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Karl Denninger helped found the Tea Party in reaction to what they initially termed “unfair practices” by the government. He believes the same phenomenon is occurring today, although it seems to be occurring on the other side of the political spectrum. Somehow this Tea Party founder has seen through the slanted news coverage depicting the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters as slacker heroine junkies that are smearing their feces all over America’s park monuments and spitting on cops. It’s only from experience that Denninger recognizes the effect of warped news coverage and the special attention given to the craziest people with the most colorful costumes and the most extreme political views.
It seems counter
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Radical Tea Party Republicans have decided to use the nation’s debt ceiling in a stark raving mad display of brinkmanship that has given the financial world the jitters. We all know this, but the fact still remains that it shocked the financial and political world that any politician would be crazy enough to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a negotiating tool, let alone a whole group of insane politicians all serving in the same Congress.
The debt ceiling is set as a limit on the amount of money we pay for debt already incurred. Deciding not to raise the debt ceiling is like deciding to call up your utilities and say you aren’t
Continue reading Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship Caused Drop in U.S. Credit Rating
As Barack Obama grew up, they didn’t call him Barack, or even Obama. Our President used to be known as Barry and the USS Barry, an Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer, happens to symbolize President Obama’s laid back military philosophy. What do I mean by laid back? Well first of all, France is leading this one. I’m sure this fact will be the butt of many jokes, but I think it’s a perfect sign of the times. I’m like most Americans in that I never had a taste for drawn out land wars, but now we’ve shared this distaste with everyone in the Middle East. The Arab world has seen enough armed Americans
Continue reading USS Barry Sends Over One Hundred Tomahawks into Libya
The United Nations Security Counsel just authorized the use of a no fly zone as well as any other measures necessary to protect civilians up to, but not including actual occupation. It looks like the UK, France and the US will be enforcing the no fly zone as well as any protective military action in Libya unless NATO can come to a unanimous decision over the military operation. The main hurdle to NATO engagement in the now authorized no fly zone over Libya is Turkey. A long time member of NATO, Turkey has deep and complicated ties to the Arab world, although some believe the recent Arab League endorsement of a no fly zone
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The maniac that shot a Congresswoman and dozens of others in Tuscon, killing six, has put a temporary hold on American political dog fights around the country. Although this assassin’s reasoning had no basis in reality his perceived connection to American political vitriol spinning out of control is a perception that has become reality. Only temporary in duration, the usual snipers that dominate America’s political arena have fallen silent out of respect for the dead. After only a matter of days, though, the finger pointing about which party contributed most to such a violent political climate has primed the engine of political hatred to start up again with new political high ground to be
Continue reading A Maniac Strikes at the Heart of American Politics
Anybody remember David Stockman? He served as Ronald Reagan’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1981 to 1985 and he oversaw one of the greatest tax cuts in American history. He’s had a change of heart it seems. According to figures Stockman is touting around the political talk show circuit, the wealthiest 5% of American Households was worth $8 trillion in 1985. Only 25 years later, that same top 5% of wealthiest Americans is today worth $40 trillion. Stockman goes on to explain that this net worth gain from $8 trillion to $40 trillion over 25 years for the top 5% of Americans is more wealth than the entire human race
Continue reading Reagan Tax Cut Architect Against Extension of Bush Tax Cuts
George Washington warned our fledgling nation in his farewell address to the people of the United States to beware the dangers of factionalism. It seems obvious that George Washington’s fears became fully realized when our nation tore itself apart. Northern and southern brothers took up arms against each other many years ago, but did the threat of factionalism end there? Has it ever gone away?
The hateful divisive atmosphere that pervades our country is simply George Washington’s nightmare realized. After Civil War came and went with horrible loss and pain, we now have the disease of factionalism paralyzing our great nation from within. When I say this threat paralyzes us from within, I mean
Continue reading The 2012 Election Begins
We may have a case of the GOP and the Tea Party counting their eggs before they hatch, but it seems they will definitely have some eggs hatching in the House and Senate, although they’ll be rotten ones in my opinion. When politicians run for office during a midterm election with the intention of accepting no compromise whatsoever, it seems America’s taste for a deadlocked and useless legislative branch has returned. Only the results of the 2010 midterm election will paint a real picture of American opinion, but
Continue reading No Compromise! The Conservative Contribution to Democracy?
The last decade has been a painful and confusing one and although it has taken nine years since 9/11 to fully blossom, American fear and hatred of Islam has become a threat to the United States Constitution and all of our freedoms. If that sounds shocking or confusing to some readers then let me be clear again. No religion is a threat to the U.S., especially not Islam. Islamic fundamentalists are a scourge to the global community, but the same goes for the fundamentalist sect of any religion in our country. A recent surge of religious intolerance towards Muslims, only a white capped wave reaching up from an ocean of fear, threatens the foundation
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: September 9, 2010
The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gay members of the military is unconstitutional, a federal judge in California ruled Thursday.
Judge Virginia A. Phillips of Federal District Court struck down the rule in an opinion issued late in the day. The policy was signed into law in 1993 as a compromise that would allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve in the military.
The rule limits the military’s ability to ask about the sexual orientation of service members, and allows homosexuals to serve, as long as they do not disclose their orientation and do not engage in homosexual acts.
The plaintiffs challenged the law under the
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For some reason most Americans have no trouble forgetting our original rationale for unilaterally invading Iraq in the spring of 2003. The threat was imminent, the danger thoroughly documented and the need to act with extreme violence undeniably strong only 19 months after 9/11. Afghanistan didn’t satisfy the American public’s hunger for massive military action in Muslim lands that any politician knew would be gold in the 2004 presidential election. The only problem is that everybody is forgetting that the threat turned out to be anything but imminent, the thoroughly documented danger actually completely circumstantial evidence that lowered the global stature and respect of Colin Powell, one of our greatest statesman.
Now that the
Continue reading A Seven Year Lie We Learned to Believe
The Chinese government is opening an official bar for gay men as part of local authorities’ efforts to fight HIV and AIDS. The bar is based in Dali, a town in the south western Yunnan province. Yunnan has the country’s highest rates of HIV and AIDS, according to official data. The government said it funded the 120,000 yuan (17,500 US dollar) project to reach out to the gay community in China and break social stigma against gay men.
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UK PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have proposed a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations deal with climate change. Mr Brown said the $10bn (£6bn) fund should also be used to help developing nations cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Continue reading UK and France Propose Climate Fund for Poor
President Barack Obama has given a major boost to next month’s UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen by offering firm targets for cuts in US greenhouse gas emissions. The move, announced today, has been widely welcomed by climate change campaigners. But although they may seem generous, the proposed targets are in fact far from what developing nations and climate scientists have called for.
Continue reading Obama Offers Fixed Targets for US Emissions Cuts
ISLAMABAD: The Obama administration may be close to reversing course on its current strategy in Afghanistan, after our sources quoted as saying that high-level talks with senior Taliban militants are currently underway.
Continue reading US Involved in Secret Talks with Senior Taliban
Hopes for the Copenhagen climate summit in December have been boosted after it emerged that more than 60 presidents and prime ministers plan to attend. There had been concern that no strong agreement would emerge from the talks in Copenhagen. But observers say the presence of so many leading government figures will radically increase expectations.
Continue reading Hopes for Copenhagen Climate Summit Boosted
If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen emergency and further stressing a force that has seen repeated combat deployments since 2002.
Continue reading Army Data Shows Constraints on Troop Increase
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin has made headlines by championing the endangered Siberian tiger — posing with a cuddly cub and placing a tracking collar on a full-grown female in the wilds of his country’s Far East. Now Russia is helping plan an ambitious program it hopes can double the global tiger population by 2022.
Continue reading Russia Launches Program to Save Tigers Worldwide
Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming.
Continue reading In The Trenches on Climate Change, Hostility Among Foes
A friend of mine recently received a call from his mother. She asked him for money. No, her home wasn’t in foreclosure. No, she didn’t need the money because of a lost job or because unemployment checks were about to end. This woman isn’t even being forced out of a comfortable retirement to take a humiliating low wage job. My friend’s mother wanted the money to stock up on survival supplies because she thought Obama was going to destroy the country by this January.
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Rush has already been a champion in the fight against the MSM (MainStream Media for the uninitiated), which is another word for the Liberal media. Now Rush is under attack from what will be called the “Liberal sports establishment”. Rush will now take these “Liberal jock traitors” and put them on a shelf with the MSM and Hollywood. Basically, anyone in the entertainment industry that attacks this man has become part of the Liberal establishment as will I when some people read this post. To his listeners, Rush cannot be racist. Those that think he is racist in anyway just don’t “get it”, as they say.
Continue reading The Rush Won’t Slow Down
I’m really happy for Sarah Palin. If anyone says she doesn’t embody the American dream then they’re blinded by their hatred of her. I’ve always stayed away from Sarah Palin as a subject because shooting fish in a barrel isn’t much fun, but now I can come out and cheer on her smashing literary debut.
Continue reading Sarah’s Springboard
High expectations followed Obama’s election, but expectations were higher and felt by more people around the world when it came to foreign policy. The much lamented apologetic tour he embarked upon did restore lubrication to a seized up international mechanism, but Obama’s actual foreign policy gambits showed little tangible deviation from his predecessor’s. The unilateral swagger of the Bush era was easily reversed, but Obama’s scrapping of Bush’s missile defense plan is truly a step in the right direction. Russia has already reacted favorably by …
Continue reading Obama Foreign Policy Dawns as Neo-Con Sun Sets
What is commonly referred to as the political spectrum has devolved into a confusing twisted mass of ideas that people keep rearranging in favor of their own particular viewpoint. Let’s clean out and organize the ideological closet. Some items have been mislabeled and most of them misplaced.
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It’s easy to dismiss someone with a sign saying “Obama Wants to Pull the Plug on Grandma!” below a picture of him portrayed as a Nazi. Besides the obvious falsehoods involved, it begs a serious question. What kind of sign should we be making for the free market death panels that operate regularly out of every insurance outfit in the United States?
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Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to William Smith in 1787 regarding a rebellion led by a farmer named Shays. In dismissing the motives of the rebels as “founded in ignorance, not wickedness” he admits the “people cannot be all, & always well informed” and this must be remedied by setting “them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them.” Jefferson then shrugs off the deaths of a few rebels with this now famous quote. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.”
Continue reading Ignorant Blood Will Water the Tree of Liberty
I’m sorry to have to say this, but the “birthers” need to be brought out into the spotlight. Why? The kind of people that laboriously maintain a radical conspiracy denying President Obama’s legitimacy will also contain your most dangerous nuts trying to prematurely end that presidency. Put it this way, I don’t have a problem stating that just about every violent racist/Neo-Nazi/KKK group is probably a loud and proud “birther” as well. Sure, there are some semi-intelligent racists that are using this propaganda for their cause, but that just makes this all the more insidious. Am I saying that all “birthers” are racists?
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I’m kind of surprised by how stupid the President acted last week. The statement he made regarding the arrest of his friend, Professor Gates, conflicted itself completely and was more appropriate for a private discussion in the oval office, after the press conference about health care was over. We know Obama didn’t want to distract everyone from his health care offensive, so he genuinely said something dumb at the worst possible time.
Continue reading Obama Spoke Stupidly
Many have said that the 2008 Olympics in Beijing were China’s coming out party to the world. I wanted to let you know about China’s real coming out party. This posting about China’s June gay pride parade in Shanghai is not meant to insult the Chinese nation or anyone else, it is actually meant to praise China for the advancement of social liberty and freedom seen this year in Shanghai. Although many out there can argue whether or not the existence of a LBGT (Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender) community in China is advancement, no one can argue with the fact that a community such as this receiving greater freedom and tolerance is a sign of the Chinese government loosening control over individual rights.
Continue reading China’s Real Coming Out Party
We all hope that the people of Iran can rise up long enough to get a positive reaction from the government or even to follow through with another revolutionary sweep to power by a new generation, but a question persists. Are there really enough wealthy and middle class progressive Iranians to hold onto power in Iran? If you take the demographics of Iran’s electorate and their ideological leanings you can begin to see a familiar political playing field. Iran is a completely different political landscape from the United States, but during this era of social change and rapid cultural evolution, some of the same rules apply.
Continue reading Red Provinces vs. Blue Provinces … In Iran!
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