Tax cuts v. Spending.

During the Bush years, despite the 2000 Recession, the attacks on 9-11, the stock market scandals, Hurricane Katrina, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush Administration was able to reduce the budget deficit from 412 billion dollars in 2004 to 162 billion dollars in 2007, a sixty percent drop.

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2009/11/12/cair-speaker-to-muslims-its-ok-to-attack-fort-bragg/

With ratings lower than BETBlack Entertainment Television), CNN STILL tries to LOSE MORE VIEWERS!

Unbelievable! NOT!! http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2009/11/13/teabagger-anderson-cooper-had-the-nerve-to-use-one-of-his-lackeys-to-call-fort-hood-muslim-jihadist-a-conservative/

Teabagger Anderson Cooper had the nerve to use one of his lackeys to call Fort Hood Muslim Jihadist a CONSERVATIVE

This is what the media’s attempt to “save face” if you will. They continue to call Nidal Malik Hassan the “alleged” “gunman” or “shooter”, but refuse to call the scum what he is. A muslim radical Jihadist. I don’t watch CNN (hardly anyone does, even more so that Dobbs quit), so yet again, I have to rely on the internet for what happened. Teabagger show Anderson Cooper “correspondent” Drew Griffin, a typical CNN lackey is now calling Hasan a conservative!  Rush Limbaugh from his radio show today explains

RUSH: The media is twisting itself into pretzels — pretzels! — doing everything they can to deny the obvious reality of Fort Hood. Last night, CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, Special Investigations Correspondent Drew Griffin reported this about the Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan.

GRIFFIN: Hasan made NO attempt to hide his religion or his conservative Muslim ideology, which is exactly why some experts are convinced Nidal Hasan is NOT a terrorist.

RUSH: Outrageous on two counts! There is nothing “conservative” about Islamofascism. These people in the media continue to refer to anything they think is evil as “conservative.” Secondly, I know and I have read a lot of terrorists who are pretty open about what they intend to do. They’re out there. I mean, Zawahiri, Bin Laden, any number of them are doing everything they can to let it be known what they believe and what they intend to do and what it is that motivated them. What does this guy mean? He “made no attempt to hide his religion or conservative Muslim ideology, and that’s why some experts…” Who are these experts? Name the names! We need to know who these people are so we don’t listen to them anymore. Now, do you remember it wasn’t long ago that the State-Controlled Media very, very, very concerned, ladies and gentlemen, (gasp!) very concerned that the forces of talk radio and the right-wing news bloggers were ginning up potential violence against President Obama and others in society — and, oh, what had happened to our civility. Well, Anderson Cooper 360 broadcasts an American Muslim threat against President Obama. Revolution Muslim Brother Yousef Al-Khattab said this about Osama Bin Laden and President Obama, and they broadcast it on CNN last night.

Yes, the teabagger himself, Anderson Cooper is now using CNN lackey Drew Griffin to a muslim jihadist terrorist a “conservative”.

History repeats itself: Obama doesn’t get that National Anthem & Pledge of Allegiance thing

Obama doesn’t get that National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance thing

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Obama-no-salute

Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the National Anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t get it.

Maybe things would have been different if they’d been reciting the Kenyan Pledge of Allegiance.

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/obama-doesnt-get-that-pledge-of-allegiance-thing

How low will the new American president go for the world's royalty?

LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.danielpipes.org/7737/sudden-jihad-inordinate-stress-ft-hood

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ft. Hood jihadi, in a picture from 2000.

When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives.

The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting that some kind of oppression caused Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, to kill 13 and wound 38 at Ft. Hood on Nov. 5. It disagrees on the specifics, however, presenting Hasan as the victim alternatively of "racism," "harassment he had received as a Muslim," a sense of not belonging," "pre-traumatic stress disorder," "mental problems," "emotional problems," "an inordinate amount of stress," or being deployed to Afghanistan as his "worst nightmare." Accordingly, a typical newspaper headline reads "Mindset of Rogue Major a Mystery.".

Instances of Muslim-on-unbeliever violence inspire the victim school to dig up new and imaginative excuses. Colorful examples (drawing on my article http://www.danielpipes.org/2396/denying-islamist-terrorism and weblog entry http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/02/more-incidents-of-denying-islamist-terrorism about denying Islamist terrorism) include:

• 1990: "A prescription drug for … depression" (to explain the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/09/nyregion/police-say-kahane-suspect-took-anti-depression-drugs.html )
• 1991: "A robbery gone wrong" (the murder of Makin Morcos in Sydney)
• 1994: "Road rage" (the killing of a random Jew on the Brooklyn Bridge http://www.meforum.org/77/murder-on-the-brooklyn-bridge )
• 1997: "Many, many enemies in his mind" (the shooting murder atop the Empire State Building http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2007/02/explaining-the-murder-rampage-atop-the )
• 2000: A traffic incident (the attack on a bus of Jewish schoolchildren near Paris)
• 2002: "A work dispute" (the double murder at LAX http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Terror_in_LA$.asp )
• 2002: A "stormy [family] relationship" (the Beltway snipers http://www.danielpipes.org/493/the-snipers-crazy-or-jihadis )
• 2003: An "attitude problem" (Hasan Karim Akbar's http://www.danielpipes.org/1042/hasan-akbar-and-murder-in-the-101st-airborne attack on fellow soldiers, killing two)
• 2003: Mental illness (the mutilation murder of Sebastian Sellam http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15223 )
• 2004: "Loneliness and depression" (an explosion in Brescia, Italy http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/03/italy-mcdonalds-jihad-foiled.html outside a McDonald's restaurant)
• 2005: "A disagreement between the suspect and another staff member" (a rampage at a retirement center http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64176-2005Jan10?language=printer in Virginia)
• 2006: "An animus toward women" (a murderous rampage at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:voqer71Lt1cJ:articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/30/nation/na-shootings30+%22Some+speculated+he+might+have+sought+to+cloak+an+animus+toward+women+%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk )
• 2006: "His recent, arranged marriage may have made him stressed" (killing with an SUV in northern California http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/30/MNGVQKRSQC1.DTL )

Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar, convicted of the 2003 murder of two fellow soldiers.

As a charter member of the jihad school of interpretation, I reject these explanations as weak, obfuscatory, and apologetic. The jihadi school, still in the minority, perceives Hasan's attack as one of many Muslim efforts to vanquish infidels and impose Islamic law. We recall a prior episode of sudden jihad syndrome http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2008/01/sudden-jihad-syndrome-its-now-official in the U.S. military, as well as the numerous cases of non-lethal Pentagon jihadi http://www.danielpipes.org/1259/pentagon-jihadis plots and the history of Muslim violence on American soil http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/AmericanAttacks.htm .

Far from being mystified by Hasan, we see overwhelming evidence of his jihadi intentions. He handed out Korans to neighbors just before going on his rampage and yelled "Allahu Akbar," the jihadi's cry, as he fired off over 100 rounds from two pistols. His superiors reportedly put him on probation http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120138496 for inappropriately proselytizing about Islam.

We note what former associates say about him: one, Val Finnell http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fort-hood-hasan7-2009nov07,0,3477020,print.story, quotes Hasan saying, "I'm a Muslim first and an American second" and recalls Hasan justifying suicide terrorism http://www2.wjbf.com/jbf/ap_exchange/national_news/article/SomeSawWarningSignsAheadOfUsArmyShootingUs/37485/ ; another, Col Terry Lee http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6511591/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-said-Muslims-should-rise-up.html , recalls that Hasan "claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack Americans"; the third, a psychiatrist http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120162816 who worked very closely with Hasan, described him as "almost belligerent about being Muslim."

Finally, the jihad school of thought attributes importance to the Islamic authorities' urging American Muslim soldiers to refuse to fight their co-religionists, thereby providing a basis for sudden jihad. In 2001, for example, responding to the U.S. attack on the Taliban, the mufti of Egypt, Ali Gum'a http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sd&ID=SP58003 , issued a fatwa stating that "The Muslim soldier in the American army must refrain [from participating] in this war." Hasan himself, echoing that message, advised a young Muslim disciple, Duane Reasoner Jr. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fort-hood-hasan7-2009nov07,0,4710653.story , not to join the U.S. army because "Muslims shouldn't kill Muslims."

If the jihad explanation is overwhelmingly more persuasive than the victim one, it's also far more awkward to articulate. Everyone finds blaming road rage, Accutane, or an arranged marriage easier than discussing Islamic doctrines. And so, a prediction: what Ralph Peters http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/fort_hood_xjP9yGrJN7gl7zdsJ31vnJ calls the army's "unforgivable political correctness" will officially ascribe Hasan's assault to his victimization and will leave jihad unmentioned.

And thus will the army blind itself and not prepare for its next jihadi attack.

Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

Islam is a powerful force in America.  This is evident by the reluctance of our leaders to speak out on Islamic organizations and their funding from terrorist groups.

A powerful new book is wreaking havoc with the reputation myriad Islamic organizations in America have been carefully cultivating for years. 

Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Trying to Islamize America reveals that, far from the moderate Muslim “mainstream” they profess to represent, these entities are associated with the insidious Muslim Brotherhood - an international criminal enterprise that has the self-professed mission of “destroying Western civilization from within.”

Will America be able to turn the corner and stabilize or will Communist China rule the world?  Will America start using its creative energy to produce products that the world wants to buy?  Will America stop outsourcing production capacity and jobs to China? Will America's government and corporate leaders stop being greedy and invest time and energy into making America an economic powerhouse once again?  Good questions all.  

The rapid growth is in the East today. Albert Keidel, author of China's Economic Rise: Fact and Fiction, predicts that China's economy will surpass that in the U.S. by 2035 and be twice its size by 2050. Keidel calls attention to China's "money-making machine" because it has ready at hand the funds to build the infrastructure to sustain rapid growth.

The U.S.--loaded as it is with too much debt, a damaged banking system and high unemployment--does not have China's resources. Warns Keidel: "China's likely success will eventually bring an end to America's global economic pre-eminence."