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The Egyptian born "Muslim Brotherhood" has tentacles in 70 countries and is growing in The United States. This influential gang of cultist thugs is a secret Islamic Society with ties to terrorism and operates from the suburbs of Chicago, Detroit and Boston to recruit members. The group champions martyrdom and jihad and has provided the philosophical underpinnings for Muslim militants worldwide, and creates havens for Muslims in the U.S. Their strategy has been dawah or Islamic renewal and outreach. College students, Black U.S. military personnel and prison inmates are specifically targeted for indoctrination. (Islamic entities created the Muslim Chaplain corp...

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's ruling Peronist Party was dealt a serious blow in Sunday's mid-term election with its loss of control of Congress. Her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, was defeated in his race against wealthy businessman Francisco de Narvaez for a seat representing the populous Buenos Aires province. Voters cast ballots Sunday for representatives for half of the lower house of Congress and one-third of the Senate posts. Complete results have yet to be announced. Allies of President Fernandez have controlled the Argentinian Congress for six years. But recent polls indicated...

No aspect of the American economy is so insignificant that Barack Obama won't try to control it. This became even more apparent today, when Obama announced that he will tell you what type of light bulb you can have, and what type of light bulb American businesses are allowed to make. Can anyone really continue to deny that Obama is a socialist? It should be abundantly clear by now that Obama lusts to socialize health care. While I believe great danger lies in government control of industry, it is at least understandable that many Americans think that the federal government...

Two video tributes to the brave Iranian demonstrators: Michael Jackson video with Iranian protesters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvOx4avw8WY&feature=related A TRIBUTE TO THE COURAGEOUS AND BRAVE CITIZENS OF IRAN - Election June 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8hYLt534I&NR=1

The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group, is considering running ads in the Republican Party's Senate primary race against Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for supporting higher state taxes and President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus spending package. Mr. Crist's opponent for the Republican Party's nomination next year is former state Speaker of the House Marco Rubio, a young conservative running on cutting government spending and taxes who recently met here with the Club for Growth, which has a strong reputation for defeating liberal and moderate Republicans in party primaries with its aggressive ad campaigns. "We recently interviewed Marco Rubio...

I don't know if it's safe to copy this newsletter, but the excerpt below pretty much sums it up. "Bottom line: The first quarter brought the greatest credit collapse of all time."

President Obama's Iran policy is incoherent and obsolete. Maybe David Axelrod should take note. On Sunday, Mr. Obama's consigliere was asked about Iran by ABC's George Stephanopoulos and NBC's David Gregory. Mr. Gregory asked whether there "should be consequences" for the regime's violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations. "The consequences, I think, will unfold over time in Iran," answered Mr. Axelrod. Mr. Stephanopoulos quoted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying that "this time, the Iranian nation's reply will be harsh and more decisive to make the West regret its meddlesome stance." Said Mr. Axelrod, "I'm not going to entertain his bloviations...

SNIPPET: "The "coup" in the Central American nation of Honduras is the first major blow to the Marxist expansion sponsored by Hugo Chavez, but the American people are to a great extent being kept in the dark by the centralized news media." SNIPPET: "Chavez's threats against the new Honduran government should be taken seriously. The sale of sophisticated small arms, advanced jet fighters, and battle tanks by Russia to Venezuela has made the Chavez regime a significant regional power. Chavez has close ties with the most important guerrilla group in the region, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombian, a Marxist...

Alaska's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors." That's how one longtime friend and campaign trail companion of John McCain, the vanquished 2008 GOP presidential nominee, described veep nominee Sarah Palin. In an expansive story in the August edition of Vanity Fair, a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team told reporter Todd S. Purdum that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt following the 2008 presidential election.

In the wake of the overwhelming stupidity shown by 219 members of the House of Representatives on Friday in passing the energy bill without doing a cost to benefit analysis on any portion of the bill, we today have access to a quashed report drafted at the EPA on the uncertainties over man made global warming climate change. From the report: We have become increasingly concerned that the EPA and many other agencies and countries have paid too little attention to the science of global warming. EPA and other have tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups, particularly...

Sex scandals like Governor Sanford’s and John Ensign’s are private matters that don’t affect public policy and shoot down rising political stars. It’s time to end hypocrisy in America.When I first heard about Governor Sanford’s sex scandal, I was flooded with disappointment for many reasons. Particularly since his admission of an extramarital affair came so closely after Nevada Senator Ensign made a similar confession. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I am younger, or that just have a more open-minded view of politicians and sex, but it’s of very little concern to me who elected officials sleep with....

