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Why Crist Now Leads Rubio in Florida Senate Race (Crist 42%, Rubio 31%, Meek 14%)
Post Date: 2010-06-21 19:22:44 by Brian S
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Florida's Republican Governor Charlie Crist is now leading in polls against Republican Marco Rubio for the 2010 Florida Senate race, where Crist will run as an independent. Crist's break with his party was seen as a sign that the GOP's hard-line conservatives were growing in power over the moderate wing of the party. A recent poll by the Florida Chamber of Commerce shows Crist with 42 percent support, giving Rubio 31 percent and Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek 14 percent. After months of Rubio leading Crist, often by double digits, the new poll is the latest showing a Crist resurgence. How did he do it and what does it mean for the Florida and for national races?Economy No ...
Neocons Lead Charge Against Turkey
Post Date: 2010-06-21 16:44:15 by Brian S
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As the right-wing leadership of the organised US Jewish community defends Israel against international condemnation for its deadly seizure of a flotilla bearing humanitarian supplies for Gaza, a familiar clutch of neo-conservative hawks is going on the offensive against what they see as the flotilla's chief defender, Turkey. Outraged by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's repeated denunciations of the May 31 Israeli raid, as well as his co-sponsorship with Brazil of an agreement with Iran designed to promote renewed negotiations with the West on Tehran's nuclear programme, some neo-conservatives are even demanding that the US try to expel Ankara from NATO as one among several ...
Bill O'Reilly: The Left turns on Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-21 15:43:33 by Badeye
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Bill O'Reilly: The Left turns on Obama By: Bill O'Reilly Examiner Columnist June 21, 2010 Hell has frozen over! The far Left in America is turning on its guy President Obama. After his speech on the oil disaster a few days ago, the crazy left Greek chorus on MSNBC hammered the president. He wasn't specific enough, he was too weak, I don't sense "executive command," they wailed. You would have thought they were talking about President George W. Bush. In fact, many of the anti-Obama criticisms echoed the Hurricane Katrina invective directed toward Bush in 2005. Usually, the far Left covers for its folks, provides them excuse after excuse for their failures. But ...
America Is Declining, With Middle Powers Challenging Its Supremacy
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:52:57 by Brian S
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Long, unfinished wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – coupled with the global recession triggered by the excesses of Wall Street – are widely seen as symptoms of the relative decline in the economic and military clout of the United States. Rising middle-level powers such as Turkey and Iran in the Middle East and Brazil in South America now are challenging the diplomatic supremacy of Washington. Earlier this month, the new contours of diplomatic power were on display in Istanbul. The city was the site of the summit of the 20-member Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building in Asia, which was presided over by the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The event also ...
Why, Really, Was The USS Liberty Attacked By Israel?
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:41:38 by Brian S
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The following is my keynote address to the annual re-union dinner of the Liberty Veterans’ Association – Long Island, 12 June 2010. I want to begin by saying that though I covered wars wherever they were taking place on Planet Earth in my television reporting days – it was in Vietnam as a very young correspondent that I first started to ask myself questions about why things are as they are in the world – I am an Englishman and one who didn’t serve in his country’s armed forces. (Not because I was a draft dodger. Conscription had ended). So it is both an honour and a privilege for me to be with you this evening. And please believe me, I really mean it. I’m ...
Inside the Mind of the Anonymous Online Poster (long editorial)
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:41:06 by Murron
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Inside the Mind of the Anonymous Online Poster Neil Swidey 2010-06-19 On Monday, May 17, at 2 p.m., a breaking news article headlined “Obama’s aunt given OK to stay in United States” hits the home page of Boston.com. In a matter of seconds, the first anonymous online comment appears. A reader with the handle of Peregrinite writes, “of course she can . . . can someone appeal.” Certain topics never fail to generate a flood of impassioned reactions online: immigration, President Obama, federal taxes, “birthers,” and race. This story about Obama’s Kenyan aunt, who had been exposed as an illegal immigrant living in public housing in Boston and who was ...
