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If video evidence of help for would-be felons won't prompt a full-scale investigation of ACORN by Congress, one shudders to think what would. Political benefits from ACORN's activities explain why alleged voter registration fraud and misuse of federal tax dollars haven't led this Democrat-controlled Congress to probe ACORN thoroughly. If it doesn't do so now, in the wake of what filmmaker James O'Keefe and investigative reporter Hannah Giles turned up at ACORN offices in Baltimore, New York and Washington, just who actually controls Congress will be frighteningly clear. On Monday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly -- 83-7 -- to bar the...

Monday was a libertarian’s worst nightmare. I sat and watched a president who has already nationalised banks, car companies, the student loan system, and mortgages announce that he’s moving on to attempt to push through “the most ambitious overhaul of the financial system since the Great Depression”. President Obama went to Wall Street to give a speech about “financial reform” and he was not in a kind mood. He started with soothing, conciliatory language (his usual speech-making pattern) then launched into a scathing attack on, well, essentially free enterprise. What he called “the near-collapse of our financial system one year...

“I thought you would want to hear a black man speak to you without a teleprompter.” That was the mocking, attention-grabbing remark with which author Mason Weaver galvanised the massive crowd of “tea party” protesters – fiscal conservatives concerned about Barack Obama’s reckless public spending and health care nationalisation plans – that marched through Washington DC at the weekend. Before a single speech was delivered, this huge rally, estimated by ABC News at two million people, had already toppled an Obama totem: the claim that the attendance at his inauguration (for which estimates ranged from 800,000 to 1.4 million) was...

To call someone a racist can be a cheap way to shut down all debate. As Andrew Breitbart correctly noted on Bill Maher’s show, “calling a person a racist is the worst thing you can call a person in this country”. Strangely, however, it is a charge that is often flung around without any evidence whatsoever. Check out how Wilson is branded a “racist pig” here. Take the case of Congressman Joe Wilson, whose intemperate “You lie!” outburst is still prompting much angst on the Left and adoration on the Right. He was clearly wrong to shout what he did....

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Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page softened the MSM’s portrayal of 9/12 protesters as vile racists Monday night to suggest another possibility: they may be ignoramuses. David Shuster, filling in for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown, continually baited Page to quantify precisely how “bigotry was fueling this” protest. Clarence Page replied “it’s sad” that, while some of the protesters may be “nutcases”: A lot of these folks, though, are just plain workaday people, who, uh — I bet a poll would show half of them didn’t know what socialism was, but they know it’s not good and they’re afraid of...

You have a cookbook all about Spam. You consider your extra large ham radio antenna as "broadband". You know how to cook leather. You've ever been on a Soviet "Potential Threat" list. SWAT has ever asked to borrow a few of your guns. Your new girlfriend comes over for the first time, and when she walks into the living room, the first thing she sees is your CHL regulation Man sized target with 50 holes in the chest area. Your dog has more Emergency Rations than 95% of the U.S. population. You're the first person at the gun range on...

NRO's "The Corner" discusses Wiki's bias Over at NRO’s “The Corner,” Jay Nordlinger tangentially mentioned Wikipedia’s left-wing bias. (Also read John J. Miller’s excellent article.) What does one get when a biased Internet medium covers biased MSM “journalists”? In one, minor case, the Wikipedia profile of MSNBC’s David Shuster calls him: “a regional Emmy award winning American journalist for NBC News and MSNBC.” David Shuster filled in for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown Monday. Here are a few of the questions this “journalist” asked about the 9/12 rally of his guest, Clarence Page, in the opening segment alone: It seemed...

The first words ever spoken, so fable holds, were a palindrome and an introduction: “Madam, I’m Adam.” A few years ago palindromes — phrases that read the same backward as forward — turned out to be an essential protective feature of Adam’s Y, the male-determining chromosome that all living men have inherited from a single individual who lived some 60,000 years ago. Each man carries a Y from his father and an X chromosome from his mother. Women have two X chromosomes, one from each parent. The new twist in the story is the discovery that the palindrome system has...

