Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Obama's Imperial Presidency.
Rising Republican star Herman Cain got quite the shock last week when he learned about the powers President Obama claims in the name of national security.Link
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Can’t leave Afghanistan because..........
Tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said Sunday that it was inappropriate to consider withdrawing from Afghanistan while Americans were still losing their lives there.Link
Stop killing civilians...............
KABUL (AFP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the US military on Sunday to avoid operations that kill civilians, saying it was his "last warning" to Washington after 14 people allegedly died in an air strike.Link
‘No absolute or real cuts in defense'.
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said Sunday that Social Security and Medicare needed to be sharply cut but defense spending was off the table.Link
Obama Signs Last-Minute Patriot Act Extension.
Minutes before the midnight deadline Thursday, President Obama approved a four-year extension of the government's Patriot Act powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists.Link
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Rudy Giuliani?..........
Here we go again, Rudy Giuliani edition. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll shows the former New York City mayor atop the slow-forming Republican primary field. The survey shows Giuliani getting 16 percent of independents and Republicans, with nominal frontrunner Mitt Romney a point behind at 15 percent.Link
Ron Paul takes second in New Hampshire.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul is performing well in the latest CNN poll of potential Republican primary voters. Mr. Paul, who declared his candidacy for president last week, took second in a CNN/WMUR poll released by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which shows former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney favored by 32 percent of likely Republican primary voters.Link
Thursday, May 26, 2011
An autopen........Lame.
WASHINGTON – Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties are not abused.Link
Poll: Large majority support.
According to a recent Mason-Dixon poll obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a large majority of the public backs an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget, a reform some lawmakers say is on the table in the debt ceiling debate.Link
Gallup: Ron Paul at 10% Nationwide.
PRINCETON, NJ -- Mitt Romney (17%) and Sarah Palin (15%) now lead a smaller field of potential Republican presidential candidates in rank-and-file Republicans' preferences for the party's 2012 nominee. Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Herman Cain essentially tie for third, with Cain registering 8% support in his initial inclusion in Gallup "trial heat" polling. Notably, 22% of Republicans do not have a preference at this point.Link
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Illegal War? Congress Doesn't Care.
Remember when President Obama assured us his Libyan adventure would be over in "days, not weeks"? To employ a Clinton-era euphemism, "That statement is no longer operative." Translation: I lied...Link
Feds threaten.................
A bill that would criminalize TSA agents who conduct airport patdown searches was scuttled last night after the federal government threatened to ground all flights out of Texas.Link
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
General Motors Will Never Repay Taxpayers.
The Obama administration, and its media backers, have seized upon news that General Motors made a $3.2 billion profit in the first quarter of 2011 as proof positive that its auto bailout is a success. President Obama is so buoyed that he is reportedly planning to make the bailout a major part of his reelection campaign.Link
Monday, May 23, 2011
Gold, silver coins to be legal currency in Utah.
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah legislators want to see the dollar regain its former glory, back to the days when one could literally bank on it being "as good as gold." To make that point, they've turned it around, and made gold as good as cash. Utah became the first state in the country this month to legalize gold and silver coins as currency. The law also will exempt the sale of the coins from state capital gains taxes.Link
Saturday, May 21, 2011
It's funny that he has to defend this.
I'm no Paul Ryan fan, but this ad is so bad and in poor taste. Plus it's not even well produced....and you got Ed here defending it, when he would be outraged if it was made by a republican...I've seen him get worked up over less.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Obama predicts demise.
TRIPOLI (AFP) – NATO said on Friday its warplanes hit eight vessels of Moamer Kadhafi's navy, after US President Barack Obama predicted the Libyan strongman would "inevitably" leave or be forced from power.Link
You have Been Turned Down.
Thank you for your interest in the American Public Trust's Gold Card credit program. Rest assured your application has been given thorough and careful consideration by the American people.Link
This is lame, because Jay Leno pre-interviews guest and sets up what they are going to talk about....which means Huckabee wanted to specifically talk about Ron Paul. So his answer was made up before hand and rehearsed to make him seem like some whacky weirdo.....but it also means Ron Paul is doing well.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Crafting the legal defense of Obamacare.
Newly released documents reveal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was more involved with President Obama’s health-care law than she disclosed previously. The documents likely will lead to a revival of questions about whether the Kagan should recuse herself from future cases.Link
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Can't Buy Me Peace.
