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The US and other world powers will next month meet Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator to test the seriousness of Iran’s proposal for talks and gauge its willingness to discuss its uranium enrichment programme. The meeting will be the first time the US has engaged directly in talks with Iran since Barack Obama came to office. The administration has kept up its offer of unconditional engagement in spite of the turmoil over the June 12 presidential election, which Iran’s opposition says was massively rigged in favour of President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad. The election crisis exposed deep rifts within the Islamic regime, and...

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with...

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Story Updated: Sep 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM CDT It's been confirmed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources that the animal that attacked a Hermantown man over the weekend was almost certainly a bobcat. Gary Lucia was attacked in his garage by a bobcat while trying to defend his pet ducks and geese. Lucia has set up several traps in the woods around Lucia's house to prevent the animal from returning to do any more damage. Bobcats are fairly common in the Northland but rarely attack people. The nocturnal cats are about two times the size of an average...

NORCO-- A man is accused of repeatedly forcing a 12 year old girl to have sex with him as well as forcing her to sell marijuana, sheriffs officials say. Julio Louis Cortes, 25, of Westminster is suspected of forcing the 12 year old female victim to have sex and to sell marijuana for the past six months. During the sexual assaults, Cortes threatened the 12 year old at gunpoint, said Sgt. Matthew Sims of the Norco Sheriff's Department. Cortes was arrested on Friday September 11th after deputies received a report of sexual assault from the 12 year old female victim....

"Never take counsel of your fears."   -- George S. Patton,  War as I Knew It One of the more puzzling aspects of the public reaction to the ascension of Barack Obama is the abject fear, bordering on sheer terror that he arouses in certain conservative circles. The internment camps, we're told, are already in operation, ready for dissenters and rebels, in particular AT readers. Swine flu is a bogus crisis, worked up in order to provide an excuse to put the country under martial law. We have ACORN, which is about to be issued with brown shirts, coal-scuttle...

I wanna see all those cable channels and all those libs who were foaming at the mouth a week and a half ago express the same outrage at students not being able to hear President Bush speak....but it won't happen...Video report here...

It seems like all the dictators who started off by getting themselves elected "democratically" have followed similar paths. We can pretty much map them and see if a particular politician seems to have followed it. Formula for Dictatorial Success 1. While trying to get elected you must harp on how awful it is for people and blame this on the current national leader. You must blame corporations and their 'bought' politicians for every problem under the sun. 2. You must promise the voters something for nothing. Actually you must promise them everything for nothing. You must make them really believe...

My brother wrote, and sent to me, the following: I believe if you look closely at corruption you will decide that it stems from a concentration of power. That’s the way the mafia operates and all of the financial boys that are caught up in scandal as well as the Nazi’s, and every other corrupt government in today’s modern world. While we may not be able to stop some of the current legislation before Congress, we can disrupt or equalize the concentration of power in government in the 2010 elections. This may be our last chance. We have fallen into...

An adopted teen who has lived in Port St. Joe, Fla. since she was 3 faces possible deportation to England for refusing a vaccination, she and her mother say. Simone Davis, 17, said she has no need for the vaccine Gardasil, which guards against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus virus, because she is not sexually active, ABC News reported. But the U.S. government requires female immigrants between the ages of 11 and 26 to receive Gardasil shots before they can become citizens. Simone was abandoned as a baby in England and adopted at 3 by her paternal grandmother, Jean Davis,...

As many as 84% of Americans blame the pharmaceutical industry for the country’s healthcare woes, a new survey has found. Results of The Harris Poll, held in August, show Americans blame many different parties for the problems of the current healthcare system in the USA, with pharma coming second in the blame game with 84% of adults pointing the finger at pharma. Even more than 50% believed the industry deserves a “great deal” of blame.

Muslims groups here are pressing city officials to close public schools on two of the faith's holiest days, just as schools do for major Jewish and Christian holidays. But the groups have yet to persuade the man in charge of New York City schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Muslim groups have asked the city to cancel classes on Eid Ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and Eid Ul-Adha, which marks the end of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. New York is one of many public-school systems now struggling with appropriate ways to recognize religious holidays for a diverse population. An...

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that a law suit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State (Rodearmel v. Clinton, et al., (D. District of Columbia)) will be heard by a special three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: Date: Wednesday, September 16 Time: 9:30 AM ET Location: Courtroom 22A The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse 333 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001

NEW YORK -- Muslims groups here are pressing city officials to close public schools on two of the faith's holiest days, just as schools do for major Jewish and Christian holidays. But the groups have yet to persuade the man in charge of New York City schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Muslim groups have asked the city to cancel classes on Eid Ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and Eid Ul-Adha, which marks the end of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125297372149610431.html?mod=rss_US_News

September 15, 2009                                 Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Tm 3:1-13 Beloved, this saying is trustworthy:whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task.Therefore, a bishop must be irreproachable,married only once, temperate, self-controlled,decent, hospitable, able to teach,not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle,not contentious, not a lover of money.He must manage his own household well,keeping his children under control with perfect dignity;for if a man does not know how to manage his own household,how can he take care of the Church of God?He should...

When some Americans believe the current president is a communist cult leader trying to brainwash the nation’s schoolchildren, and other Americans want the last president to be dragged off his ranch in handcuffs, it is time to reassess the state of our union. So may I make a modest proposal. There is a way to end the bitter bickering over health care, affirmative action, abortion, religion in the public square, taxation, torture, and the proper role of government. It is called secession. Yes, I know: Splitting the U.S. into two nations is a bit extreme. But extremism in the defense...

Iraq has a major problem. Iraq’s air defense is the US Forces in Iraq and those forces are gone at the end of 2011. That region is too dangerous to go without air cover. The earliest that new fighters could start delivering is 2014. Then there is two to three years of training. Iraq cannot afford more than one squadron of fighters per year. It takes a minimum of five squadrons provide Iraq with a basic credible air defense. That means the earliest Iraq could have a basic air defense using new aircraft is after 2020. There are all sorts...

President Obama continues to face significant public resistance to his drive to initiate far-reaching changes to the country's health-care system, with widespread skepticism about central tenets of his plan, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. But after a summer of angry debate and protests, opposition to the effort has eased somewhat, and there appears to be potential for further softening among critics if Congress abandons the idea of a government-sponsored health insurance option, a proposal that has become a flash point in the debate. The gap in passion, which had shown greater intensity among opponents of the plan,...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The tears tumbled, flooding his face and Michael Jordan had yet to march to the microphone at Symphony Hall. He had listened to the genuine stories and speeches of a remarkable class. He had watched a “This is Your Life” video compilation of his basketball genius. Everything flashed before him, a legacy that he’s fought with body and soul to never, ever let go into yesterday.

Anybody else watch this? Hey, if so I forgive you for refusing to admit it! Forty minutes in to it, and I haven't even chuckled once! The Obama interview skit was a joke, and not even a real one! Seinfeld is about as washed up as five year old socks... Now, Kanye that yayhoo is trying to make everybody feel sorry for himself... And I'm missing sterling entertainment like Coast to Coast for this crap???