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Obama's meddling in the elections of other countries is proof positive that the Fundamental Transformation of America has gone to his head With no laws on their books to prevent it from happening, top Barack Hussein Obama campaign aides are masterminding anti Israel President Benjamin Netanyahu and anti Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper 2015 election campaigns. It’s a huge news story virtually ignored by mainstream media and one that thus far keeps the people whom it will most impact, the citizens of two sovereign nations, in the dark: Almost overnight, Obama’s highly touted Fundamental Transformation of America has become the...

How hopelessly at odds with America’s best interests is Barack Obama? Less than two weeks ago he declared his support for “political and economic reform in the Middle East,” warmly endorsing the “Arab Spring” uprisings there. Then Sunday, Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Hazem Abu Ismail announced his candidacy for the presidency of Egypt, promising to transform Egypt into an Islamic state and go to war with Israel. Reform that would indeed be, but not the kind any American president should be applauding. Maybe Obama is still listening to his ruinously incompetent Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, who at the height...

Grim secrets of Pharaoh's city By John Hayes-Fisher BBC Timewatch Bones reveal the darker side to building Ancient Egypt Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build the monuments of the Pharaohs has been uncovered by archaeologists. Skeletal remains from a lost city in the middle of Egypt suggest many ordinary people died in their teenage years and lived a punishing lifestyle. Many suffered from spinal injuries, poor nutrition and stunted growth. The remains were found at Amarna, a new capital built on the orders of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, 3,500 years ago. Hieroglyphs written at the...

Chris Matthews was interviewed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday evening's show. He indicated that the reason the Arabs are so upset is that the US only supports Israel in the mideast and no other Arab countries. Certainly that's the perception. I guess he hasn't heard about all the cash we give Egypt and so many others like Jordan and even the Palestinian Authority. I found the numbers on the web and it looks like Israel got $2.8B last year and Egypt got $2.2B. Apparently the total US payout is about $13.6B.