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Newt Gingrich to gay Iowan: Vote for Obama
Post Date: 2011-12-21 10:10:02 by A K A Stone
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Oskaloosa, Ia. – Newt Gingrich told a gay man and longtime resident of Oskaloosa here today that he should vote for President Obama. “I asked him if he’s elected, how does he plan to engage gay Americans. How are we to support him? And he told me to support Obama,” said Scott Arnold, an associate professor of writing at William Penn University.” Arnold, a Democrat, said he came to the event at Smokey Row coffee house with an open mind. But he wanted to ask Gingrich about how he would represent him as president after reading past comments the former U.S. House Speaker as made about gay and lesbians. “When you ask somebody a question and you expect them to ...
Get a Medical Marijuana Card, Lose Your Second Amendment Rights
Post Date: 2011-12-20 22:30:49 by A K A Stone
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If you are a medical marijuana patient in one of the 16 states (plus the District of Columbia) that allow for it, you’ve got reason to believe lately that the government has it in for you. You’ve got federal raids on the places where you can conveniently buy your medicine, the governor of Arizona trying to overturn in court her citizens’ choice to institute a medical marijuana system, and Michigan’s attorney general trying to make life as hard as he can for those using the system his state’s voters approved by 63 percent in 2008. And while it isn’t directly the government’s fault, doctors are taking people off liver transplant waiting lists for using ...
Honda Revs Up Outside Japan
Post Date: 2011-12-20 22:09:42 by A K A Stone
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Honda Motor Co. plans to shift a major chunk of its manufacturing to North America over the next two years, bulking up production capacity in the region by as much as 40% to combat a strengthening yen that has made Japanese cars too expensive to export around the world. The 63-year-old car maker is accelerating its move away from Japanese manufacturing after huge challenges this year. Natural disasters and the yen's gains pummeled its production and profit. It also confronts a vastly different market than a few years ago: the U.S. auto industry is revitalized and customers that once flocked ...
US to reduce troop levels on Mexico border
Post Date: 2011-12-20 20:23:24 by A K A Stone
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The United States will cut the number of national guard troops patrolling the border with Mexico as it steps up other surveillance on the porous southern border, officials said Tuesday. The effort reflects "a new strategic approach," that includes "a number of new multi-purpose aerial assets equipped with the latest surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities," according to a statement from the departments of Homeland Security and Defense. Homeland Security will have additional civilian personnel on the border enabling the Defense Department "to reduce the number of national guard troops at the southwest border while enhancing border security," the statement ...
Gingrich assails Romney for 'smear campaign'
Post Date: 2011-12-20 19:31:20 by A K A Stone
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OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lashed out at Mitt Romney on Tuesday, accusing his chief rival of a "negative smear campaign" fueled by a political action committee with close ties to the former Massachusetts governor. "Understand, these are his people running his ads, doing his dirty work while he pretends to be above it," Gingrich told reporters after a campaign appearance at a heavy machinery plant in Ottumwa, Iowa. "I don't object to being outspent. I object to lies. I object to negative smear campaigns." Gingrich has pledged to remain "relentlessly positive" as he campaigns for the GOP nod for the White ...
Ron Paul favors states’ rights on same-sex marriage issue
Post Date: 2011-12-20 17:59:13 by A K A Stone
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MANCHESTER, N.H. - On a day when several Republican presidential candidates were touting endorsements from socially conservative leaders in Iowa and nationally, Texas Representative Ron Paul made clear why he was not getting them. Asked about Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Iowa Family Leader group who today endorsed former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Paul said, “He had decided I wasn’t willing to nationalize enough and I’ve stuck to my guns…. The founders were right in letting states sort out the more difficult problems.” On both gay marriage and abortion, Paul differs from most of his Republican rivals and from much of the conservative Republican ...
Ron Paul, the Betty White of GOP politics?
Post Date: 2011-12-20 17:46:29 by We The People
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It’s official. Newt Gingrich’s stint as the designated front-runner in the GOP primary is drawing to a close. A recent Gallup poll found him back neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney — polling a mere 26 points to Romney’s 24. Now Ron Paul’s on top. Leading the Republican field is like being the goose who flies at the head of the V. Dick Cheney snipes at you, you are battered and ruffled by harsh winds and harsher windbags, and eventually you tire and drop back, a bit dazed, only to fly into a telephone wire. You spend the rest of the campaign season migrating slowly closer to Rick Santorum’s end of the debate podiums and wondering whether it was something you ...
