Monday, April 30, 2012

"Forward" - Obama's New Campaign Slogan

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Socialist ties...

Democratic Senate Has Now Gone More Then Three Years Without Passing a Budget

Are they really this afraid of putting their ideas on paper to let the American people see their plan...

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/29/sessions-marks-three-years-without-budget-deliberate-plan-by-democrats

"April 29, 2009 was the last time the Senate passed a budget — three years ago today. Articulating a budget for the United States is among senators’ legally required duties.

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, told The Daily Caller that Senate Democrats’ obfuscation is to blame.

“This is a deliberate plan that the Democratic majority has executed for three years to avoid the responsibility of laying out a financial plan for America,” he said in an interview.

The Democratic majority in the Senate, Sessions said, “cannot lead.”
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Obama Has Hosted More Fundraisers Than The Last Five Presidents Combined

Give a lot more credence to the 'Campaigner in Chief' criticism.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/30/obama-has-held-more-fundraisers-than-the-last-5-presidents-combined

"But a new book makes shockingly clear just how focused Obama has been on his political future. Via Toby Harnden at the Daily Mail (emphasis added):

Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book.

Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.

The figures, contained a in a new book called The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign by Brendan J. Doherty, due to be published by University Press of Kansas in July, give statistical backing to the notion that Obama is more preoccupied with being re-elected than any other commander-in-chief of modern times.

Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined.

If these figures are accurate, and apparently they are, I don’t know what is more contemptible: that the most ethical President ever has spent more time raising money than his 5 predecessors combined, or that virtually no one within the mainstream media has seen fit to track and report this. I don’t know, might this possibly have some connection to the fact that President Obama has no legislative accomplishments to speak of over the past year? Just spit-balling here, but this seems like a story angle the media probably would have shown an interest in from say 2001-2008. After all, they seemed pretty interested in tracking the number of rounds of golf President Bush played. But I guess even this is no longer considered newsworthy since, with 93 rounds of his own, President Obama has already exceeded his predecessors total over two full terms by almost a 4 to 1 ratio.
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Obama at White House Correspondents' Dinner

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Obama Suggests Again Romney Would Not Have Ordered The Raid That Killed Bin Laden

Still ridiculous and I still think there could be some serious backlash from this claim.

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Friday, April 27, 2012

The President Has a List

Remember, enemy lists are only bad when they are made by Republicans...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html

"Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.

Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for "betting against America," and accuses you of having a "less-than-reputable" record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.
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Richard Nixon's "enemies list" appalled the country for the simple reason that presidents hold a unique trust. Unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all Americans. Their powers—to jail, to fine, to bankrupt—are also so vast as to require restraint. Any president who targets a private citizen for his politics is de facto engaged in government intimidation and threats. This is why presidents since Nixon have carefully avoided the practice.

Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules. This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled "Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney's donors." In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having "less-than-reputable records," the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that "quite a few" have also been "on the wrong side of the law" and profiting at "the expense of so many Americans."
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Planet Found Around Distant Star in The Habitable Zone

More to come for sure. Places in the Universe that could eventually be colonized with relative ease (at least compared to other places).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9230801/Astronomers-find-new-planet-capable-of-supporting-life.html

"Scientists found the planet, Gliese 667Cc, orbiting around a red dwarf star, 22 light years away from the earth.

Red dwarf stars are the most common stars in the neighbourhood of the sun, usually hosting planets called gas giants, which are not composed of rock matter.

Re-analysing data from the European Southern Observatory, the astronomers found Gliese 667Cc is a solid planet with roughly four and a half times the mass of Earth.
The University Göttingen and University of California scientists have calculated the planet recieves ten per cent less light from its red dwarf star than the Earth gets from the Sun.

As the light is in the infrared area, the planet still receives nearly the same amount of energy as the Earth, meaning water could be liquid and surface temperatures could be similar to ours.

Astronomers are hailing the plant as the 'Holy Grail' of discoveries, as 20 years ago scientists were still arguing about the existence of planets beyond our solar system.
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"It´s right there in the habitable zone - there´s no question or discussion about it. It is not on the edge. It is right in there."
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Obama Campaign Ad Suggests Romney Would Not Have Made The Call to Kill Bin Laden

Preposterous of course, and the quote in full contexts means the opposite of what it does. Interesting strategy trying to undercut the the Republicans on defense, but this looks like it could backfire pretty hard.

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"This got pushed by McCain back in the primary of 2007. The late great Dean Barnett inquired into the actual context of the quote (AP only reported what's above) and found that AP was distorting Romney's meaning.

Our own Matt Lewis, showing the innate industriousness that sets Townhall contributors apart, contacted the Romney campaign and got the full text of the interview. Surprise, surprise- turns out the AP did miss some context. The exchange between Romney and reporter Liz Sidoti went as follows:
LIZ SIDOTI: "Why haven't we caught bin Laden in your opinion?"

GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: "I think, I wouldn't want to over-concentrate on Bin Laden. He's one of many, many people who are involved in this global Jihadist effort. He's by no means the only leader. It's a very diverse group – Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and of course different names throughout the world. It's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. It is worth fashioning and
executing an effective strategy to defeat global, violent Jihad and I have a plan for doing that."

So Romney's quote was intended to suggest that we need to do more, not less, in the war on Jihad, and that killing a single man was useful but not sufficient.

This is being turned into "Romney doesn't care about bin Ladin."
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Department of 'Anti'-Labor? Farmers Barely Avoid New Child Work Rules

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Obama Slow Jams The News

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Sad Song for the Gray Lady: Trifecta Plays the World's Smallest Violin for The NY Times

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Bret Baier (Fox News) Asks Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) Why The Democrats Have Not Passed a Budget in Three Years

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Romney Sweeps (Victory Speech)

The primary is now more of a formality, and Gingrich will be dropping out soon. This speech was aimed squarely at the general election, and it is the line of attack Romney should keep up.

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Union Sues Indiana, Says Working Alongside Non-Union Employees is Slavery

Apparently they are not kidding. I, however, think it is pretty funny.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/22/labor-union-sues-indiana-calls-working-alongside-nonunion-employees-slavery

"In a lawsuit against three Indiana government officials, a labor union alleged on Wednesday that its constitutional rights under the Thirteenth Amendment — which outlawed “slavery” and “involuntary servitude” — are violated whenever its members are forced to work alongside nonunion employees.

The International Union of Operating Engineers, whose members work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics and construction surveyors, sued Indiana’s governor, attorney general, and labor commissioner in February, alleging that the state’s “right to work” law is unconstitutional.

Indiana’s law prohibits employers from making union membership a condition of getting or keeping a job. The union’s February lawsuit claimed the law violated its members’ Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection” under the law.

But an amended complaint filed on Wednesday added a Thirteenth Amendment claim as well. The new lawsuit suggests that when nonunion employees earn higher salaries and better benefits because of the union’s negotiation on behalf of its members, the union has been forced to work for those nonunion employees for free.

And being forced to work without compensation, the union suggested in its revised lawsuit, is slavery.
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Flying Thing Propels Itself By Flipping Inside Out

I am not sure what practical uses this will have just yet, but it is mesmerizing to watch work.

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"Flying objects can achieve forward thrust in a few ways, but here’s a unique new one: Flipping inside out to move forward. Designed by the people who brought us the amazing robot seagull, the SmartInversion flying object can move through the air indefinitely.

The object is based on a design envisioned by inventor Paul Schatz. It’s a six-sided articulated ring of prisms that attaches to a cube, and when it’s unleashed, it can start folding into new geometric shapes. As it turns itself inside out, it moves forward. This property of kinematics is called inversion.

The object is filled with helium so it will float in the air. It’s on display this week at the Hannover Messe technology trade show in Germany, where users will be able to control it with a smartphone, as seen in the video below. New Scientist reports that it’s held together by a carbon-fiber framework, and three motors control its motion, governed by a pre-programmed onboard computer.

Designers at Festo, also known for their nature-inspired robots, are now sponsoring a competition for students to figure out some practical uses for this thing.
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Obama Threatens Oil Markets, But Will It Lower the Price of Gas?

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Ted Nugent Gets a Visit From the Secret Service. So When Will the Secret Service Visit Eminem?

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics’ Homes

Talk about violent rhetoric. By liberal logic, if a 'climate skeptic's' house burns down it will be his fault.

http://www.infowars.com/climate-alarmist-calls-for-burning-down-skeptics-homes

"Writing for Forbes Magazine, climate change alarmist Steve Zwick calls for skeptics of man-made global warming to be tracked, hunted down and have their homes burned to the ground, yet another shocking illustration of how eco-fascism is rife within the environmentalist lobby.

Comparing climate change skeptics to residents in Tennessee who refused to pay a $75 fee, resulting in firemen sitting back and watching their houses burn down, Zwick rants that anyone who actively questions global warming propaganda should face the same treatment.

“We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn. Let’s swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let’s force them to bear the cost of rising food prices,” writes Zwick, adding, “They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?”
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"If I Wanted America to Fail"

"If I wanted America to fail I…I suppose I wouldn’t change a thing."

Powerful, but a little on the long side.

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Student Suspended For Hugging Teacher

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Marion Barry (D) Doubles Down on "Dirty Asians"

When your in a hole, stop digging...

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Union Says Right-To-Work Law Violates Free Speech ... By Stopping Them From Taking People's Money?!?

