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Latest Articles: politics and politicians
America: You’re Fired! (Voting is an Illusion) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-19 05:52:22 by Deckard
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June 17, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Before leaving the house early one morning in 63 BC, an anxious Julius Caesar told his mother, “Today thou shalt see thy son either pontifex maximus… or an exile.” Caesar was running for his first BIG elected office- pontifex maximus, the high priest of Rome. And he was a young upstart at the time. His opponents were all older, more reputable men. And his chances were low. But Caesar had an ace up his toga. Since he couldn’t win on merit, he planned to buy the election, blowing ridiculous sums of money to butter up the voters. He spent lavishly on games, gifts, and feasts. And he borrowed nearly all of the funds to do it. This was an ...
House Approves Obamatrade’s TPA, Bill Must Go to Senate Next
Post Date: 2015-06-18 13:53:38 by lana
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House Approves Obamatrade’s TPA, Bill Must Go to Senate Next Obamatrade is alive. One week after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected Obamatrade by voting against a key provision of it — Trade Adjustment Assistance — GOP establishment lawmakers resuscitated Trade Promotion Authority and rammed it through Thursday afternoon. The final talley was 218-208. The House action is unusual. As Breitbart News reported: “To engage in the complicated procedural chicanery needed to revive the once-dead Obamatrade, bringing its Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) portion back to life, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)58% needed to gut a previous bill that has passed the House and ...
Trump 2007: Hillary’s “very, very capable,” her [single-payer] health care plan is “very good” [Clinton Foundation donations, etc.]
Post Date: 2015-06-17 21:24:00 by Tooconservative
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Says Andrew Stiles, “Portions of the aggrieved right are rallying around someone who was basically a member of Team Clinton until recently.” Basically, yeah. BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski dug up this old interview with Trump by CNN eight years ago in which he praised HillaryCare 2.0, a plan that came replete with an individual mandate (Obama’s health-care plan at the time didn’t, ironically enough), and called Her Majesty “very, very capable.” He wasn’t just blowing smoke with the compliments either, notes Kaczynski: Trump, who announced Tuesday he was running for the Republican presidential nomination, has also given large sums of money to the Clinton ...
Jeb Bush Campaigns as the Hispanic Candidate for the American Presidency
Post Date: 2015-06-17 15:31:33 by lana
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Jeb Bush Campaigns as the Hispanic Candidate for the American Presidency > Brenda Walker June 16, 2015, 3:33 pm The cultural crazy bell was rung pretty hard last week with the news that the a white woman, Rachel Dolezal, has been posing as black for years and used it to her advantage, such as becoming the President of the Spokane NAACP. The media has gone into overdrive, even hitting the front page of the New York Times after a few days (Black or White? Woman’s Story Stirs Up a Furor). But how different is she from Jeb Bush, the newest Republican President candidate? He hasn’t gone all the way into total delusion — being a public figure is a helpful ...
DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, ANNOUNCES 2016 CAMPAIGN
Post Date: 2015-06-16 22:56:14 by out damned spot
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New York — Real estate mogul and businessman Donald Trump announced he’s running for president at a private event in his own Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in New York City on Tuesday in front of dozens of reporters and media outlets. Trump took the stage and promised to be a different type of candidate. While other presidential candidates have provided rhetoric, he promised to implement policies. “If I’m elected president,” he announced, “we will make America great again.” To begin with, “we have to repeal Obamacare,” he said, adding that Obamacare’s biggest effects won’t begin until President Obama is safely out of office and, Trump ...
The Great Debate Why libertarianism is closer to Stalinism than you think
Post Date: 2015-06-16 18:15:17 by Willie Green
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Whatever else happens, 2016 offers one of the most interesting presidential elections in decades. It already includes a libertarian from Kentucky, Senator Rand Paul, and a socialist from Vermont, Senator Bernie Sanders. Americans, polling has shown, dislike socialism. Let Paul have any success, and they may like libertarianism even less. For many American voters, libertarianism now has a certain freshness because it seems to cross the otherwise impregnable line between right and left. Sharply reducing the role of government in American life, libertarianism’s primary objective, appeals to conservatives because it offers an end to Obamacare, Social Security and other programs that ...
