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The Tea Party's Defining Choice
Post Date: 2011-05-18 09:33:42 by go65
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Will the right-leaning movement elevate an effective small government reformer or a bombastic rhetorician in 2012? In a New York Times piece on the primary challenge that GOP Senator Richard Lugar faces, this passage struck me: "Mr. Lugar is trying to run on moderation in an immoderate time. He is betting that the Tea Party call of alarm and partisanship is drowning out a majority that prefers Republicans who specialize in reason and reaching across the aisle." The tea party movement is defined in that sentence by the ferocity of its rhetoric rather than the substance of its small government agenda. Insofar as there are a lot of tea party voters who earnestly care about the ...
What Rand Paul could teach Ron Paul
Post Date: 2011-05-17 19:29:14 by A K A Stone
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Rep. Ron Paul (R- Texas) found himself in an unusual position at the South Carolina GOP presidential debate. According to most polls, Paul was the frontrunner of the five candidates on stage. Though some big names were missing, it signals how far Paul has come in four years. Consider that Paul registers more national support than former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is already running, and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who may soon enter. Pawlenty and Daniels are widely considered to have a chance at winning the GOP nomination. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is barely ahead of Paul in the Real Clear Politics polling average. With Donald Trump and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ...
The Bridge: In Honor of Malcolm X
Post Date: 2011-05-17 16:17:26 by Ferret Mike
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*May 19th is the birth date of El Haaj Malik El-Shabazz, known to us as Malcolm X. Who was Malcolm X? Malcolm X was a number of things to a number of people. To white racists, he was the physical manifestation of the chickens coming home to roost—the sins of the father being visited upon the sons. He was committed to the respect and protection of the Black community and unwavering in the extent to which he was willing to go and to which he was willing to influence millions to go to oppose and stamp out oppression. His mission? In his own words, it was “to bring about the complete independence of people of African descent here in the western hemisphere…and bring about ...
Hugh Hewitt: The GOP Debate and the President's Political Weakness (Exile Cain, Paul, Johnson)
Post Date: 2011-05-15 17:20:15 by go65
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Rick Santorum impressed most observers, while Ron Paul did what Ron Paul does and so his supporters cheered wildly. The declared GOP contenders in the first tier (Gingrich, Pawlenty and Romney) are well advised to stay clear of any setting that asks for a "show of hands" on any question, as such questions are the very definition of media-driven narratives. "Waterboarding" as an up-or-down question? Really? But that is the nature of televised events. Theater sneaks in. The GOP doesn't need any theater against President Obama. The issue remains incompetence and economic incoherence at home and fecklessness abroad. Yes, we can still say the president is committed to ...
Republicans Lie and News Media Spread It
Post Date: 2011-05-15 12:17:37 by Ferret Mike
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The Audacity of No. The Republican Party has put the country into serious financial jeopardy. Now they blame others. Two Republican wars, two Republican tax cuts mostly to the wealth and a Republican prescription drug benefiting drug companies – and NONE paid for by the party that now sees disaster in deficits. What gall. Of course, one of the leaders of the dire need to deal with the deficit is our own Sen. George Voinovich. His image burnished by the Plain Dealer and Steve Koff recently as so, so concerned about our profligate spending. In a paean of praise, Koff recently credited Voinovich, who ends his career this year, with going out by working to “force Washington to ...
Presbyterian Church U.S.A.: Faith and gay rights
Post Date: 2011-05-15 09:53:45 by Ferret Mike
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The Rev. Bear Ride, left, and her spouse, the Rev. Susan Craig, celebrate with Brian Symonds, who hopes to become the first openly gay person ordained by the Pacific Presbytery. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / May 10, 2011) Last week, a majority of the 173 presbyteries making up the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. voted to amend the church's constitution and allow openly gay and lesbian members to become ordained ministers, elders and deacons. The vote followed decades of debate and more than six months of voting. In taking this action, I believe our church moved a step forward and brought itself closer in line with Christ's all-embracing love. But it's not a step all ...
Could Democrats Retake the House?
