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Race and politics are a combustible combo that explodes into headlines when an ex-president lights the fuse, as Jimmy Carter did recently. President Obama during the 2008 campaign faced questions over race and politics. "When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds," the Democrat told students at Emory University on Wednesday. "I think people who...

09/17/09 2:06 PM EDT Reuters reports an interesting nugget in the wake of President Barack Obama's decision to grant Vladimir Putin his wish and kill the Eastern European missile shield: Shortly after the pullback on the shield programme was announced, Russia's government said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would meet several U.S. executives on Friday from firms including General Electric, Morgan Stanley as well as TPG, one of the world's largest private equity firms

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Bernard Madoff once slept there. Soon, someone else will. The imprisoned swindler's Montauk, New York, home, located on a beach with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean, has been sold for more than the $8.75 million asking price, a spokeswoman for broker Corcoran Group said on Thursday. The name of the buyer and the purchase price were not immediately disclosed. Several buyers submitted bids for the four-bedroom, three-bath, 3,000-square-foot home, which was on the market for two weeks. Sale proceeds will go toward reimbursing victims of Madoff's estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme. The government is also selling two other U.S....

Obama Gaffe at the Start Of This Clip, this from the University of Maryland rally this afternoon, Obama wants us to "Pay attention to the experts"...OK Barry...

WAKE UP AMERICA, GET OUT OF THE FETAL POSITION AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD. Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Shake the cobwebs out of your brain...We are another day closer to the REVOLUTION! All comrades, infidels, sick twisted freaks and lurkers are welcome and are encouraged to participate in the thread! Join us for the - after the show - show on FOX!

Here is video of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius giving NBC's Chuck Todd a lesson in sneeze etiquette after he sneezed during a update on how to stop the swine flu. (Video)

"This is certainly nothing to celebrate. The glorification of the incident online and around town belies the horror of the killing and its aftermath. Even if it ultimately is judged to have been legally justified, the question of whether the situation couldn't have been handled differently will remain."

To lie is a sin. Christ said this about the devil: he is a liar and the father of them. Today our Republic is under siege by those of a different spirit. We have been lied to by corrupt politicians, socialists, too-big-to-fail bankers, Wall Street fat cats and others that hate our country, culture, Constitution, liberty, free market capitalism, family, and, most of all, our God. These lying supplanters desire a new America, one of their own making – and they will stop at nothing until the America framed by our Founding Fathers is completely destroyed. “We must be ready...

If we weren't all blinded by the sun-like intensity of the strikingly ludicrous healthcare bill, and still groggy from the concussion-inducing cap-and-trade bill, both on the heels of a nuclear stimulus, we might have paid much closer attention to what is now a mere drop in the bucket $100 billion trojan horse. Another time, another place, Hotair may have devoted the nuke blast picture. Ace may have devoted the flaming skull. I am referring to the fact that at 2:16 PM this afternoon, the House passed HR 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009. The act effectively...

http://www.lifechain.net/ There are 1400 Life Chains in the various states. Look up your location and pray with you neighbors. Our babies and parents need it.

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...

by Rob NatelsonSpeaker Nancy Pelosi has issued a press release in which she purports to rebut those of us who have expressed doubts about the constitutionality of some health care reform plans. Pelosi (or her ghostwriter) claims: "The 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that the powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states... or to the people. But the Constitution gives Congress broad power to regulate activities that have an effect on interstate commerce. Congress has used this authority to regulate many aspects...

East Europe grumbles about downgrade in US ties September 17, 2009 By The Associated Press KAREL JANICEK (Associated Press Writers), WILLIAM J. KOLE (Associated Press Writers) PRAGUE (AP) — Scuttling a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland helps smooth relations between the U.S. and Russia. But at what price? Some of America's staunchest allies are the East Europeans — and on Thursday, they expressed dismay at what many see as a slight after decades of their support for the U.S. Among them were some famous names, including Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader and Polish ex-president. "I...

September 17, 2009 Indefensible By the Editors President Obama knows how to put a smile on faces in Tehran and Moscow: This morning, he announced the abandonment of plans to develop a small missile-defense system in Eastern Europe. This overturns one of the major diplomatic and national-security achievements of the Bush years. When George W. Bush came into office in 2001, the United States lacked long-range missile defenses. Today, Americans enjoy a rudimentary shield against North Korea as it strives to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles. There is no such protection for the United States or Europe against a similar threat...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A group of major institutional investors called Wednesday for a global effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to 85% by 2050 from 1990 levels. The call comes ahead of key meetings on the topic at the United Nations and elsewhere. Faced by delays in the U.S. over climate change legislation and global meetings later this year in Copenhagen to update the Kyoto Protocol, a group of 181 investors managing $13 trillion in assets weighed in with a joint statement to help produce action by political leaders around the globe. "Today's investor statement is the...

I can't believe this guy might be my next governor. Creigh Deeds, explaining his position on taxes, says at one point, "I'm not going to raise taxes, but I'm going to sign a transportation plan that raises new revenue." Then in the post-debate press conference, he says, within milliseconds of each other, "I have no plans to raise taxes" followed by "everything is on the table." Somewhere, John Kerry is watching this and saying, "See? It's not just me!"

Ron Paul announces that HR 1207 now has 290 co-sponsors, and if the bill were to be brought to the House floor today it would pass.

Today Barry demonstrated his reckless disregard for the safety of our eastern European allies through his unilateral cancellation of the missile defense shield on the 70th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Poland. In so doing, Barry continued to show his misplaced allegiance with his love for our enemies and hatred for our allies. This is clearly an additional predicate act for the articles of impeachment that Barry is self-documenting on a daily basis. The list for impeachment against Barry is long and cuts a wide swath in his assault upon our cultural heritage, economic structure, foreign relations, our military and...

[Video available at source] This Sunday we hear Jesus’ passion prediction in Mark 9:31: “The Son of man will be given over the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise”. As I mention in the video there seem to be echoes of Daniel 7 in Jesus’ words. Here I thought I’d give a little more on that since I can’t get into all of the technicalities involved in the short video we do. By the way, I want to thank Nate Sjogren again for putting this together. He's...