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‘Israel Firster’ Gets At An Inconvenient Truth
Post Date: 2012-01-21 14:51:31 by Brian S
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By Philip WeissThe new battleground in the argument over Israel’s influence on American policy is the idea that some of those pushing an attack on Iran are “Israel Firsters.”The term has been used by MJ Rosenberg of Media Matters and Zaid Jilani, formerly of Center for American Progress. Israel supporters have struck back hard. They claim that using the term is anti-Semitic because it calls on a long history of questioning Jews’ loyalty to western countries.Yesterday Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street bravely defended the use of the expression in an interview with the Washington Post. “If the charge is that you’re putting the interests of another country before the ...
Newt Gingrich and the Tofflers
Post Date: 2012-01-20 19:05:09 by Brian S
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Glenn Beck recently interviewed Newt Gingrich and asked the former Speaker who was his favorite President. Newt said it was Teddy Roosevelt, the famous Progressive whose Bull Moose Party made it possible for liberal Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency in 1912. Beck drew from that reply that Newt was a Progressive. Gingrich denied that he was, but Beck was not convinced. After all, if you love Teddy Roosevelt, you’ve got to be a Progressive. By the way, John McCain’s favorite President is also Teddy Roosevelt. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is that unusual combination of politician, historian, intellectual, thinker, writer, consultant, and opportunist. He ...
Why Black Out Websites To Protest SOPA?
Post Date: 2012-01-17 20:22:09 by A K A Stone
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What is the point of sites blacking out to protest SOPA? They will just be back up the next day. Seems futile.
Hormuz Hogwash: The Truth about Western Aggression
Post Date: 2012-01-17 13:46:09 by Brian S
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War Plan Iran: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulfby Finian Cunningham & Michel Chossudovsky l Global Research The year 2012 may become known as a watershed for humanity – the year when mankind was precipitated into a global conflagration involving nuclear weapons. The signs are indeed grimly ominous as formidable military forces converge on the Persian Gulf in the long-running stand-off between the United States and Iran. On side with the US are its European allies in NATO, primarily Britain, Washington’s Middle East client states: Israel and the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf – all bristling with weapons ...
Paul Is A Prophet Deserving Honour In Warning On America's Limits
Post Date: 2012-01-16 14:15:52 by Brian S
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He rails against the "American empire" that "brought the September 11 attacks on us". He condemns Obama for killing Osama. He is indifferent to attempts to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. He defends Julian Assange and lauds Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking US secrets to WikiLeaks, a "true patriot". And he is barred from addressing a Jewish forum because of his "misguided and extreme views" on Israel. Who is this crazed left-wing radical? If you're not closely following the Republican presidential race, you might think he was Noam Chomsky or Michael Moore. Advertisement: Story continues below In fact, he's Ron Paul: ...
A Moral Distinction
Post Date: 2012-01-14 17:04:05 by Fibr Dog
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A new acquaintance recently asked whether she and I could get along, considering that she’s a liberal while I’m libertarian. Her second question focused on Ron Paul, likely the only person she ever heard of associated with libertarian philosophy: “Are all libertarians as conservative as Ron Paul on topics like abortion and gays?” This is where things can get complicated even when we try to keep them simple. Libertarians are not conservative. We’re not liberal, either. We’re libertarian. Even saying we are fiscally conservative and socially liberal — though there’s some accuracy to that — can be problematic, because the concepts of conservative ...
Be Careful What You Wish For
Post Date: 2012-01-14 16:58:03 by Fibr Dog
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Mitt Romney’s recent comment about how he would repeal Obamacare if elected president was almost laughable. After all, Romney was the man who brought the same type of mandatory health coverage to Massachusetts when he was that state’s governor. Government healthcare has been a political issue for generations, and interest accelerated during the Clinton years, when it was called “Hillarycare.” But Mitt delivered Romneycare. No matter whose name is on the alleged care, it’s government controlled, and that’s a problem for at least two reasons: the practical and the constitutional Let’s look at the practical first. Universal healthcare will be anything but ...
