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Post Date: 2012-05-21 18:18:23 by We The People
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On the occasion of our revamped website’s debut, we re-present the editorial that accompanied our new print design in September — a restatement of The American Conservative’s principles. The biggest loss conservatives suffered in recent years was not the election of Barack Obama in 2008 or the defeat of the last Republican Congress in 2006. It wasn’t the passage of the president’s healthcare reform or nearly $1 trillion stimulus package, nor any other legislative setback. Conservatives had already lost something far more basic—their moorings. Edmund Burke was never more eloquent than when denouncing the Penal Laws that circumscribed the ...
Top Dems claim GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama
Post Date: 2012-05-21 07:00:03 by CZ82
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Top Dems claim GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama Published: 9:57 AM 05/19/2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama’s re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth. The latest Democratic complaint came after House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that when Congress raises the nation’s borrowing cap in early 2013, he will again insist on big spending cuts to offset the increase. Boehner, R-Ohio, continues to reject higher tax rates, which ...
A Racial Revolution?
Post Date: 2012-05-20 12:27:25 by We The People
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Now that census data show -- for the first time in American history -- the number of white babies born exceeded by the number of babies born to non-white minorities the question is: What does this mean for the future of American society? Politically, it means that minorities who traditionally vote overwhelmingly for Democrats can ensure that the country veers ever further to the left over the years, making America more like the welfare states of Europe, whose unsustainable spending led ultimately to finical crises and widespread riots. But this is not strictly a matter of whites versus non-whites. Jews vote consistently, and almost as overwhelmingly, for Democrats as blacks do. Moreover, ...
Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate
Post Date: 2012-05-20 08:06:42 by CZ82
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Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate May 18, 2012 by The Godfather If you can control the language, you can control ideas. By controlling ideas, you can control the way people think and act. Before Frank Schaeffer went over to the Dark Side, he had some good things to say about how liberals think and act. His analysis of language is still applicable: “Think of the use of labels to categorize political activity. Some labels are used to neutralize the actions of certain groups; others denote being ‘one of us,’ acceptable. The words ‘right wing,’ ‘fundamentalist,’ ‘pro-life,’ ‘absolutist,’ and ‘deeply religious,’ ...
Buchanan: Has The Bell Begun To Toll For The GOP?
Post Date: 2012-05-18 12:38:39 by Brian S
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Among the more controversial chapters in "Suicide of a Superpower," my book published last fall, was the one titled, "The End of White America." It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity. That book and chapter proved the proximate cause of my departure from MSNBC, where the network president declared that subjects such as these are inappropriate for "the national dialogue." Apparently, the mainstream media are reassessing that. For, in rare unanimity, The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today all led yesterday with the same story. "Whites ...
Three Generations and Forever Out
Post Date: 2012-05-13 13:20:19 by SJN
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Penetrating Commentary on American Social Policy May 9, 2012 Don Felipe Gonzalez entered this curious world in 1927 in Sagrada Familia, a poor section of Guadalajara. It was not a good year to be poor in Mexico, seventeen years after the demise of the Porfiriata and a year into the Cristero war. His father was brutal, below animalic, and beat the family. Food was less abundant than they would have wished. Schools were close to nonexistent, even when they existed, which was seldom. Don Felipe was well positioned to become a useless, drunken, illiterate, bestial, dim, and wasted cabrn y pendejo. http://fredoneverything.net/FeViNa1.JPG Unsung, rode-hard-and-put-away-wet chamipion of ...
The Myth About Marriage [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-05-13 10:23:43 by lucysmom
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Why do some people who would recognize gay civil unions oppose gay marriage? Certain religious groups want to deny gays the sacredeness of what they take to be a sacrament. But marriage is no sacrament. Some of my fellow Catholics even think that “true marriage” was instituted by Christ. It wasn’t. Marriage is prescribed in Eden by YHWH (Yahweh) at Genesis 2.24: man and wife shall “become one flesh.” When Jesus is asked about marriage, he simply quotes that passage from Genesis (Mark 10.8). He nowhere claims to be laying a new foundation for a “Christian marriage” to replace the Yahwist institution. Some try to make the wedding at Cana (John 1.1-11) ...
How Right-Wing Extremists and Islamists Are the Same
Post Date: 2012-05-12 19:13:15 by Brian S
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Last weekend, Salafist Muslims and anti-Islam right-wingers faced off in Bonn, and 29 police officers were injured as a result. The two groups appear to be diametrically opposed, but a deeper look reveals they have a great deal in common. The totalitarian worldview has many manifestations. Last Saturday, at around 3 p.m., the enemies stood face to face. They were separated by just a few meters, one police vehicle and hundreds of officers. The facedown was the result of a calculated, staged provocation. "Now, we are going to show the caricatures," said a member of the right-wing populist Pro-NRW group. It was an announcement that resembled a scientific experiment: How an ...
