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November 19, 2008
Move over, Janeane Garofalo! My new favorite actress is Heather Zichal, who plays herself on Aaron Sorkin's new TV series 'ChangeDotGov'. He innovated at the West Wing, although I find that watching re-runs is a bit painful due to the ever-present earth tones. Anyway, Sorkin is innovating again by...
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November 18, 2008
I've been discussing the Center for American Progress - a Soros-funded supposed "progressive", supposed "think tank" - for a few years. I've mainly concentrated on the fact that they're the "think tank that can't think straight", an outfit that just can't figure things out. I've also discussed their extraordinarily bad...
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November 17, 2008
John Ziegler - a former KFI talk jock who was pushed out after a dispute with John & Ken - has a video documentary including interviews with Barack Obama supporters showing how ignorant and/or misinformed they are. His site (link) also includes a Zogby poll he commissioned that tries...
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November 16, 2008
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer makes his triumphant return into the spotlight with the Washington Post editorial "How to Ground The Street/The Former 'Enforcer' On the Best Way to Keep Financial Markets in Check" (link). I am, needless to say, in a forest of conflicted emotions: * Should I...
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Jesse Washington of the Associate Press provides another example of Obama supporters continuing to play the race card after the election and by so doing shows that Obama's method of winning hasn't actually done much about race relations. The article is an example of the MSM and friends basically just...
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November 15, 2008
Our beloved president-elect Barack Obama is offering his new weekly speech not just as a radio address but also as an online video: youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8f9Zqap6U (also available at AOL, MSN, and Yahoo). On Youtube at least, almost every form of interaction is disabled: no ratings, comments, or video replies are allowed....
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Gadabout Alan Keyes - last seen running for president under the banner of the American Independent Party - has filed a court petition in California trying to block the CA Secretary of State (Democrat Debra Bowen) from certifying that state's results for Barack Obama. Details here. The previous attempt by...
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November 14, 2008
Jose Antonio Vargas of the Washington Post breathlessly informs us of this: Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition...
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[SEE THE CORRECTION] During the election, Barack Obama downplayed his attendance record at Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, but a March 27, 2004 interview (link) he conducted with Cathleen Falsani - the Religion Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times - contradicts those claims. Falsani asked Obama whether he's...
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November 13, 2008
On top of all the counter-productive things they've already done, now opponents of California's Proposition 8 - the anti-gay marriage initiative - have sent an envelope containing white powder - most likely harmless - to the very large Mormon Temple on Santa Monica Blvd. in Westwood, CA. The Salt Lake...
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Barack Obama could have been easily defeated. The problem was that many people concentrated on ineffective means to oppose him and no leaders pushed effective plans. There were many effective ways he could have been defeated, but the most effective would have been for people to go to his...
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Barack Obama might have faked his Selective Service registration; see this. Schlussel has a copy of the form that Obama supposedly filled out as well as a print-out associated with the form. And, things don't add up. I'll let you wade through the details, but there actually appears to be...
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One of the mistakes that Obama opponents kept engaging in during the election was to make exaggerated or not 100% legalistically formulated claims (e.g., "palling around"). The MSM then jumped on the exaggerated part of those statements in order to draw attention away from the parts that were true. And,...
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I have absolutely no idea, due to the general incoherence and insular nature of Ron Paul supporters, but this says: Here is a video where the newly elected Chairman of the St. Charles Missouri Republican Central Committee, Tom Kuypers, claims credit for preventing properly elected delegates from being seated. It...
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November 12, 2008
Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt is a member of Barack Obama's Economic Transition Team (link), so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the increasingly-political company he heads has given the president-elect (and Joe Biden) a special treat that they've probably already gawked over. In Obama's case,...
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Ethno-boosting hack Gebe Martinez of the Politico offers "GOP must tone down rhetoric to woo Latinos" (link): More than 10 million Hispanics voted last week, up from 7.6 million in 2004. If Hispanics were removed from the tallies, McCain would have had the winning edge in the battleground states of...
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Barack Obama supporters, I'm throwing the floor open to you. Will you dare take the Chicago Barack Obama Challenge? In comments, please list all the past associates of BHO who are completely mainstream. Just people, not organizations. And, "past" means those prior to, say, 2004 and doesn't include, say, his...
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One of the highly effective but largely ignored ways that Obama could have been opposed before the election would be to point out his cult-like followers as well as his plan to get pre-teens to join his movement. Now, ripping a page from a 2005 Berkeley story, comes this less-than-detailed...
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November 11, 2008
The Barack Obama cabinet might include such Democratic Party titans as Al Gore, Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Dean, Bill Richardson, John Kerry, and many more truly titanic names. This link has a "transition flowchart", a PDF showing some potential picks and all...
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Back in July, Barack Obama gave a speech in Colorado where he proposed creating a "Civilian National Security Force". That was just in one line of the speech, and it didn't appear in the version as prepared for delivery (copy here). Since that time, many have speculated over what he...
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November 10, 2008
David Brady, deputy director of the Hoover Institution, recently spoke to an Austrailian newspaper (link) and offered some advice for the Republican Party that was, at least in part, spectacularly bad and that showed that he has absolutely no clue whatsoever: "In order for the Republicans to win again they...
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The New Republic - home to a long series of reprehensible folks like James Kirchick and Jason Zengerle - has fallen for another hoax. This time around, Michael Crowley offers the post "Even More Palin Cluelessness" (blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/10/even-more-palin-cluelessness.aspx, via HotAir) about a supposed former McCain campaign advisor admitting that he was...
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Now it can be revealed! I signed up for three accounts at my.barackobama.com, two of which were satires that, unfortunately, never took off. However, the first account was done under the name of one of my sites and wasn't a satire;that's described here. Then, using the name "Bill Hawkins", I...
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Barack Obama's change.gov - the official president-elect transition site - deleted their entire Agenda section over the weekend. There's apparently a cached copy here, although I haven't verified it since I didn't bother saving off my own copy. UPDATE: There's a better-looking version from Google's cache here. As with the...
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Steve Schmidt - former chief strategist of the John McCain campaign - was interviewed by Ana Marie Cox about the various failures he was involved in and presumably he tries to defend himself against charges that he's completely incompetent; I didn't bother reading the whole thing (link) since this bit...
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November 09, 2008
The National Council of Ethnic Americans (NCEA) - a coalition consisting of the Ethnic American Legal Defense and Education Foundation (EALDEF), the National Association of Ethnic American Elected Officials (NAEAEO), and the League of United European and Mediterranean American Citizens (LUEMAC) - has just sent the following missive: President-Elect Barack...
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November 08, 2008
Yesterday, we discussed how one page at Barack Obama's new change.gov site said he'd push for mandatory community service. The campaign later changed that page to match the more voluntary-oriented statements the campaign made elsewhere. However, there's still one thing they'll probably want to send down the memory hole. The...
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Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell offers "An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage" (link). Unfortunately, about the only "tilt" she admits to is in the amount of coverage. She almost completely ignores the fact that the Washington Post served as little more than an arm of the Obama campaign by lying...
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November 07, 2008
Los Angeles' inept, corrupt, illegal activity-supporting mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - a former leader of a racial separatist group - is one of the members of Barack Obama's economic advisory board. Even the L.A. Weekly isn't amused (link): The often stumbling Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose city budget deficit has hit a...
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One of the coulda-been moments of the 2008 campaign was the failure of mostly anyone else to point out that Barack Obama supported his illegal alien own aunt being deported at the same time as he opposed the deportations of millions of illegal aliens he's never even met. Pushing that...
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"Latinos" want to be named to positions in the Barack Obama administration. Actually, it appears they want a quota system. And, it's not really "Latinos" as a group, but the familiar far-left pressure groups such as the NCLR, MALDEF, and NALEO. The second has an indirect link to the Mexican...
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Yet more fun with Barack Obama's president-elect website change.gov, as the page change.gov/americaserves has this: Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in...
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The eCitizen Foundation (ecitizenfoundation.org) has launched the "Ask the President-Elect" Project, where regular citizens can submit video or text questions for Barack Obama. The questions that get the most votes will then be asked of our new president or his transition team, with three of the top vote getters being...
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November 06, 2008
The video to the right is called "Ashville N.C. School teacher browbeats student over being a McCain supporter". Since I don't have sound here and can only slightly read Swedish I can't vouch for its contents, but it appears to be legit. Now, see October 26's Obama Youth: campaign...
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This is just great: change.gov (I actually said another word before "great", and I'll let everyone imagine what that word was.) That's the official site for the "office of the president-elect", a new government website just to help usher in Barack Obama. And, it's not from the Bush-welcome-to-DC perspective, but...
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Now they tell us! Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas admitted on last night's Charlie Rose show that Barack Obama has a "creepy cult of personality". See the video here. I didn't watch it and, of course, no one is around to provide a transcript or an accurate summary of...
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November 05, 2008
An unnamed John McCain aide supposedly told Carl Cameron of Fox News - a tool if there ever was one - that Sarah Palin didn't know that Africa was a continent instead of a country. The aide also told him that she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA. Needless...
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Barack Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod owns an astroturfing company. And, during the campaign the comments at many major sites (WaPo, Politico, Digg, etc.) were chock full of sockpuppets posting lame jokes, comments insulting McCain and/or Palin, and comments extolling the virtues of The One. Could those two things have...
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Barack Obama has named his transition staff and an advisory board thereto (link). It would be interesting to know how many of them are part of or linked to the Chicago Machine or have other interesting links. A few on the advisory board are known hereabouts: William Daley (brother of...
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The "libertarians" at Reason Magazine offer a list of their recent coverage of Barack Obama (reason.com/news/show/129922.html), and from that list those who don't read their Hit and Run blog frequently might think they actually opposed him. In fact, they served as a bit of a cheerleader for him and almost...
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November 04, 2008
DEVELOPING... BREAKING... LINK ANY MOMENT NOW... LARRY JOHNSON IS FLYING IN WITH THE TAPE AS I SPEAK... While we're waiting, I'm going to go write-in Hillary. UPDATE: It took less than ten minutes to go make my protest vote. As for API, the skullduggery has prevented them from airing the...
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A local GOP official in Virginia has compiled a list of hundreds of college students who are newly registered to vote in that state and who've also requested absentee ballots from a state in which they previously resided. Some might in fact follow through and vote twice, but of course...
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Rough transcript of the video below. RICK LEVENTHAL/FOX NEWS: i do not even know where to begin, but we have reached a polling place in the city of philadelphia. one of the two black panthers who was allegedly blocking the door is standing right over here, with an accused...
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November 03, 2008
Should you decide to accept it: 1. Search out local forums in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and other coal states (such as at local newspapers) and make sure that as many people as possible know exactly what Obama's position on coal is. Urge them to contact all their friends....
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Here's the San Francisco Chronicle video (not just audio) of Barack Obama promising that under his energy plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket". The full transcript of the video is here; note this: You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know -...
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Here's the San Francisco Chronicle video (not just audio) of Barack Obama discussing his cap and trade plan that would result in bankrupting new coal power plants. For the transcript of what's on the tape, see this. Note that there's a elision in there somewhere; if anyone has a...
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From this: A new report just released -- hours before the polls open on Election Day -- exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy. The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the...
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[UPDATE: Apparently this is nothing, see below.] Earlier today, Senator Bob Menendez appeared on the Fox's Neil Cavuto show and got into an argument with him about various Barack Obama plans. Near the end of the interview and after a discussion in which Cavuto raised the possibility of the Democrats...
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Law professor Steve Diamond says a source close to the campaign says so. Unfortunately, until he gets someone to go on the record or at least a second source it's not really worth much right now....
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Back in April, Barack Obama might have "flipped the bird"/"given the finger" to Hillary Clinton. In September, BHO said "You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig" (link) in what was probably a swipe at Sarah Palin. His supporters know what he's doing, no matter how some...
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I'm sure everyone remembers this classic from last year's Youtube/CNN debate debacle. QUESTION: Good evening, America. My name is Jered Townsend from Clio, Michigan. To all the candidates, tell me your position on gun control, as myself and other Americans really want to know if our babies are safe. This...
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The Wheeling News-Register offers "Obama’s Real Agenda On Coal Now Clear" (link): Clearly, Obama wants the scale set low on how much greenhouse gas a plant could emit before being forced to buy "credits" allowing it to operate. Here, in his own words, is what Obama told the Chronicle in...
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For almost two years, I've been trying to encourage people to go to public appearances by politicians, ask them tough questions, and upload their responses to video sharing sites. A month ago, I sent an open letter to a series of mostly Pajamas Media bloggers urging them to push such...
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November 02, 2008
Ali Frick from ThinkProgress - whose parent fund is linked to the Obama campaign - breathlessly informs us that "Joe the Plumber" apparently just said something we're supposed to be shocked about (link): McCain has fought and bled for our country, and loves our country. There's too many questions with...
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[SEE THE SECOND UPDATE] Per this, on tonight and tomorrow night's CBS News, Katie Couric asked Barack Obama whether he would "support [his poor illegal alien aunt] being deported to Kenya". His response: If she is violating laws those laws have to be obeyed. We're a nation of laws. Obviously...
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When he got out of Columbia University in the early 80s, Obama's first full-time job was at an apparently mainstream business reporting outfit called Business International. Now, it turns out that that company had a series of links with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) via their 1966-67 president Carl...
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My fellow European & Mediterranean Americans: It's now safe for us to vote for Barack Obama, because he's recently added a section to his website just for us! Visit Obama's official new page just for us here: my.barackobama.com/page/content/eahome It's for white people, but not every white person: only those of...
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The San Francisco Chronicle conducted an interview with Barack Obama on January 17, 2008 in which he said things relating to his energy policy and his plan to bankrupt coal plants under certain conditions. What he said may or may not be as shocking as some would have you believe;...
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Barack Obama's not-exactly-brilliant opponents are once again setting themselves up for failure as they have so many times in the past. The latest example is the claim that Obama will "bankrupt the coal industry", which doesn't appear to be completely accurate. [1] And, because that claim isn't 100% accurate, what's...
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November 01, 2008
Against my better judgment, I'm linking to this page supposedly containing audio and a transcript of a conversation held with Sarah Onyango Obama, matriarch of the Obama clan. To cut to the chase, see the lower right corner of this BMP file with the transcript: Kweli Shuhubia: He [the Luo...
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The Anchorage Daily News - a paper that's endorsed Obama - offers "Misfire at Palin" (link) about last week's Associated Press "investigation" from Justin Pritchard and Garance Burke about bids for a major Alaskan pipeline project [1]. This report from The Associated Press is a remarkably skewed account with little...
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From this: A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly...
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School choice supporter Lance Izumi from the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy offers this: Talking to National Public Radio, Melody Barnes, a spokeswoman for [Barack Obama's] campaign, said recently that Mr. Obama supports "portfolio assessment" of student performance. Portfolio assessment usually requires a student to perform various classroom assignments,...
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This video seems to be a compilation of the "best" of Michelle Obama, America's nightmare First Lady....
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Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt Zeituni Onyango - called "Auntie Zeituni" in his memoirs - turns out to be an illegal alien living in a Boston slum who illegally donated part of her meager income to his campaign. And, now she joins a host of other former Obama associates under his...
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October 31, 2008
I link, you decide: Fox News reports that Rashid Khalidi wrote a 1991 obit of Salah Khalaf (also known as Abu Iyad): "Abu Iyad will be sorely missed by the Palestinian people to whom he devoted his life." Note that Khalidi's book 'The Iron Cage' mentioned Iyad on Page 141...
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Barack Obama's impoverished Aunt Zeituni - recently discovered living in poverty in a Boston slum - donated $260 to Obama's campaign. From this: Federal Election Commission records show that Onyango donated at least five times to her nephew's campaign in July and September. Three of the donations were for $5...
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[UPDATE: Obama throws her under the bus!] From this: Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned. Zeituni Onyango,...
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The Associated Press offers an article perhaps misleadingly titled "State declares Obama birth certificate genuine" (link). There are some problems with the article, as will be discussed below. State officials say there's no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and...
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Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree is an advisor to the Barack Obama campaign and part of his "inner circle" (National Journal, March 31, 2008, link). Perhaps I should have said "was an advisor", because Ogletree seems to have some quite interesting thoughts. See the video collection here. See the Oct....
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From this: A 75-year-old man was hospitalized after another man shoved him into a fire hydrant during an argument about the upcoming election, DeLand police said. Timothy L. Rundle, 53, faces charges of felony battery after allegedly pushing William Hunter on Thursday near the intersection of Woodland Boulevard and New...
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From this (via this): ...a kids' dance troupe that appeared at the [Barack Obama/Rashid Khalidi] event has a history of simulating beheadings and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags... In June 2004, I went undercover and attended a Dearborn fundraising dinner for Islamic Relief, the Muslim Brotherhood charity that...
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Instead of concentrating on Barack Obama's creepy outreach to pre-teens where he wants to use those children 12 and under to get votes, how about some good news? You know, the kind you don't have to think about and that any hack (in this case Loretta Waldman of the Hartford...
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Here's a 1995 interview with Barack Obama where he praises Reverend Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity United Church of Christ, calling him "the best of what the Black Church has to offer" (more quotes from the video here)....
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October 30, 2008
Do you really want the Rashid Khalidi videotape that the Los Angeles Times refuses to release? OK, then here's how to either get the videotape, or at least make Obama look bad: ask Obama to help get the tape released. No, really: go to an Obama appearance and ask him...
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Like a couple other wondeful folks, Barack Obama has his own Daily Kos diary: barack-obama.dailykos.com. He appears to have only posted two entries just about three years ago, although there might have been others that fell victim to DK's habit of sending things down the memory hole. One of the...
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From the Sep. 8, 2007 L.A. Times article "Fresh face or old-school player?" (link, via this): Later [in 1999], [associates former Obama opponent, Yesse B. Yehudah, a Republican] pitched in an additional $5,000 to help retire Obama’s debt [from his run against Bobby Rush]. The contributions were recorded on Oct....
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Relax! No race card involved at all! It was all just a joke, just a wonderful, heart-warming merry jest straight from the heartland last night on the Daily Show (text link, video link): Jon Stewart: Are you concerned in some respects, you know, and I don’t even know how to...
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A company hired by Newsmax to look into some of the questionable donations to the Barack Obama campaign has found even more strange cases of those who don't appear to be U.S. citizens, such as thousands for an assortment of Middle Eastern and Asian countries: link. However, the most important...
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October 29, 2008
Thou shalt not question The One. Because: A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on "Joe the Plumber" were more extensive than it first acknowledged. Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on...
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I'd say about three minutes of tonight's infomercial from Barack Obama (youtube.com/watch?v=GtREqAmLsoA) are more than enough. The first thing I noticed was the horrible acoustics in the room where he was giving his spiel, dissipating his voice and giving it a whiny, nasal character. (Perhaps that was intentional). Then, I...
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From December 6, 2004 comes this clip of Michelle Obama's response to a question on what she think of Barack Obama running for president: "It's way too soon, he hasn't done anything yet."...
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You don't have to be a conservative or a Republican to be opposed to Barack Obama. Here are some of the reasons that almost anyone should oppose him: 1. PERSONALITY CULT As a host of Youtube videos, comments on blogs, chants at rallies, and even tattoos show, Obama clearly has...
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October 28, 2008
An unnamed Los Angeles Times staff reporter offers "McCain campaign accuses L.A. Times of 'suppressing' Obama video" (link): John McCain's presidential campaign Tuesday accused the Los Angeles Times of "intentionally suppressing" a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet where then-state Sen. Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid...
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How could anyone encourage people not to donate to Goodwill Industries? Well, because they spent the money they received in past donations on smear ad campaigns like the one described here. The two page ad features "Dear Sarah Palin, We eagerly await your $150,000 clothing donation on Nov. 5th" in...
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Ah, the HuffPost. Other than scraps of paper on laundromat walls the only place where Naomi Wolf could write 'The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State' (link): Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are...
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This site doesn't normally track the lies of Keith Olbermann since there are so many and no one outside his bubble trusts anything he says. However, sometimes he crosses the line, as he did with tonight's "Olbermann on Palin: Socialist, fraud/Governor doesn't have a problem with Alaska's socialistic collectivism" (link)...
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Alexander Lane and Amy Hollyfield of Politifact continue to show that that "fact checking" site might as well be working for the Barack Obama campaign by offering 'Obama would "experiment with socialism."/The McCain campaign experiments with dishonesty' (politifact.org/truth-o-meter/statements/826). It's another example of the MSM taking a statement that wasn't phrased...
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The Barack Obama campaign itself - i.e., Obama for American and not ACORN - turned in 15 bogus voter registration forms in St. Charles County, Missouri (link). However, that might be out of 3000 total that they submitted, and the person who turned those registrations over to the FBI and...
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October 27, 2008
From this, via this: Ohio's inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on "Joe the Plumber." Helen Jones-Kelly [sic], director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK'd the check on Samuel Joseph...
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According to this and other sites, there's yet another nugget on the Chicago public radio interview with Barack Obama: just to take a, sort of a realist perspective...there's a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of....
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The fact that Sarah Palin and/or her GOP helpers spent $150,000 or so on her wardrobe should be a very minor matter. Except, it isn't because the BHO campaign and their surrogates in the MSM have blown it into a major "scandal". Meanwhile, they've ignored the cost of Obama's trips...
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So said this site in August: I've spent the past two months immersed in data from the 2008 Democratic caucuses. After studying the procedures and results from all fourteen caucus states, interviewing dozens of witnesses, and reviewing hundreds of personal stories, my conclusion is that the Obama campaign willfully and...
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October 26, 2008
Chad Michael Morrisette of West Hollywood shows how low "liberals" are willing to go with the following Halloween decoration of Sarah Palin in a noose (link): Wonderfully "liberal" person that he is, he also has a display of John McCain emerging from flames of some kind. Now awaiting the condemnation...
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The audio to the right is from a 2001 public radio interview where Barack Obama showed some pretty clear redistributionist tendencies, among others: ...the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth... I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights...
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I have a question for all the parents in America: would you like your kids to fall under the sway of a creepy, Messianic cult led by a charismatic leader? Sure, you yourself might be a supporter, or you might like him. But, what about your kids? Do you want...
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From this post discussing Ben Smith of the Politico: Have you ever heard of a political party that has no members? Ben Smith has [link], and he believes. Based on a claim by New Party co-founder Joel Rogers that "we didn't really have members," Smith seems to think he's disposed...
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October 25, 2008
I have yet to see two things: Idiocracy and the interview Barbara West of WFTV-Channel 9 conducted with Joe Biden earlier today (link, video link). I suspect those two things are related. West apparently asked Biden a series of what might appear to be tough questions, and Biden responded by...
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I was mulling over creating a fake group like the following, but I see that the real ones have saved me time by creating it themselves: my.barackobama.com/page/group/ScientologistsforObama It all just fits together, doesn't it?...
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Somehow I don't think the following bit about the John McCain volunteer and College Republican National Committee field representative who recently staged a mugging at an ATM is going to get a lot of attention: In March, [Ashley Todd] was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul supporters...
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The Philip Berg lawsuit against Barack Obama in which he claimed that BHO wasn't eligible to be president due to not being an American citizen has been tossed. According to judge Barclay Surrick, Berg didn't have standing, saying: If, through the political process, Congress determines that citizens, voters, or party...
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October 24, 2008
A lot of people aren't content to simply sit back and wait for Obama to win. Instead, they want to get involved and help him finally seal the deal. Here's a list of ways that you can help: 1. Simply bringing a stuffed monkey bedecked with Obama stickers to the...
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Remember the glory days of 2002 when you saw things like "IRS Official to Judicial Watch: Clinton Enemies Were Audited" (link)? Well, Barack Obama's surrogates look like they're intent on bringing those glory days back: "State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed...
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Back on April 10, 2008, Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times offered "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama" (link), about Barack Obama's friendship with Rashid Khalidi, an "internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights". Per Wallsten: the warm embrace Obama gave to...
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A couple days ago, in completely and absolutely unrelated incidents, two people quit call centers over anti-Obama scripts they were asked to read. Now, shock of all shocks, one of those who quit turns up at a Joe Biden rally: In [Charleston, West Virginia], Biden announced that [Chaylee Cole, a...
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October 23, 2008
OMG! OMG! At a rally in Reno, Sarah Palin wore a donkey-themed scarf, just like the Democratic Party's logo! The mindless, Obama-supporting drones across the internet are using this as yet another instance of their attempts to portray Palin as the new Dan Quayle. Just one problem: there's the...
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Picture a gigantic, flashing neon sign saying, "it might be true, but we need actual evidence" as you read this: [Philip J. Berg, Democrat and a former deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania] has confirmed he has a recording of a telephone call from the senator's paternal grandmother confirming his birth...
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Michael Luo of the New York Times discusses the various attempts by Barack Obama's opponents to test just how easy it is to donate to the Obama campaign using fake names and addresses ("Donor Patrol: Obama’s Online Site Accepts More Fakes", link). He spins the story completely in favor of...
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Some of you were probably asking, "Why hasn't Quincy Jones produced his own creepy video showing a cult-like devotion to Barack Obama's personality cult, complete with the contention that it's a 'prophecy' for him to be elected president?" Well, your prayers to The One have been answered! I rush to...
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Back on the first, I linked to a Ken Timmerman article about the Barack Obama campaign having millions in possibly fraudulent campaign donations. In that post I verified with the BHO campaign that they accept credit card-style gift cards. Those can be bought with cash and in large enough denominations...
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October 22, 2008
This suggestion is good, but it could be even better if it worked in all the other associations Barack Obama has had. There really is enough already known to sink him, but McCain just won't attack him hard enough and there are no surrogates around to fill in the gaps....
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Well, then go here. Think of it this way: if Obama becomes president he's going to take the entire Democratic Party and most of our wonderful elites down with him....
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Dear mainstream media reporters: Have you considered the impact your coverage of the 2008 election might have on your career? Many of you have gone all out to elect Barack Obama as president, completely oblivious to the long-term impact that advocacy could have. It's easier than ever for news consumers...
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Now, here's something odd. Two people in different states have both quit robocall firms over what they say are misleading scripts they were asked to read. What are the odds of that happening, and over the same script? (Hint: it's a large number). First up, from that hotbed of conservatism...
