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Congressman John Boehner On Meet The Press: Another "Leader" With No Straight Answers
Post Date: 2010-08-08 17:11:09 by Brian S
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This morning on Meet the Press, David Gregory interviewed House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH). As is the tradition of the show, the host bombarded the guest with tough questions. Equally as traditional, the guest avoided providing straight answers to the majority of them. John Boehner is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives again in 2010, only this time he is competing to become the next Speaker of the House. You would think someone in such a position would be primed with all the answers. You thought wrong. As always, the subject of greatest contention revolved around the economy. That is certainly no wonder. The economy is easily the issue of greatest import in ...
Build the Ground Zero Mosque
Post Date: 2010-08-07 01:31:21 by Brian S
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I believe we should promote Muslim moderates right here in America. And why I'm returning an award to the ADL. Stephen Chernin / Getty ImagesMuslims pray at an Islamic center in Queens, N.Y. Ever since 9/11, liberals and conservatives have agreed that the lasting solution to the problem of Islamic terror is to prevail in the battle of ideas and to discredit radical Islam, the ideology that motivates young men to kill and be killed. Victory in the war on terror will be won when a moderate, mainstream version of Islam—one that is compatible with modernity—fully triumphs over the world view of Osama bin Laden. As the conservative Middle Eastern expert Daniel Pipes put it, ...
What's the Weather (Temps) Where You Are?
Post Date: 2010-08-04 18:56:27 by Murron
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Fair presently , 91ºF Hi today: 96 Lo tonight: 76 It may have been 96' in some areas but it registered 99'-100' here at home. Right now the wheather forcast says fair and 91', but it's still 95' here....We're getting some low rumbling thunder, but no rain ..yet. I'm sure it must be hotter in other places...besides hell! &;-)
Why the Tea Party is Un-Christian
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:55:11 by Brian S
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Perhaps nothing is as demoralizing as religious hypocrisy; it destroys not only perpetrators but witnesses. Every time a non-believer observes adherents acting in contradiction to the precepts of their faith, the non-believer is only strengthened in his resistance to God's call. We are not talking about the usual human failings but outrageous, repugnant, destructive violations. The scandal of false Christianity forms an insurmountable stumbling block for some who are being called to conversion. For this reason I am exposing the hypocrisy of Tea Party members who claim they are defending Christianity--a way of life they don’t follow. Nowhere in the New Testament does Jesus exhort ...
Neocons Hoping Israel Will Start a Fire the U.S. Will Be Forced to Put Out
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:27:58 by Brian S
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Reuel Marc Gerecht's screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack.What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran.That has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war ...
Will the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq threaten Saudi Arabia and Israel?
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:15:00 by Brian S
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Punctuality is a requirement that annoys every soldier. Diplomats and politicians generally know how to avoid being on time. But with U.S. President Barack Obama falling in public opinion polls, with the war in Afghanistan changing directions every 3-4 months and no end in sight, and with congressional elections approaching in November, Obama said to his supporters "I'm sticking to the schedule". The plan to reduce the number of combat troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of August, reaffirmed by Obama on Monday, is not a full retreat, but it is worrying, mostly due to the fact that in Iraq there is still no government five months after elections were held. Iraqi security ...
Earmarks Help, Palin Doesn't
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:05:44 by Brian S
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Over and over, politicians in Washington have condemned “earmarks,” language stuck into bills designed to provide money for special projects supported by individual members of Congress. Yet politicians keep fighting for those earmarks -- and there are some members who denounce earmarks in the abstract but then work hard for those that happen to benefit their folks back home. That may seem hypocritical, but now we know why politicians do it: Voters like politicians better when they show them the money. A new Pew Research Center/National Journal poll released today found that 53 percent of Americans are more likely to vote for candidates with a record of bringing government money ...
Neocons Are Hypocrites On WikiLeaks
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:04:13 by Brian S
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As soon as the WikiLeaks Afghanistan exposé came to light, it was obvious the usual suspects would start attacking the messenger than discussing the message. David Aaronovitch was quick off the mark, with others following soon enough – implying WikiLeaks was seriously damaging the war effort in Afghanistan. The rhetoric has now reached absurd levels. The US defence secretary said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, had "blood on his hands"; people on Fox News have called it "a terrorist organisation"; and one of the Washington Post's columnists called it a "criminal enterprise". The former Bush speechwriter also said he wanted it shut down ...
