By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

China Bailout

In a Bible passage so powerful even those who don’t believe the Bible unknowingly quote it, an arrogant young ruler is so enamored with his exalted position he thinks he can disregard the traditions of his predecessors with impunity.  In the midst of a celebration of his greatness the proud young man calls for the sacred vessels captured when his father conquered Judah so that he can drink toasts to himself. Suddenly before a stunned king and his smug courtiers a hand appears in mid-air writing on the wall of his palatial palace.  Never having seen a teleprompter, the king had no idea these words would come to define his reign.  He called for the wisest man in his kingdom to tell him what they meant.

When Daniel arrived he told the haughty king, “The writing reads: ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin.’ The meaning of the words is this: Mene: God has measured your sovereignty and put an end to it; Tekel: you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; Parsin: your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.” That same night through an unperceived chink left by neglect in their previously impregnable defenses, Babylon was conquered, the king was overthrown, and the rest is history.

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He offered his life along with those who served so that we can live ours with the freedoms that we enjoy today. ‘We will never forget your mission, Marc Alan Lee.’

Americas Mighty Warriors is a charitable organization managed by Debbie Lee. Her mission in life is to honor, thank, support, and encourage our troops and their families and to remember the sacrifice of her son, Marc Alan Lee, the first U.S. Navy SEAL killed in Iraq.

Debbie Lee accepts the challenge from Marc’s last letter home to ‘pass on the kindness, the love and the precious gift of human life through random acts of kindness’ that will impact and honor our military, the fallen and their families for their selfless service and sacrifice.

Marc Alan Lee, was the first U.S. Navy SEAL killed in Iraq on August 2, 2006. He stood in the direct line of fire three times that day. He chose to use his ‘today’ to defend his buddies, to defend us and to protect this nation from the terrorists who want to destroy America and everything we represent. He could have fallen to his knees and helped his wounded teammates. He could have stayed below the protective cover provided by the cement wall on a rooftop. He could have been home today with his family and the outcome would have been different for his buddies and their families. But Marc was a young man who valued others lives more important than his own. He recognized the urgency of what he had to do with his last ‘today.’ He did that for you and for me.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Where does our federal government get the right to put the chains of hopeless debt on our grandchildren to buy a better hammock for those who won’t work?  The 10^th Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  If we never delegated the power to create a National Debt, how did the government get it?  The power to encumber is the power to destroy.   This habit of charging the Visa to the MasterCard is selling us out to the rising red star in the East, and if we don’t pull the brake we’re heading for a cliff.

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet passed for wisdom in the days when information took more than a nanosecond passing between continents.  Today they not only meet; they compete, and the Red Emperors of the East exploit the red ink of the West.  Today our Progressive leaders embrace the suffocating sameness of socialist conformity and collectivist confiscation while communist mandarins release the long pent up energies of their people.

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By Dr. AVI PERRY

In my latest book 72 Virgins, some of the characters are members of a Jihad fraternity—a collection of Islamic fanatics, misguided by a faith-based hate, who seek martyrdom, whether it’s an individual or a collective goal. Iran is a leading force inside this mad fraternity—a point I was trying to make when writing the book. This is why Iran is so different from India, Pakistan, Israel, when it comes to the question of nuclear weapons.

It is a fact that among the official and unofficial nuclear club members none is controlled by an Islamic religious fanatic leader, whereas Iran is.

It is a fact that Islamic religious fanatics have no regard for innocent lives. They believe that Allah wants them to kill anyone who stands in the way to their version of world order. 9/11 proved that point.

It is a fact that Islamic religious fanatics take their orders directly from Allah’s earthly self appointed representatives and follow it blindly without a question.

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By Dr. BRIAN K. CLARDY

When I normally pen an article on foreign policy, it is based upon observations made in both written and broadcast media, as well as listening to my favorite pundits discuss the issue in detail. This, coupled with my own formal academic training, has made for an exciting life and career in discussing international relations and diplomacy. However, when I speak of Sino-U.S. relations, I am not coming strictly from an intellectual and policy based hermeneutic, I also address it as someone who spent a number of days touring that rising power and was deeply impressed with what I saw and experienced.

