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Rep. Anthony Weiner brings unwelcome attention to Sen. David Vitter
Post Date: 2011-06-15 09:29:33 by go65
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Unlike most other Republicans, Louisiana Sen. David Vitter couldn't have been happy when Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., was forced to admit he had "twittered" explicit photos to young women. Any time a public official gets embroiled in any sexual misconduct it's almost certain that Vitter's connection to a Washington escort service will be rehashed. On MSNBC, which has become the "Democratic alternative" to the GOP-dominated Fox News Channel, prime-time host Rachel Madow proclaimed: "If you do not now feel moved to demand that David Vitter resign -- now, in June 2011 -- how on earth can you demand that Anthony Weiner needs to resign?" MSNBC talker ...
Muslim soldier at Ky. post objecting to war charged with possession of child porn
Post Date: 2011-06-15 07:32:32 by Happy Quanzaa
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Muslim soldier from Fort Campbell has been approved as a conscientious objector to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he has now been charged with possession of child pornography. Pfc. Naser Abdo, a 21-year-old infantry soldier, applied for the status last year after he decided Islamic standards would prohibit his service in the U.S. Army in any war. The Army approved his status in May, but his discharge is on hold until the criminal charge is resolved. He faces an Article 32 hearing, similar to a civilian grand jury, on Wednesday at the installation on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line. Abdo says he intends to fight the charge, which he believes is part of ...
Boehner gives Obama Friday deadline on Libya
Post Date: 2011-06-14 23:08:15 by go65
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tepping up a simmering constitutional conflict, House Speaker John A. Boehner warned President Obama on Tuesday that unless he gets authorization from Congress for his military deployment in Libya, he will be in violation of the War Powers Resolution. In a letter sent Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Boehner, the top Republican in the constitutional chain of succession, said Mr. Obama must provide a clear justification by Friday for committing troops to Libya. Sunday marks the 90th day since the president notified Congress that U.S. troops had been committed to help enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, which is designed to protect the rebels fighting Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s government. “The ...
Will Turkey Give China Our Military Secrets?
Post Date: 2011-06-14 21:59:15 by CZ82
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Will Turkey Give China Our Military Secrets? Michael Rubin 06.14.2011 - 12:32 PM Recep Erdogan’s re-election at the very least solidifies another four years of Islamist rule. Some analysts argue the election was a victory for democracy because the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) does not have enough seats to impose a new constitution without getting at least some support from other parties. Alas, there might be less here than meets the eye. The Islamists control the security forces and have eviscerated the judiciary. Anyone who criticizes Erdogan risks getting named a coup plotter in Erdogan’s fantastical conspiracy theory. Long story short, four of those elected by ...
Prop. 8 challenge to gay judge's ruling rejected
Post Date: 2011-06-14 19:24:36 by Ferret Mike
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(06-14) 13:53 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The federal judge who overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage last year was not obligated to disqualify himself from hearing the case because he was in a long-term relationship with another man, another federal jurist ruled today. Sponsors of the voter-approved 2008 ban offered no evidence that then-Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker had planned to marry his partner and can't rely on mere speculation to show that he had a conflict of interest, said James Ware, who succeeded Walker as chief judge and inherited the case. The fact that a judge is in a relationship doesn't necessarily mean he is "so interested in marrying the ...
National Public Internet
Post Date: 2011-06-14 17:54:17 by CZ82
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National Public Internet By The Prowler on 6.14.11 @ 6:09AM Over the past 18 months, the Obama Administration has been seeking to more stringently regulate Internet, broadband, and wireless broadband networks operated by such communications firms as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, as well as Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Now it is taking steps to create a taxpayer-financed, government-run broadband network that while ostensibly deployed for use by public safety officials, would compete for business against the current wireless broadband companies. Late last week a bill co-sponsored by U.S. Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), that would set aside a wide ...
