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Obama administration plans budget blitz
Post Date: 2011-04-10 13:36:14 by We The People
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Seeking to regain the initiative on spending cuts from House Republicans before Congress begins both the budget and debt fights, President Obama later this week will lay out a new plan to make real dents in the federal deficit, the White House said Sunday. Making the rounds of the weekend political talk shows, White House senior adviser David Plouffe, the president’s campaign manager in 2008, said the president will call for increased taxes on higher-income taxpayers and for specific deficit-reduction targets the government should meet. Mr. Plouffe said he would leave the details for the president, who he said will deliver a speech on his “approach” to spending, but said ...
UMD 3 Michigan 2 overtime NCAA Hockey Champioship
Post Date: 2011-04-09 22:28:45 by yukon
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University of Minnesota-Duluth wins its first ever NCAA championship defeating the U of Michigan 3-2 in overtime for the men's hockey crown.
The GOP did just fine
Post Date: 2011-04-09 17:47:26 by CZ82
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The GOP did just fine Thomas Lifson There is more good in the budget deal than is revealed in the budget cut number agreed on last night. Measured against the size of budget cutting necessary for the future, the numbers are small, to be sure, but this number was a tactical, not a strategic engagement. The key to the matter is momentum, principle, and precedent, which set up the strategic environment for 2012. Andrew Stiles at NRO correctly points out the extent of the Harry Reid cave-in. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) didn't want to cut anything at first. But bowing to political reality, eventually ponied up about $4.7 billion in cuts. He ended up with $33.8 billion ...
Koran grandstand at security meet~hearing on homeland security exploded yesterday
Post Date: 2011-04-09 14:28:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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A Manhattan hearing on homeland security exploded yesterday after an Arab-American activist testified that she was taught as a youngster to "hate Jews" and "hate America," enraging a Brooklyn lawmaker who gripped a Koran and grandly accused her of spreading "hate and poison." "Check what's going on -- it's not a secret," Nonine Darwish, president of Former Muslims United, said at a heavily policed state Senate hearing on homeland security at 250 Broadway. "You're supposed to hate Jews, you're supposed to hate America, you're supposed to hate Western culture," said Darwish, who grew up and was educated in Egypt and came ...
Tea Party members Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul blast budget deal as John Boehner claims victory
Post Date: 2011-04-09 13:40:50 by A K A Stone
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The Tea Party is steamed over DC's budget deal. While President Obama, Senate majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) hailed Friday night's eleventh hour accord to avoid a government shutdown as "historic," several Tea Party members did not feel the same way. Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) called the $39-billion slashing deal a "disappointment." Millions of Americans expected $100 billion in cuts and "wanted to make sure their tax dollars stopped flowing to the nation's largest abortion provider, and who wanted us to defund ObamaCare," Bachmann said in a statement. "Instead, we've been ...
Klobuchar Claims Voter Asked If GOP Will "Mess" with Birth Control
Post Date: 2011-04-08 21:25:16 by CZ82
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Klobuchar Claims Voter Asked If GOP Will "Mess" with Birth Control April 8, 2011 RUSH: John Boehner, we're gonna start here. He just had a little presser this afternoon, and during the Q&A, a reporter said, "Mr. Speaker, the Senate majority leader, [Dingy Harry], said today that you do have an agreement -- roughly around $30 billion in cuts -- and that the only thing that's holding this up is a difference over Title X funding. Is he telling the truth?" BOEHNER: Almost all of the policy issues have been dealt with, and there is no agreement on the spending level, and we're working to try to get there. REPORTERS: (all screaming at once) REPORTER: Is ...
Why Aren’t the Rich Paying 50 Percent in Taxes?
