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(The Nation) Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America and Playing President. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are not happy sentences to write for one who is still on the e-mail list of campaign supporters urged to back the president in the face of attacks that are stupidly small-minded. But to remain silent about his errors, just because most of his critics are so vile, is hardly an example of constructive concern for him or the country. Yes, Obama was presented with a...

In many ways, black holes are science’s answer to science fiction. As strange as anything from a novelist’s imagination, black holes warp the fabric of spacetime and imprison light and matter in a gravitational death grip. Their bizarre properties make black holes ideal candidates for fictional villainy. But now black holes are up for a different role: heroes helping physicists assess the real-world existence of another science fiction favorite — hidden extra dimensions of space. Astrophysical giants several times the mass of the sun and midget black holes smaller than a subatomic particle could provide glimpses of an extra-dimensional existence....

So .. here is what Jimmy Carter, Bill Moyers, Hank Johnson, much of the Washington and New York press corps, Newsweek Magazine and the brilliant thinkers on the American left would have you believe of Americans right now: We would be more than willing to welcome cap-and-trade with open arms, even if we paid a thousand dollars or more extra every year for our energy use, if Barack Obama were only white. We would be dancing in the streets celebrating the dawning of government control of our health care if only Barack Obama were white. It would be just dandy...

Following is an open letter to my representative from Ohio, Marcy Kaptur: The Honorable Representative Kaptur, As a registered Democrat, I am extremely disappointed by your stand on issues that affect our district. Specifically, your support of the Cap and Trade legislation and nationalized health care. The cap and trade regulations will be very detrimental to the creation of manufacturing jobs and will increase the already high cost of electricity in your district. It will also punish businesses and workers in the coal producing areas of the state and the transportation sector. Your support of nationalized health care will interfere...

Nobel laureate, 39th president and failed human being, Jimmy Carter is at it again. Nearly thirty years removed from public life, the former president has decided to step into the Joe Wilson flap and with it exposes himself – again, to his own failures. Let’s be clear: Carter was arguably the worst president of the 20th century. Through a domestic policy highly shaded with socialism and a foreign policy of appeasement, Carter, in four years in office nearly ruined this nation’s economy and nearly gave the Soviet Union a new lease on life, while nearly killing the state of Israel....

I’m a dead-set sucker for President Obama’s get-to-know-me-and-my-family-better propaganda stunts. Now, we could be cynical of the pervy, made-for-OK! insights into Life As An Obama that are deftly emitted from the White House on a regular basis. Especially in these over-share-y times. But, refreshingly, very few of us are. There’s been the family dog-buying episode, the gossip magazine covers, the gorgeously orchestrated “candid” shots of Barack on the campaign trail (Oh, there he is looking buggered, and look, he’s wearing shoes with worn-out soles. How very Regular Joe!). We follow Michelle’s organic veggie garden project on Youtube and pour over...

Jimmy Carter has made an outrageous, unfounded and potentially inflammatory remark about race. He has claimed that a great proportion of the vitriolic opposition to President Obama’s health reforms and spending plans are actually motivated by racial hatred: that this president is being attacked not for his policies but for his colour. He offers no evidence for this extraordinary assertion presumably because there is none. The town hall meetings in which the Obama healthcare plans have been attacked with such vehemence have not been characterised by racist slur or even oblique references to the president’s skin colour.

Archbishop of Canterbury's Views On City Capitalism Veer Close To Populist Sloganeering Capitalism has lifted more people from poverty and hunger than any other force in history, including religion, says Madsen Pirie. Madsen Pirie 16 Sep 2009 I respectfully disagree with Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, over his views on the City and its finance industry. He regrets there has been "no repentance for the excesses which led to the economic collapse," and describes a feeling of "diffused resentment" that bankers have failed to accept their responsibility for the crisis. While the archbishop is entitled to express his...

Wow! 0bama sure went 180 on his decision to send more troops into the war in Afghanistan. Do you think the fringe liberal left gave him the facts on how things work? You want my vote on healthcare, shut down the war like they did in Vietnam and let the Taliban start chopping off the heads of anyone that helped the Americans. Nawww the lib's would never do it again.