CBO Director Elmendorf: Debt Default ‘A Dangerous Gamble
Post Date: 2011-06-14 17:03:26 by go65
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Congress' top adviser on federal budget issues warned Tuesday that even a brief default on U.S. credit obligations, triggered by a failure to raise the national debt limit in a timely fashion, would be "a dangerous gamble," with potentially far-reaching consequences for the U.S. economy and citizens who rely on crucial social services. "It is a dangerous gamble because any government that has borrowed as much as ours has borrowed and will need to borrow as much as ours will need to borrow cannot take the views of its creditors lightly," CBO Director Doug Elmendorf told a roomful of reporters at a breakfast roundtable hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. ...
Idiot Obama Blames ATMs for High Unemployment
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:57:58 by no gnu taxes
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President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren't hiring is not because of his policies, it's because the economy is so automated. ... "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."
Stupid Leftard Negro: "Herman Cain, For The Sake Of Black America, Pipe Down"! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:46:44 by no gnu taxes
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I have reluctantly held my tongue on Herman Cain for quite some time now, but enough is enough. The “contender” for U.S. president is a comical Republican presidential candidate, and a disgrace to the Black community. But what makes my skin boil is the painful reminder that Cain is a graduate (and member of the board of trustees) of my Alma Mater, Morehouse College (pause for unanimous gasp). Yes folks, a Black Republican is an alumnus from the only all-male Historically Black College and University in the country. Now of course, I’m not saying it’s implausible for a Black man to be a Republican, because there are many of them roaming our American soil (sigh). However, ...
Mitt Romney: Federal Disaster Relief For Tornado And Flood Victims Is ‘Immoral,’ ‘Makes No Sense At All’
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:42:16 by go65
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KING: Governor Romney? You’ve been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I’ve been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it’s the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that? ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can ...
Newt Gingrich Charity Paid Cash To Gingrich For-Profit Business
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:39:25 by Brian S
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A non-profit charity founded by Newt Gingrich to promote freedom, faith and free enterprise also served as another avenue to promote Gingrich's political views, and came dangerously close, some experts say, to crossing a bright line that is supposed to separate tax-exempt charitable work from both the political process and such profit-making enterprises as books and DVDs. The charity, Renewing American Leadership, not only featured Gingrich on its website and in fundraising letters, it also paid $220,000 over two years to one of Gingrich's for-profit companies, Gingrich Communications. It purchased cases of Gingrich's books and bought up copies of DVDs produced by another of ...
Study: The Kenyan's Stimulus Cost 1 Million Private Sector Jobs
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:24:13 by no gnu taxes
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New economics research suggests that President Obama's stimulus plan may have destroyed or forestalled employment, including more than 1 million private-sector jobs. Economists Timothy Conley, University of Western Ontario, and Bill Dupor of Ohio State University found that the stimulus resulted in a net loss of 595,000 jobs from April 2009 to September 2010. That counters research by the Congressional Budget Office, the Council of Economic Advisors, and many other economists. But Conley and Dupor's research differs in that instead of looking at the stimulus' effects on total employment, it breaks jobs into four different sectors: Goods-producing industries, including ...
Obama Admits Stimulus Failure, Vows to Regulate the Regulations!
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:16:51 by no gnu taxes
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Hey, remember when President Obama was gonna save our economy with a huge "stimulus" program? Of course, the program was a government-gone-wild spending spree that was marked by disasters like this, this, this and this. And who could forget about this? With the economy floundering, President Obama seems ready to finally concede that his stimulus was a giant failure of economic central planning: Remember "shovel-ready projects." Those were construction projects in the 2009 stimulus bill that were supposed to get moving right away -- but jobs council members told Obama today that some got held up because of elaborate government regulations and permitting procedures. ...
