Archive for August, 2011
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Without further comment. After Strong Showing In Iowa, Why Is Ron Paul Still Getting The Media Cold Shoulder? VIDEO by Josh Feldman | 5:30 pm, August 15th, 2011 » 65 comments While Michele Bachmann claimed victory in the Iowa straw poll, Congressman Ron Paul came very close. The Texas congressman has attracted many passionate supporters, and yesterday anAssociated Press article said he […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
As I said in yesterday’s post, Ron Paul: The Man Most Feared by Washington, D.C., Congressmen Paul has the establishment on the run. Today, Roger Simon, the liberal Chief Political Columnist of Politico, gave a little press to Ron Paul, backhanded as it was. Ron Paul remains media poison Paul’s name was not mentioned in this […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Yesterday’s Iowa GOP straw poll in Ames was won by Representative Michele Bachmann. The Iowa native won by 152 votes. Who finished in second? Was it Rick Perry? Tim Pawlenty? Mitt Romney? You really wouldn’t know by the “Main Stream Media’s” response, and apparently the phone hacking scandal across the pond has skewed Fox News […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Today’s must read piece is The New Britannia by Mark Steyn. This is the logical dead end of the Nanny State. When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the British welfare regime in 1942, his goal was the “abolition of want” to be accomplished by “co-operation between the State and the individual.” In attempting […]
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
(Hat tip: Breitbart.tv Striking Verizon IBEW union worker places his daughter in front of a truck while yelling obscenities at the non-union, replacement workers.
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
CNBC’s Rick Santelli, an early voice for the teaparty, cut loose another great rant today on the state of the US “leadership”:
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
(Hat tip: @EWErickson at redstate.com) Watch excerpts from Obama’s speech on the Gabby Gifford shooting (the “civility” speech) interspersed with comments from Democrats in the last week.
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
You go Michelle! Michelle Malkin smacks down Newsweek for the cover photo of Michele Bachmann while exposing, through many examples, the addiction the MSM has to altering the photos of conservatives and Republicans. What a cheap, cowardly thing to do, but we are talking about liberals. Sigh. Seriously, Tina Brown? Yes, I’m talking about you, […]
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Judge Judy reveals a young, college student for the moocher he really is. “That’s what we’re creating…him.” We’re experiencing an embedding problem with this video. Use this link.
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
(Hat tip: Weasel Zippers) It needed to be said. I’m not so sure she’s correct about this Administration not having a “plan”, however. Cloward-Piven, for example.
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Ahhhh…this is precious. Al Gore Really Lets the BS Fly: “When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again,” he continued. “There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of […]
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
Those who have been following the fauxsterity from the spending behemoth in DC will not be surprised at this news. From Reuters, U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P: NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for […]
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
To Hell with You People: Finally, president Obama, our national-healer, gives a speech. It was a good speech. Indeed it was one of the first speeches in a long while that got anything like bipartisan support. Civility. New tone. No more martial metaphors. These were the takeaways. So flashforward to this week. Tom Friedman — […]
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The so called grand compromise over the debt-ceiling was little more than window dressing. The real heavy lifting of deficit reduction, a task the congress is Constitutionally charged with, was “delegated” to a new, so called, super congress or super committee. This star chamber is to be made up of 12 members of congress. The […]
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Compromise is an American politician’s preferred method of calculating. The hard science of math has no room for emotion in its results. 1 + 1 always equals 2. It is a provable scientific fact. It is also too rigid and limiting for a politician. Therefore math must also be compromised. Like principles, there is no […]
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