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Right before the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, Mayor 'Dhimmi' Bloomberg will light up the Empire State Building in Islamic 'green'

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Mayor Bloomberg is banning all clergy and first responders from the  Tenth Anniversary Ceremony for 9/11, but you can be sure he'll invite a bunch of Muslims there to celebrate their triumph. By lighting up the Empire State Building in green for Ramadan every year , it's as if he's telling Muslims which building they [...]

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7 Things I Learned from the First Blogger
Posted by James Altucher
on August 24th, 2011

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I was first called "Charlie Brown" in 8th grade. I refused to stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance with the other kids. I didn't like being forced to do anything. Afterwards some kids came up to me.

"Hey Charlie Brown," one of them said, "you a commie?"

"No," I said, "I just don't like being forced to do something."

"He's more like a Linus," Larry Sorbino said. Having stayed back a grade or so he was having more sex than anyone else in junior high school. I was definitely jealous of him. Everyone laughed because he was the leader of the roost. "Linus, hahaha." And then for the next few months people would pass me in the hallway and sneer, "Hey Linus, haha" or, when they forgot who Linus was, "Hey Charlie Brown, haha!"

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(the first Charlie Brown strip)

Since I was about 4 years old I had been buying the Charlie Brown collected strips. Usually after a doctor's visit my mom would get me a book of the strips. I was thinking this the other day because I took my kids to Friendly's. The waitress came over and said, "what would you guys like?"

"Well," I said, "first off, about 38 years ago I left a Charlie Brown book in a Friendly's by accident and when my mom and I came back to look for it it was already gone and I'm wondering if since then anyone has reported it lost or if it's maybe in the lost and foud."

"Uhh," the waitress said, "I'll check."

"Daddy!" both my daughters said and they were embarrassed. Why'd they have to have a daddy like me? Even Claudia said, "oh no."

"But," I said, "I'm serious. I really wanted to read that book and my mom had just gotten it for me. We were coming from the doctor's office. I had a vaccine shot then. I needed Charlie Brown."

Charles Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown, wrote the strip from 1950 to 2000, just about every day. He was basically a blogger. I don't even know if he missed a single day.

It's hard to come up with ideas that are meaningful every day. But he did. Here's 7 things I learned by reading his various biographies and also by probably reading every strip he every produced.

1)      He made over a billion dollars in his lifetime.  Nowadays when we think of a billion dollars we think of a guy like Mark Zuckerberg or the Groupon guys, who seem to have made a billion dollars overnight. We get jealous (I do) and think, "I could've done that. These guys got lucky." But Charles Schulz showed that through recessions, stagflation, wars, high taxes, low taxes, whatever -  persistence and making sure you're creative every single day so each day you outshine yourself and your peers a little bit more, will get you a billion dollars. Creativity every day is the key part.

2)      He had a creative process. I may have mentioned my own process before.

-          My process:  I wake up around 5am, give or take. I drink 3 cups of coffee and by the third cup I'm at the computer writing.  I read for about an hour – only strong autobiographical voices (fiction or non-fiction) [See, My Summer Reading List], then I write a blog post. I write at least a post a day even if I don't post every day. It takes me anywhere from a half hour to eight hours to write a post. A typical post is 800 – 2000 words.

-          Charles Schulz's process: He woke up and ate a jelly donut. Then he'd try to come up with an idea, a process he said took him between a few minutes to 3 hours. Then he would draw and ink up the strip, which would take up to another three hours. He "posted" every day, 7 days a week.

I think creativity doesn't happen spontaneously. I think the key is persistent exercise of the creative muscle. Doing the same process every day so your brain and body expect it and know what to do once you are "in process". That makes the possibility of having spontaneous GREAT ideas come out during those hours much more natural and easy. [See, Nine ways to light your creativity ON FIRE]

3)      Success happens over decades. I said this in #1. But it's a specific point also. Charles Bukowski wrote for three decades before he was able to make a living at it. Charles Schulz built Charlie Brown into a powerhouse over the course of five decades. For the first two decades of Warren Buffett's investing career, nobody knew who he was. Now he's the richest man in the world. [See, 8 Unusual Things I Learned From Warren Buffett]

This is a hard thing for me to learn. I've been on and off writing for two decades, writing professionally for one, but only blogging for less than one year. And sometimes I'm really impatient for traffic, etc. But I don't even quite know what it is I want yet. I'm very confused on this point. The only thing I know I want to do is write / post every day and build community around the posts. Schulz ultimately drew 17,897 strips. One critic said that its arguably "the longest story ever told by one person".