At State, Hillary's Lieutenants Quashed Investigations Into Diplomats' Serious Overseas Sexual Misconduct
Post Date: 2015-06-16 08:58:15 by Tooconservative
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Consider what a security threat a diplomat known to be having sex with local prostitutes is. Consider what a huge diplomatic row would follow if it were shown that a US official was diddling kids in a foreign country. But then, consider the fact that Hillary has a long history of covering up for sexually needy men, in order to maintain her image. Andrew Stiles reports: The Washington Examiner has followed up on a previous report exposing the Clinton State Department’s efforts to cover up alleged misconduct with new details about some of the "most egregious" examples of investigations thwarted by agency staff, and the frustration felt by investigators: The eight cases ...
Blum Says Others Will Support Him If Republicans Don’t (voted against Boehner)
Post Date: 2015-06-14 11:17:54 by Hondo68
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Blum is one of the most vulnerable House Republicans. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo) Iowa Republican Rep. Rod Blum’s re-election effort is not getting much support from his party. But that’s just fine with him. The freshman Republican alienated himself from some of his GOP colleagues after he cast his first vote in Congress against John A. Boehner’s speakership — despite getting Boehner’s support in his 2014 bid for Iowa’s 1st District. And while Blum admits his vote has hurt his relationship with groups such as the National Republican Congressional Committee, he says there are other outlets he can turn to for support. The vote has, “been a ...
Jon Stewart: My, these Rubio scoops from the NYT are amazingly lame
Post Date: 2015-06-11 19:10:23 by Tooconservative
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As it turns out, the Gray Lady’s strange, petty, and tone-deaf attacks on Marco Rubio’s financial struggles as a young man failed to impress nearly everybody — even those in its usual clique of media elites. “What’s the New York Times going to do,” Jon Stewart asks his Daily Show audience while scoffing at editor Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s defense of the attack pieces, “exercise editorial control?” Stewart didn’t aim all his fire at the Times, though. He saved his parting shot for CNN’s attempt to sensationalize the story, quipping at the end, “Wow. Suddenly the man who paid off his student loans and got a boat is printing counterfeit ...
Jeb Bush In 1995: Unwed Mothers Should Be Publicly Shamed
Post Date: 2015-06-09 11:29:17 by Deckard
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Public shaming would be an effective way to regulate the “irresponsible behavior” of unwed mothers, misbehaving teenagers and welfare recipients, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) argued in his 1995 book Profiles in Character.In a chapter called "The Restoration of Shame,” the likely 2016 presidential candidate made the case that restoring the art of public humiliation could help prevent pregnancies “out of wedlock.”One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women ...
Rick Perry promises to take on Wall Street in 2016
Post Date: 2015-06-08 19:27:11 by Hondo68
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Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for Wall Street during his second campaign that could just as easily come from a progressive candidate on the left: No special treatment from Washington."There is nothing too big to fail from my perspective when it comes to banks, or when it comes to big corporate entities. And I think Americans are fed up. I am," Perry said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. " We're fed up by seeing Wall Street get treated specially. And you can't even get a loan from your community bank because of Dodd-Frank banking regulations. All that has to change."In practice, he said that means regulations for Wall Street banks - ...
Wife of Ousted President Sitting on Death Row Drops Bombshell About Hillary--Egypt
Post Date: 2015-06-05 22:26:01 by out damned spot
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The current front-runner for Democrat nomination for the 2016 presidential election is looking decidedly less electable almost daily. And this new revelation isn’t going to help her case any. A complaint filed with Attorney General Hisham Barakat of Egypt argued that Naglaa Ali Mahmoud, the wife of imprisoned former Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi, admitted to collaborating with Hillary Clinton to oust current Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah Al-Sissi. But it gets better — although probably not from Clinton’s point of view. In an interview granted to Turkey’s Anatolia news agency, Mahmoud allegedly made a number of statements that could ...
