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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
FL tells Obama where to stick the ObamaCare bucks
Post Date: 2011-02-02 15:23:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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Florida to Barack Obama: Keep your health care reform money Thanks but no thanks. That’s what the state of Florida is saying to the Obama administration, taking back its request for a $1 million grant to implement the health law. In response to this week’s court ruling declaring the law unconstitutional, Florida has withdrawn an application for health reform funds. In a letter sent Tuesday, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty informed the Department of Health & Human Services the state no longer wanted a $1 million grant that they had applied for last year. “The purpose of this letter is to inform you that after deliberate consideration, I hereby rescind ...
Barack Obama, John McCain Reuniting For Private White House Meeting
Post Date: 2011-02-02 13:36:18 by Hondo68
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President Barack Obama and his 2008 adversary, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), are set to convene at the White House Wednesday afternoon for a closed-door meeting to talk about policy. MSNBC's First Read reports that the two met last December to discuss legislative action on the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and the passage of the Dream Act, but that the latest invitation, set for 2:05 pm, comes amid a different set of considerations: A senior administration official tells NBC's Savannah Guthrie that today's Obama-McCain meeting is the result of a call the president placed to McCain after the Arizona senator's op-ed praising Obama's handling of the ...
Obama adviser Valerie Jarret orders general to fetch her wine
Post Date: 2011-02-01 18:06:32 by Happy Quanzaa
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Valerie Jarrett to uniformed general: More wine, garçon! In Washington, bigwigs can misspeak and misstep a million times without drawing attention. And then there are the seemingly harmless moments that stick to a person like super glue: Joe Wilson barking “You lie!”; Jesse Jackson mumbling into a hot mic that he wants to castrate Barack Obama; Dan Quayle trying to spell things. Like coal crushed into diamonds by the pressure of a million eyeballs, such moments are forever. During an exclusive dinner hosted Monday by the Alfalfa Club, Obama adviser Valerie Jarret had just such a moment. And were it not for an irritated tipster, Jarret might have walked away from the ...
A People’s Uprising Against the Empire
Post Date: 2011-02-01 13:16:27 by Capitalist Eric
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Those of the young generation, people too young to remember the collapse of Soviet-bloc and other socialist states in 1989 and 1990, are fortunate to be living through another thrilling example of a seemingly impenetrable State edifice reduced to impotence when faced with crowds demanding freedom, peace, and justice. There is surely no greater event than this. To see it instills in us a sense of hope that the longing for freedom that beats in the heart of every human being can be realized in our time. This is why all young people should pay close attention to what is happening in Egypt, to the protests against the regime of Hosni Mubarak as well as the pathetic response coming from his ...
New government SOP: step out of line and we’ll cut you off
Post Date: 2011-02-01 13:15:16 by Capitalist Eric
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The need for most species to gather into larger collectives is a primal, animalistic instinct. Whether flocks of birds, schools of fish, colonies of ants, or packs of wolves, it is a natural inclination for animals to form larger units for their mutual protection and productive benefit. Human civilization has shown the same tendency. Mankind’s first collectives were families and tribes based on common language, customs, lineage, and geography. As tribes grew and formed into kingdoms and vast empires, though, the core power in a civilization became concentrated in the hands of a few. History is filled with examples of tyrants who mercilessly oppressed their people; in fact, the entire ...
American Eulogy [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-01-31 20:35:46 by Capitalist Eric
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The Founding Fathers described the kind of country they were shaping on July 4, 1776 with the most well known sentence in the English language: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - Declaration of Independence In 1776, America was an idea born of noble intentions. An idea that every citizen had the opportunity to succeed, prosper and achieve based upon their hard work and abilities. The government did not provide advantages or a safety net for its citizens. People were free to succeed or fail based upon their own ...
MORON!!! Schumer: 'We have 3 branches of gov't -- A House, a Senate, a President'...
Post Date: 2011-01-31 14:44:54 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:This guy is an idiot and a liar.
Susan the **** Collins has a bill to shut down the internet
Post Date: 2011-01-31 09:52:15 by A K A Stone
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As Egypt's government attempts to crackdown on street protests by shutting down internet and mobile phone services, the US is preparing to reintroduce a bill that could be used to shut down the internet.
The legislation, which would grant US President Barack Obama powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet, would soon be reintroduced to a senate committee, Wired.com reported.
It was initially introduced last year but expired with a new Congress.
Senator Susan Collins, a co-sponsor of the bill, said that unlike in Egypt, where the government was using its powers to quell dissent by shutting down the internet, it would not.
“My legislation would provide a mechanism ...
Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising
Post Date: 2011-01-28 19:55:22 by Capitalist Eric
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The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned. The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police. On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011. The secret document in full He has already been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the ...
