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I wish he's said some of this publicly... Book by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer Claims Bush said that Obama wasn't "remotely qualified" to be President (Not news there..) The author said that Bush thought Hillary Clinton would be the nominee and said: "The president, like me, didn’t seem to be in love with any of the available options. He always believed Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee. “Wait till her fat keister is sitting at this desk,” he once said (except he didn’t say “keister”)."Says McCain was a 5 spiral crash during the campaign..

Objective articles appeared in two major newspapers this week on Homesh, the Jewish community in Samaria destroyed in 2005, and Joseph’s Tomb near Shechem. The rare coverage without the usual anti-Israeli bias is one among several signs that a four-decade long media attack in Israel is subsiding, albeit slowly.

Home / House GOP Congressional Report Accuses ACORN of Political Corruption, Widespread Fraud House Republicans issuing a report Thursday accusing ACORN of fraudulent activities and widespread corruption, concluding a criminal investigation into the advocacy group is needed FOXNews.com Thursday, July 23, 2009 9 x in order to recommend a story, you must login or register. 479 Comments | Add Comment ShareThisPEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ Doctors Wage War Against Obama's Health Care Overhaul 26612532 GOP Charges Dems With Censorship Over Sign 26643962 After 10 Years, Health Care Coverage Costs Turn Into Unfunded Mandate 26634572 New Jersey Mayors Arrested in...

At least six Italian soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack on a military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Italian defence officials say. Reports said two Italian military vehicles were hit by the bomb. At least 38 others were injured in the attack, the Afghan health ministry said. The bomb went off near Kabul's diplomatic quarter in the city centre. The blast comes as Afghan President Hamid Karzai reaffirmed his belief in last month's election process. August's presidential election has been overshadowed by widespread allegations of fraud. ... Correspondents said then that the attack underscored the increasingly brazen...

William Ayers is a self avowed communist. B. Hussein Obama is a Marxist. Bernadine Dohrn is a communist. The Chicago Axis of Evil. Ayers has made a career out of being a terrorist, first with bombs and now by destroying America’s educational system. Dohrn, one of the co-founders with hubby, Bill Ayers, of the Weather Underground, has lived the life of a terrorist, the more violent of the two (Ayers and Dohrn) according to others. All Obama has done is blow up the American economy, defense, foreign policy, dollar, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and reputation. Obama’s actions have spread like...

"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican political operative? A Fox News political analyst? One of those several hundred thousand Tea Partiers who assembled in Washington on Sept. 12? No, it was Lawrence Summers, the director of Barack Obama's National Economic Council and, by common consent, one of the world's leading economists Summers made this gloomy forecast in the course of arguing that our economy is headed to "sustained recovery." And while it sounds like self-protective political rhetoric, it...

Gold hit an 18-month high Wednesday as the dollar slid near one-year lows against the euro, sparking buying of the yellow metal as an alternative asset and helping lift silver and platinum to multi-month peaks. Spot gold remained sharply higher at $1,017.65 an ounce into late New York dealings, compared with $1,005.90 on Tuesday. Wednesday's high of $1,020.50 an ounce was last reached in March 2008. In New York, December gold finished $13.90 higher, a 1.38 percent gain, at $1,020.20 an ounce on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract reached a high at $1,023.30 an...

On September 16, 2009, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) offered some of the details of the healthcare reform proposal that will be presented for debate. The Senator's 223-page summary of the proposal, "America's Healthy Future Act," provided additional details for his committee members. During the press conference, Senator Baucus called the proposal "one of the largest pieces of social legislation since the Depression." He described the mandate that would be imposed on every American: buy health insurance or face an IRS-enforced penalty of up to $3,800 per family. Annual tax returns would be used to "ensure compliance" (Subtitle...

The shocking ACORN videos produced and distributed by James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Brietbart reflect the founding purpose of ACORN: creating chaos to overwhelm the system. As I reported last September, and as Glenn Beck and others have reported since then, ACORN was created specifically to execute the Cloward Piven Strategy of manufactured crisis across our country. This series of videos demonstrates in microcosm how ACORN workers promote the strategy. By agitating for mortgage loans that the borrowers could never repay, ACORN and similar groups were primarily responsible for the conditions that led to our current financial crisis. This...

