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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Rand Paul: 2012's Barack Obama?
Post Date: 2011-04-05 22:25:39 by A K A Stone
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For the most part, republicans choose their presidential candidates based on who's turn they think it is. I've been espousing this for years. 2012 I figured was Mitt Romney's year because it's his turn. Sadly for Mitt, a monkey wrench by the name of Rand Paul may be what derails his march and eventual landslide loss to President Obama in 2012. Just like President Obama, Rand is a first term senator with limited national experience. Also, Rand knows what his audience wants to hear and gives it to them. The mantra of freedom and low taxes and less government with no explanation as to how to achieve all this while maintaining infrastructure and national defense and safe ...
Marxism of the Right
Post Date: 2011-04-04 12:28:35 by lucysmom
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Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual freedom should be the sole rule of ethics and government. Libertarianism offers its believers a clear conscience to do things society presently restrains, like make more money, have more sex, or take more drugs. It promises a consistent formula for ethics, a rigorous framework for policy analysis, a foundation in American history, and the application of capitalist efficiencies to the whole of society. But while it contains substantial grains of truth, as a whole it is a seductive mistake. There are many varieties of ...
12 Biggest Lies
Post Date: 2011-03-30 17:34:08 by CZ82
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12 Biggest Lies Every person on the planet walks around with opinions based on what they think they know, and those opinions direct how all of us act and react. But very few ever question the substance that forms those crucial opinions. From the very nature of truth to how our world began, from morality to religion, from population control to political correctness, from Israel to Islam, from atheism to God … our entire world runs on what we believe. Follow popular actor Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Andromeda, Soul Surfer) as he introduces some of the world’s leading scientists, historians, theologians, philosophers and authors, including Ravi Zacharias, Michael Coren, Richard Fangrad, ...
STRATFOR: The Libyan War of 2011
Post Date: 2011-03-22 09:04:23 by A K A Stone
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The Libyan war has now begun. It pits a coalition of European powers plus the United States, a handful of Arab states and rebels in Libya against the Libyan government. The long-term goal, unspoken but well understood, is regime change — displacing the government of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and replacing it with a new regime built around the rebels. The mission is clearer than the strategy, and that strategy can’t be figured out from the first moves. The strategy might be the imposition of a no-fly zone, the imposition of a no-fly zone and attacks against Libya’s command-and-control centers, or these two plus direct ground attacks on Gadhafi’s forces. These could ...
7 Questions For Liberals About Obama's Libyan War
Post Date: 2011-03-22 08:39:57 by A K A Stone
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It seems like it was just yesterday when we had an "imperialist warmonger" in the White House who was going to be replaced by a peace-loving Democrat who promised "hope" and "change" instead. It's funny how that worked out, isn't it? We still have troops in Iraq, we've escalated the war in Afghanistan, and now we're bombing everything that moves in Libya. Yet, the same liberals who were protesting in the streets and calling George Bush a war criminal have mostly been meek and quiet about the fact that the President they supported has been following in George Bush's footsteps. So, the obvious question is, “Did you lefties believe ANY of ...
World War III: One Nation at a Time
Post Date: 2011-03-19 18:49:21 by A K A Stone
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The globalists are infiltrating, corrupting, and turning the entire planet, one nation at a time in a combined scientific-geopolitical dictatorship that will be effectively impossible to reverse once it is completed. The latest Western-fueled conflagration in the Arab world indicates an accelerated regional strategy of destabilizing and taking over target nations. Nations like Russia and China, whose interests are being directly threatened and stripped away in this malicious melee, appear powerless and unprepared. Some nations succumb in silence behind the scenes, others are invaded, mercilessly brutalized, and assimilated into the globalist combine. The civil society overlay the ...
The Fukushima crisis should not spell the end of nuclear power.
