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Clash of Republican Con Artists
Post Date: 2016-03-04 08:20:45 by Willie Green
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So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and ethnic hatred for political gain.But that was always going to happen, however the primary season turned out. The only news is that the candidate in question is probably going to be Donald Trump. Establishment Republicans denounce Mr. Trump as a fraud, which he is. But is he more fraudulent than the establishment trying to stop him? Not really.Actually, when you look at the people making those denunciations, you have to wonder: Can they really be that lacking in self-awareness?Donald ...
Will the 2nd American Revolution Happen in 2017? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-03-03 09:17:34 by sneakypete
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I have been predicting since the day he announced he was running that Trump is Perot,Part 2. His "job" was to feed his ego as well as his bank account by running as what most people would consider to be an "over the top conservative" full of pop slogans,and not a single rational idea or plan. I was,and still am at this point,predicting he will drop out at the last minute and spend the rest of his life bragging about how "I COULD have been president of the US if I had wanted,but I decided the job was beneath me,so I dropped out." I based this on several reasons,listed here in order 1: He is a narcissistic sociopath with an ego as brittle as glass. The one ...
6 New Jersey Newspapers Want Gov. Chris Christie to Resign or Face Recall
Post Date: 2016-03-02 11:48:03 by Willie Green
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"If he refuses, citizens should initiate a recall effort" Chris Christie should step down as the governor of New Jersey or face being forced out of office, a half dozen newspapers in his home state demanded Tuesday night. In a joint editorial, six New Jersey newspapers “fed up” with Christie called on him to vacate his role as the head of the state after his failed presidential bid and “long neglect of the state to pursue his own selfish agenda.” “For the good of the state, it’s time for Christie to do his long-neglected constituents a favor and resign as governor. If he refuses, citizens should initiate a recall effort,” the editorial reads. The ...
It’s Not Just the GOP – The Democratic Party is Also Imploding
Post Date: 2016-03-02 11:20:39 by Hondo68
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Whichever side emerges victorious, both Republicans and Democrats should face up to a much bigger truth: Neither party as currently constituted has a real future. Fewer and fewer Americans identify as either Republican or Democratic according to Gallup, and both parties are at recent or all-time lows when it comes to approval ratings. Just 39 percent give Democrats a favorable rating and just 33 percent do the same for Republicans. Not coincidentally, each party has also recently had a clear shot at implementing its vision of the good society. If you want to drive down your adversary’s approval rating, just give him the reins of power for a few years. – From the post: Thoughts ...
This man MUST be tracked down and stopped!
Post Date: 2016-02-27 19:29:20 by sneakypete
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I don't know who it was that shouted "Release the clowns" right before the 2016 primary election season started,but he MUST be tracked down and stopped from ever doing this again. Poster Comment:IMO,this applies regardless of which branch of the One Ruling Party you support.
So who to vote for [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-02-27 02:11:45 by A K A Stone
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Who to vote for. Who knows. We should pray and ask Gods guidance and reflect on who would be best to lead our nation. My views are most closely aligned with Ted Cruz. Can Ted Cruz win? o me he seems to be an honorable man. I don't buy all this he is a liar stuff. If he won the nomination I would certainly vote for him. I'd trust him most to make good supreme court appointments. The problem with Cruz in my view is that I think he is probably a bit of a globalist. He seems to favor these international agreements that are stripping us of our soverignity Not to the degree of Obama or others but still seems to be part of that system. Rubio. I never trusted him from the start. I never ...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bullies
Post Date: 2016-02-21 09:40:58 by Willie Green
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The 2016 primary races on both sides of the aisle are led by two baby-boomer bully buddies. Say that five times fast. Though they’ve tried to distance themselves from each other, we know that the Clintons and Trumps were good enough friends to talk on the phone, golf together and attend events together. It’s no surprise that both candidates talk about “me” more than “we” and claim that they’re the only person in existence who can govern this great land of ours. They are of course both products of the “me generation,” and it certainly shows in their rhetoric. Both Trump and Hillary are also getting a majority of their support from aging baby ...
Mr. Pope, Tear Down This Wall
Post Date: 2016-02-18 19:30:54 by cranky
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Mr. Pope, tear down this wall. On Wednesday, Pope Francis traveled to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, where he stood across the border from the United States and paid homage to “migrants who have perished trying to reach the United States just a stone’s throw away,” according to Reuters. He then blessed crosses next to which “shoes of migrants who died” were laid, and added, “No more death! No more exploitation!” Not content to rabblerouse on behalf of an inundation of the world’s great economic superpower – a free and open superpower with an extraordinarily beneficent immigration policy – Pope Francis then attempted to shame Donald Trump and other ...
