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Russia successfully test-fired a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday as part of checks needed to extend its service life for up to 22 years, Russian media reported.

 

The Topol was fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, nestled among the forests of northern Russia, and successfully hit the test site on Russia’s Pacific peninsula of Kamchatka, 6,000 km (3,700 miles) to the east.

 

Russia plans on spending as much, if not more, money on defense, with or without an economic crisis. The Topol group of missiles has been around since 1985 and is said to be designed to pierce anti-missile defense systems such as the shield being proposed in Poland.

 

Russia’s missile arsenal, based on their current defense spending, will be 80% new by 2016.

 

We have anti-missile systems, based in Alaska, and other places in the United States,(that Obama is now in the process of cutting funding for or in some circumstances just keeping funding flat). These anti-missile systems and counter measures are designed to at best to intercept (there are 3 stages of missile interception) a small handful of missiles that North Korea or Iran might one day possess and choose to launch, or Russia and China who may and probably do, already have these types of weapons.

 

It’s no wonder why I felt that Sarah Palin, even as a VP, could have out done Obama on foreign policy and national defense. She is the commander in chief of the only National Guard that is on duty 24/7 and contains our best anti-missile systems. With recent news of the North Korean rocket launch Sarah Palin has been incredibly outspoken on the issue of missile defense spending and has written letters to Obama which we have also posted here. Read article.

Tim Wood, War On You.com

 

I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

 

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two years. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

 

We are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, religion and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary. Read article.

Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Townhall.com

 

Barack Obama is ignoring the words of the Democratic Party's founder, Thomas Jefferson, who warned, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

 

The mob is in the form of nightly polls taken by President Barack Obama's political advisers. According Ben Smith of Politico.com, "The pace of polling is picking up."

 

Jefferson and his fellow Founding Fathers believed the government should never steal from the unpopular few and redistribute to the masses.

 

Obama's team sees America as a nation where might makes right; the will of the people as expressed through our visionary leader Obama is all that matters. An America without the restraint of power is dangerous. His arrogance towards the Constitution and our founders is astounding. But, it doesn't matter to him because he received more votes.

 

Obama is using the mob-incitement tactics of his mentor, Chicago organizer Saul Alinsky. His expansion of presidential powers should be very troubling to all Americans. Read article.

J.C. Arenas, American Thinker.com

 

The Obama Administration has led a faux populist charge against Wall Street, and their newest proposed method to allow them to con you out of more of your money confirms it.

 

Treasury Secretary Geithner has clearly run out of ideas.

 

He can not get the big money to play along unless he creates avoidance from strict impositions from Congress for banking institutions participating in government programs and guarantees that their investments in these toxic assets are risk free.

 

How are "ordinary Americans" going to make money from bailouts that have not worked?

 

Once again we have stubborn liberals who refuse to admit that their strategy is wrong and will not work, and instead not only give credence to their agenda with this scheme, but do so under the guise of "fairness".

 

The Treasury Department continues to conceal details about TARP and TALF, and they have decided to withhold the results of the bank stress tests, which were recently called a "Potemkin model" by University of Missouri-Kansas City Economics and Law Professor William K. Black.

 

Bernie Madoff's crime does not compare to the felony being perpetrated by the Federal Reserve, U.S. government, and large financial institutions.

 

Even if this proposal were legit, how can anyone make an informed decision when all the information is being kept away from them?

 

The less you know, the better -- for them. Read article.

Walter E. Williams, Patriot Post.us

 

Congressional deception about government finances means today's children will face a financial disaster that will make today's mess seem like a walk in the park. What's called the public debt stands at $11 trillion and growing. That pales in comparison to the federal government's unfunded liability -- obligations that are not covered by an asset of equal or greater value.

 

Mike Whalen, former policy chairman of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, commenting on last year's Social Security Trustees annual report on the state of the Social Security and Medicare programs, said, "The report on the state of entitlement programs is rather grim -- the combined unfunded liabilities of both programs are $101 trillion." What that means is that in order for government to make good on its promises, Congress would have to put aside tens of trillions of dollars in the bank today. Keep in mind that our GDP is only $14 trillion.

 

In the absence of massive tax increases or cuts in benefits, in order to meet its promises Congress must cease spending on one in four programs by 2020, such as education and highway construction, and one in two by 2030, and by 2050 or so all federal revenue will be spent supporting Social Security, Medicare and prescription drug benefits. Such a scenario is unsustainable. There will be economic and political chaos. Read article.

 

Alan Aronoff, American Thinker.com

 

As a voting block, the wealthiest 1% is not significant. Many of the wealthiest 1% of Americans are not opposed to bigger government because their wealth was inherited (e.g. Ted Kennedy), or they can afford to pay the taxes -- or at least afford to pay for tax avoidance with no detriment to their standard of living. In 2006, 41% of Americans paid no income taxes according to the Tax Foundation.

 

These include low income tax filers, many of whom benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit, which provides a "refundable tax credit" (a check from the Treasury, not a write-off) for dependents of low-income wage earners. 41% of Americans is a significant segment of the American voting public.

 

According to the AFL-CIO website, 26% of American voters are union members and the AFL-CIO was strongly supporting Barack Obama for president. Unions that will especially benefit from Obama's spending plans include 1.4 million members of AFSCME, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, over 1 million members of the United Auto Workers, and the 1.4 million members of the American Federation of Teachers.

 

These beneficiaries will vote for increasing government since they benefit directly. By creating more beneficiaries of big government, Obama can create a sustainable majority voting block who will vote to raise other people's taxes. Read article.