What the Union is saying is that they are entitled to people's money, and that people choosing not to be Union Members (and as such not paying dues) is a First Amendment violation. If I did not know better I would think this was an Onion story. By that logic the Union is violating my First Amendment rights by not giving me millions of dollars to buy television advertisements.

http://www.ibj.com/union-says-right-to-work-law-violates-free-speech/PARAMS/article/33718

"Indiana's new right-to-work law should be struck down because it infringes upon unions' free speech rights by depriving them of the dues that fund their political speech, attorneys for a union challenging the law contend, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's so-called Citizens United ruling that eased restrictions on corporate campaign spending.

Attorneys for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 argue in a court brief that Indiana's new law, which allows workers to not pay union dues even if a union bargains on their behalf, interferes with the union's free speech rights and "impinges on this fundamental right of union membership."
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Senate Democrats (Mostly) Skip 'Mark-Up Session', Republicans Show Up

The Democrats are not even pretending with regard to the budget anymore.

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"Guy Benson says that this is a picture worth 1,086 words — one for each day since the Democrat-led Senate passed the budget resolution required by law each April 15th. This picture comes from yesterday’s so-called “mark-up session” of the Senate Budget Committee, a meeting which chair Kent Conrad helpfully promoted by declaring that he wouldn’t allow any votes to be taken on budgets. That turned the meeting into nothing more than a discussion forum, one that Conrad’s colleagues decided to skip. The picture, taken by a Republican staffer at the meeting, shows all 11 Republicans sitting on the far side of the table — and almost no Democrats in their chairs:
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The meeting was broadcast on one of the C-SPAN channels, so this isn’t exactly a secret. Only three Democrats bothered to show up at all, out of a dozen assigned to it. Republicans showed up, prepared to cast votes to finally bring the ignominious streak of 1,085 days (as of yesterday) without a budget resolution to an end. Sadly, Democrats — who control the committee, the chamber, and the White House — don’t have the same sense of responsibility.
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Philip Humber throws 21st perfect game in MLB history

It does not happen often, and may not even appear that spectacular as it is happening, but looking back at the end of the game it is clear this is quite a feet.

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=320421112

"Philip Humber, who underwent Tommy John surgery seven years ago, threw the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

It was baseball's 21st perfect game and first since Philadelphia's Roy Halladay threw one against the Florida Marlins on May 29, 2010. It was the third in White Sox's history, joining Mark Buehrle against Tampa Bay on July 23, 2009, and Charles Robertson against Detroit on April 30, 1922.

"This is awesome," Humber said. "I'm so thankful."
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Lynching Charlie Lynch, Medical Marijuana Martyr: Q&A with Filmmaker Rick Ray

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Taliban commander turns self in... for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster

I would say this is a pretty good example of much we have reduced the Taliban.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/taliban-commander-turns-self-in-for-reward-on-wanted-poster/2012/04/17/gIQAbVjqNT_blog.html

"Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander in Paktika province, strolled toward a police checkpoint in the district of Sar Howza with a wanted poster bearing his own face. He demanded the finder’s fee referenced on the poster: $100.

Afghan officials, perplexed by the man’s misguided motives, arrested him on the spot. Ashan is suspected of plotting at least two attacks on Afghan security forces. His misdeeds prompted officials to plaster the district with hundreds of so-called “Be on the Lookout” posters emblazoned with his name and likeness.

When U.S. troops went to confirm that Ashan had in fact come forward to claim the finder’s fee, they were initially incredulous.

“We asked him, ‘Is this you?’ Mohammad Ashan answered with an incredible amount of enthusiasm, ‘Yes, yes, that’s me! Can I get my award now?’” recalled SPC Matthew Baker.

A biometric scan confirmed that the man in Afghan custody was the insurgent they had been looking for."

Senate Republicans Join Lawsuit Challenging Obama's 'Recess Appointments' While The Senate Was in Session

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/04/gop-senators-sue-obama-over-sham-labor-board-nominees/500276

"In a double-barrelled blast at President Obama, Senate Republicans today moved to join a lawsuit challenging the White House’s Christmas “recess appointment” of National Labor Relations Board members even though the Senate was technically in session. To handle their case, they hired Miguel Estrada, who in 2002 became the first-ever judicial nominee to be torpedoed by a Democratic filibuster.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that his side would join a suit brought by Noel Canning, a family-owned business in Washington State that bottles and distributes soft drinks. The company is challenging the NLRB’s determination that it must enter into a collective bargaining agreement with a labor union.

Canning’s suit charges that Obama appointments were not lawful because the Senate had scheduled frequent pro-forma sessions to block recess appointments--which the president ignored. Typically nominations to the labor board would be voted on by the Senate.

“The president’s decision to circumvent the American people by installing his appointees at a powerful federal agency, when the Senate was not in recess, and without obtaining the advice and consent of the Senate, is an unprecedented power grab,” McConnell said. “We will demonstrate to the court how the president’s unconstitutional actions fundamentally endanger the Congress’s role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch.”