Post Date: 2011-04-08 19:06:00 by CZ82
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Why Aren’t the Rich Paying 50 Percent in Taxes? by Reason TV Tax Day (April 18) is fast approaching, which means anxiety and night sweats for about 99 percent of us. And bitching and moaning by those at the top of the income pyramid about how they aren’t forced to pay even more in taxes. (The top 1 percent of filers pay about 40 percent of income taxes.) Secretary of state and cattle-futures queen Hillary Clinton, super-investor Warren Buffett, and best-selling author Stephen King have all recently carped about how rich folks like them should be paying more in taxes. King recently told a Florida rally, “As a rich person, I’m paying 28 percent in taxes. What I want to ...
Planned Parenthood spent more than $1 million electing Democrats last cycle
Post Date: 2011-04-08 18:44:39 by CZ82
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Planned Parenthood spent more than $1 million electing Democrats last cycle By: Timothy P. Carney 04/08/11 4:23 PM Here's something to keep in mind as Democrats risk a government shutdown in order to preserve federal subsidies of Planned Parenthood. From the Center for Responsive Politics: In 2010, Planned Parenthood and a California affiliate together spent more than $700,000 on federal lobbying efforts, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of federal lobbying records finds. By comparison, all other organizations that primarily advocate for abortion rights collectively spent $247,280 on federal lobbying efforts during the same period, according to the Center's research. ...
Pandora sends personal data en masse to advertisers, researcher says
Post Date: 2011-04-08 12:50:04 by Skip Intro
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Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are looking into whether mobile application developers are illegally sharing personal data of their users with advertising firms, and now a security researcher may have just reinforced the the case against at least one of those involved. Veracode senior researcher Tyler Shields shared details of their study on music service Pandora, and found that "personal information is being transmitted to advertising agencies in mass quantities." Shields did not explicitly say whether or not the information transmitted may be illegal. Pandora disclosed that it was being investigated in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on April 4. "In early 20 ...
Rand Paul: Regulating Black Lung Could Be Too Pricey For Big Coal
Post Date: 2011-04-07 22:36:54 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON -- With American miners still succumbing to black lung disease, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has proposed a plan to reduce the number of such deaths through the stricter regulation of mining sites. But at a congressional committee meeting last week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voiced concern that the new regulations may not be worth the cost to coal companies -- even though pockets of his state have been designated black lung “hot spots” by the federal government. In a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, Paul also asserted that the number of black lung cases has been on the decline. But according to the National ...
Will Rand Paul Prevent a Government Shutdown
Post Date: 2011-04-07 18:41:12 by A K A Stone
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If you haven’t heard about the pending government shutdown, time to get out from under your rock. Having failed to pass a fiscal year 2011 budget the government has been repeatedly funded by a series of temporary budgets. Each time we get closer to the end of the current temporary budget the threat of a government shutdown hangs over the heads of Americans. Today another temporary federal appropriation bill was passed. The bill HR 1363 would fund the federal government for one more week, ensuring yet another showdown and more headaches next week. But, just to make sure we can still fund our military adventurism and empire overseas the bill would fund the military through the end of ...
BREAKING: Computer Error Could Give Prosser 7,381 More Votes, Victory
Post Date: 2011-04-07 17:57:20 by no gnu taxes
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After Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press. The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg. On Wednesday, Kloppenburg declared victory after the AP reported she finished the election with a 204-vote lead, out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast. On election night, AP results showed a turnout of 110,000 voters in Waukesha County — well short of the 180,000 voters that turned out last November, and 42 percent of the ...
President Obama's close friend arrested during prostitution sting
Post Date: 2011-04-07 17:12:33 by CZ82
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President Obama's close friend arrested during prostitution sting HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - One of President Obama's closest friends is scheduled to appear at Honolulu District Court next month, after he allegedly solicited sex from an undercover officer. Police arrested Robert Richard Titcomb, 49, of Waialua on suspicion of prostitution Monday night. Bobby Titcomb and President Obama have been close friends since their childhood days at Punahou School. The two are frequently seen on the news golfing, playing basketball and dining together when the Obama family vacations in Hawaii. But the President's pal is now making news for a different reason -- his arrest during a ...
