Remember when John Edwards complained about the “two Americas”?

“You’ve heard me talk about the Two Americas? One for those families who have everything they need, and then one for everybody else. Katrina showed us the Two Americas. Those images of men and women at the Superdome stranded without food, water or hope — simply because they didn’t have a car or the cash to escape. Those images are something we’ll never forget.

They’ve become the face of poverty in America — a symbol of the poor and forgotten families that live in big cities like New Orleans and in small towns and rural America too.”

Well John Edwards certainly hasn’t forgotten about them. In fact, he’s personally invested millions - in the subprime lenders foreclosing on those “faces of poverty”…

Democratic presidential contender John Edwards has investing ties to subprime lenders who are foreclosing on victims of Katrina, according to a report published Friday.

The Wall Street Journal said there are 34 homes in New Orleans that face foreclosure from the subprime unit of Fortress Investment Group. Edwards has about $16 million in Fortress, a hedge fund and private equity manager, the newspaper said.

Two Americas, indeed.

Apparently our empire’s global dominance has a simple explanation… we use magical, mystical weapons.

Take a look at this picture that AFP is running… pay particular attention to the caption:

Caption: An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)

Two bullets hit her house, yet remained in perfect, un-fired condition. Reusable ammunition… what a concept!

And it’s not the first time the MSM has caught us using such. Remember this?

So you guys like polls, do ya? Enjoy this one.

A surprising 94 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with their lives - although far fewer in New York and other Eastern states think they’re better off than they were five years ago, according to a new survey.

Remember this next time you hear Democrats promising to change the course of this country, if elected.

This is according to the Washington Post… in 1922.

This ought to get him some mileage with the nutroots.

Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”

So, basically we need to pull out of Iraq so we can alter our strategy of mass-murdering civilians across Afghanistan.

I will be on the Allman and Crane in the Morning show tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 8:30 AM Central.

This story isn’t really newsworthy, is it? Just two innocent college kids with unused fireworks in their trunk…

It’s just that the “students” were muslim…

…and the “fireworks” were pipebombs…

…and they were arrested in Goose Creek, home to the Naval Weapons Station, which houses the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held…

…and the “students” lived in a house owned by Sameeh Hammoudeh, a co-defendant in the trial of Sami Al-Arian, who pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

But CAIR, an organization that apparently likes to raise funds for HAMAS, tells us it’s just a story of two “naïve kids” on a joyride.

Nothing to see here… move along.

Settled science? Don’t think so… Read the whole thing.

Hillary was in such a rush to point out Barack Obama’s obvious inexperience in matters of Presidential leadership that she forgot her own position just a year ago on the topic in question. I guess what he lacks in potential political leadership, she more than makes up for in experience being the consummate politician.

Here’s what she said on August 3, 2007, in criticizing Obama’s declaration that he would takes nukes off the table…

But Senator Clinton says the nuclear option can never be taken off the table. “Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrents to keep the peace and I don’t believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.”

But here’s what she said on the subject on April 11, 2006:

Asked about reports that the Bush administration was considering the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Iran, she said, “I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table” as an option.

So she thinks “the nuclear option” can never be taken off the table, but she would “certainly take nuclear weapons off the table”…

Clear now?

Apparently when the New York Times isn’t publishing national security secrets for their friends in the caves of Afghanistan, they’re carrying the water of the illegal immigration lobby. The latest missive is an article about how it’s Americans’ fault that illegal aliens aren’t sending as much of their money back to their homeland and as such, half a million homes there will be negatively impacted.

This year a smaller percentage of Mexican immigrants in the United States sent money back to their homeland than in 2006, according to a report released yesterday by the Inter-American Development Bank. The bank said the reduction had left at least two million people in Mexico without the same financial help they had once received.

And that’s our fault?

The immigrants in the survey included American citizens and legal and illegal residents. They identified discrimination as the biggest problem they faced, with 83 percent saying that discrimination against Latin American immigrants in general was growing in the United States.

Nice tactic lumping legal immigrants with illegal aliens. Makes it easier to call us racists and bigots when we try to address the issue of illegal immigration.

“Mexican immigrants don’t feel welcome in the U.S. anymore,” Mr. Bendixen said. “They feel they are not wanted here, and their contributions are not appreciated.”

They’re not… if they’re here illegally. Just like illegal Cuban immigrants, illegal Kenyan immigrants, illegal German immigrants, illegal French immigrants, illegal (fill-in-the-blank) immigrants. Illegal immigrants are not welcome…period.

But go through the legal process like millions do every year and we’ll welcome you with open arms.

Remittances to Mexico have become vital to the economics of the country’s poorest regions, bank officials said. The money pays for drinking-water systems, roads, care for older people and other needs in villages and working-class neighborhoods.

Maybe it’s time Mexico started funding its own infrastructure and stopped encouraging its citizens to illegal cross the border to subsidize its ailing government.

But nooooo… the New York Times wants us to believe it’s our fault so we’ll be more tolerant and accommodating of illegal immigration. Sorry, but controlling illegal immigration has more to do with just illegals leeching our system to fund a broken government south of the border.

Islamic extremists embedded in the United States — posing as Hispanic nationals — are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report.