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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Proposed the death penalty for marijuana’...
Over the weekend, struggling Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson reminded MSNBC viewers that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich had once to called to punish some drug offenders with death.Link
House bill could outlaw negotiations with Iran.
Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives aimed at beefing up economic sanctions against Iran could prohibit the United States from negotiating with the country, Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA) warned in a letter to their colleagues.Link
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Gingrich's Organization Deficit Disorder.
With the Iowa caucuses just 26 days away, the Republican presidential contest is now a two-man race. According to this week's Gallup poll, the two candidates with the broadest appeal to GOP voters are former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Asked who would "be an acceptable nominee for president," 62% said Mr. Gingrich and 54% named Mr. Romney. The only way anyone else becomes a serious contender is through a surprising finish in the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire primary.Link
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Indefinite Detention of Americans.
The Senate passed a bill today allowing indefinite detention of American citizens living within the U.S. While some have claimed that this is incorrect, and that American citizens would be exempted from the indefinite detention within U.S. borders authorized by the Act, the Committee chairman who co-sponsored the bill – Carl Levin – stated today in Senate debate that it could apply to American citizens.Link
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
What’s the Matter with Rachel Maddow?
Progressives today say people should come before profits. Now in a privilege-ridden corporate state, that’s a worthy goal, though progressives have no clue how to achieve it. How nice it would be if they were equally committed to putting people before bureaucracy. Here they fall down rather badly because their signature ideas would subordinate regular people to the dictates of the power structure.Link
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
He received Freddie Mac compensation.
URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — Rising in national polls, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich found himself on the defensive Wednesday over huge payments he received over the past decade from the federally backed housing agency Freddie Mac.Link
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Ron Paul moves to top tier.
The Iowa caucuses are just seven weeks away, but Republican voters in the nation's first presidential nominating state seem as torn as ever over the GOP field. A new Bloomberg poll of likely caucus participants shows a four-way tie in Iowa, with Rep. Ron Paul joining Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in the top tier of candidates. Underscoring the uncertainty in the race, 60 percent of respondents said they could be persuaded to back someone other than their first choice for the nomination.Link
Monday, November 14, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Solyndra loan with Democratic fundraiser.
Newly disclosed emails show Democratic fundraiser and Solyndra investor George Kaiser talked directly with White House officials about the now-bankrupt solar company’s $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, contrary to what the White House has claimed.Link
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
FOX has some Dummies working for them.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
PAUL: One year to go.
I firmly believe the American people are serious about cutting spending and fixing our debt crisis now. Those struggling to make ends meet and provide for their families while also trying to save for the future know we must change course immediately.Link
The Disturbing Agenda of Occupy Wall Street.
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, obsessed with fairness, has benefitted from the lack of it. The protesters don't think so—but that is because many of them have not thought enough.Link
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Herman Cain accuser got $45,000 settlement.
POLITICO has learned that one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement — significantly more than the two or three months’ salary Cain initially recalled the woman obtained.Link
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son.
Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen — far from any battlefield and with no due process — it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager’s life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people.Link
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
We are never leaving.
MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — The Obama administration plans to bolster the American military presence in the Persian Gulf after it withdraws the remaining troops from Iraq this year, according to officials and diplomats. That repositioning could include new combat forces in Kuwait able to respond to a collapse of security in Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran.Link
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Ron Paul’s budget cuts put U.S. on right track.
Next month, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, a 12-member subset of Congress that Congress created to make the hard fiscal choices Congress has failed to make, is expected to propose $1.2 trillion in cuts from projected spending during the next decade. This week, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, unveiled a plan to cut nearly that much in 2013 alone, followed by similar cuts in the next two years, yielding a balanced budget by 2015.Link
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
$1T in specific budget cuts...............
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.Link
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Ignoring Ron Paul.......
Yesterday, Ron Paul won the Los Angeles County straw poll. He had more votes than Romney and Cain combined. It was a small gathering but a confirmation of Paul's much larger victory in the California State Straw Poll last month.Link
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
War Drums.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what it said was solid evidence of an Iranian plot to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States with a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts.Link
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Considering a preemptive Iran strike..........
