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Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 6, 2009 On Friday, November 6, 2009, the President signed into law: H.J.Res. 26, which proclaims Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously; H.R. 1209, the “Medal of Honor Commemorative Coin Act of 2009,” which requires the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue coins in recognition and celebration of the establishment of the Medal of Honor in 1861; H.R. 3548, the “Worker, Homeownership, and Business...

Can we get a liberal journalist to investigate that? Let's wait and see. I doubt we'll get the same kind of curiousity from liberal journalists about that.

UK: Muslims enraged at being questioned at airport, call for investigation A few weeks ago I was in an airport, having hurried from a venue where I had just given a talk. I don't ever speak from a written text, but I do carry notes -- a page or two of quotations from various Muslim Brotherhood operatives, etc., including jihadist and Islamic supremacist statements by some putative American moderate Muslims, as well as quotations from the Koran and Hadith, etc. I had this material in my suit pocket, and it dropped out when I took off my suit jacket to...

Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 3, 2009 STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY On November 3, 2009, the President signed into law: S. 1818, which renames the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992, and the Foundation and Trust Fund established by that Act, to honor both Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall.

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details IRGC: Iran Views U.S. As No. 1 Enemy In a statement issued today, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) lashed out at the U.S. for the numerous plots it has hatched against Iran's Islamic establishment since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in the country. "The honorable nation of the Islamic Iran considers the U.S. – the Great Satan – to be the main contributor to problems in the Muslim world and the source of plots and conspiracies against the Islamic Republic and the Islamic Revolution," the IRGC statement said....

SNIPPET: "Yemeni Shi'ite Cleric and Houthi Disciple 'Issam Al-'Imad: Our Leader Houthi is Close to Khamenei; We Are Influenced Religiously and Ideologically By Iran" SNIPPET: "On September 28, 2009, the Iranian website ayandenews.com, which is affiliated with former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezai, published an interview with cleric 'Issam Al-'Imad, who is a disciple of Hussein Al-Houthi, leader of the Houthi rebels in Yemen. [1] Al-'Imad, who was born 1968 in Yemen, received his religious education in Saudi Arabia, but after studying Shi'ite Islam left Wahhabism to become a Twelver Shi'ite. Since1989 he has been pursuing advanced Islamic studies in the...

SNIPPET: "Lula and Chavez have established a "strategic relationship," and recently agreed upon a joint Brazilian-Venezuelan oil venture worth billions of dollars. Lula and Chavez have joined with Daniel Ortega, the returned Nicaraguan Marxist dictator, to form an anti-U.S. Latin American military alliance - all with Russian assistance - funded by the region's abundant oil reserves. Brazil is engaged in its own arms build-up and Lula is determined that Brazil will become at least a first-rate regional power. Unfortunately, Lula is establishing Brazil as an anti-American military power by aligning with nations hostile or potentially hostile to the U.S. Lula...

Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Executive Orders THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 30, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER -------------------------------- AMENDMENTS TO EXECUTIVE ORDERS 13183 AND 13494: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 40 U.S.C. 101, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Executive Order 13183 of December 23, 2000, as amended, is further amended as follows: (a) The preamble is amended by deleting ", includingPublic Law 106-346." (b)...

"ALLAHU AKBAR! THE AL-SHMOKH FORUM IS BACK ONLINE (FOR NOW) Complete with a banner ad announcing the blessed event:" SNIPPET: "If you want to separate the wheat from the chaff among jihadi forum users, here's a tip: look at the guys who address the site in question by the IP address (not to mention the guys who use the https:// connection instead of good old http://). Happy hunting!"

British General John Burgoyne must have been bitterly disappointed one day in July 1777 in the upper Hudson Valley — the day his army, hot in pursuit of the Americans they had just driven from Fort Ticonderoga, ran into a lake that wasn’t supposed to exist.  This part of upstate New York had already been thoroughly explored and mapped, yet the Redcoats, confident of speedily overtaking and finishing off the American force, suddenly found themselves blocked by a brand-new body of water where dry forest and field was supposed to provide swift passage. The British must have soon ascertained, as...

Stroll casually along the bulging bookshelves of your local bookseller, and you’re sure to see rows and rows of books chronicling the lives and times of the generation of men known reverently to us as the “Founding Fathers.”  These were the fearless men who boldly declared independence from the tyranny of the world’s most formidable empire and then set about establishing the steadfast moorings upon which to build the mightiest republic in the history of the world. This plot of land on the field of history is ripe for scholarship, and there is never an end to the “hows” and...

