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‘The Hammer Belongs In The Slammer,’ Watchdog Reacts To DeLay Decision
Post Date: 2010-08-17 19:06:04 by Brian S
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Former GOP congressional leader/Dancing with the Stars contestant slams media for premature "dance on [his] grave""The Justice Department has ended its six-year criminal probe of the ties between former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff without filing any criminal charges against the former congressman," the Associated Press reports.One of DeLay's lawyers, Richard Cullen, said Monday the Justice Department's Office of Public Integrity informed DeLay's legal team early last week that it was ending the investigation."Six years is a long time and I'm sure he wishes it had happened years ago," Cullen said of the ...
Team Beck Not Laughing: Stewart's Act Has Grown 'Tired'
Post Date: 2010-08-17 17:05:20 by Brian S
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Stewart calls out Beck's inconsistent rhetoric about NYC Islamic center; Beck and crew complain it was only "mildly similar in a different context""That joke isn't funny anymore," Morrissey once sang for The Smiths. But that's because it hit "too near the bone."Just a few months ago, Glenn Beck called a Jon Stewart impersonation of himself "hilarious," but on his Tuesday morning radio show, the pundit who used to call himself a "clown" ripped into the Comedy Central host for letting his act grow "tired."Referring to Monday's Daily Show, Huffington Post's Katla McGlynn blogs that "the best part of the ...
Barbra Streisand Skips Democrat Fundraiser [ Obama was speaker ]
Post Date: 2010-08-17 15:48:41 by WhiteSands
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Barbra Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg were no-shows at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser the two were to co-host Monday night at the Los Angeles home of television producer John Wells. President Obama spoke at the event, and other co-hosts included Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams. Other notables in the crowd, according to wire reports, included Judd Apatow, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Reps. Howard Berman, Brad Sherman, Judy Chu and Laura Richardson. The price to be a co-host was $30,400 per couple, which included a photo with Obama — though POTUS said photo ops weren't the point of the evening. "I hope you understand why we're here ...
TV Ad From Liberal MoveOn.org Takes Aim At Target For Corporate Political Donation In Minn.
Post Date: 2010-08-17 15:03:02 by Brian S
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A new TV ad from the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org goes after Target Corp. for making a political campaign donation in Minnesota. MoveOn.org spokeswoman Ilyse Hogue said Tuesday that the group will spend $35,000 to air the ad for a week on three networks in Minnesota and on the MSNBC cable channel nationally. The ad starts running Wednesday. A Target spokeswoman declined to comment. The ad urges consumers to boycott Target for getting involved in elections. Minneapolis-based Target has faced a backlash from gay rights groups and liberals after giving $150,000 to a political fund supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer in Minnesota. The company ...
Former President Bush Won't Comment On Ground Zero Mosque
Post Date: 2010-08-17 12:30:22 by Brian S
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The man who was president during the 9/11 attacks won't be sharing his views on the Ground Zero mosque proposal. Several Republican leaders have denounced plans for an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. But a spokesman for former President George W. Bush told AOL News that Bush would not comment on the matter. Now that it has become a full-scale national controversy and campaign issue — with President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and dozens of Republican candidates across the country in 2010 weighing in — Bush's silence on the plans could become deafening the longer the debate wears on. An endorsement of the plans ...
Tea Party Candidate Throws Hat Back In Ring To Unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Post Date: 2010-08-17 11:50:19 by Brian S
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LAS VEGAS -- The Tea Party of Nevada's candidate for U.S. Senate, Scott Ashjian, announced Monday that he is re-entering the race to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Ashjian told FOX5 that he had at first supported Republican candidate Sharron Angle, but after she made several gaffes after winning the June primary, he decided to give voters another choice. "I think there's enough disgruntled Democrats and Republicans to make up the difference," he said. "I felt as the (Angle) campaign progressed and as I watched her throughout this campaign, that she completely got off message." Ashjian said he believes he is now the only candidate who can beat Reid ...