Is this Fraud?? Must See Video! RON PAUL (VICTIM OF VOTE FRAUD???) A MUST SEE!!!!!!!
Post Date: 2011-12-20 17:30:59 by A K A Stone
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Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies
Post Date: 2011-12-20 16:12:10 by Fred Mertz
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A South Carolina man's brother died after police said he was forced to eat cocaine hidden in his brother's backside. Both brothers were taken into custody on allegations they had drugs in their car. But police told Charleston, S.C., TV station WCIV there were additional drugs hidden in 23-year-old Deangelo Mitchell's backside. Officers said Deangelo Mitchell convinced his brother, 20-year-old Wayne Mitchell, to swallow the ounce of cocaine to hide the evidence. He died soon afterward. "It's sickening," North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt told WCIV. "I got upset when I saw the thing. I was pretty shocked on it." Deangelo Mitchell already bonded ...
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows
Post Date: 2011-12-20 15:58:49 by A K A Stone
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The same RIAA that makes examples out of ordinary folks by suing them for millions of dollars for file sharing? Turns out someone there's been pirating full seasons of Dexter. Nine million dollars worth. Whoops! That number—$150,000 for each of the 60 episodes illegally downloaded on the RIAA HQ ISP (OK?)—comes compliments of YouHaveDownloaded which logged the BitTorrent activity of some 50 million users and revealed that not only are the major movie studios pirating their own movies, but the RIAA is downloading pirated TV shows. Lots of 'em. Again, this is the same RIAA that has been shaking down a Minnesota mother of four for $1.5 million over 24 songs she shared on ...
DOW SURGES On News Ron Paul Will LIkely Win Iowa
Post Date: 2011-12-20 15:26:36 by A K A Stone
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Today's Markets As of 3:06 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 327 points, or 2.9%, to 12,094, the S&P 500 climbed 35.4 points, or 2.9%, to 1,241 and the Nasdaq Composite surged 78.2 points, or 3.1%, to 2,601. Financial, energy, basic material and industrial companies led the charge higher on Tuesday. Caterpillar (CAT: 91.12, +3.88, +4.44%), JPMorgan Chase (JPM: 32.24, +1.54, +5.02%) and Disney (DIS: 36.26, +1.52, +4.36%) were among the best-performing blue chips. In a sign of the breadth of the rally, every Dow component and all but 10 stocks included in the broad S&P 500 were to the upside. Volume in advancing shares outnumbered declining issues on the New York ...
If Ron Paul Wins Iowa It Doesn't Count - Fox News
Post Date: 2011-12-20 11:35:15 by A K A Stone
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50 Facts About The U.S. Economy That Will Shock You
Post Date: 2011-12-20 06:57:49 by CZ82
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50 Facts About The U.S. Economy That Will Shock You Posted on December 18, 2011 at 3:55pm by Becket Adams “Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately,” writes The Economic Collapse (TEC). For those unfamiliar with this site, TEC is an economic blog that regularly compiles a comprehensive list of the most startling and unsettling facts about the U.S. economy. Why? Because Americans need to understand that U.S. economy is precariously balanced on the ...
Amish Community Stunned by Shooting Death of Girl
Post Date: 2011-12-19 20:21:09 by A K A Stone
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FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio— Members of a close knit Amish community gathered Saturday night to mourn the death of a 15-year-old girl, who was shot to death under circumstances that are shrouded in mystery. David Zuercher, a friend of the family of 15-year-old Rachel Yoder, told Fox 8 News, "Just total disbelief and shock. I just couldn't believe it. I thought it was a joke, that it was not so." Relatives initially believed that Rachel suffered a head injury while on her way home from a Christmas party for employees at a produce shop. The girl was discovered on the ground near her buggy Thursday night at the family farm in Fredericksburg, but when she was flown to ...
No, Really, Ron Paul Cannot Win [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-12-19 19:46:45 by Mad Dog
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Andrew Sullivan, following up his (Republican primary) endorsement of Ron Paul, argues today that campaign reporters and pundits who say he can’t win the nomination are all wrong: We were told one thing after his extensive riff last week on the paranoia around Iran's nuclear weapons, his defense of blowback theory in our encounters with Jihadist terrorism, and his open denunciation of the greatest mistake of his own party in the last decade, the Iraq war (where every other candidate is silent). We were told this ended his candidacy, that there was no constituency for this in the current GOP, that he was throwing it all away, that he has, as the Ailes memo clearly has it, zero ...
