|
Latest Articles: United States News
Angle: Two American cities under Sharia law (one doesn't exist)
Post Date: 2010-10-12 20:31:31 by go65
11 Comments
(CNN) - Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle told a crowd of Tea Party rally-goers last week that two cities — Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas — are under Sharia law, the sacred law of Islam. “We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it,” Angle said according to audio of the rally obtained by the Washington post. “My thoughts are these. First of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas, are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States.” ...
Vibrant life ends in war zone -- Former UO exchange student Linda Norgrove, kidnapped by militants, died in a failed rescue attempt [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-12 15:49:17 by Ferret Mike
72 Comments
When Dean and Lucile McKenzie of Eugene think back on Linda Norgrove, they remember a young woman who wanted to try everything. There was the time that Norgrove, then an exchange student from Scotland enrolled at the University of Oregon, saw climbers ascending the basalt columns at Skinner Butte Park. “I want to do that,” she said instantly. Or the time she saw a Eugene street performer juggling bowling pins. “I’ve got to give that to try,” she said. Finally, they recall the time that Norgrove set her heart on cycling across the United States with a friend. The McKenzies weren’t sure that two young women should be cycling across the country on their ...
Bush Now More Popular than Obama in “Frontline” Districts
Post Date: 2010-10-12 15:41:54 by no gnu taxes
3 Comments
Two years after his coattails helped sweep two dozen Democrats into office, President Obama is proving more a boon to Republicans than to Democrats during the midterm elections. His poll numbers are so morose that Democrats are planning ways to avoid his shadow, while Republicans plot strategies aimed at tying Obama to every incumbent member of Congress they can. The advice from Democratic consultants and strategists is almost unanimous: Run away from the president, and fast. A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in “Frontline” districts — seats held by Democrats that the Democratic ...
California Stimulus Pays For $152 Million Rose Bowl Upgrade (Luxury Boxes for the Rich = Welfare for the Rich)
Post Date: 2010-10-12 14:04:18 by Nebuchadnezzar
2 Comments
California Stimulus Pays For $152 Million Rose Bowl Upgrade Adam Fusfeld | Oct. 12, 2010, 11:15 AM | 297 | comment 4 The Pasadena City Council approved a $152 million renovation to the Rose Bowl Stadium on Monday, the AP reported. The 88-year-old stadium will get 2,000 more luxury seats, a new scoreboard, more bathrooms, and more concession stands. In the interest of not disrupting any UCLA home games, or "The Grandaddy of Them All," the construction will take place over three phases and is expected to be completed by 2013. It will be financed by bonds, profits from previous games, and federal stimulus money. Read more: ...
Obama Administration Lifts Deep Water Drilling Moratorium Imposed After BP's Gulf Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-10-12 13:40:47 by Brian S
6 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the six-month moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that was imposed after the BP oil spill. The administration has been under heavy pressure from the industry and others in the region to lift the ban on grounds it has cost jobs and damaged the economy. A federal report said the moratorium likely caused a temporary loss of 8,000 to 12,000 jobs in the Gulf region. While the temporary ban on exploratory oil and gas drilling is lifted immediately, drilling is unlikely to resume immediately. Michael Bromwich, director of the agency that oversees offshore drilling, said it would take "at least a couple of ...
O’Bozo And The Clown College – Turning Certain Defeat Into Certain Disaster.
Post Date: 2010-10-12 13:25:34 by Skip MacLure
0 Comments
We, that is we of the Conservative Patriot movement, have experienced pretty much the worst the Marxists of the Obama government have had to throw at us. The lame-tame, so-called mainstream press, whose slavish devotion to all things socialist is well known, has lost its grip on the American people. Enter the alternate or ‘new media’, whose reportage has been scooping the media giants on a regular basis. Not only that, but stories can be broken nationwide instantly with a few keystrokes, and we have thousands of well-informed and patriotic writers who have taken it upon themselves to get to the story and then get the truth out. The Marxist redistributionist cabal that had taken ...