Post Date: 2011-05-13 16:03:09 by Ferret Mike
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Six months after suffering a shellacking in November’s midterm elections, Democrats believe they can pick up the 25 seats they need to snatch back the House. Mapping out a path to 2012 may be a fool’s errand this far out. But political momentum and the topography of the electoral landscape suggest that they have a shot at retaking the lower chamber. In 2010, Republicans vaulted with historic gains on a promise to impose fiscal discipline. So far, their 2012 budget blueprint doesn’t appear to include the kind of austerity most voters had in mind. Acrimonious town halls during last month’s spring recess displayed constituents’ unease over Representative Paul ...
Former CIA Interrogator: Painstaking Intelligence Work, Not Torture, Responsible For Bin Laden Capture
Post Date: 2011-05-12 20:37:58 by Ferret Mike
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Shortly after President Obama announced that U.S. military forces killed Osama bin Laden, right-wing torture apologists seized the opportunity, stating, without any definitive evidence whatsoever, that information gleaned from torturing Al Qaeda detainees led to bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan. While reliable sources, such as Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said this week that the information did not come from torture (or to use the Bush administration’s term “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”), at this point it is at best unclear how this information was obtained. What if a tiny piece of information that led to bin Laden came from torture ...
Torture apologists stain triumph over bin Laden
Post Date: 2011-05-12 18:44:42 by Ferret Mike
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The killing of Osama bin Laden after a fierce firefight in his Abbottabad compound is a great victory for our military and intelligence forces and for our civilian leadership. But the handwringing about whether it looked as though bin Laden was reaching for a gun or suicide belt, as if this were some who-is-the fastest-gun-in-the-West movie, and about whether we violated Pakistani sovereignty by going in after him is risible. As the code of war that Abraham Lincoln promulgated in 1863 — the first anywhere — made clear: “military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies .41;.41;. it allows of the capturing of .41;.41;. every enemy of ...
SlutWalk may be coming to Milwaukee
Post Date: 2011-05-11 07:17:09 by Ferret Mike
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Toronto was the first site for a SlutWalk march to protest an officer’s comment that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." A similar march may be coming to Milwaukee. Event follows path to discussion about rape If you want to get people's attention, call your event SlutWalk Milwaukee. "People hear the word and say, 'You're doing what?'34;" said Michele Stander-Reimer, who is organizing the walk here. Then they're ready to have a conversation about sexual violence and how victims are still being blamed because of the way they dress, or because they drank too much or had previous sexual partners. The ...
If You Are Unemployed, Should You Move Somewhere Else In Order To Find A Job?
Post Date: 2011-05-09 23:47:44 by A K A Stone
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It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Unfortunately, millions of Americans find themselves slowly going insane as they apply for hundreds upon hundreds of jobs and yet never get hired. It is incredibly difficult to get a good job in most areas of the United States today. So if you are unemployed, and there are no jobs in your area, should you move somewhere else in an attempt to find work? That is a very hard question. Of course if what you are currently doing right now is not working it is only natural to want to change course, but sadly unemployment is absolutely rampant all over the United States. Today, ...
The Obama – Osama bin Laden Lie
Post Date: 2011-05-08 23:38:23 by A K A Stone
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>www.extremumspiritum.com/images/2009/12/obama-osama.jpg"> I truly believe Osama Bin Laden is dead. But not recently dead. Based on evidence I believe that Osama Bin Laden has been dead for several years and that the government has concocted the recent kill story to tie up loose ends. The U.S. government needed to make the world believe that Bin Laden was still alive to give them an excuse to stay in Afghanistan and Pakistan to continue what ever corrupt agenda the U.S. government has. Now that the U.S. government no longer needs Osama Bin Laden as an excuse to be in (or stay in) Afghanistan and Pakistan they have decided it is a good time to kill him off. Not really kill him ...
