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Ron Paul has said that he will cut a trillion dollars in federal spending, the largest spending cuts proposed by any candidate so far. For years, Americans have elected Republicans who have promised to reduce the size of the federal budget, but have failed to keep their promises, once they get into office. How many remember Papa Bush's promise of "No new taxes?". How many times have Republican Presidential candidates lied, about promising to abolish the Department of Education. Ron Paul's critics are not doubting that he will cut the federal budget. They are simply complaining that his spending cuts...

I see very little discussion here today about the insane rabbit chase, tap dance and convoluted story telling involving Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie's "bold pronouncement" that he would, once and for all, shut up the birthers with present Obama's tangible, long form birth certificate proving he was born in Hawaii. Yet all he could find after weeks of investigating, was a "written-down" notation in the archives and even admitted a long form birth certificate 'may not exist'. Act II: Last night we hear Hawaii has clamped down on any further release of info re Obama's birth as "illegal' unless requested...

If documents some day prove Barack Obama is not eligible to be president under the U.S. Constitution, none of the 538 Electoral College members who vote him into office Monday will be able to claim ignorance. That's after 3,653 citizens had enough concern over the allegations, they participated in a WND effort to deliver letters to every elector, urging them to investigate.

In his announcement today, Obama stated that both he and General Shinseki "grew up in Hawaii". According to Wikipedia, the general was also born there: "Shinseki was born in Lihue, Kauai in the then Territory of Hawaii." Why didn't Obama simply state instead, that both he and the General were born in Hawaii and grew up there? Anyone? Anyone?

We Do What We're Told September Eleventh was an incredible tragedy in our nation's history. We sat, galvanized, to our televisions, while the media kept broadcasting the crashes over, and over, and over again, and then when the buildings collapsed, it broadcast THEM again, and again, and again. To make sure everybody got a chance to see it. Afterwards, there was a lot of finger-pointing, and in turn, a lot of "it wasn't my fault's". When you have a disaster of that proportion, nobody wants to take the blame, least of all the actual people responsible. Let us sit down...

Dear _________ How do you feel about the drugging of our school children? I don't know of any child who needs Ritalin or any other psychiatric drug to make them learn. The schools are all whining about how poorly our children are doing, but no one talks about how the drugs effect the children and their ability to learn. Some children are taking enough drugs in a given day that it is a wonder they even know their own names, let alone stay awake long enough to answer roll call for each class. It's called a pharmaceutical straitjacket, the best...