Ron Paul ties GOP in knots
Post Date: 2012-01-13 15:39:42 by We The People
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updated 11:25 AM EST, Fri January 13, 2012Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul greets supporters outside a polling station in Manchester, New Hampshire.(CNN) -- To get a sense of how Ron Paul is tying the GOP establishment in knots, look no further than Sen. Jim DeMint, the powerful Republican from the site of the next major primary, South Carolina. Until November 2010, DeMint had a clear claim on being the most influential, populist-flavored fiscal conservative in the Senate. Then a wave of Tea Party freshmen helped bring a Republican majority to the House of Representative and a new breed of politician to the Senate -- one best exemplified by Kentucky's Rand Paul, whose ...
Buchanan: Ron Paul, The True Believer
Post Date: 2012-01-13 12:58:15 by Brian S
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Last May, Ron Paul filed his financial disclosure form, and the Wall Street Journal enlisted financial analyst William Bernstein to scrutinize his investments. "Paul's portfolio isn't merely different," said an astonished Journal, "it's shockingly different." Twenty-one percent of his $2.4 to $5.5 million was in real estate, 14 percent in cash. He owns no bonds. Only 0.1 percent is invested in stocks, and Paul bought these "short," betting the price will plunge. Every other nickel is sunk into gold and silver mining companies. Bernstein "had never seen such an extreme bet on economic catastrophe," said the Journal. "This ...
Ron Paul worries some in GOP as S.C., Florida primaries loom
Post Date: 2012-01-13 07:42:26 by We The People
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Ron Paul has outperformed his previous run for the GOP nomination for president, garnering solid support in Iowa and New Hampshire. Yet for some in the party his rising popularity could spell trouble for the party. As Chris Cillizza reported : In the wake of his second-place showing in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, Texas Rep. Ron Paul declared: “We are dangerous to the status quo of this country”. He’s right. And that could be a very bad thing for a Republican party hoping to take back the White House this November.A look at exit polling from New Hampshire suggests that Paul has a significant — and steady — following that exists almost entirely apart ...
Ron Paul: How badly does GOP need his voters? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-01-11 21:20:09 by We The People
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Many in the GOP realize that Ron Paul is not going to fade away once the early primaries are over. If Ron Paul doesn't win the primary battle, they'll need his voters to win in the general election. Ron Paul did pretty well in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday. He placed second, slightly outperforming pre-election polls, and – perhaps more importantly – he tripled the number of votes he got in the Granite State when he ran for president in 2008. More and more, many in the GOP are realizing that this time around Ron Paul is a significant phenomenon that’s not going to fade away once the early primaries are over. They’re also realizing that it’s ...
Kelley: Nuclear Arms Charge Against Iran Is No Slam Dunk
Post Date: 2012-01-11 12:12:40 by Brian S
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The conflict between Iran and the West just keeps heating up, with the Iranians announcing over the weekend that they have begun to enrich uranium at a second major facility, a well-defended site outside the city of Qom. Given the high stakes, it’s valuable to take another look at the main source of the tension: Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. That this enterprise is active is widely considered a given in the U.S. In fact, the evidence, contained in a November report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is sketchy. And the way the data have been presented produces a sickly sense of deja vu. I am speaking up about this now because, as a member of the IAEA’s Iraq ...
President Paul? Senator may be candidate in ’16
Post Date: 2012-01-10 23:45:52 by A K A Stone
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A year ago, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was navigating the halls of the U.S. Capitol in his first days as a freshman senator. Paul had ridden the momentum of the tea party during the 2010 campaign, joining a new wave of conservatives in Washington, D.C. A year later, Paul remains part of the national conversation, appearing on frequent television and radio interviews and sounding off on several national issues that arose during his first year in office. Most recently, he has campaigned for his father, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, as Ron Paul tries to claim the GOP's presidential nomination. And by many accounts, when the younger Paul takes the stage to stump for his father, the crowds ...
