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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Obama's not weak, but channels bizarre form of FDR
Post Date: 2011-08-05 11:30:01 by Skip Intro
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Barack Obama is lots of things - eloquent, dissembling, conniving, intelligent and calm. But one thing he is not is weak. This basic truth is belied by the Obama criticism you occasionally hear from liberal pundits. They usually stipulate that the president genuinely wants to enact a progressive agenda, but they gently reprimand him for failing to muster the necessary personal mettle to achieve that goal. This story line is a logical fallacy. Most agree that today's imperial presidency almost singularly determines the course of national politics. Additionally, most agree that Obama is a brilliant guy who understands how to wield political power. Considering this, it is silly to ...
Palin Calls House Debt Vote a (Qualified) Victory for Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-08-03 21:16:12 by We The People
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Monday’s House vote to lift the debt ceiling was a victory for the tea party, proving that conservative activists had shifted the conversation in Washington. “We shall take this victory and make sure our politicians in office today are learning from this victory,” Ms. Palin said Monday night on Fox News, where she is a paid contributor. “It’s not a 100% pure genuine victory. We just handed the most liberal president, I believe, in U.S. history a $2.4 billion debt increase.” Many Republicans have said the GOP should be satisfied it got a Democratic president to accept a debt-reduction deal that is all spending cuts and no ...
Zionists Pessimistic Impacts on U.S. Economy
Post Date: 2011-08-03 17:00:36 by Brian S
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On August 2,2011, President Obama finally signed the bill of raising the government’s debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from its spending and time benignly avoided a first-ever government default. Earlier on the same day the Senate has passed the same bill with the vote of 74 to 26. The bill will facilitate American government in taking measures which would provide an immediate $400 billion increase in the $14.3 trillion U.S. borrowing cap, with $500 billion more assured this fall. That $900 billion would be matched by cuts to agency budgets over the next 10 years. However, according to forecasts from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in May, the US ...
Tea Party’s War on America
Post Date: 2011-08-02 16:47:16 by Brian S
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You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took. Like ideologues everywhere, they scorned compromise. When John Boehner, the House speaker, tried to cut a deal with President Obama that included ...
Pork? That? What Do You Mean?
Post Date: 2011-08-02 13:08:15 by Brian S
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The road to Washington is paved with broken campaign promises. But few are so rich in hypocrisy as those of House Republican freshmen caught engineering hometown pork even as they vow to slash the federal budget for the supposed good of the nation. In March, just months after being sworn in, 22 of them plumped for more military spending in their districts than President Obama requested. Representative Steven Palazzo, of Mississippi, who campaigned fiercely against earmarks, voted to slash military spending and then voted for an amendment to quietly restore the same money, including $150 million for a warship to be built in his district. Pork? Earmark? No, he insists, saying he merely ...
Welcome to the Tea Party's Austerity Recession
Post Date: 2011-08-02 12:25:15 by Brian S
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On Monday, the House finally passed a deal to raise the debt limit after weeks of wrangling with a cadre of reactionary, Tea Party-endorsed lawmakers. The measure, which will force some serious cuts to public spending, is expected to easily pass in the Senate. When it does, a painful second "dip" into recession becomes far more likely -- all the conditions are there. Last week, a depressing report on economic growth caught many observers by surprise. The take-away was that gross domestic product (GDP) – the measure of economic activity within our borders – has been growing at a snail's pace in the first half of this year -- far slower than analysts ...
Norway’s ‘Christian’ Killer
Post Date: 2011-08-02 12:02:55 by Brian S
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By Gary G. Kohls Newspaper reports have provided intensive coverage of the horrific details of the mass murderer in Norway, with pictures and multiple interviews of the survivors and witnesses of the massacre of 80 or more defenseless adolescents at a summer camp for left-wing Labor Party youth. The reports indicated that scores of young people had been methodically stalked and shot to death by a 32-year old (politically and theologically) professed Conservative Christian named Anders Breivik – a nationalist, a racist and a pro-violence xenophobe. Breivik was a loner whose diplomat father divorced his mother when he was an infant and had very little to do with him after that. Breivik ...
Open Letter: Why I Oppose the Debt Ceiling Compromise (Adds 7 Trillion to debt)
Post Date: 2011-08-02 11:41:02 by Hondo68
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Sen. Rand Paul issued an open letter on the subject of the debt ceiling compromise facing the Senate. Below is that letter. To paraphrase Senator Jim DeMint: When you're speeding toward the edge of a cliff, you don't set the cruise control. You stop the car. The current deal to raise the debt ceiling doesn't stop us from going over the fiscal cliff. At best, it slows us from going over it at 80 mph to going over it at 60 mph. This plan never balances. The President called for a "balanced approach." But the American people are calling for a balanced budget. This deal does nothing to fix the overreaches of both parties over ...