The fight is over a simple issue: When is the Senate technically in session. The GOP argues that there was enough action over the holidays to determine that the chamber was in session, but the president disagreed and went ahead with the appointments.
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Jindal (R) Schools the Teachers Union

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"President Obama's Measure Of Progress"

Any concerns that Romney is going to easy on Obama should be put to rest.

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Obama Tries to Throw England (And Self Determination) Under The Bus ... Fails

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"First, the Maldives are on the other side of the globe from the Falklands; they’re in the Indian Ocean. The term Obama wanted — and the one provided by the reporter in the press conference in the question — was Islas Malvinas, the name Argentina calls the British islands in the south Atlantic. Furthermore, the US doesn’t recognize them as the Malvinas; throughout the State Department website, the terms Falklands or Falkland Islands are used, occasionally with Malvinas in parentheses.

There’s a reason for that. The US ended up backing the British in the Falkland Islands war in the early 1980s, albeit reluctantly, because (a) the people who live on the islands support British sovereignty, and (b) the Falklands are over 250 nautical miles from Argentina anyway. The only legitimate claim Argentina has on the islands is traditional Argentinian politics, which these days is being driven by the large oil deposits in the Falklands region. Under the auspices of both history and self-determination, Argentina has no business in the Falklands.

It would be nice if an American President stood up for self-determination, or at least for our ally. But it would be at least something if Obama bothered to learn the names for the geography of the region before pontificating on it.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

From 'Hope' to Hypocrisy: Excuses, Excuses - Ad

Republicans are doing a hard pivot away from each other now that the primary has all but rapped up and toward Obama.

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Obama - "Part of My Job Is to Scout Out Where I May Want to Bring Michelle Back Later for Vacation"

I get what he was going for, but really not the best idea for a joke.

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Occupy Obama? Right Wing Obama Supporters Take Over the Occupy Wall Street Movement

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Obama Administration Pays Female Employees 18 Percent Less Than Male Employees on Average

As a conservative I understand there they could be perfectly logical and non-sexist reasons for the difference. Despite that, for this special case only, I will deffer to my liberal colleague and conclude that the only possible explanation for the pay gap is rampant sexism in the Obama administration.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/11/oh-my-obama-white-house-paying-women-employees-less-than-men

"Look on the bright side, David Axelrod. This Beacon story might finally distract people from that instantly infamous photo of the all-white staff at Hopenchange HQ.

Why does our president hate women?

Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.

According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).

The Obama campaign on Wednesday lashed out at presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney for his failure to immediately endorse the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, a controversial law enacted in 2009 that made it easier to file discrimination lawsuits…

It is not known whether any female employees at the White House have filed lawsuits under the Ledbetter Act.

Follow the link for Beacon reporter Andrew Stiles having fun revisiting The One’s various other slights to women over the years, from his all-male golf outings to former communications director Anita Dunn describing attitudes in the White House as fitting “all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.” Some of the things O’s taken heat for in this vein are overblown — this one pops to mind — but I’m keen to hear them explain why there’s an income disparity among their own staff.
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Matt Ridley on Ideas having Sex, Free Trade, & Apocalyptic Science w/ Reason's Kennedy

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Beckel Drops an 'F-Bomb' on Hannity

Pay attention to the little red lights on the cameras...

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E-Collusion? US Alleges E-Book Antitrust Violations

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Project Veritas - "Ben Jealous", "Bill Maher", and "David Brock" Offered Ballot in Nation's Capitol

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David Axelrod (D) Makes The Case For Mitt Romney

Not on purpose of course, but I am sure this will make its way into some ads.

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"A great rapid response effort by the Mitt Romney team on this one … In an interview on Fox News Sunday this morning, David Axelrod said the 2012 election will come down to a choice: Do Americans want “an economy that produces a growing middle class and gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead?” Or do they want to continue down “the road we’re on”?"

All The President's Body Men: The Secret Service Hooker Controversy. Plus, Taxes & the Buffett Rule

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Holder Loses Face in 'Face Case'

Brutal rebuke...

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/09/holder-loses-face-in-a-case-against-a-pro-life-sidewalk-counselor

"The Department of Justice — apparently because it has nothing better to do (like prosecute real cases of voter intimidation or defend the Defense of Marriage Act!) — has filed a number of cases against pro-life sidewalk counselors for alleged violations of the Free Access to Clinic Entrance or FACE Act. Some time ago, I wrote about the case against Dick Retta, a peaceful, prayerful man the DOJ calls a “vocal and aggressive” anti-abortion (a.k.a. pro-life!) protester. The speciousness of the DOJ’s accusations against Retta are representative of the weakness of their arguments in most, if not all, of these cases.