Rand vs. Rubio
Post Date: 2011-05-08 19:19:39 by A K A Stone
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The Tea Party scored its two biggest triumphs last year with the election of Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. Both were discouraged from running by leaders of their own party. Both had to overcome the determined opposition of the Republican establishment to make it through their primaries in the first place. Paul and Rubio were both uncharacteristically honest about the need for entitlement reform, going so far as to contemplate means-testing Social Security even though they needed the votes of senior citizens. Paul was running in Kentucky, where about 60 percent of the registered voters are Democrats. Rubio stood for election in Florida, a retirement mecca. Both won in November by ...
Analysis: Reimagining Obama after gutsy raid
Post Date: 2011-05-07 09:15:07 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just a firehouse chat with the guys of Engine 54 in lower Manhattan. But President Barack Obama delivered a message he hopes will also hit home with every American in this week of national catharsis: "You're always going to have a president and an administration who's got your back." In the denouement to the daring raid that brought down Osama bin Laden, the president has in effect been reintroduced to the nation. While taking care to strike the right tone — trying to savor the success of the dramatic covert operation without appearing to gloat — Obama has offered himself as a decisive leader willing to take bold risks. He's ...
Who is Obama? Now we know.
Post Date: 2011-05-05 16:43:59 by go65
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Barack Obama is not the man many Americans thought he was. This sudden realization has transformed American politics. The sheer audacity of the successful operation against Osama bin Laden has forced Obama’s friends and foes alike to reassess what they make of a chief executive who defies easy categorization and reveals less about himself than politicians are typically drawn to do. Obama is hard to understand because he is many things and not just one thing. He has now proved that he can be bold at an operational level, even as he remains cautious at a philosophical level. His proclivity to gather facts and weigh alternatives does not lead automatically, in the venerable phrase, to ...
New OBL video [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-05 15:52:30 by CZ82
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Anybody want to guess what might happen if a new Osama bin Laden video pops up outta nowhere in another week or so saying "HA HA you Missed"?????
Many May Not Care for Orly Taitz But She Knows Something Donald Trump Doesn't (my title)
Post Date: 2011-05-02 22:39:28 by Murron
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Many May Not Care for Orly Taitz But She Knows Something Donald Trump Doesn't Just about all of you have your reasons for liking, or disliking Orly Taitz, it's only human nature we might see or hear things other's don't. I noticed quite a few Trump fans here, talking about how cool he was, how gutsy he was for getting in Obama's face about his Birth Certificate, then Donald took bows when Obama and WH released what was supposed to be the BC, and it turned out to be just another fraud, what has Donald done since then? In fact, no matter what documents Trump were to find on Obama, now, or in the future, and they proved beyond a shadow of a doubt the man was a liar and ...
At what level of lying to the American people is impeachment warranted?
Post Date: 2011-05-01 15:25:42 by Murron
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At what level of lying to the American people is impeachment warranted? The 'birth certificate' released by Obama a few days ago has turned out to be a crude forgery. The COLB released in 2008 was also suspected of being a forgery at the time. Now there appears what seems to be the actual Hawaiian birth registration of Barack Obama. It states that he was born in Kenya on Aug 4 1961. It was made out on the basis of information supplied by his grand mother, Madelyn Dunham. The document was made out and registered on 8/8/81, and is signed by Madelyn Dunham. The Aloha Reporter The importance of the document is that it proves that Obama was born in Kenya. It also proves that the ...
Mainstream Media's Paradise Lost
Post Date: 2011-05-01 09:22:34 by CZ82
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Mainstream Media's Paradise Lost By Steve McCann Over the past ten years it has become painfully obvious that the mainstream media's level of vituperation directed at conservatives has gone up exponentially while their willingness to accommodate and turn a blind eye towards the devastating policies of the Left (in particular President Obama) has never been higher. There has always been a left-of-center bias among the vast majority of the media; however their actions over this period are not fully explained by that predisposition. While the media has always been willing to go after and embarrass conservatives or Republicans as well as belittle their thinking, there was much more ...
