IRAN WARNS WORLD OF COMING GREAT EVENT

Is Iran trying to develop a missile that could reach America?

IRAN VOWS SUPPORT TO ANYONE CONFRONTING ‘CANCEROUS’ ISRAEL

Iranian MP Hossein Ebrahimi, Deputy Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Committee: “The Persian Gulf Will Be Turned into a Graveyard” for International Forces

Iran warns currency speculators as rial continues to fall

Egyptian gunmen kidnap two American tourists in Sinai

Egyptian MP Mustafa Bakri: America and Israel Are Responsible for Port Said Soccer Bloodbath

Head of Egyptian Salafi Al-Nour Party Imad Al-Din Abd Al-Ghafour Evades the Question Whether His Party Will Respect the Camp David Accords

Egyptian Cleric Sheik Abdallah Kamal Defends the Prophet Muhammad’s Marriage to Aisha: In Warm Climates, Girls Generally Reach Puberty at the Age of Eight

Egyptian Cleric Sheik Abdallah Kamal Defends the Prophet Muhammad’s Marriage to Aisha: In Warm Climates, Girls Generally Reach Puberty at the Age of Eight

ISLAMISTS TAKE 14 SEATS IN KUWAITI ELECTION, GIVING CONTROL TO OPPOSITION GROUPS

‘A REAL DEMOCRATIC STATE’: JUSTICE GINSBURG PRAISES THE ARAB SPRING DURING VISITS TO EGYPT & TUNISIA

HUGO CHAVEZ’S ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIONS HAVE ALLEGEDLY LED HALF OF VENEZUELAN JEWS TO FLEE

FOUR U.K. JIHADISTS PLEAD GUILTY OVER ECONOMIC TERROR PLOT

Taliban “poised to retake Afghanistan” after NATO

Footage: Palestinians in Lebanon Shown Saluting Nazi/Hizbullah Style

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TV AIRS SHOW PRAISING ‘HERO’ MURDERERS OF FOGEL FAMILY

I asked my father what his parents had told him about their tough times during the Great Depression.

This is what he shared with me:

They lived on the farm during the Great Depression near Palestine Texas. Mom’s teen years occurred during that crisis. Their family was, of course, very poor. They had only one cow and depended upon her to provide milk for the entire family. President Franklin Roosevelt’s “stimulus plan” included sending a team to the family farm to shoot their one cow and burn the meat, so that it could not be eaten.

I suppose it was a well-intentioned plan designed to “stimulate” spending and consumption, to force this little family to go out and purchase milk and meat at the store. In reality, all it stimulated was hunger and a deep resentment of government stupidity and cruelty and of President Roosevelt personally. My mom just plain didn’t like the President and was fond of making sure everyone she knew understood why. Let’s pray all the well intentioned “stimuli” our benevolent government is throwing around today hits the mark a bit better.

Because of her experience as a teen, my grandmother went on to participate in the battle to establish a two-party system in Texas. Up until about the 1960s (I’m estimating here) Texans could only vote for Democrats because only Democrats ran (sound familiar? big grin ).

What are your stories of dealing with Tough Times?  We’d like to hear them.

Jewish world Review (www.jewishworldreview.com) recently published an article by Bill O’Reilly in which he provides some perspective on the left’s “class warfare” and the contributions of the “one percent”:

Growing up in Levittown out on Long Island, I remember my father buying pants through the mail. This seemed strange to me. There was a Robert Hall clothing store nearby, and it had pants all over the place. But my dad said he could buy two pair for the price of one from some guy in South Dakota. One problem: The pants never fit.
My father didn’t much care. He saved some money, which he put in the bank, affording me an opportunity to go to private schools.
My parents never wanted to be rich and did not resent those who were…  The truth is, we O’Reillys did not even know any rich people. They lived in Garden City, about five miles away.

Today, I am a rich guy, a 1 percenter. I can buy all the pants I want. My late father could not even fathom how much money I make. I have trouble processing it, as well.
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Today, the Occupy Wall Street crew and many progressive Americans believe that I am a greed head, even though they have no idea what I do with my money. Just the fact that I have it gives them license to brand me a dreadful “1 percenter.”
The reason that I have prospered monetarily is that I put freedom to good use. I worked hard, got a great education, paid my dues in journalism and, finally, hit it big. America gave me the freedom to do all those things…. Now, more than a few folks say I am not paying my fair share to ensure the security of my fellow citizens.