Fortunately, in a recent ruling on a high-profile example of “the FACE cases,” a U.S. district judge called out the DOJ in no uncertain terms for the ludicrousness:

The Justice Department has dropped an appeal in Holder v. Pine against pro-life sidewalk counselor Mary “Susan” Pine, who is represented by the civil rights firm Liberty Counsel. The DOJ has agreed to pay $120,000 for this frivolous lawsuit which, as the evidence indicated, was intended to intimidate Ms. Pine and send a shot over the bow of pro-lifers around the country.

Mr. Holder unsuccessfully sought thousands of dollars in fines against Ms. Pine, as well as a permanent injunction banning her from counseling women on the public sidewalk outside the Presidential Women’s Center (PWC) abortion mill (or any other “reproductive services” clinic).

After 18 months of litigation, the DOJ’s case was thrown out of federal court, and the department was chastised in a scathing ruling by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp for filing a case with no evidence.

Judge Ryskamp wrote that Holder’s complete failure to present any evidence of wrongdoing, coupled with the DOJ’s cozy relationship with PWC and their apparent joint decision to destroy video surveillance footage of the alleged “obstruction,” caused the court to suspect a conspiracy at the highest levels of the Obama administration. “The Court is at a loss as to why the Government chose to prosecute this particular case in the first place,” wrote Judge Ryskamp. “The Court can only wonder whether this action was the product of a concerted effort between the Government and PWC, which began well before the date of the incident at issue, to quell Ms. Pine’s activities rather than to vindicate the rights of those allegedly aggrieved by Ms. Pine’s conduct.”

Let’s review Ryskamp’s words, just in case you didn’t catch the full extent of his insinuations: Ryskamp hints at a conspiracy between the Justice Department and the pro-abortion Presidential Women’s Center abortion mill.
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Don't Like ObamaCare? Shut Up, Racist!

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The IRS/Tax Time Pop Quiz. Are 56FF Breast Implants Deductible?

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Tax Day 2012: Wealthy Face Minimum Millionaires Tax

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Friday, April 13, 2012

North Korean Missile Fails, State Media Acknowledges Failure

There is only one good reason I can think of or have read that would explain why the North Korean state controlled media would admit to such an embarrassing failure. That is because they know the news would get through to the people regardless. They know they can not get away with the 'big' lies any more, but if they fess up they can maintain some level of credibility to use for the 'little' lies.

We should do what we can to press the issue. Open up the lines of communication to the North Korean people as much as possible, but more importantly allow them to communicate with each other securely.

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"While we’re on the subject of baffling behavior by North Korea (a big subject, I know), here’s another question to ponder: Why on earth did they build up this launch and then invite foreign reporters to witness it if they weren’t reasonably sure it’d succeed? And before you say “maybe they were reasonably sure,” read the following two posts at Danger Room arguing that not only do the NorKs not conduct missile “tests” in any meaningful sense of the term — they lack the money and the technical expertise — but they may actually be getting worse at launches. If you’re going to pop off a big missile as a show of strength to your citizen-captives and enemies abroad, you’d want to be awfully confident (a) that it’ll work and (b) that you can cover it up pretty well if it doesn’t. Their missile not only didn’t work, they didn’t even try to cover it up. This is how the new Kim “shows strength,” apparently. Bizarre."

The Power of the Dark Side: George Lucas Axes Studio Project. Is California Still the Golden State?

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the Need for US Leadership

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Simplifying the Tax Code

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Can We Trade Hardworking Immigrants for Occupy Wall Streeters?

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

D.C. Escalator Nightmare

There is a reoccurring theme people will pick up on if they pay attention to failures; free market competition is more effective then government run monopolies.

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John Stossel on Government, Free Enterprise, and Media

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Generations

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Another Pleasant Valley Sunday, Without Cars or Houses? Is California Banning Suburbia?

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Marion Barry and Other Democrats Are Racist. So Where's the Outrage?

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Economist Art Laffer On How to Fix California

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Trayvon Tragedy: Manufactured Racism? How NBC Edited Racism Into the George Zimmerman 911 Call

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Can Volunteers Protect Communities?

Yes. That does not mean there will not be incompetent or corrupt people who are either trying or pretending to help. On balance, you have to bet on the community. When you can not, what do you have left?

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Obama Attacks Press, But When Will Reporters Start Printing the Truth about the President?