4)      He loved what he did. I don't think real success could come any other way. It seems like the formula is passion + creativity + persistence + process. When sickness was forcing him to retire (about a year before his death) he said to Al Roker on the Today Show: ""I never dreamed that this would happen to me. I always had the feeling that I would stay with the strip until I was in my early eighties, or something like that. But all of sudden it's gone. I did not take it away. This has been taken away from me.""

5)      He had a stance and wasn't afraid to state it. I've seen over and over in my blog posts that people are afraid to even remotely THINK anything that's outside the box that society has built for us and put us in. Schultz was always trying to step out of that box and because he did it under the guise of sweet looking children, hardly anyone noticed.

For instance, 50 years before our constant worries about Google and Facebook privacy Schultz introduced a minor character named "5" (who had sisters "3" and "4") whose last name was his zipcode. Apparently "5"'s father was protesting that everyone now is being boiled down to just a number, taking away our individuality and privacy. Here's the first strip with 5:

6)     Losers win.

Charlie Brown is not a bad guy. He's a very sweet little boy. He tries to do good things. He wants to kick the ball, to get advice on how he can be better, to have more friends, to even have a girl ("Heather, the little red-headed girl") love him. But he rarely gets what he wants. And yet, with 350 million readers worldwide at his peak, he's one of the most beloved characters of all time. Nobody wants to read about the kid who wins every game. We all relate deep down in our hearts to the person who is isolated, a little lonely, who wants something better out of life than the cards that have been dealt him. Not that everyone is depressed. Charlie Brown is not depressed. He just loses. And so do I. And so do you. We're all in it together to try to be a little happier in a world that's just a little too tough on us.

Focusing on these darker elements in life, and examining them in almost 18,000 strips, is how Schulz defined his characters and shaped his stories. Don't brag to us. Tell us how you tried to kick the ball and failed. Ultimately, Charlie Brown's innate kindness is what caused the other kids to rally around his choice of a sickly tree in the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. Being kind against all struggles creates art, friends, beauty, happiness.

7)      He worked 100% of the time. Even when he wasn't actively engaged in his process of drawing, he was constantly thinking of ideas and thinking of new ways to draw. This, despite the fact that on the surface the strip seems relatively simple to draw. In Schulz's own words:

"While I am carrying on a conversation with someone, I find that I am drawing with my eyes. I find myself observing how his shirt collar comes around from behind his neck and perhaps casts a slight shadow on one side. I observe how the wrinkles in his sleeve form and how his arm may be resting on the edge of the chair. I observe how the features on his face move back and forth in perspective as he rotates his head. It actually is a form of sketching and I believe that it is the next best thing to drawing itself. I sometimes feel it is obsessive, but at least it accomplishes something for me."

I look at his lifetime and I'm jealous even though he's dead and I'm alive. He did the only thing he ever wanted to do, he had an audience for it, he made a lot of money doing it, he never got burnt out, he said what he wanted to say, and he said it every single day. I hope I'm so lucky

When I was a kid I would be really upset at the other kids who called me "Charlie Brown".  But now I'm thinking it wasn't so bad after all.

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Date: 8/26/2011 10:59:47 PM
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This is truly amazing, disgusting!
And Obama issued an Executive Order granting amnesty?????
This is only one State...............If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will !

From the L. A. Times
1.
40%
of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2.
95%
of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3.
75%
of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4.
Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal , whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5.
Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6.
Over 300,000 illegal aliens
in Los Angeles County are living in Garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8.
Nearly 60%
of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County . )

(All 10 of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but
29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth (and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

We are a bunch of fools for letting this continue

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Send copies of this letter to at least two other people. 100 would be even better.

This is only one State..............

If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will !

A
nd you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to become voters!
 
 


 

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sitting at a stoplight yesterday...minding my own

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Obama bailed out Soros, Clinton, Gore and himself with our tax dollars
 
If there's any doubt that Biggest Most Popular Leaders ripping off the USA ,
here's a scandal too big to be reported in the media or investigated by the Congress.
When they are mentioned, they are referred to as politcally powerful connections,
not invested owner! Hundreds of thousands of bail out dollars went to Obama, Soros,  Clinton, algore, etal
 
 
THE MONEY TRAIL OF THE CAP & TRADE BILL
http://forpressfound.livejournal.com/46667.html
 
I've got an opinion, but don't believe me.
Look at he evidence. Come to your own conclusion.
Each one of these searches will bring to you many links, both pro and con.
 
