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Obama : the man who ran for the presidency before he ran against it.

Ah, Jimmy Carter. The man who dared to call Israel what it is, an apartheid state. Hated by the AIPAC crowd and the right wing, who froth and sneer at the least mention of his name. But Jimmy, Jimmy is the best friend Israel ever had, just like the friend who tells you that drinking till you puke every night is ruining your life is a good friend, even if you don't want to hear it, even if you spit in his eye and swear at him.

A speech to end the war (A Must-Read) > > > WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY > U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN, GIVE THE FOLLOWING > SPEECH? > > My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq > regime has been completed. > > Since Congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, > our mission in Iraq is complete. > > This morning, I gave the order for a complete removal of all > American forces from Iraq. This action will be complete within...

In 2000, Ralph Nader took just enough votes from Al Gore in New Hampshire to give the state’s four electoral votes to George Bush, who won the election by three. And in Florida, Nader took 97,488 votes away from Gore. Bush won Florida by only 537 votes. Nader cost Gore the 2000 election. It is also argued that Ross Perot was the reason George Bush lost his bid for re-election to Bill Clinton. Perot ran as a third party candidate in 1992, and was the most successful third party candidate in history. In 2008, Bob Barr may be the Nader...

On October 26, 2001, shortly after the horrific 9/11 attacks, Congress passed and President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act. This legislation intended to remedy the serious security problems America had at the time; in effect, to abandon the benevolent inactivity of the post Cold War days and return to the realization that there is still a battle to fight and win. Many of the reforms were necessary and quite reasonable, such as bringing about interagency cooperation. However, the act is widely criticized for a number of provisions, primarily focusing on communications, which restrict personal freedoms. Pundits, commentators, and even...

I had to laugh when I heard about Barack Obama's condescending San Francisco remarks about bitter Americans who live in small towns and have to cling to their guns and religion. You want to know who the most bitter people in this country are? Look no further than the page after page of the DUmmie FUnnies where for the past few years we have been chronicling the angry words of bitter DUmmies who live in small basements and cling to their pizza cartons and astrology. In fact, Obama could look no further than his own wife to get a...

CONFER: Why your loved ones have left NY The chances are very good that you know someone who has left New York. According to the US Census Bureau, from July 2006 to July 2007 the Buffalo-Niagara region lost 5,166 people and since 2000 the Rochester area has lost over 7,300 of its residents. The numbers are staggering but they tell little of the toll on our society. Emotionally, it can be quite taxing for families to be torn apart by this mass exodus with many older parents and grandparents wondering if they’ll ever see their children and grandchildren again. Socially,...

Reviews of two cooking show contests now ongoing-Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" and Bravo's "Top Chef". Both shows feature would-be chefs but the tasks, judging and prizes are as different as night and day. The Top Chef features air,earth,fire and water entrees while Hell's Kitchen is same old, same old with the Chef wearing too much makeup sent home. Plus a review of this past week's Miss USA pageant, the audacity of one contestant, the winners and runners-up and the judges whose pics will scare the hell out of you. All with pictures you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.

He could simply run this unedited against Obama and watch the votes roll in from the key battleground states.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., recently wrote this letter to the editor of the New York Times expressing his opposition to building hydroelectric dams in Chile. I sent my own letter in response to Mr. Kennedy's missive: Robert Kennedy, Jr., might be correct that electricity is best provided in Chile by means other than hydroelectric dams (Letters, April 8). His presumption, however, about the source of prosperity casts doubt on the quality of his argument. Mr. Kennedy opposes dams because he wants to protect "nature's bounty." But nature is not bountiful. If it were, human history would be one of prosperity and...

Tonight I was watching Obama speak on a CNN forum for "compassion and faith." One of the questions asked by the audience was if Mr. Obama would make a pledge to set a goal of cutting the poverty rate in half within 10 years, and if so, what steps would he take to do so. Barack's answer discussed all of the things that the government will do to meet this goal when he is president: such as solving the mortgage crisis, raising minimum wage, increasing the tax rates for the upper brackets (redistribution of income), and creating quality universal healthcare...

A recent poll in North Carolina showed that only 25 percent of voters think Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is honest compared to 48 percent for Obama and 54 percent for Arizona Sen. John McCain. And Nearly 90 percent say trust is a major factor in deciding who they would vote for. Similar doubts about Clinton's honesty have surfaced in polls by Gallup and Pew Research. These results don’t bode well for Clinton in the upcoming May 6 North Carolina presidential primary. Clinton called this emphasis on honesty short-sighted and unfair. “I’ll grant that honesty seems important to a lot of...

When we Americans throw up our hands and say things like, "I know it's wrong, but what can I do?" we are expressing the condition of learned helplessness. We know there are problems, but we have been conditioned to believe that others--officials or "authorities"--are handling them. The officials are all too willing, even eager, for us to believe that they are doing something about the problems when they are not, especially when they probably created the problems and are making things worse every day. When and where did we come to our condition of learned helplessness? Think back. Our first...

Finally! A web cartoon that is both conservative and apparently a firm backer of gun rights! Check out this comic that provides a great proposal of what to do when your stimulus check arrives!!!

I never thought I would find myself defending Hillary Clinton, but there are times when we must all simply bite the bullet. However, why am I, a man, the only one to figure out the reason for Hillary Clinton's exaggeration when it came to her trip to Bosnia where she told reporters she was dodging sniper bullets on an airport tarmac. It's really very simple...

The attack on freedom of speech courtesy of Richard (I was picked on as a kid) Warman and his partner in crime, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, has drawn opposition from all sides of the political spectrum with pundits on the left and the right condemning the taxpayer-funded lawsuit (read: witchhunt) against Canadian conservative writers....

Recently, in his continued effort to win Primaries, as if there is anything remotely like a Primary allowed for in the Constitution, Obama uttered words that make rational American’s cringe. He said that residents of small-town America “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” out of bitterness over lost jobs. It is as if we have nothing else to cling to! Some of us also cling to a ballot box as well. At one time, America was known as the “Land of the free and home of the Brave”. My, how things do change.

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The most iconic photograph from the riots attending the torch-bearing ceremony, the one that has every tongue wagging, is surely this one: A Tibetan supporter violently assaulting a wheelchair-bound woman carrying the torch through Paris.This one picture came to symbolize the heartless violence of the Tibetan protesters, thus justifying, in many people's minds, the paramilitary troops that China sent to harass, beat, and brutalize the protesters in other countries -- from France and London to the United States to South America: Violent protester attacks wheelchair-bound torch bearer. Note especially the bandana this vicious thug wears; it's clearly the Tibetan flag,...