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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
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 ...
Fox News' Mike Huckabee: Won't someone cast him in a remake of 'Face in the Crowd?'
Post Date: 2011-03-04 22:44:23 by Skip Intro
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If you've never seen Elia Kazan's riveting 1957 film, "A Face in the Crowd," you should make time soon. It's more timely than ever. The film, written by Budd Schulberg, is about Larry (Lonesome) Rhodes, a hobo turned country singer whose folksy humor and personal charm helps catapult him to TV stardom and national political influence. The movie is a cautionary tale about how, in America, cynics use idealism to promote their own personal agenda, which should already look pretty familiar to anyone who spends any time watching Fox News. If any current political figure bears a striking resemblance to "Face in the Crowd's" Rhodes, it's Mike Huckabee, the ...
Thomas Friedman and the Great Man Theory of History
Post Date: 2011-03-03 21:43:01 by jwpegler
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Thomas Friedman recently wrote an article stating that Obama's racial make-up and religious ancestry are the root causes of the turmoil in the Middle east today. According to Friedman, people have decided to fight their governments because Obama is black and his father was Muslim. Here is what Friedman actually wrote: Americans have never fully appreciated what a radical thing we did — in the eyes of the rest of the world — in electing an African-American with the middle name Hussein as president. I’m convinced that listening to Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech — not the words, but the man — were more than a few young Arabs who were saying to themselves: ...
Rolling Stone Gets Alex Jones Wrong
Post Date: 2011-03-03 18:07:58 by A K A Stone
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Rolling Stone has a new piece on radio host/patriot Alex Jones, casting him as a paranoid, fringe conspiracy theorist who attracts lunatics in Hollywood and across the land. It is not a total hit job, though. Alex gets to speak his mind, and the writer lays out the history of Alex’s rise into the mainstream pretty well, but like other media portrayals of Alex, the buzzwords “conspiracy theory” and “paranoid” are used, almost automatically, to describe Alex’s special brand of populist-constitutionalist political speech. Salon’s Alex Pareene called Alex an “all-American nut-job,” on March 1st, saying that he is “about as fringe a character as ...
This Is Just the Start (Arab revolution)
Post Date: 2011-03-03 12:07:32 by go65
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THE OBAMA FACTOR Americans have never fully appreciated what a radical thing we did — in the eyes of the rest of the world — in electing an African-American with the middle name Hussein as president. I’m convinced that listening to Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech — not the words, but the man — were more than a few young Arabs who were saying to themselves: “Hmmm, let’s see. He’s young. I’m young. He’s dark- skinned. I’m dark-skinned. His middle name is Hussein. My name is Hussein. His grandfather is a Muslim. My grandfather is a Muslim. He is president of the United States. And I’m an unemployed young Arab with no vote and no voice ...
FREE SPEECH vs. HATE SPEECH, HARRASSMENT,
Post Date: 2011-03-03 09:10:38 by hallie
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FREE SPEECH vs. HATE SPEECH, HARRASSMENT, TRESPASSING, DISTURBING THE PEACE. Rev. Phelps and his clan can say anything they want to within distance to cause a disturbance at funerals of fallen soldiers it becomes harassment and there is a law against harassment, disturbing the peace and hate speech. They should get a restraining order against this clan restraining them from protesting within 100 yards and disturbing the peace of a funeral. A funeral is a private ceremony and attended only by invitation and Rev. Phelps and his clan are funeral crashers spewing hate speech. He can do and say whatever the hell he want within a certain distance but the line is drawn when it becomes hate ...
A ‘Green’ Catastrophe in the Making
Post Date: 2011-03-03 07:42:03 by A K A Stone
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Since 1973, Americans have been watching an accident in slow motion. That was the year that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), began to understand the economic leverage they had over Western, oil-dependent nations. At that point America, whose last year of energy self-sufficiency was 1950, was importing 35% of its energy. Over the next two years, in retaliation for the unsuccessful attempt by several Arab nations to annihilate Israel in the Yom Kippur War, OPEC more than tripled the price of a barrel of oil. A severe recession occurred, and people were forced to wait in long lines on alternate days to buy gasoline. In terms of energy independence or stability, ...
