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WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2008 – President Bush today expressed deep concern over reports that Russia has escalated a conflict with Georgia, calling the ramped-up moves by Moscow “unacceptable in the 21st century,” and urging the country to accept a peace agreement. Fighting that began last week in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia has today broadened “beyond the zone of conflict,” to include a Russian attack on the Georgian town of Gori, and threats to the capital city of Tbilisi, the president said. “If these reports are accurate, these Russian actions would represent a dramatic and brutal escalation...

ORLANDO (NNPA) — The line of people at the Orlando World Center Marriott weaved through the corridors and wrapped around corners as well more than a thousand awaited the opening of the ballroom, where presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama was about to speak. “Yesterday, the crowd was polite to Sen. John McCain here at the National Urban League Conference. But, today, for Sen. Obama, it’s more of a love fest!” reported one excited CBS Radio newsman, among the horde of reporters observing the crowd waiting for Obama. He was right. People were waiting in line as early as 7...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Taiwan-born American who admitted spying for China was given more than 15 years in prison, the US Justice Department said Friday. Tai Shen Kuo, 58, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced by federal court in Virginia to 188 months in prison, and required to forfeit 40,000 dollars, after he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to deliver US military information to China. Kuo was charged as a part of a small ring that included a Chinese woman, Yu Xin Kang, and former Pentagon analyst Gregg Bergersen, that obtained secret information mainly on US military sales to...

No link. Heard it on Rush Limbaugh's radio program about a half hour ago. However, I believe Rush said he will be posting a link to Kincaid's piece on his website (rushlimbaugh.com). I checked the Accuracy In Media website (aim.org) and didn't see any updated stories there yet. Here was the latest: Muslim Outreach Coordinator Leaves Obama Campaign By Don | August 6, 2008:http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/muslim-outreach-coordinator-leaves-obama-campaign/ Rush Limbaugh's site:http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html Accuracy in Media | AIM Home page:http://www.aim.org/

HONOLULU (AP) _ At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He once argued that the public schools of his youth prepared neither blacks nor whites for "life in a multiracial, democratic nation." He called hypocrisy "a national trait of American whites." Advocating civil rights amid segregation, Davis wrote in 1949: "I refuse to settle for anything less than all the rights which are...

In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis’s commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated. This unusual debate, which is taking place on Obama’s official website, raises the question once again as to why Obama has not been asked by the major media about this relationship. Davis was identified as a Communist Party member by various investigative committees and acknowledged his party membership in a private letter obtained by John Edgar Tidwell, who was sympathetic to...

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama arrived Saturday in Afghanistan on the first stop of his tour of the Middle East and Europe, aimed at boosting the U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful's foreign policy credentials, his campaign confirmed. The U.S. senator from Illinois also plans to visit Iraq, although details of the trip have have not been made public for security reasons. The fight in Afghanistan has become a more pressing issue on the political radar. Three times as many coalition soldiers and other military personnel have died in July in Afghanistan than in Iraq. On Sunday, nine U.S. soldiers...

Apparently Andrew Sullivan wants to stigmatize scrutiny of part of Barack Obama's life story. In his Atlantic.com "Daily Dish" column "That Black Man's A Commie", Sullivan equates questions about Barack Obama's Communist Party ties with old segregationist claims that Martin Luther King was a communist. He does in an article posted perhaps coincidentally (Sullivan does not link or mention my article) one day after my July 8 article, "What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party". But the deep and profound connections between the Communist Party, USA and Barack Obama are serious parts of his life story. How many of...

Here's the You Tube link. Change that works for him! It's about time someone put together all the words this hypocrite and his cadre of followers have said regarding Iraq.

No, ignore that photograph, and its possible implications, and look further down the piece at this fellow (pictured at right; click to enlarge). Look closely at his medals. As any American veteran can tell you, it's as easy to spot the fact that those aren't American medals as it is to tell the difference between, say, an M4 and an AK-47. In particular, take a look at the top right medal in the gentleman's array. Then, take a look at the image below at left. See a resemblance? The medal is the "Order of the Patriotic War" -- "an Order...

