CNN Republican Debate: Are Republicans Getting Dumber?:
Republicans who agreed to this debate on the theory that Cooper and CNN will be on their good behavior and dispense with the junior high school-level vulgarity need to wake-up and take a look at just how liberals like Anderson Cooper make Republicans look bad.
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Any Republican candidate who is smart enough to be President ought to be smart enough to see that the way to defeat Obama is to stop letting liberals like Anderson Cooper set the agenda through these debates and to get out on the stump to sell conservative policy solutions to the crisis facing our country.
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Is Herman Cain the Next Ronald Reagan?
Is Herman Cain the Next Ronald Reagan?:
Cain possesses the Reaganesque ability to “turn a phrase,” causing people to stop and think. Cain’s “9 - 9 - 9” economic plan, for example, has captured the attention of friend and foe alike. It is the economic piece de resistance plan on the campaign trail. Mitt Romney’s proposal may be more intellectually crafted, but the street-smart Cain captures the public’s attention with “9- 9 - 9.”
Americans have always liked Horatio Alger rags to riches stories as embodied by Abraham Lincoln’s rise from a log cabin to the White House.
Cain, like Reagan, offers such a story. He does not just talk the lingo of conservative economics, which Republicans dearly love, but he has lived it, working his way up by the proverbial boot-straps from an impoverished childhood to significant leadership positions in corporate America.
Reagan, of course, came from a poor family in rural, downstate Illinois, graduating from the little-known Eureka College, and then rising to Hollywood stardom and the California governorship.
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Cain possesses the Reaganesque ability to “turn a phrase,” causing people to stop and think. Cain’s “9 - 9 - 9” economic plan, for example, has captured the attention of friend and foe alike. It is the economic piece de resistance plan on the campaign trail. Mitt Romney’s proposal may be more intellectually crafted, but the street-smart Cain captures the public’s attention with “9- 9 - 9.”
Americans have always liked Horatio Alger rags to riches stories as embodied by Abraham Lincoln’s rise from a log cabin to the White House.
Cain, like Reagan, offers such a story. He does not just talk the lingo of conservative economics, which Republicans dearly love, but he has lived it, working his way up by the proverbial boot-straps from an impoverished childhood to significant leadership positions in corporate America.
Reagan, of course, came from a poor family in rural, downstate Illinois, graduating from the little-known Eureka College, and then rising to Hollywood stardom and the California governorship.
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Presidential hopefuls' spouses come under scrutiny
Presidential hopefuls' spouses come under scrutiny:
NEW YORK (AP) — Ann Romney is a smiling presence at her husband's side. Gloria Cain doesn't campaign at all. And Anita Perry raised eyebrows with her claim that her husband had been "brutalized" for his faith.
The wives — and one husband — of the 2012 presidential contenders are still learning to manage the unforgiving scrutiny that comes with their role. A spouse can be a priceless asset, validating and humanizing the candidate in voters' eyes. But an absent spouse can raise questions, and a provocative comment from a spouse can wound the candidate or pull him or her off message at a critical juncture.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ann Romney is a smiling presence at her husband's side. Gloria Cain doesn't campaign at all. And Anita Perry raised eyebrows with her claim that her husband had been "brutalized" for his faith.
The wives — and one husband — of the 2012 presidential contenders are still learning to manage the unforgiving scrutiny that comes with their role. A spouse can be a priceless asset, validating and humanizing the candidate in voters' eyes. But an absent spouse can raise questions, and a provocative comment from a spouse can wound the candidate or pull him or her off message at a critical juncture.
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Administration to Obstruct Climate FOIA Request
Administration to Obstruct Climate FOIA Request:
The Obama administration is conspiring with the scandal-ridden UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to cover up official correspondence and screen it from national transparency laws, according to breaking news from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
Writing for the climate website Watts Up With That?, CEI Senior Fellow Christopher Horner (left) announced his institute has today requested records from Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) that reveal a "backchannel 'cloud' established to hide IPCC deliberations from" Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
He stated that a federal inspector general confirmed that the correspondence is subject to FOIA.
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The Obama administration is conspiring with the scandal-ridden UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to cover up official correspondence and screen it from national transparency laws, according to breaking news from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
Writing for the climate website Watts Up With That?, CEI Senior Fellow Christopher Horner (left) announced his institute has today requested records from Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) that reveal a "backchannel 'cloud' established to hide IPCC deliberations from" Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
He stated that a federal inspector general confirmed that the correspondence is subject to FOIA.
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The Real DiLorenzo: A ‘Southern Partisan' Interview..."I'm sort of a libertarian, although Clyde Wilson would say "Jeffersonian.""
A ‘Southern Partisan' Interview: More and more, as I read about Lincoln, I realized he was a tyrant. He was all about money and power. He was the political water-carrier of the Northern big business interests. Of course, he was a centralizer.
