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A forestry company filed a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against Greenpeace Tuesday for misrepresenting the company’s environmental record to raise funds and promote its agenda. Greenpeace knowingly and deliberately made false claims about the company while fundraising, and fabricated evidence of Resolute’s alleged environmental malfeasance, according to the forestry and paper company Resolute Forest Products. RICO is an anti-mafia law designed to combat organized crime. Greenpeace’ is a global fraud,” states the 124-page legal complaint. “For years, this international network of environmental groups collectively calling themselves ‘Greenpeace’ has fraudulently induced people throughout the United States and...

The Resolute Desk (above) was built from the timbers of the HMS Resolute and was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes. It is considered a national treasure and icon of the presidency.

As class warfare dawns, it's the 'haves' vs the 'have nots'- class that is... and this untrained slob hasn't a speck of it: Uh, btw that's The Resolute Desk you're resting your filthy  clod-hoppers on... show some respect for once in your life! More news/views/humor at Reaganite Republican

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,...

America stood united again on Sept. 11. Three years after fanatics unleashed the worst terror attack in U.S. history, people around the nation paused yesterday to remember the horror - and the outpouring of strength and compassion that followed and is still helping to heal the wounds. In Iowa City, Iowa, 70,000 football fans rose in unison in a sun-drenched stadium to cheer a flag rescued from the rubble of Ground Zero and hail three New York City firefighters. Firefighters John Gaine, Ed Zeilman and Tim Kelly marched into Kinnick Stadium before the Iowa-Iowa State game in front of an...

The American media throws a temper tantrum after President George W. Bush's prime time news conference.

For those of us old enough to remember WWII, the runup to Gulf War 2 has been instructive. We have re-learned that human nature doesn't change. The lessons of history are again forgotten. When we notice today's intellectual elites parading their anxieties and cowardice as high moral principle, appeasement seems only comprehensible in the context of history. However, memories of Chamberlain announcing "peace in our time" to cheering throngs hold no lessons for our chattering classes. They argue that today's demonstrators chanting "peace" require us to continue the UN inspections charade -- that the easily-swayed crowds must be right. The...

William Grim's AMERICA WATCH GEORGE W. BUSH IS A COWBOY -- THANK GOD! by William Grim, Iconoclast Contributing Editor Our good "friends" in Europe never tire of saying that President George W. Bush is a cowboy. I guess they think that is an insult, but it just shows, once again, how little our "friends" really know about the United States. Let's consider the Cowboy for a minute and what he represents. The Cowboy is symbolic of those qualities that, in more honest times, used to be called the manly virtues: an affinity for hard work and honest dealings; independence...