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Tea Party, Conservatives Revere Constitution (Except When They Don't)
Post Date: 2010-08-22 18:48:52 by Brian S
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The Constitution has been a frequent rallying cry at Republican and Tea Party events this summer. If you ask Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul and other conservative politicians, defending that sacred document written by the founders and amended by the people of the United States of America, is No. 1 on their national agenda. Except when it isn't. For instance, there's wiggle room on that 14th Amendment -- the one adopted after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship to blacks and anyone born on U.S. soil. (it also says the Bill of Rights must be upheld by state and local governments, and requires equal protection of all people.) Some conservatives now want to amend the ...
The New Anti-Semitism; Recent attacks on Islam in the United States echo old slurs against Jews
Post Date: 2010-08-19 19:57:54 by Brian S
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After Abraham Foxman waded into the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, opposing [1] plans to construct an Islamic community center a few blocks from the World Trade Center site, the Anti-Defamation League chief was assailed by critics who charged that the ADL was giving license to bigotry and betraying its historic mission “to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike.” A week after initially coming out against the mosque, Foxman announced that the ADL was bowing out of the controversy, but the damage to the group’s reputation had been done. The problem for the ADL is that there simply isn’t much anti-Semitism of consequence in the United States ...
The Erosion of America's Middle Class
Post Date: 2010-08-19 13:20:25 by Brian S
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While America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the middle class is disappearing. Ventura is a small city on the Pacific coast, about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. Luxury homes with a view of the ocean dot the hillsides, and the beaches are popular with surfers. Ventura is storybook California. "It's a well-off place," says Captain William Finley. "But about 20 percent of the city is what we call at risk of homelessness." Finley ...
“Playing Tea Party Movement For Suckers”
Post Date: 2010-08-19 13:18:08 by Brian S
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I rarely use the phrase “thinking conservatives” anymore, since there seem to be so few left. But there are still a handful, and one of them has written an enlightening piece about the idiotic kerfuffle over the Burlington Coat Factory mosque in Lower Manhattan. Writing in a conservative Washington newspaper called the Washington Examiner, libertarian Gene Healy argues that the dust-up is a distraction so that conservative voters won’t notice that Republicans don’t want to do the hard and unpopular work of cutting spending. Healy, a vice-president at the libertarian Cato Institute, writes: The “mosque” controversy isn’t about property rights or ...
Glenn Beck – material boy
Post Date: 2010-08-19 11:01:14 by go65
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Glenn Beck may hate socialism and communism, but he showed he shares a materialistic worldview with Marx, Engels and Saul Alinsky in a recent conversation with Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly and Beck were discussing a ruling by an openly homosexual judge overturning the will of California voters who approved Proposition 8, a statewide ballot measure prohibiting same-sex marriage. O'Reilly: "Do you believe that gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?" Beck: "A threat to the country?" O'Reilly: "Yeah, is it going to harm it in anyway?" Beck: "No, I don't. Will the gays come and get us?" O'Reilly: "No, OK. Is it ...
Those folks don't have any flesh in the game, and should NOT be permitted to vote...
Post Date: 2010-08-18 11:43:44 by Murron
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#115. To: mininggold (#109) mininggold: "Yeah right.... including women, the landless and slaves." goldi-lox: "Those folks don't have any flesh in the game, and should NOT be permitted to vote...specifically the landless. Property owners will vote to ensure that their property rights are left inviolet, and will stay valuable. When the poor (landless) vote, it's to steal the money from those who worked hard to get it....as a hand out. Often they are lazy and contribute NOTHING to society but problems. They are turning a rich vibrant nation of America into the slums they live in. They can't be brought up...they bring the rest of us DOWN. They should forbid ...
Decision Time for Israel on Bombing Iran?
Post Date: 2010-08-17 11:55:43 by Brian S
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The Obama administration gave Russia permission to deliver the fuel rods for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor in return for their support for U.N. sanctions. The Russians have announced they will begin the process on August 21 and Iran will begin operating the reactor in mid-September. In making this concession to Russia, the U.S. is forcing Israel to decide within one week if they will bomb the site before it is impossible to do so because of the radioactive fallout it would cause. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton is warning that Israel must immediately decide between accepting a nuclear weapons-capable Iran or a military strike. He noted that in Israel’s previous ...
Why the Mosque Scares the Right
Post Date: 2010-08-16 16:55:50 by Brian S
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There's a cynical reason that people like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin don't want a mosque built at ground zero, writes M.J. Akbar—it will prove that there's nothing scary about Islam. Can there be any rational reason for such subliminal fear of a house without a door? A mosque has no door; it is always open to anyone. Submission is the guiding force of its spirit and simplicity is its objective. There is equality in the lines of prayer. Servant stands beside master to bow, and at the same moment, before the Lord. Divisions and pretensions dissipate. The whole world, as the great Indian theologian and mass leader Maulana Abul Kalam Azad used to say, is God’s mosque. ...