I'm sort of a libertarian, although Clyde Wilson would say "Jeffersonian."
Jeffersonian is pretty much the same thing to me. Most people hear the word "libertarian" and think of people who advocate taking drugs, and that sort of thing. Jeffersonian is more like it.
It really struck me that the War destroyed the Jeffersonian ideal of government. I started writing a few articles about this, and turned it into this book.
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Robert Taft: Misremembered Conservative | FrumForum
Many Republicans like to believe that the torch of conservatism has been passed along undimmed through the decades, and that those who now guard the sacred flame can trace their conservative lineage directly to past giants like Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and Robert Taft.
In fact, the meaning of conservatism has changed drastically with each handoff. The conservatism of Senator Taft – son of President William Howard Taft, leader of the GOP’s right wing during the ‘40s and early ‘50s, three-time unsuccessful contestant for the Republican presidential nomination – had little in common with the current version of conservatism.
Indeed, “Mr. Republican” (as Taft was widely known) likely would have failed the ideological litmus test too many Republicans now seek to apply to would-be party members.....
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REAGAN On CONSERVATISM and LIBERTARIANISM…Inside Ronald Reagan – Reason Magazine
REASON: Governor Reagan, you have been quoted in the press as saying that you’re doing a lot of speaking now on behalf of the philosophy of conservatism and libertarianism. Is there a difference between the two?
REAGAN: If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy.
I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.
I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.
REASON: Governor, could you give us some examples of what you would consider to be proper functions of government?
REAGAN: Well,.....
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Paul’s program would eliminate the Transportation Security Agency and all foreign aid, abolish five cabinet-level agencies, and freeze most mandatory spending at fiscal 2006 levels. “We get rid of five departments, and that’s a start,”
Paul’s program would eliminate the Transportation Security Agency and all foreign aid, abolish five cabinet-level agencies, and freeze most mandatory spending at fiscal 2006 levels. “We get rid of five departments, and that’s a start,” he joked in his October 17 press conference.
The Paul proposal would eliminate the Departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior, and Education, but would transfer some operations — such as Pell Grants and management of national parks — to other cabinet-level agencies. Paul said he would accomplish the cuts without federal…..
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Replacing Big Government with Bigger Government
Replacing Big Government with Bigger Government:
The media is on a full court press to bring Occupy Wall Street (OWS) to the fore. They are even tying Greek protests to OWS, even though the Greeks have been marching practically every day for the better part of a year.
In other countries of Europe, people have been marching as well. The prospect of changing government programs is driving European people into the streets. Clearly, the big government model hasn’t worked.
Is that what Occupy Wall Street protestors want here in the US?.....
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The media is on a full court press to bring Occupy Wall Street (OWS) to the fore. They are even tying Greek protests to OWS, even though the Greeks have been marching practically every day for the better part of a year.
In other countries of Europe, people have been marching as well. The prospect of changing government programs is driving European people into the streets. Clearly, the big government model hasn’t worked.
Is that what Occupy Wall Street protestors want here in the US?.....
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Martial Law in America: No Longer Just a Possibility! by Gary D. Barnett
What else has to occur before the masses of bondservants in this country understand what is happening right before their very eyes? What new form of forced government bondage will finally cause them to wake up? Will Martial Law on a national scale have to be solidly in place before the sheep attempt to escape the slaughter?
Certainly, Martial Law has happened on a localized basis already; in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and most recently in the small town of King, North Carolina due simply to a snowstorm. These events, and many more I might add, should cause great concern, but only a few defenders of liberty seem to grasp the serious implications of these isolated abuses.
In January of this year, President Barrack Obama, the professed “leader” of the free world, signed Executive Order 13528.
This order, which establishes a “Council of Governors,” these appointed directly by the president, is for the expressed purpose of building a national/domestic police partnership. The opening statement of this order reads:.....
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Joseph Robinette Biden to become 45th President of the United States (Obama's Teleprompter Stolen)
Joseph Robinette Biden to become 45th President of the United States (Obama's Teleprompter Stolen):
Joseph Robinette Biden will be sworn in today at noon as the 45th President of the United States. This succession follows the theft of President Obama's teleprompter.
This resulted in Obama's inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office as outlined in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
When asked about the sucession Obama was quoted as saying, "um..er..um..I..bill..pass."
Joseph Robinette Biden will be sworn in today at noon as the 45th President of the United States. This succession follows the theft of President Obama's teleprompter.
This resulted in Obama's inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office as outlined in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
When asked about the sucession Obama was quoted as saying, "um..er..um..I..bill..pass."
CFP: Shovel Ready Means Never Ready
CFP: Shovel Ready Means Never Ready:
READER RESPONSE: Gunny G...see full article, responses, etc. @ link...
I prefer my own term, "Flush-Ready"!
It's a natural applied to politicians.