Tulsa shelter helps abused Muslim women
Post Date: 2010-08-16 23:05:32 by WhiteSands
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She was pencil-thin and so weak from mental and physical abuse, she needed help getting up stairs. Her husband kept her under video surveillance 24 hours a day, a virtual prisoner in her own home, and once held a knife to her throat. This Jordanian woman found refuge in the Surayya Anne Foundation home, Tulsa's only Muslim women's shelter. She is now separated from her husband, who remains in Tulsa, and is back with her family in Jordan. Since it opened in May 2009, the modest, three-bedroom, two-bath apartment in south Tulsa has housed 15 women, most of them Muslims, and their 10 children, some for a few days, others for a few months. Some sought shelter because they were being ...
Breaking: Hamas sides with Obama, endorses mosque!
Post Date: 2010-08-16 22:40:53 by WhiteSands
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The angle here is that one of the criticisms of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the Islamic center, is that he refused to call Hamas a terrorist organiztion. And here's Hamas standing up for the Imam's mosque, in firm agreement with Obama. Hamas, Rauf, and Obama all agree: Build the mosque! In reality, of course, Obama did not "endorse" the Islamic center. Rauf is widely seen as a moderate, and he has condemned terrorism. And here's what Rauf actually said about Hamas: "I'm not a politician. I try to avoid the issues. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question...I'm a bridge builder. I define my work as a bridge builder. I do not want to be ...
Obama disapproval hits all-time high in Gallup poll
Post Date: 2010-08-16 21:54:22 by WhiteSands
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50 percent of voters said they disapprove of the way President Obama is handling his job, according to Gallup's daily tracking poll. Half of voters, the first time voters have registered such an opinion during his presidency, said they disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job. Forty-two percent said they approved of the president's job performance. The approval number is an all-time low in the daily tracking poll, a rolling average of surveys of registered voters over the last three days. By contrast, Obama's highest ever approval rating came in late June of 2009, when 69 percent of voters said they approved of the job he was doing. The Gallup numbers come as ...
Huckabee Leads 2012 Iowa Caucus Poll – Palin Finishes Fourth behind Newt
Post Date: 2010-08-16 19:22:02 by Brian S
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Believe it or not, the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is already underway in Iowa. Potential candidates like Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich are already making frequent visits to the state that hosts the First-In-The-Nation Caucuses. While most people, including most Iowans, think that there is plenty of time before the 2012 presidential campaign will be in full swing, the clock is already counting down to caucus day 2012. What these candidates realize that most people don’t comprehend yet is that the first contest is the Iowa Straw Poll, which is now less than a year away. The Iowa Straw Poll is an event sponsored by the Republican Party of ...
Beck Forbidden To Pray At Kennedy Center Event He rented space for
Post Date: 2010-08-16 18:04:49 by WhiteSands
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Beck Forbidden To Pray At Kennedy Center Event Now Friday night he has been told he can!
Scarborough: 'Screw' GOP If I’m Booted For Mosque Defense
Post Date: 2010-08-16 13:36:58 by Brian S
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White House claims politics played no role in Obama's mosque remarksAt least two prominent Republicans are going against the bulk of their party to say that Muslims have every right to build an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.Monday morning, conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough found himself agreeing with former Bush advisor Mark MicKimmon that Muslims have a right to build the controversial mosque."When I was in Congress in 1994, when I got elected in '94, I was considered to be one of the more conservative guys up there," Scarborough said. "I am feeling further and further distant from the people who are running my party."Scarborough pointed to ...
Robert Gates To Retire From Defense Post Next Year
Post Date: 2010-08-16 13:32:39 by Brian S
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he plans to leave his job next year. A Republican and holdover from the Bush administration, Gates had agreed to stay on at the request of President Barack Obama. The move was intended to maintain stability at a time of two wars, although Gates has been open about his desire to return to civilian life in his home state of Washington. In an interview published Monday, Gates told Foreign Policy magazine that leaving in 2011 makes sense. It would give him time to oversee the major offensive under way in Afghanistan but bow out before the 2012 presidential elections. Gates has been defense secretary since December 2006.
