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Traditional Development Is a Municipal Gold Mine
Post Date: 2014-11-09 16:21:11 by nativist nationalist
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In the United States, cities have spent the past 60 years reconfiguring public spaces to be oriented around the automobile. When new places are built, regulations require that they be similarly designed. The largely unchallenged assumption behind this approach, especially when it comes to commercial property, is that the more cars driving by, the more successful a place will be. Is this true? If we look at it from the perspective of a local government, that assumption becomes highly suspect. Auto-oriented development costs more to maintain and provide service to than walkable alternatives. At the extreme, Detroit’s fiscal problems are a symptom of having too much stuff–too many ...
America’s worst new congressman: Why Georgia’s Jody Hice is so frightening
Post Date: 2014-11-07 20:42:22 by A K A Stone
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t’s official: in January, Jody Hice will be sworn in as the next Congressman from Georgia’s 10th District. This is a man who has called Islam, the second-largest religion in the world, “a totalitarian way of life with a religious component” that “does not deserve First Amendment protection.” In his book he calls legal abortion “worse than Hitler’s six million Jews or Mussolini’s three hundred thousand,” adding that “the genocide in America is inexcusable!” In 2004, he told the Athens Banner-Herald that he doesn’t “see a problem” with women running for office “if the woman’s within the authority of her ...
Cancel the Midterms
Post Date: 2014-11-03 07:21:59 by A K A Stone
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DURHAM, N.C. — By Tuesday night about 90 million Americans will have cast ballots in an election that’s almost certain to create greater partisan divisions, increase gridlock and render governance of our complex nation even more difficult. Ninety million sounds like a lot, but that means that less than 40 percent of the electorate will bother to vote, even though candidates, advocacy groups and shadowy “super PACs” will have spent more than $1 billion to air more than two million ads to influence the election. There was a time when midterm elections made sense — at our nation’s founding, the Constitution represented a new form of republican government, and it ...
What Do Homosexuals Really Want From The Church?
Post Date: 2014-11-03 07:10:20 by A K A Stone
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After a federal judge in Idaho recently ruled that the state’s ban on fag marriage was unconstitutional, ordained ministers Donald and Evelyn Knapp who own the Hitching Post wedding chapel in the city of Coeur d‘Alene, were asked by a faggot couple to perform their wedding ceremony. According to Fox News , the ministers declined to perform the wedding due to their opposition to same-sex marriage. However, because the Hitching Post wedding chapel is registered as a for-profit business rather than a church or place of worship (although the wedding chapel is registered with the state as a “religious corporation” limited to performing “one-man-one-woman marriages as defined by the Holy Bible”), ...
Former NBA Great Slams ‘Dirty Dark Secret in the Black Community’
Post Date: 2014-10-26 20:48:41 by out damned spot
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Former NBA great Charles Barkley called out “unintelligent” black people for criticizing successful black people as “acting white” or not acting black enough. “It’s a dirty dark secret in the black community,” Barkley said, adding later that “we are brainwashed to think if you’re not a thug or an idiot you’re not black enough.” “There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don’t have success” who believe “it’s best to knock a successful black person down ’cause they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful,” Barkley added. Barkley also ...
Steyn: One Person Can Change Everything and ‘I Like Ted Cruz’
Post Date: 2014-10-24 23:45:40 by A K A Stone
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Mark Steyn, author of “The Undocumented Mark Steyn,” argued that culture is more important than elections, and that he liked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as someone who could shift American politics to the right in an appearance on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Steyn stated “vision’s the important part. What's actually happening is that the kind of model of the social democratic welfare dependency state since the Second World War has run out of gas. It's over, and to persuade people to move off that model actually requires you to have a conversation with the people and change minds,” which he added goes beyond elections. According ...
Will Michelle Obama go into politics next?