Politicians: Flush-Ready for We The People (Flush twice)!
Semper Watching!
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I prefer my own term, "Flush-Ready"!
It's a natural applied to politicians.
Politicians: Flush-Ready for We The People (Flush twice)!
Semper Watching!
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Occupy Wall Street, how it will end and mortally wound the Democrats � Coach is Right
Occupy Wall Street, how it will end and mortally wound the Democrats � Coach is Right:
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
All clever subversive plots start with a kernel of truth. The blackest of Black Ops always rests on something people can accept and relate to in order to get it up and running.
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is no different. Of the tens of thousands of people who are camping out in the streets of our cities, some may have legitimate grievances.
Some actually have been screwed over unfairly and want the “system” to do something about it. Nevertheless, as blinded liberal true believers they don’t understand they should be marching on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave because that is the actual wellspring of their misery.
Notwithstanding the small number of actually aggrieved participants in their midst, the majority of OWS “protester” need only look in a mirror to see who they should blame for their misery. They voted for Obama and every Democrat they saw now these and we are paying for their greed stupidity and or evil intentions.
It is within this faction that the seeds of OWS’s destruction will fester like a vile boil. Those with nothing to loose will soon act out and show themselves as the new core of the Democrat Party.
By contrast.....
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By Kevin “Coach” Collins
All clever subversive plots start with a kernel of truth. The blackest of Black Ops always rests on something people can accept and relate to in order to get it up and running.
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is no different. Of the tens of thousands of people who are camping out in the streets of our cities, some may have legitimate grievances.
Some actually have been screwed over unfairly and want the “system” to do something about it. Nevertheless, as blinded liberal true believers they don’t understand they should be marching on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave because that is the actual wellspring of their misery.
Notwithstanding the small number of actually aggrieved participants in their midst, the majority of OWS “protester” need only look in a mirror to see who they should blame for their misery. They voted for Obama and every Democrat they saw now these and we are paying for their greed stupidity and or evil intentions.
It is within this faction that the seeds of OWS’s destruction will fester like a vile boil. Those with nothing to loose will soon act out and show themselves as the new core of the Democrat Party.
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New Book Claims Hitler and Eva Braun Fled Berlin and Died (Divorced) of Old Age in Argentina by Rick Dewsbury, Allan Hall, and Eleanor Harding
New Book Claims Hitler and Eva Braun Fled Berlin and Died (Divorced) of Old Age in Argentina by Rick Dewsbury, Allan Hall, and Eleanor Harding:
Mr Williams said he and Mr Dunstan - an author, film-maker and photographer who specialises in military history - carried out their research on the ground in Argentina, interviewing eyewitnesses to Hitler’s presence there.
He added: ‘It’s only now that Argentina is once more a thriving democracy that the real stories are beginning to come out.
‘Even so, two of our eyewitnesses received death threats from persons unknown while working with us on this book.’
The sensational claims have already been ridiculed by historians, including Mr Walters, who has studied Nazi Germany extensively and written a series of books about the war.
He labelled the idea that Hitler lived in South America until the 1960s as the ‘worst sort of junk history’ that relied on ‘dubious secondary sources.’
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Mr Williams said he and Mr Dunstan - an author, film-maker and photographer who specialises in military history - carried out their research on the ground in Argentina, interviewing eyewitnesses to Hitler’s presence there.
He added: ‘It’s only now that Argentina is once more a thriving democracy that the real stories are beginning to come out.
‘Even so, two of our eyewitnesses received death threats from persons unknown while working with us on this book.’
The sensational claims have already been ridiculed by historians, including Mr Walters, who has studied Nazi Germany extensively and written a series of books about the war.
He labelled the idea that Hitler lived in South America until the 1960s as the ‘worst sort of junk history’ that relied on ‘dubious secondary sources.’
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Rage at Wall Street rises as its cash rains on candidates
Rage at Wall Street rises as its cash rains on candidates:
Anti-Wall Street protests are growing in number across the country and around the globe, but their political impact remains unclear and will likely depend upon their staying power.
At a minimum, the protests have become a channel for public anger over rising economic inequality and Washington's ineffectiveness.
"They are a pretty good thermometer for the level of discontent in the country," said John Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. "But the connection between Republicans and Wall Street and the banks will surely be an election issue next year."
Romney used to run Bain Capital, a private-equity firm that bought and sold businesses. Wall Street's largesse might say as much about its comfort level with the possibility of having a former financial-industry colleague in the Oval Office as it does about the sluggish economy and concerns over Obama's policies.
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Anti-Wall Street protests are growing in number across the country and around the globe, but their political impact remains unclear and will likely depend upon their staying power.
At a minimum, the protests have become a channel for public anger over rising economic inequality and Washington's ineffectiveness.