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October 21, 2008
Drew Griffin of CNN recently conducted an interview with Sarah Palin and asked her this: Governor, you've been mocked in the press, the press has been pretty hard on you, the Democrats have been pretty hard on you, but also some conservatives have been pretty hard on you as well....
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Jimmy Lee Shreeve wrote an article for England's Telegraph yesterday ("Sarah Palin: Pointing a loaded gun at the environment?", link via this) which contained this completely fabricated Palin quote: "magnificent, cuddly white bears are doing just fine and don't need our protection. If the ice melts, they'll adapt to living...
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At an event earlier today, apparently a San Francisco loon tried to arrest Karl Rove for treason... by slapping him in handcuffs. Presumably she was led away to a detention center in Hayward. Developing......
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From our "just a guy in my neighborhood" file comes the news that on April 20, 2002 Barack Obama and Bill Ayers spoke on the same "Intellectuals in Times of Crisis" panel at a conference sponsored by The Center for Public Intellectuals and the University of Illinois-Chicago (link, copy here)....
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Mary Katharine Ham and some other guy offer "The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama" (link). It lays out a non-smear case against BHO over several categories: abortion, taxes, his radical associations, foreign policy judgment, his disdain for the heartland, his habit of playing the race card, and his lack of...
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October 20, 2008
I tend to be very doubtful of this, but I'm linking it here anyway just in case it turns out that Obama has fled the U.S. tomorrow. According to Philip Berg - he of the lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to run for president - the defendents (BHO and the...
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First, I hope that Barack Obama's grandmother is OK. Unfortunately, since we're dealing with someone who's running for president, there are some questions that need to be asked. I don't want to ask them, but is something else involved? For instance, see #107 here....
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From this: In a chilling video on YouTube, Larry Grathwohl, a former member of the Weather Underground which Ayers helped found, says the organization planned to take over the U.S. government and give parts of the country to Russia, Cuba, North Vietnam, and China. The plans included “re-educating” Americans as...
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October 19, 2008
The title of this one is "Amazing Ayers Audio Unearthed from Same Week Obama worked with him! Extremist Ayers and Obama views matched almost word for word!" I'll leave it up to someone else to listen to it and offer a summary, including the most damning parts (if any)....
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From this (a followup to this): more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency. According to a Newsmax analysis of the Obama campaign data before the latest figures were released, potential foreign currency donations could range anywhere from $12.8 million to a stunning $63 million in...
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Some time around 2001, Mothering ("The natural family living magazine") published 'The Son Also Rises/Boys to Men, Outside the Stereotypes' by William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (link). I'd prefer to ignore stuff like this, but if any of their thoughts seeped into projects funded by Barack Obama's Chicago Annenberg Challenge...
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Let me know if there's anything of interest on this:...
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It's important to note that in the following quote (from this), Barack Obama is paraphrasing Warren Buffet, and that the following is not a direct quote from him. Only the "merit" part is from BHO himself. With that said, here's part of this recent NYT profile of him: "If you...
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Was Barack Obama born in Hawaii, or Kenya, or somewhere else? He claims to have been born in Hawaii, but no definitive proof has been provided. It is a false statement to definitively state that he was born in Hawaii, as some media sources have done. The most they should...
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October 18, 2008
It turns out that the offices of a Bill Ayers-founded organization (the Small Schools Workshop, "SSW") and that of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge ("CAC") - headed by Barack Obama - were in the same office building between 1995 and 1998. And, their offices were on the same floor of that...
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Showing once again that it's the dumb ones that give the game away, on the 16th Dana Milbank of the Washington Post claimed the following during an online chat: In cooperation with the Palin campaign, [the Secret Service has] started preventing reporters from leaving the press section to interview people...
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Rachel d'Oro of the Associated Press offers an extremely sleazy, disreputable, race-baiting article called "Alaska's minorities feel ignored by Palin" (link). Articles like this show exactly how a Barack Obama presidency would operate: surrogates - assisted by the mainstream media - would attempt to racialize every decision made by Obama...
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"TLA" means "three letter acronym", but the others are real people or organizations. However, there's too much here to look through but others are willing to give it a go. * Rethinking Schools, Joyce Foundation, Deborah Leff, etc. from 1996: link * ACORN's 12th Annual Legislative and Political Conference: includes...
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Former Bill Clinton chief of staff John Podesta founded the Center for American Progress and now heads that group's foundation. He's also the head of Barack Obama's transition team. And, from acorn.org/index.php?id=8516 [1]: On September 22, ACORN and Floridians for All partnered with John Podesta, former chief of staff to...
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October 17, 2008
Justin Rood of ABC News offers "McCain Acorn Fears Overblown/Charges of Voter Fraud Are Out of Proportion to Reality, They Say" (link). As it turns out, the "they" refers to three sources: a Barack Obama contributor, a former director of the leftwing, illegal immigration-supporting People for the American Way, and...
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The post-delusional Andrew Sullivan ecrit, albeit without the helpful links I provide below: Obama's skin color has obscured a pretty basic fact about him: he seems to have had a very conservative private life as a public figure. His marriage and family life have been much more traditional than John...
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From this: The Republican Party of New Mexico alleges 28 people voted fraudulently in one Albuquerque state House district in the June Democratic primary. Party representatives said at a news conference Thursday they found the suspect voters in a review of 92 newly registered voters in House District 13... [State...
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October 16, 2008
It's always the stupid ones that give the game away, and two of the stupidest are at Time Magazine's Swampland. A few days ago, Ana Marie Cox lied about (and later corrected) something someone said at a McCain rally. Today, repeat liar and explicit illegal immigration supporter Joe Klein is...
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After a day of the leftwing viciously trying to smear "Joe the Plumber" - including trying to drive him out of work (link) - here's Barack Obama mentioning him while mocking McCain at a rally: Please go to an Obama appearance - and as long as your paperwork is in...
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Developing:...
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"Joe the Plumber" - aka Joe Wurzelbacher - is America's hot new thing (link), after having asked Barack Obama a question about taxes at one of his public appearances and after being mentioned in yesterday's debate. He even got an interview with Katie Couric. This is to a good extent...
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October 15, 2008
Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times offers "McCain misleading public in role Ayers played in Obama political career". It helps illustrate a problem the McCain campaign has had that the Obama-supporting MSM has tried to drive a truck through. Namely, when speaking about the Bill Ayers-Barack Obama connection they haven't...
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Live coverage of the "debate" at Hofstra University between John McCain and Barack Obama commences now. McCain is taking BHO to task for the "Sarah Palin is a ****" t-shirts and for BHO's implication of widespread rabble-rousing at McCain/Palin rallies. And, BHO is stumbling. He indeed has a "glass jaw",...
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This February 24, 2000 recounting of a debate between Barack Obama, Donne Trotter, and George Roby - then vying to replace Bobby Rush - includes the following: All three said they were in support of gun control legislation, with Obama citing a need for higher taxes on ammunition and registration...
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A copy of Barack Obama's biography as of 2001 is in the extended entry, from Harvard (link). Among other things I didn't know was that he also worked as a community organizer in Harlem after graduating from Columbia in 1983. He's also listed as a "senior lecturer at the University...
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I've considered writing a satire about Barack Obama proposing "land reform", aka "agrarian reform" (see, for instance, this). As it turns out, ACORN - a group with which he's been linked in one form or other for several years - was working on something similar, although they were serious. It...
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Someone named Tracy who runs a show at Blog Talk Radio (blogtalkradio.com) called No Compromise Radio was conducting an interview of Phil Berg two days ago about the Obama/U.S. citizenship issue. She was 13 minutes into her show when BTR pulled the plug, apparently claiming that her show was: racially...
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October 14, 2008
Around Christmas, 2006 1996 the low temperature in Chicago was just three degrees Fahrenheit. Over the New Year there was a "heat wave", and it warmed up to a low of 26F. But, the next week it fell to a low of -2F. The next week it was even worse:...
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Supposedly, Michelle Obama called something called the African Press International (API) and angrily denounced their attempts to keep Barack Obama from becoming president: [API] is supposed to support Africans and African-American view... it is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame...
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The answer to that is... it could happen. See this. One of the debunkings of that claim that I've seen is that the "fact checkers" [1] couldn't find a $1 million transfer from the Obama campaign to Odinga, and that there's no such thing as the "Friends of Senator B.O."...
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I'm just asking: [Speaking at the World Policy Forum in France, Jesse Jackson said that after Barack Obama is elected the] most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end. Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for...
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Just a couple days ago, both Politfact and FactCheck told us that the Chicago Annenberg Challenge ("CAC") - as run by Barack Obama - was only involved in "mainstream" educational projects. Now, it turns out that CAC gave $200,000 to Chicago's Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore ("CIESS"). That...
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October 13, 2008
When Barack Obama was just about eight years old, from October 8 to 11, 1969, the Weathermen held their "Days of Rage" riots in Chicago where dozens of their members were arrested and they smashed shop windows and the like in an attempt to "Bring the war home". That followed...
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Barack Obama has long-term ties to the far-left group ACORN. And, those ties continued at least as late as February 2008, when ACORN's Ohio branch worked with the Barack Obama campaign on a GOTV effort. See this job announcement from Mari Engelhardt, political director of Ohio ACORN: GOTV for Obama!...
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Back on February 22, 2007, Rolling Stone published "Destiny's Child" by Ben Wallace-Wells (link). After first quoting an unnamed aide as saying that Barack Obama is not "wedded to any ideological frame" and quoting one of his friends calling him a "human Rorschach test", it includes this quote from Reverend...
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October 12, 2008
Here's an extremely shocking video showing racism, rage, hate, xenophobia, racist anger, and mean-spiritedness at a McCain-Palin march! Kossacks to the barricades! Oh, wait: A Pro-McCain march on the Upper West Side in Manhattan on Sunday, September 21, 2008. A group of McCain-Palin supporters dare to march through the Upper...
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Karen Tumulty of Time Magazine offers this bit of mainstream media wisdom designed explicitly to support Barack Obama. It starts with something that could have been written by the BHO campaign: If John McCain is as serious as he says about running a "respectful" campaign against an opponent he considers...
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From this: Why aren’t the American media investigating the role of British billionaire businessman Nadhmi Auchi in supplying loans to Barack Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko? Some point to media bias, but there is another factor. Working for Auchi, who was born in Iraq, attorneys from London law firm Carter-Ruck have...
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Is Barack Obama linked to someone named "Khalid al-Mansour" ("KAM", aka "Khalid Mansour" or "Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour")? Is KAM the black nationalist and former Black Panther formerly known as Donald Warden? Or, is KAM the person who's an advisor to Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal? Or, are they...
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October 11, 2008
Some might question why the Philadelphia Flyers were celebrating hockey moms instead of getting to the game. Some might question why Sarah Palin was bringing her daughters out onto the ice. Some might worry about the injection of politics into The Game. Me, I prefer to point out that Barack...
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Could "Barack Obama" be a complete fake? Hillary Clinton supporter and decades-long Democrat Philip Berg is suing Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), claiming he's not eligible to be president. From this: the Plaintiff, Philip J. Berg, a Philadelphia attorney, alleged that Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is not...
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Bill Ayers (who's just some guy in Barack Obama's neighborhood and/or someone he used to serve on a couple boards with) gave a speech in November 2006 (when Obama was just 45 years old) at the World Education Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. The full text of his speech is at...
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As pointed out here, the transcripts of the Sarah Palin/Joe Biden debate from both CNN and the New York Times contained a rather curious "error". Through a complete coincidence, that "error" played into the Democratic narrative. Those transcripts both had Palin saying: "And I may not answer the questions that...
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Wonkette, aka Ana Marie Cox of Time Magazine's Swampland offers "McCain Denounces Pitchfork-Wavers", yet another example of how McCain capitulating to the Democrats is a very bad idea (time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/mccain_denounces_pitchforkwave.html). The update to that post says: Indeed, [John McCain] just snatched the microphone out the hands of a woman who began...
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October 10, 2008
John McCain provides yet another example of his inept campaign and his complete capitulation to leftwing tenets when he said the following earlier today in response to an audience member who'd forcefully pointed out that McCain didn't seem to have much fighting spirit: "[Obama is a] decent person and a...
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About six hours ago, I posted Barack Obama lied about ACORN involvement (he was a trainer). Now, quicker than you can say "down the memory hole", the BHO campaign has changed their website to apparently admit that he was indeed a trainer for that organization. This is an example of...
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Christopher Buckley - son of William F. Buckley - has decided to help Tina Brown get links for her new venture by posting a clear example of the adage that talent skips a generation (link): Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon... But having...
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David Tanenhaus - "teaches history and law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is the author of Juvenile Justice in the Making" - offers 'Barack, Bill, and Me/The Bill Ayers that Barack Obama and I worked with was no "domestic terrorist"' (link). Summary: it's like something Dean Wheeler...
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[UPDATE 2: the BHO campaign changed their website, possibly to admit that he was indeed an ACORN trainer.] Barack Obama has been caught in yet another of his lies. Here's what his "Fight the Smears" website says about his involvement with ACORN (fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor): Discredited Republican voter-suppression guru Ken Blackwell is...
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October 09, 2008
Max Blumenthal - last seen here spinning a fantastic tale - joins with Mr. "white supremacist under every bed" himself, David Neiwert, to offer a smear called "Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals" (link). Their report was partly funded by the "Nation Institute Investigative Fund", which isn't getting its money's...
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On Tuesday, 'Obama Nation' author Jerome Corsi was detained in Kenya just before holding a press conference to discuss his book and discuss his investigation of links between Barack Obama and Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The original explanation was that his work permit had been lost. Despite the fact...
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From this: During the next four weeks, Immigration activists plan to swarm through nearly 700 Chicago-area neighborhoods, visiting some homes several times in a $1 million effort to pull at least 140,000 voters into the polls for the Nov. 4 elections, organizers announced Tuesday. The campaign, involving about 2,500 volunteers,...
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Speaking in Michigan yesterday, PBS news anchor Ray Suarez said: The "pseudo controversies" about Obama's background are symbols for a "racial calculus" hard at work in U.S. politics. Opinions about Obama's inexperience, his childhood in Indonesia, and the persistent but untrue rumors of him being Muslim are stand-ins for something...
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October 08, 2008
According to an October, 1996 page from the New Party (link) and a November, 1996 article from the editor of the Progressive Populist (Jim Cullen, link), Barack Obama was a member of the "New Party". The New Party is a now-defunct, left-leaning alternative to the Democrats and the Republicans that...
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Thomas Friedman of the New York Times offers "Palin's Kind of Patriotism" in which he sleazily questions Sarah Palin's patriotism (link). It starts out with this: Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can't just ignore what she...
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The new first rule of the Democratic Party is: "Twist anything an opponent of Barack Obama says in order to play the race card". If BHO wins the presidency, expect them to abide by that rule endlessly. The latest example comes from multiple "liberals" who are trying to racialize John...
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October 07, 2008
At The Corner, Andy McCarthy writes: Memo to McCain Campaign: Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn't; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he's qualified for public office. You helped portray Obama as a clealy qualified presidential candidate who would fight terrorists. If that's what...
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Live coverage of the John McCain/Barack Obama town hall "debate" - concomitant with me weeping for those who want to turn our political system into something closely approximating the Soviet Union - begins now. The questions I've seen so far are simply allowing them to replay their stock speeches. You...
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It used to be that "liberals" would strongly oppose corrupt foreign governments "losing" paperwork in order to stifle speech. However, when things like that are done in support of Barack Obama, their response is a bit different. Here are some instances of those discussing the detention in Kenya of Jerome...
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Jerome Corsi - author of the best-selling book Obama Nation and someone that the Barack Obama campaign subsequently smeared - has been detained in Kenya. The official word is apparently that he hasn't been detained, but Corsi says his passport has been taken. He and his publicist apparently haven't been...
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October 06, 2008
According to this, tonight's Anderson Cooper show on CNN included a segment from one of their other reporters that included this: But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said. In comments, others agree that the segment was...
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Unctuous liar Dana Milbank - last discussed here in May regarding him misleading for Barack Obama - is back with an even more disgusting smear. This one a) portrays Sarah Palin supporters as bloodthirsty yahoos, b) tries to give the impression that Palin doesn't renounce bloodthirsty yahoos, and c) most...
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Please go to a Barack Obama public appearance, ask him one of the following questions (derived from a McCain campaign missive [1]), get his response on videotape, and then upload that to Youtube. If you can get a "good" answer from him it would have a devastating impact on his...
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October 05, 2008
Marc Cooper is an ultra-lightweight Huffington Post "reporter"; I used to leave comments at his site completely eviscerating what little immigration-related argument he could provide. After a while he had a mini-meltdown and stopped being able to present even a slightly cogent argument. He never once was able to respond...
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Sully links to this video of Margaret Thatcher being grilled by a regular citizen during the Falklands War as, of course, a way to criticize Sarah Palin: The horrifying sequestering of Sarah Palin from a press conference and anything like this kind of public interrogation is a scandal. Of course,...
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October 04, 2008
Scott Shane of the New York Times offers "Obama and '60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths" (originally titled "Obama Had Met Ayers, but the Two Are Not Close"). If you believe the NYT, then everything's fine and dandy, and Barack Obama and 60s radical Bill Ayers are not close....
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October 03, 2008
An anonymous commenter at yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/10/simmons_mocks_palin.php says: James Glassman, the Undersecretay of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, was just introduced on C-Span at the National Press Club. As he approached the speaker's platform he said: "Thank you Donna. May I call you Donna?" Then he went immediately into "a...
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Followers of the MSM's attempt to destroy Sarah Palin have probably noticed a trend: the MSM reports something that's false or misleading and uses the "recollections" of a Democratic politician from Alaska as their authority on the matter. That's then picked up by the blogs and amplified, until such time...
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October 02, 2008
The Obama Bus got all fired up, two soft thuds were heard, and then typing was heard from the campaign's teleprompter office as this was typed in: "This not the Larry Walsh and Matt Ryan that I knew" (link): The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former...
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Summary: Palin "won", in that she held her own, which was much better than the MSM and the "pundits" expected (and hoped). She didn't eviscerate Biden (even though she got in a subtle dig against Michelle Obama), but simply by being able to match him she hasn't doomed the McCain...
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Douglas Kmiec offers a warm welcome to his effort "Pro-life, Pro-Obama": "As Ronald Reagan's legal counsel and as a dean and professor at Catholic University and Notre Dame, I have worked to put the law on the side of life where it belongs. I believe we are all called to...
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October 01, 2008
The Colorado Democracy Alliance is a relatively new organization that apparently has a plan to - in their words - "educate the idiots" to encourage them to vote for the Democratic Party. That's according to an internal memo obtained by FaceTheState.com; it's not available at present due to a link...
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Open Letter to: Glenn Reynolds/instapundit.com Charles Johnson/littlegreenfootballs.com Patrick Frey/patterico.com Ace/ace.mu.nu Tom Maguire/justoneminute.typepad.com Jeff Goldstein/proteinwisdom.com Dan Riehl/riehlworldview.com Rob Port/sayanythingblog.com Unless we do something now, the mainstream media is going to throw the election to Barack Obama. I need your help to promote a very effective plan that will show that Obama...
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[See the update about gift cards.] The Barack Obama campaign has raised millions of dollars in very questionable contributions. The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) won't say whether they're conducting an investigation, but they have asked the BHO campaign to explain or to return some of it. That includes over $17,000...
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Unbeknownst to the McCain campaign (link), Gwen Ifill of PBS - host of Thursday's vice presidential debate - has a book due to be released Inauguration Day (link): Gwen Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program "Washington Week" is promoting "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,"...
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September 30, 2008
Please compare these two videos of children singing to their leader. If you aren't scared of Barack Obama and his followers now, it might just change your mind [SEE THE UPDATES; 'SING FOR CHANGE' REMOVED THE ORIGINAL VIDEO]: Note that the second video was embedded at DailyKos, but none of...
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Back on August 21, FactCheck released photos apparently showing Barack Obama's birth certificate (actually his "Certificate of Live Birth" or "COLB"). At the time, I noted that the EXIF information (added by the camera) showed that the pictures had been shot months before and I mentioned such possibilities as them...
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September 29, 2008
Since around September 8, various sites and news organizations have tried to push the smear that Sarah Palin knowingly charged victims in Wasilla, Alaska for rape kits, and that her city stood alone in that practice. As it turns out, those claims are false (link). How did this start? A...
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Clark County GOP communications director Didi Lima recently said the following to the Associated Press: "We don't want (Hispanics) to become the new African-American community... And that's what the Democratic Party is going to do to them, create more programs and give them handouts, food stamps and checks for this...
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September 26, 2008
They're both stiffs and incredibly bad. Frankly, McCain isn't exactly spry. BHO is, as usual, a smirking [person of negative repute] and I don't think anyone outside his circle is going to appreciate him laughing at McCain in the background. Both are stumbling over their talking points. However, I think...
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I have absolutely no even non-expert insight on whether there should be a bailout of troubled financial institutions or not. I do know that George Bush is for it and Larry Kudlow offers "A Paulson-Cantor Plan Is a Win-Win for Taxpayers" (link), and both of those are very strong indicators...
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The "Open Debate Coalition" - a group consisting of people such as Glenn Reynolds ("Instapundit") and Stanford law professor Larry Lessig [1] - is calling on John McCain and Barack Obama to open the presidential debates by allowing questions chosen by regular people and not just the MSM. However, what...
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September 25, 2008
Is Barack Obama a strong proponent of the First Amendment? Does he support free speech, even by those who strongly disagree with him? The answer is: not really. I'll keep track in reverse chronological order (note, of course, that there are other examples throughout the time period): * 10/27/08: Student...
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I suggest taking this with a grain of salt and waiting for a report from others, but: St. Louis and Missouri Democrat sheriffs and top prosecutors are planning to go after anyone who makes false statements against Obama during his campaign... St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St....
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The National Rifle Association is running an advertising campaign (their site) highlighting what they say is Barack Obama's "10 Point Plan to 'Change' the Second Amendment". Their various claims involve him wanting to ban handguns, certain types of ammunition, and so forth. Needless to say, the Obama campaign disagrees, and...
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Shailagh Murray of the Washington Post offers "Obama Answers Critical Question -- About Music" (link). It might just be the most lightweight coverage of Barack Obama from the WaPo yet, although I'm sure there are many other posts and articles from them that compete for that title. Sen. Barack Obama...
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From this report from today: Democrats incorrectly closed a vote on the House floor in August 2007, which would have resulted in Republicans prevailing on an immigration issue, according to a special bipartisan House committee. The committee found that "the vote tally of 212 yeas and 216 nays that was...
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September 24, 2008
Code Pink says [1] Calling it a "major step forward" in relations between Iran and the United States, leading activists Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans of CODEPINK Women for Peace — along with more than 150 other U.S. peace group representatives [2] — met Wednesday afternoon with Iranian president Mahmoud...
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John McCain is temporarily suspending his campaign, donning his cape, and rushing back to Washington in order to save the U.S. from financial ruin. He's also trying to reschedule the "debate" on foreign policy which was originally set for Friday. His full statement is here: ...I am confident that before...
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September 23, 2008
Viveca Novak and Justin Bank of Fact Check offer "Guilt and Associations/McCain once again tries to tar Obama with the controversies of others" about the John McCain ad "Chicago Machine" (factcheck.org/elections-2008/guilt_and_associations.html). The ad links Barack Obama to William Daley, Emil Jones, Tony Rezko, Rod Blagojevich. Per them, the first isn't...
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In 2006, Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. suggested that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce consider registering as a Foreign Agent. Now, from an article entitled "Mexican lobby fights for truck program" (link): The House has made it veto-proof clear: The controversial pilot program allowing big Mexican trucks to cross the U.S....
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Two new related Spanish-language ads from the Barack Obama campaign - unlike their previous effort - don't appear at first glance to contain outright lies in the misstatement of a fact sense. However, they do continue the proud BHO tradition of taking someone's words out of context. In this case,...
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September 22, 2008
It appears that Winner & Associates and/or key employees and/or associates thereof (Ethan Winner, Charles Winner aka Chuck Winner) have been caught red-handed trying to make a Youtube video containing a lie about Sarah Palin go viral. If I were a corporate client of Winner & Associates or even of...
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September 18, 2008
Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), known around here as "Smiley", has started a site called Pork Parade (porkparade.com) which is, per him, "a place to connect and shine a brighter light on Washington's wasteful spending." Those of you using twitter can contact him using #pork, and apparently your "twitter" will appear...
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September 16, 2008
Earlier this month the John McCain campaign released an ad (link, video link) saying in part: "Obama's one accomplishment? Legislation to teach "comprehensive sex education" to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. This has led to a wide variety of BHO supporters - specifically those in...
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Jonathan Martin of the Politico is a sickening hack who's a complete failure as a reporter. His latest "scoop" is falsely titled "Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry" (link). In fact, that McCain advisor was refering to McCain's role in helping develop the telecommunications infrastructure; he wasn't claiming that McCain helped...
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September 15, 2008
Desperately trying to glom onto AntiPalinMania, professor Catherine McNicol Stock - chair of the history department at Connecticut College - offers a hilarious slab of absolute stupidity called "Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest" (link). Summary: Sarah Palin is from the Pacific Northwest; there are many white supremacists and "antistatists"...
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From this: A Republican state representative says the Democrat overseeing a legislative investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of her public safety commissioner seems intent on damaging her vice presidential candidacy. The Republican wants the Democrat removed from the post. Democratic state Sen. Hollis French "appears to be steering the...
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September 13, 2008
From this Associated Press article by Joan Lowy: Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama...
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September 11, 2008
Via this comes this article from Business Week about Barack Obama chief strategist David Axelrod: From the same River North address, Axelrod operates a second business, ASK Public Strategies, that discreetly plots strategy and advertising campaigns for corporate clients to tilt public opinion their way... On behalf of ComEd and...
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September 10, 2008
Earlier today at a press conference in a Beltway conference room far, far away, third party candidates Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin appeared with Papa Bear, aka Ron Paul, to sign on to four principles uniting all their disparate movements and to urge others to support third party...
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September 09, 2008
As pointed out here countless times, the mainstream media has a habit of asking extremely weak questions, not coming up with any sort of follow-up, accepting answers that are just stock speeches as if they contained new information, and not asking about immigration matters unless necessary. But, all that's going...
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September 08, 2008
Alternet is trying to start a smear that Sarah Palin thinks the U.S. Army is on a mission from God. Needless to say, trying to claim that a vice presidential candidate thinks our troops are literally on a crusade is extremely dangerous and those who do so are putting political...
