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Pope rejects resignations of Irish bishops after child abuse report
Post Date: 2010-08-11 18:43:07 by WhiteSands
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The pope has rejected the resignations of two Irish bishops after their diocese was severely criticised in a report into child abuse in Dublin. The Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI had not accepted the resignations of Bishops Raymond Field and Eamonn Walsh, who served as bishops in the Dublin diocese during the period investigated by the Murphy commission. The two auxiliary bishops had offered their resignations on Christmas Eve 2009, in the wake of the Murphy report. The pair, who are to be given revised responsibilities within the diocese, had initially resisted calls to quit.
"Burn a Confederate Flag Day" Causes Stir
Post Date: 2010-08-11 17:51:36 by Brian S
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Burn the Confederate Flag Day is a protest against the right's exploitation of racial prejudice for political gain. We urge you to burn the Confederate flag, a long-time symbol of racial hatred, on Sept 12, the date when the racially-divisive Tea Party holds its annual hate fest.Ways to get involved:Host a flag-burning party on Sept. 12. Tell us where and when you're holding it, and we'll publish a list of events. Send us photos of the event. We'll post them here.Upload a video of the event onto YouTube. We'll embed it or link to it.Let them know we're watching. Dress up like a clown and take a partially burned flag to a local tea party event ...
White House Attacks 'Job Killer' Boehner
Post Date: 2010-08-11 13:39:11 by Brian S
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The White House aggressively went after House GOP leader John Boehner on Wednesday over his opposition to the stimulus bill. Jared Bernstein, the top economic adviser to Vice President Biden, singled out Boehner in an official White House blog posting, accusing the Ohio Republican of wanting his constituents out of work. "John Boehner wants a lot of people to lose their jobs," Bernstein wrote. "We were awfully surprised to hear Rep. Boehner come out for killing jobs en masse in his own state and district by stopping the Recovery Act on last Sunday’s news shows." Bernstein cited projects in Boehner's district that would be threatened if the ...
HUD Just Announced A Homeowner Bailout
Post Date: 2010-08-11 13:07:54 by Brian S
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Well, it's not exactly of the magnitude to be an August surprise but it is August, and it is a new homeowner bailout... HUD has just announced the following: ----------- WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration today announced additional support to help homeowners struggling with unemployment through two targeted foreclosure-prevention programs. Through the existing Housing Finance Agency (HFA) Innovation Fund for the Hardest Hit Housing Markets (the Hardest Hit Fund), the U.S. Department of the Treasury will make $2 billion of additional assistance available for HFA programs for homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments due to unemployment. Additionally, the U.S. ...
Reagan Insider: 'GOP Destroyed U.S. Economy'
Post Date: 2010-08-11 11:35:12 by Brian S
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ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse." Get it? Not "destroying." The GOP has already "destroyed" the U.S. economy, setting up an "American Apocalypse." Yes, Stockman is equally damning of the Democrats' Keynesian policies. But what this indictment by a party insider -- someone so close to the development of the Reaganomics ideology -- says about America, helps all of us better understand ...
Stewart: Gingrich Wants US To Descend To Saudi Arabia’s Standards of tolerance
Post Date: 2010-08-11 11:29:39 by Brian S
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Comedy Central's Jon Stewart on Tuesday took on Newt Gingrich for the tenor of his opposition to the Mosque slated to be build near Ground Zero in New York City. Gingrich weeks ago argued that the Mosque shouldn't be considered until Saudi Arabia warms up to Christianity. "I don't want to be lectured by them about religious liberty at a time where there is not a single church or a single synagogue in Saudi Arabia," Gingrich said. "Exactly!" jested Stewart. "Why should we as Americans have higher standards of religious liberty than Saudi Arabia?" Stewart went on to mock opponents of the Mosque for complaining about its proximity to Ground Zero. ...
The Liberty Post Site Has Been Dark For Almost 24 Hours
Post Date: 2010-08-11 08:45:20 by no gnu taxes
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If anyone cares.