Jon Huntsman's giving a big foreign policy speech in New Hampshire today, featuring another call to pull back from the war in Afghanistan and "right-size our current foreign entanglements." The speech also includes an uncharacteristically hawkish note from Huntsman, who says he would be willing to use U.S. military tools to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.Link
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Ron Paul comes to Chris Christie's house.
Lindsey Graham wants to start a war with Pakistan. And they say I’m nuts? That was the gist of a conversation I had yesterday with Ron Paul in the back of his car as he was returning to the Trenton-Mercer Airport following a campaign rally at the Statehouse.Link
Central Bank Is Under Attack...
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said the central bank’s independence is under attack from both ends of the political spectrum in Congress, and he singled out two of the critics by name. “We are being attacked from the right and from the left, and I don’t see much difference between a certain congressman from Texas named Ron Paul and a certain congressman from Massachusetts named Barney Frank,” Fisher said in response to audience questions after a speech in Dallas. Paul is a Republican and Frank is a Democrat.Link
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Romney, Ron Paul Best Obama....
Mitt Romney stands the best chance among Republican presidential contenders of beating President Barack Obama in next year’s election, according to a new Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday.Link
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Should food stamps be redeemable.............
With government-issued food-stamp benefits more than doubling — to $64.7 billion — between 2005 and 2010, more and more businesses are trying to get in on the action. Outside of a few states, restaurants.Link
Marijuana use rising in U.S.................
Marijuana is increasingly becoming the drug of choice among young adults in the United States, while use of methamphetamines is waning, according to a national survey of drug use released on Thursday. Overall, 8.9 percent of the U.S. population or 22.6 million Americans aged 12 and older used illicit drugs in 2010, up from 8.7 percent in 2009 and 8 percent in 2008, according to the survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.Link
Obama's $450bn employment package.
Facing a barrage of criticism over his handling of the economy, President Obama last night unveiled a massive $450bn plan to combat the country's unemployment crisis - and try to save his own job. In a rare address to a joint session of US Congress at what is being seen as the lowest point in his presidency, Mr Obama tried to inject fresh confidence that he can still turn the dire jobs outlook around.Link
Friday, September 9, 2011
Ron Paul over President Obama anyday.
(ThyBlackMan.com) I like Obama. He is smart, promotes the values of family and what it means to be a father and a husband, but his policies leave a lot to be questioned. I am not fond of the republicans, or the Democratic Party, especially the true GOP candidates trying to become the next President of the United States. But I do like and respect Dr. Ron Paul – libertarian like me, who has been reduced to run under the Republican banner when the Republican Party hates him with avarice and conviction. So if it came down to it, I would select Dr. Ron Paul over Barack Obama, Esquire anyway and let me tell you why.Link
Gibson CEO to Obama..........
The chief executive of Gibson Guitar Corp., which has been the target of two federal raids in the past two years over the exotic wood it uses to make the instruments, said Thursday he wants Obama to show some concern for the nation’s job creators.Link
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Ron Paul's Reagan.
Rarely does a single political commercial reveal as much about a presidential campaign as the ad unveiled this week by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).Link
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Libyan rebels round up black Africans.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital.Link
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
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Amazon offers California 7,000...............
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has proposed a hiring spree of 7,000 jobs in California if state leaders put a recently enacted online sales tax on hold for two years. The offer comes as California contends with the second-highest unemployment rate among U.S. states and broad anxiety about the national economy.Link
Failing at picking winners..........
A solar energy company that intends to file for bankruptcy received $535 million in backing from the federal government and has a cozy history with Democrats and the Obama administration, campaign finance records show.Link
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Ron Paul's federal disaster relief plan.
Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul is on his his third bid for the presidency. A distinctive and refreshing trait of the libertarian's campaigns is that the retired doctor calmly provokes politicians and voters to talk about the political givens they otherwise would prefer to leave alone. Why is the Federal Reserve so powerful and secretive? What benefit do we really get out of foreign wars? Couldn't those billions be better spent at home?.Link
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Buffett betting on bank bailout?............