The Obama administration recently threatened to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority after the organization began unity talks with Hamas, a terrorist group in America’s book. If only the Palestinians would be that lucky. As a matter of fact, if the administration is genuinely interested in Mid-East peace, it should end aid to Israel too.Link
Obama's War on Fun.
It's a high-pressure job, the presidency. Think about how badly the bin Laden raid could have gone. The worst case scenario—Navy SEALs trapped in a firefight with Pakistani forces—could have made Black Hawk Down look like a cakewalk.Link
Stalled or abandoned HUD projects........
The federal government’s largest housing construction program for the poor has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on stalled or abandoned projects and routinely failed to crack down on derelict developers or the local housing agencies that funded them.Link
They hate us for our freedoms.
For the second time in three days, a night raid in eastern Afghanistan by NATO forces resulted in the death of a child, setting off protests on Saturday that turned violent and ended in the death of a second boy.Link
Monday, May 16, 2011
‘worldwide war without end’.
A little noticed provision in the House Armed Services Committee's National Defense Authorization Act would authorize the United States to use military force anywhere there are terrorism suspects, including within the U.S. itself, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.Link
The good and the bad.
The last time we heard about a national sales tax was 13 months ago, when former Federal Reserve Chairman and current Obama Administration advisor Paul Volcker proposed augmenting the federal revenue armory with a value-added tax.Link
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Ron Paul: Ready to be commander in chief.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who is running for the presidency once again at age 75, said on Sunday he's "pretty well-equipped" to be commander in chief despite what critics might say. "I don't want to run people's lives around the world, I don't want to run the economy. My qualifications are a little bit different," the libertarian Paul said on "Fox News Sunday.".Link
IMF Implicated.
The leader of the International Monetary Fund now embroiled in a criminal assault case in New York City was cleared in 2008 of harassment charges after an affair with an IMF economist.Link
5 Things You Don't Know About Ron Paul.
WASHINGTON (TheStreet) -- Ron Paul announced another run for president this morning, which is great for the Republican hopeful's rabid followers but doesn't offer a lot of information for Americans still unsure what he's all about.Link
Neo Cons love War..........
When you are in a fight and have your opponent down on the pavement with your boot on his neck, the last thing you want to do is step off. You keep the boot firmly planted, pressing even harder, until he yields. Otherwise it’s a certainty that he’ll get back up, start throwing punches again, and drag out a fight that should have been settled sooner.Link
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Daley can take $1.1 million with him.
Unlike his brothers, lawyer Michael and banker Bill, Mayor Richard M. Daley didn’t use the family name to amass wealth. He used it to amass power. But now, the mayor has a chance to convert his power into wealth. Which is what being a Chicago politician is all about, after all.Link
Friday, May 13, 2011
From Dr. No to tea party godfather.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Rep. Ron Paul announced Friday that he will run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012, the third attempt for the man known on Capitol Hill as “Dr. No” for his enthusiasm for bashing runaway spending and government overreach.Link
California to close up to 70 state parks.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California will close up to 70 of its 278 parks to help narrow its budget gap, officials said on Friday just a few days before Governor Jerry Brown unveils a revised plan to close a roughly $15 billion deficit.Link
Texas House bans 'offensive' pat-downs.
AUSTIN, TX -- The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs. Approved late Thursday night, the measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch "the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person" including through clothing.Link
The Future of American Energy Policy.
Given the red-team/blue-team dynamic of American politics, it was probably inevitable that discussion of energy policy would degenerate into a debate between drillers and renewers—between those who want more domestic oil exploration to the exclusion of other power sources, and those who want the U.S. to kick its petroleum habit entirely. Both sides are being unrealistic.Link
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Romneycare proves failure.
Which wait time will be longer: The wait to finally see a doctor under Romneycare or waiting for Mitt Romney to admit his plan is a failure?.Link
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
What We (Ridiculously) Thought.
Sam Biddle —This Is What We (Ridiculously) Thought Osama Was Hiding in Ten Years AgoWe caught and shot Osama bin Laden in a rundown, decrepit compound, lacking any direct contact with the outside world. But in 2001, the Times of London (and the Pentagon) thought he was living in a comic villain's super fortress.Link
Monday, May 9, 2011
Thousands to protest the drug war............