GOP Leaders Join The Hate: Gingrich And Palin Attack Ground Zero 'Mosque' With No Regard For Facts
Post Date: 2010-08-03 17:04:24 by Brian S
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Newt Gingrich, his doctorate notwithstanding, has offered us an illogical and ahistorical context to the ugly dispute about building an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Manhattan's Ground Zero. For a while, I thought that Sarah Palin and others would be the only ones to reap the political benefit of exploiting anti-Muslim sentiment, but Gingrich was not to be denied. With a preposterous solemnity, he expounded the schoolyard doctrine of tit for tat. Gingrich noted that there "are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia." True enough. However, it is not the government of Saudi Arabia that seeks to open a mosque in lower Manhattan, but a private group. In addition, ...
Still more proof Sarah Palin is toxic outside her bubble
Post Date: 2010-08-03 13:53:18 by Skip Intro
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Still more proof Sarah Palin is toxic outside her bubble Okay, here's still more evidence, as if you needed it, that Sarah Palin is increasingly toxic to voters who reside outside the Palin Nation bubble. Pew Research just released a new poll finding that more than twice as many Americans see a Palin endorsement as a negative for a Congressional candidate than view it as a positive. The numbers: Thirty eight percent say they are less likely to back a Congressional candidate if Palin "campaigns on their behalf." Less than half that amount, 18 percent, say they are more likely to do so. Forty two percent say it would make no difference, only slightly more than see it as a ...
Is Fear Of Islam The New McCarthyism?
Post Date: 2010-08-02 20:03:17 by Brian S
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By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite Religious freedom and the right of free expression are the strongest source of power Americans have for combating radicals who use Islam as the excuse for their violent extremism. The struggle with such extremists will not, indeed cannot, be won with military force, but through the power of our values. If there is a "narrative" abroad in the world that justifies violence against the West because the West "hates Islam," the way to correct that narrative is with the practice of our cherished ideals of religious freedom and tolerance for diversity of opinion. Instead, however, conservatives such as Newt Gingrich want us to reject not only ...
Has Shimon Peres forgotten the support – and lives – Britain has given Israel?
Post Date: 2010-08-02 13:48:04 by Brian S
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Israeli President Shimon Peres’s Britain-bashing, revealed by The Daily Telegraph, only further demonstrates the bunker mentality that now passes for foreign policy in Jerusalem. This is what he said in the interview: And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment… They always worked against us. He finished off with the sensational headline fodder: “There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.” Immediately, the Israeli blogosphere was humming with approval for the elderly president’s outburst. ...
Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?
Post Date: 2010-07-31 04:02:43 by A K A Stone
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The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another. People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?" Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency. Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do. Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of ...
The Real Aim of Israel’s Bomb Iran Campaign
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:31:09 by Brian S
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Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran. That has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants ...
Putin’s War on Israel
Post Date: 2010-07-30 00:28:29 by Brian S
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Now that another Middle East war seems imminent, concerns are growing about the new powerful weapons that are available to Palestinian terrorists. It appears to be virtually unknown that these weapons are being steadily supplied by Putin’s Russia. In the present atmosphere of the everlasting “reset” of relations between the U.S. and Russia, it is not difficult for the Kremlin to camouflage its arming of terrorists. Indeed, the world is willing to turn a blind eye. This month, for instance, Russia announced it was making another gift to the “Palestinian security forces” on the West Bank: 50 armored vehicles. According to Russia’s Foreign Ministry earlier this ...
The GOP's New Tax Cut Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2010-07-27 11:03:19 by Brian S
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House Republicans, during a news conference on "Democrats' failure to pass a budget, the record-setting $13 trillion National Debt, and the need to cut spending now to create jobs." (Scott J. Ferrell / Getty Images) Five years ago, Republicans backed tax cuts—but said deficits didn’t matter. Today, they say deficits are all that matters, but still like tax cuts. Peter Beinart on the party’s economic time warp. What do the debate over the Afghan war and the debate over extending the Bush tax cuts have in common? They could both be taking place in 2005. The financial crisis has changed the world. But in Washington, the arguments have barely changed. Five ...
Antiwar Conservatives and Rumors of Antiwar Conservatives
Post Date: 2010-07-27 10:42:23 by Brian S
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Recently, I wrote a cover story for the American Conservative making two arguments: 1.) Rand Paul's victory shows that, in the current political environment, a principled economic and social conservative who runs a good campaign can win mainstream Republican support despite deviations from the party line on foreign policy and 2.) There are tendencies within the mainstream right -- ranging from fiscal conservatism to Jacksonian skepticism of nation-building -- that lend themselves to certain arguments for a less interventionist foreign policy, though not necessarily the kind of arguments that non-interventionist conservatives tend to make. Daniel Larison is skeptical, pointing to the ...
