Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Should We Let Law Enforcement Drone On and On? Post Date: 2012-06-09 21:12:57 by Abcdefg
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Should We Let Law Enforcement Drone On and On?Domestic shock-and-awe is now becoming par for the course.A. Barton Hinkle | June 8, 2012 Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell thinks the use of unmanned aerial drones for domestic law enforcement ishis word"great." As he told WTOP radio in Washington recently, "[It] cuts down on manpower in the air, and also [is] more safe. Thats why we use it on the battlefield." Well, yes. But there is a slight difference between Baltimore and Basra or Kansas and Kandahar: Were not at war in Baltimore or Kansas. Were not trying to vanquish enemy forces in Washington, or repel an invasion inNorth Dakota. Admittedly, you ...
Rand Paul's signal to the GOP Post Date: 2012-06-09 13:06:57 by Ferret Mike
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Mitt Romney won a valuable seal of approval Thursday night when Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul endorsed him for president even though Pauls father, Ron Paul, has not formally withdrawn from the presidential race. The younger Pauls support could be a boon to Romney as he tries to rally one of the more elusive parts of the GOP coalition: the youthful, disaffected, libertarian-leaning activists who powered Ron Pauls presidential run. But the upside goes both ways on this one: while Paul is a helpful validator for Romney, endorsing Romney also gives Paul a level of mainstream credibility he lacked during his 2010 Senate campaign. It shows hes willing to be a team ...
Man I really want to give A K A Stone a piece of my mind!!! Post Date: 2012-06-09 01:01:37 by A K A Stone
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Come on give it to me.
Ok Third Partiers. WHO CAN WIN? Come on tell me. [Full Thread] Post Date: 2012-06-09 00:35:31 by A K A Stone
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Some of you people say Ron Paul is the only one you would vote for. Well if he isn't on the ballot what good will that do? Oh you're going to write him in. What an exercise in futility. There is no third party candidate to unite behind. It isn't there aint happening sadly. Face reality. As anyone here knows I supported Ron Paul this election and last election. So don't give me no shit about my rant here. I would prefer Ron to the two clowns we have to choose from. But we really do only have these two clowns to choose from One will be President come January, like it or not or if you abstain from voting or not. Now onto Romney. Everyone knows he has a lot of faults. But ...
Here listen christines point of view. [Full Thread] Post Date: 2012-06-08 18:54:00 by A K A Stone
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good posts, both of you. you make some very astute points. there's one point that i think you're missing here and, that is, that many of us are disappointed again in what we see as a lack of honesty here not that we expected Ron Paul to be our saviour. i think all of us on 4um are more realistic than that. this is a repeat of 2008 when Ron Paul pulled out just before the Texas primary. we were led to believe that he had a delegate strategy. now with this, he's pulled the rug out from under all those who worked to become delegates and who planned to cast a vote for him at the convention. he pulled up short again and i am certain that that it was not a sudden decision.
imo, he and Rand ...
Getting Along With Pew Post Date: 2012-06-07 07:06:49 by CZ82
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Getting Along With Pew By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 6.7.12 @ 6:10AM Two parties, two opposing views. How terrifying. WASHINGTON -- Frankly, I wish the Pew Research Center would occasionally keep its thoughts to itself. Sometimes those thoughts are merely insipid and beneath the attention of serious minds. Sometimes they are alarming and capable of stirring up an already excitable populace. There is talk of cannibalism being practiced by the criminal element. There is Lady Gaga. These are worrisome times. Yet the Pew Research Center has gone and done it again. The center released a study Monday that employed exhaustive polling and ingenious charts to render my fellow Americans restive, ...
Question of the Day. Can someone tell me Hillary Clintons Acheivements? Post Date: 2012-06-06 21:41:00 by A K A Stone
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I can't think of any. Iran? North Korea? Pakistan? Has she had any successes?
Romney names Scott Walker his VP in my imagination Post Date: 2012-06-06 07:01:19 by A K A Stone
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The liberal scum of our society wet their diapers last night. With Walkers landslide win over his statist opponent it sends a clear message. Romney should be bold and choose Scott Walker as his VP. The liberals would shit themselves again.
Do Republicans Really Want To Clone One For The Gipper? Post Date: 2012-06-01 12:58:52 by Brian S
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When news broke that a vial of Ronald Reagans blood was being auctioned online, the price quickly jumped to $30,000 as Web sites and blogs explored a tantalizing possibility: Did this mean the late president could be cloned? Before mad scientists got the chance to perform a Dolly-the-Sheep experiment with the 40th president, the seller succumbed to criticism and decided to donate the blood to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. But this should only encourage the cloning speculation because the Gippers DNA is now in the hands of those who would most like to reproduce him: Republicans. Party officials have been making the pilgrimage to the Reagan Library this year to ...
