Saturday, February 7, 2009

Land of the Laws: Obama's "Same Tired Arguments"

While Congress is plotting how best to flush the next $1 Trillion down the toilet, Barack Obama has grown impatient. After all, we can't have any debate on these matters... just spend spend spend, what could go wrong?

Land of the Laws: Obama's "Same Tired Arguments"

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Terrorism: Politicians and Victims: Why We Chose Not to Meet with President Obama

Yesterday we were driving back from Houston, Texas from obtaining a passport for my daughter so she could attend the arraignment of al-Nashiri who had helped in the Cole Bombing.

Terrorism: Politicians and Victims: Why We Chose Not to Meet with President Obama

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Friday, February 6, 2009

Oceans are cooling according to NASA

Two separate studies through NASA confirm that since 2003, the world's oceans have been losing heat.  In the peak of the recent warming trend, 1998 actually ranked 2nd to 1934 as the warmest year on record.

Oceans are cooling according to NASA

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Obama’s Choice for Deputy AG is ‘Pro-Obscenity,’ ‘Pro-Abortion’ and ‘Pro-Homosexual,’

Conservative pro-family groups and attorneys are calling on senators to oppose the confirmation of President Obama’s pick for the second-in-command position at the Justice Department.

Obama’s Choice for Deputy AG is ‘Pro-Obscenity,’ ‘Pro-Abortion’ and ‘Pro-Homosexual,’

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Woman who traded sex with senator's husband for money gets jail

In tears, the Westland woman accused of accepting money for sex from the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., began serving five days in jail today for violating the terms of her probation.

Woman who traded sex with senator's husband for money gets jail

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Obama's Stimulus Bill: Stimulating Christian Discrimination

The Obama administration is resorting to politics as usual, even using the “stimulus bill” as a means of political payback. Besides being packed with the typical political pork, one very troubling provision of the stimulus bill passed by the House of Representative restricts religious liberty.

Obama's Stimulus Bill: Stimulating Christian Discrimination

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The jihad against Britain's Jews

I am hearing ever more alarming accounts of the deepening attrition against British Jews in the wake of the incitement against Israel provoked by the war in Gaza.

The jihad against Britain's Jews

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Obama's Big Porno deputy

In its big January 2004 issue, a Playboy headline proclaimed, "We Won!" and drew their flag as displacing our Stars and Stripes over the U.S. Capitol. What did Playboy "win" in Washington, D.C.? In this "We Won" issue, publisher Hugh Hefner outlined how he operated "behind the scenes" to bring U.S. laws in line with Playboy morality. In fact, David Ogden, a Playboy legal hit man with allegiance to the bunny flag may soon be the United States deputy attorney general.

Obama's Big Porno deputy

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The IPCC under the Microscope

Shouldn't you also be suspicious of an organization that seeks to imply (or fails to correct false perceptions) that
- it is impartial when it is clearly not,
- that its authors and reviewers have no vested interest when most do,
- that its climate models are accurate when they are not,

The IPCC under the Microscope

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Another senator lines up behind 'Fairness Doctrine'

Another Democratic U.S. senator has gone on record as supporting the reinstatement of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," adding, "I feel like that's gonna happen."

Another senator lines up behind 'Fairness Doctrine'

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Power Line - Porkapalooza chapter and verse

National Review Online has performed a national service with respect to the Democrats' trillion dollar pork package. NRO commissioned Stephen Spruiell and Kevin Williamson to itemize 50 of the most outrageous items in the package. Spruiell and Williamson report the results of their research in "50 de-stimulating facts."

Power Line - Porkapalooza chapter and verse

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Britain's Surrender

The place where Winston Churchill once so eloquently and forcefully rallied the British people to defeat the Nazi threat is now under siege from a new tyranny. Islamic intimidation achieved a new high last week when it forced the British Parliament, one of Western civilization’s most venerable institutions, to quietly surrender its most basic of freedoms.