Organized labor is dictating a large portion of the Obama administration's work, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) alleged Monday. "The unions are running a lot of this administration," McCain said during an appearance on the Mike Broomhead show on local radio station KFYI. "Look what just happened with Chrysler and General Motors," McCain added.

Tonight, while Honduras fights for responsible government, our esteemed commander in chief sides with the Leftist Marxist contingent of Central and South America. Is this surprising? Of course not. If Ronald Reagan were still in power, America would be the first country to send in advisors and troops and supplies. But we live in Obama’s America now—the little shell of a once-proud nation that has no backbone once again. Mr. Obama, instead of doing the right thing and supporting the new Honduran regime cowers back into his little feckless world of latte drinkers and pot smokers and takes the road...

LONDON: In an astonishing revelation found in the memoirs of Christa Schroeder, Adolf Hitler’s secretary, Hitler often hallucinated about happier romantic times because his doctor often injected him with hormones procured from the testicles of bulls. According to Schroeder’s book, the Führer’s mood was known to change in the blink of an eye, and his periodic bursts of bonhomie perplexed and overwhelmed most in his inner circle. Schroeder worked for the Führer from 1933 until the end in May 1945. Hitler became so relaxed in Schroeder’s company that he would talk with surprising openness about his childhood. Schroeder was arrested...

The visit last month of two Spanish government officials to Madrid's Temple Square capped the Church's celebration of the 40th anniversary of Spain being dedicated to the preaching of the gospel. Nearly 40 years to the day after Elder Marion G. Romney -- then of the Quorum of the Twelve -- dedicated Spain to the preaching of the gospel, the Church hosted Jose Maria Contreras and Jose Manuel Lopez from the Spanish Ministry of Justice on May 19 during a tour of Madrid's Temple Square. The visits of Mr. Contreras, Director of Relations with Religious Organizations, and Mr. Lopez, Director...

Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya, deposed in a coup on Sunday, has flown from Costa-Rica to Nicaragua to take part in an emergency regional summit, Mexican media reported on Monday. Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez provided his personal plane to take Zelaya to the summit, which will see the participation of over 15 regional leaders, including those of Mexico, Ecuador and Cuba. The situation in Honduras will top the agenda. Chavez, one of Zelaya's strongest allies, also threatened military action if Venezuela's envoy in Honduras was attacked. Honduran military arrested Zelaya on Sunday morning, the same day polls were due to...

President Obama on Monday called the coup that ousted Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras "not legal" and joined with the voices of leaders across the Americas in demanding that democracy be respected. Mr. Zelaya was arrested Sunday morning and flown into exile in Costa Rica, but Mr. Obama said he "remains the president of Honduras, the democratically elected president there." "It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections," Mr. Obama said after meeting with Colombian President...

So, as it turns out, U.S. President Barack Obama is not "God" when it comes to dealing with the Islamic world, after all. This, contrary to that gushingly inane description of him by Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas, following Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo, seeking reconciliation with Muslims. Unfortunately, just eight days after giving that speech, Obama was confronted by Iran's deadly crushing of citizen protests over an election now widely seen both inside and outside Iran as hopelessly corrupt. This would be the same Iran Obama had just finished telling the world in Cairo he was prepared to work...

Britain faces “riots on the streets” if Gordon Brown’s “dishonesty” over public spending enables him to win the next election, David Cameron said. The Conservative leader’s warning added to the escalating row over the Government’s spending commitments as the Prime Minister attempted to relaunch his premiership with a series of policy announcements. Mr Cameron accused Mr Brown of “deceit, dishonesty and deception” after Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, admitted that the Government would not publish a spending review before the next election. In what was the Tory leader’s strongest attack yet on Mr Brown’s integrity, he all but called him...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The United States will sign an agreement Tuesday to forgive nearly $30 million in Indonesian debt in return for the large Southeast Asian country agreeing to protect forests on Sumatra Island, which is home to endangered tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutan. The deal is the largest so-called debt-for-nature swap the U.S. government has organized so far under the U.S. Tropical Forest Conservation Act and its first such pact with Indonesia, which has one of the fastest deforestation rates in the world, losing an area of forest the size of Switzerland annually. Under the deal, Indonesia will pay...