Monday, October 31, 2011

The European Bailout Explained

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Flag of Al Qaeda Flying Over The Birthplace of Libya's Revolution

Who exactly 'won' the Libyan revolution, and who were we leading from behind?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055630/Flying-proudly-birthplace-Libyas-revolution-flag-Al-Qaeda.html

"The black flag of Al Qaeda was hoisted in Libya yesterday as Nato formally ended its military campaign.

The standard fluttered from the roof of the courthouse in Benghazi, where the country’s new rulers have imposed sharia law since seizing power.

Seen as the seat of the revolution, the judicial building was used by rebel forces to establish their provisional government and media centre.
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Complete with Arabic script declaring ‘there is no God but Allah’ and a full moon underneath, it was hoisted alongside the Libyan national flag.
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Obama Administration Wants The Ability to Lie About FOIA Requested Documents

Most transparent administration ever...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/10/foia-obama-wants-license-lie

"It's not often that the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Judicial Watch agree on anything, but the Obama administration's lack of transparency has brought the two together. Obama's Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains to an ongoing criminal investigation, concerns a terrorist organization, or a counterintelligence operation involving a foreign nation.

There are two problems with the Obama proposal to allow federal officials to affirmatively assert that a requested document doesn't exist when it does. First, by not citing a specific exemption allowed under the FOIA as grounds for denying a request, the proposal would cut off a requestor from appealing to the courts. By thus creating an area of federal activity that is completely exempt from judicial review, the proposal undercuts due process and other constitutional protections. Second, by creating a justification for government lying to FOIA requestors in one area, a legal precedent is created that sooner or later will be asserted by the government in other areas as well.

Under FOIA's current national security exemption, bureaucrats can already deny access to documents without acknowledging their existence. This was noted by the ACLU (joined by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and OpentheGovernment.com) in a comment on the proposal. In instances where there is a legitimate grounds for not confirming a document's existence, "the agency should simply respond that 'we interpret all or part of your request as a request for records which, if they exist, would not be subject to the disclosure requirements of FOIA pursuant to section 552(c), and we therefore will not process that portion of your request.' This response requires no change to the current FOIA regulation." Such a response would preserve a requestor's right to appeal to a federal court.
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Get Government Out of Welfare Now! An Interview With Star Parker

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It's Government & Consumer Spending, Stupid! Nutty Professor Thinks Private Sector Unnecessary

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

All Aboard The Cain Train: Zo Smacks Down Anderson Cooper, Romney & Perry Over Debate Duel

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Philippines Welcomes Symbolic '7 Billionth Baby'

Malthusian population bomb no where in site...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c87b4c80a267507a5491e1d48f69f246.01&show_article=1

"The Philippines welcomed one of the world's symbolic "seven billionth" babies Monday, after she arrived to a celebratory cheer at a packed government-run hospital.

Weighing 2.5 kilos (5.5 pounds), Danica May Camacho was delivered just before midnight Sunday amid an explosion of media flash bulbs in the delivery room at Manila's Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.

"She looks so lovely," the mother, Camille Dalura, whispered softly as she cradled her tiny baby.

"I can't believe she is the world's seventh billion."

The baby is the second child for Dalura and her partner, Florante Camacho, who quietly stood in a corner wearing a white hospital gown as television crews and photographers crowded to get a shot of his daughter.

The parents and the baby were met by top United Nations officials in the Philippines, who presented the child with a small cake.
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Peter Schiff at OWS: "Walmart Doesn't Hold a Gun to Your Head!"

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Allen West (R) Blasts President Obama's Iraq Troop Withdrawal And Reveals His 2012 Intentions

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Obama Gives Free Cash to Students And Ron Paul Looks to Play The Spoiler

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New York Gets More Than Inch of Snow in October For The First Time Ever

Crazy snow storm by my house; had a near miss with large branch. If I had not decided to return a phone call in the car, and had instead just walked into the house once I pulled in the driveway, a falling branch would have come down within arms reach.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054719/October-winter-storm-2011-Snow-hits-New-York-Halloween-East-Coast.html#ixzz1cEVBRlRE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054719/October-winter-storm-2011-Snow-hits-New-York-Halloween-East-Coast.html

"New York has today been hit by more than one inch of snowfall before Halloween for the first time ever - with experts predicting much more on the way.

Two people were killed as the classic nor'easter chugged up the East Coast at an unusually early period and more than 2.2 million homes have lost power in the storm.

An 84-year-old Pennsylvania man died when a tree crashed into his house in Temple on Saturday afternoon, while he was having a nap in his recliner chair. He was killed 'instantly' according to police.

