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If this man is correct, then you may be reading the most important story in today's paper. I have no way of assuring you that the bleak version of the future outlined by Michael Ruppert in Chris Smith's "Collapse" is accurate. I can only tell you I have a pretty good built-in B.S. detector, and its needle never bounced off zero while I watched this film. There is controversy over Ruppert, and he has many critics. But one simple fact at the center of his argument is obviously true, and it terrifies me.

In New Jersey, governor-elect Christie opposes (and rightfully so), the state going deeper in debt but that is not stopping the current administration of Jon Corzine. Please consider N.J. to Borrow $200 Million Amid Incoming Governor’s Opposition.

This is America's Death Panel: These Death Culture Politicians voted against the amendment to prohibit the use of Federal funds for abortions - These ARE the Death Panel: Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Burris (D-IL) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Collins (R-ME) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Gillibrand (D-NY) Hagan (D-NC) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Kirk (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD)...

Phelim McAleer is an investigative journalist who spends much of his time debunking the Global Warming hoax. It was McAleer who asked a question of Al Gore a few months ago that caused the former VP's head to start melting (video at end of this post). McAleer is also the director and producer of Not Evil Just Wrong documentary which looks at how environmental extremism is damaging the lives of the most economically vulnerable populations (see trailer below) Today the "Global Warming Mafia" gave new credence to the charges raised by Climategate, that there has been a concerted effort to...

I just received a breathless e-mail from Erin Neff and Brian Fadie of the very liberal ProgressNowNevada, bragging about how their group stood up to Sarah Palin at her book signing in Reno. Dear Friend, There were eight inches of snow. It was 10 degrees. But that didn't stop us from shining the light of truth on Sarah Palin when she came to Reno on Wednesday night.Our members braved the elements because the truth matters. And, thanks to our stalwarts in Reno, we helped make sure the good people of northern Nevada got to see the real Palin. http://rgj.com/article/20091209/NEWS/91209016&OAS_sitepage=news.rgj.com%2FbreakingnewsWe even...

After seeing the nausea inspiring dress Michelle Obama wore to the Nobel reception for her Zero, I am forced to admit something disturbing. As the great Christopher Walkin would say, I got a fever and the only prescription is more boob belt!

Whether it be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, etc.there is certainly nothing wrong with private interests building a religion-based college. But we need to be concerned if one of those colleges, no matter the religion, indoctrinates our young adults with a radical agenda. Zaytuna College scheduled to open in September 2010, will open as this nation's first Muslim college. This is my response to the Fort Hood tragedy and events both associated with it and ensuing from it. I begin by expressing my deepest condolences to the families of all of the dead and wounded. There is no legitimate reason for...

Don’t get us wrong, we love Judith Leiber’s funny clutches, but the Hello Kitty clutches made by the designer are selling for $4,000, and that sounds pretty insane. There’s lots more of Hello Kitty-themed accessories in this collaboration, and we don’t like them either.

Wholesale National Health Care Malcolm A. Kline, December 11, 2009 Law school professors used to teach their students that hard cases make bad law. Now, budding barristers learn how to make bad law. We should note at the outset that this description fits laws that Congress passed under both parties’ leadership such as the No Child Left Behind Act signed by the last president, which Accuracy in Academia covered extensively and critically. Unlike NCLB, one of these questionable statutes making its way through the U. S. Senate right now does not deal with education though it was hatched by academics....

Here’s a dispiriting postscript to the massive flap over The Washington Post’s decision to publish an Op ed by Sarah Palin on climate change, a piece that has been widely criticized as riddled with falsehoods. I’m told by the paper’s insiders that her piece was one of the most-read WaPo opinion pieces of the year, coming in 21st in page views out of literally hundreds of opinion articles. An earlier Palin Op ed in the paper on the same topic was the third most read of the year.