Britain's Surrender

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Critique of Obama’s Washington Post Editorial on the Mis-Named “Stimulus” Package

The arrogance, absurdity, and hypocrisy of Obama’s editorial in the Washington Post February 5 should stimulate all clear-thinking Americans to advise their politicians to vote against Obama’s mis-named “stimulus” putrid package of pork.

Critique of Obama’s Washington Post Editorial on the Mis-Named “Stimulus” Package

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Atlas Shrugs: WHERE'S CAIR? AMERICAN TEEN GIRL MURDERED BY EX-GITMO DETAINEE

Susan Elbaneh was murdered by al Qaeda and apparently most of the media does not want you to know. Last week, you saw her killers’ faces splashed across the headlines yet away from her hometown, the media was busy playing echo-chamber.

Atlas Shrugs: WHERE'S CAIR? AMERICAN TEEN GIRL MURDERED BY EX-GITMO DETAINEE

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“Scaring people is not leadership.”

Marvel at the day: here is Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) beating President Barack Obama (D) with a club that I didn’t even know he had any more.

“Scaring people is not leadership.”

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The Great Overreach

The stimulus bill has failed. Barack Obama has failed. The Trojan Horse of Hope and Change crashed into the guardrail of reality, revealing an army of ideologues and activists inside.

The Great Overreach by Jonah Goldberg

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Government, FBI, Media Years Behind Understanding Radical Islam

You’re about to learn how you can easily be better informed about the threat of radical Islam than the FBI, the U.S. government and most of the media. You’ll learn how you can be six or seven years ahead of them in understanding radical Islam.

Government, FBI, Media Years Behind Understanding Radical Islam

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Freak Out on Wall Street - The Daily Beast

Obama’s pay-cap plan could wreck the banking business, not to mention the middle-class workers who live off it.

Freak Out on Wall Street - The Daily Beast

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Yeah, Let’s Cap Salaries. Start With Harvard!

Since Barack “Giant Killer” Obama thinks it’s his business how much CEOs and captains of business should be paid predicated on receiving federal money one has to wonder why this principle is not being applied fairly across the board?

Yeah, Let’s Cap Salaries. Start With Harvard!

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Building a conservatism that can win again

In the current New Republic, Sam Tanenhaus offers a long analysis of the state of conservatism under the provocative heading: “Conservatism Is Dead” – minus the customary editorial precaution of a protective question mark.

Building a conservatism that can win again

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Preaching Virtue While Practicing Vice.

America was promised a new way of doing business. A new transparency in government. A new bi-partisan approach. We were told that only together could we face the challenges plaguing our nation.

Preaching Virtue While Practicing Vice.

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American Daily Review - Obama's Trek Towards Perdition

 Yesterday, former VP Cheney warned Obama that if he didn’t follow the previous Administration’s policies that have proved to be highly effective in regards to further attacks by our enemies on our Homeland, further and more heinous attacks would sure follow. Yet, Obama has chosen to lead us all down the path of destruction.

American Daily Review - Obama's Trek Towards Perdition

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Liberal Heretic: Sparta's Valediction and Forewarning

I have to admit, it’s a little surreal to have a story dedicated to your exile from a news site, and to have said story accompanied by 400 comments either supporting you or haranguing you. Not really knowing how to retort this ban on the character that became known as ‘Sparta’, I’ve decided to account my Digg odyssey, and why I think conservatives need to buckle up and prepare for a bumpy ride.

The Liberal Heretic: Sparta's Valediction and Forewarning

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Washington Times - CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul

President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

Washington Times - CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul

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More Audacity of Arrogance by Joel Hirschhorn

Sure, President Obama finally said he screwed up, but not until his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary withdraw because of extensive media coverage of his tax problems.

More Audacity of Arrogance by Joel Hirschhorn

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Community Organizing Explained

Immediately after the Democratic National Convention in Colorado, the Boston Globe published a letter from L. David Alinsky.  He boasted about how Barack Obama had made extremely effective use of his training in the methods of David's late father, the famous Chicago radical, Saul D. Alinsky.

