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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
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that Republicans can achieve any of their short term goals, much less change the culture of America to reflect their outdated views of small government, low taxes, and a much stricter interpretation of the Constitution.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 ...
USE THE REAL ARTICLE TITLE>STOP EDITORIALIZING WITH YOUR OWN> RESPECT FAIR USE
Post Date: 2010-10-15 15:28:24 by Ferret Mike
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The title of this thread states the way mature people respect fair use. If you have editorialization, put it in a post. They who's piece is being used has a right to be respected enough to use the title they want for it.
Neocon Liar Jeffrey "Dr. Goebbels" Goldberg Dishonors The Memory Of Joseph Sobran
Post Date: 2010-10-14 14:21:30 by Brian S
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Jeffrey Goldberg is the Israeli agent who is currently national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. He helped engineer America’s invasion of Iraq based on the propagation of Goldberg’s well-publicized lie, published in the March, 2002 issue of The New Yorker and broadcast on NPR’s “All Things Considered” in February, 2003, that Saddam Hussein was an ally of the alleged 9/11 terror group, Al Qaeda. Now Goldberg is lying again. In a column published Oct. 12 on the website of The Atlantic magazine, Goldberg indicts the eminent Catholic historian and philosopher Joseph Sobran as a “Nazi.” This craven and despicable defamation had to wait until Sobran ...
Dolly Parton "Played a Whore"
Post Date: 2010-10-13 17:21:09 by Ferret Mike
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Dear Pastor Grizzard, I love your plan to burn non-KJV Bibles, Books of Mormon, and other heretical works during your Halloween celebration, but your addition of Dolly Parton records makes it perfect. There is no doubt in my mind that Dolly is a minion of Satan. I'm sure others will agree after reading your list of her sins: Dolly covered Led Zeppelin's occultic song "Stairway to Heaven"...she also covered the atheistic song "Imagine" by the ungodly John Lennon. She plays a whore in the "Best Little Whore House in Texas."...in her public life she dresses like a whore in exposing herself from top to bottom. ...as soon as you go into Dollywood you ...
‘Tea baggers’ Bave Hijacked Orginal Tea Party Message
Post Date: 2010-10-13 11:54:57 by Brian S
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Editor, I respect the original libertarian Tea Party of Rep. Ron Paul, Adam Kokesh and Gary Johnson. I applaud their opposition to the territorial pissing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, their support of individual civil liberties and the U.S. Constitution, and their libertarian stances on social issues. As for the Christian tea baggers who jumped on the Tea Party bandwagon — such as Sarah Palin and her cackle of rads like Susana Martinez, Jan Brewer, Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell — they come off as hypocritical in their positions. Is the Tea Party a libertarian non-religious movement or a radical Christian conservative movement? The tea baggers are always ...
GOP Parade Of Horribles: Carl Paladino
Post Date: 2010-10-12 13:55:05 by Brian S
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Today's editorial pretty much expresses my views on the rash of suicides of gay youth, the awful sexual torture of three gay men in New York and how windbag bigots like Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino contribute to an atmosphere anti-gay prejudice. As the piece says, those wallowing in such ignorance provide "the hurtful slurs that eat away at the self-esteem of those who are gay or lesbian" and make "someone feel it's okay to verbally and physically harass, maim or even kill." But Paladino said something in his "Today Show" interview with Matt Lauer that needs to be highlighted for its pot-calling-the-kettle-black quality. ...
Don't Cut Defense
Post Date: 2010-10-12 00:17:03 by Brian S
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One thing that any new Republican majority in Congress will have to resist is the siren song to cut defense spending. Unfortunately, that temptation is real and growing. Which is why three prominent conservative leaders in Washington -- the Heritage Foundation's Ed Feulner, the American Enterprise Institute's Arthur Brooks, and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol -- took to the Wall Street Journal last week to argue for more robust defense spending. Feulner, Brooks, and Kristol are absolutely right. They note, for instance, that baseline defense spending -- that is, defense spending minus the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- is just 3.6% of the Gross Domestic Product ...
