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Yesterday was a dream. Today is reality. Americanism vs. Communism was a subject taught in High School as a requirement for graduation. Learning about Lenin, Stalin and Mao. The Bay of Pigs and Fidel Castro. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy knowing exactly when and where I was when the news erupted. Watergate. NixonÂ’s resignation and his infamous salute before boarding Marine One for the last time. Watching the news and reading several papers one tends to see outward bias, corruption and manipulation of facts until you wonder WHO and WHAT controls our media. Has an entire mass population...

...One overlooked portion of the financial regulation bill is Section. 1013. Contained within Section 1013 ((b)(2)), on page 1213, is a segment titled Community Affairs. In 33 words, Senator Dodd’s bill looks to replicate ACORN’s practices: “The Director shall establish a unit whose functions shall include providing information, guidance, and technical assistance regarding the offering and provision of consumer financial products or services to traditionally underserved consumers and communities.” ACORN, on its website, describes itself using similar language: “ACORN is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people... ACORN has been building community organizations that are committed...

“Special Message to Jarret Brachman” and “Brachman’s Response” SNIPPET: "Special Message to Jarret Brachman Peace be upon those who follow the righteous path. Listen to me, you son of an infidel woman: You follow what we write in our jihadist forums and give it to your bosses." SNIPPET: "We are fighting you, O enemy, not for the land and not for the fuel… we are fighting you because our religion demands us to defend ourselves and to uphold our religion against those who assault it. Searching within this religion would be better for you than searching for a way to...

We now have The Smoking Gun that proves Janet Napolitano, the F.B.I., and the entire national security apparatus of the U.S. government failed to protect its people in regards to the attempted bombing of Times Square by Faisal Shahzad. Napolitano should be immediately fired for dereliction of duty, you ask why, because the U.S. government had Shahzad’s cell phone number yet they did not check to see who he called, who called him, did members of the Taliban or Al Qaeda contact him via that cell phone, all the government did was write the number down, forget about further surveilling...

PRESS RELEASE LTC LAKIN TO APPEAR TOMORROW ON CNN’S ANDERSON COOPER 360 PROGRAM ___________________________________________ DECORATED ARMY PHYSICIAN BEING COURT-MARTIALLED FOR REFUSING TO OBEY ALL ORDERS TO BE QUESTIONED ON TOP-RATED SHOW Washington, D.C., May 5, 2010. Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who is being court-martialled by the Army for refusing to obey orders to deploy to Afghanistan because the President refuses --even in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary-- to prove his eligibility under the Constitution to hold office, will appear with his attorney tomorrow night in a live interview on CNN’s top-rated “Anderson Cooper 360” program. The...

Spirit of 76 asked In terms of the Western countries, where do all of these commies come from ? Who indoctrinates them ? When I was a union delegate 12 years ago, hearing Karl Andersen spout his beliefs, I honestly thought he was taking the piss ! Why do people still adhere to a political system that has done nothing apart from advertise itself as an abject failure ? These are questions that have interested me for a long time. Ever since I was a bit pink myself, I've wondered why many intelligent people can invest their whole lives into...

Great virtual video! PATRICK HENRY, first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, gave his famous and fiery speech before the Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775 imploring his fellow Americans to take up arms against the British colonialists that ended in the immortal lines "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!" [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72tx_UW9TM;"] link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72tx_UW9TM link: http://factreal.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/founding-fathers-and-war-give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death-by-patrick-henry/ more

ELECTION LINKS for the Floridian Voter Florida Candidates for the 2010 ElectionsFlorida Division of ElectionsFlorida Elections Departments by CountyState of Florida - Official WebsiteFlorida Commission on EthicsFlorida Dept. of Law Enforcement - Voter Felony Conviction InformationFlorida Elections CommissionFlorida Legislature-Online SunshineFlorida Legislature - Office of Economic & Demographic Research RELATED LINKS...

When Sarah Palin was told to leave Michigan in 2008 when her running mate John McCain pulled the plug on their presidential campaign in this state, Palin said she was shocked. On Saturday, she told a crowd of 1,400 in Clarkston it definitely wasn't her idea and she paid a political price for saying so. Palin was the keynote speaker Saturday at Americans for Prosperity's Defending the American Dream Summit at Mt. Zion Church in Clarkston. Palin spoke for about an hour and then did a 15-minute question and answer, taking prepared questions. Palin said it was Michigan that got...

