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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama is arriving at a crossroads in his bold bid to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks as he prepares to make his debut at the UN General Assembly next week. Obama, now eight months in office, risks losing credibility as a new type of peacemaker in the White House if he fails to take critical decisions by the end of the month, analysts warn. They say he must finally articulate his long-awaited peace plan and push past his narrower aim of restarting negotiations by striking a still elusive deal on freezing Israeli settlements in the West...

I have always held Jimmy Carter in high esteem. I remember his hard work negotiating peace between Israel & Egypt, his far reaching support of international human rights and his great work with Habitat for Humanity. Today though, I thank him for his brave and heartfelt comments about recent criticisms of President Obama. This man -- Carter -- knows what it means to live under the constant scrutiny of the American public and to be second guessed at every turn. He knows partisan politics and he knows that a president is seldom popular on the other side of the aisle....

The Fishwrap of Record has finally seen fit to tell its readers about the latest ACORN scandals (the San Bernardino tapes, which don’t get a mention, are beyond belief). True to form, the New York Times commits grievous sins of omission that whitewash the paper’s own role in deliberately covering up ACORN’s illicit activities before Election Day last November. The Times article by Scott Shane casts the ACORN stings as a purely partisan game: “Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn, Favored Foe.”

Isn't there some expiration date for the title "elder statesman"? If not, there sure should be, since former President Jimmy Carter wore out his welcome on the world (and, indeed, domestic) stage some time ago. The uproar caused by Carter's declaration that racism was driving various criticisms of Barack Obama is just the latest embarrassment partly caused by the unwelcome interference of America's 39th president. After being soundly drummed out of the White House in 1980 by Ronald Reagan -- following a term characterized by economic malaise, an energy crisis, a 444-day hostage standoff and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...

Listen Live: Sound Off Connecticut with Jim Vicevich 9 a.m. to noon ET (Daily Thread)Sound Off Connecticut is a popular conservative/libertarian call in talk show hosted by Jim Vicevich weekday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon ET. Although based in Connecticut, the show welcomes callers from all over the United States! This is your chance to sound off America! Call into the show toll free (800) 966-9842! Listen to the LIVE AUDIO STREAM at http://wtic.com - it's free and NO registration is required! If you're in southern New England listen over the air to WTIC 1080 AM, the 50,000 watt...

New York Times executives told employees that readers will bear more of the burden for producing the paper and that they will continue to embrace print despite the shift in cost burden

ACORN took action Wednesday to repair its image after two undercover bloggers posing as a pimp and prostitute videotaped some of the organization's representatives apparently assisting the pair in sex trafficking schemes in San Bernardino and three East Coast cities. "As a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees, I am, in consultation with ACORN's Executive Committee, immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN's service programs until completion of an independent review," said ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, in a statement. As it looks internally, ACORN is also planning to sue the bloggers for...

Liberal Benefactors in Baltimore gave recommendations to establish a brothel В США опубликован видеоролик с участием сотрудников либеральной некоммерческой организации, которые с энтузиазмом дают советы по организации противозаконного бизнеса - детской проституции. In the United States published a video with the participation of staff of the liberal non-profit organization, who enthusiastically give advice on the organization of an illegal business - child prostitution. Как передает CNN, запись сделана двумя консервативными активистами, один из которых изображал сутенера, а другая - проститутку. According to CNN, entry was made by two conservative activist, one of which depicted the pimp and the other...

The DUmmies are in a state of depression. On the heels of the Max Baucus bipartisan Senate bill (bipartisan in that BOTH Democrats and Republicans hate it) a glum Dennis Kucinich is predicting DOOM for any ObamaCare bill containing a public option as you can see in this THREAD, "Kucinich has a diary up at Daily Kos predicting doom for the public option."A side note here before we proceed further. A certain WILLIAMS RIVERS PITT served briefly as the press secretary for Dennis Kucinich in early 2004. Yes, Will finally had a REAL JOB in the world of politics...

The sub-headline over the article says it all: "The investigation into a cop killing in the '70s leads to a law professor who helped launch Barack Obama's political career." The law professor is former Communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground known for praising mass murderer Charles Manson.