Polls: Public Fury at Budget Impasse Surges — Voters Turn to Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-04-07 17:07:28 by CZ82
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Polls: Public Fury at Budget Impasse Surges — Voters Turn to Tea Party By David A. Patten The war of words over a possible government shutdown escalated sharply Thursday afternoon, even as polls suggest voters are increasingly angry over the political games that are standing in the way of budget cuts and a deal to fund federal operations. Members of both parties jeered each other on the floor of the House Thursday, as congressional decorum appeared to break down. At one point Democrats chanted “Bush, Bush, Bush!” in an effort to blame the nations budget woes on former President George W. Bush. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., reminded colleagues: “We are ...
President Obama Blames You for High Gas Prices
Post Date: 2011-04-07 17:01:27 by CZ82
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President Obama Blames You for High Gas Prices Posted April 7th, 2011 at 2:00pm President Barack Obama deflected blame for high gas prices yesterday, by blaming American consumers for their automobile choices. According to the AP, at an event at a wind turbine plant, “Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices.” Obama laughingly said: “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know…you might want to think about a trade-in.” (The AP later scrubbed this quote from its stories) For most Americans, however, high gas prices are no laughing matter. And for the president to suggest that a ...
CWA Members Seeing Red After Union Bosses Blow Dues Money on Themselves
Post Date: 2011-04-07 15:58:11 by CZ82
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CWA Members Seeing Red After Union Bosses Blow Dues Money on Themselves by LaborUnionReport There’s an internal war going on in one of the Communications Workers of America’s largest locals, New York City’s Local 1101. Accusations of poor, absentee leadership has caused a group of rank and file stewards and chief stewards to start a campaign to reform the local. Now, the issues have involved the CWA International in Washington, which has placed a monitor over the local due to an investigation’s findings that revealed the local’s union bosses have been fattening themselves on their members’ dues. CWA Local 1101 has nearly 7,000 members—most of whom work ...
Glenn Beck Moves to Sci Fi Channel
Post Date: 2011-04-07 12:51:27 by no gnu taxes
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Landing on his feet just hours after his program was dropped by Fox News Channel, controversial host Glenn Beck announced today that he had just inked a new contract to join the cable network Syfy, formerly known as the Sci Fi Channel. Speaking at a press conference announcing the move, Mr. Beck told reporters, “The best part of this deal is that I won’t need to change my format at all.” Mr. Beck said that his program was “a perfect fit” for a schedule of programming packed with aliens, paranoid conspiracy theories and alternative universes. But the TV host’s enthusiasm was tempered somewhat by Syfy spokesperson Tracy Klugian, who told reporters, “We ...
Gung-Ho for Big Cuts in Spending, Less Fond of the Ones That Hurt Back Home - Tea Partiers LOVE Home Cooked Pork
Post Date: 2011-04-07 12:42:07 by war
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WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler denounced stimulus spending and, once elected, voted for a Republican budget bill that would make $61 billion in cuts to a vast array of programs this year. Government overspending is out of control, she said recently in the weekly Republican address, and must be stopped. But perhaps not in her home state, Washington. There, the Port of Vancouver had been waiting for a $10 million grant, one modeled on a popular program in the stimulus bill. But the money was rescinded in the Republican spending bill, known as H.R. 1, that passed the House in February but was later defeated in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Port ...
Obama and his faggot look
Post Date: 2011-04-07 11:35:43 by no gnu taxes
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Comments are hilarious -- LOL!!! Man, and that isn’t even photoshopped. What an effeminate homo. It’s so embarassing having this gay, divisive, condescending, vindictive little prick installed in the White House. -- Wonder what he’s doing with his right hand? -- On the left we have a man, on the right we have the classic closet homosexual who thinks his reality is not written across his forehead. It’s unconscious, the effeminate posturing. -- I bet he drinks hot tea with his pinkie raised. And sleeps in pink negligee. -- Hey All, Now, now you guys are being too hard on Obama. Wait…..what did I just post??? This is one sick looking MFer, who ...
