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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
Post Date: 2011-11-11 11:01:43 by lucysmom
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I have a confession to make. At first, I misunderstood Occupy Wall Street. The first few times I went down to Zuccotti Park, I came away with mixed feelings. I loved the energy and was amazed by the obvious organic appeal of the movement, the way it was growing on its own. But my initial impression was that it would not be taken very seriously by the Citibanks and Goldman Sachs of the world. You could put 50,000 angry protesters on Wall Street, 100,000 even, and Lloyd Blankfein is probably not going to break a sweat. He knows he's not going to wake up tomorrow and see Cornel West or Richard Trumka running the Federal Reserve. He knows modern finance is a giant mechanical parasite that ...
David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior
Post Date: 2011-11-10 18:34:32 by A K A Stone
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Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago. So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod. Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA). The ...
Monsanto Corporation Gets Owned By 11 Yr Old Boy?
Post Date: 2011-11-10 08:02:38 by A K A Stone
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If Cain wins, the tea party loses
Post Date: 2011-11-09 18:57:56 by We The People
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I’ve been a conservative my entire adult life. During that time, I’ve watched the conservative movement fail. Sure, I’ve seen supposedly limited-government candidates win elections and promise to shrink government. What I haven’t seen is government shrink. Ever. It was the public’s frustration with such never-ending government growth that gave birth to the tea party movement. If you will recall, many liberals initially dismissed the tea party as simply a partisan reaction to President Obama’s election, but it was actually President Bush’s “Troubled Asset Relief Program” that first sparked the movement’s fire. In May 2010, Utah tea party ...
Our Health Care System, Compared
Post Date: 2011-11-08 11:04:42 by lucysmom
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I was looking at OECD health care data for something else I’ve been working on and wanted to share some of it. It’s well known that the United States spends a lot more per person on health care than comparable countries and that our actual health outcomes are anywhere from average to bad. See, for example, this chart from a 2008 paper by Gerard Anderson and Bianca Frogner. That chart shows how each country’s spending and life expectancy differ from what you would expect based solely on how rich they are (per capita GDP). As you can see, we spend a lot more and live a lot less. (That paper also considers a number of other outcome measures; we do well on some, poorly on ...
Top 10 Reasons Freedom4ummers hate Jews
Post Date: 2011-11-08 09:37:33 by A K A Stone
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10. They got beat up by Jews in grade school. 9. Their fathers were nazis and they want to relive their fathers life. 8. Christine will ban them if they stick up for Jews. 7. They are jealous because Jews make more money then they do. 6. They are pro muslim Jihadists. 5. They don't know any better they are just dumb. 4. They want all the Jews dead. 3. They are atheists who hate the Bible. The Bible is the Jew book to them. 2. Because they want to finish what Hitler started. 1. Because they were Gods chosen people to bring his message to the world.
Why Obama’s 2008 Coalition Won’t Save Him This Time
Post Date: 2011-11-08 09:13:41 by A K A Stone
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The latest Gallup report, based on a massive sample of more than 39,000 adults, contains troubling news for Democrats. Individuals identifying with the Democratic Party are a smaller share of the American people than they were early in 2008, and their views are less representative of the people as a whole. This means that the Obama team, which faces the crucial choice of either doubling down on its 2008 winning mix of professionals, young people, and minorities or rebuilding support among Independents in the heartland, should emphasize the latter option. Any general election strategy that relies solely on mobilizing the party’s diminished base will have a hard time forging a majority ...
Column: Occupy Wall Street is anti-Semitic? Oy Vey...
Post Date: 2011-11-06 10:43:18 by lucysmom
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Like most American Jews, my father tends to vote Democratic. Jews have chosen Democrats over Republicans in every presidential race since Woodrow Wilson. But when my dad votes for a Republican, he explains his decision in simple terms: "He's a friend of Israel." Republicans desperately want to win the Jewish vote and the clout it brings with it. So I was not surprised to see Bill Kristol, Fox News commentator and cheerleader for the War in Iraq, had started a right-wing organization called "Emergency Committee for Israel" (as opposed to the "C'est la Vie Committee for Israel"). What did surprise me was the video the group released to uncover the ...