Believers in Intelligent Design have often been scorned as being opposed to science, but science itself is showing that it is the evolutionists who are opposed to rational inquiry.Though The New American has no official position on evolution, we have published a number of articles over the years pointing to flaws in the theory and arguing for academic freedom on the subject. We did this most recently in "Allow Intelligence" (May 12, 2008 issue), our very favorable review of Ben Stein's documentary Expelled. In the following article, Selwyn Duke suggests that it's possible to believe in both an evolution of...

Can we reliably, efficiently, and economically store energy to make solar and wind power viable options to replace fossil-fuel or nuclear plants?Few things get our attention more quickly than a loss of electric power. Many of our activities cease the instant energy from a generator many miles away stops supplying the electricity to light our homes or businesses, run our computers, lift our elevators, operate the industrial machinery on which our food supply depends, and countless other labor-saving tasks. While just a slap in the face at first, after a few hours, as food begins to spoil, sewage begins to...

ON THE INTERNET - Quote: 30 October 2009 SERGEI BRIN MAKES JIHADI SH*TLIST Mazel Tov! Posted on 30 October 2009 @ 23:42

Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Executive Orders The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 29, 2009 President Obama Signs Executive Order to Amend Executive Order 13462 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 28, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER ---------------- AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 13462 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Executive Order 13462 of February 29, 2008, is amended...

Note: The following text is a quote: Secretary Napolitano Announces Transfer of Federal Protective Service to National Protection and Programs Directorate Release Date: October 29, 2009 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the transfer of the Federal Protective Service (FPS) from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD)—streamlining decision-making and aligning the protection of federal buildings with DHS’ broader critical infrastructure protection mission. “Securing government facilities is a vital aspect of DHS’ critical infrastructure protection mission,” said Secretary Napolitano. “Transferring FPS to NPPD will enhance oversight and efficiency while...

Quote: October 27, 2009 MAYBE MULLAH OMAR IS SIMPLY AFRAID OF THE CHINESE Vahid Brown has the lowdown on the dustup between al-Qaida Core and the Afghan Taliban Posted on 27 October 2009 @ 13:11 GMT

SNIPPET - quote: Doing a Google search today for "al Qaeda", I accidentally hit "map" instead of "news". And you know what? Al Qaeda is on the map.

SNIPPET: "According to one of my most trusted sources, the blurry image seen on the tape is indeed Osama bin Laden. One of the reasons that this is convincing is that the blurry image remains in the video. As Sahab, which produces al Qaeda's propaganda, is very selective in the information it releases, and rarely leaves garbage in its videos. As Sahab intentionally leaves in this clip, for reasons unknown. Does al Qaeda want to generate a buzz? Is this a hidden message? Perhaps this is a precursor to a new bin Laden tape?"

Facts are a stubborn thing. And despite the false claims of ideologues, academics and politicians, the facts tell the story of Massachusetts' remarkably successful health-reform law. The lengths that critics have gone to in their various attempts to disprove the obvious—that our state's landmark 2006 law and its implementation amount to a truly historic achievement—would be amusing if the subject were not so serious.

Quote: 27 October 2009 MEANWHILE, AT AL-MA'ARK FORUM... ...it is reported that an al-Faloja member was snatched in Gaza (and perhaps another in Saudi Arabia?). Posted on 27 October 2009 @ 13:24

Note: Posted here for archival purposes only. 27 October 2009 POOR FIGO... ...he's evidently feeling lonely.

SNIPPET: "For more than 15 years, our local Citizens’ Academies have given some 10,000 community leaders an up-close and personal look at the mission and capabilities of the FBI—and changed plenty of hearts and minds along the way. Why is that so important to us? Because by building stronger partnerships with civic leaders, we are better able to do our jobs. The graduates of our Citizens' Academies enable us stay better attuned to the needs and issues of our communities, are more willing to pick up the phone and call us with information that could help solve or prevent crimes,...

Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 26, 2009 Excerpts from Remarks by Christina Romer to the Center for American Progress WASHINGTON, DC- Christina Romer, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers will deliver remarks this afternoon at the Center for American Progress. The following are excerpts from her remarks. “In recent months, many have expressed concern about the budget deficit. This is a concern that President Obama and his entire economic team share.” *** “(Economists) Auerbach and Gale calculate...

The first thing I would do is declare a truce with Fox News. Right now, the president is spending more time launching offensives against FNC than against the Taliban. The American people want Osama bin Laden’s head on a stick, not Glenn Beck’s. What exactly does attacking FNC get the president? Plus, it’s hypocritical. Didn’t Barack Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Researchers at the University of Reading (UK) and the University of Southampton (UK) recently made available the roster of men who served during the Hundred Years' War.

