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In this post I highlighted the link between Barack Obama's communist childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis and Chicago journalist Vernon Jarrett, father-in-law of senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. I cited the link as evidence that the communist networks that touched Obama in both Hawaii and Chicago were connected. Vernon Jarrett and Frank Marshall Davis worked together in a communist front, the Citizen's Committee to Aid Packinghouse Workers in 1948 Chicago-the same year Davis moved to Hawaii.

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is forming a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, planned to announce Monday that NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service. NOAA recently reported...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove which gives Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17

A major provision of the “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002″, aka McCain-Feingold, was largely dismissed by the Supreme Court on January 21, 2010. President Obama’s reaction was swift and almost comically over the top. -... We are going to talk with bipartisan Congressional leaders to develop a forceful response to this decision. The public interest requires nothing less.Uh-oh! Whenever they use the term “bipartisan” you know they’re trying to sucker us. It’s become as transparent as their disingenuous names for bills like the so called “Stimulus” which was supposed to fund “shovel ready jobs” and instead went to non-existent...

The U.S. economy shed 20,000 jobs in January, a tad worse than expectations for a reading of flat to up 15,000. The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 9.7%, a five-month low. A falling unemployment rate is certainly good news for the Obama administration, and temporary hiring, which typically leads to permanent hiring, was up by 52,000. In addition, the average hourly workweek rose to its highest level since February 2009 and average hourly earnings were up as well. Another positive sign: The labor force grew by 111,000 last month and the so-called real employment rate fell to 16.5% from 17.3%....

The week before he was elected president, President Obama made the bold statement that, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” No doubt, at the time, most of us would have written this off as the usual overblown rhetoric of a politician pumped up on his own favorable poll numbers. Instead, it turned out to be a warning. We don’t have time or space here to recap all of the “changes” brought about in the first year of the Obama administration, but among the biggies were the federal government takeover of major components of...

President Obama's economic policies are promoting 'fiscal insanity' that is leading the nation down the path of insolvency, Sen. Judd Gregg (R)-NH told CNBC Monday. "We're going to get ourselves into deep, deep trouble here if we continue to pursue this course of fiscal insanity, in my opinion," said Gregg, a ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a live interview. "It's not just this year, which is the issue of stimulus," Gregg added. "It's the year after, it's the year after that and the year after, eight years out the president is projecting a trillion dollar defecit,...

Leaders: The champion of Polish freedom tells America it's no longer that shining city on a hill. As it slouches toward socialism, he warns, those yearning to breathe free in the world can no longer look to the U.S. for help. They were the giants of their age. Together, President Ronald Reagan, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II and a little known shipyard worker named Lech Walesa stood up to Soviet communism and brought freedom to the captive nations of Europe. Last Friday, Walesa was in Chicago campaigning for a GOP gubernatorial candidate in the Illinois...

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people...The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama...The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Tikkun Olam is a Jewish precept that most closely translated means repair (perfect) the world. Each Jew is tasked to perform Tikkun Olam throughout their lives. Unfortunately, both for Jews and the World, many Jews have come to interpret Tikkun Olam to mean social justice. This has led them to attempt to perform Tikkun Olam through governance leaving the job to governments to implement social justice through legislation and government programs. This has led many Jews to follow the false promises of socialism and further allowed them to transfer their personal responsibility to change the world for the better to...

The federal government is claiming in court documents demanding the dismissal of a gun-law challenge in Montana the authority to regulate intrastate commerce under the Constitution's Commerce clause. But the plaintiff in the case says the court needs to review that provision in its amended form – since the 10th Amendment, adopted after the Commerce Clause, can be viewed as modifying the Constitution's provisions regarding the regulation of commerce, specifically granting additional authority to states.

