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When Asked How Old the Earth Is, Rand Paul Shrugs
Post Date: 2010-06-29 19:07:07 by Brian S
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A couple days ago, Randy spoke at an organization called Christian Homeschool Educators of Kentucky (CHEK), which is dedicated to, “Protect children from mental physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by secular humanists in a socialist society or governmental system.”(via Barefoot and Progressive). Then he made the mistake of taking questions. QUESTION: Was there a point in life where you became a Christian [...] and also, how old is the world? PAUL: I forgot to say I was only taking easy questions (crowd laughs). [...] I’m gonna have to pass on the age of the earth. I think I’m just gonna have to pass on that one. Uh, really? That’s pretty settled science, Dr. Paul. ...
Nevada Tea Party Candidate Angle: No Abortion for Victims of Rape Or Incest
Post Date: 2010-06-29 19:05:37 by Brian S
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Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, a former member of the completely insane Constitution Party who has written about the dangers of fluoridation (shades of the John Birch Society), is dodging the media. And she has good reason to dodge. Her history is rife with extremism, questionable associations, and bizarre views. But unfortunately for Angle, in the Internet age it’s getting pretty difficult to hide this kind of craziness, and Sam Stein at the Huffington Post has posted an audio clip of just one of Angle’s extreme statements: Sharron Angle Opposes Abortion Even With Rape, Incest: ‘God Has A Plan’. Manders: I, too, am pro life but I’m also pro choice, do ...
More Musicians Join AZ Boycott
Post Date: 2010-06-29 15:07:28 by Brian S
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The Sound Strike is back on the attack with another press release drawing attention to the growing list of artists signing on to boycott Arizona in response to the passage of SB 1070. "The legalization of racial profiling within Arizona has drawn fierce opposition from people all over the world," it reads. "Over 20 cities throughout the U.S., along with universities, professional associations, and civil rights organizations have all approved boycotts as part of an international strategy to defeat this unjust law. It is in the spirit of these popular actions that the Sound Strike is proud to announce the newest list of artists who are taking action to defend civil and human ...
Sarah Palin Protesters, Tea Party Activists Clash At CSU Stanislaus [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-27 14:24:26 by Brian S
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TURLOCK -- Sarah Palin on Friday was the darling of a $500-a-plate dinner at California State University, Stanislaus. But outside the gala, a crowd of protesters memorialized her as "Bush in Lipstick," a "Liar, Quitter, Master Manipulator" and "Sinister Sarah." "We'd rather have Tina Fey," read another sign referring to Palin's Saturday Night Live impersonator. About 100 protesters with signs, banners and bullhorns snaked from a nearby park through campus, with news vans and clusters of reporters following closely. "What's for dinner?" came a voice over a bullhorn, "Polar bear!" "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Sarah ...
New York Times Reporter Calls Zionist Terrorism ‘Romantic’
Post Date: 2010-06-26 21:22:42 by Brian S
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A little-noticed comment in a New York Times interview with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has critics arguing that it shows the media has a "double standard" when it comes to terrorism.In an interview published Tuesday, Livni, the leader of Israel's centrist Kadima party, boasted that her parents, both members of the Zionist militant group Irgun in the 1940s, were the first couple to be married in the newly-formed state of Israel."Both of them were in the Irgun," Livni said. "They were freedom fighters, and they met while boarding a British train. When the British Mandate was here, they robbed a train to get the money in order to buy weapons."To ...
Karl Rove And Other GOP Insiders Launch Bid To Raise Millions For Fall Elections
Post Date: 2010-06-26 21:17:37 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a campaign season of anti-establishment ferment, some of the Republican Party's best-known insiders are building an ambitious fundraising machine for the fall elections and beyond. They started with a bang in April, cashing a $1 million check from a Texas oil magnate. After a quiet May, friends and foes are watching to see if the new organization's core group, American Crossroads, can reach its goal of raising $52 million by November. Karl Rove, who was President George W. Bush's top political strategist, and Ed Gillespie, a former Republican Party chairman and White House aide, modeled their network on successful operations created by Democrats ...
