE OF LIBERAL GUILT Jack Wheeler The self-loathing of the white American liberal is as well-established and documented as Einstein's Special Relativity theorems. A typical example is writer Susan Sontag's denouncement of the white race as "the cancer of human history." A racist hatred of one's own race (auto-racism) has become a defining characteristic of the liberal mind. Yet the source of such suicidal guilt remains a mystery. Clearly understanding what disenables liberals from wanting to defend their culture is today a mortal necessity -- an absolute requirement if America is to be preserved and...