Ann Coulter: GOP Baffled as Voters Rally to Popular Candidate [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-02-18 06:54:16 by cranky
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Donald Trump’s latest bombshell, claiming the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction to get us into the Iraq War, is just him doing wheelies on the way to the nomination. He’s apparently decided it would be fun to taunt the entire GOP by demonstrating that he can say anything and his voters won’t care. I wish he’d stop showing off, the little scamp, but maybe the GOP establishment will finally get the message that voters have been waiting a really long time for a candidate who would put Americans first. Not donors, not plutocrats, not foreigners, and certainly not foreign plutocrats (i.e., Fox News). Trump is the first presidential candidate in 50 ...
Did Justice Scalia Already Give Us the Solution to the Problem of Filling His Seat?
Post Date: 2016-02-16 08:49:30 by A K A Stone
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The death of the intrepid Justice Antonin Scalia has shaken the political world. If his successor’s appointment cannot be delayed until the next presidency, it’s assured that an unassailable hard-left majority will control the Supreme Court. This will mean, conservatives warn, the end of significant Second Amendment rights, curtailment of many religious freedoms and a consistent rubber-stamp for the “progressive” agenda. Unfortunately, the likelihood of replacing Scalia—the court’s pre-eminent legal mind—with even a pale imitation is slim. For it to happen the Senate will have to exhibit fortitude and delay the confirmation of a successor. a Republican ...
Cruz Knocks Trump as Non-Conservative, Trump Admits It
Post Date: 2016-02-12 08:57:42 by cranky
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Donald Trump has now made clear that the thrust of his campaign will not be conservatism. It will instead be populism and nationalism. For those looking for a governing philosophy of The Donald, his checkered political history has provided little guidance. He’s seemingly endorsed single-payer healthcare; he’s said he rejects Obamacare. He’s blasted money in politics; he’s talked about the necessity for government use of eminent domain to help private parties. He’s ripped overregulation of capitalistic enterprises; he’s talked about tariffs on foreign goods. Trump isn’t conservative, and he never was. Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Trump’s chief ...
Reagan’s populist lessons for tea-partyers
Post Date: 2016-02-11 08:38:19 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — The tea party phenomenon is one of the significant puzzles of this year’s politics — exciting to some people and alarming to others. By placing it in the historical context of other populist movements, Henry Olsen of the American Enterprise Institute has helped define it — and the important choice Republicans now face. In an article in the summer issue of National Affairs and a follow-up interview, Olsen, who worked as a legislative staffer in California before joining three conservative think tanks, briefly reviews the checkered history of American populism. Until the 1960s, it was mainly a phenomenon of the left — led by such figures as Thomas ...
The Profiteers of Doom Were Wrong About Climate
Post Date: 2016-02-09 11:36:28 by cranky
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More than a century from now, on current trends, today’s concentration of CO2 in the air will have doubled. How much warming will that cause? The official prediction, 1.5-4.5 Celsius degrees per CO2 doubling, is proving a substantial exaggeration. Professor William Happer of Princeton, one of the world’s foremost physicists, says computer models of climate rely on the assumption of the CO2’s direct warming effect that is about a factor two higher, owing to incorrect representation of the microphysical interactions of CO2 molecules with other infrared photons. As if that were not bad enough, the official story is that feedbacks triggered by direct warming roughly triple it, ...
DONEGAN: Debunking the Lesser-of-Two-Evils Voting Theory
Post Date: 2016-02-05 18:38:57 by Hondo68
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Voters who do not live in a swing state will not cause the election of their least favorite major-party candidate by voting for their favorite third-party candidate. Screen capture from an Oct. 15, 1992 presidential debate featuring candidates George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. Anyone who has ever supported a third-party presidential candidate in an election has likely had to defend their decision from partisans who endorse the lesser-of-two-evils voter theory. By the logic offered by proponents of the theory, anyone who votes for an independent candidate is at best wasting their vote, and at worst handing the election over to their least-favorite major-party candidate. With as ...
New York Times: America’s Best Days May Be Behind It
Post Date: 2016-01-23 13:39:30 by cranky
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Eduardo Porter of the New York Times writes that the United States saw a dramatic increase in its standard of living during the half century before the 1960s but hasn’t in the 50 years since.From the New York Times:Take a look back at some of the most popular TV programs of the mid-1960s — “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Bewitched,” even “The Beverly Hillbillies” — and what do you see?Like today, middle-class Americans typically had washing machines and air-conditioning, telephones and cars. The Internet and video games were not yet invented. But life, over all, did not look that different.There were TVs and radios in most homes. Millions of people ...
Selective Outrage: National Review Trashes Trump, Rallies Behind Ryan
Post Date: 2016-01-23 08:28:43 by cranky
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A little over three months ago, National Review endorsed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for Speaker of the House. In doing so, National Review helped place a man with a two-decade history of pushing open borders immigration policies in charge of the Republican Party’s entire legislative agenda. Ten weeks after that endorsement helped Paul Ryan secure the Speakership, Ryan proceeded to swiftly pass an omnibus spending bill that funded and expanded President Obama’s immigration agenda. Ryan’s bill provided funding for sanctuary cities, illegal alien resettlement, illegal alien tax credits, and visa issuances to nearly 300,000 (temporary and permanent) Muslim migrants over the next 12 ...
