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    It’s Not About THEM, It’s About Us 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on August 25th, 2010 03:08 PM
    Categories:
    1. Protests
    2. Constitution
    3. Freedom
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    It’s not about Ground Zero, it’s not about the constitution, and it’s not even about religious freedom. Ultimately, its about us. All of us Americans, collectively. We need to decide what kind of society we want to live in. No matter how you personally feel about Muslims and mosques, you have to recognize that this is a one-way trip, a simple, irreversible binary choice.

    Do you want people, either by dint of their popular majority or their frantic shrieking and hand-waving to have the power to over-rule the basic rights and freedoms granted to all Americans? Do you understand that if it’s just Muslims today, it will be Jews tomorrow and atheists after that and in the end, the battle for the smouldering rubble of the American experiment will be fought between Catholics and Protestants, with the victors laying claim to just another totalitarian theocracy?

    Source: AttackerMan
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    Republicans hot, cold on Constitution 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on August 25th, 2010 02:21 PM
    Categories:
    1. Republican
    2. Constitution
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    WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

    But it turns out there are parts of the document he doesn't care for — lots of them. He wants to get rid of the language about birthright citizenship, federal income taxes and direct election of senators, among others. He would add plenty of stuff, including explicitly authorizing castration as punishment for child rapists.

    This hot-and-cold take on the Constitution is surprisingly common within the GOP, particularly among those like Broun who portray themselves as strict Constitutionalists and who frequently accuse Democrats of twisting the document to serve political aims.

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    TYRRELL: Our incompetent president 

    by
    Greg
    Published on August 23rd, 2010 06:30 PM
    Categories:
    1. Elections
    2. Democrat
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    It is becoming apparent for all to see that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be president of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly he could develop such skills were he to sit in the Senate for a couple of terms. Yet there are delicate sensitivities, the ability to listen, to stick by your guns, occasionally to remain reticent. These are the fundamentals of a leader, and President Obama has demonstrated that he lacks all of them, most notably reticence. I think it is clear even to official Washington that Mr. Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.

    Source: The Washington Times
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    U.S. to issue more flexible oil drilling moratorium 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on June 23rd, 2010 11:01 AM
    Categories:
    1. Laws
    2. Energy
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    The Department of the Interior will reissue a deepwater oil drilling ban that was blocked by a federal judge, but will make it more flexible to possibly allow drilling in certain fields, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told lawmakers on Wednesday. A U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday against the six-month moratorium that President Barack Obama's administration imposed on deepwater drilling after BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Source: Reuters
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    McDonald's Faces Happy Meals' Lawsuit 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on June 23rd, 2010 10:56 AM
    Categories:
    1. Lawsuits
    2. Freedom
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    A watchdog group says giving away toys with Happy Meals contributes to childhood obesity and threatens to sue. Citing toys aimed at promoting the latest "Shrek" movie, the Center for Science in the Public Interest said that the plastic promotions lure children into McDonald's restaurants where they are then likely to order food that is too high in calories, fat and salt.

    The organization on Tuesday served the fast food giant with a letter expressing its intent to sue if toys are not removed. The letter is legally required in several states before lawsuits can be brought under consumer protection statutes.

    Source: LA Times
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    Feds tell court they can decide what you eat 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on May 14th, 2010 11:21 AM
    Categories:
    1. Laws
    2. Constitution
    3. Lawsuits
    4. Nanny State
    5. Freedom
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    Attorneys for the federal government have argued in a lawsuit pending in federal court in Iowa that individuals have no "fundamental right" to obtain what food they choose. The brief was filed April 26 in support of a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ban on the interstate sale of raw milk.

    "Plaintiffs' assertion of a 'fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families' is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish," the government has argued.

    What do you think? Vote in our poll.

    Source: WorldNetDaily
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    Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy" 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on May 8th, 2010 10:45 PM
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    The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. On April 13, the "rent boy" (whom we'll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.

    That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy's client and, as it happens, one of America's most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.

    Source: Miami New Times
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    Obama says health care law already helps millions 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on May 8th, 2010 10:03 PM
    Categories:
    1. Health Care
    2. Democrat
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    The new health care law already is helping millions of people through tax breaks for small businesses and assistance for families with young adults, President Barack Obama said Saturday. Some 4 million small-business owners and organizations have been told of a possible health care tax cut this year, Obama said. On June 15, some older people with high prescription drug costs will receive $250 to help fill a gap in Medicare's pharmaceutical benefits.

    Obama said Anthem Blue Cross dropped a proposed 39 percent premium increase on Californians after his administration demanded an explanation. He said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote to all states "urging them to investigate other rate hikes and stop insurance companies from gaming the system." A new federal agency will provide grants to states with the best oversight programs, Obama said.

    Source: AP
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    Backdoor approach to statehood 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on April 28th, 2010 07:27 PM
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    Congress is preparing to vote on the Puerto Rico Democracy Act (H.R. 2499), a bill to provide for a federally sanctioned vote in Puerto Rico on changing its political status. H.R. 2499 would create a two-step voting process. First, the people of Puerto Rico would vote for either maintaining the status quo or selecting a different political status. If the majority select "different political status," a second vote would be held that would give people three options: independence, free association with the U.S., and statehood. It is said that the results of this plebiscite would be nonbinding, but it could set the stage for a congressional vote on making Puerto Rico the 51st state as early as next year.