Folks, good column by George Will published in the Washington Post, entitled The climate-change travesty, which I think you ought to read. Here’s an excerpt: Disclosure of e-mails and documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Britain -- a collaborator with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- reveals some scientists' willingness to suppress or massage data and rig the peer-review process and the publication of scholarly work. The CRU materials also reveal paranoia on the part of scientists who believe that in trying to engineer "consensus" and alarm about warming, they are a brave and embattled minority....

This Poem was written by a Marine. Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, in a one bedroom house made of plaster and stone. I had come down the chimney with presents to give, and to see just who in this home did live. I looked all about, a strange sight I did see, no tinsel, no presents, not even a tree. No stocking by mantle, just boots filled with sand, on the wall hung pictures of far distant lands. With medals and badges, awards of all kinds, a sober thought came through my mind. For this house...

Sen. Inhofe Goes to Copenhagen Sarah Carlsruh, December 11, 2009 Right now, leaders from around the world are meeting in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Summit to discuss how to solve this pesky problem of rising global temperatures. Self-proclaimed leading skeptic of global warming Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok) will join them next week to voice his dissent on this great hoax of global warming. Sen. Inhofe addressed this issue at the December 8th Heritage Foundation Blogger’s Briefing. After the ClimateGate emails came to light, Sen. Inhofe called it his “redemption.” Climate change scientists, as revealed by those emails, have...

Educate for a Better Economy Sarah Carlsruh, December 11, 2009 “The unemployment rate is 10 percent but businesses are struggling to fill 2.6 million jobs because applicants lack required skills” observed a December 12th Politico article. In an effort to remedy this disconnect, the Business Roundtable recently launched The Springboard Project, an effort by a group of education and business leaders to develop policy recommendations to improve U.S. education and work training. According to their December report, “the United States ranks second-to-last among developed nations in postsecondary completion rates.” William D. Green, chairman of The Springboard Project said that: “Improving...

Abortion Risk Downplayed Academically Malcolm A. Kline, December 11, 2009 Here’s a tidbit you are unlikely to get from the Women’s Studies Center: Mothers in countries with restrictive abortion laws are healthier than those in nations which have abortion on demand. Indeed, a new study by a trio of academics asserts that lack of access to abortion is a problem for women even while displaying data that lead to the opposite conclusion. In fact, the authors of the study, Measuring the Global Gender Gap, observe that: * “Approximately 80% of maternal deaths could be averted if women had access to...

Anderson Cooper from CNN takes a tour through a sophisticated tunnel route discovered by law enforcement running under the Mexico-U.S. border for drug smuggling: The tunnel, complete with an elevator, electricity and a ventilation system, extends from Tijuana, Mexico to Otay Mesa, Calif., in San Diego. The tunnel was discovered by Mexican law enforcement working with the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, which includes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Border Patrol. Meanwhile, blood still freely flows over in Juarez, Mexico -- you know, casual massacres of women & children type stuff --...

Leader Abdul Rahman Hamed states: “’The law of unconditional divorce has become a sword hanging over men’s heads’” per “Egypt men slam giving women right to divorce” at http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/12/09/93654.html

Bill Gates is known as the world’s most successful capitalist and is less famous for being the world’s biggest philanthropist.

Today many in the United States are crying out to President Obama and Government (i.e., Washington D.C.) to do more and more to fix our social ills while a rising Tea Party movement is sweeping across the land to counter this aggressive socialistic movement. The notion that Big Government has all our answers and the solutions we need in this very chaotic and unstable world is fairy tale. Our Founding Fathers wisely understood that the less power government possessed the better off we as Americans would be. Our Foundering Fathers fully comprehend that with the abandonment of Judean/ Christian foundations...

Black community spokespersons tell us the black community is offended that all of Tiger Woods' mistresses are white. I find the whole black spokesperson thing absurd. The media runs to Sharpton, Jackson and others to get the official black America take on hot issues. Are we a tribe? Are these guys our chiefs? By the way, who are the spokespersons for white America? I am saddened that the sports icon is an adulterer and has destroyed his family and wholesome image. To the fact Tiger prefers white women, I say, so what? It is racist for these black liberal plantation...

