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Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy
Post Date: 2011-06-16 20:08:18 by jwpegler
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Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neoconservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it. That is at least the tentative conclusion of a number of political analysts following Monday’s first nationally televised debate of the party’s declared Republican candidates — none of whom defended the current U.S. engagement in Libya, while several suggested it was time to pare down Washington’s global military engagements, including in Afghanistan. "This sure isn’t the Republican Party of George Bush, [former Vice President] Dick Cheney, and [former Pentagon chief] Donald Rumsfeld," exulted one liberal commentator, Michael ...
Bachmann, Pawlenty, Gingrich Join Gold Standard Tour
Post Date: 2011-06-16 17:40:07 by jwpegler
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An effort so far limited to state legislatures to reintroduce the gold standard to government spending is moving to the presidential stage in a bid to get Washington to adopt the anti-inflation measure. This week, a group promoting the gold standard plans to run ads in Iowa, home to the first presidential caucus, and launch a bus tour where several presidential candidates including Newt Gingrich and Rep. Michele Bachmann will participate. [See a slide show of GOP 2012 contenders.] One of the ads says: "You're not imagining it. Ever since President Nixon took America off the gold standard, the value of our money has been allowed to rise and fall based on the decisions of ...
Anthony Weiner announces resignation from Congress
Post Date: 2011-06-16 17:03:54 by Ferret Mike
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Embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner on Thursday announced his resignation from Congress after more than a dozen years, ending almost three weeks of media scrutiny and intense pressure on the New York Democrat who sent lewd photos and messages to several women he met online. "Today I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused," Weiner told a packed house of reporters and others at the Council Center for Senior Citizens in Brooklyn. Weiner's wife Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ...
Romney: ‘I’m Also Unemployed’
Post Date: 2011-06-16 17:00:00 by Ferret Mike
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Mitt Romney met with voters at Buddy Brew Coffee in Tampa on Thursday. TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own. “I should tell my story,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m also unemployed.” He chuckled. The eight people gathered around him, who had just finished talking about strategies of finding employment in a slow-to-recover economy, joined him in laughter. “Are you on LinkedIn?” one of the men asked. “I’m networking,” Mr. Romney replied. ...
Disabled Gay Couple Kicked Out of Kentucky Public Pool, Because "It's In The Bible" [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-16 16:44:10 by Ferret Mike
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Earlier this week, a disabled gay couple were kicked out of a public pool in Hazard, Kentucky. A staff member at the Hazard Pavilion recreation center told the two men and their aids that they needed to leave because "'gay people' weren't allowed to swim there." And why not? Apparently, because "it's in the Bible." The two men, who are developmentally and intellectually disabled, arrived at the pool accompanied by staff from Mending Hearts Inc. The organization provides support for people with certain disabilities and helps guide their behavior in public. "Neither of these young men was exhibiting inappropriate public behavior as witnessed by their ...
2009: Obama Says Economy Will Be Fixed Or He Is a One-Term President
Post Date: 2011-06-16 12:17:22 by no gnu taxes
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An MSNBC interview from early 2009 has resurfaced to haunt Barack Obama, who explained to Matt Lauer that if he had not fixed the economy within three years, then he will be a one-term president. Check out the video after the break, and let us know your thoughts in the comments. Throughout the entire interview, Obama employs a tired blame Bush rhetoric, but the best part comes with his message for economic recovery. At around the 4:45 mark, Obama makes his one-term presidency remark, saying "If I don't have this done in three years, then this is going to be a one-term proposition." Over at Hot Air, AllahPundit explains why this video is a perfect attack against Obama for ...
Climate change panel in hot water again over 'biased' energy report
Post Date: 2011-06-16 12:11:18 by no gnu taxes
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The world's foremost authority on climate change used a Greenpeace campaigner to help write one of its key reports, which critics say made misleading claims about renewable energy, The Independent has learnt. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the UN in 1988 to advise governments on the science behind global warming, issued a report last month suggesting renewable sources could provide 77 per cent of the world's energy supply by 2050. But in supporting documents released this week, it emerged that the claim was based on a real-terms decline in worldwide energy consumption over the next 40 years – and that the lead author of the section concerned ...
Yeah, Obama’s A Failure - This Is News?
Post Date: 2011-06-16 09:38:02 by no gnu taxes
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As Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal puts it, in terms of economic policy, the Obama armory is empty. “From within the exclusively demand-side context of the president’s economic policy,” he writes, “there are no more bullets in the carbines. This president is now virtually defenseless against the inexorable forces of the U.S. economy.” Even worse, all his previously fired “bullets” missed their targets entirely. Contentions A Lost Generation in the Making? Peter Wehner 06.10.2011 - 1:26 PM Ron Brownstein has a fascinating column in National Journal, in which writes, “It’s hard to say this spring whether it’s more difficult for ...