"They are a pretty good thermometer for the level of discontent in the country," said John Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. "But the connection between Republicans and Wall Street and the banks will surely be an election issue next year."
Romney used to run Bain Capital, a private-equity firm that bought and sold businesses. Wall Street's largesse might say as much about its comfort level with the possibility of having a former financial-industry colleague in the Oval Office as it does about the sluggish economy and concerns over Obama's policies.
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If the Tea Parties Were Any Good They'd back Ron Paul, says Jack Kerwick.
If the Tea Parties Were Any Good
They'd back Ron Paul, says Jack Kerwick.
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Ron Paul – Government Is not a Business � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)
Ron Paul – Government Is not a Business � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):
Ron Paul – Government Is not a Business
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Ron Paul – Government Is not a Business
Ron Paul – Government Is not a Business
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US Army to fly 'kamikaze' drones
US Army to fly 'kamikaze' drones:
A miniature "kamikaze" drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Army's arsenal, officials say.
Dubbed the "Switchblade," the robotic aircraft represents the latest attempt by the United States to refine how it takes out suspected militants.
Weighing less than two kilos, the drone is small enough to fit into a soldier's backpack and is launched from a tube, with wings quickly folding out as it soars into the air, according to manufacturer AeroVironment.
Powered by a small electric motor, the Switchblade transmits video in real time from overhead, allowing a soldier to identify an enemy, the company said in a press release last month.
"Upon confirming the target using the live video feed, the operator then sends a command to the air vehicle to arm it and lock its trajectory onto the target," it said.
The drone then flies into the "target," detonating a small explosive.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
A miniature "kamikaze" drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Army's arsenal, officials say.
Dubbed the "Switchblade," the robotic aircraft represents the latest attempt by the United States to refine how it takes out suspected militants.
Weighing less than two kilos, the drone is small enough to fit into a soldier's backpack and is launched from a tube, with wings quickly folding out as it soars into the air, according to manufacturer AeroVironment.
Powered by a small electric motor, the Switchblade transmits video in real time from overhead, allowing a soldier to identify an enemy, the company said in a press release last month.
"Upon confirming the target using the live video feed, the operator then sends a command to the air vehicle to arm it and lock its trajectory onto the target," it said.
The drone then flies into the "target," detonating a small explosive.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Today's Toons 10/18/11
Today's Toons 10/18/11: Today's Toons 10/18/11
GOP Briefing Room ^ | 10/18/11 | pookie18
Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:30:34 AM by pookie18
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GOP Briefing Room ^ | 10/18/11 | pookie18
Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:30:34 AM by pookie18
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Obama's podium, teleprompter and audio equipment stolen!
Obama's podium, teleprompter and audio equipment stolen!: Obama's podium, teleprompter and audio equipment stolen!
NBC12 ^ | 10-18-11 | NBC12
Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:23:17 AM by Average Al
Wizard of WH exposed
NBC12 ^ | 10-18-11 | NBC12
Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:23:17 AM by Average Al
Wizard of WH exposed
Monday, October 17, 2011
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907:
'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.' --Theodore Roosevelt 1907
'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.' --Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Ron Paul proposes $1T in specific budget cuts ($1 Trillion in annual cuts to Fedzilla)
Ron Paul proposes $1T in specific budget cuts ($1 Trillion in annual cuts to Fedzilla):
Ron Paul’s opinions about cutting the budget are well-known, but on Monday, he got specific: The Texas congressman laid out a budget blueprint for deep and far-reaching cuts to federal spending, including the elimination of five Cabinet-level departments and the drawdown of American troops fighting overseas.
There’s even a symbolic readjustment of the president’s salary to put it in line with the average American salary.
“Our debt is too big, our government is too big, and we have to recognize how serious the problem is,” Paul said during an afternoon speech in Las Vegas ahead of Tuesday’s GOP debate there.
The plan, Paul said, would cut $1 trillion in spending his first year in the White House and create a balanced federal budget by the third year of his presidency.
“All the current candidates and many in Washington, they sort of talk around [the problem],” Paul said. “A lot of people will say, ‘well cutting a trillion dollars in one year is radical.’ Well, I operate under the assumption that the radicals have been in charge for way too long.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Ron Paul’s opinions about cutting the budget are well-known, but on Monday, he got specific: The Texas congressman laid out a budget blueprint for deep and far-reaching cuts to federal spending, including the elimination of five Cabinet-level departments and the drawdown of American troops fighting overseas.
There’s even a symbolic readjustment of the president’s salary to put it in line with the average American salary.
“Our debt is too big, our government is too big, and we have to recognize how serious the problem is,” Paul said during an afternoon speech in Las Vegas ahead of Tuesday’s GOP debate there.
The plan, Paul said, would cut $1 trillion in spending his first year in the White House and create a balanced federal budget by the third year of his presidency.