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Wisconsin Recall Scorecard

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"The unions have succeeded in putting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recall on the ballot in June, but perhaps less well known is that his running mate Rebecca Kleefisch is included in that recall, along with a handful of legislators. The Republican Lieutenant Governors Association (RLGA) has begun an ad buy in Wisconsin defending Kleefisch’s performance — and necessarily Walker’s as well — by reminding Wisconsin voters that the new administration has made exactly the kind of progress Walker and Kleefisch promised in 2010"

Rick Santorum Suspends His Campaign For President

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IRS Insanity: Small Business Owner Takes IRS to Court Over Outrageous New Regulations

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Message to the President: Judicial Review Protects Us From Government Tyranny

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Vote Early, Vote Often: Shock Video Shows How Easy It Is to Vote Illegally, as Eric Holder

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Monday, April 9, 2012

Daron Acemoglu discusses "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty"

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Spring? Will the Islamists Take Control of Egypt?

Looks like it...

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US Attorney General Eric Holder's Ballot to Vote Offered to Total Stranger

No problems with voter fraud, none at all...

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"I'll be back Faster then you can say Furious"

Housing Market Malaise: How Long Will Real Estate Remain Sick?

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Congressional Black Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver (D) Calls War on Women Rhetoric Attacks Against Republicans Wrong

It is, and it does not seem like an argument with much political potential either. People are not stupid enough to be convinced that someone not wanting to pay for your use of something is the same as them trying to ban the product. The fact that I do not want to buy a car for a stranger does not mean I want to ban all cars.

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

NHS Denies Life-Saving Treatment to The Elderly

This is the socialized system liberals are trying to bring into the country. If I did not know any better, I would think of this as some sort of death panel.

The truth of the matter is that unless the system you create lowers healthcare to the lowest common denominator (read, socialized medicine), there will always be some form of treatment that is out of reach for the masses and only available to a select few. The difference between a government controlled socialism system and a capitalist system is two fold. First, the free market model creates a trickle down where the richer people paying increases the supply of the treatment bring the cost down to levels where everyone can afford it. Second is the controlling force or who makes the decision on who gets the newest treatment or the treatment for which there is not yet enough to go around. The government controlled socialism system gives the government the power to make that decision (read, death panels), while the capitalist system gives individuals that power and chance through their own actions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2126379/Sentenced-death-old-The-NHS-denies-life-saving-treatment-elderly-mans-chilling-story-reveals.html

"When Kenneth Warden was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer, his hospital consultant sent him home to die, ruling that at 78 he was too old to treat.

Even the palliative surgery or chemotherapy that could have eased his distressing symptoms were declared off-limits because of his age.

His distraught daughter Michele Halligan accepted the sad prognosis but was determined her father would spend his last months in comfort. So she paid for him to seen privately by a second doctor to discover what could be done to ease his symptoms.

Thanks to her tenacity, Kenneth got the drugs and surgery he needed — and as a result his cancer was actually cured. Four years on, he is a sprightly 82-year-old who works out at the gym, drives a sports car and competes in a rowing team.

‘You could call his recovery amazing,’ says Michele, 51. ‘It is certainly a gift. But the fact is that he was written off because of his age. He was left to suffer so much, and so unnecessarily.’
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Dictatorship of the Supreme Court: Obama Challenges Judicial Review

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Marion Barry (D) - "We Got to do Something About These Asians Coming in And Opening up Businesses And Dirty Shops"

Good thing a Republican did not say it, or else it would have been racist...

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Santa Monica College Pepper Spray Incident: Does "Land of the Free" Mean Everything Should be Free?

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Friday, April 6, 2012

Unemployment Rate Drops to 8.2%

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/06/march-unemployment-8-2-economy-added-121000-jobs

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 8.2% from 8.3% last month, and the broader U-6 unemployment/underemployment rate dropped to 14.5% from 14.9%, while the economy added only 120,000 jobs overall and 121,000 jobs added in the private sector
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The simplest measure of unemployment is to count the number of people who want a job but are out of work, regardless of whether they last searched for work in the prior 4 weeks (measured by the official U-3 rate), prior year (measured by the U-5 rate), or longer than a year ago, and divide that into that number plus the number of people employed. That measurement, unfortunately, has only been possible since 1994.

For March, that would be 18,972,000 (the 12,673,000 officially unemployed and part of the workforce plus the 6,299,000 who are not part of the workforce but who want a job), divided into 161,006,000 (the 154,707,000 officially part of the workforce plus the 6,299 who want jobs). That would put the “simple” unemployment rate at 11.8%.

The good news – that is a tick lower than February’s 11.9% “simple” unemployment rate. The bad news – that is higher than any point between 1994, when this measure was first possible, and March 2009.
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Time Magazine Reporter Asks Nikki Haley (R) if She Will Give Sikh Taxi Drivers a Bigger Tip

Not an Onion skit...

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Planned Parenthood Turns Down $500,000 from Tucker Max?!

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Cronyism in the Tax Code

Two words - "flat tax".