View: Debt-Ceiling Deal is an Alarming Bipartisan Mess
Post Date: 2011-08-02 11:00:25 by Brian S
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The deal reached by the U.S. Congress to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling has spared the nation an immediate catastrophe while potentially setting a path for longer-term disasters. Financial markets’ initial euphoria over the deal faded quickly. The S&P 500 index of U.S. stocks declined for the sixth day in a row, losing 0.4 percent Monday to close at 1,286.94. The dollar gained against the euro and the yen but declined to a record low against the Swiss franc. The markets’ response underscores an unfortunate reality: While the government may have averted a self-inflicted disaster, it hasn’t solved fundamental problems and appears to have created new ones. What the ...
De-Zionification Now
Post Date: 2011-08-01 19:53:25 by Brian S
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by Gilad Atzmon / August 1st, 2011 It (immigration) was a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country (Britain). It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language and traditions. – Melanie Phillips, as quoted by mass murderer, Anders Breivik, in his manifesto Melanie Phillips, a Zionist and the author of Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within is not happy to be singled out by Andres Breivik in his 1500-page manuscript. Are they suggesting that “my writing provoked the mass murder of some 93 Norwegians?” she ...
World Should Boycott Israeli Companies
Post Date: 2011-07-31 12:47:33 by Brian S
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Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Balad) has called on the world to boycott all Israeli companies that help perpetuate the “injustices” of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, in an op-ed published in the New York Times earlier this week. Tibi wrote the op-ed as a direct response to the Knesset's recent approval of the boycott law forbidding individuals or organizations from publicly calling for a boycott against Israel or the settlements under its control. In the op-ed, Tibi declared that his support for the right to boycott stems from his belief in ending the “Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory”, in granting “equal rights for Palestinians and Jews”, and ...
Yukon Is The Biggest Asshole on the Internet. If I met him I would kick his piece of shit ass! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-07-31 10:13:10 by A K A Stone
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The pigs killed this man right here.
Here are some comments by the piece of shit who goes by the name Yukon online.
What percentage is that of the 800,000 plus LEOs nationwide, criminal apologist and CT freak??
yukon posted on 2011-07-30 19:56:42 ET Reply Trace
Another isolated incident...
In a population of 300,000,000 plus, yes. It happened over three weeks ago.
yukon posted on 2011-07-28
Yes fatso. If it were such a routine occurrence as you agenda driven dishonorable assholes claim, you should be able to be more current. How much time have you served, criminal apologist? Did you have your plumbing rearranged while you were incarcerated, fatso? You sure know alot ...
The Tea Party Taliban
Post Date: 2011-07-30 12:44:06 by Brian S
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Ten years ago, the Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed two gigantic figures of Buddha, carved into a hillside 18 centuries before. The world was aghast at this barbarian act taken in the name of religious purity. But was powerless to stop it. We now have a group of U.S. politicians seeking political purity, who seem to have much in common with the Taliban. They are tea party members; and because of blind adherence to smaller government, they seem intent on risking destroying what American political leaders have constructed in more than two centuries of hard, often painful work. Like the Taliban, they see compromise as an unacceptable alternative. As part of the House Republican majority, ...
Requirement to Vote: Pay Income Taxes
Post Date: 2011-07-30 07:55:33 by CZ82
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Requirement to Vote: Pay Income Taxes President Obama and other Democrats have called paying higher income taxes the Patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. We can only assume that this means paying any income tax is a Patriotic thing to do and therefore essential to the American way. Let me make a proposal to those elected leaders who believe paying taxes, and especially more taxes, is a very Patriotic thing. Let us come together in a bipartisan way and compromise. Liberals love their taxes. Go ahead. Raise those income tax rates as high as you want on the those you consider wealthy. I will argue though that someone making $250,000 even without taxes deducted cannot afford a ...
Is America Caught In The Closed Mind Trap?
Post Date: 2011-07-29 16:59:21 by Capitalist Eric
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A reader responded to my recent column about how the US president was becoming a Caesar with a question: “Wouldn’t a Caesar be preferable to a democracy in which the people are too ignorant, disinterested, and stupid to engage in self-government?” Before I became a widely read columnist with many reader responses, I would have disagreed with the reader’s characterization of the American people. Today, I cannot answer the reader’s question with a “no” as confidently as I would like. I receive appreciative words from many readers who are well aware of what is going on. I also hear from many who are so partisan and have such strong emotional responses that ...
Annihilating Democracy With The Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-07-29 15:36:19 by Brian S
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Democracy depends on compromise and the American government depends on all branches working together. The Tea Party movement shuns both, preferring instead to drive the state into bankruptcy. On principle. America's Founding Fathers thought of everything. They wanted to establish several centers of power in Washington rather than just one. They wanted the occupant of the White House to be strong, but Congress was to have the power to check that strength. The friction between Capitol Hill and the White House -- a product of this system of checks and balances -- was to make the decisions of America's leaders cleverer, wiser and better. But the system only works when all branches of ...
Republicans’ Debt Ceiling Charade Is Downright Dangerous (Cut the Crap Act)
Post Date: 2011-07-29 08:10:14 by go65
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Let us not put too fine a point on it: Thursday’s House vote on Speaker John Boehner’s debt ceiling proposal is a joke. If it passes the House, Harry Reid has said it is dead on arrival in the Senate. If it somehow passes the Senate, which it won’t, President Obama will veto it. It is, therefore, a symbolic act that is wasting precious time. It follows last week’s Republican theatrics, the passage of the Cut and Demolish Act (or whatever they called it), which also was a waste of time. These are the actions of a party that has completely lost track of reality–and of a leader, John Boehner, who has lost the support of his party. And so I have a proposal: the Cut the ...
