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Obama: “I’d love to spend time venting and yelling at people” Presuming Barack Obama considers cursing himself an act of blasphemy, he will certainly relish therapeutic yelling at others for the enormity of his own incompetence (as he admitted wanting to do on Larry King recently). What makes observing Obama’s on-the-job training more egregious is his determination to taste every conceivable failure. He’s like the moth that can’t resist flying into the candle, again and again, till both wings are reduced to smoldering stumps. Yet, Barack’s genius for falling-short merely puts him into the pantheon of other notable Marxist leaders....

The Romans started out using barbarians in their armies, until eventually the barbarians became their emperors. So too the Ottoman Empire began by using non-Muslims as Janissaries in their armies, only to have them nearly take over. Similarly there was a time when we tried to use Muslim countries as proxies in our wars. Today Muslims use us as proxies in their wars. There was a time when things seemed very clear and simple. Nuclear weapons and the memory of the devastation that WW2 had brought, made a direct war between the US and the USSR too prohibitive to be...

(CBS) Updated: 6:30 PM, June 1: In an email to MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell, Elizabeth Edwards stated that she is not trying to deny John Edwards custody of their two younger children in the event of her death. Elizabeth Edwards reportedly doesn't want her estranged husband, former presidential hopeful John Edwards, to raise their kids if she loses her battle with cancer. But can a mother legally keep an estranged spouse from getting custody in that kind of situation? The New York Daily News reported that Elizabeth is looking into whether the couple's 28-year-old daughter, Cate, can assume legal guardianship over...

ATLANTA (AP) - A growing number of teen girls say they use the rhythm method for birth control, and more teens also think it's OK for an unmarried female to have a baby, according to a government survey released Wednesday. The report may help explain why the teen pregnancy rate is no longer dropping. Overall, teenage use of birth control and teen attitudes toward pregnancy have remained about the same since a similar survey was done in 2002. But there were some notable exceptions in the new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. First, about 17 percent...

"The flag upside down is a symbol of a nation in distress. Its a highly visible way to symbolize that our country is in trouble."

President Obama promised us we would make history. We certainly have. Last week, he invited Mexican President Felipe Calderón to the White House. There, in the presence of his foreign guest, President Obama humiliated himself and us by his attacks on the new Arizona law passed to cope with illegal immigrants. But it got worse. Soon, Calderón was invited to address a joint session of Congress. There, in the well of the House of Representatives, the Mexican leader himself sharply criticized Arizona's law. He was applauded by Democrats from both houses, even given a standing ovation. This was surely historic....

Wow...this is pretty sobering................ Predictions For The Rest Of 2010 Bob Chapman First 6 months of 2010, Americans will continue to live in the 'unreality'…the period between July and October is when the financial fireworks will begin. The Fed will act unilaterally for its own survival irrespective of any political implications …(source is from insider at FED meetings). In the last quarter of the year we could even see Martial law, which is more likely for the first 6 months of 2011. The FDIC will collapse in September 2010. Commercial real estate is set to implode in 2010. Wall Street...

In this video making the rounds online, Ardi Rizal -- who was given his first cigarette at 18 months -- puffs away. The toddler smokes two packs a day, The Huffington Post reports. "He cries and throws tantrums when we don't let him smoke. He's addicted," his father, Mohammad Rizal, says.

A gastroenterologist who persuaded millions of parents worldwide that the vaccine used to prevent measles, mumps and rubella might cause autism has been banned from practicing medicine in his native Britain after the country's top medical group said Monday he conducted his research unethically. Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first researcher to publish a peer-reviewed study suggesting a connection between autism, inflammatory bowel disease and the MMR vaccine. In February, Britain's leading medical journal, "The Lancet, "retracted Wakefield's controversial 1998 study just days after Wakefield was found guilty by a British panel of acting unethically in his research on autism....

