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There hasn't been much news about it in the U.S. but an American citizen has been arrested by Cuban authorities and has been placed in one of Cuba's most secure facilities; El Morro Castle, Havana. Cuba has yet to announce what charges they are leveling against the man but he was arrested after he gave out laptop computers, cellphones and other communication equipment to Cuba's beleaguered citizens. The Cuban government claims these items are against the law for its citizens to own because it "subverts" government authority. The American was a contractor for Development Alternatives, Inc. a company that has...

I am repeatedly drawn to the George Orwell book “Animal Farm” and the final phrase, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others.” The belief that this government is above it all, that only Obama can cure the worlds ills is beyond ludicrous, it is akin to the cult of personality of Nazi Germany. Yes, I pulled out the Nazi card, and I stand by it. Look at the rise of Adolf Hitler (may his name be cursed for all time) and the rise of Barack Obama and you tell me that they are not similar....

This Wednesday, we went to a big Christmas party here in Chicago — one of the ones we weren’t invited to last year — purposefully — because we worked for the McCain campaign and were thus branded “traitors” here in Boystown. So, we were punished, and cut off from the really good parties, where all the really interesting people go for the holidays. This year, because so many people realize what a mess the current administration is, suddenly people don’t mind so much that we were DeMcCrats for McCain and remain Democrats for Palin (though that last one does make...

More Hope and Change… Team Obama threatens vocal democrat; tells him, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score.” The Hill reported: Rep. Peter DeFazio’s phone rang. On the other end was Rahm Emanuel. The White House chief of staff last month expressed frustration with DeFazio’s resignation calls for President Barack Obama’s top two economic aides — Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House chief economist Larry Summers — and appealed for cooperation, according to DeFazio. But Emanuel, known for his blunt manner and ability to bend members of his party to his will, did not raise his voice with the Oregon...

Here's the press release Washington, D.C. - FOX News is reporting that a bill signed by President Obama this week, which was intended to require Amtrak passengers who want to bring a gun on the train to secure the gun, instead calls for the passengers themselves to place themselves in secure boxes. Officials of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence note that a certain type of such box is readily available. Each year in the U.S., some 30,000 Americans who are killed with guns are placed in similar boxes. Although the intent of the new law was clearly not...

Ostensibly the story of the elegant Lipizzaner stallions in Vienna, this 1963 Disney film is blatantly pro-America with some authentic history thrown in. The director of Vienna’s legendary Spanish Riding School, Alois Podhajsky was desperate to protect his extraordinary horses from the vicious Nazi commanders. Hopes were dim until the arrival of horseman General George S. Patton who crafted a bold mission to rescue the splendid animals and keep the breed alive. In 1945, by sheer serendipity, the U.S. Third Army moved into Upper Austria at the time Colonel Podhajsky had hidden the horses on a private estate. Podhajsky showed...

Charter Colleges? Deborah Lambert, December 18, 2009 Amid the heavy-handed bureaucracies that dominate our nation’s colleges and universities, there are seeds of opportunity. Professor Marvin Olasky noted in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education that a move toward Charter Colleges might be the answer. Dr. Olasky, editor-in-chief of the news magazine World and a journalism professor at the U. of Texas, Austin, hails Rob Koons, “the University of Texas professor removed last fall as head of a UT Western Civilization program, who is proposing that Texas legislators back the creation of charter colleges, as they now support...

It's reassuring to know that there are still a few voices of reason remaining in what used to be known as the British Isles. Lady Margaret Thatcher and Sir Winston Churchill may be just just fond memories, but their spirit lives on in Gerald Warner, a columnist for UK's Telegraph. In his latest commentary on the tragic comedy that is Copenhagen, Warner comments: When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more...

Although there is clearly an uptick in Islamic terrorist plots here in America, the American Islamic community is actively fighting against our authorities that are trying to stop these plots before they occur. Is this what Muslims consider as being part of the team, or do they only care about advancing Islam?

Di Di Daw Daw Di Di is an insightful realpolitik text by a retired Foreign Service Officer who has served in Moslem countries, worked as a Security Professional, and wore other hats during his 25-years of service abroad where he held the highest levels of TOP SECRET and intelligence security clearances. His vision is 20-20. Prior to publication, Di Di Daw Daw Di Di was submitted to federal agencies for review and the text was censored (redacted) by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State. This censored version retains 98% of its pre-redacted integrity and character. Di Di...

Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke wins the Time Magazine "Person of the Year" for 2009? You've got to be kidding me! Who is the runner-up, Bernie Madoff? Ben Bernanke's being named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" has got to be right up their with President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and Al Gore's Oscar award for his phony global warming charade. Bernanke joins other "laudable luminaries", such as Joseph Stalin (twice, in 1939 & 1942), and Adolf Hitler in 1938. Time must use the liberal grading method to determine their winners

Also Mentions Judiciary Chairman Conyers, “Shameful Failure to Provide …Congressional Oversight” Rep. Frank Wolf (R.-Va.), issued a public statement December 17 saying that the President Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has instructed staff attorneys ...

The health care debate began for real in June when ABC devoted an entire hour to Obamacare in a special edition of ABC's Prime time hosted anchor Charlie Gibson and (now incoming anchor) Diane Sawyer. Called "Questions for the President: Prescription for America" the special aired on June 24, 2009, from the East Room of the White House. Basically Obama was given solo airtime to pitch his health care agenda both in prime time and later that evening on Nightline. To make matters worse, Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR) a group that opposes Obamacare tried to air commercials giving the...

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In the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore argues that historically, when the levels of carbon dioxide rises that is cause the temperatures of earth to rise considerably. In his documentary, Gore explains that ice core records from the distant past proves this point. However, when the data is looked at in finer detail, it becomes obvious that temperature is driving the hight levels of carbon dioxide not the other way around as Gore and his fellow watermelon political allies would like us to believe. I call them watermelon because they may be green on the outside, but they are...

‘And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private’ WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor Thursday regarding the importance of getting it right on health care reform: “Senators on both sides acknowledge that the health care...

Radical "Grinch" Clerics in Jerusalem trying to pervert Christmas.From CBN:JERUSALEM, Israel – A handful of anti-Israel Palestinian Christian leaders are taking advantage of the Christmas season to call for a boycott against Israel and are calling on Christians worldwide to treat the Jewish state like the former apartheid regime in South Africa.The initiative called "Kairos Palestine-2009: A moment of truth" was authored by a number of prominent clergymen in Jerusalem. It declares that as Palestinian Christians the "military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity". read the rest.[The result of years of "dhimmi" conditioning, and...

It's obviously not one's ability at being forward thinking, or even a basis in reality for that matter. In any case, here's a fantastic compilation of Ben Bernanke moments that really, more than anything, go to show just how out of touch Time Magazine is.

With the Copenhagen conference lurching towards finality with no real resolution, fingers are being pointed as the UN and World Leaders look for someone to blame. Foremost among these is China, but are they really the root cause for blame shifting. What is difficult to comprehend is that almost one billion people in China have no electrical power at a household personal level. Statistical analysis with references for proof show this. What the UN and world leaders require is that China not only condemn these people to stay without that access to electrical power, but the demand is that they...

True, money can't buy me love, but $26 worth can buy me plenty of lead time to get out of Dodge when a Predator is on the way to blow up my tent. According to this Wall Street Journal story, Predator drones are just as wildly popular with the Iraqi bad guys as they are with the U.S. military good guys. Something tells me that the new generation of the Predator is going to have some serious upgrades.

If you weren't convinced before, maybe this will push you over the line. America is in more danger today than we have been in 8 1/2 years. The reason, we have a September 10th Presidential administration in a post 9/11 world. Witness the case of Major Hasan, the terrorist who committed the Ft. Hood massacre. I cannot blame President Obama, for the intelligence screw-ups that allowed the military to ignore Major Hasan's obvious terrorist connections, much of that happen during the Bush administration. But we can blame this administration for the mixture of political correctness and Stonewalling that is delaying...

Here is a "blog novel" about the collapse of the dollar, and the consequences to the USA. The writing is at the very highest level. If it was in a printed, published hard copy form, I'd buy it and recommend it. Yet here it is, for free, just click to it and enjoy. (If enjoy is the word.) The link takes you to Part One of "The Day the Dollar Died."

Earlier this week President Barack Obama resorted to yet another one of his scare tactics in pushing his healthcare insurance reform plans. This time though he raises it to a level of ridiculousness in suggesting that the federal government will go bankrupt without healthcare reform.

Forgive me dear readers. I must be blunt and brutally honesty here. Let the chips fall where they may. I about had enough of the lies from D.C. from both sides of the aisle. I do admit I need to have the grammar police visit as I am not a writer and this article is really my blog entry. I’m willing to bet this will upset you deeply no matter if you are of the left right or center. It is the thought that counts as they say and I need to say and back up what millions and millions...