Torture Memo Author Attacks Kagan For Admiring Israeli Judge ‘Advancing Democracy’
Post Date: 2010-06-25 15:47:23 by Brian S
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Former Justice Department attorney John Yoo, the author of controversial memos which attempted to justify torture during the Bush administration, is attacking Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan because of her admiration for an Israeli judge who believes in "advancing democracy.""Robert Bork’s criticism of Elena Kagan—for her admiration of Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court—is well-founded," Yoo writes in a short blog at his American Enterprise Institute.At Capital J, a nonpartisan news website for diaspora Jews, Ami Eden writes,Robert Bork has taken center stage in the brewing fight over the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan. ...
Another Candidate[Robert Bentley (R)] Exaggerates Vietnam Experience
Post Date: 2010-06-25 13:55:24 by Brian S
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June 25, 2010 Robert Bentley (R), running for Alabama governor, is taking heat for a campaign ad that talks about serving his country "with honesty and integrity" while showing a military aircraft and the words "Hospital Commander Vietnam War." However, the AP reports that while Bentley joined the Air Force in 1969 his service was as the commander of the hospital at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina.
Dave Weigel Resigns From Washington Post Following Firestorm
Post Date: 2010-06-25 13:36:46 by Brian S
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Reporter/blogger Dave Weigel has resigned from the Washington Post following the leak of controversial, off-the-record emails he sent to a group of journalists. Weigel, who covered the conservative beat for the Washington Post, said in an e-mail to the liberal JournoList group that "this would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire." Weigel apologized to his readers (and to Drudge), but now FishbowlDC has confirmed that Weigel resigned from the newspaper Friday morning.
McCain's Republican Primary Challenger Says He Regrets Taping Informercial For Troubled Firm
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:33:21 by Brian S
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John McCain's Republican primary challenger said he regrets taping an infomercial on behalf of a company accused of taking advantage of consumers. "I should not have made the ad. It was a mistake," J.D. Hayworth said in a statement released late Thursday. The former congressman and talk-radio host said he didn't completely check out National Grants Conferences before agreeing to serve as its pitchman. In the informercial, Hayworth urges viewers to attend a free seminar to learn how to get free government money. Critics say the company used high-pressure sales tactics to persuade people to pay for information that is free online or at a library. "I hope voters ...
Congressman Calls Obama-Hitler Comparison ‘Brilliant’
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:29:00 by Brian S
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Share /**/ A Texas Republican congresswoman told colleagues on that House floor Wednesday that a columnist who accused Obama of planting the seeds for a Nazi state is a "brilliant man."The little noticed quip was picked up by the liberal blog ThinkProgress late Wednesday.Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) quoted conservative columnist Thomas Sowell, who declared in an opinion piece that Obama's effort to set up a $20 billion fund for those whose livelihoods were damaged by BP's oil spill signals that “American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes.”Gohlmert's remarks? There’s a brilliant man named Thomas Sowell. And, um, I ...
Prescott Bush Jr., Scion of a Political Family, Dies at 87
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:25:08 by Brian S
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Prescott S. Bush Jr., the brother of one president and uncle of another, and a retired insurance executive who tried but never made it far in the family business — politics — died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 87. Mr. Bush’s death was confirmed by Tracey Bergonzi, a spokeswoman at Keohane Funeral Home in Hingham, Mass., a town where Mr. Bush had lived for several years. The cause of death was unclear. Besides being the uncle of one president, George W. Bush, and elder brother of another, George Bush, he was the son of a wealthy senator, Prescott S. Bush. Mr. Bush spent much of his career as a businessman, but dabbled in local politics in his home state, ...
Nevada Democrats Seize on Birther Controversy to Attack Tea Party Darling
Post Date: 2010-06-24 20:38:01 by Brian S
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Nevada Democrats have seized on the widely debunked conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the U.S. to attack Tea Party darling Sharron Angle, the Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Nevada Democratic Party, seeking to brand Angle's views as too extreme, points to her campaign website touting the endorsement of the Declaration Alliance, a group that believes Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and therefore is constitutionally ineligible to serve as president despite confirmation from the Hawaiian government that he was born there. On its website, Declaration Alliance declares that it supports Angle and expresses "reasonable doubt" ...