Former Rep. J.C. Watts set to endorse Gingrich
Post Date: 2011-12-19 18:30:23 by A K A Stone
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Former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts is expected to endorse Newt Gingrich on Monday, according to multiple media reports, earning the former House Speaker another nod from a member of the 1994 Republican Revolution. Watts, who served four terms representing Oklahoma's 4th district, was a star quarterback at the University of Oklahoma and replaced now-Speaker John Boehner as chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1999. Since leaving Congress, Watts founded a lobbying and consulting firm in Washington. He has also served as a political commentator for CNN. Watts provides Gingrich with much-needed establishment support while his once-ballooning poll numbers have begun a ...
West to Holder: It’s not about your color, it’s about your competence
Post Date: 2011-12-19 18:27:57 by A K A Stone
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Attorney General Eric Holder told The New York Times this weekend that “the more extreme segment” of his Fast and Furious critics are motivated by — you guessed it — racism. But Florida Rep. Allen West will have none of it. In remarks to The Daily Caller, West interpreted Holder’s shameless rhetorical tactic as a sign of desperation — and called him out for his non-race-related incompetence: “I think this is absolutely the last card in the deck, and that shows how weak their ground is,” West said in a phone interview. “But, what that means is they want to make white individuals afraid of continuing to put the pressure on Eric Holder because ...
GOP will take off the gloves if Ron Paul wins Iowa
Post Date: 2011-12-18 22:08:43 by A K A Stone
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The Republican presidential primary has become a bit feisty, but it will get downright ugly if Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucuses. The principled, antiwar, Constitution-obeying, Fed-hating, libertarian Republican congressman from Texas stands firmly outside the bounds of permissible dissent as drawn by either the Republican establishment or the mainstream media. (Disclosure: Paul wrote the foreword to my 2009 book.) But in a crowded GOP field currently led by a collapsing Newt Gingrich and an uninspiring Mitt Romney, Paul could carry the Iowa caucuses, where supporter enthusiasm has so much value. If Paul wins, how will the media and the GOP react? Much of the media will ignore him (expect ...
Sarah Palin : Ron Paul Supporters "loyal hardworking base of independant patriots"
Post Date: 2011-12-18 16:59:24 by A K A Stone
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Sarah Palin : Ron Paul Supporters "loyal hardworking base of independant patriots" And a whole lot more.
Rich People Creating Jobs: Koch Industries looking to fill 2,500 jobs
Post Date: 2011-12-18 15:50:58 by A K A Stone
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Koch Industries is looking to fill 2,500 job openings across the nation thanks to the commercial growth of most of its subsidiaries. Company officials said most of the 300 job openings at Koch Industries and 10 of its subsidiaries in Wichita are new, professional positions in areas such as information technology, accounting and engineering, The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/t02aP1) reported Friday. "Most of the job openings are due to growth as opposed to replacement," said Jeff Morris, director of talent development for Koch Industries. "It's a good problem to have," he said of the overall job openings. "You'd like to be able to ...
U.S. Mint Halts Presidential Commemorative Coins…No Chester A. Arthur
Post Date: 2011-12-18 15:29:58 by A K A Stone
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" Saying there’s no point wasting money to make money, the Obama administration has decided to cancel production of commemorative presidential one dollar coins as part of its efforts to reduce government spending. The U.S Mint is expected to save about $50 million a year by not making the special coins. Since a 2005 law went into effect mandating the production of four new commemorative presidential coins a year, a total of 20 presidents have been honored, including Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield from the 19th century. But many of the coins are sitting in government warehouses due to lack of demand, said Vice President Joe Biden. ...
You Like Ron Paul, Except on Foreign Policy
Post Date: 2011-12-18 14:31:40 by A K A Stone
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Newt in '08 on Consulting Fannie and Freddie (Newt and Michelle Bachman)
Post Date: 2011-12-17 22:42:12 by A K A Stone
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Newt Gingrich at a September 3, 2008 event with Michele Bachmann entitled Governing and Political Change, explains his position on Fannie and Freddie. He also details that he did consulting work for them, and that those who profited from the institutions should have to pay. Follow me on Twitter at
Isn't Michelle Obama Married to Somebody?
Post Date: 2011-12-17 10:31:45 by no gnu taxes
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It's a date! First Lady accepts Marine's invitation to the ball... Well, I guess even beards need to get laid now and then...
Liberal Mitt's Greatest Hits: What Romney Doesn't Want You to See
Post Date: 2011-12-17 10:07:45 by A K A Stone
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