There will be NO RECOVERY as long as that asshole Kenyan remains President
Post Date: 2011-06-14 12:48:52 by no gnu taxes
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Barack Obama has unveiled a crisp, fresh and new campaign theme. “It’s not my fault.” President Obama has devised a new strategy for dealing with troubling economic developments: Showcase optimism about turning around the economy while reassuring voters that although he understands their fears he isn’t directly responsible for their pain. It’s been 2 1/2 years since Obama became President and he has amply demonstrated what happens when a socialist tinkers with a free market economy. Until he’s gone, we’re dead economically. There are several Obaminary obstructions to recovery: housing, health care, pointless spending, finance, business strangulation, ...
'Armed and extremely dangerous' ex-militia leader hunted after Mont. shootout
Post Date: 2011-06-14 11:14:31 by Ferret Mike
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Missoula County sheriff's deputies sweep a rental cabin west of Lolo, Mont. MISSOULA, Mont. — Federal and state agents searched a 30-square-mile swath of rugged Montana forest on Monday for a former militia leader following a shootout with sheriff's deputies, authorities said. David Burgert, 47, exchanged gunfire with Missoula County sheriff's deputies along a logging trail Sunday after a slow-speed chase near Lolo, officials said. No one was hurt. Burgert grabbed gear from his Jeep and fled on foot into the woods, Missoula County Undersheriff Mike Dominick said. Known for his anti-government sentiments, Burgert previously told police "he wasn't going to be ...
Homophobic Men Most Aroused by Gay Male Porn
Post Date: 2011-06-14 11:06:52 by Ferret Mike
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Even a man who thought that women want to have sex with their fathers and that women spend much of their lives distraught because they lack a penis is right sometimes. This person, the legend that is Sigmund Freud, theorized that people often have the most hateful and negative attitudes towards things they secretly crave, but feel that they shouldn't have. If Freud is right, then perhaps men who are the most opposed to male homosexuality have particularly strong homosexual urges for other men. One study asked heterosexal men how comfortable and anxious they are around gay men. Based on these scores, they then divided these men into two groups: men that are homophobic, and men who are ...
Survey suggests CEOs will ramp up hiring in second half of 2011
Post Date: 2011-06-14 10:42:31 by go65
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Corporate executives bullish on the economy expect to ramp up hiring in the second half of the year, according to a survey conducted by the Business Roundtable. The survey released on Tuesday found that 87 percent of the group’s CEOs expect higher sales over the next six months, and more than half plan to increase capital spending and U.S. hiring. The survey showed slightly less confidence than three months ago, when 92 percent of those surveyed expected their sales to increase, but leaders of the group touted the survey as reflecting confidence the economy would move forward in the next six months. “We continue to see an upward trend for the last six months of 2011,” said ...
Tim Pawlenty beats hasty New Hampshire retreat
Post Date: 2011-06-14 09:31:42 by go65
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GOFFSTOWN, N.H. – Tim Pawlenty’s puzzling decision at Monday’s debate to abandon a new line of attack on Mitt Romney’s healthcare record is prompting fresh doubts among members of his own party about his readiness to confront the GOP frontrunner. One day after Pawlenty linked Romney’s Massachusetts healthcare plan with the federal health reform law as “Obamneycare” in a nationally televised interview, the former Minnesota governor retreated from the sharp critique at the first debate featuring Romney. Click for Full Text!
President Obama pushes to extend payroll tax cut
Post Date: 2011-06-14 01:11:02 by socalv8
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President Barack Obama signaled Monday that a deficit-cutting package should include an extension of the one-year payroll tax cut for workers, saying any effort to slash government spending must be coupled with targeted investments. Obama traveled to this key state in the 2012 election as part of a two-day swing that includes stops in Florida and Puerto Rico — a trip that appears designed to show the president is proactive on the economy as his job approval ratings decline and the Republican presidential contenders hammer his record. With Congress unwilling to pass another significant stimulus bill, Obama pushed more modest measures Monday aimed at addressing rising unemployment. ...