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called for an end to Washington’s unprecedented borrowing and spending binge during floor remarks today opposing Democrats’ 2,500-page omnibus spending bill. Noting that “America is broke,” Boehner challenged President Obama to go through the measure, which contains more than 5,000 earmarks, “line-by-line and page-by-page” as he promised the American people he would. Following are VIDEO and the full text of Boehner’s remarks...

On Squawk Box yesterday, Jeb Bush was asked about his future and a certain best-seller's (video here). QUESTION: Would you answer my question about who should run in 2012? Are you gonna run again? For anything? [Jeb laughs] JEB: I don't know. I'm trying to achieve financial security for my family first, and I'm involved in education reform, which is where my passions are. QUESTION: Would you advise the Republicans to run Palin? JEB: Would I advise? I think we ought to have an open primary, for sure. If she wants to run... QUESTION: [interrupting] ... do you think she...

This has got to be embarrassing for President Obama, his administration, and the Democrat Party. Obama is outpolling former President George W. Bush by only six percentage points according to Public Policy Polling. The meaning of this close gap is significant since George W. Bush left office with the lowest approval rating of any prior president, 22%...

It happens every year at this time: the battles of political correctness. When a community puts up a Christmas tree, one of two things happens. Either there is a battle to take it down totally, or someone fights to get a Chanukkiyah (that's the real name, not Menorah), Kwanzaa candles, or a symbol of some other religion's holiday placed right next to it. Then Fox News follows by running stories about the latest battle in the "war against Christmas," and the ACLU starts suing any town whose mayor ever went to a church, mosque, and/or synagogue. Hey, ACLU: Give it...

We have seen Tiger Woods plastered all over the news lately - first for his automobile accident on Nov. 27th, and then for one alleged affair after another, multiple adulterous affairs with various women all over the country. The most recent spread count is 12. It seems like Tiger Wood's reputation will forever be tarnished, endorsement deals lost, both kids and adults alike will have lost one more sports hero they could look up to, so even though it's been just two weeks into this golfer's very public nightmare, the question that begs answering is: Can any good come of...

December 10, 2009 Palin on Obama Speech: 'I Liked What He Said' December 10th From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart (CNN) – Sarah Palin had some rare praise Thursday for President Obama after the president delivered his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo. But the former Republican vice presidential nominee added that she would like to see the president act more like his predecessor, George W. Bush. "I liked what he said," Palin told USAToday in an interview after the speech. Palin said the president's remarks had a familiar ring. "I thumbed through my book quickly this morning to...

It should be pretty obvious that President Obama and his Dem-run congress want no part of what most of America is screaming for: A free republic with a smaller government footprint not the enormous one currently stomping anyone in its path. According to Rasmussen Polls, 71% of voters say they are angry at the government and 46% describe themselves as very angry. Reversals from the Obama 2008 juggernaut were huge in Virginia and leftist New Jersey , yet the Dems in charge don’t care. The leaders will knowingly sacrifice their own Dem Reps and Senators in upcoming races as long...

> The first thing Feynman found while talking to people at NASA, was a startling disconnect between engineers and management. Management claimed the probability of a launch failure was 1 in 100,000, ... Feynman estimated the probability of failure to be more like 1 in 100, and to test his theory, he asked a bunch of NASA engineers to write down on a piece of paper what they thought it was. The result: Most engineers estimated the probability of failure to be very close to his original estimate. He was not only disturbed by management’s illusion of safety, but by...

The entire Democratic caucus in DC must be suffering the effects of swine flu, because their ideas for health care reform just keep getting worse. In the latest deal, brokered by Senate Democrats, Medicare would be expanded to uninsured Americans over the age of 55 and insurance companies would be required to spend 90 percent of the money they collect on beneficiaries. While both of these provisions sound great to a bleeding heart, the unintended consequences could prove devastating.

