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John McCain was a man of candor. But ever since Steve Schmidt became Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, the candidate has become a question mark.

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November 2nd, 2008
America is a sick society, where schoolchildren are slaughtering each other, serial killers roam the streets, nearly two million people are locked up in prisons and jails, gangs and drugs and violence are commonplace, abortion is astronomical, and the worship of Mammon long ago overtook the worship of God.

Many Americans are Christians and love the Lord, but a lot also have a form of godliness without the power thereof, self-righteousness without real righteousness. So they’re sort of insulated against their problems and they don’t see how serious things have become until something like a high school massacre happens to wake them up and jolt them from their lethargy for a moment or two.

But then they settle back down to their comfortable chairs and couches in front of the television, ready to be entertained and lulled asleep, without realizing how their culture is collapsing around them. After all, America is the world’s sole remaining superpower, isn’t it? Yet they’re losing their own children as well as the respect of the rest of the world. Superpowers come, and they also go. Empires rise, and they also fall. And the bigger and more arrogant they are, the harder they fall!'

— Ted Rudow III, MA, Menlo Park, CA

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Hennessy cuts the budget





By: Devin Banerjee
Published: October 31, 20008

Some $45 million to be dropped from general funds for University

As the U.S. economy struggles to keep its head above water, Stanford will ax some $45 million from its general funds budget for each of the next two fiscal years, President John Hennessy told The Daily on Thursday.The $800 million general funds budget pays most faculty and staff salaries, core administrative operations and other non-research expenses.






November 1, 2008



America is a sick society, where schoolchildren are slaughtering each other, serial killers roam the streets, nearly two million people are locked up in prisons and jails, gangs and drugs and violence are commonplace, abortion is astronomical, and the worship of Mammon long ago overtook the worship of God.
Many Americans are Christians and love the Lord, but a lot also have a form of godliness without the power thereof, self-righteousness without real righteousness. So they’re sort of insulated against their problems and they don’t see how serious things have become until something like a high school massacre happens to wake them up and jolt them from their lethargy for a moment or two.
But then they settle back down to their comfortable chairs and couches in front of the television, ready to be entertained and lulled asleep, without realizing how their culture is collapsing around them. After all, America is the world’s sole remaining superpower, isn’t it? Yet they’re losing their own children as well as the respect of the rest of the world.
Superpowers come, and they also go.