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Monday, May 24, 2010
The Golden Age of Centrism Wasn't So Golden
History
... when you look back to that time in mid-century America, the decades on either side of 1950, high-minded thinkers didn't like that partisan muddle at all.
Mid-century political scientists disliked the ideological incoherence of the two political parties. It would be better, they argued, to have one party clearly liberal and the other clearly conservative. Then voters would have a real choice and could be confident about the consequences of their votes.
The polarization of our politics is increased somewhat by partisan district lines. But overall, it's a reflection of our society and a result of the increasing intrusiveness and involvement of government in areas of life that used to be left alone...
[HIGHLY RECOMMENDED > ]
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The Sons and Daughters of Liberty
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From ''astro-turfers'' to ''tea-baggers'' ... from ''racists'' to ''domestic terrorists''... the men and women of the American Tea Party movement have been consistently vilified by the powers-that-be in this country.
The political elite in Washington D.C. are determined to malign and destroy the Tea Party movement, and the media elite are fully complicit in that assault. The education elite are busy writing books and articles trying to justify the wholesale condemnation of millions of Americans who disagree with the policies of the political elite, and the religious elite are working overtime to help them do just that...
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ACTION ALERT: USA Today Poll on Gun ownership
[HT:GC]
Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, has already said this is one of his major issues. He does not believe the 2nd Amendment gives individuals the right to bear arms. This takes literally 2 clicks to complete. Please vote on this gun issue question with USA Today. It will only take a few seconds of your time. Then pass the link on to all the pro gun folks you know. Hopefully these results will be published later this month. This upcoming year will become critical for gun owners with the Supreme Court's accepting the District of Columbia case against the right for individuals to bear arms.
Here's what you need to do:
First - vote on this one.
Second - launch it to other folks and have THEM vote - then we will see if the results get published.
The Question is:
"Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?"
Click on the link below to vote:
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New Jersey Teachers Union Forced to Take Back Seat to Kids
When New Jersey teachers union members refused to make room for students in a legislative committee hearing, the chairman took the meeting to the students. Approximately 1,500 New Jersey schoolchildren and school choice supporters witnessed democracy in action on Thursday, May 13, when they attended a rally at the state capitol to support a private school choice bill under debate in the state Senate.
The rally was set to support S1872, legislation that would establish a five-year scholarship tax credit pilot program for students in failing schools, which was heard by the Senate Economic Growth Committee that day...
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Obama shuns U.S. outlets at news conference
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President Barack Obama did not call on any U.S. news outlets at his Wednesday press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, possibly to avoid any questions on Tuesday's primary elections.
In the White House Rose Garden, the president said he and Calderon had time to take one question from each side. Obama stunned White House reporters when, instead of calling on the Associated Press or one of the American television networks, he called on a reporter from Univision - who asked about the Arizona immigration law...
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A Mosque at 9/11 ‘Ground Zero’?
Imagine the American response in 1950 if the Japanese government sought to erect a shrine to its World War II Emperor in Pearl Harbor, right next to the sunken wreckage of the USS Arizona.
Would “outrage” be strong enough to describe the response?
Now fast forward to 2010.
Less than nine years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our history, an imam who blames America for the 9/11 attack wants to construct a 13 story, $100 million dollar mosque and Islamic center 600 feet from “Ground Zero.”
And he wants to unveil it to the world on September 11, 2011 – the ten year anniversary of the greatest jihadist atrocity ever perpetrated against America on its own soil.
News and blog sites across the country are heating up over this. ACT! for America, the nation’s largest grassroots organization dedicated to combating radical Islam and global jihad, today launched a national petition opposing the mosque, which says in part:
We are opposed to the grotesque symbolism represented by the building of this mosque at “ground zero…” We are deeply disturbed by the insensitivity to the families of the victims of the 9/11 jihadist attack exhibited by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his supporters.
As a measure of the public’s outrage , over 5,000 people had signed the petition in the first three hours... [snip]
The Muslim world is all about symbolism. To the militant Islamist in Saudi Arabia, a mosque at ground zero would represent the ultimate in humiliation of the infidel.
To the families of the victims of 9/11, it is the ultimate slap in the face.
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Scientist booted off oil panel over writing
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[I.e., he was denied access to what one presumes is a component of his livelihood {unless he's working for free} in a completely apolitical field due to past writings having nothing to do with his employment contract.
