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1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you.

From the source: "Arrest this man Ron Jones. How could he be any more blatant about voting multiple times for Barack Obama. He is effectively cancelling out every one of our votes. This is insane! While CNN tries to turn a blind eye on the Voter Fraud that is rampant right now across the country this man spills the beans on live television. They just move on with a small mention of his response…" Click Here to View the Video at ObamaHood.org

Incredible videos about fraud in the Primaries. Will they do it again ?

(Very important information included in the comment for South Florida residents) Republican Party leaders are asking the U.S. Justice Department to monitor post offices as well as polling precincts, upping the ante in their allegations that postal workers might throw away ballots. The request for Justice Department monitors came hours after the National Association of Letter Carriers demanded an apology. The GOP is concerned that absentee ballot envelopes identify the voter’s party affiliation. Here’s a copy of the Republican Party’s press release: Download file

With the nomination of the "anointed" one, it was clear to Democrats that the economy would be a better center piece for the upcoming campaign than Iraq. Their candidate had no real national security qualifications and the surge was working. Enter Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Always, a hound for publicity, Sen. Schumer made public a letter he wrote to the Office of Thrift Supervision in June questioning the solvency of the California based IndyMac Bank.

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Thousands of dead Floridians are registered to vote and some in Central Florida had ballots cast in their names long after their deaths. "That is scary," said Jim Branch. Branch's mother Marjorie died in 2004 but someone voted for her in 2006. Branch had tried to get his mother removed from the voter rolls. "It was much easier for me calling Social Security and taking her off not getting any more checks here, than it was that (voter registration)," he sid. County records show James Santiago voted in the 2006 general election. He too, was dead....

We're getting nowhere demanding the LA Times release the Obama tape, and we won't get anywhere, because they have a perfect excuse for not releasing it: journalistic integrity. They claim they promised the source they wouldn't release the tape, and to do so now would compromise their ethics. But there is a way they can "release the tape" without violating their ethics. They can release a full transcript. No, it wouldn't have the same impact as releasing the actual tape, but they also have no excuse (to hide behind) for not releasing a full transcript immediatly. They have already reported...

The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting. “You don’t just suddenly lose $120 billion overnight,” said Donn Vickrey of Gradient Analytics, an independent securities research firm in Scottsdale, Ariz. Mr. Vickrey says he believes A.I.G. must have already accumulated tens of billions of dollars worth of losses by mid-September,...

Democrats in Boise, Idaho are pretending they've done nothing wrong, as Democrats are wont, wide-eyed in amazement that anyone would question their morality after they produced a political mailer that gave out the Social Security numbers of a political opponent in a 1st Congressional District race there. The Republican, Bill Sali and his wife Terry, found their SS# printed on a mailer put out by the Idaho Democratic Party that raises concerns about past due taxes that the Sali family had earlier in their marriage. The mailer contained copies of records of the Sali's past tax problems in an effort...

This is an outrage! http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21310185/ballot_battle.htm?pageid=27100 Sorry if this is a duplicate posting.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren't buildings as their addresses.

Rules: link only HOA removes welcome home sign for Iraqi vet, a resident complained it was political and showed support for the WOT.

ordered it right after he was pushed into the public limelight, and she claims that it wasn’t political. Just standard operating procedure. Ohio’s inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on “Joe the Plumber.” Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK’d the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate

Close to half of all California voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail this election. According data recently released by the California Association of Clerks and Elected Officials, at least 40 percent of the state's registered voters have already decided to vote by mail. That percentage, the association said, is expected to grow over the coming days. Voting experts say a majority of voters prefer voting by mail in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. In all 28 states allow residents to vote by mail. Santa Clara has the second highest percentage of mail-in voters in California, with...

“If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a ‘pre-emptive strike.’” The manual said this should be done by placing stories in mainstream and specialty press “in which minority leadership expresses concern about the threat of intimidation tactics” and “prime minority leadership to discuss the issue in the media; provide talking points.”

Judge Surrick “Received” the Decision He Issued In the “never-ending” drama that is known as the 2008 Presidential election, there is an appearance that the decision issued yesterday by the Honorable Judge R. Barclay Surrick in the matter of Berg v. Obama might have been SENT to the judge just a short time BEFORE he released the decision. A fax copy of the decision from Judge Surrick was faxed to Mr. Berg from the Judge’s Chambers, pages 1-36, beginning at 18:09 October 24, 2008, and that is clearly notated by the receiving fax, starting at page 01/36. Page 36/36 is...