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - In a rare move, a Wyoming judge has blocked two newspapers from publishing stories on an internal report about a college president's trip to Costa Rica, saying the report was improperly taken and that releasing details could prompt the federal government to cut college grant money. District Judge Peter Arnold on Friday ordered the Wyoming Tribune Eagle newspaper and a local biweekly paper, The Cheyenne Herald, not to disseminate information about the report for at least 10 days. According to the Tribune Eagle, the report concerns a school-sponsored trip taken by Laramie County Community College President...

DAHLONEGA, Ga. (AP) - A north Georgia history teacher faces punishment after administrators say she let four students wear Ku Klux Klan-like robes for a historical reenactment. Lumpkin County Schools superintendent Dewey Moye told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that teacher Catherine Ariemma made a poor decision. Administrators say four students in Ariemma's advanced placement history class donned Klan-like outfits while filming historical reenactments. Moye says students saw them Thursday and parents of a black student complained. Moye says Ariemma is on leave with pay. Reached by The Associated Press Monday, Ariemma said she didn't regret the project, but that it was...

The unions blew billions working to get democrats elected. Now it’s payback time. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) wants taxpayers to fork over $165 billion to bailout the troubled union pension funds. FOX News reported: A Democratic senator is introducing legislation for a bailout of troubled union pension funds. If passed, the bill could put another $165 billion in liabilities on the shoulders of American taxpayers. The bill, which would put the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation behind struggling pensions for union workers, is being introduced by Senator Bob Casey, (D-Pa.), who says it will save jobs and help people. As FOX...

NY Daily News: "Little Obama" documents Obama’s life in Jakarta with his mother and stepfather from the age of six until he was ten years. Video: http://www.breitbart.tv/behind-the-scenes-video-the-making-of-indonesias-little-obama-movie/

This is a very perceptive piece in the Washington Post by Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute. In it, he postulates that the cultural issues of the 1990's - "guns, gays, or abortion - have been eclipsed by the overriding issue of free markets vs. control by the state: Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country's future. In one, America will continue to be an exceptional nation organized around the principles of free enterprise -- limited government, a reliance on entrepreneurship and rewards determined by market forces. In...

Members of the public searching the federal database for the commander in chief's registration are suddenly finding new difficulty, possibly due to the startling revelation of Obama's alleged use of a Connecticut-based Social Security Number. The Selective Service System, or SSS, collects names of Americans for use by the Department of Defense in the event of a national emergency. On its website, it says it provides the nation "with a structure and a system of guidelines which will provide the most prompt, efficient, and equitable draft possible, if the country should need it." Regarding President Obama, "He is registered. There...

"Why suddenly...you allow...a foreign government, a hostile foreign government -- infiltrate our high school to brainwash our kids?" See Video:http://www.breitbart.tv/california-public-schools-let-communist-china-supply-school-curriculum/

<p>The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.</p> <p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would support the talks as long as the negotiating forum, the so-called Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, "operates under the rules of consensus decision-making."</p>

Commanders have ordered a U.S. military unit in Afghanistan to patrol with unloaded weapons, according to a source in Afghanistan. American soldiers in at least one unit have been ordered to conduct patrols without a round chambered in their weapons, an anonymous source stationed at a forward operating base in Afghanistan said in an interview. The source was unsure where the order originated or how many other units were affected. When a weapon has a loaded magazine, but the safety is on and no round is chambered, the military refers to this condition as “amber status.” Weapons on “red status”...

* This list isn't extensive by any means, so please add more items/tips as they come to mind. Guns & ammo are a given the "list" failed to mention. I guess in order not to cause panic... Today, millions of Americans say that they believe that the United States is on the verge of a major economic collapse and will soon be entering another Great Depression. But only a small percentage of those same people are prepared for that to happen. The sad truth is that the vast majority of Americans would last little more than a month on what...

The Washington Post: Two months after a Muslim soldier complained to the Pentagon about being harassed in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings, Spec. Zachari Klawonn said the Army has not followed through on its promises to address problems at the country's largest military base. See Video Here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrxQDEoZoj4&feature=player_embedded