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The Odyssey of Islamism in America ~ American Thinker
Islamism is a mutation of Islam and is rapidly advancing on two fronts. In every Islamic country, it is cowing the non-radicals while recruiting more and more radicals into its ranks. In non-Muslim lands, flush with petrodollars, Islamism is establishing itself as a formidable force by enlisting the disaffected and attracting the delusional liberals with its promises. For the faithful, there is the added incentive of Allah’s heaven and its irresistible attractions.

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid ~ Andrew C. McCarthy
With debt exploding, joblessness climbing, growth stagnating, and sharp tax increases looming, the economy has dominated the midterm campaign that finally ends on Tuesday. National-security concerns have flown under the radar.

All Quiet on the Black-Ops Front ~ Jonah Goldberg
I’d like to ask a simple question: Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?
In case you didn’t know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive — and massively successful — effort to disclose secret or classified information. In a series of recent dumps, he unveiled thousands upon thousands of classified documents from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military and other government officials insist that WikiLeaks is doing serious damage to American national security and is going to get people killed, including brave Iraqis and Afghans who’ve risked their lives and the lives of their families to help us.

Frances Fox Piven: Obama Has Done Good things “Under the Radar” ~ New Zeal
“The Obama Administration has done some good things compared to the administrations that we’ve had for a very long time.”

A divisive Obama undercuts the presidency ~ Washington Post
President Obama’s post-partisan America has disappeared, replaced by the politics of polarization, resentment and division. In a Univision interview on Monday, the president, who campaigned in 2008 by referring not to a “Red America” or a “Blue America” but a United States of America, urged Hispanic listeners to vote in this spirit: “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.” Recently, Obama suggested that if Republicans gain control of the House and/or Senate as forecast, he expects not reconciliation and unity but “hand-to-hand combat”

Cargo plane bomb plot: Key developments ~ Telegraph (UK)
Two explosive packages on cargo planes from Yemen were addressed to Jewish synagogues in Chicago in a “credible terrorist threat” against the US, Barack Obama said. Here is a timeline of key developments.

Comrade Hitler: Man of the Left ~ Jonah Goldberg
Norman Stone reviews Thomas Weber’s Hitler’s First War. It sounds like an amazing piece of scholarship. How is it possible that there’s any new archival material to discover about Hitler? I’ve already ordered the book from Amazon. But this tidbit bears highlighting now: Mr. Weber has discovered that, briefly at the turn of 1918-19, and unmentioned in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler wore a red brassard and supported the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.

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GOP Election Day advantage aided by surge in independents who lean Republican

Barack Obama’s dumb ‘Daily Show’ Jon Stewart appearance and the President’s diminishing brand ~ NY Daily News
President Obama should make the most of his “Daily Show” appearance on Wednesday night – charming the pants off Jon Stewart and the crowd, as he did when he showed up there two years ago. It’s a terrific show, Stewart is a great interviewer and Obama makes good television.

As Russian troops prepare to return to Afghanistan in landmark agreement, Gorbachev warns Nato victory is impossible ~ Daily Mail (UK)
Moscow has agreed to help train the Afghan army and anti-narcotics troops – at the request of the same Western countries who helped remove Russia from the country in the late 1980s.
But Mikhail Gorbachev today warned Nato that victory in Afghanistan is ‘impossible’.
The former leader of the Soviet Union, who pulled Russian troops out of Afghanistan in 1989, said President Barack Obama is right to start withdrawing U.S. forces from the country next year.

Feds arrest N.Va. man in D.C. Metro bomb plot ~ Washington Post
Federal law enforcement authorities have arrested a Northern Virginia man in connection with an alleged plot to carry out a series of terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system, according to a federal indictment.

Fed Gears Up for Stimulus ~ Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve is close to embarking on another round of monetary stimulus next week, against the backdrop of a weak economy and low inflation—and despite doubts about the wisdom and efficacy of the policy among economists and some of the Fed’s own decision makers.

US trade commission ends Google probe ~ Financial Times
The top US consumer protection agency has dropped an inquiry into data collection breaches by Google, even as regulators in Europe and Canada have stepped up their scrutiny of the internet giant’s privacy policies.

Midterm Blowout: 50+ Dem House Seats Set to Flip to GOP ~ Big Government.com
Republicans are headed for a blowout election win that seems certain to seize more than enough seats to knock out the Democrats and take control of the House.

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60 Minutes Shock Report: National Unemployed and Underemployed 17.5%; California 22% ~ BigGovernment.com
In a report sure to cause consternation at the White House and in the offices of the Democratic Leadership in Congress, “60 Minutes” provided an in-depth report on the realities of the unemployment situation in America today. (Snip for video) When you take into account the underemployed as well as the unemployed, the national rate hits 17% and California a staggering 22%. To put a face on the realities of the underemployed in America under Obamanomincs, reporter Scott Pelley spoke with a fiber-optics engineering manager who has been looking for work for over a year.