As vicious criminal gangs battle the Mexican military and each other for the immense cash reserves produced by U.S. prohibition policies, the nation to America’s south has become increasingly concerned that fighting has begun to consume their whole society.Link
The Most Interesting Man in the Senate.
It’s getting hard to remember now, but there was a time for a little while there when a fair number of libertarians were worried that Rand Paul was shaping up to be another Beltway sellout.Link
Ron Paul driving the Republicans.
Here’s a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate. And incredibly, it is no longer out of the realm of possibility that this outcast of the GOP establishment may win the party’s presidential nomination.Link
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Obama v. Paul.
A recent CNN Poll, showing Ron Paul as the top Republican Contender to President Obama, has been boosting excitement amongst Paul’s supporters this last week. However, this trend actually started back in early 2010 when a Rasmussen Poll put Obama and Paul at a statistic dead-heat for the 2012 General Election.Link
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Al-Qaida vows to carry out revenge.
Al-Qaida has vowed to carry out revenge attacks on the US and its allies over the killing of Osama bin Laden, warning that celebrations in the west would be replaced by sorrow and blood.Link
Taliban attack Afghan government offices.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – The Taliban unleashed a major assault Saturday on government buildings throughout Afghanistan's main southern city, an attack that cast doubt on how successful the U.S.-led coalition has been in its nearly yearlong military campaign to establish security and stability in the former Taliban stronghold.Link
Friday, May 6, 2011
Blowback.
It took nearly a decade after 9/11 to catch and kill Osama bin Laden. During that time, America launched two wars and a new cabinet-level security agency while funneling money into the defense budget at record levels. This was the United States government’s response to bin Laden, yet very little of it contributed to his capture.Link
She was wrong then, why would she be right now.
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$3 trillion over 15 years.
The most expensive public enemy in American history died Sunday from two bullets. As we mark Osama bin Laden's death, what's striking is how much he cost our nation—and how little we've gained from our fight against him. By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down.Link
Charged with sorcery..........
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mired in a political dispute with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that could result in the president's resignation, Al Jazeera English reported Friday.Link
Ron Paul hauls more than $1 million.
Ron Paul hauled more than $1 million just on Thursday via a debate-day money bomb. Paul’s presidential exploratory committee alerted his supporters to the 24-hour online fundraising via email and social networks and were able to sit back and watch $1,028,436.56 roll in.Link
Embracing his inner Dubya.
Candidate Barack Obama promised to bring change as president, but political observers on both sides of the aisle say it’s the presidency that’s changed him . . . to look more and more like the former president, George W. Bush, whose policies he once repudiated.Link
Thursday, May 5, 2011
over $700K and climbing.........
Money poured into an online "money bomb" fundraiser for Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) on Thursday ahead of a Fox News Republican presidential debate. As of 7:00pm EST, the libertarian-leaning congressman had accumulated over $700,000, according to his website. A previous "money bomb" fundraiser in February raised around $700,000 for Paul. Mercury News has described the strategy, which he often uses, as "a one-day fundraising frenzy." Paul ran for president as a the Libertarian Party's candidate in 1988. In 2008, he campaigned to become the Republican Party's presidential candidate, but was not nominated.Link
Still no front-runner..................
Greenville, South Carolina (CNN) - A new national poll indicates the race for the Republican presidential nomination remains wide-open, with none of the probable or potential GOP White House contenders above 20 percent, according to a new national poll.Link
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The Cost of Getting Bin Laden.
As the world reacts to the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, important questions should be asked about the impact his life had on America’s liberty and financial security.Link
Ron Paul: Troops should come home......
Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), a possible Republican candidate for president, said Tuesday that the U.S. should bring its troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan now that Osama bin Laden has been killed.Link
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
U.S. believes it can now destroy al Qaeda.
(Reuters) - The United States will aim to destroy al Qaeda's central organization now that its leader Osama bin Laden has been killed and its capabilities degraded by U.S. operations, a top White House adviser said on Tuesday.Link
$1.3 trillion.
Amid the celebration today, a sobering note from a recent congressional study: Since Osama bin Laden's organization launched the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress has appropriated $1.3 trillion on wars, extra security measures and veterans' healthcare.Link
Congress turns against Pakistan................
Congress expressed fury at Pakistan Tuesday for its role in housing Osama bin Laden for the past several years, as a wide range of powerful lawmakers are raising new questions about the billions in foreign aid the United States has spent propping up what many believe is an unreliable ally.Link
Monday, May 2, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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