Warming to Ted Cruz: Where some see madness in his presidential run, a frequent critic sees some method
Post Date: 2015-06-03 19:15:20 by out damned spot
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I haven’t exactly been the friendliest conservative writer toward Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. In 2013, I repeatedly mocked his gambit to defund Obamacare. In one instance, I argued that if opposing this quixotic attention-seeking effort made one a supporter of Barack Obama and his agenda, then by the same logic anyone who votes to appropriate money to fund Obama’s salary supports the President’s agenda as well. In a second instance, I laid out how Cruz’s defunding movement could succeed in six easy steps, which included Joe Biden getting hit by a meteor and President Obama getting drafted by the Chicago Bulls. (Hasn’t happened yet.) More straightforwardly, in print and ...
Epic Fail: ‘Climate Change Voters’ Try to Disrupt Scott Walker NH Cruise With ‘Floating Iceberg,’ Moose Costumes
Post Date: 2015-06-02 00:32:37 by out damned spot
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When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the 2016 GOP frontrunner who hasn’t declared his candidacy yet, visited New Hampshire this weekend for a fundraising cruise, the Institutional Left embarrassed itself when it tried to protest his opposition to the lefties’ position on global warming. Before Walker went on a fundraising cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee, Americans United For Change (AUFC)—a liberal organization—announced it would be organizing a counter-protest to Walker’s cruise. A couple things made this different than any normal protest, however. First off, the people “protesting” Walker on global warming—who they called “climate change ...
WHY IS AMERICA MOVING LEFT?
Post Date: 2015-06-01 18:39:56 by Gatlin
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Statistics from the most recent Gallup poll indicate that Americans’ moral views have become increasingly liberal over the past 14 years, with U.S. citizens tending to approve of behavior they would have deemed immoral or sinful just a generation ago. The biggest change percentage-wise has been in Americans’ positive moral evaluation of polygamy and human cloning, both of which more than doubled since first measured by Gallup in the early 2000s. In 2003, a mere 7% thought that polygamy was morally acceptable, whereas in 2015, the figure has grown to 16%. Similarly, the recent poll found that 15% of Americans now accept human cloning, up from just 7% of the population in 2001. ...
Arizona State has doubled tuition, finds $500K to give to Clintons
Post Date: 2015-05-30 08:12:02 by out damned spot
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While Arizona State University has almost doubled its tuition over the past 10 years amid claims that it needs more state money, the school somehow had the funds to give half a million dollars to the Clinton Foundation. According to The Arizona Republic, the public university paid $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation to host the former president-Bill Clinton; former-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and their daughter, Chelsea, during a Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) event in 2014. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill’s wife, is the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential race. Mark Johnson, an ASU spokesman, told The ...
Judge orders Clinton Foundation racketeering case to trial
Post Date: 2015-05-29 22:37:31 by out damned spot
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Florida judge has set a trial date in the racketeering case against the Clinton Foundation and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Judge Donald Middlebrooks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered the racketeering, influenced and corrupt organizations, or RICO, case to head to trial January 20, 2016. The order, entered Friday and obtained by the Washington Examiner, came days after Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch filed a lengthy civil complaint against the Clintons and their foundation in the same court. While the Clinton legal team could settle the case or enter a variety of motions in an effort to derail the lawsuit before the trial, the judge's swift decision ...
Christie Should Really Stop Bragging About That Time He Used the PATRIOT Act to Entrap an Idiot
Post Date: 2015-05-29 14:09:35 by Deckard
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The New Jersey governor says he has a record of locking up dangerous terrorists. A closer look at one of his biggest cases suggests otherwise. This week presidential wannabe Gov. Chris Christie has been trotting out a line we're sure to hear many more times during his campaign: "I'm the only person in this national conversation who has used the PATRIOT Act, signed off on it, convicted terrorists because of it." Which means it's time for a refresher on one of the two cases to which he is almost certainly referring: The prosecution of Hemant Lakhani. The story, as told in this classic 2005 This American Life episode, is a tale of ineptitude, ...
Pro-Rand Paul group unleashes fiery attack ad
Post Date: 2015-05-29 11:55:00 by GeorgiaConservative
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Rand Paul takes on Barack Obama and his allies, such as Ted 'the capitulating Canadian' Cruz.
