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The United States economy shed 216,000 jobs in August as the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Friday. Here is how economists and other analysts reacted:Joshua Shapiro, economist, MFR Inc: “[W]hether or not today’s and other recent reports overstate the case, the improving trend of the labor market after the autumn/winter carnage cannot be denied. What is still very much open to question is how fast the move will be to stabilization of payrolls and eventually to job growth. We continue to believe that the process will be a slow...

What was the SEC was doing...? But first, what the stock market and the economy are doing... In the past two days, the price of gold has shot up more than $40. It's now near $1,000 an ounce. Why? We don't know. Rumors, talk, noise...there's plenty of that. But as for why investors are suddenly putting so much money into gold, we'll have to wait to find out. But should you buy gold now? The answer is simple: yes and no. The Trade of the Decade is still buy gold/sell stocks. And the decade isn't over. If you have...

Exonerees will get $80,000 for each year they spent behind bars. The compensation also includes lifetime annuity payments that for most of the wrongly convicted are worth between $40,000 and $50,000 a year — making it by far the nation's most generous package. Dallas County alone has 21 cases in which a judge overturned guilty verdicts based on DNA evidence, though prosecutors plan to retry one of those.

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From inside the Obama White House, green jobs czar Van Jones has been orchestrating a campaign to greenwash the meaning of 9/11 using federal resources and a political front group he founded, new research suggests. It is unclear if this is illegal but at a minimum it raises questions about ethics, self-dealing, and the proper use of U.S. government resources. *snip* As I wrote last week, about 60 groups including ACORN, Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, and Rainbow PUSH Coalition are trying to help the Obama administration modify the meaning of 9/11. They want to turn each Sept. 11 into...

You wouldn't know it if you relied on the MSM, but the Van Jones stink smells worse by the minute. It would appear, for security reasons, that Google is not available on West Wing computers. The track record of the Smartest Administration Ever when it comes to potential and actual hires makes one curious as to what exactly is asked during the vetting process.

Jones likens Bush to a 'crackhead' in latest video gaffe By Tony Romm - 09/04/09 02:33 PM ET Another video of White House green jobs czar Van Jones has hit the Web today: This time, Jones labels former President George W. Bush a "crackhead" for his policy to lower the price of foreign oil. Although it is unclear when and where Jones delivered his diatribe, this latest video is the first in which the subject of Jones' remarks somewhat relates to his work with the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The clip picks up with Jones in the middle...

The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report. Scientists familiar with the work, to be published Friday in the journal Science, said it provided fresh evidence that human activity is not only warming the globe, particularly the Arctic, but could also even fend off what had been presumed to be an inevitable descent into a new ice age over the next few dozen millenniums. The reversal of the slow cooling trend in the...

ATLANTA (September 4, 2009) – This week, Senator John Douglas (R-Social Circle) fought to ensure that Georgia classrooms were given the opportunity to choose how their class time is used during the broadcast of President Barack Obama’s “Back- to-School” address. As a result, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) released a statement to Georgia school systems noting that instructional time is a valuable commodity for schools and if a decision is made to show the video, it is important that its viewing and any subsequent discussion be tied directly to the standards being taught at the school. In addition, the...

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Avowed Communist and Barack Obama Administration "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones late yesterday released via the White House press office a statement apologizing for offending anyone with any of a series of inflammatory and indeed ridiculous things he has said in the (very recent) past. The latest bit of Jones inanity news was in fact not something he said, but rather something on to which he signed. That would be an October 26, 2004 "Truth Statement" that asserts amongst other things that President George W. Bush had a hand in the September 11th terrorist attacks. Making Jones a 9-11 "Truther"...

September 4, 2009Exclusive: Obama Youth or the Wages of Charisma Rita Kramer Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what you can do for me.   When it was decided that the President would address the schoolchildren of the nation in a speech this coming Tuesday, the administration’s Department of Education obligingly prepared materials for teachers to help them guide classroom discussions of the speech. One suggestion, asking students to “Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President,” caused something of a stir. The intention, the White House hastened to explain...

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled he's open to compromising on the government-run insurance option that is roiling the health care debate back in Washington. Speaking to reporters near the home where he grew up in this rural mining town south of Las Vegas, Reid said that Finance Committee negotiations over a "trigger" for a public option are something "we're going to look at." This trigger concept has gained steam in recent days; under this proposal the government would only start offering health insurance if the private insurance industry did not meet certain benchmarks for covering the...

This isn't going to quiet any time soon. Now Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), a top member of the subcommittee that oversees green jobs, wants a congressional hearing on Van Jones, the Obama environmental czar who's under fire for his past affiliation with the 9/11 conspiracy "truthers" and for calling Republicans "a**holes" in a video before he was appointed to the Obama administration. Bond just released a letter he wrote to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the chairman of the Green Jobs and New Economy Subcommittee, saying Jones "is becoming increasingly erratic and unstable as reflected by incendiary comments and repugnant associations...

Here is a CNN video report that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs characterized as "silly season," the concern of parents and schools over President Obama's Speech to school children next Tuesday, September 8. Gibbs apparently made the remarks when asked for a response to the firestorm created by Obama's plan to speak simultaneously to America's school children via a Live Broadcast next week. Of course, the White House is trying to spin this as nothing different than Republican Presidents have done in the past. But, no Republican President has sent out preparation packets urging children to write out how...

On Thursday's Special Report with Bret Baier, FNC host Baier ran a report by correspondent James Rosen describing a "troubling pattern of behavior" by President Obama's Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones. The report noted some of the controversial statements and connections of Jones, who has not only described himself in the past with such words as "Marxist" and "radical," but has also been linked to 9/11 Truthers and radical groups such as one organization whose manifesto "equated those killed on 9/11 with, quote, 'the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.'" The report also showed a clip of Jones from...

President Obama has decided to change the significance of September 11, 2001. It will no longer be a day of fear, which he feels gives an advantage to the national-security conscious Republican Party. Now it will be a day dedicated to something more befitting the Kumbaya Democrat Party. He signed into law on April 21 "The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act" designating a "September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance."

BERLIN--We're here at IFA at the Sony press conference, where Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer reckons the "3D train is on the track--and we're the ones to drive it home." 3D is Sony's big push, but we're more interested in the announcement of a movie-download service for PS3 and PSP, via the PlayStation Network. Sony has announced its first 3D-compatible Bravia LCD TV, to arrive in 2010. It promises a high frame rate and 1,920x1,080 pixels per eye to give what Sony describes as "high-definition, high-quality 3D images." 3D-enabled Blu-ray players are set to follow and even the PS3 will...

MIDI - TUESDAY AFTERNOON Tuesday afternoon...the propaganda will flow to your kids at school If you do not keep them home, you are a total fool B. Hussein will have his very own Hitler youth...yes, take that to the bank Hey, brain dead voters out there, you are the ones we can thank Thank you...we're screwed...thank you...we're screwed The commie empty suit sure hates the USA...it's obvious in everything he'll do and say Tuesday afternoon...Tuesday afternoon It's time to take them to the lake or to the beach Or anywhere that they are safely out of reach Tuesday afternoon...Tuesday...