AIPAC Circulates Racist Anti-Turk, Anti-Arab Video
Post Date: 2010-06-20 13:45:47 by Brian S
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ments 120 The "pro-Israel" lobby is slipping big time. First, earlier this spring, its student activities czar, Jonathan Kessler, openly spoke about how AIPAC muzzles Congress. But this is worse. Yesterday, it's press liaison circulated a blatantly racist video. (He sent it out to his media contacts by email to avoid too much of a direct link to AIPAC. Nice try). In days of yore, AIPAC would never do anything this blatant. But then neither would Israel, which has also been promoting these videos. Check it out. I have no problem with a pro-Israel lobby. But not one like this which evidently cares nothing about Israel but only about sucking up to ...
The Barton Apology: Proving Conservatives Want America to Be Dependent on Big Oil
Post Date: 2010-06-18 13:33:26 by Brian S
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Before Rep. Joe Barton literally apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward for the "tragedy" of the "$20 billion shakedown" -- otherwise known to the sane as an escrow fund to pay claims to victims of the Gulf gusher -- he stressed he was not speaking for the Republican Party. Fair enough. But he was certainly speaking for conservatism. And Barton's astonishing apology to the disgraced multinational oil behemoth lays bare the sorry state of conservatism -- an ideology so blinded by hatred for anything associated with liberalism, and so compromised by financial relationships to Big Oil, that it will junk any philosophical principle, ignore all science and reject all common ...
A Snakebit President
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:24:53 by Badeye
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A Snakebit President Americans want leaders on whom the sun shines. By PEGGY NOONAN The president is starting to look snakebit. He's starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn't Mr. Carter's fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered. He defied the rule of the King in "Pippin," the Broadway show of Carter's era, who spoke of "the rule that every general knows by heart, that it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart." Mr. Carter's opposite was Bill Clinton, on whom fortune smiled with eight years of relative peace and a worldwide economic boom. What misfortune ...
Gulf oil spill puts industry-friendly Republicans in tight spot
Post Date: 2010-06-18 10:29:41 by go65
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Who says there's no such thing as loyalty in politics? Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), who has received more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from the oil industry during this election cycle, revealed Thursday that he may be the only person in America who believes that BP deserves an apology for the way it has been treated during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Although Barton later retracted his suggestion that BP was the victim of a White House "shakedown" -- after House GOP leaders threatened to take away his position as ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the episode showed the uncomfortable spot in which some Republicans find themselves. This ...
Gulf Oil Spill Puts Industry-Friendly Republicans In Tight Spot
Post Date: 2010-06-18 00:25:54 by Brian S
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Who says there's no such thing as loyalty in politics? Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), who has received more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from the oil industry during this election cycle, revealed Thursday that he may be the only person in America who believes that BP deserves an apology for the way it has been treated during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Although Barton later retracted his suggestion that BP was the victim of a White House "shakedown" -- after House GOP leaders threatened to take away his position as ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the episode showed the uncomfortable spot in which some Republicans find themselves. This ...
Goldi Really Posted This? (LOL)
Post Date: 2010-06-16 12:26:34 by no gnu taxes
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http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=291219&Disp=1#C1
The Economics of Libertarianism, Revealed
Post Date: 2010-06-16 09:31:57 by go65
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It is both the best and worst of times for libertarians. On the plus side, real, live politicians who might conceivably get elected call themselves libertarians. On the negative side, true libertarians have lost their ancient luxury of being able to avoid any responsibility for the gaffes and errors of political leaders. Libertarianism rests on two bedrock beliefs: human freedom is a great good and the public sector tends to screw things up. The first belief is based more on faith than empirical result; the second derives from millennia of human experience. The increased appeal of libertarianism today reflects a nonpartisan view that the public sector has been deeply problematic under ...
Will Republicans Miss Opportunity?
