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For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them. Republicans have nearly doubled their lead over Democrats on economic issues to 49% to 35%, after leading by eight points in September. The GOP also holds a 54% to 31% advantage on national security issues and a 50% to 31% lead on the handling of the war in Iraq. But voters are less sure which party they trust more to handle government ethics and corruption, an issue...

Sometimes, you find a nugget of truth on a web site that’s more valuable than anything the web site’s owner might intend to share with you. That was the case this morning when I visited the AFL-CIO web site. This video tells the story in just over a minute as does the story below.

I remember the bleak day I realized I had enough food for two more days. I had no money and no job. How would I take care of my four young sons? I tried to pray, but fear hung suspended in my mind and choked any semblance of words. I wanted to cry, but realized that once I started, the tears might never end. Single parenting and children who had more needs than I could fill paralyzed my thoughts.

Billionaire former eBay CEO and political neophyte Meg Whitman officially announced her candidacy for California governor today in Orange County, vowing to cut 40,000 state government jobs and lower taxes. The 53-year-old Atherton resident, who registered as a Republican in 2007, told supporters in Fullerton that "Californians want to trust their leaders again. They want to be told the truth. "And most of all," she said, "they want to live in a place of opportunity and optimism, not a place of small dreams and scaled-down ambitions." Whitman will battle state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former Rep. Tom Campbell in...

At a small health care briefing put on by several House Republicans, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) argued that the president had lost momentum on health care reform because Americans didn’t trust him when he talked about it. “What he’s trying to do is boost up the Democrats,” said Bachmann. “The people aren’t listening to him the way that they did before. They were hanging on his every word [before].” Last week, said Bachmann, was “the first time I felt like we were going to win this thing. I sensed it when the president was in Minnesota. There were a lot...

A Very American DistrustSeptember 7, 2009By Alan Caruba Barack Obama has crashed headlong into a wall of distrust. If he had any understanding of American history he would know why, but his sole interest is himself and he proved that by writing not one, but two memoirs. The men who waged the American Revolution and then met in secret to write the U.S. Constitution all shared a distrust of government. They understood government was necessary, but they wanted to keep a federal government small and ensure that most powers resided in the individual states and in “the people.”For most of...

Are American children to learn basic education or an agenda of education-as-'social justice'? They think we’re crazy. “They” are the sneering defenders of President Barack Obama who can’t fathom the backlash against his nationwide speech to schoolchildren Tuesday. “We” are parents with eyes wide open to the potential for politicized abuse in America’s classrooms. Ask moms and dads in Farmington, Utah, who discovered last week that their children sat through a Hollywood propaganda video promoting the cult of Obama. In the clip, a parade of entertainers vow to flush their toilets less, buy hybrid vehicles, end poverty and world hunger,...

Confucius once remarked that a state rests on three pillars: food, military, and trust. If a leader were forced to give up one of the pillars, asked a disciple, which one would it be? Confucius answered: "Military." Compelled to abandon another pillar, inquired the disciple, which one should the leader choose? "Food" answered Confucius. In the end, says Confucius, a state's most indispensible resource is trust. American citizens were asked during the 2008 presidential campaign to trust a candidate who refused to release his academic records, college transcripts, and a detailed original birth record. We were also told to trust...

To explain why the Obama health-care proposal pitched the nation’s politicians into town-hall hell, we would like to call to the stand an expert on how things in life can sometimes go wrong—Mr. Billy Joel. Using a song years ago to sort through the complexities of a relationship in trouble, the Piano Man repeated the same simple one-word truth: "It's a matter of trust." Instead of whining about conspiracies, the average congressman getting yelled at this summer by his own constituents might ask: How come these people don't trust me? The Democratic leadership and the progressive left think the town...

For the first time in over two years of polling, voters trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on the handling of the issue of health care. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that voters favor the GOP on the issue 44% to 41%. Democrats held a four-point lead on the issue last month and a 10-point lead in June. For most of the past two years, more than 50% of voters said they trusted Democrats on health care. The latest results mark the lowest level of support measured for the party on the now-contentious issue. Public support for...

Abraham Lincoln once said this of "trust": "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. (Click on link to original article to see Politico Video)

Gallup, Rasmussen, Washington Post, USA Today all published polls indicating that the approval of the President and his policies are way down. Now a Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO poll, is echoing their sentiments. What makes this poll significant is that it was done completely on-line. On-line surveys tend to be filled out by younger people and people who live in more urban populations (rural areas don't have the same internet penetration nor do they use the internet as much). Younger, more urban voters is the President's breadbasket, so this loss of support may very well be amongst his more loyal voters....