A small bank in Chgo had some interesting investors.
Google:  obama gore soros shore bank investor
 
The bank was going to be the sole trading site for Global warming, Cap and Trade "carbon credits" in the USA . When the legislation failed, the bank went belly up and the FDIC took over the assets on Aug 20 last year.
 
Google:  FDIC shore bank chicago
 
When a bank goes South, it's Holding Company normally folds up within days. The South Shore Bank Holding company did not. It's investors arranged to be bailed out by the USG even tho there was no bank to bail out!
 
Google:  obama gore soros shore bank bail out
 
http://nlpc.org/stories/2010/08/27/did-green-shorebank-escape-bankruptcy
 
Remember, investors include Obama, Soros, Clinton, etal
This was on national cable TV. It is well known .
http://wn.com/OBAMA_THE_SHOREBANK_CORRUPTION_TIES__BAILOUT_MONEY_GOING_TO_HELP_OBAMA_FRIENDS
 
Obama's Cap and Trade "commissions " will be held in trust for him at the JOYCE FOUNDATION.
 
Google: obama george soros shore bank malkin
 
When the plan to rip off energy consumers fell thru, the "investors" turned their efforts to recover their losses on the backs of the taxpayers.
 
Somebody should tell Rep Ron Paul about this before people think he's part of the problem.

 
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from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it…" 
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Ron Paul and FEMA
Posted by Bill Anderson on August 28, 2011 12:16 PM

It is interesting how government agencies quickly become institutionalized into our social fabric to the point where people actually believe we cannot do without them. As I read the CNN article on Ron Paul and FEMA [1] (he opposes this idiocracy), I also read the comments and some people actually tried to claim that Ron was insane for his views. That's right, insane.

Keep in mind that FEMA was begun as an entity in 1979 [2] (created by executive order from President Jimmy Carter) that was supposed to deal with civil defense and disasters, but it generally played a minor role in dealing with natural events such as earthquakes and hurricanes. That changed in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew devastated parts of Florida. The state was a tossup in the presidential election and Bill Clinton accused President Bush I of not acting quickly enough in the wake of the disaster. In other words, having FEMA officials running things after a hurricane or earthquake is a very new development in the history of this country, and people should remember that communities usually recovered much more quickly after a disaster than they do now -- given everyone has to wait for FEMA to tell them what to do.

As Jim Bovard noted in a hilarious chapter about FEMA in his book about the Clinton administration, Feeling Your Pain, [3] the agency turned into a near ATM for anyone living near a disaster area. Clinton utterly politicized the agency, filling it full of political appointees and then using FEMA to buy votes. The Bush administration continued that role, and I would say that its failure at Katrina was not due to what Paul Krugman laughingly claimed -- that the Bush administration did not "believe in government" -- but rather that FEMA was doing what all government agencies do: expand the power of the state at the expense of individuals.

About 15 years ago, Lew Rockwell wrote an article critical of FEMA and Morrie Goodman, one of the FEMA enforcers, called the Mises Institute threatening to cut off the LVMI's non-existent government subsidies. Jeffrey Tucker has two great articles on the Morrie incidents here [4] and here. [5]

[1] http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/27/ron-paul-we-dont-need-fema/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Your-Pain-Government-Clinton-Gore/dp/031224052X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314554310&sr=8-1
[4] http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=213
[5] http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=197
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Check out this photo....At first, I thought that maybe the photo was reversed, but unless President and Mrs. Obama both have their wedding rings on the wrong hand, and unless President Obama is now wearing his suit jackets like a woman's suit jacket,  the President and First Lady have their left hands crossing their chest, for the pledge of allegiance! 
 
Could it be that President Obama and his wife really have no experience saying the pledge of allegiance to the United States?  Or is it something far more sinister?
 
 

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Is Ron Paul A Useful Idiot?
 
 
Over at the American Spectator, the great Jeffrey Lord writes that "almost to a person … prominent pre-Ron Paul non-interventionist "Paulist" politicians of the 20th century were overwhelmingly not conservatives at all. They were men of the left. The far left."