The message? Don't write things that don't align with your government's politically correct positions or you'll be punished.
Wake up America, we're witnessing the formation of tyrannical regime right before our eyes, step by step, in America.]
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A Sliver of Sanity
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It will go down as a landmark decision.
U.S. District Judge OIiver W. Wagner ruled this week that people have rights.
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A Frightening Two Minutes
Oliver North Confirms Mullah Omar Capture
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Lt. Colonel Oliver North confirmed that Taliban leader and Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Mohammed Omar has been captured. The exclusive news of Omar’s capture was broken by Big Government and Big Journalism Monday evening.According to Colonel North, Omar was picked up in Karachi on March 27th by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI)...
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White House official calls terrorist group “a very interesting organization”
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The downward spiral toward coffee and pastries between the White House and one of the world’s bloodiest, most-notorious terrorist organizations continues. And based on a Tuesday report in Reuters, this spiral may be tightening into an irrecoverable flat spin. According to the report,
“The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up ‘moderate elements’ within the Lebanese Hizballah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard-liners, a top White House official said on Tuesday.”
The article goes on to say – and this is frankly hard to believe – that John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, told a Washington conference,
“Hizballah is a very interesting organization,”
and apparently defended his comment by “citing its evolution from ‘purely a terrorist organization’ to a militia to an organization that now has members within the parliament and the cabinet.”
[Properly referred to terrorist infiltrators.]
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The Great Hezbollah Snipe Hunt
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There's a small problem with this plan.
There are no moderates within Hezbollah...
[Liberal delusion now infesting {or being forced upon} our security agencies. Marvelous.]
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IDF preparing for mass evacuations in case of Hezbollah missile strike
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Defense officials are preparing for war scenarios including massive missile strikes on the home front...
[My, that must be 'interesting' to live with, day in, day out.]
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Will START treaty weaken U.S missile defense? Sen. Kerry seems to hope so
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At today’s Senate Foreign Relations hearing on the START Treaty (a U.S.-Russia nuclear arms pact) that President Obama is seeking Congressional approval for, I asked Senator Kerry a simple question. Should it be the goal of the U.S. to have a missile defense system that renders nuclear threats by other nations useless, including Russia?
To my disappointment, but not surprisingly, Senator Kerry said no.
And with his response, Senator Kerry proved why Americans have a hard time fully trusting the left to put American interests first in foreign affairs...
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Former FEC Commissioners: Free Speech Under Politically-motivated Assault by New Bill
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Eight former Federal Elections Commissioners today blasted proponents of a Senate bill that would "blunt" the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision, which allowed unions and corporations to spend freely on political advertisements.
While some prominent news organizations, including the Washington Post, have raised serious concerns about the legislation, other ostensibly (or at least presumably) pro-free speech news outlets are either silent or, in the case of the New York Times, simply parrot Democratic talking points and give critics of the bill a mention, though not a voice, and make sure to dub them "the business lobby."
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Woody Allen says President Obama should be granted dictatorial powers (seriously)
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Woody Allen has a strange take on the democracy that allowed him to become rich and famous.[snip]
"it would be good... if he could be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly."
Of course, Allen has a famously strange relationship with reality...
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Reform Bill a ‘Takeover’ of the Banking Industry
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Republicans accused Senate Democrats and the Obama White House of orchestrating a “government takeover” of the financial industry and suggested that the bill would severely harm businesses on Main Street...
[I.e., it makes it harder for small community banks while largely exempting the mega-banks that contributed to the melt down based on their being too big to fail...]
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No Plans Yet by Democrats To End Fannie, Freddie Bailouts
[Meanwhile, the number one {of many} cause of the financial crisis...
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) could not say what action Democrats are planning to end the federal bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or when his party planned to take action. Hoyer, speaking to reporters on Tuesday at his weekly press briefing, said only that the House Financial Services Committee was “looking at” what to do with the failed mortgage giants that played a central role in the 2008 economic crisis. “The committee is looking at that,” said Hoyer. “It is going to be considering it. I can't tell you when specifically..."
... goes untouched.]
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Not just their Big Fat Greek Funeral
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From the Times of London: “The President of Greece warned last night that his country stood on the brink of the abyss after three people were killed when an anti-government mob set fire to the Athens bank where they worked.” Almost right.
They were not an “anti-government” mob, but a government mob, a mob comprised largely of civil servants.
