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A major landmark along the road of America’s devolution from a nation of responsible individuals to becoming a people looking for someone to blame for their problems is the ridiculous nature of cases that now clog our legal system. Let’s stipulate that sometimes people are negligent in making a product, in delivering a service, or in some other way, and when innocent people are harmed through negligence they should be compensated for their injury. Maybe a surgeon operates on the wrong knee, or a company makes a product that is defective, or some other instance of true negligence occurs. In...

Gold Just Went Straight Vertical To A New Record -- Stocks Tumble Joe Weisenthal Sep. 14, 2010, 9:47 AM Boom! Gold! Meanwhile, stocks are sliding.[snip]

I have a feeling, just a feeling, that the West is finally reacting to the long suppressed realities of the human abomination that is Islam. In Britain the horrors extant within and without the occupied territories established in our midst surface almost daily, as an era of draconian censorship and disinformation implodes with some rapidity. This new public awareness marks a distinct sea change and reshapes our conception of how we must proceed in our fight for cultural and personal survival. We appear at last to be waging guerrilla war on the two principal weapons deployed against us — the...

Terry Jones, the Florida "minister" who threatened to burn the Koran on the anniversary of September 11, is as much a distraction from the real challenge facing America as was Senator Joseph McCarthy when it came to communism. Communism was (and remains in its Chinese incarnation) a real threat. But radical Islam -- rabid, advancing, intolerant, subjugating -- is potentially a bigger one and must be conquered. Various apologists for the Nazis and communists in the media, academia and religion are now mostly forgotten and that's the problem. Forgetting what happens when evil is accommodated leads to terrible consequences and...

- "Arizona has a long and proud history of fighting the Washington, D.C. elite's insatiable appetite for bigger government at the cost of States' rights. The battle over the Affordable Care Act better known as "ObamaCare" is the latest round. Once again, the feds have gone too far. "The cost of ObamaCare places unsustainable burdens on our federal government, our state government, and on American families. Further, the scheme is based on the unconstitutional mandate that every American buy health insurance. For these reasons, the State of Arizona, at my direction, has joined nineteen other states in challenging ObamaCare in...

During a backyard event with some supporters in Fairfax, Va., today, President Obama conceded something that all observers of Big Labor politics in Washington have known for a while: “Card check” legislation is dead. But he told supporters of the law not to worry since the administration has other ways of doing this: Frankly, we don’t have 60 votes in the Senate. So the opportunity to actually get this passed right now is not real high. What we’ve done instead is try to do as much as we can administratively to make sure that it’s easier for unions

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When a diminutive Florida "preacher" threatened to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of 9-11 it had an international impact for one reason: the media fell into his hands as they lavished attention on the little man looking his two minutes of fame. While he ended up calling off his absurd stunt, fame-seekers in Tennessee, Kansas, and Wyoming, quickly scrambled to the waiting spotlight by making similar threats. In the process, they - and the media that was so eager to give them the spotlight - threatened the lives of military and intelligence personnel and fanned the...

Although the unfavorable financial trends of the past decade have worsened considerably under the Obama-Reid-Pelosi leadership, tea partiers and other fiscal conservatives no longer see Republican control of Congress as a primary objective. It is arguably more important at this time because there is a Democrat in the White House who, along with Congress, has yanked the nation, kicking and screaming, far to the left. But candidates like Mike Castle, fan of cap and tax, can't be counted on to change the direction of the country. It would be better to let Democrats retain ownership of the Senate and House...

If Republicans sweep the House and win key Senate seats in November, it’s not just elected Democrats who will be unemployed — more than 1,500 Democratic staffers could lose their jobs

Booth News Service columnist Rick Haglund is a member of the Michigan Truth Squad team, a project by The Center For Michigan that fact checks misleading political ads. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy experts think Haglund's recent column may need some a reality check of its own in which he claimed that Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm may be earning redemption in her final months. Haglund won't say who is to blame for Michigan's economic meltdown, putting the disclaimer "fairly or not" before conceding many blame Granholm for it since she took office in 2003. Haglund wrote: "There has been...

The Vatican's Apostolic Library is reopening to scholars following a three-year, euro9-million ($11.5- million) renovation to install climate-controlled rooms for its precious manuscripts and state-of-the-art security measures to prevent theft and loss. The library, started by Pope Nicholas V in the 1450s, houses one of the world's best collections of illuminated manuscripts. It includes the oldest known complete Bible, dating from about 325 and believed to have been one of the 50 bibles commissioned by Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman leader. It reopens its frescoed halls to scholars Sept. 20. Library officials took pains to note that the renovation...

Right now the Agent Provocateur owns a building. To get further some work must be done, building permits acquired, safety inspections completed. Then someone has to do work. What American would sign up to do it for cash? Hopefully the State Department Wouldn’t give a Work Visa to a Wahhibi company so they can come from Saudi to build it? This story is being circulated by a fifth column so we can over-react and give the “Arab Street” something to rage about.

On August 28, a CBN News article linked to a letter signed by 70 “Christian pastors,” including liberal “emergent church” speakers Brian McLaren and Jim Wallis, and TBN televangelist T.D. Jakes. Since then the list of online signatories has escalated into the hundreds. The function of the simple, four-paragraph mini-manifesto is to criticize those who dare voice uncertainty about Barack Obama’s religious beliefs. Its goal is to urge government-sanctioned media – and anyone else who might be listening – to deny skeptics equal opportunity to express their views in public.

A teenager has been banned from entering America for sending ONE ‘threatening’ and ‘abusive’ email to the White House. Bedfordshire Police have confirmed that an individual was visited by officers after they received information that he had sent the telecommunication. On Friday, Luke Angel, 17, from Silsoe told Bedfordshire on Sunday that he had sent one email about a month ago. He said he couldn’t remember exactly what he had written as he did it when he was ‘drunk and high’ but said he had expressed dislike for President Barack Obama and the US Government. He said that he had...

The landslide talk was based on two high-profile polls. One, from Gallup, showed Republicans with an unprecedented 10-point lead in the so-called "generic ballot" question -- whether voters will choose the Democratic or Republican candidate in their congressional election. The other poll, from the Washington Post and ABC News, showed the GOP with a 13-point lead. There are problems with both polls. First, Gallup's surveys have been pretty uneven this election season. Indeed, Gallup has since released a new poll showing the generic-ballot question dead even, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence in its finding of a 10-point GOP lead. ....

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 18:19)

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Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker and Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian M. Fenty are sometimes mistaken for each other: Both of them have similarly shaven bald heads and are grouped among the new breed of black political leadership. Unlike their predecessors, who rode a wave out of the civil rights movement and into mayoralties of major cities, Fenty and Booker have the potential to exceed the old paradigm of race-based politics in this country. But first they'll have to win over their toughest critics: black voters. In 2006 Fenty swept every precinct in the District in the Democratic primary -- an...