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Barney Frank is in his glory as he prepares to celebrate his 69th birthday on March 31. Frank's climb has taken 28 years since he first won a seat in the House, but he has now become, in the words of The New York Times, “one of the most powerful members of Congress.” Since becoming chairman of the Financial Services Committee in January 2007 after the Democratic Party reclaimed Congress in 2006, Frank has taken high-handed regulatory control of both America's banking and housing industries — not coincidentally, the two industries at the center of today's severe economic recession. “A...

The coming $2 trillion Democratic tax increase is making that decision for them in a United States that already has among the highest business taxes on the planet. The more that Americans fear losing their jobs and facing economic bad times, the more they can be bamboozled into voting for Democrats — who, in fact, are the biggest cause of the economic problems people fear. The mere existence of this socialist political party puts a drag on our economy because investors must always hedge defensively against a Democratic takeover of the government. The Clintons wantonly squandered this gigantic one-time historic...

B92 News Crime & War crimes Crime & War crimes Del Ponte, Pentagon's "persona non grata" 15 March 2008 | 17:46 | Source: B92, Beta ROME -- The issue of NATO's responsibility for war crimes is explored in Carla Del Ponte's new book. In her as yet unpublished book that Beta news agency has had access to, the former chief Hague prosecutor writes that she had hoped to reopen an investigation into NATO actions during the 1999 bombing of Serbia by the end of her mandate, "once the prosecution's work was not so dependent on the Alliance". The book, entitled...

Telling "Truths"By Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | June 16, 2003 PONTEFICATIONS  THE CLINTONS WERE OUR FIRST PoMo PRESIDENCY, and their legacy is an increasingly Post-Modernist, Deconstructed America in which fact and fiction, truth and lie, honesty and dishonesty, right and wrong, good and evil are deliberately fuzzed, blurred and rendered irrelevant. In truth, one of the only three statements for which President Bill Clinton will be remembered in the books of quotations is his lawyerly sophism: “It all depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” Without ever giving the Clintons their due for this cultural and moral vandalism, the Arts and...

John O’Neill commanded the same Swift boat during the Vietnam War that John Kerry did. One of 254 Swift boat veterans who holds a negative view of the Democratic presidential candidate, O’Neill is co-author of the current best-seller Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (Regnery Publishing). To learn more about this group of highly-decorated veterans, visit SwiftVets.com. John O’Neill is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Texas Law School. He was law clerk in 1974 for Justice William Rehnquist at the...

Ruckus at the Republican Convention By Lowell Ponte FrontPageMagazine.com | August 27, 2004 Leftist Web sites have worried the police in New York City whose job is to prevent radicals and terrorists from disrupting and endangering the 2004 Republican National Convention. These anti-President George W. Bush Internet sites have encouraged protestors to bring slingshots to attack police horses, and marbles that can be thrown beneath those horses’ hooves to make them slip and injure themselves and their police officer riders. These sites have provided “anarchist cookbook” recipes that tell protestors how to set off sensors used to detect terrorist explosives...

"RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION MUST DISAPPEAR FROM THE SCHOOLS…. The man who is tied to the dogmas of the Churches need look for nothing from us in the future.” Thus declared the Nazi inspector of Munich city schools in Germany, June 1939.  His words appear in the July 1945 U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) study “The Nazi Master Plan,” available online in pdf format in four parts from the “Nuremberg Project” at Rutgers University and the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion.“Implementation of this objective started with the curtailment of religious instruction in the primary and secondary schools,” the OSS (forerunner...