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Brown Ignored Union Bill’s Warnings
Post Date: 2010-10-25 19:35:14 by WhiteSands
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One of the few actual, honest issues in the California governor’s race has also been one of the least reported. And while it’s an old issue – dating back to 1977 – it’s nonetheless fascinating. “Back when Jerry Brown was governor nearly 35 years ago, in his first day in office, he gave public service unions the right to collective bargaining,” Republican Meg Whitman said back in April. Her time was off by two years, but the point of her argument was true enough: that granting public employee unions the right to bargain collectively for better pay and benefits paved the way for our state’s current unfunded pension liabilities, which may top half a ...
Voter reports problem with ballot machine
Post Date: 2010-10-25 18:20:23 by WhiteSands
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Man said he voted straight-party ticket and got opposite results A Craven County voter says he had a near miss at the polls on Thursday when an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the opposite of what he intended. Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff. “They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the ...
September Existing Home Sales: 4.53 million SAAR, 10.7 months of supply (Down 19% from September 2009)
Post Date: 2010-10-25 16:46:20 by Nebuchadnezzar
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September Existing Home Sales: 4.53 million SAAR, 10.7 months of supply by CalculatedRisk on 10/25/2010 10:00:00 AM The NAR reports: September Existing-Home Sales Show Another Strong Gain Existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, jumped 10.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.53 million in September from a downwardly revised 4.12 million in August, but remain 19.1 percent below the 5.60 million-unit pace in September 2009 when first-time buyers were ramping up in advance of the initial deadline for the tax credit last November. ... Total housing inventory at the end of September fell 1.9 percent to ...
THE HARD TRUTH: BLACKS HATE WHITE PEOPLE
Post Date: 2010-10-25 14:44:49 by no gnu taxes
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Andrew Breitbart wants to destroy the leftwing mainstream media. Angry White Dude wants to destroy political correctness. I’ve never been much at pretending or lying and I have too much self-respect to fool myself into thinking something is when it is not or is not when it is. That was one of the reasons this blog was started. Rassmussen released a poll today titled Voters Are Much Less Optimistic About Black-White Relations. The report states that just 36% of voters now say relations between blacks and whites are getting better, down from 62% last year. Here’s the kicker, thirty-nine percent (39%) of whites think black-white race relations are getting better, but just 13% of ...
Who has actually created more Jobs? Bush or Obama
Post Date: 2010-10-25 14:29:45 by no gnu taxes
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The left continues to lie to the American public with their unfounded claims that Obama has created more jobs in 20 months that Bush did in 8 years. As I have pointed out, the numbers don’t lie. Recently, Nancy Pelosi, and a host of other lying Democrats, made this claim. All one has to do is look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics to verify the numbers. If you take the total number of private sector jobs created in January of 2009, when Obama took office, you see the number is 110,961,000. Then if you look at the numbers from September of 2010, you will see the number 107,970,000. That is a loss 2,991,000 jobs in 20 months. Add the 3.5 million jobs Obama promised to create and we ...
Surprise! Commie-In-Training Barack Obama Campaigned Before Socialist Group in 1996…
Post Date: 2010-10-25 14:11:17 by WhiteSands
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But don’t worry, he’s totally a moderate now… (Big Government)- Newsletters published by the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America show President Barack Obama actively participated in a 1996 rally co-sponsored by the group and held at The University of Chicago during his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate. The president’s defenders, including Obama himself, have sought to deflect questions about his socialist connections and dismiss them as partisan hyperbole or as guilt by association 6 regarding his connections with William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Frank Marshall Davis. But an article in the March-April 2000 edition of the Chicago ...
Congratulations San Francisco Giants, 2010 National League Champions.
Post Date: 2010-10-25 13:43:37 by Skip MacLure
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Sorry, folks. Couldn’t help myself. This column, or at least half of it, originates in the greater SF Bay Area. This team is peaking at just the perfect time. We wish the Giants good fortune in the World Series this week. I hope this doesn’t cost me my American League readers (grin). I’m minded of the similarity of the last-stretch drive of the Patriots of this country to the election, and the Giants’ final run to the World Series. It’s been a story of the Patriot drive to wrest this great nation from impending destruction at the hands of ideologically driven socialists. Leftist pundits and politicians have been predicting the demise of the Tea Party and Patriot ...
Debt Has Increased $5 Trillion Since Speaker Pelosi Vowed, ‘No New Deficit Spending’
Post Date: 2010-10-25 13:35:02 by WhiteSands
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When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be “no new deficit spending.” Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. "After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,” Pelosi said in her speech from the speaker’s podium. “Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt." Pelosi has served as speaker in the 110th and 111th Congresses. At the close of business on Jan. 4, 20 ...
Obama likely to focus on deficit in next 2 years
Post Date: 2010-10-25 13:16:25 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON – Preparing for political life after a bruising election, President Barack Obama will put greater emphasis on fiscal discipline, a nod to a nation sick of spending and to a Congress poised to become more Republican, conservative and determined to stop him. He is already giving clues about how he will govern in the last two years of his term. Obama will try to make gains on deficit reduction, education and energy. He will enforce his health care and financial overhauls and try to protect them from repeal should Republicans win control of Capitol Hill. He will use executive authority when blocked by Congress, and steel for scrutiny and investigations if the GOP is in charge. ...
