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The GOP: A One Hundred-Year Record Of Swindling The American People
Post Date: 2010-10-31 19:55:23 by Brian S
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In 1921 — eight years before the great depression — Republicans took over the helm of this nation for 12 years. During that time there were three Republican administrations, the first of which was the administration of Warren G. Harding. History remembers Harding’s administration for one thing more than anything other — scandal. It was during Harding’s presidency that the Teapot Dome Scandal erupted. His administration was considered the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States — until Nixon’s, then Reagan’s, and finally Bush’s..Next, in 1923, came Calvin Coolidge, the president that Ronald Reagan is said to have most ...
Is Rupert Murdoch Ignorant Or An Agent Of Zionist Deception?
Post Date: 2010-10-31 19:47:25 by Brian S
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In a recent speech at an ADL (Anti-Defamation League) dinner, Rupert Murdoch, arguably the most influential mainstream media chief on Planet Earth, made some extraordinary statements which must be challenged. But first it’s necessary for us all to be clear about what ADL’s role is. Its proclaimed objective is to “fight anti-Semitism”. In reality its main purpose under the leadership of Abe Foxman is to smear, harass, silence and preferably destroy those of all faiths and none who are critical of Zionism in action – critical of Israel’s policies in general and its contempt for international law in particular; and critical of the awesome power of the Zionist ...
“Rally to Restore Sanity” pledges to “strictly prohibit filming” at National Mall
Post Date: 2010-10-31 16:02:46 by WhiteSands
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Irony reaches new heights as Comedy Central is going to “strictly prohibit filming” of the Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive. PJTV’s Washington Bureau chief Richard Pollock inquired with the Comedy Central’s senior vice president of corporate communications Steve Albani about receiving credentials. Albani claimed that Pollock would not be given credentials because of limited supply, and as such there would be no room on the “press riser” for PJTV’s camera and crew. When Pollock said that he’d be fine with filming not on the press riser, Albani said that filming would be “strictly prohibited” between 3rd and 7th streets on the ...
Buchanan: Neither Party Wins
Post Date: 2010-10-29 14:08:16 by Brian S
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The polls and pundits are all in alignment now. The Republican Party is headed for a victory Tuesday to rival the biggest and best of those that the party has known in the lifetime of most Americans. In 1938, the GOP won 72 seats in the House. In 1946, Republicans swept both houses and presented Harry Truman with a “fighting 80th Congress” that contained three future presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. In 1966, Republicans picked up 47 House seats to set up the comeback of Nixon, who had led the party out of the wilderness of Goldwater’s defeat. In 1994, the Republican Revolution added 52 House seats and captured both chambers for the first ...
Neoconservatism Defined
Post Date: 2010-10-29 14:04:45 by Brian S
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It is difficult to regard neoconservatism with anything other than distaste. Leading neocons, such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Charles Krauthammer, and assorted members of the Kagan family, not only played a major role in the onset of the Iraq War, of blessed memory. No, this did not suffice for them. They propagandized for more wars: the blessings of democracy must be brought to all the nations of the Middle East. What David Frum, another of their number, called the Axis of Evil must be destroyed. Justin Vaïsse, a French expert on American politics who is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, writes as a historian of a movement rather than as an advocate of doctrine of ...
Inside The Democrats' Post-Election Strategy For Congress
Post Date: 2010-10-28 18:40:57 by go65
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WASHINGTON -- With the enemy at the gates, and facing heavy casualties, Democrats in Congress are preparing to do what any beleaguered army does: head for the hills and leave booby-traps behind. The bigger the margin Republicans pile up next Tuesday, the less likely it is that the Democrats will be able to -- or want to -- do much when Congress reconvenes for a lame-duck session on Nov. 15. Rather, leadership aides tell me, they will want to do the minimum, pushing the toughest decisions on taxes, spending and debt forward to a newer, presumably more Republican, 112th Congress, which will convene for the first time on Jan. 3, 2011. Come January, the new Tea Party-infused GOP then would ...