That they are highly uncivil and disinclined to serve should come as no surprise: they’re paid more and they retire earlier, and that’s how they want to keep it...
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U.S. MUST CHANGE COURSE ON NATIONAL DEBT TO AVOID GREECE'S FATE
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The United States needs to take a range of steps to recapture fiscal flexibility and stabilize the ratio of our debt to the gross domestic product, says former U.S. comptroller general David M. Walker...
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FLASHBACK >
California's Toxicity Problem
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"Texas is pro-business with reasonable regulations while California is anti-business with anti-business regulations."
"California is terrible. Even when we've paid their high taxes in full, they still treat every conversation as adversarial. It's the most difficult state in the nation. We have actually walked away from business rather than deal with the government in Sacramento."
"The leadership of California has done everything in its power to kill manufacturing jobs in this state. As I stated at our annual meeting, if we could grow our crops in Reno, we'd move our plants tomorrow."
CEOs interviewed by Chief Executive Magazine.
CEOs' Rankings of States for Business in 2010
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Eagle Scout's penalty stands
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On Wednesday night, the Lansingburgh Central School District board of education rejected Whalen's appeal of the punishment and decided not to expunge the blemish on the record of the Eagle Scout suspended for having a pocketknife in his car while the vehicle was on the grounds of Lansingburgh High School.
Matthew Whalen's suspension will stand.
[We need universal-unencumbered school vouchers.]
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Global Cooling Is Coming -- Beware the Big Chill, Scientist Warns
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POLL: Most Americans Still Want Offshore Oil Drilling
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Twenty-one percent (21%) say offshore drilling should not be allowed, and another 15% are undecided.
RED MEAT OK, SAY RESEARCHERS
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[Evidently we needed a 'study'.]
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‘Community Group’ to Fresno Radio Station: Dump Conservative Hosts
CALIFORNIA
There's a new speech sheriff in the town of Fresno, California, and they want to silence conservative talk radio. And they'll say or do whatever it takes to get it done.
New "community group" Citizens for Civility & Accountability in Media (CCAM) is super-peeved at Fresno, California radio station KMJ ['Armstrong and Getty', for several of you.] for having the temerity to broadcast (on their two stations) conservative talk radio hosts to whom people want to listen.
Because, you see, it's "hate speech" - according to CCAM. And therefore, KMJ should "alter their programming" (read: change their content by silencing conservatives) "in order to curtail practices that we believe to be damaging to our social fabric and to civility in public discourse."
This local "community group" has organized a press conference for today at 11AM PT to publicly call on KMJ to dump these conservative hosts.
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This is an anti-liberal - not an anti-incumbent - wave
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The lesson thus far in the 2010 midterms: If you've supported Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in their quest to vastly expand the size of government, you're toast. Despite the White House spin, anti-incumbent is not the movement, anti-liberal is.
And though you've heard and read over and over that this election is about throwing all the bums out, that line is merely a carefully crafted talking point from a politico whose party is in peril, being pushed by a complacent and largely leftist media because it is also their agenda that's being rejected by the American people...
[That and
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POLL: 67% Say Mexico Does Not Want To Stop Illegal Immigration
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 13% of Adults think Mexico wants to stop illegal immigration.
Most Americans don’t believe Mexico wants to stop the illegal flow of its citizens into this country and think America’s southern neighbor should be asked to compensate U.S. taxpayers for costs incurred by illegal immigration.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Americans think Mexico should be made to compensate U.S. taxpayers to offset such costs. Twenty-four percent (24%) disagree and say Mexico should not be asked for compensation. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.
As the United States wrestles with a future of historic-level deficits, 67% of voters nationwide say illegal immigrants are a significant strain on the U.S. budget....
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O.C. city says it won't be sanctuary for illegal immigrants
The Costa Mesa City Council approved a resolution declaring it would not be a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants -- despite complaints from some residents that the vote needlessly inflamed tensions. The resolution was proposed by Mayor Allan Mansoor, who had become an outspoken critic of illegal immigration.
The resolution declaring Costa Mesa a “Rule of Law City” follows an April news conference in which Mansoor called for stricter regulations to catch illegal immigrants living, working and driving in the city, and his promise to ask for the council’s support.
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Obama doesn't take questions at Freedom of Press Act signing
[You can't make this stuff up.]
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