Racial preferences: Unfair and ridiculous
Post Date: 2012-05-09 18:08:44 by CZ82
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Racial preferences: Unfair and ridiculous by Michael Barone Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled. Why does the "non-issue" of Harvard Law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry "require so much attention?" he asked last week. When Warren was teaching at Pennsylvania, Texas and Houston law schools, she identified herself as Indian -- or, to be politically correct, Native American. Then she was hired at Harvard and dropped the Native American from her biographical description. Harvard Law today says it has one faculty member of Native American heritage. But it won't ...
Liberals, take a long look in the mirror
Post Date: 2012-05-09 10:05:23 by SJN
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Liberals, take a long look in the mirror The evidence shows you're more poorly informed and less tolerant. We've got a vivid picture of the Republicans and conservatives in our midst. They're a sour, dour lot -- close-minded, tight-fisted and intolerant. Some are businesspeople, greedy and self-interested. Others are rednecks, poorly informed, clinging to their guns and religion. If only these folks understood political issues better and cared more about their fellow man, they'd be liberals, right? Think again. A growing body of research is shattering this conventional wisdom. Survey data make clear that Republicans, on average, are better informed than Democrats about ...
Buchanan: Is this the end of 'One Europe'?
Post Date: 2012-05-08 11:36:01 by Brian S
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How Europe's crisis resolves itself as yet remains unknown. But with Sunday's returns from France and Greece, the mega-trends on the Old Continent are unmistakable. And for the European Union, they are ominous. Nationalism -- be it economic nationalism or ethnic nationalism -- is ascendant. Transnationalism and multiculturalism are in headlong if not irreversible retreat. The European project is itself imperiled. To be sure, no one should underestimate the commitment of Europe's elites to the vision of One Europe as challenger to the United States. In the capitals and corporate headquarters of the continent, these elites are, almost to a man and woman, devout Europeans. Yet ...
Declaring War on ‘Political Islamism’
Post Date: 2012-05-07 19:24:30 by Brian S
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Like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney has responded to his lack of foreign policy experience by surrounding himself with clever neoconservatives who are now looking forward to expanding Bush’s “global war on terror” into what neocon ideologue William Kristol calls a U.S. “war with political Islamism.” In a Washington Post op-edon Thursday, Kristol dismissed President Barack Obama’s phased military withdrawal from Afghanistan – and his statement that “this time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end” – as foolish wishful thinking. Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore) “It would be wonderful ...
Buchanan: A Decade Of War -- For What?
Post Date: 2012-05-04 12:28:05 by Brian S
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"My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war," said Barack Obama from Bagram Air Base. "Here in the predawn darkness, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. The Iraq War is over. The number of troops in harm's way has been cut in half, and more will be coming home. ... The time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end." Interesting comment, that last. If "the time of war" is at an end, does that rule out U.S. military action in Syria or war on Iran? Setting aside the 14,000-mile round trip to Afghanistan to do an end zone dance on the anniversary of Seal Team Six's ...
Obama Caught In Osama Killing Lies!
Post Date: 2012-04-30 22:25:51 by whyofcourse
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Dr. Ron Paul: The Costs of War
Post Date: 2012-04-30 15:56:11 by Brian S
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This month Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the addition of some 1,900 mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to its existing workforce of 20,590 mental health staff in attempt to get a handle on the epidemic of suicides among combat veterans. Unfortunately, when presidents misuse our military on an unprecedented scale – and Congress lets them get away with it – the resulting stress causes military suicides to increase dramatically, both among active duty and retired service members. In fact, military deaths from suicide far outnumber combat deaths. According to an article in the Air Force Times this month, suicides among airmen ...
The Dark Side of America Emerges From the Shadows, Rears its Ugly Head
Post Date: 2012-04-29 19:48:49 by Brian S
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There is an unsettling element of our society that's always been present. However, it's one that's kept its true nature and intentions partially hidden under the guise of seeming normality. Individuals within that element were seen as somewhat manipulative, authoritarian, overly critical and intolerant of others, and self-righteous, but relatively harmless. In recent times this side of America has emerged as an arrogant, domineering force that is determined to reshape this entire society to fit its own demented ideology. This is the dark side of America; it's that select element in which morality, ethical behavior, integrity, empathy and honor, among other principles and ...
Demographic Suicide: Why Republicans Can't Stop Alienating Hispanics, Women And Young People
Post Date: 2012-04-27 15:32:35 by Brian S
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What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people. It’s almost as if the GOP can’t help itself. Start with Hispanic voters, whose electoral heft keeps growing as they comprise an ever-larger portion of the electorate. Hispanics now favor President Obama over Romney by more than two to one, according to a recent Pew poll. The movement of Hispanics into the Democratic camp has been going on for decades. What are Republicans doing to woo them back? Replicating California Republican Governor Pete Wilson’s disastrous support almost ...
