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Dinesh D'Souza article in Forbes titled How Obama thinks is fueling hot debate over the influence of the anti-colonialism ideology over the thinking of the US president today. D’Souza is part of the first generation of folks in post-colonial India so he knows the talking points of the anti- and neo-colonialism propaganda. To put it in perspective let’s add to it couple of the official slogans of the Communist Party of Soviet Union: Greeting to the peoples of Africa, struggling against imperialism and racism, against all remnants of colonialism, and for freedom and national independence! Peoples of the world!...

The National Republican Senatorial Committee refused to fund the Tea Party darling in Delaware Christine O’Donnell, who kicked out of office the establishment Republican Castle in the state primary yesterday. This was the ugliest decision the Republican elite could have made. When folks donate to the NRSC they expect them to fight for every senatorial candidate. They should not discriminate between the glamorous former CEO lady and the woman who struggled through home foreclosure. People expect the NRSC to support all senatorial candidates that folks moved forward in legitimate Republican primaries. It is not the Republican’s elite who decides...

President Obama’s refusal to extend all the Bush tax-cuts will result in tax-hikes for individuals earning over $200K and households earning over $250K. Let’s see who are these ‘millionaires’ as Barack Obama likes to call them. First ,of course, the President will tax-hike himself with his $400K salary. Next under the IRS knife goes the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with her $224K. To rephrase the President: at some point the public servants had made enough money. The line moves to the elite Academia led by the Harvard professors and the top university administrators. The American Association of...

John Boehner will likely become the new Speaker of the House in November. So how is President Obama getting ready to work with the new leadership? By attacking them already as evident by President’s Ohio remarksThere are few points where the attacks on Mr. Boehner fall flat. The House Republicans Leader adopted a personal “no earmarks” policy upon taking office in 1991 that he maintains to this day. Something that President Obama cannot say about himself after signing into law thousands of earmarks... More than 100 new boards, commissions, and bureaucracies come courtesy of ObamaCare. Somehow we have to...

Saturday morning. The sound of the gypsy music is moving closer. They have a bear on a chain-leash. Kids throw coins from the balcony and the gypsy man makes the bear dance. Ah, the sweet memories of my childhood. Today the dancing bears are ‘liberated’. After the fall of communism the French actress Brigitte Bardot made a worldwide campaign against the cruelty involved in training the dancing bears. Bulgarian government had to buy the bears from the gypsies. The animals were expensive – one could cost as much as a fancy German car. Special reservation areas were designated for...

During election years politicians and strategists like to come up with catchy phrases that repeated often inspire the votes. Most of them are like Rorschach inkblots – they can mean anything you want to see in them. Unfortunately what voters believe those words mean is not always what politicians actually meant when campaigning. Below is a glossary of some popular election year phrases: Health care for everybody – buy health insurance or pay penalty at the IRS; Stimulus Package – free condoms for studying the behavior of drunken college kids and other useful projects for $800, 000, 000, 000;...

President Obama discussed the economy in his Oval Office Address. He said ‘economy’ three times, ‘debt’ - zero, ‘deficits’ - one, ‘jobs’ – two and ‘education’ three times. Wow, what’s up with the education? For too long, we have put off tough decisions on everything from our manufacturing base to our energy policy to education reform... As always President Obama’s words lack details. Unlike the due dates for withdrawal from Afghanistan that are cut in stone by the Commander-in-Chief, the details about what ‘education reform’ means are missing. Those who fell once for the vague ‘hope and change’ slogan...

American tax-payers learned recently that the US State Department is funding mosques all around the globe, including one in my native Bulgaria: To support the restoration of the Kurshum Mosque in Silistra. Although it is located in the center of town, damage has been caused by centuries of neglect and earthquakes. The mosque was built in the 17th century when Silistra was an important port city on the Danube River ruled by the Ottoman Empire. Research shows that it has nothing to do with Islam, but with ecotourism. According to a local report the restoration of the mosque and...

Do you believe in God? Every time I answer the question honestly I lose friends. Still I tell the truth: I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in the evolution either. I just believe we don’t have enough knowledge to know the world yet. If you are still reading, I appreciate your tolerance. Glenn Beck’s answer to America’s troubles is turning to God. Where does it leave us: the non believers? Beck’s solution reminds me of my godmother, who is a nun in an Eastern Orthodox Monastery on the Balkans. When I visited her she answered every question...

One of the most outrageous lies said during the Ground Zero Mosque controversy was told yesterday by Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, on the O’Reilly Factor: A few very well orchestrated agitators have created a situation where we now see tea party people going after Jewish American elected officials. Mayor Bloomberg, myself, the speaker of our assembly Sheldon Silver. Shame on you Mr. Stringer! America knows that those who disagree with Mayor Bloomberg on the MosqueGate are doing so not because of he is Jewish, but because he is misleading the public on the issue from day one. Mayor Bloomberg...

