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POPSWhat being an American means to me
Being an American means I can want what you have and find a way to earn it myself. It means knowing that tomorrow can be a better day if I chose to make it so. It means I have a voice and a vote and it matters as much as yours does. It is knowing the Constitution of the United States protects my God given rights to live free and prosper with limited government intervention. Being an American has meant believing and worshiping freely in the faith we choose or choosing not to believe at all. It has meant raising our children with the values and morality that we as parents believe are important. The freedom to think critically, to question and to challenge that which we believe wrong and unjust without fear of retaliation from the government. People have crossed vast bodies of water and walked through the hottest deserts in order to have a chance of being and living as an American. They risk death to get here. They leave behind loved ones and all they have known to come here.
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POPSDarkness reigns: Obama and the Vampire Congress Meet the Beltway bloodsuckers. They convene in the dead of night, when most ordinary mortals have left work, let their guard down, or are lying asleep in bed. Pale-faced and insatiable, the nocturnal thieves do their nefarious business in backrooms and secret chambers. Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market, and deliberative democracy. Democrat leaders have been promising the most ethical, transparent, open, and engaged administration for years. Instead, they have delivered a bleak and creepy legislative environment that could double as a Twilight movie set. House Democrat leaders forbade debate on all but one amendment not authored by themselves. Skulking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rammed the government health care takeover package through under cover of darkness before Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Senate Finance Committee killed a GOP amendment that would have required Demcare to be available online for 72 hours before the committee voted. Reid and his Volterr
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POPSWhat Does the Detroit Bomber Know? Michael Mukasey Former AG
Abdulmutallab is the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker. Other jihadists, including the physician who blew himself up and killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan last week, and indeed the millionaire Osama bin Laden, prove that poverty does not beget terrorists. "Deadly insurgencies" is a half-truth, which omits the fact that the Yemeni government itself has supported al Qaeda and continues to harbor at least two people"Jamal Ahmed Mohammed Ali al-Badawi and Fahad Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso"involved in the bombing of the USS Cole. Then, too, there was the unfortunate metaphor chosen by a senior intelligence adviser to account for why a conspiracy helped along by at least two Guantanamo alumni had not been discovered before Abdulmutallab boarded the plane. There was, he said, "no smoking gun""a clue one would expect to find after disaster strikes, not before. There were, as it happens, many smokeless but redolent clues lying about before the plane took off.
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POPSMuslims against Choudary the welfare case cleric "Could someone please tell Cranmer how on earth Job Seeker's Allowance can be paid to someone who is manifestly not seeking a job and is quite content to busy himself undermining the state at the expense of the taxpayer? Is he not being interviewed on a regular basis at his job centre to ensure his compliance with JSA requirements? Why are we subsidising his religio-political quest to impose 'wholesale' shari'a upon us all? Is he somehow incapacitated? Does he not possess a law degree? "
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POPSBringing Overpaid Executives To Heel "The remedy for the rule of power is the rule of law. We need new laws to check the unfair distribution of the fruits of our labor. One such law could set a maximum ratio at any given company between the highest executive compensation and the lowest worker's wage. Another could set a minimum ratio for the division of income between labor and shareholders. Still another could raise the minimum wage and tie it to the median wage, which would make the minimum wage a consistent living wage. Overpaid executives take more than their fair share and leave too little for the rest of us, threatening our health -- and that of society."
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POPSThe Lonely Life Of Walter "Last January, Sartory spent three days visiting Therese "Terri" Davis, 60, in Binghamton, N.Y. They had met on an Internet site for people with personality disorders. This was their first date. "He was so shy, so quiet," she recalled. "We held hands. I'm pretty sure he never held anybody else's hand before."
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POPSFather Knows Best "Yes, we need to fix our intelligence. Yes, we absolutely must live up to our own ideals, as President Obama is trying to do in banning torture and closing Guantánamo Bay. We can’t let this “war on terrorism” consume us. We can’t let our country become just The United States of Fighting Terrorism and nothing more. We are the people of July 4th — not Sept. 11th. Every faith has its violent extreme. The West is not immune. It’s all about how the center deals with it. Does it tolerate it, isolate it or shame it? The jihadists are a security problem for our system. But they are a political and moral problem for the Arab-Muslim system. If they won’t address this problem for us, I truly hope they will do it for themselves."
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POPSISN'T THIS ENCOURAGING??????? Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters now say Congress is doing a poor job. That’s the highest negative finding since Rasmussen Reports began surveying on the question in November 2006. In October 2008, only 33% said a group randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the sitting Congress, while nearly half (49%) of voters didn’t believe that to be true. Again, 19% were undecided. By September of last year, however, voters were evenly divided on the question. Forty-two percent (42%) had more confidence in the random group from the phone book, but another 42% trusted the current Congress more. Most male voters (51%) say a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress. Female voters are evenly divided on the question.
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POPSTucked AWAY- Out of sight......lurks "CLASS" Just one of NUMEROUS "SURPRISES" within the Health Care bill............ While Washington would start collecting CLASS premiums in 2011, CLASS would not pay benefits for five years. So, because it charges for 10 years but only pays out in five, CLASS appears to be a deficit-cutter in the health care bill's 10-year budget window. Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow for the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which supports CLASS, noted that the five-year waiting period will keep people from enrolling for immediate benefits. Besides, because Congress is "very sensitive" to the criticism that it used CLASS to keep the health care bill from adding to the deficit over 10 years, Van de Water told me, both houses passed bills that balance without the CLASS windfall.
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POPSWhere The Preaching Goes Too Far There is no war on evangelical Christians here and they are not being thrown to the lions. As this article states, they are childishly chafing against societal shifts. They don't want to see civil rights for us all because they believe God discriminates and it's their view of religion/politics or the highway. They will always find "token" gays to mimic their views because those poor souls think loving their oppressors will win them approval. But spreading these views to parts of the world with less freedom is downright dangerous and unconscionable.
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POPSMYJ | Cancer Survivor | Terry Healey Thanks to the arrival today of my copy of the magazine CURE, I discovered this incredible survival story that I wish to amplify and share with my subscribers and friends. Check out the stories and links below. ___ GOOGLE VIDEO | http://google.twi.bz/Hv ___ CURE TODAY VIDEO | http://curetoday.twi.bz/a ___ COVER STORY | http://curetoday.twi.bz/b ___ iWeb BLOG | MYJ MyJournal | http://me.twi.bz/y ___ ALTACITIES | http://me.twi.bz/X ___ http://altacities.com
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