Ron Paul And Eisenhower Are Right
Post Date: 2012-01-10 14:39:10 by Brian S
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We are watching the destruction of an empire. All empires must go away sometime. They are natural things. And nature puts a time bomb in everything she creates. The U.S. empire is doomed. Just like all the others that went before it. It is doomed by nature herself — condemned by the gods to blow up and die. None of this should be surprising. We’ve seen this movie before. Hundreds of empires have come and gone. We know how this movie ends. More or less. What we know for sure is that the U.S. is going broke. There is hardly any other plausible outcome. We’ve gone over the numbers so often we don’t need to repeat them. Yes, it is true that the feds could still save ...
Could Election 2012 Be Going Any Worse for the Tea Party?
Post Date: 2012-01-10 14:30:17 by Brian S
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First Sarah Palin didn't run, and the documentary about her disappointed at the box office. Then a series of Tea Party friendly candidates jumped into the race. But neither Michele Bachmann nor Rick Perry nor Herman Cain could withstand the scrutiny of a presidential run. As if to underscore the reversal of fortune, Bachmann, whose star was born with the Tea Party, finished sixth in the Iowa caucuses. And the winner of the first-in-the-nation contest? It was a virtual tie between Mitt Romney, the preferred nominee of moderates in the establishment, and Rick Santorum, arguably the man whose political philosophy is most antithetical to that of Tea Partiers, being the closest to the ...
The Answer That Would Have Won the Nomination
Post Date: 2012-01-10 07:35:35 by CZ82
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The Answer That Would Have Won the Nomination By Peter Heck To say the moment was ripe for any earnest conservative who wanted to capture the Republican nomination for president would be an understatement. As Diane Sawyer sniffled out a question that makes even the most fanatical bleeding heart look cold, she dangled a low-hanging fruit for any of the candidates to pluck with ease. To my great disappointment, none of them did. After spending nearly a quarter of an hour at the recent Republican presidential debate discussing a hypothetical scenario where a state might want to ban contraception, Sawyer put on her trademark pained countenance and, continuing the transparently obvious ...
They’re baaack! The Return of the Chickenhawks
Post Date: 2012-01-09 19:35:09 by Brian S
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What a joy to see Ron Paul take down Newt “Chickenhawk” Gingrich in front of millions of Americans. Slogging through fifteen Republican presidential debates was totally worth it just to witness this defining moment. Dianne Sawyer, who sounded like she was on Quaaludes, raised her eyebrows quizzically as she asked him if he stood by his previous characterization of Newt as a “chickenhawk.” Her tone implied she thought this a little harsh. Paul took this opening and ran with it: “I think people who don’t serve when they could and they get three or four or even five deferments – they have no right to send our kids off to war … I’m trying to stop ...
"States' Rights: Do We have It All Wrong?"
Post Date: 2012-01-08 23:43:58 by A K A Stone
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Under the conventional narratives of the Civil War, the Southern states seceded from the United States on account of "states' rights." Contemporary political debate over the war takes this "fact" as a starting premise. Modern-day Union supporters say that the Southern states invoked "states' rights" in order to defend the institution of slavery, draping the mantle of "states' rights" over the practice of slavery like a Klansman draping a hood and cloak over his body. The Union narrative then has the heroic Abraham Lincoln invoking the majesty of the federal government to vindicate national supremacy, suppressing the "rebels" and ...
Analysis: Ron Paul Leaves A Big Impact
Post Date: 2012-01-08 18:20:14 by Brian S
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DES MOINES, Iowa – Texas Representative Ron Paul might have come in third in the Iowa vote for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, but he took to the stage that evening confident he had prevailed. To the applause of the hundreds of campaign volunteers and activists who packed the post-caucus party, Paul declared that not only did he do well enough to continue on to the New Hampshire primary next week, but that his ideas were influencing the very contours of the race. “Where we are very successful is reintroducing some ideas Republicans needed for a long time,” he told the crowd, which waved American flags and campaign signs. “Believe me this momentum is ...
The New York Times Is Lying About Iran's Nuclear Program
Post Date: 2012-01-08 16:56:15 by Brian S
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It's deja vu all over again. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is trying to trick America into another catastrophic war with a Middle Eastern country on behalf of the Likud Party's colonial ambitions, and The New York Times is lying about allegations that said country is developing "weapons of mass destruction." In an article attributed to Steven Erlanger on January 4 ("Europe Takes Bold Step Toward a Ban on Iranian Oil"), this paragraph appeared: The threats from Iran, aimed both at the West and at Israel, combined with a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran's nuclear program has a military objective, is ...
The Monsters of Free Republic
Post Date: 2012-01-08 15:15:58 by jwpegler
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During the 2000 election, I joined the "conservative" forum site "Free Republic". I was tossed off of the site in less than a day, simply for expressing a fact- based opinion that differed from that of the site's moderators. Today I decided to rejoin, just to post my latest blog about Rick Santorum entitled Rick Santorum is no Conservative Savior. I was tossed off of Free Republic after one post, but not before the moderator changed the name of my post to Rick Santorum is no Conservative Savior, sez troll before getting the ZOT and opened it up to ridicule from the mental midgets, who follow the moderators around like a bunch of lemmings. I really don't who ...
Four More Years – of This? [Pat Buchanan]
Post Date: 2012-01-08 09:19:14 by Capitalist Eric
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In what The Washington Post called "a bold act of political defiance," President Obama Wednesday announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray's nomination had been blocked by a Senate filibuster. There was no way he was going to win approval in 2012. Enraged Republicans denounced the appointment as an affront and a usurpation of power, for the Senate had not formally gone into recess. The White House airily dismissed the Republican rage, saying no Senate business is being conducted during the Christmas-New Year break, and to argue that the Senate is still in session is a sham. Obama seemed to delight in his ...
A Short Banking History of the United States
Post Date: 2012-01-07 19:23:52 by lucysmom
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We are now in the midst of a major financial panic. This is not a unique occurrence in American history. Indeed, we've had one roughly every 20 years: in 1819, 1836, 1857, 1873, 1893, 1907, 1929, 1987 and now 2008. Many of these marked the beginning of an extended period of economic depression. How could the richest and most productive economy the world has ever known have a financial system so prone to periodic and catastrophic break down? One answer is the baleful influence of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, to be sure, was a genius and fully deserves his place on Mt. Rushmore. But he was also a quintessential intellectual who was often insulated from the real world. He hated commerce, ...
U.S. Marine: Nothing is taboo anymore with the Government
Post Date: 2012-01-07 17:26:55 by A K A Stone
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Nothing is taboo anymore with the Government beauracracy! The cops have become worst than the Mafia.... Does this remind anyone of the Nazi brown shirts. There's unwarranted illegal checkpoints going up everywhere by armed goons, "Papers please!" What is happening to America? The news is corrupt and reports only what their handlers allow. They don't want citizens to defend themselves, or demand their rights granted to us by our Creator and founding fathers. In my opinion Ron Paul is our only hope at this point! He may not have all the answers but at least he's for The Constitution and Bill of Rights, sounds like a good starting point to me....
Santorum Wants To Impose 'Judeo-Christian Sharia'
Post Date: 2012-01-07 14:28:15 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- There are two Rick Santorums: The first one I might not agree with, but the second one truly scares me. "Santorum One" pushes for less government regulation for corporations and shrinking the federal government. You may or may not agree with these positions, but they are both mainstream conservative fare. Then there's "Santorum Two." This Santorum wants to impose conservative Christian law upon America. Am I being hyperbolic or overly dramatic with this statement? I wish I were, but I'm not. Dean Obeidallah Dean Obeidallah Plainly put, Rick Santorum wants to convert our current legal system into one that requires our laws to be in agreement with ...
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