OKAY,GANG,CALLING ALL FREEPERS IN SC TO COME COUNTER THE COMMIES. THESE NUTS WORSHIP COMMUNIST CUBA,SWAMP FOX AND I PAID THEM A VISIT BEFORE. FREEP MAIL ME IF YOU PLAN TO SHOW UP. June 24: Pastor's For Peace Written by Gerald L. Rudolph Thursday, 12 June 2008 WONDER WHY GEORGE W. DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CUBAN PEOPLE? Find out on June 24 when the Pastor's For Peace Cuban Caravan comes to Columbia. Participants in the Caravan will find: A healthy people, with free health care, who live on average to age 77 – the same as...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 06/17/2008 Pelosi: The President Continues to Slow Walk Americans on Energy Independence Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement tonight in advance of President Bush’s speech tomorrow on energy: "The President's proposal sounds like another page from the Administration's Energy Policy that was literally written by the oil industry: give away more public resources to the very same oil companies that are sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands they've already leased. "In just the last year, Congress has promoted energy independence by raising efficiency standards...

The late Natalie Grant Wraga once wrote, "Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting communist values." And who was this person? Natalie Grant Wraga (who died in 2002 at age 101) was an internationally-recognized expert on the art of disinformation. In her Washington Post obituary, Herbert Romerstein —...

Has anyone been to this site ? http://www.crooksandliars.com I got banned in less than 20 minutes. 4 posts and poof...I was out of there. This is without a doubt the biggest liberal viper pit I've ever found. And now I'm banned

WASHINGTON - Record high prices for gasoline probably won't drop before the November election, Republican John McCain said Wednesday.

Of course Democrats in Congress support the troops. But that doesn't mean they have to tolerate being in the same building with them. From a letter an enraged Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark, Jr. (D-CA) recently sent to the Secretary of Defense: Dear Secretary Gates: Yesterday, while voting on the war supplemental spending bill in the House of Representatives, I couldn’t help but notice a contingent of approximately 20 flag rank Army officers sitting in the House Gallery watching the debate and vote for a couple of hours. I was looking from below so I thought they were Army, but there...

The Truth Commission for Water Rights on May 3 heard the experiences of Detroit and Highland Park, Mich., residents who are being denied their human right to water. The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO) organized the daylong event of multimedia and firsthand presentations.

One of the world's most powerful financial traders has warned that the world is enduring its "worst financial crisis" since the Great Depression and that Britain is heading for a recession. In comments that will heighten families' fears about their finances, George Soros said the worst of the credit crisis could be yet to come, with the world economy enduring a series of major aftershocks. "We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s," warns Mr Soros in his latest book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets. "The current crisis is the culmination of a superboom...

As ex-President Putin settles in to his new role as Prime Minister, he has every reason to congratulate himself. After all, he has not only written the script for his constitutional coup d'etat, but staged the play and given himself the starring role as well. Of course, he has given a walk-on role to Dmitry Medvedev, his personally anointed successor. But the transfer of power from Putin to his Little Sir Echo, Medvedev, and the show of military strength with those soldiers and clapped-out missiles in Red Square on Victory Day which followed it last week, made it clear who...

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a "false political attack" with a comment about appeasing terrorists and radicals. The Illinois senator interpreted the remark as a slam against him but the White House denied that Bush's words were in any way directed at Obama, who has said as president he would be willing to personally meet with Iran's leaders and those of other regimes the United States has deemed rogue. In a speech to Israel's Knesset, Bush said: "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as...

You bet your babushka, baby. But now, the red menace is kind of green. NEW YORK - The decor inside the national headquarters of the Communist Party USA, or CPUSA, is more Macy's than Marx. Glass walls rise from the floor to form state-of-the-art work spaces, nontoxic linseed oil burnishes the work surfaces, and biodegradable blue carpet is underfoot. Colorful paintings by the renowned artists Boris Taslitzky and Alejandro Romero, depicting the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and working-class struggle, dot the walls of the expansive open-plan office. Inside their transparent cubicles, the 21-strong staff tap away on Apple...

