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By Anonymous

What do you do if the economy has left you out in the cold and your bank doesn't want to help? It's a question a lot of Americans are facing right now and some of them are dealing with it better than others.

A few weeks ago a customer in a local Bank of America branch near where this story was written gave a poignant commentary to how seriously Main Street is now being impacted by the crisis of high finance that has gripped the mortgage and credit markets. Imagine yourself standing in line behind a regular customer, a familiar face, who was depositing a check. After filling out the deposit ticket and handing the check over, the teller returns with a receipt giving almost a zero balance: almost his entire deposit had been vaporized by overdraft fees, which had accrued only because he was dutifully paying his bills with what little money he had, while waiting for receivables. A construction worker, self-employed, hit hard by the downturn in the economy and struggling to keep his family afloat in a town not so far from me, this scenario actually unfolded right before my eyes. His account was in arrears by no more than a few days, because of checks he had written simply to survive and pay his bills. His bank -- Bank of America -- not only allowed the overdrafts to clear, they hit him with a $35 fee for each and every one of them, wiping out an entire week's worth of income that went straight into Bank of America's coffers to help pay for its awful choices in other areas of their business.

By Erik Rush

Whether one attributes the success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama to savvy maneuvering on the part of the Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign, Republican ineptitude, a biased press or the influence of shadow governments, in the end the November election’s outcome is going to come down to Americans’ capacity – or lack of capacity – for critical thinking.

Despite the last several years of Americans’ synaptic pathways being deluged by how much the Bush administration and Republicans employ vacuum-related techniques, in the aggregate they have more than enough evidence that conservative principles have proven themselves more fruitful than so-called progressive ones.

By Christopher Adamo

Momentarily setting aside the tragic impact on America, should Barack Obama be elected president, it is nonetheless worthwhile to ponder the significance of Hillary Clinton’s announcement last Saturday that she is dropping out of the presidential race. To be precise, she is “suspending” her campaign which, considering the history of the Clinton dynasty, could indicate that in her mind, this contest is not yet settled.

By Erik Rush

There’s an axiom in Recovery (as in from addiction) circles which asserts that addictions are but symptoms of deeper emotional or psychological problems. Leaving aside the debate as to whether this holds water, I submit that the tremendous success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama is but a symptom of the broader disease: The establishment media (which includes broadcast news and print sources as well as the entertainment media) has finally subverted enough of the collective mind of America to usher in the era of socialism toward which the far Left has been maneuvering us for the last 40 years.

By Bob Parks

A fair amount of people (those who seldom agree with me on anything) take issue with my use of the phrase “Affirmative Action president” when referring to Barack Obama. Like many who even today receive preferential treatment in hiring or admissions because of their race or gender, Obama hasn’t put in the time, thus is considered vastly inexperienced when it comes to his applying for the top job in our nation.

And the perception is he is receiving a lot of support where it shouldn’t be coming from.

By Christopher Adamo

Since leaving office, former Vice-President Al Gore has gained enormous stature within certain circles on the world scene, acquiring it per the standard liberal formula. Taking up his “Earth in the Balance” cause, he produced the feature length movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” which is replete with fantastic prophesies of doom for the planet unless America immediately regresses to third-world squalor.

By Randall Nunn

On Monday, Senator Barack Obama attacked the Tennessee Republican Party for playing “snippets” of Michelle Obama’s remarks “in ways that are unflattering to her.” The unflattering “snippet” from just last year was Michelle Obama saying “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.” Funny, I thought that snippet was unflattering to our country more than to Michelle. For Michelle the remark was just plain dumb.

By Christopher Adamo

For nearly the last four decades, a consistent pattern has been established in the Republican political arena, whereby both good and bad fortunes can be directly correlated to the overt conservatism, or the lack thereof, in the party. The more conservative the party and its candidates are, the better they do on election day. Conversely, as GOP members seek “common ground” with liberal Democrat rivals, their prospects at the ballot box diminish.

By Warner Todd Huston

We’ve seen it over and over, people in Europe who imagine that they should be allowed to vote U.S. presidential elections. Some of these people imagine that they should have a voice in our elections because, they say, America is so supremely powerful that the man who becomes our president makes decisions that will impact the entire world. Now some far left think tanks and foundations have created a so-called “non-partisan” website called “Dear American Voter” for foreigners to make videos aimed at letting Americans know how they feel about our elections.

Obviously I don’t want to beat around the bush (no pun intended) about who I think should be allowed to elect an American president. The Constitution wasn’t made to cover the entire world so this is OUR election. No true American should give a flying fig what a foreigner says about our elections. Period.

By Stephen Wilde

This article expands and updates my previous articles and should be read with them.

Failure of IPCC to properly consider Solar Influence which is about the failure of the IPCC to properly consider solar influences and The link between solar cycle length and decadal global temperature which explains that according to real world observations the matter of solar cycle length is very significant.

Variations in solar energy as a driver for global climate change have been wholly discounted by the IPCC and climate modellers on the basis that something they call Total Solar Irradiance has not changed enough between 1975 and 1998 to make a significant contribution to the climate warming observed during that period.