Tea Party Exchange Businesses Risk A Boycott
Post Date: 2010-08-16 11:28:04 by Brian S
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DAYTON — Democratic congressional candidate Joe Roberts plans a possible boycott or other reaction to businesses that have joined the Tea Party Exchange, Roberts said on Sunday, Aug. 15. “Once those businesses decided to become political they need to deal with that,” said Roberts, 25, of Kettering, who is running for the 3rd District seat against Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville. Roberts will hold a meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at Montgomery County Democratic Headquarters, 131 S. Wilkinson St., Dayton, to discuss a reaction to the formation of the Tea Party Exchange. He said a boycott will be discussed at the meeting, which is open to the public. Last week Donald Hutchinson, ...
Right-Wing Survey: Carter, Obama Top List Of US’s Worst 'Gangsters, Killers’
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:32:55 by Brian S
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In the great pantheon of American "gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, incompetent and crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks," no one is worse than ... Jimmy Carter.So says a survey carried out by Right Wing News, which sampled 43 mostly conservative bloggers as to whom they see as being the worst baddies in American history.Some of them were indeed baddies -- Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh clocks in at number nine, while Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, flies in at number 11.So who's worse than Booth and McVeigh? Ted Kennedy (number seven), Franklin D. Roosevelt (third) and Barack Obama (second), to name a few.The worst ...
Ottawa police arrest Catholic priest on abuse charge
Post Date: 2010-08-14 23:29:35 by WhiteSands
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Ottawa police have charged a former priest with indecent assault relating to an alleged incident dating back almost four decades. Police say they began investigating in July after a complaint of inappropriate contact between a Roman Catholic Priest and a teenage boy that allegedly happened in 1972 in Ottawa. Kenneth O'Keefe, 79, of Toronto was arrested on Aug. 11 and is being held for a bail hearing today in Ottawa.
Sharron Angle: Remaking America on the Pinochet Model
Post Date: 2010-08-14 21:23:50 by Brian S
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Sharron Angle, the Tea Bagger running against Harry Reid for the Senate in Nevada says that we should use Augusto Pinochet’s model of privatization as a guide for reforming our social security system. Yes, Pinochet, the infamous fascist dictator and Nixon/Kissinger ally who engineered the subjugation of Chilean democracy in the 1970s. Sharron Angle On Unemployment Pinochet seized power from the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in a bloody, US backed military coup d’état in 1973. Through torture, terror, murder, with the assistance of the CIA and corporate America his brutal regime held power until 1990. This may be where Angle discovered her ...
Newt Gingrich's Skeletons: His Past Wives
Post Date: 2010-08-14 21:09:52 by Brian S
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Newt Gingrich is a phoenix. He's risen again and again from political ashes and appears to be ascendant once more. Rumored to be running for president in 2012, Gingrich is an icon in the Republican Party, an eminence grise at a time of lost leadership. His fall from grace in the late 1990s seems a blip, rather than a political ending. Thus the cover story in Esquire Magazine, September issue, written by John H. Richardson. If anyone knows something about Newt Gingrich, it is his former wife, Marianne, and Richardson scored an interview with her. She is someone with a bone to pick, one that stems from the ending of their 18-year marriage with an affair. She knows a lot, and has never ...
40 Religious Leaders Denounce Sarah Palin and Fox’s Hate Speech [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-13 20:28:56 by Brian S
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Forty different Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars came together to release a statement condemning the hate language of Fox News, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich as it relates to the so called Ground Zero mosque, “Fear-mongering and hateful rhetoric only undermine treasured values at the heart of diverse faith traditions and our nation’s highest ideals.” The statement released by Faith In The Public Life condemned the religious bigotry of Gingrich, Palin, and Fox News, “As Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars committed to religious freedom and inter-religious cooperation, we are ...
