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At today's White House briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, asked by ABC News about recent government actions taken against ACORN, had a forceful response. "Obviously the conduct you see on those tapes is completely unacceptable," Gibbs said, raising the issue of videotapes posted online by BigGovernment.com and aired frequently by Fox News Channel that seem to show ACORN employees advising a faux prostitute and faux pimp on how to skirt housing and tax laws. "The administration takes accountability extremely seriously."

Deepening Darwin's Dilemma By: Jonathan WellsDiscovery Institute September 16, 2009 The newly released film “Darwin’s Dilemma” argues that the geologically abrupt appearance of the major groups of animals (the “phyla”) in the Cambrian Explosion posed a serious problem for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution (as he himself knew), and that subsequent fossil discoveries—far from solving the problem—have made it worse. In January 2009, however, the Journal of the Geological Society, London published an article titled “A solution to Darwin’s dilemma of 1859.” So, is Darwin’s dilemma solved, or not?According to Darwin’s theory, all living things are modified descendants of a...

ACORN must have figured out that the prostitute, pimp videos shot by independent filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles at four ACORN offices — Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Brooklyn, N.Y., and San Bernadino, Calif. which led to the firing of four employees and the launch of a criminal investigation by the Kings County District Attorney's Office.were not doctored. The organization's just issued the following press release: For Immediate Release: September 16, 2009 ACORN Announces Major Steps to Address Issues Raised by Videos In response to recently released videos of frontline ACORN staff, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis made the following announcement Wednesday...

"The Newlywed Game" is bringing on its first gay couple. It's a celebrity duo for the long-running game show, now on the GSN cable network. George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," will appear with his partner, Brad Altman. They just celebrated their first anniversary after being married in Los Angeles. Takei and Altman have been together for 22 years, so they're nothing like the giggly young couples who appeared on the first version of the show. The new edition of "The Newlywed Game" began airing on GSN a year ago and has been a ratings

The Republican turned Democrat, Senator Arlen Specter expressed a little frustration at how his former party is treating Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC), following his now famous “You lie” outburst during President Obama’s address last week. While the House resolution was being discussed on the House floor Specter brought up Wilson’s reception by some Republicans, as an example that anything can happen in politics. “Who knows what November will bring,” Specter said at a fundraiser for his reelection campaign in Philadelphia, “I’m optimistic about success in the primary but I’m not taking it for granted. Who knows what November will bring...

Everybody knows the nuns run this corner of Oak Park. There is Sister Jane, telling a young mother that she needs to make a doctor appointment, today. Nearby, Sister Judy makes sure another woman is served a healthy breakfast. And Sister Esther, though officially retired five years, assists in the Wellspring office on Fourth Avenue. Together, the three nuns helping the poor have served in the Catholic Church for 156 years. "They're good women, pillars," says Deena Smith, a regular at the drop-in center that provides free breakfasts for neighborhood women and children. What many don't know, and what has...

A skinny white prostitute and her pimp turn up at the office of Barack Obama’s favourite US “poverty action” charity ACORN (Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now). They want advice on a few problems, like how best to bring over a “couple” of - well, 13, actually - underage girls from El Salvador to work in this brothel they’ve got planned, without attracting too much heat from the authorities. How can they get a mortgage, how should they deal with their tax affairs, how do they legitimize their immoral earnings and so on? ACORN’s expert advisers are more than...

Seattle Public Schools may do away with a nearly decade-old requirement that all students earn a C average to graduate. If the School Board approves recommendations endorsed by Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, as well as most district high-school principals and counselors, a D average will be good enough to earn a high-school diploma. Student athletes would need to pass five of six classes with D grades or better. District officials understand there are concerns about relaxing standards at a time when everyone from President Obama on down is pushing for higher expectations for U.S. students. But district officials, who plan to...

Eye Test Banned Sprite Commerical(Video) A little humor.