Cities Weigh Letting Noncitizens Vote
Post Date: 2010-10-25 13:12:04 by WhiteSands
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PORTLAND, Maine -- Like his neighbors, Claude Rwaganje pays taxes on his income and taxes on his cars. His children have gone to Portland's public schools. He's interested in the workings of Maine's largest city, which he has called home for 13 years. There's one vital difference, though: Rwaganje isn't a U.S. citizen and isn't allowed to vote on those taxes or on school issues. That may soon change. Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it. Noncitizens hold down ...
U.S. Existing Home Sales Rose 10% to 4.53 Million Rate
Post Date: 2010-10-25 11:32:25 by go65
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Sales of U.S. existing homes rose in September by the most on record, a sign cheaper borrowing costs are helping stabilize an industry that’s battling the headwinds of foreclosures and joblessness. Purchases increased 10 percent to a 4.53 million annual rate from 4.12 million in August, the National Association of Realtors said today in Washington. Economists forecast sales would rise to a 4.3 million pace, according to the median projection in a Bloomberg News survey. The median price fell 2.4 percent from a year earlier. The lowest mortgage rates on record and cheaper homes are enticing some buyers and providing a backstop for the industry that precipitated the worst recession ...
From Obama, the Tax Cut Nobody Heard Of
Post Date: 2010-10-25 11:22:42 by go65
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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — What if a president cut Americans’ income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed? It is not a rhetorical question. At Pig Pickin’ and Politickin’, a barbecue-fed rally organized here last week by a Republican women’s club, a half-dozen guests were asked by a reporter what had happened to their taxes since President Obama took office. “Federal and state have both gone up,” said Bob Paratore, 59, from nearby Charlotte, echoing the comments of others. After further prodding — including a reminder that a provision of the stimulus bill had cut taxes for 95 percent of working families by changing withholding rates — Mr. ...
Democrats shrank US spending, deficit in last fiscal year, figures show
Post Date: 2010-10-25 11:21:44 by go65
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The US deficit shrank nine percent last fiscal year but still topped one trillion dollars, the government said Friday in a report seized on by Democrats' rivals weeks ahead of mid-term elections. For the 2010 fiscal year that ended on September 30, the government had a budget shortfall of 1.294 trillion dollars, down 122 billion dollars from the previous year's record-setting high. Revenue rose and spending fell amid recovery from recession and as President Barack Obama's Democratic administration wound down some of the emergency measures taken to restore growth. The final figures "underscored the administration's commitment" to cutting the massive government ...
Falling Into the Chasm
Post Date: 2010-10-25 09:11:36 by go65
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This is what happens when you need to leap over an economic chasm — but either can’t or won’t jump far enough, so that you only get part of the way across. If Democrats do as badly as expected in next week’s elections, pundits will rush to interpret the results as a referendum on ideology. President Obama moved too far to the left, most will say, even though his actual program — a health care plan very similar to past Republican proposals, a fiscal stimulus that consisted mainly of tax cuts, help for the unemployed and aid to hard-pressed states — was more conservative than his election platform. A few commentators will point out, with much more justice, that ...
Gen. Hugh Shelton: Bush Officials Pushed For Iraq War 'Almost To The Point Of Insubordination'
Post Date: 2010-10-24 23:40:59 by Brian S
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Former Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton says that, during the Bush administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, and other Pentagon officials pushed to go to war with Iraq "almost to the point of insubordination." "There was a very strong push in those days for us to go into Iraq, and there was absolutely no intelligence, zero, that pointed toward the Iraqis.," he told Christiane Amanpour on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday. "It was all Al Qaida, Osama bin Laden. And yet there was an element there that was -- that was pushing to go into Iraq at the same time." George Bush was focused on Afghanistan and initially ...
Coons Goons Trespass, Assault Three O'Donnell Staffers (shoved into a wall)
Post Date: 2010-10-24 22:08:10 by Hondo68
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Several supporters of Chris Coons, the Delaware Democratic U.S. Senate candidate did it again. As you enter the Glasgow Medical Center on Glasgow Avenue in Bear, DE, Coons supporters started out by holding a peaceful protest. But, while leading doctors from across the state held a press conference with Christine O'Donnell, two Coons disrupted the press conference and were asked to leave. By way of disrupting the press conference which was held in a conference room inside the Glasgow Medical Center, the Coons supporters trespassed on that property since they were not seeking medical care. It was reported that they were asked to leave, but re-entered the building defying orders from ...
Coast Guard: Discolored water at Mississippi River pass could be oil, other area likely algae
Post Date: 2010-10-24 19:38:23 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard said Saturday that an area of discolored water near a Mississippi River pass south of New Orleans appears to be an algae bloom, but another spot 10 miles away could be oil. Jeff Hall, spokesman for the Unified Area Command, said tests could determine if the suspected oil is from the BP spill. The Coast Guard sent two flights over the West Bay area near Venice on Saturday. Two boats also went out to check the waters. Hall told The Associated Press that tests will be done Monday on water samples from an area where a marine investigator believes there's an algae bloom near Venice. The area of discolored water there was about 2.5 miles long and 300 ...
