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Speak Up! The recent resignation of Van Jones from his position as “Green Jobs Czar” in Obama’s administration is especially refreshing, not just because D.C. has dismissed an individual who is clearly divisive. The background, history, and recent behavior of Jones was largely ignored by the mainstream media. The resignation of Van Jones was not the result of the mainstream media providing people with an unbiased assessment of current events, but by the activism of the American public. As the founder of www.questionobama.com, a social website that aims to provide a forum for citizens to voice their thoughts, ideas, and...

When the president takes to the airways he might be more specific, but he will undoubtedly weave in many of the claims he has used before. The problem is most of those claims are bogus. Some of them are lies, others are factually true, but when implemented will turn out to be false. For example, the POTUS claims there is a clause in the house bill that that bans Illegal immigrants from being in the public option, he is 100% correct. But there is no penalty for including illegal's, nor is there any verbiage mentioning enforcing that clause, so for...

A year after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, questions still swirl around its collapse. Lawrence MacDonald, whose book A Colossal Failure of Common Sense came out in July 2009, maintains that the bank was not in substantially worse shape than other major Wall Street banks. He says Lehman was just “put to sleep. They put the pillow over the face of Lehman Brothers and they put her to sleep.” The question is, why?

Malaysia had recently banned Muslims from a Black Eyed Peas concert and has been cracking down on Christians, Thailand had another bomb attack, China has Muslims stabbing non-Muslims with infected needles and Christians are being attacked in the Philippines. This is all part of Muslims in the Far East getting stricter and stricter. All the while the West is still waiting for "moderate" Islam to comes and save the day. It is not happening.

Carly Fiorina's exploratory GOP Senate run got some love Tuesday from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) -- that's a national party group that decides which races to toss its money to. In a state-of-the-race memo sent to GOP senators Tuesday, Sen John Cornyn praised... "...two strong female candidates -- Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire and Carly Fiorina in California -- continue to seriously consider bids of their own, and both poll closely with their respective Democrat opponents without having formally entered their races." But you gotta love the response from Carla's potential rival, Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore: "I...

Evangelical book catalogs promote books such as Planet Earth: The Final Chapter, The Great Escape, and the Left Behind series. Bumper stickers warn us that the vehicle’s occupants may disappear at any moment. It is clear that there is a preoccupation with the idea of a secret rapture. Perhaps this has become more pronounced recently due to the expectation of a new millennium and the fears regarding potential Y2K problems. Perhaps psychologically people are especially receptive to the idea of an imminent, secret rapture at the present time. Additionally, many Christians are not aware that any other position relative to...

Something crazy is spreading across Texas, and it may be so destructive that one day it will make Texans actually miss the hated fire ant. Crazy ants, so named because they move in all directions rather than in a straight line, first surfaced in Houston seven years ago and had previously been confirmed in 14 Southeast Texas counties as far north as Huntsville. But now the ants have been seen beyond the Houston area, with confirmed sightings in San Antonio and in Jim Hogg County in the Rio Grande Valley. This discovery is viewed as "a significant change" by researchers...

Only 12 percent of U.S. homeowners eligible for loan modifications under the Obama administration's housing rescue plan have had their mortgages reworked, and millions more foreclosures are coming, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday. A Treasury report showed 360,165 people had their monthly payments reduced through August, up from 235,247 through July, but a senior Treasury official conceded much more must be done to soften the impact of a severe and prolonged housing crisis.

Are You Ready For This? ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 Make sure you read the entire page -- to the last word -- every page in this website ends with: "Our Time Has Come"

The era of cheap air travel cannot continue, according to Government advisers, who have called for a global cap on aviation emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change. .... However the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) fears unlimited growth of air travel will cause greenhouse gas emissions to increase and therefore cause global warming. ...... "You may want to go on holiday more that you do now. But you may not be able to do that in a carbon-constrained world," he said.