Post Date: 2014-10-23 09:30:20 by IbJensen
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Michelle Obama is being urged by her husband’s true believers to move to California when she leaves the White House and to pursue the US Senate seat expected to be vacated by Dianne Feinstein in 2018. The oldest member of the Senate, Feinstein, 81, has strongly suggested this will be her last term, Richard Turley will report in Orbmagazine.com on Thursday. The first couple haven’t said where they’ll go when Barack Obama leaves office in 26 months, but Los Angeles is the leading contender. “Barack could golf year-round, and Michelle could emerge from his shadow after 20 years and retake control of her own life,” a person familiar with their thinking told Orb. ...
WHITE HOUSE PETITION TO BAN FLIGHTS FROM EBOLA-STRICKEN NATIONS GATHERS STEAM
Post Date: 2014-10-14 05:12:32 by out damned spot
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A White House petition urging the Obama administration to change its position on allowing flights from Ebola- stricken countries into the United States has received 22,262 signatures in less than two weeks. The petition states: "Experts had stated it was 'highly unlikely' that Ebola would show up on American soil. But now it has, in the City of Dallas, Texas, brought here by an individual who entered our country from the West African nation of Liberia, where Ebola is rampant." The petition continues, "We do not want any more Ebola-infected individuals bringing the epidemic to our shores. The longer we allow people to enter our country from Ebola-stricken areas, the ...
Breitbart is here — and his name is Ted Cruz
Post Date: 2014-09-14 10:05:42 by A K A Stone
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You may remember Andrew Breitbart. You should. Before his sudden and rather mysterious death at the age of 43 on March 1, 2012, he was a fearless voice of untrammeled American conservatism. He would stand up to anyone, no matter how powerful, in defense of traditional values and against political chicanery. He took on ACORN, Anthony Weiner, Nancy Pelosi, of course President Obama, and anyone else who tried to acquire power through hypocrisy or change policy through chicanery. His death left a huge void in the world of conservatism. So big, in fact, that conservatives adopted a slogan to encourage each other to continue in his footsteps — “Breitbart is here.” But if he is ...
The Witherspoon Institute Public Discourse home | about | archives | contact | support A Tale of Two Fathers: Silas Marner on the True Meaning of Fatherhood
Post Date: 2014-09-13 08:56:22 by A K A Stone
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Randall Smith recently published a two-part Public Discourse essay on Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Smith criticizes the radical argument put forth in the novel’s trial scene by a sophisticated city lawyer who claims that Fyodor Pavlovich is not truly a father because his son Dmitri feels no loyalty to him. The lawyer argues that, even if Dmitri murdered Fyodor, the accusation of parricide is senseless. In Smith’s view, this line of argumentation prophetically foreshadows our current culture’s relentless attempts to redefine our concepts of marriage, motherhood, and fatherhood to be based upon consent rather than nature. Although the defense attorney may be ...
The Illusion of Neutrality The secular state cannot be neutral in matters of religion.
Post Date: 2014-09-13 08:54:44 by A K A Stone
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We have all heard what has come to be a liberal dictum, that the State must remain neutral as regards religion or irreligion. One can show fairly easily that the men who wrote our constitution had no such neutrality in mind, given the laws that they and their fellows subsequently passed, their habits of public prayer at meetings, and their common understanding that freedom without virtue, and virtue without piety, were chimeras. To show that that understanding persisted, all one need do is open every textbook for school children published for almost two hundred years; or recall that Catholic immigrants established their own schools not so that their pupils might read the Bible, but so that ...
Lod All in all, Is a of low-information, low-IQ, moron. (Posts at freedom4dum explains it all)
Post Date: 2014-09-12 07:12:15 by A K A Stone
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This thread is to post comments from the low iq moron from 4dum Lod. The Faux Christian.
The Clod is a moron but good for laughs.
Here is to Hope that Netanyahu will destroy Hamas
Post Date: 2014-07-13 13:17:13 by A K A Stone
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Bibi don't listen to the shit face in the white house. He is your enemy. Crush those muslim kooks. Get them all out of Israel. Israel is for Gods chosen people not scum bag muslims. Go Bibi
Will The Real Bob Barr Stand Up?
