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Let me begin by saying that I am not a racial provocateur and, as I hope will become evident in the course of this reply, I do not have a chip on my shoulder that causes me to seek confrontation with the African-American community. In fact, I do not see myself in confrontation with the African-American community at all. My fight is with the African-American left.

This is an apology? As we editorialized yesterday, Van Jones, the Obama green-jobs guru, has a lot of explaining to do about why he signed an insane 9/11 conspiracy theory petition back in 2004. The 911Truth.org petition, bursting with lies and distortions, alleged the Bush administration "may have deliberately" allowed the attacks on our nation. Jones' was among 100 prominent names beneath the words, helping to give them heft and credibility. Outrageous, especially since Jones spearheads President Obama's push to create renewable-energy jobs - and in that capacity has been readying a big campaign to "Green the Block" on none...

The details of a deadly coalition air strike near the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan are yet vague. However, the attack has potentially deep military consequences as well as political ramifications far away - in Germany. (Excerpted)

Has anyone stayed on this story?

Well, the post-racial candidate had given us a 95% black monolithic voting pattern in the primaries against a fellow liberal candidate. Add up Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, the clingers speech, an exasperated Bill Clinton’s assessment of “playing the race card on me”, “typical white person”, ‘wise Latina’, the Skip Gates mess, the Van Jones’ white polluters, the satraps like Gov. Patterson and Reps. Rangel and Watson reverting to blatantly racist scapegoating, and so on. I fear that this is the most polarizing administration we have seen in matters of race since the 1920s. If those around Obama, and his supporters...

Calling President Obama's Executive Order on Ethics for Executive Branch personnel "the strongest ethics standards in U.S. government history," White House counsel Norm Eisen on Friday announced 10 more waivers for Obama administration officials.

Here is video of CNN's Roland Martin last night calling parents "insane," and "crazy," who are concerned about President Obama's national address to school children next Tuesday, September 8. He was talking to CNN's John Roberts when he made the comments. Like so many, concerned parents and conservatives are being villified for opposing Obama's address as if he wanted to do nothing different than previous Presidents in addressing school children. Expect to see this kind of diatribe next week as Obama gives his speech, which undoubtedly will be very plain and harmless after all this controversy. What Martin and others...

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ROME, SEPT. 4, 2009 (Zenit.org).- A hundred online pedophile communities will be disconnected and prosecuted by U.S. and Italian authorities thanks to the work of the Meter Association, founded by Italian Father Fortunato Di Noto.ZENIT learned from the association that the networks consisted of some 18,181 people who used online community Web sites to host and exchange "thousands of images and video footage -- 27,894 pedophiliac photos and 1,617 videos -- as well as information regarding the trade of minors." The news was further publicized by Rome's Italian police force, in cooperation with other security forces. "Thousands of children were...

So here we go........

Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, bestows official hero status on Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. David Kopel at The Volokh Conspiracy shares the good news: Morales is officially "the maximum exponent and paradigm of love for Mother Earth." Castro is "World Hero of Solidarity." The late Nyerere is "World Hero of Social Justice." General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann said, "What we want to do is present these three people to the world and say that they embody virtues and values worth...

The only way a "public plan" can achieve its stated goals is to pay doctors and hospitals less than what private health plans pay for the same services. Doctors and hospitals in Alaska already lose money on Medicare, and make up for their losses on current government programs by charging everyone with private health care coverage more for the same services. Current proposals for a "public plan" would place unsustainable financial pressure on doctors and hospitals. Some of the proposals suggest paying providers rates close to that which Medicare currently uses to underpay health care providers. Others suggest "negotiated" payments,...

Republicans United Against Mark Kirk for US Senate, a blog to chronicle Representative Mark Kirk's record by folks not very happy with his record has been set up to argue against his candidacy. According to the opening main statement, the blog is set up to reveal Kirk's "departure from the GOP's state and national platforms." This blog is a response to US Rep. Mark Kirk's bid for the US Senate seat from Illinois. It will reveal Mark Kirk's voting record as a member of the US House of Reps. and address Kirk's departure from the GOP's state and national platforms....

Truther/Czar Jones himself at the 4:20 mark: At this point. The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.

Not that we're inclined to do so, but it would be a mistake to write off Van Jones as a one-off nutjob in the Obama administration. He signifies. The Obama team sought him out and signed him up for his job as green jobs commissar precisely because he is who he is.(video)or example, to Obama alter ego Valerie Jarrett pay tribute to Jones before a friendly audience earlier this year: "Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he's not that...

Is Van Jones part of a "global struggle against a U.S.-led security apparatus"? Maybe, or maybe like the 9/11 Truth petition he signed, he simply didn't read the lyrics too closely before he read them into the microphone, produced, and then distributed the record below.

Here is a video report on the huge crowd of over 2,000 people that turned out yesterday in Dallas, Texas for the "Tea Party Express." One speaker said, "We are taking America back on September 12," - the date of the March on Washington when the Tea Party Express will arrive there. . . . (Video)

<p>An adviser to Barack Obama has claimed school massacres are only carried out by 'suburban white kids'.</p> <p>Van Jones, the US president's Special Advisor for Green Jobs, was calling for more attention to be paid to alienated white youth when he made his gaffe.</p>

In the past the Islamic hate preachers who run RevolutionMuslim.com have called for Muslims to confront troops during Fleet Week in NYC. This time they are calling a US soldier who recently died stupid and a coward. I wonder if the RevolutionMuslim.com crew would have the guts to go to Afghanistan and challenge our great troops? Nah....of course not.

The judge presiding over a $27 billion pollution lawsuit against Chevron Corp. in Ecuador recused himself Friday after the oil giant released videos in which he appeared to say that he would rule against the company. Judge Juan Nuñez recused himself at the request of Ecuador's attorney general, who told a news conference Friday that he wanted to avoid further delays in the trial and stop what he said he suspects may be Chevron's efforts to discredit the court's eventual ruling. This week, the San Ramon company released secretly recorded videos and transcripts that Chevron says show misconduct on the...