MSNBC: From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was invited to testify before the New York state Senate Aging Committee by its Chairman, Rev. Ruben Diaz. Instead of testifying, Palin has submitted written testimony, and publicizes it via her latest Facebook "Note." More: "The fact is that any group of government bureaucrats that makes decisions affecting life or death is essentially a 'death panel,'" she writes. (Although, "government bureaucrats," according to legislation in the bills, wouldn't be making decisions; the patients would.) In it, she defends her contention that there are, in fact, "death panels" in health-care legislation...

Obama’s master plan As part of his strategic plan, Barack Obama has been surrounding himself with czars and officers that are responsible only to him. One such a czar is Obama’s FCC Chief Diversity Officer, Mark Lloyd, who is a former senior fellow at George Soros’s Center for American Progress and a consultant to Soros’s Open Society Institute. Mark Lloyd is a believer that the same methods used in the Venezuela revolution to bring Hugo Chavez to power should be modeled in the US and that the first amendment (Freedom of Speech) should not be used to prevent localism. View...

Despite being called "brownshirts", "un-American" and a "mob" of "astroturfers", a Rasmussen poll indicates the public believes the townhall protesters to be a genuine reflection of the concerns of their neighbors: Forty-nine percent (49%) have a favorable opinion of those opposing the health care reforms at town hall meetings. That's up eight points from 41% a month ago. Thirty-five percent (35%) have an unfavorable view of the town hall protesters, unchanged from last month. Fifty-nine percent (59%) now say the town hall protesters are citizens reflecting the concerns of their neighbors. That's up ten points over the past month. Thirty...

A Luzerne County man charged with assaulting a Secret Service agent - punching him with a set of brass knuckles and smacking him in the head with a chunk of asphalt - has agreed to plead guilty to simple assault and related offenses. Under the terms of a plea agreement signed Tuesday morning, Kenneth Kile, 25, of 64 Penn St., Kingston, also agreed to plead guilty to reckless endangerment and a weapons offense. Mr. Kile was arrested in June on charges he assaulted William Slavoski, 52, resident agent in charge of the Scranton Secret Service office, on the Central Scranton...

Tired of watching helplessly as House bills are carved up to win support from conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans in the Senate, the speaker has a message for President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Take the public option out of health care reform, and you may not have a bill at all. “Every time we have had a negotiation, Reid and [White House chief of staff] Rahm [Emanuel] say you have to accept this or that because we need the 60 votes [for cloture],” says a senior Democratic aide in the House. “That’s true this time. The...

Several prominent Republicans penned a letter to President Obama, praising him on Afghanistan and asking for more troops. Signatories include Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, John Podhoretz, Amb. Ryan Crocker, Paul Bremer, Bill Kristol, Randy Scheunemann, Jennifer Rubin, Dan Senor, et al. It's certainly a case of strange bedfellows. Liberals are moving increasingly against the war in Afghanistan, and American public opinion has indicated a frustration and impatience with the eight-year-old war. This letter is further evidence, as we've written in First Read, that on the war in Afghanistan, this Democratic president is in the odd position of REPUBLICANS being his...

The federal government is doing "nothing" to protect against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that could wipe out American civilization, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a leading expert on the subject, tells Newsmax. For only $200 million to $400 million, the government could protect a key element of the power grid to keep electrical power from being wiped out for years, according to Dr. Pry, a former staff member of the congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack. Yet neither Republicans nor Democrats have been willing to spend that small sum, says Pry, who...

Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter held captive by militants in northern Afghanistan, was freed in a military commando raid early Wednesday, but his Afghan interpreter, a British commando and an Afghan woman were killed in the raid.

Here is video of Sen. Jim DeMint last night telling Greta Van Susteren that it is time for President Obama to "defend his bill" and stop speaking in "generalities." He also said Gov. Sarah Palin is absolutely correct on what she has said about Obama's Health Care Plan, and added that no one knows what "this monster will become" if ObamaCare is passed. DeMint said no artificial deadlines should be set on when a vote is taken on Health Care. He praised Americans for standing up and speaking out against Government control of Health Care. . . . (VIDEO)

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