Another person died in Colchester Connecticut reported Governor Dannel Malloy who warned that some parts of the state could expect as much as 18 inches of snow.
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New York has received measurable snow before Halloween only three times since 1869 - and never more than one inch, as happened today.

The heaviest snow, though, is forecast for later in the day on Sunday in the Massachusetts Berkshires, the Litchfield Hills in northwestern Connecticut, southwestern New Hampshire and the southern Green Mountains."

Paul Ryan (R) Blames Obama For Dividing America

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Karen Finney (MSNBC) - 'Conservatives Like Herman Cain (R) Because he’s a Black Man Who Knows His Place'

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Au Revoir Euro-Zone? Debt, Brawls And Bailouts Plague Europe

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Occupy Wall Street: Neo-Hippies or Tea Party With Bongos?

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Gun Control Drops to Lowest Level of Support Ever

Glad to see more and more people getting it every day.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/26/gallup-gun-control-drops-to-lowest-level-of-support-ever

" Gallup’s top line result is stunning, but not as much as its demographic breakdown is:

A record-low 26% of Americans favor a legal ban on the possession of handguns in the United States other than by police and other authorized people. When Gallup first asked Americans this question in 1959, 60% favored banning handguns. But since 1975, the majority of Americans have opposed such a measure, with opposition around 70% in recent years. …

For the first time, Gallup finds greater opposition to than support for a ban on semiautomatic guns or assault rifles, 53% to 43%. In the initial asking of this question in 1996, the numbers were nearly reversed, with 57% for and 42% against an assault rifle ban. Congress passed such a ban in 1994, but the law expired when Congress did not act to renew it in 2004. Around the time the law expired, Americans were about evenly divided in their views.
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If you think that’s dramatic, take a look at what happened to the demographics on this question. Guess which demos saw the biggest drop in support for stricter gun-control laws? If you guessed the Midwest, well, score a point for you; support in the heartland dropped 35 points, from 72% in 1991 to 37%. Midwesterners used to be the second-most supportive of gun control by region but now are the most opposed, even beating the South at 40%. Aaaaaaaand if you guessed Republicans, score another point. Two-thirds of Republicans in 1991 wanted more gun control, but it’s down to 31% today. Independents dropped nearly as much, from 65% to 38%.

In fact, only four demographics show a majority still favoring gun control: women (50%, down 26 points), the East (54%, down 23 points), those with no guns in the household (57%, down 21 points), and … Democrats, down just 10 points to 64%. That may not seem like much, but that’s still slightly lower than Republicans in 1991.
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To Catch a Journalist, Part II - New York Times, Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky

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Berman Post: To Catch a Journalist, Part I - Sam Stein, Huffington Post

OccupyRacism!

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Totally Nuts or Lots of Guts? Is Ron Paul's Plan to Cut Government Spending Nutty or Courageous?

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World’s First Spherical Flying Machine

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"The sci-fi classic Star Wars: A New Hope features a famous scene in which Luke Skywalker practices Jedi Lightsaber skills on a small, flying sphere that can hover and move quickly in any direction. Now, Japan’s Ministry of Defense has developed what may be a precursor to the Jedi training ball, though they call it a “Spherical Flying Machine.”

Driven mostly by remote control, the 42-inch in diameter, 350 gram flying ball uses a combination of propellers and wings to hover, fly in all directions at up to 60 kph and even move along the ground and walls. Virtually nothing seems to stop the ball from “flying.”
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Trifectawhittle

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Policing is Too Important to be Left to The Government

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Obama Declares Victory in Iraq, But Will Iran Fill Yhe Vacuum?

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Harvard Envy: How The Quest For University Prestige is Feeding The Education Bubble

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Dale Maharidge Responds to 'To Catch a Journalist, Part I'

You need to see the video to understand want he is talking about.

His response includes a healthy does of profanities and seems to ramble a bit. You can read the screen captures at http://www.theprojectveritas.org/maharidge. What I found most interesting about the response was that for all the huffing and puffing about O'Keefe's 'hit piece / lies / fakery...', if you make it down to the end he seems to admit that O'Keefe may have been reporting the truth.

State Department Buys $70,000 Worth of Obama Books

They are going to need a better excuse than 'help broker foreign-policy matter talks'.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/state-department-buys-70000-worth-obama-memoir

"The State Department has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams from My Father” more than a decade after its release.
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A review of the expenditures in a federal database did not reveal any examples of State Department purchases of books by former Presidents George W. Bush or Bill Clinton. The purchases of Mr. Obama’s literary work mostly, but not always, took place in the months after Mr. Obama captured the White House.

