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This Is What a Vote for Obama Gets You... By Frank Salvato I live in In 2003, five short years ago, the State of The governor of the State of Under Blagojevich, the state’s unfunded pension debt is the largest in the Because of the ever expanding entitlement mentality possessed by the Chicago City Council, The City of To be fair, this disturbing reality is more the result of union interference in matters of curriculum creation, teacher quality and classroom instruction and special interest group and civil rights organization influence and interference – along with parental apathy – than it is anything else. Chicago Public School Chief Executive Officer Arne Duncan has made an admirable attempt to maximize the learning experience for Chicago’s students and teachers alike in the face of special interest tyranny, even if he has had to do so with one hand tied behind his back, the other under the critical and political eye of Mayor Daley. And as Chicago, the city, becomes inebriated in decay, Mayor Daley and the Cook County Board are feverishly trying to salvage their entitlement-based regimes by capitalizing on the process of “community rehabilitation” – the exportation of residents who previously lived in “undesirable,” non-revenue generating “affordable housing” to the collar counties and suburbs. As old high-rise “affordable housing” units are destroyed to make way for the tax-revenue generating condominiums, townhouses and Olympic venues, the stench of Progressive-Left entitlement, along with the consequences its ideology brings, is infecting the rest of the state in a destructive way. An aggressive “urbanization" of the once peaceful and amiable Chicago suburbs is causing a rise in problems traditionally found in urban areas: struggling schools, overcrowding, crime, traffic congestion, elevated costs of living, municipal budgetary woes, stagnant development, and ideological confrontation, complete with special interest influence from outside the community. Just as with the National Education Association’s encroachment upon local control of schools and their curriculums, the “urbanization” of the suburbs, collar counties and progressively (no pun intended) the rural areas of Illinois is facilitating a culture of urban morality; a society ruled by moral relativism, victimhood and the caretaker nanny state. We here is This is just a limited glimpse into what it is like to live in a cobalt blue state; where Progressive-Left Democrats wield the tenets of socialism – including wealth redistribution and the limitation of constitutional rights – with impunity. Should the voters of America foolishly opt to discard liberty, opportunity and self-reliance in a self-centered quest for unearned wealth and a fraudulently engineered societal equality, we will come to rue the rhetoric of “hope and change,“ just as we will all soon be weeping for the freedoms we so imprudently cast aside. Government must come before politics. The sanctity of the Constitution must trump political ideology. Country first.
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THE BEAR IN THE SUN: MOSCOW PROCLAIMS NEW "INTERNATIONAL ORDER" IN LATIN AMERICA... January 29, 2009 International News Analysis Today On January 28, 2009 a meeting in Moscow helped to undermine the position of the U.S. in Latin America and hasten the arrival of a new, and anti-American, "international order." Cuban president Raúl Castro, brother of the increasingly infirmed Fidel, arrived in Moscow to meet with the elite of Russia's ruling class in what the Cuban dictator described as an "historical event" of "great emotion." 
Moscow has always considered Cuba a "key ally" in Latin America, a region whose governments are, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, "natural allies in the formation of a more just and secure international order." Raúl stated that Latin America has a "growing strategic relationship" with Moscow. Havana already hosts a large and sophisticated Chinese electronic spy base, which replaced the Soviet-era Lourdes base closed in 2001. It remains uncertain how Moscow will express the "strategic relationship" with Cuba. Russian naval forces have recently visited Cuba, and there are reports that Moscow has considered placing bombers on the island. Moscow has already promised the Cuban regime military and technical aid, including assistance with "domestic security" measures. For years Cuba has had the well deserved reputation of a tropical gulag. Growing pressure from dissidents, however, has proved to be embarrassing to the island's Communist regime. Moscow has a proven track record in the elimination of those who make trouble for the Kremlin elite, and is apparently willing to share its experience with Havana. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the earliest days of the "new" Russia, individuals who have challenged Russia's political elite have been eliminated in a variety of ways, including being shot to death in the center of Moscow. Investigative journalists have been favorite targets. Recently, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta asked state authorities to allow its journalists to carry firearms. Journalists, however, are not alone. Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer known for energetically defending human rights advocates, defending investigative journalists, and representing those accusing the Russian military of abuses, was gunned down mid-day in Moscow. During the same attack crusading journalist Anastasia Baburova was also murdered. Commenting on the killings, Igor Yakovlenko, head of the Russian Journalists' Union, remarked that "it is a disgusting symbol of our times that a lawyer and a journalist were killed at the same time." Russia's growing influence in Latin America extends to Venezuela, where millions of dollars in small arms, fighter jets, attack helicopters, and other weaponry support the Marxist regime of Hugo Chavez. Other leftist leaders in the region are working closely with Moscow: Argentina's president, Christiana Fernandez de Kirchner, Communist ex-guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Chavez-want-to-be Evo Morales of Bolivia, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, and Raphael Correa of Ecuador. The regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador are also tied to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Spanish acronym, FARC), a communist narco-terror army which sells illegal drugs and arms throughout South and North American continents. Some of their best customers are the Mexican drug cartels along the U.S. border which are threatening the very existence of the Mexican state. Cuba and Venezuela also have close ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is willing to share its nuclear knowledge with the Chavez regime. The new "international order" that Moscow and Havana advocate is patently anti-American and includes the most violent, oppressive groups and states in the world. This is Socialism in action. Led by dictators and supported by secret police organizations, Latin America's socialist governments seek an international socialist system and an end to the economic and political system in United States as we now know it. We place ourselves in peril if we ignore this threat. | ||||||
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Resident-Elect Obama Sets NEW Tone in By JB Williams ©2008 USA Blagojevich Arrested – Because Barack Obama is constitutionally unqualified to become president of the But before resident-elect Barack Obama can be crowned the official messiah on January 20th, he has hit a few snags in his promise to “change” leftist corruption in
Other than Obama’s effort to keep Hillary Clinton out of the country visiting the most dangerous parts of the world by naming her Secretary of State for the next four years, not a damn thing seems to be going well for the incoming messiah. Liberals Expected What Kinds of Change? Even the drunkest college student at the grass roots of the Obama coup was smart enough to know that at best, Obama was a know nothing, done nothing, nobody. Even if they couldn’t connect the dots between his twenty years of ill-fated friendships, they still knew he was a big phat nothing... So, why did they choose him over Hillary? We were going to get a third Politically speaking, his résumé was clear. He’s a kindergartener in the high finance school of left-wing political leadership. As such, he is being led around by the nose, as any intelligent American could have predicted. This is the problem with getting college kids who have yet to take responsibility for themselves all stirred up about politics and sending them into a voting booth still hung over from the frat party the night before. Garbage in, equals garbage out... Making History Alright The 2008 election will go into history books as the year Americans became stupid enough to elect Obama.
Now that’s history in the making! Meanwhile in A trillion in taxpayer funded bailouts has done nothing to stem the tide of impending economic disaster, the free world remains at war with international terrorism, Democrat run states are begging for another trillion in freshly printed monopoly money to buy them out of their financial irresponsibility, and Republicans are stumbling around dazed and confused about how they squandered their power and were relegated to their own private political sandbox, far from power. In case you think things can’t get any worse, you had better start thinking for yourself a little. The Media Manufactured Malaise Americans are floundering about like sheep in a hypnotic trance, thanks to the efforts of the American press to lead them into a corner where socialism by democratic process starts to look pretty good compared to the soup line Some think greed is the greatest motivator in Of all the recent failures in
No Magic Turnaround Americans foolish enough to elect the very people responsible for bankrupting everything they touch, are also foolish enough to keep believing in a false hope of magic change, until the wolf is standing at their front door. The 111th Congress is being sworn in as I write this column. New members of congress stand and applaud themselves, as they begin the diligent work of dismantling If they don’t shove trillions in printed funny money into the economy they have wrecked, it will continue to be flushed down the crapper. If they do pour more funny money into the economy they wrecked, the dollar won’t buy a cup of bad coffee by spring. The fact that Stuart Smally was able to steal the As of And as anti-American Democrats publicly wipe their behinds with it over the coming months, the average American voter will sit back and scratch their heads in wonderment, never once considering the possibility that they alone, made it all happen. A new tone indeed! But it is “change” and it will “make history” and that’s what Americans voted for.... That’s the dangerous thing about freedom. The same freedom that allows one to succeed beyond their wildest dreams, also allows them to choose failure. And the same freedom that allows individual liberty and happiness, allows us to choose self-destruction as well. We have chosen poorly... and now, we must pay the piper.