Post Date: 2011-03-16 14:29:48 by go65
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The nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan is bad enough; the nuclear disaster unfolding in China could be even worse. “What disaster?”, you ask. The decision today by the Chinese government to suspend approval of new atomic power plants. If this suspension were to become permanent, the power those plants would have produced is likely to be replaced by burning coal. While nuclear causes calamities when it goes wrong, coal causes calamities when it goes right, and coal goes right a lot more often than nuclear goes wrong. The only safe coal-fired plant is one which has broken down past the point of repair. Before I go any further, and I’m misinterpreted for the thousandth time, ...
Egypt's ElBaradei: Con-man in Chief?
Post Date: 2011-03-16 11:34:15 by A K A Stone
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Mohamed ElBaradei: currently sitting on the US foreign policy think-tank International Crisis Group alongside George Soros and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Mohamed ElBaradei has recently announced he will be running for president in a move that should surprise no one. For nearly a year the corporate owned media has been building up ElBaradei, portraying him as the great hope for Egypt. Foreign Affairs magazine, in March 2010, literally printed an article titled, "Is ElBaradei Egypt's Hero?" With Mubarak now out of office the corporate owned media circus has left town, but the globalist take-over in Egypt is just warming up. US International Crisis Group trustee Mohamed ElBaradei has ...
Obama ducking deficit debate
Post Date: 2011-03-14 23:23:28 by A K A Stone
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When President Barack Obama opened the first meeting of his fiscal commission last April, he promised to be “standing with them” as they produced recommendations for curbing the nation’s escalating debt. Republicans and Democrats say they are still waiting. While Obama has said he’s committed to deficit reduction, he has also has made clear it is secondary, at least for now, to his “winning the future” agenda. And that reflects a strategy driven by what his senior aides believe voters care about most — jobs, not deficits. Obama’s reluctance to join the debate in a sustained way has provoked rising frustration among lawmakers from both parties, who ...
Bon Jovi: Steve Jobs Killed Music Industry
Post Date: 2011-03-14 22:32:21 by A K A Stone
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Bon Jovi's lead singer blames Steve Jobs and iTunes for killing the music business. Musician Jon Bon Jovi has taken a personal shot at Steve Jobs, accusing the Apple co-founder of killing the music industry with the launch of iTunes. As the lead singer of one of the 80s' biggest hair bands, Jon Bon Jovi's voice brought millions to the band with "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Wanted Dead or Alive." But now his voice echoes previous comments made by other musicians, record companies and retailers who have taken a blow to the wallet thanks to the decline of physical CD sales, whether it's related to piracy or the shift over to digital distribution. In an ...
Conservatives are right to go after Sarah Palin
Post Date: 2011-03-14 22:17:49 by Ferret Mike
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I’m no conservative. And I'm certainly no intellectual. But I totally understand the freakout among conservative intellectuals over Sarah Palin. For a movement based on ideas, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee who sits astride the party as a powerhouse fundraiser and potential king- or queenmaker has been uninterested in setting forth a vision crafted after years of thorough study to match her outsized influence. The Atlantic’s Joshua Green wags his finger at those worry-wart Republicans: “It's not hard to understand what these conservative intellectuals are trying to accomplish,” he writes, “They genuinely believe ...
Putting an end to Wall Street's 'I'll be gone, you'll be gone' bonuses
Post Date: 2011-03-13 18:41:33 by The Blue Cat
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Want to reform Wall Street bonuses? Try clawbacks. That's right. We need to make executives personally liable for their reckless bets if we want to remove the risk for taxpayers. That means giving shareholders, boards of directors and regulators the ability to "clawback" past gains when new speculations go horribly wrong. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Securities and Exchange Commission have floated proposals on performance-based compensation for traders and bankers. Firms that have more than $1 billion in assets would have to disclose incentive-based bonuses. The largest firms (those with more than $50 billion in assets) would have to pay at least half of their ...
Andrew Klavan: Shut Up.