As part of an eight-person delegation from Murray State University, I was fortunate to have visited the Peoples’ Republic of China as guests of the Peoples’ Education Press. For two weeks, we toured most of the significant cultural and historic sights in Beijing and some of the major cities in Henan Province—specifically Lyuoyang, Zhengzhou, and Keifeng.

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Multilateralism in its Beginning

By LARRY WILKE

It appears that at least one German didn’t continue swooning over the Dork Knight after his first visit to Germany, a visit that he made when he should have been campaigning (lying) at home. In an article entitled “Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage” (spiegel dot de), Gabor Steingart wonders out loud about our President. His points are valid but they need a bit of focus. Allow me to assist.

“When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a tone of respect and diplomacy.it’s not working.” “Promises” substantially lighter than helium is the Obama specialty. Anyone familiar with his shampaign to the degree that the Americans were subject to isn’t surprised by this revelation. “Respect and diplomacy” Obama style consists of an endless series of “courtesies and groveling.” “Respect and diplomacy, it’s not working.” Mr. Steingart, that is the Obama nomenclature. He has had the same effect upon the American public. Directly because of him, several million of them aren’t “working” either.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

When the neo-cons,  a group of liberal democrats realized Margret Thatcher was right in saying, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” they decided liberalism is as Michael Savage contends a mental disorder.  In the 1970s and 80s they abandoned the Good Ship Democrat proclaiming themselves Born-Again Republicans.  Generally they still carry the baggage of their former psychosis when it comes to social issues, but when it comes to foreign affairs and military matters they sound like Errol Flynn playing George Custer in They Died With Their Boots On, “Don’t wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up everybody and ride to the sound of the guns.”

These neo-cons not only flew high into the circles of on-air talking-heads they swirled through the Bush White House leading us into Iraq.  Now they’re beating the drums for massive reinforcements in Afghanistan.

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Welcome to the USA!

By ROBERT STARK

The shooting at Ft. Hood by an American Muslim of Palestinian descent has sparked up much of the usual rhetoric about “Islamo-fascism.” Since 9/11 many Americans consider America at war with radical Islam and to some even the entire Muslim world. Some are even calling for banning Muslims from the military, which is unconstitutional.

There were many suspicious signs that the shooter Nidal Malik Hassan had radical beliefs, but political correctness kept those in positions of authority from taking action. Hassan had stated that he wanted out of the military and was even willing to offer financial compensation to leave. Hasan was set to be deployed to Iraq and did not want to go and kill fellow Muslims.

It is easy to take a knee-jerk reaction toward these type of tragedies, but much like 9/11 they are a product of our government’s policies. While some political hacks say we are hated for our freedom, the reality is that we are engaging in wars against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, unconditionally supporting Israel over the Palestinians, and continue to have our troops in Saudi Arabia, which Muslims consider Holy Land to protect oil interests. All of these along with the promotion of decadent immoral culture by Hollywood in the Muslim world are reasons that there is a rising tide of Islamic extremists who are willing to sacrifice their lives and freedom to kill Americans.

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By ROBERT STARK

In his first interview after being released from prison last week, former congressman James Traficant let the cat out of the bag about the stranglehold that the Pro Israel Lobby has over Washington DC. The interview took place last night with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren.

Susteren asked him if he has any grudges. Traficant says that he was the number one target of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and the Justice Department. He goes on to say that “he believes that Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government. They’re controlling much of our foreign policy. They’re influencing much of our domestic policy. Wolfowitz as undersecretary of defense manipulated President Bush number two back into Iraq. They’ve pushed definitely, definitely to try to get Bush before he left to move into Iran. We’re conducting the expansionist policy of Israel and everybody’s afraid to say it. They control much of the media, they control much of the commerce of the country, and they control powerfully both bodies of the Congress. They own the Congress.”

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Is it time to double-down in Afghanistan?  Is it time to send more of our fellow citizens to a long hard slog in a country whose synonym is Quagmire?  As our economy is being outsourced, our debt monetized and our infrastructure crumbles will we meekly follow the leader deeper into a thankless nation-building campaign in the Little Bighorn of nations that’s resisted and foiled every empire from Alexander to Moscow?  Or is it time to re-think America’s international military commitments?  Though settled by European kingdoms seeking empires the United States wasn’t founded to become an empire.  Individuals fought against the empire building tyrants until their determination and resolve won independence against all odds.

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