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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Romney Is Unwise to Believe in Wisdom of Markets
Post Date: 2012-10-08 11:03:13 by Brian S
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Judging from the preponderance of his utterances, presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a classic Republican approach to financial regulation: Get government out of the way, because markets are inherently wise. If only it were right. It’s hardly surprising to see Romney repeating the wisdom- of-markets mantra. His chief economic adviser is R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Eight years ago, Hubbard co-wrote a paper -- paid for by Goldman Sachs (GS) -- proclaiming the arrival of a veritable heaven on Earth through market expansion and deregulation. “By providing immediate feedback to policymakers, the capital markets have increased ...
A Black Man's Hatred of Obama
Post Date: 2012-10-08 06:43:34 by A K A Stone
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A Black Man's Hatred of Obama
"The Measure of a Nation" Challenges Illusions of American Superiority
Post Date: 2012-10-07 17:15:56 by Brian S
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Book Review: Author Howard Steven Friedman compared the US with 13 competing countries on health, education, infant mortality, life expectancy and other critical social and economic indicators. He found only one in which America excels: producing billionaires. In his book, "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness," Mitt Romney laid his cards on the table: "I'm one of those who believe America is destined to remain as it has been since the birth of the Republic - the brightest hope of the world." Obama's reluctance to acknowledge America's manifest moral and economic superiority is for Romney a telltale of his essential foreignness. "American ...
Pregnant and homeless on the doorsteps of a Christian megachurch
Post Date: 2012-10-06 21:18:33 by A K A Stone
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Note: Abby Johnson is the former director of a Planend Parenthood clinic in Texas, who converted to the pro-life cause in 2009 after witnessing an ultrasound-guided abortion. She is now one of the leading advocates on behalf of the unborn. October 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - One night over dinner, a friend of mine told me that he had seen a very pregnant homeless woman on the corner of a busy Austin intersection. I knew the intersection he was referring to…there is a huge non-denominational church on the corner. I felt confident that she had probably received some assistance from them. Maybe they were in the process of trying to help her find resources. One of the friends with us at ...
Mark Steyn: Will Big Bird ever leave the government nest?
Post Date: 2012-10-05 22:37:43 by Abcdefg
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Mark Steyn: Will Big Bird ever leave the government nest?If Sesame Street is not commercially viable, then nothing is, and we should just cut to the chase and bail out everything. Apparently, Frank Sinatra served as Mitt Romney's debate coach. As he put it about halfway through "That's Life": "I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly ... ." That's what Mitt did in Denver. Ten minutes in, he jumped right on Big Bird, and then he took off – and never looked back, while the other fellow, whose name escapes me, never got out of the gate. It takes a certain panache to clobber not just your opponent but also the moderator. Yet that's what ...
Not Alone In Feeling Better Off
Post Date: 2012-10-04 11:27:02 by Brian S
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I ’ve been receiving emails forwarded from right-wing friends of mine that are, shall we say, less than honest. It is especially troubling because I am an honorably discharged Marine sergeant who spent six years serving my country on active duty. I just don’t like it when people spread hateful, damaging lies about the guy I still refer to as my commander in chief. It is also troubling to me because I am a Republican. I don’t like lies; I’ve had a belly-full from those in my party who believe the ends justify the means. But at the Republican convention a short while back I heard the question, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” So now I ...
Ferret Mikes Ex Wife? Ranting like a lunatic about stuff Obama does for her
Post Date: 2012-10-02 23:56:35 by A K A Stone
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Moderation and Pakistan
Post Date: 2012-09-29 16:53:54 by A K A Stone
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A Culture of Delusion
Post Date: 2012-09-27 12:31:13 by Capitalist Eric
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A writer’s greatest disappointments are readers who have knee-jerk responses. Not all readers, of course. Some readers are thoughtful and supportive. Others express thanks for opening their eyes. But the majority are happy when a writer tells them what they want to hear and are unhappy when he writes what they don’t want to hear. For the left-wing, Ronald Reagan is the great bogeyman. Those on the left don’t understand supply-side economics as a macroeconomic innovation that cured stagflation by utilizing the impact of fiscal policy on aggregate supply. Instead, they see “trickle-down economics” and tax cuts for the rich. Leftists don’t understand that the ...