Obama F= Failure /Economic Downfall; 60% Disapproval
Post Date: 2011-06-16 09:33:05 by no gnu taxes
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Obama now has a 60 % disapproval rate among Americans due to the financial crisis. You cannot make up these economic numbers, unemployment, gas prices, food, housing, and US debt. With David Gregory on Meet the Press, the DNC chairwoman imagined that the economy did a 180 degree turnabout with Obama in the right direction. Gregory questioned one of the Leaders of the Democrat, Wasserman Schultz. We, as Americans should trust the Democratic leadership? Really, I want to know what drugs she is taking?
Obama Laughs At Failure Of Stimulus While $Millions Went To Create Jobs In China
Post Date: 2011-06-16 09:30:43 by no gnu taxes
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The Obama administration gave away millions of dollars of taxpayers money from the Democrats so called "Stimulus" plan to a so called "green company" that makes the CFL bulbs (I call them mercury bulbs because they are loaded with mercury that will destroy the environment). The "Stimulus" money was supposed to be used to create jobs. So this "green" company got millions of dollars to create jobs making the mercury bulbs and they created lots of jobs. Oh, just a minor point... all the jobs they created are in China where the bulbs will be made. Then Obama and his labor secretary are on TV at a so called "Council on Jobs" held at the ...
Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?
Post Date: 2011-06-16 08:12:32 by BillNyeSG
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The Obama administration is spending almost $9.5 million every single day to blow things up in Libya because the president has determined that is in the country's national interest, this country's national interest, not Libya's. You may not have noticed the $392,542 flowing out of the national treasury every hour, day and night, since those first $1.5 million Tomahawks flashed from the launch tubes back on March 19. But Libya's dictator Moammar Kadafi has. Not enough to quit, mind you, because he can hide while his troops do the dying and killing. Kadafi's military might has been degraded sufficiently by allied missiles and bombs to perhaps create a long-lasting ...
Senate to Vote Again on Ethanol Subsidies
Post Date: 2011-06-15 22:11:17 by go65
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he Senate will vote Thursday on repealing ethanol subsidies, just two days after Senate Democratic leaders led a filibuster on the issue over procedural grounds. In a unanimous consent agreement announced Wednesday by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), votes will be held on an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would eliminate ethanol subsidies and tariffs and on an amendment from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would prohibit federal funding for ethanol storage facilities and blender pumps. The amendments are being offered to an Economic Development Administration reauthorization bill, and both would need 60 votes for adoption. The Feinstein provision essentially ...
Life expectancy in the U.S. varies widely by region, in some places is decreasing
Post Date: 2011-06-15 22:05:50 by lucysmom
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Large swaths of the United States are showing decreasing or stagnating life expectancy even as the nation’s overall longevity trend has continued upwards, according to a county-by-county study of life expectancy over two decades. snip The region where life expectancy is lowest, and in some places declining, begins in West Virginia, runs through the southern Appalachian Mountains and west through the Deep South into North Texas. Places of high life expectancy are more scattered. In addition to Northern Virginia they include counties in Colorado, Minnesota, Utah, California, Washington state and Florida. snip What surprised Murray and his team was that despite increased consciousness ...
White House: Libya Campaign Isn’t War
Post Date: 2011-06-15 17:13:08 by buckeroo
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The United States is not engaged in a war with Libya and the War Powers Resolution does not apply to U.S. military action there, according to two White House officials who briefed reporters on Wednesday. “We’re now in a position where we’re operating in a support role. We’re not engaged in any of the activities that over history have been considered hostilities under the stature,” said one official. “We’re not risking troops… We’re confident that we’re operating consistent with the resolution.” The briefing came just before the White House sent documents to the Hill explaining their position and one day after House Speaker John Boehner ...
Quinnipiac PA Poll: Romney leads big, loses to Obama
Post Date: 2011-06-15 15:00:13 by go65
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And the Quinnipiac University survey of Keystone state voters released Wednesday also indicates that President Barack Obama's re-election numbers are on the rise in the crucial battleground state. According to the poll, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the Republican field at 21 percent, followed by Santorum at 16 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 11 percent. No one else was in double digits and 17 percent are undecided. Santorum represented Pennsylvania for two terms in the U.S. Senate before he was defeated by double digits in his 2006 re-election bid. "Native son Rick Santorum is not feeling the love among Pennsylvania Republicans or among voters in ...
10 reasons to be cheerful about the coming new Ice Age
Post Date: 2011-06-15 14:53:33 by no gnu taxes
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It’s official: a new Ice Age is on its way. In what has been described as “the science story of the century”, heavyweight US solar physicists have announced that the sun is heading for a prolonged period of low activity. This makes global cooling a much more plausible prospect in the next few decades than global warming. Indeed, it might even usher in a lengthy period of climate grimness such as we saw during the Maunder Minimum (when Ice Fairs were held on the Thames) or the Dalton Minimum (which brought us such delights as the 1816 Year Without A Summer). Here’s how Watts Up With That reports the bad news: A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near ...
Bush Did It! Bush Didn’t Do It!
