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Christine O’Donnell On TownHall.com Christine O’Donnell has an article on TownHall.com entitled, “Obama Supports Global Tax From United Nations.” In the article she presents Obama’s support of what amounts to a global tax on the US.

Yes, Senator Obama proposes a new  global war on poverty. Of course we will pay for it because it will be financed by American taxpayers. This bill commits Americans to the United Nations Millennium Summit goal to decrease world poverty by 2015. U.S. Foreign aid would be increased to $65 billion a year.

This is a quote from Barack Obama on Meet the Press, 7/27/08 (link): "The biggest problem that we have in terms of race relations, I think, is dealing with the legacy of past discrimination which has resulted in extreme disparities in terms of poverty, in terms of wealth and in terms of income.

I'm reading Glenn Greenwald's piece in Salon magazine entitled, "Al-Marri and the power to imprison U.S. citizens without charges," July 17, 2008. Glenn has a keen mind. He cares deeply about issues of fundamental fairness. He's tireless in writing to champion his causes. I have yet to wholly... ...

Despite the failures of a War on Poverty in America, despite the evidence it has done more harm than good, Barack Obama is ready to take the fight global.

SETTING UP POOR PEOPLE FOR LIFE 1 It has been said (paraphrasing an old saying): give a poor man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day, set him up to fish and you’ve set him up for life. This is exactly what ACCION has achieved and continues to achieve.

If you don’t have fun this weekend, it’s not our fault. Don’t forget Friday! Buffalo Tears at TSI. Correction!! Poster show in Springfield is NEXT WEEKEND. Silly Joey. Sunday May 25th is the Community Community Community Festival at the Springfield Community Garden and The Pearl.

War on Everything Posted by languageandgrammar on April 29, 2008 Many of us have heard of the law of attraction, which is the belief that whatever a person experiences is a direct reflection of what he believes. For instance, if he believes that he has to fight for every penny, then he will, indeed, have to work extremely hard to become financially secure.

(couretsy Get Your War On) Yeah, and McCain is going to start a new “War on Poverty.”  Oh, but don’t worry, this won’t be like Johnson’s War on Poverty, this one will work…  by killing poor people. Seriously, think about it.  If you kill all the poor people, all that’s left are the people that aren’t poor.  It’ll be awesome.

The US government likes to declare war on issues in which there are no clear enemies, while physically fighting undeclared wars against foreign people. President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer and recreational drugs. Will George W.