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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
GOP Wants To Return Us To Bush-Era Mistakes
Post Date: 2010-05-25 13:41:13 by Brian S
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The whiners and complainers of the country -- tea partiers, far right conservatives, racial bigots, birthers, conservative Republicans and others -- feel that the country is headed in the wrong direction. In 2001, Bill Clinton handed George W. Bush a large surplus in the U.S. treasury, and it took Bush two years to turn it into a large significant deficit. In 2009, President Barack Obama is handed the largest federal deficit in history and an economy close to a real depression due to Republican big spenders who think the only answer is to lower taxes to the wealthy. The Democrats passed the stimulus plan that is getting people back to work, and the economy is starting to move in a ...
Gordon Duff: :Assassination In Dubai, Israeli’s Warning To The World
Post Date: 2010-05-25 02:35:32 by mininggold
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Gordon Duff: Assassination In Dubai, Israeli’s Warning To The World
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman “WE CAN KILL ANYONE, ANYWHERE FOR ANY REASON…ARE YOU LISTENING PRESIDENT OBAMA”
When Israel sent 27 Mossad agents to a 5 star hotel in Dubai to murder Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a minor Hamas figure, it had nothing to do with Hamas or Dubai. It was a warning to President Obama and anyone else that nobody is safe and no reason is small enough to not justify a killing if key interests are involved, money, drugs, power and, least of all, the security of Israel. Mahmoud is said to be an “arms smuggler” who is traveling the world to get weapons into Lebanon for Hamas. As Lebanon ...
What History Tells Us About (Tea) Party Revolts
Post Date: 2010-05-23 22:05:07 by Brian S
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(CBS) There are various reasons being given for the rise of the Tea Party, and you heard several more today. But here's what I'm wondering: Are we just seeing history repeat itself? In modern history - to me, that means during my lifetime - political upheavals have generally been followed by the out party going too far . . . Republicans too far to the right, Democrats too far to the left. Here's what I mean: In 1960, after John F. Kennedy's election and subsequent death, Lyndon Johnson came to power and caused a sea change in American politics. He launched the Great Society programs, and passed the 1964 Civil Rights bill. Republicans responded by throwing out the ...
Republicans Ignore Past Anti-Immigrant Debacles
Post Date: 2010-05-23 21:36:08 by Brian S
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May 24 (Bloomberg) -- The Arizona Republican Party, following hard-fought primaries, plans a victory dinner in Phoenix on Aug. 27. There is a perfect speaker: former California Governor Pete Wilson. Arizona Republicans believe they’re riding a big anti- illegal immigration wave to success in November. Wilson can regale them with how he pursued a similar strategy in 1994, winning re-election with 55 percent of the vote after embracing Proposition 187 to cut off state-funded education and health programs for children of illegal immigrants. Wilson might also remind his political neighbors that since then the only other member of his party to win a major statewide election is the ...
Bob Bennet Throws A Snit Fit ANd Blames Kimmy Carter For His Loss
Post Date: 2010-05-23 14:48:19 by war
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Jimmy Carter won the White House in 1976 by riding the wave of anger and disillusionment that followed Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. Carter tapped into that anger with the slogan "I will never lie to you." An angry electorate, disgusted with Nixon, decided that was reason enough to give Carter the presidency. He won, in large part, because he made it clear that he wasn't Richard Nixon. Pundits called Carter a political genius. Four years later, however, he was a political pariah. Voters embraced Ronald Reagan because he wasn't Jimmy Carter, proving that good slogans do not necessarily produce good government. Unlike Carter, Reagan had more than slogans. He ...
Rand Paul and Robert Bork are soul mates
Post Date: 2010-05-22 22:00:59 by A K A Stone
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I’m having a flashback to the 1987 confirmation battle over Robert Bork. Not surprising, with a pending Supreme Court nomination, except my flashback has nothing to do with Elena Kagan. It’s about Rand Paul, the Republican Senate nominee from Kentucky, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bork and Paul are ideological soul mates. For those whose perspective on the rejected Bork nomination is that it was such a skewed pummeling that it led to the creation of a new verb -- Borking -- here’s a reminder. Writing in The New Republic in 1963 about the proposed civil rights act, Bork inveighed against a principle of "unsurpassed ugliness” -- not of racism, mind you, but of ...
Rand Paul for President -- The People's Hero, the Establishment's Nightmare
Post Date: 2010-05-22 21:53:52 by A K A Stone
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Rand Paul's victory over the GOP machine pick Trey Grayson is a stunning victory for grass roots Americans, and a stunning blow to the Republican establishment. Dr. Paul's victory is a political nightmare for the Republican Party, which wants the momentum, money, manpower and votes of the "Tea Party" activists and other angry voters. But the GOP establishment trembles over candidates who are actually principled when it comes to fiscal liberty, allowing only Christian marriage, and outlawing all child killing by abortion. This is a huge quagmire for the GOP. Old line party hacks like Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and Pat Buchanan, and Mitch McConnell are trying to co-opt the ...