Post Date: 2014-06-29 00:19:13 by A K A Stone
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Two days ago, in response to a question from D. A. King, the president of the Dustin Inman Society, former congressman, Libertarian presidential candidate, and current Republican congressional candidate Bob Barr said he would work to pass federal legislation that mandated the use of E-Verify for all employers nationwide. The survey itself appeared in the Marietta Daily Journal like this: *Q – Given that it is a federal offense to knowingly hire and employ illegal labor, as a member of congress, would you work to pass federal legislation that mandated use of E-Verify for all employers, nationwide? *Note: this is a “YES” or “NO” question. Barry Loudermilk: ...
THE ABSOLUTIST Ted Cruz is an unyielding debater—and the far right’s most formidable advocate.
Post Date: 2014-06-23 00:21:58 by A K A Stone
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Ted Cruz, the Republican junior senator from Texas, has heard the line about how the Party needs to become more moderate to win Presidential elections. “It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always ‘Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats,’ ” he told me. “That’s been true for my entire lifetime. The chattering classes have consistently said, ‘You crazy Republicans have to give up on what you believe and become more like Democrats.’ And, I would note, every time Republicans do that we lose.” Cruz then offered a short history of recent Presidential politics. Richard Nixon ran as a conservative, twice a winner; Gerald Ford, ...
This is my homophobic rant against Michael Sam
Post Date: 2014-05-13 06:54:03 by CZ82
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This is my homophobic rant against Michael Sam Matt Walsh Let’s just cut to the chase. We’ve all read this script before. If you do anything less than fall to your knees weeping tears of jubilation that a man who is sexually attracted to men was picked to play a game for a living — you’re a homophobe. It doesn’t really matter why you aren’t joining in the celebration, or why you aren’t using words like ‘historic’ and ‘revolutionary’ to describe a scenario where a homosexual fellow plays a sport with some other fellows, and is paid handsomely and applauded loudly for doing so. It doesn’t matter what reasoning you provide, or ...
Walter Jones Repels a War Party Attack
Post Date: 2014-05-11 13:52:02 by Abcdefg
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The GOP Beltway establishment is celebrating the victory of Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House, over his Tea Party and Evangelical rivals in Tuesday's primary for the U.S. Senate. But the story ended less happily for the Beltway elite in the Tar Heel State's 3rd Congressional District. There, the planned purge of Rep. Walter Jones was repulsed by his loyal Republican base. Yet, this massively funded effort, to kill the career of a 20-year House veteran, whose father held the seat for decades before him, testifies eloquently to the intolerance of the ideological and monied elite of the party to which conservatives give allegiance. Reportedly, a million dollars of super ...
The Decline Of Deterrence; America Is No Longer As Alarming To Its Foes Or Reassuring To Its Friends
Post Date: 2014-05-04 19:45:56 by Brian S
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May 3rd 2014 | BRUSSELS, CAIRO, SINGAPORE AND WASHINGTON, DC | From the print edition AMERICA’S allies are nervous. With Russia grabbing territory, China bullying its neighbours and Syria murdering its people, many are asking: where is Globocop? Under what circumstances will America act to deter troublemakers? What, ultimately, would America fight for? The answer to this question matters. Rogue states will behave more roguishly if they doubt America’s will to stop them. As a former head of Saudi intelligence recently said of Vladimir Putin’s land grab in Ukraine: “While the wolf is eating the sheep, there is no shepherd to come to the rescue.” Small wonder that ...
Buchanan: NED’s Chickens Come Home To Roost
Post Date: 2014-05-04 19:41:06 by Brian S
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When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Empire an “evil empire,” the phrase reflected his conviction that while the East-West struggle was indeed a global geostrategic conflict, it had a deep moral dimension. If Americans did not see the Cold War as he did, a battle between good and evil, Reagan knew that they would indefinitely sacrifice neither the wealth of the nation nor the blood of its sons to sustain it. That is in the character of Americans. Jimmy Carter had sought to remove that moral dimension by declaring, “We have gotten over our inordinate fear of communism.” But with his “evil empire” speech, Reagan re-moralized the Cold War in what Natan ...