Ryan's 'Secret' Tape Is Even More Extreme Than Romney's
Post Date: 2012-09-26 10:04:18 by Brian S
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Editor's Note: AlterNet's Adele Stan reported last week about the Ryan remarks Eskow discusses here, highlighting Ryan's call for ending social security [3], which he described as a "collectivist system," and Ryan's assertion that Democratic "collectivists" seek to create a 'victimization class [4]' largely populated by minorities.When they booed [5] Paul Ryan at the American Association of Retired Persons last week, most people didn't even know he called [6] Medicare and Social Security "third party or socialist-based systems." Or that he said [7] he wants to privatize them in order to "break ...
Buchanan: America’s Last Crusade
Post Date: 2012-09-25 11:42:26 by Brian S
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For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives. From the fall of Berlin in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that Cold War was waged by two generations, and with its end Americans faced a fundamental question: If the historic struggle between communism and freedom is over, if the Soviet Empire and Soviet Union no longer exist, if the Russians wish to befriend us and the Maoists have taken the capitalist road, what is our new mission in the world? What do we do now? ...
Feast of Fools: How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy
Post Date: 2012-09-20 17:57:08 by Brian S
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All power corrupts but some must govern. -- John le Carré The ritual performance of the legend of democracy in the autumn of 2012 promises the conspicuous consumption of $5.8 billion, enough money, thank God, to prove that our flag is still there. Forbidden the use of words apt to depress a Q Score or disturb a Gallup poll, the candidates stand as product placements meant to be seen instead of heard, their quality to be inferred from the cost of their manufacture. The sponsors of the event, generous to a fault but careful to remain anonymous, dress it up with the bursting in air of star-spangled photo ops, abundant assortments of multiflavored sound bites, and the candidates so ...
The Real Mitt Revealed
Post Date: 2012-09-18 16:47:41 by Brian S
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This video is significant in two ways. First are the distortions. Romney says 47 percent of Americans don’t pay income taxes. That’s literally true, except it’s misleading because it includes every retiree who hasn’t enough income to pay income taxes (most retirees), every poor and lower-income person who doesn’t have enough income to pay, and a few multi-millionaires (perhaps like Romney himself — we don’t know because he won’t release his tax returns), who don’t pay because of tax loopholes and tax-avoidance schemes. Moreover, just about all working Americans, regardless of income, pay federal payroll taxes. Everyone pays state and local sales ...
Thurston Howell Romney
Post Date: 2012-09-18 10:24:46 by Brian S
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In 1980, about 30 percent of Americans received some form of government benefits. Today, as Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute has pointed out, about 49 percent do. In 1960, government transfers to individuals totaled $24 billion. By 2010, that total was 100 times as large. Even after adjusting for inflation, entitlement transfers to individuals have grown by more than 700 percent over the last 50 years. This spending surge, Eberstadt notes, has increased faster under Republican administrations than Democratic ones. There are sensible conclusions to be drawn from these facts. You could say that the entitlement state is growing at an unsustainable rate and will ...
Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election
Post Date: 2012-09-17 23:23:32 by Brian S
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You can mark my prediction now: A secret recording from a closed-door Mitt Romney fundraiser, released today by David Corn at Mother Jones, has killed Mitt Romney's campaign for president. On the tape, Romney explains that his electoral strategy involves writing off nearly half the country as unmoveable Obama voters. As Romney explains, 47 percent of Americans "believe that they are victims." He laments: "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." So what's the upshot? "My job is not to worry about those people," he says. He also notes, describing President Obama's base, "These are people ...
"Pants On Fire.": Mitt Romney's Contortion Of The Truth
Post Date: 2012-09-17 13:31:23 by Brian S
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All presidential campaigns fashion narratives in order to tell the most appealing story about their own candidate and the least appealing one about their opponents. After all, as the saying goes, politics ain't bean bag. And the Obama campaign has certainly engaged in its share of mudslinging, spin and distortion. But Mitt Romney's campaign is history-making in its assault on the truth. Washington Post writer Greg Sargent has said that the Romney campaign "has decided that there is literally no set of boundaries or standards it needs to follow when it comes to the veracity of the core assertions at the heart of its entire argument." Among seemingly countless examples, ...
Ron Paul: Consequences of an Interventionist Foreign Policy
Post Date: 2012-09-17 12:27:15 by Brian S
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The attack on the US consulate in Libya and the killing of the US Ambassador and several aides is another tragic example of how our interventionist foreign policy undermines our national security. The more the US tries to control the rest of the world, either by democracy promotion, aid to foreign governments, or by bombs, the more events spin out of control into chaos, unintended consequences, and blowback. Unfortunately, what we saw in Libya last week is nothing new. In 1980s Afghanistan, the US supported Islamic radicals in their efforts to expel the invading Soviet military. These radicals became what is known to be al-Qaeda, and our one-times allies turned on us most spectacularly on ...
