Taiwanese mock with video cartoon: Hu Jintao jets into Washington

US-Sino Currency Rap Battle

In observance of Martin Luther King Day, pro-lifers are focusing in part on a major civil rights issue.

Joseph Parker, pastor of two African-Methodist-Episcopal churches in Mississippi, says today's culture often overlooks the critical questions and issues related to life and the unborn. Instead, he says, people tend to avoid pushing their moral views on others or agree that it is up to a woman to decide what she should do with her body.

"Tragically, this kind of argument has become just a smokescreen that has kept too many from really seeing the true issue at hand," Parker laments. "The false claim has been that the abortion issue is about women's rights and reproductive freedom, but this is simply marketing hype and lies. In reality, it was racism and eugenics that drove the legalization of abortion."

What's the most-telling piece of evidence that proves

the abortion industry in the U.S. targets minorities and the poor?

More than 30 percent of abortions that take place in the U.S. involve the killing of black babies -- a truth clearly portrayed in a documentary called Maafa 21, which was produced by Life Dynamics. A group of black pastors will show that film today at its "Festival for Life" at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.

"One of the great needs in our society is to recognize that there's a huge need for us to take a stand for the civil rights of the unborn child [and] that the civil rights of the unborn need to be respected and protected," Parker concludes.

He goes on to point out that Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., describes standing up for the rights of the unborn as one of the most serious civil rights issues of our time. The Mississippi pastor recently spoke at a rally in Jackson, where he voiced his agreement with that statement.

China's President Lays Groundwork for Obama Talks

WSJ's Jake Lee speaks to Heard on the Street Asia Editor Mohammed Hadi about Chinese President Hu Jintao's comments on currencies, balancing the Chinese economy and China's growing clout abroad.

Thomas Sowell: Federal Reserve a 'Cancer'

Economist Thomas Sowell explains why he supports Ron Paul's stance on abolishing the Federal Reserve. When asked by Peter Robinson what should replace the Fed, Sowell replies: "When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"

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Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and updated edition of his classic volume, Basic Economics.

"Through its various editions," Sowell writes, "the fundamental idea behind Basic Economics remains the same: Learning economics should be as uncomplicated as it is informative."

Here, Sowell seeks to uncomplicate some of the economic issues confronting the country today, from the financial crisis and the role of the Fed to the economics of health care and trade imbalances. - Hoover Institution

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

Previewing Chinese President Hu Jintao's U.S. Visit

Kenneth Lieberthal: Next week's Washington meetings between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will provide the leaders with an opportunity to further improve relations between the U.S. and China. The dialogue is expected to cover tough economic and trade issues, security concerns and military expansion. China Center Director Kenneth Lieberthal explains.

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The Brick Thief: A LEGO Short Film

Governor Christie's Dirty Islamist Ties

Christie nominated Sohail Mohammed, an attorney to detained terrorist suspects, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County.

Nat'l Socialist Strategy Session Calls for Head-Cracking Revolution

Man faces charges for defying TSA agents

"What’s really at root in this case is whether travel is a right that we have under the Constitution - an ability to move about the country without having to show papers."

Klavan Explains "Liberal" Culture

Why Leftists Are Far Likelier to Use Political Violence Than Conservatives

No Surprise AZ Shooter Was a Mentally Deranged Anarchist.

The tenets of Classical Liberalism are listed by Amy Sturgis (Sturgis, Amy H. "The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism." Belmont University | Nashville, TN | Middle Tennessee | Liberal Arts College. 1994. Web. 16 Jan. 2011. .):

1. An ethical emphasis on the individual as a rights-bearer prior to the existence of any state, community, or society;
2. The support of the right of property carried to its economic conclusion, a free-market system;
3. The desire for a limited constitutional government to protect individuals’ rights from others and from its own expansion; and
4. The universal (global and ahistorical) applicability of these above convictions.

U.S. Satisfaction Remains Near 12-Month Low

Despite their party's winning House control, Republicans' satisfaction lower than Democrats'

CBS POLL: 77% say cut spending; only 9% say raise taxes

Poll: Americans Split on What to Cut from Government

Cornel West "Barack Obama Is NOT The Fulfillment Of Martin Luther King's Dream!"

Cornel West,January 13, 2011 C-SPAN

Arizona Shooter walked through campus last fall rambling about his 'genocide school.'

College releases YouTube post from Loughner.

The video was posted on YouTube on Sept. 23 but his current account was not created until October. No one seems to have noticed the discrepancy. Thus far, no one has stated what his previous YouTube account was if he had one. In any event, this video got him suspended from the community college.

$14,000,000,000,000

Remarkably, nearly half of today's national debt was run up in just the past six years. It soared from $7.6 trillion in January 2005 as President George W. Bush began his second term to $10.6 trillion the day Obama was inaugurated and to $14.02 trillion now. The period has seen two major wars and the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s.

In three years the U.S. increased its debt $4 trillion; then, in two years, Obama increased the debt another $4 trillion.

Here's what then-Sen. Barack Obama said on the Senate floor in 2006: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance the government's reckless fiscal policies."

At that time, not a single Senate Democrat voted to raise the limit, opposition that's now complicating White House efforts to rally bipartisan support for a higher ceiling.

OPEC OIL EMBARGO - 1973

NBC Nightly News coverage of OPEC's decision to cut exports of oil to the United States along with other nations. Reported by John Chancellor of the evening of October, 17 1973.

Catholic Doctor Explains How Native American He Is: Arizona Memorial

Obama’s Halftime Report card