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Tea Party Candidate (Christine O’Donnell) Against Masturbation?
Post Date: 2010-09-07 12:43:12 by Brian S
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Just another reminder that many Tea Partiers have less interest in "small government" than in a tyranny of the minority. Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party candidate for Senate in Delaware, doesn’t want you to masturbate. Back in the 90s, she appeared on MTV to argue for a lust-free youth. And lust-free, O’Donnell clarified, means masturbation-free. At the time, O’Donnell was the president of Saviors Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT), a group “with a focus on establishing conservative Christian values in college-aged kids.” Her campaign against masturbation was only the beginning of a lifelong assault on human well-being. She opposed President ...
Republican 'Young Guns' Critical Of Bush Legacy And Party Hierarchy
Post Date: 2010-09-07 12:25:03 by Brian S
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Former President George Bush has been criticsed for betraying conservative principles Photo: REUTERS Calling themselves the Young Guns, three members of America's House of Representatives are about to publish a template for new era of Republican domination in Congress. With the economy failing to live up to President Barack Obama's hopes for a strong recovery - unemployment remains just below ten percent - Republicans are poised for major gains on Nov 2, when all of the House and a third of Senate seats is contested in midterm elections. The president has scrambled to stave off defeat over the economy and will this week launch measures designed to boost small businesses. ...
Major Democratic Donors Shift Donations To The Right
Post Date: 2010-09-07 12:00:54 by Brian S
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If the temperature in Washington is determined by the smell of money, then this summer is very hot indeed. The rich are not happy. Major political action committees and employees of the nation's largest business empires have dramatically shifted their money to the right. A detailed analysis of 2010 campaign cycle contributions by the Houston Chronicle shows that Republicans are catching up with Senate Democrats in campaign fundraising. Donations to the Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)-led Senate Democratic Campaign Committee (DSCC) have dropped 25 percent this year alone. "Employees of 126 businesses that had donated money to Senate Democrats in the 2008 campaign have switched all or most ...
New Polls Spell Gloom For Obama's Democrats
Post Date: 2010-09-07 11:59:40 by Brian S
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New opinion polls Tuesday made painful reading for President Barack Obama's Democrats, cementing conventional wisdom that they face a pounding by Republicans in November's congressional elections. The surveys, published after the Labor Day weekend, the traditional campaign kick-off date, suggest voters have soured on Obama, see him as too liberal and are increasingly pessimistic about the sluggish economic recovery. At a time of high unemployment and economic pain, it appears that the cocktail of hope and change that powered Obama to the presidency has drained away and that a short era of Democratic political dominance may be closing. Yet, the polls also suggest that despite ...
Montana Tea Party Leader Axed Over Comments Concerning Hanging Of Homosexuals
Post Date: 2010-09-07 11:56:23 by Brian S
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The president of Montana's Big Sky Tea Party Association has been fired from his leadership position following remarks made online that implied his support for the public hanging of homosexuals. According to a report from the Helena Independent Record, former Big Sky Tea Party president Tim Ravndal had the following exchange posted on his Facebook profile back in July: Tim Ravndal: "Marriage is between a man and a woman period! By giving rights to those otherwise would be a violation of the constitution and my own rights" Keith Baker: "How dare you exercise your First Amendment Rights?" Dennis Scranton: "I think fruits are decorative. Hang up where they ...
Get the TEA out and watch the Koran Burn
Post Date: 2010-09-06 08:06:09 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:What a beautiful site. A Koran Burning.
Best Resume Ever
Post Date: 2010-09-04 19:40:17 by Skip Intro
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Poster Comment:Maybe Nebu could use this to find a job.
What's Behind Carly Fiorina's Labor Day Jaunt to Israel?
Post Date: 2010-09-03 14:09:32 by Brian S
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On the heels of a heated television debate with Sen. Barbara Boxer last night, Carly Fiorina is flying to Israel for the long weekend. Her campaign describes the visit as a "personal trip" and not a political statement. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which is sponsoring the trip, declined to comment on it or release Fiorina's schedule, saying the trip was private. But scheduled as it is -- the day after President Obama began peace talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and just two months before Election Day -- Fiorina's trip is clearly intended to send a message. Unlike Boxer, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has strong ties to pro-Israel ...
The GOP's Oompa-Loompa
Post Date: 2010-09-03 14:07:57 by Brian S
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John Boehner is champing at the bit to take Nancy Pelosi’s job come January. John Batchelor takes a closer look at the orange Republican’s weaknesses—and the goofballs who’d follow him to power. John Boehner is in dress rehearsal to become the Speaker of the House for the putative Republican Congress, and what the feverish partisans among us need to accept is that this chain-smoking, conflict-averse, glad-handing and peculiarly orange-tinged golfer is the pay-off for the last two years of Lilliputian turmoil. No matter how successful the Tea Party and Club for Growth vote on Election Day—60-seat swing! Coup de main!—all the king's horses cannot do more ...