Big GOP Donors Go To Napa Valley To Hear Giuliani
Post Date: 2010-06-24 20:34:26 by Brian S
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Republican National Committee is assembling its biggest donors at a Napa Valley resort this week for golf, wine tasting and cigar smoking and speeches from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other party stars. An invitation says couples are being asked to contribute up to $60,800 to attend the three-day event that begins Thursday with a kickoff dinner featuring former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. The event gives the party a chance to pamper its most generous givers, whose check-writing is crucial for the GOP to meet its fundraising goals for the 2010 elections.
Tea Party's Dick Armey Slams Obama's BP Oil Spill Response
Post Date: 2010-06-24 14:00:19 by Brian S
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"Tea party" leader Dick Armey sharply criticized President Obama’s approach to dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf Wednesday. At a Monitor-sponsored lunch with reporters in Washington, Mr. Armey, co-chairman of FreedomWorks, said, “The Constitution does not envision the president of the United States saying that 'I will decide what compensations, what redress will be elicited from a British-owned company.' There are courts for this purpose. My own view is that the Constitution is far ahead of the game compared to where this president is with his current fulminations about what he will decide about whose butt to kick.” Armey served as House ...
Ron Paul Remains Undecided On 2012 Presidential Run
Post Date: 2010-06-24 13:19:52 by Brian S
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Texas Representative and Libertarian-minded Republican Ron Paul remains undecided on whether he will seek the presidency again in 2012, but believes that Republican voters will be more receptive to Libertarian and Tea Party-leaning candidates this time around. “And I think things have shifted because of the financial crisis as well as the bogging down of our foreign policy,” Dr. Paul said in an interview with the Daily Caller. “So the American people are looking for some different answers.” Paul went on to say that although GOP voters will probably be more open to a small government Republican in 2012, he is “not on the verge of making a decision” on whether ...
GOP Senator’s ‘Women’s Issues’ Aide Sliced Girlfriend With Knife And Threatened To Kill Her
Post Date: 2010-06-23 12:03:05 by Brian S
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Louisiana Sen. David Vitter accepted the resignation of a longtime aide Wednesday after a news report disclosed repeated brushes with the law dating to the 1990s, the Republican's office said Wednesday.ABC News reported that the aide, Brent Furer, pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges stemming from a knife-wielding altercation with an ex-girlfriend and still is wanted on an open warrant in Baton Rouge stemming from an unresolved misdemeanor DWI charge.The report said Furer eventually pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges, including threatening harm and destruction of property, in connection with the altercation with his ex-girlfriend.Vitter spokesman Joel DiGrado said Vitter's ...
Anti-Government Tea Party Candidate Hayworth Hawked Gov’t Grant Money in Infomercials
Post Date: 2010-06-22 14:46:43 by Brian S
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Really now — I don’t understand why this should be a cripling blow to J.D. Hayworth’s teabagger-backed campaign to unseat John McCain:Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) … had an interesting job for a time in 2007: Appearing as an infomercial pitchman — for a company telling people that they can get free grant money from the federal government.In 2007, shortly after Hayworth lost his re-election battle in 2006, Hayworth appeared in a half-hour informercial for the National Grants Conferences, … which advertises itself as running seminars in which people can find out how to get grant money from the federal government — which the infomercial’s on-screen ...
Mark Levin Attacks 'Phony, Populist Idiot' O'Reilly Over BP Fund
Post Date: 2010-06-21 20:28:43 by Brian S
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Twice last week, Bill O'Reilly booked conservative Republican stars on his show -- Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) -- and came at them from the unexpected stance of defending President Obama. With Palin, he defended Obama's handling of the BP spill. With Bachmann, he disagreed with her criticism of how the BP escrow fund was set-up. All of that sparked an outraged rant from radio host Mark Levin, which the Right Scoop has captured and put online. In it, Levin makes the case that a lot of conservatives who don't have to worry about re-election are making -- that, yes, the president "shook down" BP, and that O'Reilly is a "phony, populist ...