If you're looking for proof that Too Big to Fail is still alive, and that Washington won't leave large financial institutions to the mercies of capitalism, consider billionaire Obama fundraiser Warren Buffett's $5 billion bet on struggling Bank of America.Link
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Bernanke has no answers.
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — In a key speech on the economy Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke proposed no new steps to boost growth, but did hint that Congress may need to act to stimulate hiring and the economy.Link
Thursday, August 25, 2011
US May Back Mortgage Refinancing...........
The Obama administration is considering further actions to strengthen the housing market, but the bar is high: plans must help a broad swath of homeowners, stimulate the economy and cost next to nothing.Link
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Ron Paul Leaps Past Bachmann in Latest Poll.
Ignored by the media and dismissed by the Republican Party in general, liberty-minded Congressman Ron Paul leaped into third place today in the Gallup Presidential Nomination preference poll. Paul jumped over Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party darling/lunatic, relegating her to fourth-place in the current poll. Here's how the numbers shake out today.Link
'Missing' lager yeast discovered in Patagonia.
A fruit fly's journey from Patagonia to Bavaria could be the reason we enjoy nice, cold-brewed lager beers today. The missing parent of the hybrid yeast used for brewing lagers has just been discovered in Patagonia. Link
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
The Real Hostages.
Who are the hostage takers? To hear the Obama White House tell it, they are the Republicans, and perhaps some bankers. But the metaphor is a clunky one at a time when actual, live Americans are being held hostage by enemy countries.Link
Obama in Close Race Against..................
PRINCETON, NJ -- President Barack Obama is closely matched against each of four possible Republican opponents when registered voters are asked whom they would support if the 2012 presidential election were held today. Mitt Romney leads Obama by two percentage points, 48% to 46%, Rick Perry and Obama are tied at 47%, and Obama edges out Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann by two and four points, respectively.Link
Political Punch.
ABC News’ Luis Martinez (@LMartinezABC) reports: The cost of U.S. military intervention in Libya has cost American taxpayers an estimated $896 million through July 31, the Pentagon said today.Link
Loves Jon Huntsman but Ignores Ron Paul.
Jon Huntsman won't win the GOP nomination, or so pundits assure us. But he is getting press attention anyway because he decided to start telling his fellow Republicans truths that they don't want to hear. In quick succession, he trumpeted his belief in evolution, said climate change is caused by humans, and insisted that it was essential to raise the debt ceiling. Says James Fallows, "I'm relieved to see someone in the party trying to pull it back from the abyss." (Me too.) Andrew Sullivan goes even farther. "Huntsman has a prophetic role in this campaign if he chooses to adopt it: the truth-teller," he writes. "His chances are so slim, he loses nothing by speaking this candidly.".Link
Friday, August 19, 2011
Rick Perry’s Superficial Extremism.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry often talks like he’s ready to refight the Alamo—this time against Washington. He rails about the stimulus and the expansion of federal power while flirting with the idea of devolving control of entitlements to the states.Link
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Obama's Department of Failed Ideas.
The Obama administration is finally going to focus on jobs—again. Jobs, jobs, jobs. And nothing says jobs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, and a shiny new federal department of ... yes, jobs!.Link
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Republicans target Fed.
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The White House denounced Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Tuesday for his threatening remarks toward the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve that represented some of the most inflammatory rhetoric of the 2012 election campaign.Link
The only grown-up running for president......
As the race for the Republican nomination heats up, there's one candidate who's been largely ignored by the mainstream media. But Ron Paul is talking sense and more people ought to listen to him. The Texas congressman has visionary ideas about where the country ought to be going and what sea changes are necessary in order to continue being a superpower.Link
Monday, August 15, 2011
Ron Paul remains media poison.