The man appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell to oversee the security and fairness of Pennsylvania elections has been discovered to be an ally of ACORN. Rendell, a Democrat, is a leading Obama supporter. On March 31, 2005, Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro Cortés heaped praise on the controversial left-wing activist group that is now being investigated for voter fraud in a dozen states, including Pennsylvania. Said Cortés, directly addressing ACORN representatives at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Reform Task Force: "And thank you kindly on behalf of the Department and on behalf of the Administration for all of...

Two weeks before Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is busily banking every early vote he can get in key states. Republican nominee John McCain is more selectively working to lock in the early votes of his most iffy supporters, figuring the rest will make it to the polls sooner or later. Voters in every state can now cast ballots through early voting or absentee voting programs. Results won't be released until Nov. 4, but a look at those who have voted shows the Democrats have been aggressive. In Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina and Ohio, Democrats — or at...

Per Van Sussteren on Fox just now. Developing... WHAT are we going to do? ACORN is stealing this election in broad daylight.

Well stated by emailers

Chris Dodd, the populist hero? Chris Dodd, the protector of taxpayers? Chris Dodd, the Sheriff of Wall Street? Puh-leeze. How about Chris Dodd, the guy who helped steer us into this mess in the first place? Or Chris Dodd, the guy who spent a career passing laws friendly to banks and taking gobs of their money whenever election time rolled around? [snip] But Dodd's record is marked by votes to loosen controls over the banking and securities industries that his Senate Banking Committee was supposed to be overseeing. Most notably, Dodd voted to repeal the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, therefore allowing...

The guy who administered Chris Dodd's sweetheart mortgage tells the Wall Street Journal that Dodd is lying. Too bad Republicans won't control Congress next year. They might actually hold hearings on this stuff.

......The Connecticut Senator has been out front denouncing the "companies that form the foundation of our financial markets," for "their insatiable appetite for risk." He has also decried "reckless, careless and sometimes unscrupulous actors in the mortgage lending industry" and he has proclaimed that "American taxpayers deserve to know how we arrived at this moment." To that end, we propose he take the stand — under oath. Former Countrywide Financial loan officer Robert Feinberg says Mr. Dodd knowingly saved thousands of dollars on his refinancing of two properties in 2003 as part of a special program the California mortgage company...

Once, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seemed a relatively quiet backwater of politics and finance. Now the world echoes with the collapse of banks that stumbled into the American subprime lending mess, and any political connection to Freddie and Fannie can be almost as toxic as their loan pools. Minutes into Tuesday’s debate, John McCain was calling the failure of the two federally chartered mortgage giants “the match that started this forest fire.” The Republican accused Barack Obama of taking a hike while McCain and other lawmakers pushed for reform in 2005. McCain’s ads, meanwhile, try to tar the Democrat...

Even as the U.S. confronts two long wars, neither Sen. John McCain nor Sen. Barack Obama believes the country should take the politically perilous step of reviving the military draft. But the two presidential candidates disagree on a key foundation of any future draft: Mr. Obama supports a requirement for both men and women to register with the Selective Service, while Mr. McCain doesn't think women should have to register. Also, Mr. Obama would consider officially opening combat positions to women. Mr. McCain would not. Read more here

Complete with links to current headlines and investigations, produced by electionjournal.org.Very useful for cyberspace activists! Direct link here: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=116419175653178554819.000458d1fc4a61e0c0d7b&ll=38.891033,-96.152344&spn=47.290654,74.882813&z=3&source=embed

I cannot source this, but I heard the other day that Ms. Gorelick had worked for Fannie may at a salary of a little over $500,000 and left with $26,000,000 in bonuses. The bio on her website says she was Vice Chair of Fannie Mae from 1997 to 2003. She is a Harvard elitist (see link below). Jamie GorelickApparently she did a horrible job and left with a 26 million dollar bonus. To me, something just doesn't look right here. I think there should be a thorough investigation to see if any laws were broken and if she (and Franklin...

