The story of Malia Obama’s Mexican vacation reveals double standards and a noodle-spined media
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Posted By: Bookworm - 3/20/2012 11:31:39 AM EST 35425
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Over the weekend, I got a link to a story about Malia Obama heading off to Mexico for vacation with 12 friends and 25 Secret Service agents. The story is newsworthy because it implicates taxpayer concerns: Malia is going to a nation that the State Department warns is dangerous, and Americans are footing the bill for the 25 federal employees who are necessary to offset that danger. I know that these Secret Service agents are on the payroll regardless, but feeding and lodging them outside of Washington, D.C. becomes the taxpayers’ burden. (In the same way, Obama’s little basketball jaunt
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WaPo Fact Checks Pres. Obama's Campaign Film
“The Road We’ve Traveled.”
locomotivebreath1901, by lb1901
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Posted By: locomotivebreath1901 - 3/20/2012 10:53:29 AM EST 35424
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A Misleading Account of Obama’s Mother and Her Insurance Dispute.
My own mother died when I was but a teen, so I empathize with the president. I don't want to reopen a wound, but it's Obama who persistently interjects his family members into his political narratives to further his policies which impact millions of U.S. citizens.
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VOTING FOR A CANDIDATE -- OR AGAINST ... AFGHANISTAN ANGST ... SANTORUM'S DISORGANIZATION
RadioRodgers.com, by Lee Rodgers
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Posted By: LeeRodgers - 3/20/2012 10:44:09 AM EST 35422
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Some Republicans are decrying...
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Remember Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Restaurants?
DAN CIRUCCI, by Daniel A. Cirucci
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Posted By: RightWriter - 3/20/2012 10:11:10 AM EST 35421
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I try not to turn back the clock too much. It can get to be maudlin, if not downright depressing.
But sometimes, it's hard to resist.
Especially when we're turning it back to the 1960s -- an era that (what with Mad Men, etc.) has generated renewed interest.
Well. there was a restaurant
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Too soon' for a white First Lady: Robert De Niro
Andrew Malcolm at Investors.com, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: ibdandrew - 3/20/2012 8:56:18 AM EST 35420
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De Niro took the microphone: "Callista Gingrich," he said. "Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?"
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Would a 10-Kiloton nuke detonated on 16th and K Streets in Washington D.C. be as devastating as you think it would be?
The Political Commentator, by Michael Haltman
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Posted By: halthouse1 - 3/20/2012 6:11:32 AM EST 35419
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A study conducted by the federal government concluded what one would have logically assumed to be true that of course it would!
So what's the moral to the story?
While the moral of a story will typically come at the end, I am providing it now in case anyone stops reading before they get there. And this is a moral that is too important not to share...
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Young Americans Simply “Worn Out” Over Environmental Propaganda
Right Wing News, by William Teach
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Posted By: rightwingnews - 3/19/2012 10:01:21 PM EST 35418
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And by “environment”, the Washington Post means the climate change hoax (via Junk Science)
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The Romney Fiscal Record: the 800 lb guerrilla in the room that everyone ignores
Right Wing News, by Steve Baldwin
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Posted By: rightwingnews - 3/19/2012 10:00:59 PM EST 35417
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With the Romney record on social issues all over the ideological map, the standard fallback line used by Romney partisans is that his outstanding business management experience and, by extension, his allegedly brilliant performance managing the liberal state of Massachusetts, make him a great presidential candidate. This record, we are told, qualifies him to not only be president but should earn him the support of the conservative movement.
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Electability: Obama trails Santorum but leads Romney in FL, OH, VA, NC
Right Wing News, by Wintery Knight
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Posted By: rightwingnews - 3/19/2012 10:00:20 PM EST 35416
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Ask any supporter of Mitt Romney why they are supporting him and you will get one answer – electability. That’s what people keep hearing in the media – even on Fox News. Electability, electability, electability. But what happens when you look at the actual poll numbers in battleground states?
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Why Obama’s Policy Will Probably Bring War with Iran Someday
The Lid, by Barry Rubin
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Posted By: Yidwithlid - 3/19/2012 9:34:56 PM EST 35415
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“A statesman has not to make history. But if ever in the events around him he hears the sweep of the mantle of God he must jump up and catch at its hem.”
– Otto von Bismarck.
President Barack Obama hasn’t changed but the situation has, in part due to his actions. Obama will do everything possible to escape confrontation with Iran but events, reinforced by his own statements and of course by Iranian behavior, will one day, if he is still in office, force him in that direction. Obama is not a capable enough statesman to grab the hem
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Fake Fanaticism, Real Rapture or Just Heat and Lack of Hydration?
Flopping Aces, by Wordsmith
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Posted By: floppingaces - 3/19/2012 4:44:39 PM EST 35414
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“folks faint all the time at my events.”
- President Obama at recent campaign rally
Fake fanaticism or real rapture?
Either way, it’s kind of disturbing.
