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As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame. As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem. Americans have

Here is video of Gov. Bobby Jindal appearing last night on CNN's Larry King Live. King talked with Jindal about Obama's plans for the economy and the criticism Jindal has received for his GOP Response Speech last week. Jindal did a great job facing up to the criticism, admitting he is not as good a speaker as Obama, but his ideals and principles are right. Jindal was predictably asked if he agreed with Rush Limbaugh about wanting President Obama to "fail," and he answered it perfectly! He affirmed Rush as a "great leader of conservatives," and said Rush is saying...

In his campaign and inaugural address, Barack Obama cast himself as a moderate man seeking common ground with conservatives. Yet, his budget calls for the radical restructuring of the U.S. economy, a sweeping redistribution of power and wealth to government and Democratic constituencies. It is a declaration of war on the Right. The real Obama has stood up, and lived up to his ranking as the most left-wing member of the United States Senate. Barack has no mandate for this. He was even behind McCain when the decisive event that gave him the presidency occurred -- the September collapse of...

Word For The Day, Tuesday, March 3, 2009 In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". tatterdemalion [pôrt-mān'tō, pōrt-, pôrt'mān-tō', pōrt'-] -nA person wearing ragged or tattered clothing; a ragamuffin. -adj. Ragged; tattered.

Reconstructing Hamas   By P. David HornikFrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=56EEA73F-4CFE-4F8E-A172-B1A8F87DBF33 Against the backdrop of even worse news about Iran’s inching toward nuclearization, the news about Iran’s vanguard on the southwestern border of Israel—Hamas—also isn’t good. Despite Israel’s attempt, during and immediately after Operation Cast Lead, to focus U.S. and European attention on the problem of Hamas’s arms smuggling under Egypt’s none too watchful gaze, that problem continues unabated and the rocket attacks are steadily mounting again. And not only is it militarily recovering, the terror group is making diplomatic progress as well.With Hamas and Fatah now...

Julia is a fairly typical 16-year-old girl: she is crazy about boys, concerned about being fashionable, doesn't appreciate homework, loves pizza - and she "cuts". For those who aren't familiar with the term - and whose imaginations might be thinking the worst about what it means to "cut" - I'm afraid I only have very sad news: "cutting" means you take a knife or razor and use it to actually dig into your own flesh. This barbaric practice is common among today's precious teen women. Some school counselors estimate that the majority of middle and high school aged girls have...

(Note: Targum permits linkage only.) A scheduled performance of "The Rocky Horror Show" has been running into quite a bit of difficulty - in the form of official demands and restrictions. I've never been privileged (???) to see this show, but understand it entails considerable,enthusiastic audience participation - something the authorities find threatening. (Transylvanian transvestites ??? An acquired taste, I suppose.)

You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation. We support health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs. But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in...

Jim Cramer is a man of the markets. But he’s also a self-confessed Democrat. So when he pulverizes the president’s plans, there’s no partisan impulse in play. On this morning’s Today, Cramer described President Obama as having a “radical agenda” that is “the greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a president.” A bit later, Cramer foresaw the possibility of a depression, and called on the president to mend his ways. View video here.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Al Lewis, who was known as “Uncle Al” on a long-running children’s television show that aired nationally in the 1950s, has died. He was 84. Lewis produced and starred in “The Uncle Al Show,” which ran daily from 1950 to 1985 on WCPO-TV. The show aired nationally on ABC affiliates on Saturday mornings over two years in the late 1950s. He died Saturday of natural causes at an extendedcare facility in Hillsboro, Ohio, said Craig Turner, of Turner and Son Funeral Home, which is handling arrangements. Dressed in a straw hat, a bow tie and an ever-present...

Secure the Border - Enforcement First E-verify System Killed by Stimulus Bill Tax Dollars to go to Illegals The monstrous Stimulus bill that was forced down our throats is rearing its ugly head. At the pleasure of the President and the Democrats in Congress all language referring to the E-verify system was removed from the bill. This is huge, the E-verify system was designed to be a system that would track where the money from the stimulus bill was going and how it was being used. Anyone that received money from the government would need to be registered in this...

ATTENTION WV FREEPERS! This is your call to action. We will hold a Tea Party right here in West Virginia, on the steps of the State Capitol in Charleston. Date: April 15th, 2009 Time: 10a.m. Get started now by telling the boss you won't be at work that day. Then, get busy with your best protest sign making skillz and put together a few signs to bring with you. We are looking to secure a couple of special speakers for the event. If you know of someone in the area that would be willing to speak, let them know about...

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Pickering votes for Earth HourThe lights go out March 28 Mar 02, 2009 - 03:09 PM PICKERING -- The City of Pickering is one of 680 cities across the globe already committed to turning the lights out for Earth Hour. At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, the City will turn off non-essential lighting at all municipal buildings where feasible for one hour. This year's campaign is featuring "the first global election between Earth and global warming." Basically, those who switch off their lights will be voting for Earth, and those who leave them on will vote for global warming....

Even the film and television industry, one of the few fields generating profits in the throes of this recession, says it needs government help to stay in New York. At a news conference at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, dozens of film and television workers gathered on Monday to ask politicians to expand the incentive program offered to their industry in the past few years, not scale it back as planned. The program, which offers studios tax credits from the city and state for up to 35 percent of the production costs — 30 percent from the state and 5...

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." -- FDR We Americans, complain though we may, are a generation to which much has been given. We have enjoyed a level of power and prosperity that has exceeded anything known by human beings in world history. Our military has been impossible to defeat in conventional battle and our industry has been the engine of the world economy. Not only do we feed the world, we make much of its medicine...

..."Urgent news media has just been published in many media, including the channel of East .. Confirm the occupation of territory, including a new island (or lead) by Iran, Iraq, as reported breaking news that the Iranian Foreign Ministry today demanded the inclusion of the port of Iraqi civilian side ..!.."

Take Your Medicine Today's Scripture "A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones" (Proverbs 17:22, AMP). Today's Word from Joel and Victoria So many people today live with sickness, headaches, digestive problems, lack of energy and so much more because they don't have the joy they should. They aren't sleeping well at night and are living under so much stress and pressure. But the Bible tells us that when we are happy and joyful, it's like medicine to our bodies. One of the greatest stress relievers God...

President Obama's budget is so ambitious, with vast new spending on health care, energy independence, education and services for veterans, that experts say he probably will need to hire tens of thousands of new federal government workers to realize his goals. The $3.6 trillion plan released last week proposes spending billions to begin initiatives and implement existing programs, and given Obama's insistence that he would scale back the use of private-sector contractors, his priorities could reverse a generational decline in the size of the government workforce. Exactly how many new workers would be needed remains unclear -- one independent estimate...