“All the current candidates and many in Washington, they sort of talk around [the problem],” Paul said. “A lot of people will say, ‘well cutting a trillion dollars in one year is radical.’ Well, I operate under the assumption that the radicals have been in charge for way too long.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Truth, justice, and plenty of violence
Truth, justice, and plenty of violence:
Lois Lane shacking up? Superman graphically tortured in an electric chair? Batman and Catwoman having sex on a roof?
DC Comics has relaunched 52 of its comic book series, with popular characters and story lines starting over from scratch and getting a decidedly edgy makeover.
In the six weeks since the rollout began, more than 5 million copies have sold, stimulating a stagnant market. DC officials say sales are the highest in 20 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.boston.com ...
Lois Lane shacking up? Superman graphically tortured in an electric chair? Batman and Catwoman having sex on a roof?
DC Comics has relaunched 52 of its comic book series, with popular characters and story lines starting over from scratch and getting a decidedly edgy makeover.
In the six weeks since the rollout began, more than 5 million copies have sold, stimulating a stagnant market. DC officials say sales are the highest in 20 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.boston.com ...
Figures. COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago is ALSO an OBAMA ORGANIZER
Figures. COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago is ALSO an OBAMA ORGANIZER:
On Saturday night thousands of Occupy Chicago protesters cheered the communists as they spoke at the rally and march in downtown Chicago
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That’s right. The communist leader is also an organizer for Obama’s re-election campaign.
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On Saturday night thousands of Occupy Chicago protesters cheered the communists as they spoke at the rally and march in downtown Chicago
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That’s right. The communist leader is also an organizer for Obama’s re-election campaign.
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Hillary Clinton: 'It's Time for Others to Step Up'
Hillary Clinton: 'It's Time for Others to Step Up':
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton once again quashed rumors that she's still interested in running for president, this time in an interview with NBC’s Today on Monday.
“I'm really old-fashioned. I feel I have made my contribution," Clinton said. "I’m very grateful I’ve had a chance to serve, but I think it’s time for others to step up." Writing, teaching, and working on issues that affect women and girls will be in her future, Clinton assured NBC's Savannah Guthrie; that and relaxing at home.
Clinton shrugged off speculation that she should run against President Obama in 2012—or that she should have been elected instead of him in 2008. “It feels irrelevant to me,” Clinton said. She praised Obama for doing “an excellent job under the most difficult circumstances.”
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton once again quashed rumors that she's still interested in running for president, this time in an interview with NBC’s Today on Monday.
“I'm really old-fashioned. I feel I have made my contribution," Clinton said. "I’m very grateful I’ve had a chance to serve, but I think it’s time for others to step up." Writing, teaching, and working on issues that affect women and girls will be in her future, Clinton assured NBC's Savannah Guthrie; that and relaxing at home.
Clinton shrugged off speculation that she should run against President Obama in 2012—or that she should have been elected instead of him in 2008. “It feels irrelevant to me,” Clinton said. She praised Obama for doing “an excellent job under the most difficult circumstances.”
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Obama launches cultural warfare
Obama launches cultural warfare:
President Barack Obama stands accused by conservatives of waging class warfare, seeking to galvanize his base and lure middle-class voters by pitting the rich against everyone else.
But Obama’s reelection strategy is about more than the haves and have-nots. It appears he is seeking to stir up full-blown cultural warfare against a large and diverse segment of society known as Republicans.
Having failed to lower the unemployment rate to a politically tolerable level, Obama cannot run as most presidential candidates do — on the economy. So he and his advisers seem to have decided instead to mount a deeply polarizing campaign based on “values” — suggesting his vision for America is correct even if the economy is not right yet.
But in waging this battle, Obama is saying nasty and dangerous things. He is promoting his own principles — not just by touting their goodness, but by suggesting that Republicans hold to an offensive, even un-American, philosophy.
By painting his opposition as not just wrong but evil, Obama risks dividing the nation in a profound and unnecessary way.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
President Barack Obama stands accused by conservatives of waging class warfare, seeking to galvanize his base and lure middle-class voters by pitting the rich against everyone else.
But Obama’s reelection strategy is about more than the haves and have-nots. It appears he is seeking to stir up full-blown cultural warfare against a large and diverse segment of society known as Republicans.
Having failed to lower the unemployment rate to a politically tolerable level, Obama cannot run as most presidential candidates do — on the economy. So he and his advisers seem to have decided instead to mount a deeply polarizing campaign based on “values” — suggesting his vision for America is correct even if the economy is not right yet.
But in waging this battle, Obama is saying nasty and dangerous things. He is promoting his own principles — not just by touting their goodness, but by suggesting that Republicans hold to an offensive, even un-American, philosophy.
By painting his opposition as not just wrong but evil, Obama risks dividing the nation in a profound and unnecessary way.