Trump: I Have Investigators in Hawaii...'They Cannot Believe What They're Finding' (About the Kenyan) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-07 09:05:27 by no gnu taxes
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DONALD TRUMP: I am saying I want to see the birth certificate. It's very simple. I want to see the birth certificate. How come his own family doesn't know which hospital he was born in? How come-- forget about birth certificates. Let's say there's no birth certificate. How come in the hospital itself, okay? This is one of the...in the hospital itself, there's no records of his birth. In other words, it doesn't say how much they paid, where is the doctor, here's your room bill. You know, all the MEREDITH VIEIRA: You've been privy to all of this to know this? DONALD TRUMP: Well, I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what ...
Rand Paul tests the presidential waters
Post Date: 2011-04-07 08:42:32 by A K A Stone
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As the field for the Republican presidential nomination rounds into form, it is becoming clear that the traditional standard bearers for the GOP aren't bearing up well under Tea Party scrutiny. Dominated by a raft of losing 2008 also-rans, the Republican field must yield candidates likely to live up to the demanding standards of one of the largest and most successful grass roots movement in the history of the Grand Old Party. The one candidate that, in my opinion, demonstrates the most consistent adherence to Tea Party principles perfectly described the GOP dilemma in Iowa on Sunday: Its not enough just to be a Republican (Rand Paul told the crowd) Its not enough just for the ...
MSNBC Untruthful About Sen. Paul’s Views on Libya
Post Date: 2011-04-06 23:48:11 by A K A Stone
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Leftist television channel MSNBC made a mockery of journalism and itself after one of its journalists was exposed blatantly disregarding the truth by distorting the meaning of a non-binding Senate Resolution and the views of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on the Obama administration’s United Nations-backed war in Libya. Now, critics of the network and supporters of the Senator are demanding an apology. After poking fun at Sarah Palin for her criticism of the regime’s war, MSNBC personality Lawrence O’Donnell awarded Sen. Rand Paul a prize for being the “most confused” Tea Partier regarding U.S. military intervention in Libya. But the only person exposed as possibly ...
Paul Ryan vs. Obama vs. Rand Paul
Post Date: 2011-04-06 23:39:27 by A K A Stone
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This week, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan introduced his budget for FY 2012. The media and politicians alike are either swooning over it or chastising it depending on their particular slant. Some are applauding it as a bold proposal; others attempt to cast it in apocalyptic terms - seniors will be dying in the streets, Ryan hates puppies and kittens - that sort of thing. To be fair, Chairman Ryan's proposal isn't necessarily bad, is certainly a step above what the GOP has been debating about all year so far, and is definitely more serious of a budget than President Obama's. The specific problem I have is with the long-term nature of Ryan's proposal. In theory, it ...
Poverty Immigrating to America’s Welfare State
Post Date: 2011-04-06 20:47:30 by CZ82
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Poverty Immigrating to America’s Welfare State Posted April 5th, 2011 Welfare spending is projected to skyrocket over the next 10 years, costing taxpayers $10.3 trillion and driving the United States toward bankruptcy. To make matters worse, a new report shows that the United States is seeing large percentage of its immigrant population exacting a costly toll on the welfare roles. According to Steven A. Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies: In 2009 (based on data collected in 2010), 57 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children. ...
As the Budget Debate Unfolds, It’s Time for Grown Ups
Post Date: 2011-04-06 20:34:46 by CZ82
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As the Budget Debate Unfolds, It’s Time for Grown Ups House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R, WI) has proposed a budget for grown ups. Washington’s big spenders have responded with the tired clichés we expect from defenders of big government: “Pulling the rug out from under seniors,” says Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D, MI). “Waging war on American workers,” says Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif. “A path to poverty for America’s seniors and children,” claims House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D, CA). “The tea party has hijacked the Republican caucus,” says House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D, MD) Pee Wee Herman ...
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