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September 05, 2008
During his GOP convention speech, John McCain was interrupted by a protester named Adam Kokesh, someone who's a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, a Ron Paul supporter, and a future Bob Barr voter. Kokesh held up a sign (per this interview with him) reading "McCain Votes Against Vets"...
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September 02, 2008
According to this schedule of the 2008 Republican National Convention, one of the speakers just now was Tommy Espinoza, president of the Raza Development Fund, Inc. The RDF is a project of the National Council of La Raza, and the NCLR is a far-left, ethnic nationalist group that funds extremists...
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[See the updates, it gets a lot worse: what Paul Kane describes as a "slash[ing]" of funds to a non-profit was over a threefold increase from all the government funds they received in 2006.] Paul Kane of the Washington Post should consider a career as a DailyKos diarist, as he...
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September 01, 2008
On the one hand, it seems that the John McCain campaign didn't do their due diligence - in a GOP, mainstream sense - on vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. On the other hand, Jake Tapper's attempt to break news isn't as bad as the "news" recently coming from DailyKos, as...
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August 30, 2008
I have some very important tips for Ron Paul supporters who are going to "Ronstock '08" in Minneapolis, aka the Rally for the Republic. That's the competing event to the Republican National Convention (held in St. Paul) where RP's supporters will attempt to, in the words of the Associated Press,...
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August 29, 2008
Perky Katie Couric is going to be attending the Republican National Convention next week, and she's looking for questions she can ask. Now, I'm not expecting much of anything, but I did leave four suggestions for her, and so can you. Leave a comment here: digg.com/2008_us_elections/Katie_Diggs_the_Conventions_Part_II Please make your questions...
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August 28, 2008
In his big acceptance speech in Denver, Barack Obama said among many, many other things: Passions fly on immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers. Family separation is one of...
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August 27, 2008
This site doesn't normally stoop so low as to link to a TMZ report where they conduct a sidewalk interview with U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, and she responds in a way that's consistent with those who are high on something. But, I guess it's too late now. Also, in comments...
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The Republican National Committee is working on the draft of their platform, and might have it done tonight in order to be ready to be put up for a vote on Monday. As of yesterday afternoon, it included a sham provision saying "We oppose amnesty". No one supports "amnesty", they...
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On Thursday, Barack Obama will accept Athens' the Democratic Party's endorsement at Denver's Invesco Field on a set resembling a miniature Greek temple. A somewhat close-up is above (via CQ Politics' collection, link). There really isn't much more to be said, except to point to ThinkProgress' lame attempt to...
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August 26, 2008
You could have seen this coming from miles away. The Census Bureau today released their 2007 statistics on poverty and those without health insurance. Also today, Barack Obama lied when he said: "Another 816,000 Americans fell into poverty in 2007 — including nearly 500,000 children — bringing the total increase...
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I am declaring the nadir of Obamamania, as Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) offers a song called "American Prayer", which is along the same lines as previous Obama promotions from Will.I.Am. This one, however, features older nobodies rather than Will.I.Am's habit of featuring nobodies that cater to the teen market....
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August 25, 2008
Dear non-Democrat, non-MSM "citizen journalists" in Denver attending the Democratic National Convention: While I enjoy reading about riots by the far-far-far-left as much as the next Infonaut (link), I believe you're concentrating on the, well, to be frank, low-hanging fruit at the expense of much more important things. I mean,...
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August 23, 2008
Jacob Weisberg of Slate offers If "Obama Loses/Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him" (link). I hopefully don't need to excerpt any of it to point out that it's not only wrong, it's also a roadmap for how the Democratic Party will operate for the next four years...
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Move over B. Hussein Obama! Senator Joseph R. Biden's middle name is Robinette. Now, personally, I'm not going to stoop that low to trying to make jokes about a perfectly reasonable and probably family name, but I have no doubt that some others will. I'm also not going to wonder...
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August 22, 2008
It looks like Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden as his 2008 presidential running mate, with Barak Obama as president and Joe Beiden as vice president. Will they have a new official site, or will they keep barackobama.com? I was considering buying bidenobama2008.com - the only major combination still available...
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August 21, 2008
The twists and turns surrounding Barack Obama's birth certificate appear to have ended with FactCheck.org claiming that they've seen and handled the real certificate, complete with an official stamp and everything. They've even got pictures here. Well, that ends that! Except, all they have is the "Certificate of Live Birth"...
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August 20, 2008
For months I've been encouraging people to get off their couches and ask the candidates tough questions, without luck. But, here's a chance for John McCain fans to ask Obama something McCain wants to know, and it's a very straightforward question about Obama's involvement with William Ayers. For a few...
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August 18, 2008
Barack Obama claims that former terrorist Bill Ayers is little more than a "guy who lives in my neighborhood", but in fact they both worked on education matters for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in the 90s. Some details on this are here and here. Stanley Kurtz tried to gain access...
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Barack Obama appears to be lying again, this time about a 2003 Illinois state bill that mirrored the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The latter passed the Senate unanimously and then was signed by George Bush. Obama's contention in a recent interview with David Brody of CBN (and now CNN)...
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August 17, 2008
Libby Copeland of the Washington Post offers "Bob Barr, the Master of a Curious Universe" (link), and it's both incredibly lightweight and incredibly stupid. First, a preface: while they have a few worthy ideas, libertarians and (especially) Libertarians are generally divorced from the reality that the rest of us share....
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August 14, 2008
The Barack Obama campaign is promulgating to their followers and others a PDF about Jerome Corsi's latest book "Obama Nation"; you can download it here: my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi Some of their debunking in parts of it may be accurate or not, etc. However, in one section they've "creatively edited" Corsi. From the...
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The American Medical Association operates "Voices for the Uninsured" (voicefortheuninsured.org), a website designed to promote their proposal of some form of universal healthcare coverage. On their homepage and elsewhere, they falsely state "47 million Americans are uninsured". In fact, around 10 million of that number are citizens of other countries,...
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John Kerry's "Campaign for Our Country" has started a new website called Truth Fights Back (truthfightsback.com), and it's pretty bad. For instance, consider the post "Barack Obama is not aligned with Weather Underground", which combines 3rd-grade-level writing with 3rd-grade-level thinking. This is the "smear" (truthfightsback.com/site/smear/200): Republicans have repeatedly pushed a...
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August 13, 2008
Jerome Corsi has recently released a book highly critical of BHO called "Obama Nation". Needless to say, the usual suspects are up in arms. But, representing perhaps more the corrupt establishment in general than BHO fans in particular, Kenneth Vogel of The Politico offers the smear piece "Wild theories of...
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August 11, 2008
For over a year, I've been urging people to go to campaign appearances and ask the candidates tough immigration-related questions, without much luck. In a desperate move to get people off their couches, I upped the ante last week: I'll give $100 to the first person who asks Barack Obama...
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From this: There's more to the housing bailout measure than meets the eye, says [Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota)]. She contends that members of Congress need to be called back to Washington to reverse the measure that, among other things, sends millions of taxpayer dollars to a radical illegal immigration advocacy...
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August 10, 2008
Is Barack Obama a dual citizen of Kenya? The "Things you might not know about Barack Obama" post from "The Rocky" of the Rocky Mountain News (link) drops this bomb in the middle of their list: Holds both American and Kenyan (since 1963) citizenship. That's from four days ago and...
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August 09, 2008
A draft of the Democratic National Committee's platform is in this PDF: link. As one might expect, it's full of vague, empty promises. 1. They refer to "the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance", which is a slight step-down from Obama's false claim that there are 47 million...
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August 05, 2008
The four moderators for this year's only presidential "debates" have been selected and they're, of course, four mainstream media hacks. Jim Lehrer of PBS NewsHour will moderate the first presidential debate, Tom Brokaw of NBC News the second (in a townhall format), and Bob Schieffer of CBS News the third....
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August 02, 2008
...and with a Clintonian twist. According to this, he said this earlier today: "I don't think it's accurate to say my comments have nothing to do with race... here's what I was saying, and I think it should be undisputed: I don't come out of central casting when it comes...
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July 31, 2008
The Barack Obama campaign has launched a new mini-site called "Low Road Express". While when I first heard about it I thought it was about BHO playing the race card, it actually turns out to be a site about John McCain's supposed "negative attacks and false charges" (lowroadexpress.com). So, why...
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July 30, 2008
The BHO campaign has sent out emails to me and probably millions of other lucky recipients encouraging us to sign up for a local "Camp Obama" (my.barackobama.com/page/s/campobamaus, my.barackobama.com/page/s/campobama08la), a two-day session where we'd learn how to be effective organizers for the campaign. Hopefully a citizen reporter will sign up to...
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From 2003 to 2005, Beatriz Mancilla served on the Mexican government's Institute for Mexicans Abroad, an advisory council to that government [1]. Serving on that council is basically an admission of divided loyalties, and Mancilla served alongside illegal immigration supporters such as Hector Flores and Enrique Morones. At the same...
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July 28, 2008
If I have any pull with the Barack Obama campaign - and I know I do - I urge them to select Virginia governor Tim Kaine as their vice presidential candidate. And, I do so because Kaine is a veritable genius. But, it's not just that. He's also known for...
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July 25, 2008
The Middlebury Institute sponsored a Zogby Poll about secession and the results are here: One in five American adults - 22% - believe that any state or region has the right to "peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic"... the percentage was slightly higher in the...
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July 24, 2008
Barack Obama spoke in Berlin, Germany today in what shall be called (by me at least) his "scary globalist" speech. I'll leave it to specialists to discuss the rest, but here are some of his prepared remarks: ...the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of...
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July 23, 2008
The group RightMarch is planning a "massive" rally at the Democratic Convention next month to protest illegal immigration. It "will feature dozens of prominent speakers and leaders in the fight for border security". And, it probably won't have much of an impact: Imagine -- 35,000 people, including 15,000 reporters, hearing...
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July 21, 2008
Former Vicente Fox payee Dick Morris has previously stated that one of John McCain's key talking points should be that Barack Obama's universal healthcare plan covers illegal aliens. He has a point, but as he himself admits McCain is probably too wimpy to mention that out of the misguided belief...
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July 19, 2008
No big surprise there. Late last month, the Barack Obama campaign hired Shaun Casey - a professor at Washington DC's Wesley Theological Seminary - as a religious affairs advisor. His exact title varies from report to report, but he'll be leading their outreach to evangelicals. And, he'll be stressing leftwing...
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July 16, 2008
Lionel Sosa is an extremely ethnocentric GOP advertising consultant who worked on George W. Bush's presidential campaigns. Last year, he crossed over and supported Bill Richardson because, as he said at the time, "Blood runs thicker than politics". Now, he's switched back and is working for John McCain: Sosa, the...
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July 15, 2008
Imagine for a moment life without the Internet. Imagine that your only source for information was the MSM, government officials, politicians, lobbyists, screened voters at townhall meetings, and protective staffers with their own agendas. That's a very close approximation to the knowledge base of John McCain: "I am learning to...
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July 13, 2008
Barack Obama spoke at the National Council of La Raza convention earlier today. See below for more on the NCLR. BHO's prepared remarks are here. BHO said many of the things he's said before; apparently his scriptwriters engaged in a lot of copy-and-paste. And, of course, he said many things...
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July 12, 2008
Back on July 2, Barack Obama read his "public service" address, and it contained this line that hasn't received much notice: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set... We've got to have a civilian national security force that's...
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July 11, 2008
John McCain is a sleazy panderer, but he's now shown he can do even worse. The same ad McCain released on Memorial Day - commemorating the service of Hispanics and none others - has been re-released under the title "God's Children". The video is below, and if anyone sees any...
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July 09, 2008
The exact motivations for the Jeff Zeleny/New York Times article "As America Learns About Obama, He Returns the Favor" (link) aren't clear. I don't know whether he thinks he's doing him a favor, or whether his bosses have realized that BHO needs more experience before being selected for something and...
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July 08, 2008
One of Barack Obama's most shocking statements was issued earlier today at a high school in Powder Springs, Georgia, where he said, among other things, the following (link): "We live in a global economy. And, you know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, 'We need to...
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Barack Obama gave an interview to Access Hollywood over the weekend, which was shown on their show as well as the Today Show. He and his family were apparently asked a series of puffball questions (by certified babe Maria Menounos), and they presumably answered with puffball answers. And, needless to...
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Barack Obama spoke to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) earlier today. Some of his remarks were already covered here. The facts the MSM won't tell you about LULAC are here. A pre-convention BHO lie is here. However, there's much more. In fact, too much, but I'll try....
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July 07, 2008
Denver, Colorado's ProgressNow - a group linked to both the Democratic Party and multi-millionaire illegal immigration supporter Jared Polis - is pushing the story of a poor, helpless, 61-year-old part time librarian who was arrested before a John McCain event just because she was holding a sign saying "McCain =...
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Barack Obama seems to think that just pandering isn't enough, he has to lie while doing it. The latest example is a quote relating to his appearance at the LULAC convention [1]: "I want to stop talking about the outrage of 15 million uninsured Hispanics in this country, the largest...
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Barack Obama, John McCain, and even Hillary Clinton will all be speaking at this year's convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), an illegal immigration-supporting group that was once patriotic but has since been radicalized. As shown by the attendees discussed below, the convention will be a...
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July 06, 2008
Need further proof that the Barack Obama candidacy is just an elaborate practical joke? Consider this February story: Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan [the "Global Poverty Act", S.2433] that...
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July 02, 2008
Someone created a user blog at my.barackobama.com and posted quotes from Barack Obama's book "Dreams of my Father". The blog was deleted in short order; details here. (Yes, her). Now for the disclaimer: it's hard to follow the post, so it isn't clear what text is from where; and, the...
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On his swing through Colombia en route to Mexico, John McCain among other things promoted NAFTA, supported the U.S.-Colombian Free Trade Agreement, promoted "free" trade in general, and said "I would like to see a hemispheric free trade agreement" (link). Presumably the "hemispheric" plan would be along the lines of...
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The Netroots/Nutroots is doing something that will hopefully lead to something that I've been pushing for almost two years: regular citizens going to public appearances by politicians and asking them tough questions rather than the puffballs lobbed by the MSM. FireDogLake's Blue America PAC hosts a page where you can...
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Barack Obama's speechwriters continue their sales job, today giving BHO a speech to read about public service. And, on his site you can find a "Plan for Universal Voluntary Public Service" (barackobama.com/issues/service), where he informs us that "this will be a cause of my presidency". I can hardly wait! Further:...
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June 30, 2008
Good news! Protesters at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver in August will be fenced in behind wire, so they can be seen and heard. Authorities are still trying to decide whether chicken or chain link wire will be used, but in any case free speech is alive and well,...
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Eli Saslow of the Washington Post lies in support of Barack Obama while giving him a front page advertisement in the story "In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying" (link). Consider this: On the television in his living room, Peterman has watched enough news and campaign advertisements to...
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June 28, 2008
Per this we're informed that the Democratic National Convention will simulcast their entire event in Spanish. The event will be held in August in Denver, Colorado. Damon Jones from the Convention says: "Spanish is the primary language for more than 35-million people in our country and more than 300-million people...
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June 27, 2008
Massachusetts governor (and Barack Obama quote source) Deval Patrick is back to supporting giving the in-state college tuition rate to illegal aliens (link). He considered trying to sneak it through without getting their legislature involved in January. This time around it's part of a larger proposal, the "Readiness Project", and...
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June 26, 2008
The Commission on Presidential Debates has released their plans for three debates, one in the townhall format, and the other two in a sit-down format. The latter format would negate Barack Obama's height advantage over John McCain. Unfortunately, that format would also result in yet another sham debate: The proposed...
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June 25, 2008
I don't know, you tell me based on this fundraising solicitation - thankfully deprived of actionable links - in which he complains that if John McCain or Barack Obama win they'll push amnesty. He also stresses border security. In fact, he stresses it so much, and to the exclusion of...
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June 19, 2008
Congratulations to Paul Waldman of Media Matters for America, who's just now won the BOSA, also known as the Barack Obama Sycophant Award, the Toady, the Yglesias, and other names too numerous to mention! Last seen here calling the NAFTA Superhighway a myth and then admitting that it exists in...
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According to a new ad from the Barack Obama campaign (link), he was brought up with "values straight from the Kansas heartland", including "love of country". Out with the "Black Values System", in with the "Kansas Values System"! And, some might even buy it, even those bitter folks clinging to...
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June 18, 2008
Larry Sinclair is a currently Duluth-based man about town with a long rap sheet (link) who claims that he had homosexual sex with Barack Obama in 1999 (link). At the same time, Sinclair claims that - after he gave him the money to go run for it - he used...
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From this: In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA. "Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified," he...
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June 16, 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama will be speaking at the National Council of La Raza convention in July, and McCain has proposed to BHO that they square off at a townhall meeting at the extremist-funding and -awarding racial power group's event (link). Says McCain: "There is a meeting in...
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June 15, 2008
Ross Perot has a new site called PerotCharts.com (h/t David Broder, link). Watch the Larry King schedule for impending appearances. The charts on the site are related to and in part derived from the work done by former Comptroller General David Walker, who resigned earlier this year in order to...
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June 14, 2008
Almost a year and a half ago I created a satirical petition called "Require Global Warming Classes in All Public Schools" (link). A couple months ago I created a video with a similar theme. From my humor to Barack Obama's seriousness, as a month ago he sponsored a bill called...
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June 13, 2008
Lou Dobbs is rumored to be considering running for governor of New Jersey, but in a voice mail message to an NJ newspaper he denied it (link). Note, however, that he said he wasn't "considering anything right now", so that might change. Needless to say, such a rumor is like...
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June 12, 2008
Ron Paul has suspended his presidential campaign and will be transferring $4.7 million in donations to a new group to be called "The Campaign for Liberty". They'll be engaging in online advocacy via videos and blogs and supporting other candidates for office (link). And, per reason.com/blog/show/127008.html, they'll be encouraging his...
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Barack Obama is moving parts of the Democratic National Committee ("DNC") to Chicago. While it's a wonderful town aside from being flat as a pancake, it's known for very dirty politics (in U.S. terms). So, Obama should fit right in. Per this, "Obama's senior staff will largely take over the...
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June 11, 2008
For an unknown reason, on June 10, 2008 Jake Tapper of ABC News posted an entry entitled "Dragged Kicking and Screaming, Tancredo Will Pull Lever for McCain". The reader might remember that from a couple months ago, yet Tapper posted it like it happened just recently and with no acknowledgement...
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June 10, 2008
From this: Jim Johnson, the disciplined, discreet and obsessively meticulous vice presidential vetter for Barack Obama, is a stalwart of the Washington establishment... In the mid-1990s, he headed up a power trifecta: mortgage giant Fannie Mae, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Brookings Institution... Yet...
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The annual National Council of La Raza convention - to be held July 12 to 15 in San Diego - will be a star-studded affair. We already knew that John McCain was going to speak to them, now comes the not-so-surprising word that Barack Obama will also make an appearance...
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June 04, 2008
On a conference call today (link via this), Matt Lewis of Townhall asked John McCain about his Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez, a former cabinet level official with the Mexican government who worked directly with Vicente Fox. He's also appeared on several cable TV shows promoting a "free flow" of...
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June 03, 2008
Barack Obama's speech announcing that he's the Democratic Party's nominee is here. Admidst all the puffery and empty promises - probably written by someone else - this stands out: I honor [John McCain's] service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. Ohhhkay. While being...
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Get used to saying "President John McCain", because Barack Obama has supposedly clinched the Democratic nomination. Assuming a matchup between McCain and Obama, I predict that BHO has a 0.1% chance of being elected our next president. Further, I predict that McCain will win by at least 10 points. (And,...
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June 02, 2008
Showing intense, heroic bravery, Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr has denounced two white nationalists who endorsed him, including one who is just a commenter on a message board (reason.com/blog/show/126790.html). Barr's campaign manager says: The Barr campaign is not going to be a vehicle for every fringe and hate group to...
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May 30, 2008
Most people agree that the three lowest forms of comedy are sarcasm, stand-up, and making fun of Andrew Sullivan. The latter is also rather difficult since he makes a lot of posts, and all of them are pretty stupid. However, just to fulfill our quota, consider a recent one where...
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Earlier this week, Arizona governor Janet Napolitano met with Vicente Fox to discuss immigration matters. Two Mexican newspaper reports are linked from here, and neither go into much detail on what was discussed, and, while the conversation was supposedly friendly but "firm", it's not difficult to imagine that the two...
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May 29, 2008
Chris Bowers of Open Left has started a project called "Searching for John McCain" in which he wants bloggers and others to create a "Googlebomb" designed to get MSM articles that have negative information on John McCain to the top of that search engine's results: openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6044 The approach is supposedly...
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May 26, 2008
For Memorial Day, the John McCain campaign has released the following video to Youtube and on his site [1]. Rather than commemorating all veterans, McCain has focused on one group: Hispanics. From the script: My friends, I want you, the next time you're down in Washington, D.C., to go to...
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May 25, 2008
The results 0.2% of the country have been waiting for are finally in: Bob Barr has been nominated as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. It's unfortunate that the loons at the LP couldn't have nominated someone entertaining. Now that it's apparently official, this means that Bob Barr can finally get...
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May 23, 2008
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post - last seen here lying about Tom Tancredo - offers "Obama as You've Never Known Him!" (link), a sleazy slab of mockery attempting to portray those who have legitimate questions about the various links Barack Obama has as believers in UFOs. He discusses a...
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May 22, 2008
On April 9, 2008 I sent an email to Stephen Gordon asking him to provide me with Bob Barr's full immigration position since that listed on his site is quite sparse and in interviews he hasn't been pinned down on specifics. Gordon said that Doug Bandow would be coming up...
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May 20, 2008
Some forms of MSM deception are so gross you have to wonder why they'd put their reputations on the line. I guess they're playing a numbers game, assuming that they'll be able to fool many more people than learn the truth. Today's egregious example involves the big Obama rally in...
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May 19, 2008
The Internets are abuzz with the rumor that there's a video tape of Barack Obama's wife Michelle Obama railing against "whitey" at Reverend Wright's church. At post time the video - if it even exists - has not been released. Our new buddy Larry Johnson says that Karl Rove has...
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May 16, 2008
The John McCain campaign is requiring all their staff members, volunteers, and vendors to disclose lobbying links and the like: No person working for the Campaign may be a registered lobbyist or foreign agent, or receive compensation for any such activity. I'm going to guess that "foreign agent" is meant...
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May 08, 2008
The Washington Times - last seen imposing new, euphemism-friendly guidelines - offers the editorial "McCain's quest for the Hispanic vote". After a preliminary, and partially incorrect, intro describing the "Hispanic vote", they sink lower than they have in the past: In an effort to attract Latinos and stem the tide...
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May 06, 2008
Yesterday on his show, Rush Limbaugh said this about an event where he ran into Bill Clinton and someone else: I shook his hand, he left, comes back, the mayor of Los Angeles, I thought it was a Secret Service agent, maybe a shoeshine guy. Turns out he gives me...
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May 05, 2008
"Feliz Cinco de Mayo" from John McCain, as he launches a Spanish-language section of his website: johnmccain.com/espanol There's a "hablando claro" ("straight talk") link at the top which should give background on his policies, and I was expecting it to say something in Spanish that he wouldn't say on his...
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May 02, 2008
Yesterday former Joe Biden campaign worker and Barack Obama supporter Marty Parrish, at a townhall meeting in Iowa, asked John McCain about a sleazy charge in a recent book that he called his wife a "c--t". The charge appears in a book by Cliff Schecter, associated with Brave New Films,...
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April 29, 2008
Youtube and Google are working with local politicians to have a presidential debate in September in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here's the announcement video: Unfortunately, based on their past history, the "debate" will be like the CNN/Youtube "debates", featuring puffball after puffball which the candidates will simply answer with their stock...
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April 27, 2008
Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday finally got to interview Barack Obama, and the transcript is here. There is one mention of "immigration" in the entire transcript, and it's only an aside: Over the years, John McCain has broken with his party and risked his career on a number of...
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From this: In 1995, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created to raise funds to help reform the Chicago public schools. One of the architects of the Challenge was none other than Professor Bill Ayers. Ayers co-wrote the initial grant proposal and proudly lists himself on his own website as the...
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April 21, 2008
Barack Obama has refused to appear at a North Carolina debate which was to be held on April 27. The moderator of the debate? None other than the lovely and talented Democratic cheerleader Katie Couric. There's certainly no reason for him to have attended the event since he's got the...
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April 18, 2008
FingerGate (aka MiddleFingerGate) enters its bitter second day with some people saying that, during a sequence of semaphoric hand gestures (!) at a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina yesterday, Barack Obama flipped off (aka gave the bird to, gave the finger to) Hillary Clinton. The campaign's video is here, it...
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April 17, 2008
A few days ago a group of libertarians in Washington DC decided to hold a flash mob at the Jefferson Memorial and gathered with their iPods to dance at midnight, for one uninteresting reason or other. They apparently weren't causing a disturbance, there was apparently only a few other people...
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April 16, 2008
Tonight's ABC News Democratic debate starring Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulous with appearances by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was apparently fairly bad to very bad, depending on one's partisan inclination (transcript link). It was very bad to Obama supporters, who were dismayed by the debate focusing on "trivialities" such...
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April 15, 2008
Mike Huckabee has launched his own Political Action Committee (PAC) called, euphonically enough, "Huck PAC" (huckpac.com), saying: "Our goal is to secure a better future for our country by changing our punitive tax system, standing firm for the sanctity of life and traditional marriage, and protecting our borders and giving...
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April 14, 2008
A 1995 profile of Barack Obama had this news which was apparently a minor stir a couple weeks ago: Obama took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October's Million Man March in Washington, D.C. Needless to say, that event was organized by and featured a keynote speech from...
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Very short video with just one more data point illustrating what's wrong with CNN and the MSM in general. A lightweight question like the following would never be featured in a real debate, in fact it sounds like something from a Politburo "debate". This was from the 2/21/08 "debate", for...
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April 13, 2008
The following is fake, but the picture is real: the New York senator downed a shot of Crown Royal whiskey, had a beer and chomped down a slice of cheese pizza, as her aides rushed to fill her request for another slice, with pepperoni... To make it even better, it...
