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The Ghost of Joe McCarthy Walks the USA

On just what haunts Americans...

(LONDON) - In A Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley's ghost roams the earth in chains symbolizing his life's mistakes.

He warns Scrooge to mend his ways & transform his greed into generosity and his disdain for the poor into community responsibility... or suffer eternal damnation.

When Democratic Relativism Turns into Dictatorship

Pope Benedict XVI explains that the relation between truth and liberty is essential.

(MADRID) - A Buddhist legend tells how one day a king summoned blind people that did not know what an elephant was. Some touched the animal’s head, and were told: “that is an elephant”. The others were told the same, except they touched the tail.

They all shared their version of what it was. The blind began to disagree, and the discussion turned into a violent argument which lead to a fight. The scene amused the king, as expected.

The Real War Heroes

From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War, published by Trine Day 2010.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - "That must be them." Petra took one hand off the steering wheel and pointed to a group of soldiers about two hundred meters away, standing along our road next to a high chainlink fence topped with barbed wire.

Traffic was light, but Petra said, "I don't want any other cars around." She pulled off the road and stopped. "Get everything ready."

It`s a Small World, After All

After Visiting 120 Countries, World Traveler Sees Few Differences Between Peoples.

(CLEARWATER, Fla.) - When Henry Biernacki was 17 years old, he hopped a Greyhound bus from Colorado to Mexico with nothing but a small backpack, the clothes on his back and a few bucks in his pocket. He hasn’t stopped moving since.

Today, Biernacki is an airline captain with Virgin America and he has traveled to more than 120 countries, but his travel habits haven’t evolved much since his teen years.

Rick Scott Elected Governor of Florida, But Voters Have a Charlatan in Office -- Not a Governor!

"Once you give a charlatan power over you -- you almost never get it back" - Carl Sagan

(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) - Florida sells nine times the number of prescription pain pills, compared to any other state. Yet newly elected Gov. Rick Scott blocked a prescription drug monitoring system in Florida, why would this be?

Maybe because Florida sees 85% of all OxyContin sales in the U.S.?

Second Annual Law & Disorder Conference at PSU

Speakers include Ashanti Omowali Alston, Chrystos and Tre Arrow.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Second Annual Law & Disorder Conference takes place at Portland State University: Smith Memorial Building Friday.

SpeakingOut Against Child Sexual Abuse!

Not only are these our children and the most innocent of all victims, they are also the future leaders of this country.

(OAK RIDGE, Tenn.) - April... National Child Abuse Prevention Month! This is a request for YOU to join Susan Suafoa-Dinino, President/Founder of SpeakingOut against Child Sexual Abuse, Inc. (aka SpeakingOut) in the fight against Child Sexual Abuse in America.

SpeakingOut is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is Child Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention.

Oregon Police Trooper Delivers Baby

Trooper Stops To Help Disabled Motorist, Instead Delivers Baby - Highway 199 south of Grants Pass.

(GRANTS PASS, Ore.) - An Oregon State Police trooper stopping to help what he thought was a disabled motorist ended up helping deliver a baby girl Monday morning on the side of Highway 199 in Selma south of Grants Pass.

The mother and child are in good condition at Three Rivers Community Hospital in Grants Pass.

Egypt: Mission Accomplished in Libya for Obama and Coalition

Politics is a dirty game but we tend to ignore this fact all the time.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - "Gaddafi has lost legitimacy in Libya and he has to go”

…thus went President Obama about the popular uprising that was undergoing in Libya with rebels from east of the country taking Benghazi as their stronghold and core of the revolution.

Move Over AIPAC

“No lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from the American national interest… while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical.”– John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt - keynote speakers

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Few Americans are aware of the enormous influence AIPAC wields over U.S. foreign adventures – especially in the Middle East.

The unquestioning support of Israel’s abuse of Palestinians and America's willingness to go to war against Israel’s neighbors illustrate blind obedience to orders from AIPAC.