Get the anti-science bent out of politics
Post Date: 2010-10-11 16:33:55 by go65
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As a scientist, I shouldn't have a stake in the upcoming midterm elections, but unfortunately, it seems that I -- and indeed all my fellow climate scientists -- do. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has threatened that, if he becomes chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, he will launch what would be a hostile investigation of climate science. The focus would be on e-mails stolen from scientists at the University of East Anglia in Britain last fall that climate-change deniers have falsely claimed demonstrate wrongdoing by scientists, including me. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) may do the same if he takes over a committee on climate change and energy ...
Sarah Palin: Is The Bloom Off Her Rose? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-09 20:07:06 by Brian S
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Tea party-backed candidates for the US Senate are offering tepid comments on Sarah Palin's qualifications for high office. Other Republican candidates decline to join her at GOP fundraiser. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a benefit dinner for Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, Oct. 7.(Jamie Martin/AP) By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer posted October 9, 2010 at 4:52 pm EDT Did we miss something, or is the bloom a bit off Sarah Palin’s rose? Two prominent tea party-backed candidates for the US Senate are offering tepid comments on her qualifications for high office. Other major GOP candidates find they have “scheduling ...
Mr. Paladino and the System
Post Date: 2010-10-09 20:00:20 by Brian S
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Carl Paladino, the Republican nominee for governor of New York, portrays himself as a business-hardened outsider who would reform Albany’s corrupt and bloated bureaucracy and drive out the pay-to-play special interests. “I’m just a regular guy from Buffalo,” he says. A look at his record as a developer shows that he has been an eager recipient of just the sort of government largess he so bitterly condemns and a generous contributor to politicians who can best do him favors. His flourishing real estate business was stoked with tax breaks, multimillion-dollar state leases and government land giveaways. At the same time, he used his partnerships and corporations to donate ...
Obion County Fire Tragedy Symbolizes Tea-Party-Republican Vision of Government [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-07 18:49:22 by Brian S
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This week, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reported the story of the Cranick family's house fire. When the family's Obion County, Tennessee house caught fire on the night of October 5th, the fire department from the nearby town failed to respond since the Cranick's had forgotten to pay a $75 fee. Firefighters finally responded to a call by Cranick's neighbor, who had paid his fee. They sprayed the property line to protect the home of the neighbor and watched at the Cranick's home burned to the ground. The firefighters had been ordered not to intervene to save the Cranick's house -- even though they were already at the scene -- because, apparently, it would have ...
Fox News Fail: Are Viewers Getting Smarter?
Post Date: 2010-10-05 23:21:22 by Brian S
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Yesterday, the cable news ratings showed that Fox News -- that bastion of conservative bias and lies -- is losing viewers. Thus far, their viewership has decreased by 21 percent and their top shows all posted double digit losses, while MSNBC’s shows grew and the network attracted more younger viewers. So, maybe people are actually interested in getting the truth? Personally, I am thrilled. This summer, I was involved in a story about the Pledge of Allegiance that Fox News blew up. I broke it and they ran with it. Career-wise, it was great as it bumped up the numbers for the site I was editing, but it was the first time I saw the Fox News spin at work. And it was disturbing. They ...
Fear and Favor
Post Date: 2010-10-05 15:26:29 by Skip Intro
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A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you’re starring in “The Birth of a Nation,” but you’re actually just extras in a remake of “Citizen Kane.” True, there have been some changes in the plot. In the original, Kane tried to buy high political office for himself. In the new version, he just puts politicians on his payroll. I mean that literally. As Politico recently pointed out, every major contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination who isn’t currently holding office and isn’t named Mitt Romney is now a paid contributor to Fox News. Now, media moguls have often promoted the ...
Got an ad from Ted Strickland Today
Post Date: 2010-10-04 23:22:34 by A K A Stone
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The ad I got in the mail today was a direct shot at Kasich. It was called Kasich's dirty dozen. It pointed out and reminded me of Kasich's votes to against the second amendment. He voted for the assault weapons ban that Schumer sponsored. He voted against repealing the ban later in 1996. The ad also said that Strickland had a perfect voting record on the second amendment with the NRA. The Ohio buckeye gunowners or something like that also endorsed him along with a couple of other gun groups. I already said I wasn't voting for Kasich and this strengthens that conviction. Not enough to get me to vote for Strickland though. Even though he hasn't pissed me off to much as ...
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