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Radical in the White House ~ National Review Online
Stanley Kurtz hit an Organizing for America nerve during Barack Obama’s campaign for president. Stanley, a Harvard-educated social anthropologist, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and has written for National Review and National Review Online for over a decade. When he started not only asking questions but digging into Barack Obama’s academic and activist past, the campaign tried to shut him down — literally, organizing a phone slamdown on Chicago radio. Well, this still is America.

The Morning After ~ Cal Thomas ~ Townhall.com
The great “what-if” looks like it is about to happen. With all of the media attention focused on Tuesday’s midterm election, Republicans are faced with a greater task than winning a majority in the House of Representatives or getting at least close enough to a majority that they will be able to halt or slow the Obama agenda.

A Clear and Present Threat ~ Townhall.com
A new Gallup poll shows that forty-six percent of Americans believe the federal government “poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.”

Faith Without Reason ~ American Spectator
Robert R. Reilly has written a book that may offer the key to both understanding and perhaps defeating the ongoing war of terror against the West. The book is entitled The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis. As Angelo Codevilla’s jacket blurb puts it: “Reilly shows what happens to a civilization when it fails to give reason its due. This book teaches and warns. Read it.” Paul Eidelberg describes it as “a book surpassing in depth even the best efforts of Bernard Lewis. You will not only be enlightened, but you may also see how the West might prevent a new Dark Ages.”

Another Debate Audience Recites Pledge When Another Moderator Says ‘No ~ Big Government.com
For the second time in less than a week a congressional debate began with a request for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, and for the second time in a week the League of Woman’s Voters moderator said no, and for the second time in a week the audience got up and said it anyway. One would think that with all of the bad publicity after last week’s incident, the League would have “gotten it.” But Tuesday night the League of Woman Voters proved that they aren’t too “quick on the uptake.”

Electromagnetic pulse impact far and wide ~ USA Today
There is talk of catastrophe ahead, depending on whom you believe, because of the threat of an electromagnetic pulse triggered by either a supersized solar storm or terrorist A-bomb, both capable of disabling the electric grid that powers modern life.

An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh And His Listeners ~ Hillbuzz.org
Dear Rush, It’s my great hope that some of your listeners find a way to get this letter to you, or that it makes it to “Snerdley” and finds its way into your hands. I don’t think even you understand just how much damage Obama has done to the Democrat Party — to the point where formerly lifelong Democrats like myself, and everyone here at HillBuzz.org, are actively working to expose the party and literally burn it to the ground for the good of the country.

65% Favor Getting Rid of Entire Congress and Starting Over ~ Rasmussen
Let’s face it: Most Americans don’t have much use for either of the major political parties and think it would be better to dump the entire Congress on Election Day. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again.

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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Key Architect of FCC Govt Takeover of the News ~ Townhall.com
Last week, National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller took a break from her crusade for a government takeover of the media to swat a fly. With now-former NPR analyst Juan Williams suitably splattered across the evening news after politically incorrect comments he made on Fox News, Schiller can return to her real passion – the creation of a national network to ensure that in the future, you get your news from the government in general and NPR in particular.

Vivian Schiller and the Party Line at NPR ~ American Thinker
The Juan Williams/NPR flap isn’t going away — and shouldn’t. Basically, Williams was fired for not toeing the party line at NPR. A number of observers, including Williams himself, are protesting the hypocrisy of NPR not dismissing the likes of Nina Totenberg for wishing AIDS upon the family of the late Jesse Helms. Of course, that’s no surprise. Totenberg’s hate speech doesn’t qualify as hate speech in the liberal lexicon. Totenberg toes the party line at NPR. She’s a good apparatchik, safe among the party hierarchy.

The Curse of the Welfare State ~ American Thinker
It is Europe’s autumn of discontent. All across the continent, people are taking to the streets to protest the austerity measures of their governments. The governments have to cut for a simple reason: They are broke. They no longer have the money to sponsor the kind of padded lifestyles to which their citizens have grown accustomed. This in turn makes the citizens angry — so much so that they are willing to turn their countries upside-down in order to obtain benefits their governments simply cannot provide.

