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An Empty Party
Post Date: 2010-07-16 14:07:10 by Brian S
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Many Americans are talking about how well the Republicans may do in the midterm elections this November. I say they can’t win because the Republican Party no longer exists. Those who claim to be the Republicans aren’t. The party is dead. Only the name survives. This is not the party of Abraham Lincoln. Ronald Reagan was far too liberal for today’s Republicans. The only thing left is the neocon wing, personified by former Vice President Dick Cheney. The party is owned by corporate puppets that apologize to BP. The party is led by Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin. Republicans need to take responsibility. They need to stand for something more than empty slogans. There are no ...
Wall Street Apocalypse: The World of the Doomsday Investors
Post Date: 2010-07-13 12:22:36 by Brian S
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Predictions of the end of civilization are nothing new, but the direst prognosticators have, traditionally, existed on the fringes of society, where their dark visions can be comfortably attributed to an excess of libertarianism or a shortage of Prozac. In the last few years, however, something strange has happened. While there is no lack of survivalists stockpiling cat food and rifles, some of the direst thinkers are now working on Wall Street, where a combination of fear and foresight has many of the country's money men contemplating their escape routes. Patron Saint of Dire Predictions The patron saint of the Wall Street apocalypse society may be Barton Biggs. The leader of Traxis ...
Anger management and Rep. Ciro Rodriguez
Post Date: 2010-07-13 09:12:12 by Badeye
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Anger management and Rep. Ciro Rodriguez 6:12 PM Mon, Jul 12, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz Todd J. Gillman/Reporter Bio | E-mail | News tips Just two weeks ago, the Democratic National Committee put out a call for "Macaca" moments - an open invitation to anyone with a cell phone or video camera to record and share embarrassing comments from Republican politicians. Well, turnabout is fair play, as San Antonio congressman Ciro Rodriguez - a Democrat -now can attest. Conservatives had fun today spreading a short clip in which a woman at a Rodriguez meet-the-congressman event this weekend accuses him of lying about costs of the new health care plan. The fact that she had a ...
Is Democracy Overrated?
Post Date: 2010-07-12 15:16:02 by Brian S
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With the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and the Soviet Union, and Beijing's abandonment of Maoism, anti-communism necessarily ceased to be the polestar of U.S. foreign policy. For many, our triumph fairly cried out for a bottom-up review of all the alliances created to fight that Cold War and a return to a policy of non-intervention in foreign quarrels where no vital U.S. interest was imperiled. This was dismissed as isolationism. Seeking some new cause to give meaning to their lives, our suddenly superfluous foreign policy elites settled upon a crusade for democracy as America's new mission in the world. Interventions in Panama, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia followed, plus wars ...
Robert Reich is Clueless
Post Date: 2010-07-12 15:05:21 by Badeye
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Robert Reich is Clueless By BRUCE BIALOSKY You may remember Robert Reich -- he served as Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton’s first term. Mr. Reich has fashioned himself as an economist since he left that lofty federal post, and he frequently leads the argument for positions on the left wing of the Democratic Party while attempting to present himself as a man of reason. He has once more pontificated the left-wing position on the problems of our stagnant economy and thereby shows how lost the left continues to be regarding a free-market economy. Reich is certainly a smart man, a very educated man and a very accomplished man. Having said that, he could still very well have blind ...
Sarah Palin Likes Government Too
Post Date: 2010-07-12 12:04:53 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- During a speech at an event called "Freedom Fest," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin warned Tea Party activists that while government spending was a bad thing, conservatives should not go too far and start calling for reductions in the military budget. While Palin told the crowd in Norfolk, Virginia, "Something has to be done urgently to stop the out-of-control Obama-Reid-Pelosi spending machine," she also told them, "We must make sure, however, that we do nothing to undermine the effectiveness of our military." Palin's speech touched on a historic problem for the conservative movement. Ever since conservatives embraced a hawkish stance toward ...