NPR / PBS – The Ugly Reality Of Liberalism On Display.
Post Date: 2010-10-24 16:17:50 by Skip MacLure
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I’ve never liked national public radio and television. In the early days, when ‘public’ programming was mostly locally controlled, PBS used to be sort of fun. They actually addressed both sides of mostly local issues. As the National Public Radio and Television networks came on line there was a noticeable leftward shift in programming… I noticed it especially around college broadcasting. However, the national network programs also fostered a definite liberal agenda, with short shrift for opposing opinions. All of PBS is sucking, at least partially, at the public trough. I’ve heard figures of anywhere from 2 to 7 percent. I suspect the latter, only because ...
The GOP Changes Its Tune on Cap and Trade
Post Date: 2010-10-24 12:21:00 by go65
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Opposition to “cap-and-trade” legislation to reduce global warming pollution is a common refrain among many Republican and a few Democratic officials this fall. The program is derided as a “cap and tax” that would drain voters’ wallets while bankrupting the nation. But ironically enough, the three most recent Republican presidents promoted cap and trade, including Ronald Reagan. They employed such a system to phase out lead in gasoline, cut chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting chemicals, and reduce sulfur pollution from power plants responsible for acid rain—all without undue cost. Officials who are criticizing it now are doing so for political ...
B.H. 0bama's “Big Lies” Get Bigger
Post Date: 2010-10-24 08:20:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama’s “Big Lies” Get Bigger While you can’t fool “all of the people, all of the time,” it is surprisingly easy to fool a sufficient number of them to get elected. “People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.” That’s an excerpt from a World War II-era military intelligence report – a document which explored the psychological profile of one of our nation’s (and the world’s) most dangerous enemies. It also represents perhaps the most succinct encapsulation of the modern-day propaganda method commonly referred to as “The Big Lie.” ...
Early voting numbers scare Democrats
Post Date: 2010-10-24 02:12:35 by WhiteSands
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October 23, 2010 BY CAROL MARIN Sun-Times Columnist Gosh, who would have guessed that Hollywood funnyman Vince Vaughn would be taking this midterm election so seriously? Especially when so many voters are despondent over what they view as their dismal Nov. 2 choices. "I'm sitting here holding Vince Vaughn's absentee voting application," laughed Chicago Board of Election spokesman Jim Allen when I called on Friday. Vaughn, the Lake Forest native who owns a condo on the Gold Coast, was apparently so hell-bent on registering to vote in Chicago and getting his ballot in before the deadline that FedEx envelopes were flying back and forth from Hollywood to Allen's office ...
Obama Campaigned Before Socialist Group in ‘96
Post Date: 2010-10-23 23:13:03 by WhiteSands
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Newsletters published by the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America show President Barack Obama actively participated in a 1996 rally co-sponsored by the group and held at The University of Chicago during his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate. The president’s defenders, including Obama himself, have sought to deflect questions about his socialist connections and dismiss them as partisan hyperbole or as guilt by association 6 regarding his connections with William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Frank Marshall Davis. But an article in the March-April 2000 edition of the Chicago DSA’s newsletter, The New Ground, detailing its recommendations for the March ...
Joe Biden says 'tea party' pushing Republicans too far right
Post Date: 2010-10-23 21:58:51 by WhiteSands
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Campaigning in Nevada for Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, the vice president says 'this ain't your father's Republican Party' because of the new crop of conservatives whom he called extremists. October 20, 2010|By Michael Muskal | Los Angeles Times Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday lashed out at Republicans and called the new crop of conservative Senate candidates extremists who represent a sharp break with the party’s traditions. Campaigning in Nevada for Sen. Harry Reid, running slightly behind "tea party" movement favorite Sharron Angle, Biden sounded what has become one of the Democrats' main tropes in this midterm election cycle: The tea party has ...
Juan Williams & the Unspoken Issues of the Dominant Forces in Muslim Politics
Post Date: 2010-10-23 17:46:11 by WhiteSands
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Juan Williams is fired from NPR and talking heads spin. The same talking points over and over. I keep watching in hope that some light will be shed on issues important to the electorate. Many points are being left out of this conversation. When this story first broke, I saw a letter from CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] to NPR demanding they take action against Juan Williams. This is no longer a talking point and seems to be of no importance to the issue at this point. I beg to differ as many Americans do not know what CAIR’s motive is and how Progressive Marxist-fascists use the issue of Islamophobia to advance their agenda, thereby condoning cultural jihad. “I ...
Juan Williams: Busted (Hypocrite)
Post Date: 2010-10-23 17:43:59 by go65
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Juan Williams: I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous. Now, I remember also that when the Times Square bomber was at court, I think this was just last week. He said the war with Muslims, America's war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts Juan Williams: Neither black nor white store owners are in business to display the virtues of admitting ...
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