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April 11, 2008
Speaking in San Francisco at a fundraiser for the wealthy (and in Marin County no less; pictures of his tour here), Barack Obama smeared Pennsylvanians and others by saying: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the...
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The U.S. Department of Justice administers the Foreign Agents Registration Act (usdoj.gov/criminal/fara; "FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal"), and the WashTimes has cross-checked some...
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April 08, 2008
Various Democrats have said and done some surreal things, but certainly a contender for their Top 100 list is this press release from the Democratic National Committee (via this) complaining about a Google ad John McCain is running. Well, actually, they aren't complaining about the ad itself, only the fact...
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April 06, 2008
John McCain offers an interminable web ad called "Tolerance" (link), which basically says we shouldn't hate on each other. It's akin to something that employees are forced to watch at their indoctrinations or when they need reeducating, and it's difficult to imagine it coming from even Barack Obama or Hillary...
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April 05, 2008
Former Republican representative from Georgia Bob Barr has joined the Libertarian Party and thrown his hat into the ring for president of the U.S. He's certainly the most mainstream, most sane person to run Libertarian for a long time, if not forever. He "occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for...
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April 02, 2008
In the future, animatronics will probably be used to produce fake videos featuring politicians in "compromising situations". For now, we can watch newly-joined Libertarian Mike Gravel (D-Pluto) do it to himself, making a music video featuring The Beatles song forever associated with a heinous crime that mortified the nation:...
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March 31, 2008
In an absurdly obvious attempt at pandering, Barack Obama wants to make Cesar Chavez' birthday a national holiday (barackobama.com/2008/03/31/obama_calls_for_national_holid.php): ...As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago... Just one problem: unlike...
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March 28, 2008
Senator Bob Casey, Democrat from Pennsylvania, has endorsed Barack Obama and will go on tour with him. Per an Obama flack: "There are few stronger advocates for working families in Pennsylvania than Sen. Casey." Yes indeed, and it doesn't matter whether they're U.S. citizens or citizens of foreign countries who...
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March 23, 2008
I confess that when the Eliot Spitzer story broke I felt like I'd won four free hours with Ashley Alexandra DuPre's librarian cousin and put aside all concerns about whether there was something else involved. Frankly, after the issue with driver's licenses for illegal aliens I didn't really care. However,...
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March 21, 2008
The brain trust of Reason Magazine, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, offer "Where the votes are". The laugh-a-minute article tries to pretend that the libertarian vote means something: As David Boaz of the Cato Institute and David Kirby of America's Future Foundation note in a study of public opinion polls,...
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March 19, 2008
Sean Hannity is digging up dirt on yet another radical preacher linked to Barack Obama. This time it's Reverend James Meeks of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, whose day job is as an Illinois state senator. However, this time around the links are a bit more tenuous than in the...
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The Mickster deconstructs Obama's Sermon on Racism here, listing several problems with it. Commenter "fhdpjosc" offers this followup: [Obama's] rhetoric is very carefully crafted to appeal to two different audiences: black and white. And the language he uses leaves each audience with opposite understandings. ...For example, Mickey calls this Obama...
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March 16, 2008
Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has a new crusade: trying to stop the Fox News "virus" that supposedly spreads from Fox to the rest of the MSM, specifically as it relates to criticism of Barack Obama. Their foxattacks.com/virus page makes it clear that, if Greenwald had his way, Fox...
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March 13, 2008
National Public Radio (NPR) has launched a new site called "Get My Vote" (getmyvote.npr.org), at which they solicit commentaries from their listeners describing what presidential candidates have to do to get their vote. Visitors can submit commentaries in video, audio, or text form. Think if it as a Volvo-driving version...
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March 12, 2008
Yesterday's Lou Dobbs show on CNN featured a video clip from earlier that day of Barack Obama lying about Dobb's position on deportations (transcript link, video link): When I hear Rush Limbaugh or you know Lou Dobbs or some of these people talking about how we need to send them...
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March 10, 2008
[UPDATE: Fox News reports he will resign. In his press conference he didn't say anything about that, but another event is set for 7pm NY time. UPDATE 2: Mob links? This says it's in the court papers (PDF link), but a quick scan didn't bring anything up. That would indeed...
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March 09, 2008
From this: Taking no chances, Daley called Obama in for a series of meetings that lasted two months. Obama’s major problem with Daley was that he was a corrupt sonnovabith, having just seen 4 of his top aides convicted in the city’s largest patronage scandal. It seemed a given that...
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Democrat Bill Foster beat Republican Jim Oberweis 53% to 47% in a special election for Dennis Hastert's former House seat in Illinois (link). Foster will only serve until the end of the year; a new election will take place in November for the full term. There are no doubt many...
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March 06, 2008
Ever-excitable Andy (link) and others (link, link, etc.) are up in arms over this report pointing out where "NAFTAgate" - the story that Barack Obama's senior economic policy advisor reassured Canada that the candidate's position on NAFTA was mostly just bluster - originated: A candid comment to journalists from CTV...
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March 05, 2008
A group called "Campaign to Defend America" ("CDA") has released an anti-John McCain ad that you can see here. They're supposedly going to be spending in the low seven figures running it on TV. It points out various ways that McCain is "McSame as Bush". Cute. And, it also ends...
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March 03, 2008
As previously discussed, Barack Obama senior economic policy advisor Austan Goolsbee discussed the candidate's position on NAFTA with Canadian government officials, supposedly letting them know that his anti-NAFTA statements were simply political posturing. Now, a Canadian government memo on the meeting has been released, despite previous denials of such a...
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March 01, 2008
Hillary Clinton supporter, San Francisco real estate developer, and Harvard center head Walter Shorenstein is complaining about pro-Barack Obama bias by the MSM. Beth Fouhy of the Associated Press writes (link): ..."I am absolutely outraged with the media coverage of the presidential campaign," Shorenstein wrote in the memo, which was...
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February 28, 2008
According to the following report from Canada's CTV, last month a senior representative of the Barack Obama campaign called Canada's ambassador to the U.S. and informed him that, despite any anti-NAFTA statements Obama might make, it would all just be bluster and he wouldn't really mean it. Supposedly a Clinton...
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February 24, 2008
Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton support NAFTA, but Obama is trying to say her support is stronger. Or something. From this: Barack Obama accused Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday of trying to walk away from a long record of support for NAFTA, the free trade agreement...
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February 21, 2008
I won't be live-blogging it, but I can tell already that tonight's Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be a disgrace. Some part of that is due to the fact that one of the questioners is Jorge Ramos of Univision. He's not only a supporter of cultural...
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February 18, 2008
And, no, I don't just say that because of Michelle Obama's slightly-possibly-open-to-interpretation statement that: for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country (The quote here apparently initially left out the "really", and that version was spread around; I'm going to assume with some...
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February 17, 2008
One brave politician (other than John McCain) is willing to call amnesty "amnesty". Unfortunately, that politician is none other than Cynthia McKinney. Wrap your mind around this: This Draft Manifesto was produced by a group of Reconstruction Party activists who met in New Orleans on Saturday, Jan. 26 in support...
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The Queen's minions have been busy digging up dirt on the Man of Hope. First up is Larry Johnson with this warning about Barack Obama's links to three questionable figures: Tony Rezko, William Ayers, and Rashid Khalidi. The first will go on trial later this month, the second is a...
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February 16, 2008
David Walker - until Friday the U.S. Comptroller General and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) - has quit apparently in order to continue warning about overspending and the general dire condition he perceives we're in without being hampered in what he can say. He'll be joining the new...
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Ripping a page from Mr. Power Glutes himself, I'm announcing a new feature, the awarding of The Peter Slevin Award for Mainstream Media Puffery. The first winner of the award is [...drumroll...] Peter Slevin of the Washington Post, who on February 12 offered "Ebullient Obama Rallies in Madison" (link), a...
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February 14, 2008
As with other Democrats (and some Republicans), Barack Obama's campaign features group identities as one of the key features of their outreach, and that can be seen in the "People" menu at their site. For instance, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders have their very own special page at aapi.barackobama.com. Americans...
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February 11, 2008
Via this and newsbusters.org/blogs/d-s-hube/2008/02/11/another-flag-issue-obama, we learn that a Cuban flag - superimposed with an image of Che Guevara - is on the wall of Barack Obama's Houston office. The report is here, and the segment showing the flag is below: The three ladies are apparently volunteers who apparently simply opened...
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In the unlikely case that anyone's opposition to John McCain needed bolstering, now comes George W. Bush's brother and Florida governor Jeb Bush: "John McCain is a patriot and devoted conservative leader... Like no other candidate in the field, John McCain has made tremendous sacrifices for this nation. He is...
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February 07, 2008
John McCain has picked up key endorsements from three current and one former border state governors. First up: President Bush plans to give an implicit endorsement of onetime rival John McCain's conservative bona fides tomorrow [at CPAC] as the Arizona senator seeks to consolidate the party behind his candidacy... Bush...
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February 06, 2008
Gov. Dr. Howard Dean M.D. has declared John McCain the GOP nominee and is already outlining his battle plan [1]: How we'll beat John McCain ...After championing campaign finance reform and ethics legislation to score political points, he now has a staggering amount of lobbyists involved in every aspect of...
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February 05, 2008
The nutroots/netroots and some of those with links to the Mexican government were backing Mark Pera in a primary House race against fellow Democrat and incumbent Rep. Dan Lipinski. The latter appears to have soundly come out ahead, 53% to 26% with over 3/4 of precincts counted....
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As a non-partisan (i.e., independent) voter in California, I was allowed to vote in the Democratic primary. And, I did so. And, for Hillary Clinton. On the one hand, Obama is the weaker general candidate, someone who a few pointed questions at townhall meetings could knock out of the race....
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The Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, and John McCain campaigns were apparently in on a deal that caused Huckabee to win West Virginia's delegates. From an official Ron Paul press release (link): In an agreement first reported by West Virginia television station WSAZ, the three Ron Paul delegates were secured through...
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February 03, 2008
On May 1, 2006 Barack Obama marched and spoke at the big Chicago illegal immigration march, an event whose main organizers include several people with links to the Mexican government and Mexican political parties. On this recent video, Maria Elena Durazo of the AFL-CIO - now a national co-chair of...
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I can't make sense of this, via this, nor will I try to. However, I fully expect it to start becoming part of an email chain, if it isn't already. Basically, there's supposedly some sort of hand-written Russian document from the GRU - Russian military intelligence - archives that will...
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January 27, 2008
Is Barack Obama a Muslim who practices Islam and who attended a madrassa (madrasa) in Indonesia? Despite whatever emails you might have received, it appears that the answer to that is no. According to him, he's a "committed Christian" (link). His church is the Trinity United Church of Christ, whose...
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January 26, 2008
From this: [Rick Davis, John McCain's current campaign manager and current or former president of the McCain-associated Reform Institute] helped arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire [Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska] whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S....
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January 25, 2008
John McCain's Hispanic outreach director [1] is Juan Hernandez, a U.S.-Mexico dual citizen and former Mexican government official who said the following in 2001 about Mexican immigrants to the U.S.: "I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think 'Mexico first.'" He also said [2]:...
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January 24, 2008
Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger join forces to offer "Beyond Payday Loans". The two promote plans to help the "unbanked" (those without checking accounts), and in so doing completely mislead about the seemy underbelly of their proposals: the San Francisco program they mention is designed in large part to give...
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January 22, 2008
I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave a full analysis of the following video to professional media critics, but I know there's a lot of stuff there. It features America Ferrera - flash-in-the-pan star of Ugly Betty - campaigning prior to the Nevada caucuses with to-the-manor-born Chelsea Clinton. And,...
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January 21, 2008
There seem to be a large number of sock puppets (per Wikipedia an "online identity used for purposes of deception within an Internet community") running loose on various blog sites and leaving comments supporting various candidates such as Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, and occasionally others. Now, certainly, many or most...
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Tonight's CNN "debate" (link) was as worthless as all the others have been, featuring just one very basic, very weak question about immigration matters. Joe Johns - CNN "reporter" who left whatever little journalistic integrity he had back in Jena, LA - asked: Senator Obama, we all know what universal...
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January 19, 2008
Here's a chart showing the differences between the entrance poll percentages for the Republican candidates in the Nevada caucus for whites and Latinos (link) vs. the percentage of the vote they received with 95% of reports in (link). Each number is the entrace poll percentage minus the near-final result. Those...
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January 17, 2008
Does Barack Obama belong to an anti-white, far-left church? Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ certainly appears to have made some interesting statements (link, link, link). The last includes excerpts from Obama's book. The candidate to a certain extent responds here, for instance saying that...
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January 16, 2008
I'm not 100% completely a fan of Lou Dobbs for various reasons, mostly because he doesn't seem that willing to end the careers of some of those he interviews by relentlessly hammering them on their lies. On the other hand, he still has to get guests so I can understand...
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Yet another Democratic debate was held yesterday on MSNBC, featuring Brian Williams and Tim Russert as moderators (transcript link). It was as ripped-from-the-Soviet-archives as we've come to expect from such debates, only this featured even more questions solely about process and horserace and even fewer about issues. It also featured...
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January 15, 2008
While John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama tour the countryside telling prospective voters just how bad things are, some people in Capitol City are living it up: those lucky few who get to dine at the U.S. House of Representatives' own eating establishments. Thanks to Nancy Pelosi's "Greening the...
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January 11, 2008
Details here....
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January 08, 2008
James Kirchick of the New Republic - home of the odious Jason Zengerle - offers "Angry White Man/The bigoted past of Ron Paul", an attempt by the Beltway establishment to sink his candidacy by revealing excerpts from his old newsletters. Apparently much or all of it was ghostwritten, and the...
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January 06, 2008
Last night, Charlie Gibson of ABC News moderated two debates sponsored by WMUR and Facebook, featuring the Republican candidates and then the Democrats. Like all the preceding debates, it was like something ripped from the pages of the Soviet Union. First, the Democrat version (transcript link) does not feature a...
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January 03, 2008
Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have won the Iowa Caucuses. Neither are qualified for any elected office, and for the same reason: their strong support for illegal immigration. However, the good news is that should they continue on they'll be extremely vulnerable on that issue and it might lead to...
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December 22, 2007
From this: Federal prosecutors for the first time brought their corruption investigation to the desk of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, making public Friday the allegations of two convicted insiders who say the governor offered them state business for their political backing. In a 78-page court filing that identifies the governor only...
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December 18, 2007
Apparently there's been some sort of cosmic shakeup or something, because the Washington Post has finally told the truth about something relating to immigration. Bearing in mind that this is probably just a fluke, Michael Dobbs' "Fact Checker" column basically agrees with my earlier assessment and says: Asked about the...
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December 17, 2007
Last week, a fifth-grader asked Barack Obama a raw question about immigration and terrorism at a stop in Iowa. Obama's response shows that he's not qualified for any political office:...
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December 15, 2007
Rudy Giuliani gave a big speech in Florida earlier today, and his remarks as prepared for delivery are here: joinrudy2008.com/article/pr/1085 [After my administration ends] We'll hand over a country where we've ended illegal immigration where it has to be done - at the border. And also a country who's arms...
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December 11, 2007
George P. Bush ("George Prescott Bush") has joined the Fred Thompson as the National Chair of his "Young Professionals for Fred Thompson" group. This is at least the second link he has to the Bush family. "P." is a budding racial demagogue who spoke out against the Border Patrol's use...
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It's odd how even the mention of the name "Mike Huckabee" on a blog or similar will trigger an avalanche of glassier-eyed-than-many-Ron-Paul supporters ready to leave generic comments. Whether these are from real supporters or those who are paid to be the same, many of them have the same tenor....
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December 08, 2007
Speaking on the John McLaughlin Group, Lawrence O'Donnell (Senior Political Analyst at MSNBC) smeared the entire Mormon religion and all adherents including Mitt Romney, calling it racist and pro-slavery in a lengthy tirade. This post will be updated if video of his meltdown becomes available. UPDATE: You can watch his...
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December 07, 2007
He explains why here, and it's pretty good. Any political debate is aimed at citizens. It is about issues of concern to the entire community, not a segment of the community. It is vital that all political debates and discussions take place in the public square, not in separate enclaves....
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December 05, 2007
Youtube and/or CNN censored the list of video replies to their raw footage of the recent CNN/Youtube GOP debate. On November 29, 2007 I uploaded two highly critical videos about the previous night's debate, and added them as replies to two of the CNN/Youtube-provided videos. My videos were in the...
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December 04, 2007
Perky Katie Couric [1] has decided to do something about the MSM's complete inability to call the presidential candidates on their endless lies and misleading statements, and will be asking them a series of tough questions in the coming days ("10 Tough Questions For 10 Top Candidates", link). And, I...
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NPR held a Democratic debate earlier today, and it currently looks like they asked a few incredibly weak questions on immigration that simply allowed the candidates to give their stock speeches. Not only that, but the questions appear to have been designed to make the candidates look slightly reasonable by...
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December 02, 2007
The "Iowa Brown and Black Forum" was held yesterday. Edwards gave a shout out to Obama and said he wants to raise the minimum wage to $9.50; B. Hussein Obama agreed. Then, the card games began, with Obama saying: "When America gets a cold, black and brown America get pneumonia,...
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[UPDATE: I didn't listen, but it looks like NPR did a CNN on immigration.] On Tuesday, December 4, NPR will be holding a radio-only presidential debate featuring the Democratic candidates from 11am to 1pm Pacific, so be sure a leave a note on the dash of your Volvo. A GOP...
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David Broder offers the completely clueless "Republicans would be wise to tab McCain and Huckabee" (link). He wants that ticket explicitly due to their immigration stances. And, Broder not only fails to do his job but he may be spreading Huckabee misinformation and he's being misleading about a program Huckabee...
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December 01, 2007
Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times offers "CNN: Corrupt News Network". He calls CNN "corrupt" for spending so much time on immigration matters, explicitly saying it was an attempt to boost Lou Dobbs' ratings. More on that mostly unbelievable charge below. ...this most recent debacle masquerading as a presidential...
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November 30, 2007
Someone with a supposed bomb strapped to his chest took hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in New Hampshire earlier today. Indications are that he's released the hostages and that he's a local man who was known to have issues. Hopefully it will work out peacefully. The political impact will...
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November 29, 2007
Part 1 is here. At last night's debate, CNN gave Mike Huckabee so much time to demagogue college discounts for illegal aliens that they didn't give Mitt Romney enough time to make the essential point that what Huckabee supported would have deprived U.S. citizens of college discounts. They also failed...
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Analyzing all the ways that CNN and Youtube are trying to lead America astray with their bogus "debates" would take a tremendous amount of time. So, I'm just going to look at two of the ways (Part 2 is here). The first is keyed to this video, the question asking...
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November 28, 2007
[UPDATE: Videos showing how CNN went wrong here and here.] 1. Huckster really showed how to demagogue, changing what appeared to be a question about giving illegal aliens college discounts into an answer generating pro-military applause. Romney made the important point that there's only so much money to go around......
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November 27, 2007
A running Dennis Kucinich artifact is "Campaign Updates" featuring a business-suited female anchor in a newsroom-style set (example here). Watching a couple of these in the past, my first thought was, "where's Kevin Trudeau? Will Dennis himself be showing up to try to sell us herbal supplements?" Not only do...
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November 26, 2007
The presidential debates so far have been a mockery of a sham, featuring shallow questions, few follow-ups, and even worse in the case of the last CNN debate. The following video proposes a new type of debate. Each candidate - together with their policy advisors - would face off with...
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November 23, 2007
The second Youtube/CNN debate will be held on Wednesday, November 28, and I can tell already it's going to be as bad - if not worse - than the first one. They'll ask a series of lightweight questions, and throw in a few humorous entries designed to portray those on...
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November 21, 2007
Mark Kleiman - someone who is shockingly a UCLA professor - writes [1]: The Bush Administration plans to steal hundreds of thousands of votes, most of them Democratic votes, in the 2008 elections by the simple expedient of sitting on new citizenship applications until after the elections. He links to...
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10 Questions.com lets people vote on their favorite questions for the political candidates, which their MSM partners (NYT and MSNBC) will presumably try to get the candidates to answer (two have already come in: youtube.com/profile?user=10ques). My issue with the site is that it allows those who can drive traffic to...
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The mainstream media has been working feverishly to promote Mike Huckabee, as have various low-level Democrats. Are those completely unrelated, or is the MSM taking their marching orders from the Democratic Party? And, is The Huckster being promoted because: 1. They're simply reporting on what's happening... 2. They just need...
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November 20, 2007
Rudy Giuliani held a conference call earlier today, and "Captain Ed" says (captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016063.php): Iowa wants to know about the NAFTA superhighway coming through the state -- Giuliani will not support any kind of NAFTA superhighway, anywhere. What a relief! Of course, as detailed at the last link, Juliani's law firm...
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November 18, 2007
The following video describes how CNN failed to note the material affiliations of some of the audience members who asked questions at Thursday's Democratic debate. And, one of the audience questions included an outrageous lie. Since CNN approved the questions in advance, they're responsible for that lie. Here's a rundown...
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November 17, 2007
Thursday's CNN Democratic debate featured more than wimpy questions and a CNN-approved lie. Some of the audience members who asked questions weren't just regular Joes and Janes. And, CNN failed to disclose those links. From the transcript: [Wolf Blitzer:] you're going to be hearing directly from voters here in Nevada....
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November 15, 2007
Just started watching, and so far both questions CNN has gone to the audience for had major issues. First, the claim that the questioner was racially profiled is just that: a claim, not a fact. Second, the question about immigration contained a lie: terrorists have indeed crossed our southern border,...
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November 14, 2007
One unremarked note about the topic of Hillary Clinton's weakness is that some of her minions, while effective, are also lightweights. Media Matters has been able to get a few of their smears into the wider sphere, but they've also damaged what little reputation they had by failing to contextualize...
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November 10, 2007
Holy Globalism! It was like a tinfoil festival as sometime in the 90s (perhaps July 16, 1994), Rudy Giuliani presented an award to David Rockefeller at a meeting of the Business Council for the United Nations [1]. In his laudatory introduction, he mentioned all the globalist groups with which DR...
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November 09, 2007
From this: Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy. Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted the question and said it would not happen again....
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November 03, 2007
Would you put it past the New York Times to try to subliminally program their visitors to think ill of those who oppose their support for illegal immigration? (All five of you who think the NYT wouldn't stoop that low should read NYT: Toothless yokels against Senate immigration grand compromise!...
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November 02, 2007
The article "NYC Chinatown Donorgate Under-Covered" has a roundup of the coverage that Hillary Clinton's large donations from dishwashers and other low-wage Chinese immigrant donors - some who can't be found - has received, then says that some of the missing donors come from an area known for immigrants from...
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October 31, 2007
The United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty has been voted 17-4 out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, meaning it will now be voted on by the Senate; when exactly isn't known. See the brief introduction from Sen. James Inhofe here, and see the first link for background information....
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An example of just how much of a public disservice the presidential "debates" have been is offered in John Edwards' answers to a couple questions from NBC News' Brian Williams at last night's Democratic debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia (link, direct link). Williams asked this: Senator Edwards, should there...
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October 30, 2007
Showing just how sleazy and incompetent the Democratic Party is, their Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wants people to go to campaign events and - rather than ask tough questions about policy - help them craft smears [1]: With 2008 fast approaching, the DCCC is urgently mobilizing our Rapid Responders to...
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October 29, 2007
The Democrats and some Republicans want to ratify the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, which would give a UN body control over 70% of the Earth's surface and would allow them to create a de facto global taxation system. On Thursday, November 1 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
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10Questions.com is a new site that aggregates Youtube and similar political videos and allows visitors to vote on their favorite. The top 10 will then be asked of the presidential candidates, with the candidates then asked to upload replies. The site is co-sponsored by several blogs as well as the...
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October 25, 2007
Mike Glover of the Associated Press offers a partial lionization of Mike Huckabee in "Iowans Gives Huckabee a Second Look". It's similar to the Adam Nagourney puff piece, starting with: Mike Huckabee, who strums a bass guitar and cracks jokes at campaign stops, is quietly establishing himself with Iowa voters...
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October 22, 2007
On July 6, 2004 Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee - currently a presidential contender - spoke on his monthly radio show and, responding to a caller's question about illegal aliens, said the following: "If they're illegal they're not about to show up at some public institution and say I'd like funds...
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October 17, 2007
This site "techPresident" (techpresident.com) has launched a new feature called "10 Questions" that's highly similar to the existing site Community Counts (one of those behind CC is involved in 10Q). Basically, people will upload video questions for the candidates, others will vote on the top questions, the top ten questions...
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October 11, 2007
As part of his pledge to "end illegal immigration", Rudy Giuliani wants to require all foreigners in the U.S. to carry a biometric ID card. As discussed at the link, that would either be ineffective or it would eventually result in a national ID card for all. Back in 1986,...
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October 08, 2007
This video shows how you can make Ron Paul a top-tier candidate, specifically by reducing the popularity of his opponents. The video mainly consists of a series of text screens and the script is below. This shouldn't be considered an endorsement of Ron Paul; while I support him on sovereignty-related...
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October 02, 2007
The far-left is on the warpath, with General Wesley Clark calling for Rush Limbaugh to be removed from Armed Forces Radio as part of a followup to a MediaMatters-originated smear. That follows the same group having smeared Bill O'Reilly, and, apparently unrelated to that, the San Francisco supervisors (led by...
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September 30, 2007
Republican National Committee general chairman Mel Martinez may quit his post as soon as a GOP candidate emerges, sources say. And, I say, "mind the door, and farethee well". ...News of his departure comes as Republican candidates are criticized for skipping forums aimed at Hispanic and black voters, and reports...
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Brave New Films is a sleazy [1], left-wing organization, akin to the low-rent Hollywoodish version of ThinkProgress. A few days ago, John Ehrenfeld from that site tried to attend [2] a Rudy Giuliani appearance, only to be kicked out apparently after Guiliani staffers learned who he was with. Thinking ahead,...
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September 28, 2007
From this: Every baby born in America should receive money that can later be used to pay for college, Clinton told the crowd at the Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference in Washington on Friday. "I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that...
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September 26, 2007
The Democrats are offering yet another debate this evening, broadcast on MSNBC and featuring Tim Russert as moderator. He and a "reporter" from a Northeast TV network just asked the candidates whether they supported sanctuary cities. Then, Russert and the "reporter" just listened as the candidates blathered on. All of...