Kremlin position papers presented to Prime Minister Putin today on his upcoming meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen state that the European-US military alliance has authorized an ‘emergency request’ from President Obama to utilize American and Canadian NATO troops to put down what is expected to be a “rebellion” after the expected January, 2010 ‘declaration of bankruptcy’ by the State of California. More Here

This was the scene yesterday in Copenhagen. As you can see the scene is rather agitated with lots of police action, including use of billy clubs. As of this writing, no pictures or video is available of Lord Monckton’s account below. Hopefully somebody in the crowd will post some. I wish him well. I’ll also be glad when this conference is over. It has shown government at its worst. Today the gloves came off and the true purpose of the “global warming” scare became nakedly visible. Hugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed “global warming” on capitalism – and...

This infighting between democrats is getting out of hand. Now the White House had to suspend it's war on Fox News Channel to attack liberals who are opposing Obama-care. Howard Dean is the new target of the White House attack machine. (At link "White House Says Howard Dean’s Arguments Against Democrats’ Health Care Reform ‘Simply Weren’t True,’ Suggests He’s Not Rational") One of their biggest supporters MSNBC (The Ed Show) Ed Schulz got in a debate with Obama's senior advisor David Axolrod on 'The Morning Joe' show today over the Senate Health Reform bill. On The Ed Show Clinton's Lanny...

At the risk of transgressing Godwin's Law, it's frequently observed that Hitler had his support among German big business. That may be true in part - the streets of the Wiemar Republic were in turn occupied by Communists and Nazis - and business interests unusually try to win favor with the the factions in the arena. In the US business interests give to both Democrats and Republicans to buy access. But with Congress and the White House firmly in Democrat control, the smart money is backing the current winners. Which brings us to the corporate interests supporting our new "Maximum...

Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson says he won’t vote for the “health care” bill if it has any support for killing womb babies. Will he cave? If he’s an opportunistic politician, of which they are legion, then we do not know if we can trust him. If he’s a totally committed biblical believer, no matter what the politics, his allegiance to God’s Word will not waver. Time will tell.

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation." (END VIDEO CLIP) Change our traditions and change our history. What did she mean by that? I think we are starting to see it. Changing history means not just telling the same old tall tales of the free market system and the Founders. No, it's the history according to progressives. And it's not merely spinning...

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After hearing the Dems were going to attempt to ram this health care scheme down our throats Christmas Eve I wanted to scream! Of all nights! We can’t get a break! They have to screw with us Christmas Eve! So, I did what all real men do at times like this, I wrote a poem!Libertas

Liberals want you to believe that countries with universal healthcare have a great system, and everything is sunshine, lollypops and rainbows! But socialized medicine has proven itself not as a good healthcare system, but as an excellent deathcare system. Let’s take a look at universal healthcare around the globe: FRANCE: French workers pay about 19% of earnings in taxes for health insurance, and yet still more than 90% purchase complementary private insurance. ITALY: The average wait for a mammogram is 70 days. GREAT BRITAIN: About 20% of patients with treatable colon cancer at the time of discover are considered incurable...

We all knew Obama winning the election would be bad. But did any of you really believe it could be this bad? Every day is just another astounding move of stupidity, treason, or both. Witness: If you were president of the United States, would you hire an alleged former spy for Fidel Castro to be ambassador to El Salvador, a country teetering on the brink of hard-core socialism? President Obama just did. On Dec. 9, Obama nominated Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador, despite the fact that in the late 1990s, the FBI discovered that she...

Most people involved in public affairs fall into two grand schools: Some believe that America is a unique nation, a nation built upon extraordinary and good moral values, and a country which is a microcosm of what the world should be. These people need not be Americans. Churchill, for example, was an unabashed admirer of America. Other people believe that America is simply a very arrogant country, a nation inhabited with bumpkins who believe too much in God, and because of its religious faith and confidence, the antithesis of what the world should be. This animus flourishes outside America, but...

Minnesota must be so proud of this moron, Franken has the chair and denies Lieberman an additional moment to finish his remarks saying "I object" while sitting in the chair, McCain scolds Franken and said it was the first time he has ever seen this...BTW, If a Republican has done this all H*** would break loose...(Video)

The late Senator Everett Dirksen frequently gets  credit for the quote: "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." Dirksen said in an interview that the quote wasn't his, but that he would only be too happy to take the credit. We were reminded of that quote when we heard this one by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who cannot deny that she said it: “The US is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion a year by 2020 to address the climate change needs of developing countries.�...

(912 on the mall) The left's anti-American coup d'etat on America, made possible by the first radical Marxist in the White House, calls for distinctly American counter measures. Dr. Jack Wheeler has "a strategy for any Republican wanting to get elected or re-elected to Congress in 2010, and for any Tea Partyer wanting to take individual action now against a government that ignores the Constitution -- Defund and Disobey." Here's an excerpt of "The Double -D Strategy for rescuing America": Let's talk about the Defund D first. The Founders in their usual brilliance place the power of the purse in...

