FSM Security Update: 08-27-09 *When Citizens are Ready, Leaders Appear* & “Cash for Convicts"

August 27th Is Obama in an "emperor has no clothes" moment with the American people? POTUS & 1,000 rabbis. Key to the remaking of America? Do the majority of ordinary Americans want our country ‘remade?' Abe Greenwald: It's time for Plan B. Exclusive: When Citizens are Ready, Leaders Appear Tom McLaughlin We're witnessing a grassroots uprising of people telling government "Stop! We want to do it ourselves!" They're sick of intellectuals arranging everything for everybody with their money. America Loses its Own Hearts and Minds Ben Shapiro On September 11, 2001, the United States was involuntarily launched into a great struggle against Islamists seeking our destruction. And now, eight years later, Americans don't care. Exclusive: In Praise of the 19th Amendment - But the Global Struggle for Equality is Not Over Dr. Robin McFee Should the cultural norms of a community should be respected or honored if they include beating or burning women or subjecting them to honor killings? Inquest of CIA None Too Smart Peter Brookes It isn't by chance that we haven't been attacked in nearly eight years, so where is the logic in prosecuting those who kept us safe? Glenn Beck on All the President's Men The Editors How many times do we have to find a Marxist, communist, socialist, a revolutionary or a simple anti-capitalist near, around or advising the president of the United States before we ask the question? Today's Blog Topics Video: Federal Agency: Stimulus Checks Mistakenly Sent to 1,700 Inmates - "Cash for Convicts" Video: Pro-Obama Apollo Alliance Advised By a Left-Wing Terrorist Video: Rep. Jim Moran Kicks Out Protesters Shouting Over Howard Dean Video: Greta Talks with Karl Rove about Ted Kennedy, Health Care Debate Video: Beck and Limbaugh discuss the threat to free speech What Will They Learn? The Republican Recovery Program The Slippery Slope of Health-Care Reform Leaked e-mail shows how GE puts the government to work for GE. Facta, Non Verba: Three Reasons Why Government Can't Run Health Care Newt Gingrich As Ronald Reagan used to say," facts are stubborn things", and the facts of government's track record in managing our money speak louder than any stage-managed town hall ever could. Exclusive: Meet Colorado's Conflicted U.S. Senator, Mark Udall John Dendahl Isn't it well past time for Sen. Mark Udall to level with the people he represent and tell them the truth about his position on nuclear energy? Women's Equality - The Global Challenge for Our Generation Jeffrey Imm Of all the forms of institutionalized hate that our society faces today, none is more self-destructive to the continuing survival of the fabric of humanity than the hatred of women, or misogyny. From the King's Proclamation to Richie's MiG Military History Military Milestones from the King's Proclamation to Richie's MiG. ***NEW*** Caption Contest August 26 - September 1 Will your caption come in at number one? Today's Hot Topics: 8-27 We choose, you peruse. •1. The Real CIA News: Interrogations were carefully limited, briefed on Capitol Hill, and yielded information that saved innocent lives. •2. Obama Targets Medicare Advantage: Seniors would lose with health 'reform,' and seniors vote. •3. U.S. Navy: Pirates Fire on U.S. Helicopter •4. The CIA probe shows once more that the law does not control this attorney general. •5. Despite Obama's Pledge, Veterans Not Ready to Support Democrats' Health Care Overhaul •6. Rationalizing Torture •7. Obama's Carousel of Incompetence by Emmett Tyrrell •8. Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief •9. Talking Turki On Oil •10. Rush: Brave CIA agents did absolutely nothing but protect us. •11. The Failure to Administer Justice -- Another Lockerbie Tragedy by Michael Reagan •12. Howard Dean: Democrats Left Tort Reform Out of Health Care Bill Because They Feared 'Taking On' Trial Lawyers •13. The Soviet Standard Returns - Hillary Clinton mouths an old Communist bromide. •14. What the President's Attack on the CIA Really Means •15. Democrats: Win one for Ted Kennedy on health care reform •16. An Underground Railroad for a Muslim Girl •17. Honoring Teddy by Opposing Health Care •18. Obama's lyrical Left struggles with liberalism By: Michael Barone •19. Obama Administration Urged to Consider Expanded Interrogation Methods