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Break Up the US: It's Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace
 News Link • Mexican United States RelationsBreak Up the US: It's Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace 10-17-2011 • Lew Rockwell "....it makes for easier economic integration with Mexico, the article glowingly points out. But even if secession is for the elite-serving purpose of more efficiently-managed economic units rather than restoring self-government and liberty Read Comments • Make a Comment • Email this News Link • Send Letter to Editor ********** Hey, See the Reader Responses on each article, they are gems in themselves! ********** ********** Gunny G: BLOGGER 1984 + http://gunnyg.blogspot.com and... http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/ ********** ********** |
Japan Reportedly Refused Obama Apology for WW II
Leaked confidential cables reveal that the Government of Japan declined to accept an offer of an apology for World War II from President Obama.
The grounds for rejecting the offered were reportedly twofold.
On the one hand, there was the question of credibility. Obama was seen as “a person who has given so many inappropriate apologies to unworthy recipients that the value of an apology from him on this issue is dubious.”
On the other hand, there was befuddlement. “We started the war. Its unsuccessful outcome was the fruit of our own inability to carry it through to a victorious conclusion. The shame is ours. No apology is warranted.”
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Inside Ronald Reagan - Reason Magazine
Inside Ronald Reagan - Reason Magazine:
REASON: Governor Reagan, you have been quoted in the press as saying that you’re doing a lot of speaking now on behalf of the philosophy of conservatism and libertarianism.
Is there a difference between the two?
REAGAN: If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is......
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REASON: Governor Reagan, you have been quoted in the press as saying that you’re doing a lot of speaking now on behalf of the philosophy of conservatism and libertarianism.
Is there a difference between the two?
REAGAN: If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is......
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GUNNY G: My Comments ~ On "Conservative".....
READER RESPONSE: Gunny G...
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As I see it, Conservative IS strictly Jconservative, as were Taft, Goldwater, Reagan, and now, Dr Paul.
Some discussion now with the RINOs, CINOs, AINOs, etc.....
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Brzezinski: Make Rich Known Publicly To Pressure Them To Give Back
Brzezinski: Make Rich Known Publicly To Pressure Them To Give Back:
Zbiginew Brzezinski, national security adviser under Jimmy Carter, told the "Morning Joe" program he thinks the names of the rich "should be known publicly" so the masses can "pressure some of those people to give some of it back to society." "You know, how many Americans are really fully aware of how many other good people, that’s like Warren Buffett and others, who really donate a lot of their earnings to charities, to philanthropy?"
Mr. Brzezinski said. "But how many more are there in the hedge funds? In the banks? In a variety of other places who on the basis of speculation literally make millions of dollars that it would take a century or two for the average person ever to make? I would like to see those lists. And they shouldn't be that difficult to produce. And I think public pressure might have also some effect, not only in terms of moving towards more systematic international coordination and regulation. But also to pressure some of those people to give some of it back, back to society."
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Zbiginew Brzezinski, national security adviser under Jimmy Carter, told the "Morning Joe" program he thinks the names of the rich "should be known publicly" so the masses can "pressure some of those people to give some of it back to society." "You know, how many Americans are really fully aware of how many other good people, that’s like Warren Buffett and others, who really donate a lot of their earnings to charities, to philanthropy?"
Mr. Brzezinski said. "But how many more are there in the hedge funds? In the banks? In a variety of other places who on the basis of speculation literally make millions of dollars that it would take a century or two for the average person ever to make? I would like to see those lists. And they shouldn't be that difficult to produce. And I think public pressure might have also some effect, not only in terms of moving towards more systematic international coordination and regulation. But also to pressure some of those people to give some of it back, back to society."
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Ron Paul’s Economic Plan: Cut 5 Cabinet Agencies, Cut Taxes, Cut President’s Pay
Ron Paul’s Economic Plan: Cut 5 Cabinet Agencies, Cut Taxes, Cut President’s Pay:
GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul will unveil his economic plan Monday afternoon, calling for a lower corporate tax rate, cutting spending by $1 trillion during his first year in office and eliminating five cabinet-level agencies, including the Education Department, according to excerpts released to Washington Wire.
Mr. Paul’s “Restore America” plan calls for a drastically reduced federal government to help spur American business — a familiar theme for the Texas Republican and many of the GOP White House hopefuls. But unlike some of his Republican rivals who have released economic plans, the libertarian congressman mostly avoids the weeds of tax and trade policy, according to excerpts.
But Mr. Paul does get specific when he calls for a 10% reduction in the federal work force, while pledging to limit his presidential salary to $39,336, which his campaign says is “approximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker.” The current pay rate for commander in chief is $400,000 a year.
The Paul plan would also lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, though it is silent on personal income tax rates, which Mr. Paul would like to abolish. The congressman would end taxes on personal savings and extend “all Bush tax cuts.”
