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Far be it for an American President to publicly congratulate (let alone even mention) AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners. Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment used to reach the trapped miners. Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania, built the drill bits used to reach the miners. UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment from Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours. Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas and its subsidiary Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate...

NOTE The following blog entry is a quote: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2010 update on : German terror suspect arrested in Kenya UPDATE ON German detained in Kenya on terror suspicion-report Kenyan police said on Tuesday they had arrested a suspected German militant and deported him shortly after issuing an alert about his presence in the country. Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said Sascha Alessandro Boettcher, who arrived in Kenya on September 22, was arrested in Mtwapa outside the coastal city of Mombasa."Kindly note that the suspect has been arrested from a private residence in Mtwapa and deported back to Germany," Kiraithe...

...As a starting point for grappling with this tangle of problems, Congress in 1868 formally announced the traditional policy of this country that it is the "natural and inherent right of all people" to divest themselves of their allegiance to any state, 15 Stat. 223, R.S. § 1999. Although the impulse for this legislation had been the refusal by other nations, notably Great Britain, to recognize a right in naturalized Americans who had been their subjects to shed that former allegiance, the Act of 1868 was held by the Attorney General to apply to divestment by native-born and naturalized Americans...

Of all the pithy phrases conjured up by Democrats during the health care debate, this had to have been one of the most effective: “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep it.” This phrase was beaten into the public with such regularity no one can blame Americans for beginning to believe it. Unfortunately, like so many of the Administrations proposals, the rhetoric doesn’t match the reality. Health insurance companies have dropped coverage for children as the new law makes it incredibly difficult for insurance companies to make a buck. So now children don’t have...

...Why should OLMS again rework the LM-30 after having done so, quite circumspectly, very recently? The answer is simple: union bosses are complaining, and under the current administration, DOL is headed by the kind of political appointees who will cater to them. There is nothing to be gained by returning to the mob-like union days of Jimmy Hoffa, which is precisely what the re-imagined LM-30 would accomplish.

A man who Accuracy in Academia rarely sees eye-to-eye with nonetheless makes a good point in the October 8, 2010 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. “As for costs, universities typically spend only one-third of their budgets on faculty salaries,” Cary Nelson of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) writes. “Despite more than 10 years of education after high school, most people standing in front of a college classroom earn less than $60,000 a year, considering that contingent faculty members, who are not eligible for tenure, make up two-thirds of the faculty work force.” “Most earn less than...

SNIPPET - quote: October 11, 2010 North Carolina Muslim Admits Working with al Qaeda: "Proud to be an American Traitor" [Full text] ****Jawa Report Exclusive**** I think we can quit with the speculation about where he went and why Update by Rusty: The full text of Khan's story can be found at the end of this post. (Excerpt) Read more at mypetjawa.mu.nu ...

CUBAN LEFTIST GROUPS ARE ATTACKING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE DAVID RIVERA TO FAVOR DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST CANDIDATE JOE GARCIA. Florida Race: Congressional District#25 Republican David Rivera vs. Democrat Joe Garcia The Miami Herald blog, NakedPolitics, reported that Jorge Mas Santos, ex-boss of Joe Garcia, and Carlos Saladrigas are behind the 527 group (Committee for Responsible Politics) running the ads attacking David Rivera: [...] THE PUBLIC RECORDS SHOW IT'S TRUE Sources: Federal Election Commission (FEC), Florida's Company Records, and OpenSecrets.org:COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE POLITICS (FEC ID#: C30001697) Address: 2618 Centennial Place, Tallahassee, FL 32308 Custodian of Records: Mark Herron, Attorney from Messer, Caparello & Self,...

WHO IS DONATING MONEY TO JOE GARCIA’S CAMPAIGN? Here are partial reports of contributions via the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website: link ....Some of the donors are the same people who have pushed for the U.S. to have a business relationship with Fidel Castro: - John Cabanas linked to Fidel Castro. - Richard Reposa, attorney working closely with John Cabanas. - Maria Reposa, wife of Richard Reposa. - Alfredo Duran, attorney who visited Fidel Castro in 2001. .....

PROOF: Joe Garcia is receiving more money from lobbyists than from any other sector. Whether he is debating or campaigning, Joe Garcia, the Democrat candidate for the Florida District 25 seat, loves to accuse his opponents of impropriety. But will Garcia tell voters the source of his funds? No. Will the media investigate and report the facts about their beloved candidate? No. Democrats and liberals are always demonizing lobbyists, because they like to pretend that they are pure. Democrats want voters to think they are the untainted knights defending the "little people" against the "Republican monster beholden to special...