Entitlement Reform: Tea Party’s Sound and Fury Signifies Nothing
Post Date: 2010-10-28 15:04:23 by Brian S
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Anyone who has not been living under a pumpkin lately knows that the single, biggest threat to this country’s economic future is its gimongous (hey, if Sarah Palin gets to invent words, why not me!) entitlement state. The massive unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security are a noose around this country’s economic neck that tightens every passing day that nothing is done. Given this backdrop, the Tea Party movement’s raging about out-of-control federal spending and the need for fiscal discipline might seem like just what the doctor ordered, right? Wrong. Actually, the handling of this issue by the Tea Party and its anointed candidates might have arguably set the ...
WPost Downplays Iraq War Crimes
Post Date: 2010-10-27 19:22:56 by Brian S
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October 26, 2010 The judges at Nuremberg after World War II had a much deeper understanding of the horrors of war than the neocon editors at the Washington Post do. Assessing the barbarity unleashed by the Nazis, the Nuremberg Tribunal identified “war of aggression” as “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”What those judges meant was that every evil that comes with war – the slaughter of civilians, the brutality faced by soldiers, the depredations of hunger and disease, the destruction of homes and businesses, the temptation to torture, and all other war crimes – ...
When Tea Party wants to go back, where is it to?
Post Date: 2010-10-27 09:56:22 by go65
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As battle cries go, the Tea Party's "Take our country back" is a pretty good one. It's short and punchy, and it addresses a very widespread sense that the nation that Americans once lived in has changed, and not for the better. When the Tea Partyers get around to identifying how America has changed and to whose benefit, however, they get it almost all wrong. In the worldview of the American right -- and the polling shows conclusively that that's who the Tea Party is -- the nation, misled by President Obama, has gone down the path to socialism. In fact, far from venturing down that road, we've been stuck on the road to hyper- capitalism for three decades now. The ...
Cholera In Haiti Means We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Pandemic
Post Date: 2010-10-26 14:39:47 by WhiteSands
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From the point of view of those of us who study infectious disease, it was only a matter of time before a cholera outbreak occurred amid the devastation of post-earthquake Haiti. Why? Because cholera spreads in areas where there is untreated sewage, contaminated water, and people living close together. Cholera may also spread easily among people who are ill or malnourished as is clearly the case throughout Haiti. What is cholera? It is a species of Vibrio bacteria and it produces a deadly toxin. The toxin is the key to why cholera is so deadly -- it kills 60 percent of those who acquire it but aren't treated. The bacteria is weak and doesn't invade the intestine, but the toxin, by ...
Six Reasons for U.S. to Abandon Free-Trade Myth
Post Date: 2010-10-26 11:48:44 by Brian S
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Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The price of living in the fantasy world of free-trade economics continues to rise for America. Failure to recognize the pitfalls will probably mean a continuing struggle to emerge from recession, as much U.S. domestic demand leaks abroad due to the trade deficit, rather than being recycled at home. And America will continue to lose key industries: not just the primitive ones a developed nation should shed, but the high-tech jobs of the future. Any serious discussion of free trade must confront David Ricardo’s celebrated 1817 theory of comparative advantage, whose tale of English cloth and Portuguese wine is familiar to generations of economics students. ...
Nancy Pelosi Who? Democrats deny being Democrats.
Post Date: 2010-10-25 22:19:48 by WhiteSands
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Nancy Pelosi said Monday that "we haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done," and the Speaker is right. However, it appears that her party will get that credit on November 2, which is why so many Democrats are now jumping the liberal ship, at least symbolically, to save their seats. This phenomenon reached new heights over the weekend, with Mississippi Democrat Gene Taylor telling a local newspaper, the Sun-Herald, that he voted for John McCain in 2008. Mr. Taylor had heretofore kept that vote a secret, and perhaps it's only a coincidence that he rolled it out amid the re-election fight of his career. The 11-term Member added that he won't support Mrs. ...