According to the IRS, the 1.4 million households that comprise the 1 percent (that is taking in about $350,000 a year) pay 37 percent of the nation’s income tax. That’s a big number, is it not? And The New York Times reports that the 1 percenters contributed about 30 percent of all charitable donations in 2007. Another big number.

So I’ve decided that those demanding more of my money for “social justice” are really attacking freedom. In this country, it is not wrong to prosper. You should not be demeaned for “having.”

President Obama will be doing the nation a huge disservice if he bases his upcoming campaign on class warfare, because that’s really an assault on individual freedom. Yes, we are all Americans, and we should all be in it together. But that doesn’t mean the government can guarantee individual outcomes. In a free society, it can’t.

Please read the entire article at:  http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/oreilly.php3

‘VERGING ON A RIOT’: POLICE PEPPER SPRAY & ARREST SHOPPERS OVER…NIKE AIR JORDANS

Christmas Brings Thefts Of Baby Jesus Statues, Lawn Decorations

THE BLAZE‘S OFFICIAL RECAP OF THIS YEAR’S ATHEIST-LED ‘WAR ON CHRISTMAS’

BILL MAHER TWEETS ‘JESUS JUST F**KED #TIMTEBOW BAD!’ ON…CHRISTMAS EVE

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ED SCHULTZ: TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS ARE LIKE ‘SEWER RATS’

Atheist group demands cross be removed from Marine base

On California coast, atheists nudge out Nativity scenes

Atheists group plans to sue city of Warren over nativity display

OCCUPY LA COST CASH-STRAPPED CITY $2.3 MILLION

‘NIGERIAN TALIBAN’ BOMBINGS KILL DOZENS IN CHRISTMAS DAY CHURCH ATTACKS

Saying Merry Christmas is worst then fornication or killing someone

British Islamist Anjem Choudary Releases 2011 Christmas Message: Christmas is Evil

SHOCK VIDEO: ALLEGED EGYPTIAN MILITARY VEHICLES RUN OVER COPTIC CHRISTIAN PROTESTERS

EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHRISTIAN AND ‘FOURTH-CLASS CITIZEN’ DESCRIBES SAVAGE MASSACRE DURING CONGRESSIONAL HEARING

‘SHOCKED AND DISMAYED’: U.N. GROUP CUTS FUNDING OF PALESTINIAN KIDS MAG AFTER IT PUBLISHES PRO-HITLER STORY

Iran navy starts 10-day wargame in Strait of Hormuz

As Pope calls for peace, Nigerian Islamists murder Catholics

IRANIAN AUTHORITIES DETAIN CHILDREN DURING RAID ON CHURCH’S CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERED GIVING MORE MONEY TO SOLYNDRA, EMAILS SHOW

‘OCCUPY SACRAMENTO’ PROTESTERS STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY’RE THERE

VIDEO EXPOSING HOW ‘OCCUPY WALL STREET’ WAS ORGANIZED FROM DAY ONE BY SEIU/ACORN FRONT – THE WORKING FAMILY PARTY, AND HOW THEY ALL TIE TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, DNC, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA, TIDES AND GEORGE SOROS

JESSE JACKSON: STEVE JOBS WOULD‘VE SUPPORTED ’OCCUPY WALL STREET’

‘GOD BLESS THEM’: PELOSI PRAISES ‘YOUNG,‘ ’SPONTANEOUS,’ & ‘EFFECTIVE’ WALL ST. PROTESTS

CHEERING ECONOMIC TERRORISM – SEIU GETTING READY TO ‘TERRIFY’ DC: STEPHEN LERNER AT SEIU MEETING OUTLINES RULES FOR CREATING A CRISIS — WE WANT THEIR KIDS TO HATE THEM, NAME ENEMIES LIKE GLENN BECK, SHUT DOWN BRIDGES, LONG OCCUPATIONS, RECRUIT TEA PARTY

