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If you strapped Bill Clinton to a polygraph (or some lie detector that can’t be fooled by the Clintons)—I suspect he, too, might confess to a preference for Vladimir Putin over Barack Obama. Mr. Clinton had been appropriately scathing, in 2008, about Obama’s mythical status in the media. A “fairy tale,” he called the current president. However, his wife and her supporters on The Hill and in media have ruled that any remotely realistic utterance about the Russian president—such as that he's a strong leader who’s popular with his people and acts in their interests—puts you outside the camp of...

Yesterday the Council on American Islamic Relations whined about Congressional candidate Lynne Torgerson and her views on Islam. Today the crybabies of CAIR have targeted Christian evangelist Franklin Graham for stating that true Islam cannot be practiced here as it contradicts our laws. Obviously CAIR does not like the truth. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it has received a number of complaints from concerned Muslims who watched an interview last night on CNN during which Graham stated in part: To view the short video....

VILLAGE IDIOTS Social engineering: "I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skill people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers. I have nothing against white male construction workers. I'm just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well..." --former Labor Secretary Robert Reich From the peacenik files: "I have believed for some time that military power is no solution to terrorism. ... So let me suggest a truly audacious hope for [the Obama] administration: How about a five-year time-out on war...

DUBROVNIK -- Daniel Fried has called on Serbia Saturday to give up on Kosovo and choose a future within the EU instead. "The question for Serbia is not whether it tries to keep a hold on Kosovo because Slobodan Milošević lost it, rather whether it wants to embrace Europe " US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried said in an interview with AFP. "The answer from us is: you are welcome, we want you," he said. Fried spoke on the margins of a summit of Southeast European countries held in the Croatian resort of Dubrovnik named The...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The leaders of a village in the Indian state of Rajasthan ordered 150 men to dip their hands into boiling oil to prove their innocence after food was stolen from a local school, a newspaper reported Sunday. In late August the school's principal informed police that rice and wheat had disappeared but no action was taken, the Sunday Express said. The council, or panchayat, of Ranpur village, 340 km (210 miles) south of state capital Jaipur, then decided to take the law into its own hands. After 10 days spent trying to identify those responsible, it...

An analysis of its effect begins 2 years after adoption. More than two years after guaranteeing employees of Broward County government and its contractors would be paid almost $5 above the minimum wage, county officials have no idea how much the higher pay has cost taxpayers, how many people have benefited or whether companies complied with the requirement. Although the total cost of the living-wage ordinance is not known, it has run into the millions on one contract alone. County commissioners approved a janitorial contract last week that will cost an extra $3.1 million a year because of the law....

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA

THE FOUNDATION "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." --James Madison, Federalist No. 57 INSIGHT "The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." --Ronald Reagan "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. There are boxes of rocks smarter than some people in the spotlight Is it just us, or has Earth been experiencing a bumper crop of stupid people lately? From vapid celebrity bimbos to jocks wallowing in their own clueless self-absorption, a lack of smarts seems to have become epidemic both around the globe and, certainly, here in the good old U.S. of A. In fact, just when our collective IQ seems to have hit bottom (see: Hilton, Paris), we discover there's a brand-new bottom (see: Crocodile Hunter, The). It has become...

Researchers help define what makes a political conservative By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 22 July 2003 BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations? Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: * Fear and aggression * Dogmatism and intolerance of...