It is a great day today. Tiller isn't killing any babies today
Post Date: 2010-10-25 21:10:57 by A K A Stone
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Tiller the mass murderer is now dead. If he wasn't dead how many more babies would the mad man have murdered? Thank God he isn't around killing babies anymore. Don't RIP.
WHY THE GOP WILL PROBABLY FAIL
Post Date: 2010-10-25 17:03:34 by go65
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There is no doubt that the Republican party is poised for a big night - some are even predicting an historic night - next Tuesday when America goes to the polls. But the seeds of GOP failure have already been sown during this campaign and it is extremely doubtful that Republicans can achieve any of their short term goals, much less change the culture of America to reflect their outdated views of small government, low taxes, and a much stricter interpretation of the Constitution. There is no doubt government can be “smaller,” taxes “lower,” and judges put in place who would take a friendlier view of original intent. But the exaggerated goals of tea partiers and other ...
The shaming of America
Post Date: 2010-10-25 15:02:16 by Brian S
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Our writer delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq - and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the US As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they were the victims. Only we could pretend we did not know. Only we in the West could counter every claim, every allegation against the Americans or British with some worthy general - the ghastly US military spokesman Mark Kimmitt and the awful ...
Now Isn’t the Time to Cut the Deficit
Post Date: 2010-10-25 11:15:41 by go65
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THE clamor to cut the budget deficit is deafening. Blue Dog Democrats, Tea Party Republicans and doomsday economists are calling for immediate action. And the demands for austerity coming from abroad are even louder. Make no mistake: persistent large budget deficits are a significant problem. Government borrowing in good times crowds out private investment and lowers long-run growth. It can also make policy makers unable or unwilling to use adequate fiscal stimulus in times of need: concerns about the deficit limited the size of the stimulus act in 2009 and are a main reason that Congress has refused to take additional measures to cut our painfully high rate of unemployment. And our ...
Call It Terror, Not Price Tag
Post Date: 2010-10-24 19:51:56 by Brian S
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This is local terror with an instructive purpose - its goal is to terrorize the Palestinians and teach them to behave as the settlers believe they should. By Zvi Bar'el Hebrew is a beautiful language. But it is also like a model whose golden days are behind her and must use pancake makeup to cover what age and strife have wrought. By way of example two terms that have become inseparable parts of the language, to the point that their real meanings has been forgotten: "price tag" and "neighbor procedure," which gave birth to "child procedure." On the face of it, what could be more innocent than retaliating to a past or future injustice? A settlers' ...
Bozell: NPR Firing of Juan Williams Is Outrageous, Congress Should Investigate.
Post Date: 2010-10-23 18:49:03 by WhiteSands
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Managing Editor's note: National Public Radio (NPR) has fired longtime analyst Juan Williams for admitting he gets nervous on a plane when he sees a person dressed in Muslim garb. What follows is a statement from NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell. Juan Williams has done nothing wrong. What he said echoes what the vast majority of Americans believe. It’s their tax dollars that fund NPR. But NPR is ignoring them. Instead, they are kowtowing to the agenda of radical anti-Americans like CAIR, and doing the bidding of George Soros, who hates Fox News with a passion. And since when did NPR have standards? Here are just three examples of ...
Tea Party Tory
Post Date: 2010-10-22 12:51:40 by Brian S
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Before the Tea Party philosophy is ever even tested in America, it will have succeeded, or it will have failed, in Great Britain. For in David Cameron the Brits have a prime minister who can fairly be described as a Tea Party Tory. Casting aside the guidance of Lord Keynes -- government-induced deficits are the right remedy for recessions -- Cameron has bet his own and his party's future on the new austerity. He is making Maggie Thatcher look like Tip O'Neill. Two headlines Thursday testify that the Tories have seized the Tea Party banner. First was the headline in The Washington Times, "Tea Party Urges Drastic Cutting," that carried a caveat subhead, "Economists ...
