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http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4903 -"[T]he Crisis has produced its own forms of servility. The 2008 version of Fannie Mae and its cousin Freddie Mac – mortgage companies that privatized executive pay and profit while socializing risk and loss – are splendid examples of a Business Government at Work. This same Business Government can be seen in the skillful way in which Goldman Sachs executives have alternated between “creating” and “solving” the financial crisis. For example, it was then Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson who successfully lobbied a half decade ago to weaken the reserve obligations of private U.S. investment banks; then, as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, he wound up in charge of the 2008 bank bailout, which saved the great banks from their follies (although, for reasons we can only speculate about, he did let former arch-rival Lehmann Brothers go under). The concept of Business Government also explains the preference these days by both American and Europea...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334623330098540.html Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Wednesday wrote to the president saying he feared that citizens’ engagement could be “chilled” by the effort. He’s right, it could. He also accused the White House of compiling an “enemies list.” If so, they’re being awfully public about it, but as Byron York at the Washington Examiner pointed, the emails collected could become a “dissident database.” http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106162 John Cornyn, R-Texas, has demanded that Obama either halt the program, widely known in the blogosphere as the "snitch" program, or define how he will protect the privacy of those who send or are the subject of e-mails to the flag@whitehouse.gov e-mail address. "I am not aware of any precedent for a president asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White house for pure political speech that is deemed 'fishy' or otherwise inimica...

THE PUBLICAN Saint Teresa of Avila said that God cannot be described for His beauty, but one analogy would be like a great and beautiful diamond of white light, and each facet is like a mirror. When we stand before Him, all our imperfections are seen in the facets of His being. I don't know about you, but I have a lot of imperfections [sins], so I'll offer you this sinner's approach to prayer. First, I call my angel to come and pray with me. "Do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you, THEIR ANGELS in heaven always behold the face of my Father in Heaven." (Matt. 18:10) I then ask the Holy Innocents to come and pray with me, since they were the first martyrs of Christ (Matt. 2:16). I ask Padre Pio and Saint Joseph to come and pray with me. Surrounded by these saints of Heaven, I picture myself as a little child and I approach the Great Doors of the Kingdom of Heaven. With Rosary in hand, I make a profession of faith, "I believe in God, etc." ...

Stephen Frank's California Political News and Views Frank Discussion Not Lecture For Conservatives www.capoliticalnews.com Romneycare Costs One Hospital $100 Million July 16, 2009 Mitt Romney created a universal health care program in Massachusetts . He is very proud of it. The cost? One hospital is going to lose $100 million next year--a couple more years and the hospital closes down. Why is this important? Because Obama is basing his health care plan on the Mitt Romney plan. The bottom line goal of Obama is to take over all the hospitals in the country. He does this the Romney way--by bankrupting them. Barack did this with banks and the auto industry, why not health care? Obama is a national socialist, someone who wants government to control the means of production--in this case, you very life. needs to end. We need Mitt Romney to come out and publicly admit his health care plan is a failure and needs to end. "The hospital, Boston Medical Center , faces a $38 million...

Obama -"Largely skipped by the news media was his speech June 29 commemorating a date that homosexual activists have marked with solemn dedication... [Obama] accommodate[d] the demands of the homosexual lobby... including embracing hate-crime laws, supporting civil unions and federal rights for LGBTQ couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights and ending the existing "Don't ask, don't tell" policy." -"His enthusiasm for appealing to the LGBTQ gathering ... unmatched by the last liberal president, Bill Clinton... would normally be subject to an examination as to what Obama's own sexual orientation is. There is no doubt as to his heterosexuality-although watching him throw out the first ball at the All Star Game could, if considered solely, lead one to think otherwise." -"In U. S. history his accession will likely be compared to the succession of unstable emperors beginning with Nero, Caligua and Commodus. W...