There has been no call by the leftists of the world protesting his war. No Code Pink, International ANSWER, Not In Our Name or other similarly reprehensible group calling President Obama a "chickenhawk," "war criminal," or "murderer," as they did President Bush. No, on the contrary, President Obama received a prize for peace. Indeed he received the most famous such distinction - the Nobel Prize. For his part, President Obama refuted the antiwar mob. Whether he did so knowingly or not, he provided those who went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan - and those who ordered those wars -...

Reasons Not to Shower Bethany Stotts, December 10, 2009 One Edinburgh University climate scientist argues in a December New Scientist article that common activities such as washing clothes, using toilet paper and drinking coffee are among the “five eco-crimes we commit every day.” “I have long argued that climate change begins at home,” writes Dr. David Reay, senior lecturer on Global Change at Edinburgh. “Each of us in the developed world has played our part in creating this problem and, while there is no doubt that coordinated global action is needed to tackle it, we can each be part of...

There has been no call by the leftists of the world protesting his war. No Code Pink, International ANSWER, Not In Our Name or other similarly reprehensible group calling President Obama a "chickenhawk," "war criminal," or "murderer," as they did President Bush. No, on the contrary, President Obama received a prize for peace. Indeed he received the most famous such distinction - the Nobel Prize. For his part, President Obama refuted ...

ClimateGate Investigations Galore Bethany Stotts, December 10, 2009 In a recent British news broadcast one University of East Anglia professor went to bat for Phil Jones and his colleagues over at the University’s Climate Research Unit. The topic of conversation was Jones’ controversial ClimateGate correspondence. In one leaked email, Jones talks about using Penn State professor Michael Mann’s “trick” of manipulating data within his hockey stick diagram. “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the...

School Czar’s Permanent Record Allie Winegar Duzett, December 10, 2009 While CBSNews.com has 108 stories on the White House-gate-crashing Salahis, the site only features one story on the “Safe Schools Czar” of the Obama administration, Kevin Jennings. The article on Jennings, entitled “Kevin Jennings Gets Boost from White House,” was written on October 1, 2009. The article defends Jennings, who was selected for the position largely because of his work founding and directing the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a radical gay promotion group. However, since October 2009, videos have surfaced of Jennings teaching 14-year-old boys the dangerous...

Step aside, elected Members of Congress. If you can’t pass cap and trade legislation, The Environmental Protection Agency will move in with massively complex and costly regulations that would micromanage just about every aspect of the economy. They announced today that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten public health and the environment. Since 85 percent of the U.S. economy runs on fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, imposing a cost on CO2 is equivalent to placing an economy-wide tax on energy use. The kind of industrial-strength EPA red tape that the agency could enforce in the name...

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The narco terrorists in Mexico continued their insurgency against the government yesterday in three separate ambushes against the federal police which left one officer dead and five others injured. Meanwhile, this Sunday at 8 pm National Geographic's Explorer series is premiering its documentary "Narco State" on the Mexican drug cartels and their escalating violence in the United States: It's a raging drug war that has turned Phoenix, Ariz., into the second kidnapping capitol of the world. NGC correspondent Lisa Ling embeds with the Phoenix Police Department as they investigate the latest drug-related kidnapping, uncover a cache of $3 million worth...

The Editors of The Fashion Time Magazine searching out for the most stylishly attired star of the day found… When Sarah Jessica Parker steps over the red carpet, you can be sure, she’ll inject a dose of Carrie Bradshaw’s sexiness.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent John Gillies warns that corruption is tearing at the fabric of American Society.

en⋅ti⋅tl⋅i⋅tis [en-tahy-tl-ahy-tis] noun. a psychosis characterized by the subject’s inability to discern rights from entitlements, most common among proponents of “social or redistributive justice.” Commonly diagnosed alongside fairmania*, patients afflicted with entitlistis are functionally incapable of distinguishing the concept of unfettered access from the concept of provision. A contemporary example would be the inability to discern the right to access healthcare services from an entitlement to receive those services at a cost reduced or waived.

