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...But there will be fewer profits to be had, even from blue-chip stocks free from the scandal. Given that Dodd’s bill affirms that the government will no longer help firms that are “too big to fail,” bond ratings companies like Moody’s and S&P will have no choice but to rate the corporate bonds from companies like Bank of America and General Electric as riskier investments. That change will lead to decrease in the values of the bonds, and it will saddle the companies with larger interest rates, which will push down the stock price as well...

Yesterday the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation bestowed four California state legislators – Senator Dave Cogdill, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Assemblyman Mike Villines, and former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass – with the JFK Profile in Courage Award. It turns out it’s “courageous” for politicians, despite a recession and rising unemployment, to impose the largest state-level tax increase in history. At least, that is what the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation would have you believe, as the instrumental role played by the aforementioned four in passing last year’s tax-hike laden budget was the cause for their award. It also...

SNIPPET: "Signed by “your brothers of the German Taliban Mujahideen”, the document has two parts." SNIPPET: "As a whole, the text provides a German-language assessment and justification for suicide missions." SNIPPET: "The main significance of the document is that it is in German and thus accessible to German speaking audience. It is the latest addition to a very rapidly growing body of German-language jihadi literature. Of all these new texts, the jihadist defense of ‘martyrdom’ operations by Elif Medya and the German Taliban Mujahideen may well be one of the most important."

Note: The following text is a quote: Former FBI Contract Linguist Sentenced for Leaking Classified Information to Blogger WASHINGTON—U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams sentenced former FBI contract linguist, Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, aka Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, age 40, of Silver Spring, Md., today to 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully providing classified documents to the host of an Internet blog who then published information from those documents on the blog. The sentence was announced by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland; and...

HYPOCRISY: MEXICO’S IMMIGRATION STANCE – Mexico abuses illegal immigrants in Mexico but DEMANDS citizenship for Mexicans living in USA Click image or click here

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Address To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York - March 6, 1974 Since I am a fiction writer, let us start with a short short story. Suppose that you are an astronaut whose spaceship gets out of control and crashes on an unknown planet. When you regain consciousness and find that you are not hurt badly, the first three questions in or mind would be: Where am I? How can I discover it? What should I do? You see unfamiliar vegetation outside, and there is air to breathe; the sunlight seems paler...

Anyways, talk of war is just people like us realizing that South Korea is definitely taking a leading role in this crisis by internationlizing this incident as it forces China and to an extent the U.S. to address the issue. So here, when we read about 3,000+ articles about the possibility of war, it's actually a good thing. Yes, I'm saying it's a good thing [well, not so much for China] as it puts a giant magnifying glass on both China and obscure, little North Korea. This makes the political and diplomatic price of China supporting North Korea very expensive...

Republican dirty trickster to escape personal accountability... A federal judge gave a stern talking to this morning to the Rightwing dirty trickster James O'Keefe III and his three fellow conspirators --- one of whom is the son of the Acting U.S. Attorney in Louisiana --- for their attempt to access the telephone system of Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu in her New Orleans office, by impersonating phone company employees. While describing the Republican activists' actions as "unconscionable" and "extremely serious", Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. stopped short of ordering a trial, according to AP today: A federal judge had strong words...

Click image or click here. MEXICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE TOUGHER THAN IN THE U.S. (links, PDFs to Mexican law & constitution) Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón came today to the U.S. and criticized the Arizona law. Since many in the Obama administration have not read the Arizona law but have attacked it, Mark Levin decided to read to Obama and Calderón the Mexican immigration laws (article by article) to show how strict and discriminatory they are.

http://www.electionjournal.org/tag/black-panthers/ Note: Video and photos included. SNIPPET: “Jerry Jackson, notorious member of the New Black Panther Party, who was seen in the video below intimidating and threatening voters in 2008, is running for re-election as a member of the Democratic Executive Committee in Philadelphia. Below is the “sample ballot” for the 14th Ward, 4th Division. A sample ballot is posted outside of each polling location. You can see Jackson is listed first in a field of three. The top two vote getters will be elected to a four year term as a member of the Democratic Executive Committee. In 2008,...

(Article mentioned by Mark Levin:) Mexico has stricter immigration laws than the United States of America. Here is a summary of two excellent 2006 research papers exposing how Mexico discriminates illegal and legal immigrants. UNDER MEXICO’S IMMIGRATION LAW (GENERAL LAW ON POPULATION): [1][3] Mexico's Immigration Law (General Law on Population) • Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society: - Foreigners are admitted into Mexico "according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress." (Article 32) - Immigration officials must "ensure" that "immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds...

Snippet - quote: Attn Youtube User Panjabitaliban http://www.youtube.com/user/panjabitaliban Changing your name will not work.

The National Football League (NFL) assistant coaches are considering unionizing after some NFL owners amended retirement plans last year. This news comes amidst contract disputes with the National Football League Players Association which may result in a lockout in 2011...

HAS THE CIA CREATED A PAST FOR OBAMA TO HIDE HIS ACTIVITIES FROM 1981 TO 1983?Columbia University claims here that Obama was a graduate of that institution in 1983. However, to date, none of his college records or theses have been made available to the public. Columbia’s statement places equal emphasis on Obama’s being the “first African American elected President of the United States” and his alleged graduation from the institution, and it does not discuss Obama’s coursework or contributions to Columbia while attending....Again, if the CIA was behind it, they would be involved in every single aspect of it,...

The first is a capital gains tax hike on investment partnership managers...The second marginal tax rate hike is on Subchapter S-corporations...

Dec 6, 1980 - May 15, 2010 Donald G. Barton, 29, of Huntington, IN, died Saturday, May 15, 2010. Mr. Barton had been employed by several area factories. He was born Dec. 6, 1980, in Fort Wayne. He is survived by his father and stepmother, .....

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MIKI BOOTH, CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE AND WITNESS SCHEDULED TO TESTIFY ON MAY 18....I thought that I had heard it all or knew it all, but what really made an impact on all of us was there was an investigator named Al Landry who called in on Skype, so we were able to see and hear him answer Dr. Manning’s questions. He found out that Stanley Ann Soetoro lived in Karachi, Pakistan for five years at the high-dollar Hilton Hotel....we know that Stanley Ann Dunham was in Karachi for five years working for Asia Development Bank, and at the...

Note: Video and photos included. "Pictures of the 'White Taliban' in Kunar" By BILL ROGGIO May 17, 2010 3:57 PM SNIPPET: "Via SpyTalk comes the report of a Western-looking man dressed in Western clothes, milling around in a group of Taliban fighters in Kunar province, Afghanistan. The video (above, for as long as it stays up) was produced by Al Emara, the Taliban's propaganda arm, and released on jihadist forums over the weekend. The video also has plenty of footage of the Taliban's assault on Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh district in Kunar province. Interestingly enough, the Sunday Times...

...However, even a cursory look at our competitors’ tax trends disproves President Clinton’s statement. According to Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute, most of our competitors did not replace other taxes or lower taxes as a share of GDP after a VAT implementation. In fact, most of our competitors raised taxes, which made them less competitive, not more. Take Greece for example. They enacted a VAT in 1997, and no one can seriously claim that they are better off because of it...