On Sunday September 28, 2008, 33 evangelical Protestant pastors, including the vice presidential candidate on the American Independent Party ticket, in 22 states launched a "pulpit initiative" in hopes of influencing the presidential election. The initiative was conceived by Arizona based Alliance Defense Fund which hoped to overturn the Internal Revenue Code's ban on political endorsements by

What happened at the beginning of 2008 was the beginning of the freefalling meltdown of the biggest pyramid game in human history. Since the burst of the Nasdaq internet bubble in March 2000, hedge funds, private equity funds and proprietary trading at banks have come to dominate money making. The new business model depended on asset prices constantly rising. Because so many wanted the same

The futility of the U.S. policy of a united democratic Iraq and Palestine is best expressed by the story of Khamael Muhsen and her husband Mohammed Sadiq Falhee. Khamael was a reporter with Radio Free Europe, the U.S. government-funded broadcaster who was killed for being a reporter and a Shiite in the middle of the Baghdad security plan that the Bush administration claimed was making the city

Change Obama/Palin Style("COPS") is exactly what America needs ─ or is it? The operative political consensus from both Senators McCain and Obama is that "change" is coming to Washington and the Beltway insiders are in for an unpleasant shake'n' bake-wakeup call no matter who wins. America is going to have to come to grips with a change that is going to not only shakeup D.C., but the world. First

Russia's military invasion of Georgia, Stalin's home state, has generated world condemnation and calls for economic sanctions. Economic sanctions are short sighted and won't work. The minute any state questions or challenges Russia or its oil czar, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia instinctively resorts to Cold War totalitarian bombastic rhetoric and tactics, which includes military

Damascus and Tehran's ties to the extremists at both ends of the Sunni and Shiite political spectrum are responsible for the destructive collision course they are on not just in Iraq, but Palestine. Let's not forget who Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas spoke to by phone, to explore ways of ending the Palestinian conflict because of the Gaza "madness." Exiled Hamas political supremo Khaled

As a taxpayer witness and victim of America's savings and loan meltdown of the 1980s, I have no qualms advocating that both Freddie and Fannie be nationalized or carved up into smaller entities and privatized at the expense of its shareholders and not be bailed out at taxpayer expense. To allow Freddie and Fannie to continue using Uncle Sam's credit card as a reward for their denial of the global

Fannie Mae is a nickname for the Federal National Mortgage Association. It was created in 1938 following the Great Depression. Its twin, Freddie Mac ─ Federal Home Mortgage Corporation ─ was created in 1970 to further boost home ownership. Both firms have lost over 80 percent of their value as a result of the subprime crisis and are asking U.S. taxpayers and the government to bail them out.

The recent killing of a South Korean tourist by a North Korean soldier and North Koreans firing off machine-gun rounds at their South Korean counterparts as the six-party talks were to resume in August 2007, are just some of the many surprises and misfires awaiting America after Pyongyang destroyed its nuclear facility at Yongbyon before Korea truly denuclearizes.

North Korea will want the U.S. to

The recently failed Iran denuclearization talks in Geneva should come as no surprise and should nevertheless be viewed as a positive step that Iran is prepared to freeze its uranium-enrichment activities as part of broader negotiations which include Iran's right to develop nuclear power and the cessation of  covert U.S. military activities in Iran.

Objective intelligence reports claim that the