Post Date: 2011-06-15 14:34:22 by no gnu taxes
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During the 2008 campaign Barack Obama ran more against lame-duck President Bush than against his Republican opponent, John McCain. The campaign is now long over, and yet President Obama still seems haunted by the ghost of his predecessor. Last week, for example, he was railing at the Bush phantom, whom he blamed for his received economic mess. In the world of Barack Obama everything he inherited was someone else’s fault — unless he believes past policies offer him some advantage and thus are to be claimed as entirely his own. The stock market is sliding. Gas and food prices are soaring. The housing market is as bad as it has been for the last three years. Unemployment is back ...
Herman Cain: I Don’t Like ‘African-American’ Label (My editorial: He doesn't want to be lumped in with entitlement niggers like Obama) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-15 14:27:50 by no gnu taxes
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Herman Cain, the beguilingly personable pizza mogul and Tea Party sweetheart who is showing well in the so-far uncompelling Republican presidential nomination campaign, threw a flag early in an interview I conducted with him last week. I had made the dire mistake of referring to him as African-American. "I am an American. Black. Conservative," he said, punctuating each aspect of his self-identity. "I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people." What is it about the word "African" ...
Obama 2012: A spoon for every worker!
Post Date: 2011-06-15 13:53:18 by socalv8
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Our smartest president evah says employment is struggling because of the likes of — wait for it — ATMs For those who can’t/won’t watch the video, here’s what he said: There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate. He went on to say some other, noncontroversial things about retraining people with the skills they’ll need in the future. But his starting point for the necessity of such ...
GOP unveils plan to privatize Amtrak
Post Date: 2011-06-15 13:42:53 by socalv8
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House Republicans said private companies could provide high-speed rail faster and more cheaply than Amtrak as they rolled out their plan to privatize rail service in the northeast on Tuesday. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) told reporters that the bill, which he said would be introduced next Tuesday, could achieve high-speed rail in the Northeast in 10 years. Amtrak currently has a 30-year plan. Mica said the GOP privatization plan would cost less than Amtrak's $117 billion plan, which he said was important given the political climate in Washington. Mica also said he doesn't think the Amtrak trains would be true high-speed. ...
10 congressmen sue Obama over strikes in Libya
Post Date: 2011-06-15 12:56:01 by buckeroo
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10 congressmen sue Obama over strikes in Libya By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press – 42 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers is suing President Barack Obama for taking military action against Libya without war authorization from Congress. The lawmakers say Obama violated the Constitution in bypassing Congress and using international organizations like the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to authorize military force. The lawmakers want a judge to issue an order suspending military operations without congressional approval. They said they were filing their lawsuit Wednesday against Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The ...
End Game
Post Date: 2011-06-15 12:35:36 by Capitalist Eric
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Economic data over the past weeks, punctuated by last week's dismal employment reports, confirm the diminishing impact of the stimulus efforts orchestrated by the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve. In what must be a huge disappointment to Keynesian enthusiasts, the record doses of both monetary and fiscal narcotics did not produce the desired results. In fact, the size and scope of the "recovery" of the past two years was weaker than would have been expected in a typical business cycle recovery without any stimulus whatsoever. Indeed our current recovery is the weakest on record, despite the biggest jolt of government stimulus ever administered. But despite the ...
WI Supreme Court bitch slaps unions
Post Date: 2011-06-15 12:27:46 by no gnu taxes
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Acting with unusual speed, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial plan to end most collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers. The court found that a committee of lawmakers was not subject to the state’s open meetings law, and so did not violate that law when it hastily approved the collective bargaining measure in March and made it possible for the Senate to take it up. In doing so, the Supreme Court overruled a Dane County judge who had halted the legislation, ending one challenge to the law even as new challenges are likely to emerge. The changes on collective bargaining will take effect once ...
The KenyanThinks an ATM Ate Your Job
Post Date: 2011-06-15 12:13:15 by no gnu taxes
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Yesterday, Barack Obama gave away the game. Without actually using the words, Barack Obama admitted he is completely and utterly ignorant about job creation and economics. In an interview with the Today Show, Barack Obama declared that the unemployment rate remains so high because of ATMS. Sadly, many people will agree with him because they lack the vision to see the whole picture. They see less bank tellers and more ATMs — much as Barack Obama does — and presume this must mean higher unemployment. This myth, and it is a myth, is older than even the great lament that cars put blacksmiths on the unemployment line by getting rid of the need for horse shoes. This left-wing populist ...
Republicans Slash Food Aid For Low-Income Women And Children, But Dodge Farm Subsidy Cuts
Post Date: 2011-06-15 10:03:10 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON -- Republicans have quietly maneuvered to prevent a House spending bill from chipping away at federal farm subsidies, instead forging ahead with much larger cuts to domestic and international food aid. The GOP move will probably prevent up to $167 million in cuts in direct payments to farmers, including some of the nation's wealthiest. The maneuver, along with the Senate's refusal Tuesday to end a $5 billion annual tax subsidy for ethanol-gasoline blends, illustrates just how difficult it will be for Congress to come up with even a fraction of the trillions in budget savings over the next decade that Republicans have promised. Meanwhile, the annual bill to pay for food ...
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