An Open Letter to Judge Parker@LP from buckeroo@LF [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-01 01:29:47 by buckeroo
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Judge Parker - I see the LP Kloaughns ganging up on you at LP. You are a fine poster and there is no need for that sort of nonsense as WhiteSands, Gatlin, harrowup and their esteemed client, "yukon" have created. Come on over to LF and eventually leave LP. Although I can't speak for others on LF, I can say that you are an excellent poster worthy of respect and admiration similar to many others that have a personal opinion without gang warfare tactics. Judge, LP has descended into the caveland-dwellers days of thousands of yesteryears of crude prehistoric prehumans. You need not waste your excellent posts upon mere cretins, they don't understand how to understand your ...
Integration and Diversity -- Mutually Exclusive Concepts?
Post Date: 2011-04-30 08:56:24 by CZ82
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Integration and Diversity -- Mutually Exclusive Concepts? By Mercer Tyson When I attended college in the sixties, the mantra was integration. MLK and the liberals told us to judge people by the "content of their character, not the color of their skin." Good advice. They got it right. Unfortunately, integration hasn't been a prevalent word lately, possibly because we've come a long way towards achieving it, but also because it has been usurped by "diversity" and "multiculturalism." This, too, is pushed by liberals. This time, though, they got it wrong. Or maybe not. Everyone has an opinion on multiculturalism and integration, yet very little real ...
[GOP Front Runner] Donald Trump ties made in China
Post Date: 2011-04-29 09:24:24 by go65
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I confess. I have two Donald Trump ties. Bought at clearance prices, before Trump was in his birther and bigot mode. After hearing news reports, I checked the ties. Guess what? My two Trump ties were both made in China! Donald Trump is such a total phony. He rails about China and then makes money using his name to sell ties made in China. He attacks those who sell out American workers to China, then makes his money when he sells out American workers by selling ties made in China, with the Trump name on it. I have the proof in my hands right now! I guess Mr. Smart Businessman couldn't find an American firm to make his ties, or maybe he just wanted to make more money selling ties not ...
Michele Bachmann is wrong about oil; There's more to the oil-reserve story than Bachmann suggests.
Post Date: 2011-04-28 11:01:31 by lucysmom
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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, our newest lawyer-turned-petroleum-geologist, is critical of the Brazil policy of another would-be geologist lawyer, President Obama ("There's oil here at home, but Obama would go abroad," April 26). But Obama's motive in offering to help Brazil "develop these oil reserves" is to gain profitable business for the U.S. oil and oil-services industries. Brazil's offshore Santos Basin holds the world's largest oil discovery in more than a decade. The business opportunity for U.S. petroleum technology is substantial. Bachmann continues to go astray discussing U.S. oil reserves. The best estimates of economically recoverable oil ...
Critics: Obama’s Latest Long-Form Birth Certificate Is a Fake [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-27 22:09:47 by A K A Stone
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Photoshop expert Mara Zebest sent this in: This is so maddening to listen to the media on this recent revelation… it’s such an obvious fake. (Click on image for larger view) Look at the attached JPG… (which shows what you will see when opening the PDF in Illustrator and how to get there)… but to recap… if you open the PDF in Illustrator (instead of Photoshop) – Select the entire document and go to the Object menu and choose Clipping Mask > Release. Repeat as necessary until all clipping masks are released. Also open the Layer and turn off the visibility of each clipping group and you can see all the numerous places in which information was added ...
President Obama Will Not Be Re-elected. Period. Why?
Post Date: 2011-04-27 18:24:48 by Murron
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President Obama Will Not Be Re-elected. Period. Why? Obamaflation has arrived, and this is what it looks like. Milk. A gallon of skim. At the local Giant in Central Pennsylvania: January 11, 2011: $3.20 February 28, 2011: $3.24 March 6, 2011: $3.34 April 23. 2011: $3.48 That would be a 28 cent rise in a mere 102 days, from January to April of this year. The third year of the Obama misadventure. Then there's the celery. Same sized bag. Same store. January 11, 2011: $1.99 a bag. March 6, 2011: $2.49 a bag. A rise of 50 cents in 54 days. And the gas price during the administration filled with those who think "drill baby drill" is so yesterday? As one Internet photo had ...
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