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September 12, 2007
Former Hillary Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu almost committed suicide, thus possibly explaining his weird behavior on the train bound for Denver Chicago which let him off at a hospital in Grand Junction. ...he typed out a suicide note and sent copies to several acquaintances and charitable organizations, according to people...
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September 11, 2007
I usually laugh at rather than laugh with TAPPED, but this post highlighting "town mouse Rudy Giuliani saying embarrassingly stupid things about flyover country while in flyover country" found me regretfully doing a little of the second. For instance, the bit of advice about "Do not, under any circumstances, make...
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September 09, 2007
The transcript contains some real valuable nuggets. Here's John Edwards: Just a few months ago, I was in Canton, Mississippi, as part of a poverty tour, and I met with poultry workers who worked in a poultry plant in Canton, Mississippi. And one of them was a man named Daniel...
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Mike Huckabee has sent a letter to Fred Thompson challenging him to a series of "Lincoln Douglas-styled debates". This follows Thompson telling Sean Hannity that the current debates are "not designed really to illuminate people's thoughts and feelings". If your meter hasn't yet pegged, "Cap'n Ed" supports the idea. A...
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According to this video, Popular Mechanics and the History Channel fabricated evidence in their show purporting to debunk 9/11 myths of the conspiracy variety. It's not possible to verify the claims for various reasons, but it would certainly be interesting to hear their reply (or a reply from one of...
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September 06, 2007
Breaking now: Hillary Clinton donor Norman Hsu was arrested at a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado this evening. What the former "Hillraiser" for Hillary Clinton and donor to other campaigns was doing in that run-down town is not entirely clear....
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September 05, 2007
I missed most of the first part, but even without seeing the transcript I can tell it was just as horrible as the past debates. The question isn't, "how can you not call it amnesty". That allowed Giuliani to side-step the question and McCain to break out his dictionary and...
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Here's Fred Thompson's first TV ad. At the end you can see his apparent slogan: "Security, Unity, Prosperity". Please, no one tell him about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (spp.gov). Let's just make that an inside joke....
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September 04, 2007
Here's the Spanish language version of the Great Seal of the United States of America, direct from usa.gov/gobiernousa (upper right hand corner). Usa.gov is the offical web site of the U.S.A. Their (our?) about page (usa.gov/About.shtml) says it's from the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Communications....
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August 30, 2007
Watch the following video, I dare you! Do you now doubt that Mitt Romney is not best choice for Leader? What is the matter with you if you have doubts? Remember: Mitt Romney is the only candidate who bent the iron bar at the Algoronok Festival! It was not Rudy...
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August 27, 2007
Normally, a high class site like this wouldn't even acknowledge somethig like this, but it is Larry Craig, so: Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom, according to an arrest report...
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August 22, 2007
The guidelines for appearances by president Bush was recently obtained by the ACLU under an FOIA request, and it details the many ways that both Bush and the media were to be blocked from seeing protesters: any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers....
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August 19, 2007
What is George Stephanopoulos of ABC News trying to hide from his viewers? Obviously, one thing he's trying to hide is a grown-up discussion of immigration matters: neither August 5's GOP "debate" nor today's Democratic debate featured any questions about immigration. There's not a single instance of "immig*", "undocumented", or...
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August 13, 2007
I don't want Mitt Romney to be president, but if I did I'd work night and day to get as much attention as possible to this NSFW video: link. Once again: the end of it is NSFW. Now that's a smear! And, sleazy too, and one that only a small...
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Adam Nagourney of the New York Times offers a completely sympathetic profile of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee entitled "For a Joke-Telling Candidate, a Second-Place Finish". Here's one of those fun jokes: Or consider this, as he invited Republicans to join in "a Q. and A." with him in West Des...
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August 12, 2007
Discussing all the subtle digs and Beltway and far-left assumptions of "Walking A Hard Line On Campaign Trail in Iowa" by Sridhar Pappu of the Washington Post (link) would take too much time. So, let's concentrate on this: ...The following day Tancredo [has] just come from a town hall where...
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August 11, 2007
Can mainstream media hacks like Tavis Smiley or George Stephanapolous be dragged kicking and screaming into covering immigration matters now that Tom Tancredo has placed fourth in the Ames, Iowa straw poll? Note that he did that despite being the victim of a hoax the day before (link). I'd say...
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August 10, 2007
I give up. Well, not really, but that's how I feel after watching some of the submissions for the Youtube/CNN Republican debate (to be held at some unknown future date). As with the Democratic version, expect CNN to pick the worst of the worst in order to a) not make...
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August 09, 2007
Via this we learn that a Santa Monica lawyer named Henry Reynolds has apparently registered imwithfred2008.com, a take off on the real Fred Thompson site imwithfred.com. It apparently featured Klan imagery or statements in an attempt to smear Thompson to those who mistakenly entered the wrong URL. That lawyer is...
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Jake Tapper finally earns his keep and has an article looking back at Rudy Giuliani's support for illegal immigration: But if Giuliani inherited [Ed Koch's sanctuary for illegal aliens policy], he reissued it and seemed to embrace it. At a June 1994 press conference, Giuliani decried anti-illegal immigration policies as...
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August 07, 2007
In the past, this site has been sharply critical - to say the least! - of the mainstream media ("MSM"), pointing out that they consistently fail to ask politicians tough questions that would reveal the glaring holes in those politicians' policies. Now, I have to retract that, based on this...
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August 06, 2007
On August 3, Lauren Kornreich of CNN posted an entry at their "Political Ticker" blog falsely entitled "Tancredo: Bomb Muslim holy sites first" and containing the following false statement: On Tuesday, Tancredo warned a group of Iowans that another terrorist attack would "cause a worldwide economic collapse." He said that...
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August 05, 2007
In previous GOP and Democratic debates, various MSM hacks have featured at most one or two questions about immigration matters, all of them worthless. The Tavis Smiley/PBS Democratic debate had no immigration questions at all. Now comes George Stephanopoulos of ABC News with a continuation of the trend: the ABC...
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August 04, 2007
Delivering the welcoming address at this year's YearlyKos convention, Chairman Dean (Dr. Gov. Howard Dean, M.D. to those not part of The Collective) ended with the following: "America was knocked down by the far-right wing of the Republican Party for the last eight years and by God we're going...
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August 02, 2007
Dear CNN: Please do not choose the following video for the upcoming GOP debates. If you ask Mike Huckabee this question, it just might end his political career, as well as showing the millions who watch the debate just how lightweight the questions the mainstream media usually asks are. So,...
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From this: On April 24, 2003, a board member of Chiquita International Brands disclosed to a top official at the Justice Department that the king of the banana trade was evidently breaking the nation's anti-terrorism laws. Roderick M. Hills, who had sought the meeting with former law firm colleague Michael...
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July 27, 2007
Mitt Romney is apparently going to pull out of the next CNN/Youtube "debate" because he doesn't want to answer questions like those from snowmen. Rudy Giuliani is likewise unsure. Hugh Hewitt thinks it will turn into a chance for CNN to ask a series of leftwing questions, and is suggesting...
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July 25, 2007
Go, Fred, go! On the following clip, Fred Thompson is asked about his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and their support for the (internet hoax known as the) North American Union by the "truther" who runs houston911truth.org (her musings on the event). He responds smooth as silk to...
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From this: Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards squeezed into a pair of Spandex bike shorts today and pedaled on the RAGBRAI route with champion cyclist Lance Armstrong. In fact, here's a picture: The candidate was sweaty after about a dozen miles, but there was no evidence of helmet hair. Look,...
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July 24, 2007
The Youtube/CNN debate sucked. The questions that CNN selected were little different from what MSM hacks would have asked; the videos from "average citizens" were little more than props. Of course, that's to be expected: if CNN had selected any of the small number of tough questions, it would have...
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July 23, 2007
[UPDATE 5: 10/15/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.] [UPDATE 4: 10/07/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.] [UPDATE 3: 10/02/08 Palin/Biden coverage here.] [UPDATE 2: 9/26/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.] [UPDATE: If you too think the debate sucked, please vote up this 1 second video saying... the debate sucked.] -------------- One of the people who selected...
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July 22, 2007
As we all know by now, on Monday CNN and Youtube will be holding a debate which will most likely be a "debate". The moderator is none other than Super Puffball Anderson Cooper, former anchor for a news program for kids (Channel 1). Some of the questions will be provided...
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July 19, 2007
Unlike others, I'm not going to call this "Obama: Genocide Is Okay" (link) or "Barack Obama, The Pro Genocide Candidate" (link), because I feel that the title is correct: presidential candidate and Democrat Barack Obama is simply saying that some level of genocide is perfectly acceptable. Kind of like background...
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Rudy Giuliani has a new video at Youtube where he: asks You Tube viewers for their opinion on his 12 Commitments to the American People. Voters are encouraged to leave their video or text responses here on You Tube or on Rudys12Commitments.com. At post time, no comments are showing. Now...
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July 15, 2007
On Monday, lightweight presidential contender John Edwards will be starting a "Road to One America" tour to begin in New Orleans and end in Kentucky three days and eight states later. The supposed goal will be to highlight the apparent fact that 10% of Americans live in poverty; in actual...
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July 14, 2007
The Los Angeles archdiocese of the Catholic Church - led my Cardinal Roger Mahony, aka "the pedophile protector" - is going to settle its outstanding lawsuits in regards to sexual abuse by priests for $600 million. Unfortunately, this means that Mahoney won't be forced to take the stand, something that...
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July 10, 2007
John McCain's campaign manager (Terry Nelson) and his chief strategist (John Weaver) have both quit or been fired. While his support for Iraq may have played some role, his immigration stance and his reputation as a RINO and perhaps the fading of his supposed role as a "maverick" probably played...
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July 07, 2007
Presumed presidential candidate Fred Thompson has hired someone who gives him extensive links to the Bush family. Needless to say, many of those who have (finally) seen the light on just how horrific George Bush has been will be willing to overlook warning signs like this: Longtime Republican consultant Randy...
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About a week ago, Senator Chris Dodd posted a Youtube video urging citizen journalists to go to campaign appearances by the presidential contenders and ask them about his Dodd Amendment and other issues. The video has been viewed by over 340,000 people, roughly the 2000 population of the Reno, Nevada...
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July 03, 2007
Via this we find this short interview (conducted by someone with the somewhat improbable name of Lyric Wallwork Winik) with U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao: You could lose your job to a foreign worker—not because he's cheaper but because he has better workplace skills and discipline. That's the message Labor...
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June 28, 2007
From this: Eleven minutes after voting in favor of cloture on the Senate immigration bill, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback changed his mind—and his vote—to oppose cloture, MSNBC reported earlier today [link]. Now it seems that the Brownback campaign has changed its mind again, this time on a press release it...
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Senator Chris Dodd has stolen my idea! But, I don't mind, and he may or may not have developed the idea himself. He wants citizen journalists to attend campaign appearances by his competitors for president and ask them tough questions: Call, visit, or find your Senators while they're home on...
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June 22, 2007
Appearing on the Piolin radio show in support of immigration "reform", aka a massive amnesty for illegal aliens, Senator Teddy Kennedy broke into song... in Spanish. Please distribute widely. Related: America empty boxed: Kennedy immigration press conference UPDATE: I should have mentioned that this was played on KFI's John &...
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As previously discussed, CNN and Youtube are soliciting questions for their upcoming Democratic debate. My entry is a question for Hillary Clinton concerning her support for the anti-American DREAM Act. Unfortunately, a glance through the other entries reveals only one other person who asks similar questions, and he's got some...
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As long as you don't look at the year, a calendar stuck on February 31 is almost close to being on the right track every four years. Bill Richardson is a lot like that, saying yesterday at a town hall meeting in Phoenix that we should tell our friends to...
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June 17, 2007
Youtube wants their users to submit videos with questions for the upcoming Democratic debate to be held on CNN on July 23rd and moderated by fluffball Anderson Cooper. I just watched a few of the current submissions, and boy is my spirit tired. While one of them features the attractive...
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June 11, 2007
Apparently KFI AM 640 Los Angeles hosts John & Ken - frequent opponents of illegal immigration - want Rudy Giuliani to be president. Or, at least John Kobylt does. He seems to think that the amnesty that Rudy supports isn't amnesty. He is, of course, wrong. This is oddly similar...
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June 06, 2007
The following video shows a "truther" reporter (Matt Lepacek) from Alex Jones' group trying to ask Rudy Giuliani pollster Ed Goeas some questions about 9/11. (h/t Dave Weigel) After much back and forth, the reporter is arrested and led away, and Goeas says, "would the real media like to ask...
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June 03, 2007
I thought the performance of Chris Matthews in the GOP debate was horrific, but Wolf Blitzer is trying to in effect outdo him by asking a series of puffball questions and then just letting the candidates blather on. This is extremely unhealthy for our political system; instead of letting them...
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June 02, 2007
If a presidential administration keeps doing the same thing over and over but somehow expects a different result, are they sane or insane? Jim Rutenberg and Carl Hulse of the New York Times offers the somewhat unique* "Bush's Push on Immigration Tests His Base": President Bush's advocacy of an immigration...
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mahalo.com is a new "search engine" from Jason Calacanis, formerly head of Weblogs, Inc. It's actually more like a cross between Wikipedia, dmoz.org, about.com, and Squidoo, or something like that. Rather than trying to answer all requests, they're only concentrating on the top 10,000 searches, and then providing pages that...
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June 01, 2007
Youtube's political editor Steve Grove has been interviewing the presidential contenders, and I've left comments pointing out how lightweight the interviews are. However, they appear to at least be making baby steps towards asking slightly more difficult questions. In the latest, they interview John Edwards and ask him a series...
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May 27, 2007
Speaking on Meet the Press, New Mexico governor and Democratic presidential contender Bill Richardson lied about the border fence: MR. RUSSERT: The wall hasn't worked? GOV. RICHARDSON: No, it hasn't worked. MR. RUSSERT: Anywhere along the border, the fence hasn't worked. GOV. RICHARDSON: It hasn't worked. What has worked is...
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May 24, 2007
Criticizing Bush's endless stream of blather on immigration is just about the lowest hanging fruit possible, but let's look at his latest stream of semi-consciousness [1]. First, he sounds like Howard Dean ("scapegoating immigrants") when he accuses his opponents of targeting illegal aliens. Then, he enters his peevish/defensive mode with...
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May 23, 2007
From this: President Bush has signed a directive granting extraordinary powers to the office of the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight. The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive" [whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html]was signed May 9, notes Jerome R. Corsi in a WND...
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In response to my query, Bill Richardson's communication director informs me: Governor Richardson has never "worked" for the OAS. Last year he was appointed a special envoy to the Secretary General for Latin America. That means the SG could call on the Governor to assist, on a purely humanitarian and...
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From "Richardson enters '08 race by letting Latinos know he's 1 of them": Democrat Bill Richardson has officially entered the presidential race with a naked appeal to Hispanics, saying in an interview that it's "rudimentary politics" to make sure the country's fastest growing voting bloc knows he's one of them....
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May 18, 2007
From this: A state investigation has found that Tan Nguyen's congressional campaign committed no crime last year when it mailed 14,000 letters telling immigrants they could be jailed for voting, the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. However, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that its voting-rights section is still investigating...
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May 15, 2007
In March I put a Bill Richardson video on Youtube (link) containing audio of him saying the following: "We have to band together and that means Latinos in Florida, Cuban-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, South Americans - we have to network better - we have to be more politically minded -...
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May 12, 2007
On this uninteresting April 30 video (link), you can see Hillary Clinton introduced by California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, one of her campaign's co-chairs. Meanwhile, back in the 90's, Nunez was just a bit more radical than that video might suggest. On this video (link) from an anti-Proposition 187 rally...
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May 08, 2007
The following video shows John Edwards being asked about the WTC 7 by one of those who apparently believes in the 9/11 Truth/MIHOP/LIHOP theory. The reason this is here isn't because of the topic, but to remind everyone that it's not that difficult to ask politicians non-standard questions and then...
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May 05, 2007
Via this, Chris Matthews muttered "Oh, God" under his breath after Rep. Ron Paul responded to a question he asked during the May 3, 2007 GOP debate. If you want to have real debates featuring real questions, sign the petition urging Lou Dobbs to moderate at least two debates: one...
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April 27, 2007
Unless we take action now, the upcoming presidential debates will just be an opportunity for politicians to recite their talking points, and moderators will continue to ask puffball, general questions rather than asking questions designed to reveal flaws in the candidates' arguments. I urge everyone to sign this non-partisan petition...
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April 24, 2007
Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee has deleted his campaign videos from Youtube and then resubmitted what appear to be the same videos [*]. This procedure deletes comments which had been left on the videos and resets their view counts, ratings, links, etc. They also appear to have changed their commenting...
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On May 3, the GOP presidential candidates will be debating live on MSNBC and it will be streamed live at Politico.com. The latter site is looking for user-submitted questions for the candidates. You need to sign up, but that's free. You can also vote up questions. Unfortunately, the current top-ranked...
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Naomi Wolf offers "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps". First, let's get the easy stuff out of the way. This is in al-Guardian, and she plays the "I'm one of the Smart Americans, I am!" game: ...Even as Americans were focused on Britney Spears's meltdown and the question of who...
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April 22, 2007
John Edwards recently got two haircuts for the exorbitant price of $400 each, and tried to bill the campaign for them. Various "liberals" are now aghast at the coverage that this matter has received, particularly that from Maureen Dowd. For instance, this. In an attempt to reach out, let me...
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April 19, 2007
Bill Richardson has shown once again that he's completely unfit for any political office. From this: Presidential candidate and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) said Monday the reason he has not called for the removal of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is that the two both have Hispanic backgrounds. Richardson,...
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April 12, 2007
Hillary Clinton has selected Raul Yzaguirre - former president of the National Council of La Raza ("The Race") - as the co-chair of her presidential campaign. He'll head up her "outreach" to Hispanics. In actual fact, he'll help her even more strongly support illegal immigration, as Yzaguirre's history shows. NCLR...
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April 08, 2007
The following is not a fake: Caption: President George W. Bush discusses the security of America at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota Thursday, Aug. 15 [2002] "More and more people understand that being a patriot is more than just putting your hand over your heart and saying the Pledge of...
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April 04, 2007
Jeff Jarvis from BuzzMachine has a new site called PrezVid.com. He's encouraging everyone to upload videos to Youtube asking the candidates questions. The videos should then be tagged with 'prezconference' so they can be easily found. Now, Joe Biden has responded to one such question. This is a very good...
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Captain Ed of Captain's Quarters comments on the Hugh Hewitt interview with Tom Tancredo here. Hewitt asked Tancredo about the John Campbell/Jim Gilchrist race in Orange County, taking him to task for supporting the latter: Hugh Hewitt: ... [L]et me move on. GOP question, just two years and three months...
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April 02, 2007
Received via email: Do you mind if we invite Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton to talk with MoveOn members about Iraq in your living room? (OK, they'll be in about 1,000 other living rooms at the same time, but it's still unlike any other political gathering that's ever...
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Ron Brynaert of Raw Story says: Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), a "dark horse" candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination admitted in an interview that he is a "controversial figure" who is sometimes prone to saying "outrageous things." Last November, Esquire Magazine wrote, "Tancredo is Tancrazy. Made his name calling...
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March 31, 2007
In what might turn out to be an April Fool's Day joke, the New York Times offers "Ex-Aide Details a Loss of Faith in the President" about former Bush chief campaign strategist Matthew Dowd becoming disenchanted with Our Leader: He criticized the president as failing to call the nation to...
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March 30, 2007
As previously discussed, the Mitt Romney campaign includes a few people linked to Jeb Bush. Now, Romney says his list of potential vice-presidential candidates includes Newt Gingrich, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford and SC Senator Jim DeMint, and... Jeb Bush. Even as a trial balloon and as a meaningless shout-out...
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March 21, 2007
Setting out to find pleasure, search the world for treasure, and learn science and technology, George P. Bush - Hispanic nephew of Our Leader George W. Bush - is joining the Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer. He'll serve eight years, but he'll make it thirty more years if we're...
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March 20, 2007
Adam Nagourney of the New York Times (with assistance from Rachel Swarns) offers "G.O.P. Candidates Confront Immigration Politics". Despite being two screens long, we're only told that GOP candidates are facing the ire of Iowa voters regarding immigration matters, but we aren't given much in the way of specifics. And,...
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March 08, 2007
Earlier today, the blogosphere was rocked with the news that alpha particles from Mars had penetrated Michael Barone's thick skull, forcing him to say: The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorneys should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruption in the Bush...
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February 25, 2007
Angelina Jolie has been elected a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), sources say. Almost all top government leaders of the past several decades have been members of that Rockefeller-linked organization. As could be expected, the media covers this from an entertainment perspective ("ANGELINA A BABE AMID BRAINIACS",...
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February 24, 2007
Think Progress continues their reputation as illogical smear merchants - and Anderson Cooper continues his reputation as a fluff "reporter" - with "CNN Fact Checks Tancredo, Proves He Once Suggested Bombing Mecca". He did suggest that, but neither Think Progress nor Anderson Cooper properly contextualized his suggestion. At the post...
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Breaking news from our "never trust a Mormon" department: presidential contender Mitt Romney is the great-great-grandson of a polygamist! This shocking news is burning up the wires: While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at...
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February 23, 2007
Charles Rust-Tierney - who served as president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU from 2002 to 2005 - was arrested by ICE today on charges of possessing child pornography. ABC News has a report, and Bill O'Reilly gave it a couple minutes. But, only five to seven local media...
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February 21, 2007
More good news for Barack Hussein Obama, as he's just received the endorsement of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim Congressman and someone linked to CAIR. "Not because he's black... That's identity politics. I reject identity politics... He speaks with a unifying spirit." As for CAIR, their spokesman Ibrahim...
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February 20, 2007
Barack Obama Mania visited near-South Los Angeles earlier today, as the presidential candidate delivered a stock speech before a few hundred supporters at the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex. The speech was held outside in the bleachers of a softball field, and that made it a bit difficult to get a...
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February 17, 2007
The John Edwards campaign recently open a headquarters in "Second Life", a virtual world of some kind. I'm not familiar with it, but this is apparently what you see when approaching his office in virtual space: At this point in time, I believe he should scrap his previously-planned campaign, and...
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February 16, 2007
From our "will we never learn/will the nightmare never end" department comes this: Jeb Bush, who hasn't publicly picked a favorite in the Republican presidential race, privately is talking up the candidacy of Mitt Romney and steering some of his closest advisers to the campaign. The former Florida governor has...
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Senator John McCain has started a new website at johnmccain.com, and the name/password to access it is lettuce/sweetsweetlettuce. (Just kidding about the last). You can get your own blog there when it launches: johnmccain.com/Blog/BlogForMcCain.aspx He's requesting feedback: johnmccain.com/Blog/WriteInQuestion.aspx You can send him a link to your youtube video: johnmccain.com/Blog/YouTubequestion.aspx I...
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February 04, 2007
Speaking to Wolf Blitzer this morning, Ralph Nader didn't rule out a possible run for president. He said he doesn't like long campaigns and will decide later. Needless to say, expect Democrats to pull out all the stops to prevent that happening. But, if he does run, perhaps it might...
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January 30, 2007
Kathryn Jean Lopez ("KLo") at The Corner is apparently a supporter of Rudy Giuliani, someone whose immigration views are probably similar to those of George Bush. She says: A friend of mine ["the rare pro-life, Hollywood hawk"] was at a fundraiser for [Rudy Julliani] in Los Angeles last night ["sponsored...
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January 28, 2007
Surprisingly, the Los Angeles Times continues its multi-year effort to uncover "Dirty" Harry Reid scandals. The latest comes in "A deal in the desert for Sen. Reid?" by Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger: ...In 2002, Reid (D-Nev.) paid $10,000 to a pension fund controlled by Clair Haycock, a Las Vegas...
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January 25, 2007
This post contains a screenshot of a page from Diebold's online store where they offered "Replacement Access Keys" for their Accuvote-TS voting machine. Someone used that photo to file down a few blank keys, and two out of three of the keys opened the machines. Apparently Diebold uses the same...
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January 23, 2007
The Skull, aka Michael Chertoff is here... Alberto Gonzales is not there, in case he has to become president... Together, we can restrain the spending appetite of the federal government Why's he trying to blame it on the faceless bureaucrats in the "federal government" when that's mostly his and his...
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The SOTU excerpt has Bush blackmailing the country he supposedly works for: we cannot fully secure the border unless we take pressure off the border - and that requires a temporary worker program. That statement is either completely Clintonian or complete bunk depending on how it's parsed. For the first,...
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Just-In-Time for president Bush's State of the Union speech, ICE has conducted a week-long sweep in Southern California for more than 750 fugitive aliens who had either already been deported for crimes or who had been given a deportation order and were still here. Over 400 of them were already...
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January 22, 2007
Dear Mr. Povich: I regret to inform you that I am unable to appear on your upcoming "Help! I want to hate Hillary Clinton... but I can't!" episode due to this issue being extremely painful for me. I understand many of the reasons why I should hate the "Hill-da-beast",...
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[UPDATE: Live-blogging here; additional note here.] On Tuesday, this site will be discussing Bush's State of the Union Address. Rather than actually watching it, we'll look for an unembargoed copy and discuss that. Slightly surprisingly, Bush has decided to keep digging and will - according to Billy House of the...
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January 20, 2007
On his way out the door, former RNC chief Ken Mehlman warned the GOP that its losses weren't a fluke: Ken Mehlman, the departing chairman of the Republican National Committee, warned on Thursday that his party would suffer even more devastating losses in 2008 than it did in 2006 if...
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January 19, 2007
Senator Mel Martinez has been elected to the made-up title of "general chairman" of the Republican Party's National Committee (RNC). Despite a secret ballot, not that many might have voted against him. I would strongly suggest to all GOP members that now is the absolute best time to turn your...
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January 16, 2007
The Republican National Committee natives are restless about Bush's nomination of illegal alien amnesty proponent Mel Martinez to be the "general chairman" of the RNC. The vote will be tomorrow, and the reader might consider contacting their local Republican parties and suggesting votes against the Senator. On the other hand,...