Community Organizing Explained

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The Normalization of Evil

This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of our son, former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. My wife Ruth and I wonder: Would Danny have believed that today's world emerged after his tragedy?

The Normalization of Evil

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Voters are not buying the Democrat stimulus plan - Josh_Painter’s blog

Public support for the stimulus plan being kicked around in Congress continues to erode. Results from a new Rasmussen Reports survey released today shows that only 37% of those polled now favor the Democrat’s idea of stimulus, while 43% oppose it and 20% cannot make up their minds.

Voters are not buying the Democrat stimulus plan - Josh_Painter’s blog

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Exposing Obama's Abortion Agenda

Confronted with the most brazenly pro-abortion president in our nation’s history, pro-lifers clearly have their work cut out for them after enjoying either a pro-life president or a pro-life majority in Congress for 26 of the last 28 years.

Exposing Obama's Abortion Agenda

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Epicureanism and Empire

Plato, the moralist and theologian – the incipient monotheist – developed in his dialogues a representation of the cosmos as grounded in a divine will, or at least in a divine intelligence.

Epicureanism and Empire

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Obama may become a disaster

By their actions ye shall know them. By now we are seeing an ominous pattern of actions by the O administration. We know that President Obama is a very slick liar indeed, but then so was Bill Clinton.

Obama may become a disaster

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Stupid Is As Stupid Does In The GOP

Is Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., putting country first in a time of calamity by taking the Commerce post in the Obama administration? Or is he favoring his own career over the good of both his party and the nation?

Stupid Is As Stupid Does In The GOP

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Ayn Rand: A Legacy of Reason and Freedom by Michael Berliner

Born [over] 100 years ago in Holy Mother Russia and educated under the Soviets, Ayn Rand became the quintessential American writer and philosopher, upholding the supreme value of the individual’s life on earth.

Ayn Rand: A Legacy of Reason and Freedom by Michael Berliner

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Liberals Propose Fast-Tracking Treaties

The liberal Brookings Institution has come up with a controversial way to get costly and unpopular treaties ratified by the U.S. Senate.

Liberals Propose Fast-Tracking Treaties

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The deep green fear of the human race

So the deepest green of them all turns out to be not so much a friend of the earth as an enemy of the human race.

The deep green fear of the human race

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S.U.B.M.I.S.S.I.O.N.

Several observers have noted in recent days that Mr. Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world is not only defensive and apologetic.  It explicitly embraces a narrative that is factually erroneous and deprecating to his own country.

S.U.B.M.I.S.S.I.O.N.

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Tax Cheat Daschle Favors “Federal Reserve for Health”

But while President Obama was bashing greed on Wall Street, in terms of the big bonuses paid to executives, the details of the Daschle tax scandal were starting to emerge. The scandal not only threatens to derail Daschle but undermine Obama’s national socialist health care plan.

Tax Cheat Daschle Favors “Federal Reserve for Health”

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American Daily Review - War on Free Will

Nature or nurture, the old argument; is Man determined by genetics or upbringing, or is there something else entirely at work? The notion of Free Will has always been disputed, and the materialism of the 19th and 20th centuries-especially the materialism in the sciences-would have us believe that Free Will is a mere illusion, a bi-product of genetic hardwiring coupled with “programming“ given to us as children. In the modern era the concept of Free Will has suffered.

American Daily Review - War on Free Will

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Obama Struggling to Find Photo-Op Republicans

Looks like President Barack Obama has got another think coming.   The Acorn Wonder is trying a combination of bombardment and enticement to gain bipartisan support needed to give him cover for the Pelosi Pork Stimulator 2009.

Obama Struggling to Find Photo-Op Republicans

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Congratulations to Douglas Feith

whose invaluable book, War and Decision, has just come out in paper back. The paper back edition touts Doug's book as a Washington Post and New York Times bestseller. There's some irony here, inasmuch as both newspapers declined to review War and Decision, and the Times rejected a series of news stories about the book submitted by its award-winning correspondent James Risen.