Poll: President Obama would rout Sarah Palin in 2012
Post Date: 2010-10-12 12:22:23 by go65
3 Comments
Barack Obama would rout Sarah Palin in a theoretical matchup in the 2012 presidential election, according to a Bloomberg National Poll released Tuesday. The Democratic president led the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee by 16 points, 51 percent to 35 percent, the poll found. One in 10 voters said they would not cast a ballot, and 4 percent said they were undecided. Palin said in an interview last week she would not likely run for president if voters preferred a more traditional candidate. But during this midterm election cycle, she has been endorsing and campaigning for a number of Republicans across the country, including tea party favorites Sharron ...
Republicans Prove Unpopular With Voters Against Obama in Poll
Post Date: 2010-10-12 09:39:19 by go65
40 Comments
Republican attacks on President Barack Obama’s policies are resonating with voters, even as many Americans give a thumbs-down to the party and some of its specific ideas, a Bloomberg National Poll shows. Three weeks before the midterm elections, Republicans maintain a position of strength due to the commitment of their supporters and the likelihood they will vote. The general Republican message of less spending, lower taxes and repeal of the health-care overhaul is connecting. Pluralities of those polled support overturning the health-care measure -- Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment -- and back the “Pledge to America” that offers a road map for how ...
Hal Lewis resigns from The American Physical Society - An unimportant moment in science history, but perhaps a lesson in "normal science" that will shut down Cuccinelli's witch hunt
Post Date: 2010-10-12 09:13:07 by go65
1 Comments
A physicist named Hal Lewis who doesn57;t know the first thing about climate science has resigned from the American Physical Society because he doesn57;t know the first thing about climate science. The anti-science crowd has, with unintentional irony, compared his words of resignation to 60;a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door.61; That laughable assertion might be a half-truth, I suppose, if scientific views were no different from religious ones, which, I suppose, for the disinformers they are. And it might even be a quarter truth if Luther hadn57;t actually included any theses in his letter but instead cited, say, the work of ...
Rand Paul Skewers Sink Boy
Post Date: 2010-10-12 08:19:30 by no gnu taxes
1 Comments
Rand Paul hit back hard at Bill Clinton on Monday, making a crack about the former president's relationship with Monica Lewinsky after Clinton attacked the Senate candidate's ideas as "radical." Clinton was in Kentucky stumping for Paul's opponent, Jack Conway, who he called "a practical progressive common-sense moderate who has actually done things and actually has a plan." He contrasted Conway with Paul by describing the Tea Party favorite as "a man with radical ideas and no record to back it up," The Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Paul wasted no time responding, dismissing Clinton's trip to Kentucky as irrelevant. "I'm not ...
Ruth McClung (AZ-7) Challenge to Patriotic Americans
Post Date: 2010-10-12 00:59:21 by Nebuchadnezzar
0 Comments
www.ruth4az.com/ I just donated $100 to this fine, upstanding women running for AZ-7. She's strongly opposed to the pathetic border "protection" and is right on the issues. I challenge you, my conservative friends at LF, to meet or exceed my donation to Ruth's campaign. God Bless, Neb
What Changes In Survival Rates Tell Us About US Health Care
Post Date: 2010-10-11 20:11:53 by go65
7 Comments
Many advocates of US health reform point to the nation’s relatively low life-expectancy rankings as evidence that the health care system is performing poorly. Others say that poor US health outcomes are largely due not to health care but to high rates of smoking, obesity, traffic fatalities, and homicides. We used cross-national data on the fifteen-year survival of men and women over three decades to examine the validity of these arguments. We found that the risk profiles of Americans generally improved relative to those for citizens of many other nations, but Americans’ relative fifteen-year survival has nevertheless been declining. For example, by 2005, fifteen-year survival ...
Toomey On Privatization: ‘You Don’t Really Have To Worry About Fluctuations In The Stock Market’
Post Date: 2010-10-11 20:00:08 by go65
8 Comments
Former House Representative and Wall Street derivatives trader Pat Toomey, who is the Republican senate nominee in Pennsylvania, has been having a hard time pinning down his own position when it comes to Social Security. He unashamedly supported President Bush’s failed push to privatize the system, praised the idea of personal Social Security accounts in his book (because “personal accounts lead to personal prosperity”), but then claimed “I’ve never said I favor privatizing Social Security.” Despite his insistence that he “never said” he’s in favor of privatization, Toomey constantly talks up private accounts on the campaign trail. Last month, ...
