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A commentary. Food for thought. Obama plays the role of the caring compassionate president while behind the  scenes he is slowly destroying our freedom and security and bankrupting the country in the process.  Worth reading. ________________________________________ WAYNE ALLYN ROOT:  Overwhelm the system Barrack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos — thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. Barack...

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ARE YOU READY FOR GLOBAL COOLING? It’s not exactly Copenhagen or Kyoto, but the 700 scientists attending the fourth International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, had some chilling news of their own, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD). “Global warming is over — at least for a few decades,” Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told the gathering.  “However, the bad news is that global cooling is even more harmful to humans than global warming, and a cause for greater concern.” According...

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YES, FREE TRADE HAS ITS DEADLINES President Obama’s failure to go to bat for three pending free-trade agreements, in deference to Big Labor, is becoming a problem, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD). According to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study released Friday: Free trade pacts have created 5.4 million American jobs, and additional agreements could help create more. Some 17.7 million American jobs depend on the 14 countries with which the United States has existing pacts. All this trade adds $1 trillion to the economy. Yet the U.S. has...

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AMERICA’S APPROACHING DEBT DISASTER When the Greek economy melted down recently its citizens rioted in the streets. Some have called it “the death-spiral of a welfare state” — too much borrowing for too many social programs for too long. Eventually, the bottom falls out, says the Christian Broadcasting Network. But if you don’t think the economic chaos in Greece can come to America, economists say think again. America is on a fiscal course economists warn is unsustainable — racking up debts we will not be able to repay. This...

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Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here....

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DON’T LET DEEPWATER DEEP-SIX OFFSHORE DRILLING The recent explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico was horrendous.   There is no question that steps should be taken to see that any correctable errors made don’t happen again.  But, from the point of view of the economy, national security and even environmental quality, halting new oil and gas development because of this one isolated incident would be an even worse disaster, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy...

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HOW THE LEFT REALLY PLANS TO PAY FOR OBAMACARE How will the Obama administration pay for its new health care reform?  Through a Value Added Tax (VAT), which is a fancy way of saying national sales tax, says Conn Carroll, Assistant Director of Strategic Communications for the Heritage Foundation. A VAT can be (and has been) structured in many different ways.  But the real world results are always the same, says Carroll: higher taxes, more government spending, lower growth, fewer jobs and more special interest power. Higher taxes: Don’t...

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VOLCKER ON THE VALUE ADDED TAX Kudos for candor to Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve Chairman and current White House economic adviser, for admitting what other Democrats also know but don’t want to admit until after the November election: The political class is preparing to pass a European-style value-added tax. Answering a question at the New York Historical Society on Tuesday, Volcker said that a VAT — a consumption tax levied along stages of production — “was not as toxic an idea” as it has been, and that...

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No fries with that: fast food axed at Afghan bases Deepa Babington KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan Mon Apr 5, 2010 10:58am EDT U.S. soldiers walk in front of a meal station at Kandahar Airfield May 14, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Jorge Silva KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Fast food joints where soldiers wolf down burgers and pizza will soon be a thing of the past at bases in Afghanistan, as the U.S. military reminds soldiers they are at war and not in “an amusement park.” Oddly Enough In the sprawling military base...

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