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Generally in any court proceeding, especially in preliminary hearings, I have always found it useful to listen to what the judge says. In the Tuesday hearing concerning Obama's eligibility, Judge Carter stated that if there are legitimate constitutional questions regarding Obama's eligibility, they need to be addressed and resolved. So the question is: Are there any legitimate constitutional questions regarding Obama's eligibility, and, if so; what are they?

Nuclear Terror: A key U.S. official admits that Iran is nearing "a dangerous and destabilizing" threshold. Rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan brags of how he helped the Islamofascist state. Will we ever act?"Iran is now either very near or in possession already of sufficient low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, if the decision were made to further enrich it to weapons grade," Glyn Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, told the IAEA's board of governors this week in Vienna. That means, Davies added, that Iran is now "closer to a dangerous and destabilizing...

Last week on Thursday the Miami Herald carried a story with the following headline from AP: “US cuts aid to Honduras in support of ex-leader.”  The story described the outcome of meeting last week between ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.   In the article Zelaya expresses his relief at learning of millions of dollars in rigid new U.S. aid cuts designed to punish the current Micheletti government in Honduras.  State Department spokesman Ian Kelly defended what he called the “strong” new measures against Honduras, which included revoking the U.S. visas of various Honduran officials...

Information from the most diverse sources sometimes coalesces and provokes reflection on a subject to which one has not previously given sufficient thought. This happened to me recently with regard to the effect of monetary inflation on human character. With many observers predicting a substantial rise in inflation as a result of various government spending programs undertaken to reverse the current global downturn, the topic is anything but academic. I was reading The Innocence of Edith Thompson, by Lewis Broad, a book about a notorious murder in 1920s London. Freddy Bywaters was a handsome young sailor, Edith Thompson an unsatisfactorily...

Economy: The dollar is weakening, gold is hitting new highs and some foreign officials now want an alternative to the U.S. currency. If you're looking for a market verdict on U.S. economic policy, look no further.Ordinarily, we don't pay too much attention to the dollar's ups and downs. Neither do we closely watch gold. It can vary widely in price based on nondomestic demand and supply, and thus isn't always useful as an indicator. That said, since the advent of the new administration last November, the trade-weighted dollar has fallen 7%, while gold in recent days has risen above $1,000...

There is a concerted effort by Islamists to take over the world. Okay, I know this might come across to some a bigoted, xenophobic, fear mongering, but any willing to openly look at the facts will probably come to the same conclusion. In reality, it doesn't even require any interpretation. One just has to look and listen. I have little doubt that there is a debate among Islamists about the best way to achieve world domination. While the jihadists are committed to waging war on every continent and slaughtering innocents, other Islamists are taking a different route. The end result...

September 6, 2009 Dear LCPS Parents: Last week the U. S. Department of Education sent an email to all principals in America advising them that President Obama would make a brief speech to students on Tuesday, September 8, about the importance of achievement, dedication to studies, and staying in school. Speeches with similar themes were given in the past by President Ronald Reagan and by President George H. W. Bush, although not on the first day of school. Unfortunately the email was not sent to superintendents or other school officials. We issued a memo to LCPS principals to let them...

Politburico dredges up old news on Republican with tonight's response to the Obamanation speech. 3 malpractice claims in 20 years. Maybe 2000 successful to 3 unsuccessful. Sign me up for surgery with this guy. Latest claim 03 what in the world? How is this news? Just more communist attacking the non coms.

National Right to Life on the health care debate: “On government-funded abortion, Obama has duped the news media with head fakes and doubletalk” NRLC releases two new memoranda refuting “the Hyde Amendment myth” and “the private funds myth.” WASHINGTON (September 8, 2009) — The following statement may be attributed to Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), which is the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. The health care legislation being pushed forward by President Obama would create a federally run insurance plan that would pay for elective abortion with government funds. The...