Congratulations to Douglas Feith

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Five Truths about the Banking Crisis

The first truth to understand about the banking crisis is that people don’t want you to understand it. You are supposed to trust in the judgments of the experts and give them whatever they are asking for, no matter what the cost or consequences.

Five Truths about the Banking Crisis

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Attention GOP: New Media Is Here to Stay

Recently, Pajamas Media writer Andrew Ian Dodge counseled politicians against using social media. He concluded:

Attention GOP: New Media Is Here to Stay

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A Former Liberal Says Goodbye to George W. Bush

I didn’t always like George.There was a time I thought of him as a stupid stooge, a man undeserving of power. There was a time I thought he had shattered America’s greatest asset — its democracy.

A Former Liberal Says Goodbye to George W. Bush

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The Islamization of Europe by Geert Wilders

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West.

The Islamization of Europe by Geert Wilders

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ENOUGH OF RADICAL ISLAM

Enough with the pseudonyms. Western civilization isnt at war with terrorism any more than it is at war with grenades. Western civilization is at war with militant Islam, which dominates Muslim communities all over the world. Militant Islam isn't a tiny minority of otherwise goodhearted Muslims. Its a dominant strain of evil that runs rampant in a population of well over 1 billion.

ENOUGH OF RADICAL ISLAM

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Monday, February 2, 2009

Who are the 'extraordinary' Muslims? By Spengler

"My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives," United States President Barack Obama told an Arabic television channel on January 26. Really? What are their names?

Who are the 'extraordinary' Muslims?

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Prosecute Hamas War Crimes

Lets get right down to brass tacks.  Hamas is part of the genocide cult called Islam.  The only thing differentiating a Hamas member from the mill run Muslim is his degree of zealotry.

Prosecute Hamas War Crimes

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Will Obama Repeat Carter's B-1 Mistake?

The Raptor is the world’s most sophisticated defense weapon in the air – and it’s ours. It was conceived in the mid-eighties to replace our aging fleet of F-15s, the entire fleet of which, you may recall, was grounded over safety concerns for two months in late 2007.

Will Obama Repeat Carter's B-1 Mistake?

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Obama Begins By Apologizing For America

The Obama administration, completing its first full week, wasted no time getting priorities in order. First, issue formal apologies to the world, and then begin advancing massive, intrusive government at home.

Obama Begins By Apologizing For America

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UN Admits: IDF Didn't Hit School

During the Cast Lead operation in Gaza, IDF tank fire near a United Nations school in Gaza was blamed for the deaths of dozens of civilians who had taken refuge in the building. The incident became one of the most highly publicized attacks in the war, and led to heavy international criticism.

UN Admits: IDF Didn't Hit School

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Beware Of CAIR

Over the past several months, the Washington-based pressure group has suffered a series of punishing blows to its reputation as a self-proclaimed "moderate" voice for Muslim-Americans.

Beware Of CAIR

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Israel: Living Next Door to a Serial Killer

Having Hamas as a neighbor is like living next door to a serial killer, who abuses his children and threatens to kill them if you go in after him. You can defend yourself but if the police won’t arrest him the only choices left are to build a wall around him, stop him from getting weapons, and sending in food.

Israel: Living Next Door to a Serial Killer

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Iraqi Democracy in Action

It’s a depressing scene: warring political factions; a messy reconstruction plan; division amid crisis. But no matter how grim the state of affairs in the U.S. Congress, Americans can at least look with satisfaction at the political efflorescence underway in Iraq.

Iraqi Democracy in Action

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Tax Cheat Daschle Favors “Federal Reserve for Health”

Before his tax cheating came to light, former Senator Tom Daschle was expected to sail through the Senate and be confirmed as Obama’s new Secretary of Health and Human Services and director of the White House Office of Health Reform.

Tax Cheat Daschle Favors “Federal Reserve for Health”

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All Right Magazine - Due Process for a Fetus?

After a few days in office, President Obama has reversed Bush's abortion policy. Obama issued the reversal without coverage by the media, late Friday afternoon. 

