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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Thomas Friedman and the Great Man Theory of History
Post Date: 2011-03-03 21:43:01 by jwpegler
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Thomas Friedman recently wrote an article stating that Obama's racial make-up and religious ancestry are the root causes of the turmoil in the Middle east today. According to Friedman, people have decided to fight their governments because Obama is black and his father was Muslim. Here is what Friedman actually wrote: Americans have never fully appreciated what a radical thing we did — in the eyes of the rest of the world — in electing an African-American with the middle name Hussein as president. I’m convinced that listening to Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech — not the words, but the man — were more than a few young Arabs who were saying to themselves: ...
Rolling Stone Gets Alex Jones Wrong
Post Date: 2011-03-03 18:07:58 by A K A Stone
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Rolling Stone has a new piece on radio host/patriot Alex Jones, casting him as a paranoid, fringe conspiracy theorist who attracts lunatics in Hollywood and across the land. It is not a total hit job, though. Alex gets to speak his mind, and the writer lays out the history of Alex’s rise into the mainstream pretty well, but like other media portrayals of Alex, the buzzwords “conspiracy theory” and “paranoid” are used, almost automatically, to describe Alex’s special brand of populist-constitutionalist political speech. Salon’s Alex Pareene called Alex an “all-American nut-job,” on March 1st, saying that he is “about as fringe a character as ...
This Is Just the Start (Arab revolution)
Post Date: 2011-03-03 12:07:32 by go65
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THE OBAMA FACTOR Americans have never fully appreciated what a radical thing we did — in the eyes of the rest of the world — in electing an African-American with the middle name Hussein as president. I’m convinced that listening to Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech — not the words, but the man — were more than a few young Arabs who were saying to themselves: “Hmmm, let’s see. He’s young. I’m young. He’s dark- skinned. I’m dark-skinned. His middle name is Hussein. My name is Hussein. His grandfather is a Muslim. My grandfather is a Muslim. He is president of the United States. And I’m an unemployed young Arab with no vote and no voice ...
FREE SPEECH vs. HATE SPEECH, HARRASSMENT,
Post Date: 2011-03-03 09:10:38 by hallie
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FREE SPEECH vs. HATE SPEECH, HARRASSMENT, TRESPASSING, DISTURBING THE PEACE. Rev. Phelps and his clan can say anything they want to within distance to cause a disturbance at funerals of fallen soldiers it becomes harassment and there is a law against harassment, disturbing the peace and hate speech. They should get a restraining order against this clan restraining them from protesting within 100 yards and disturbing the peace of a funeral. A funeral is a private ceremony and attended only by invitation and Rev. Phelps and his clan are funeral crashers spewing hate speech. He can do and say whatever the hell he want within a certain distance but the line is drawn when it becomes hate ...
A ‘Green’ Catastrophe in the Making
Post Date: 2011-03-03 07:42:03 by A K A Stone
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Since 1973, Americans have been watching an accident in slow motion. That was the year that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), began to understand the economic leverage they had over Western, oil-dependent nations. At that point America, whose last year of energy self-sufficiency was 1950, was importing 35% of its energy. Over the next two years, in retaliation for the unsuccessful attempt by several Arab nations to annihilate Israel in the Yom Kippur War, OPEC more than tripled the price of a barrel of oil. A severe recession occurred, and people were forced to wait in long lines on alternate days to buy gasoline. In terms of energy independence or stability, ...
How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us
Post Date: 2011-03-02 17:24:06 by Brian S
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How the rich soaked the rest of us: The astonishing story of the last few decades is a massive redistribution of wealth, as the rich have shifted the tax burden. Over the last half-century, the richest Americans have shifted the burden of the federal individual income tax off themselves and onto everybody else. The three convenient and accurate Wikipedia graphs below show the details. The first graph compares the official tax rates paid by the top and bottom income earners. Note especially that from the end of the Second World War into the early 1960s, the highest income earners paid a tax rate over 90 percent for many years. Today, the top earners pay a rate of only 35 percent. Note, also, ...
Our World: The West’s Proxy War Against The Jews
Post Date: 2011-02-28 23:19:38 by Brian S
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By focusing attention on Israel and its crimes, Europeans, American admirers ignore Islamic war against Israel, global jihad. It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the American Left that orchestrated the US defeat through a sustained campaign of propaganda and fake calls for peace stood silent. As Pol Pot, the “progressive” dictator tortured and murdered a third of his people in Cambodia, the leftists “peace” activists in the US and Europe who never saw a US military operation that was justified, turned a blind eye. The silence of the likes ...
The Vatican Vs The ‘Zionist Tsunami’
Post Date: 2011-02-28 17:25:38 by Brian S
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The slandering of Israel is growing at an alarming rate among the most important Catholic journalists. The January edition of La Civiltà Cattolica – the most authoritative magazine of the Jesuits, printed under the supervision of the Vatican – opens with an editorial about Palestinian refugees. Adopting the Arab propagandist word Nakba, it declares they are a consequence of “ethnic cleansing” by Israel. The journal also supports anti-Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, and falsely proclaims that “the Zionists were cleverly able to exploit the Western sense of guilt for the Shoah to lay the foundations of their own state.” The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, ...