Leslie Paige, a spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group, said if the federal government is looking to cut costs, eliminating purchases of Mr. Obama’s books is a good place to start.

“It’s inappropriate for U.S. taxpayer dollars to be spent on this,” she said. “This sounds like propaganda.”

But State Department spokesman Noel Clay said the book purchases followed regular government procurement rules. He said diplomats have long used books as a way to help broker talks on important foreign-policy matters.
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Cain (R) Ad - 'The Smoking Man' ("Now is The Time For Action!")

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Software Seamlessly Inserts New Objects Into Existing Photographs

This proves the moon landing was faked...

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Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Libya Embraces Sharia Law

Lets see if some leading from behind skills can prevent this from turning into an even worse disaster then we 'led them from behind' out of.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/24/good-news-libya-embraces-sharia-law-while-islamists-are-poised-to-win-big-in-tunisian-elections

"No worries. It’s moderate shari’a.

“Any law that violates sharia is null and void legally,” he said, citing as an example the law on marriage passed during the slain dictator’s 42-year tenure that imposed restrictions on polygamy, which is permitted in Islam.

“The law of divorce and marriage… This law is contrary to sharia and it is stopped,” Abdel Jalil said.

His comments have provoked criticism and calls for restraint both in Libya and in Europe, amid fears that the Arab Spring may give rise to a potentially intolerant Islamist resurgence.

Many Libyans awaiting Sunday’s historic speech expressed surprise at the decision by the National Transitional Council leader to mention the role of sharia law in the new country before addressing such important issues as security and education.

Among the new shari’a-ized institutions will be Libya’s marriage laws, which means, among other things, legalizing polygamy and eliminating women’s right to keep the family home in cases of divorce. Said one Libyan feminist who’s already afraid to give reporters her full name, “We did not slay Goliath so that we now live under the Inquisition.” A State Department spokesman, when asked about NATO’s glorious triumph in birthing a new Islamic republic in north Africa, wheezed, “The term [shari'a] has broad application and is understood differently.” Translation: Hopefully it won’t be as bad as Saudi Arabia. Hopefully.
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Perry (R) Proposes 20 Percent Flat Tax

Perry throwing down the flat tax, but letting people opt in/out.

http://nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/texas-governor-argues-for-replacing-current-tax-code-with-flat-20-percent-rate-20111024

"Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry unveiled a sweeping economic agenda Monday, highlighted by a plan to level a voluntary 20 percent "flat tax" on all taxpayers who will accept it in place of what they're paying now.

The plan, outlined in a Wall Street Journal op-ed column a day before the Texas governor was set to announce it in South Carolina, also calls for capping federal spending at 18 percent of the country's GDP while allowing younger earners to privatize their Social Security accounts -- a controversial proposal that echoes President George W. Bush's failed 2005 attempt to overhaul the retirement program.

But the most significant feature of Perry's plan is his call for a flat tax rate of 20 percent. Taxpayers who don't want to pay a 20 percent flat income tax, he said, can keep their current rate.Current marginal income tax rates range from 10 percent to 35 percent, depending on taxpayers' income.

Perry offers several proposals that appear designed to sweeten the offer -- and to counter criticism that the flat tax is regressive, taking a proportionally bigger bite from smaller incomes. His plan would preserve popular deductions for mortgage interest and donations to charity for households earning less than $500,000 a year. It would increase the standard deduction to $12,500.
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To Catch a Journalist, Part I - Sam Stein, Huffington Post

Looks like O'Keefe has some news heads for the chopping block. How many people right now know the shoe is about to drop on them; I bet you see a few try and beat O'Keefe to the punch and try to spin it off before the video is released.

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Temporary Jobs Bill Insanity: Obama & Public Sector Demand

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Obama on The Troop Withdrawal in Iraq

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

David Axelrod (D) - "Maybe You Should go Ask Osama Bin Laden if he Thought he Was Prepared"

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Obama Hosted South Korean President Lee Myung Bak by Serving Japanese Beef

Whoops...

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obamas-state-menu-japanese-beef-from-texas/1

"The White House has released the menu for tonight's state dinner for South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, and the main course comes from Japanese cattle bred in Texas.