Arizona Governor 'Has Lost Her Head'
Post Date: 2010-07-12 12:03:17 by Brian S
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Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona Sunday, July 11, 2010 Jan Brewer has lost her head. The Arizona governor, seemingly determined to repel every last tourist dollar from her pariah state, has sounded a new alarm about border violence. "Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded," she announced on local television. Ay, caramba! Those dark-skinned foreigners are now severing the heads of fair-haired Americans? Maybe they're also scalping them or shrinking them or putting them on a spike. But those in fear of losing parts north of the neckline can relax. There's ...
Top Anti-War Democrat: Afghanistan War Could Ddestroy’ Obama’s Presidency
Post Date: 2010-07-12 11:56:25 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – An outspoken anti-war Democrat said ongoing US military efforts in Afghanistan could deeply imperil the presidency of Barack Obama and the fortunes of the Democratic Party. “I think that this war, if it goes on and if it escalates, has the potential to destroy this presidency and to destroy the Democratic majorities in Congress," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) told Raw Story in an interview. The New York congressman, who has called the Afghanistan war a "fool's errand," said he has no qualms opposing Obama and Democratic leaders on this sensitive issue ahead of the midterm elections, despite the harsh climate for his party. "When you’re ...
London Daily Telegraph: Palin Retains A Star Power Unmatched By Anyone Else In Her Party
Post Date: 2010-07-11 21:00:19 by A K A Stone
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Check the sky for flying pigs. Has Hell frozen over?. The impossible has happened. Alex Spillius, Washington correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph has actually written a respectful, almost positive article on Sarah Palin. For nearly two years this man, together with his fellow Telegraph hack Toby Harnden, has totally belittled and trivialised Palin as an irrelevant airhead with quotes from the usual run of Republican “consultants” to buttress his disdain for The ’Cuda. Spillius and Harnden, even though resident in the USA have never, to my knowledge, made any attempt to use actual shoeleather to research Palin or sought to arrange an interview. Instead they have been ...
Zero Looks Like Hitler
Post Date: 2010-07-11 11:01:14 by reaganisright
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I've got the boob tube on tuned to the Military Channel and the show is about the Bismarck. The just showed a small video of Hitler after the Hood was sunk and he not only looked liked Zero but he had the same obnoxious head tilt, nose up kinda thing. For all you guys who don't remember the Germans were in bed with the muslims before WWII.
Israel's Image Is Changing
Post Date: 2010-07-09 12:48:03 by Brian S
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The Arab poet Adonis writes, "the Israeli policy has a peculiar dictionary — linguistically, intellectually and ethically. Whoever contradicts its rules and standards, even if rightly, is already dubbed as mistaken. There is no place for truth outside that dictionary". Israel, according to growing world opinion, has become an "insane state", "a pirate state", "illegal", "suicidal", "ignorant in history", "brutal" and "disdaining of humanity", to quote only a few expressions describing Israel. These symptoms started to appear after the end of the Cold War, when America and Europe's need for the Zionist ...
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs
Post Date: 2010-07-09 10:47:47 by go65
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The former Intel chief says "job-centric" leadership and incentives are needed to expand U.S. domestic employment again Recently an acquaintance at the next table in a Palo Alto (Calif.) restaurant introduced me to his companions, three young venture capitalists from China. They explained, with visible excitement, that they were touring promising companies in Silicon Valley. I've lived in the Valley a long time, and usually when I see how the region has become such a draw for global investments, I feel a little proud. Not this time. I left the restaurant unsettled. Something did not add up. Bay Area unemployment is even higher than the 9.7 percent national average. Clearly, ...
PRESS MAN: Don’t Give Readers What They Want
Post Date: 2010-07-08 11:00:59 by Badeye
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PRESS MAN: Don’t Give Readers What They Want Andrew Ferguson July/August 2010 In early May, on the evening of the day his magazine got shot out from under him, the editor of Newsweek, Jon Meacham, appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, seeking fellowship, commiseration, and a platform from which he might discourse upon the larger significance of the day’s developments. Discoursing upon larger significances is one of Meacham’s particular gifts. No one was surprised then that he would seek to apply it to the unexpected news that the owner of Newsweek, Donald Graham of the Washington Post Co., was putting the magazine up for sale, with the implication that the place would ...