Post Date: 2010-06-15 15:17:38 by Brian S
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Can there be a more fortunate politician on Earth than Nevada Sen. Harry Reid? The Senate majority leader has seen his popularity plunge in the Silver State. He led the fight for the health care bill, opposed by a majority of Nevada citizens, according to state polls. Reid also had his fingerprints all over the bailouts. In a time when insider politicians are under fire, Reid is the ultimate insider. But he may yet get re-elected. Republican Party leaders in the state had backed a candidate they felt confident would easily defeat Reid — former state party chairwoman Sue Lowden. She had the political connections to run a strong, statewide campaign. Lowden is a solid conservative, but ...
The Drudge factor
Post Date: 2010-06-15 09:35:25 by Badeye
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The Drudge factor By Brent Budowsky - 06/14/10 06:49 PM ET In the latest debate about Matt Drudge, Mark Halperin of Time magazine suggests that Drudge appeals to racism among a portion of his readers. I often agree with Halperin, but he misses the point. Drudge does not appeal to racism. This is wrong about Drudge and insulting to his readers, and diverts attention from the big question: With so many wealthy liberals and Democrats, with Democrats controlling the presidency and Congress, and with Hollywood and New York full of brilliant, wealthy liberal stars and moguls, why does the right have such a media lead over the left? Drudge is no different from elements of the press since ...
A Gusher of Light Sweet Terror
Post Date: 2010-06-14 19:22:13 by Brian S
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“We need to be realistic about operating in a mile of water” Tony Hayward, the cherubic little weasel who serves as the front man for British Petroleum, BP, Beyond Pathetic or whatever they are calling their ‘brand’ this week, made the statement above, on camera to reporters while standing on an oil fouled Louisiana beach a couple of weeks ago. Earlier that day I had a fairly heated argument with an elderly acquaintance who recently became enraptured by the ‘Teabaggers.’ This giddy political infatuation has had the gruesome effect of making him more of a pain in the ass than he was previously. At one point in the ‘discussion’ he asked me why BP was ...
Crimes by Israel, Sanctions for Iran
Post Date: 2010-06-14 15:19:02 by Brian S
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The Iranian nation is not unfamiliar with the double standards of the superpowers anymore. The history of Iran's relations with the western and eastern superpowers is filled with deceitfulness, dishonesty and fraudulence. The recent U.S.-proposed, Russia-backed United Nations Security Council resolution against Iran over its nuclear program is simply one example out of hundreds of instances which demonstrate that the big powers have not ever been honest and sincere with Iran.
While the international community is witness to the flagrant, ceaseless and unrelenting felonies of the illegitimate regime of Israel in the occupied territories of Gaza and West Bank, United Nations Security ...
Is The Tea Party Over?
Post Date: 2010-06-14 15:06:58 by Brian S
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Is the tea party movement already weak tea? Has the anti-government, anti-Obama movement already peaked? A new ABC-Washington Post poll shows that half of Americans now view the tea party unfavorably. Besides that, its political endorsements have not turned out as well as many had hoped. In Nevada, tea party members are fussing and finger-pointing over the election of Sharron Angle as the GOP nominee to face Harry Reid. Some are pointing out the obvious: Angle, a former state legislator with fringe views, isn’t the strongest candidate against Reid. In Virginia, tea partiers put forward so many candidates for congressional seats that establishment-backed candidates won the nomination. ...
Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel
Post Date: 2010-06-11 12:58:21 by Badeye
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Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel The world cares deeply about refugees, disputed territory, and divided cities — when Israel is involved. Otherwise, otherwise. It is hard to become much more influential than the doyen of the White House press corps, who is given a ceremonial front-rows seat at press briefings and press conferences. So when Helen Thomas suggested that the Israelis should leave their country and “go home” to Poland and Germany, this was not some obscure, eccentric anti-Semite, but a liberal insider who has come to enjoy iconic status and a sense of exemption from criticism. Note that Ms. Thomas did not call for just a West Bank free of ...