Fox News Military Propagandist Is Now A ‘Three-Star Birther’
Post Date: 2010-09-02 16:47:07 by Brian S
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Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, an Army doctor who is facing a court martial for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan on the grounds that he does not believe President Obama was born in the United States, has gained a prominent supporter.According to a statement issued by the American Patriot Foundation, a sworn affadavit from Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas McInerney has been "filed in Court-Martial in support of Lakin’s motions for subpoenas for all of the president’s school records, and for a deposition of the custodian of Obama’s birth records in the possession of the State of Hawaii.""I recall commanding forces that were equipped with nuclear weapons," McInerney argues ...
Dick Armey Explains the Tea Party Movement
Post Date: 2010-09-02 15:35:58 by Brian S
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In just the last year, the Tea Party movement has become a driving force in American politics. From debates over healthcare and federal stimulus spending to voter mobilization for the midterm elections, Tea Party groups have not been shy about showing their anger at the state of government. Still, as a movement with a growing number of community organizers speaking with many voices, much of the country is left wondering: What is the Tea Party movement really all about? In Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and economist Matt Kibbe try to more clearly define the movement's ideological foundation and practical goals. Armey is the chairman of ...
Jan Brewer Starts Badly, Finishes Worse, In Last Night's Arizona Gubernatorial Debate (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2010-09-02 14:41:53 by Brian S
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Last night, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer got down to debatin' with her opponent, Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard, and Ben Smith has video of Brewer's opening statement which could charitably be called a "complete and utter disaster." Brewer's inability to, you know -- introduce herself, thank the debate sponsors, and welcome viewers at home -- hit a snag when her train of thought derailed, leaving dead-air gaps that rival any of the ones on the Arizona-Mexico border. WATCH: It's like she forgot her book report was due or something! After the debate, things didn't get any better, after a reporter asked her why she wouldn't recant some insane ...
"Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny" Includes End-Times Pastor Who Blamed Gays For Katrina [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-01 13:32:15 by Brian S
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Earlier, we pointed out that Glenn Beck was "restoring honor" at his "Divine Destiny" religious revival with Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Lapin's honor-restoration bona fides include a close relationship with Republican-lobbyist/convicted felon Jack Abramoff. Unsurprisingly, Lapin was not the only controversial figure to join Beck on stage. The last religious figure to appear at the event was Rev. John Hagee, who you may remember from earlier this summer as one of the "leaders in the faith community" that Beck held out as an example of "people that need to start standing up." Back in July, Beck plugged Hagee's "excellent" ...
Sharron Angle’s Plan For Education: Eliminate All Of It
Post Date: 2010-09-01 13:19:21 by Brian S
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Speaking at a forum for the right-wing Steamboat Institute last week, Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle effectively declared that public schools should cease to exist. Early in her speech, Angle reiterated her belief that America should abolish the federal Department of Education because education is “better taken care of at the state level.” Yet, in response to an audience member’s question, Angle also highlighted her work to de-fund Nevada’s public schools: We had a two-thirds rule in our constitution, that the people passed not once, but twice, saying that it would take a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to pass a tax increase. We ...
McCain ’08 Campaign Joked With Secret Service: ‘Shoot Out [Palin's] Tires’
Post Date: 2010-09-01 12:33:25 by Brian S
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After John McCain's presidential campaign decided to withdraw from Michigan, his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin dissented. Once the Secret Service learned of Palin's plan to drive to Michigan one morning anyway, it got a blunt response upon asking how to handle it: "Shoot out the tires."That was but one nugget of information revealed Wednesday in a lengthy Vanity Fair expose by Michael Joseph Gross, who chronicles Palin's journey from a small-town hockey mom to a powerful national force, and the "place of fear, anger, and illusion" it has led her to.Palin, Gross learns, had a vicious temper during the campaign and was easily set off, yelling often at ...
National Archives Says Glenn Beck Lied About George Washington Speech
Post Date: 2010-09-01 12:32:02 by Brian S
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Glenn Beck seems to have been nailed by the men and women who protected the nation's most prized political documents: The National Archives. While speaking during his "Restoring Honor" rally Saturday, Beck said that he'd held an original speech given by George Washington. Beck remarked, "I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington." Mother Jones' Stephanie Mencimer destroys the claim in an Mother Jones' Wednesday. The National Archives says Beck never held the document in his hands. "Beck did receive a special VIP tour of the archives, arranged by an as-yet unidentified member of Congress. During that tour, he did ...
Tea Party Questionnaire Reveals Obsession With Homosexuality
Post Date: 2010-09-01 12:29:21 by Brian S
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Perhaps it's not tea, taxes or Glenn Beck which divides many Tea Partiers from traditional Republicans.Oh noes, maybe it's the gays.Days after former RNC chair Ken Mehlman came out -- after years of prodding and pressure by gay activist Mike Rogers due to perceived hypocrisy -- many prominent Republicans are backing a fundraiser for same-sex marriage, as Politico's Ben Smith reports.Ken Mehlman's fundraiser for same-sex marriage will be, among other things, a gathering of some of the most high-profile -- and deep-pocketed -- backers of gay marriage on the right. The names of Bill Weld, Christie Todd Whitman, Steve Schmidt, and Mary Cheney's didn't surprise me. Other ...
