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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
Continue reading Tea Party Founder Supports Occupy Wall Street
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
Continue reading UN Security Counsel Authorizes No Fly Zone Over Libya
Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, pulled out the worn Nazi label last week claiming the GOP utilize the same tactics of infamous Nazi and master propagandist Joseph Goebbels. He claims that repeating a lie over and over until the people believe the lie is a classic Nazi tactic being used successfully by Republicans who claim health care reform is actually a government takeover of health care. When confronted about comparing Republicans to Nazis, Cohen claimed he didn’t say the GOP had similar political views as the Nazis, they only made use of similar tactics.
This defense doesn’t clear Cohen of anything. Invoking the Nazi label on this issue is inherently misleading and nothing more than
Continue reading Dems Wave Nazi Label at GOP
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
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
Continue reading The Constitution vs. Fear
There is never a good time to start a senseless military conflict that results in thousands of people killed or injured, but as far as North Korea is concerned, it’s now or never. Let’s just hope that strategic and tactical realities will prevent this country’s isolated and brainwashed state apparatus from crossing a dangerous line. Already responsible for a successful nuclear weapons program as well as attempts to share it with other totalitarian regimes, this ideologically warped dictatorship recently sank a South Korean vessel and killed 46 sailors before throwing a diplomatic temper tantrum about being caught red handed. Pyongyang then successfully intimidated the United Nations into watering down its condemnation of the sinking by not naming North Korea as the perpetrator when all investigations consistently pointed north.
Continue reading North Korean Belligerence
Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions. “The president’s reversal on Patriot Act reform is a major travesty,” said Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel for the leading civil rights group ACLU, in an interview with Raw Story. “There have been many, many abuses of power in the last four years.”
Continue reading ACLU: Obama’s reversal on Patriot Act reform ‘a major travesty’
Documents long classified but scheduled to be released at the end of 2009 will not see the light of day just yet thanks to the Obama administration, according to a published report.
Continue reading Obama maintains secrecy for ‘millions of pages’ of intel documents
Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, pondering a future in politics, is trying to wipe away his image as an enemy of Latino immigrants by positioning himself as a champion of that fast-growing ethnic bloc. Mr. Dobbs, who left the network last week, has said in recent days that he is considering a third-party run for a New Jersey Senate seat in 2012, or possibly for president. Polls show voters unhappy with both parties, and strategists believe Mr. Dobbs could tap populist anger over economy issues just as Ross Perot did in the 1990s.
Continue reading Dobbs Reaches Out to Latinos, With Politics in Mind
Task Force Has Influenced Government Policy in the Past The Democrats downplaying the gravity of new recommendations for breast cancer screening have left out an inconvenient fact: their health care bills would automatically adopt them.
Continue reading Dems’ Health Bills Would Adopt New Mammogram Guidelines
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
For some reason the United States and the rest of the western world is doing their best to bury the Goldstone report on the war crimes of Israel and Hamas last year. The main argument I hear against the report is that Hamas’ launching of missiles at Israel from civilian areas made it necessary for Israel to kill civilians in self-defense. Let’s take a hard look at why the current US administration as well as a large portion of the “civilized” world is in search of reasons to justify the killing of civilians in self-defense.
Continue reading Why Obama Buried the Goldstone Report
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.
Continue reading Join My Survivalist Registry
Many people agree with the simple statement that we should give the Afghan people the same effort that we gave the Iraqi people. Does that mean we should butt heads endlessly with the insurgency? That didn’t work in Iraq. Does it mean we should send another surge? That wasn’t the magic bullet either. Does it mean we should bring in another planeload of cash to pay off and arm local militias? That’s what did the trick in Iraq and that’s the only thing that’ll save Afghanistan from the Taliban.
Continue reading Unleashing Dostum’s Dogs
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.
Continue reading The Evolving Political Spectrum
We’ve just elected a liberal president right after a conservative one reacted to an unprecedented terrorist attack on US soil by compromising some of our founding values. After these founding values were challenged by George W. Bush, we all expected the pendulum to swing back the other way when Obama was elected, but this hasn’t happened. Why?
Continue reading Enhanced Interrogation Blathering Covers Enhanced Information Gathering
I found out something I didn’t know today. If you happened to walk around mainland China with a photograph of the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”, something strange happens. You, know. That guy with balls too large to contemplate who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks twenty years ago. Photograph below.
Continue reading Tiananmen Twenty Years later
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