Remembering America’s Iraq War ‘Patriotic Opposition’ ~ American Thinker
In his speech to the nation Tuesday night, President Obama offered a tepid acknowledgment to George W. Bush for his patriotism and love of country through the hellacious ordeal of the Iraq war — made hellacious by the bilious criticisms leveled by unrelenting, vicious liberal Democrats. It was the weakest, emptiest form of appreciation, as Obama included Bush among two types of “patriots” during the Iraq debate, grouping him with the “patriots who opposed” the war.

O, Palestine! ~ American Thinker
The notion of a Palestinian people and Palestinian identity, although taken for granted today, has neither a long nor a distinguished history. Understanding its origins and what it represents explains why the peace process between Israel and the Arabs has failed and will continue to fail.
Inherent in Palestinianism, from its origins, is the rejection of a Jewish state in any form. That opposition is not negotiable and not open to compromise; it is essential.

A Black Man Goes To Glenn Beck’s Rally ~ Human Events
To hear the mainstream media tell the story, you would have thought that I, a black man, had walked into a hornet’s nest of racists when I decided to attend Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. In reality, my experience was the complete opposite.(snip) At one point, some of the people attending the Rev. Al Sharpton’s “counter rally,” coined “Reclaiming King,” stopped me. I guess they must have been judging me by the color of my skin not the content of my character, because they asked if I was going to come join them.

Islam Is Not A Religion, It Is Foreign Law ~ Canada Free Press
The time has come to question if Islam is protected under our First Amendment rights to freedom of religion. Yes, everyone in America has the right to freedom of religion, but Islam is not a religion. Religious faith is only a part of Islam. The rest is a socially engineered society with its own laws and customs that seriously conflict with American law. Is Great Britain a religion because they have the Church of England? Of course not. Britain has an established charter, civil and criminal laws, and a society that respects those laws.

Glenn Beck’s Rally ~ Front Page Mag (David Horowitz)
We all get used to things so quickly these days that we don’t reflect on how unthinkable a rally like the one staged on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech by talk show host Glenn Beck would have been as recently as two years ago. Outside the missionary environs of the pro-life movement you couldn’t have found ten people on the right – ten Republicans or ten conservatives — to march on Washington for a political rally.

Glenn Beck launches news website The Blaze
The Blaze will be about current news — and more. It’s not just politics and policy. It’s looking for insight wherever we find it. We’ll examine our culture, deal with matters of faith and family, and we won’t be afraid of a history lesson.

Glenn Beck’s Happy Warriors ~ Wall Street Journal
Mr. Beck is a television host and radio broadcaster with a checkered past and a penchant for incendiary remarks. But if he’s judged by the quality of people of all colors that he attracted to the Lincoln Memorial, his stock can’t help but rise.

More on Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally
Videos, Pictures and articles. Including Glenn Beck’s keynote speech

For a Taste of Real Freedom, Check Out the Duggar Kids — All 19 of Them ~ Big Journalism.com
You won’t find a television in their giant living room. The Internet is greatly restricted. The girls’ room (9 of 10 sleep in one room – the only exception is temporary, newborn Josie) didn’t have Hanna Montana or boy band or vampire posters or anything like it.

Two Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam ~ FoxNews
Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, reportedly suspected of assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack. The two men did not have prohibited items on them, a law enforcement official told Fox News, saying that although knives were found in their checked luggage, such checked items aren’t prohibited. The individuals also were not on the no-fly list, nor were there any active warrants for their arrest. “Suspicious items were located in checked luggage associated with two passengers on United Flight 908 from Chicago O’Hare to Amsterdam,”

Glenn Beck Nails It ~ Power Line
As John has noted, America remains unclear about President Obama’s religious affiliation. Thus, in a Pew Research survey, 43 percent (a plurality) said they don’t know which religion Obama practices. John has offered some good explanations for this uncertainty, especially the misperception that Obama is a Muslim. But I think it is Glenn Beck who has the best explanation for why so many Americans don’t identify Obama as a Christian. Beck told Fox News that, “Obama is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology, which is oppressor-and-victim” and “people aren’t recognizing his version of Christianity.”

Covering up for George Soros ~ American Thinker
The sinister, omnipresent moneybags of the American left, George Soros, knows that distraction and misdirection make for a good defense. So do his many lackeys and sympathizers in the American media.