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GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul will unveil his economic plan Monday afternoon, calling for a lower corporate tax rate, cutting spending by $1 trillion during his first year in office and eliminating five cabinet-level agencies, including the Education Department, according to excerpts released to Washington Wire.
Mr. Paul’s “Restore America” plan calls for a drastically reduced federal government to help spur American business — a familiar theme for the Texas Republican and many of the GOP White House hopefuls. But unlike some of his Republican rivals who have released economic plans, the libertarian congressman mostly avoids the weeds of tax and trade policy, according to excerpts.
But Mr. Paul does get specific when he calls for a 10% reduction in the federal work force, while pledging to limit his presidential salary to $39,336, which his campaign says is “approximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker.” The current pay rate for commander in chief is $400,000 a year.
The Paul plan would also lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, though it is silent on personal income tax rates, which Mr. Paul would like to abolish. The congressman would end taxes on personal savings and extend “all Bush tax cuts.”
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Sen. Boxer proposes bill to let president raise national debt ceiling
Sen. Boxer proposes bill to let president raise national debt ceiling:
But it would also give the White House more power than Congress over raising the nation's limit.
Boxer's bill would allow the president to raise the debt ceiling unless Congress formally disapproves the increase. The onus for raising the debt ceiling is now on Congress, which must approve legislation raising the debt ceiling that the president signs.
Boxer said her USA AAA Credit Restoration Act, S. 1713, would set up a "predictable and fair process" for future debt-ceiling hikes, something she says is needed because of the trouble Congress had agreeing to the last increase.
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But it would also give the White House more power than Congress over raising the nation's limit.
Boxer's bill would allow the president to raise the debt ceiling unless Congress formally disapproves the increase. The onus for raising the debt ceiling is now on Congress, which must approve legislation raising the debt ceiling that the president signs.
Boxer said her USA AAA Credit Restoration Act, S. 1713, would set up a "predictable and fair process" for future debt-ceiling hikes, something she says is needed because of the trouble Congress had agreeing to the last increase.
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'Ultra-Right', 'Extreme' John Birch Society Saw It ALL Coming Down the Pike...
If you find that level of conspiracy theory to much to swallow, consider this:
The second head of the John Birch Society was Congressman Larry McDonald from Georgia, who was killed on September 1, 1983, when the Soviet Union shot down KAL 007... the only congressman killed by the Soviets during the Cold War.
Welch's 1973 speech video/pics/more at Reaganite Republican.....
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Gunny G: CONFIDENTIAL...: BEWARE OF THE RED DOT by Alan Stang
Gunny G: CONFIDENTIAL...:
BEWARE OF THE RED DOT by Alan Stang: What is martial law? It is military rule by decree.
No more wasting time with votes; no more stupid voting for the wrong thing. Meanwhile, the Army acknowledges that the Northern Command may call upon the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team to help with “civil unrest and crowd control.” In the horrifying wake of martial law in the South after Lincoln’s Communist War to Destroy the Union, Congress forbade it in the posse comitatus law – and then repealed it under pressure from el presidente Boosh.
Put all that together with the Halliburton concentration camps, completed, equipped, fully staffed, but empty, waiting for millions to concentrate. Who? Probably not illegal aliens, because they are not there. So, if you subtract illegal aliens, you have citizens. Are they the target of the camps? Are they destined to be concentrated? What could we logically expect?
This is what I fear, not – not – not what I want. The coup is not a solution. The fiscal disaster will get worse. As I write, the collapse intensifies. Shortages, crime and chaos will erupt. Pressure to concentrate for our “protection” will intensify.
Again, among our population of 300 millions there are millions newly awakened; some of them would decline to be concentrated, decline violently. How many?.....
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BEWARE OF THE RED DOT by Alan Stang: What is martial law? It is military rule by decree.
No more wasting time with votes; no more stupid voting for the wrong thing. Meanwhile, the Army acknowledges that the Northern Command may call upon the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team to help with “civil unrest and crowd control.” In the horrifying wake of martial law in the South after Lincoln’s Communist War to Destroy the Union, Congress forbade it in the posse comitatus law – and then repealed it under pressure from el presidente Boosh.
Put all that together with the Halliburton concentration camps, completed, equipped, fully staffed, but empty, waiting for millions to concentrate. Who? Probably not illegal aliens, because they are not there. So, if you subtract illegal aliens, you have citizens. Are they the target of the camps? Are they destined to be concentrated? What could we logically expect?
This is what I fear, not – not – not what I want. The coup is not a solution. The fiscal disaster will get worse. As I write, the collapse intensifies. Shortages, crime and chaos will erupt. Pressure to concentrate for our “protection” will intensify.
Again, among our population of 300 millions there are millions newly awakened; some of them would decline to be concentrated, decline violently. How many?.....
