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-- All pro-gunners urged to join this critical fightMonday, June 29, 2009 Gun Owners of America applauds immediate past NRA President Sandy Froman, who stepped up to the plate last week with a call to arms for all NRA members to vigorously oppose the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. (See the article below). GOA has been calling on our members to oppose this nomination since it is clear that Sotomayor is anti-Second Amendment and wants to legislate from the bench. The official position from current NRA leadership is to take a "wait and see" approach to the...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya says all he wanted was to conduct a public opinion poll — even though the supreme court had ruled it illegal, the attorney general threatened to arrest him, and he faced mutiny in the armed forces.

The Supreme Court, in a morning of triumph for simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense, struck down Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s cursory dismissal of the Ricci appeal. The justices’ time was well-spent in deciding reasonably, but the people’s time has been thoroughly, meticulously wasted — five years of litigation, public salaries, dry cleaning fees, careers, the damned paper and power used, and the wasted daylight. And wasted not because the case could have been wisely ruled upon in lower court, but because Mayor DeStefano, Judge Arterton, Judge Sotomayor, and the four Supremes in the minority constitute far too many people...

The Communist Party USA’s position on the recent non-coup in Honduras is markedly congruous with Barack Obama’s: “The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) joins with the world in denouncing the coup d’état this morning against the legally elected president of the Republic of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, by the Honduran military, in which, according to a statement by the president’s wife, Mr. Zelaya was threatened and beaten before being sent into exile in Costa Rica.

A new Vanity Fair article on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has re-ignited animosities among feuding high-profile Republican advisers who worked on Arizona Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. The in-depth profile, which describes Palin as the "sexiest and the riskiest brand in the Republican Party," raises questions about McCain's decision to pick the Alaska governor as his running mate and her "disastrous" performance in the 2008 campaign -- sparking a vicious back-and-forth between former advisers to the GOP ticket. "Perhaps most painful, how could John McCain, one of the cagiest survivors in contemporary politics...ever have picked a person whose utter...

The NY Times enlisted Tony Judt to launch a broadside against Jewish building in Judea-Samaria, the Golan, and annexed areas of Jerusalem (6/22). Mr. Judt started with history, including his having lived on an Israeli kibbutz. [I found the history selective and irrelevant to his topic. It makes him appear like a good Jew, the way antisemites like to say that some of their best friends are Jews. Half the antisemites would accept him. He is notoriously anti-Zionist.] The main point of the Op-Ed was that settlements in the areas named above are illegal, as contrasted with legal settlements in...

  I have a suggestion for those in academia who are concerned that women be treated as intellectual equals: Try sexual modesty. Before the lynching party arrives, I hope I will have time to explain.   I have taught at several colleges, one of which has a dress code. To many, a dress code seems old-fashioned at best, a puri-tyrannical breach of our right to freedom of speech at worst. (It should worry us that clothing is considered speech.) But allow me to present two examples -- male and female -- that illustrate how sexual modesty is related to the...

Hebron -- Uriya and 80 other first grade boys received their certificates last month on completing their study of the entire book of Genesis. That's an important achievement in many Jewish day schools in the United States, usually accomplished only in the third grade. What was truly unique about Uriya's reception was its location: The Shrine of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron in the West Bank. Meorat HaMachpeila, the traditional site of the graves of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah, is the second holiest site in Judaism after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The...

Activist alleges abuse of power TBI questions man for posting ‘Battle of Athens’ message on Internet By SKYLER SWISHER/ sswisher@c-dh.net FLY — A Maury County political activist says the secretary of state used the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as a tool to intimidate him because of his efforts to advocate election reform. But a spokesman for Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett says the secretary was only concerned about what he deemed to be a possible threat of violence. The dispute started when Bernie Ellis, a resident of the Fly community, referenced a civil uprising called the Battle of Athens,...