U.S. Rep Frank vows more financial policingBy Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Scott Malone Reuters - 1 hour 22 mins ago NEWTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Blaming lax regulation for what turn into the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank vowed on Monday to police banks and hedge funds more actively to avoid future financial meltdowns. Frank, the powerful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee who has been credited with largely shaping the $700 billion (401 billion pound) bailout plan, also said he expects the cost of to be much less. Frank said next year's agenda...

The CEO of failed Washington Mutual Inc., on the job only a few weeks before the largest U.S. thrift was seized by the government and sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co., is entitled to more than $13 million in severance and bonus pay.

Network verifies reports Richard Fuld was attacked for financial institution's bankruptcy. It seems anxiety from the financial crisis is reaching new highs, but the tipping point for one individual came at the Lehman Brothers gym in the midst of the company’s collapse. While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm was going bankrupt. CNBC and Vanity Fair contributor Vicki Ward said Fuld was attacked at the gym on a Sunday following the bankruptcy....

Are you capable of taking a perfectly good 158-year-old company and turning it into dust? You should be raking it in like Richard Fuld, Lehman Bros CEO. He took home nearly half-a-billion dollars in total compensation between 1993-2007. Last year, Fuld earned about $45M, according an executive pay research company. ........ roughly $17,000 an hour to obliterate a firm. If you’re willing to drive a company into the ground for less, apply by calling Lehman Brothers........ Fuld (who continues to lead Lehman since it entered bankruptcy proceedings) is the winner of my annual Michael Eisner Award for corporate rapacity and...

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The 10 most decadent dictators A revolving gold statue, pink champagne and a "Pleasure Brigade" of nubile retainers all feature in Times Money's list of history's most decadent dictators. While their people suffered, these men - and sometimes their wives and children - agonised over how best to spend their ill-gotten gains... 1. Kim Jong-il, "Dear Leader" of North Korea since 1994. The son of the communist state's "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il has super-expensive tastes, with 17 palaces, and collections of hundreds of cars and around 20,000 video tapes. On one state visit to Russia, he reportedly had...

Congress: What, exactly, does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's latest junket to Iraq have to do with her official duties? Her inability to keep her amateur fingers out of the foreign policy pie suggests a political power grab.Pelosi went to Iraq uninvited Saturday, and her reception was less than warm. Iraq's democratically elected Nouri al-Maliki government wanted nothing to do with her until she admitted the truth about Iraq's progress as a nation and quit braying that U.S. troops must be immediately pulled out, a proposal so naive that even radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr opposes it. Message through, Pelosi admitted that...

With proper upbringing, a boy can grow into a strong, self-reliant and sensible man. If that grown man is also well adjusted and has self-respect, he will neutralize deficiencies in his character (e.g., hubris, and that brother bugaboo “machismo”) to defray misgivings and ridicule by family, co-workers and friends – even his enemies. If a man behaves or speaks idiotically, someone eventually will call him on it. Generally, men are dreamers...like our Founding Fathers were dreamers. It was upon their collective vision that the foundation of this great country was conceived and created where we live in blessed freedom, to...

What phenomenon was abandoned by Napoleon, turned Stalin's heart to stone, evaded Hitler, and led a Paraguayan president to try to take over South America? Love. As Valentine's Day draws near, lovers around the world celebrate their intimacy. But how did some of the world's most infamous dictators experience the emotion? Nigel Cawthorne, author of Sex Lives of the Great Dictators, says the average tyrant and absolute despot seems incapable of experiencing love in the same way as the average human being. "In nearly every case, human feeling came second to ambition," he says. "Even Napoleon with his great love...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most in-depth examination of the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" in nearly 70 years. The justices' decision to hear the case could make the divisive debate over guns an issue in the 2008 presidential and congressional elections. The government of Washington, D.C., is asking the court to uphold its 31-year ban on handgun ownership in the face of a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the ban as incompatible with the Second...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate this week will pull its first all-night debate on the Iraq war in advance of a vote on whether to bring home all combat troops by next spring, Democrats said Monday. The rare, round-the-clock session Tuesday night through Wednesday morning is intended to bait Republicans into an exhaustive debate on the politically unpopular war, as well as punish GOP members for routinely blocking anti-war legislation. "How many sleepless nights have our soldiers and their families had?" said Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Democrats are trying to ratchet up pressure on Republicans who have grown uneasy...

