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Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. He didn't have a problem letting Bear Stearns go down the tubes. He sat and watched while Lehman Brothers went belly-up. It wasn't until the short sellers got around to attacking Goldman Sachs that he decided there was a crisis of potentially catastrophic proportions and that the taxpayers needed to ante up $700 billion to save his old buddies on The Street. We'll let you decide if that was a coincidence.

The Church's pursuit of social justice via the avenue of government compulsion, however, led directly to the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, a pro-abortion Democrat Congress, and the enactment of a law which commands the government to prey upon the least of us. Over one million American babies are killed in the name of "choice" every year. Obamacare now compels taxpayers for the first time in our history to pay for some of those abortions, and it is an unhappy fact that the Catholic Church will be complicit in the deaths of those children.

Social justice is best pursued through fidelity to the Constitution of the United States, which was written by brilliant men who designed it as a restraint on government and a guarantee of individual liberty and responsibility. The Catholic Church doesn't have a monopoly on virtue, and before it again pursues 'social justice' and 'change' at the expense of our institutions and traditions, it would be wise for it to remember that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions.

Go ahead and slam dunk your healthcare bill, Einstein. Watch what happens next.

It almost sounds like a book. Perhaps we'll ask our readers to suggest titles for it. "All the President's Men Part II" has a certain ring to it.

Americans have come to suspect that underneath the GQ looks and the Harvard mouth is an inveterate hustler who talks about fairness, economic justice, environmental protection, education reform, and American ideals of jurisprudence while he steals your grandmother's Medicare, ships your job to China, cuts off water supplies to farmers in California, appoints a pedophile as his Safe School Czar, and grants civilian trials to terrorists while persecuting the Navy SEALS and C.I.A. agents who pursue them.

As Mr. Obama's approval ratings plummet into the mid-forties, we're told by Democrats that Ronald Reagan had a difficult first year too, because of the recession he inherited from Jimmy Carter, and that like Reagan, Obama can rally. It's an inapt analogy. Ronald Reagan was of, by, and for America.

Call it a teaching moment. The voters of Massachusetts schooled President Barack Hussein Obama today when they elected Republican Scott Brown to fill the United States Senate seat which had been held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for forty-seven years prior to his death in August 2009.

Obama is not the Messiah. He's more like the hula hoop; a flash in the pan. He has been revealed to the American center as too far out on the left wing. Force him back to the middle or suffer the consequences in November.

President Obama officially kicked off the 2010 mid-term elections in his radio address this morning when he said: "We're not going to let Wall Street take the money and run".

So here's a question for Mr. Obama. Suppose that five, heavily armed Islamic terrorists wearing suicide vests had been waiting for our TSA Einstein to leave his post. What then?

So Mr. President, prove to us that an airport official in Amsterdam didn't conspire with Al Qaeda to bomb this plane. Show us Abdulmutallab's original passport and visa. Maybe you can find it where you hide your birth certificate.

Victoria's Secret televises a show each year of attractive, scantily clad females whom Usama bin Laden and his merry band of Neanderthals find scandalous and hold out as an example of American evil. Should we close Victoria's secret?

On January 14, 2009 Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called for a holy war against Israel in which he urged the "Muslim Nation" to defeat the "Zionist entity" and assured Palestinians that Al Qaeda's "…fate is tied to yours in fighting the crusader-Zionist coalition, in fighting until victory or martyrdom", and further stated that "…the duty is to urge people to jihad (holy war) and to enlist the youth into jihad brigades".

No conspiracy here, right Janet?

That Janet Napolitano is Secretary of Homeland Security is a joke. That Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States is a clear and present danger.

It was not an unforeseeable or random act, and it was not coincidental that Islamists perpetrated it on Christmas.

The terrorists are not intimidated, Mr. President, when you send a lawyer to do the work of the U.S. Marines.

While Obama primps and preens for the international press, our friends in Europe, and his friends on the lunatic left, Islamic fascists are on the march. They will not relent in their pursuit of America's destruction, and their biggest ally in that goal is The President of The United States.

Final score: Cowboys 24-Saints 17; Democrats $2.6 trillion-America's middle class…screwed.