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Bill Maher's Pumped Up, Liberal Drug Addicts. Plus, Fluke is a Fun Word to Say

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Holder Sends 'Judaical Review' Letter to Fifth Circuit

He was not going to double down on Obama's comment, a comment that the administration has been walking back. Two and a half pages when they were told to submit three, has to be a little 'dig'.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/05/holder-sends-letter-to-fifth-circuit-courts-are-supposed-to-presume-that-laws-are-constitutional-you-know

"They asked for three pages single-spaced. He gave them two and a half. Impeach.

Seriously, though, given the immense interest in this story when it broke Tuesday, there was no way O wasn’t going to use the letter as an opportunity to plead his constitutional case on ObamaCare. The court wanted a statement of the DOJ’s position on judicial review but Holder naturally gave them a little more than that. First, the obligatory — and slightly peevish — acknowledgment that, yes, Marbury v. Madison is still good law:

The longstanding, historical position of the United States regarding judicial review of the constitutionality of federal legislation has not changed and was accurately stated by counsel for the government at oral argument in this case a few days ago. The Department has not in this litigation, nor in any other litigation of which I am aware, ever asked this or any other Court to reconsider or limit long-established precedent concerning judicial review of the constitutionality of federal legislation…

The question posed by the Court regarding judicial review does not concern any argument made in the government’s brief or at oral argument in this case, and this letter should not be regarded as a supplemental brief.

Translation: The court should stop wasting time by demanding answers to questions that no one is asking, including the president. So much for judicial review.
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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses

These look awesome...

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"If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses.

On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing.

The glasses are not yet for sale. Google will, however, be testing them in public.

In a post shared on Google Plus, employees in the company laboratory known as Google X, including Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun, asked people for input about the prototype of Project Glass. Mr. Lee, a Google product manager and originally worked on Google mapping software Latitude, mobile maps and indoor maps, is responsible for the software component and the location-based aspects of the glasses.
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Obama - "My Entire Career Has Been a Testimony to American Exceptionalism"

Off prompter...

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"Boy, has it! To be fair, I don’t think the President actually meant this as it comes across, but with the media tittering yesterday over Ann Romney’s comment about unleashing the uh…real Mitt, turnabout is fair play. Plus, is there any doubt that the One really believes this, regardless of what he intended to say?

It’s worth noting that I first arrived on the national stage with a speech at the Democratic convention that was entirely about American exceptionalism, and that my entire career has been a testimony to American exceptionalism.

Funny how a guy who is all about the collective, ‘we’re all in this together’, when it comes to the role of government, suddenly becomes a rugged individualist when asked about American exceptionalism. I mean, he’s lobbed a softball to talk about the greatness of America in an election year, and his thoughts instinctively turn to…his own career? And a 15 minute speech focused mostly on himself, the text of which includes over 50 uses of the words ‘I’ or ‘my’?
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Slowly... Slowly...

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E-Police State? Arizona Criminalizing Online Hurt Feelings as UK Tries to Read your Emails

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Barack Obama, Professor of Unconstitutional Law

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The 2012 National Debt Road Trip

Take two, and it is still bad.

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Minimum Wage Laws Cost San Francisco Their Five-Dollar Foot Longs

Minimum wage laws have consequences. There are always to two sides to the ledger, and forcing employers to pay a minimum amount for workers mean that people or tasks with less value will never be hired. It also means higher priced good, as Subway being forced to discontinue their promotion shows clearly.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/30/the-high-cost-of-business-subway-ends-everyday-five-dollar-footlongs-in-san-francisco

"The San Francisco Weekly reports that the Subway sandwich shops in San Francisco have dropped out of the “every day” portion of the $5 footlong program:

It seems you can have the nation’s highest minimum wage and a $5 footlong — but you can’t have them both.

San Francisco Subway patrons hoping to gorge themselves on too much of a mediocre sandwich are being greeted by signs like the one above noting that “due to higher cost of doing business in San Francisco” obtaining a $5 footlong will require a trip over a bridge, through a tunnel, or onto the Peninsula.

The “higher cost of doing business in San Francisco” is, in large part, the aforementioned highest minimum wage of $10.24/hour, $2.99/hour higher than the federal minimum wage, $2.24/hour higher than California’s state minimum wage, and $1.20/hour higher than the highest state minimum wage, found in Washington State. Never mind that the cheap, if annoying, feature of Subway is responsible for Subway’s growth during the recession and now tepid recovery. Never mind that a couple of those subs are actually relatively healthy dietary choices. The leaders of San Francisco have decided that the always-elusive chase for a “living wage” must remain at full tilt, even as those who would otherwise benefit from not being forced on the treadmill have to spend more for basic necessities like food.
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Trayvon Tragedy: Did NBC Edit the Zimmerman 911 Tape to Serve a Political Agenda?

The media is going to get this man killed.