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Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has announced he's forming an exploratory committee for a possible presidential bid. This would be largely a symbolic effort designed to get a wider discussion of immigration issues and perhaps force a front-runner to take a tougher stance on the issue. Despite the unlikelihood of his...
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January 15, 2007
Andres Martinez is the editor of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, and I believe he is the author of the unsigned editorial "Left out in '08: Arnold Schwarzenegger can't run for president because the founding fathers didn't want a foreign king." While there's no real burning need to allow...
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January 08, 2007
The WSJ offers "Happily Ever AAFTA". I know nothing about it, but if the Wall Street Journal is pushing it - and if they expect Bush and the Dems to push it as well - I know it must be very, very bad. Most of its pay-only, here's the excerpt:...
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December 07, 2006
Bill Richardson is the Democratic Party's best hope to regain the presidency in 2008 and, in much the same way that this site endorsed Phil Angelides to be the Democrat to challenge Arnold Schwarzenegger, this site is also endorsing Bill Richardson ("BR") to be the Democratic nominee to take on...
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December 02, 2006
On December 3, the "19th Annual People's Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Banquet" will be held in a Greek restaurant in Chicago: [It] will feature living wage and peace resolutions sponsor city Alderman Freddrenna Lyle as the keynote speaker, and will honor immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, union activists Bea and Frank...
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November 30, 2006
Stalwart former presidential contender Michael Dukakis has finally won a historic, three year battle for justice. Due to his heroic actions, meter maids in Los Angeles' Westwood Village (home to UCLA) will soon begin ticketing cars that engage in "apron parking", i.e., parking on sidewalks, driveways, and the like....
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As discussed, Rep. Tom Tancredo called Miami a "third world country", setting off a firestorm of (largely manufactured) outrage, including a missive from Our Leader's brother, Jeb Bush. "What a nut," Bush told reporters [Wednesday]. "I'm just disappointed. He's from my own my party. He's a Republican. He doesn't represent...
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November 29, 2006
How do you know when ABC's San Francisco affiliate does an "investigative report"? When Nancy Pelosi is being attacked, of course. That station offers a report "debunking" claims that the workers at her vineyards and at a resort that she co-owns are not members of unions. However, since that report...
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Our Leader's brother Jeb Bush has written a letter (PDF) to Rep. Tom Tancredo regarding the latter's recent comments that Miami is like a third-world city. First, I've (thankfully) never been to Miami, but I have heard others portray it as a "capital of the Americas", as in South America....
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November 17, 2006
"Bush Conservative" is the new, not-nearly-as-pejorative name for what is refered to in the literature as "Bushbotism". One of the chief symptoms of this affliction is a very strong ability to believe strongly in an idea despite massive contradictory evidence: Bush is a down-home Texas cowboy despite being a part...
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In California's 50th district, Democrat Francine Busby has finally conceded to Republican Brian Bilbray. The former famously said "you don't need papers for voting". The latter supports our immigration laws. Fred Barnes couldn't be reached for comment....
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November 15, 2006
Rep. J.D. Hayworth had been holding out for all absentee votes to be counted in his race against Harry Mitchell, but has now conceded defeat. Tamar Jacoby, Fred Barnes, David Brooks, and Vicente Fox could not be reached for comment....
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November 14, 2006
Speculation continues to mount as the mainstream media digs ever deeper into Nancy Pelosi's questionable business dealings and asks repeatedly whether Pelosi is part of the "Culture of Corruption". Well, OK, so the media hasn't done that, prefering instead to offer puff pieces like "Nancy Pelosi Is Ready to Be...
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Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani hasn't declared himself to be a candidate for president, but has started a pro-Rudy non-profit that will probably start spreading pro-Rudy propaganda. He'll present himself as uniquely qualified to fight terrorism, but some on the far-left and perhaps others will no doubt disagree....
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November 12, 2006
Senator Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein. I strongly urge everyone not to take advantage of this fact. No, really, don't call him something like "Barack Hussein" or something....
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November 10, 2006
From this: Three days after the election of New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), FBI agents are preparing to serve another round of subpoenas in a case involving Menendez's financial relationship with a community organization that received federal funding with Menendez's help. The new subpoenas, from the U.S. Attorney's Office...
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November 09, 2006
From "Bush eyes Democrats for help on amnesty": "With alignment now in Congress and the White House, this is a unique opportunity [to pass 'comprehensive immigration reform']," said Rep. Howard L. Berman, California Democrat, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee and a leader on the issue. Berman also...
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Democratic Iowa governor Tom Vilsack has announced that he's running for president. For the short, punchy version, see the "Traveling Tom" website from the IA GOP. From this: Vilsack supporters seemed to have forgotten about the CIETC scandal unfolded while he was campaigning in New Hampshire. The Vilsack team will...
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November 08, 2006
On his program today, Rush Limbaugh announced that he "feels a little liberated" and he supposedly said that he won't have to "carry the water for people who don't deserve it" There's an audio clip of another part here, and this is the transcript of that: "At some point you...
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Under the new regime, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) might become the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) might become the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. If you go to this page, you can see that John Conyers signed on to the "Call" from...
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Going forward, our putatively American president will be pushing for "comprehensive immigration reform". Will the Dems go along? Not too many Dems came right out and said they were for amnesty. Some basically lied and played word games. Despite the siren calls from TV pundits like Fareed Zakaria and others,...
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November 07, 2006
According to this these were the top issues that were "extremely important to their vote": 42%: corruption and ethics 40%: terrorism 39%: the economy 37%: Iraq 36%: values 29%: illegal immigration Those who are familiar with this site will note that corruption, terrorism, and the economy are deeply linked to...
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If terrorists are able to infiltrate the U.S. and carry out attacks, few other issues on the table in this election will matter. Every proposal that groups of voters support - from lower taxes to universal healthcare - is predicated on the internal security of the U.S. Protecting the U.S....
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November 06, 2006
Bob Fertik of Democrats.com is already preparing for a "Blue Revolution" of people chanting "Count Every Vote!" and assorted other slogans at county election offices throughout the nation: democrats.com/bluerevolution When the polls close, we urge Democrats across the country to gather outside their County Election Office for a candlelight vigil...
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November 04, 2006
If the Democrats win the House, Nancy Pelosi could be third in line for the presidency. If both Bush and Cheney are impeached, that would make Nancy Pelosi president. President Pelosi? Here's the video version:...
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November 03, 2006
Returning to the subject of John Kerry's Iraq comment, have President Bush and various GOP partisans undermined our troops and our war effort? One of the arguments against the negative interpretation of Kerry's comment is that that comment gives comfort to al Qaeda, the Iraqi insurgents, and others. Those enemy...
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November 02, 2006
In past years, the Democratic Party and their supporters have engaged in unique "GOTV" efforts, including: * "Cigarettes Distributed For Gore Vote" (November 6, 2000) (link) ("Milwaukee's WISN 12 News caught workers for Vice President Al Gore's campaign giving packs of cigarettes to homeless voters that they had transported to...
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November 01, 2006
The following are more suggestions than endorsements, and in many cases these are votes against their opponents. And, this list will be augmented with other candidates later: *** Governor *** - Art Olivier (L,CA) (against Arnold Schwarzenegger/Maria Shriver/Karl Rove) - Lynn Swann (R,PA) (against America's most anti-American governor, Ed Rendell)...
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On October 16, the FBI raided various locations associted with Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA). They claimed that his daughter received lobbying and consulting contracts due to influence that he exerted. While crooked politicians aren't unheard of, there might be much more to the story: ...The pre-election timing of the raids...
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I know absolutely zero about Republican John Faso except that he's running against Eliot Spitzer for governor of New York. As the last link shows, Spitzer - despite being Attorney General of that state - doesn't appear to understand our laws when it comes to immigration matters. And, he's just...
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October 31, 2006
Speaking in Georgia about an hour ago, president Bush intentionally distorted John Kerry's earlier comments about Iraq. Yesterday, speaking at Pasadena City College, Kerry said this: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be...
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From this: Network news coverage has favored Democratic candidates in the midterm election, and the page scandal involving former congressman Mark Foley has been the main story line, drawing almost as much coverage as Iraq and terrorism combined, a new study finds. An analysis by the Center for Media and...
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October 30, 2006
Sully offers a letter from a reader that says in part: ...Our country is certainly headed in the wrong direction, our spending has spiraled out of control, we have brave young men and women dying in Iraq, and those in power only want to talk about illegal immigration (and not...
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Andrew Sullivan's post "The Desperation of Santorum" directs us to this article in which Sen. Rick Santorum says the following about his opponent Bob Casey, the current Treasurer of Pennsylvania: "Bob Casey has invested Pennsylvania pension funds in companies with ties to terrorist-sponsoring states and states that engage in genocide......
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October 27, 2006
I think this column might be a week or two old, but it's just now being printed in the Houston Chronicle, so let's take a look at the thoughts of David Broder in "California's model for the middle": ...In 2005 [Arnold Schwarzenegger] declared war on the Democratic legislature and the...
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October 13, 2006
Normally such possible smears wouldn't be featured at a high-minded site like this, but considering that Jim Kolbe is an open-borders loon, I'm making an exception: "Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages": Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe,...
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October 11, 2006
The AP says: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show. In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his...
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September 29, 2006
Pursuing my monomaniacal obsession with domestic corruption as I am wont to do, sometimes complicated, important matters slip past me. And, so it is with Thursday's "Detainee Trial Bill", or, as it's called by many, the "Torture Bill", or, as it's called in the bill itself, the "Military Commissions Act...
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September 28, 2006
Drudge has a preview of a Roll Call article: ROLL CALL's John Bresnahann and Paul Kane detail: The 95-page report, which White House officials reviewed Wednesday evening but has yet to be formally approved by the panel, singled out two of President Bush's top lieutenants, Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman,...
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September 23, 2006
How do you know the Bush administration isn't even trying to hide how corrupt and incompetent they are? Perhaps this is a bit of clue. Back in January David L. Norquist - brother of Grover Norquist - was selected to be the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Homeland...
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September 22, 2006
First, from George Allen comes "Webb’s Dirty Tricksters: push-blogging". That has a roundup of all the smears the Webb campaign and those related to it have used against him. See also this. Then, we come to a smear against Randy Graf: David Duke placed a link to Graf and an...
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September 20, 2006
Here's the text of the Democrat-sponsored H.R. 7438: AN ACT To determine ethnic, religious, racial, sexual, and related background of political candidates. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited...
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Bob Barr discusses Duane "Dog" Chapman, and provides us with a useful framing of the issue: Still, at a time when the president is facing immense criticism for failing to deal with the immigration crisis on our southern border, slapping a phenomenally popular TV star in jail because Mexico told...
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September 18, 2006
On August 19, 2006, former MEChA member and U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva spoke to a meeting of the Progressive Democrats of America and discussed immigration "reform" and the "progressive" movement. It appears to have been shot not just in a bar in West Phoenix, but next to the restrooms. And,...
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September 12, 2006
From this: The FBI is investigating allegations by the wife of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's former campaign treasurer that her state job may have come in return for a $1,500 personal check her husband wrote to one of Blagojevich's children. The inquiry is the first public indication that Blagojevich and his...
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September 11, 2006
Beverly Keel of a magazine called "American Profile" offers a profile of New Mexico governor Bill Richardson entitled "Talking It Through". I'm not familiar with that site, but it looks like they offer "nice" news and don't do investigative journalism. Even taking that into account, the article is extremely flattering....
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September 08, 2006
The Virginia GOP is holding an "Ethnic Rally" (the real name of the event) on Saturday, September 9 in Alexandria; George Allen will be making an appearance. Now, just for this post, let's avoid discussing why the GOP would celebrate ethnicities rather than, say, trying to be different from the...
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September 05, 2006
Sen. Chuck Schumer has released a 14-page report taking DHS to task for their failings. But, something seems to be missing from both the NYT report ("Domestic Security Since 9/11 Is Barely Better, Schumer Says") and the NY Daily News report ("Schumer faults Homeland Security chief for 'lack of focus'")....
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September 04, 2006
It's a match made in heaven as former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge has been hired by the country of Albania. No, this is not a joke. He's been hired as a consultant to Sali Berisha, their Prime Minister. He will be advising them on "security, NATO and investments". Albania wants...
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August 30, 2006
Jim Burns - for all 299,999,999 million of you who didn't know - is a 2008 Libertarian party presidential candidate. An interview with him asks an extremely hypothetical question: How would your administration deal with the threat of illegal immigration? The answer: I believe that people should be allowed to...
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August 23, 2006
Steve Laffey is the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island and he's trying to defeat fellow Republican Lincoln Chafee in the Senatorial primary. Apparently the National Republican Senatorial Committee supports the RINO Chafee, believing that only he can defeat the Democratic challenger. Past examples of that support include "NRSC Files FEC...
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To help understand the Senator a bit better, in 2003 the L.A. Times offered the Harry Reid expose "In Nevada, Reid Is the Name to Know". A few days ago that same paper offered yet another expose of Dingy Harry's questionable dealings: "Desert Connections". ...One of the most inhospitable places...
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August 21, 2006
This post discusses how the Washington Post is still pushing "Macaca Mania", this time in the article "For One Group, 'Macaca' Recalls Slurs After 9/11." NewsBusters then goes on to provide information on those mentioned in the article, some of whom turn out to be contributors to the Democrats, one...
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August 17, 2006
From this: New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber resigned today after a special prosecutor said she violated the state's ethics code by improperly helping her boyfriend at police traffic stop. Farber, 61, quit hours after retired state judge Richard Williams wrote in a report that while she broke no criminal...
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August 16, 2006
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has removed their campaign video 'Secure' from Youtube. If you search for "DSCC" there, you get 12 results. "Rubber Stamp Republicans" and "Conrad Burns: Stay Home" are still there, but the controversial ad in which the Dems grew a tiny little spine and supported...
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August 03, 2006
What a relief it must be to the Democratic Party to learn that they can fully support massive illegal immigration and a massive amnesty for illegal aliens, and not pay the price on election day. Of course - just between us - that news comes to us via a somewhat...
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As the New York Attorney General - and Democratic candidate for NY governor - you'd hope so. However, there are some laws he doesn't support, as revealed in a 7/25/06 debate: ...The candidates were asked whether they would enforce the federal law that went into effect July 1, mandating that...
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July 31, 2006
Earlier today, president Bush delivered speech #5B in Miami (whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060731-1.html). For those who left their program at home, that speech number designates 10% Cuban-oriented content, and 10% ports-oriented content, with, of course, the remaining 80% being offal, stuffing, straw, lies, and bits and pieces from other speeches. However, near the...
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July 29, 2006
From this: The Homeland Security Department spent $34 billion in its first two years on private contracts that were poorly managed or included significant waste or abuse, a congressional report concluded Thursday. Faulty airport screening machines, unused mobile homes for hurricane victims and lavish employee office space — complete with...
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July 21, 2006
This jaw-droppingly idiotic recent quote from Pennsylvania's governor Ed Rendell shows that he is not qualified to be anything above dogcatcher: The only ones I want to hear speaking up and complaining about immigration are the Native Americans who we screwed. Honestly, I can't believe that someone who would make...
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July 19, 2006
Fresh from pandering to the far-left racial power group NCLR, Karl Rove spoke before the Aspen IdeasFestival: ...Rove said the immigration system was "absolutely broken" relative to illegal entrants. He expounded in detail about efforts to diminish illegal crossings, including the number of repeated attempts by Mexicans, whom he said...
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July 17, 2006
From the AP: Hispanics need to become more involved in the political process to ensure their voices are heard on issues facing the nation, including immigration, the nation's only Hispanic governor said during a weekend visit to the state. Registering to vote and going to the polls are critical parts...
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The WaPo's Ann E. Marimow offers "Rights Groups Say Schaefer's Run Must End" about far-far-lefties opposing Maryland's former governor and now comptroller: A far-reaching collection of Maryland's Asian, Latino, black and women's rights leaders denounced Comptroller William Donald Schaefer yesterday for what they called a series of intolerant public statements...
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July 15, 2006
Let's take a look at Karl Rove's new friends, the National Council of The Race ("La Raza") and who they're working with. The group Defend Colorado New tried to pass Proposition 55 (similar to Arizona's Prop. 200 or CA's Prop. 187), but in June they were thwarted by a possibily...
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July 14, 2006
Pandering to the (mythical) "Hispanic vote" by pledging to allow one race to call the shots on our immigration policies is definitely anti-American. But, since that means little to the leaders of the GOP and the Democratic Party, perhaps the sign that it appears to be a political failure as...
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July 12, 2006
Yesterday Karl Rove spoke before the far-left, Ford Foundation-sponsored, pro-illegal immigration racial power group National Council of La Raza ("The Race"). Even the AP admits that they're "left-leaning". Here's one thing he had to say: "Too many simplify the problem into one word, 'amnesty,'... In an issue this vital,...
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July 11, 2006
Despite being a Puerto Rican and a member of the Georgia house, Pedro Marin has some questionable associations with the Mexican government. They might all be innocent, or they might bit as bad as they appear and the news media is just unwilling to do their job. Speaking of which,...
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Somehow I don't think the Panderer in Chief is going to take Human Events' advice: White House adviser Karl Rove is scheduled to speak tomorrow at the annual conference of the federally funded, left-wing, open-borders-advocacy group, the National Council of La Raza. If he does not want his speech to...
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July 06, 2006
Failed libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik has come up with at least one good idea: he's signing a contract with those who might elect him (OK, they won't, but play along) for Congress. The contract will say that if he violates the terms he won't be allowed to run again....
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Kaus: Bilbray ran on a platform of opposition lto illegal immigration. Meanwhile, Cannon ... also ran on a plaform of opposition to illegal immigration... I would guess that voters who responded to [a pro-enforcement] TV message [from Cannon] were not sending rousing message of support for the Bush/Kennedy/McCain "path to...
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July 04, 2006
Eight Steps To Destroy America Oikophobia Immigration and Social Disintegration Aztlan and Amalgamation...
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July 02, 2006
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is a sleazy ethnic demagogue who spoke at March's illegal immigration rally in Chicago. In 2001, he had this to say: "The existence of nations is not a matter of whim... Nations have a common land, language, life and history, which translates into a common...
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Stunning news from Portland, Oregon, as the Libertarian Party's website reports that all 300 delegates have voted down most of the planks of their platform at their annual convention. The LP - always the rebel - tells us what was kept in, not what was removed. However, it appears that...
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June 28, 2006
From this: Democrats often seem to live in a time warp, where the year is always 1968, the daisies in their hair never wilt, people still trust the mainstream media, left-wing politics haven't yet been proven utterly unworkable, and we can afford to lose our overseas war. Yesterday DNC Chairman...
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June 20, 2006
From "Former Antiterror Officials Find Industry Pays Better": At least 90 officials at the Department of Homeland Security or the White House Office of Homeland Security — including the department's former secretary, Tom Ridge; the former deputy secretary, Adm. James M. Loy; and the former under secretary, Asa Hutchinson —...
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June 09, 2006
And if only Republicans had a spine:...
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June 06, 2006
The Bush administration is offering to give Iran nuclear technology in exchange for them stopping uranium enrichment. While I'm not familiar with the details of either plan, wasn't this exactly what John Kerry proposed? And, wasn't that roundly criticized by BushBots near and far?...
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June 01, 2006
The May 26 WaPo featured "Borderline" by Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy, a Venezuela's former minister of industry and trade, and an associated of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace. Here's the upshot: ...If a paranoid police state such as North Korea is incapable of controlling its borders and...
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May 23, 2006
Joining the long line of articles trying to figure out why George W. Bush encourages massive immigration from Mexico comes this. The article could use a diagram showing how each person mentioned is linked to the other, but it basically boils down to Bush-linked companies wanting a slice of the...
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May 18, 2006
According to the local paper: Bush is coming to Yuma to see the problem of illegal immigration first-hand. He is scheduled to tour the border, visit the Border Patrol's Yuma Sector headquarters and meet local officials. He will also make remarks at a press briefing. Obvious to anyone who's looked...
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In case you're wondering what it is: A strange and funny creature that is indigenous to the banquet halls and wine-tasting parties of Northern California. Its mating call is a shrill, repetitive howl; scientists have yet to decipher its meaning, but its frequency seems to be related to the proximity...
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May 16, 2006
Or: A fence, a fence, Hugh Hewitt's fiefdom for a fence Currently at this site is a transcript of the interview Hugh Hewitt did with ICE Assistant Secretary (and Chertoff daughter-in-law) Julie Myers. Just some of the questions from HH reveal how it went: ...But in terms of actual fencing...
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May 03, 2006
From this: ...There's room for a nativist-but-not-bigoted populist candidate in the center. The problem for the raging moderates is finding that person. He's likely to come from outside of elective office, since such a critter will have a hard time getting elected in the modern two-party system. He'd likely have...
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April 27, 2006
The Princeton Survey Research Associates for the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press says that 53 percent of Americans want a third major political party. It was at 50 percent last June. While the two major parties appear to have a stranglehold on our political system, things...
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April 24, 2006
From this: [The United Nations'] bureaucrats envision a "borderless" world where immigration is treated as an international human rights issue and used as a global development tool to encourage free movement of the developing countries' poor to developed nations. This philosophy underlies their preparations for the United Nations High Level...
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April 05, 2006
Has the immigration "debate" had a debilitating toll on the Bush family? First up we have Jeb Bush race-baiting the issue: "My wife came here legally, but it hurts her just as it hurts me when people give the perception that all immigrants are bad... The cumulative effect of some...
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April 04, 2006
The Los Angeles Times' offers a four(!)-screener from Peter Wallsten entitled "Immigrant Issues Are Personal for Bush". I believe the best way to characterize it is as a lame attempt to further divide Bush from his base. The subtext of the article is that the latter are opposed to illegal...
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Earlier today, John McCain was booed because of his immigration schemes. Unfortunately, his threat to leave appears to have been just one big jolly jape: "If you like, I will leave," McCain told the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department, pivoting briefly from the lectern. He returned to the microphone...
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March 23, 2006
If an American Senator continually supports citizens of other countries over what Americans want and deserve, has that Senator disqualified himself from his office? Harry Reid is threatening to filibuster Bill Frist's "enforcement-only" immigration bill. He wants a "guest" worker scheme, and he refers to Kennedy-McCain as a "good place...
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March 21, 2006
If you live in Illinois, please vote for Jim Oberweis in today's gubanatorial primary. The reason is simple: look at who his opponents are and what they represent and and what they support and what they're willing to do. A vote for Oberweis is a vote against the corrupt, illegal...
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March 19, 2006
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has developed a plan to conduct events across the U.S. next week, and a copy was given to the Washington Times. His "Real Security" events will be conducted at various public facilities associated with homeland and national security such as military bases. The document...
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March 15, 2006
The lawyer who played a key role in our pandemic response, Stewart Simonson, has resigned: One of the Bush administration's principal advisers on bioterrorism and other public health emergencies has resigned. Stewart Simonson, assistant secretary for public health emergency preparedness, told the president in a resignation letter Monday that he...
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March 12, 2006
Seriously, that can't be news. Whether Bush is himself a member of the globalist elite or just one of their employees can be debated, but one thing is clear: he's a globalist through and through. It's also a false choice to pretend that the only alternative to globalism is "isolationism"....
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March 07, 2006
The WaPo offers "Democrats Struggle To Seize Opportunity". Obviously, the problem is related to their lack of intelligent, principled, pro-American leaders. If they could somehow correct that problem, they could do a great service for this country and they'd win elections....
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February 15, 2006
First of all, Dick Cheney has admitted having a little to drink: We'd taken a break at lunch -- go down under an old -- ancient oak tree there on the place, and have a barbecue. I had a beer at lunch. After lunch we take a break, go back...
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Were alcoholic beverages available at the meal prior to the Dick Cheney hunting incident? Were Cheney, Harry Whittington, or others in their party drinking? The "NBC Investigative Unit" report "Cheney's hunting host lobbied White House" originally contained this paragraph: [Ranch owner Katharine Armstrong] also told NBC News that she does...
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February 14, 2006
Just morbidly blue-skying a bit, the question arises whether Harry Whittington is still alive or not. Of course, you wouldn't expect a whole hospital to be in on the game, but then again there's probably only a limited number of people who have seen him. Of course, if this were...
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From the LAT: ...The party of 11 hunters set out in two trucks Saturday morning, driving around the mesquite-dotted property and shooting quail until about 12:30 p.m., said Anne Armstrong, co-owner of the ranch. Then they broke for a lunch of antelope, jicama salad and camp bread, washed down with...
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February 13, 2006
The American Federation of Teachers has developed a nifty technique to discuss their problems with No Child Left Behind: create a creepy Flash animation that's so hideous that bloggers will have no choice but to link to it. Think they'll add this post to their reviews post?...
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February 12, 2006
The California Libertarian Party will be conducting its next convention on a three day (actually, four day, but play along) cruise on the Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas. It will feature the Vice President of the Reason Foundation. Could the future of libertarianism be at sea? Specifically, in international...
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February 09, 2006
The weakest spot of the Bush administration and of the GOP leadership is their support for illegal immigration. Perhaps the Dems have finally realized that: DES MOINES, IA - Legislative Democrats today are calling for steps to curb illegal immigration by holding corporate executives and employees accountable for hiring undocumented...
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If you're going to talk about a "Culture of Corruption", it would help not to be dingy yourself: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator's staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist's team about legislation...
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February 07, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — Democrats are heading into this year's elections in a position weaker than they had hoped for, party leaders say, stirring concern that they are letting pass an opportunity to exploit what they see as widespread Republican vulnerabilities... Etc. etc. etc. Perhaps if the Dems want...
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February 05, 2006
OK, so the title's a little strong. Nevertheless, here's more on the Pentagon's domestic spying program. The picture of Donald Rumsfeld touring the KGB museum is a bit much, however: ...Created three years ago by the Defense Department, CIFA's [the U.S. Army's top-secret Counterintelligence Field Activity] role is "force protection"—tracking...
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February 01, 2006
A recent Gallup poll asked people whether they were "proud to be an American", and the results were: extremely: 59% very: 26% "only a little" or "not at all": 5% Since the poll appears to be subscriber-only, I'm having trouble figuring out what the remaining 10% said. "Somewhat"? "Undecided"? "Unsure"?...
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January 31, 2006
Here's the full text of the speech. Others say that the government needs to take a larger role in directing the economy, centralizing more power in Washington and increasing taxes. We hear claims that immigrants are somehow bad for the economy – even though this economy could not function without...