Like other Britons convicted of plotting violence in the name of al-Qaida, there was little to mark Abdulla Ahmed Ali as a potential terrorist. The UK-based ringleader of the airlines plot had led a life of little note until his conviction for planning to explode bombs on seven transatlantic planes, in Britain's biggest terrorist conspiracy. Ali was born in Newham, east London, in 1980 and a year later his parents returned to their native Pakistan before returning to Britain in 1987. He was the fourth of eight children born to parents who had aspirations for their offspring. All bar one...

“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for our future.” --Van Jones, on his resignation as Green Jobs "Czar"With sadness probably not felt by the left since the death of Joseph Stalin, Amy Goodman and her fellow Communists at Democracy Now! offered an analysis of the events leading...

MEXICO CITY -- A 44-year-old Bolivian drug addict and alcoholic who describes himself as a church minister was the sole person responsible for the brief hijacking Wednesday of a commercial jetliner, a Mexican official said. The suspect -- Josmar Flores Pereira -- told authorities he hijacked the Boeing 737 jet because the date -- September 9, 2009, or 9/9/9, and 666 reversed -- held some significance for him, said Genaro Garcia Luna, the secretary for public safety. "He said that because of that divine reference he wanted to alert Mexico City of an earthquake," Garcia told reporters. Flanked by two...

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Four Marines died yesterday in Afghanistan when the Taliban laid a trap: Four U.S. Marines died Tuesday when they walked into a well-laid ambush by insurgents in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province. Seven Afghan troops and an interpreter for the Marine commander also died in the ambush and the subsequent battle, which lasted seven hours. Three American service members and 14 Afghan security force members were wounded. It was the largest number of American military trainers to die in a single incident since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. The battle took place around the remote hamlet of Gangigal, in a valley about...

Not long after the general presidential election began last year, some momentary fluctuation in the polls led to a fevered round of hand-wringing on the left. Our nominee is letting it slip away! people cried. He ought to shift his strategy, change this, alter that! Then a photo of Barack Obama at his convention speech began to circulate through e-mails and blogs, showing the candidate looking strong and resolute. "Everyone chill the f*** out," the caption read in bold letters. "I GOT THIS." And he did. For all the marveling at Obama's rhetorical skill, it was his political skill that...

President Barack Obama will declare that he will no longer “waste time” with opponents of overhauling the health care system when he addresses Congress and the nation Wednesday evening, warning that if the current overhaul effort fails, he will leave it up to his opponents to fix the system themselves. In excerpts of his address to a joint session of Congress, which the White House released in advance, Obama will propose a new system of “insurance exchanges” in which individual Americans and small businesses could pool their negotiating power to wrest better coverage and lower rates from private insurance companies....

Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out' Posted: September 9th, 2009 05:46 PM ET The White House has released excerpts of President Obama's address to Congress tonight: EXCERPTS OF THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS TONIGHT: I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last. It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform. And ever since, nearly every President and Congress, whether Democrat or Republican, has attempted to meet this challenge in some...

Excerpt-UPDATE, 6:55 p.m.: Schmidt released this statement on the controversy: “The President is indeed a Citizen of this country and constitutionally qualified to be President of the United States. I may not agree with his politics but there is no doubt he is the President and has my full respect....

NJ FReepers! A co-worker from North Jersey wants to go to DC for 9/12 with her husband. They would be driving down. She is not a FReeper (she didn't even know about FR until I told her about it today) but is interested in getting together with a New Jersey group. Are any of you planning to meet up down in DC, or caravan down? I'll pass along the info if you have it. Sorry for the late request.

Last night (September 8th), CNN’s Lou Dobbs discussed the power of Obama’s czars and their lack of vetting by Congress. He mentions the recent resignation of Green Jobs Czar Van Jones amid growing controversy and FCC Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd’s campaign to shut down conservative talk radio. (video below) However, his coverage states that Glenn Beck began his coverage of Van Jones “after” a group that Jones founded, Color of Change, began a campaign to pull advertisers from Beck’s program on Fox News. This is not an accurate statement. Beck actually exposed the radical politics of Van Jones in episodes...