Beyond the tea party: What Americans really think of government
Post Date: 2010-10-11 19:52:05 by go65
5 Comments
If there is an overarching theme of election 2010, it is the question of how big the government should be and how far it should reach into people's lives. Americans have a more negative view of government today than they did a decade ago, or even a few years ago. Most say it focuses on the wrong things and lack confidence that it can solve big domestic problems; this general anti-Washington sentiment is helping to fuel a potential Republican takeover of Congress next month. But ask people what they expect the government to do for themselves and their families, and a more complicated picture emerges. A new study by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard ...
MOVE Act Violation Revealed — and Military Ballots Still Not Sent
Post Date: 2010-10-11 16:06:09 by WhiteSands
0 Comments
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the state's Board of Elections on Monday for failing to mail out absentee ballots to military and overseas voters from New York City and four additional counties. "I don’t know whether or not the Board of Elections has failed to send out absentee ballots to the military or anybody else, but if they have failed it really is reprehensible," Bloomberg told Fox News. "We send our young men and women overseas to fight and to die for us and we don’t care enough to make sure they get the right to exercise their franchise? That’s what they’re over there fighting for as much as anything else." FoxNews.com ...
Shutting Up Business: Democrats unleash the IRS and Justice on donors to their political opponents.(Soft Tyranny in Action)
Post Date: 2010-10-11 12:22:49 by Nebuchadnezzar
8 Comments
Shutting Up Business Democrats unleash the IRS and Justice on donors to their political opponents. If at first you don't succeed, get some friends in high places to shut your opponents up. That's the latest Washington power play, as Democrats and liberals attack the Chamber of Commerce and independent spending groups in an attempt to stop businesses from participating in politics. Since the Supreme Court's January decision in Citizens United v. FEC, Democrats in Congress have been trying to pass legislation to repeal the First Amendment for business, though not for unions. Having failed on that score, they're now turning to legal and political threats. Funny how all of ...
Ann Coulter Gets the New York Times Sunday Sneer Treatment
Post Date: 2010-10-11 10:20:05 by Ferret Mike
3 Comments
It's not hard to find the "nut" paragraph in Laura Holson's New York Times "Sunday Styles" piece on Ann Coulter. Here it is: Now that members of the Tea Party movement have stolen much of her thunder, Ms. Coulter is taking some surprising new positions. She called the decision to send more troops into Afghanistan "insane," warning that it could be a new Vietnam. She has decried fellow Republicans for continuing to insist President Obama is Muslim. And perhaps most startling, she wants to bring more gay Republicans into the conservative fold. Coulter is a friend of mine, and we've been arguing about politics on and off for at least a decade or so. ...
Portland police panel finds Capt. Mark Kruger brought "discredit and disgrace" upon the city by erecting a memorial to Nazi soldiers [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-11 10:15:19 by Ferret Mike
45 Comments
For years, past police chiefs and city attorneys have vigorously fended off critics who called Portland police Capt. Mark Kruger a "Nazi sympathizer." They said he was simply a history buff who collected military memorabilia and had belonged to a World War II reenactment club. But now, a Portland commander and a Portland Police Performance Review Board have found Kruger brought "discredit and disgrace upon the Bureau and the City," by building a public tribute to five Nazi-era German soldiers at a city park while employed by the police bureau. During the course of the police investigation, Internal Affairs investigator Mike Barkley learned the city attorney's ...
The Obama Regime: A Failed Presidency on the Brink of Collapse
Post Date: 2010-10-11 09:51:44 by no gnu taxes
15 Comments
"Forget the myth of an Obama recovery" says Nile Gardiner, writing in The Telegraph (UK) yesterday. Noting how last week was yet another "disastrous" one for Team Obama and a bewildered American Left, he serves-up five key reasons for the Administration's accelerating political nosedive... one they have almost no chance of pulling-out-of by November 2nd: 1. A new Gallup poll suggests the November mid-terms could result in the biggest victory for Republicans in the House since 1894 (!) Gallup’s latest poll is absolutely devastating in its analysis of the Democrats’ prospects for November 2, projecting a 13 point lead for the Republicans based on higher ...