Has it gone tango uniform?
Child sex abuse claim against priest called 'credible' by [ Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh ]
Post Date: 2010-08-10 21:32:47 by WhiteSands
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A review board for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh has found allegations of child sexual abuse against the Rev. David Dzermejko "credible," and Bishop David Zubik has sent the case to Rome. Vatican officials will decide if he should have a church trial or if the evidence is strong enough to permanently remove him from ministry without further hearings. For the time being "it doesn't change his status from what it is now. He is on administrative leave and not involved in any ministry whatsoever," said Robert Lockwood, director of communications for the diocese. Father Dzermejko, 61, was removed as pastor of Mary, Mother of the Church in Charleroi in June 2009 ...
Ted Olson Eviscerates Fox “News” on Equal Protection and Civil Rights
Post Date: 2010-08-10 19:53:50 by Brian S
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- Seriously, what part of conservative values and the U.S. Constitution do Fox “News” ‘conservatives not get? - By Brad Friedman at The Brad BlogAs we’ve been pointing out for years, and as we re-iterated yet again on Wednesday when CA’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage was found to be unconstitutional by a Reagan/Bush I-appointed federal judge, the ruling was “Great news for real conservatives who believe in the U.S. Constitution and its guarantee of equal protection under the law!” Poor Fox “News” viewers, however, have been so obscenely and opportunistically disinformed for so many years about what “conservatism” actually ...
DiggGate Reveals Pattern Of Behavior For Ultra-cons
Post Date: 2010-08-10 19:44:31 by Brian S
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DiggGate is a large scale operation of censorship was just exposed on Digg.com following an undercover investigation. This is far from the first, and certainly will not be the last time a conservative group is caught red handed attempting to decide for everyone what to read and think, in fact, it has a very long history. DiggGate exposed the actions of a group called the Digg “Patriots”, who were actively conspiring to censor content, bait opponents into bans, use IP tricks to return from their own lifetime bans, and have numerous duplicate sleeper accounts. Their systematic manipulation of the largest social media site in the world was widespread and been going on for over a ...
[ Catholic ] Priest faces sex charges involving three children
Post Date: 2010-08-09 22:38:08 by WhiteSands
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A Catholic priest from the U.S. who spent six years working in Sooke and Saanich has been charged with four sex offences in relation to three Greater Victoria children under the age of 14. Father Philip Jacobs, 60, was arrested by Canada Border Services Agency personnel on Wednesday as he arrived at the Victoria airport from San Francisco. He appeared in court Friday, and was released on a $25,000 surety. Jacobs is charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference and one count of sexual exploitation. The alleged offences occurred between Sept. 1, 1996, and June 30, 2001, according to court documents. They relate to while Jacobs was a priest in the Catholic ...
GQ Exclusive: Rand Paul's Kooky College Days (Hint: There's a Secret Society Involved)
Post Date: 2010-08-09 20:26:25 by Brian S
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August 09, 2010 at 10:55 AM A photo of a few of the NoZe Brothers published in a 1983 issue of The Rope. Rand Paul is dressed in a black robe and straw hat. When the Lexington Herald-Leader reported last week that Rand Paul was, in effect, a college dropout, it looked like the 2010 midterms might feature yet another fabulist. So far this year we've seen Connecticut Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal get busted for telling tall tales about having served in Vietnam; and in the Illinois Senate race, Mark Kirk was caught lying about everything from winning the Navy's "Intelligence Officer of the Year Award" to teaching nursery school. Had Paul, who's running for ...
86 Days to Decide: Activists Say Tea Party Imposters Infiltrating Elections
Post Date: 2010-08-08 19:00:32 by Brian S
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In New Jersey, a "Tea Party" candidate surfaces but local activists haven't heard of him. In Michigan, a Democratic operative appears closely tied to a slate of candidates running under the Tea Party banner. In Florida, conservative activists are locked in court over the right to use the Tea Party name. The list of peculiar Tea Party happenings goes on and on. As the midterm election nears, allegations are surfacing across the country that Democrats are exploiting conservatives' faith in the Tea Party name by putting up bogus candidates in November -- the claim is that those "Tea Party" candidates will split the GOP vote and clear the way for Democratic ...