TEA PARTY FUTURE: LESS GLAMOUR, MORE EFFECTIVE In his Washington Examiner column, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit writes about the future of the Tea Party movement. Reynolds explains where the real work is being accomplished. Reynolds attended the April 15 Cincinnati TP rally: "But although that rally -- and the hundreds like it around the country that day -- was a scene of great excitement, that kind of excitement isn't the future of the Tea Party movement. The future, instead, is something much less glamorous, but much more important, than mass rallies and marches." --continue reading. *** Big government spending is...

Federalist 3 is a continuation of the theme John Jay started in Federalist 2. In today’s read, Jay continues to speak to a United States and their combined power, vs separate sovereign nations. This time we are talking about national security. Jay points out that there are strength in numbers, and a strong United States would, in itself, would deter many actions and invasions. Remember, at the time America was surrounded by foreign territories.

The following includes citations from Kent, Story & the Immigration & Nationality Acts of 1790, 1795 & 1802. It also mentions US Sec of State Thomas Bayard, whom I have already included in a previous article on the history of the definition of US citizenship. Bayard concluded in 1885 that the son of a German subject, born in Ohio, was not a citizen under the statute or the Constitution, because “he was on his birth subject to a foreign power, and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”.

America’s Barbaric History Malcolm A. Kline, April 28, 2010 Those politicians and pedagogues who agitate for slavery reparations in the United States should consider what would happen if the descendants of slaves around the world sought the same from the countries in which their ancestors were enslaved. “Just as Europeans enslaved Africans, North Africans enslaved Europeans—more Europeans than there were Africans enslaved in the United States and in the 13 colonies from which it was formed,” economist Thomas Sowell writes. “The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton.” “But there are...

Barack Obama's Budget Director spoke at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. and explained the focus of what he called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (video below). After watching the video of Orszag, it should become quite apparent that if there is a difference between that Advisory Board and Death Panels, it can likely only be found in the name. As you watch the video of Orszag, take note of a few things he says that should cause great concern about the Advisory Board. First, he states that it is “more important to the future of (the nation's) fiscal health...

"... It’s important that we not restrict the review or the recommendations that this commission comes up with in any way. Everything has to be on the table. And I just met briefly with the commission and said the same thing to them. Of course this means that all of you, our friends in the media, will ask me and others once a week, or once a day, about what we are willing to rule out or rule in when it comes to the recommendations of the commission. That’s an old Washington game…"

SNIPPET: "President Chávez also announced during the visit that Venezuela is working on a preliminary plan for the construction of a “nuclear village” in Venezuela with Iranian assistance so that “the Venezuelan people can count in the future on this marvelous resource for peaceful purposes.” The transfer of Iranian nuclear technology from Iran would be a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions - 1737 (2006), 1747 ( 2007), and 1803 (2008) - that imposed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear technology transfers. In late September 2009, comments by Venezuelan officials offered conflicting information about Iran’s support for Venezuela’s search for uranium deposits....

Bad News for Teachers Malcolm A. Kline, April 26, 2010 Unfortunately for public school teachers, it looks like the people in charge of giving us the New Math may have been applying some of that product to the pension funds for educators in government schools. The Foundation for Educational Choice and the Manhattan Institute found that: * “All fifty-nine pension funds studied face shortfalls; * “California, the most populous state, has the largest unfunded teacher pension liability: almost $100 billion; * “The worst-funded plan in our sample is West Virginia’s, which we estimate to be only 31 percent funded; *...

My fellow FRepers... Please Welcome my longtime FRiend and fellow Christian Conservative to FR.

Note: Photos included. SNIPPET: "The representative of Ali Khamenei in the IRGC, Mojtaba Zolnour, said that the maneuvers were meant to convey a message of peace to the neighboring countries. The head of the Qatari military delegation, 'Abd Al-Rahim Ibrahim Al-Janahi, who was present at the maneuvers as an observer, said that Qatar would like to benefit from Iran's military expertise and carry out joint maneuvers with it." SNIPPET: "Source: Fars (Iran), April 25, 2010; Press TV, Fars, IRNA (Iran), April 24, 2010; Al-Alam (Iran), April 23, 2010"