The terror plot unearthed after raids on three Queens homes involved operatives detonating nine explosives-laden backpacks to kill "as many people as possible," The Post has learned. "They were going to blow up several places simultaneously and take out as many people as possible -- a large number of people," a federal law-enforcement official said. Empty backpacks were among the evidence seized from one of the Flushing apartments raided by a NYPD-FBI team Monday. Authorities also removed computers, cellphones and other material. No explosives were found. The predawn raids were sparked by the reappearance in New York City of an...

Wow! 0bama sure went 180 on his decision to send more troops into the war in Afghanistan. Do you think the fringe liberal left gave hime the facts on how things work? You want my vote on healthcare, shut down the war like they did in Vietnam and let the Taliban start chopping off the heads of anyone that helped the Americans. Nawww the lib's would never do it again.

Fanish, 20, was arrested last Saturday. His death was “judicial murder” according to human rights activist. The day before a Muslim mob attacked members of the dead man’s Christian community, setting fire to their church. Pakistani extremists are funded by Saudi “charities.” Some of these Saudi “charities” are also active here in the US… They operate schools, mosques, etc… [...]Persecution of Jews continue in Bangladesh because of spread of religious hatred, mostly by fanatic Muslim clergies, who term the Jews as ‘enemies of Islam’. They encourage elimination of Jewish population from the country. That is why, although there is Jewish...

Day in and day out, the liberal media and politicians has been denigrating the ordinary people that have attended these town hall meetings, that have been held throughout the month of August. Some have gone as far as calling them terrorists and said they were autroturfing. What has all of this stuff gotten the left wing haters? Not one damn thing. In fact, it has shown the American people what idiots these people really are. Some Democrat Congress critters went so far as have stopped holding these meetings altogether. Some have actually had their meetings set up to be by...

ABC News: "It paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President."

Last week, a group of Yale alumni (myself included) released an open letter protesting Yale University Press' decision not to publish the infamous Muhammed cartoons in a book about those very illustrations. "The Cartoons That Shook the World," by Brandeis Prof. Jytte Klausen - set for publication within weeks - details the 2005 events in which Muslim preachers seized upon 12 drawings in a Danish newspaper to orchestrate a global campaign of violence that led to the deaths of 200 people. Citing fears of further hostility, the Press, under the advisement of top university officials and unnamed outside "experts," chose...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has set objectives for countering al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, from boosting Islamabad's counterinsurgency capabilities to building up Afghan security forces so U.S. assistance can be reduced, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. The administration sent the objectives to U.S. lawmakers ahead of an expected request by Army General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, for additional forces to counter a resurgent Taliban insurgency. A key Republican senator said tens of thousands of more troops may be needed but such a request could face opposition...

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) Washington D.C., Sep 16, 2009 / 03:34 am (CNA).- Charging that the traditional definition of marriage is “discriminatory,” U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has announced that he will reintroduce a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). One critic of the measure is warning that it will lead to discrimation against those who support marriage between a man and a woman.DOMA defines marriage for federal purposes and protects states that do not recognize same-sex “marriage” from being forced to do so. The Act was passed in 1996 by a vote in the U.S....

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Senators have hammered out a compromise that would allow unions to swell their ranks, and a key lawmaker said it should pass this year. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) on Tuesday told the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh that he has been working hard “for hours” on a deal with other key senators, such as Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), as well as labor leaders, on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).“We have pounded out an Employees Choice bill which will meet labor’s objectives,” Specter said. “I believe before the year is out, and I will join my colleague...

Here is video of Politico's Mike Allen on MSNBC admitting to Willie Geist that the Mainstream Media was slow in covering the unfolding ACORN Scandal, ignoring it because they essentially regarded it as just "noise" from conservatives "obsessed" with ACORN. But Allen admitted that if this kind of video came out about an Christian Organization - like the Christian Coalition, for instance, it would be a major story in every newsroom. Both Geist and Allen agreed that this is NOT just a "Fox News story," but an important one. Allen said newsroom editors are telling him they were slow to...