All Right Magazine - Due Process for a Fetus?

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Where Nations Go to Die by Mark Steyn

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, is on TV explaining the (at this point the congregation shall fall to its knees and prostrate itself) “stimulus.” “How,” asks the lady from CBS, “does $335 million in STD prevention stimulate the economy?”

Where Nations Go to Die by Mark Steyn

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CAIR's True Colors

On Thursday, the Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that the FBI has cut off contact with CAIR due to unanswered questions about the organization's roots in a Hamas-support network.

CAIR's True Colors

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Wilders Prosecution is a Welcome Opportunity to Expose Islam

Prosecuting Geert Wilders, member of the Dutch Parliament, is a welcome opportunity to expose fascist Islam and radical Muslims. Wilders and his lawyers do not need to go far away to fetch crystal clear evidence that Islam, i.e. the Koran and Hadeeth incite to violence and hatred, and radical Muslims are behind numerous crimes against humanity.

Wilders Prosecution is a Welcome Opportunity to Expose Islam

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Change We Can Believe In - And Deplore

Mrs. Helmsley went to jail because she did not declare income when some of her employees, whose salaries were deducted as business expenses by her hotel, made repairs on her house.  Not paying your taxes would seem to be a crime which is worthy of jail time.

Change We Can Believe In - And Deplore

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Why Conservatism Failed

The deed is done.  The parades and balls are over, the oaths have been sworn after a few false starts, and the debris is rotting unswept in the gutters.  Liberal Democrats hold total sway over all the levers of our federal government.

Why Conservatism Failed

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Hearts of Darkness - Conclusion

This series began by pointing out that our irreligious ruling elites are ill-equipped to understand religiously-motivated people of any kind.  An op-ed in the Washington Post written by a professor who is also a Roman Catholic priest pointed out that our leadership elites tend to have no real understanding of faith, which is, after all, the defining characteristic of any religion.

Hearts of Darkness - Conclusion

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Raising a Ruckus over Rangel

HR 735, proposed Wednesday by Texas Republican Congressman John Carter, would eliminate all IRS penalties and interest for any overdue paid taxes for all Americans. Not surprisingly, the bill bears the moniker, “The Rangel Rule.”

Raising a Ruckus over Rangel

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Building a conservatism that can win again

The media overflows with paeans to the new foreign policy of Barack Obama.  I wish him luck and peace in his endeavors.  But recent history has not been kind to Democratic foreign policy.

Building a conservatism that can win again

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OK State Rep to Reintroduce State Sovereignty Bill

George Mason University economics professor and one of Rush Limbaugh’s fill-in radio hosts Dr. Walter E. Williams posted a July 16, 2008 article on a State sovereignty bill introduced by State Rep. Charles Key that passed the State House but got stopped in the State Senate during last year’s Legislative session and is slated to be reintroduced during this session:

OK State Rep to Reintroduce State Sovereignty Bill

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Obama’s Stealth Defense Cuts

Late last night we asked “Is Obama preparing to cut the defense budget?” All we had to work with at the time were personal observations by some who had seen a Fox News report that the president had asked the Pentagon to slash defense spending by 10%. The story had not yet been posted on the FNC website at that late hour.

Obama’s Stealth Defense Cuts

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Amerisrael: Religious Left Helps Sponsor Pro-Terrorist Rally In Chicago

For those curious as to who constitutes the radical religious left in America, visit this link, and scroll down to see the various church groups that are board members of CMEP.CMEP, [Churches For Middle East Peace], are more about promoting a pro-Palestinian Islamic anti-Israel agenda, than they are in promoting "peace."

Amerisrael: Religious Left Helps Sponsor Pro-Terrorist Rally In Chicago

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Program Exposes Capitol Visitor Center's Missing Christian Heritage

d and religion have gone "missing" at the newly opened Capitol Visitor Center in Washington and television audiences will get a first-hand look how during a national televised program that airs today.

Program Exposes Capitol Visitor Center's Missing Christian Heritage

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