SHOCKING VIDEO: FRANCES FOX PIVEN & FELLOW PROFESSORS INDOCTRINATING COLLEGE STUDENTS AT CUNY TO GET INVOLVED AND BE READY FOR VIOLENT STREET BATTLES & BREAKING DOWN CAPITALISM

‘THE JEWS CONTROL WALL STREET!’: 2ND ALLEGED WALL ST. PROTESTER SPEWS ANTI-SEMITISM

WHAT DO THE PROTESTERS WANT? LET THIS GIRL TELL YOU IT’S ABOUT…AFFORDABLE ‘BROCCOLI’

‘FIRST WE OUGHT TO KILL THEM AND EAT THEM’: SIGHTS AND SOUNDS FROM OCCUPY D.C.

PROTESTER TELLS THE BLAZE HOW ‘THE JEWS CONTROL WALL STREET’ & WHY OBAMA‘S A ’JEWISH PUPPET’

FACT CHECK: AP FINDS ERRORS IN OBAMA’S JOBS SPEECH

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Organizer: We Are Anarchists and ‘This Is the Beginning of Revolution’ in America…

Moore: The Rich Are Out Of Control, Kleptomaniacs And Sociopaths

Buffett: ‘Higher Taxes on the Ultra-Rich is Not Going to Solve the Deficit Problem’

After $200M Green Stimulus, Company Cuts 10% of Workforce

CBS News Reporter Says White House Screamed, Swore at Her Over Fast and Furious

Holder’s ‘Fast and Furious’ Testimony Directly Contradicted By New Documents Obtained by CBS News

ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010

Michelle Obama’s Africa Vacation Cost More Than $432,142

Nearly $500K to send Michelle, family to Africa. Daughters were listed on the manifest as “senior staff.”

MAJOR DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISER AT VAN JONES ‘TAKE BACK THE AMERICAN DREAM CONFERENCE’: THE AMERICAN DREAM IS TOTALLY ABOUT SHARING AND REDISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH BECAUSE FREE HOUSES AND HEALTHCARE ARE A RIGHT

VAN JONES SLAMS THE TEA PARTY & PRAISES OCCUPY WALL STREET DURING ‘AMERICAN DREAM’ CONFERENCE

THE SOLYNDRA PLOT THICKENS: DONOR, OFFICIALS WARNED WHITE HOUSE NOT TO VISIT

SEE FRANCES PIVEN’S AWKWARD CALL-AND-RESPONSE SPEECH TO WALL ST. PROTESTERS

‘MUSLIMS AGAINST CRUSADES’ HOLD MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR TERRORIST AL-AWLAKI

IN WORDS AND ON PAPER, PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS ARE WIPING ISRAEL OFF THE MAP

GE BRINGS GOVERNMENT’S NEW FOOD GUIDELINES TO YOUR…MICROWAVE?

GOV’T INCREASINGLY GETTING YOUR PRIVATE INFO FROM INTERNET COMPANIES

AL QAEDA TO AHMADINEJAD: STOP ‘RIDICULOUS’ 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORIES…WE WANT THE CREDIT

PRESIDENT PANDER: STATISTICS ARE ‘DECEPTIVE’… OBAMA TELLS LATINOS — DON’T WORRY WE ARE NOT ACTUALLY DEPORTING MORE ILLEGALS THAN BUSH

OBAMA’S SENIOR ADVISOR VALERIE JARRETT: THE POINT OF GOVERNMENT IS TO GIVE PEOPLE A LIVELIHOOD SO THEY CAN PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILIES

NYC Mayor Bloomberg: ‘Government’s Highest Duty’ Is to Push ‘Healthy’ Foods

DOJ: ‘Mexican-Based Trafficking Organizations Control Access to the U.S.–Mexico Border’

More solar companies led by Democratic donors received federal loan guarantees

Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law

Janeane Garofalo: Racist Republicans Support Herman Cain

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Calif. Student Punished for Saying ‘Bless You’

PETA ‘Payback Is Hell’ ad aimed at Florida shark attack victim causing feeding frenzy of outrage

Sheila Jackson Lee: Obama Being Crucified Like Jesus