PROOF: KING KONG, GOOD WILL, DAFFY DUCK, AND BART SIMPSON DONATED TO OBAMA IN 2008 (Link to public records) Now that Barack Obama is accusing Republicans (without proof) of receiving foreign money, it's time to remind him of all the foreign and fake donors who contributed to his 2008 Presidential campaign. Here is a reprint of my research on this subject back in October 2008: FAKE DONORS King Kong, Good Will, Daffy Duck are donating to Obama!!! Check it out: go to Federal Election Commission - Contributions Page, then type the donor's names listed below: [...] Donations to Obama...

A heart gripping video on the Obama depresion, the failure of Democrats, The stimulus and the downfall of Middle America. Sung to the Tune of "Brother can you spare a dime?" By Al Jolson.

"ABC News Promotes Revolution Muslim as America's First Line of Defense against Terrorism" SNIPPET: "ABC News recently did a 20/20 special titled "Islam: Questions and Answers," with Diane Sawyer, Bill Weir, and Lama Hasan. The program drew attention to moderate Muslims who will serve as America's "first line of defense" against terrorism. Unfortunately, one of the moderate Muslims presented by ABC isn't so moderate."

In yet another attempt to assault the tea party movement, the left has a new weapon up its sleeve. A weapon its predecessors in totalitarian countries such as liberal Germany and liberal China have used frequently. Revisionist history. In this case it concerns an event in American history. the Boston Tea party. A revolt by colonists where a merchant ship carrying tea from the British East India company was seized and its cargo dumped overboard. This was all due to unjust taxation by British Parliament thousands of miles away. Taxation without representation as our founders put it which was considered...

PROOF: ROLY ARROJO IS A DEMOCRAT AND A FAKE TEA-PARTY CANDIDATE (Links to all public records here) Here are the public campaign records proving that Roly Arrojo is a Democrat, but he wants voters to think he is representing the Tea-Party-Movement. Informed voters know that the "Tea Party" is not a political party, but a movement or loosely affiliated smaller local groups composed by every-day Americans who care about the U.S. Constitution and oppose government waste and abuse. The name "Tea Party" alludes to the historical Boston Tea Party of 1773 when Americans protested the British monarchy and their...

A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY HE KEEPSWHO IS JOE GARCIA? Now that Democrat Joe Garcia is running for Florida’s 25th congressional district, he has tried to soften his image by cutting his hippie-curls and by pretending to sound conservative while subtly peddling his leftist agenda coated with fake altruism. But those who have listened to him for years know that those "changes" are just artificial. Even if he tries to hide his true personality and radical agenda, voters can always count on his friends to tell us who Joe Garcia really is. MEET HIS FRIEND: RAUL MARTINEZ...

CHECK THE PUBLIC RECORDS YOURSELF Links to donation records here Joe Garcia, Democrat candidate for Congress in Florida's 25th district, has been accepting thousands of dollars in donations from John Cabanas, friend and partner of Fidel Castro. Video: "I sympathize a lot with Fidel Castro," says John Cabanas. DONOR FOR 'JOE GARCIA FOR CONGRESS':JOHN CABANAS, OWNER OF C & T CHARTERS (Direct flights to Cuba): Reported contributions from April through August, 2010: John Cabanas (CT Charters, aviation) $2,400 5/19/2010 (1) John Cabanas (CT Charters, aviation) $2,400 5/19/2010 (1) Adalgiza Cabanas (Homemaker) $2,400 5/19/2010 (1) Adalgiza Cabanas (Homemaker) $2,400 5/19/2010...

While proponents of the $700 billion bank bailout may have celebrated the “end” of TARP this weekend, there are several reasons taxpayers are not off the hook yet for this unprecedented intrusion into the financial industry. The program that was intended to rescue financial entities deemed “too big to fail” has itself become a costly behemoth, the repercussions of which will be felt for years. While government capital was injected directly into banks at the caprice of the Treasury Department under TARP, they have no obligation to pay these funds back as long as they make dividends payments on the...

In Alex Pollock’s testimony last week before the Senate Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance, he provided an interesting international perspective on homeownership rates around the world: In the days of Fannie and Freddie’s pride, their representatives and political supporters used to frequently say, “American housing finance is the envy of the world!” It really wasn’t, at least based on my discussions with housing finance colleagues from other countries. But many Americans—including members of Congress—thought it was, just as they mistakenly thought and said that the U.S. had the highest home ownership rate in the world. We...

SNIPPET: "Things apparently did not go smoothly at last week's Chicago conference on "Islam and Muslims in America," which was sponsored by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC). President Obama's special envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, had been scheduled to address the event, held at the American Islamic College. But after news reports highlighted his participation, Hussain reportedly withdrew at the last minute, citing a "scheduling conflict." This earned him an angry rebuke from websites like this (which the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report asserts is "an arm of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.")" Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/10/rashad-hussain-reportedly-yanked-from-oic-chicago