Signs and Wonders When the muffler fell off my 15-year-old Subaru Justy a few weeks ago, I started driving the good car to work. It has a radio. Oh, the wonderful things I am learning from Sean Hannity!
For one thing, the Iraq occupation is a success. Not a blazing success, but a damn fine thing. According to Sean, we are made noble by the experience, and the Iraqis have already become... (more)
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Globalist Tag Team Doubles Up on Global WarmingHave any doubt our “representatives” are on the same page? Well, consider the “smackdown” between former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. During a Senate hearing room debate over “global warming,” the “conservative” Gingrich told the “liberal” Kerry he is all for “green conservatism,” in other words Gingrich has accepted the latest globalist plan to enslave billions of people—for ... (more)
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Risky loans - alive and wellNEW YORK (Money) -- Option ARMs remain an option. Despite problems in the mortgage market, brokers say lenders are still willing to make risky loans - including those that allow borrowers to make monthly payments that don't even cover the interest (so-called "option ARMs").
Also still widely available are "no-doc" loans, which require no income verification, and mortgages with no downpayment.
All of those loans fall into the so-called Alternative-A or Alt-A mortgag... (more)
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Registry would treat gun owners like criminalsIf someone told you he had been forced to provide the Pennsylvania State Police with their fingerprints, photograph, Social Security number and a host of other personal information, you'd probably assume they were arrested and charged with a crime.
Well, that kind of police ''booking'' process could be in store for Pennsylvania's roughly 3 million firearms owners if gun-control advocates in Harrisburg have their way.
Last month, a group of six... (more)
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Google Censors China Olympics CriticismThe motto of next year’s Olympic games in China is “one world, one dream.” Online, the world is actually split up into several countries, each with their own limited view, made possible through national censorship of the web.
Human Rights Watch asks:
How will China’s pervasive censorship and control of domestic and international media and the Internet play out when thousands of international journalists descend on Beijing? How are the Olympic... (more)
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Doomsday for the Greenback “Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.” - Daniel Webster
The American people are in La-la land. If they had any idea of what the Federal Reserve was up to, they’d be out on the streets waving fists and pitchforks. Instead, they go about our business like nothing is wrong.
Are we really that stupid?
What is it that people... (more)
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Invincibly Incompetent Idiots "The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason." ~ G. K. Chesterton
In his article "Mind Makes Right: Brain damage, evolution, and the future of morality," William Saletan outlines why, in the latest attempt of the Brave New World, we can soon expect to have our brains reprogram... (more)
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Death from Above I find it virtually impossible to avoid analysis of the omnipresent "support the troops" concept. The latest opportunity presented itself as I walked through a parking lot in suburban Texas. On the rear window of a pick up, I saw a decal that read: "Death from Above." Translation: The truck owner (or someone the truck owner knows) is affiliated with some sort of airborne military unit. To them, "Death from Above" is a source of martial pride and patriotic passion.
In reality, "Dea... (more)
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6-Year-Olds Under ArrestWhen 6-year-old Desre’e Watson threw a tantrum in her kindergarten class a couple of weeks ago she could not have known that the full force of the law would be brought down on her and that she would be carted off by the police as a felon.
But that’s what happened in this small, backward city in central Florida. According to the authorities, there were no other options.
“The student became violent,” said Frank Mercurio, the no-nonsense chief o... (more)
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Feeding the American Dream Into That Grinder In December of 2003, as Bush’s invasion of Iraq plunged into its eighth disastrous month, the punk band in which I played lead guitar went on a last-gasp tour. I was leaving The Rotters maybe forever and departing the U.S.… probably for the rest of my life. Fact is, it was a sad time.
The Rotters had a Saturday night gig in San Diego. Rather than sleep on someone’s floor, we splurged on mo... (more)
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The Federal Reserve Monopoly Over Money Recently I had the opportunity to question Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when he appeared before the congressional Joint Economic committee. The topic that morning was the state of the American economy, and many of my colleagues raised questions about how the Fed might better "regulate" things to ease fears of an economic downturn. The tenor of my colleagues' questions suggested that Mr. Bernanke's job is nothing less than to run the ... (more)
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Misunderestimated: Bush Almost Blows Himself Up Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.
Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrica... (more)
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Propaganda Ploy Backfires: MoD bans military from selling storiesThe ban on military personnel selling their stories was hurriedly reinstated last night as the Government admitted its handling of the Iran hostages crisis had spectacularly backfired.
Faced with a mounting tide of criticism, Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted the outcome of his decision to let the 15 captured sailors cash in on their ordeals had not been 'satisfactory'. ... (more)
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'Terrified' Carleton student spent 11 hours in Georgia jail for minor traffic violationA 23-year-old Carleton University master's student is outraged and demanding an apology from Georgia officials after spending more than 11 uncomfortable hours in a detention centre for running a stop sign and speeding.
Cheryl Kuehn said she was fingerprinted and had her mugshot taken before being forced to strip naked and shower, don a navy blue jail outfit and sleep in a cell with two other women while other inmates jeered and leered at her from adjoining cells.
"I... (more)
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Piece of Berlin Wall removed in secret raidThe 18-metre strip of graffitied wall was removed in the middle of the night. Photograph: Rainer Jensen/EPA
One of the last remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall in the centre of the German capital was removed by government-contracted workers in a secretly engineered operation over the Easter weekend, it was revealed today.
Hoping that no one would notice because of the quiet bank holiday, the 18-metre strip of graffitied wall was yanked from its foundations in... (more)
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High School Students Arrested After Officer Poses As StudentWINDER -- Eleven high school students are behind bars after a major undercover drug sting at their school.
Winder police say the students, ages 15 to 19, sold drugs to other students at Winder-Barrow High School.
The 11 students were arrested on campus Monday morning and they then being processed at the Barrow County Jail.
Police say instead of spending time in the classroom, they’ll be learning a hard lesson behind bars.
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MI5 and MoD battle to keep Ulster secrets MI5 and the Ministry of Defence are among government agencies demanding the return of secret documents from the Stevens inquiry in advance of four key inquiries which are set to expose the full extent of security force collusion with loyalist paramilitary figures in Northern Ireland, the Guardian has learned.
In some cases the organisations asking for the paperwork have successfully appealed for the return of the documents only to shred them, raising fears that... (more)
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U.S.-Made Mess in Somalia The media often report overseas developments, but don’t always explore their underlying causes, which, in many cases, conveniently lets the U.S. government off the hook. The recent internecine violence in Somalia provides a classic example.
The U.S. media have focused to date almost exclusively on the rising Islamist movement in Somalia and U.S. “covert” assistance to the Ethiopian invasion that supported Somalia’s transitional government against the stron... (more)
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Man's homemade flying saucer to be developed as surveillance drone The age of the British amateur inventor toiling away in his humble garden shed lives on - and Geoff Hatton is proof of it.
The former hovercraft engineer has designed and patented a flying saucer from his workshop in Peterborough that has grabbed the imagination of the American military establishment.
Video: Now watch the amazing flying saucers in action
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