End Federal Tax Subsidies to Fox!
Post Date: 2010-10-22 12:35:43 by Brian S
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In response to Jim DeMint, Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly, and other wingnuts who are calling for an end of Federal government support for National Public Radio because it fired commentator Juan Williams for hate speech against Muslim-Americans, I am calling for the Federal government to close all those loopholes whereby Rupert Murdoch essentially usurps our taxpayer money and uses it to finance his massive airwave pollution projects. That’s right, the US government is essentially underwriting Fox Cable News by allowing the Austrialian-American billionaire to evade the taxes that his secretaries and janitors have to pay. Murdoch’s evasion of taxes may not be illegal, but it ...
Juan Williams, NPR and the Death of Liberalism
Post Date: 2010-10-21 17:55:17 by WhiteSands
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So my fellow Fox News analyst Juan Williams just got fired for saying something supposedly controversial about Muslims. But make no mistake, Juan isn't the only casualty today. So is American liberalism. On "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday night, Williams said, "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." And this is a fireable offense? NPR issued a statement saying ...
Toeing The Line.
Post Date: 2010-10-20 13:50:27 by Skip MacLure
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In an article I wrote for Skip’s column on September 18 (read here), I challenged Charles Krauthammer’s comments regarding the election of Christine O’Donnell, an act which he, along with many others, believed would give Delaware to the Democrats on a plate. It was one of the rare occasions that I found myself disagreeing with this writer, who I admire greatly. In the same article, I covered the decision by Lisa Murkowski to run as a write-in candidate, following her primary defeat to Tea Party endorsed Joe Miller, and finished the column with the views of Jim DeMint, whose principles I strongly agree with. The reason that I recap this particular article is that it seems ...
Joe Miller's Just Another Nut From Fairbanks
Post Date: 2010-10-19 15:11:33 by Brian S
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Joe Miller revealed who he really is at Central Middle School Sunday: A bully and a budding fascist. After Miller wrapped himself in the Constitution before an audience of 100 or more Alaskans for an hour, his private security guards arrested journalist Tony Hopfinger during a minor dust-up with a Miller supporter. Hopfinger was handcuffed until police officers arrived to restore order. Hopfinger was allegedly trespassing. How do you trespass at a public event? Well, perhaps Miller got his inspiration from the leaders of the late East Germany who he told his audience had an effective immigration policy. You may remember East German border guards shot their countrymen bidding to escape to ...
If Sarah Palin Falls In A Forest?
Post Date: 2010-10-16 20:18:18 by Brian S
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It's strange to be aware that Sarah Palin is in California and no one I know seems to care much about it. Sure, my crowd is mostly Democrats, but I'm also thinking about GOP senate candidate Carly Fiorina and our would-be governor Meg Whitman. Both said they had other engagements this weekend -- they're washing their hair? -- and that's particularly hurtful coming from Fiorina. Palin's May endorsement helped shore up the former HP CEO's standing with party right-wingers, since Fiorina was a McCain surrogate in the state, and a real Tea Party candidate, Chuck DeVore, was in the race. But Fiorina told reporters she wouldn't be with Palin this weekend: ...
VIEWPOINT: Fire Illustrates Moral Emptiness Of Tea Party
Post Date: 2010-10-16 19:23:26 by Brian S
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Neo-conservatives in good ol’ Tennessee voted down a proposal to build a county fire department because it would have cost taxpayers a few dollars more each year. So firefighters watched a house burn to the ground with its owner’s four pets still inside. The owner didn’t a pay a $75 fee for service and so was not entitled to have his home and pets saved. This is Tea Party USA in action. No government, no taxes, no services, no civic duty, no morality. Reactions from the Mad Hatters were expressed with their usual contempt for another’s misery: "Good, he deserved it." I would not believe this degree of sociopathy and abject selfishness if I did not live in ...
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