Force Women To Bear Rapists’ Babies, Say Multiple GOP Candidates
Post Date: 2010-08-06 19:20:26 by Brian S
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been researching the positions on abortion held by current Republican candidates and believes that, overall, they are far more extreme than in any previous election year. She also wonders why the Democratic Party hasn't made an issue of this extremism."The Republican Party is, without actually talking about it, this year nominating a group of candidates for top-of-the-ticket races that are more extreme on the issue of abortion than any other slate of top-of-the-ticket candidates in any other year," Maddow stated on Thursday.She pointed to several GOP Senatorial candidates or front-runners who have declared that they oppose a right to abortion even ...
Dems Accused Of Tea Party Tampering
Post Date: 2010-08-05 18:21:35 by Brian S
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Nationally, Democrats say they intend to campaign against the tea party movement. But locally, Democratic officials and activists in at least four states now stand accused of collaborating with tea party candidates in an attempt to sabotage Republican challengers in some of the closest House races in the nation. The charges of dirty tricks are being leveled in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey and Florida — and they involve more than a half-dozen contests that could tip the balance of power in the House. The accusations range from helping tea party activists circulate candidate petition sheets to underwriting the creation of official tea parties, which then put forth slates of ...
An August Surprise from Obama? Is Obama about to forgive billions in mortgage principal?
Post Date: 2010-08-05 13:43:58 by Brian S
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Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth. An estimated 15 million U.S. mortgages – one in five – are underwater with negative equity of some $800 billion. Recall that on Christmas Eve 2009, the Treasury Department waived a $400 billion limit on financial assistance to Fannie and Freddie, pledging unlimited help. The actual vehicle for the bailout could be the Bush-era Home Affordable Refinance ...
How Marijuana Could Split the Tea Party
Post Date: 2010-08-05 11:30:40 by Brian S
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It's well recognized that Tea Partiers don't agree on everything, and that in fact they disagree over quite a lot. Get enough organizers together in the same room, an activist once told me, and you're bound to have some tense arguments about politics, policy, and the movement itself. Organizers have insisted that the Tea Party stick to its core principles--less spending, less government, opposing President Obama as a socialist--and not get sidetracked by any other issues, many of them social, on which its members coincidentally also have strong opinions. But among the movement's potential fissures, here's one that hasn't been talked about so much: legalization of ...
Bush Memoirs Delayed Until After Midterm Elections, Say Friends
Post Date: 2010-08-05 11:22:21 by Brian S
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George W. Bush insisted that publication of his forthcoming memoirs, "Decision Points", which will elaborate on 10 key decisions that the self-dubbed "Decider" took in office, be put back until after the midterm elections, according to people close to the former president. Mr Bush has maintained a studious silence since leaving office and has declined, in sharp contrast to Dick Cheney, his former vice-president, to criticise Barack Obama, the US president, over the past 18 months. According to friends of Mr Bush, he resisted plans by the publisher to launch the book in September, which is traditionally a better time to maximise sales. His friends say that Mr Bush, ...
Karl Rove claims Bush didn't blame Clinton for the '01 recession. Oh really?
Post Date: 2010-08-04 20:51:36 by Brian S
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DOWNLOADS: (224) PLAYS: (1038) It was pretty amusing watching Karl Rove and Neil Cavuto yesterday talking at length on Cavuto's Fox show about how Democratic senators played a key role in the passage of the Bush tax cuts back in 2001 without bothering to point out the obvious -- and stark -- contrast with their Republican counterparts in 2009. They were trying to build a case for Democrats to support continuing the Bush tax cuts, but all they really did was remind everyone exactly why Democrats have no reason to play ball with these a-holes any longer: they will never compromise and work together with President Obama and Democrats to pass anything, and never ...