Note: The following text is a quote: News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, October 23, 2009 HHS Awards $17 Million in a New National Initiative to Fight Health Care-Associated Infections HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the award of $17 million to fund projects to fight costly and dangerous health care-associated infections, or HAIs. “When patients go to the hospital, they expect to get better, not worse,” Secretary Sebelius said. “Eliminating infections is critical to making care safer for patients and to improving the overall quality and safety of the health care system. We know that it can be done,...

Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 23, 2009 Remarks by the President Challenging Americans to Lead the Global Economy in Clean Energy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts 12:44 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please, have a seat. Thank you. Thank you, MIT. (Applause.) I am -- I am hugely honored to be here. It's always been a dream of mine to visit the most prestigious school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Applause.) Hold on a second --...

"Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen vow they will deflect the fighting to Kampala and Bujumbura" Shabelle: SOMALIA SNIPPET: "MOGADISHU (Sh.M. Network) – the Islamist officials of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen have Friday talked about yesterday’s shelling in Somali capital Mogadishu and said that they will deflect the fighting in Mogadishu Kampala and Bujumbura." SNIPPET: "The official of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen had threatened to the African Union troops reiterating that they will replace the fighting continuing in Mogadishu to the capital cities of Uganda and Burundi."

Glenn Beck TV show for Friday, 10-23-09 is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbxeaHt5TZE&feature=channel The YouTube channel is called BuckFarack, and it has the show in five segments with good quality audio and video.

Note: The following text is a quote: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Eric Holder at the University of Maine's William S. Cohen Lecture Series Orono, Maine ~ Friday, October 23, 2009 Before I begin, I’d like to thank President Kennedy and Chancellor Pattenaude for welcoming me to this wonderful university. Chief Justice Saufley and First Lady Baldacci, thank you for being here as well. And I’d like to recognize the distinguished representative of the Justice Department in Maine, United States Attorney Paula Silsby. I especially want to thank our host and my friend, Secretary Bill Cohen, and...

The White House has released the official Obama family photo...take a look!

Thomas Cholmondeley, scion of Kenya's foremost family of white settlers, is to be freed from jail five months after he was convicted of shooting dead a black poacher on his ranch. Cholmondeley, who has been in custody since 2006 over the shooting of Robert Njoya on the family's huge Rift Valley ranch, was sentenced to eight months in prison for manslaughter in May. "Cholmondeley is among prisoners who were remaining with less than six months to complete their jail terms. He has been cleared for release this morning (Friday)," Commissioner of Prisons Isaiah Osugo told AFP. "It is a requirement...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 21, 2009 STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, the President signed into law: H.R. 2997, the "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010," which provides FY 2010 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other related agencies.

For the second week in a row, White House advisers were trash-talking Fox News on the Sunday news shows yesterday. Fox is “not really a news station,” said David Axelrod. Rahm Emmanuel said Fox “ is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.” A week ago, communications director Anita Dunn opened the White House offensive on Fox on a Sunday show, saying “Let’s not pretend they’re a news organization like CNN is.” (less)

"Sunday, October 18, 2009Obama is the TRUTH! Posted by TRUTH FIRST at 5:35 PM Friday, October 09, 2009The world recognizes Obama as a leader of peace and justiceIt cannot be denied that the world has entered a new golden era of economic and social justice. An era of peace led by and made possible by President Obama. President Obama is the son of Kings and Queens who ruled over the greatest civilizations in human history. The world waited a long time for the arrival of Obama. We did not always know what his name would be or what he would...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 20, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCE STAFF MEMBERS Joint Terrorism Task Force Headquarters New York, New York 4:24 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Please be seated. Thank you so much. It is great to be here today and I am honored to spend some time with the men and women who are working so hard, around the clock, to keep not only this city but also this country...

Empowering People, Not Elites Interview with Saul Alinsky Saul Alinsky is, along with Thomas Paine, Henry George, and Dorothy Day, one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left. Response to our earlier article dealing with Alinsky has been so great that we worked to obtain this extensive interview with him, conducted by Playboy magazine in 1972. It is, by far, the most detailed conversation with Alinsky that we know of. The interview will be appearing in weekly installments here at The Progress Report. Part One For the past 35 years, the American establishment has come under relentless attack...