From three-time Democratic presidential nominee and Woodrow Wilson Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan to powerful Montana Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler to FDR's ex-vice presidential nominee Henry Wallace to the 1968 anti-war presidential candidacy of Minnesota Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy to 1972 Democratic presidential nominee (and Henry Wallace delegate in 1948) George McGovern, non-interventionists have held prominent positions in the American Left that was and is the Democratic Party.(emphasis added)

What was unique about Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party campaign was how it was completely controlled by the secret Communist Party agents that surrounded Wallace, despite the fact that he was not a Communist. Lillian Hellman, who despite her denials was indeed a secret member of the Communist Party, admitted as much in her 1976 book Scoundrel Time:

During the early autumn of 1948, four or five of us [leaders of the Progressive Party campaign] were eating lunch together on the day of a large evening rally. When lunch was finished Wallace suggested that he and I take a walk. … When we had walked for a while, he asked me if it was true that many of the people, the important people, in the Progressive Party were Communists. It was such a surprising question that I laughed and said most certainly it was true.
He said, "Then it is true, what they're saying?"
"Yes," I said. "I thought you must have known that. The hard, dirty work in the office is done by them and a good deal of the bad advice you're getting is given by the higher-ups. I don't think they mean any harm; they're stubborn men."
"I see," he said, and that was that.

What is clear is that the Communists – who, of course, did mean harm – were able to drive the campaign of a non-Communist due to their influence. And Wallace knew it, despite his public denials. As Arthur Herman pointed out in National Review "when Hubert Humphrey complained about the prominent role Communists were playing in the election, Wallace blithely told him to go talk to the Russian embassy — it had more influence over his campaign officials than he did."

So if it can happen to Henry Wallace, why can't it happen to his Republican mirror, Ron Paul? On Thursday, Mark Levin had Jeffrey Lord on his show to talk about his article (listen to it here, here and here), where they discussed all the crackpots and "neo-confederates" that surround Ron Paul in his inner circle. What would a group like think of, say, Israel?

Well, on his own website, we find that: "On January 9, [2009] Ron Paul addressed Congress to voice his opposition to a House resolution expressing strong support for Israel in its invasion of Gaza, and branding Hamas as a terrorist organization." It goes on to proudly highlight that he went on Press TV (the Iranian state propaganda channel) and Russia Today (KGB-TV basically, with it's paid agents promoting and even doing fund-raising for Ron Paul).

Anyone who has spent time around his supporters know what they think of Israel, and likely had to hear the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that are so widespread in his little cult. What is their influence? Why doesn't he denounce them? Also, such a denunciation would have a devastating impact both the national and international crackpot communities that sustain anti-Americanism, as the great Cold War era defector and former KGB General turned American Patriot Ion Mihai Pacepa explained. Wouldn't that be in our national interest, Dr. Paul?

I await my hate mail.

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Ron Paul: The GOP's Henry Wallace
 
 
The conspiracy-minded John Birch Society, long ago expelled from the conservative movement by Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr., is abuzz over Congressman Ron Paul's "Blame America First" performance at Thursday night's Republican presidential debate.

Oddly, it was Paul's bizarre assessment of a nuclear Iran that impressed Birchers—and his many devoted supporters. "Just think of how many nuclear weapons surround Iran," said Paul. "The Chinese are there. The Indians are there. The Pakistanis are there. The Israelis are there. The United States is there. All these countries … Why wouldn't it be natural if they might want a weapon? Internationally, they might be given more respect. Why should we write people off?"

After arguing for Iran—the world's leading terror state for 30 years and counting—to have nukes, Paul next implored America to negotiate with these terrorists, citing examples from the Cold War, invoking Eisenhower in the 1950s and Reagan in the 1980s: "In the fifties, we at least talked to them [the Soviets]. At least our leaders and Reagan talked to the Soviets. What's so terribly bad about this? And countries you put sanctions on you are more likely to fight them. I say a policy of peace is free trade, stay out of their internal business, don't get involved in these wars and just bring our troops home."
 

This disdain for strong action against America's enemies is nothing new for Ron Paul. A few months ago, he was asked his reaction to the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. His response? He stated that that the Navy SEAL raid on Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan "was absolutely not necessary." Why? Because of the violation (alleged) of Pakistani sovereignty. Paul asked rhetorically "What if he [Osama] had been in a hotel in London?"