Is Obama taking a page out of Hugo's book or vice versa. The stories are astoundingly similar. May 1 -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at last year's profit levels, a campaign adviser said. The plan would target profit from the biggest oil companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than $80, according to a fact sheet on the proposal. The tax would help pay for a $1,000 tax cut for working families, an expansion of the earned- income tax credit and assistance...

Stand Up to big Oil -- 04/30/2008 As energy prices soar and the middle-class continues to shrink, Exxon Mobil has made more profits in the past two years than any other corporation in the history of the world. Last year alone, Exxon Mobil made $40 billion in profits, and rewarded its CEO Rex Tillerson with $21 million in total compensation. (Several years ago they provided their outgoing CEO Lee Raymond with a $400 million retirement package). Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell and BP also have posted record profits. In fact, the five largest oil companies in this country have made $595 billion...

This is an absolutely blatant attempt to rewrite history by Barack Obama, documented at ABC News Political Punch. First, I honestly don’t care much whether a person wears a flag pin, and you can certainly be a patriot without wearing a badge proclaiming it. The issue for me: Obama’s reasons for taking off that pin. Barack Obama on his refusal to wear a flag pin, now: Obama’s two radically different versions of his reasons for not wearing the pin are there for you to read. Here’s our post about it at the time. You decide who’s telling the truth.

<p>You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.</p>

WASHINGTON DC -- Events of the past few days indicate that the Zbigniew Brzezinski faction of lunatic Russia haters have now won the upper hand inside the secret councils of the Anglo-American finance oligarchy, displacing the hitherto dominant George Shultz-neocon faction. Although George Bush and his cronies still occupy the White House, the policies that are being carried out are coming from the Brzezinski left CIA machine. Brzezinski has returned to public prominence in recent months due to his role as top establishment controller for the Obama campaign. But Brzezinski is not waiting for the outcome of the November elections...

Venezeuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops on Sunday to the border with Colombia, accusing it of pushing South America to the brink of war and likening it to Israel for its U.S.-backed attacks on militants. Chavez called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe a criminal and branded his government a terrorist state, over the killing of a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil. "The Colombian government has become the Israel of Latin America," an agitated Chavez said, reiterating his criticism of the Israel Defense Forces' strikes on Palestinian militants. "We aren't going to permit Colombia to become the...

Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions By Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com Editor in Chief March 03, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him "less Christian." "I don't think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,"...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is sending 10 battalions of troops to country's border with Colombia. He's also ordered the Venezuelan embassy in Bogota closed and say all embassy personnel will be withdrawn from Colombia. The announcements by Venezuela's leftist leader pushed relations with its neighbor to their tensest point of his 9-year presidency. Chavez is also warning that Colombia could spark a war in South America, calling its U.S.-allied government "a terrorist state" and labeling President Alvaro Uribe (oo-REE'-bay) "a criminal."

Castro a hero of our times Published Monday February 25th, 2008 Appeared on page C7 In the Second World War, we soon learned our world was against the kill-to-win policy of the enemies we challenged. I was part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, a major player in winning the air war. In 1945, that world spirit against the killing policy created the United Nations with its goal to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Perhaps that is why I see Castro as a hero of our times. Here is a leader of a UN nation who...

Election 2008: How is it a front-runner for the highest office in the land can reject an American flag on his lapel but permit the display of a huge Cuban flag at one of his offices, emblazoned with a mass murderer's mug?Improbable as it sounds, it's true. Barack Obama, displaying the same "anything goes" standard of patriotism he showed when he ostentatiously refused to wear a U.S. flag in his lapel, now shows he's got a whole different idea about patriotism. One of Obama's volunteer offices in Houston was caught operating under a huge flag of communist Cuba with Che...

