The Reconstruction-era South didn’t invent dishonesty, but its response to America’s defining trauma has become a foundational lie, supporting an ever-growing edifice of false history. It’s a lie so big no one will forcefully challenge it, a lie that’s too big to fail. In the sesquicentennial year of the Civil War, the “stars and bars” fly over state capitals, proclamations are issued that honor the Confederacy without mentioning slavery, and commuters drive to work on highways named after white supremacists. And appeals to wounded pride and the lost values of imagined pasts are an everyday part of our political culture.

MSNBC: Slate’s Dave Weigel reminds us that Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are the only candidates to have been pranked by the venerable comedian-actor Sacha Baron Cohen. The video below shows Gingrich’s awkwardly hilarious 2006 interview with “Ali G.” But Ron Paul had an even worse awkward encounter with Cohen in his incarnation of “Bruno” [...]

“Sarah Palin, it seems, finds the Obama family Christmas card featuring First Dog Bo something less than appropriate. The former governor of Alaska told Fox News that she found it ‘odd‘ that the card featured the dog rather than the cores of the holiday: ‘family, faith and freedom.’” — BaltimoreSun.Com    As Seen on Fox (Fixed) [...]

“A limited-time shoe sale at New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue turned into a mad dash for shoes and checkout spots before the sale expired, witnesses said. Witnesses said the 4-hour, 60-percent sale that ended at noon Monday produced a frenzy over Oscar de la Renta and Christian Louboutin footwear, as well as people jockeying for [...]

The war is on between The US & The Islamic Republic from the day one of the Islamic Revolution and US is making every effort to dismantle the regime through any means, legal or illegal. Hence they supported the terrorist organization, Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) (Although its black listed in US, but they supported it), invaded Iraq & Afghanistan to surround Islamic Republic, played the game of regime change in Pakistan from civilian to military and again back to civilian leaded by American puppets