  A People’s History of Howard Zinn by Benjamin Kerstein      One of the unwritten laws of opinion journalism is to never kick a man when he’s dead, at least, not until an appreciable amount of time has passed. The question is whether this can or should hold true for those who make their living by doing precisely that. The death at the age of 87 of pseudo-historian Howard Zinn raises this issue all over again, since very few academics have made a better living defaming the dead, with everyone from Columbus to Ronald Reagan, and thousands in...

Requiem Malcolm A. Kline, January 28, 2010 Quiz question Who said this? “I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president—which means, in our time, a dangerous president—unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.” The answer: ...

The Communist Party USA is making plans for its 29th National Convention to be held the weekend of May 21-23 at its national headquarters in New York City. The convention takes place at what has the potential to be a turning point in the history of our nation. Whether or not that turning point is reached, and the hopes of the 2008 elections are fulfilled, will depend on the building of a broad progressive labor-led democratic movement able to defeat Republican obstructionism and the far-right forces of reaction. Thus this cannot be an ordinary convention. The four months between now...

Architects of competing Senate climate change plans met Tuesday as behind-the-scenes talks continue over legislation that advocates of greenhouse gas limits are struggling to keep alive in 2010. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are trying to craft a compromise climate and energy bill, and they met in the afternoon with Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). Cantwell and Collins introduced a so-called cap-and-dividend approach in December. Kerry, Graham and Lieberman are hoping to blend emissions caps with energy provisions including expanded offshore drilling and new subsidies for nuclear power. “They [Cantwell and...

As the Massachusetts blame game unfolds, the president’s unpopular health bill leads the list. But the substantive provisions of the bill were just part of the problem. Perhaps more important, voters were appalled by how the deal unfolded. Consider the pre-election giveaway to the labor unions. Negotiators agreed to exempt union contracts until 2018 from the tax on so-called Cadillac health-insurance plans. That backroom bargain not only outraged the voters, it also violated the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, requiring the federal government to extend equal protection of the laws to all U.S. persons. Of course, not all voters...

This shouldn't be a shocker, but it is... The platform of the Comminist Party USA and the Democrats are the same. For years I've been calling the Democrats, "Democommies." It would appear I'm right on target...THEY ARE :!:

Populist or professor? Contrite or uncompromising? President Obama will have a chance Wednesday to reintroduce himself to the nation when he delivers his first official State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. The prime-time speech, which will be aired on all major TV networks and cable stations, could hardly come at a more critical time for a president grappling with double-digit unemployment, sinking poll numbers and the possible collapse of his top domestic policy priority, an overhaul of the nation's health-care system. "As often as the president has spoken over the past year, critics on the...

One year ago standing among the diverse, beautiful million-plus outpouring in the nation's capitol to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama, the air was filled with both anticipation and worry. Anticipation for a new direction that the labor and people's outpouring, so key to the election result, represented. Worry for the presence of the ultra-right/corporate stronghold on government with three decades of rubble left behind, and their ruthless use of racism and fear to create divisions and maintain control. As Sam Webb discusses in his article "Observations One Year In," perhaps that worry was not strong enough and perhaps...

There is this to be said in behalf of avowed and doctrinaire socialists, that their faith in the State is sublime. To them, the institution of political power is the unerring shepherd of the flock, the guide to the Good Society; it is also the antidote for all evil, the maker of abundance, the embodiment of justice, the sublimation of human aspirations. That they believe. To be sure, they affect an elaborate rationalism, something they call dialectical materialism, which in turn rests on a verbal agglomeration known as Marxian economics. Logic and fact without end have been applied to these...

President Obama's socialist agenda has been repudiated, epically and unambiguously. Independents and Demo- crats chose the Cradle of Democracy to register their populist anger over Mr. Obama's hard-left ideological overreach. Republicans and the tea parties have claimed victory, though the latter has much more justification than the former. Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., soon will be the 41st vote against Obamacare. Now what? How about Obamacare, good and hard? Far-left Democrats see the loss as vindication of their belief Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats have been insufficiently aggressive, partisan, arrogant, and most of all, socialist. They want the $3 trillion Senate...