 

Marilyn M. Barnewall, NewsWithViews.com

 

Why is the economy not growing? Why are none of the "jump-starts" being injected into the economy by Fed Head Helicopter Ben Bernanke and Treasury Tim (Forgot to Pay My Taxes) Geithner not working? Why will hundreds of billions of dollars President Obama got approved to stimulate the economy not work? Why didn't the first $800 billion work - or the checks that were sent out to all Americans so they could spend the money and stimulate the economy?

 

What is the problem?

 

The problem is, the American people have begun doing the right thing - saving - while the government continues doing precisely the thing that got us into the economic mess in the first place: Overspending.

 

Have you ever tried to put a roof on a house without first building four walls on which the roof can be placed? The actions being taken by the government to "stimulate" the economy is a little like that. They're trying to put a roof on a house with no walls and the roof keeps falling to the ground. Puzzled statesmen like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Neighborhood Organizer Barack Obama stand around with puzzled looks on their faces wondering why the roof cannot be made to stay up just because there are no walls.

 

To understand why the economy is not improving gives people a frightening insight into the way the minds of politicians think. Many have law degrees, but few, if any, understand the business of banking. We have economists who understand econometric models, which, because they were filled with misassumptions, keep spitting out wrong answers. Without accurate computer models to guide them, without correct assumptions, economists are at a loss.

 

What can we tell about how politicians think from what they have done to fight the abominable unemployment statistics and all of the other data that tells a very clear story?

 

We can tell that they think things are going to go back to the way they were. We should take up a collection and send each of them a copy of the song "Memories." because no matter what they think, things will not go back to the way they were. I hate to tell that to a man Warren Buffet's age - I'm not far behind him - but it's true. Read article.

 

Radarsite, StopTheACLU.com

 

Well, I’m back again, just in time to hear Obama’s groveling apologies to our cowardly EU “allies”. As I have previously written, incredulously, America has bought into the preposterous lie that America is the cause of the world’s problems, and only by changing what it means to be an American can we fix things. I should say, half of America has bought into this blatant untruth. The other half is seething with righteous anger and looking for ways to fight back, to fight this great battle for our wondrous meritocracy.

 

Here's my two cents. I wrote this a while ago in reply to a condescending comment from an anti-Yank Brit. However, I think it will serve equally as well as a corrective to OB’s ill begotten Chamberlainesque foreign policy overtures.

 

“The average American citizen doesn’t care about the world’s problems, they only care about what brand of shoes they wear…sad but true!” – [Recent comment from a British website.]

 

Really?

 

I, for one, have grown sick and tired of these false and deceptive Old World arguments eagerly put forth against our great country, sick of the dishonest and transparent ruse of comparing the lowest forms of our American culture to the highest forms of some other culture in order to make the point that America is degrading the native cultures of the world. Too many pictures of those tacky MacDonald’s Golden Arches in Cairo or those blaring Coke signs in Rome. We didn’t exactly force this on you, you know? We didn’t twist your delicate arms until you cried Uncle. If you didn’t want this materialistic glitter, it wouldn’t be there. Simple as that. Read Radar's full commentary here.

 

Warner Todd Huston, Stop the ACLU.com

 

As President Obama engaged in his “America Stinks” tour of Europe this week he told audiences in Turkey that the U.S. is not a Christian nation. “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation,” he said on April 6. This echoes his statement in 2007 when Obama told CBN, “whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation.”

 

The subtle difference between those two statements just over a year apart is interesting. Candidate Obama seemed to admit that we might have “once” been a Christian nation but are no longer “just” a Christian nation. But, suddenly as president, he seems to be saying squarely that we “don’t” consider ourselves Christian. Interesting that he seemed to feel obligated to mitigate as a candidate his now openly admitted belief that we just aren’t a Christian nation.

 

In any case, it is obvious that this is Obama’s way of ingratiating himself with Muslim audiences. But whatever his immediate goal, his sentiment is a popular one with Americans that sport left-wing, anti-religious ideology, people who look to Obama as their leader. Read article.

 

Don Feder, GrassTopsUSA.com

 

The we-do-not-consider-ourselves-a-Christian-nation line in Obama’s speech to the Turkish parliament reminds me of an old joke: The Lone Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by hostile Indians. The masked man turns to his faithful companion and asks: “What are we going to do now, Tonto?” His sidekick replies: “What you mean we, pale face?”

 

Like others on the left, Obama has an unfortunate habit of projecting his delusions onto the American people.

 

In overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey, Barack Hussein Obama, as he was introduced (now that the election’s over, it’s okay to use his middle name), declared the concept of “Christian America” a myth.

 

Obama: “Although, as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation.”

 

Really? But didn’t the Mayflower Compact proclaim the Pilgrims were establishing their colony for “the advancement of the Muslim faith.” And what about “In Allah We Trust” on our coinage and currency, not to mention what’s been called our second national anthem, “Allah Bless America”? Read article.

 

Alan Abramowitz, RasmussenReports.com

 

The election of America's first black president has been widely hailed as an historic event. However, much less attention has been paid to the demographic trends which made that event possible and which will continue to affect elections and politics in the United States far into the future.

 

Without question, the most important change in the composition of the American electorate over the past several decades has been a steady increase in the proportion of nonwhite voters. This trend has been evident for at least 50 years but it has accelerated in the last quarter century. It is a result of increased immigration from Asia, Africa and Latin America, higher birth rates among minority groups, and increased registration and turnout among African-Americans, Hispanics, and other nonwhite citizens. This shift is almost certain to continue for the foreseeable future based on generational differences in the racial and ethnic composition of the current electorate and Census Bureau projections of the racial and ethnic makeup of the American population between now and 2050. 

 

This shift is almost certain to continue for the foreseeable future based on generational differences in the racial and ethnic composition of the current electorate and Census Bureau projections of the racial and ethnic makeup of the American population between now and 2050. Read article.

 

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