    The complicated, multistep vote process laid out in this bill is not the right approach and deviates significantly from the process used by Alaska and Hawaii. Under this bill, Puerto Rico would have no direct vote. It would be possible for the statehood option to win without the majority of Puerto Rico voters even favoring statehood.

    Source: Washington Times
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    Is It Enough to Elect Republicans? 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on April 21st, 2010 11:02 PM
    Categories:
    1. Elections
    2. Republican
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    Is it enough to elect Republicans? Lee Hawkins, the Republican who sided with the left to oppose the free market jobs bill would be a perfectly fine and typical Republican. He’d vote the way leadership tells him to vote, whether on TARP or bailouts or health care. He’d bring on the bacon with gusto, perfectly happy to spend your money on his district never considering it is your money and you might like it more.

    I would say it is not enough to vote for Republicans. We need to vote for conservative Republicans. It is not enough for us to just go into swing districts and try to beat the Democrats. We need also to beat Republicans who are the type that caused the GOP to lose its way. We cannot redeem the party in the eyes of the public without putting in office good men and women of character.

    Source: RedState.com
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    Ruining Your Life: A Cherished Right 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on April 4th, 2010 08:48 PM
    Categories:
    1. Laws
    2. Freedom
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    Let’s consider drugs. You know, heroin, cocaine, crack, turbo-weed buds that make all previous buds seem like mild garlic, E, acid, meth, and so on. I don’t care who takes them. I don’t care if people want to ingest or snort or shoot them every day. And when I say I don’t care, I specifically mean I don’t think we should have laws banning their use.I don’t think we should have laws banning people from destroying their lives.

    However, if you take my position, it’s futile to then moan and groan about “drug tragedies.” If you want an open society where the government can’t regulate individual behavior (unless that behavior overtly interferes with another person’s freedom), you’ll have a “different” notion of political correctness. It will be correct to let people kill themselves. And it’s correct to avoid spending time worrying and worrying about wasted lives.

    What’s the verdict here? I have no moral center? In my experience, it’s the morally centered people who end up wanting to control the behavior of people they don’t know and will never know.

    Source: Jon Rappoport
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    TARP: Not The Hand-Out We Thought 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on April 3rd, 2010 03:04 PM
    Categories:
    1. Economy
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    Admit it: When the federal government decided last fall to spend hundreds of billions to stabilize banks through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, you thought the money was as good as gone. However, overall, dividend payments from all of the 600 bank participants has come to about $4.5 billion so far. The public too often tagged TARP as a bailout, said John Hall, a spokesman for the American Bankers Association. "It's as if people thought money was handed out to banks," Hall said. "It wasn't. And it drove us nuts. The government has turned a profit. It made money plus some."

    Bank analyst Bert Ely said while the government may end up losing money on investments in some financial firms, it's likely the entirety of the bank portion of the TARP will ultimately turn a profit. As for Obama's claim, he is careful to note that the overall program could still cost taxpayers money, but he is correct to say the government turned a profit on the first round of repayments. We rate his statement True.

    Source: Politifact
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    The Moral Case Against Health Care Reform 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on April 3rd, 2010 02:21 PM
    Categories:
    1. Taxes
    2. Laws
    3. Health Care
    4. Constitution
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    In a free society, does one individual's needs constitute another individual's obligation to provide?The answer is no; rather, it is the duty of free individuals to decide what and whose needs appear most important to them. In a free society, the individual is of supreme importance and should not to be used as a means to society's ends. The individual has the right to order his actions and possessions in the manner most consistent with pursuing his own happiness and values. This view is consistent with America's founding principles.

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    Feds Investigate Death Threats to IRS Employees After Health Bill Approval 

    by
    Greg
    Published on March 30th, 2010 06:16 PM
    Categories:
    1. Taxes
    2. Protests
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    The federal government is investigating dozens of death threats to IRS employees that have been posted online since the House passed the health care bill, FoxNews.com has learned.

    The health care law has sparked protests on radical anti-tax and anti-government Web sites and within their private, password-protected e-mail lists and message boards. Some writers have labeled March 21 -- the day the House passed the bill – "Bloody Sunday," and they see it as a call to violent action against IRS workers.

    Source: Fox News
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    A Closer Look at the Capitol Steps Conspiracy 

    by
    Ryan
    Published on March 30th, 2010 03:00 PM
    Categories:
    1. Taxes
    2. Laws
    3. Health Care
    4. Tea Party
    5. Democrat
    6. Protests
    7. Racism
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    William Douglas, an African-American reporter for the liberal McClatchy Newspapers, seems to have broken the story at 4:51 PM on Saturday, March 20, just hours after the alleged incident took place. Douglas did so with the seriously inflammatory headline, "Tea party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressman." At 7:21 PM that same evening, Douglas upped the ante with a headline that moved from inflammatory to incendiary: "Tea party protesters call Georgia's John Lewis 'nigger.'"

    If it were not for those darn ubiquitous video cameras, House Democrats and their media allies would have gotten away with it entirely. Instead, they must content themselves with a victory only among those who rely for the news on an increasingly myopic major media. To discover what did happen, I have reviewed video from at least four different sources, talked to several eyewitnesses, and analyzed the early media reports from the scene.

    Source: American Thinker
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