Shocker: Citizen Spy Networks to be Given Immunity
Post Date: 2011-01-27 16:56:24 by Capitalist Eric
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New York Republican Peter King has introduced a bill that would protect the army of citizen spies Homeland Security hopes to recruit under Janet Napolitano’s “See Something, Say Something” snoop campaign from lawsuits brought by innocent people wrongly accused of being terrorists or extremists. “A top US lawmaker unveiled legislation on Wednesday to protect individuals who tip off authorities to potential extremist threats from lawsuits, in the event that they turn out to finger innocents,” reports AFP. House Homeland Security Chairman King, who is pushing the “See Something, Say Something Act,” wants to shield “good citizens who report suspicious ...
Pelosi Logs 90,000 Air Force Miles, Asked for 'Chocolate Strawberries'
Post Date: 2011-01-27 16:29:12 by Happy Quanzaa
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In a report today, Judicial Watch confirmed that old habits must die hard for Pelosi. "The most recent documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include a Passenger Mission Activity chart detailing all of former Speaker Pelosi's flights January 1 to October 1, 2010, as well as detailed shopping lists for some flights..." the report said. "Pelosi used the Air Force aircraft for a total of 43 trips, covering 90,155 miles, from January 1 through October 1, 2010. The Air Force documented in-flight expenses for 22 of these flights totaling $1,821.33. The Air Force did not provide expense information for the remaining 21 flights," Judicial Watch reported. "Former ...
Congress Will Probe Special Exemptions to ObamaCare Law for Unions & Obama's Corporate Cronies
Post Date: 2011-01-27 14:35:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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Congress Will Probe Special Exemptions to Health-Care Law That Obama Administration Gave Select Unions and Businesses, Says Republican Senator Washington (CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration’s waivers to temporarily exempt certain companies, unions, and charities from rules established by the new health care law are a “perfect example of special interests” having influence in the administration and will be looked into by Congress, Sen. Charles Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee told CNSNews.com. "You’re going to find out that by the president doing that with the secretary of HHS, he violated one of his main principles when he ran ...
Public Housing, Private Frustration HUD-Funded Housing Projects Wasted Money on Belly Dancers, Sex Offenders & Dead Residents
Post Date: 2011-01-27 12:48:28 by Happy Quanzaa
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Even by Washington standards, $26 billion is a lot of money. That’s the amount spent by taxpayers annually to provide housing for needy Americans. But there’s significant evidence that some of the monies have been poorly spent for years. A joint investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity found that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has struggled to combat theft, corruption, and mismanagement in the more than 3,000 public housing agencies nationwide it funds, and particularly inside the 172 that HUD considers the most troubled. The problems are widespread, from an executive in New Orleans convicted of embezzling more than $900,000 in housing ...
Obamanomics>CBO: Social Security to Run $45 Billion Deficit in 2011
Post Date: 2011-01-27 12:31:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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(CNSNews.com) – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that Social Security will effectively run a $45-billion deficit in 2011 and continue to run deficits totaling $547 billion over the coming decade. The admission comes in the CBO’s semi-annual economic review that projects federal spending, debt, and economic growth. In the report, the CBO also examines the impact of projected economic performance on the trust fund that nominally funds Social Security. “Excluding interest, surpluses for Social Security become deficits of $45 billion in 2011 and $547 billion over the 2012–2021 period,” the CBO reported. This means that in order to pay benefits Social ...
Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Banks And 16 Other Ideas Barack Obama Could Have Proposed If He Actually Wanted To Fix The Economy
Post Date: 2011-01-27 11:45:25 by Capitalist Eric
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How do we fix the economy? That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now. Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solutions either. There is talk of cutting taxes a little bit more, reducing federal spending a little bit and getting rid of a few useless federal regulations but doing any of those things would essentially be like spitting into Niagara Falls - the effect would not really be noticeable at all. As this column has documented over and over and over, the economic and financial problems that we are facing are so enormous that ...
Obama/Holder Federal Jack Booted Thugs want Internet, cell records held longer
Post Date: 2011-01-26 15:48:54 by Happy Quanzaa
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US wants Internet, cell records held longer The US Justice Department wants Internet service providers and cell phone companies to be required to hold on to records for longer to help with criminal prosecutions. "Data retention is fundamental to the department's work in investigating and prosecuting almost every type of crime," US deputy assistant attorney general Jason Weinstein told a congressional subcommittee on Tuesday. "Some records are kept for weeks or months; others are stored very briefly before being purged," Weinstein said in remarks prepared for delivery to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. He said Internet ...