California: The Sanctuary State
Post Date: 2011-06-13 19:14:10 by CZ82
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California: The Sanctuary State By Elise Cooper Americans are familiar with sanctuary cities and counties but now California appears to be heading toward becoming the first sanctuary state. While Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona have passed legislation taking a tougher stand on illegal immigration, California is heading in the opposite direction with bills such as AB 540, AB 1081, AB 130, and AB 131. American Thinker interviewed several of those who are knowledgeable about the situation in California. California AB 1081, recently passed by the Democratic majority Assembly, would require the Department of Justice to renegotiate its 2009 agreement: to participate in the Federal Secure ...
Could Obama Be Any More of a Piece of Shit?
Post Date: 2011-06-13 18:28:28 by no gnu taxes
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In Speech On Tough Times For Americans, Obama Brags 'I Have Better Plane' And 'Bigger Entourage' Than Three Years Ago Imagine a Republican president giving a speech on tough economic times in which he claimed that the plight of Americans who are hurting is what is on his mind every day as he walks to the Oval Office. Imagine that same Republican president, in that same speech, bragging that he has "a better plane" and "a bigger entourage" than when he was a candidate. Now imagine the howls from the MSM about such president's vainglory and insensitivity. President Obama gave just such a speech today. Speaking at a plant in North Carolina about the ...
The Far-Left New York Times Hits Rock Bottom
Post Date: 2011-06-13 14:04:09 by no gnu taxes
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That loud crash you just heard off in the distance was the New York Times finally hitting the bottom of the barrel with an embarrassing but expected thump. Having long ago turned its back on objective journalism to become the mouthpiece for liberal ideology, the Democrat party, and corrupt unions, it was still somewhat of a surprise to see the compromised editors of the paper do something which might cause Anthony Weiner to recoil from its unseemly request. On Friday, June 10th, the State of Alaska released more than 24,000 of former Governor Sarah Palin’s emails. A Democrat recently told me that some liberals get more satisfaction out of a Palin “mistake,” or in smearing ...
Surging Profits Should Feed U.S. Job Growth
Post Date: 2011-06-13 13:01:33 by go65
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Profits at American companies are poised to be one of the few bright spots in the U.S., helping to steady the faltering recovery. Earnings will climb an average 10 percent a year through 2013, more than three times quicker than the economy, after what has already been the fastest rebound since the late 1940s, JPMorgan Chase & Co. projects. In mounting signs of confidence, Macy’s Inc. (M) has raised its annual profit forecast, Intel Corp. (INTC) and Target Corp. (TGT) increased dividends and DuPont Co. plans to invest more than $500 million to boost production. Surging overseas sales, improving U.S. demand and the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates close to zero ...
Worst Drought in More Than a Century Threatens Texas Oil Boom
Post Date: 2011-06-13 12:54:25 by Brian S
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By Joe Carroll June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The worst Texas drought since record-keeping began 116 years ago may crimp an oil and natural- gas drilling boom as government officials ration water supplies crucial to energy exploration. In the hardest-hit areas, water-management districts are warning residents and businesses to curtail usage from rivers, lakes and aquifers. The shortage is forcing oil companies to go farther afield to buy water from farmers, irrigation districts and municipalities, said Erasmo Yarrito Jr., the state’s overseer of water supplies from the Rio Grande River. Concern over water usage is especially acute in southern Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale area because ...
2 More Years to Recover from Obama’s Depression
Post Date: 2011-06-13 12:44:32 by no gnu taxes
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The worst curve - for returning jobs - ever is Obama's The past two days alarm bells have sounded on the economy. More bad times coming. Housing prices will go down for another year. Inflation will get worse. Energy prices will go up. Stocks should go down. Unemployment will go up. Bad news. The really bad news is that it will take 2 years, two whole years, from today for things to start getting better. And, that happens if, and only if, a new President and Congress hit the ground in January with major policy changes. Only if POTUS and Congress take the big steps to produce capital in January 2013 will the economy respond, create capital and create jobs in June 2013. POTUS and ...
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