On Gingrich: A legacy of surrender
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:51:55 by Brian S
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The news that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich folded like a cheap suit in the wake of a brazen political attack on the tea party movement was sad. But not surprising. As far back as his second term in Congress, in 1980, Gingrich sided with big labor interests until brought to his knees by a National Right to Work education campaign. Contrary to his image, Gingrich has demonstrated throughout his political career that he possesses no real ideological mooring. Now, his legitimizing the NAACP’s crass political attempt to play the race card reveals him to be nothing more than a rank political opportunist – a White House-aspiring demagogue who prefers looking good for the ...
The Political Genius Of Supply-Side Economics
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:43:25 by Brian S
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EmailSharePrintBack to Martin Wolf's Exchange homepage The political genius of supply-side economicsJuly 25, 2010 4:18pm | Share The future of fiscal policy was intensely debated in the FT last week. In this Exchange, I want to examine what is going on in the US and, in particular, what is going on inside the Republican party. This matters for the US and, because the US remains the world’s most important economy, it also matters greatly for the world. My reading of contemporary Republican thinking is that there is no chance of any attempt to arrest adverse long-term fiscal trends should they return to power. Moreover, since the Republicans have no interest ...
Lou Pritchett - Another GOP Mouthpiece
Post Date: 2010-07-26 07:59:52 by war
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Lou Pritchett - Another GOP Mouthpiece and of the worst sort. Snopes tells me this letter from Lou Pritchett, formerly the bigwig at P&G, is real. The letter itself tells me he's bucking to be on with Hannity and crowd more often. This is propaganda of the highest sort, the bigger the lie the more easily believed. If you're going to use scare tactics it sure pays to use the word "scared" as many times as possible. I've taken his single-statement paragraphs and interspersed by own responses between them. Mine will be italicized. AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the ...
Obama You Scare Me
Post Date: 2010-07-25 23:23:06 by A K A Stone
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I received this email today attributed to Lou Pritchett at Procter & Gamble...thought I'd share it !! By Lou Pritchett, Procter & Gamble AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. You scare me ...
Andrew Breitbart - The NAACP's Best Friend And The Tea Party Movement's Worst Enemy
Post Date: 2010-07-25 21:36:14 by Brian S
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In the midst of the Shirley Sherrod hoopla, an interesting situation involving the Tea Party Movement seems to have gone unnoticed: One of the most prominent men in the tea party movement, Tea Party Express spokesperson and former chair Mark Williams, is abandoning the group he helped propel into the role of the tea party's public face. . . . In his resignation letter to the TPE, Williams says he left the group after the past week's public battle with the NAACP made him too hot to handle. "I feel compelled to separate myself from any further involvement with the Tea Party Express so that I can pursue other interests," Williams wrote, "and to free the tea party ...
Right-Wing America: Racism And Religion
Post Date: 2010-07-25 19:56:56 by Brian S
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“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis There are struggles and challenges with race relations and understanding across just about every demographic of American society. Even at its best it is a learning process much like the inspirational story shared by Shirley Sherrod. With civil rights legislation only forty five years old, the entire current population of African American seniors over 65 years old have had the experience of being denied the legal right to vote in their own country. Race relations in America, among a society of equal citizens, is relatively new. In this stage of relative infancy growing pains ...
Repubs Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US Economy
Post Date: 2010-07-25 19:53:22 by Brian S
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Jamal Abdi at HuffPo explains that almost a third of Republicans in the House have signed on to a resolution urging Israel to attack Iran. The National Iranian American Council has a petition you can sign calling on minority leader John Boehner to repudiate this measure. The move is reminiscent of the 1998 letter the Project for a New American Century signatories sent to President Clinton, putting pressure on him to initiate war on Iraq. They did maneuver him into pulling out UN weapons inspectors and bombing Iraq. The US removal of the inspectors made the West blind as to the lack of Iraqi weapons programs, since their absence could no longer be certified. In turn, Iraq’s ...
NOW is so later. Why liberals are killing the feminist movement.
Post Date: 2010-07-25 08:43:32 by A K A Stone
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The National Organization for Women began in 1966. They were all for equal rights and equal pay for women. They encouraged all women to be independent and speak out for themselves. What the hell happened? Now NOW is for pro-infanticide and they crucify any woman who speaks her mind who doesn’t agree with their far left ideology. They were merciless against Sarah Palin. Here we had a woman with a great career and a great family but because she was pro-life, she wasn’t a feminist. Love her or hate her she is still one kick ass woman. I’m sorry but when did feminism become solely about abortion?Sarah Palin The women’s movement was going on long before women like Gloria ...
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