Eric Cantor Seeks Distance From Rich Iott, GOP Candidate Who Dressed In Nazi Garb
Post Date: 2010-10-10 21:59:43 by go65
16 Comments
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) sought on Sunday to quickly and clearly distance the Republican Party from a GOP candidate whose past participation in Nazi re-enactments surfaced this weekend. In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Cantor (the lone Jewish Republican in the House) said he "would absolutely repudiate" Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Ohio's 9th District who apparently had an affinity for donning a German Waffen SS uniform. "What we have got now is a new crop of young leaders energized to go to Washington for the right reasons," said Cantor. "Now Debbie [Wasserman Schultz, Cantor's co-panelist] went and launched into ...
Chavez backs China over Nobel for jailed dissident Read more: Chavez backs China over Nobel for jailed dissident
Post Date: 2010-10-10 20:34:09 by WhiteSands
1 Comments
CARACAS, Venezuela—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expressed solidarity with China's government Sunday over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a jailed Chinese dissident. He suggested the prize should not have gone to Liu Xiaobo, who has drawn praise from Western governments as an advocate of gradual political change without any violent confrontation with Chinese leaders. "This (Liu) is like Obama, the other peace prize," Chavez said. The Venezuelan leader criticized last year's award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, saying the U.S. president didn't deserve the honor because his administration continues to engage in wars. Speaking in his weekly ...
Axelrod: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce "A Threat To Our Democracy" [ Not The Onion ]
Post Date: 2010-10-10 18:32:48 by WhiteSands
8 Comments
David Axelrod, the White House's Senior Adviser, is ratcheting up the Democrats' attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, calling special interest spending "a threat to our democracy." Axelrod is accusing the Chamber of Commerce of collecting millions of dollars from secret donors - including some foreign sources - to influence the midterm elections in favor of the Republicans, and refusing to disclose their sources. "This issue of this special interest spending is very important," Axelrod said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. "It's never happened before that organizations are spending this kind of money. And the American people need to ...
What A Wondrous Thing, This Patriot Movement. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-10 16:12:57 by Skip MacLure
65 Comments
It’s great to be an American. It’s great to be an American Patriot during this most momentous period in American history. Not that it isn’t a little scary too… with the assault against the fabric of the country by Barack Obama and his Marxist Government and Congress… with our borders a literal sieve, two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, with the latter altogether uncertain because of Barack Obama’s indecision and his active undermining of the military mission and command there. Some people see our president as favoring and aiding our enemies. If this was a Republican they’d be shrieking for his head, but then Obama did tell us that he had to get out of ...
Consumer borrowing falls again in August, marking 2 years of monthly drops for credit cards
Post Date: 2010-10-10 01:11:48 by Nebuchadnezzar
38 Comments
Consumers cut credit card borrowing for 24th month Consumer borrowing falls again in August, marking 2 years of monthly drops for credit cards Daniel Wagner, AP Business Writer, On Thursday October 7, 2010, 4:39 pm EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumer borrowing fell again in August as consumers cut back on credit card use for the 24th consecutive month, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. Borrowing by consumers declined by $3.3 billion that month. It was the 18th drop for overall consumer borrowing in the past 19 months. Americans are borrowing and spending less as they face widespread unemployment and uncertainty about their financial futures. The reduced use of credit by consumers is a ...
The Incredible Two-Day Jump in US Treasure Debt ($144 Billion in two days)
Post Date: 2010-10-10 01:02:19 by Nebuchadnezzar
2 Comments
The Incredible Two-Day Jump in US Treasure Debt By The Mogambo Guru leadimage 10/06/10 Tampa, Florida – Things are getting so, so, so weird that I was locked inside the Mogambo Bunker Of Panic (MBOP), looking through the periscope to keep a vigilant watch for the social explosion outside that was coming, I figured, so, so soon, with my finger on the trigger of something fully loaded and reassuringly .45 caliber, and a slice of yummy pizza in my one free hand to keep my energy level up via the universal Magic Of The Pepperoni (MOTP). To show you that I am not over-reacting like the hyper-excitable, gun-nut, gold-bug, Austrian school of economics kind of weird guy that I actually am, ...
Latest [Newer] 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 [Older]
|