How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us
Post Date: 2011-03-02 17:24:06 by Brian S
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How the rich soaked the rest of us: The astonishing story of the last few decades is a massive redistribution of wealth, as the rich have shifted the tax burden. Over the last half-century, the richest Americans have shifted the burden of the federal individual income tax off themselves and onto everybody else. The three convenient and accurate Wikipedia graphs below show the details. The first graph compares the official tax rates paid by the top and bottom income earners. Note especially that from the end of the Second World War into the early 1960s, the highest income earners paid a tax rate over 90 percent for many years. Today, the top earners pay a rate of only 35 percent. Note, also, ...
Our World: The West’s Proxy War Against The Jews
Post Date: 2011-02-28 23:19:38 by Brian S
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By focusing attention on Israel and its crimes, Europeans, American admirers ignore Islamic war against Israel, global jihad. It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the American Left that orchestrated the US defeat through a sustained campaign of propaganda and fake calls for peace stood silent. As Pol Pot, the “progressive” dictator tortured and murdered a third of his people in Cambodia, the leftists “peace” activists in the US and Europe who never saw a US military operation that was justified, turned a blind eye. The silence of the likes ...
The Vatican Vs The ‘Zionist Tsunami’
Post Date: 2011-02-28 17:25:38 by Brian S
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The slandering of Israel is growing at an alarming rate among the most important Catholic journalists. The January edition of La Civiltà Cattolica – the most authoritative magazine of the Jesuits, printed under the supervision of the Vatican – opens with an editorial about Palestinian refugees. Adopting the Arab propagandist word Nakba, it declares they are a consequence of “ethnic cleansing” by Israel. The journal also supports anti-Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, and falsely proclaims that “the Zionists were cleverly able to exploit the Western sense of guilt for the Shoah to lay the foundations of their own state.” The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, ...
Buchanan: Manufacturing's Dismal Decade
Post Date: 2011-02-28 13:59:37 by Brian S
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Last year, Barack Obama committed his administration to doubling U.S. exports in half a decade. The good news: He is on the way. U.S. exports of goods and services grew in 2010 by 16.6 percent. Bad news: U.S. imports, starting from a higher base, surged by 19.7 percent. Result: The U.S. trade deficit in 2010 worsened by 33 percent, rising from $375 billion to $498 billion, the largest percentage increase in a decade. If Obama keeps this up, he may prove as big a disaster for U.S. manufacturing as his predecessor, although these are big shoes to fill. As he has each February for years, Charles W. McMillion of MBG Information Services has compiled the stats on the industrial decline of ...
Day Of Reckoning On Pensions;
Post Date: 2011-02-26 16:35:08 by Brian S
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The housing bubble and subsequent Wall Street collapse wreaked havoc on the nation's retirement savings, as many pension funds and 401(k) plans suffered losses of 30% or more. State and local governments are now facing huge unfunded pension liabilities, prompting policymakers to scramble for ways to close the gap without slashing payrolls and services. But a new report from the Little Hoover Commission in Sacramento makes a more troubling point: Many state and local government employees have been promised pensions that the public couldn't have afforded even had there been no crash. The commission's analysis of the problem is hotly disputed by union leaders, who contend that the ...
Mary Meeker's Brilliant, Tech-Centered Turnaround Plan For USA Inc
Post Date: 2011-02-25 22:19:48 by go65
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Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker published a gigantic 460 page research report this morning, analyzing the entire USA as if it were a company. "USA Inc," she calls it. Meeker's verdict: "By the standards of any public corporation, USA Inc.’s financials are discouraging." "Our review finds serious challenges in USA Inc.’s financials," she writes. "The ‘management team’ has created incentives to spend on healthcare, housing, and current consumption. At the margin, investing in productive capital, education, and technology – the very tools needed to compete in the global marketplace – has stagnated." "In ...
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