I don’t like soda pop. It’s bad for you, it’s a waste of money, it rots your teeth. I don’t like soda pop. So I don’t drink it. That’s how freedom works. If you like soda pop, you drink it. If you don’t like soda pop, you don’t drink it. It’s a great system. But Obama wants to screw with it. In an era in which the federal government seems intent on taking both your freedom and your money, the new target is soda pop. Get ready to get hosed. If you resist, you are a racist. This week, in...

While pleased with signs of increased traffic throughout the Wal-Mart Stores empire, the company's president and CEO says Americans are under more financial pressure than many retailers realize.While Wal-Mart sales have long been more influenced by paycheck cycles than other stores, slowing at the end of the month and picking up after the first, "that's been more exaggerated and pronounced in recent months," says Mike Duke, addressing the Goldman Sachs Sixteenth Annual Global Retail Conference in New York on Thursday. "Most of our stores are open 24 hours, and we've seen an increase in sales just after midnight on the...

Some unprecedented news today, folks. Never in the history of the United Nations has a U.S. President taken the chairmanship of the powerful UN Security Council. Perhaps it is because of what could arguably be a Constitutional prohibition against doing so. To wit: Section 9 of the Constitution says:

The story of the ACORN prostitution scandal is finally beginning to spread like wild fire even some of the Liberal Media has been covering the story, like the Washington Post and Politico. The White House has begun the process of throwing ACORN under the bus, the Senate has voted to cut off ACORN from receiving HUD funds and Republicans have asked for a the same action to take place in the House. Just about everyone in the world knows about the ACORN prostitution scandal, well...except for one person, the self-proclaimed most po

Did anyone else see Griff's hallway interview of Sen. Sanders about support to ACORN. Part of his justification was that the economy is in collapse and we have 17% unemployment... Hmmm wonder where he is getting his numbers. Of course we already knew the 9.5% was a farce but FOX should jump on that one with both feet and start digging in.

The Acorn scandal, in which amateur journalists posing as a prostitute and a pimp went seeking a mortgage for a house of prostitution and received advice on how to evade the law, is a fitting new chapter in the controversial history of the advocacy group. Acorn found its way into the mortgage business through the Community Reinvestment Act, the 1977 legislation that community groups have used as a cudgel to force lenders to lower their mortgage underwriting standards in order to make more loans in low-income communities. Often the groups, after making protests under CRA, were then rewarded by banks...

Vladimir Putin could be forgiven for having a celebratory shot of vodka with breakfast this morning at news that President Obama plans to abandon America’s missile defence shield in Eastern Europe. His implacable opposition to the project has paid off, leaving the Kremlin emboldened in its drive to re-establish a strategic “sphere of privileged interests” over Russia’s former Soviet satellites. By trading the loyalty of Poland and the Czech Republic to satisfy Russia’s security concerns, the United States is signalling that it no longer contests Moscow’s right to assert its interests in Eastern Europe. Ukraine and Georgia’s chances of entering...

Now that ACORN has lost its Census Bureau contract and Senate funding, grassroots conservatives are trying to decide what's more outrageous – the organization's wrongdoing, or the media's blatant reluctance to cover it? "Truly shocking" is how The Los Angeles Times described the ACORN revelations on Tuesday. Fox News viewers weren't shocked: They've known about the scandal since the leading cable news network broke it last Thursday. But the LA Times, the first major newspaper to offer an editorial on the latest ACORN scandal, is actually ahead of the curve compared to the rest of the mainstream media. In fact,...

WASHINGTON — President Obama has long suggested that he would like to move beyond race. The question now is whether the country will let him. He woke up on Wednesday to a rapidly intensifying debate about how his race factors into the broader discussion of civility in politics, a question prompted in part by former President Jimmy Carter’s assertion Tuesday that racism was behind a Republican lawmaker’s outburst against Mr. Obama last week as the president addressed a joint session of Congress. Even before that, several conservatives had accused their liberal counterparts of unfairly tainting them as racists for engaging...

In the wake of Joe Wilson's crude outburst, many network commentators (and Jimmy Carter, of course) are weighing in on the new racism that supposedly explains 1) rising opposition to Obamacare and 2) the president's sinking polls. I think this is a disastrous political move to save a health-care plan that simply has not appealed to a majority of Americans. I suspect it will result in another 5-point poll slide