Man Proposes To Woman Right Before Head-On Crash Crash Victims In Washington County Flown To Hospital CLAYSVILLE, Pa. -- A head-on crash in Washington County sent five people to the emergency room Tuesday night. Police say a man driving a pickup truck had just proposed to his female passenger and was leaning over to kiss her when the vehicle drifted into oncoming traffic. A pickup truck traveling westbound on Route 40 crossed into the eastbound lanes near Cunningham Road, colliding with an oncoming car, authorities said. Police said the man driving the truck had just proposed to his female passenger...

Rooz Online, Iran's reformist English-Language newspaper reported that Ayatollah Khamenei is rumored to have "authorized the arrest" of Ranking Reformist Mehdi Karroubi. In response, Hashemi Rafsanjani reacted to the issurance of the directive by declaring "I will resign from everything." Meanwhile, subsequent to Iran's NSC ordering the Iranian media not to publish reports about the election supporters of Ahmadinejad published numerous attack pieces against Karroubi who has accused the government of raping and torturing demonstrators in prison.

Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday vowed to strengthen Norway’s welfare system and defend jobs after winning re-election as prime minister of western Europe’s biggest oil producing state. His centre-left coalition clinched a narrow majority in Monday’s poll after seeing off a stiff challenge from opposition parties promising lower taxes and greater free enterprise. Jens Stoltenberg: re-elected with narrow majority The result was a vote of confidence in Norway’s cradle-to-grave welfare system and an endorsement of Mr Stoltenberg’s efforts to insulate the country from the global downturn. But two of the biggest long-term dilemmas facing Norway were left unresolved: whether it should...

Snippets: President Obama's nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research. Analysts say the lack of disclosure reflects a potential loophole in the policies for the Obama administration, which has boasted about its efforts to make government more transparent. They also question lobbying laws that allow such a group to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars without the public knowing exactly how much money each of the companies...

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Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to racial resentment, it's curious to remember how hard the right once tried to scrub itself of the lingering taint of prejudice. Indeed, for a decade and a half the Christian right -- until recently the most powerful and visible grassroots conservative movement -- struggled mightily to escape its own bigoted history. In his 1996 book Active Faith, Ralph Reed acknowledged that Christian conservatives had been on the wrong side of the civil rights movement. "The white evangelical church carries a shameful legacy of racism and the historical baggage of...

Anadarko, of the US, with partners Woodside, Repsol, and Tullow, the UK-listed oil company, will reveal as early as Wednesday that they have established a new oil frontier that stretches 1,100km along the coast from Ghana to Sierra Leone. The announcement will be made off the back of discoveries made by the Venus well Anadarko has been drilling off Sierra Leone, people close to the US company said. Peter Hitchens, analyst at Panmure Gordon, the financial services group, said before the official announcement: “If Venus comes in, they are into a grand slam.” That is because Venus-B lies off the...

Return to the Article September 16, 2009Is Obama a Narcissist?By Robin of Berkeley Many of us are asking ourselves the million dollar question: are Obama and his crew  narcissists? (Translation:  What in God's name is wrong with these people?  Are they on medications?  Are they off their medications? Are we being unknowingly subjected to some new reality show, Extreme Alien Invasion?) Now as a newby conservative, I have a long way to go to herald myself as an expert on conservatism, neoconservatism, paleoconservatism (whatever that is), and the like. But one thing I do know is crazy -- and that's...

HEREThe various biggovernment.com and FOX News videos are linked. The group ACORN is explained in Japanese to the Japanese readers. It also points toward the Obama Administration and structural corruption with respect to this group, misuse of tax dollars, etc..There is another updated web page in Japanese separate from this one, entitled "They Did It Again!", showing further videos of ACORN people involved in such sordid actions and suggestions, caught by hidden camera.This is only a blog, but it could be picked up by mass media in Japan very easily, which will latch on to something like this if encouraged...

Reporting from Mexico City - He may have soared a gazillion miles in outer space, but back here on Earth, U.S. astronaut Jose Hernandez has stepped knee-deep in controversy. Hernandez, the California-born son of Mexican immigrants, is a full-fledged media star in Mexico. Fans here followed his every floating, gravity-free move during two weeks recently as he Twittered from the Discovery space shuttle mission and gave live interviews to local TV programs. After the shuttle returned to this planet last week, Hernandez told Mexican television that he thought the United States should legalize the millions of undocumented immigrants living there...