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Socialist Thugs Have Hijacked The Environmental Movement For The Express Purpose Of Driving Our Economy Into Ruin. They Make Demands You Cannot Refuse. It wasn’t that many years ago I would know summer had arrived by the aroma of back yard barbeques; the taste of cold watermelon right from the ice house; the whirr of electric fans; and the clatter of children’s flip flops. Nowadays, summer is ushered in by environmentalists decrying SUVs, air conditioning, and flush toilets. They warned that an awful specter of environmental collapse is looming and we will all perish if something draconian isn’t done soon-...

The Golden Rule of Socialism, from each according to their ability and to each according to their need, has an emotional appeal despite its severe logical flaws and unstated assumptions. One of those never stated but obvious assumptions is that ability and need must be determined by arbiters acting for the collective. These arbiters must make decisions about individual abilities based on collective needs and about individual needs based on collective abilities. If the arbiters decide the collective needs less music and more iron, it will reason, for example that anyone capable of playing a guitar can just as well...

President Obama's Shadow Government has begun to attract attention as more is known about the people he has appointed to positions that need no Congressional approval.

This is something you should know about. It really is important. And if you come out of this as shocked as I was when I first got a glimpse of The Institute for Social Research, then you really should follow up with this remarkable look at the history of the Frankfurt School and their effect on American life today: THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Activists affiliated with several dozen groups on the east coast will again descend on the Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia at 2:00 pm on Saturday, September 12, 2009. A protest on May 2, 2009 at the Army’s interactive video recruiting center was attended by 250 people and saw 7 arrests, but failed to generate mainstream print media coverage. This time, demonstrators are being encouraged to form small affinity groups and enter the mall through one of several locations. Protesters are encouraged to express their outrage in creative, nonviolent ways. At 2:00 pm people will come...

Those words begin this stark, frank, and -- unfortunately -- utterly necessary column by the very fine writer Leonard Pitts, Jr.. The subject is Nazis, who seem to be everywhere these days. Read on: I hope this column makes you sick. See, we'll be talking about Nazis, something many of us are doing lately. Indeed, just this week a fellow named Joseph e-mailed me about a caller he heard on a radio show. The man, vexed over healthcare reform, likened President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Asked why, he said, ``Hitler took over the car companies, then healthcare and then he...

Ever since the Democrats took control of Congress, they have sought to take control of talk radio... or to be more precise, conservative talk radio. You see... on radio, the market place (yes, left-wingers hate the "market place") has spoken, and people love conservative talk radio. Not only that, but they hate liberal talk radio. There have been multiple attempts to revive the so-called "fairness doctrine" by the Democrats which would force radio stations to carry left-wing talk shows whether the listening audience wanted them or not. These attempts were met with enough resistance, that the Democrats stopped trying to...

Look out AARP. There's a new senior advocacy group on the block offering a conservative alternative to seniors. The Atlanta-based American Seniors Association (ASA), which is opposed to President Obama's health care plan, is trying to capitalize on growing public dissatisfaction with the AARP. About 60,000 seniors have quit AARP since July 1 due to the group's support for health care reform, a spokesman for the organization said this week. AARP is running ads to support a health care overhaul and hosted Obama at an online forum recently to promote his agenda to AARP members. But the group has not...

Glenn Beck: The Death of Talk Radio? The New and Improved Fairness Doctrine Glenn Beck talks with Media Research Center’s Seton Motley about our new FCC Diversity Czar [Chief Diversity Officer], Mark Lloyd. Lloyd wants to require privately owned radio stations to pay a tax equal to their operating costs each year. That money would then be given to publicly funded stations (like PBS or NPR). Private radio stations, in essense, would be paying to fund the competition, not that they could survive this tax anyway.

Just watch and LISTEN to the video. You won't believe it. Manning Speaks Out Against the "Mack Daddy"

This is a compilation of stories about the UK, Canadian and US Health Care systems. It is an excellent source of information for FReepers to use to debunk the democrat talking points about 'free health care' and how bad care is in the USA. Travis is a FReeper. Hope you are OK with me posting this. ----------------------------------------- 7/17/09 (By Travis) Meg was told her brain tumour was inoperable. Nonsense, said her mother, I won't let my daughter die Daily Mail ^ | 14th July 2009 | Tessa Cunningham His hospital is one of ten in America with the resources and...

