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~snip~ As part of a longstanding campaign to stop printing and even recall existing $100 bills, the New Republic wrote, “Benjamins are the favorite currency of criminals and almost no one else.” Rich tax evaders, corrupt foreign officials, money launderers, counterfeiters and other bad actors hoard them, but the law-abiding masses rarely use them except for overseas travel or special occasions. As far back as 1976, an economist named James Henry called for an end to the $100 bill in an article in The Washington Monthly because — even nearly a half-century ago — it was the preferred currency of...

  Year ThreeObama's One Hundred and Tenth Week in OfficeThe List" for 3/3/2011ObamanomicsUtah Considers Return to Gold, Silver CoinsChina Gold Buying Surges amid Inflation Fears ...China’s purchases of gold rose to 200 tonnes in January and February of 2011 GM sold 281 Chevy Volts last month...That brings the grand total so far up to … 928 cars.Obama – We Need “To Live Within Our Means”Obama’s “Start-Up America” Initiative: Stalling EntrepreneursLayoffs At Pre-Recession Level; Job Openings Down 30%Jobless claims hit 2-1/2 year low last week. Now below 400,000 threshold for two straight weeks.How Obama Is Making Gas Prices HigherObama Making Us More...

Obama's One Hundred and Eighth Week in Office"The List" for 2/17/2011Obama's proposal to start charging Canadians an inspection fee to enter the country has upset Canadians Obamanomics: Silver Closes at $31.74/troy oz.Sixty-four former Chrysler dealers sued the U.S. government on Thursday, saying the Obama administration violated their rights by closing their stores during the automaker's bankruptcy without compensationThe Justice Department asked a federal judge in Florida on Thursday to tell states that they must continue to enact the Obama administration's health care overhaul despite the judge's ruling that the law is unconstitutionalThe House voted Thursday to dethrone nine White House...

Nachumlist Year ThreeObama's One Hundred and Sixth Week in OfficeThe List" for 2/3/2011Obamanomics: Companies Stock Up As Commodities Prices RiseShell scraps bid to drill off Alaska’s coast this year, Alaska blames ObamaAn Egyptian Warns the United States to Back OffEgyptian Foreign Ministry to U.S.: Keep Your Nose Out of Our BusinessObama's attempt to abruptly push aside Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in favor of a transition government has sparked a rift with key Arab allies Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, which fear the U.S. is opening the door for Islamist groups to gain influence and destabilize the region.Utah Attorney General considers...

 Year ThreeObama's One Hundred and Fifth Week in Office The List" for 1/27/2011The best of Robert GibbsBlack Panthers--Justice Dept. continues to block disclosure into department activities Obama Justice Department Colluded with ACLU to Attack Arizona’s SB 1070 According to DocumentsUnions make up 40 percent of employees exempted from ObamacareJoe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down... wonders what the Egyptian protesters wantObama mourns gay activist's murderMedicare Chief Berwick Dodges Whether Obamcare Redistriutes Wealth, Which He Had Praised... Obama Renominates Union Man Becker To NLRBMunicipal Bond Outflow Heaviest In At Least 20 YearsEPA To Regulate Milk SpillsMichigan's 'Green...

Former Russian Interpol head says terror threat in country worse than in Israel; 4 top transportation officials fired over airport bombing. The level of terror threats in Russia is higher than that in Israel," former head of Russian Interpol Vladimir Ovchinsky stated during an interview with Novye Ivestia newspaper Wednesday. "Our war is more intensive than the one between the Israelis and the Palestinians," he added, saying pessimistically that "The war in the Caucuses may last a hundred years." There has been no claim of responsibility for the bombing that occurred at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, killing 35 people and wounding...

Year Two comes to an endObama's One Hundred and Fourth Week in OfficeThe List" for 1/20/2011 1,600 layoffs this year at Hanford nuclear reservationNewly elected Hawaii Governor claims "glitch" in getting Obama birth certificatePresident Obama Tweets for Supporters to Hold State of the Union Watch Parties Next TuesdayBipartisan Obamacare Repeal Got More Votes Than the Original BillSacrifice Is For the Little People… Obama White House Serves $199 Bottles of Wine at State DinnerObama maintains close to 50,000 troops in Iraq and continues to escalate and expandthe war in Afghanistan, the antiwar movement in America continues to shrink: What Happened?Chinese Dissident...

Obama's One Hundred and First Week in Office The List" for 12/30/2010Obama spends $1.5m on his holiday in Hawaii... while the rest of America faces a bleak New YearObama Appointee Robert Ford, Ambassador to Syria, The previous ambassador to Syria was withdrawn by former President George W. Bush in 2005 in response to the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as well as its support for Saddah Hussein-sympathizers and terrorism in generalEx-car czar Rattner settles NY probe for $10M...The investment banker who helped lead the Obama administration's auto industry overhaul has agreed to pay $10 million to settle influence-peddling...