KARL ROVE: Seize the Day, GOP
Post Date: 2010-07-08 09:55:27 by Badeye
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KARL ROVE: Seize the Day, GOP By Karl Rove Published July 08, 2010 | The Wall Street Journal During the last week, President Obama doubled down on a losing political bet, further cementing the Democratic Party's reputation as the champion of bigger deficits, higher spending and more government. He did so just as the public is crying out for lower deficits, less spending and less government. In his Saturday radio address, Mr. Obama attacked Republican opposition to additional stimulus spending, saying they "just don't get it." Maybe they do get it. The first, $862 billion stimulus bill of 17 months ago has after all failed to work the president's promised magic. ...
Palin critics suffer from fear factor [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-06 00:15:38 by reaganisright
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The last presidential campaign, its election and each and every day since have crystallized the magic and malice of the national media. By working its magic, the media were able to keep Obama hidden in clear sight. His past was selectively chosen, his present was a manufactured eloquence of hope and change, his future was his transcendent ability to lead us to the land of milk and honey, and his gaffes were editorially retrofitted. The media took a virtual unknown and kept him unknown. This Camelot euphoria was interrupted by another unknown that stoked the malice of the media. Unexpectedly, a non-elite commoner caused a derangement syndrome with Obama and his media acolytes that came out ...
Straight talk is alien to prez
Post Date: 2010-07-04 10:01:58 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama arrived on the scene yesterday of one America's most pressing political disasters and tried lecturing it away. It was a halting speech, punctuated with sighs and head-shaking. America had been sent to its room and once again punished with a long, boring lecture. What made yesterday's speech so remarkable was how callow and shifty Obama was about a topic of such dire importance. He claimed that solutions have been "held hostage to political posturing" and wagged his finger at all those who just beg the government to finally enforce current law before creating a scheme of new promises. Then he played the very same partisan games that ...
Sarah Palin vs. George W. Bush
Post Date: 2010-07-03 02:08:27 by Brian S
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Seems like only yesterday, but it's now been a year since Sarah Palin abruptly quit her governorship, leading many people to speculate that she was trying to get a jump on the 2012 presidential campaign. Anyone wondering if Palin will indeed run for president, and what her chances might be, should cast a glance at the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Per NBC's Mark Murray and friends:[H]ere's the political reality: Outside of Republicans, she's not popular at all. According to our NBC/WSJ poll, just 29% view her favorably, compared with 43% who view her unfavorably (not far from George W. Bush's 29%-50% score).Stop and ponder that one for a moment. Palin's poll ...
Right Wingers Trolling for Jews as MSM Turns the Corner on Calling Out Right Wing Israeli Leadership
Post Date: 2010-07-03 01:56:00 by Brian S
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Right wingers are using American Jews' loyalty and love for Israel to attempt to lure usually liberal, Democratic voting Jews to the dark side-- conservatism. Most American Jews support Israel and like the idea that there is a Jewish homeland. That doesn't make them rabid Zionists. Their prayer books refer to the land of Israel. Their knowledge of history of the holocaust, of Jews who had nowhere to escape to being herded into cattle cars gives them a positive feeling about Israel. They have an inclination to want to protect Israel. But most Jewish Americans are American first and don't pay a lot of attention to the inner politics or actions of Israel, by their silence allowing ...
Unprecedented Arrogance
Post Date: 2010-07-02 23:22:59 by reaganisright
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The Obama administration grows more arrogant, cavalier and fundamentally dishonest every day. Just in the past few days, we've seen a number of troubling examples. Frankly, sometimes it's hard to keep up. In a speech in Wisconsin, Obama was bragging about how wonderful the terrible economy is. You'll recall that during both of President George W. Bush's terms, Democrats, including Obama, castigated him for destroying the economy, despite the existence of empirically verifiable robust growth during some seven of those eight years. Now that Obama has been in office for a year and a half and his economy is failing by all objective measures, he and his Democrats demand, once ...