If the Government Defaults
Post Date: 2011-07-28 19:27:58 by A K A Stone
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I was just wondering. If the government defaults on its spending binge. How will it effect the posters on this site? Tell us how it specifically would effect you or if you think it wouldn't directly effect you.
Why the GOP Aims to Sink the Economy [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-07-28 19:18:08 by Brian S
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"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain ~ If our economy was the RMS Titanic, Republicans would be like an ambitious first mate, so eager to seize power from the captain that he steers the ship of state into an iceberg, thinking he'll take over when the captain goes down with the ship. Republicans have forgotten — or no longer care — they're on the boat too, and they're working very hard to ensure that the country will be nearly ungovernable should they succeed in seizing the reins of government. If it seems like the White House is arranging deck chairs on the Titanic, the GOP is ...
America Held Hostage To Two-Party Failure: Government Of, By And For The Corporations
Post Date: 2011-07-28 19:16:33 by Brian S
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Washington rhetoric waxes Orwellian in proportion to inside-the-Beltway disconnect around cause and effect of the US economic crisis. Ranging from the Ryan Budget - "kill Medicare to save it" - and some Democrats - "cut Medicare and Social Security to save them" - to claims that deficit reduction (not jobs) is "what the people want," to the "greed is good" creed that assigns entitlements in the form of taxpayer bailouts to wealthy financial institutions that take for granted the ability to shift risk for their liar's loans and speculative transactions. "Austerity" and "shared sacrifice" are Washington code for preserving tax ...
HUFFINGTON POST: The Ideological Roots of Christian Terrorism
Post Date: 2011-07-28 19:03:52 by Brian S
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Anders Behring Breivik borrowed Timothy McVeigh's strategy to blow up a public building, but he outdid McVeigh by gunning down dozens of young people at a camp after the explosion. Both were young white Christian men who wanted to provoke a cosmic war to save Christendom and rescue society from multicultural religious pluralism. Both were Christian terrorists, or "crusaders" in ancient terms.
Journalist Roger Cohen noted that Breivik actually attended a 2002 meeting to reconstitute the 12th century Knights Templar, a crusading military order. In his manifesto, Breivik believed that the "Marxist-Islamic alliance ... [would] annihilate European Christendom," unless God, he prayed, would ...
Fateful Fruits Of Egyptian Revolution In Sight/ Zionist Regime Declining
Post Date: 2011-07-28 19:02:15 by Brian S
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Chairman of the Egyptian Amal party told that the current developments in the Middle East was a fruit of the great Egyptian revolution and that more fateful outcomes of the revolution will follow the coming to power of a democratic government in the country. Majdi Hussein described the collapse of Husni Mubarak dictatorship as a strategic loss for the Zionist regime, adding that the Egyptian revolution has left large effects on the future of Egypt, the world of Islam and the Palestinian issue. The political figure said the Egyptians were still in the early stages of their revolution and the revolution would bear its genuine fruits when the true representatives of the nation are coming to ...
Beware of Extremists Who Embrace Israel
Post Date: 2011-07-28 13:25:08 by Brian S
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Washington — Jews and Israel should be wary of anti-Muslim extremists who claim to embrace Israel and Zionism, Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman said. Foxman e-mailed his comments to JTA in the wake of reports that Anders Behrin Breivik, the alleged gunman in last week’s massacre that killed 76 in Norway, counseled an anti-Muslim alliance between white Europeans and Israel. “Jews, Israelis and supporters of Israel must beware, must be careful, and cannot ignore or embrace those bigots who so much hate Muslims and Islam that they pretend to support Israel, Zionism and even Jews,’ Foxman said. “Likewise, those bigots and haters cannot immunize ...
Liberals vs the 10 commandments
Post Date: 2011-07-28 11:08:23 by A K A Stone
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I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Liberals don't believe this. They think it is a fairy tale. Thou shalt have none other gods before me. Liberals don't have Gods. They worship man and the government. They put government way before God. Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Liberals hate these words. They even applauded a pervert who put christ in a jar or urine and called it art. Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting ...
Michele Bachmann's Views, Not Her Headaches, Make Her Unfit
Post Date: 2011-07-26 12:36:36 by Brian S
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There is no doubt that Michele Bachmann gives many of us a headache. But to attack her, as Tim Pawlenty has done in such a sexist way, as unfit to be president because of migraines is absurd. Many of our presidents have had health problems much more serious than headaches—Roosevelt, Kennedy, Taft, to name a few. The problem with Michele Bachmann is not her migraines, it’s what is in her head. It’s her ideas that matter. Just as Republicans who pay attention to politics were terrified of a possible Sarah Palin nomination, they are equally petrified that Bachmann might catch on in Iowa, South Carolina, and among the Tea Party wing. Could she, in fact, squeak by and actually ...
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