Restoring Honor and Our Higher Selves ~ American Thinker
In his Fox News interview after his “Restoring Honor” rally, Glenn Beck said in his speech that he challenged Americans to “Be your highest self!” Glenn’s words really struck a chord with me. I am repulsed by liberalism because it appeals to our lower self.

The Education of Glenn Beck ~ American Thinker
The man has a deep love of the United States. He has committed himself to deep and thoughtful study of the actual documents, letters, and papers of the men who founded this nation. He is on a quest to know the answers to his questions about our founders, such as “What did they mean?” “What did they want for us?” “To whom are we the people truly beholden?”

At the very last minute my sister and I made plans to go to DC for Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally. I don’t know why things like this are always at the last minute, it’s just the way things go in my life.

We are excited to stand with freedom-loving Americans to proclaim our belief that this country is awesome, but is faltering and in danger. We need to return to the values that caused men like John Adams and George Washington to risk everything to fight for what they believed.

You can join us, as I’ll be tweeting and posting the Facebook during our adventure!

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The trillion dollar bailout you didn’t hear about – Commercial real estate ~ My Budget 360
The latest data on existing home sales should tell you exactly where we are in this so called recovery.  Average Americans are unable to purchase big ticket items without massive government subsidies.  It is also the case that all the too big to fail banks are standing only because of the generous support of taxpayer money.

Forget Debt To GDP, It’s Debt To Revenue That Matters–And The U.S. Is The Worst ~ Business Insider
Morgan Stanley have published a report titled “Ask Not Whether Governments Will Default, But How” (via Zero Hedge) and while it makes some interesting points about who is going to get hit when sovereigns begin to exact “Financial Oppression” on creditors what we’re most interested in is the discussion of debt to GDP ratios.

Roubini: Q3 GDP Will Be Closer To 0% Than 1% ~ via Twitter
Q3 GDP growth very likely to be below 1%; and likely to be closer to 0% than to a pathetically lousy 1%. So double dip risk is now > 40%

‘Sustainable’ Poverty: The Real Face of the Leftist Environmental Agenda ~ American Thinker
Since the seventies, the American left has warned of coming famine, overpopulation, total deforestation, urban sprawl, and overcrowding. The only problem is that none of this has ever happened. The left lied, and freedom died.

Mexican Military Finds 72 Bodies Near Border ~ Wall Street Journal
Gunmen from a drug cartel appear to have massacred 72 migrants from Central and South America who were on their way to the U.S., a grisly event that marks the single biggest killing in Mexico’s war on organized crime.

Yes Folks, Hindenburg Omen Tripped Again ~ Wall Street Journal
The Omen, a technical indicator which uses a plethora of data to foreshadow a stock-market crash, was tripped again on Friday, marking the second time since Aug. 12 it has occurred. (It also came close on Thursday, but one of its criteria fell short.)

Plunge in Home Sales Stokes Economy Fears ~ Wall Street Journal
Sales of previously owned homes fell 27.2% from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday, the lowest level since the industry group started its tally in 1999.

Now, why would 20% of Americans think Obama is a Muslim? ~ American Thinker
According to this poll released last week, nearly one in five Americans believes that President Obama is a Muslim, despite his consistent claims to be a Christian. The White House commented that “obviously,” the president is a Christian; “he prays every day.” Various liberal columnists quickly ran to the president’s aid with mouths agape over the obvious stupidity of this sizable chunk of the American peasant class.

The Real Truth About Al Qaeda in Afghanistan ~ Counterterrorism Blog
Ever since senior Obama administration advisers such as CIA Director Leon Panetta and Vice President Biden admitted that Al Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan was minimal, with fewer than 100 operatives believed to be on the ground there, war critics have complained the President has little justification for escalating the U.S. commitment there.

Inventing Moderate Islam ~ National Review Online
‘Secularism can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society.” The writer was not one of those sulfurous Islamophobes decried by CAIR and the professional Left. Quite the opposite: It was Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual guide and a favorite of the Saudi royal family. He made this assertion in his book, How the Imported Solutions Disastrously Affected Our Ummah, an excerpt of which was published by the Saudi Gazette just a couple of months ago.

Islam: The Religion Of Phobias ~ The Strata-Sphere
Christopher Hitchens has produced his usual clarity on a new perspective that is arising from the debate over the Ground Zero Mosque. Hitchens does try to chide those who cannot put their opposition to the mosque in clear words – using the straw man example of someone likeneing the mosque to a japanese cultural center in Pearl Harbor: