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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
If conservatives were right
Post Date: 2011-06-13 12:31:07 by go65
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If conservatives were right, there would be an easy remedy for our ailing economy. The current conservative approach to fixing our finances relies on a simple theory: rich people and corporations are the ones who create jobs for everyone else. Therefore, in times of high unemployment, the best way to create more employment is to ensure that the wealthy become even wealthier so that they will feel comfortable spending the money on creating jobs. And in turn, that goal can be accomplished through a series of tax cuts aimed at corporations and wealthy individuals, as well as through eliminating regulations that hamper employers in their quest for maximum profit. Conservative economics also ...
Arab Spring, Israeli Winter
Post Date: 2011-06-12 17:33:41 by Brian S
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Jerusalem - Israel has witnessed and survived through many convulsions in the Arab street. Israel is a natural foe of progress and democracy in the region because it would like to maintain its monopoly on these important political currencies. Israel, the Big Powers, and the true New World Order The Jews and their state, Israel, have always sported a pro-colonial predilection, relying on "Big Powers" (Britain, France, then the United States of America) to sort out the Middle-Eastern quagmire in Israel's favor. This default policy may no longer prove possible. A consensus is now emerging in Europe - including Britain - that the "road map" for peace in the Middle East ...
How police are turning military
Post Date: 2011-06-12 16:04:39 by Ferret Mike
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Targeted killing is legal in a war zone but not on the streets of Anytown, USA, the author writes. | AP Photo Close The sheriff’s office in Pima County, Ariz., raided the home of former Marine and Iraq combat veteran Jose Guerena, shooting 71 rounds at Guerena and hitting him with 22. The department is now facing a serious controversy over Guerena’s death. But the raid isn’t the real tragedy. It’s a symptom of the real tragedy: the militarization of U.S. law enforcement. Pima County released a video of the raid and supporting documents. The video isn’t anything new — a squad of police officers dressed up for combat. But the statement of the SWAT supervisor ...
The pro-Democrat double standard at the LA Times
Post Date: 2011-06-11 18:38:12 by CZ82
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The pro-Democrat double standard at the LA Times You will recall that in October 2008, the Los Angeles Times suppressed a tape it has in its possession of former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi's departure party from Chicago. Among those present at the party were Billy Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Barack Hussein Obama. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, what went on at that dinner would have taught us a lot about the current President of the United States. A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations ...
A simple sign is worth a thousand words!!
Post Date: 2011-06-11 15:43:04 by CZ82
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PERSPECTIVE IS VERY IMPORTANT
Jim Crow and Racism Destroy Liberal Minds
Post Date: 2011-06-11 15:29:16 by CZ82
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Jim Crow and Racism Destroy Liberal Minds By now, every Conservative should know how the argument of a Liberal degrades. It goes something like this: A Conservative makes some valid political point seeking a Liberal’s counterpoint. Instead of providing a well-thought out intelligent answer, the first response is usually some irrelevant or made-up statistic. Sometimes it can even be a made-up quotation. After the Conservative provides a sound defense of his position, the Liberal continues to answer unintelligibly. Repeat this process three times (Sometimes it only takes making the original point). Finally, out of desperation, and knowing his position is full of holes, the Liberal ...
Herman Cain's Failure as CEO of Godfather's Pizza
Post Date: 2011-06-11 14:48:59 by Brian S
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Why does no report confront Cain about his poor management of Godfather's Pizza. Why do they buy the myth that he created that he turned the company around?:::::::: Your browser does not support iframes.</p> Herman Cain bases his campaign on the idea that he was a successful CEO and manager at Godfather's Pizza. No reporter has investigated this claim. Cain has released no earnings statements either during the time he was at Godfather's Pizza or since. If we look at sales figures which are in the public record, sales at Godfather's Pizza, adjusted for inflation dropped over 40% from the year before he took over to his final years. It is hard to imagine that profits ...
The Fraudulent Sharia in American Courts "Study"
Post Date: 2011-06-11 12:55:53 by Brian S
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Recently the Center for Security Policy, led by the absolutely deranged Frank Gaffney, put out a "study" called Shariah in American Courts that pinpoints 50 rulings from the courts in 23 states that supposedly prove Gaffney's moronic "creeping Sharia" position. I've finally gotten around to reading that report. Let me make this as clear as I possibly can: This report is not merely badly researched and badly prepared, it is an outright fraud. No one who actually reads the rulings could reach anything but the opposite conclusion from the one they intend to foster. Nearly every single case they offer argues against their conclusion. Now let me prove that assertion. ...
The Earth Is Full
Post Date: 2011-06-10 22:18:11 by Ferret Mike
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You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once? “The only answer can be denial,” argues Paul Gilding, the veteran Australian environmentalist-entrepreneur, who described this moment in a new ...
Annette: Women Have Palin Envy
Post Date: 2011-06-09 17:18:25 by CZ82
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Annette: Women Have Palin Envy June 8, 2011 RUSH: Highland, Illinois. Annette, great to have you with us. Hello. CALLER: Thanks for taking my call! RUSH: You bet. CALLER: I have the answer for you about why Republican women and a lot of women don't like Sarah Palin, and I'm probably gonna cause World War III here but it's a numbers game. Because Sarah Palin is a "10,"and anyone I've found that below an "8" can't stand her. Women are women first and conservatives and Republicans second, and the women that I talk to are so jealous of her. I don't see them that way with Michele Bachmann, but I don't know that Michele Bachmann has what Sarah ...
GOP Can’t Handle The Truth: Taxes Are Lower Under Obama Than Reagan
Post Date: 2011-06-07 20:35:51 by Brian S
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President Obama met with House Republicans today at the White House to discuss ways to move forward on negotiations regarding the nation’s debt ceiling and the budget. During the discussion, talk evidently turned to taxes, and when Obama noted that taxes today are lower than they were under President Reagan, the GOP, according to The Hill, “engaged in a lot of ‘eye-rolling’“: Republicans attending a White House meeting on Wednesday didn’t take kindly to President Obama telling them tax rates were higher during the Reagan administration. GOP members engaged in a lot of “eye-rolling,” according to a member who was on hand to hear Obama, who invited ...
Republicans’ Job-Growth Supply-Side Time Warp
Post Date: 2011-06-07 20:10:40 by Brian S
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Republicans are trying to change the subject from deficits and entitlements to the economy and jobs. In recent weeks, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senator Rob Portman have each introduced jobs plans. This new focus is in part a reaction to polls saying that the Republican Medicare plan is unpopular and that the weak economy remains voters’ top concern. But it also reflects an old division among Republicans -- and reveals the inadequacy of the party’s recent approach to reviving the economy. The party formed its current economic views in the late 1970s, when an upstart band of journalists, politicians and economists, soon labeled “supply-siders,” overthrew its ...
Paul Revere’s Ride, as told by Sarah Palin
Post Date: 2011-06-04 03:58:48 by Ferret Mike
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Oh, no. Among other highlights of her Maybe It’s Just A Vacation Bus Tour, Sarah Palin attempted to retell the story of Paul Revere. It went badly. Admittedly, it always goes badly when anyone tries to retell history, even when sober, since we collectively have the historical and civics knowledge of a group of pigeons who paid limited attention in middle school. But this was almost poetic. So here, with apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the scansion, is the Sarah Palin edition of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere As told by the Palin who comes from AK With fire in the belly and things to say ...
Jailhouse Crock
Post Date: 2011-06-03 17:41:56 by CZ82
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Jailhouse Crock By Christopher Orlet on 6.2.11 @ 6:07AM Here's something you don't read everyday: "Putting People in Jail Does Not Lower the Crime Rate." Unless you are a subscriber to The Nation or a visitor to the MSNBC website. Then you probably do read that every day, or something equally counterintuitive. I confess I do visit the MSNBC website most days. Where else am I going to get story ideas and a good laugh at the same time? The other day I clicked on a segment with Tulane Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, a self-styled expert on crime and punishment. I was curious why we were putting ordinary people in jail in hopes of lowering the crime rate. Seemed a tad ...
The danger of indefinite detention
Post Date: 2011-06-03 07:00:49 by A K A Stone
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The House Judiciary committee plans on Thursday to move forward a bill to create a system of indefinite detention for immigrants in the United States. The bill would allow the government to detain deportable immigrants who can’t be sent home for as long as they live. Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has described H.R. 1932 as a way to protect “endangered” U.S. citizens from “criminal immigrants.” He did not mention that the bill does away with the constitutional protection against indefinite detention, nor did he mention that the bill very likely violates U.S. obligations under international human rights law. To understand the scope of Chairman ...
Barack Obama and the Betrayal of Black America
Post Date: 2011-06-02 19:24:28 by CZ82
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Barack Obama and the Betrayal of Black America By Chidike Okeem When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist. They believed that his election was indicative of a vigorous wind of political and social change that was blowing across the country. Barack Obama himself vowed that his election would demarcate the conclusion of grisly "politics as usual" from the commencement of political and democratic freshness. However, as this administration continues on, it is abundantly clear that Obama has not only failed to deliver in a general sense, but he has also ...
Dumb Question of the Twenty-first Century: Is It Legal?
Post Date: 2011-05-31 23:24:24 by A K A Stone
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Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden’s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to target an American citizen for assassination? Were those “enhanced interrogation techniques” legal? These are all questions raised in recent weeks. Each seems to call out for debate, for answers. Or does it? Now, you couldn’t call me a legal scholar. I’ve never set foot inside a law school, and in 66 years only made it onto a single jury (dismissed before trial when the civil suit was settled out of court). Still, I feel at least as capable as any constitutional law professor of answering such questions. My answer is this: they are irrelevant. Think of ...
R.I.P. Reaganomics Revolution: 1981-2011: Like The Roaring Twenties, Ending In A Crash
Post Date: 2011-05-31 15:51:14 by Brian S
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — The 30-year Reaganomics Revolution will be over soon. Like the Roaring Twenties, ending in the game changing crash. Though more than 80 years apart, they share a common theme song of irrational exuberance: “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles.” Many bubbles, now merging like tornadoes, in a perfect storm, a megabubble itching to blow, signaling the end of the ego-centered Reaganomics Revolution, which must, unfortunately, also take down America’s markets, economy and monetary system. Yes, folks, that one song captures the collective mind-set of both the Roaring Twenties and the Reaganomics Revolution: “Forever blowing bubbles. ...
Teabagger Queen Palin Spits on Nation's War Dead
Post Date: 2011-05-30 14:41:48 by Brian S
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If it's Memorial Day this is the day for all of the gutless right-wingers and teabagger Republicans to desecrate the flag by wrapping themselves in it while they pontificate about their fascist ideology and spit on the graves of those who died to at least in theory protect our freedoms. America's favorite parasite, Sarah Palin has never been accused of having dignity nor shame but this latest cynical re-launch represents a new low for the white trash diva from Wasilla. In yet another of the now standard orgies of shameful behavior that charlatans engage in, Sarah 'lock and load' Palin has latched onto the Rolling Thunder Memorial Day rally as her latest public relations ...
When Faith In U.S. Dollars And U.S. Debt Is Dead The Game Is Over – And That Day Is Closer Than You May Think
Post Date: 2011-05-30 10:03:58 by A K A Stone
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A day is coming when the rest of the world will decide that it no longer has faith in U.S. dollars or in U.S. debt. When that day arrives, the game will be over. Traditionally, two of the biggest things that the U.S. economy has had going for it were the U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasuries. The U.S. dollar has been the default reserve currency of the world for decades. All over the globe it was seen as a strong, stable currency that was desirable for international trade. U.S. government debt has long been considered the “safest debt” in the entire world. Whenever there was a major crisis, investors would flock to U.S. Treasuries because they were considered a rock. Sadly, all of this ...
Results of Supreme Court order to release 46,000 inmates
Post Date: 2011-05-30 08:36:49 by CZ82
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Windows 8 Should Be Free
Post Date: 2011-05-29 19:45:37 by Ferret Mike
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If Win 8 only includes the superficial features that are predicted, then it's a tweak of Win 7, not a new OS, and we shouldn't have to pay for it. According to various reports, some contradictory, Windows 8 may be upon us in 2012. I have to ask the obvious question: Who cares? I don't ask this to be caviler. I really would like to know if anyone cares. In the olden days, when a new OS was released, there was always a reason and always a need. For example, when 3.5-inch floppies came out, the drivers needed to be incorporated into the new OS. Or when volume sizes of the hard drive went beyond the ability of the OS to recognize them, support for the ubiquitous CD-ROM had to be ...
Every President and Congress are Complicit in Israel's "War Crimes"
Post Date: 2011-05-29 18:58:35 by Brian S
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"With the exception of the great majority of the American people, the entire world knows that Israel and its lobbies run the U.S. Government, and no President or Congressman will dare challenge or swerve from the path AIPAC draws for their subservience....America, Israel is suffocating your freedoms, your government, your Constitution, and your destiny and future....Will you ever care again about this nation, who’s running it, what’s happening to it, and where it’s heading?" "He (Netanyahu) thinks he is the superpower and we are here to do whatever he requires. Who’s the (expletive) superpower here"?"-- President Bill Clinton after meeting ...
As world burns, G8 leaders fiddle ... with the Internet. Seriously?
Post Date: 2011-05-29 07:42:36 by CZ82
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As world burns, G8 leaders fiddle ... with the Internet. Seriously? 4 and 1 By James M. Roberts / May 25, 2011 Sarkozy, Obama, and the other leaders at the G8 should be evaluating the policies that have brought them to the brink of financial ruin. Unfortunately, their attention will be elsewhere: on Internet regulation, for one thing. President Obama will join other G8 leaders today at the posh, French seaside resort of Deauville. On the agenda: proposed global regulations for the Internet, post-tsunami Japan, and military escapades in North Africa. Bizarrely absent from the top priorities listed by hosting head of state Nicolas Sarkozy is the most urgent issue of all: the need to rein ...
The Angry Rich
Post Date: 2011-05-28 10:26:57 by lucysmom
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snip These are terrible times for many people in this country. Poverty, especially acute poverty, has soared in the economic slump; millions of people have lost their homes. Young people can’t find jobs; laid-off 50-somethings fear that they’ll never work again. Yet if you want to find real political rage — the kind of rage that makes people compare President Obama to Hitler, or accuse him of treason — you won’t find it among these suffering Americans. You’ll find it instead among the very privileged, people who don’t have to worry about losing their jobs, their homes, or their health insurance, but who are outraged, outraged, at the thought of paying ...
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