Buchanan: Manufacturing's Dismal Decade
Post Date: 2011-02-28 13:59:37 by Brian S
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Last year, Barack Obama committed his administration to doubling U.S. exports in half a decade. The good news: He is on the way. U.S. exports of goods and services grew in 2010 by 16.6 percent. Bad news: U.S. imports, starting from a higher base, surged by 19.7 percent. Result: The U.S. trade deficit in 2010 worsened by 33 percent, rising from $375 billion to $498 billion, the largest percentage increase in a decade. If Obama keeps this up, he may prove as big a disaster for U.S. manufacturing as his predecessor, although these are big shoes to fill. As he has each February for years, Charles W. McMillion of MBG Information Services has compiled the stats on the industrial decline of ...
Day Of Reckoning On Pensions;
Post Date: 2011-02-26 16:35:08 by Brian S
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The housing bubble and subsequent Wall Street collapse wreaked havoc on the nation's retirement savings, as many pension funds and 401(k) plans suffered losses of 30% or more. State and local governments are now facing huge unfunded pension liabilities, prompting policymakers to scramble for ways to close the gap without slashing payrolls and services. But a new report from the Little Hoover Commission in Sacramento makes a more troubling point: Many state and local government employees have been promised pensions that the public couldn't have afforded even had there been no crash. The commission's analysis of the problem is hotly disputed by union leaders, who contend that the ...
Mary Meeker's Brilliant, Tech-Centered Turnaround Plan For USA Inc
Post Date: 2011-02-25 22:19:48 by go65
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Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker published a gigantic 460 page research report this morning, analyzing the entire USA as if it were a company. "USA Inc," she calls it. Meeker's verdict: "By the standards of any public corporation, USA Inc.’s financials are discouraging." "Our review finds serious challenges in USA Inc.’s financials," she writes. "The ‘management team’ has created incentives to spend on healthcare, housing, and current consumption. At the margin, investing in productive capital, education, and technology – the very tools needed to compete in the global marketplace – has stagnated." "In ...
The Final Death of the 20th Century
Post Date: 2011-02-25 17:37:17 by jwpegler
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The last few weeks have been among the most exciting and promising in recent memory. People all over the middle east are rising up against the tyrants who have lorded over them for decades. Even Colonel Gaddafi -- a brutal dictator, who has been in power for 42 years -- is fighting for his survival. This should tell us all that something very big is happening in the world. The turmoil isn't just occurring in the middle east. Beleaguered taxpayers in Europe and America have staged their own revolutions as well -- booting out fiscally irresponsible politicians who have run up their public debt and torpedoed their economies. In America, the Tea Party movement helped spur an electoral ...
It's the Inequality, Stupid
Post Date: 2011-02-25 15:19:30 by go65
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Eleven charts that explain everything that's wrong with America. Click for Full Text!
The Republicans’ Radical Nihilism
Post Date: 2011-02-25 11:44:34 by Brian S
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“Conservatives cannot govern well,” wrote Alan Wolfe in a widely circulated 2006 Washington Monthly essay, “for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.” Now that Republicans control the House of Representatives, thanks in no small part to the rabidly anti-government Tea Party movement, Wolfe has updated his thesis. Conservatives, now that they have a chance, simply won’t govern. He writes in Democracy Journal: Every indication we have suggests that in the wake of their midterm success, Republicans will continue on the same ...
A Foreign Policy for the Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-02-25 07:09:54 by We The People
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The British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and even the Romans are examples for America. England’s empire was ruined by the costs of two world wars. The Ottomans of Turkey depended on borrowed money, the last empire to do so. Rome went down because taxes became so high that citizens welcomed the barbarian invasions as a way of escaping Roman tax collectors. Today, they are gone, but we can learn from their failures. We may not see ourselves as having an empire, but with some 800 military stations abroad and two unending trillion dollar wars, we do. Even a great and blessed country can become an empire when it extends itself, even with the best intentions, into the farthest corners of ...
Lodwick of freedom4um on Khadaffi Speech "Great speech, and right thinking, and understanding of world history. ":
Post Date: 2011-02-24 20:08:41 by A K A Stone
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Here is the Speech Lodwick or Lod was commenting about. Here is Lods Comment Great speech, and right thinking, and understanding of world history. Something that's sorely lacking in our country. Thanks for bringing it. Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot. Lod posted on 2011-02-24 17:59:06 ET
The Liquidation of Society vs. The Global Labor Revival
Post Date: 2011-02-24 18:44:45 by go65
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Today, the city of Providence, Rhode Island sent out layoff notices to every single teacher in the city. Every single one of them. If you want to understand why this is happening, why wages in the US keep getting cut, this chart tells the story. That’s the number of strikes since 1947. What you’ll notice is that people in America just don’t strike anymore. Why? Well, their jobs have been shipped off to factory countries, their unions have been broken, and their salaries until recently have been supplemented by credit. It’s part of a giant labor arbitrage game, that the Federal Reserve and elites in both parties are happy to play. Strike, and you’re fired. ...