Defending Rand Paul, Part II
Post Date: 2010-05-22 01:17:33 by A K A Stone
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A number of liberal writers have included or featured me in essays about the Rand Paul flap. First, Adele Stan: Rand Paul’s biggest mistake, Weigel asserts, is that he told the truth about what he believes. ... I do not, I admit, know whether or not Rand Paul is a racist, or simply misguidedly naive. But I do know that this conservative, libertarian idea — that private ownership trumps civil rights — is nothing more than bigotry dressed up in the garb of “principle.” Then, Gabriel Winant: Various figures who stand a few notches in toward the mainstream from Paul have made arguments similar to Weigel's. It was a mere theoretical fancy, they say, nothing ...
Rand Paul and the Constitution
Post Date: 2010-05-22 00:55:56 by A K A Stone
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The New York Sun wasn’t publishing in 1964, but we have no doubt that it would have supported the Civil Rights Act, as the editor who now conducts these columns did then and as the Sun does now. We revere the great figures of the civil rights movement. When their names — Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Thurgood Marshall, to mark but three who are still in the news columns — come up at the dinner table, we speak to our children about their righteousness, courage, and heroism. We haven’t the slightest hesitation in supporting the authority of the federal government to outlaw racial discrimination in public or private businesses and myriad private transactions, such as, ...
If I own a scooter
Post Date: 2010-05-21 07:29:11 by A K A Stone
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Ok I go to the store and buy myself a shiny new scooter. Am I allowed to choose who gets to ride it? Can I exclude people I don't want to ride it for whatever reason I choose? I suspect every reasonable person would say yes. Now say I take that money and buy a business instead. I own that business. Can I choose who to serve?
Have Some Tea, but Don't Throw a Party Yet
Post Date: 2010-05-19 15:19:27 by go65
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The Tea Partiers, as John Judis points out, are a particular breed of conservative populists. It is easiest to define them by their media consumption habits and how they express their rage against the establishment. Their sacred texts are a particular and circumscribed view of the Constitution, is filtered through the brains of Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Michelle Bachmann and others. Ye shall know them by the metaphors they use to describe the world, and how violently they describe the actions of the party in power today and the motivations (always deep and conspiratorial) they divine for those actions. They are angry conservatives, but not all angry conservatives are Tea Partiers. Regular ...
TITLE: Neocon Rand Paul defeats neocon Trey Grayson
Post Date: 2010-05-19 07:49:33 by A K A Stone
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The MSM parrots are making a big deal of Rand Paul’s victory over his ideologically identical opponent Trey Grayson. They are both neocons. Either way we loose. These two neocons were simply vying to replace another neocon, career crook Jim Bunning, who is retiring. This is a non-event and another net loss for freedom. HERE IS ONE COMMENT FROM THE THREAD Rand Paul is a NEOCON! “Rand Paul: Try, Convict and Lock Up Terrorists In Guantanamo” http://www.randpaul2010.com/2009/11/rand-paul-try-convict-and-lock-up-terrorists-in-guantanamo/ imp has it right, only chumps continue to vote in rigged elections. and only chumps would sit there and say “9/11 can wait” ...
Itching to Fight Another Muslim Enemy
Post Date: 2010-05-18 11:34:18 by Brian S
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If you read the major American newspapers or watch the propaganda on cable TV, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. foreign policy Establishment is again spoiling for a fight, this time in Iran. Just as Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was the designated target of American hate in 2002 and 2003, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is playing that role now. Back then, any event in Iraq was cast in the harshest possible light; today, the same is done with Iran. Anyone who dares suggest that the situation on the ground might not be as black and white as the Washington Post's editors claim it is must be an “apologist” for the enemy regime. It’s also not very smart for ...
Thinking Rots the Mind!
Post Date: 2010-05-16 19:30:41 by A K A Stone
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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ~ Gen. William Westmoreland What luck for the rulers that men do not think. ~ Adolf Hitler In a recent commencement address, President Obama declared that "information becomes a distraction, a diversion" which puts "pressure on our country and on our democracy." Technological innovations – including the Internet – produces a "24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter." He added that "with so many voices clamoring for attention on blogs, and on cable, on talk radio, it can be ...
Gov Christie bitch slaps LIBERAL reporter [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-14 13:37:18 by Jethro Tull
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*****************I don't know Christie from Adam, but this is the correct way to treat a fag who works for a rag.