Politics As Total War
Post Date: 2010-07-01 13:54:33 by Skip Intro
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Politics As Total War When Andrew Breitbart offers $100,000 for a private email list-serv archive, essentially all bets are off. Every blogger or writer who has ever offered an opinion is now on warning: your opponents will not just argue against you, they will do all they can to ransack your private life, cull your email in-tray, and use whatever material they have to unleash the moronic hounds of today's right-wing base. Yes, the Economist was right. This is not about transparency, or hypocrisy. It's about power. And when you are Andrew Breitbart, power is all that matters. There is not a whit of thoughtfulness about this, not an iota of pretense that it might actually advance ...
Olbermann: GOP Takes No Pity On The Unemployed
Post Date: 2010-07-01 12:24:28 by Brian S
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A year ago a heartless Missouri state representative named Cynthia Davis lashed out against school summer breakfast programs.She didn't understand the point. Why should the government keep kids from having breakfast at home with their folks? This woman was so disconnected from privation and want and poverty, that it had not occurred to her that not every child has enough food to eat. She added this insulting, demeaning postscript for the hungry children of Missouri: "Tip: If you work for McDonald's, they will feed you for free during your break." Podcast More from Countdown Get the Countdown podcast As of this month, with their members in the Senate killing a ...
The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party
Post Date: 2010-06-30 15:56:07 by Badeye
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The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party By Michael Gerson Wednesday, June 30, 2010 My political friendships and sympathies are increasingly determined not by ideology but by methodology. One of the most significant divisions in American public life is not between the Democrats and the Republicans; it is between the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party. This distinction came to mind in the case of Washington Post blogger David Weigel, who resigned last week after the leak of messages he wrote disparaging figures he covered. Weigel is, by most accounts, a bright, hardworking young man whose private communications should have been kept private. But the tone of the e-mails he posted on a liberal ...
LEFT: REMOVE PLANKS IN YOUR EYES, NOT SPLINTERS IN PALIN’S
Post Date: 2010-06-30 13:38:52 by Badeye
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LEFT: REMOVE PLANKS IN YOUR EYES, NOT SPLINTERS IN PALIN’S Ron Devito, US For Palin Published 06/30/2010 - 8:39 a.m. CST ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ron Devito Website: us4palin.com/ As we have noted numerous times, leftist attacks on Governor Palin operate like a Baskin Robbins ice cream store, following a “flavor-of-the-day” approach. Today’s flavor relates to a simple oratorical error that Gov. Palin made during her speech at Stanislaus last week. The “lamestream media” – are abuzz with the “horrific, earth shattering” news that Gov. Palin said “California’s Eureka College” rather than its actual location in Illinois, thus giving ...
Turkey's Rise Should Give U.S. Pause
Post Date: 2010-06-29 15:33:03 by Brian S
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The geopolitical map of the Middle East is witnessing a seismic shift not because of an imminent resolution to the Palestine question, a possible Arab-Israeli war, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the Iran nuclear issue. Rather, it is because Turkey is emerging as the new regional superpower. Turkey's rise is due to many factors, including its deep disappointment and humiliation in its pursuit of membership in the European Union. The nation has concluded that despite its membership in NATO and its distinction as the second-largest military force in that body, its inclusion in the EU is far-fetched. Thus, its leaders chose to shift the nation's political, economic and ...
7 Potential Economic Effects Of A War With Iran
Post Date: 2010-06-29 13:05:19 by Brian S
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As each day passes, war in the Middle East seems increasingly likely. The truth is that Israel will never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, and Iran is absolutely determined to continue developing a nuclear program. So right now Israel and Iran are engaged in a really bizarre game of "nuclear chicken" and neither side is showing any sign of blinking. In fact, even prominent world leaders are now openly stating that it is basically inevitable that Israel is going to strike Iran. For example, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi recently made the stunning admission that the G8 nations "absolutely believe" that Israel will ...
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