UC-SD Green Gone Wild by: Deborah Lambert, September 16, 2009 Do students entering U.C. San Diego this year have any idea what awaits them? Those who read Pat Jacoby’s article in UCSD News will learn how the green movement has transformed the school into a “next generation array of green innovations ranging from Econauts and drought tolerant bio-swale landscaping to organic foods and ‘hydration stations’ that eliminate the need for disposable water bottles.” “UC San Diego is a living laboratory for climate change solutions,” said Mark Cunningham, the school’s director of Housing, Dining and Hospitality, adding that “if we...

If the public option will create competition and lower medical costs, then why does the US Postal Service raise its rates every year? The USPS is the public option. Right? Why does it lose money and FedEx and UPS make money?

Elusive PreK Successes by: Bethany Stotts, September 16, 2009 Some have offered up universal pre-kindgergarten as a solution for America’s educational woes, but CATO scholar Adam Schaeffer argues that the educational “benefits” of government-sponsored pre-k would be transitory at best. “The evidence suggests that the benefits of preschool are limited primarily to low-income children and are likely transitory,” argued Schaeffer in an August CATO Policy Analysis entitled, “The Poverty of Preschool Promises.” In the analysis, Schaeffer examined the three main studies which pre-k supporters cite as evidence that pre-kindergarten provides long-term academic benefits: “the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project, the Carolina...

A new wave of revolution in support of individual and states rights is developing across the United States, and officials who are tracking the movement at the Tenth Amendment Center say it is time. "These days, the United States government rarely follows its founding document," said Michael Boldin, founder of the center, which is launching a campaign to publicize the influence of the federal government, the issue at the very core of most arguments over government actions and individual rights. Constitution Day, the anniversary of the adoption of the document, is tomorrow. When the Constitution was being considered for ratification,...

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[Editor's Note: Forty-nine years ago last month, the nation Israel was reestablished in the Land. Thirty years ago this month, as a result of the famed Six Day War, Israel regained Biblical Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, the Sinai, and the Golan Heights. Although these areas were part of the original mandated land, and are undeniably essential for Israel's defense, it has become strangely "politically correct" to assume that peace in the Middle East is dependent upon their yielding these lands-the so-called "West Bank"-back to their enemies which...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates threw his support on Wednesday behind an on-again, off-again plan to develop a new long-range U.S. bomber, citing the military modernization of China. "I am committed to seeing the United States has an airborne long-range strike capability," Gates said at an annual conference of the U.S. Air Force Association, an advocacy group. He said the United States should be less concerned with a toe-to-toe challenge from "countries like China" and "more concerned with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options." Gates referred to investments that...

Time to take the gloves off. In an interview on NBC (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Barrack Obama administration) yesterday former President and Racist Jimmy Carter projected his own deep embedded feelings onto millions of Patriotic citizens… Jimmy Carter Plays Race Card On NBC (Link) I say projecting because, as any student of history knows, the Democrat Party has a vile and filthy history chalked full of racism, hatred and bigotry.

"You uppity N" is what was implied what the Rep. said You Lie to Obama.....If this is not a disgusting example of the left using the race card, I don't know what is, another attack on the opposition to Obama...This from NBC todayshow

An Iraqi man who witnesses said shouted abuse before throwing a shoe at a US army vehicle was shot dead on Wednesday in what the American military said was a suspected grenade attack

Conventional arms control, United Nations-style, won't stem the proliferation of guns that get into the wrong hands. More likely, it will only make bad situations worse. The United States was one of only two nations that voted against the U.N. resolution last year. Its support among member states could advance a legally binding U.N. treaty creating "common international standards" for the import and export of small arms and light weapons. The trouble is, rogue nations and thugs don't subscribe to "international standards." Worse, a "right-to-buy" provision would enable despots to acquire arms freely and inhibit U.S. enforcement of its own...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Max Baucus on Wednesday brought out the much-awaited Finance Committee version of an American health-system remake—a landmark $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a rough ride through Congress without visible Republican backing. The bill by Baucus, Democratic chairman of the Senate panel, would make major changes to the nation's $2.5 trillion health care system, including requiring most people to purchase insurance coverage or pay a fine and prohibiting insurance companies from charging more to people with more serious health problems. "This is a unique moment in history where we can finally reach an objective so many...