The Texas Wagyu Beef will be served with orange-ginger fondue, sauteed kale, and roasted kabocha squash, according to the White House.
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Lee Doren Talking to Small Business Owners

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The Drug War in Guatemala: A Conversation With Giancarlo Ibarguen

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TOTUS Goes AWOL! Thieves Steal Obama's Teleprompter. Plus, Don't Screw With Biden

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Gadhafi Captured Alive, Then Killed

Lets hope a real democracy takes the place of the fallen dictatorship.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBYA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-20-12-47-26

"Dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Moammar Gadhafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: "Don't kill me, my sons." Within an hour, he was dead, but not before jubilant Libyans had vented decades of hatred by pulling the eccentric dictator's hair and parading his bloodied body on the hood of a truck.

The death Thursday of Gadhafi, two months after he was driven from power and into hiding, decisively buries the nearly 42-year regime that had turned the oil-rich country into an international pariah and his own personal fiefdom.

It also thrusts Libya into a new age in which its transitional leaders must overcome deep divisions and rebuild nearly all its institutions from scratch to achieve dreams of democracy.
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Freed Palestinian Prisoner Vows to Mount Another Suicide Attack

I am happy that Gilad Shalit is home, but I do not know how you will explain that to the victim of the next attack that dies at the hands of one of the freed terrorist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8836933/Gilad-Shalit-release-freed-Palestinian-prisoner-vows-to-sacrifice-her-life.html

"An unsuccessful suicide bomber released from prison as part of the deal to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli conscript, on Wednesday vowed to fulfil a childhood ambition by "sacrificing" her life for the Palestinian cause.

As she returned to her family home in northern Gaza, Wafa al-Bis insisted she would seize any opportunity to mount another suicide mission and encouraged dozens of cheering schoolchildren to follow her example.

Bis was one of hundreds of Palestinian militants freed by Israel on Tuesday in the first phase of a prisoner swap agreed with Hamas, Gaza’s Islamist overlords, to win the freedom of Sgt Maj Shalit after five years in solitary confinement.

Her words will chill critics of the deal who argue that many of the 1,027 Palestinians who are to be released from prison will return to violence once they have been freed. For most Israelis, such fears have been consigned to the future as an anxious nation watched to see how the 25-year-old conscript was faring on his first full day at home in Mitzpe Hila, his home village in the hills above the Sea of Galilee.
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Occupy Wall Street's Agenda: Hurt a Horse And Poop on a Cop Car?

As far as agendas go, it could be worse...

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Gibson Guitar CEO Speaks Out

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Frederick Douglass And The Movement For Liberation

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

What is a Constitution?

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Want to Live Forever? Sonia Arrison Explains How in Her New Book

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An Economic Coup? Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D) Wants Obama to Hire Every Unemployed American

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This is How Bad Our Tax Code is

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Obama's Teleprompter (Along With The Seal, Podium And Equipment) Stolen

There is a comical notion to the President having his audio equipment stolen. It also represents a shocking break of security. If you are close enough to steal something you are close enough to modify or swap out pieces. If the thieves had been assassins and planted a bomb, or spies and planted tracking/listening devices, this story could have easily ended much worse.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Gilad Shalit Returned Home

I still do not like the idea of the trade, but I am glad Gilad Shalit is finally home.

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"Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner swap brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict.

In one of the biggest ever such exchanges between the two sides, a pale and gaunt Sergeant Shalit was flown to his parents' home in northern Israel after more than five years held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, while a first 477 of over 1,000 Palestinians to be released under the bargain left Israeli jails for Gaza, the West Bank and abroad.
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"The people want a new Gilad!" chanted thousands at a rally in Gaza where Hamas leaders trumpeted their feat in holding on to their captive ...

Local Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, surrounded by former prisoners decked out in the green of the Islamist party, told a cheering crowd: "The enemy retreated, Shalit remained in the hands of the holy warriors and today we have victory."
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Read the last part of that quote and tell me they will not try this again...

Rand Paul (R) on Occupy Wall Street, Repealing No Child Left Behind

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Bill O'Reilly on The Video of Anti-Semitic Occupy LA Protester

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Attack a Horse. Plus Lady Gaga Romances The Clintons (D)

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How Drugs Helped Invent The Internet & The Singularity: Jason Silva on "Turning Into Gods"

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Texas High School Students Made to Recite Mexican National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance

They did not force the student that objected to participate. Still...