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Later today, I'll be live-blogging it. Well, actually, I'll try to find a disembargoed copy and quickly summarize it. Then, I'll watch an old Alf episode. I predict that Bush's SOTU will include the following or very close equivalents: "we need comprehensive reform of our broken immigration system" "good-hearted people...
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January 30, 2006
The Patriot Act creates a "United States Secret Service Uniformed Division" that is "subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security." The new police are empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under...
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January 29, 2006
60 Minutes has a report on the Department of Health and Human Services ordering just 100,000 doses of a drug designed to combat the effects of a dirty bomb: "The Worst-Case Scenario". HHS says it's just their first order and there will be more to come. The company that developed...
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January 19, 2006
From "Report: Congressman backed defense project critical to donors": A high-ranking California Republican congressman preserved funding for a defense project critical to a New York investment company that raised more than $130,000 for him, according to a published report Thursday. Rep. Jerry Lewis, who now chairs the House Appropriations Committee,...
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January 17, 2006
In a barely noticed move, libertarian/loony Michael Badnarik is running for Congress in Texas' 10th District. He'll be facing off against Michael McCaul. In our time/space continuum, McCaul is a Republican. The candidate - who only lost the presidential election by many dozens of millions of votes - is embarking...
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December 17, 2005
Good news for those (from "both" parties) who want a dumb citizenry: Eleven million adults in the United States speak no English or know so little they can't read a prescription or sign a form, the Education Department said Thursday. In addition, 23 million people who were born in the...
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December 16, 2005
According to a Rasmussen poll, 32% of respondents want Bush to be impeached. It's at 35% for VP Dick Cheney. On the other hand, 58% don't want impeachment for Bush. (For those doing the math, that's a little over half). As fas as voting for someone who would pledge to...
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December 13, 2005
I was a bit surprised at this part of the Brian Williams interview with our nations's leader: I don't see a lot of the news. Every morning I look at the newspaper. I can't say I've read every single article in the newspaper. But I definitely know what's in the...
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December 06, 2005
Wouldn't it be nice to have a pro-American third political party that wasn't corrupt like the Dems and the GOP? There's some historical analysis in "Voter disaffection an opening for third party?" It mentions the same poll discussed here, as well as Jim Gilchrist and... the Loonitarians. Considering that they...
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December 05, 2005
As described here, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (PDF file) shows that most respondents favor the Dems over the GOP on most issues. For various issues, they were asked "When it comes to (READ ITEM), which party do you think would do a better job--the Democratic Party, the Republican...
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December 03, 2005
On November 30, the Financial Times published "Transcript: Bush speech". It appears to be what it says it is, but they also appear to have inserted a sneaky little change in the following paragraph which I've reproduced exactly as it appears at that page. See if you notice what they...
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December 01, 2005
This is from 5/10/05's USA Today article "Ridge reveals clashes on alerts": The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. Ridge, who resigned...
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November 23, 2005
According to a Harris telephone poll of 1011 U.S. adults, the following percentages agree with this statement: "Do you think that the Bush administration generally provides accurate information regarding current issues or do you think they generally mislead the public on current issues to achieve its own end?". Republicans: 28%...
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November 15, 2005
From the 11/13/05 Baltimore Sun report "Ehrlich bristles at Oreo skeptics": Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore. Now,...
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November 04, 2005
If you want a clear example, take a close look at this small PDF file. It looks like a GOP mailing, no? It's got the GOP elephant, it says it's "An important message for Virginia Republicans", and down there at the end it's got this: For more information on the...
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November 01, 2005
The Boston Globe reports on the Vermont Independence Convention, which was attended by 100 Vermonters, most of them intent on seceding from this very country. From one of the supporters: "Vermont still provides a communitarian alternative to the dehumanized mass production, mass consumption, narcissistic lifestyle which pervades most of the...
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October 31, 2005
Baby Blumenthal - son of Submarine Sid and nee "Max" - goes after Alito here. Well, not directly. The Alito he goes after is Judge Alito's son, currently a student at Colgate University. He points out this bit from Phil Alito's biography: ..I was born 9 months and 2 weeks...
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October 28, 2005
Considering all that's been going on for the past few years, you'd think the Dems would get a clue and be able to come up with a way to capitalize on things like Iraq, Katrina, massive illegal immigration, cronyism, corruption, indictments, etc. etc. Yet, they haven't been able to do...
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October 27, 2005
WashTimes Eleven days from now, Virginia voters will choose between two starkly different candidates for governor: The Republican nominee, former state attorney general and state secretary for public safety, Jerry Kilgore, is an energetic conservative and a proven leader who has worked tirelessly to make Virginia a safer place by...
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October 26, 2005
I haven't been following PlameGate, so I don't know whether this is something that could be true or whether it's part of the defense: The media version of the CIA leak case is that the White House illegally revealed a CIA employee's identity because her husband, Joseph Wilson, was an...
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October 24, 2005
America's boboiest pundit emerged from behind his paywall earlier today to offer "The Savior of the Right". It's about... George W. Bush. And, Brooks... is not kidding. ...Bush hasn't abandoned conservatism; he's modernized and saved it... Almost single-handedly, Bush reconnected with the positive and idealistic instincts of middle-class Americans. He...
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October 20, 2005
This is one of the leading contenders: America Can Do Better....
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October 18, 2005
From this: WND has learned from reliable sources within the Texas lottery scandals that pressure from prominent Texas Democrats, including former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, is being placed on Democratic senators considering the high-court nomination of Harriet Miers – whom Gov. George W. Bush appointed as chairwoman of the Texas...
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October 17, 2005
Corruption. Cronyism. Unbelievable incompetence. Un-American activities. Indictments. It just goes on and on, doesn't it? And, it gets even worse. According to "White House to outline proposal", the Bush administration intends to propose immigration "reform" tomorrow. Note that a previous post contradicted the DFW article: Has the Bush immigration "reform"...
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October 14, 2005
Deborah Senn was a candidate for state attorney-general of Washington. A $1.5 million advertising campaign from a group called the VEC (Voters Education Committee) was launched against her, and now she's suing the organization that was behind VEC: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A complaint filed to the Washington State...
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October 13, 2005
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appeared on a radio show (OK, it was Alex Jones' radio show, but let's conveniently forget that bit), and according to this he said, among others, the following: -Upcoming indictments of Bush administration officials will be far more damaging than most have expected. -The Bush administration...
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The titular book from the former Reagan administration official is due on April 11, 2006. From a recent column: Last week I had an interesting experience. I was asked to testify before a hearing of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. I made it clear to them that I was...
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October 10, 2005
From this: Imagine if Bill Clinton had nominated his personal attorney and White House counsel to a post on the U.S. Supreme Court. Somehow, I can't imagine my conservative friends supporting the nominee – particularly if there were questions about controversial documents being destroyed that might actually shed light on...
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The WaPo offers "Dean Camp's Tactics Applied to Colorado", a "Special to The Washington Post" article by Brian Faler: A small advocacy group in Colorado is betting that it can take one state-of-the-art Web site [ProgressNowAction.org], add half a million dollars or so and end up with a potent tool...
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October 09, 2005
Will discusses Tancredo in a largely fair column entitled "The GOP's Border Guard". Unfortunately, he also works in a few myths and canards. Tancredo knows his candidacy would be quixotic, and he worries that if he wins few votes his issue will be discounted. But he also knows that presidential...
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One of the myths propagated by open borders advocates and their enablers is that there's a monolithic "Hispanic Vote" and that the GOP needs immigration "reform" to get that vote. First, take a look at these three articles: "Bush Didn't Win 44% of Hispanic Vote - The Smoking Exit Poll",...
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October 08, 2005
From "Chairman Mehlman Unveils New Spanish Language Web Site": Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Ken Mehlman today unveiled the national committee's new Spanish language Web site as part of a continued effort to communicate the President's and Republican Party's message to all Americans. GOP en Espanol is another mechanism that...
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October 07, 2005
"Palestinian negotiator" Nabil Shaath claims that Bush told him that God told him to invade Iraq. Now, the White House is denying that Bush told Shaath that God told him that. In the BBC doc, Nabil says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from...
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Speaking of Harriet Miers, Pitchfork Pat says: ...In claiming Miers is the most qualified person he knows to fill the seat of Sandra Day O'Connor, President Bush tells us more about himself than her. If she is truly that qualified, why did he hide this extraordinary talent in the paper-shuffling...
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October 06, 2005
Al Gore - in alternate reality #28B the President of the United States - recently preached about television, the Internet, newspapers, etc. etc. I could only take reading a few paragraphs of it, but testify Big Wooden Al, testify: [...extols First Amendment...] As a result of these fears, safeguards were...
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In the case of a pandemic, the person directly responsible for the response would appear to be Stewart Simonson. He's the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness in the Department of Health and Human Services. From his bio: From 2001-2003, he was the HHS Deputy General Counsel and provided...
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October 05, 2005
The results of the 48th District election are in, and Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist will face off against Bush Republican John Campbell in a December runoff. Gilchrist got 14%, and Campbell got 46%. Note that "moderate Republican" Marilyn Brewer got 17%, just slightly more than Gilchrist. The latter will...
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October 04, 2005
In the case of a bird flu outbreak, Bush wants to break out the military. From yesterday's remarks: The policy decisions for a President in dealing with an avian flu outbreak are difficult. One example: If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine...
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October 03, 2005
Ramesh Ponnuru: It's an inspiring testament to the diversity of the president's cronies. Wearing heels is not an impediment to being a presidential crony in this administration! A little later, Rich Lowry says: Just talked to a couple of people in the Bush orbit who was making the case for...
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From this: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accepted donations from key Clinton Chinagate fundraiser John Huang - and later pushed for Senate confirmation of the judge who let Huang off with a slap on the wrist. News of Reid's Chinagate donations resurfaced this week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which...
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September 30, 2005
Internecine triangulation? Jeb Bush has (apparently) come out against Bush's plans to grab more powers for the military. From "Think Locally On Relief": As the governor of a state that has been hit by seven hurricanes and two tropical storms in the past 13 months, I can say with certainty...
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The Akaka Bill - from Senator Daniel Akaka, Democrat Hawaii - seeks to give that state some self-determination. Unfortunately, their self-determination stops at the point where our property could fall into the hands or sphere of influence of China or some other country. Phyllis Schlafly doesn't mention that country in...
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September 29, 2005
The brother of Our Lider wants changes to our visa and immigration policies. Speaking at the Miami Herald's annual Americas Conference, he said: "It is a good thing to have people who want to come to set up their business, to invest here, to use this as a platform for...
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Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has launched a new website entitled GiveEmHellHarry. It features a petition encouraging the oppressed masses to protest obscene oil company profits, and it features a "blog". I believe that the blog is actually written by the politician himself, since if it were written by an...
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September 28, 2005
From "Bush seeks to federalize emergencies": President Bush yesterday sought to federalize hurricane-relief efforts, removing governors from the decision-making process. "It wouldn't be necessary to get a request from the governor or take other action," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said yesterday. "This would be," he added, "more of...
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September 27, 2005
Due to an extremely rare space anomaly, the Cato Institute and I agree on something for once: Having already wrecked a legendary American city, Hurricane Katrina may now be invoked to undermine a fundamental principle of American law;.that principle, enshrined in the Posse Comitatus Act, is that when it comes...
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September 26, 2005
The article "The Scrutinizer Finds Himself Under Scrutiny" from T. Christian Miller reports that some are raising questions about the activities of the recently resigned Pentagon inspector general, Joseph E. Schmitz. In light of posts such as "Watchdog [Clark Kent Erwin] details confrontations with Ridge", this certainly sounds interesting. However,...
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September 25, 2005
Keep a very watchful eye peeled for those who will try to use the response to Katrina to grab more power for the Office of the President and for the military. The President was never intended to be as central a figure as he is now, and restrictions on the...
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September 24, 2005
Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations says we should send retirees to Mexico and other Latin American countries: "Make it easier for retirees to move south of the border". The idea is that they'll bolster those countries' economies and reduce illegal immigration. Of course, another way to...
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September 23, 2005
From "David Hossein Safavian: From the White House to the Jail House": Last Monday, David Hossein Safavian, a high-ranking White House official and pal of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist, was arrested in a federal corruption case involving lobbying bad boy Jack Abramoff. According to the FBI, Safavian repeatedly lied to...
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In the NRO editorial "Withdraw Myers", they suggest that Bush finds someone a bit more qualified to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement than the current pick of Julia Myers since she has no immigration experience: [ICE is] a vast bureau with more than 20,000 employees and a budget of $4...
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Snug down your tinfoil and take a look at this DU post. On September 21, Bush extended the National State of Emergency that he declared after 9/11. That links to "Today in DC: Commandos in the Streets?" The latter should send you to the store to stock up on extra...
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The unsourced and unconfirmed report here (or here) says that the DHS was using the private company AccuWeather to obtain their forecasts of Katrina. A report was compiled using their data and presented to DHS head Michael Chertoff. Meanwhile, NWS meteorologists working at the "NOAA Desk" in the "DHS Ops...
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As previously discussed, the National Enquirer says that Bush is hitting the bottle again. From this (completely unverified and consider the source) post: Ed Schultz just interviewed an editor with the National Enquirer. The editor said the paper stands by its story "150%" and would go to court over it...
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September 22, 2005
He didn't say that exactly, but former prez Carter thinks Al Gore is the real winner of the 2000 elections: There is "no doubt in my mind that Gore won the election," the erstwhile President declared, saying the 2000 election process "failed abysmally."...
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September 19, 2005
Which political figure said the following: "Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society. I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and...
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September 15, 2005
It's important to read between the lines of this report: WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid today urged Congress to press for immigration reform this year, citing Hurricane Katrina as the latest, high-profile illustration of the need to help Hispanic immigrants who are "living in the shadows." [he means...
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September 14, 2005
Dear Prez: Hey, nice speech you made before the United Nations ("Bush vows to 'tear down walls' between rich and poor nations"). Unfortunately, you seem to have failed to grasp certain basic concepts, not the least of which is that which we call "America". But, let me explain it to...
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September 13, 2005
"Taxpayers To Pick Up Tab For Governor's Driveway" (warning: loads video) informs us that the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is spending almost three-quarters of a million dollars to install a heated driveway at the governor's mansion, "even though he doesn't stay there much." The state is picking up the...
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September 12, 2005
Last year, the GOP decided it was better to lose a Senate seat to Barack Obama than to run a candidate who's opposed to illegal immigration: Jim Oberweis. Despite finishing second in the primary, he was basically ignored by the GOP leadership because of his pro-borders views. Details here. Now,...
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Bored by Bilderbergers? Want a new group of elitists to worry about? Welcome to Bubba's New World Order! ...This week, Clinton will take the concept of an activist post-presidency to another level when he convenes up to 1,000 world leaders at a Sheraton Hotel in New York. His aim, in...
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September 10, 2005
The NYRA has been featured here in the past because of their campaign to lower California's voting age: "CA Dem Party supports lowering voting age to 17". In that post I thought it likely that they were just being used by racial demagogues seeking racial power. So, when I saw...
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September 08, 2005
HONOLULU (AP) - A delay in a U.S. Senate vote on a bill that would grant federal recognition to Native Hawaiians is giving Hawaii's governor a chance to lobby senators who fear it could lead to Hawaii's secession from the union. "That's a ridiculous claim and a ridiculous argument," Gov....
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September 05, 2005
From this: The U.S. Senate is scheduled tomorrow to decide whether to clear the way for the most odious, anti-American piece of legislation in memory: S. 147, the "Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act." Incredibly, as of now, more than 61 senators are expected to vote to begin a process that...
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September 01, 2005
Jim Trageser discusses just about the only argument that "liberals" are able to come up with when discussing illegal immigration: ...The only saving grace of the current proliferation of charges of racism in our community is that the charge is being made so often and so emptily that it's losing...
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As further proof that many of those in the Democratic Party just aren't up to the task of leadership, consider the case of Ray Buckley, vice chairman of New Hampshire's Democratic Party. Responding to the arrest of illegal aliens in that state on trespassing laws, he plays the race card:...
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August 30, 2005
WorldNetDaily is running a poll, asking their readers to vote whether they support Pat Buchanan's call to impeach Bush over illegal immigration. At post time, with over 2000 votes counted, over half support impeaching Bush. Now, of course, no internet poll is completely accurate, and some are completely inaccurate. However,...
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Ann Coulter's column has been dropped by the Arizona Daily Star. About the only good thing that can be said about that paper is that they aren't quite as "liberal" as the AZ Republic. Apparently she was too "shrill" for some of their readers, whose sensibilities were offended. Some...
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August 28, 2005
According to this, George W. Bush has already made plans for his library, and it's not going to be good for the U.S. ..."The Hoover Institution," reveals Bush's chief library scout and former Commerce Secretary Don Evans, "is the model. That's what will differentiate our library." ...Evans tells us that...
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August 18, 2005
The article "Democrats gain edge on border security" directs our attention to this recent poll: One national tracking survey by the nonpartisan Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index ranks stemming the flow of illegal immigration as a top international relations concern for the American public. Asked by the...
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August 03, 2005
For a nice state filled with awesome scenery and generally nice folks, Utah has given us some really unsavory characters politics-wise. There's Orrin Hatch and his anti-American DREAM Act. And, of course, Rep. Chris Cannon. And, there's one other that was mentioned here before just once: "Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman...
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Back in June we discussed the FOIA request that Judicial Watch filed concerning the poll of border crossers that the Border Patrol had conducted. It showed a large uptick in attempted crossings because of Bush announcing his guest worker plan. The poll was abruptly terminated after three weeks, and BP...
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August 01, 2005
Want to see something disturbing? Go to the RNC web site at rnc.org and click on their "photo gallery", which is one of the three links above the main picture on the front page. Notice anything... odd about all six of those pictures? Details here. Obviously, if almost everyone in...
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July 28, 2005
Yesterday, the militant Chicano group the Brown Berets attended an anti-Minuteman Project press conference featuring leaders of the Democratic Party in Texas' Hidalgo County and held at that party's headquarters. According to the report from KRGV-TV (video at the link; copy of the report here), they were "welcomed... with open...
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July 27, 2005
Apparently Bush is holding a secret meeting this morning at 9am Eastern time to promote CAFTA. A vote on that could come today or this week. Details in "President calls secret meeting to pitch CAFTA". Expect the BushBots to pull out all the stops for their leader. Please send a...
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July 26, 2005
A four paragraph UPI blurb - apparently only available from two sources - summarizes Bush's latest open borders plan under the title "Report: Bush using immigration for votes": A Bush administration plan to court Hispanic voters for the 2006 elections will attempt to relax immigration policies, a published report said......
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July 25, 2005
While it's become fact within the BushBot Blogosphere, he did not say we should nuke Mecca, only "bomb" it. Here's the transcript, here's an AP report, and here's America's cuddliest BushBot. (This entry is here because Professor Bainbridge is making the mistake this post is designed to correct and there...
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The Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union have left the AFL-CIO, sources say. As discussed at the first link, Andy Stern wants to form a "global union." It's been tried, comrade. See the earlier "SEIU's Hostile Leftist Takeover" for bolshe na SEIU, gospodin....
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July 24, 2005
Unfortunately, he's an unknown former Democrat from Vermont who has no organization supporting him. He also doesn't appear to have a web site and he's going the Howard Dean, grassroots route for funding. But, it's a start. Dennis Morrisseau is a retired restaurant owner from West Pawlet, Vermont. Bernie Sanders...
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July 19, 2005
Who writes this stuff? However, I think that might be a secret message to Bush's evangelical base, along the lines of, "he's one of us."...
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Like two Stooges trying to get through a door at the same time, Ken Mehlman of the RNC and Howard Dean of the DNC spoke before the meeting of the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"). Now, if you follow that link you'll see that the NCLR is hardly...
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July 18, 2005
A few years ago, Hillary made the following statement that - were she not a "liberal" - would have resulted in her being banished from polite society: I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants. Oh my tender sensibilities! Thankfully, as NewsMax points out in "N.Y. Times Alters Hillary Clinton's...
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July 15, 2005
Yesterday the Senate voted against two bills: one would have added 2000 more Border Patrol agents, and the other would have added 8000 more beds to detention centers. As previously discussed, Other-Than-Mexicans ("OTMs") who sneak across the border in Texas have been taking advantage of the lack of detention space:...
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July 14, 2005
I must have missed this the first time around, but in October several well-known amateur and professional athletes signed a letter in support of Our Leader. You can get the text-only version here, and to see it in its proper BushBot context, go here (that last is a large file,...
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July 06, 2005
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) provides the short, easy-to-understand, impossible-to-ignore version of why CAFTA should be sent to the scrap heap. From "CAFTA: More Bureaucracy, Less Free Trade": ...The quasi-judicial regime created under CAFTA will have the same power to coerce our cowardly legislature into changing American laws in the...
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June 30, 2005
In the FWIW Department, Zogby's latest poll shows that 42% of those asked would support the impeachment of president Bush "if it is found that President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq". If you added his stance on immigration and U.S....
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June 29, 2005
The report "USDA plants its own news" is from June 16, but better late than never. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has produced three dozen TV and radio "new reports" supporting CAFTA. The reports feature various Bush administration officials extolling that anti-American plan. At the end of each report the...
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June 28, 2005
Yahoo has "inked" an agreement with the Huffington Post under which HP content will appear in the Opinion section of Yahoo News. It will also occasionally appear in the Celebrity section. If you go to news.yahoo.com you can see a link in the upper right corner to HP's new content...
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U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Van Nuys,CA) is co-sponsoring legislation to repeal the 22nd Amendment so that presidents could serve as many terms as they could win. The sponsor is Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and it's received the support of James Sensenbrenner (R-WI). Report in "Two-term limit under fire". Note that...
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June 26, 2005
The elites appear to be referring to those opposed to China's proposed hostile takeover of Unocal using the smear word "protectionists." As an example, the WaPo column from Sebastian Mallady entitled "China's Latest 'Threat'" uses that word no less than 8 times in just 12 paragraphs: ...The Unocal bid brings...
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June 24, 2005
Thankfully a Reuters cameraman was on hand to prove that a CAFTA picture is worth a million words: U.S. President George W. Bush (L) greets former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger following his remarks about the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the Old Executive Building in Washington June...
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You might have heard about the recent poll that showed that just 35% of Republicans think PBS has a liberal bias. A quick scan of the PDF of the poll reveals something a bit... interesting. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it look like: * at least one of...
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June 20, 2005
Reuters alerts us that CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) might be voted on before July 4th. And, if it passes our exports could grow by $1 billion a year, and: Jim Owens, chief executive of construction and mining equipment maker Caterpillar Inc., is one of the industry leaders urging...
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June 19, 2005
Apparently the BushBot blogosphere is trying to relive old glories and desperately trying to draw a parallel between the DSMs and Rathergate. It seems that the typewritten DSMs are in fact facsimiles: the reporter photocopied the original memos he was given, returned to the originals to the government source, and...
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June 16, 2005
The Patriot Act contains what pretty much everyone who isn't speaking in legalese calls "sunset provisions." Such things are, of course, written into laws when circumstances might change and making something only temporary is considered the wiser choice. This is a dual-use entry. Firstly, I would like to point out...
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June 15, 2005
Holy black helicopters and blue-helmeted foreigners, citizen! Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) offers us "NeoCon Global Government" (also here as "UN Bill Not What It Appears to Be"): This week Congress will vote on a bill to expand the power of the United Nations beyond the dreams of even the most...
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June 14, 2005
Sadly, Morgan Reynolds - former chief economist for the US Department of Labor during President Bush's first term - has been unmasked as an anti-American liberal. In a preposterous screed without even a semblance of facts, Reynolds asks, "Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse?" To explain the unanticipated free-fall...
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June 12, 2005
I would like to make it perfectly clear that all I do here is just link to stories appearing elsewhere. In other news, I didn't know that the author of the George W. Bush biography 'Fortunate Son' committed suicide. Or, "suicide" to delusional, pot-besotted far-left liberals. This 2001 article (alternet.org/drugreporter/11881)...
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June 10, 2005
I mean, seriously now. Two San Diego libertarians attended a meeting of the group People for the USA in Yuma AZ. There in the heart of Invasion USA they advocated for Open Borders, among other wacky libertarian ideas. Now, granted, these are probably third-level loony liberaltarians, but even so you...
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June 09, 2005
Howard Dean, on yesterday's Today Show: ...[Republicans] are attacking immigrants, two Republican congressmen, Jim Sensenbrenner and Tom Tancredo have incredible anti-immigrant legislation... This might be the least shocking and most mainstream "liberal" thing he's said recently. How many times have you heard these same (false) statements from other "liberals"...
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It's moot now ("Owen Takes Oath for Seat on Appeals Court"), and I've taken to ignoring VRWC action alerts, but what I'm about to discuss is pretty outrageous, albeit not too surprising. Buried in this long anti-Owen screed from California's wackier senator is this: ...Let's check those cases out. How...
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June 08, 2005
Big Republican Hair victim, over-user of makeup, bringer to us of Bushes, and conserva-babe U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) has announced she's running for Senate from Florida in 2006. Ride 'em cowgirl!...
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June 06, 2005
Air America Radio's Al Franken is considering running for Senator from Minnesota. If he wants a plank that would get a lot of support and would be pro-American, he might want to take a look at the June 19, 2004 press release "Coleman calls discussions with president Vicente Fox of...
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June 05, 2005
No, it's not the CPUSA, but it's close: "Concerns Arise at A.C.L.U. Over Document Shredding": The American Civil Liberties Union has been shredding some documents over the repeated objections of its records manager and in conflict with its longstanding policies on the preservation and disposal of records. The matter has...
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June 03, 2005
As Lionel Hutz might say, there's the "truth", and then there's the "truth" ("liberal" version). From "Liberal Media Reformers Call for 'Truth' Over 'Balance'": Claiming that conservative bias is a "major crisis in the U.S. media," a panel of liberal journalists and media analysts said news organizations should promote "truth"...
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May 31, 2005
Which Bush should be our next president? Wilbur and Cletus Bush are still a bit too young, as are P. and the twins. On the other hand, Rutger is still tied up in Saudi Arabia for a while. Perhaps he could commute or something...? What about Noelle? She'd be the...