'Awakening Tightens Noose Around Israel'
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:40:47 by Brian S
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A senior Iranian commander says Israel is facing increasing pressure as a wave of Islamic awakening against Western-backed dictatorships surges through the Middle East. “Islamic awakening has been underway for years,” said Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer mobilization) Force. He described Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 as the flash point of this trend, Mehr News Agency reported on Thursday. Naqdi said the movement has, however, been set back in some countries due to the oppression and the stifling atmosphere imposed by their dictatorial rulers, who resorted to “murder, torture and expelling popular leaders.” The ...
Geithner Butt of Jokes No More as Obama's Money Man Now on Top of Economy
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:02:42 by Brian S
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Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. economy is in a “much stronger position” than it was two years ago. The same could be said of him. Once the focal point for criticism of the administration’s struggle to resolve the financial crisis, opposed by almost all Senate Republicans for confirmation, and the butt of jokes by late-night comedians, Geithner has emerged as President Barack Obama’s most powerful economic policy maker. His influence on everything from overhauling housing finance to remaking the corporate tax code is reminiscent of the clout that Robert Rubin and James Baker enjoyed when they ran Treasury. “Many would have ...
Whiz Kid Wee-Wees Himself
Post Date: 2011-02-24 00:03:30 by Brian S
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Well, that was fast. Here I was, having breakfast at the diner this very morning, reading an op-ed piece in the NY Post by John Podhoretz, whose current position as editor of Commentary has nothing whatsoever to do with his father having held the same position, nepotism playing no role in the plush career of this utterly mediocre mind and author. So what was this soft-boiled egg so excited about in his column? A manly new figure on the Republican stage who might be just the rock 'em sock 'em upper-cutter needed to knock Obama out of the ring in 2012. Wis. Kid is GOP's sudden White House star The "Wis.kid" whiz kid is, of course, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, ...
An End to Foreign Aid
Post Date: 2011-02-22 19:39:58 by We The People
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The reasons for the current protests in Wisconsin are somewhat complex but ultimately represent the need to address an unsustainable status quo versus a deep, although understandable, attachment to it. Naturally, government and union workers don’t want their pay or benefits reduced, just like those in the private sector don’t like it when they are downsized, fall victim to budget cuts or are outright fired. But whether private or public, changing circumstances often mean, well, circumstances must change. Such realignments are almost always controversial, even when they make sense. This is particularly the case when any such reform proposals target longstanding assumptions or ...
Impeachable Offenses? Has Obama Crossed the Line?
Post Date: 2011-02-21 22:35:26 by A K A Stone
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And so it begins. As Islamist insurrections erupt across the world, President Obama incites a battle at home between producers and parasites that his union supporters parallel with the struggle of the Egyptian people. Interjecting himself into the sovereign matters of state governments Obama moved to directly violate the expressed will of the Wisconsin People by actively mobilizing his political organization to affect contractual relationships between the state and its employees, and supporting the shut down of the Wisconsin state government - a direct violation of his oath of office. Ignited by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to limit public sector collective bargaining ...
When Obama Says Things Like "Cut Out Things 'We' Can't Afford", Does He Actually Put Himself In the Same Catagory As Americans Who Do Sacrifice? You Can't Make This Shit Up! (my title)
Post Date: 2011-02-21 20:38:56 by Murron
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When Obama Says Things Like "Cut Out Things 'We' Can't Afford", Does He Actually Put Himself In the Same Catagory As Americans Who Do Sacrifice? You Can't Make This Shit Up! (my title)
Entire Speech Here
Excerpt:
"So government has to do what American families do every day: live within our means. But even as we do so, we can't sacrifice our future. I'll just give you guys an analogy. If you're trying to cut back in your family, you might decide, we're not going to go out to dinner so often; maybe we'll skip the vacation;..."
King Obama: "If you're trying to cut back in your family, you might decide, we're not going to go out to dinner so often; maybe we'll skip the vacation;..." ...
Getting to a Wisconsin Senate Quorum
Post Date: 2011-02-20 11:39:19 by A K A Stone
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Wisconsin Senate rules require a 3/5 quorum in the Senate. There are currently 19 Republican senators, and 14 Democrat senators. The GOP needs one more to get to 20. The Democrat senators have apparently said they will stay away for weeks if necessary. If the GOP majority could replace one Democrat with a Republican, that would give them 20. The remaining Democrat state senators could stay in Illinois watching ESPN and chatting up the waitresses as long as they want. The GOP could proceed without them. If the length of play really is weeks then Article XIII, Sec. 12 of the Wisconsin Constitution, which provides for recall elections, could be used. The qualified electors of the state of ...
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