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"Students in a Texas public high school were made to stand up and recite the Mexican national anthem and Mexican pledge of allegiance as part of a Spanish class assignment, but the school district maintains there was nothing wrong with the lesson.
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She said she was particularly offended because the presentations in teacher Reyna Santos’s class took place during “Freedom Week,” the week after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and on U.S. Constitution Day — the same day as Mexico’s Independence Day.
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When Brenda made clear she would not stand up and recite the pledge, she was given an alternative assignment: an essay on the history of the Mexican revolution.
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Abolish The Transportation Security Administration (Jim Harper)

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Steven Brill on How to Fix Public Schools

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Comrades in Arms: Obama And Wall Street Protesters Attack Banks And The Rich

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900 Days Without a Senate Budget

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Ravers vs. The Man: CA Bans LED Gloves And Pacifiers

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The Horse Soldiers of 9/11

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How Did Obama Know About 'Fast And Furious' Before Holder?

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Wall Street Protesters Spread Like A Disease & Grandma Nancy Returns From The Mothership

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"Jobs supported" to Replace "Saved or Created"

You can call it anything you want, but the fact that it failed remains. This attempt at double-speak will not convince anyone.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/13/new-obama-metric-jobs-supported

"Old and busted: Jobs “saved or created.” New hotness: Jobs “supported.” In attempting to advance the argument for Barack Obama’s new jobs stimulus plan, the White House has decided to create a new term that has, er, even less meaning than their previous measure:

The American Jobs Act Will Support Nearly 400,000 Education Jobs—Preventing Layoffs and Allowing Thousands More to Be Hired or Rehired: The President’s plan will more than offset projected layoffs, providing support for nearly 400,000 education jobs—enough for states to avoid harmful layoffs and rehire tens of thousands of teachers who lost their jobs over the past three years.

How exactly did the White House come up with its new metric? Chuck Blahous gives us a detailed analysis of exactly how they crafted this measure to be, well, unmeasurable:
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Fast And Furious 'Gunwalking' Scandal Included 'Walking Grenades'

Mind-blowing-stupidity...

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"Police say Jean Baptiste Kingery, a U.S. citizen, was a veritable grenade machine. He's accused of smuggling parts for as many as 2,000 grenades into Mexico for killer drug cartels -- sometimes under the direct watch of U.S. law enforcement.
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Law enforcement sources say Kingery could have been prosecuted in the U.S. twice for violating export control laws, but that, each time, prosecutors in Arizona refused to make a case.

Grenades are weapons-of-choice for the cartels. An attack on Aug. 25 in a Monterrey, Mexico casino killed 53 people.

Sources tell CBS News that, in January 2010, ATF had Kingery under surveillance after he bought about 50 grenade bodies and headed to Mexico. But they say prosecutors wouldn't agree to make a case. So, as ATF agents looked on, Kingery and the grenade parts crossed the border -- and simply disappeared.

Six months later, Kingery allegedly got caught leaving the U.S. for Mexico with 114 disassembled grenades in a tire. One ATF agent told investigators he literally begged prosecutors to keep Kingery in custody this time, fearing he was supplying narco-terrorists, but was again ordered to let Kingery go.

The prosecutors -- already the target of controversy for overseeing "Fast and Furious," wouldn't comment on the grenades case. U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke recently resigned and his assistant, Emory Hurley, has been transferred. Sources say Hurley is the one who let Kingery go, saying grenade parts are "novelty items" and the case "lacked jury appeal.""

Obama Sends 100 US Troops to Uganda

So, did Obama just get the US involved in another war; all be it on an extremely limited basis? The pacifists rubes that voted for Obama are about to have their heads explode.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-sends-100-us-troops-to-uganda-to-combat-lords-resistance-army

"Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces “remove from the battlefield” – meaning capture or kill – Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.

The forces will deploy beginning with a small group and grow over the next month to 100. They will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.

The president made this announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday afternoon, saying that “deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.”

He said that “although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.”
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Censorship in The Ivory Tower: Colleges And Universities Are Killing Free Speech

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Occupied! (Wall Street Hippies)

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Occupy Wall Street Protester - 'I Want my College Tuition Paid Because That’s What I Want'

A gem from the Occupy Wall Street people.

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Here is another.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279946/eat-rich-patrick-brennan

"Others said:

‘Someone gave us Spam,’ said Elliot Hartmann-Russell, 18, a volunteer who held up a can of the meat and stared at it while sorting through the donations. ‘I’m not going to eat it, but…’

Tom Hintze, 24, was volunteering in Zuccotti Park last week. ‘Just now there was a big UPS delivery,’ he said. ‘We don’t know where it comes from. It just appears, and we eat it.’

The kitchen’s philosophy isn’t quite the farm-to-table approach Mr. Hintze internalized while on the wait staff at the expensive and high-toned Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester County, N.Y. Still, he was picking up a similar community-based ethos.