Obama's Bold Leadership on the Mosque
Post Date: 2010-08-16 15:46:09 by Brian S
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Speaking out on the proposed mosque at ground zero may be politically unpopular or perhaps costly in the short term, but in the end it makes him a president worthy of respect, says Mark McKinnon. President Obama made the right call on the proposed mosque in New York City. Of course he should have spoken out on this issue. And of course he should have done it now. This is the job of presidents. To provide leadership on issues that tear at our moral fabric. To point the way when the winds of controversy whip in every direction. It would have be politically safer for Obama to say nothing. This is a 30-70 issue in terms of support, so he had a lot to lose by speaking out. This was not a ...
Does the Evidence Support an Obama "Meltdown" and "Stunning Decline" in Approval Ratings?
Post Date: 2010-08-16 12:43:20 by go65
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A post by “Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator” Nile Gardiner in Britain’s Daily Telegraph caught my eye recently. The headline aptly describes Gardiner's thesis: “The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown.” I’m less interested here in the 10 key reasons Gardiner promulgates, although a number of them are conjectures rather than evidence-based. I’m more interested at the moment in Gardiner’s premise about Obama’s “stunning decline” (he also calls it a "meltdown," "Titanic-like," and "spectacular political collapse"), in ...
The Zionist Strategy of Demonizing Islam
Post Date: 2010-08-15 20:01:53 by Brian S
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On August 4, 2010, Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and chair of the Interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, published an article in Sabbah Report, entitled "Shame on ADL for Opposing Mosque 2Blocks from Ground Zero."Rabbi Lerner's position on the ADL's (Anti-Defamation League) objection to building an Islamic Community Center in Manhattan, near Ground Zero is praiseworthy. But his interpretation of ADL's reasons for resisting such a project lacks insight. ADL leader Abe Foxman's statement: "In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain – unnecessarily – and ...
The Iraq Withdrawal: An Orwellian Success
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:46:04 by Brian S
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The symbolic end of America's involvement in the war has arrived, but the propaganda rages on By Hannah Gurman APU.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division board a C-17 aircraft at Baghdad International Airport as they begin their journey to the United States, July 13. As the Second World War drew to a close, George Orwell looked back on the various prognoses of war and peace that had emerged in recent years. "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way," he observed. "People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are ...
A Campaign For War With Iran Begins
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:43:46 by Brian S
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If neocons can't get Obama to attack Iran, they are creating a narrative so the next Republican president will By Trita Parsi Salon Obama administration officials, as well as U.S. lawmakers and European diplomats, passionately made the argument this spring that tough sanctions on Iran were necessary to avoid war. But contrary to their predictions, the drumbeat for war -- particularly from Israel – has only increased since the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution against Tehran in June. The latest in this crescendo of voices is Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in the Atlantic, "Point of No Return." As the title suggests, it essentially makes the ...
A Sin and a Shame
Post Date: 2010-08-15 06:53:05 by lucysmom
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The treatment of workers by American corporations has been worse — far more treacherous — than most of the population realizes. There was no need for so many men and women to be forced out of their jobs in the downturn known as the great recession. Many of those workers were cashiered for no reason other than outright greed by corporate managers. And that cruel, irresponsible, shortsighted policy has resulted in widespread human suffering and is doing great harm to the economy. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Andrew Sum, an economics professor and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. Click for Full Text!
Some of My Fellow Righty Bloggers Need a Broader Definition of ‘Worst Figure’
Post Date: 2010-08-14 22:32:17 by go65
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I can’t believe conservative bloggers put a bunch of garden-variety Democratic politicians so high, when asked to compile a list of the Worst Figures in American History. The list, compiled from the responses of 43 right-of-center bloggers by John Hawkins: 23) Saul Alinsky 23) Bill Clinton 23) Hillary Clinton 19) Michael Moore 19) George Soros (8) 19) Alger Hiss (8) 19) Al Sharpton (8) 13) Al Gore (9) 13) Noam Chomsky (9) 13) Richard Nixon (9) 13) Jane Fonda (9) 13) Harry Reid (9) 13) Nancy Pelosi (9) 11) John Wilkes Booth (10) 11) Margaret Sanger (10) 9) Aldrich Ames (11) 9) Timothy McVeigh (11) 7) Ted Kennedy (14) 7) Lyndon Johnson (14) 5) Benedict Arnold (17) 5) Woodrow Wilson ...
Desperate Democrats
Post Date: 2010-08-14 16:45:01 by reaganisright
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The only strategy they have left is personal attacks. The Democratic strategy in the 2010 election is simple: Change the subject. And given the subject on everyone’s mind, who can blame them? That subject is the economy and related matters like spending, the deficit, debt, and President Obama. These are the last things Democrats want to talk about. Instead they’d like to reduce each race for the House and Senate to the personal level. Their aim is to emphasize the individual flaws of Republican candidates. In the Democratic game plan, the economy and national issues are taboo. This microstrategy is one of pure desperation. It’s all that’s left when macro-political ...
Memo to Republicans: It’s Big Government, Stupid!