Suppression: The Israeli Government & 60 Minutes
Post Date: 2012-04-27 12:45:23 by Brian S
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As one who has been harping for years on the Israel lobby's unique ability to silence critics of Israeli policies whether they work in politics, the media, academe or anywhere else, I can't say that I am surprised by the brouhaha surrounding Sunday's 60 Minutes broadcast of a Bob Simon report on the treatment of Palestinian Christians. It was a powerful segment which revealed that the Christian population has diminished dramatically in recent years as Palestinians left for other countries. The exodus is not the result of Israeli policies that specifically target Christians and drive them from the place Christianity began. It is rather the oppressive policies toward ...
Patrick J. Buchanan: Rubio, Tomorrow's Man -- Or Yesterday's
Post Date: 2012-04-27 11:51:52 by Brian S
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Among the GOP victories in 2010, none was sweeter than that of Marco Rubio. The charismatic young Cuban-American challenged Gov. Charlie Crist in a Senate primary, ran him out of the party and swept to victory by 19 points in a three-way race. Among those mentioned as running mates for Mitt Romney, it is Rubio who generates the most excitement. That he is young, Hispanic and conservative, and his place on the ticket might secure Florida, are the cards he brings to the table. So it was a surprise this week to see Rubio being chaperoned over to the Brookings Institution by Sen. Joe Lieberman to take final vows as the newest neoconservative. John Quincy Adams' declaration that America ...
Yet Another Reason Why Today’s Unions Suck: Dues Devour Wage Increases
Post Date: 2012-04-27 07:15:00 by CZ82
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Yet Another Reason Why Today’s Unions Suck: Dues Devour Wage Increases LaborUnionReport On the eve of Obama’s NLRB unleashing its new rules giving unions the ability to hold ambush elections—that is, the evisceration of employers’ ability to question or challenge unions in their quest to cherry-pick voting units—more data was just released by the Bureau of National Affairs that calls into question why anyone in their right mind would pay dues to a union today. In addition to the $369 billion in underfunded union (private-sector) pension plans, the abundant evidence that unions kill companies and destroy jobs, today’s unions are doing such a miserable job at ...
5 Things "Mad Men" Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street And 3 Tips Madison Avenue Can Offer OWS In Return
Post Date: 2012-04-26 23:46:38 by lucysmom
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There he is, a former six-figure "Mad Man" sleeping at night in front of a Bank of America branch in Manhattan to show his solidarity with the Occupy Movement and showing up regularly over the past seven months at his task of painting his near-famous cardboard protest signs at various Occupation sites in the city -- then manning his laptop to consult with advertising clients. Why and how these circumstances came about for this man and its lessons serves as a survival tale, a source of inspiration, and an education in applying corporate skills to help bring about societal change for all of us... whether we are revolutionaries or bystanders. The person at hand is David ...
Legacy of Occupy Wall Street? Green funds see more green
Post Date: 2012-04-26 23:29:48 by lucysmom
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The Occupy Wall Street movement might be fading from the headlines, but its impact is still being felt in at least one area of the asset management industry. "As a result of the Occupy movement, we saw more inquiries from clients interested in socially responsible investing," said Matthew Patsky, chief executive of Trillium Asset Management LLC, which manages $1 billion in socially conscious investments. Mr. Patsky, speaking Tuesday in Washington, D.C., at the Investment Management Consultants Association's annual conference, has done extensive research on the overall Occupy movement and its various participants. On an anecdotal level, he noted that one of his high-net-worth ...
A Farewell To Superpowers
Post Date: 2012-04-26 18:11:27 by Brian S
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Goldman Sachs — via economist Jim O’Neill — invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn’t help calling it the “Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept.” Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost 40 percent percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the world’s top five economies. Soon, in fact, that acronym may have to expand to include Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea and, yes, nuclear Iran: BRIIICTSS? Despite its well-known problems as a nation under economic siege, Iran is also motoring along as part of ...
What Latin America Can Teach Us
Post Date: 2012-04-26 09:40:09 by lucysmom
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IN a Bertelsmann Foundation study on social justice released this fall, the United States came in dead last among the rich countries, with only Greece, Chile, Mexico and Turkey faring worse. Whether in poverty prevention, child poverty, income inequality or health ratings, the United States ranked below countries like Spain and South Korea, not to mention Japan, Germany or France. It was another sign of how badly Americans are hurting their middle class. Wars, famine and violence have devastated middle classes before, in Germany and Japan, Russia and Eastern Europe. But when the smoke cleared and the dust settled, a social structure roughly similar to what existed before would always ...
SNL alum on Obama: "What a f**king asshole" [Jon Lovitz]
Post Date: 2012-04-24 17:29:47 by Capitalist Eric
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Jon Lovitz, an early “Saturday Night Live” cast member, had some harsh words for President Barack Obama over the weekend. In an interview with “Clerks” director Kevin Smith, Lovitz, a registered Democrat who voted for Obama in 2008, bashed the president for his class warfare rhetoric and the notion that the wealthy don’t pay their fair share in taxes. “This whole thing with Obama saying the rich don’t pay their taxes is fucking bullshit, and I voted for the guy and I’m a Democrat. What a fucking asshole,” Lovitz said. “First they say … ‘You can do anything you want. Go for it.’ So then you go for it, and then you make it, ...
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