The biggest auditor in the world Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu came up with opinion piece recently on how to deal with ‘The Gap’: Western societies have over-committed their current and future resources… Money has been spent that hasn’t been earned, and promises have been made that cannot be fulfilled. The Gap is popular known as 'the trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities' in social services created over decades of piling up entitlement programs and hefty pensions and benefits. Structural changes in government and bureaucracy are needed: In a world of mobile capital, trans-border exchange, heightened competition, and exponential technological change,...

Embracing the Ground Zero mosque? The vacationer-in-chief is puzzling the world. Why is all this self-destructive behavior from Barack Obama? Here is an idea: maybe it is about giving a chance to democrats in conservative districts to distance themselves from the President without offending the liberal base. Remember Rev. Wright? The radical pastor’s sermons were about to cost candidate Obama the democratic primary in 2008. Then something interesting happened. Rev Wright scheduled appearance in the National press-club... The pastor stood up in front of the cameras and made sure the judges from the mainstream media give him the ‘insanity...

President Bush tried to reform the federal bureaucracy dealing with the national security. Unfortunately instead of improving communications between the existing departments he created a new bureaucracy: the Department of National Security... .. Instead of spending money on communication improvement the federal government wasted it on new office desks and draperies, drawing pictures for new department seal and medals and all kind of construction and design activities. Let’s see how the DHS performed during the second attack on US soil since 9/11: the Christmas Day bomber. Abdul Mutallab’s father told the name of the terrorist to the embassy in Nigeria......

President Obama’s personal approval rating is much higher than the approval of his policies. No word from the pollsters yet how much the political correctness distorts the results. Michelle Obama (who is trying to make us stop eating cup-cakes and reduce our carbon footprint while she is burning fuel vacationing in Spain) has personal approval over 50%. Really? Do you know anybody who tells you all the time: ‘you are too fat and drive too much’? Most likely, by the time they say: ‘you are too fat’ their approval rating is down to 10%. Barack Obama will be a...

When the Americans say the proposed Mosque at Ground Zero will be in the shadows of the World Trade Center they are correct. Here is the evidence: on the picture the buildings on Park Place 45-51 are photographed in the shadow of the Twin Towers – still under construction. The original image is copyrighted by Time Inc. and you can access it here

Fists? Let me first state that I sympathize to the cause of the people involved in Freedom Works organization. However their resent artwork looks like photoshoped Soviet posters. It’s like somebody erased Kremlin and put the Capitol on the background on their 9/12 tax-payer march on Washington DC poster. Kim Jong Il is going crazy with envy looking at those fists at the 8/27 convention poster. He does not respect the copyrights so it is very possible for him to use the ‘fisty’ artwork as a center piece at the next parade in North Korea. The communist artists may...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters put in the spotlight on the Obama financial reform pointing out that the legislation goes above and beyond to secure access to money for minorities and women: I was honored to serve on the conference committee of the Wall-street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. I am happy to say that much of the legislation I authored has access for women and minority rights, for shareholders more accountable Consumer Protection Bureau and assistance for struggling and unemployed homeowners was included in the final legislation that was signed by President Obama. I am particularly proud of offices of...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent shock waves all through the federal bureaucracy when he announced concrete cuts in the military structure and staff. It is good stuff: freeze civilian hires, cut contract payments, reduce the number of general officers, flag officers and senior civilians, and eliminate two Defense Department offices and U.S. Joint Forces Command. Amazingly the republican whip in the House Eric Cantor stood against it. This is so wrong on so many levels! Mr. Cantor is running a YouCut campaign himself. At the times when people are craving gutsy leaders that can cut spending and get rid of...

Most reports about the US First Lady trip to Spain focus on her shopping and beach time. The part of the story that is missing is the location itself. Barcelona newspaper describes the Michelle Obama vacation place like this: The Spanish resort of Marbella, often associated with Arab princes and crime lords, geared up Tuesday to welcome US First Lady Michelle Obama, with authorities eyeing a boost in tourist revenues… Marbella, where Arab royals maintain vast properties, lies on what the British press has dubbed the "Costa del Crime" because of the large number of fugitives reputedly hiding out...

The State Department released the documents relating to President Obama’s step-father Lolo Soetoro. Big chunk of them represent the two-year long battle with the Immigration Services. The Exchange Program contract required him to go back and live in Indonesia for 2 years after completing the studies. ... there is a letter from Soetoro to the US officials begging them to let him stay in the US because he is worried about the violence around the communist coup in Indonesia. Two years later, at the end of the story, Lolo was working for the authoritarian government of the country and his...