I admit I do not fully understand Ron Paul and his beliefs. But I do understand when a guy gets shafted, and Ron Paul just got shafted. On Saturday, the Ames Straw Poll was conducted in Iowa amid huge media interest and scrutiny. The results were enough to force one Republican candidate, Tim Pawlenty, out of the race, and catapult another, Michele Bachmann, into the “top tier.”.Link
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Iowa Straw Poll: Ron Paul within 1% of 1st!...
1. 28.56% (4823 votes) – Michele Bachmann
2. 27.65% (4671 votes) – Ron Paul
3. 13.57% (2293 votes) – Tim Pawlenty
4. 9.81% (1657 votes) – Rick Santorum
5. 8.62% (1456 votes) – Herman Cain
6. 4.25% (718 votes) – Rick Perry (write-in)
7. 3.36% (567 votes) – Mitt Romney
8. 2.28% (385 votes) – Newt Gingrich
9. 0.41% (69 votes) – Jon Huntsman
2. 27.65% (4671 votes) – Ron Paul
3. 13.57% (2293 votes) – Tim Pawlenty
4. 9.81% (1657 votes) – Rick Santorum
5. 8.62% (1456 votes) – Herman Cain
6. 4.25% (718 votes) – Rick Perry (write-in)
7. 3.36% (567 votes) – Mitt Romney
8. 2.28% (385 votes) – Newt Gingrich
9. 0.41% (69 votes) – Jon Huntsman
Friday, August 12, 2011
Ron Paul Wins Iowa GOP Debate.
The verdict is in - Ron Paul won last night's GOP Presidential debate in Ames, Iowa. Much to the chagrin of the neo-cons at Fox News, the polls, and applause, overwhelmingly showed that the people thought Ron Paul won the debate. Fox News was even forced to take down its own poll from its website after Paul crushed the competition in a landslide. Readers can can view that poll here. This is the largest online GOP debate poll, and just under 30,000 Americans have voted. Ron Paul has received a whopping 16,188 votes thus far, which is more than triple the support of runner-up Newt Gingrich.Link
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Pot Legalization to End Border Violence.
Gary Johnson is now the only GOP presidential candidate whose policy position on U.S.-Mexico relations does not involve predator drones or unassailable walls. Instead, the former two-term New Mexico governor made the case in a Washington Times op-ed and again on his “Truth for a Change” blog that border violence is tied to--gasp--drug trafficking:.Link
Monday, August 8, 2011
Obama Gets a Blank Check for Endless War.
The Obama administration is on pace to have more American soldiers killed in casualties related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than the George W. Bush administration did in its first term.Link
Obama's job approval....
WASHINGTON — A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds signs that another "wave" election with the potential to dramatically change the capital's political makeup may be building.Link
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Seal Team Six is Gone...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, along with seven Afghan commandos. It was the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.Link
Friday, August 5, 2011
Switzerland pays price for fiscal sanity......
GENEVA (AP) -- Switzerland has a balanced budget, low unemployment and a strong currency. On the face of things, the pristine Alpine nation has much to be proud of amid the economic turmoil in surrounding Europe and the United States.Link
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Human genes can be patented...........
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a 2 to 1 decision Friday that human genes can be patented because the DNA extracted from cells is not a product of nature.Link
Bush 2.0................
The election of President Obama was in no small part, a referendum on the administration of George W. Bush, and his victory was interpreted as a sound rebuke to eight years of open ended warfare, a vast and growing police state, the destruction of civil liberties, disregard for the Constitution, unchecked executive power, lies and broken promises, hypocrisy and arrogance, a lack of transparency in government, out-of-control federal spending, fever-pitch fearmongering, rampant corruption, and some really stupid gaffes. But what have we gotten instead?.Link
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Suspend unilateral drone strikes.
President Barack Obama’s former intelligence chief said Friday that the U.S. should stop all unilateral drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.Link
Boehner version of debt ceiling bill passes.
By a vote of 218 to 210, the House of Representatives has passed the version of debt ceiling legislation promoted by Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner.Link
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
U.S. wastes $34 billion..............
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has wasted some $34 billion on service contracts with the private sector in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a study being finalized for Congress.Link
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
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