• Lamar Waldron, co-author (w/Thom) of "Ultimate Sacrifice".
• Dinesh D'Souza, Former policy analyst in the Reagan White House; author of numerous books including his most recent "Life After Death: The Evidence"; columnist for Townhall.com.
• Conservative talker Jerry Doyle, his new book "Have You Seen My Country Lately: America's Wake Up Call".

• Are historic CIA internal power struggles endangering America?
• Why are conservatives doing Osama bin Laden's work for him?
• "Economic fascism, policy police, the death of capitalism..."

• I'm Not Over, Carolina Liar.
• Political World, Bob Dylan.
• Catch the Reading Bug, Monty Harper.
• Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
• Times like these, Foo Fighters.
• Fight The Good Fight, Triumph.
• This Is A Call, Foo Fighters.
• Chances, Five For Fighting.
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Ennio Morricone.
• Democracy, Leonard Cohen.

"The documents in question - all more than 25 years old - were scheduled to be declassified on Dec. 31 under an order originally signed by President Bill Clinton and amended by President George W. Bush.

But now Obama finds himself in the awkward position of extending the secrecy, despite his repeated pledges of greater transparency, because his administration has been unable to prod spy agencies into conformance.

Some of the agencies have thrown up roadblocks to disclosure, engaged in turf battles over how documents should be evaluated, and have reviewed only a fraction of the material to determine whether releasing them would jeopardize national security.

In the face of these complications, the White House has given the agencies a commitment that they will get an extension beyond Dec. 31 of an undetermined length - possibly years, said the administration officials, who spoke on the condition they not be identified discussing internal deliberations. It will be the third such extension: Clinton granted one in 2000 and Bush granted one in 2003."

"In March 2009, Dodd acknowledged (after several denials) that he had worked behind the scenes to weaken a provision dealing with executive pay in the economic stimulus legislation at the request of the Obama administration. As USA Today reported, "The provision inserted in the bill instead expressly allowed companies that received taxpayer bailout money to pay retention bonuses that were part of employment contracts signed before Feb. 11, 2009. That would include the AIG bonuses, although Dodd has said he didn't know about the AIG bonuses at the time." "

"The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them. Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.

What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important. Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation.

The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade -- a saving of over 4-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day."

Jimmy Carter televised "Crisis of Confidence" Speech on July 15, 1979.

"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy...

All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations"

"America's energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we needn't have, and it's cheaper not to. When the U.S. last paid attention to oil efficiency, between 1977 and 1985, oil use fell 17% while GDP grew 27%. During those eight years, oil imports fell 50% and imports from the Persian Gulf fell by 87%. That exercise of market muscle--from the demand side--broke OPEC's pricing power for a decade. Today we can rerun that play even more decisively, at a big profit. What are we waiting for? We can end oil dependence forever. "

“We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” FDR

I took that statement to mean that our country needs to free itself from paralytic fear and do what is necessary. Guess the cons found it to be useful advise on how to further their agenda.