Why the US has turned against Obama ~ Michael Barone, Telegraph (UK)
Why have American voters gone so sour on Barack Obama’s Democratic party? It’s a question that must puzzle many in Britain who – Conservative as well as Labour and Lib Dem – welcomed Obama’s election two years ago and saw him leading America and the world into broad, sunlit uplands. But now it appears that Obama’s party is about to take what George W Bush called a “thumping” in the mid-term elections on November 2. It looks to be quite a fall. Obama won the popular vote in 2008 by a 53 to 46 per cent margin.

Iranian Hegemony, American Timidity ~ Canada Free Press
Remember George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil”? Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Bush identified these three during a January 29, 2002 State of the Union speech. On March 20, 2003, the U.S. and coalition forces invaded Iraq in “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” We were assured that weapons of mass destruction would be found and, for the most part, few were.

Adrift in Arabia ~ Middle East Forum
Transforming America’s relations with the Islamic world has been perhaps the foremost foreign policy issue through which President Obama has sought to set himself apart from his immediate predecessor. Having long downplayed his Muslim roots—going so far as to disguise not only his middle name, Hussein, but also to substitute Barack with the less conspicuous Barry early on in his career[1]—Obama has embraced them since taking office. As he explained in his much-ballyhooed June 2009 address to the Muslim World in Cairo:

Home sales data: lipstick on a pig ~ MSNBC
The upturn – which still leaves home sales at levels 19 percent lower than a year ago – represents a snapback after a steep plunge this summer. After the government’s temporary tax credit for first time home buyers expired in June, existing home sales fell to the lowest level in 16 years.

Debt Has Increased $5 Trillion Since Speaker Pelosi Vowed, ‘No New Deficit Spending’ ~ CNSNews
When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be “no new deficit spending.” Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

Obama panel mulls end to mortgage interest, child tax deductions ~ Wall Street Journal
Sacrosanct tax breaks, including deductions on mortgage interest, remain on the table just weeks before the deficit commission issues recommendations on policies to pare back with the aim of balancing the budget by 2015.

Dollar at Risk of Becoming ‘Toxic Waste’: Charts ~ CNBC
“If the (dollar index) takes out the low that was made roughly a year ago I really think that will not only encourage more sales, it will cause a little bit of minor panic,” Griffiths said. “A year ago it was deemed too cheap, if it goes any lower than that it’s actually become toxic waste.”

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Food Storage 101: Where Do I Begin? ~ Personal Liberty Digest
In my last article, Prepare Your Own Personal Home Grocery Store And Pharmacy, I introduced you to the need to store food.
Now we’re going to begin with step one in the six-step process to help you make sure you have an adequate supply of food should a crisis occur.

IMF fears ‘social explosion’ from world jobs crisis ~ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk “an explosion of social unrest” unless they are careful, the IMF has warned.

The Architect Has No Clothes ~ American Thinker
Frightening as the image might be to ponder, “the architect” Karl Rove was stripped bare for all to see on Fox News’ Hannity show Tuesday night.

The Shariah Threat to America ~ American Thinker
September 11 didn’t launch this existential threat of jihad, but it certainly exposed the underbelly of American vulnerability like no other previous attack (including the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 and the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon a decade before that).

What D’Souza Doesn’t Get Quite Right ~ American Thinker
Yes, Obama does seem to espouse a certain inchoate anticolonialism, but the “dreams” do not come so much from his father as from his mother, and they have been given voice by Obama’s muse, terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers.

Adult Swim: A Republic Is for Grown-ups ~ BigGovernment.com
“The middle class is still treading water, while those aspiring to reach the middle class are doing everything they can to keep from drowning.”
—President Barack Obama, 8 September 2010

Imagining Islam ~ Andrew McCarthy (from 9/11/10)
If only the fantasy were true: If only there actually were a dominant, pro-American, echt moderate Islam, an ideology so dedicated to human rights, so sternly set against savagery, that acts of terrorism were, by definition, “un-Islamic activity.” Imagine an Islam that, far from a liability, proved an asset (indeed, an indispensable asset) in combating the threat against us. Imagine that we could accurately call the threat mere “extremism” — no “Islamic” (or even “Islamist”) modifier being necessary because the “extremists” truly were a tiny, aberrant band, fraudulently “hijacking” a great religion.

Karl Rove: Architect of His Own Political Demise ~ Canada Free Press
Last night I watched Karl Rove drive the final nails into his political coffin, as he double-downed his attacks against Christine O’Donnell, on Greta Van Susteren’s show “On The Record.” It may be awhile before the “funeral” takes place, but the coffin is finished, no doubt.

Cry Islamophobia! ~ Clifford May
We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New Yorker — announces: “Culture wars are currently being waged against Muslim Americans across the country.” Are they really? The crowds in Kandahar and Karachi will be most interested to hear that.

“The Greatest Threat to America is Not Obama” – Dennis Prager ~ New Zeal (video)
Dennis Prager delivers a powerful explanation of what it is that is wrong with America. “Obama,” he says “is not the greatest threat to America.” Then what is?…

O’Donnell Is Not The Tea Party ~ The Strata-Sphere
But let’s be honest here – the Tea Party is not going to be 100% right, 100% of the time. It is a grass roots effort, and occasionally results will be produced that are just not all that impressive.