Post Date: 2010-08-13 15:29:04 by go65
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Riding a record of unprecedented government spending, rising debt, a government takeover of the health-care system, high unemployment, and proposals to tax everything they stumble across, Democrats have put themselves in position for an epic electoral defeat that will rival the Republican debacles of 2006 and 2008. Given this record of Democratic ineptitude and the voters’ reaction to it, one would think that Republicans would be talking about these issues every day. Instead, Republicans and conservatives have spent recent weeks talking about such distracting side-issues as immigration, the 14th amendment, gay marriage, and when and where mosques should be built. No doubt these are ...
The Death of Zionism
Post Date: 2010-08-12 19:44:29 by Brian S
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Zionism is a thorn in the world’s side. Like all forms of politico-religious collective extremism, it is deceptive, cruel, and arrogantly self-righteous. Zionists have overstayed their welcome in the Middle East by about fifty years, and the longer they remain in power the worse off Israel, the Middle East, and the world will be. And they are not going anywhere, nor will they pursue a new policy, so it naturally falls on the injured party to remove a thorn from its side, and since America has the most powerful arm in the world, it must be the one to pull it out from the world’s side, and stop the bleeding. How should this thorn be removed? Strong international pressure on Israel ...
"What would Reagan do" about unemployment? Answer: Reagan raised taxes
Post Date: 2010-08-11 00:51:28 by Brian S
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In an op-ed headlined "Unemployment: What Would Reagan Do?" American Enterprise Institute vice president Henry Olsen stated: "There is only one instance since World War II of the U.S economy increasing the employment-population ratio by five percentage points in a decade: the recovery that followed Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1983." In fact, Congress passed the Reagan tax cuts in 1981, and economists say it did not lead the nation out of recession. In 1983, Reagan actually raised taxes to shore up Social Security. Olsen's underlying argument is essentially a regurgitation of right-wing talking points: the Obama administration's policies are misguided and ...
The Permanent War System Rolls On; Serial Denial on Iraq and Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-08-10 22:18:45 by Brian S
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Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an “Iraq 2006 moment” in the second half of 2010 – a collapse of domestic political support for a failed war paralleling the political crisis in Bush’s Iraq War in 2006. Now comes Republican Congressman Frank Wolf to make that parallel with 2006 eerily precise. Wolf published a letter to President Obama last week calling for the immediate establishment of an “Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group”. It would be the son of the Iraq Study Group. Wolf is the Congressman who authored the legislation in 2005 creating the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group ...
During His Office Treason Was No Crime
Post Date: 2010-08-10 20:05:03 by Mad Dog
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“During his office treason was no crime, the sons of Belial had a glorious time.” John Dryden – speaking from the 17th Century about a generic problem seen now. The level of lawlessness in the District of Criminals is rising to a level worthy of the degenerate Roman Emperor Caligula. The arrogant, prevaricating, and obfuscating narcissist Barack Obama is displaying incompetence in his nonchalant dictatorial attitude, frightening many… even life-long Democrats. He is alienating allies and encouraging enemies at home and abroad. Secession is a topic crossing the threshold of mainstream media, much as a quest for liberty in Dryden’s time drove pilgrims across the ...
Obama’s Birthday Fun Lasts Five Days-Maybe He’s Really 13?
Post Date: 2010-08-10 05:15:10 by reaganisright
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How old is the President? Rush Limbaugh thinks August 4, the chief’s birthday, may not be correct. Okay, but what about his emotional age? Last week marked Obama’s 49th birthday. The celebration began Wednesday evening at a dinner in Chicago with Oprah Winfrey and officially ended on Sunday at the White House with a barbecue. In between he did run around to various Democratic fundraisers and gave another upbeat speech at a Ford auto plant touting his economic plan as a boon to creating jobs. With those annoying chores out of the way, he hit the golf course on Saturday and played basketball at Fort McNair while wounded war veterans watched. Then more fun on Sunday with best pal, ...
Prayers needed for a baby
Post Date: 2010-08-09 23:33:12 by TXBSAFH
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Please pray for my 3rd cousin Holman, AKA Little Dude. He is 6.5 months old and has just diagnosed with leukemia. He is in TX Childrens Hospital in Houston and will be there for at least the next 6 to 8 weeks. Please if you would be so kind as to remember him and our family in you prayers.
‘Today, I Quit Being A Christian’
Post Date: 2010-08-09 12:26:17 by Brian S
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“Today, I quit being a Christian.” With those words last week on Facebook, Anne Rice delivered a wake-up call for organized religion. The question is whether it will be recognized as such. “I remain committed to Christ as always,” she wrote, “but not to being ‘Christian’ or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.” You will recall that the author, famed for her vampire novels, made a much publicized return to the ...
The Right's Ingenious Campaign To Turn One Billion People Into Our Sworn Enemies
Post Date: 2010-08-09 12:17:39 by Brian S
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America has lots of problems, from fighting two wars to high unemployment to anemic economic growth. Our friends on the right, however, seem to think we don't have enough problems and are working like gangbusters to transform more than a billion people around the world into our sworn enemies. As the New York Times reports, the anti-Ground Zero Mosque hysteria has gone nationwide: In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Republican candidates have denounced plans for a large Muslim center proposed near a subdivision, and hundreds of protesters have turned out for a march and a county meeting. In late June, in Temecula, Calif., members of a local Tea Party group took dogs and picket signs to Friday ...
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