Throughout my campaign, I have been listening to the voices of people across America. I met one man who told me, "I don't know what I did wrong. I got my education and I worked hard. I've been at the same company for 12 years now, but I've just been asked to train my successor because my job is moving to another country." Another woman said to me, "I just can't make ends meet. My health care premiums have doubled, college tuition is up. How am I supposed to make it as a single mom?"

Sen. Hillary Clinton's staff had confirmed interviews earlier today with Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN. They were to be conducted after the President's State of the Union address. After wrapping an interview with Sen. Obama, CNN's Anderson Cooper said, "Senator Clinton agreed to talk with us. At the last minute she canceled. Her campaign is offering no explanation." Sen. Clinton was interviewed by NBC's Brian Williams at 10:26pmET, that appears to have been her only TV interview of the night.

<p>“It is especially fitting that we take the time to reflect on one man’s struggles to defend our Constitutional freedoms during this primary election season. January 15 was the birthday of the great freedom fighter, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and on Monday, we honor him nationwide for his sacrifice and love of liberty for all people.</p>

NEW YORK - Norman Mailer, the pugnacious prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song," has died at the age of 84. Mailer died Saturday of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, J. Michael Lennon, the author's literary executor and biographer, said. "He was a great American voice," said a tearful Joan Didion, author of "The Year of Magical Thinking" and other works, struggling for words upon learning of Mailer's death. From his classic debut novel to such masterworks...

A female caller and mother of five children just called into Rush and announced that her elementary school student came home to announce that his class at Bay Haven Elementary School in Sarasota, FL would be celebrating Veteran's Day by celebrating "conscientious objectors" rather than veterans. The mother complained to the school principal of the school, who replied that she could not control what her teachers taught in the classroom. REALLY? So, if I want to teach Nazism, I can? Please let this principal hear from you -- BE NICE, BUT FIRM. Her email address is: betsy_asheim@sarasota.k12.fl.us

Bombing Iran, says Chuck Schumer, would be a big political loser for Republican candidates in 2008. “It would change the landscape against them, big time,” Mr. Schumer, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said about a scenario in which the Bush administration launches a military attack on Iran before leaving office. “I don’t think they are likely to do it, because they are so weak—not because they are chastened—but I also think it is very likely to be a negative political for them.” Despite all the Bush administration’s saber rattling, the 56-year-old Brooklyn native believes the president’s political...

The meeting in the War Room was not going well. Six weeks out from the November midterms, and every single poll was predicting a landslide Republican victory. Incumbent democrats in both the House and Senate were trailing their Republican challengers by 10 points or more, and those numbers had remained fairly constant through the summer. Every single piece of legislation put forth by the Hillary administration was blocked in committee; the Republicans absolutely refused to discuss ANYTHING and were not even meeting their Donkey counterparts. As result of the imposed Legislative standstill, the administration was turning to more and more...

Kasparov Wins Opposition Primaries In Russia 27.09.2007 – The Moscow branch of the Other Russia opposition party Monday chose former world chess champion Garry Kasparov as candidate for the 2008 presidential elections. Kasparov garnered 66 of a possible 113 votes at the all-important Moscow primary, defeating ex-premier Mikhail Kasyanov. In addition to many international reports there is a remarkable 12-page (!) story in the New Yorker [Letter From Moscow: "THE TSAR’S OPPONENT — Garry Kasparov Takes Aim at the Power of Vladimir Putin" by David Remnick].

Our house in Havana was on 1st Avenue at the corner of 30th Street. It was in the suburb of Havana called Miramar. The house was 110 yards from the Gulf of Mexico - I measured it. We were the only Americans in the neighborhood; all of our neighbors were Cuban. These folks for the most part were very friendly, but very poor. A half century of Castro's communism has reduced these once-proud people to a nation of beggars. I can't tell you how many times I was stopped in the street and have my neighbors plead for me to...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — who has likened President Bush to the devil — wants to eliminate presidential term limits so that he can remain in power for another 20 years. In his weekly radio and television program yesterday, Chavez said he needs more time in office to establish a socialist economic model in Venezuela and that if voters approve his constitutional reforms, he could continue governing until the year 2027. Government opponents are crying foul, accusing Chavez of trying to become a dictator like his close friend Fidel Castro. Venezuela's National Assembly is expected to approve the proposals in...

