"Even a politician is entitled to a presumption of innocence," wrote veteran New York newsman Gabe Pressman a week ago. "Yet, reading the papers and listening to television pundits, one would get the impression that Congressman Charles Rangel is guilty — until proved innocent — the reverse of a basic American right."

President Obama used an interview aired Friday evening on "CBS Evening News," to order embattled 40-year New York Congressman and Korean War hero Charles Rangel to quit. "I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served his constituents very well, but these allegations are very troubling," Obama told CBS. "He's somebody who's at the end of his career. Eighty years old.

United Space Alliance, which trains the astronauts, and services the Space Shuttle fleet and prepares it for launch, has begun notifying about 900 employees in Florida of lay-offs that will start Oct. 1. There will also be nearly 500 layoffs in Texas, and 14 in Huntsville, or over 1,400, just in the next few weeks.

Americans are using fewer medical services, according to a review in the Wall Street Journal, showing that the number of patient visits, drug prescriptions, and procedures were all down in the second quarter 2010, from a year ago.

The just-established U.S. National Oceans Council, reportedly to be headed by Anti-Science Director John Holden and the Council on Environmental Quality's Nancy Sutley, is only one flank of the Obama team's intended imposition of the WWF's policies of eliminating human life, and the biosphere, itself, through control of water policy.

In its July 22 report, "Establishing a New Normal," the American Civil Liberties Union establishes that the Obama administration has continued and even intensified many of the Bush-Cheney police-state measures, while adding a few of its own.