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Gunny G: Alan Stang Makes It All So Clear… � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)
Gunny G: Alan Stang Makes It All So Clear… � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):
Everyone else who tries to be God has gone crazy. That is what the record shows. Every one! In Kipling’s story, The Man Who Would Be King couldn’t even handle being king, much more God. In Rome, the emperors went crazy merely pretending to be one of many gods. Look at crazy Caligula. Remember, we are talking history here, not religion.
History shows that being God goes to a man’s head. Because God can do anything for His own pleasure, a man who would be God thinks so can he, and that whatever he does is right because he does it. To make heaven on earth, he mass murders millions. He justifies every excess in the belief that he is “God.”
International Socialists Stalin and Mao did that. National Socialist Hitler did that. But remember that Hitler got his ideas on the subject from the United States, which pioneered the concept of mass eugenicide. Now that competition from Hitler has been eliminated, mini-gods here are arguing again about eliminating huge chunks of the earth’s population.
The only thing they argue about is how many people should be killed. No doubt they consider Hitler a pipsqueak.....
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Everyone else who tries to be God has gone crazy. That is what the record shows. Every one! In Kipling’s story, The Man Who Would Be King couldn’t even handle being king, much more God. In Rome, the emperors went crazy merely pretending to be one of many gods. Look at crazy Caligula. Remember, we are talking history here, not religion.
History shows that being God goes to a man’s head. Because God can do anything for His own pleasure, a man who would be God thinks so can he, and that whatever he does is right because he does it. To make heaven on earth, he mass murders millions. He justifies every excess in the belief that he is “God.”
International Socialists Stalin and Mao did that. National Socialist Hitler did that. But remember that Hitler got his ideas on the subject from the United States, which pioneered the concept of mass eugenicide. Now that competition from Hitler has been eliminated, mini-gods here are arguing again about eliminating huge chunks of the earth’s population.
The only thing they argue about is how many people should be killed. No doubt they consider Hitler a pipsqueak.....
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Rand Paul Schools Senate Establishment � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)
Rand Paul Schools Senate Establishment � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):
Let me be the first to thank Senator Rand Paul (R-KY).
Later this week, he will make some old bulls in the United States Senate very uncomfortable – and that is a good thing considering the Senate Establishment has never hesitated to expand government and spend taxpayer dollars. Senator Paul is planning to bombard a Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee markup with amendments — many, many amendments. His target will be the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
As Vice President Biden would say, this is “a big [freaking] deal.”
It would be the ninth reauthorization of the 1965 law, which is the largest federal law governing K thru 12 education policy. The previous reauthorization, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), cost taxpayers roughly $131 billion between 2005 and 2010. NCLB also significantly expanded the federal role in education, weakened state control and stifled innovation at the local level.
Enter Senator Paul.....
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Let me be the first to thank Senator Rand Paul (R-KY).
Later this week, he will make some old bulls in the United States Senate very uncomfortable – and that is a good thing considering the Senate Establishment has never hesitated to expand government and spend taxpayer dollars. Senator Paul is planning to bombard a Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee markup with amendments — many, many amendments. His target will be the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
As Vice President Biden would say, this is “a big [freaking] deal.”
It would be the ninth reauthorization of the 1965 law, which is the largest federal law governing K thru 12 education policy. The previous reauthorization, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), cost taxpayers roughly $131 billion between 2005 and 2010. NCLB also significantly expanded the federal role in education, weakened state control and stifled innovation at the local level.
Enter Senator Paul.....
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The US of Spooks
Charles Burris on the secret servants of war and empire.
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they are gems in themselves!
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PHOTO!: Obama ignores NC GOP's offer to tow tour bus back to Washington so he can work
PHOTO!: Obama ignores NC GOP's offer to tow tour bus back to Washington so he can work:
President Barack Obama has ignored the North Carolina Republican Party’s offer to tow his bus back to Washington, D.C., The Daily Caller has learned.
The state GOP had planned to offer the president’s bus a free tow back to D.C. if he would fly back immediately to focus on creating jobs and fixing the economy instead of continuing to sell his controversial jobs plan on the campaign trail.
“If the president had taken us up on our offer to tow his bus back to D.C., he would’ve stimulated at least one local company in Asheville,” NC GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood told TheDC on Monday, referring to the towing company that stood to get some extra work.
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President Barack Obama has ignored the North Carolina Republican Party’s offer to tow his bus back to Washington, D.C., The Daily Caller has learned.
The state GOP had planned to offer the president’s bus a free tow back to D.C. if he would fly back immediately to focus on creating jobs and fixing the economy instead of continuing to sell his controversial jobs plan on the campaign trail.
“If the president had taken us up on our offer to tow his bus back to D.C., he would’ve stimulated at least one local company in Asheville,” NC GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood told TheDC on Monday, referring to the towing company that stood to get some extra work.
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