Conservatives feel as if they’re on a roll these days, with White House adviser Van Jones chased out of town and ACORN funding deleted in an appropriations bill. So their next stop? Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha’s airport. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has asked for a vote to remove federal funding from the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., which has received upward of $150 million in subsidies even though it has only three flights a day — all to Washington. The House killed a similar amendment in May, but that was before the real surge in public dismay over federal...

ONE of the many great things I took from my Army career was the rule that "the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters." But excuses are all we have in Afghanistan. Among the worst of the countless follies that make an old soldier sick is the endless excuse-making for the sloth and cowardice of the Afghan National Army and the extortion culture of the Afghan Police -- while Taliban warriors fight to the bitter end. The bottom line is that Taliban fighters are willing to die for their cause, while the Afghan soldiers we've tried to train...

The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), who has come under scrutiny because of her husband's ties to a bank that received federal bailout funds. The panel's chairwoman and ranking member announced the committee was extending by 45 days a determination on whether it would conduct a more thorough review of Waters' conduct, but they declined to say what was being investigated. Waters, one of Los Angeles' most enduring liberal politicians, also declined to comment. Word of the investigation came as the committee announced that it was delaying an inquiry into whether Rep. Jesse L. Jackson...

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land tossed out on Wednesday a complaint by an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency. Land also put attorney Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the national “birther” movement, on notice by stating that she could face sanctions if she ever again files in his court a similar “frivolous” lawsuit.

Police have matched DNA from a Yale research technician to evidence found at the crime scene on the Ivy League campus where graduate student Annie Le was found murdered this week, police sources reportedly said late Wednesday. According to the New Haven Register, police have obtained, or are now in the process of obtaining, an arrest warrant against Raymond Clark III, 24, who had been named a "person of interest" in the case. New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said early Thursday that an arrest was expected "soon."

Here is video of an ABC News report finally run on the ACORN Scandal. Anchor Charles Gibson leads into the story, saying "Next we are going to turn to a political firestorm." It was just a few days ago that Gibson said on a Chicago radio station he had not even heard of the ACORN story. I guess that prompted him to look into it. (VIDEO)

As Britain’s government-run National Health Service continues to draw flak over the treatment of elderly and dying hospital patients, some NHS doctors are fighting back, disputing claims that have been raised as part of the U.S. debate over health-care reform. More than 100 NHS health professionals and patients signed their names to an open letter published in the British Medical Journal this week, defending the U.K. health care system against criticism that has arisen in the U.S. “Survey after survey shows that British patients express a high degree of satisfaction with the care they personally receive from the NHS,” they...

A federal judge has a hand in putting the finishing touches on plans by three groups to protest during next week's Group of 20 economic summit. The judge was expected to rule Thursday in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on the plans. He must determine what route one protest group can take for a march and rally, and whether two groups can use parks for their protests. The Thomas Merton Center, an anti-war and social justice group, wants to march from near the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to the city-county building and then near the David...

The best person to answer that question would be a communist. Since I don't have a communist under my bed (I looked), I turned to the Communist Party USA as a source. Here then, is my report on what the CPUSA has been up to recently (or at least what it is willing to post on its public web site). http://www.cpusa.org/ (Some of you might be thinking it a bit retro to call someone a communist. I am very aware that we cannot read what is written in the heart of another man. But when a person is a member...

UNDERCOVER journal ism is only acceptable when it fits a liberal agenda. That's the message from professional reporters and left-wing activists outraged by the successful video stings targeting President Obama's old friends at the left-wing, tax-subsidized outfit ACORN. Summing up the ACORN Housing Corp. philosophy, a Brooklyn ACORN official told BigGovernment.com's James O'Keefe (playing a pimp) and Hannah Giles (posing as a prostitute) bluntly: "Honesty is not going to get you the house." ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson blasted the investigation as gotcha journalism. That would be gotcha multiplied by at least five: The pair has so far caught ACORN operatives...

"She was yelling, 'leave me alone, stop, stop, help,' just screaming," Ron Overbey says.Those screams at 2:30 Monday morning may have otherwise gone unnoticed, but Overbey had just chased a man out of his front yard with a baseball bat for harassing a woman walking down the street, so he knew exactly what those shouts meant. "He was trying to rape her, I mean, there was no doubt in my mind," he explains."He was pulling her shirt off he was trying to get anything he could off." Goss said, "I went over the wall and grabbed him; snatched him off...