Their food system does seem to encapsulate, quite neatly, their vision for how the world should work: Free, high-quality stuff should appear for their consumption.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Obama's 'Jobs Bill' Defeated in The Senate

It never really had a chance, nor do I think Obama thought that it did. The bill was a strategic move in his election attempts. Beyond the 'shocking' nature of Reid (D) going nuclear in the Senate, this also makes it completely pointless.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/11/us-usa-jobs-idUSTRE79A4D220111011

"The Senate defeated President Barack Obama's job-creation package on Tuesday in a sign that Washington is likely too paralyzed to take major steps to spur hiring before the 2012 elections.

The $447 billion package of tax cuts and new spending failed by a vote of 50 to 48, short of the 60 votes it needed to advance in the 100-member Senate. Voting was expected to continue for several hours but would not affect the outcome.
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Two Democrats, facing re-election in conservative states, also voted against the measure.

Obama said earlier on Tuesday he would try to pass components of the bill individually.
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Three And a Half Days

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Iran Terror Plot Uncovered: Why Was The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Targeting Saudi Arabia?

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Economic Freedom in America Today

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Issa (R) Issues Subpoena to Holder in Fast And Furious Investigation

What are the odds that he already knows what he is looking for and wantts to see if Holder digs a deeper hole?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/12/issa-issues-subpoena-to-holder-in-fast-and-furious-investigation

"Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a subpoena Wednesday to Attorney General Eric Holder as part of his investigation into the gun trafficking operation known as "Fast and Furious."

"Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged," the California Republican said in a statement. "The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It's time we know the whole truth."

The subpoena seeks, among other things, all communications regarding the operation from 16 top Justice officials, including Holder, his chief of staff, Gary Grindler, and the head of the department's criminal division, Lanny Breuer, as well as correspondence on specific dates to and from the former head of the ATF's Phoenix field division, William Newell.

It also asks for all documents and communications referring or relating to the murder of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, including any correspondence outlining the details of Zapata's mission at the time he was murdered.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Obama's Crowd in Pittsburgh in 2008 vs 2011

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Is President Barack Obama a Loner?

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The 14th Amendment of The U.S. Constitution: A History

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Cain Explains the 9-9-9 Plan While Union Bosses Cheer Obama

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Israel And The Palestinians to Trade Gilad Shalit For 1,000+ Palestinian Prisoners

I will be happy to see Gilad Shalit return home to Israel safely after so many years, but I fear for the (continued?) precedent it sets; invade Israeli soil, kidnap a citizen, wait long enough and get a thousand plus terrorists/criminals freed. It creates perverse incentives that could lead to more Israelis ending up like Gilad Shalit. There is a likely near certainty that at least one, and probably more, of the freed prisoners will be implicated in a future strike against Israel. What are you supposed to say to the victims their families of those attacks?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/11/us-israel-palestinians-shalit-idUSTRE79A58R20111011

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who won overwhelming cabinet approval for the lopsided exchange at a special night-time session, has been under constant public pressure to bring Shalit home. He said the soldier would be reunited with his family "in the coming days."

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip greeted the agreement, brokered by Egypt and a German mediator, with celebratory gunfire. Hamas confirmed that it only remained to conclude technical arrangements for the trade.
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said Israel would release 1,027 prisoners in two stages. Within a week, 450 will be swapped for Shalit and the rest will be freed two months later. Twenty-seven women are among those due to be freed.

WHO WILL BE FREED?

It was not immediately clear how many of the prisoners had been jailed for attacks that caused Israeli casualties. Under Israeli law, opponents of their release have at least 48 hours to appeal to courts to keep them behind bars.

Yoram Cohen, head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security service told reporters 110 of the prisoners slated for release in the first stage would return home to the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Another 131 would go to the Gaza Strip, where they reside. Six Israeli Arabs were also on the list.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Iranian Terrorist Plot in The US Foiled

This is an act of war, and under any other American administration you could be sure there would be a response above and beyond a harshly worded letter. With Obama ... I guess we will find out soon enough.

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"FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a "significant terrorist act in the United States" tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.

The officials said the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the U.S. officials.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in an announcement today that the plan was "conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran" by a faction of the government and called it a "flagrant" violation of U.S. and international law.

"The U.S. is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions," Holder said.
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A Libertarian Moment in The GOP? Gary Johnson (R) on The Politics of The 2012 Election

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Project Veritas Joins Occupy Wall Street

O'Keefe goes undercover again, and finds some interesting people; the irony/hypocrisy is totally lost on them.

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Big Unions Occupy Wall Street And Values Voters Swoon For...Ron Paul?