Spending freeze not good news for local (DC) economy
Post Date: 2011-01-26 13:24:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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President Obama's proposal to freeze discretionary government spending for five years, while potentially welcome news elsewhere in the country, could blast a hole in the Washington-area economy where less federal spending is likely to mean job losses, service cutbacks and fewer government contracts. "Putting a dollar figure on it would be impossible to estimate, but it's not trivial," said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Fairfax. Voters in November's midterm elections made clear they want Uncle Sam to tighten his belt, and Obama and congressional Republicans are wrangling only over how to cut and not whether to cut. However deep they cut, thousands of local residents are ...
Obama and the Bodysnatchers
Post Date: 2011-01-26 12:13:32 by calcon
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My pal, a frequent Spectator contributor and a super smart guy, Aram Bakshian, summed it up perfectly after Barack Obama's State of the Union address. "Obama does not seem like a leader anymore," he said. It is sadly true. This was painfully apparent in tonight's speech. It was as if the Bodysnatchers had gotten hold of Mr. Obama and put a sixth grader's brain in him. There were only a few glimpses of Obama the "intellectual" socialist on display tonight. Mostly, his speech sounded as if it could have been given by any 1958 Republican elementary school student. The problem is that this is not 1958 America. This is a much changed America, and one that has ...
Obamath: Barry's imbalanced budget
Post Date: 2011-01-26 08:48:36 by Happy Quanzaa
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FACT CHECK: Obama and his imbalanced ledgerFACT CHECK: A tricky juggling act as Obama urges more spending and a freeze on spending WASHINGTON (AP) -- The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other. Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech. He pointed to the transportation and construction projects of the last two years and proposed "we redouble these efforts." He coupled this with a call to "freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years." ...
Bush White House Broke Elections Law, Report Says
Post Date: 2011-01-25 17:16:39 by go65
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WASHINGTON — The Bush White House, particularly before the 2006 midterm elections, routinely violated a federal law that prohibits use of federal tax dollars to pay for political activities by creating a “political boiler room” that coordinated Republican campaign activities nationwide, a report issued Monday by an independent federal agency concludes. The report by the Office of Special Counsel finds that the Bush administration’s Office of Political Affairs — overseen by Karl Rove — served almost as an extension of the Republican National Committee, developing a “target list” of Congressional races, organizing dozens of briefings for political ...
Wall Street Partying in Davos as Obama's Bailed Out Bankers Overcome Crisis
Post Date: 2011-01-25 11:44:12 by Happy Quanzaa
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As Wall Street chief executive officers flock to the World Economic Forum, they’ll be breathing a sigh of relief along with the Swiss mountain air: There are no panels on compensation or redesigning financial regulation. After spending much of last year’s meeting defending the industry and debating proposed rules, bankers plan to focus on wooing clients and winning business, according to executives at three Wall Street companies, who spoke anonymously because they weren’t authorized to comment publicly. The bankers will be coming to Davos, Switzerland, with a renewed sense of confidence. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s profits last year were the highest in the bank’s ...
Obama Steals GOP Slogan
Post Date: 2011-01-25 09:42:38 by Happy Quanzaa
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Republican Owns Obama’s ‘Win the Future’ President Barack Obama spent the weekend talking about the need to “win the future” in what sounds like the beginnings of a re-election slogan. But a conservative activist in Oregon owns the winthefuture websites, virtually ensuring that Republicans will define the catch phrase in their own way. Obama talked about “how we’ll win the future” in his weekly address and in a video on Saturday when he previewed his State of the Union address for supporters. That video closed with a “Win the Future” graphic that elevated the phrase to a potential re-election mantra. BarackObama.com will be the ...
Special Opinion Report: The plain truth about who owns the Democratic Party
Post Date: 2011-01-25 09:35:31 by Happy Quanzaa
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It's unlikely that Howard Dean intended to expose one of his party's greatest weaknesses in August 2009 when he explained why Obamacare could not include a tort reform provision that experts said could save up to $400 billion in health care costs. Speaking at a Northern Virginia town hall meeting, the former Democratic presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee chairman stunned many in the nation's capitol with these unexpected words: "Here's why tort reform is not in the bill. When you go to pass a really enormous bill like that, the more stuff you put into it, the more enemies you make. And the reason the tort reform is not in the bill is because the ...
Obama's TSA Perverts Grab Jesse's Junk, He Sues
Post Date: 2011-01-25 09:12:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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Ventura Sues DHS, TSA Over Body Scans, Pat-Downs WCCO-TV’s James Schugel Reports MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is suing the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, saying full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints are violating his rights. Ventura filed his lawsuit Monday in federal court in Minnesota. He says the new security measures violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. He’s asking a federal court to order officials to stop subjecting him to these searches. Ventura was governor of Minnesota from 1999 through 2002. He now hosts the television program ...
HERMAN CAIN EMBARRASSING BILL CLINTON
Post Date: 2011-01-25 09:02:35 by Happy Quanzaa
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A little gem from a town hall meeting back when Clinton was president.
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