The wide sidewalk in front of that majestic building was occupied, on both sides, by stacks of books, leaving just a narrow path for numerous visitors, obviously interested in literature. Not any literature, but ultra-nationalist, chauvinistic one, and, particularly, the most popular brand of it - the anti-Semitic writings. From 1994 to 2003, whenever I found myself in the capital of my former homeland, Moscow, I used to come without fail to that place in order to replenish my library of paperback and hardcover books, devoted to elaborate and multifaceted Jew-hating. This marketplace of bigotry and hatred (which, by the...

If you love your country and are concerned about its future, I urge you to immediately click on the following link, http://www.marklevinshow.com/home.asp and watch Mark Levin’s address at Hillsdale College from December 3, 2009. In a clear, straightforward manner that reflects the knowledge of a scholar but is easily understandable to the layman, Mr. Levin explains the dangers modern liberals, whom he refers to as “statists”, pose for our nation and why they must be defeated. And for those Republicans and conservatives who feel they must make some compromises to remain relevant in the new political order established by our...

<p>A surprising thing is taking place as Sarah Palin starts speaking out on the issues in recent speeches, internet postings, and in the book tour she is now undertaking for her memoir “Going Rogue.” An outline is starting to appear in respect of the substance of her world view — call it “Palinism” — and it is far more substantive than her detractors suggest or than we gained a glimpse of during the campaign. She has been, in a straightforward way, stepping up on certain issues that her fellow Republicans would do well to emulate.</p>

We have seen the previews. The film looks really awful. In fact, it may turn out to be a horror film. I’ll try my best to avoid it. But if you sit idly and allow bureaucrats to seize even more power over your life, I wish you good luck and good health. You’ll need both.

...Palin shared the bill at the black-tie dinner of the 124-year old club with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). She was joined by her husband, Todd Palin, and her parents. Palin -- a potential 2012 presidential candidate -- is touring the nation promoting her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, just published a biography titled Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman. At the reception, Palin mingled and posed for pictures. She told me, when I asked, that her purse was made from otter. Todd Palin explained to...

Yesterday, Michael Dreeben, the attorney representing the U.S. government, tried to defend the controversial “honest services” statute from a constitutional challenge in front of the Supreme Court. When Dreeben informed the Court that the feds have essentially criminalized any ethical lapse in the workplace, Justice Breyer exclaimed, [T]here are 150 million workers in the United States. I think possibly 140 [million] of them flunk your test. There it is. Some of us have been trying to draw more attention to the dangerous trend of overcriminalization. Judge Alex Kozinski co-authored an article in my book entitled “You’re (Probably) a Federal Criminal.”...

For those struggling to grasp the phenomenom of Sarah Palin, and to determine the potential of Palinism, I submit the following equation:

John Stossel's new show, aptly titled, "Stossel," will debut tomorrow, December 10, on the FOX Business Network (not FOX News). It premieres at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, and will repeat Fridays at 7:00 p.m., Eastern. Ironically, the Friday repeat runs up against his old ABC show, 20/20...

pResident Obeyme begins another busy day in the Oval Office by firing up his Mac IIci to check the day’s news. His Virginia Slim smolders between drags in a battery-powered ionic smoke-arresting ashtray nearby. [Obama, to himself] “Let’s see what the world has to say today” A list of news topics slowly scroll by in his browser: Climategate scandal widens, casts doubt on “settled science” pResident Obeyme skips Copenhagen to urge passage of BarryCareMore white sluts announce relationships with TigerObama’s approval ratings leaving marks in toilet bowlCopenhagen prostitutes to offer free “services” to Globull Warming Conference attendees.The pResident’s eyes pop...