May 16, 2009 – Like an old Blues song, this column should open with the proverbial line, “I woke up this morning….”

Shortly after I began my “career” in broadcasting in 1995, I met a man, who I would interview on numerous occasions, and who over the years, would converse with me due to a common-connection: We were both Veterans of the Rumble in the Jungle – the Police Action known as Viet Nam.

In an age, when the political stage is filled with near-do-wells, queer-do-wells, and well-funded perpetual dilatants, who occupy offices of influence, Ted Sampley spent many years exposing these “heroes” for what they truly are – cowards.

May 17, 2009 – Unlike the United States Capital, U.S. Senator Roland Burris was not barred from entering the Belvedere Mall in Waukegan, Illinois yesterday to address a crowd of open border groups. particularly; Family Latina Unida, Elvira Arellano’s group, and Central Sin Fronteras (without borders) whose executive director, Emma Lozano acted as emcee and interpreter for the event.

Ms. Lozano, an anarchist, is the sister of Rudy Lozano, the person credited for bringing the Mexican and Puerto Rican communities together behind Chicago’s first Black Mayor, Harold Washington’s campaign.

Rudy was also the Midwest field organizer for the old International Ladies Garment Workers Union, before he was gunned down execution style in the kitchen of his Little Village home, back in 1983.

May 17, 2009 – What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the service of powerful interest groups?

A president who does a good job for the ruling interest groups is paid off with remunerative corporate directorships, outrageous speaking fees, and a lucrative book contract. If he is young when he assumes office, like Bill Clinton and Obama, it means a long life of luxurious leisure.

Fighting the special interests doesn’t pay and doesn’t succeed.

May 17, 2009 – I don’t know, I must be getting old. Maybe it is senility, or possibly the early stages of Alzheimer’s, but I am confused. This whole issue of terrorism has got me in a conundrum.

Putting aside the still unanswered questions about 9/11, if we are to believe our government, we are in a war on terror with radicals who want to bring death and destruction to American soil.

After all, isn’t that why we have approximately 140,000 U.S. troops deployed to Iraq, and another 30,000 deployed to Afghanistan? Isn’t that why President Bush established the Department of Homeland Security? C’mon, if a President is going to overstep his Constitutional authority, he may as well do it in a way the benefits the country, right?

May 17, 2009 – Americans need a civics lesson.  And so do politicians.  Of all the wrong and delusional thinking about the US Constitution the one that is most thoroughly incorrect and routinely used for political propaganda purposes is that there are three coequal branches of the federal government.

You hear presidents, members of Congress and media pundits say it all the time.  They are wrong.  Nowhere in the Constitution or the Federalist Papers is there any statement or declaration that the three branches are coequal.  Why has this myth persisted for so long?  Why do so many prominent and supposedly educated people keep invoking this outright lie?

“600 Words by Esther J. Cepeda”

May 17, 2009 – People, bear with me here, I’m only a few days removed from having completed a frustrating and maddening master’s level class in effective teaching strategies to help English language learners pick up our baffling but beloved language, and a report that was just released has me climbing the walls.

But more about that in a moment, let me vent some more:
It was the kind of class where the teacher framed everything in terms of “cultural respect” and where all the students felt it was imperative to teach kids in their native language and that to insist otherwise was to buy into the evil construct of the “white man” trying to keep poor Latinos “down.”

Much like my experience being an actual teacher in a classroom of non-native English-language speakers, where I was castigated as the lone weirdo who insisted on talking to and teaching her students in English, I was the freakish anomaly in this class.

May 17, 2009 – US President Barack Obama took the podium in a White House press conference and stood with an all-embellished confidence that often accompanies new presidents. He was flanked by two leaders whose apparent grandeur barely reflected their embattled situations on the ground: Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

The meeting at the White House on 6 May was fashioned to give the impression that the new US administration is both “serious” and “committed” about resolving the crises plaguing Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are imprudently reduced to that of a Taliban resurgence in the former, and a Taliban- inspired militant encroachment in the latter. Obama declared the meeting “extraordinarily productive” as the three nations, he said, are joined by the common goal to “defeat Al-Qaeda and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan”.

May 17, 2009 – The threat to American freedom and liberty may be coming from a foreign enemy, but it may also be sneaking up on us by mere demographics ….. demographics that are the direct result of the premeditated failure of the American government to secure our borders and stop illegal immigration ….. immigration coming mostly from Central and South American countries.  Although some may construe what we have to say here as racist, it is not.  It is merely reporting salient facts that are staring every legal, freedom-loving, producing, responsible and self-reliant American in the face and in the wallet.

It is estimated that the current American illegal alien population, mostly Hispanics, ranges from around 12,000,000 to 20,000,000.  No one knows for sure because they hide in the shadows.  But there are two vital statistics about this issue that most people ignore, at their own peril.  The two statistics are: 1) the significant increase in the illegal Hispanic population from new births, if left unchecked, over the increase in  White and other ethnic groups in the next 30 to 50 years; and 2) the political mindset of that illegal alien population, since most of that population comes from socialist countries.

May 17, 2009 – Upon taking office, much of the nation was prepared to give the incoming Obama administration a chance, despite a laundry list of well founded doubts. On his first day in office 44% of Americans strongly approved while only 16% strongly disapproved of the new president. But it would be a very short honeymoon…

Immediately, the Obama administration started making all the wrong moves. Little more than a hundred days later, only 35% strongly approve as he has already lost the confidence of many who voted for him and 30% now strongly disapprove, up from 16% on his first day in office. The remaining 35% are still blindly hoping against all evidence.

May 17, 2009 – Many people have asked for a simple explanation as to the intent behind the CAFR and what happened over the decades?

Well, in a nut shell here is the foundation block that allowed government to take it all over by investment.

It started in the mid 40′s and grew into what we have in government now seventy years latter come 2009.

Government started out as a “pay as you go” structure. By transforming into a corporate liability company over the decades, this gave them the ability to use “advance projections” to strip annual operating funds and create advance forward liability accounts whereby in doing so they were able to build numerous “wealth bases” of equity in designated fund balances separate from the budget reports that were exclusively presented for public viewing.