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The West is signing its own death sentence Post Date: 2012-12-09 23:58:01 by A K A Stone
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Capitalism is, by its nature, dynamic. George Osborne's attempt to engineer the 'perfect society undermines the logic of the free market When the Edward Gibbon of the 22nd century comes to write his History of the Decline and Fall of the West, who will feature in his monumental study of the collapse of the most successful economic experiment in human history? In this saga of the mass suicide of the richest nations on earth, there may be particular reference to those national leaders who chose to deny the reality that was, from the vantage point of our future chronicler, so obviously looming. Or maybe the leadership of our day in Washington, London and Brussels will appear to ...
The Unspeakable Right Post Date: 2012-12-09 23:40:56 by A K A Stone
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The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property. John Locke When Christian employers protested the new federal rule that they provide insurance for services that violate their consciences, the most horrifying thing was the solution. President Obama assumed that Americans would accept his bullying of insurance companies if he paused his bullying of churches. And it seems he was correct. For the moment, we still have some freedom of religion, but no "freedom of business." That's not what the Founders called it, of course; this is simply the fundamental right of ...
Planting the Seeds of His Own Demise Post Date: 2012-12-05 08:19:00 by A K A Stone
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Stop that cringing! I can already see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it's not pretty for today's neo-Marxist Democrat party. The man you see before you as your President today bears a striking resemblance to the main character in a Greek tragedy. He so reeks of hubris. Every word that drops from his lips speaks a haughty derision of the lesser beings not benighted to be a cog in his political machine. All witness Obama the Magnificent, the conqueror of America, which was the world hyperpower, but is now the Sick Man of the 21st Century, en route to terminal illness. Middle class beware. Did you not hear four years ago Obama the Magnificent bewail that America with 4 ...
The Myth of Northern Innocence Post Date: 2012-12-04 18:19:42 by Abcdefg
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Burly-and-bearded country singer Trace Adkins ruffled all the usual feathers and bruised all the usual feelings when he dared to wear a Confederate battle flag earpiece in full view of gasping national TV viewers while singing The Christmas Song in the Yankee stronghold of Rockefeller Center on November 28. Adkins, who belches out such venerable neo-country chestnuts as Honky Tonk Badonkadonk and Brown Chicken, Brown Cow, was subjected to the predictably rage-stroking vilification that comes whenever anyone suggests that the American South has ever been anything beyond a rancid cultural cesspool of lynching, incest, bestiality, racism, toothlessness, ...
Oh come on Christine Post Date: 2012-12-03 20:24:46 by A K A Stone
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i hear Alex criticize israel much, much more than i hear him defend it. i was especially surprised at the statement he made about "wiping israel off the map" by Ahmadenijad. i thought for sure i had heard Alex say that that was misinterpreted and that Ahmadenijad was speaking of the regime, not the country.
Poster Comment:. Ahmadenijad did say he wants to wipe Israel off the map.
Kindly Note the Impending Bankruptcy [Full Thread] Post Date: 2012-12-02 07:25:04 by A K A Stone
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Previously on The Perils of Pauline: Last year, our plucky heroine, the wholesome apple-cheeked American republic, was trapped in an express elevator hurtling out of control toward the debt ceiling. Would she crash into it? Or would she make some miraculous escape? Yes! At the very last minute of her white-knuckle thrill ride to her rendezvous with destiny, she was rescued by Congresss decision to set up . . . a Super Committee! Those who can, do. Those who cant, form a committee. Those who really cant, form a Super Committee and then put John Kerry on it for good measure. The bipartisan Super Committee of Super Friends was supposed to find $1.2 trillion dollars ...
Can It All Be Coincidence? Post Date: 2012-12-01 08:48:09 by A K A Stone
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As I noted in the introduction to my book, The Obama Timeline, a jury at a murder trial will often find the accumulated circumstantial evidence so overwhelming that a guilty verdict is obviouseven though there may be no witness to the crime. The jurors in the Scott Peterson trial believed the collection of evidence more than they believed Scott Peterson. Among other things, the jury thought that being arrested with $15,000 in cash, recently-dyed hair, a newly-grown goatee, four cell phones, camping equipment, a map to a new girlfriends house, a gun, and his brothers drivers license certainly did not paint a picture of a grieving husband who had nothing to do ...
'Fiscal Cliff'? Just Shut Up And Bring It On Post Date: 2012-11-30 18:15:22 by Brian S
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As they say in the NFL, on further review, Ive decided that going over the fiscal cliff is a good idea. And no, its not because I want to pay more in taxes. Nor am I a disgruntled Republican longing for revenge for the election. And I didnt just win the Powerball jackpot, and I didnt get an early bonus to avoid the coming tax increases. No, its simpler than that: I just dont want to have to listen to another month of posturing and pandering from politicians and pundits. On Friday, both camps were in full spin mode. First, I take you to a toy factory in Hatfield, Pa.: President Obama cast himself in the role of Santa Claus during ...