During 2008, Michael Medved on his radio program brought to my attention a strange phenomenon of people fainting at Barack Obama campaign rallies. It was still happening in 2010; and, well, it is happening again in 2012:
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Except for the semantic giveaway indicating comfort with “brainwashing”, there’s nothing wrong with Holder’s 1995 speech about guns
Bookworm Room, by Bookworm
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Posted By: Bookworm - 3/19/2012 3:11:35 PM EST 35413
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I am no Eric Holder fan. I think he’s very busy now trying to destroy both the Justice Department and the abstract notion of justice within the United States. I would love to have caught him in a “gotcha” moment. But the above video is not that moment. Holder’s point is a good one, which is that our youth culture, especially our black youth culture, has long been inundated with images of guns, not as tools for food and safety, but as symbols of power. Yes, guns do make one powerful. That’s why women should look to guns for self-defense,
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Beating The Same Crummy Drum On Every Alternative Energy Source
Right Wing News, by John Hawkins
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Posted By: rightwingnews - 3/19/2012 1:44:00 PM EST 35412
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But that’s a long road to travel. About 9 percent of the energy used by Americans comes from “renewables.” The rest comes from burning stuff or splitting atoms. But of that 9 percent, the vast majority comes from hydroelectric power and ethanol. Hydroelectric power has little room for growth since there aren’t any new dams going in, and ethanol doesn’t qualify as a green energy source since it requires so much energy to make itself.
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The Best Quotes From David Horowitz’s “Left Illusions”
Right Wing News, by John Hawkins
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Posted By: rightwingnews - 3/19/2012 1:43:17 PM EST 35411
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From David Horowitz’s Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey.
After the Russian Revolution of 1905, the philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev analyzed communism as a form of idolatry in a way that proved to be prophetic. Berdyaev traced the origins of what he called the Marxist “heresy” back to the tower of Babel. In that story, people had tried to achieve their own redemption — without a transcendent God — by building a ladder to heaven. Communists had a similar ambition.
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Of Course, Weathermen Are Discriminated Against In Favor Of…Uh, Weatherwomen
Right Wing News, by John Hawkins
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Posted By: rightwingnews - 3/19/2012 1:41:48 PM EST 35409
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Let’s be honest; isn’t this weatherman a hundred percent right about being discriminated against?
A veteran California weatherman is suing CBS broadcasting for sex discrimination, saying the network only wants to hire sexy young women to give the weather reports.
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Limbo
Brutally Honest, by Rick
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Posted By: ricksteroni - 3/19/2012 1:35:51 PM EST 35408
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I hope to quickly get back to some fresh posting... there's lots that I could put up but just so little time right now what with tending to my bride's needs and doing that which she would usually do around the house (which is quite a ton frankly).
I appreciate your patience and loyalty.
Things I hope will get back to normal here and sooner rather than later.
If you'd like, use this post as fodder for bringing things up in the comments and talk amongst yourselves...
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Ill. Non-Romneys Your Choice on
Tues is Rick AND Newt--That's Right,
You'll Vote for BOTH of Them!
Publius Forum, by Warner Todd Huston
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Posted By: Warner Todd Huston - 3/19/2012 1:33:33 PM EST 35407
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If you are an Illinois voter that considers himself an ABR (anybody but Romney) you have a bit of a dilemma. Rick Santorum has been surging across the country as the final non-Romney but he has a major problem in Illinois. He can win the popular vote and still not get all the delegates he'd like. In fact, because of the way the system works in Illinois, he can't get the delegates.
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American Cancer Society Attacks
Me by Name Over California Tax Grab?
Publius Forum, by Warner Todd Huston
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Posted By: Warner Todd Huston - 3/19/2012 1:32:51 PM EST 35406
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Oddly enough, a coalition of big tax hikers in California, including the American Cancer Society, has attacked me by name for daring to write about Proposition 29, a California ballot measure that will appear on this year's ballot. Prop 29 will force Californians to foot the costs of nearly a billion dollars in new and unnecessary spending on the airy claim that the funding will somehow cure cancer and stop kids from smoking. Sounds a bit like Obama's claims that his election would lower sea levels, stop global warming, make the U.S. beloved again, and put a unicorn in every
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Wash. Post: Obama the Failed and
Hard-Edged Partisan President
Publius Forum, by Warner Todd Huston
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Posted By: Warner Todd Huston - 3/19/2012 1:31:03 PM EST 35405
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The Washington Post did an amazing thing over the weekend. It published a story that highlights the critical failure of the President to achieve what could have been a signature success in his first term, that of achieving a budget compromise with the GOP.
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BARACK LUuuVS YOU ... HOLDER FOR "BRAINWASHING" ON GUNS ... SANTORUM'S SILLINESS IN SAN JUAN ...
RadioRodgers.com, by Lee Rodgers
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Posted By: LeeRodgers - 3/19/2012 11:41:17 AM EST 35404
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It's enough to make you lose your lunch.
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Bristol to Prez: Have a Sister Souljah Moment!
The Anchoress, by Elizabeth Scalia
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Posted By: Anchoress - 3/19/2012 9:39:22 AM EST 35403
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Bristol Palin, starts her new blog with a bang. She’s challenging the president to take on his own Sister Souljah Moment, but this time against the misogynist left:
Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family. He’s made fun of my brother because of his Down’s Syndrome. He’s said I was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.” (In a classy move, he did this while his producers put up the cover of my book, which tells about the forgiveness and redemption I’ve found in God after my past – very public — mistakes.)
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Obama’s campaign money woes: He’s working harder for less this time
Andrew Malcolm at Investors.com, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: ibdandrew - 3/19/2012 9:24:58 AM EST 35402
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Now that the economy (and a few other things) are hitting President Obama's reelection campaign hard, maybe the depth of Americans' money troubles will come home to him.
For every one of the 1,154 days that the Democrat has been president, polls have shown that jobs and the economy were the top issues on his countrymen's minds. Yet he invested more than a year and dozens of town halls getting his....
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