The Left’s War on the Economy ~ Canada Free Press
Obama may be losing the War on Terror, but his War on the Economy is headed full speed ahead. The joblessness, the unemployment rolls and an economic in which the only people still making money are in the government, in public sector unions or on Wall Street is no accident. It was the intended result all along. What Obama and the Democrats miscalculated is the mobilization of populist opposition and the speed with which the public turned to the Republicans for solutions, instead of treating Obama as the Great Savior for extending their unemployment benefits.

WikiLeaks’ Selective Morality ~ National Review Online Victor Davis Hanson
Despite its claims of uncovering bad behavior by governments around the world, WikiLeaks chiefly targets the U.S. military.
There has never been anything quite like WikiLeaks in American military history. We are engaged in a great experiment to see whether the U.S. military can still persist in a conflict when it knows that any and all of its private communications can become public — and will be selectively aired and hyped by people with a preconceived bias against it.

Must-See Weather Underground Documentary (VIDEO)
The entire 2002 documentary entitled “The Weather Underground” is now available to watch for free on YouTube. In the below excellently produced documentary, former members of the Weather Underground reflect candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to “bring the war home”. In it they paint a compelling portrait of troubled and revolutionary times, with unexpected and often striking connections to the current world situation. ~ New Zeal

“Marxism in America” by Lt. Gen. (Ret.) W.G. Boykin ~ New Zeal (VIDEO)
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) W.G. Boykin gives an excellent, point-by-point discussion of his background and training in understanding Marxist insurgencies and how this parallels current government actions.

The Urban Origins of Liberty ~ The Freeman
In The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek tells us that intellectuals and governments in the twentieth century tragically abandoned the road to liberty in pursuit of collectivist utopias. That road stretched at least as far back as the democratic polis of ancient Greece, but it was not always straight and unbroken. Once, it was completely lost, only to be rediscovered centuries later.

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Progressive Feudalism ~ By Thomas Lifson (American Thinker)
The changes wrought on the American political economy by progressives have taken us in the unmistakable direction of feudalism. The morphological resemblance between the progressive version of America and the historic feudal regimes of Western Europe and Japan is obvious if one takes a few moments to consider the changes in the proper context.

The Forgotten Evil behind the Iron Curtain ~ American Thinker
An entire American generation has come of age since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. The new threat is Islamic radicalism, and only North Korea, a nation that has developed a nuclear weapons program and missile delivery systems, which it sells to other rogue regimes, gets much attention as a holdover of the “second world” — the Communist nations that were for 45 years our enemy in the Cold War

“No Che Day” ~ Canada Free Press
Last year The U.K. Guardian interviewed Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro regarding his Cannes-winning his role as Che Guevara in Stephen Soderbergh’s movie “Che.” “Dammit This Guy Is Cool!” was the interview title. “I hear of this guy, and he’s got a cool name, Che Guevara!” says del Toro. “Groovy name, groovy man, groovy politics! So I came across a picture of Che, smiling, in fatigues, I thought, ‘Dammit, this guy is cool-looking!’”

The Obama Rope-a-Dope ~ Victor Davis Hanson
After 2010, will he be Carter or Clinton?
That is the ongoing parlor game now played among pundits over how President Obama will react to a probable shellacking of the Democrats in the midterm elections next month.

The British Try to Climb Out of the Ditch ~ Mona Charen
When a society has become as socialized as Great Britain, it becomes difficult to say where the public sector leaves off and the private sector begins. Take the arts. We squabble about public funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. And certainly there is a good libertarian case to be made that these are not the proper province of government at all, and certainly not of the federal government. But in any case, government subventions amount to only about 10 percent of total arts funding in the U.S.

Glenn Beck Reveals He’ll Undergo Medical Tests for Combination of Conditions ~ The Blaze

No More Greensboros ~ New Zeal
Why is it important that a former Maoist militant, Roz Pelles, was a leading organizer of last Saturday’s communist infiltrated anti Tea Party One Nation Rally in Washington DC?

The House That Uncle Sam Built ~ The Freeman
The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for decades, namely, that the more they try to inflate and direct the economy, the more damage the rest of us will suffer sooner or later. Hindsight is always 20-20, but in this instance, good old-fashioned common sense would have provided all the foresight needed to avoid the mess we’re in.

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