OXFORD, Fla. -- A two-year-old girl was strangled by a python at her family's home in Oxford. It is unknown whether the snake was a pet and how the child came in contact with the animal. Pythons can kill by wrapping themselves around a human. Whit Gibbons, a professor of ecology at the University of Georgia, told the Associated Press that "A human is just another prey item to a python -- especially a small human. "A 20-foot python, if it grabbed one of us, would bite us and then within just, instantly, seconds, it would be wrapped all the...

Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights. Think about it. Why in the world would they have written the First Amendment prohibiting Congress from enacting any law that abridges freedom of speech and the press? The answer is that in the absence of such a limitation Congress would abridge free speech and free press. That same distrust of Congress explains the other amendments found in our Bill of Rights protecting rights such as our rights to property, fair trial...

Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that congressional enactment of Representative Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) bill mandating that the Federal Reserve be audited “could destroy our way of life.” The legislation (H.R. 1207) has been garnering significant bipartisan support that may give it a good chance of passing. “Secrecy is essential for the Fed to operate properly,” Bernanke insisted. “The kind of disclosure that would accompany an audit would impede our ability to manage the money supply. Individuals would be armed with information enabling them to take actions that could thwart our objectives.” As an example, the Federal Reserve Chairman...

Eleven score, ten and three years later are we now in a Global Civil War? The consent of the governed. It is that ideal which is fragile and rare in History. Known as "Liberty" it is that consent of the governed that is at risk in this war. For one group of people the prize is the wealth and power gained by establishing a global tyranny of the Elite. For the other, for all of us, if you are with me, and with the Founders of the United States of America, the prize is simple. Freedom to do that which...

Accustomed as he is to public speaking here and around the country, David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, can read an audience as well as anyone. Lately, he says, he is "hearing a growing number of questions and concerns about the U.S.-Israel relationship, and a sense that the Obama administration’s response to the Iran crisis was slower than it should have been." Harris is not alone. Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, says the normal anxiety level among American Jews when a new administration takes shape has been heightened to new levels because President Obama...

Dear Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton; I am a missionary here in Honduras for the past 13 years. I am also a retired Air Force Master Sergeant of 22 years. My pride and devotion to our country, I believe, is unquestionable. However, you have made me ashamed, not of my country, but of its leaders, specifically you. How could you possibly make such a rash and irresponsible decision to support a “would be” dictator and Hugo Chavez follower without taking even a moment to investigate the overwhelming evidence that repudiates his lies? You are, by your irresponsible statements of support...

The crippling gridlock in the New York State Senate is actually an opportunity — state lawmakers have a one-time chance to reform the legislature’s fundamental partisan flaws. The Senate is in a deadlock between Democrats and Republicans, with each party possessing 31 members of the 62-seat senate. New York Gov. David Patterson has called for a special session of the Senate every day since the regular session of the Senate ended on Jun. 22 without voting on basic appointments and legislation. Both parties rebuffed the governor by convening separately for a total of three minutes to satisfy only the minimum...

But I'm confident that those forces will fail. The future belongs to those who build, not those who destroy. And today's transition is further proof that those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history.

Tie a black ribbon made of any material available (strip of fabric, black garbage bag or other material) on trees, streetlight poles, antennas and anything else that you choose to decorate. *Arm Band The black ribbon represents the certain death of the American economy that this bill will bring.

On June 24, Iranian Superstar Andy Madadian went into an LA recording studio with Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and American record producers Don Was and John Shanks to record a musical message of worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran. This version of the old Ben E. King classic is not for sale - it was not meant to be on the Billboard charts or even manufactured as a CD.....it's intended to be downloaded and shared by the Iranian people...to give voice to the sentiment that all people of the world stand together....the handwritten Farsi sign in the video...

There was a comment posted on this YouTube video by a user, which caught my attention: "...if I had one to choose over the other, I would now choose Bush, however I voted for Obama and now I am sorry that I did. He is trying to control too much. I haven't benefited from anything since he has been in office, have you?" It looks like people are finally waking up! I think the 2010 and 2012 elections are looking very bright!