August 14, 2009 Protests fail to halt passage of Chavez's 'socialist indoctrination law' Police in riot gear used tear gas yesterday against Venezuelan demonstrators angry about a law that they believe could lead to the "socialist indoctrination" of the nation's schools. Officers fired tear gas into crowds who were protesting in Caracas against President Chávez's plans to broaden state control over the education system. Scuffles broke out as clouds of caustic, white gas wafted through the air outside the predominantly pro-Chávez National Assembly. Inside, legislators began debating a Bill which would order schools to base the curriculum on "the Bolivarian...

Is a left-wing attempt to scare off advertisers from Fox News host Glenn Beck’s highly rated cable news show being orchestrated with some high level help from the Obama White House? Perhaps. Newsmax has learned that the co-founder of the African-American political organization Color of Change, which is calling for Beck's ouster, is civil rights attorney Van Jones. In March, President Obama appointed Jones to serve as his so-called "green-jobs czar," responsible for stimulating job growth in the environmental sector. "I don’t have proof that the White House asked Color of Change to help it fight back against Glenn Beck,"...

The Progressive movement swept America from roughly the early 1890s through the early 1920s, producing a broad popular consensus that government should be the primary agent of social change. To that end, legions of idealistic young crusaders, operating at the local, state, and federal levels, seized and wielded sweeping new powers and enacted a mountain of new legislation, including minimum wage and maximum hour laws, antitrust statutes, restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcohol, appropriations for hundreds of miles of roads and highways, assistance to new immigrants and the poor, women’s suffrage, and electoral reform, among much else. Today...

WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program.

Health care protesters (a.k.a. “angry mobs” trying to shut off debate) have been spotted carrying signs sporting the P.J. O’Rourke quote, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” Equally popular is some form of the famous observation by columnist Carol Platt Liebau that, “A government bureaucracy controlling your medical care is likely to combine the efficiency of the Post Office with the compassion of the IRS” — which has been misattributed to Ronald Reagan among many others, and has been repeated and adapted ad infinitum. Now comes Barack Obama...

Obama joker posters have gone viral! Photos at link. No text posted due to site prohibitions. Much whining about how this is mean and disrespectful to dear leader.

There are ten easy steps toward a progressive-socialist-Marxist civil society: change the popular consensus; destroy Christianity, the traditional family, and existing social mores; transform the culture; install a radical Left mind-control; attain political power; impose strict control of the military and law enforcement; restrict freedom; socialize the economy; erase American sovereignty; and embrace a world without borders.

Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children." The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. The bill says that the government agents, "well-trained and competent staff," would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on...

Elston K. McCowan is a former organizer – now the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000 – and board member of the Walbridge Community Education Center, and is a Baptist minister, has been a community organizer for more than 23 years, and now, he is running for Mayor of the City of St. Louis under the Green Party.

Poll on Obama's Birth Certificate is located at the bottom of the page.

On the heels of a purported Kenyan Birth Registration said by Kenyan officials as likely not being authentic, and with Dr. Orly Taitz’ motion for a Letter Rogatory having been stricken by Judge Nakazato on account of being improperly filed (with all due respect, how hard is it to properly file paperwork?), Newsmax.com is reporting the following: Contrary to widespread media reports, Hawaiian health officials have not publicly released President Obama’s original, “long-form” birth certificate, state officials confirm to Newsmax. Many media reports have insisted the president’s actual birth certificate is available on the Internet for anyone to download. It...

But it's conservatives who engage in violence and hate speech, right? The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that one of their own, reporter Jake Wagman, was one of six people arrested in connection with the beating of a conservative activist outside of a town hall forum held by Democrat Congressman Russ Carnahan. According to Dawn Majors, a Post-Dispatch photojournalist who witnessed everything unfold, an officer said that Wagman had been "interfering."

President Barack Obama recently met over beer with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley, hoping to diffuse tense debates over racial profiling and racial bias triggered by the arrest of the Harvard University scholar by the Cambridge, Mass., police department officer. Though that racially charged conversation may be over, vicious attacks on the first Black President of the United States are not. Analysts say don't expect the attacks to end anytime soon. The most outrageous charges may have come from radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck. “I'm not saying that he doesn't like people I'm...

