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We heard a lot about those who were unable to "make it in America" during the 2008 campaign. Despite the clear record of opportunity that America has delivered for more people across every race and from every nation in the history of this earth, we were reminded again and again from then candidate Obama that poor people existed. We were told a lot of things about them as well. We were told that they were inept in their efforts to help themselves. We were told they were too dumb to make clear choices. And we were told constantly that the...

CHANGES IN PLANET: Climate change is no longer a theory and has fast become an unequivocal reality and a defining issue of our time. Its enormity can be identified numerically. For instance 2005 was the warmest year on record. There has been a 33 percent rise in global carbon dioxide emissions since 1987. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) records that 5 million extra people are at risk of hunger by the year 2020 if climate change continues unabated. The 2003 heat wave killed 35,000 people in Europe. Environmental campaigner Sheila Watt-Cloutier, in her article “A Human Issue” in...

.NEVER FORGETAfter appearing in the Sundance & Newport Beach Film Festivals, and being awarded serveral Awards in the process, the ImaginAsian Motion Picture Production .."JOURNEY from the FALL".. finally premieres across America. This film accurately and sadly shares the horrible human consequences resulting from the 1975 Fall of Saigon. A Fall brought about when a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress cut off all our funding for the then Free South Vietnamese People to fight for their own Freedom with against Communist invaders.This just as the Communist Soviet Union gave $6 Billion in military aid, according to uncovered KGB Files, to Communist North...

The forced march to Bethlehem -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 24, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Some people may interpret this column as shameless politicization of the Christmas story. I think of it as an effort to de-politicize a beautiful and important truth distorted by the prism of modernity. When I listen to certain unnamed, misguided humanist prophets use the story of Joseph, Mary and Jesus, it is often used as a segue into their phony compassion for the "homeless." You've heard them. They tell us, with a straight face, that Joseph and Mary were poor, homeless people. I've even...

It’s disgusting to see people apologize for doing nothing wrong, especially to wrongdoers. On July 14, Miami-Dade County mayor Alex Penelas spoke at the NAACP’s national convention in Miami Beach and apologized for protests of Nelson Mandela during his June 1990 visit to Miami. Why did these protests occur? Maybe it had something to do with the former South African president’s affection for mass murderers. Sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1964 for armed resistance to the apartheid regime, Mandela was released in February 1990. In May he visited Libyan tyrant Muammar Qadhafi and received the “International Qadhafi Prize for...

"I believe in reason and in discussion as supreme instruments of progress," the Holocaust survivor and writer Primo Levi once said. By abolishing reason and discussion, totalitarianism could be defined as the perfection of madness and paralysis. Society doesn’t exist in this world, only silence maintained by massive and systematic violence. Self-expression, exchange of feeling, and other basic human behavior are crushed by the dogma that subjugates every institution to the State. Like in Cuba. Fidel Castro has imprisoned conscientious Cubans since 1959, and last month he imprisoned 80 more. The victims ranged from physicians and poets like Dr. Oscar...

For some time I have refused to give the issue of reparations any serious thought, however, inundated by constant and persistent articles and comments on the subject, - I thought now may be a good time to weigh in my opinion. If reparations to African Americans is defined as the payment in cash by the United States government to the descendants of Africans for 300 years of enslavement and all that is associated with that condition, - then, reparations takes on the equivalent of waiting for Santa Claus. For those who want to compare African American reparations with the...

July 25, 2002 President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 Mr. President: The opportunists in Congress and commerce complain that it is inconsistent for the United States to do business with China and other dictatorships but to prohibit business with Cuba. They claim that doing business with and traveling to Cuba should be the right of Americans, and that it is in the national interest to allow it. They are right in part: It is inconsistent to do business with China but not with Cuba. But this should not lead America to wish to...

House backs travel to Cuba Bush has vowed to veto legislation blocking enforcement of ban 07/24/2002 By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – The House voted late Tuesday to block the Bush administration from enforcing a ban on most Americans visiting Cuba, a move that suggests growing bipartisan support for lifting the decades-old economic embargo. By a vote of 262-167, House members voted to block the administration from using funds to enforce the travel ban against Americans. They also voted 251-177 to lift restrictions on how much money Americans can send to Cubans. Americans are limited to...

John Hoeven, Gov. of North Dakota, joins the group of "lifesavers" of Castro. HAVANA (AP) - North Dakota's governor was headed to Cuba on Monday to promote trade of peas, wheat and other foods to the communist island from his state. It was only the second visit to Cuba by a sitting American governor in some 40 years. Gov. John Hoeven's visit comes as he and other officials from farming states are pressing Congress to expand a two-year-old law allowing direct sales of food to Cuba, an exception to sanctions prohibiting most trade with the island. ``Agriculture is a cornerstone...

What is this thing called sovereignty? It is the supreme power of a state by which it rules over its land and its citizenry. Well, here we are in the 21st century, having witnessed every form of government that humanity's imagination has been capable of conceiving. And still we speak of sovereignty, but do we know of what we speak? Sovereignty - that which gives to kings and emperors the right to tell their subjects what to do and how to arrange their affairs. Sovereignty - that which permits nations to tell other nations to remain behind certain borders and...