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How did the United States of America, the richest nation on earth, whose economy represents 30 percent of the Global Economy, arrive at the precipice of a financial panic and collapse? The answer lies in the abject failure of both America's financial elite and the political elite of both parties -- the same elites now working together to determine how much of our wealth will be needed to bail the nation out of the crisis of their own creation. Big Government is riding to the rescue -- saddlebags full of our tax dollars -- to save us from the consequences...

Pat Buchanan is too patriotic to come right out and say it, but the message of his new book, "Day of Reckoning," is that America as we have known her is finished. Moreover, Naomi Wolf agrees with him. These two writers of different political persuasions arrive at America's demise from different directions. Buchanan explains how hubris, ideology and greed have torn America apart. A neoconservative cabal with an alien agenda captured the Bush administration and committed American blood, energy and money to aggression against Muslim countries in the Middle East, while permitting America's domestic borders to be overrun by immigrants...

Pat Buchanan's latest book, "Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart," paints a gloomy picture...At home, Buchanan says, our political leaders can't get it together to protect our southwestern borders from an invasion of illegal immigrants. And because they nearly all idolize the ideology of "free trade," we can't preserve our jobs, industries or the value of our currency.... Q: What must we do first and foremost about foreign policy? A: One, a complete review of all of America's commitments to go to war on behalf of foreign nations and basically letting some of these...

NEW BUCHANAN BOOK DECLARES 'END OF AMERICA' Sun Nov 25 2007 20:40:15 ET **Exclusive** “America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide.” The best-selling author and former presidential candidate is on the eve of launching his new epic book: DAY OR RECKONING: HOW HUBRIS, IDEOLOGY AND GREE ARE TEARING AMERICA APART. This time, Buchanan goes all the way: "America is in an existential crisis from which the nation may not survive." The...

The bill has died. Trust me, no one will be sitting shiva for it at HH.com, and not just because I’m the only one who knows what “sitting shiva” means. Actually, Medved also knows what “sitting shiva” means, and maybe he’ll be doing it on behalf of everyone else at Townhall who is instead celebrating like it’s VJ Day. (Reports that Matt Lewis surprised Mary Katherine Ham with a kiss like the one seen in the picture of above are unconfirmed.) So where do we go from here? Let’s take ‘em one by one, starting with the biggest winners and...

Boot Murtha Daily Update: Thanks, Sean Hannity!VFTT's National Oct. 1st Boot Murtha Rally got a big 'boot up' yesterday by Sean Hannity during his afternoon radio broadcast. Hannity hosts one of the top conservative radio talk shows in America, and co-host of Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes." During Hannity's broadcast our Boot Murtha Rally (set for Oct. 1st in Johnstown, PA) got several mentions along with our website's URL.

Dan Rather's Day of Reckoning From the October 4, 2004 issue: It didn't start with Rathergate. by John Podhoretz 10/04/2004, Volume 010, Issue 04   What if, some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to...

NEW YORK - As the world's collective attention remains rightly on the US-led war in Iraq and the effort to oust Saddam Hussein, another brutal dictator thousands of miles away continues to inflict unprecedented violence and terror upon his own people, largely under the global radar. Two days of national strikes organized last month by Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) protesting dictator Robert Mugabe's regime have resulted in hundreds of arrests, at least one death, and allegations of widespread torture by police and government forces. Mr. Mugabe's own day of reckoning, however, may be near. The opposition MDC kept...

<p>The White House yesterday declared that Saddam Hussein's regime is finished in Iraq on the war's 24th day, as U.S. intelligence agencies are picking up reports that Saddam is dead.</p> <p>"Indeed, the regime has ended," said presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer.</p>

The streets of the Kurdish capital, Erbil, filled with American, Iraqi and Kurdish flags yesterday as tens of thousands took to the street to celebrate the demise of the regime. Kurdish Iraqis celebrate in the northern Iraqi town of Arbil "Saddam, the criminal, the murderer, the savage, wild animal is gone," shouted a widow, Fauziya Ali, 45. "The black criminal, perpetrator of Halabja, is dead," she said. Halabja, a town that bore the brunt of Saddam Hussein's genocidal attempt to quell the Kurds with nerve agents and chemical weapons, is foremost among the reasons that the Kurdish people hunger for...

Yesterday, the television viewers of the world watched the film version of Shelley's famous poem Ozymandias. The poet imagines a broken statue of a great tyrant from "an antique land". His "shattered visage" lies nearby with its "wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command". On the pedestal is written: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look upon my works ye mighty, and despair!" No such words were inscribed on the statue of Saddam Hussein that Iraqis and Americans pulled down in central Baghdad yesterday, but the message for the Arab world could not have been clearer: you do not...

<p>MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — President Bush yesterday said elite Iraqi forces outside Baghdad are coming under "direct and intense attack" from coalition soldiers and warned Saddam Hussein "there will be a day of reckoning for Iraq, and that day is drawing near."</p>

<p>March 14, 2003 -- For the first time, Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday suggested that the Bush administration may be ready to pull the plug on diplomacy and finally move against Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>It's about time.</p> <p>"The day of reckoning is fast approaching," Powell said on Capitol Hill.</p>