Of course, Thursday was hardly the first time the libertarian congressman went out of his way to make excuses for America's enemies, or blame America first. In 2007, when asked by Tim Russert, "How have we, the United States, provoked al-Qaeda?" Paul responded: "Well, read what the lead—the ringleader says. Read what Osama bin Laden said. We had, we had a base, you know, in Saudi Arabia that was an affront to their religion, that was blasphemy as far as they were concerned."

Funny that Congressman Paul fancies himself a new Ronald Reagan, because it was Reagan's pro-military investments which made the Bin Laden raid possible, plus much more. In fact, when Russert asked Dr. Paul about a 1988 statement made by Paul against Reagan, when Paul had proclaimed, "I want to totally disassociate myself from the Reagan administration," the congressman didn't back off. Paul declared Reagan had been "a failure."

It is distressing to see such silliness having an appeal, especially among many college students, but, alas, it does.

And yet, in an ironic twist of fate, what we as Republicans are experiencing has happened before, but it happened to Democrats. The Democrats of the post-war 1940s had to deal with their own version of Ron Paul: Henry Wallace.

Like Dr. Paul, Wallace was a man of many great ideas. He was, in the words of Cold War historian Ronald Radosh, "an agricultural genius—a man who believed in the concept of scientific agriculture, and in the diligent agronomic use of statistical research; and in the diligent agronomic use of statistical research; and a scientist whose own research led him to develop and spread the process of hybrid corn—a process that revolutionized the yield of corn and led to an agricultural revolution."

In short, agriculture was to Wallace what monetary policy is to Paul.

Wallace served as secretary of agriculture and later vice president in the Roosevelt administration; that is, he did so until his weirdness and remarkable reverence for Stalin's Soviet Union prompted FDR to switch him with Harry Truman in the 1944 election, making Wallace his secretary of commerce.

After FDR died, the new president, Truman, kept Wallace as secretary of commerce. With the war over, however, Wallace found himself in a tough spot. Troubled by the onset of the Cold War, he was driven to speak out on September 1946, and denounce the new threat to world peace: that is, the threat posed by America and Truman to that amiable peacenik Joe Stalin. Shortly thereafter, Wallace was removed from his position.

Importantly, Wallace was far from finished. Like Ron Paul, Wallace steadily denounced American foreign policy, as pursued by both Democrats and Republicans—and he pursued the presidency.

Like Ron Paul, Wallace would not let those World War III seeking "Imperialists" working in the interests of "British Colonialism" get off easy. (For Paul today, replace the words "Imperialists" with "Neo-cons" and "British Colonialism" with "Israel.") And when Stalin would do something unpleasant, such as take over Czechoslovakia in February of 1948, Wallace would explain that it was Truman's fault. Wallace blamed America first, in spite of the blatantly aggressive actions of an obvious external enemy.

Thus, Wallace and some of his old friends from the Department of Agriculture started their own version of Paul's "Campaign for Liberty." They called themselves "Progressive Citizens of America." Wallace's supporters believed that the U.S. government was behind a conspiracy to create worldwide crises in order to subvert and dominate other nations for American imperial purposes. They insisted that "innocent" people, like Alger Hiss, were being unjustly persecuted. This group later morphed into the Progressive Party, from which Wallace would challange Truman for the presidency in 1948.

In 1948, presidential candidate Wallace proclaimed: "There is no real fight between a Truman and a Republican. Both stand for a policy which opens the door to war in our lifetime and makes war certain for our children. … The American people read of the fantastic appropriations that are being made for military adventures in Greece, Turkey, China—and billions for armaments here at home. … Two years ago I denounced those who were talking up World War III as criminals. Of course, the bulk of our people are not criminals, but it is possible for a little handful of warmongers to stampede them."

And with his comrades, men like Harry Magdoff, Victor Perlo, and Charles Kramer, Wallace set out to win the presidency in 1948. His comrades failed to disclose to Wallace their other names, to wit: KANT (Magdoff), RAIDER (Perlo), and PLUMB (Kramer)—their code names as Soviet agents.

If it isn't obvious by now, what had happened was that Wallace had been duped, and much to most of his party was controlled or influenced by the Communist Party. It took Wallace two more years after suffering a humiliating defeat in that election, and watching as the so-called Progressive Party backed the communists against American troops in Korea, for him to realize what was going on, whereby he denounced his own party and resigned.