Post Date: 2011-03-12 17:01:57 by Ignore Amos
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Poster Comment:I don't agree with this guy 100 percent - I'm more a Pat Buchanan paleo-con type. But he's interesting, nonetheless. And given some of the rants of the more insane among us here at LF, his observations are timely.
Before Able Danger and Mohamed Atta, There Was Murrah Building Bombing and Hussain Al-Hussaini; Journalist Uncovers OKC Links to 9/11
Post Date: 2011-03-10 21:42:31 by A K A Stone
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Captain Ed notes the Pentagon's decision yesterday to bar several military officials and intelligence analysts from testifying today before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing investigating whether the Able Danger program identified Mohamed Atta months before the 9/11 attacks. The Pentagon's decision to keep the witnesses silent "only demonstrates that the program found something that the Pentagon still wants hidden," according to the Captain. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter is less unconcerned about the Pentagon's action, saying his panel has already established the credibility of other witnesses who will testify at the hearing. Before anybody ...
Is Wisconsin the Real Republican Waterloo? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-03-10 13:43:39 by go65
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After the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, conservative writer David Frum called the passage of the bill the GOP’s “Waterloo” referencing Napoleon Bonaparte’s crushing defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington. This earned him the ire of his fellow conservatives and pushed him further outside the conservative movement. But David was wrong. If anything, the healthcare reform victory was the GOP’s Siege of Acre. Wisconsin is shaping up to be the real Waterloo. And not just Wisconsin, but also Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Florida, and the rest of the over- reaching state Republicans. Governors like Scott Walker, Rick Scott, and Jan Brewer are riding ...
Obama Calling Tea Party Racist Reveals A Far More Disturbing Reality
Post Date: 2011-03-10 09:07:46 by A K A Stone
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Please consider the validity of what I am about to say rather than having a knee jerk reaction dismissing it as being "over the top." Folks, we have an irresponsible egocentric evil man occupying the Oval Office. The Democrats and the liberal mainstream media sold the American people on Obama, "the man." Despite Obama's zero experience at running anything, they said a leader with his spirit and heart was "what we have been waiting for". Fearful of criticizing our first black president, politicians politely say, "President Obama's policies have been unfruitful," while ignoring the huge elephant in America's living room. The elephant of ...
Why I'm Fighting in Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-03-10 08:41:30 by A K A Stone
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In 2010, Megan Sampson was named an Outstanding First Year Teacher in Wisconsin. A week later, she got a layoff notice from the Milwaukee Public Schools. Why would one of the best new teachers in the state be one of the first let go? Because her collective-bargaining contract requires staffing decisions to be made based on seniority. Ms. Sampson got a layoff notice because the union leadership would not accept reasonable changes to their contract. Instead, they hid behind a collective-bargaining agreement that costs the taxpayers $101,091 per year for each teacher, protects a 0% contribution for health-insurance premiums, and forces schools to hire and fire based on seniority and union ...
Sarah Palin: Could She Run as an Independent or Third Party Candidate?
Post Date: 2011-03-10 08:37:18 by A K A Stone
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Sarah Palin talks a lot about the tea party. On Fox News last week, she said, "I find inspiration in tea party patriots [and] those with common sense who aren't playing a lot of games." She could be considered the tea party's godmother. With her Sarah PAC and support for 2010 tea party candidates, Palin has generated a lot of good will, not to mention publicity, for a movement that began only two years ago. She also isn't afraid to attack popular Republicans such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Further proof that Palin isn't always a GOP team player: She is skipping the first GOP primary debate on May 2 to give a keynote address, "Tribute to the Troops ...
Wearing a Mask Of Tea & Freedom Third Reich Values Slink Into America
Post Date: 2011-03-09 22:45:11 by The Blue Cat
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From the example of Scott Walker in Wisconsin, we can see clearly what we’re going to end up with if the Republicans are in charge: a return to the Articles of Confederation’s ineffective federal government and a bunch of petty little banana republic(an) despots owned by corporate interests, ignoring the law, running their states like private enrichment schemes and pretty much doing whatever they want in contravention of morality and decency and all accepted standards of proper conduct for elected officials. There’s your Republican model of the future. We’ve seen this before: from 1933-1945. The National Socialist Party, like the Republican, was in league with ...