I’d like to thank Eugene Robinson for highlighting Alaska’s achievements on climate change [“Palin’s own ‘Climate- gate,’” op-ed, Dec. 15] and for noting that I’ve “treated the issue as serious, complex, and worthy of urgent attention,” while making “any number of pragmatic, reasonable, smart decisions as governor.” But he’s wrong to suggest that my views have somehow changed or that now I’ll have to “renounce” my past efforts. Once again: I don’t deny that climate change is real. In creating a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with the issue, I said that “Alaska’s climate change strategy must be built on sound...

Our President has once again jetted off on AF1. Yep, he’s back in Copenhagen to save the world from those evil carbon footprints like the giant ones emitting from his 747. The health care debate is at an impasse, at least for a short time, and can wait until he saves the world—again (yaaaaaaaaaaawn!) Despite the efforts of Senators Joe Lieberman and Tom Coburn, a truncated bill of some kind will probably get passed against citizen wishes by about 60% against VS 35% for.

Until a few months Walpin was the Inspector General for AmeriCorps. He claims he was fired because he made the mistake of Investigation a friend of Michelle Obama (FOO) Kevin Johnson, former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California, for the misuse of funds. Pressed for a reasoning for the dismissal the Administration trashed Walpin hinting that he was in the early stages of dementia. They said the IG seemed "disoriented" at one meeting. Walpin's version of the story was confirmed by a AmeriCorps board member who confirmed that he was fired to protect the Democrats from a...

I admit that I have been skeptical of man-made global warming from the get go. For one thing Al Gore does not impress me one bit with his “end of the world” predictions, knowing full well that an ulterior motive is at bay. But it wasn’t until I started reading “Climate Change Reconsidered — The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change” (“Reconsidered”) that I realized that not only does it appear that Gore is dead wrong on his (and others) theory of man-made climate change, but the entire movement, that bases its findings on biased and inconclusive...

Islam4UK an organization that is promoting a Jesus4Sharia debate with Christian and Jewish leaders, has postponed the event. The reason is that they have not even received a response from Church “leaders”. Past Popes fought Islam head on, but today the Church sits around and watches as Islam slowly devours Western civilization. Grow a spine already! JESUS4SHARIAH DEBATE POSTPONED

That was my honest, stunned conclusion some years ago about the “environmentalist” movement; if anything, the evidence of anti-human insanity has become even clearer since then: The increasingly violent, even murderous tactics of terrorist groups like the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and their enablers — Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Wildlife Fund, and other ostensibly “mainstream” environmentalist organizations; The callous disregard of real science in the zeal for “reducing the human footprint” (eventually to zero)… accompanied on the side by mindless chanting, drumming, and puppetry in place of reason,...

The battle between former Democratic Party Chief Howard Dean got ugly today, as Dean said he would support Obama for re-election but not vigorously. The Political equivalent of a declaration of war. He was basically saying that he would sit on his hands in 2012 and has one of the leaders of the Progressive movement, that statement is a hint for his supporters to do the same. Dean's battle with the Obama administration became public a few days ago when Dean, who was ousted from his party chairmanship by Obama after the successful 2008 campaign, suggested that so much as...

Today I had the extreme pleasure of being a guest on the G.Gordon Liddy Show. Every time I appear on the show its fun, this time was the most fun ever. Originally I was supposed to talk about yesterday's story about the Russian Climategate Revelation,it was billed as: More on ClimateGate There's even more to the ClimateGate controversy the mainstream media are ignoring. It turns out that 75% of the climate data accumulated by Russian scientists was ignored by scientists because it their belief of man-made global warming. Sammy Benoit, of YidWithLid.com has more. ....that is where we started, but...

In being witness to the plight Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has found himself in, I cannot help but recall the final year or so of the Bush administration.

With a mere investment of $780,000 Soros and his allies were able to suborn free elections in the states of Montana, West Virginia, Missouri, Oregon, in 2008, and in Minnesota, Ohio, New Mexico, Nevada and Iowa, in 2006. How did he achieve so much with so little? He founded a 527 group which funded candidates in one kind of race in which the victor has the most influence over election integrity, and in which there is so little political competition: the Secretaries of State. In each State the SoS job is entrusted with overseeing the protection of free and fair...

I meant to mention this story yesterday and didn't get to it. I guess the reason why I wasn't so all fired up to highlight it is that it all seemed as no surprise, it seemed like ho-hum news. Don't get me wrong, certainly it is big news that Gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna is being investigated by the State Party over possible misuse of party money to fund his own first poll to ascertain whether or not his run for Gov. would be viable. No question that this is interesting news on several levels. It is interesting, for instance, that...