 Obama: Week One Hundred in OfficeThe List" for 12/23/2010It's good to be "the one": Photos of Obama’s Hawaii Vacation HomeThe Interior Department reversed a Bush-era policy on wilderness on Thursday, restoring the authority of its Bureau of Land Management to identify and recommend new areas for protection. GAO Gives Up on Auditing Government Over Medicare Projections, Cites 'Uncertainties'FCC Net neutrality rules reach mobile appsIs FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Trying to Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine?UAW Will Cash In on GM Stock Dilution The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today officially took away from state regulators the permitting process for air quality on...

Nasa man expects first prototype of a spaceship that will take us between worlds ‘within a few years’The US space agency Nasa has announced an intriguing new project called the 'Hundred Year Starship' which aims to send humans on a one-way trip to newly discovered planets across the galaxy. "The human space programme is now really aimed at settling other worlds," said Pete Worden, director of Nasa'a Ames research laboratory, at a seminar in San Francisco. "Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars [or] get fired." The Ames laboratory is responsible for Pioneer 10, the...

WASHINGTON -- Asked at a New Hampshire campaign stop about possibly staying in Iraq 50 years, John McCain interrupted -- "Make it a hundred" -- then offered a precise analogy to what he envisioned: "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so." Lest anyone think he was talking about prolonged war-fighting rather than maintaining a presence in postwar Iraq, he explained: "That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed." And lest anyone persist in thinking he was talking about...

Iraqi Police search men entering the clothing factory in Lutifiyah, Iraq, as they apply to become Iraqi police officers, July 9, 2007. The security was stiff, but over 1,100 residents of the Mahmudiyah district showed up to apply. Courtesy photo Several Hundred Police Recruits Vie for Security Jobs Violence doesn't deter Iraqis from taking control. By Multi-National Division - Center Public Affiars Office MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq, July 11, 2007 — Despite Iraqi Security Forces being a primary target for anti-Iraqi terrorists, people continue to volunteer to become members of the Iraqi police. An Iraqi Security Forces recruiting drive, held July...

NEW CONFLICT, OUTDATED STRATEGY? The U.S. Government launched Operation ENDURING FREE- DOM, Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in response to the events of September 11, 2001 (9/11), and in alliance with various nations. Many other nations objected to the U.S. invasion of Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussayn's region did not, in their views, pose a credible Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threat as was claimed at the time, and because they believed that American dismantlement and occupation of Iraq would surely be interpreted as neocolonialist interventionism. Indeed, Islamist extremists labeled these as Crusader...

Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death The Infamous "Year Without A Summer" Of the cold summers in the period 1811 to 1817, the year 1816 has gone down in the annals of New England history as "The Year There Was No Summer," the "Poverty Year" and "Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death." The year began with a moderate but dry winter. Spring was tardy and continued very dry. The growing season from late spring to early fall, however, was punctuated by a series of devastating cold waves that did major damage to the crops and greatly reduced the food supply....

Editor's note: Readers may also be interested in Iran: The Invisible Revolution. During the U.S. presidential campaign, debate over Iran policy received unprecedented attention. The reasons are multifold. With Iran on the verge of developing both nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile capability, Washington policymakers can no longer ignore the Iranian threat, especially when confidants of Supreme Leader Ali Khomenei lead televised chants of "American will be annihilated," as Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati did last June. American concern over a nuclear Iran is multifold. The danger is not necessarily that Iran would conduct a nuclear first strike, although former president Ali Akbar...

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"The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years." Thus does Walter A. McDougall of the University of Pennsylvania begin the first volume of his acclaimed new American history, Freedom Just Around the Corner (HarperCollins).Not surprisingly, this central event has evoked a wide range of opinions. Tens of millions of immigrants have voted with their feet to slough off prior allegiances and join the boisterous experiment that makes "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" its official goal.The result has been an astounding success. "We dominate every field of human endeavor...

Re 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Oregon voters have rejected a temporary income tax surcharge -- handing a major victory to the state Libertarian Party, which led the fight against the proposed tax hike. On January 28, in a statewide referendum, voters rejected Measure 28 by 55%-45%. Had it passed, the initiative would have raised taxes by $725 million over three years. "We are very happy tonight," said Oregon LP Executive Director Richard Burke, as the magnitude of the anti-tax vote became clear. "We were very surprised by the margin." Just eight days earlier, a statewide poll by Portland's KATU Television had said the vote was...

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