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President Barack Obama attended the November summit to sell a US-based Trans-Pacific Partnership excluding China. He didn't. The American led-partnership became a party to which no-one came. It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world's population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States. Instead, the Association of Southeast...

This goes back a ways but can I get the links to information where Ron Brown under Clinton gave our technology to china during the duel use changes and, Clinton destroying our patient office by harmonizing and giving disks to japan? Thanks.

I hope Biden brings up the 47% comment and Ryan slams him with the presidents own comments early in this administration when asked about the 47% of Americans that did not vote for him. He simply stated: "I won" Since then, not a single piece of legislation, law or action reflects his care or concern about our 47%

Only 29 percent of Orange County's public schools met the 2012 federal No Child Left Behind testing targets, according to figures released Thursday. "I would not say 71 percent of our schools are failing," county Superintendent Al Mijares said.

Should the Golden State now set up a new retirement system for private workers? Despite its, you know, perhaps-less-than-stellar stewardship of said public pension plans? There are many sober arguments made by opponents — including the Fullerton, Garden Grove and Orange chambers of commerce — along the lines of ”California already faces hundreds of billions of dollars in unfunded pension liability for its public sector workers, and now is not the time to create and assume liability for a new plan for private sector employees,”

It’s time for the cast “Jersey Shore” to trade in the tanning oil for an updated resume. On Thursday, the network announced that this season, which will premiere in October, will be the show’s final one. The news comes days after the breakout star, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, gave birth to her first son Lorenzo. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/08/30/mtv-announces-end-jersey-shore-after-sixth-season/?intcmp=features#ixzz253dgm6Ge

IRVINE – Police on Thursday said the death of a 29-year-old Long Beach woman whose body was found in the trunk of her own car was a suicide, with family members telling investigators that she was suffering from "postpartum psychosis."

I received this and not sure when it was taken but as you can see, non-sand tanks heading toward LA through Burbank. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkYfSXy7XGo&feature=player_embedded

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students' achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.

Bill Press anti-American hate our Anthem. I was thinking if China deports dissents to us, we can deport Bill to China. I am sure he would be happier there. He is a challenge by a band to "Bill the idiot Press" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c8C7i9kdEf8

A look at some of the standouts with the season just two months away. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/irvine-361151-players-football.html?pic=2 Most HS football will be over before the next election. Time goes by fast.

Debt Up $1.59T Under GOP House—More in 15 Months Than First 97 Congresses Combined. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which took office in January 2011, has enacted federal spending bills under which the national debt has increased more in less than one term of Congress than in the first 97 Congresses combine

Forget super PACs. Apparently all that's needed to woo disaffected Democrats is a couple thousand bucks and a cellphone. Tennessee lawyer John Wolfe Jr. managed to pull in nearly 42 percent of the vote in Tuesday's presidential primary election in Arkansas -- the latest glaring sign that a great many Southern Democrats just don't identify with President Barack Obama. The president won the primary, but Wolfe reeled in 68,108 votes and won a staggering 36 of 75 counties.

The chef, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget in protest of potential cuts pending in Congress to the benefit program used by more than 46 million Americans.

About 22 percent of California's eighth-graders tested on a national science test passed, ranking the Golden State among the worst in the nation, according to figures released Thursday. Scores from the 2012 National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card, show that too few students have the skills that could lead to careers in the field, educators said. http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-353581-state-scores.html

Bank of America has started sending letters to thousands of homeowners in the United States, offering to forgive a portion of the principal balance on their mortgages by an average of $150,000 each. The reduction for qualifying homeowners could amount to monthly savings of up to 35 percent on mortgage payments, Bank of America said in a news release on Monday evening.

In a lawsuit alleged to involve the largest money laundering network in United States history, Spire Law Group, LLP -- on behalf of home owners across the Country -- has filed a mass tort action in the Supreme Court of New York, County of Kings. Home owners across the country have sued every major bank servicer and their subsidiaries -- formed in countries known as havens for money laundering such as the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, Luxembourg and Malaysia -- alleging that while the Obama Administration was publicly encouraging loan modifications for home owners, it was privately ratifying...

his is awesome. It shows when the people DO STAND UP they have more power and win against the corrupt bankers and politicians of a country. Iceland is forgiving and erasing the mortgage debt of the population. They are putting the bankers and politicians on the "Bench of the Accused." Which means I assume they are putting them on trial for corruption.

U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China’s Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup. The Internet discussions included photos posted online of tanks and other military vehicles moving around Beijing.

Here is the list of confirmed companies who have officially pulled their advertisements from the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Service Magic home contractor Hadeed Carpets Accuquote Life Insurance Vitacost vitamin supplier Bonobos clothing company Sensa weight- loss program Thompson Creek Windows AOL Tax Resolution Services ProFlowers Legal Zoom online document creator Carbonite web security firm Citrix software maker Sleep Train Mattresses Sleep Number mattresses Quicken Loans Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington Cascades Dental Consolidated Credit Counseling Services Constant Contact email marketing firm Philadelphia Orchestra Reputation Rhino online reputation consulting firm St. Vincent's Medical Center Cunningham Security Regal Assets...