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On 8/28/10 Glenn Beck announced that "America today begins to turn back to God" at his "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial.

Beck caused me to recall Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" a scalding critique of American Christianity that King addressed to his "Dear Fellow Clergymen".

Inspired by Beck and the "fierce urgency of now" for "direct talks" between Israel and Palestine are scheduled to begin September 2, 2010; and after 20 months of inertia, a new start begins to "resolve all final-status issues...in one year."

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By Timothy V. Gatto

Sometimes I become more than just a little bit angry when I read what passes for news in America. What makes me even angrier is what passes for opinion on the left side of the blogosphere. Don’t get me wrong, some of the articles and op-ed pieces are nothing less than astounding. In fact, most of what I read on lefty sites are the only thing that keeps me from slitting my throat on days when it seems that the people in America have just forgotten how to think for themselves. Still, I don’t believe that most people understand what our biggest problems are. I may be wrong and I’m open to the thoughts of others, but these are, I believe, the most pressing problems that Americans face.

The economy is what’s on most people’s minds. I’m not an economist, but I have read some of the articles of people that are economists. It’s a subject that is hard to get very far away from. I can’t help but notice that it is the middle-class that is bearing the brunt of this recession/depression that we are going through. It seems that the middle-class is always the sector that bears the weight of bad economic times.

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