History will record with severity the huge social, human and political cost of the activism of the erroneously named "pacifists" The so-called "pacifist" movements, articulated by leftists, and their silent accomplice, have decisively contributed to the protection of the most fierce tyrants of the XX and XXI Centuries, since Adolph Hitler and Stalin, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Il, to Saddam Hussein. With their harmful political formula of "giving in so as not to loose", they paved the way for several of those dictators to increment warmonger attitudes against countries and continents, in addition to enslaving their own...

· Children to be monitored from birth to age five · New curriculum sets 69 'early learning goals' The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Tuesday March 20 2007The proposal from the Department for Education and Skills for monitoring children from birth to age five applies only to England and not to the whole of Britain, as stated in error in the report below. Babies will be assessed on their gurgling, babbling and toe-playing abilities when they are a few months old under a legally enforced national curriculum for children from birth to five published...

TWO THOUSAND years ago on the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus was struck blind, fell off his donkey, heard the voice of the Lord and became St. Paul. This week on the road to Damascus, riding on the Democratic donkey, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was struck blind by a prideful ambition - the ambition to conduct a foreign policy for the United States toward the terrorist nation of Syria separate from the one conducted by the president. On the road to Damascus, St. Paul became one of the revolutionary figures of world civilization. Nancy Pelosi - not...

The Zimbabwe government announced plans to build a massive shrine to President Robert Mugabe in the President’s home district of Zvimba. A senior government source said that Mugabe wants construction of the shrine to start as soon as possible. The Zimbabwean dictator has already instructed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to raise US$400 000 in foreign currency to buy elephant dung for the project. Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, who has been selected to oversee the construction of the shrine, said the project is his top priority. “Look, President Mugabe is 83 years-old,” Chombo observed. “He can’t last much longer....

Food Security: There's never a shortage of dictators to hurl abuse at the U.S. for its food policies. But they have no right to do it. Marxism, not freedom, is the world's foremost creator of hunger. The blame-America-first crowd often zeroes in on U.S. plenty, calling our lack of want 'excess' and our great food productivity an ecological evil. There's been a malevolent new wave of this lately as more news of failed Marxist regimes and the hunger they create comes out. Another point in communism's favor: This Reuters photo of a neighborhood in central Havana came with a caption...

THOMAS JEFFERSON God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take...

The UN on Sunday criticized the decision to sentence Saddam Hussein to death, calling upon local authorities to refuse the to hang the ex-leader. UN Human Rights Commission head Louise Arbour said that the "appeal process is reliable and a vital part of the fair judicial procedure." Army Radio reported. She said that "the results of the appeal will what they will be," and Arbour expressed hope that the Iraqi government would suspend its death sentence.

Rick Leventhal reporting many of the people in the audience have been bused in from as far away as Alaska. This event is in a very beautiful church.The Iranian is also supposed to give a news conference this morning. I thought it would be helpful to have one thread for both events.Will Kennedy and Serrano show up for the photo op? Will Chavez show up? Iranian news conference in 15 minutes!

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary September 5, 2006 President Discusses Global War on Terror Capital Hilton Hotel Washington, D.C.       Fact Sheet: The President's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism      In Focus: National Security 1:15 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. (Applause.) Thank you all. Please be seated. General Hendrix, thank you for the invitation to be here. Thanks for the kind introduction. I'm honored to stand with the men and women of the Military Officers Association of America. I appreciate the Board of Directors who are here, and the leaders who have given...

US President George W. Bush branded Iran's president a tyrant and compared leaders in Tehran to al-Qaeda terrorists who cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. “America will not bow down to tyrants,” he said in the second of a series of election-year speeches defending his handling of the war on terrorism and Iraq. “The world's free nations will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.” Mr Bush accused Iran of funding the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and other groups “to attack Israel and America by proxy” and said Hezbollah was second only to al-Qaeda in the number of...

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Totalitarian killers in pursuit of a murderous utopian agenda can always count on the New York Times to transform them into noble representatives of the popular will. Whether Stalin or Hitler, Pol Pot, or Mao, Fidel, Che or Arafat, the Times will humanize them. The archetype was cuddly Uncle Joe Stalin as seen through the eyes of Walter Duranty. Count on Duranty's successors to enlighten us about how personable these tyrants are...