Did Hillary Clinton kill Ambassador Christopher Stevens?
Post Date: 2012-09-16 19:40:21 by whyofcourse
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Did Hillary Clinton kill Ambassador Christopher Stevens?http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/09/15/did-hillary-clinton-kill-ambassador-christopher-stevensFox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt laid the blame for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the Benghazi, Libya American mission on Hillary Clinton and the State Department.“The State Department just allowed our guys to get killed. If you approve no bullets in guns for the mission security guards and an outhouse for a mission, you’re inviting it,” said Col Hunt.Colonel Hunt also said, “The American mission at Benghazi was like a cardboard building, there wasn’t even bullet ...
Israeli Fallout
Post Date: 2012-09-15 11:25:12 by Brian S
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By ERIC L. LEWISIt should go without saying, but apparently does not, that the tragic crisis unfolding in the Middle East calls for sober statesmanship rather than political posturing. The jihadist murder of the American ambassador to a newly liberated Libya; the carnage unleashed by the Assad regime on the Syrian people; the emergence of a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt; the conundrum of Iranian nuclear ambitions — the region presents decades worth of complex challenges telescoped into real time.Responding to these challenges, Mitt Romney mixes crude political theater with neocon bromides. Attacking President Obama for supposedly apologizing to Islamic radicals, he appears unable ...
Mitt Romney’s Total Neocon Meltdown
Post Date: 2012-09-14 12:38:43 by Brian S
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We know that we saw something appalling yesterday, in Mitt Romney’s response to the violence in Cairo and Benghazi, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that we’re witnessing something historic too. This isn’t simply the end of the Republican Party’s decades-long political advantage on foreign policy that we’re observing. Rather, we are simultaneously able to see how the party is reacting to and dealing with the disappearance of that advantage. It’s like those villains in the movies who not only are dying, but who register on their face that they can’t comprehend they’re dying, that Hell has finally called their malevolent number, like Julia ...
Buchanan: Is It Time To Come Home?
Post Date: 2012-09-14 11:52:11 by Brian S
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Is it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East? In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an “Arab Spring” that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and provided the air power that saved Benghazi and brought down Moammar Gadhafi. Yet this week U.S. embassies were under siege in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and U.S. diplomats were massacred in Benghazi. The cost of our two wars is 6,500 dead, 40,000 wounded and $2 trillion piled onto a national debt that is $16 trillion, larger than the entire U.S. economy. And what in heaven’s ...
The Mitt Mirage
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:58:16 by Brian S
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I first met Mitt Romney in 2005. I was very impressed. I described him in this magazine as "informal, conversational, enthusiastic and speedy." Mitt Romney? Yes, indeed. But then, we were talking about something he really believed in, or seemed to: his universal health care plan for Massachusetts, which included an individual mandate--an idea I'd admired since it was proposed by Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation in 1989. Romney's plan wasn't the Full Butler, which would eliminate the deductibility of employer-donated health care benefits. But it was a huge step in the right direction, and Romney had mastered every detail of it. He seemed a near Clintonian policy ...
Romney Pulls a Palin at a NASCAR Race!
Post Date: 2012-09-09 17:47:10 by Ferret Mike
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I'm gonna miss Mittens. The comic relief he's provided has been priceless. It's been one gaffe after another. And you'd think his incompetent staff would have learned by now, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Pardon me, do you have some Grey Poupon? Mittens spent the afternoon desperately trying to act like a guy you'd like to have a non-alcoholic beer with, handing out FREE hot dogs at a NASCAR race in Richmond, Virginia. If you remember. earlier this year, Romney really screwed up, insulting working class NASCAR fans by making fun of their poor rain jackets and saying he didn't follow NASCAR but had dear friends who owned NASCAR racing teams. A competent ...
Man threatened to kill President during DNC (being held at a federal detention center)
Post Date: 2012-09-07 20:06:55 by Hondo68
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A Charlotte man is behind bars after investigators say he threatened to kill President Obama during the Democratic National Convention. Investigators told WBTV that Donte Jarmar Sims, 21, was arrested on Wednesday, charged in a felony criminal complaint accusing him of threatening the president's life. Friday, WBTV learned Sims is scheduled to be in federal magistrate's court in Charlotte Tuesday morning. The threats were done via Sims' Twitter account on Monday morning. The first tweet was sent out at 10:06 a.m. on Monday when Sims tweeted, "Well Ima Assassinate president Obama this evening !... Gotta get this monkey off my chest while he's in town." "Ima ...
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