Tonight’s Poll Would you trust your senator or congressman with a secret? Yes 5% 205 No 95% 4139 Total Votes: 4344 This is not a scientific poll ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your America Below you will find the information you need to contact the leaders of Your America: To find your Senator, click here. To find your Representative, click here. Or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Email: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov Phone: 202-225-4965 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Email: senator_reid@reid.senate.gov Phone: 202-224-3542 President Barack Obama To Email President Obama, click here. Phone: 202-456-1111 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Mail: Department of...

Americans have not lost hope in society despite all the bad news out there. The Gallup polling organization's annual update on public confidence in institutions, published last month, is a useful snapshot of the United States as the people view it. This picture shows a country quite different from what is portrayed through the lens of the mass media or the entertainment industry.

Pelosi vs. the CIA — who can we trust?by Earl Hiatt Jun 18, 2009 In recent weeks, there has been a standoff between Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and the CIA as to who is telling the truth about a 2002 briefing on interrogation techniques used by the United States on terror suspects. As Pelosi is a polished politician, we know she is adept at lying — although some might consider her a lone voice of reason in a sea of liars and thieves. (There is a joke about Pinocchio entering a lying contest but not winning....

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Only four months into the Obama administration and total Democratic rule, and the American people already are beginning to realize what incompetent demagogues Democrats actually are. While we still have a long way to go, that nevertheless has to be some kind of record. Things are changing quickly. Soon we'll be hunting Democrats down with dogs. Only five days ago a new poll revealed that Obama's approval numbers had plummeted to an overall rate of zero. Then, just a couple of days ago, we learned that conservatives had swept out liberals across the European Union as people rejected the weight...

Navy veteran and Alaska citizen Mark Bowers (follow Mark on Twitter) received a pleasant surprise after he donated to the Alaska Fund Trust to preserve the integrity of the Governor's Office of the State of Alaska. His donation helps to cover the legal expenses of defending against the frivolous complaints filed against Governor Sarah Palin. She surprised him with a personally written thank you note from the governor herself. See photo here.

As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and based on the facts of God’s Word, I DECLARE myself to be FREE INDEED (John 8:36). My liberty is seen in three realms: First, concerning the god of this age, to whom I once belonged, I have been DELIVERED from the power of darkness and have been translated into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son (Col. 1:13), turned from the power of Satan unto God (Acts 26:18).

Where is the Juice?Lois Tverberg, August, 2001 Jer. 17:5 Lord, "Cursed (Arur) is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush (arar) in the desert, and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant. Jer 17:7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream. It...

Rahm Emmanuel, Pres. Obama's chief of staff, is known as a strategist, manager, and organizer of considerable ability. For the blindly partisan, this will make them see red. For those who try to fairly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of an opponent, it will be a point that makes them pause. As he was preparing to take his place in the Obama Administration, Emmanuel is quoted as saying that politicians can have tremendous success manipulating a crisis, even if it is a manufactured crisis. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that...

Public Strategies did a series of polls to determine who voters trust. The polling company interviewed 1,000 registered voters from March 27 to 31. The Measure of Public Trust shown below: Trust Distrust Obama 66% 31% Dem Party 52% 40% GOP 40% 54% Palin 38% 53% Romney 36% 39% Rush Limbaugh 28% 58% Nancy Pelsoi 26% 53% More data can be found at the link.

Palin also holds a one point advantage over Mitt Romney with independents, and only trails him in only one category: Democrats. It is my opinion that Palin is much more likely to attract working class Democrats in the future than Romney. However, the Politico story covering the poll completely distorts the results to cast Palin in a negative light (I'm shocked!): Palin attracted the highest percentage of those who did not trust her at all to identify the right solutions, topping Pelosi 33 percent to 32 percent The problem with Politico's statement above is that those findings do not appear...

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2009 – Building trust between the United States and Pakistan tops the agenda as the two countries and Afghanistan move forward, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said following meetings in Pakistan’s capital city yesterday. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen and Richard Holbrooke, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad. The three spoke at a news conference following their meeting. “This commitment is a long-term commitment that I hope will generate a surplus of trust, as that is absolutely vital,” Mullen said. U.S....

"Some trust in chariots and some in horses." Psalm 20:7 Some trust in their 401Ks, some trust in their beauty, some trust in their talents, some trust in the military, some trust in their political party... "But we will remember the name of the Lord our God…they have bowed down and fallen, but we have risen and stand up right." Psalm 20:8 Sometimes life makes you feel like you can’t stand up right. Betrayal of a friend or coworker, sickness, grief, economic predictions of doom…what ever you may be facing... I learned from a dear friend in Sudan, who said...

The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about. Luke 18:34 Years ago I was walking with a crowd of people in a Chicago suburb to attend a July 4th celebration. Police were called in to direct traffic because it was heavy. One officer directed a car to go in a particular lane, and the driver shook her head and pointed that she wanted to go in a different lane. The exasperated cop said, "Lady, move in this lane. Trust me on this. I know...