Parting Company Post Date: 2012-11-28 19:26:45 by Abcdefg
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For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans using the brute force of government to beat liberty-minded people into submission or simply parting company? In a marriage, where vows are ignored and broken, divorce is the most peaceful solution. Similarly, our constitutional and human rights have been increasingly violated by a government instituted to protect them. Americans who support constitutional abrogation have no intention of mending their ways. Since Barack Obama's re-election, hundreds of thousands of ...
Is Grover Finally Over? Post Date: 2012-11-26 22:39:45 by Brian S
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I once took a long train ride with Grover Norquist. This wasnt intentional. We found ourselves next to each other on the line to board an Acela from Washington, D.C., to New York, and we fell into a conversation, by which I mean that he did a great deal of talking, in that faintly maniacal way of his, while I presented a captive audience. He continued to talk as we walked along the platform and was still talking as we entered the train, so it was more or less unavoidable that we sit together. Besides which, I was genuinely fascinated, which is a very different adjective from amused. This happened earlier this year, around the time that pundits galore were weighing in on whom Mitt ...
In the Twilight of Empires Post Date: 2012-11-26 22:11:36 by Brian S
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Yes, its time to talk about Israel. By this I dont mean that we need to go through yet another round of who-did-what-to- whom rhetoric in the shrill tones of moral absolutism that pervade the subject these days. Theres a point to discussing ethical issues surrounding the origins, conduct, and future of the nation-state of Israel, to be sure, but that discussion is already happening elsewhere, or more precisely would be happening if most of the potential participants werent too busy shouting past each other. What gets misplaced in all the noise, though, is that this is not the only discussion worth having. In particular, the central theme of this series of ...
Why it’s cool(er) to be liberal again Post Date: 2012-11-25 16:51:48 by Ferret Mike
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The L-word is quietly working its way back into the political lexicon. The number of voters identifying themselves as liberal jumped three points on Election Day, from 22 percent in 2008 to 25 percent this year. Thats the highest that number has been since at least 1976, according to exit polls. The term liberal has long been somewhat of a pejorative in American politics or at least been less popular than the alternative. When Ronald Reagan was reelected in 1984, just 17 percent of Americans identified as liberal. And even back when the founder of the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, took 61 percent of the vote in 1936, it was more ...
GOP Needs To Dump Tea Party, Religious Right Post Date: 2012-11-25 12:48:25 by Brian S
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I dont exactly feel sorry for Republicans, but I wonder how they will ever shed their two biggest anchors. They have become beholden to both the social agenda of the religious right and the silly rhetoric of the Tea Party. Catering to these two inflexible and nasty groups of close-minded people is why they lost so big in this last election. In order to go forward Republicans are going to have to find a way to minimize the impacts of the Tea Party and religious right or abandon them both completely. The funny thing is that not so long ago these two groups had very little if any power in a party I once considered myself to be a part of. Its really interesting to see the reaction ...
The Stupid Party Ready to Strike Again Post Date: 2012-11-24 21:23:23 by jwpegler
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News outlets are reporting that GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss is ready to cave into Democrats and go along with their tax increases. As predicted, the Republicans will agree to immediate specific tax increases in exchange for some unspecific promises for some unspecified spending cuts at some undetermined future date. Of course, the spending cuts will never materialize. The GOP has done it before. They will do it again. This is why the GOP is known as the Stupid Party.
Obama Can No Longer Afford To Give Israel Blank Checks Post Date: 2012-11-23 18:08:09 by Brian S
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The transformation of America away from a white European-dominated society to a multi-ethnic mosaic is ending the United States romantic interlude with right-wing Judeo-Christian political leadership. The election of 2012 has proven that America that has backed right-wing dictatorships around the world, as well as the theocratic and woefully undemocratic regime of Israel, is changing its political hue. The demographic change in the United States will have a severe impact on the domination of Israels pressure groups, namely the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) over American ...
Bizarro World logic vs. Israel Post Date: 2012-11-22 07:51:58 by A K A Stone
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A cartoon image comes to mind. A mother breaks up a fight between two children, one of whom offers this defense: It started when he hit me back. Remember that mentality when you hear Palestinians call Israel the aggressor. Hamas fired hundreds, perhaps 1,000 missiles into Israel from Gaza. They hit schools, apartment buildings, streets and vacant lots. The aim was to kill and, if not to kill, at least to terrorize. Mission accomplished. Finally, Israel responded, first by droning the Hamas military leader, then by airstrikes against the terror groups ammunition dumps and rocket launchers, some intentionally placed near mosques and houses. So, ...
