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On a slow news day, late at night, on a holiday week end when most citizens aren't paying attention to the news, the White House released a statement that Van Jones resigned. And although Jones did earlier issue an apology for previously describing Republicans in crude terms and other questionable behavior and associations, Jones, a true member of the Obama administration, blamed the evil other, those opposed to the reforms of President Barack Obama (D), for forcing his resignation. You see, it really wasn't his fault. "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of...

Politicians have been coming up with all sorts of fancy schemes to combat the current gas prices ... they've done everything except actually come up with a logical, long-term solution. But this hairball scheme, out of all the schemes out there, might be the most ridiculous to date. Here are the basics: http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23183.html ** Representative Paul Kanjorski is a Democrat from Pennsylvania. His plan would establish a "Reasonable Profits Board" in which the government will determine whether or not a company's profits are excessive. ** H.R. 5800 would tax industries' windfall profits. The bill would set up a Reasonable Profits...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten years later, it still takes a village. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is polishing up her most famous phrase as she edges closer to a presidential run. She writes in a new introduction to her book ``It Takes a Village'' that Sept. 11 and the Internet make her tome on child-rearing even more relevant today. The 10th anniversary edition of the book goes on sale Dec. 12. An early copy was obtained by The Associated Press. The new version of the book features a smiling Clinton surrounded by children. The New York senator did not appear on...

Linda McQuaig says we've been tricked into working too hard "Anybody who has lived in Europe knows how delicious European life can be." So wrote New York Times columnist David Brooks last week. He got that part right. Not only do the Europeans have great food, wine, clothes and architecture, but they've managed to avoid the slavish obedience to the marketplace that has left North Americans chained to their work stations, feeling obliged to work ever harder in order to consume ever more trinkets. The corporate world has certainly been successful in indoctrinating North Americans in the mentality of full-blown...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God -- including the Declaration of Independence. Steven Williams, a fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in the San Francisco Bay area suburb of Cupertino, sued for discrimination on Monday, claiming he had been singled out for censorship by principal Patricia Vidmar because he is a Christian.

Disassembling the Catholic Church, Public Education and the U.S. Navy Diane Alden May 1, 2002 Every single institution in the United States, from churches to the military to public education, has been corrupted by the intellectual depravity of the new totalitarians, the new barbarians, the progressives. The new way is not progressive, however; it is merely old totalitarian statist stuff combined with a barbaric form of psychological mind control that seethes with the hatred of Western civilization. It isn't only Islamist militants who hate the West. Over the years our home-grown mind terrorists have done a better job at destroying...