Have you heard that the latest Pew Research Poll found that young Jihad terrorists hate the President of the United States?

New greenhouse-gas regulations will impinge upon personal freedom and distort the economy.

No bad idea is ever completely defeated in this country, perhaps in other nations as well. I have seen bad ideas surface again and again in this country. When the right is defeated the right tends to stay defeated. I recall advocating a national right-to-work law when I worked in the Senate in the late 1970s. The member of the leadership to whom I pitched the idea exclaimed, “Oh, no. We can’t do that. It was defeated in 1958.” I merely was suggesting that we try to get a vote on the issue. I knew we couldn’t win at that time. I went on and said “So? There is hardly anyone here who was in the Senate then.” I didn’t work for this Senator so I felt that I could not go further but the point remains valid. No doubt if I tried to push the idea among conservatives in the Senate to this day someone would object because his father told him that the idea had been defeated in 1958 and therefore it could not be done.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell We are witnessing how nation states are increasing using nationalization as a tool for world control of energy production, energy transportation, basic products and financial assets for control. It appears that the actions of Russia and China combined with pawns the Islamist states and the Leftist governments in Latin America are coordinated in their actions. Initially the nationalizations were occurring within the countries, and recently these actions have extended into the EU and the U.S.

The public is seeing through media misinformation about “immigration reform” and opposing the Senate illegal alien amnesty bill.

Analyst Dennis Gartman says the United States is becoming increasingly reliant on Canada, not Saudi Arabia, for oil.

According to Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission, since 2000, 45 journalists have been murdered in Mexico. Of course, just as have some 5,600 other Mexicans have been killed in 2008 alone, these reporters have fallen victim to that country’s drug cartels.

But I told you so. - Writing as a former registered Democrat now Independent who saw problems with both mainstream political parties’ real and perceived positions, I penned several articles prior to the election warning Republicans of the mess they’d find themselves in if they persisted in catering primarily to their ultra-conservative base.

Electricity is so commonplace that no one gives any thought to not having access to it. Few give any consideration to how it is generated, but we are now being inundated with the most virulent nonsense about how wind or solar power is “clean” and practically “free.” Every week there’s some new proposal to cover the nation with wind farms and solar panels.

In May 2006 Bush promised a ‘virtual fence’ that was sure to be “the most technologically advanced border security initiative in American history.”

Events are moving fast in Europe. The worst riots since the fall of Communism have swept the Baltics and the south Balkans. An incipient crisis is taking shape in the Club Med bond markets. S&P has cut Greek debt to near junk. Spanish, Portuguese, and Irish bonds are on negative watch.

The dream of most immigrants is to strike it rich and then move back home. But, striking it rich is relative, given that in many of the countries these people come from the monthly salary can be around 200 dollars.

Among other things, the Citizenship class recommends girls lose their virginity before marriage, say critics.

A few weeks ago when an Israeli army officer who had strayed into the town of Jenin was almost lynched by a Palestinian mob, it did nothing to dampen the popularity of the Palestinian cause.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece—The fires consuming southern Greece raced toward the site of the ancient Olympics on Sunday, engulfing entire villages and forests as it reached the hillside next to one of the most revered sites of antiquity.

SEOUL, South Korea—South Korea said its army remained on alert Sunday, a day after North Korea threatened military action in response to Seoul’s hard-line stance against its communist regime.

There were almost no media reports on it, but China’s 17th Communist Party Congress (CPC) adopted a new amended Constitution(1) on October 21, 2007. Should you care about this? Perhaps. It was at the 11th Congress of China’s Communist Party Congress, held in 1979, that China adopted, in effect, free enterprise. That is why so much of what you buy today comes from China. Since that Congress the economy of China has grown by leaps and bounds. 

The Peoples’ Republic of China, which started frightening consumers last March with poisoned pet food, is still at it this Halloween. 

The economy will grow at its slowest rate in seven years over the coming months according to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.

China is missing some uranium and they have no idea where it has gone.

Pope Benedict has given Jews and Catholics throughout the world every reason to believe that if you can’t trust the Pope to keep an agreement then who can you trust?

"Mr Churchill, if you were my husband I’d poison your tea”.  “And if you were my wife I would drink it” Winston Churchill - Jordan’s King Abdullah has offered American President Obama the proverbial cup of poisoned tea in His Majesty’s address to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on 24 April.

"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954 - US special envoy George Mitchell has turned American foreign policy on its head following his latest visit to the Middle East.

Jordan’s King Abdullah - in talks with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on 8 April - highlighted the importance of the role of Europe and the world community “in pushing forward the peace talks between the Palestinian and Israeli sides towards the establishment of a just peace based on relevant UN resolutions and the Arab peace initiative.” according to a royal court statement [RTT News 9 April 2009]

Nauseating...but I’ll get to that later.