Buchanan: How Bill Kristol Purged The Arabists Post Date: 2012-05-29 13:42:18 by Brian S
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After taping John Stossel's show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol. The Weekly Standard editor seemed cheerful, and we chatted about the surge in Mitt Romney's popularity and prospects. I did not ask what he had been doing in New York, but thanks to the website Mondoweiss, I found out. Kristol was there for a March 16 "debate" with Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street, the pro-Israel organization, at B'nai Jeshurun synagogue on the Upper West Side. After listening to Kristol, writes Phil Weiss, "I am still reeling." "Kristol ...
EDITORIAL: The Not-So-Free State Post Date: 2012-05-24 22:43:43 by We The People
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More taxes and more spending will further depress Marylands economy Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a quarter-billion dollars worth of tax increases into law on Tuesday. The move is meant to keep the states ever-expanding budget on a path toward growth. Growth is the last thing the private-sector economy is going to see in the Free State.According to the latest Labor Department figures, Maryland lost 6,000 jobs in April, the largest such drop in the nation. Unless the General Assembly and the governor begin to rethink their free-spending ways, Maryland soon will be in the fiscal hole like California and Greece.Like a good Democrat, Mr. O'Malley ...
The Bad/Good Idea of Removing Assad Post Date: 2012-05-24 08:46:43 by We The People
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Who could not despise the tottering Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria? The Syrian strongman has killed some 10,000 protestors over the last year; thousands of Syrians are now refugees. The autocracy arms and aids the terrorist organization Hezbollah. It targets democratic Israel with thousands of missiles, and still does its best to ruin neighboring Lebanon. Theocratic and terrorist-sponsoring Iran has few allies -- but Syria remains its staunchest. Almost no country over the last half-century has proved more hostile to the United States than has Syria. With sanctions not working, and with the Chinese, Iranians and Russians not eager to see Assad go, there is lots of talk that the ...
Buchanan: What If Zimmerman Walks Free? Post Date: 2012-05-22 11:48:53 by Brian S
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Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police Trayvon had been acting suspiciously that dark and rainy night, that he had followed Trayvon, been knocked down and battered on the ground, and, fearing for his life, pulled a concealed handgun and shot him. Sanford police and prosecutors concluded that Zimmerman acted in self-defense and had not committed a provable felony. They let him go. A racial firestorm followed. "Blacks are under attack," railed Jesse Jackson. "Killing us is big business." Arriving in Sanford, the reverend dialed it ...
M1 Garand: Our New Service Rifle (Original 1938 Review) Post Date: 2012-05-21 19:36:30 by We The People
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From the August, 1938 issue of American Rifleman By Maj. G.H. Drewry For more than thirty years the Ordnance Department endeavored to obtain a satisfactory semi-automatic or self-loading rifle to replace the bolt action Springfield. These efforts were not confined to the development within the Department. Invitations were extended periodically to gun designers in this country and abroad to submit weapons for test, and tests were made of those received which showed any promise of meeting the specifications prescribed. During this period of thirty odd years many rifles were received and tested. Mechanisms embodying every known principle of operation were represented in the many types ...
Back to Burke Post Date: 2012-05-21 18:18:23 by We The People
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On the occasion of our revamped websites debut, we re-present the editorial that accompanied our new print design in September a restatement of The American Conservatives principles. The biggest loss conservatives suffered in recent years was not the election of Barack Obama in 2008 or the defeat of the last Republican Congress in 2006. It wasnt the passage of the presidents healthcare reform or nearly $1 trillion stimulus package, nor any other legislative setback. Conservatives had already lost something far more basictheir moorings. Edmund Burke was never more eloquent than when denouncing the Penal Laws that circumscribed the ...
Top Dems claim GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama Post Date: 2012-05-21 07:00:03 by CZ82
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Top Dems claim GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama Published: 9:57 AM 05/19/2012 WASHINGTON (AP) Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obamas re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth. The latest Democratic complaint came after House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that when Congress raises the nations borrowing cap in early 2013, he will again insist on big spending cuts to offset the increase. Boehner, R-Ohio, continues to reject higher tax rates, which ...
A Racial Revolution? Post Date: 2012-05-20 12:27:25 by We The People
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Now that census data show -- for the first time in American history -- the number of white babies born exceeded by the number of babies born to non-white minorities the question is: What does this mean for the future of American society? Politically, it means that minorities who traditionally vote overwhelmingly for Democrats can ensure that the country veers ever further to the left over the years, making America more like the welfare states of Europe, whose unsustainable spending led ultimately to finical crises and widespread riots. But this is not strictly a matter of whites versus non-whites. Jews vote consistently, and almost as overwhelmingly, for Democrats as blacks do. Moreover, ...
Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate Post Date: 2012-05-20 08:06:42 by CZ82
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Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate May 18, 2012 by The Godfather If you can control the language, you can control ideas. By controlling ideas, you can control the way people think and act. Before Frank Schaeffer went over to the Dark Side, he had some good things to say about how liberals think and act. His analysis of language is still applicable: Think of the use of labels to categorize political activity. Some labels are used to neutralize the actions of certain groups; others denote being one of us, acceptable. The words right wing, fundamentalist, pro-life, absolutist, and deeply religious, ...
Buchanan: Has The Bell Begun To Toll For The GOP? Post Date: 2012-05-18 12:38:39 by Brian S
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Among the more controversial chapters in "Suicide of a Superpower," my book published last fall, was the one titled, "The End of White America." It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity. That book and chapter proved the proximate cause of my departure from MSNBC, where the network president declared that subjects such as these are inappropriate for "the national dialogue." Apparently, the mainstream media are reassessing that. For, in rare unanimity, The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today all led yesterday with the same story. "Whites ...
Three Generations and Forever Out Post Date: 2012-05-13 13:20:19 by SJN
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Penetrating Commentary on American Social Policy May 9, 2012 Don Felipe Gonzalez entered this curious world in 1927 in Sagrada Familia, a poor section of Guadalajara. It was not a good year to be poor in Mexico, seventeen years after the demise of the Porfiriata and a year into the Cristero war. His father was brutal, below animalic, and beat the family. Food was less abundant than they would have wished. Schools were close to nonexistent, even when they existed, which was seldom. Don Felipe was well positioned to become a useless, drunken, illiterate, bestial, dim, and wasted cabrn y pendejo. http://fredoneverything.net/FeViNa1.JPG Unsung, rode-hard-and-put-away-wet chamipion of ...
The Myth About Marriage [Full Thread] Post Date: 2012-05-13 10:23:43 by lucysmom
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Why do some people who would recognize gay civil unions oppose gay marriage? Certain religious groups want to deny gays the sacredeness of what they take to be a sacrament. But marriage is no sacrament. Some of my fellow Catholics even think that true marriage was instituted by Christ. It wasnt. Marriage is prescribed in Eden by YHWH (Yahweh) at Genesis 2.24: man and wife shall become one flesh. When Jesus is asked about marriage, he simply quotes that passage from Genesis (Mark 10.8). He nowhere claims to be laying a new foundation for a Christian marriage to replace the Yahwist institution. Some try to make the wedding at Cana (John 1.1-11) ...
How Right-Wing Extremists and Islamists Are the Same Post Date: 2012-05-12 19:13:15 by Brian S
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Last weekend, Salafist Muslims and anti-Islam right-wingers faced off in Bonn, and 29 police officers were injured as a result. The two groups appear to be diametrically opposed, but a deeper look reveals they have a great deal in common. The totalitarian worldview has many manifestations. Last Saturday, at around 3 p.m., the enemies stood face to face. They were separated by just a few meters, one police vehicle and hundreds of officers. The facedown was the result of a calculated, staged provocation. "Now, we are going to show the caricatures," said a member of the right-wing populist Pro-NRW group. It was an announcement that resembled a scientific experiment: How an ...
Racial preferences: Unfair and ridiculous Post Date: 2012-05-09 18:08:44 by CZ82
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Racial preferences: Unfair and ridiculous by Michael Barone Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled. Why does the "non-issue" of Harvard Law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry "require so much attention?" he asked last week. When Warren was teaching at Pennsylvania, Texas and Houston law schools, she identified herself as Indian -- or, to be politically correct, Native American. Then she was hired at Harvard and dropped the Native American from her biographical description. Harvard Law today says it has one faculty member of Native American heritage. But it won't ...
Liberals, take a long look in the mirror Post Date: 2012-05-09 10:05:23 by SJN
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Liberals, take a long look in the mirror The evidence shows you're more poorly informed and less tolerant. We've got a vivid picture of the Republicans and conservatives in our midst. They're a sour, dour lot -- close-minded, tight-fisted and intolerant. Some are businesspeople, greedy and self-interested. Others are rednecks, poorly informed, clinging to their guns and religion. If only these folks understood political issues better and cared more about their fellow man, they'd be liberals, right? Think again. A growing body of research is shattering this conventional wisdom. Survey data make clear that Republicans, on average, are better informed than Democrats about ...
Buchanan: Is this the end of 'One Europe'? Post Date: 2012-05-08 11:36:01 by Brian S
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How Europe's crisis resolves itself as yet remains unknown. But with Sunday's returns from France and Greece, the mega-trends on the Old Continent are unmistakable. And for the European Union, they are ominous. Nationalism -- be it economic nationalism or ethnic nationalism -- is ascendant. Transnationalism and multiculturalism are in headlong if not irreversible retreat. The European project is itself imperiled. To be sure, no one should underestimate the commitment of Europe's elites to the vision of One Europe as challenger to the United States. In the capitals and corporate headquarters of the continent, these elites are, almost to a man and woman, devout Europeans. Yet ...
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