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EDITOR’S CHOICE: John Cloud in TIME August 31 writes “One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers."

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. in The American Spectator  08.19.10,  writes “It is becoming apparent for all to see, that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be President of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly, he could develop such skills were he to sit in the Senate for a couple of terms. Yet there are delicate sensitivities, the ability to listen, to stick by your guns, occasionally to remain reticent. These are the fundamentals of a leader, and President Barack Obama has demonstrated that he lacks all of them, most notably reticence. I now think it is clear even to Official Washington that President Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.”

USS Liberty after Israeli attack, June 8 1967. 34 US Sailors killed, 172 Injured

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Philip Giraldi  writes in the August 23 issue of The American Conservative. “ Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department.”

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EDITOR’S CHOICE: Obama’s America is a walking disaster. This man was elected with among the highest approval ratings in history. Less than two years later, he has bankrupted the nation, mortgaged the future of our children to China, nationalized half of the economy, destroyed small business, increased unemployment by 10 percent and apologized to the entire world in the process. He apparently has no clue of what he is doing because he lacks the experience and gravitas to be president. Of course lefties blame Bush and racism, but that is nonsense. And it is a catastrophe in the making. Where is the next Ronald Reagan?

Below are ten reasons why Obama is not up to the job

EDITOR’S CHOICE:  Sharon Weinberger writes in Air Force Magazine – “More than 38 years after being removed from command and demoted for allowing unauthorized bombing, a U.S. Air Force general has been cleared of wrongdoing and had his rank posthumously reinstated.”

Former Census Director Prewitt

EDITOR’S CHOICE: A lot of commentators assumed that the Obama triumph would put on end to much of the debate on race. But the opposite has happened and the issue is more toxic than ever. The NAACP calls the entire country in general and the Tea Party in particular racist. The New Black Panthers say only whites can be racists and that if Blacks “kill white babies,” it is justified. A Boston cop has to undergo an “Obama teaching moment,” for simply doing his job which involved a black man. Now Obama calls Arizona racist for enforcing immigration policies already approved by the Feds, and is suing the entire state. Many Americans want to know why the census asks exhaustive questions on ethnicity in what is supposed to be a color-blind, melting-pot society. Many citizens refuse to reply at all and others can’t even figure the questions out – for example is my daughter who is half Irish-American and half Pakistani-American an “Asian or Pacific Islander?”

Kenneth Prewitt who ran the Census Bureau and the 2000 head count for Bill Clinton, explained July 14 in USA Today how the arcane process came about, and offers some new ideas on how to simplify the debate a bit. But as a good liberal Democrat, he admits that “Policy responses to disparities in employment, education, health and incarceration call for statistics on groups being left behind. Diversity goals in universities and businesses use Census categories.” So the census is now driven by the priority on “income redistribution” mantra this administration is trying to force down our throats. Among its first actions was to try to move the Census Bureau into the White House. That is after all, why the Tea Party exists in the first place – to argue for responsible spending and less, not more government,  and not for a platform that bases everything on race, which this gang that can’t shoot straight is doing with reckless abandon in Arizona and across its agenda. Here is Prewitt’s census primer:

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON

EDITOR’S CHOICE:  By Associated Press Writer Eric Talmadge Thu Aug 5 “ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON – Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America's virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas”.

“CHINA MAY SOON PUT AN END TO THAT!.”

HOT WEATHER SPELL IN SICHUAN PROVINCE CHINA/ REUTERS STRINGER,

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Anybody in Hollywood or New York want to move to China? We will pay their way if they promise to swim a lot, and never to return to the US.

Lme duck? Hillary looms

EDITOR’S CHOICE: “The president hasn't grown into the job - all that's needed to beat him is a serious Republican,” says British Correspondent Simon Heffer in New York.  Published: in the UK Telegraph 8:26PM BST 27 Jul 2010