Witless Ape: The Director's Cut
Post Date: 2016-01-22 20:50:45 by cranky
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If you're in the New York-Washington corridor this weekend, Miss Jessica Martin and I have the perfect musical accompaniment. ~This is a droll line from Professor Glenn Reynolds: If Obama had 2 more terms, he'd have to build a wall to keep Americans in. ~National Review's initial reaction to Donald Trump's entry into the presidential race appeared a few hours after he launched his campaign under the headline "Witless Ape Rides Escalator". Their condescension has got a little subtler since then, and it's now gone long-form with an entire issue dedicated to the singular proposition: "Against Trump". I've received a ton of emails today asking me what ...
Limbaugh: ‘Undiluted, Concentrated Liberal Destruction’ and GOP Failure to Respond Led to Trump
Post Date: 2016-01-22 20:19:01 by cranky
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Friday on his radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh offered his analysis on why supporters of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump tend to overlook his past liberal positions. According to Limbaugh, seven years of liberalism led by President Barack Obama and the seeming unwillingness of Republicans in Congress to take on Obama with their legislative powers are in part why Trump has this diehard support. Transcript as follows: So here’s Dana Bash on CNN last night, and she’s saying Trump was outspokenly pro-choice. He has been outspoken in his history in a book that he published, wanting single payer universal health care system, and much of the conservative ...
Bulldozing Monuments and the War on American History
Post Date: 2016-01-12 08:27:16 by cranky
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Editor’s Note: The following is a debate with Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Legal Foundation over the New Orleans City Council’s December 17, 2015 decision to remove four monuments relating to the Confederacy. Read Sandefur’s article here. On December 17, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate statues from the city, using obscure “nuisance” laws to strip these over 100-year-old historic monuments from their places of display. Mayor Mitch Landrieu said it was a “courageous decision to turn a page on our divisive past and chart the course for a more inclusive future.” Of course, the plan to remove the statues is itself divisive as a ...
Kevin Drum, assisted suicide and ... me
Post Date: 2016-01-12 02:24:33 by Tooconservative
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I normally send our readers to stories which are either interesting, entertaining, enraging or at least – hopefully – informative and applicable to topics of import in the conservative sphere. Today I would direct your attention to one which may or may not fall into any of the above categories and most certainly isn’t entertaining. It’s a lengthy article by Kevin Drum at Mother Jones which will likely be very hard to read because it deals with a touchy subject, relating directly to Kevin and his family… assisted suicide. California recently passed an end of life law along these lines (which I wrote about at the time) and it has a lot to do with this story. This is ...
The Real Donald Trump Story
Post Date: 2016-01-10 19:13:12 by Orthodoxa
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Poster Comment:This is an awesome unofficial Donald Trump campaign video that has gotten the thumbs up after the fact by the Donald himself.
Thank You, Donald
Post Date: 2016-01-09 16:06:18 by tpaine
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Thank You, Donald JAN 18, 2016 | By WILLIAM KRISTOL Writing in mid-June, a couple of days after Donald Trump announced his candidacy, we offered the judgment that he should not be our next president: “We're not Trump enthusiasts. We're not even Trump fellow travelers. We're closer to Trump deriders." And so we unapologetically remain. It would be ungracious not to acknowledge Trump's remarkable standing in the polls six months later. But we see no reason to alter our conclusion that Donald Trump shouldn't be president of the United States. Indeed, Trump's behavior over this period has confirmed our judgment. If back in June we wrote that the rest of the ...
Black Lives Matter: We Saw It Coming, Now Here’s What’s Coming Next
Post Date: 2016-01-02 11:44:28 by cranky
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Breitbart News has given #BlackLivesMatter more detailed, deep, and honest coverage than any other media outlet on the planet in 2015, and for good reason. From covering every major protest they did to exposing the cop killer that the group worships to revealing the secret funder behind the movement to Milo Yiannopoulos’s complete shredding of activist Shaun King, Breitbart News has been the go-to source for original reporting on Black Lives Matter. Why is Breitbart News so on top of the Black Lives Matter movement? Easy. We saw it coming. Not everyone liked what we saw either. In August 2012, the magazine American Conservative did an article on the film Occupy Unmasked. That film was ...
Former Trump Aide: He’s Doomed (total collapse)
Post Date: 2015-12-30 21:01:31 by Hondo68
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Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof/The Daily BeastWhy a former political adviser to the Republican frontrunner believes Trump’s candidacy is closing in on a total collapse.If this scenario plays out, Nunberg doesn’t “see a pathway to the nomination—he certainly wouldn’t be the frontrunner anymore.”Look at the polls, and Donald Trump is crushing his Republican opponents. But from the perspective of Sam Nunberg, a political adviser who worked for Trump until earlier this year, The Donald’s campaign is losing—and is just a couple months from total disaster. “What I’m worried about is, I don’t know what his inner circle is telling him. I ...
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