I Was David Petraeus's Bitch in the 90s and I Hated Every Second of It Post Date: 2012-11-21 23:07:48 by Fred Mertz
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I WAS DAVID PETRAEUS'S BITCH IN THE 90S AND I HATED EVERY SECOND OF IT Over the weekend, the media went into a feeding frenzy over the big, juicy, red-meat news that David Petraeus, the former head of the CIA and onetime adored four-star general, had been banging his fawning biographer, Paula Broadwell. If youve been following this somewhat-less-than-Shakespearean tragedy, youll know by now they were getting it on under his deskthat giant oaken hunk of power that no doubt displayed a miniature American flag and framed photos of his family. When I read about this, I imagined those photos jumping around on top of the desk while the great conqueror of Iraq invaded that ...
Benjamin Netanyahu: Leader of the Free World Post Date: 2012-11-19 10:48:21 by A K A Stone
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There has been much talk of late about America’s “fiscal cliff.” As troubling as our impending (Obama-spurred) economic collapse may be – and it is more troubling than even our most pessimistic economists are willing to admit – I’m even more concerned about fast-mounting tensions worldwide.
As the world government ship of fools drifts unmanned amid a sea of unparalleled global volatility, we, her passengers, behold – brewing on the horizon – an economic and foreign relations “perfect storm.”
As so often is the case, the hurricane swirls around the Middle East.
Historically, the president of the United States has captained the ship. He has, heretofore, been duly regarded “leader of ...
I like the "Fiscal Cliff" Let the Cuts Begin Post Date: 2012-11-19 09:45:30 by A K A Stone
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Lately there has been all this talk about a fiscal cliff. Hey folks if you haven't noticed we are already on a fiscal cliff. Have been for a long time with all this debt the government keeps giving us. So I don't see what is so bad about these cuts that are supposed to go into affect. Let it happen it is just a baby step in the right direction. We will still have huge deficits even if these miniscule cuts go into affect. Yeah there are some increases in taxes too but so be it.
Rash Israel Lights Arab Spring Powder Keg Post Date: 2012-11-17 13:29:10 by Brian S
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The Middle East this week? Think Colorado in July and the movie megaplex massacre - but instead of a lone gunman on the lose in cinema nine, there's a gang shooting it up in all 16 theatres. New noises from Cinema Gaza pretty well mask an emerging reality in Cinema Jordan - after a year and more of tap-dancing to avoid the Arab Spring's rapier tip, analysts detected blood on the garments of King Abdullah II and his Marie Antoinette queen - Rania. Like Bashar Al-Assad in Cinema Syria, Abdullah thought he might - and here, please, excuse a seeming contradiction - finesse his way through the irritation of the Arab Spring with a series of crude gestures that have failed to head off a ...
Rand Paul: We All Owe a “Debt of Gratitude to my Father, the Champion of Liberty” Post Date: 2012-11-17 09:46:48 by We The People
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Im sure by now regular readers are well aware that Texas Congressman Ron Paul is serving out his 12th -- and final -- term in the House of Representatives and will soon retire from public life. Somewhat unexpectedly, however, during his humble and moving final speech on the House floor a few days ago, I was surprised to hear him speak, among other things, about his failure to rein in the size and scope of government during his long and distinguished political career. To some extent this is undoubtedly true -- after all, the United States is headed straight for a debt crisis that lawmakers in Washington seem utterly incapable of averting, let alone reversing. On the other ...
The Unforgivable Republican Racism Against Ambasador Susan Rice Post Date: 2012-11-16 19:13:26 by Abcdefg
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The Republicans twice proved that they were a racist party when they ran, not once, but twice, against Obama, hoping to deny an entire generation of black children a chance to grow up with a real role model who can teach them responsibility and good spending habits. And let's face it, the Republican attacks on UN Ambassador Susan Rice are another reminder that the Republican Party is a bunch of crazy racists who rush to blame a black woman when she spends days lying about an attack on a US consulate. If a white man had lied about the murder of four Americans, then he would have gotten a pass on it. Unless hes a Southern European brother like Leon Panetta or a Mediterranean ...
Who fed Susan the Benghazi bullhockey? Post Date: 2012-11-16 18:23:43 by Abcdefg
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At his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of bullies from beating up a girl. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Amb. Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, she appeared on five TV shows to say it had all resulted from a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video. Susan Rice, thundered Obama, "made an appearance at the request of the White House in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her. "If Sen. McCain and Sen. ...
Nice Losers Post Date: 2012-11-13 21:58:39 by Abcdefg
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Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment-- nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have. The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least as far as 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey ran against President Harry Truman. Dewey spoke in lofty generalities while Truman spoke in hard-hitting specifics. Since then, there have been many re-runs of this same scenario, featuring losing Republican presidential candidates John McCain, Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and, when he ran for reelection, George H.W. Bush. Bush 41 first succeeded ...
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