  China is wary over closer defence ties of its neighbours   Enlarge Image   Ships, aircraft and submarines from four countries begin week-long war games in the Bay of Bengal on 4 September.It is the first flexing of muscles by the newly-formed "Quadrilateral Initiative", which brings together the US, Japan, India and Australia. Singapore also has a small presence in the exercises. Many analysts see the manoeuvres as efforts by a democratic coalition to "contain" rising Chinese power. Although the participants deny this, Beijing seems to be increasingly worried. Beijing unconvincedWhen the four powers set up the initiative...

Hillary's donor linked to China missile traderAerospace mogul Bernard Schwartz acted as Hsu's patron on college board Posted: September 2, 2007 10:36 p.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Hillary Clinton and Norman Hsu A shady Chinese megadonor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has close ties to an aerospace mogul accused of placing his business interests before national security by sharing missile secrets with Beijing during the Clinton administration. Before his forced resignation last week, Norman Yuan Yuen Hsu sat on the board of trustees of the liberal New School university in New York with former Loral Corp. head Bernard L. Schwartz,...

Finally, Alberto Gonzales has resigned from his post as "Enabler General" for the imperial Bush presidency. Good riddance. THANK YOU to the tens of thousands of PFAW activists who joined the "Gonzales Must Go" petition, and who continued to take action to keep the pressure on since March, when we first called for Gonzales' resignation. Now, we have a unique opportunity to clean up the Department of Justice, but it's going to require strong backbone from senators, and grassroots support from you to make sure the Senate does its job. Tell your senators that they must insist on an attorney...

Ward "Wannabee" Churchill Coming To Richmond Toooo funny! Be there or be sqare! "From a Native Son: Conquest and Colonization in the Americas: An Evening with Ward Churchill" Sept 7, 2007 7pm VCU Student Commons, Richmond Salons 907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA 23284 Free and open to the public You've got to go read the comments on Richmond's commie website!

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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's National Assembly, dominated by allies of President Hugo Chavez, gave unanimous initial approval Tuesday to constitutional reforms that would allow him to run for re-election and possibly govern for decades to come. Assembly President Cilia Flores said Chavez's proposed changes to the constitution, including the lifting of presidential term limits, were approved by all 167 lawmakers after about six hours of debate. Final approval is expected within two or three months, and voters will then decide whether to approve the changes in a referendum. The assembly has been solidly pro-Chavez since the opposition boycotted a 2005...

Cindy Sheehan’s Journey for Humanity Monday, July 23rd 2007 9:30 am Arlington, VA Join Cindy Sheehan and the “Journey for Humanity” at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, July 23, for a walk to the Capitol in Washington DC, where we will demand an end to the occupation of Iraq, no war on Iran, and the impeachment of Cheney/Bush. 9:30am Gather at the Arlington Metro Stop 10am walk from Arlington Cemetary to the Capitol We will continue on to Allentown, PA on Tuesday [7/24], and Philadelphia, PA on Wednesday [7/25]. Location: Gather at the Arlington Metro Stop Arlington VA Contact: Zool...

A poll shows most Venezuelans reject the unlimited reelection of presidents, as they do a Cuban-style government. Proposals for the unlimited reelection of President Hugo Chávez, the possibility of establishing a Cuba-like political system and the ''violent'' clash with Washington are rejected by most Venezuelans, according to a new poll unveiled Friday. The poll by Hinterlaces, a Caracas think tank that carries out surveys and analysis for private clients, also showed that Chávez's popularity has dropped 13 points since November, from 52 percent to 39 percent. Hinterlaces' figures indicated that the average Venezuelan is increasingly rejecting Chavismo's ideological agenda in...

On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking -- cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on -- have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power. National spirit can...