"LIBERTY REMEMBERS" - 9/11/2001
World Trade Center; Pentagon Attack; Flight 93, In Remembrance.

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"BORN AGAIN; HERE IN AMERICA"

Telling It Like It Is - Political News:

Polls show support for tax cuts for all Americans
Rasmussen shows 51 percent of voters support the extension of all the tax cuts, it also found 44 percent of respondents believe breaks should be extended for everyone but the wealthy.

House Minority Leader Boehner says he'd "support a middle-class tax cut."
Republicans, for their part, say that it's not just the rich who would be hit by Obama's tax hike on upper-income people. Many small businesses — that earn about half of all small business income — would also face the tax hike. Boehner, R-Ohio, said it is "bad policy" to exclude the highest-earning Americans from tax relief during the recession. But he said he wouldn't block the breaks for middle-income individuals and families.

Fidel Castro – The Cuban Model and Socialism don't work.
"We could have told him that 50 years ago..."

Latest Round-Up of Obama Poll Ratings by State
Rasmussen says 61 percent disapprove of the job Obama is doing (with 55% "strongly" disapproving) while 37 percent approve. Forty-seven percent say their personal finances are getting worse, 30 percent say they are staying the same and 20 percent say they are improving.

Millions in Overbilling - Suit Threatens Planned Parenthood Funds. Two former abortion factory - Planned Parenthood employees-turned-whistleblowers have made stunning allegations regarding the abortion provider's accounting practices. California launched audits of various Planned Parenthood affiliates, and uncovered more than $5.2 million in overbilling at a single affiliate based in San Diego. It is alleged Planned Parenthood lobbyists intervened to stop other audits that were still pending statewide.

To BUILD/BURN or not to BUILD/BURN? That Is The Question.

World economic forum - on United States - dropping to 4th place. The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011-- is calculated from both publicly available data and the Executive Opinion Survey, a comprehensive annual survey conducted by the World Economic Forum together with its network of Partner Institutes (leading research institutes and business organizations) in the countries covered by the Report.

In Ohio Speech, Obama Limits Tax Cuts
"The middle class is still treading water, while those aspiring to reach the middle class are doing everything they can to keep from drowning," he said.

Health Insurers Plan to Raise Premiums - Blame Rate Hikes on Obamacare.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, health insurers say they plan to raise premiums on some Americans due to Obamacare.

Republicans own big lead over Democrats heading into November midterm elections, polls show. Two separate polls released Tuesday tell the same grim story for Democrats: Prepare to lose in the November midterm elections.

Generic Congressional Ballot
Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 of the important issues. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely Voters would vote for their district's Republican congressional candidate, while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. The survey data was collected on the seven days ending Sunday, September 5, 2010.

Obama to Call for Major Infrastructure Spending.
"Shovel Ready" Stimulus Spin Gets a Revival

Despite hiring, US unemployment rate seems frozen.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work.

Scarcity of jobs puts more at risk of foreclosure
1 in 10 homeowners with a mortgage is at risk of foreclosure as unemployment remains high. The jobs crisis is putting more Americans at risk of losing their homes.

Israelis and Palestinians urged to stick to peace talks after Hamas attack kills four in West Bank.

Private sector unexpectedly cuts jobs in August
U.S. private employers unexpectedly cut jobs in August, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday, delivering another blow to the already faltering economic recovery.

Gallup poll - Republicans Take 10-Point Lead over Dems. 51% Voters for Republicans 41for Dems

Troops Come Home to Tough Economy
Returning troops will face a deep recession and some may resort to taking lower paying jobs so that they can provide for their families. There is help available through the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Will we allow Pastor Mayandy to be executed like Terri Schiavo?
Pastor Joshua Kulendran Mayandy was being treated in a hospital in Brampton, Canada. They have now decided to withhold food and water from him, allowing him to slowly die of dehydration and starvation, just like Terri Schiavo.

Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally Draws Hundreds of Thousands. Sharpton Leads Counter-Rally.
Just steps away from where Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech 47 years ago, conservative commentator Glenn Beck today fervently declared that "America today begins to turn back to God."

Telling It Like It Is - Political News:

1.6 gross domestic product: grim economic outlook The revision is a significant slowdown from the annual rate of 3.7 percent in the first quarter and 5 percent in the last three months of 2009.

U.S. to Remove Temporary Cap From BP Gulf Oil Well
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. government said engineers will start work Monday to remove the temporary cap that stopped oil from gushing out of BP's blown-out Gulf well so that crews can raise a key piece of equipment from the seabed.

Video: White House submits historic report to U.N.
U.S. One of Worst Human Rights Offenders?

Celebrating Mother Teresa's 100th birthday and the irony at the Empire State Building.