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CORRUPT POLITICIANS HAVE TRAMPLED OUR CONSTITUTION AND STOLEN OUR GOVERNMENT AND LIBERTY Peter Schweizer, in his superb book “Throw Them All Out,” wrote: “In short, the Permanent Political Class has clearly figured out how to extract wealth from the rest of us based solely on their position and proximity to power. If you have a seat at the table, you are in for the feast. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.” For example, fabulously wealthy Senator John Kerry (D-MA) purchased shares of Citigroup (up to $550,000) and Bank of America ($350,000)...

EXCLUSIVE: .22 Gunshot, paint balls fired at McCain / Palin Straight Talk ExpressOctober 19th, 2008 (Sunday, October 19 - Filed by Mark Williams in Raton, New Mexico with the Stop Obama Tour) We learned at this morning’s Stop Obama Rally here that the McCain/Palin Straight Talk Express came through town yesterday. It arrived with a window shattered by a .22 caliber weapon. It had also been hit by an unknown number of paint balls from a paint ball gun or guns. There were reportedly no injuries and neither candidate was on board. One local man who saw the damage and...

Confiscating homes What would you call it if someone forced you to sell your home, even though you didn't want to sell and didn't agree to the price? You would call it theft and phone 911. But the realm of government is cloaked in terminology designed to hide unpleasant realities. When the government does this, it's called "eminent domain," and it's legal. Wilhelmina Dery has lived her entire life in the house where she was born in 1918, in a modest section of New London, Conn. But if she hopes to depart this world from the same place she entered...