We Can't Drill Our Way Out of High Gas Prices
Post Date: 2011-03-09 22:29:29 by go65
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As the price of oil soars above $100 a barrel, Americans are experiencing sticker shock at the pump and economists are concerned about our fledgling economic recovery. Solutions exist that can get us off the oil market roller coaster, but they won't be found in more domestic oil fields. No matter how vocal the drilling supporters become, they still won't be able to address America's acute vulnerability to the whims of the global oil market. Click for Full Text!
Three Reasons Why the Senate Just Made a 95-5 Mistake on the Patent Bill
Post Date: 2011-03-09 22:03:08 by A K A Stone
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'm amazed that the US Senate just voted 95-5 to destroy our patent system and, arguably, unconstitutionally undermine one the pillars of our nation's past two centuries of unparalleled prosperity. Despite big opposition from Silicon Valley, the Senate just voted 95-5 to overhaul the US Patent filing system, which has been at the core of America's lead in innovation and technology since our founding. The bill the Senate just passed will change our patent award system from a first-invented to a first-filed, which will put America "on par" with the rest of the world, so far as I know. The problem with this is that in the rest of the world, inventors get screwed. Their ...
Charlie Sheen's heroic stand against the tyrannical therapy police
Post Date: 2011-03-08 16:48:10 by Capitalist Eric
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Charlie Sheen talks to ABC news in LA (Photo: Reuters) Charlie Sheen is my hero. Not because he goes on five-day benders, takes binbags of drugs and cavorts with ladies of the night. That would be recklessly self-indulgent behaviour in anyone over the age of 21, never mind in a 45-year-old actor with a primetime TV job and a wife and children at home. No, he’s my hero because he refuses to allow his behaviour to be psychologised. He refuses to genuflect before the Oprahite altar of psychobabble and blame his antics on his “inner demons”. Instead he’s fighting like a terrier against experts’ attempts to brand him as “disordered” and in the process has made ...
What Was Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. THINKING?
Post Date: 2011-03-07 21:08:05 by A K A Stone
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Good grief, what was USA House of Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., (D/IL) THINKING when he came up with this silly idea about fixing unemployment by changing the USA Constitution to allow every kid to get an iPod and a laptop. This is beyond being laughable, it is just downright STUPID. It is nonsense like this why the Democrats in the USA House got their clocks cleaned out this past November. The USA Constitution is not a document that can be changed on a whim. Cannot Rep. Jackson Jr. GET THAT? With MANY THANKS to both NakedEmperorNews1 and YouTube. Watch Video Here
NUGENT: Multicultural rot in the melting pot
Post Date: 2011-03-07 21:01:22 by A K A Stone
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Europeans are finally awakening from their self-imposed Rumpelstiltskin deep slumber to discover that multiculturalism is actually cultural rot and is ripping their countries apart. From the United Kingdom to France to Spain to Germany, leaders or former leaders have decried multiculturalism as a poisonous experiment for their nations. What’s next - is Europe going to rediscover that the Earth is not flat? You have to wonder how these leaders ever could have signed on to encouraging Muslims to lead separate lives and not to assimilate in the first place. Pardon me, but even a venison-fueled guitar slayer knows that playing politically correct games always leads to death, destruction ...
Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012
Post Date: 2011-03-06 11:25:42 by go65
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If pessimism is not creeping on little cat's feet into Republicans' thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle, must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party. The most recent vibrator is Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who won the 2008 Republican caucuses in Iowa and reached that year's national convention with more delegates than Mitt Romney, and who might run again. Huckabee, now a Fox News host, was ...
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