Here is video of Rep. Barney Frank in an off-the-cuff moment admitting what we have known all along. Frank is confronted by someone as he walks to the elevator on why the Democrats are not demanding a "single-payer" Government Health Care System - in other words - total Socialized Medicine that is Government controlled. Frank said it would be "suicidal" to demand that because the votes just are not there. But he said if they can get ObamaCare passed with a "public option," it would lead to a "single-payer" system - that's the "best way" according to Frank. Frank reveals...

Rush Goes On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Part One July 23, 2009 Watch It for Free! Windows Media Player BEGIN PART ONE TRANSCRIPT VAN SUSTEREN: Tonight, Rush Limbaugh goes On the Record in a rare face-to-face interview in his radio studio in Florida. VAN SUSTEREN: So did you see the press conference? RUSH: Well, of course I watched. You know, the first thing, before we get into the health care aspect of this, I have to tell you: We learned last night that he did, President Obama did listen to Reverend Wright all those 20 years. VAN...

A surprising number of Americans believe that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii, and that records of his birth certificate have been forged. See, for example, this clip, in which a Republican congressman tries to calm a sceptical audience.

Although the reporter involved denies she coordinated with the White House, speculation abounds over the genesis of the press conference inquiry last week by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, whose question about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. prompted a national race scandal involving President Obama.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian rebels have obtained rockets that Venezuela bought in Europe, the government in Bogota said on Monday, an accusation that could worsen already tense relations between the neighboring countries. Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos said the government is investigating how the anti-tank weapons found their way to the (Communist) Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC."In several operations we have been able to capture arsenals of the FARC. We have found heavy weapons, including anti-tank weapons that a European country sold to Venezuela and that ended up in the hands of the FARC," Santos told local radio....

An interview with newly elected Senator Obama in 2004 by no less than Randi Rhodes! Oh how delicious is the Irony!

I thought Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck were supposed to get Jindal to investigate these corrupt soldiers. What happened? Haven't heard a thing since BOR blustered about it, what, 2-3 months ago.

The 37th Summit of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) concluded on Friday in Asuncion, Paraguay, with a strong condemnation to the coup perpetrated against Honduran legitimate President Jose Manuel Zelaya...In his opening speech, Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, categorically condemned the coup against Zelaya’s Government and said that “Honduras is a bleeding wound in regional democracy”....For his part, Bolivian President Evo Morales insisted that countries in the region should bear in mind the origin of the military coup. “What is the origin of the coup d´état in Honduras? From our point of view is the US military intervention” by...

Are the people rejecting their saviour? Barack Obama’s approval rating has slipped to below that of George “Dubya” Bush at the same stage in his presidency and this is causing some concern among right-thinking (by which, of course, I mean left-thinking) people. This is by no means the death of the dream that began in January – approval ratings slide up and down erratically – but it is at least an early intimation of mortality. For this is no ordinary presidency, this is the reign on earth of The One: his approval rating was intended to break the mould by...

Here's my rundown of President Obama's press conference. "Blah Blah Blah. Talk a lot without saying anything. Blah Blah Blah. Bring up George W. Bush. Blah Blah Blah. Pretend that anyone who opposes the Democrat plan just doesn't want to do anything about the problem. Blah Blah Blah." ...zzzzz... When will this get old to everyone else? I'm already over it. Oh, and I think the Henry Gates question was a setup. There's no reason that should have come up. There's definitely no reason Obama should have commented on it other than to bring up race. A roundabout way of...

A USA Today/Gallup survey suggested that six months into his presidency, his popularity was lower than George W Bush's at the same stage of his tenure. Amid rising unemployment and falling confidence in his economic plans, Mr Obama's job approval rating has dropped by nine points since January to 55 per cent, a point below his predecessor in mid-2001.