Calif. GOP primary winners look headed for defeat
Post Date: 2010-06-10 09:35:01 by go65
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The good news for Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina here in California was that they won their Republican primaries. The bad news was that they had to run in Republican primaries. Whitman, now the GOP nominee for governor, and Fiorina, the GOP nominee for senator, dispatched their nearest primary rivals by margins of better than 2 to 1. Each spent a queen's ransom to do so -- in Whitman's case, close to $80 million of her own money -- but both former CEOs have plenty left over to take on their Democratic opponents this fall: in Whitman's case, Jerry Brown, the once and, he hopes, future governor; in Fiorina's case, incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer. But California Republican ...
Helen Thomas Is Out, But What About Others?
Post Date: 2010-06-08 10:22:34 by Badeye
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Helen Thomas Is Out, But What About Others? By Judith Miller Published June 08, 2010 | FOXNews.com “Blessed are the peacemakers,” if you can find any in the Middle East. They seem to be in short supply these days. One place not to look is on the Gaza flotilla. According to a radio communication the IDF released over the weekend, when Israeli warships issued a calm, but forceful warning to the “peace” flotilla to change course from Gaza, which is under blockade, and head instead for the Israeli port of Ashdod, an unidentified man on one of the ships – it’s unclear whether he was on the now infamous Mavi Marmara -- replied, in English: “Go back to ...
Get Back to Africa
Post Date: 2010-06-08 09:50:46 by Badeye
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Get Back to Africa by Mike Adams Author’s Note: The author would like to thank “Bob” who is really clever by Caucasian gentile standards. Left wing White House reporter Helen Thomas was recently forced to issue an apology to African American citizens. She stated bluntly, in front of a live microphone, that blacks should “get the hell out of America.” Thomas is a longtime White House correspondent who writes a column for Hearst newspapers. She made the comments on May 27th after a White House African American History event. Thomas was asked by a black reporter if she had “any comments on African Americans.” She replied, “Tell them to get the ...
Tea Party Drowning In Sea Of Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2010-06-07 11:58:10 by Brian S
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I'm done trying to hack through the tea party thicket of self-contradiction, self-delusion and self-serving positions. My last straw is Rand Paul, a tea party favorite and now Republican nominee for senator from Kentucky. What damns Paul wasn't the flap over his views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Presumably, Paul isn't a racist. He's just a privileged white guy -- a doctor and son of 11-term congressman Ron Paul. What makes Rand Paul so exasperating is his crashing hypocrisy on Medicare. The hero to the cause of smaller government and balanced budgets vows not to touch Medicare -- the biggest and fastest-growing expense on the federal balance sheet. Rand's ...
Don't let Fannie and Freddie return to old neighborhood
Post Date: 2010-06-04 11:15:06 by Badeye
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Our view on housing finance: Don't let Fannie and Freddie return to old neighborhood Updated 15h 11m ago As bailouts go, nothing quite matches the torrent of taxpayer money still pouring into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the housing giants that now guarantee nearly half of the nation's $11.7 trillion in mortgages. To cover loans that go sour, the federal government has already doled out almost $145 billion, and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the final tab will be about $381 billion. That's about half the size of the 2008 bank bailout but, unlike that bailout, most of this money won't get paid back. And even now, there's little talk in ...
The Gaza Flotilla Attack Shows How Far Israel Has Declined
Post Date: 2010-06-03 19:28:58 by Brian S
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No explanation can justify or whitewash the crime that was committed, and no excuse can explain away the stupid actions of the government and the army. Israel did not send its soldiers to kill civilians in cold blood; this is the last thing it wanted. Yet, a small Turkish organisation, fanatical in its religious views and radically hostile to Israel, recruited to its cause several hundred seekers of peace and justice, and managed to lure Israel into a trap, because it knew how Israel would react, knew how Israel is destined and compelled, like a puppet on a string, to react the way it did. How insecure, confused and panicky a country must be, to act as Israel acted! With a combination of ...
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