Chastened and bruised, President Obama on Wednesday began the daunting process of trying to turn around his presidency in a drastically altered political environment that will test his leadership, his instincts and his political dexterity as never before. With the loss of his party’s unilateral control of the Senate, Mr. Obama pivoted to acknowledge the deep public anger on display in Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts, offering limited regrets for losing touch and signaling that he may scale back some of the sweeping ambitions he brought into office just one year ago to the day. But he and his advisers...

What happened in the Bay State had less to do with ideology and more to do with a realization that our nation’s leaders have become tone-deaf at best, and downright enemies of this country that they’ve been given a chance to govern, at worst. What made President Obama a successful presidential candidate in 2008 was his message of hope, change and an understanding that in America, playing just around the political center was the best place to govern. After all, Candidate Obama promised that in his Washington, both sides would get a seat at the table and compromise would be...

His name is Randy May. He spent his own money, left home in Mississippi on Thursday, drove 38 hours, arrived in Massachusetts on Saturday, and on Sunday afternoon was part of the Brown brigade in Boston outside the Obama-Coakley event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DbvLXLAjM&feature=player_embedded

This clip from The Great One goes back his first hour on Thursday (Jan. 14). He responds to Obama's demanding "our money back" from the greeeedy banks. Listen to these 20 minutes and learn what a dangerous, divisive, and out-of-control Marxist demagogue our president is.

Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration. It has been, by almost any measure, a difficult and disappointing year for him and his party. Mr. Obama now has the highest disapproval rating in Gallup’s history for a president entering his second year in office. According to a new Washington Post–ABC News poll, among independents, only 49 percent approve — the lowest of any of his recent predecessors at this point in their presidencies. (Obama has lost a stunning 18 points among independents in just a year’s time.) In November, Democrats suffered crushing defeats in the New Jersey and...

CARACAS - Venezuela's Mariscal Sucre project, which has estimated reserves of 14.7 trillion cubic feet of gas, has failed to attract private interest after the government invited firms to make offers last week. The government this month improved the conditions it was offering companies to help develop the project, but in the end nobody came forward, private sector sources close to the process said on Monday. State oil company PDVSA has yet to announce the results. Last year PDVSA invited a group of (international) companies...to consider taking part in the project.... PDVSA forecasts that the field will produce 1.2 billion...

When a member of Barack Obama’s administration recently praised China’s Marxist Chairman Mao as a “favorite political philosopher,” confusion followed. So, who was Mao and why does Obama’s administration publicly praise him? It’s easy to briefly describe Mao Zedong. He was a radical progressive who fought for a Marxist revolution in his native China, prevailing to lead the country for 27 tumultuous years. Despite boasting he fought “for the People,” Mao’s Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and other progressive policies resulted in the killing of 77 million people, according to genocide expert Professor J.R. Rummel.

Magicians succeed by waving or otherwise moving one hand, thereby distracting you from watching the hand that is about to perform some trick. President Obama and his economic team are performing a similar act, concentrating attention on their macroeconomic policies -- stimulus, deficits, growth rates, unemployment -- to distract attention from their microeconomic regulatory policies. It comes down to this: Borrow and spend to create jobs, regulate to destroy them. The original $787 billion stimulus package is due for a supplement that will bring the total to around $1 trillion. Spending so far has created or "saved" between 1.7 million...

CARACAS - Venezuelan President hugo Chavez reported on Wednesday at midnight he had ordered to suspend electricity rationing in Caracas, due to the negative impact of the measure. During a telephone conversation with Venezolana de Television station's La Hojilla show, Chavez held he requested the resignation of Electric Energy Minister Angel Rodriguez, who accepted it as a soldier. According to the president, there were errors in implementing the rationing measure and committed technical faults. He said people did not have enough information about the time when there would be power cuts and there were areas where the planned blackouts were...