Fact Checking Sarah Palin: Joe Barton Reflects The Philosophy Of Over 115 Republicans
Post Date: 2010-06-21 20:09:29 by Brian S
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When asked yesterday on ABC’s This Week about Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-TX) accusation that the White House engaged in a “shakedown” of BP, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel noted the remark was “not a political gaffe,” but rather a statement based on “prepared remarks.” He linked Barton’s comments to the GOP’s “larger philosophy,” saying it “is an approach to what they see. They see the aggrieved party here is BP, not the fisherman. And remember, this is not just one person.” Conservative pundit Sarah Palin quickly blasted Emanuel’s comments on Twitter, calling them “shallow” and ...
Rand Paul to Unemployed: Take a Pay Cut and Stop Asking for Handouts
Post Date: 2010-06-21 17:57:25 by Brian S
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Via Talking Points Memo, Rand Paul — son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and the Republican nominee for a Kentucky Senate seat — has some advice for the unemployed: Take a pay cut and stop asking for government aid. “As bad as it sounds, ultimately we do have to sometimes accept a wage that’s less than we had at our previous job in order to get back to work and allow the economy to get started again,” he said. “Nobody likes that, but it may be one of the tough love things that has to happen.” Paul also suggested that regardless of whether the benefits could be paid for with cuts somewhere else, it might be time for some people to just stop asking for government ...
Morning Joe Hosts: Giuliani’s ‘Baseless Lies’ On Spill Left Us Stunned
Post Date: 2010-06-21 17:11:19 by Brian S
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MSNBC's Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski accused former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of coming on the show last week to "vomit out complete, baseless lies."Appearing on the show last Thursday, Giuliani claimed that the Obama administration had not talked with oil industry experts about how to stop the leaking well.But Brzezinski said Monday the former New York mayor did not have his facts straight and initially left the hosts "stunned.""I'm glad there’s someone on the set who is actually asking questions when people come and vomit out complete and baseless lies on our set," Brzezinski said of herself. "I’m sorry but that was so over the top, ...
Barbour Backtracks On Opposition To BP Escrow Account: ‘I think the President was smart.’
Post Date: 2010-06-21 12:00:44 by Brian S
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Last week, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) complained about a proposed escrow account that BP will fund in order to pay out claims resulting from its oil spill. Barbour claimed that it would cause BP to lose profits. “[I]t bothers me to talk about causing an escrow to be made,” he said, adding, “which makes it less likely that they’ll make the income that they need to pay us.” But yesterday on NBC’s Meet the Press, when host David Gregory asked Barbour why he opposed the account now that the oil giant has agreed to pay into it, Barbour changed his mind: BARBOUR: Right, well, I thought that they were talking about taking $20 billion from BP all at once and ...
Republicans Claim ‘Florida Tea Party’ Is A Democratic Front
Post Date: 2010-06-20 11:49:30 by Brian S
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Amid all the fuss over surprise Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene in South Carolina, a less-noticed but even more colorful uproar is brewing over certain Tea Party candidates in Florida who may not be quite what they appear -- including one who could draw votes away from the Republican challenger to Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson. According to Adam Weinstein at Mother Jones, Florida GOP Chairman John Thrasher is claiming that "lefties have pulled an 'Alvin Greene' in the Sunshine State." Weinstein points to an article in the St. Petersburg Times, titled "The Florida tea party conspiracy," which notes that out of the dozen or more tea party candidates ...
Hayward To Be Relieved Of Operational Control In Gulf
Post Date: 2010-06-18 15:52:51 by Brian S
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Mark Murray writes: Per NBC's foreign desk: BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg told Sky News in Britain that, at some time soon, CEO Tony Hayward will return to the U.K. and hand over day-to-day operational control for BP's salvage operation in the Gulf. Svanberg told Sky News business correspondent Jeff Randall: "[Hayward] is now handing over the operation to Bob Dudley." Mr. Dudley is the managing director of the oil giant. Mr. Svanberg also told Randall that comments by Mr. Hayward have had detrimental effects as the company seeks to control the fallout from the disaster. "It is clear Tony has made remarks that have upset people," Mr. Svanberg said. Mr. ...
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