Buchanan: Is God On Russia's Side?
Post Date: 2014-04-06 02:15:08 by Brian S
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In his Kremlin defense of Russia's annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond. Crimea, said Putin, "is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus." Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying. This speech recalls last December's address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West: "Many Euro-Atlantic countries ...
An Open Letter to the Legislatures of New Jersey and Rhode Island: Are you seriously proposing to have your own skulls turned into soap dishes?
Post Date: 2014-04-04 09:24:59 by Excalibur
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o have your own skulls turned into soap dishes? Aunt Jenny Brooks. To the legislators of the states of New Jersey and Rhode Island, upon the approach of your votes for firearm confiscation: The firearm owners of your respective states tell me that you are busy men and women with short attention spans so I will try to make this brief, beginning with an instructive story from the history of my adopted state, Alabama. Some still tell it with pride in the hills of north Alabama. Like all the best stories, it has the advantage of being true. In 1863, eight duly sworn and appointed law officers of the state government, acting with the authority of their nation's congress, executed a ...
Buchanan: Is Putin The Irrational One?
Post Date: 2014-03-19 16:17:52 by Brian S
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By: Patrick J. Buchanan 3/18/2014 08:54 AM Vladimir Putin seems to have lost touch with reality, Angela Merkel reportedly told Barack Obama after speaking with the Russian president. He is “in another world.” “I agree with what Angela Merkel said … that he is in another world,” said Madeleine Albright, “It doesn’t make any sense.” John Kerry made his contribution to the bonkers theory by implying that Putin was channeling Napoleon: “You don’t just, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext.” Now that Putin has taken Crimea without firing a shot, and 95 percent ...
Putin Carterizes Obama, Totally: The Democrats are vulnerable again on handling the world.
Post Date: 2014-03-07 07:19:02 by A K A Stone
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Air-dropping himself into Kiev Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the Russian seizure of Crimea is "not 21st-century, G-8, major-nation behavior." He said Mr. Putin should allow "international observers" to enter Crimea. International observers? This calls to mind Humphrey Bogart's Fred C. Dobbs facing the gang of Mexican bandidos in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre": Dobbs: "If you're the police, where are your badges?" Chief bandido: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges!" We may assume Mr. Putin would say the masked Russians patrolling Ukrainian Crimea are "international ...
Buchanan: Tune Out The War Party!
Post Date: 2014-03-04 19:11:53 by Brian S
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By: Patrick J. Buchanan 3/4/2014 09:54 AM With Vladimir Putin’s dispatch of Russian troops into Crimea, our war hawks are breathing fire. Russophobia is rampant and the op-ed pages are ablaze here. Barack Obama should tune them out, and reflect on how Cold War presidents dealt with far graver clashes with Moscow. When Red Army tank divisions crushed the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956, killing 50,000, Eisenhower did not lift a finger. When Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall, JFK went to Berlin and gave a speech. When Warsaw Pact troops crushed the Prague Spring in 1968, LBJ did nothing. When, Moscow ordered Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski to smash Solidarity, Ronald Reagan refused to put ...
About your "right" to my service...
Post Date: 2014-02-26 22:53:37 by Excalibur
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Today the conservative talkers are jawing about the supposed "balance" between a person's right not to be discriminated against, and a business owner's rights of conscience. But the problem, you see, is that the first thing is not a right. I don't have a right to force people to like me. Or to hire me. Or to sell something to me. Someone will say that I do indeed have those rights, as created by the Courts or the Congress or Eric Holder (Fleas Be Upon Him). But the government cannot create rights. Only God can grant rights. And a government that does not protect God-given rights (including and especially the right to property) is not a legitimate government. Further, ...
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