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Remy's Occupy Wall Street Protest Song

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Lyrics at the source.

For a (slightly) less whimsical view of the protest, 'What We Saw at the Occupy Wall Street Protest'.

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Computer Virus Hits US Drone Fleet

This could be really bad.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet

"A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.

“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”

Military network security specialists aren’t sure whether the virus and its so-called “keylogger” payload were introduced intentionally or by accident; it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks. The specialists don’t know exactly how far the virus has spread. But they’re sure that the infection has hit both classified and unclassified machines at Creech. That raises the possibility, at least, that secret data may have been captured by the keylogger, and then transmitted over the public internet to someone outside the military chain of command.
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Biden On Nuclear Option In 2005: 'I Pray to God' Democrats do Not do This When we Have Power

Someone should get a sound bite from Biden on his opinion to what Reid just did. Curious how he would try to justify this.

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Dylan Ratigan (MSNBC) vs Ed Schultz (MSNBC) Ends up With Schultz Walking Off

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"Somebody is a little sensitive. Ed Schultz is such a fan of President Obama’s jobs plan that even when someone concedes it creates jobs but objects that it doesn’t create enough, Schultz just can’t stand it. Well, that — and being interrupted. Schultz today joined a post-presidential-press-conference panel on MSNBC that included financial journalist Dylan Ratigan."

Obama Proposes Spending 3% of Our GDP to Generate 2% Growth

If you support Obama on this, I have a plan to get you two free dollars. All you have to do for these two free dollars is pay me three dollars.

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"At a White House press conference on Thursday, President Barack Obama said the legislation he has proposed to create jobs could "grow the economy as much as 2 percent." However, the White House estimates that the plan itself will cost $447 billion -- or 2.97 percent of the 2011 GDP of $15.012 trillion that is currently projected by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis. (See chart: GDP Chart from BEA.xls.)

The president also said at the press conference that his plan could create "as many as 1.9 million" jobs. If that is true, based on the plan's estimated $447 billion cost, those jobs would cost an average of $235,263 to create.
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Occupy This! Wall Street Protesters Bring Class Warfare to a Town Near You

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Unemployment Rate Remains at 9.1%

There was some job growth, but not nearly enough.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/07/unemployment-rate-steady-at-9-1-103k-jobs-added

"Mildly good news for the administration from the Department of Labor this morning:

Nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 103,000 in September, and the unemployment rate held at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The increase in employment partially reflected the return to payrolls of about 45,000 telecommunications workers who had been on strike in August. In September, job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, and construction. Government employment continued to trend down.

So we’re counting as gains jobs that were never lost in the first place? It’s not that it’s unfair, since those counted as jobs lost in the August survey, but it’s not exactly a job-growth indicator, either. Without the return of striking workers who weren’t losing their jobs in the first place, we have a jobs report that essentially met analyst expectations at 58,000 (Bloomberg and Reuters expected 60K growth).
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Steve Eggleston points out that the U-6 measure of unemployment and underemployment rose 0.3 points to 16.5%. That’s the highest it has been in months, and has increased since May from 15.8%.

Also, Suitably Flip graphs the actual jobs growth over the last three months after accounting for the Verizon strike, and it’s not pretty.
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To put this in the contexts of the last two years; after rising to %9.5, 'fake' falling to %9.4, rising to %9.7, and then rising again to 9.8%, and rising again to 10.2%, dropping to 10%, held steady, dropping to 9.7%, held steady, held steady again, increased to 9.9%, dropped to 9.7%, fell to 9.5%, holding steady, rising a tick to 9.6%, held steady, held steady again, increased to 9.8%, 'fake' falling to 9.4%, 'fake fallen' again to 9%, dropped to 8.9%, falling again to 8.8%, rose to %9, rose to %9.1, rose again to %9.2, fell to 9.1%, held steady at %9.1, and continues to remain at 9/1%.

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

Well worth the 15 minutes of your time.

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Hello American Renaissance, Goodbye Obama Goat Rodeo

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Occupy Wall Street

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Obama's News Conference on The American Jobs Act

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Issa (R) Hits Holder on AC360

Holder 'missed' 5 memos; who does he expect to buy that.

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Reid (D) Uses The 'Nuclear Option', Changes Senate Rules, Ends Repeat Filibusters

"shocking" ... the clips of Reid supporters (and Reid?) talking about how unthinkable such a move would be while the Republicans were the ones in power should be good.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/186133-reid-triggers-nuclear-option-to-change-senate-rules-and-prohibit-post-cloture-filibusters

"In a shocking development Thursday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered a rarely used procedural option informally called the “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules.