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Undercover Voter ID Investigation: You Will Never Guess Which Liberal Groups Are Demanding ID

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A Gaffe a Minute! Biden Delivers Fib Filled Interview

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Nuno Monteiro Says U.S. Should Not Antagonize Iran

What is the point of antagonizing them? Just make it perfectly clear that under no circumstances will they be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. If they believed that we would use force, we would not have to. Its a tough sale, and Obama is not coming close to making it.

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5 Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity

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Roger L. Simon Interviews Israeli Major-General: How Will Israel Respond to Current Threats?

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Obama Confident The Court Won't Take The 'Unprecedented Extraordinary' Measure of Overturning ObamaCare

The only thing unprecedented would be the new power the Federal government would have if the law is upheld to make you do whatever they want because your lack of action would in some way effect commerce.

The point of the Supreme Court is to ensure faithful compliance to the Constitution, even if a majority would prefer otherwise. We require a super majority, through the amendment process, to override the Constitution to prevent a tyranny of the majority. What we have here is actually the opposite with a majority believing the mandate should be struck down as Unconstitutional.

Judaical activism is either the courts ignoring the law in their rulings or creating brand new law by stretching interpretations beyond any measure of reasonable logic. Not granting the government a new power, found no where in the Constitution, which is the antithesis of our founding philosophy and system of government is not judicial activism.

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"If there’s anything novel about the ObamaCare case, it’s the idea of federal power to compel purchases, not the Court’s reaction to it. And what on earth does this mean?

“Ultimately I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama told reporters today while speaking with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

Obama reminded reporters that conservative commentators, have complained about “judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint,” that “an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.”

The “strong majority” in Congress went 219-212 in the House, with 34 Democrats defecting. Not a single Republican in either chamber voted for it, and as Ace notes, the public itself has been steadfastly opposed to the law since day one. Against that backdrop, it’s an amazing show of balls by The One to dress this up as the Court somehow thwarting the people’s will. But even if O-Care really did have a “strong majority,” so what? The whole point of judicial review is to make sure that congressional majorities, strong or not, remain bound by their enumerated powers and the Bill of Rights. You know what law really did have a “strong majority” in both chambers? DOMA. Think there’ll be any tears shed on the left for majoritarianism if Anthony Kennedy cashiers that one on a 5-4 vote?
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Obama Campaign Disables Credit Card Verification

The wrong way to get to a billion dollar campaign...

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"This video is a follow-up to Adrian Murray’s facebook post over the weekend, in which he says that he donated to the Obama campaign as “Adolph Hitler,” occupation “Dictator” living at a German address. As you can see in the clip, citizen journalist George Scaggs of Austin tries the same thing at three different campaign sites, that of Obama, Romney and Santorum. Only the Obama site accepted the donation without the verification number.

Let’s take a look at the three campaign websites mentioned in the video
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Obama’s campaign implemented the same lack of verification in 2008, but the mainstream media never called them on it. It appears as though that episode has prompted a repeat in 2012.

This means three things are likely true. One, the Obama campaign disabled the verification system. The verification system is turned on on web sites that accept credit cards, by default. I used to manage the website for the Texas Republican Party, so I know this from personal experience. Someone had to take the action of turning it off on the Obama site.
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Head to the source for some screen shots showing the Republican front runners have protections in place on their websites which Obama does not.

Fair & Balanced Reporting, Courtesy of a Pelosi?!? Poverty Videos Enrage Libs & Cons

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Will Whole Foods Destroy Brooklyn?

No.

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Double Standard: Black Men Named Trayvon Get Killed all the Time, But The Left Doesn't Care

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Sunday, April 1, 2012

US Now Has The Highest Corporate Tax Rate in The World

I wish I could tell you that was an April Fools joke, but the 'sucking sound' of jobs leaving this country for friendlier economic environments proves otherwise.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/03/we%E2%80%99re-no-1-highest-corporate-taxes/424571

"Come Sunday, America finally has something to crow about in its economic war with China and Japan: It will have the highest jobs-killing corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.

No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke. When Japan officially slashes its rate to 36.8 percent Sunday, America’s will be tops at 39.2 percent.

President Obama has proposed a rate of 28 percent, but Republicans charge that it comes with $350 billion in new, off-setting taxes. The GOP is pushing for a cut to 25 percent, but the election year is getting in the way of any deal.

The Business Roundtable has been pushing for a clean cut in corporate tax rates, claiming it would spur job growth and industrial reinvestment. They even cite a recent move by England to cut their tax rates from 28 percent to 22 percent, which officials called “an advertisement for investment and jobs in Britain.”
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OWS Poop Attack. Plus, Rubio Loves Pulp Fiction, and Obama Punches Below His Weight

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Obamacare Goes Before the Supreme Court: Will It Survive Judicial Review?

My guess; struck down 6-3 with at least four different opinions.

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Robbing the Future with Budget Deficits

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Obama at War: Can the President Kill with Absolute Impunity? Plus, the Education Bubble Grows

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