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Writer is Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com . Written By: Joan Swirsky
In times past, coalminers working in the depths of the earth took along caged canaries. As long as the canaries warbled, the miners knew they were safe from the methane and carbon monoxide that would kill them in minutes. But when the tiny songbirds stopped singing, the miners knew to run for their lives. Jews have always been the canaries in the coal mines of civilization, serving as a warning of impending doom to those who believed, as Churchill said, that the crocodile — of tyranny — would eat them last. The Jews of Hitler's Germany who listened carefully to the savage dictator's early words, and watched as his promises of hope and change morphed into incremental losses of freedom and ultimately genocide, fled their country and survived, while the six-million who said "it can't happen here" — as well as six-million non-Jews who believed they were immune — perished in the largest mass-murder in history. After Hitler's brutal annihilation of half the Jews on earth, the straggling survivors established the State of Israel, which in less than 50 years became a formidable power, and also a world obsession — admired and respected but also envied and loathed. Since Israel's founding in 1948, America has been the Jewish state's most steadfast supporter, even when this or that president was not particularly enamored of "the Jews" — with the stark exception of Jimmy Carter who, to this day, oozes Jew-hatred from his aging pores. Why? Because, unlike every state in the Middle East and every anti-freedom regime on earth, Israel embodies all of our country's values — the ideal of democracy, the rule of law, a determination to fight the enemies of Western civilization, and a fidelity to the Judeo-Christian ethics that have made both America and Israel shining lights among freedom-loving nations. Today, with the advent of the Obama administration, Israeli canaries are chirping loudly, warning the entire world, particularly America but also Europe, that if Israel is sacrificed to Obama's far-left anti-Israel and anti-American agenda, then freedom-loving, God-fearing countries around the world will be suffocated and sacrificed to a new American caliphate — to the harsh and inflexible rule of Islamic theology, philosophy and law. SHARPENING THE MACHETE To prepare for his meeting on May 18 with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama prepared a menu of poison pills — the kind given to people with the same Hobson's Choice that Mafia attorney Tom Hagen gave to the imprisoned and about-to-testify-before-Congress Frankie Pentangeli in "Godfather Two" — either commit suicide or we're going to kill you. Examples abound.
Anne Bayefsky of www.eyeontheun.org explains Obama's nefarious plans perfectly: "President Obama unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel to the wolves. It takes the form of enthusiasm for the United Nations and international interlopers of all kinds. Instead of ensuring strong American control over the course of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or the Arab-Israeli peace process, the Obama administration is busy inserting an international mob between the U.S. and Israel. The thinking goes: If Israel doesn't fall into an American line, Obama will step out of the way, claim his hands are tied, and let the U.N. and other international gangsters have at their prey." The Obama formula, based not on an American or Israeli plan but rather on the "Saudi Peace Initiative," involves:
GOING IN FOR THE KILL In spite of more than a half-century of Arab belligerence, war-mongering, suicide bombings, and virulent anti-Israel propaganda blaring from mosques and the media, brainwashing school texts, maps that eliminate the Jewish state, and obdurate resistance to all peace initiatives, Caroline Glick says that "as far as the Obama administration is concerned, Israel is the only obstacle to peace....the Obama White House's bald attempt to force Israel to take full blame for the Arab world's hostility toward it is not the only way that it is casting Israel as the scapegoat for the region's ills. In their bid to open direct diplomatic ties with Iran, Obama and his advisors are also blaming Israel for Iran's nuclear program." "Even Ethan Bronner of the The New York Times pointed out," Glick continues, "that Obama's Middle East policy is not based on facts. If it were, the so-called 'two state solution,' which has failed repeatedly since 1993, would not be its centerpiece. Obama's Middle East policy is based on ideology, not reality. Consequently, it is immune to rational argument. By blaming Israel for the absence of peace in the Middle East while ignoring the Palestinians' refusal to accept Israel's right to exist; by seeking to build an international coalition with Europe and the Arabs against Israel while glossing over the fact that at least the Arabs share Israel's concerns about Iran; by exposing Israel's nuclear arsenal and pressuring Israel to disarm while in the meantime courting the ayatollahs like an overeager bridegroom, the Obama administration is telling Israel that regardless of what it does, and what objective reality is, as far as the White House is concerned, Israel is to blame." Sound familiar? As I documented in recent articles — "Obama's Revenge" and "The President Who Hates His Country" — Obama and his Leftist cronies revile Western civilization and all those evil white men who established the U.S. Constitution and the most productive, most generous and freest country in world history, as he so amply demonstrated in his recent apologize-for-America trip to Europe. In an article, "The United Hates of America," David Solway comments on "...the long and destabilizing campaign of the American Left against the political interests of its own country and its rush to embrace the dictatorial agendas of America's most resolute enemies...'the unholy alliance' between the radical Left and the Islamic Right." Solway also comments on a new book by Jamie Glazov, "United in Hate": "Glazov's "analysis," Solway continues, "seems the only conceivable means of making sense of the leftist orgy of national treason, betrayal of genuine liberal principles, and passionate support of tyrants and demagogues. It also clarifies the bizarre and singular marriage between the Left and Islamism. Glazov writes that the 'common denominator' between two such improbable bedfellows — the one ostensibly promoting gender equality, freedom of speech, and a pluralistic society, and the other predicated on gender apartheid, theocratic coercion, and conformity to Sharia law — is a belief in redemptive violence. This is why so many on the secular Left...exulted in the carnage of 9/11, as did their fundamentalist counterparts in the Islamic world, like the Palestinians who danced in the street and handed out candies to celebrate the great event. For the members of the anti-American Left, their papers and speeches were the candies they distributed to mark this sublime and long-awaited triumph. "Yet another important common denominator, Glazov explains, between the Western Left and Islamism is their shared hatred for the state of Israel, the only true, democratic nation in the Middle East and the West's forward position in the war against an undeviating adversary. The Left abominates Israel as a mini-America, that is, as a colonial occupier of third world innocents, and as a symbol of all the things it loathes: 'modernity, freedom, corporate capitalism and globalization — all things reviled by Muslim fundamentalists. It has thus allied itself with militant Islam on the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend.'" So we know where Obama and his henchmen-and-women stand. And we know that they've read every Jew-hating, Israel-hating word of The Fatah (Palestinian) Constitution and agree with every defamatory, racist, genocidal tenet of this kill-the-Jews-and-destroy-Israel manifesto, which they apparently find less objectionable than the U.S. Constitution. OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL COLLABORATORS Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, has long and deep ties with the enemies of America and Israel. This is what Dick Morris, former advis= or to President Clinton, and his wife, Eileen McGann, wrote last year:
Lee Hamilton, as Lasky writes, is a key Obama advisor on Middle Eastern affairs. A former Indiana Representative, Hamilton led the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, which concluded, among other things, that the withdrawal of troops from Iraq should be coordinated with Syria and Iran! And that the U.S. should develop Syrian "goodwill" by pressuring Israel to surrender the Golan Heights and leave the West Bank — but not a word about dismantling Hamas or Hezbollah! Hamilton wrote in the NY Times that Hezbollah's "hatred was created by Israel; it wasn't there at the beginning." Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor, has been one of Israel's most consistently hostile critics and Hamas's most ardent supporters, as well as a staunch admirer (both in writing and verbally) of Stephen Walt's and John Mearsheimer's= virulently anti-Israel book, "The Israel Lobby," which, among other things, contends that Jewish pressure, and not shared values, binds America and Israel together. James ("F... the Jews") Baker, among the harshest detractors of Israel, has often engaged in raw anti-Semitic remarks, is known for coddling Middle East dictators (including Syria's Assad), and has been heavily invested (through the Carlyle Group) in the Israel-hating country of Saudi Arabia. In fact, Baker's law firm defended the Saudi Defense Minister who was sued for alleged complicity by the families of the World Trade Center victims. Samantha Power, now on Obama's National Security Council, has advocated ending all U.S. military aid to Israel and written of her willingness to "alienate a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import [American Jews]...it may more crucially mean sacrificing...billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the state of Palestine." Believe me, the above is the short list. As Glick has written: "In the past, while anti-Israel politicians, policy makers and opinion shapers were accepted in Washington, they would not have felt comfortable brandishing their anti-Israel positions as qualifying credentials for high position...today in Washington there are powerful circles of political players for whom a person's anti-Israel bona fides are his strongest suit." OBAMA'S COURT JEWS Oh, I can hear the blather as I type: But what about all the Jews who voted for Obama and are in his cabinet and among his advisors? Make no mistake — Obama's Court Jews are identical to those of the past who financed, supported, licked the boots of and sold out their people in order to gain the personal influence, privileges, wealth, and protection that the "nobles" afforded them. They helped Roman emperors kill Jews. They helped Hitler kill Jews. But after their groveling and traitorous service, they were blamed for economic downturns and used as scapegoats to explain away the failures of the evil regimes and leaders they abetted. Fools and dupes, to a person! Journalist Melanie Phillips writes that "Obama is attempting to throw Israel under the Islamist bus, and he's getting American Jews to do his dirty work for him...none of this, however, should come as the slightest surprise to anyone who paid any attention to Obama's background, associations and friendships before he became President and to the cabal of Israel-bashers, appeasers and Jew-haters he appointed to= his administration, with a few useful idiots thrown in for plausible deniability." In an article entitled THE FINAL SOLUTION — What Hitler didn't finish, Obama will, blogger Daniel Greenfield (Sultanknish.blogspot.com) explains:
While outwardly courting Jews, Obama's people have also been quietly shoving Jewish organizations and their leaders into a corner. Within the Jewish organizational world there has been a silent but deadly takeover of major Jewish groups by left wing radicals. Former alumni of the far left wing and anti-Israel groups like Breira or Coname in the 70's have been elevated to key positions in such organizations as the UJA Federation. Behind the scenes any Jewish leaders who expressed even doubts about Obama during the primaries were intimidated and silenced. The overall idea is to keep a happy face pasted on American Jewry while the knives are out in the dark. But don't these smart Jews know they're being used? Yes and no. They've studied his= tory, but they think that the passage of time has made them immune from mistakes of the past. Of course they're wrong. Fools and dupes always get fooled and duped. Unfortunately — actually, stupidly — too many Jews, over the ages, have been seduced by the hope-and-change rhetoric of the Left, so yearning are they to be "included" and "accepted" into cultures that have ultimately rejected them. Just who are Obama's Court Jews? Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff and, in my opinion, Chief of Dupes. As writer Judith Apter Klinghoffer reminds us: "By choosing a Jewish chief of staff to do the dirty work, Obama showed himself a 'worthy' successor to LBJ. Arthur Goldberg was LBJ's point man to read the riot act to Israel. It was his Jewish U.N. representative that was charged with berating Israel for daring to retaliate against Palestinian acts of terror in 1966 and to inform Israel that it should not rely on any American assistance against Nasser in may 1967." And now Emanuel is taking the bait, currying favor for his figurative 10-minutes of fame, the better to sell out his Israeli-born father and the land his father heroically fought for in the early years of Israel's existence. David Axelrod, the chief strategist and media advisor for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and now a White House insider, is not front-and-center about his hero's antagonism toward Israel. But as the old chestnut says: Silence is Consent! Robert Malley is another fan of Hamas and Hezbollah. According to Wikipedia, Malley is the son of Simon Malley, an Egyptian-born Jewish journalist, and Barbara Silverstein, a New Yorker who worked for the U.N. delegation of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Both loathed Israel and apparently passed their toxic DNA onto their son. Malley has often called for an end to all aid to Israel. Dennis Ross, Obama's special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia, which includes Iran, participated in 12 years of failed Israeli-Palestinian "peace" efforts. In 2001, he suggested that future negotiations ought to be based on "something the parties have put on the table, and not [what] the United States has put on the table." Translated today, that would mean listening to the 22 hostile states that surround Israel and saying "majority rules!" George Soros, the Budapest-born multibillionaire (and Nazi collaborator) has devoted his entire life, as writer Srdja Trifkovic points out, to supporting "increased government spending and tax increases, drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders and immigr= ation, immigrant entitlements, feminism, free abortion-on-demand, affirmative action, and gay rights" and "remains primarily committed to destroying the remaining bastions of the family, sovereign nationhood, and Christian Faith..." He is also devoted to vilifying Israel and funding numerous groups that work unstintingly to bring about its destruction. Again, this is the short list. But the entire list of Obama "advisors" on Middle East affairs is comprised of hard-core Leftists who want nothing more than to see America humiliated and Israel destroyed. As Lasky has said, "This is the company Barack Obama keeps." CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED Melanie Phillips calls the Obama administration's "malice" toward Israel "incomprehensible in its suicidal stupidity."
And writer Tom Gross says that "the threat of a nuclear arsenal in the hands of the only government in the world (Iran) that promotes suicide bombing as a matter of state policy (by its client militias in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere), and celebrates 'martyrdom of its fellow Muslims' in such attacks, is a threat quite unlike any the world has ever seen. The combination of weapons of mass destruction and jihadist ideology poses a problem of much greater magnitude than that when secular dictatorships and semi-dictatorships, such as Russia, China and North Korea and Pakistan, possess nuclear bombs. In addition to posing an existential threat to Israel, a nuclear Iran could mean the end of American influence in the Middle East. Tehran, not Washington would dominate oil in the region." But none of these threats, not only to the Middle East but also to America, are of any import to President Obama. In his single-minded obsession to appease our enemies and get rid of his "Jewish problem," he is willing to sacrifice the safety and security of America, the country he can't stop apologizing for. Or is that he has a Muslim problem and the Jews and Israel are simply in the way?
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 "And Now, The Hard Part"...
