Breaking: Ahmadinejad to resign?

A few minutes ago on May 5, 2011, Arab TV announced that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini requested Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to step down from his post. This has not been confirmed nor verified by Western media as yet, however, it has been reported that several of his close aides are already under arrest.

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One can only hope this is going to actually happen. It hasn’t yet. Might not even. But we can hope and pray. And maybe somewhere in the near future possibly start to have some normalized relations with Iran.

No matter what id take this with a grain of salt.

Dr. Ron Paul Said…

“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” 

For all America’s good news, dad still isn’t there

“The girls can’t name the University of Miami quarterback, because I can’t name him,” Ellen Bakalian says. “I don’t follow sports. I don’t watch Miami games. I did for a little while afterward, but sports aren’t my passion. I watched because Jeff did.”

Monday, she woke up the girls, 12 and 10, in their suburban New Jersey home and said the man who killed their father was dead. They put American flags in the yard. They watched some news on television before school.

But as the shock faded, as the celebration outside the White House worked its way off television, she sat in her New Jersey home and felt her life of nevers hadn’t changed at all.

She’d still never see her husband again. She’d still never watch him with her children again.

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In case anyone needed a reminder as to why we are STILL fighting this war and will be for quite some time.

Statement from former President Bill Clinton On bin Ladens Death

“This is a profoundly important moment not just for the families of those who lost their lives on 9/11 and in al-Qaida’s other attacks but for people all over the world who want  to build a common future of peace, freedom, and cooperation for our children.

I congratulate the President, the National Security team and the members of our armed forces on bringing Osama bin Laden to justice after more than a decade of murderous al-Qaida attacks.”

STATEMENT BY FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

Earlier this evening, President Obama called to inform me that American forces killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al Qaeda network that attacked America on September 11, 2001.  I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission.  They have our everlasting gratitude.  This momentous achievement marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.  The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message:  No matter how long it takes, justice will be done.

Political Pictures 5.1.11

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Left, Right, and Soros

It wouldn’t just be his speech. Soros was one of three panelists speaking about a new edition of The Constitution of Liberty, the most enduring book by the libertarian economist Freidrich von Hayek. The editor of the new edition, Ronald Hamowy, was tasked with introducing the experts, moderating questions, and keeping the whole thing from becoming a circus. He eyed the audience warily, hopefully.

The worry was that someone would show up at the panel and decide to confront George Soros, philosophical dabbler, with George Soros, the nightmare figure who shows up on Fox News prime time the way Emmanuel Goldstein showed up at the Two Minutes Hate. Soros, who made his billions in international finance, has funded many of the new institutions of the professional left since George W. Bush started seeking re-election. He seeded ACT, a get-out-the-vote project that didn’t quite work in 2004, and then he helped fund the Center for American Progress ($3 million) and Media Matters for America ($1 million, only last year). Entering politics, he became a political target. He’s the sort of billionaire whose website has to include a FAQ about where he was when the Nazis invaded Eastern Europe, because someone who Googles his name and “collaborator” gets a lot of false results.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Said…

All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.”

Ohio state House passes bill curbing union rights

Ohio’s Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would strip state employees of most collective bargaining rights and ban them from striking, a measure that would make Ohio the largest U.S. state so far to curb the power of unions.

The bill, which passed the House 53 to 44, next goes back to the state Senate for a vote to approve changes made by the House, and would then go to Republican Governor John Kasich for his signature. The state Senate passed a version of the bill earlier this month.

Unions are a key constituency of the Democratic Party.

If the bill is enacted, Ohio would become the most populous U.S. state so far to impose sweeping collective bargaining curbs on public sector unions. The issue has spurred protests in Wisconsin and other states and is likely to be a factor in 2012 U.S. elections.

Wisconsin’s legislature passed a law this month that sharply restricts public sector union bargaining rights, though Democrats have sought to block the law in the courts. Idaho has also passed similar restrictions.

Kasich said Ohio’s bill would put taxpayers and public employees on a more equal footing regarding pay and benefits.

“This is really nothing more than an effort to rebalance the system and make sure that the people who pay the taxes are represented at the table,” Kasich said.

The bill that passed the House removed jail time as a possible penalty for workers who participate in strikes and allows police and firefighters to collectively bargain for safety equipment.

‘EVEN WORSE’

But the modified bill is in other ways tougher on unions. It prevents nonunion employees affected by contracts from paying fees to unions and makes it easier to decertify a union. Democrats decry such measures as proof the bill is a politically motivated attack on unions dressed up as a budget measure.

Senate Democratic Leader Capri Cafaro said the changes “made a bad bill even worse.”

While Wisconsin has gained more national attention, Ohio is far more important to the union movement and the bill would affect some 350,000 workers. It has the sixth-largest number of public sector union members among all U.S. states, twice the number of Wisconsin. With many auto and steel and manufacturing plants, Ohio is also a union bellwether.

Kasich said the bill would give local communities a way to control their costs.

Democratic State Representative Kenny Yuko said Democrats and union members will soon be gathering the 213,000 petition signatures needed for a referendum to give Ohio voters a chance to keep or repeal the law.

(Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Jerry Norton and Andrew Stern)

How the ‘Obama doctrine’ compares with predecessors

Washington (CNN) — U.S. presidents throughout modern history have developed their own foreign policy doctrines as conflicts around the world tested their leadership.

President James Monroe was the first to articulate a particular doctrine when in his 1823 message to Congress he warned European powers to stay out of affairs in the Western Hemisphere.

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