Reid and 50 members of his caucus voted to change Senate rules unilaterally to prevent Republicans from forcing votes on uncomfortable amendments after the chamber has voted to move to final passage of a bill.

Reid’s coup passed by a vote of 51-48, leaving Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fuming.

The surprise move stunned Republicans, who did not expect Reid to bring heavy artillery to what had been a humdrum knife fight over amendments to China currency legislation.
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On The Rocks: Ranch Debacle Places Perry (R) Campaign Between a Rock And a Hard Place

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The Importance of Maintaining a Strong Defense

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Attention Wall Street Occupiers: Get a Job!

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Penn Jillette on Capitalism, Magic And Morality

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Steven Jobs Passes Away at 56

Today the world lost a truly great mind.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576410753210811910.html

"Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

His family, in a statement released by Apple, said Mr. Jobs "died peacefully today surrounded by his family...We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief."

The company didn't specify the cause of his death. Mr. Jobs had battled pancreatic cancer and several years ago received a liver transplant. In August, Mr. Jobs stepped down as CEO, handing the reins to Tim Cook.

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," Mr. Cook said in a letter to employees. "We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much."
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Darrell Issa (R) on The Future of The Post Office

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The EPA's Green Tyranny

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Hope & Change Liberals Protest Obama, So Why Aren't They Called Racists Like The Tea Party?

Because they are Democrats of course.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

"View" Co-Host Debate Who Can Use The N-Word

If you are unfamilure with the underling storing read this and this. I think the story makes for some splashy headlines, but there is not any substance to it with even Perry's (R) Democratic opponents coming to his defense.

As for the question of if there are certain words that only one race can use, I think that is the very essence of racism. This is America and you can say what you want to. That said, there are certain things that you should not say. Dropping an 'N-bomb' is pretty high up on the list of things you should not say. That should not change based on the color of your skin.

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"Host Barbara Walters used the n-word while explaining the story, causing co-host Sherri Shepherd to take offense. Shepherd says she didn't like the way Barbara Walters said it. However, Shepherd was okay with Whoopi Goldberg, the main host of "The View," using it. Shepherd explained herself:

"When I heard you (Whoopi) say it, it was fine. You said it a different way. When I heard you (Barbara) say it, I didn't like the way you said it. Because when you say it, you say [inaudible]. And I don't like [inaudible]," Shepherd said.

This left Barbara Walters confused and wanted to know the proper way to say the n-word. However, Shepherd told Walters there is no right way for her to say it.
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Obama - 'Americas Are Not Better Off Today Than Four Years Ago'

That will be among the main points made by the eventual Republican nominee to unseat Obama in 2012, and that clip will almost certainly make its way into an attack ad.

http://gma.yahoo.com/president-obama--america--not-better-off--today-than-four-years-ago.html

"Calling himself an "underdog," President Obama today said the faltering economy is a drag on his presidency and seriously impairing his chances of winning again in 2012.

"Absolutely," he said in response to a question from ABC News' George Stephanopoulos about whether the odds were against him come November 2012, given the economy. "I'm used to being the underdog. But at the end of the day people are going to ask -- who's got a vision?"

The American people, he conceded, are "not better off" than they were four years ago.

"The unemployment rate is way too high," he said of the 9 percent jobless rate, the highest in more than half a century.
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Holder Knew About Fast And Furious in July of 2010

How high does this go...

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Free Markets, Not Redistribution, is Best Way to Reduce Poverty

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Obama's Anti-Terror Jobs Bump, Shark Sanctuaries & A Muslim Bikini Scare

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Prohibition, Drug Laws, & Unintended Consequences

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

11-Year-Old Not Allowed to Score Too Many Touchdowns!!

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Democrats Push Tax Hikes First in Deficit Talks

First, second, always... is this really what they want to stake 2012 on?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/us-usa-debt-supercommittee-idUSTRE78T5QE20111001

"Democrats want tax hikes to be the first item negotiated in "super committee" deficit-reduction talks, trying to force Republicans to confront an issue at the heart of this year's budget fights, sources told Reuters.

The tough stance by Democratic members of the powerful 12-member congressional panel reflects the party's wariness that Republicans might try to sideline the issue of revenue increases in the negotiations.

"They've raised the idea of doing taxes first," a Republican aide involved in the discussions said on Friday on condition of anonymity.

The panel has the task of finding ways of cutting the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over 10 years. If it fails to agree on a plan by November 23, automatic spending cuts will be triggered, beginning in 2013.
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