While America can certainly be proud of the historic election of 2008, January 20th will soon be here. After the last notes are played at the various inaugural balls, after the last of the parades pass by the viewing platform in front of the White House, and after the media lovingly covers the final goodbyes of the President and Mrs. Bush as they leave town and head for Crawford, the real work of the new Obama administration will, at last, begin. Up until that time, President-Elect Obama will be able to stay somewhat in campaign mode. That is to say that he can continue, for a little while, to bask in that warm fuzzy feeling of being all things to all people... However, on January 20th, President-Elect Obama will find that being President Obama might be a little different. For example, the nation will look to him, not President Bush, when the stock market dives 500 points in a day. The nation will look to him, not President Bush, when fear and trepidation come from the release of employment numbers and the like. In short, Mr. Obama will have to make decisions on issues of the economy and foreign policy that have consequences—consequences that not everyone will love or hail as inspired (as they did in the campaign). For that is what a president must do many, many times a day: make decisions. President Bush was very good at making decisions. They weren’t always popular (some will seem better in hindsight, I believe) but President Bush made decisions and let the chips fall where they may... If President-Elect Obama truly wants to live up to his legendary status that has been conferred upon him, he will need to truly embrace the idea that a president is to take into account all the people, all the nation and all the nation’s interests before making a decision. Now, I don’t expect him to suddenly be open and supportive of conservative ideals (although that would be nice) but I do, as many Americans who also voted on November 4th, believe that our new President make good on the ideas he advanced and campaigned on during the campaign of 2008. Namely, that this is supposed to be a time of unity, of a break from the past. Sadly, the signals we seem to be getting from the Congressional leadership smack of a new partisanship that is descending across the land. So many people voted—many for the first time—in this election and they deserve a country and a political landscape that really does address the issues and challenges that face us in such a way that allows for good ideas—from either party—to be considered... The crises that we are facing are daunting indeed and, in many cases, unprecedented. From the financial bailouts to the latest news that automakers like GM are literally running out of money in a couple month’s time, confidence in the economic system is fading fast and Americans are paying close attention to what is being done and what will be done starting January 20th. They are watching for tax increases that could send the economy over the edge completely. They instinctively know that higher taxes can hurt Democrat and Republican voters alike. They are looking for real answers and will accept nothing less knowing that their votes are powerful. Creating a partisan juggernaught—even an Obama one—simply will not work... -Kyle Warren- -------------------------
Kyle Warren is the Host of 'The Kyle Warren Show' heard weekdays on Talk 2k.com and Net Talk World - Global Talk Radio. Tune in today to hear common sense conservative views from the 'Doctor of Politics'...
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Mark S. McGrew has written over 35 articles on a variety of subjects, originally published in newspapers and magazines in The United States, Mexico and Russia... His articles on Barack Obama have been re-published on over 200 web sites in fifteen countries and translated into seven languages. He also writes business and legal documents...
He can be heard Saturday thru Thursday on Internet Radio at Mark McGrew Radio Talk Show . You may email him at McGrewMX@aol.com
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Undermining Our Sovereignty from Without & Within.. Written By: Nancy Salvato... DOWNERS GROVE, IL. (NS/NMJ) - The first amendment to the United States Constitution expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws that infringe on the freedom of the press. While it should be expected that those elected to the legislature have at least a basic understanding of the Bill of Rights, this is not necessarily the case. “Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the average score of 49% for those who have never been elected.” Neither score bodes well for the state of our nation. If we are to continue to be a sovereign country, we must understand the rule of law and why each and every word of the founding documents are so important to the defense of our nation and to the continuation of our freedoms. While copies of the founding documents (Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, Bill of Rights) can be found freely on the internet, the basic understanding of the meaning behind the Founders’ and Framers’ words appears lost on a great many Americans. Perhaps this is why Google, a private corporation, has been allowed to get away with systematically censoring a great many authors and publications that call for a critical examination of radical Islam, take issue with the unfounded theory of global warming, and more recently, displayed criticism of extreme progressive left political candidates and principles. One can surmise that Google figures that since less than 50% of the people are not going to employ any intelligence in making sense of the founding documents or in trying to understand their relevance in today’s world, they don’t pose a threat to the utopian world order they are promoting at the expense of the rule of law that has guided our nation for over 200 years. Sadly, the lack of outrage over this censorship by a private search engine such as Google, which has virtually monopolized access to any information made available over the internet, has not only made it much more difficult to construct a well researched opinion about what is happening around the world and how these events may affect our way of life but it is literally revising our history as it is happening right before our eyes. This global ideology, which introduced Political Correctness (uniformity of thought) and has infiltrated our schools, our media, and our legal system and is threatening the future of our culture, is advanced by the fifth column and appears to be winning the hearts and minds of those who believe the propaganda associated with it. Adherents of this Marxist ideology embrace moral relativism and do not take the time to understand the importance of the Judeo/Christian influences on the fundamental values that guide our civilization. At the same time, our country is fighting a war against those who embrace a radical ideology whose goal is to impose Islamic rule over Infidels, those who doubt or reject the tenets of Islam. There have been three declarations of war against our country since 1996, when Osama Bin Laden declared war against the United States of America, followed by Al Qaeda’s 1998 “Fatwah” of Jihad against America (Fatwahs can only be issued by an Islamic religious figure) and most recently Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter, “widely interpreted as a peaceful overture” yet “is in fact a declaration of war” as evidenced by the closing salutation, “Peace only unto those who follow the true path." These terrorist groups or sponsors of terrorist groups likely already possess the means to create a nuclear explosion high above the United States that would produce an electromagnetic pulse in our atmosphere strong enough to severely damage all the civilian electrical power sources and electrical equipment on which our society relies. According to, The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, "Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan." An explosion of this magnitude could set our civilization back hundreds of years. The comforts to which we’re accustomed would be gone. It’s nearly impossible to conceive what this would do to our present way of life. And that is the idea… The colonists had begun to settle this country one hundred years before they acquired the wherewithal to declare our independence. Should our country fall to nefarious forces, if our civilization witnesses a nuclear holocaust, we may never again experience life as we know it. The sovereignty of our country depends on the ability to protect our freedoms from without and from within. The continued public apathy and indifference to the encroachment on our protected rights will ultimately erase our liberties with nary a shot being fired.