"Obamanites" Attack When They Feel Threatened
Post Date: 2011-11-06 08:46:27 by A K A Stone
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WHAT ISRAEL DOES FOR THE UNITED STATES and MUCH MORE
Post Date: 2011-11-05 23:59:52 by Murron
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WHAT ISRAEL DOES FOR THE UNITED STATES and MUCH MORE Throughout the six decades since the re-establishment of Israel, an often repeated claim in made that “Israel is a draining liability on the United States.” This claim is bogus and an examination of the facts hopefully will consign this charge to the trash-heap where it belongs. Further adding to the problem are statements made by and the conduct of Israel's leftist leaders since 1993 create the false impression that Israeli-American ties constitute a one-way relationship. The impression is given that the U.S. gives and Israel merely receives and thus must constantly bow to “American pressure” as personified by ...
Alfred Adask: We're Not Property of The Government 1/5
Post Date: 2011-11-05 10:12:09 by A K A Stone
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Buchanan: 'Arrivederci, Roma'
Post Date: 2011-11-04 12:36:11 by Brian S
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Will popular democracy bring down the New World Order? A fair question. For Western peoples are growing increasingly reluctant to accept the sacrifices that the elites are imposing upon them to preserve that New World Order. Political support for TARP, to rescue the financial system after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is being held against any Republican candidate who backed it. Germans and Northern Europeans are balking at any more bailouts of Club Med deadbeats. Eighty-one members of David Cameron's party voted against him to demand a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union altogether, the worst Tory revolt ever against the EU. Greek Prime Minister George ...
Steve Keen: Harvard Starts its Own PAECON Against Mankiw
Post Date: 2011-11-04 10:25:22 by lucysmom
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Several correspondents have just told me that some of Greg Mankiw’s students at Harvard are staging a walkout from his first year class. They’ve written an open letter to Mankiw to explain why: An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw I applaud them for this move. Mankiw’s various economics texts are among the most simplistic of the many neoclassical textbooks that parade this flawed paradigm as a flawless jewel of human reasoning. I’m delighted that his students have taken the rebellion against this paradigm to one of its key promulgators. I did likewise forty years ago–against far less well-known advocates of neoclassicism. At the time, I probably knew as much as these ...
Tony Blair And Obama Meet / Thiland / Syria / NATO/ Money
Post Date: 2011-11-03 21:33:45 by A K A Stone
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Theologian Paul Begley of Indiana runs down the news as the middle east peace process, Blair and Obama meeting, Syria's Assad and more.....
Occupy the Koch Brothers - and Stop the American Nightmare
Post Date: 2011-11-03 19:09:37 by Brian S
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The very name of a Washington conservative conference this weekend is the height of subterfuge. It's called the "Defending the American Dream" conference, which is not about defending the actual American dreams of most Americans (the focus of our own "Take Back the American Dream" conference), sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, which is not an organization that promotes what is needed for broad American prosperity. This actually is the latest effort by the billionaire Koch brothers, founders and key funders of Americans for Prosperity, and their corporate and political allies to hijack our democracy and pillage our economy. It's their attempt to perpetuate ...
How Playing the Race Card Backfired on the Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-11-03 15:51:09 by Brian S
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This is a moment of cognitive dissonance for Tea Party voters. Assume the mindset of a Rush Limbaugh listener. You like Herman Cain. For weeks, you've heard on the radio about how he's a successful businessman, how unlike liberals he hates it when people play the race card. Last you heard the show, Rush was explaining how the liberal media is targeting him because he's black. Another hi-tech lynching, just like Clarence Thomas, is the explanation you got. The next day you're on the web. Cain himself says that although he can't prove it, racism probably played a role in whoever spread these stories about him. Damn those dirty liberals, you think.Of course, you might not ...