When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey. In follow-up interviews, respondents expressed concerns about Obama's lack of military service and experience leading men and women in uniform. ''Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief," said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified. Underlying much of the uncertainty is Obama's stated 16-month timetable...

Wall Street today may be a vast global community with multinational reach. But it's also a small, insulated world based on trust, where your word and a handshake are your bond. Or not. Just ask Steven Spielberg, or Jeffrey Katzenberg, or anyone else unfortunate enough to have invested money with accused swindler Bernard L. Madoff. As news that Madoff's high-flying money management business apparently was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme made its way around the Street, the near-universal reaction was utter disbelief. Not disbelief that someone could brazenly rip off innocent investors; nobody in the financial community is capable...

Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance. Not so very long ago, Google disclaimed responsibility for its search results by explaining that these were chosen by a computer algorithm. The disclaimer lives on at Google News, where we are assured that: The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. A few years ago, Google's apparently unimpeachable objectivity got some people very excited, and technology utopians began to herald Google as...

Miami -- In an interview after her speech at the Republican Governors' Association meetings here today, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin criticized the Bush administration for exacerbating voter "distrust" by shifting money from the $700 billion bailout from buying bad bank assets to purchasing additional stock in banks. In response to the proposed changes, announced yesterday by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Palin expressed frustration on behalf of a weary electorate and offered a stern warning. "No more surprises," she said. "I think the surprises make the electorate distrust elected officials and their ability to appoint people who are to be looking...

"... And when we Pledge allegiance, there's no doubt where we stand, There is no separation, we're one Nation under Him...." Chorus: In God We Still Trust Here in America He's the one we turn to every time The goin' gets rough He is the source of all our Strength The One who watches over us Here in America In God We Still Trust Now there are those among us, who want to push Him out, And erase His name from everything, this country's all about, From the Schoolhouse to the Courthouse, they're Silencing His Word, Now it's time for...

FORT HUACHUCA — Knuppel and Dag were inquisitive. They tilted their heads and looked up as soldiers of the 18th Military Police Detachment rappelled down a 40-foot-tall tower on Fort Huachuca on Friday. Sniffing the air, their eyes tracked the downward movement of the MPs as their ears were alert to noise from the soldiers. They would occasionally wag their tails in anticipation of doing something, why else would they be on a lead with their handlers standing by them. But it wasn’t going to be their normal exercise of searching for explosives, Knuppel’s specialty, or drugs, Dag’s specialty, or...

Interrupter in Chief October 8, 2008 Obama has zero integrity. He agrees to a debate forum and when things aren’t going his way he suddenly wants to change the rules to his advantage. We witnessed this during the second debate at least twice. So much so that McCain, someone who actually respects the rules he agrees to, had to interject himself and demand equal time. But this is vintage Obama. He says one thing and when the political winds shift he abruptly changes his mind. This is the trademark of an opportunist despot, ever willing to use style to blind...

Sit Down For This One: CNN Throws Obama Overboard on Ayers http://patriotroom.com/?p=2858 This is from Anderson Cooper 360, but you might swear that you were listening to Rush Limbaugh tear Obama to shreds for flat out lying about his connection with Ayers. You are gonna love this.

Iraqi Police officers speak to a woman outside the Izza station in al Kut, Sept. 17, 2008. Photo by Sgt. Daniel West, Multi-National Division-Central. FOB DELTA — Iraqi Police (IP) in Wasit province are transforming their force from a paramilitary police force to a more traditional one, changing a structure left over from Saddam Hussein’s regime. The restructuring, a directive from the national ministry of the interior, aims to place IPs in positions to exploit their greatest strengths.“We assign IPs with military backgrounds to the special response teams and the checkpoints,� said Brig. Gen. Alawy Hussein Alsaray. “Those who have...

If you want to see what is really going on with the "bail out" just look at the video link it will tell you everything you need to know about "free money" and what these "jokers" really have in mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svf2aWr0hfI

Need for action on the banking panic Published: September 25 2008 18:10 | Last updated: September 25 2008 18:10 Banks are not to be trusted. This is not just the view of the public and policymakers, but that of the banks themselves. Spreads on unsecured inter-bank lending have reached unprecedented levels, particularly in dollars and, to a lesser degree, sterling. Such stresses cannot continue for long, without serious damage to both the financial system and the economy. Something has to be done. The question is: what? Thursday’s spread over one month between the London interbank offered rate and future expected...

