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TO discover the roots of to day's economic crisis, consider a tale from 1995.

That March, House Speaker Newt Gingrich was scheduled to address a meeting of county commissioners at the Washington Hilton. But, first, some 500 protesters from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) poured into the ballroom from both the kitchen and the main entrance.

Hotel staffers who tried to block them were quickly overwhelmed by demonstrators chanting, "Nuke Newt!" and "We want Newt!" Jamming the aisles, carrying bullhorns and taunting the assembled county commissioners, demonstrators swiftly took over the head table and commandeered the microphone, sending two members of Congress scurrying.

The demonstrators' target, Gingrich, hadn't yet arrived - and his speech was cancelled. When the cancellation was announced, ACORN's foot soldiers cheered.

Editorial writers from Little Rock to Buffalo condemned ACORN's action as an affront to both civility and freedom of speech. Editorialists also pointed out that the "spending cuts" the protesters railed against were imaginary - Gingrich proposed merely to slow the growth in some welfare programs and turn control back to the states.

Yet ACORN had only just begun. Two days later, 50 to 100 of the same protesters hit their main target - a House Banking subcommittee considering changes to the Community Reinvestment Act, a law that allows groups like ACORN to force banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers.

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So there you have it… Barack Obama is the one that has been LYING to the American People. Barack Obama VOTED for the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’. Barack Obama has a record of asking approximately $1 BILLION dollars in earmarks, and this is a record that is constrained to the few years that he has been in the Senate (half of said time he has actually spent running for President and only shown up to ADD MORE EARMARKS for his State!). Barack Obama, in 2006, even requested more than A MILLION DOLLARS in earmarks for his wife’s hospital (University of Chicago Hospitals), an amount which Michelle Obama herself had promised the hospital to “somehow” find for their ‘new pavilion project’. Barack Obama, when given a chance, VOTED AGAINST sending money to those suffering from the devastation of Katrina, so that his corrupt friends in the Senate could still send money to Alaska…for the same ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ he is now criticizing. Who ACTUALLY stopped this disgusting fiasco? Sarah Palin.

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On a plane from Denver to Charlotte following the Democrats' convention, I found myself seated behind former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Don Fowler and Congressman John Spratt of South Carolina. Their conversation was interesting to say the least.

For example, they made fun of Sarah Palin for several minutes, Fowler calling her "Dan Quayle" on steroids and Spratt creatively describing her as "just terrible." They both agreed that, "Other than the simple fact that she's a female," she has nothing to offer.

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I don't know about you but I have had it with the legions of hustlers, grifters, drunks, junkies, pathics and drooling layabouts that keep waddling and teetering up to the public trough from that swamp of puke called New Orleans. The latest of an endless

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A whopping $3,014,170,389,176,410 is the dollar figure so far sought from some of the largest claims filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane.

Of roughly 489,000 to

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