Want to Run For President But Lack Momentum? Attack Rand Paul!
Post Date: 2015-05-28 13:52:44 by GeorgiaConservative
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On Wednesday, not one but two Republican likely presidential prospects attacked Sen. Rand Paul for his stances on terrorism and National Security Agency surveillance. First, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put Paul and Sen. Mike Lee on blast for opposing the Patriot Act, and accused them of "siding with" Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor. "He's a criminal and he's hiding in Russia, and he's lecturing to us about the evils of authoritarian government while he lives under the protective umbrella of Vladimir Putin?" Christie said in a Fox News interview. "That's who Mike Lee and Rand Paul are siding with? With Edward Snowden? Hey, come ...
Rick Santorum launches 2016 bid with blue-collar pitch
Post Date: 2015-05-28 07:39:02 by Hondo68
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Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), with wife Karen (R), daughter Bella, 7, and the rest of the family, announces his candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination for president at Penn United Technologies May 27, 2015 in Cabot, Pennsylvania, This is the second run for Santorum, who finished runner-up in 2012 to nominee Mitt Romney. Jeff Swensen, Getty Images Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum launched his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday with a conservative, blue-collar message. Promising to protect American workers, he blamed factors like "big government" and immigration for flat wages."From day one, we will work to bring back America ...
Clinton Foundation took at least $1,250,000 from Qatar and World Cup committee embroiled in bribery scandal - and up to $100,000 from FIFA itself
Post Date: 2015-05-28 05:37:37 by out damned spot
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*Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee' is the entity responsible for organizing the Gulf state's 2022 World Cup bid and the resulting preparations *FIFA itself is also listed as a donor to the foundation, giving up to $100,000 *Clinton Foundation website discloses donations from the committee of between $250,001 and $500,000, including a donation in 2014 *Qatar itself has donated betwen $1 million and $5 million to the foundation, and did it before 2014 *The tiny Middle Eastern country won the rights to host the 2022 global soccer tournament in December 2010 *Clinton Foundation later said Qatar worked toward 'utilizing its research and development for sustainable infrastructure at ...
Jerry Brown Pushes Traffic Debt ‘Amnesty’ for Poor: ‘It’s a Hellhole of Desperation’
Post Date: 2015-05-25 07:36:09 by cranky
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Gov. Jerry Brown is calling for an amnesty program for poor California residents who cannot afford to pay debts accrued through traffic violations after a blistering report from a nonprofit law firm concluded that the state is profiting off of minorities and low-income residents. According to the Associated Press, Brown’s plan would see fines issued for minor traffic violations cut in half, while the administrative fees associated with the fines would be dropped from $300 to $50. California has reportedly suspended roughly 4.8 million driver’s licenses since 2006 over failure to pay fines associated with traffic violations. In an April report titled, “Not Just a Ferguson ...
Duggar Molestation Scandal: Republicans Photographed With '19 Kids And Counting' Star Face Dilemma
Post Date: 2015-05-23 04:26:47 by Willie Green
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee may not be the only Republican presidential candidate to address the child molestation accusations against conservative activist and “19 Kids and Counting” reality television star Josh Duggar. Several of the GOP’s most prominent names, including some who hope to gain the party’s nomination in 2016, have been photographed meeting with Duggar in recent months. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are among the Republican politicians who must decide whether to denounce Duggar’s actions, to double down on their connection to the disgraced activist and issue a declaration of support ...
Knowing what we now know, would you say Jeb Bush is retarded?
Post Date: 2015-05-22 13:38:46 by cranky
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Was Jeb Bush too busy watching telenovelas during his brother's presidency to remember the Iraq War? We went to war at such breakneck speed after 9/11, that, before the invasion, I was able to write approximately 30 columns about it, give five dozen speeches on it, discuss it on TV a hundred times and read 1,089 New York Times editorials denouncing the "rush to war." So I remember the arguments. Contrary to the fairy tale the left has told itself since Obama truculently gave away America's victory in Iraq, our argument wasn't that we had to invade Iraq because of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. And the left's argument certainly was not: ...
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