““SEC. 1338. Housing Trust Fund. “(a) Establishment and purpose.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (in this section referred to as the ‘Secretary’) shall establish and manage a Housing Trust Fund, which shall be funded with amounts allocated by the enterprises under section 1337 and any amounts as are or may be appropriated, transferred, or credited to such Housing Trust Fund under any other provisions of law. The purpose of the Housing Trust Fund under this section is to provide grants to States for use— “(1) to increase and preserve the supply of rental housing for extremely low- and...

All mortgages are defined by a document specifing the exact nature of the property and signed by the buyer and lender. We have been told that these mortgages have been packaged in bundles and sold over and over again. How do we know that the funds for this “BailOut” are backed by any real mortgage documents at all? In other words, “Show me the PAPER!!!” If you feel this bailout is wrong, please contact your Congressman immediately. I have put together a statement that I am going to send out to as many Congressman as I can in the next...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street surged higher Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrials up more than 400 points after a report that the federal government is considering creation of a repository for banks' bad debt. CNBC said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is considering creation of an entity like the Resolution Trust Corp. that was formed after the failure of savings and loan banks in the 1980s.

Suffolk University Poll Shows Ohioans Identify with Palin BOSTON, Sept 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- With just 51 days remaining in the 2008 Presidential campaign, the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin holds a 4-point lead in the key state of Ohio, according to a poll released today by Suffolk University. McCain-Palin led the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama-Joe Biden 46 percent to 42 percent. More respondents identify with Sarah Palin than with the other candidates. Asked which of the four candidates is "most like you," 31 percent said Palin, followed by Obama (22 percent), McCain (21...

How impostors like Clark Rockefeller capture our trust instantly - and why we're so eager to give it to them. Lots of people trusted Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. At least two women married him - though they each knew him by a different name. The members of elite social clubs in San Marino, Calif.; Greenwich, Conn.; and here in Boston embraced him and vouched for him. A series of investment firms offered him jobs as a stockbroker and bond salesman, even a vice president, despite his lack of credentials, experience, and, as quickly became clear, his at best rudimentary knowledge of...

IT’S been more than eight years since “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show’s approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show’s striking evolution. In 1999, the “Daily Show” correspondent Steve Carell struggled to talk his way off Senator John McCain’s overflow press bus — “a repository for outcasts, misfits and journalistic bottom-feeders” — and onto the actual Straight Talk Express, while at the 2000 Republican Convention Mr. Stewart self-deprecatingly promised exclusive coverage of “all the...

John McCain is now trusted more than Barack Obama on nine out of 14 electoral issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The latest national telephone surveys find that McCain has the biggest advantage on the war in Iraq, by a 51% to 39% margin. Perhaps the most interesting finding of these polls is that McCain has expanded his leads on nearly every issue he had previously had the advantage on, while Obama’s leads have diminished over the past two weeks. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows the race for the White House is very close. The results are consistent...

A busy couple of days for Republican Senate candidate Jim Gilmore. He just wrapped up a two day, 14 city tour. It included stops this morning in Martinsville and Wednesday afternoon in Lynchburg. Gilmore's campaign chairman says the former Governor has shifted the scope of his political message. He used to speak mainly about cutting taxes and energy costs. Now, Gilmore has started going after opponent Mark Warner, calling him untrustworthy. Jim Gilmore, (R) U.S. Senate Candidate - "Ask the people of Virginia whether trust actually matters. Whether or not in fact really going into public office and keeping your...

KONDUZ, Afghanistan, July 29, 2008 – More than 200 students processed into the regional training center here July 19 for focused district development training, a program to create a professional and well-trained police force for Afghanistan, district by district. Army Sgt. Wayne Demar, a Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan biometrics coordinator, scans the fingerprint of an Afghan National Police student during processing into the Konduz Regional Training Center, July 20, 2008. More than 200 police officers were processed for focused district development training, a program to create a professional and well-trained police force, district by district. U.S. Air Force...

At the end of February, it appeared that Barack Obama has cemented a successful campaign. Even though his biggest fans found it difficult to point to one meaningful achievement from his short political career, the overall sense was that he represents a new generation of voters: A generation that has tired of Clinton and Bush; a generation that shares ideas on Facebook and YouTube; a generation that wishes to reach out to the world; a generation that does not fear those who look different. In their eyes, Obama was portrayed as a new type of politician: One who admits to...

TRUST "U.S. Army Task Force Regulators 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment Staff Sgt. Fred Hampton, of Lexington, Ky., kneels on a knee to talk with a young Iraqi boy at the future site of Regular 6 Park in the Thawra 1 section of the Sadr City District of Baghdad on June 20." Photo: Tech Sgt. Cohen Young, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq. "In Sadr City. There are no words to express everything conveyed by this photo. To me, it represents the highest ideals of our country and our guys, and the hopes and aspirations of the Iraqi people. This is...

Picture worth a thousand words By Michelle Malkin  •  July 1, 2008 04:02 PM Here.