Nancy Salvato is the President and Director of Education and the Constitutional Literacy Program for Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan 501 (C) (3) research and educational project whose mission is to re-introduce the American public to the basic elements of our constitutional heritage while providing non-partisan, fact-based information on relevant socio-political issues important to our country, specifically the threats of aggressive Islamofascism and the American Fifth Column. She serves as a Senior Editor for The New Media Journal. She is also a staff writer, for the New Media Alliance, Inc., a non-profit (501c3) coalition of writers and grass-roots media outlets. News Sarasota has permission from Nancy Salvato and the New Media Journal to reprint this article...
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Sher Zieve column
Obama says not being a communist is selfish...  Sher Zieve During the waning days of the US presidential campaign, Barack Obama is feeling confident enough of his chances that he — at a recent rally — didn't dispute his being a Socialist. Obama was even a member of the New Democratic Socialist Party in the 1990s. Perhaps he will at some point even admit that his true intention for the USA is Soviet-style Communism. That, of course, will be after he is elected POTUS — largely due to his voter fraud strategic unit ACORN — and when it is too late for the all-too-many gullible American people to do anything about it.
During the aforementioned rally Obama said that his dastardly opposition had called him and his "spread the wealth" programs Socialistic, then added that in doing so these same opponents — McCain and Palin — had "made a virtue out of selfishness." With that he has said that Americans who do not agree with his Socialist (actually Communist) policies of theft-by-politicians are selfish. One can only surmise that — considering his recent and ongoing investigations of both "Joe the Plumber" and media member Barbara West — that anyone who complains about Obama's theft of their money will be intimidated and investigated to the proverbial "Nth" degree. After that, will there be prosecutions and possibly jail time — or worse? Looks like it. We already know that his prosecutorial "truth squads" are in effect in Missouri and at least one announced additional chapter exists in Pennsylvania under the auspices and rulings of Democrat Governor Ed Rendell. Obama's "Truth Squads," his suppression of the media who ask either Obama or his VP candidate Biden uncomfortable questions, his banning media outlets who support McCain and his [already] directing Democrat-run states to investigate "Joe the Plumbers" who ask the secular messiah and/or his vice-prophet Biden questions that cause either of them to tell the truth gives us a clear picture of what Obama's regime and ruling decrees will entail. An Obama presidency means free speech — including that which asks unapproved questions of Democrat candidates is out, gone, ended — kaput! He will redistribute your money — he has said so on multiple occasions including an NPR interview — to those he considers to be more deserving than you. Note: One can deduce — as this is true Soviet-style Communism and Chicago-thug politics — that the recipients of this redistribution will include Obama and his cronies. Obama has expressed disdain for the US Constitution and has already advised that he wants a new" Bill of Rights that is not as 'restrictive' to the government's treatment of its citizens. The above assertions have been well-documented as fact and it's time for some stark reality, folks. I've said it before but, it bears repeating. If you want the country to devolve into a Stalinistic government — that creates a permanent cabinet post for the Obama voter fraud unit ACORN (so that he will NOT ever be voted out) — vote for Barack Hussein Obama. If you want the USA to continue as a free Republic, vote Tuesday for John Sidney McCain. Remember, once a dictator seizes power, all bets are off. Any of the additional safeguards the founders incorporated into our US Constitution are moot if the ruling power chooses neither to follow nor to continue them. This country's Constitution can be ended with the stroke of a presidential pen and the Democrat power elite agreeing. Democrats Pelosi, Reid and Waxman have already told us that they will be redeploying the "fairness doctrine" in order to get rid of talk radio and conservatives — to end broadcast opposition to Democrats once and for all. Print media — whatever opposition still exists — will be next on their list. And with all 3 branches of government in their back pockets, they can and will finally destroy the country and set themselves up for never-ending and increasing power. The US Supreme Court's passing laws that agree with Marxism are only one associate justice's resignation away. Democracies can only last and be strong so long as people of good will and faith allow them to exist. Once those with opposite inclinations and intentions assume the reins of power, democratic republics end. Democracies — with not enough willing to protect them — die. Obama the Socialist: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26913 Not being a socialist (really Communist) selfish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbKQg_k3yUs&feature=related Obama "Truth Squads": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIenDGSAdPA Pennsylvania Democrat Obama "Truth Squad" members; http://www.politickerpa.com/wallyedgepa/1828/obama-launches-pa-truth-squad Obama wants to rewrite Bill of Rights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck Sher Zieve is an author, political commentator, and staff writer for The New Media Alliance (www.thenma.org). Zieve's op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Boston Star, Massachusetts Sun, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Ms. Zieve is currently working on her first political book: "The Liberal's Guide To Conservatives." | ||||||
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A new comment has been posted on your blog SARASOTA COUNTY (FL), on entry #20185 (Should Barack Obama Answer His Critics???).