But the impact of that campaign went far beyond its time. In a review on the back cover of a first edition copy of Curtis Macdougall's "Gideon's Army," a KGB-published book (1965) about the Progressive Party, radical left-wing academic Staughton Lynd wrote: "There might have been no Bay of Pigs, no Vietnam, no Santo Domingo if the ideas of the third party of 1948 had prevailed … those ideas of 1948 are alive today." Just as Ron Paul, when asked by Tim Russert, "Under President Paul, if North Korea invaded South Korea, would we respond?" Paul promised he would not have. "Why should we unless the Congress declared war?" responded Paul. "I mean, why are we there? South Korea, they're begging and pleading to unify their country, and we get in their way. They want to build bridges and go back and forth. Vietnam, we left under the worst of circumstances. The country is unified. They have become Westernized. We trade with them. Their president comes here. And Korea, we stayed there and look at the mess."

Needless to say, Ron Paul's commendable embrace of free-market principles in no way makes him sympathetic to Soviet communism, as was the case for Henry Wallace. Ron Paul is obviously not pro-Soviet or pro-communist—quite the contrary. The commonality is each man's breathtakingly bad positions on foreign policy and America's enemies. And unfortunately for Ron Paul, it will be that twisted view of foreign policy that forever keeps him from his party's nomination and the White House—just as it did Henry Wallace.

Spyridon Mitsotakis is a student at New York University, and an aspiring Cold War researcher.

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Posted on August 27, 2011 by LHRJr.

Herman Cain of Georgia barely edges out Ron Paul in the Georgia straw poll:

– Herman Cain, 232 or 26 percent;
– Ron Paul, 229 or 25.7 percent;
– Rick Perry, 179 or 20 percent;
– Newt Gingrich, 162 or 18 percent;
– Mitt Romney, 51 or 6 percent;
– Michele Bachman, 29 or 3 percent;
– Rick Santorum, 4 or .4 percent
– Jon Huntsman, 3 or .3 percent;
– Thad McCotter, 1 or .1 percent;
– Buddy Roemer, 0;
– Gary Johnson, 0.

(Thanks to Travis Holte)



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Gadhafi and sons escape to Algeria in bullet-proof Mercedes

Algeria at odds with Libyan rebel transitional government, demanding an apology for accusing Algeria of supplying Gadhafi loyalists with troops and arms • Raging battles still taking place in Tripoli • Mass graves discovered.

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Removing bodies of Gadhafi loyalists Saturday.

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Libyan rebels posing in a vehicle Saturday.

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After days of hiding following the Libyan rebels' seizure of his Bab al-Aziziya compound, former Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi was reportedly spirited across the Algerian border with his sons, Egyptian and Libyan news agencies said on Saturday. According to the reports, the former leader was whisked out of Libya in a convoy of bullet-proof Mercedes vehicles on Friday night.

The convoy allegedly consisted of six vehicles and was accompanied by Libyan troops loyal to Gadhafi.

Libyan and Algerian officials refused to comment on the reports.

Tension between Algerian and Libyan rebels

The Algerian government is at odds with the Libyan rebels' transitional government, demanding the rebels apologize for accusing Algeria of supplying Gadhafi loyalists with troops and arms.

In addition, an Algerian government spokesperson claimed to have evidence of Libyan rebels freeing and arming Libyan prisoners who were extradited by Algeria upon Gadhafi's request. The extradition was carried out within the framework of Gadhafi's struggle against terrorist groups with bases in Libya, including al-Qaida. According to Algerian officials, the freed prisoners joined the Libyan rebels in fighting Gadhafi.

A senior Algerian official told the Saudi Arabian daily Al Arabia that Algeria has not yet recognized the transitional Libyan government as representative of the Libyan people. "If the rebels want Algeria to recognize their rule in Libya they must present a plan of action against al-Qaida, which is active throughout North Africa, and they must commit to fighting terrorists operating from within Libya," the official said.

Mass graves discovered in Libya

Meanwhile, sporadic battles still raged on Friday and Saturday between the rebels and Gadhafi loyalists in Tripoli, even as the scale of the violence of the months-long uprising continued to unfold.

Mass graves, apparently containing bodies of opposition forces, were discovered over the weekend near a local hospital, and Sky News published photos of another mass grave found in a warehouse. The bodies found in the warehouse had been burned, but apparently were also of rebel fighters.

There were also reports of mass graves containing bodies of troops loyal to Gadhafi, who were allegedly killed by rebel forces.

 


 


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