A Pig In A Poke
Post Date: 2010-05-13 13:49:22 by A K A Stone
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Since word broke that President Obama would nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, the progressive community has been struggling to determine whether the choice lives up to the left's expectations for a Democratic nominee. Kagan's scant record on the issues she will confront as a justice is a huge concern for liberals who fear she may abandon a progressive agenda in favor of moving toward the center -- just as some liberals claim the president himself has done. "Nothing is a better fit for this White House than a blank slate, institution-loyal, seemingly principle-free careerist who spent the last 15 months as the Obama administration's lawyer ...
We've Seen the Likes of the Teabaggers Before
Post Date: 2010-05-13 12:35:55 by Brian S
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Terminally Stupid People Have Always Been With Us If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teabagger followers of Sarah “Africa is a country” Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh ... If you have thoughts of moving abroad after the latest silly lies and fantasies like “Obama the Marxist” and “Obama the antichrist” ... If you share Noam Chomsky’s feeling: "I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime” ... keep in mind that the right wing has long been at least as stupid and as mean-spirited. Consider some of the behavior of the same types for half a century ...
HATE
Post Date: 2010-05-12 13:58:49 by A K A Stone
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Hate, what is it? Is it good to hate? Is it evil? Seems that the left and right hate each other. Will the country ever be united again?
May 1948; How Russian And Polish Jews Wiped Out Palestine
Post Date: 2010-05-11 12:42:48 by Brian S
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Memory is the power which Zionist Jews cannot destroy. In memory of the Palestinian babies, children, women and men slaughtered mercilessly by Zionist Jews like these days 62 years ago. Each year on May 15th, Palestinians commemorate the war crimes committed by East European Jews and ask the same question: how did the so-called “Holocaust survivors” bring themselves to murder pregnant women, babies and others, put explosives in crowded Palestinian markets in the Palestinians towns, Haifa, Jafa, and Jerusalem, at schools and in orphanages and terrorize and expel a whole nation? Do Zionist Jews have hearts like other human beings, and if so how could they allow themselves to murder ...
The Left can’t survive without the Right – but the opposite isn’t true.
Post Date: 2010-05-11 07:51:23 by A K A Stone
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In 2007 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said, "[Riots] happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better." It is highly unlikely that Obama understood how this statement – made in condemnation of the Bush administration’s handling of the Katrina disaster – would again be relevant under his tenure, alluding to a wholly different, much larger, more diverse and powerful demographic. If there is anyone left out there who doesn’t grasp the reasons behind the mounting intensity of political conflict in ...
I'M MOVING TO MEXICO
Post Date: 2010-05-10 22:43:46 by Murron
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May 10, 2010 John Mehauf II I'M MOVING TO MEXICO The President White House - Oral Office 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: I'm planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We're planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. Into Mexico, and we'll need your help to make a few arrangements. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I'm on my way over? Please let him know that I ...
Wally Hickel and Sarah Palin's Betrayal [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-09 21:17:28 by Skip Intro
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Wally Hickel and Sarah Palin's Betrayal The death of Walter J. "Wally" Hickel (1919-2010) in Anchorage this past Friday marks the end of a remarkable era, not only in Alaska, but throughout the entire United States. The two-time Governor of the Last Frontier (elected once as a Republican in the 1960s, the second time as an Independent in 1990) and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior under Richard Nixon was a larger than life figure, a legend in his own time, whose driving ambitions and relentless personal energy helped to both shape and define Alaska's 50 years of statehood. He had arrived in Anchorage in 1940 with 37 cents in his pocket, and it proved to be all ...
FCC Lets Hollywood Turn Off Your Output Jacks
Post Date: 2010-05-09 08:40:57 by A K A Stone
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Hollywood will soon have the power to remotely disable the analog outputs on your set-top box, under a decision by federal regulators on Friday intended to prevent home recording of new movie releases.
The move by the Federal Communications Commission grants cable and satellite providers the power to block consumers from viewing just-released movies in an analog format through a process known as Selectable Output Control. Hollywood requested SOC powers as a condition of allowing providers for the first time to release movies to their in-home customers while the film is in theaters.
The Motion Picture Association of America said its member studios would not authorize the early movie ...
Shadow Elite: Neocons, The Holocaust & Emergency Powers
Post Date: 2010-05-07 12:16:33 by Brian S
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"For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation's great cause. . . . There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust." -Richard Perle, co-author, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, 2004 Note the small "h" on the word "holocaust" from the book co-authored by Bush White House advisor Richard Perle, one of the most influential instigators of the war in Iraq. It suggests that to Perle and his ideological allies, the Holocaust was not a singular event, but rather the first of other potential holocausts that must be prevented. As I detail in Shadow Elite, Perle is the linchpin of ...
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