Informal Republican Poll For President [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-11-01 21:59:49 by A K A Stone
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Ok it is election morning. Pretend. Who you voting for? Jon Huntsman Rick Santorum Michelle Bachman Ron Paul Mitt Romney Rick Perry Herman Cain Newt Gingrich Gary Johnson Buddy Roemer
Bill Clinton Allegedly Raped a Woman, Herman Cain didn't!
Post Date: 2011-11-01 13:42:58 by A K A Stone
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Bill Clinton was said to have committed rape. Herman Cain never raped no woman. Bill Clinton should have been put in jail. Herman Cain is qualified to be president.
Buchanan: The Coming Church-State Wars
Post Date: 2011-11-01 11:37:41 by Brian S
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Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed. After a nanosecond I replied, "Kick 'em out!" Let them go to George Washington, the university on the other side of town. Indeed, had Muslim students shown so little loyalty to a school that welcomed them, and of whose Catholicism they were aware when they entered, expulsion would have been justified. Looking further into the matter, that was a rush to judgment. For it ...
Trashy Michelle Obama Plans To Go On Attack
Post Date: 2011-10-31 19:24:18 by A K A Stone
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Michelle’s back, and she’s madder than ever. She was already pretty angry, seemingly unhappy with just about everything. As her husband wrapped up the Democratic nomination in 2008, she let fly her real feelings: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country.” A few months into her job as first lady, her French counterpart asked how she liked the gig: “Don’t ask!” she reportedly spat. “It’s hell. I can’t stand it!” She even seems to be mad at her silver-tongued husband. When the two were to set off on a luxurious 10-day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, she left early - four hours early - and flew up ...
I AM NOT MOVING - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street
Post Date: 2011-10-30 15:31:12 by Ferret Mike
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Date Only Teachable Negroes - Lay A Patch 4 The Rest
Post Date: 2011-10-30 14:12:54 by Ferret Mike
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Buchanan: The Conquest of the West
Post Date: 2011-10-28 19:26:01 by Brian S
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On Oct. 31, the U.N. Population Fund marks the arrival of the 7 billionth person on Earth and raises the population estimate for the planet at mid-century to 9.3 billion people. There is a possibility, says the United Nations, that, by century's end, world population may reach 15 billion. What does this mean for Western civilization? It may not matter, except to identify who inherits the estate. For while world population is exploding, Western peoples are dying. Not a single European nation, except Muslim Albania, has a birth rate that will enable it to replace its present population. By mid-century, Western man will be down to 12 percent of world population. By century's end, he ...
The Obama Miracle, a White House Free of Scandal
Post Date: 2011-10-28 11:11:03 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that may doom his reelection. But he has one asset that hasn’t received much attention: He’s honest. The sight of Texas Governor Rick Perry tumbling out of the clown car recently as a “birther” (or at least a birther- enabler) is a sign of weakness, not just for the Perry campaign but for the whole Republican effort to tarnish the president’s character. Although it’s possible that the Solyndra LLC story will become a classic feeding frenzy, don’t bet on it. Providing $535 million in loan guarantees to a solar-panel maker that goes bankrupt was dumb, but so far not criminal or even unethical ...
Who Isn’t Obama Lying To?
Post Date: 2011-10-28 06:37:29 by CZ82
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Who Isn’t Obama Lying To? If you placed all of Obama’s lies end to end they would probably stretch around the world. And what I don’t understand is still how many people worship the man. In yet another typical Obama hypocrisy, Obama hired long time Wall Street lobbyist Broderick Johnson as his new senior campaign advisor. For the past month, Obama has openly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and joined them in pointing the finger at Wall Street and the banking elite. Yet, in another move that defies logic, the very elite that are being blamed for our economic woes are among some of the largest contributors to Obama’s re-election campaign. So now Obama stands ...
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