The Tea Party's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night
Post Date: 2010-08-04 13:44:47 by Brian S
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Another Tuesday, another round of Republican primaries pitting self-proclaimed Tea Party candidates against their (sometimes slightly, sometimes considerably) more moderate opponents—and yet another sign that the Glenn Beck brigade is a long way from "taking back the country," despite all the hype. So far, the Tea Party has been the major political story of the 2010 election cycle, and in many ways it's a fascinating, vibrant reflection of America's current fixations and frustrations. But given that the vast majority of the movement's favored candidates have lost their Republican primary battles—and given that the few candidates who've won, like Rand ...
Tea Party vs. Tea Party Caucus
Post Date: 2010-08-02 16:42:23 by Brian S
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To anxious Republicans trying to channel grass-roots conservatism, the Congressional Tea Party Caucus is part of the solution. To many in the tea party, the caucus seems like part of the problem. Instead of embracing the caucus and its 49 House members, many tea party activists see it as yet another effort by the GOP to hijack their movement — and symptomatic of a party establishment that, they say, is condescending and out of step with their brand of conservatism. At a news conference after the caucus’s first weekly meeting July 21, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), flanked by about a dozen tea party activists, stressed that it was not an effort to control or speak for the ...
Breitbart's 'Minority-Based Tea Party Event' Fails To Attract Minorities
Post Date: 2010-08-02 13:58:10 by Brian S
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The Republican National Committee has postponed a fundraiser with right-wing media tycoon Andrew Breitbat, citing “a scheduling change.” While it’s not entirely clear why the event was delayed, Breitbart has been under heavy fire recently — even from conservatives — for his misleading and racially-tinged campaign to smear former USDA official Shirley Sherrod. News of the fundraiser’s cancellation came on the same day that Breitbart held a “minority-based Tea Party event” in Philadelphia, which promised to show the inclusiveness of the tea party movement. Since the NAACP condemned “racist elements” within the tea party movement last month, ...
Michele Bachmann Dodges Tea Party Smackdown With Sick Day
Post Date: 2010-08-02 13:56:32 by Brian S
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Graphic: Matt BardinsTea partiers in Missouri were spoiling for a fight with Michele Bachmann43;So much for the smackdown with Missouri tea partiers: Michele Bachmann called in sick. Instead of showing up in the Show Me state in a dialing-for-votes effort with Rep. Roy Blunt, she went home after a trip to the hospital. "This isn't serious," her spokeswoman Gina Countryman told the Pioneer Press. "She's gonna be fine. She just needed to rest." Serious or not, it certainly spared the queen of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress the embarrassment of making an in-person pitch for a candidate in the Missouri GOP primary reviled by dozens of tea party factions all over ...
Palin Reads Crib Notes During Fox Interview
Post Date: 2010-08-01 12:14:51 by Brian S
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Blames media for her plunging popularity numbers$3.8 trillion is such a big number that Sarah Palin can't remember it without writing notes on her hand.In February, Palin found herself the butt of many jokes after she was caught using answers written on her hand a speech to the Tea Party. Palin called the trick "a poor man's version of a teleprompter."The former Alaska governor returned to the use of crib notes during an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday. Palin explained that the expiring Bush tax cuts would mean the largest tax increase in American history."Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in US history," Palin told ...
A Tea Party Favorite, Republican Rand Paul Alters Tone In Bid To Capture Kentucky Senate Seat
Post Date: 2010-07-31 12:12:09 by Brian S
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A tea party success story in search of a statewide triumph, Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul volunteers that he's spent two decades "popping off" about one issue or another. Not quite so much now, though. The candidate who strongly criticized federal subsidies for agriculture isn't quite as dug in these days. Running in a state with 85,000 farms, he now says merely that Department of Agriculture funds may need to be cut in the interests of deficit reduction. After saying provocatively that he might not support Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell for Republican leader, Paul now proclaims himself a big fan of the man who is a living embodiment of the party ...
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