Gay Porn Pirates Face Wrath of Gay Porn's 'Zionist Neocon Kingpin'
Post Date: 2010-08-12 14:11:05 by Brian S
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Do not cross New York gay porn impresario and neocon Zionist Michael Lucas by pirating his movies. Lucas' production company just sued 53 porn pirates for as much as $150,000 each. Sexy copyright infringement, ahoy! Ars Technica reports that Lucas hired a firm specializing in copyright infringement to identify horny people who illegally downloaded Lucas' film Kings of New York from the website gay-torrents.net ("Eight million fucking people all clawing their way to the top. Money, fame, beauty, sex…it's all about the reign of power…it's all about being a KING.") He's sued in federal court, and the culprits could face a $150,000 fine for each ...
Sarah Palin Joins Dick Armey as Republicans Aid Tea Party Hostile Takeover
Post Date: 2010-08-12 12:05:59 by Brian S
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The pitch came at the end of Rand Paul’s conference call with 2,000 potential supporters: Go online to donate to Paul, the Kentucky Republican Senate candidate who is courting Tea Party activists. Or press seven to give $25 to FreedomWorks, the advocacy organization headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey that sponsored the July 13 call, said Matt Kibbe, the group’s president. Even as candidates such as Paul tout their anti- establishment credentials, much of their financial clout comes from veteran Republicans such as Armey, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint and onetime U.S. Representative Chris Chocola, who aim to reshape their ...
Grim Voter Mood Turns Grimmer; Pessimism Rises on Economy and War; Bad Reviews for Both Democrats and GOP
Post Date: 2010-08-12 11:33:42 by Brian S
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Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and the war in Afghanistan, and are losing faith that Democrats have better solutions than Republicans, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. [NBCpol_NS] Underpinning the gloom: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the economy has yet to hit bottom, a sharply higher percentage than the 53% who felt that way in January. The sour national mood appears all-encompassing and is dragging down ratings for the GOP too, suggesting voters above all are disenchanted with the political establishment in Washington. Just 24% express positive feelings about the Republican Party, a new low in the 21-year history of the ...
'Ground Zero Mosque' Imam Was A Bush-Era Partner For Mideast Peace
Post Date: 2010-08-12 11:31:00 by Brian S
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Tuesday, Reps. Peter King (R-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) called Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -- best known for his work with multicultural Cordoba Initiative to build a mosque and community center in Lower Manhattan -- a "radical" and criticized the Obama Administration for including him on a Middle East speaking tour. That tour, which includes stops in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, is designed by the public diplomacy office to explain to Muslims abroad what it's like to be a Muslim in America. Outside of how getting constantly called a radical by American politicians busy flacking the proposed "Ground Zero mosque" for political purposes might affect ...
Texas Rewrites U.S. History, Some Jewish Groups Not Amused
Post Date: 2010-08-12 01:09:19 by Brian S
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It wasn't surprising to see two Jewish groups among the signers of a letter supporting a House resolution criticizing the Texas State Board of Education for promoting a public school social studies curriculum that might be more appropriate for a Sunday school or church camp. It was surprising that there weren't more Jewish groups willing to criticize a Texas public school system that has added a whole new dimension to the endless church-state wars by essentially rewriting U.S. history and throwing the whole concept of church-state separation in the scrapheap. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex); it charges that the state school board ...
Exclusive: Rand Paul's Accuser Clarifies "Kidnapping"
Post Date: 2010-08-11 19:19:18 by Brian S
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The woman who sparked a national firestorm by recounting Rand Paul's youthful indiscretions to GQ magazine is now clarifying her account: She says she was not kidnapped nor forced to do drugs by Paul. But she reiterated other odd aspects of her earlier story, including her claim that Paul and another college friend blindfolded her, tied her up, and told her to smoke pot and worship the "Aqua Buddha," even if they didn't physically force her to do these things. (Slate: Racist 'Rand fan' actually Obama supporter) The woman -- who was made available to me for an interview by GQ reporter Jason Zengerle in response to the Paul campaign's denunciations of his ...
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