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"A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain," wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet. That is even truer today, in the age of mass media, when demagogues can be elected president on the strength of their nice smiles and sucker-tailored sales pitches. Every age gets the demagogues it deserves. The Nineties had Bill Clinton, the first Boomer socialist to become President of the United States, with Hillary as an extra added attraction. Bill was proclaimed "a really good liar" by a fellow Democrat politician, Bob Kerrey. Two years later, enough voters were shocked by the Clinton White House to elect...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, while talking to Mike Allen and the "Morning Joe" crew about Obama's video address to kids, sounded off on conservative hosts' criticizing the president's message to work hard and stay in school. "Get your ratings if you want, you're just screwing your political party," Scarborough said. SEE VIDEO AT LINK

Ralph Peters is spot-on in regards to the investigations into CIA operatives who kept our country safe during the Bush administration ("Punishing Patriots," PostOpinion, Sept. 1). It seems that President Obama & Co. care more about the rights of terrorists, violent criminals and sex offenders than they do about the safety of American citizens. Law-enforcement officers should use any reasonable interrogation method to ensure that sickos like Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Phillip Garrido are unable to cause any further harm to humanity. For some delusional reason, the left is in disagreement. M. Nugent Staten Island *** What will it take...

Meg Whitman, airhead, corporate, RINO, paternalizing, clueless typical big business GOP/RNC dolt goes all ga ga over Commie green affirmative action poster boy, Van Jones.( aka, Obama Mini Me ). EnjoyClick here, or at link above.

The Obama Health Care Plan Let me see if I could understand the Obama Government Health Care Program. Our government had been denying veterans claims for health care for years. Our government gave Veterans crappy service at Walter Reed Veteran Hospital. Our government found out that they contaminated a few veterans by given them Hepatitis and HIV. Our government is having our veterans pay for their own combat related Injuries. Let's not forget having our Veterans identity stolen recently by a VA staff Worker. In addition, we have not had a VA Hospital in Southern Nevada since 2003. Oh yea,...

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Scott Garig and Dale Davidson LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net September 5:: Scott Garig former Navy enlisted and political activist:: Dale Davidson owner of KEEN-TV 17:: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and co-hosted by Ronda Baldwin Kennedy on www.alltalkradio.net. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and hosts at (702) 309-6690.

Daily Newser Dave Saltonstall gets an advance copy of Ted Kennedy's posthumously-released memoir "True Compass" -- in which the Massachusetts senator used the platform to defend his inexplicable decision to abandon Mary Jo Kopechne after his car plunged off the bridge. Among the other revelations: A nine-year-old Teddy hid under the bunk at a private school in the Bronx because he was afraid of being sexually abused by the dorm master -- and the senator claims he was cajoled into cheating on a Spanish test at Harvard by a buddy and didn't hatch the scheme that resulted in his expulsion....

Vice President Joe Biden tried to blunt lingering skepticism of the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus plan Thursday. “I believe this was the right thing to do morally,” Biden said in a speech the White House billed as a major address. “It was also the smart thing to do economically.” Biden’s 35-minute speech included a look back at the state of the economy when President Barack Obama took office, a detailed defense of the stimulus package’s effectiveness in its second 100 days and a plea for patience as it continues to make more of an impact. The vice president touched...

A high-profile White House official is apologizing for a series of provocative statements on race and politics, and denying he ever backed a statement suggesting President Bush was complicit in the September 11 terror attacks, which appeared above his signature. "Green jobs" pioneer Van Jones -- who made his name fusing environmentalism with anti-poverty efforts in California -- said in a statement through the White House press office: In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration – some of which were made years ago. If I have offended...

There comes a time when you're tired of holding it in. There comes a time when you don't care what people will think or say. There comes a time when someone has to say what many have to be thinking. People in this country were sold a bill of goods on Barack Obama. We were all told he was this "post racial" candidate that would bring the nation together. We were told to give the man a chance to heal the ethnic divides in this country. The problem is that from the beginning of his presidential candidacy (up to now),...

President Obama finds himself the target of similar criticism he leveled at his predecessor for trying to increase executive power. --- Candidate Barack Obama criticized President Bush for trying to increase executive power. Now President Obama finds himself the target of similar criticism as his growing army of czars raises concerns and questions about his authority. Candidate Obama's complaints were usually about Bush excluding Congress from national security and civil liberty matters. But Republicans say his czars are shutting Congress out of health care and environmental issues. By some accounts, there are close to three dozen so-called czars in the...

'After I read the story, we’ll have an even gooder conversation, the 44-year veteran Congressman said..........'

FOR POLITICIANS with major bad news to release or to make public, there's no time like the dead of August to do it. The thinking goes that the public won't remember a thing come September. We hope Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) will have no such luck. His belated revelation of previously unreported income, property and bank accounts demands that he step aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Rangel's amended financial disclosure form, which exposes omissions from his 2002 through 2006 records, is a treasure trove of outrage. He neglected to report a checking account...

A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur." Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called "Truther" movement which suggests that people in the administration of President...

Prayer for the Dead 970. How do you know that you can help the souls in purgatory by your prayers? God would not have inspired the Jews to pray for the departed if such prayers were of no avail. Christians have always prayed for the dead, a practice fully warranted by the doctrine of the Communion of Saints. And if we can pray for our dear ones who are in trouble in this life, our prayers can certainly follow them in their future difficulties. All prayer is addressed to the same God who is as present to the souls of...

<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi miscalculated by not forcing a House vote on health care reform prior to the summer recess, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert said today.</p> <p>"The speaker probably made a strategic mistake by not jamming a (health care) bill through before they went home for break," said Hastert, in town to campaign for his former colleague, Congressman Todd Tiahrt who is running for the U.S. Senate in Kansas.</p>

MY DAILY BREAD A Summary of the Spiritual Life Simplified and Arranged for Daily Reading, Reflection and Prayer By Anthony J. Paone, S.J. 1954 A meditation manual designed to take the reader through the various stages of spiritual growth (Arranged and edited by Br. Sean, a choir monk, 2008) The Confraternity of the Precious Blood Edition has Imprimatur   BOOK ONE: The Way of Purification   PART ONE:CONVERSION CHAPTER 1Man's Purpose on Earth CHRIST: MY CHILD, the highest goal of your life is union with Me in Heaven. Let your intentions throughout the day be guided by this truth....

HAMTRAMCK - Residents and civil rights advocates are appalled that Asm Kamal Rahman, a leading voice in the successful ballot initiative to overturn a local anti-discrimination ordinance last year, is now sitting on the boards of civil rights groups in southeast Michigan.

Note: Includes an audio file that starts immediately with the article. # SNIPPET: "Last night's overnight RapidRecon post, Jim Jones: Another Job 'Created or Saved'?, was an exercise in frustration. I had initially done an interview last night on Dr. Melissa Clouthier's popular show, The Right Doctor. The first I heard of National Security Advisor Jim Jones's claim that President Obama has effected a more productive global counterterrorism strategy than President George W. Bush had was when Melissa Clouthier read it to me in the opening of her show. Clearly, by 2:00AM, my reaction here at ThreatsWatch hadn't changed or...

When I grow up I want to be a corrupt official On the first day of term, Southern Metropolis Daily asked primary school children in Guangzhou what they want to be when they grow up. Here are some of the answers:(After much head scratching) “I don’t know”“A photographer”“A painter”“A pilot”“A fireman, because firemen can help people put out fires”And then there was this girl:“I want to be an official”“What kind of official?”“A corrupt official, because corrupt officials have a lot of things.”