Poll: GOP Takes Unprecedented Lead In House And Senate Races
Post Date: 2010-08-30 19:10:09 by Brian S
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Republicans lead Democrats 51% to 41% on a generic ballot heading into November's midterm election, the largest gap in favor of the GOP in Gallup's 68-year history of tracking the critical political benchmark. The Republican lead has steadily increased from five percentage points earlier this month to the current 10 point spread, suggesting Republicans have the upper hand and momentum. Previously, the largest GOP advantage measured by the poll, five points, was found in 2002 and 1994. Republicans made significant gains in the House both years. "The last Gallup weekly generic ballot average before Labor Day underscores the fast-evolving conventional wisdom that the GOP is ...
Glenn Beck's Big Bust on the Mall
Post Date: 2010-08-30 14:02:09 by Brian S
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After months of huffing and puffing on Fox News, Glenn Beck did succeed in pulling a big crowd out to the Lincoln Memorial on August 28. But, once they got there, nothing happened. Beck's so-called "Restoring Honor Rally" will not be remembered 200 years from now, as he predicted. Nor, as his promos trumpeted, will it go down with the Wright Brothers flight or the moon landing as one of those events that changed the course of history. Take it from me. I was in that crowd, somewhere between the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. What took place was a strange combination of political rally and religious revival. Indeed, I felt like I was in the middle of an ...
TRENDING: Clear Majority Says Palin Not Qualified To Be President
Post Date: 2010-08-30 12:16:18 by Brian S
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(CNN) - Two days after Sarah Palin fired up a large crowd at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in Washington, a newly released survey suggests a clear majority of Americans don't think the former vice presidential nominee has the right credentials to be president. According to the new survey from Vanity Fair and CBS News' 60 Minutes, only 1 in 4 of all adults thinks Palin is qualified to be commander-in-chief while 60 percent say she is not. By a narrow 47-40 percent margin however, Republicans do feel Palin has the right stuff to be president. But self identified conservatives – constituting the segment of the GOP largely thought to most favor the former Alaska governor ...
'Obama Will Get Israel Nuked' Say Protesters At Glenn Beck Rally
Post Date: 2010-08-29 13:56:51 by Brian S
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Tens of thousands of predominantly white conservative activists rallied Saturday to help restore traditional American values at the site where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. A group of civil rights activists organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton held a counter rally at a high school, then embarked on a three-mile (five-kilometer) march to the site of a planned monument honoring King. Glenn Beck, who organized the conservative rally, is a controversial TV and radio talk show host and he insists it's just a coincidence that his Restoring Honor rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial is overlapping with the 47th anniversary of King's ...
Ron Paul's Vision For A Tea Party Foreign Policy
Post Date: 2010-08-27 20:36:00 by Brian S
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Thousands of Tea Partiers are converging on FP's hometown tomorrow for Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on the Washington mall, which will feature a speech by Sarah Palin and, controversially, take place on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. For all the overt displays of national pride at Tea Party events, it can be difficult to discern how the movement sees America's place in the larger world. New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker addressed this uncertainty in a piece for our most recent print issue: The two most famous Tea Partiers, in fact, are at the opposite ends of the ...
Are U.S. Tax OIfficials Punishing Zionists Who Won't Toe The White House Line?
Post Date: 2010-08-27 20:26:50 by Brian S
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Right-wing Z-Street sues IRS over claims it withheld tax breaks because campaigners' policies clashed with Obama's: 'This is a clear violation of the First Amendment.'. By Natasha Mozgovaya and Haaretz Service So is America's Internal Revenue Service discriminating against Z Street on political grounds, dragging its feet in approving tax-exempt status for the pro-Israel right-wing group? That’s what the organization, formed by two activists, Lori Lowenthal Marcus and Allison Rowen Taylor, to counter left-wing rivals like J Street, claimed in a lawsuit filed this week against the Commissioner of Internal Revenuein a U.S. court. Z Street says it was told by an ...
Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden A 'Subordinate' Of George W. Bush
Post Date: 2010-08-27 19:37:27 by Brian S
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Fidel Castro says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent who always popped up when former President George W. Bush needed to scare the world, arguing that documents recently posted on the Internet prove it. "Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, bin Laden would appear threatening people with a story about what he was going to do," Castro told state media during a meeting with a Lithuanian-born writer known for advancing conspiracy theories about world domination. "Bush never lacked for bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate." Castro said documents posted on WikiLeaks.org — a website that recently released ...
Florida GOP Split: McCollum Refuses To Endorse Rick Scott
Post Date: 2010-08-27 13:08:08 by Brian S
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TALLAHASSEE — Bill McCollum doesn't forget easily. Two days after he lost the Republican nomination for governor, McCollum still refuses to support winner Rick Scott, and continues to raise questions about his former rival's character. In his first public appearance since conceding the race, McCollum said Thursday that he called Scott to ``congratulate him and wish him well.'' But he didn't bury the hatchet in one of the nastiest primary's in state history. "I still have serious questions about issues of his character, his integrity, his honestly -- things that go back to Columbia/HCA,'' McCollum said, referring to Scott's former hospital ...
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