Family History Web Site Confirms German Ancestry Through President's Sixth Great-Grandfather PROVO, Utah, /PRNewswire/ -- Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history, has confirmed through historical documents the identities of German ancestors in President Barack Obama's family tree. The discovery was made by an Ancestry.com genealogical research team, which determined that President Obama's 6th maternal great-grandfather Johann Conrad Wolfley was born in Besigheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany, in 1729 (present day Baden-Wuerttemberg). Genealogists at the No.1 family history Web site revealed that President Obama's German ancestor was born Johann Conrad Wolflin on January 29, 1729. He immigrated in 1750, sailing...

Marxist political coalition Was active from 1992-1998 Endorsed Barack Obama for Illinois state senate seat in 1996 Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials -- most often Democrats. The New Party's short-term objective was to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the eventual rise of new Marxist third party. Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic...

One of the things I learned a long time ago, is that I am so average that my thinking is very similar to at least 75% of the American people, regardless of political party affiliation.  Let's see if that holds true in this case.  If so, politicians beware!!!

This was the week that was for Barack Obama's efforts at health care reform (although many more will follow). The following five developments made clear that America is not prepared for what it must do, although the outlines of what this is are emerging. (1) Liberal Americans ask the question, "How can a civilized nation fail to provide health care coverage for so many of its citizens?" Their answer is a government sponsored health care system like those in European countries. But while HuffPo readers say "aye" to a single payer, universal coverage system, they say "What, me worry?" to...

It seems that Obama has finally begun to realize that so-called "bipartisan" legislation is a pointless, silly and otherwise foolish notion when dealing with the Republicans. They are The Party of No. No ideas. No solutions. No clues. And when 2010 and 2012 come, no victories... hopefully. They have tried to stop the obvious destruction of our economic, banking, housing, healthcare and other sectors that they fully allowed to happen starting back in the Reagan years and fully implemented from 1994-2006. The Republicans have failed and are now an ever-shrinking party that caters to the spiritually superstitious, homophobic, racist and...

This is really frightening. We warned Americans Barack Obama is a Marxist who would govern through dangerous people. Obama’s new Czar, for “Green Jobs” Anthony “Van” Jones freely admits he’s a proud San Francisco Communist with an arrest record. Because the media has no integrity and works against us, except for Fox News, we have heard little or nothing about this. The amount of damage this confirmed member of Obama’s secret “cabinet” will do as “Green Czar” is frightening to the core. With his signature this radical unelected party apparatchik will be able to crush America’s economy to help Obama’s...

Green Left, an eco-socialist current within the Green Party of England and Wales, held its annual general meeting on June 20 in London. It discussed the work of the network over the past year in struggles against war, racism and environmental decay and in winning support for eco-socialism as a solution to the economic and climate crises.

After receiving much warranted criticism for his support of the ousted Honduran president, Obama decided to defend himself. During his speech in Russia today, Obama unleashed his ‘rationalization’ for advocating Marxism...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country. Since about half the planet's climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each...

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1. GM Partners With Segway It became clear this spring that General Motors was going to have to get smaller to survive, but this was ridiculous. A week after President Obama gave the company a 60 day deadline to avoid bankruptcy, GM took time out from its turnaround efforts to unveil the PUMA, a two-seat vehicle being developed with Segway that looked more like a rickshaw than a car. The vehicle, capable of going only 35 mph and traveling 35 miles between charges, got lots of attention, but did little to change popular opinion about the company that had...

When we’re finally done with Obama his “Czar System” circumventing the constitutional confirmation process will stand out. Since he has a Czar for everything, count on a Labor Czar who will be his enforcer. Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will be Labor Czar. He’ll direct Obama’s ACORN brown shirts and intimidate workers into surrendering to Card Check and nobody will be able to stop them. Who is Commissar Stern? Stern’s a favorite son of the Democratic Socialists of America, whose name spells out its aims. Stern’s SEIU is ruthlessly lawless. More than 3820 Unfair Labor...

Barack Obama is vowing to sign climate change legislation and overhauls in health care and financial regulations this year and is dismissing his critics as naysayers. Obama warned more than 400 of the Democratic Party's top fundraisers Monday evening that winning policy fights will become more difficult. Obama ran through a list of successful administration initiatives, including a $787 billion economic stimulus, a budget resolution, a fair-pay bill and a reversal on a ban on federal funding of stem cell research.

Incredible graphic commentary by the great Michael Ramirez.