Posted here for archival purposes only. # http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-1289 # Note: The following text is a quote: Text of S. 1289: Foreign Evidence Request Efficiency Act of 2009 Show this version: Download PDF Full Text on THOMAS Go to Bill Status Compare to this version: Show changes: Side-by-side Highlighted Expand all sections Collapse all sections Link to this view This version: Enrolled Bill. This is the final text of the bill or resolution as approved by both the Senate and House, as it is sent to the President in the case of a bill. This is the latest version of the...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary -------------------------------------------------------- For Immediate Release October 19, 2009 UNITED NATIONS DAY, 2009 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The United Nations was created 64 years ago by men and women from every corner of the world. These architects of international cooperation acted out of an idealism rooted in the hard-earned lessons of war. They had the wisdom to understand that nations could do far more to advance their interests by acting...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary -------------------------------------------------------- For Immediate Release October 19, 2009 NATIONAL CHARACTER COUNTS WEEK, 2009 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION In communities across America, people are working together to see our country through challenging times -- educating our children, caring for the sick, and extending a hand to those in need. They remind us that the true character of our Nation is revealed by the good we do when the moment is...

Fox News has asked "blinkotv.com" to remove their live link from their site. I can understand, but is there anywhere else I can watch live. Our household cannot afford cable TV. Thanks all.

HOLLISTER v. SOETORO (et al)APPELLE BRIEF (09/04/2009)UNOPPOSED ENTRY OF APPEARANCE (09/22/2009)EMERGENCY MOTION (w. Declaration of L. Liberi) (09/22/2009)APPELLANT REPLY BRIEF (09/22/2009)MOTION (09/23/2009)EMERGENCY MOTION (09/28/2009)PER CURIAM ORDER (10/20/2009)CLERK'S ORDER (10/20/2009)

Thanks to a special freepmailer for pointing to this article. # SNIPPET: "Computerworld - An add-on that Microsoft silently slipped into Mozilla's Firefox last February leaves the browser open to attack, Microsoft's security engineers acknowledged earlier this week. One of the 13 security bulletins Microsoft released Tuesday affects not only Internet Explorer (IE), but also Firefox, thanks to a Microsoft-made plug-in pushed to Firefox users eight months ago in an update delivered via Windows Update. "While the vulnerability is in an IE component, there is an attack vector for Firefox users as well," admitted Microsoft engineers in a post to...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 2009 AT 1:21 PM Retrofitting and the Middle Class Posted by Terrell McSweeny With the leaves changing color, the air crisper, and the days shorter – fall is fully upon us (well, depending on where you live) - and many Americans are putting the heat back on in their homes. In that spirit, the Vice President is holding a Middle Class Task Force event at the White House on Monday morning to unveil our "Recovery through Retrofit" report. The report offers a plan that...

Quote: 19 October 2009 ATTACK ON GERMANY? IN OCTOBER? At al-Faloja they've passed the Insha'allah stage, are deep into Buqra, and heading towards Ma'alesh at a rapid rate of speed... Posted on 19 October 2009 @ 01:38

While driving to the UConn football game yesterday we found ourselves behind a vehicle festooned with the full repertoire of Progressive exhibitionist paraphernalia. There was the Obama "Hope" sticker, "Coexist", "Love Your Mother", "Think Globally Act Locally" - the whole megillah. Naturally, the vehicle was a monstrous V8 Toyota Landcruiser. What a frickin' HOPE-A-CRIT!

Salve for the slavery woundKnowledge, it has been said, will set you free. It is a true statement, and should not be dismissed out of hand. Knowledge will also go a long way toward bringing American blacks and whites together as fellow countrymen, having full appreciation for what they have in common . . . as brothers, if you will. “What can be the content of this knowledge that would bring about this miracle?” you might ask. Answer: A broad knowledge of two topics:1. worldwide history of Black slaves, and 2. the images and ideas that are gained from a...

I reconfigured my settings a while back, and noticed a few days later that the Freeper Poll no longer showed up on the forum page. I went to the settings, moved the "opinion polls" section, and checked again. No polls ever show up. Of course, there is a chance that the "polls" category has nothing to do with the freeper polls, and is actually for posting of online polls. If that is the case, I'm not getting that, either. It's bad enough that I chose to put "GOP" on the end of my freeper name, long before I knew that...

Note: The following text is a quote: Remarks by Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden at the 78th Interpol General Assembly SINGAPORE ~ Monday, October 12, 2009 In Bucharest, a little over a year ago, my predecessor U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Mark Filip, joined by the Romanian Prosecutor General, announced criminal charges in a case that was emblematic of the evolution of transnational organized crime. That case charged that a racketeering enterprise in Romania joined forces with other criminals around the world -- including street gangs in Los Angeles -- to use the Internet to defraud thousands of people and...