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After a British soldier wearing a Help for Heroes charity T-shirt was run over, stabbed and slashed with machetes and a meat cleaver, and beheaded, the Tory government advised its soldiers that it is probably best not to appear in uniform on the streets of their capital. Both murderers were wounded by police. One was photographed and recorded. His message: "There are many, many (verses) throughout the Quran that says we must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I apologize that women had to witness this today, but in...

Brent Regan, inventor and developer of the political social media website VoxVerus.com, recently wrote for his site an article entitled "Can We Afford to Believe Barack Anymore?" In 2008, he says then-presidential candidate Barack Obama "wooed the world" with one of the slickest marketing campaigns in history, and he points out that the president is now gearing up to do the same thing in 2012 by promising the same things, including a borrowed pledge. "Originally, he promised that he'd be focusing on jobs; now, he's promising that he's going to be focusing on jobs," Regan reports. "He had widely criticized...

President Obama's June 2 speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, reflected again in his Oval Office speech last night, provided a foundational statement for his economic policies, explaining how he thinks they have worked so far, and how they will bring back prosperity in the rest of his term. Both speeches reveal a man who quite expressly thinks economic growth and prosperity are created by more government spending, higher taxes, and more regulation, and who can't imagine how anyone else could think differently. In Pittsburgh, President Obama expressly credited the TARP bailouts of the financial sector, the federal bailout...