A physicians view of the last minute vote buying. Dear Senator Nelson: I send this message under “Tort Reform”, because the current monstrosity you have pledged your support to says nothing whatsoever about Tort Reform. You have sold the physicians of Nebraska for zilch (zilch for us, but beaucoup federal bucks for you and the liberal partisans in this state). As a family practice physician in Small Town , Nebraska , I was counting on you to be the lone voice of Democratic sanity on this issue, but you sold me out. I will dedicate every spare minute of my...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 01/14/2010 Pelosi Statement on President Obama’s Proposed Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on the announcement by President Obama that he will propose a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee that would require the largest and most highly leveraged Wall Street firms to pay back taxpayers for the federal assistance provided, so that the TARP program does not add to the deficit: “Over the last two years, Congress has taken extraordinary actions to stem the tide of financial collapse and to guarantee that...

The democrat-led socialist takeover of America continues. In today’s announcement that “We Want Our Money Back”, Obama introduced legislation that will impose fees on the 50 largest American banks that took TARP money, some of which were forced to take TARP money even if they did not not want or need the money.

Haiti has been dealt a crippling blow, with the recent earthquake destroying and devastating practically the entire capitol of Port Au Prince. We can all pray for the Haitians and that they are able to survive, and perhaps even use this event as a springboard to free themselves from the generations of corrupt Marxist welfare-state rule that has caused even more suffering than the earthquake...

A year into his tenure, a majority of Americans would already vote against Pres. Obama if the '12 elections were held today, according to a new survey. The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows 50% say they would probably or definitely vote for someone else. Fully 37% say they would definitely cast a ballot against Obama. Meanwhile, just 39% would vote to re-elect the pres. to a 2nd term, and only 23% say they definitely would do so. Obama's first year in office has been marked by an unemployment rate that surged to 10%, an increased commitment of troops to...

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS By the authority vested in me as President by theConstitution and the laws of the United States of America,including section 1822 of the National Defense AuthorizationAct of 2008 (Public Law 110-181), and in order to strengthenfurther the partnership between the Federal Government and Stategovernments to protect our Nation and its people and property,it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Council of Governors. (a) There is established a Council of Governors (Council).The Council shall consist of 10 State Governors appointed bythe President (Members), of whom no more than five shall be ofthe same political...

As President Hugo Chavez seems to be having an epiphany that most of his economic policies of the last few years were wrong, I do wish someone would explain to him that taking US $7 billion from the international reserves simply works against him and insures that next year, he will be forced to devalue again...There will be 50% (it is actually more, but who cares?) more Bolivars in December than yesterday. This will drive inflation and devaluation, as simple as that. Nobody seems to have told Hugo about this, in contrast with Argentina, where a Court has voided a...

Obama says he's bringing fundamental change to America. Well, America was founded on the concept that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and we established a constitution to defend and preserve those rights and to severely limit the powers of government. Among our unalienable rights are the rights to Life and Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Also the rights to freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievance. Also the right to keep and bear arms for defense...

Who commands Obama? In August of 2008, I wrote about The Senate Mentality of John McCain, who was then the Republican candidate for president. In response to this article, I found myself in a discussion with some of my fellow writers and publishers over the McCain candidacy. My position was that I could not vote for McCain and could not encourage others to do so either. But there was only one other choice, and that was Barack Obama. I certainly couldn't vote for him, and for all the same reasons that I couldn't vote for McCain but 10 times over....

The bank bonus season, that annual rite of big money and bigger egos, begins in earnest this week, and it looks as if it will be one of the largest and most controversial blowouts the industry has ever seen. Bank executives are grappling with a question that exasperates, even infuriates, many recession-weary Americans: Just how big should their paydays be? Despite calls for restraint from Washington and a chafed public, resurgent banks are preparing to pay out bonuses that rival those of the boom years. The haul, in cash and stock, will run into many billions of dollars. .

