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America Serves "When you choose to serve -- whether it's your nation, your community or simply your neighborhood -- you are connected to that fundamental American ideal that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not just for ourselves, but for all Americans. That's why it's called the American dream."The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean...

Six Alabama counties have more enrolled voters than people of voting age MONTGOMERY - Six Alabama counties have more people on their voting rolls than they do people of voting age, according to voter registration numbers and U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The curious statistic could be the result of a surge in new registrations added to voter rolls that have not been purged of people who moved, said local election officials. But the state's top elections chief said Thursday she's concerned that bloated rolls could leave opportunity for Election Day fraud. "I can't say it's impossible that 100 percent of...

Some Muslims consider him too 'white,' some 'whites' find him too soft. In reality, Aboutaleb is in the Labour (PvdA) tradition of anti-polarisation. Ahmed Aboutaleb, Social Affairs State Secretary in Rotterdam, was nominated as mayor on Thursday. Aboutaleb is a member of Labour (PvdA). The PvdA-dominated local council of Rotterdam nominated him yesterday. Home Affairs Minister Guusje ter Horst has yet to appoint him but her approval is a mere formality, said Nis News Bulletin. Aboutaleb, like all Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, has both Dutch and Moroccan nationality. He combines his Muslim faith with a political style that is...

George Soros, the currency speculator is one of the primary elements in subverting traditional societies in order that they better fit into a new world order. Soros backs on a world scale what might loosely be termed the contemporary version of the ‘New Left’. He brings down governments via subversion, moral rot and revolution through financial patronage, akin to what Jacob Schiff the New York banker did to Russia through the funding of revolutionary propaganda.[1] However Soros’ revolutions are far more widespread than that of Schiff. Soros has established a network of think tanks, lobbies and fronts to promote sundry...

Andrei Illarionov , a liberal economist and former policy advisor to the Russian president, has released his conclusions on the war in Georgia. The conflict, he argues, was a “brilliant provocation carefully planned and successfully carried out by the Russian leadership.” However, the Russian leadership did not achieve its main goals– removing Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili from power and changing Georgia’s political regime. In Illarionov’s opinion, Georgia’s NATO aspirations have only been heightened. By leading forces into the territory of a foreign government, Russia has been internationally recognized as an aggressor, according to the economist. Georgia, on the other hand,...

How about a little Christmas cheer? Remember, Santa will want to know if your joke was naughty or nice....

Saudi King Abdullah opens Riyadh Arab summit with attack on US deployment in Iraq as ?illegitimate foreign occupation? DEBKAfile reports that in an interview before the summit opened March 28, Saudi FM Saud al Faisal set limits on Arab willingness to help US Middle East efforts. The prince said: ?What we have the power to do in the Arab world, we think we have done.? He went on to say: ?If Israel refuses (Ed. the Saudi peace plan), that means it doesn?t want peace and places everything back into the hands of fate - not in the hands of the...

In the summer of 1963, a secret report handed to John F. Kennedy's White House generated colossal anxiety. The "Special National Intelligence Estimate," prepared by the CIA, found that Communist China was close to obtaining nuclear weapons. Yikes! The very idea of Mao Zedong and his band of Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries possessing nukes was enough to prompt the Kennedy squad to consider a pre-emptive military strike to take out China's weapons program. The American public, accustomed to sensationalist (and often blatantly racist) propaganda portraying the Chinese as "the Yellow Peril," might well have cheered such an assault. But the intelligence appraisal...

The Democrats disingenuously called for a closed door session in the Senate today and the claimed pretense brings was this; Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue. Do they really want to get into this AGAIN? Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) on CIA Leak Investigation Indictments; “When the Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States is indicted in a criminal case, it is a sad day in the history of our government....

Indeed, if the discussion at Yale is any indication, many on the left are taking more seriously the idea, after years of relying on the courts to expand legal rights, that there is only one court of appeals open to them now: the court of public opinion.