All we want is the truth Mr. O....I'm sorry that you have absolutely
what that word means...perhaps someone at Harvard could give you the
definition. God help us if this liar, who constantly skirts around
every issue, becomes President of our great nation...we shall never be
the same!
Commenter name: LFforMcCain
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A new comment has been posted on your blog SARASOTA COUNTY (FL), on entry #20185 (Should Barack Obama Answer His Critics???).
I just shared this link elsewhere. More info on birth certificate
controversy, plus info on a Senate resolution dealing with natural-born
citizen question. Obama tried to remove a clause before it was passed,
which causes yet more questions.
Get informed. Get prepared. It's gonna be a rough ride ahead whatever
the outcome of this election.
ormation/
Commenter name: GemStateMom
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A new comment has been posted on your blog SARASOTA COUNTY (FL), on entry #20185 (Should Barack Obama Answer His Critics???).
Let us suppose you were right and that Obama was not born in Hawaii.
He WAS born in Hawaii. I?ve seen pictures of his birth certificate
(or maybe certificate of live birth, I forget which), and there is a
confirming notice in the Hawaii Advertiser. But suppose on a wild
chance that this was wrong.
Suppose that this fact were to be proven before the election. Would
this help make McCain elected president? No. It would merely make Joe
Biden the presidential candidate of the Democratic party.
Would Biden win just like Obama would? Sure.
Would he win even BIGGER than Obama would? Maybe. You can?t call him
inexperienced or a terrorist or a friend of Ayers, nor would people who
vote against Obama because of his race or alleged Arab ties or alleged
Moslem religion vote against Biden.
Biden would get all the votes of Obama and maybe a few more.
Suppose it was proven after the election. Would that make McCain the
president? No. If the Congress really bought the fact that Obama was
not born in the USA, and that therefore Obama was not eligible to be
president (which is a stretch because it is controlled by Democrats),
then Biden would be president.
So, what is the point?
Commenter name: smrstrauss
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A new comment has been posted on your blog SARASOTA COUNTY (FL), on entry #20185 (Should Barack Obama Answer His Critics???).
In addition to Obama's place of birth is the issue of whether or not
his mother waived his citizenship when she was married to LoLo Satoro
and living in Indonesia. There is evidence that young Obama was adopted
by his stepfather and he was registered in two separate schools as
Barry Satoro. There is a reasonable process for re-establish American
citizenship in this type of situation, but by all accounts the senator
has never taken the steps to reverse his mother's actions.
I find it hard to believe that a former constitutional law professor
and Harvard Law graduate is unaware of the citizenship laws. I think
it's more a signal that he thought he could slide past all of the
questions and/or concerns.
Blame Chicago politics and an Illinois Secretary of State who didn't do
the job they were elected to do when Obama was certified as a qualified
candidate for the state senate.
What is interesting in this story, and a sure act of Karma is that
Obama had his state senate opposition disqualified by the court.
Commenter name: Teresa Trujillo
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Thank you, Matt! You are absolutely right!
My family and friends are terrified watching how our country is about
to be delivered to a Marxist with Islamic connections with the
complicity of the media. Those in the media who have had the courage to
report the truth, to whom we are most grateful, are very few.
Please help fight the accomplices of the enemies of the United States
and the Free World. Report the facts about Obama?s connections, such
as his connections with his Marxist relative Odinga.
Here?s basic information:
Video: Corsi, Odinga, Obama...Why Corsi was deported?
Video of Obama and Odinga campaiging together in Kenya.
Odinga?s pact with the Muslims to institute sharia
pdf
The Obama-Odinga connection.
The true story (from a Canadian?s perspective):
Obama?s half truths
Are Americans already brainwashed?
If Americans don't wake up, we'll soon live the poverty, corruption and
dispair of Marxism, just like the Cubans and Venezuelans !
Commenter name: Antonio Sosa
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A new comment has been posted on your blog SARASOTA COUNTY (FL), on entry #19468 (A Letter To The McCain Campaign...).
Matt, I couldn't agree with your letter more. We are getting mixed
signals. Maybe that's McCain's problem; he is always sending mixed
signals. I'm really starting to believe that maybe it will take four
years of Obama for this country to wake up.
Commenter name: Dan
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Before we make a choice we may regret for the next four years, the
accusations against Barack Obama should be carefully considered, as
they are here.
Commenter name: Burr Deming
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