Democrats continue to take heavy fire over their apparent refusal to honor eight separate promises  made by then candidate Barack Obama to open health care negotiations in Congress to C-SPAN cameras.   The Democrats’ self-inflicted wounds run deep as two Senate Dems announced they will not seek re-election in November.  Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota both called it quits yesterday with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Michael Bennett (D-Colo.) still seriously trailing Republican challengers.  Even Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) are having troubles in their determinedly liberal...

President Obama gave his blessing Tuesday for congressional Democratic leaders to bypass formal House and Senate talks to meld their health care bills, according to two congressional Democratic leadership sources. The two sources told CNN that Obama and Democratic congressional leaders will instead hold informal negotiations to sidestep possible Republican delays of the process, likely shutting out Republicans from talks on the final health care bill.

As you start to read all this, you'll laugh at how incestuous it all gets. Let's start with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which as I've noted in the past is tied in with the Soros foundation. Together, the two worked on something called The Project on Death in America.(PDIA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2341083/posts And speaking of Mr Soros, he himself(his foundations) have given directly to NPR. Compared to some of the other numbers I'm seeing, it's a small amount of $250,000. But it doesn't matter. Soros money is soros money in my book. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396058/posts Additional information about RWJF can be found here....

Former High Ranking Soviet Spy Warns of Dem’s Marxist Reshaping of America Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 11:44 AM Red Horizons Ion Mihai Pacepa, who wrote about the brutal Romanian Marxist Nicolae Ceausescus, fears the Marxism invading our shores.As democrats continue their backroom deals and billion dollar buyoffs to reshape the American economy and culture a former high-ranking Soviet spy sent out a warning this week on the dangerous Marxist policies of the majority party. Christian News Wire reported, via Transsylvania Phoenix: The highest-ranking Soviet and Eastern Bloc Intelligence Official ever to defect to America (in 1978) — who went on...

2010 will be the watershed year for the survival of the American Republic. During this year we will determine whether we wish to adhere to the vision of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution of ultimate individual liberty or ditch the whole thing and embrace the notion of most in the present government that the vision of Chairman Mao, Hugo Chavez, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, and Fidel Castro is the ideal. The debate as to whether or not the Obama Administration and the current Democrat-controlled Congress is Maoist/Marxist in nature is over. Abundant evidence has been presented during the past...

CARACAS — Oil-rich Venezuela ushered in 2010 with new measures rationing electricity use in malls, businesses and billboards, as Hugo Chavez's government aimed to save power amid a crippling drought. The new regulations came into effect January 1, with businesses required to comply with reduced consumption limits and authorities warning of forced power cuts and rate hikes if the measures are not followed. A decree published on Christmas Eve states that commercial centers may operate from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm on the electricity grid, but beyond that establishments would have to operate off-grid, using their own generators. Venezuela is...

Welcome to the wailing wall of broken Democrat promises. Evan Thomas and John Meacham of Newsweek got it wrong. We are not “all socialists now.” Even in most socialist countries, at least two political parties are involved in the legislative process. What the Democrats are doing more resembles Soviet-style one-party rule than European socialism.

<p>WASHINGTON - House and Senate Democrats intend to bypass the traditional joint conference committee when they negotiate a final compromise on health care legislation, officials said yesterday, a move that will exclude Republican lawmakers and limit their ability to force votes that might delay action.</p>

Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats while seemingly unconcerned by their plummeting poll numbers. A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago: "what do they know that we don't?" We may have found out. It's called universal voter registration. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund described the Democrat plan recently at...

The Copenhagen Climate summit demonstrated once again the leftist intelligentsia's visceral anti-capitalism. First from global cooling then to global warming and now to climate change, like elitist bloodhounds they follow the trail relentlessly through tangled inconsistencies in hope of catching their prey. And the scent remains strong: the capitalist system. If you had a hard time getting your noggin around Copenhagen, don't worry. It is just the latest anti-capitalist thrust from liberal intellectuals. The next opportunity will come around soon enough. Their cavalcade of causes revolves like a carousel -- the Green Movement, the living wage, animal rights -- virtually...