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May 28, 2005
From a much longer article about an appearance in San Francisco: ...[Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was] asked for her opinion about the role of armed volunteers guarding the border with Mexico. "As to enforcement, that is a role for the United States government and the United States government alone,"...
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Andrew Stern of the Service Employees International Union - which is one of the unions in the AFL-CIO conglomeration - is considering leaving the federation and forming a new group of unions. According to the L.A. Times article "Head of Big Service-Workers Union Weighs Separation From AFL-CIO", he wants to...
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May 22, 2005
Well, not exactly. Parse carefully Accuracy in Media's first paragraph from "AIM Report: CNN's George Soros-gate": Clear and convincing evidence indicates that billionaire money manipulator and anti-conservative activist George Soros provided financing for research on a CNN documentary... Remove the "research on" and you'd really have something. However: The program,...
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May 17, 2005
I have absolutely no idea. However, the purported list of attendees at this year's Bilderberg confab is here. In addition to the Queens of the Netherlands and of Spain, the following Americans took part: William C. Ford, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Ford Motor Company Timothy F. Geithner, President, Federal Reserve...
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May 08, 2005
From the surprising NYT article "Times Panel Proposes Steps to Build Credibility": In order to build readers' confidence, an internal committee at The New York Times has recommended taking a variety of steps, including having senior editors write more regularly about the workings of the paper, tracking errors in a...
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May 04, 2005
As far as I know, no one has been able to come up with any conclusive proof that Henry Kissinger actually said the words "New World Order" (other than in a later, joking context). But, what if I presented to you a 2000 quote from one Professor Elisabeth Mann Borgese...
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April 25, 2005
One of America's finest legislators, John Conyers, has released the results of an FOIA request concerning exposed gay person and alleged fake journalist Jeff Gannon, a.k.a. James Guckert. It appears he visited the White House many times without signing in or signing out each time. The usual suspects weigh in....
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April 21, 2005
From this: Canadian Maurice Strong agreed to step aside Wednesday as a special envoy for the United Nations, but vowed to clear his name after being linked to Tongsun Park, a Korean lobbyist charged in connection with the Iraq oil-for-food scandal. At the same time, new details emerged about a...
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April 20, 2005
From "Soros says be patient": George Soros told a carefully vetted gathering of 70 likeminded millionaires and billionaires last weekend that they must be patient if they want to realize long-term political and ideological yields from an expected massive investment in "startup" progressive think tanks. The Scottsdale, Ariz., meeting, called...
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April 19, 2005
Beeb: A Cuban exile accused by President Fidel Castro of plotting to kill him has applied for asylum in the US, his lawyer has said. Luis Posada Carriles is also wanted in Venezuela over the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, in which 73 people were killed. Mr Carriles...
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April 18, 2005
...then why did the NBC Nightly News mostly concentrate on "right-wing" terrorism? In a story broadcast tonight on domestic terrorism because of the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing, they discussed both left and right wing domestic terrorism. (Similar story here; the one I saw is from a different "reporter" and...
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April 12, 2005
WASHINGTON - The FBI, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the Rev. Al Sharpton, secretly videotaped him pocketing campaign donations from two shady fund-raisers in a New York City hotel room and then asking for more, it was reported yesterday... An FBI wiretap picked up Hawkins telling White...
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April 11, 2005
The Pew Research Center conducted an online survey of 11,568 Deaniacs and has the highlights in "The Dean Activists: Their Profile and Prospects": ...Dean activists are far wealthier, better educated, more secular and much less ethnically diverse than other Democrats. A disproportionate number of Dean activists are white, well-educated Baby...
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April 05, 2005
From this: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi helped secure $3 million last year for a nonprofit transportation-research organization whose president gave money to her political action committee as the group was paying for a European trip for one of her policy advisers. Transportation adviser Lara Levison's nine-day, $4,475 trip to...
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March 21, 2005
Vox Day: ...In the spring of 1950, the foreign minister of France, Robert Schuman, proposed that France and Germany collectivize their coal and steel resources... Fifty-one years later, the sale of national sovereignty was completed when most of the governments across Europe abandoned their national currencies in favor of the...
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March 20, 2005
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Canadians love Portland, because Portland is the most Canadian city in the United States. Outgoing Mayor Vera Katz calls the Oregon city "more than a place, it's a state of mind," and that's true. Portland has a highly educated, politically liberal, environmentally conscious population. It's a kinder,...
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I was glancing over the thread at FreeRepublic.com entitled "Border watcher draws protest" and I tried to post a reply when I got the notice above: the thread had been pulled as I was reading it. That post linked to the article by the same name in the O.C....
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March 08, 2005
Remember Clint Curtis, the Florida computer programmer who claimed to have created a demo of a fraudulent electronic voting system? "Brad Blog" has an update: The case of the mysterious suicide of Raymond Lemme of the Florida Inspector General's office was reopened by Valdosta, Georgia police last December shortly after...
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March 04, 2005
If you want the backstory, read this: "Horowitz Exposes David Brock as Paid Hatchet Man for Soros". If you're familiar with the backstory and you want to cut to the chase, read "David Brock Group Backpedals on Soros Funding": Media Matters for America, the group headed by conservative turned liberal...
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March 02, 2005
The latest in a series of polls conducated by the NYT and CBS shows that Bush is (duh) out of step with America: "New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans". If you download the full PDF of the poll, you'll see two things: 1. The word...
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The latest smearswarm attempt from MediaMatters concerns someone you've probably never heard of, the Boston Globe's technology reporter Hiawatha Bray. Seems he posted a few non-inflammatory pro-Bush posts to some blogs before the presidential election. A violation of journalistic ethics? Perhaps. However, one wonders exactly how Bray's political beliefs could...
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March 01, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - Audio tapes made public Tuesday indicate at least 1,500 conversations in which traders employed by disgraced energy giant Enron Corp. engaged in or discussed violations of federal regulations, a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staffer says. Those tapes, including some collected by a Washington state utility, may have...
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February 28, 2005
See the previous Alexandra Polier coverage. On a wacky note, see "Women interns are our future!"...
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February 25, 2005
My research network is plugging away, but they need your help. Which reporter from a well-known media outfit supposedly has a working relationship with a DU poster concerning Gannongate? Now, the DU poster could be lying, or a brief exchange of emails in the night could have been misconstrued as...
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February 19, 2005
The Citizens United billboards showing Our Leader President Bush vanquishing his enemies high above the Sunset Strip in Hollywood have been vandalized. But, that's not why we're here. Instead, I invite you to visit Citizen United's website and find out more about their "American Sovereignty Project". All I found was...
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February 17, 2005
Newsweek: ...Through it all only one shadow of suspicion has passed over Negropontes behavior in public life: the question of what he knew, and when he knew it, about Americas secret association with so-called death squads in the Reagan-era fight against Soviet-allied insurgencies in El Salvador, Honduras and other Central...
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February 16, 2005
Irony Alert! Irony Alert! Irony Alert! From al Guardian: Thus a phony journalist, planted by a Republican organisation, used by the White House press secretary to interrupt questions from the press corps, protected from FBI vetting by the press office, disseminating smears about its critics and opponents, some of them...
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February 15, 2005
Where, indeed, is the outrage? WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media charged today that a liberal activist and associate of Ralph Nader has been obtaining access to White House press briefings while claiming to be a legitimate news reporter. Russell Mokhiber, who sells a $795 a year newsletter that bashes corporations,...
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February 14, 2005
Dr. Marshall explains....
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, dear liberals. Peace. Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Oh Lord, kumbaya You too! Singalong! Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya Oh Lord, kumbayah Let everyone hear you!...
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February 13, 2005
Make sure you religiously refresh americablog.org tomorrow, as there will be a big Gannon scoop issuing forth on the morn. Some kindly blogger offered these words of advice on their 'Hint 2' thread: Whatever happens tomorrow, we must never forget that this story isn't just about gay military porn, no...
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February 12, 2005
[Cross-posted to today's DU thread at BigMediaBlog] Consider the June 16, 2003 article "Public Citizen Condemns Appointment of Corporate Lobbyist as Republican Party Chief": WASHINGTON, D.C. By appointing Ed Gillespie, a leading corporate lobbyist, to head the Republican National Committee, President Bush has opened a conduit for Corporate America...
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Apparently there's been a purge over at FreeRepublic.com and several posters have been banned. Those posters were also opposed to Bush's guest worker program. Did the bannings result from things like posting links to "fringe" sites like VDare.com and TeamAmericaPAC.org, or has FR become just an echo chamber for...
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February 10, 2005
Don't laugh at the title because, in the "liberal" coordinate system, it's true. However, in the real world, it isn't. The blog of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, after linking to Duncan B. Black, quotes the following from a "Judiciary Committee source" about the REAL ID Act, which was today...
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February 09, 2005
The mythologizing of Our Leader continues as he faces his adversaries high above the Sunset Strip. In a way, this is even worse than this pre-election billboard:...
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I don't know whether to put this in the Politics, WackyHumor, or FreudianAdmission category, but Editor & Publisher is giving some more time to freelance writer David Lindorff's quixotic quest: NEW YORK "It's just as important a story after the election, and they've dropped it," says freelance writer David Lindorff,...
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February 08, 2005
Saving this Drudge flash for posterity: [...Bush was discussing his social security plan with "regular" citizen Mary Mornin in Omaha...] ...without prompting Mornin began to elaborate on her life circumstances. Begin transcript: MS. MORNIN: That's good, because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute. THE PRESIDENT: You...
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It's official: DETROIT (Reuters) - President Bush's senior adviser, Karl Rove, will take on a wider role in developing and coordinating policy in the president's second term, the White House announced on Tuesday. Rove, who was Bush's top political strategist during his 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, will become a...
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February 07, 2005
WASHINGTON Even as President Bush proposes deep cuts in healthcare, farm subsidies and other domestic programs, his new budget makes one thing clear about the legacy of his first term in the White House: The era of big government is back. Bush's $2.6-trillion budget for 2006, if approved by...
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The American Conservative's Scott McConnell, who like your blogger endorsed John Kerry for president, now offers us "Hunger for Dictatorship": ...there are foreshadowings well worth noting. The last weeks of 2004 saw several explicit warnings from the antiwar Right about the coming of an American fascism. Paul Craig Roberts in...
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Washington -- Unlike members of the White House staff who maintain the fiction that resigning was their decision, the executive chef, Walter Scheib III, minced no words Friday in saying he had been fired. "We've been trying to find a way to satisfy the first lady's stylistic requirements," Scheib said...
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February 05, 2005
"Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting", otherwise known as FAIR, has an article by Salon's/Counterpunch's Dave Lindorff about HumpGate, otherwise known as BulgeGate: The Emperor's New Hump: The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the electionbecause it could have changed the election. See also the same...
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February 03, 2005
"Tapes: Enron plotted to shut down power plant": "We want you guys to get a little creative ... and come up with a reason to go down," the Enron worker tells the plant employee on one of the tapes. "Anything you want to do over there? ... Cleaning, anything like...
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February 02, 2005
"COMPASSION" COUNT SO FAR: 2 The "spending appetite of the federal government???" Apparently nothing is his fault. "willing workers" "jobs Americans will not take" "rejects amnesty" what a load of BS He keeps regurgitating these same AILA slogans again and again and they were lies each time. For more on...
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Watch this blog tomorrow, where our team will be live blogging not just the SOTU but the reaction to it, such as that provided by the newest loony blog thinkprogress.org, which by the looks of it, is a real piece of work. We will be offering coverage of other blog's...
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NEW YORK In a prominent move, The New York Times offered a correction on its editorial page today regarding a previous editorial concerning columnist Maggie Gallagher. She had sent the newspaper an e-mail, E&P has learned, charging "reckless disregard of the truth." The correction is the last item here: An...
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January 31, 2005
Time to photoshop Marc Cooper out of all the group photos: ...Those of who opposed this war and who want to see the U.S. troops withdrawn as soon as possible should unequivocally encourage the tenuous political process now underway in Iraq. We should stand for more and better elections, not...
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"Boxer Not Willing to Pull Her Punches": WASHINGTON A new blog is promoting her for president. NBC's "Saturday Night Live" spoofed her hair and her props. Some senatorial colleagues are secretly urging her to "go, girl, go." And Democratic coffers are filling up with her every volley... We'll know...
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All blogdom is abuzz about "Some U.S. Students Say Press Freedoms Go Too Far": One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today....
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January 30, 2005
TalkLeft's Blogger Reaction to the Iraq Election: The right-wing blogosphere, like President Bush, considers the elections a triumph for democracy. The top liberal bloggers, Daily Kos, Atrios, Josh Marshall, knowing better, are either ignoring the elections or have moved on. [Dr. Marshall hasn't covered Iraq for a week -- LW]...
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January 29, 2005
Maggie Gallagher's performance on Thursday's NewsHour had to be seen to be believed. She had been lumped in with Armstrong Williams in several news reports, and she finally had a chance to get her side of the story out: Gwen, thank you. I don't agree with the introduction that you...
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Of course you all remember the libertarian classic "U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims" from the Ayn Rand Institute from a few weeks ago: As the death toll mounts in the areas hit by Sunday's tsunami in southern Asia, private organizations and individuals are scrambling to send out money and...
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January 28, 2005
She's a boxer, a fighter, a bodice-ripping good read, a purported mental midget, a crier, California's favorite nanny, and now... a Kossack: barbara-boxer.dailykos.com I'm pretty sure that yes, that is indeed a diary from Barbara Boxer, albeit with just one entry: I can't thank all of you enough -- the...
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January 27, 2005
"Yeah, dude, I'll turbocharge your Saturn for you, dude. $300, man, that's all. [...wait for the shuddering to stop...] I'm a little jittery because I've been up for the past five days trying to fix an electrical short in my Camaro... I think I got it figured out... I don't...
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January 24, 2005
Are you ready? In Greenfield, he commands the 7 p.m. time slot, right after ''Polka with Joe." In Holden, he follows two hours of ''Christmas with The Duttons." Needham residents can catch him at 10 p.m., immediately following ''Getting to Know Your Finance Committee." The voice is unmistakable. So is...
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January 23, 2005
Professor Bainbridge has left the reservation: I like and admire Hugh Hewitt quite a lot, but his knows no bounds enthusiasm for Bush's second inaugural speech is way too over the top. E.g.: It is a speech that brought together the greatest themes of Lincoln, TR, Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK...
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January 20, 2005
Jonah Goldberg retreats from his Wilsonian observations back into orthodoxy: ...What conservatives understood then and what President Bush understands now is that America itself is a radical nation, founded on the revolutionary principle that self-government is simultaneously the best form of government and the most moral. And that lovers of...
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Please go here* and take the poll. Note the rules: 1. The first two George W. Bush administrations don't count towards the poll total. Only select the number you think there will be after the current Bush administration. 2. A "President Bush" or a "VP Bush" counts as a Bush...
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Received via email: Dear Friend: Late December and early January brought record rain and snow to California. Sadly, 28 people lost their lives, and thousands more still suffer the consequences of the storm. I wrote to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pledging my assistance in gaining federal assistance should the Governor...
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January 19, 2005
I already posted this inside another post, but this May 9, 2002 column deserves its own post: ...Near the end of the NRO article Griswold [of the Cato Institute] insists that he is not for "open borders," but his record suggests otherwise. A story in the Christian Science Monitor (August...
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Some "liberals" are threatening not to buy anything tomorrow in order to celebrate Our Leader's ascension to the throne: NotOneDamnDime.com. Later today I'll sign their petition with a nice albeit over the top comment. In the meantime, I left the following comment: Not only am I not buying anything, I'm...
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From "Death penalty opponents demonstrate in Schwarzenegger's home country": Activists in California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's home country voiced their opposition to capital punishment outside the U.S. Embassy in Vienna on Wednesday after the execution of convicted killer Donald Beardslee. About a half-dozen protesters stood in the snow outside the embassy...
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Jonah Goldberg: Michael Barone has a good op-ed on Bush's inauguration and second inaugurals in general. What I find particularly interesting is his suggestion that Bush's address will most resemble Woodrow Wilson's. Which reminds me of something that's been rattling around in my head for a while. Intellectual honesty should...
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January 18, 2005
Professor Bainbridge weighs the possibility of Jeb in '08, and concludes we have just two other choices: Rick Santorum or Condi Rice. Let's be frank. This democracy/republic thing isn't really working out, we need to return to our roots....
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January 16, 2005
From the AP: A president, a husband, a father and a sports fan those are the basic facts most Americans could tell you about George W. Bush. How much more does the country know about its chief executive? Here's a quiz to find out: ...5. What trait does Bush...
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WaPo: Early in December, with a photographer and his assistant, I drove from Nebraska, near the geographical center of the United States, to the heart of Texas -- more than 700 miles, through empty spaces and sprawling cities and all or part of four states. We headed pretty much due...
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Now. One might wonder: was alcohol involved? Or, perhaps B4B is just revealing itself as a deep-cover satire site? And, one might close one's eyes and imagine a whole panoply of both BushBot and "liberal" blogs and pundits just going over the edge in like manner. UPDATE: Team Bush!!...
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January 13, 2005
Here's a happy-fun cartoon from Ward Sutton in the Village Voice. Now, one might think this could be a satire on how VV readers view red-staters. Or, it could just be a desparate Rall/Morford-style call for help. However, considering the last panels, it looks like this guy is actually serious....
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January 11, 2005
From Sully stand-in Reihan Salam in the LAT: ...What Pawlenty realized and what President Bush apparently fails to grasp is that the Republican Party has changed. The rich still vote for Republicans in large numbers, but they're not the party's heart and soul. To win elections, the GOP...
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Dick Morris: Hillary Clinton can't win - oh, and pigs can fly Those who would stick their heads in the sand and maintain that Sen. Hillary Clinton could never be elected president are in for a rude shock, according to the latest data from the Fox News survey. In a...
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January 07, 2005
The secret can now be revealed. From "I'm the first to say it: Barbara Boxer is a DINO, with strong DLC ties-": Yeah, I know, she's DU's "flavor of the week" but she is tainted as hell! Fact: Boxer voted for the Patriot Act She only has a 60%-70% rating...
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From this: Longtime Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal has left his post as Washington bureau chief for the online magazine Salon, a month after he suggested in print that President Bush wouldn't mind if Little Rock, Arkansas was vaporized in a nuclear attack... ..."We're still very fond of Sidney and...
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January 05, 2005
PoliPundit's Alexander K. McClure's post starts like this: Former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman has a book out criticizing the modern Republican Party... The rest of the post can be summarized as follows: Attack! Attack! Attack! However, in more verbose language this turns out as: According to the none-too-bright...
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Barbara Boxer is rumored to be willing to sign on to contest the election of Our Leader: WASHINGTON -- A handful of House Democrats plan a long-shot effort to snarl President Bush's formal re-election by preventing Congress from counting Ohio's pivotal votes when lawmakers tally the electoral vote on Thursday....
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January 04, 2005
Loony Libertarian Lew Rockwell: Year's end is the time for big thoughts, so here are mine. The most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of...
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December 31, 2004
Ayn Rand Institute: U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims The ferret candidate and Mr. Druid were funny. But this is just sad. (Via Josh)...
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December 28, 2004
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer CRAWFORD, Texas - Besides monitoring the devastating earthquake in Southeast Asia, President Bush is biking and strolling around his ranch here and pondering tax reform and other goals in his second term... Now, if I didn't fully support most forms of anti-Bush thought, I...
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December 27, 2004
Let's say you ran the second-largest corporation in America, with 5055 employees working for you. Suddenly, you're forced out of the corporation over some minor matters. How would you feel? Wouldn't you want to be compensated for your sweat and toil over the years? If this happened to you, I'm...
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Text of President Bush's Kwanzaa 2004 message: I send greetings to those observing Kwanzaa. During Kwanzaa, millions of African Americans and people of African descent gather to celebrate their heritage and ancestry. Kwanzaa celebrations provide an opportunity to focus on the importance of family, community, and history, and to reflect...
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December 24, 2004
"Initial influx of distraught Democratic voters get visas". Next year: unveiling the plans for the new high-speed rail line linking Seattle and San Francisco with Vacouver....
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It's only 80 miles from the headquarters of the L.A. Times to Murrieta deep in "red California." But, to the L.A. Times, it's like going to Mars: "In GOP They Trust": ...This devout Mormon couple, whose Boy Scout son Christopher marched on Veterans Day with his uniformed pals from Troop...
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December 23, 2004
The following is a real statement from a real candidate from a couple years back. Today's fun contest: how many sentences (or words) does it take before you correctly figure out the person's party, replaced in the following with "[MYSTERY PARTY]"? My experiences over the past ten years have inspired...
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Here's a roundup of SEIU's far-left leanings and their influence on other unions. The SEIU opposed in Prop. 200. There's a Soros connection. They supported California's Prop. 56. And, there's another roundup of their activities in "How Socialist Unions Rule the Democratic Party"....
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December 20, 2004
From this: President Bush's second-term plans to reshape Social Security, immigration laws and other domestic programs are facing a stiff challenge from a group that was reliably accommodating in the president's first four years: congressional Republicans. After essentially rubber-stamping much of Bush's first-term agenda, many House and Senate Republicans plan...
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December 18, 2004
From the post "Ordinary People in a Blue Town": TIME & PLACE: Yesterday afternoon at the supermarket checkout [in Santa Barbara]... SETUP: I've bought a pound of broccoli salad at the deli counter, and when I look at the register tape, I see that I've been charged $27. The checkout...
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December 17, 2004
Well, theoretically speaking, most anyone could be a candidate. However: The police chief and sheriff of Los Angeles could be candidates to become the next secretary of homeland security, outgoing secretary Tom Ridge says -- but both men say they're not interested in the job. Ridge praised Police Chief William...
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December 16, 2004
From this: Since the arrival late last winter of the "marrying people," as one of Eldorado's more eccentric citizens calls them, there's plenty to talk about in this tiny west Texas town, if not much to see. The polygamous enclave of the YFZ (Yearning for Zion) Ranch is marked by...
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December 15, 2004
These will have to hold you for a while....
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Tony Blankley: ...I have a hunch that there will be a large unwanted guest in Washington next year Immigration and border control reform legislation. No, I don't just mean the president's guest worker proposal that is unlikely to pass the Republican House of Representatives. And I don't just mean House...
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December 14, 2004
From WIRED: A government watchdog group is investigating allegations made by a Florida programmer that are whipping up a frenzy among bloggers and people who believe Republicans stole the recent election. Programmer Clint Curtis claims that four years ago Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Florida) asked his then-employer to write software to...
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December 12, 2004
"'Trusted' Janet Reno Aide Touted as Homeland Chief"...
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From August 25, 1998's "Total Coverage: The CIA, Contras, and Drugs": ...top officials at the CIA knew the agency was working with Contra drug traffickers and didn't do anything about it. But the story, even with that shocking headline, quickly disappeared. None of the other major papers, news magazines, or...
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December 06, 2004
Take a look at this chart. It has the result of a survey of the differences between Republicans and Democrats regarding the cars they drive, the TV they watch, and what activities they partake in. Out of 30 activities, Dems (supposedly) only do 5 more than Repubs: surfing, basketball, antiquing,...
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December 05, 2004
Br'er Drudge, on his radio show, is suggesting drug tests for Senators and Congressmen and breathalyzer tests before they vote on bills. If McCain wants to micromanage baseball, why not require drug testing in a place where it really matters? All we need now is a acronym, a web site,...
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December 04, 2004
Drudge is currently headlining this NYT article. There's not a word in there about the immigration-related provisions. For the reality, you'll have to turn to "Hunter, Sensenbrenner Hold Line". See also "9/11 Families Back Sensenbrenner in Intel Fight". That post has some phone numbers, and you can send free FAXes...
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December 03, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Chronicle Books has acquired the rights to a novel by United States Senator Barbara Boxer of California. The novel of personal friendships and betrayal, political in-fighting and pragmatism, follows Ellen from her days as an idealistic college student, through romantic entanglements, to a...
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December 01, 2004
NY Daily News: [etc. etc.] ...the Bushes have been thinking about Jeb's candidacy for years... ...What Reagan, Kennedy and the Clintons shared was boldness and an understanding of how fragile the "rules" really are. By the time Jeb wins the nomination in the primaries - and its hard to see...
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BlogsForBush has this to say on the 9/11 bill: No big surprise here, Democrats always let special interest groups rule their thinking. They rather have illegal's get drivers licenses than protect this country. Gosh, and here I thought it was both Bush and the Democrats who did the above. Silly...
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November 30, 2004
This is all ABC has right now: Tom Ridge is resigning as secretary of homeland security, ABC News has learned. Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania, has sent his letter of resignation to President Bush, sources told ABC News. A formal announcement is expected later in the day. OK, you're...
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November 28, 2004
In the past, we've featured BlogsForBush and PoliPundit classics, now it's time to fish down even deeper into the barrel: Note the "hat-hair" Dubya's been wearin' his Stetson, but hung it up upon entering (probably on a deer-antlers hatrack). Grandson of a senator, son of a President, Yale College...
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November 26, 2004
[Cross-posted to the Command Post and redstate.org/story/2004/11/26/163449/72] NewsMax offers a roundup of Hillary being to the "right" of Bush on immigration matters: "Hillary Eyeing Immigration as Top 2008 Issue". There's no outright statement from her saying if she ran she'd make it a key part of her campaign, but some...
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November 23, 2004
That's a real billboard in Orlando FL. The text below the picture says it's a "political public service message brought to you by Clear Channel Outdoor," but the person who paid for it might be a local construction magnate. The AP is aware of the billboard but doesn't plan...
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November 22, 2004
NewsMax offers a roundup of Hillary being to the "right" of Bush on immigration matters. There's no outright statement from her saying if she ran she'd make it a key part of her campaign, but some of the things she's said - bearing in mind Billary probably polled the type...
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November 21, 2004
Previous coverage of Brand Dimocrat here. (I think the actual Homer Simpson quote might be "See Marge, because of me there's a warning" but I'm not going to change it.)...
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Oliver Willis is trying to create Brand Democrat posters. I'm helping with the first graphic above; the second graphic is from here which has more. Hey Kids! Here's a fun project. The text will start out big and line by line get smaller until it's unreadable. And, it will...
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November 19, 2004
Liberal Boxer was third top vote getter in the nation The other way California's loopier Senator came in third? Various Congressional aides and other wonks voted her #3 in the "No Rocket Scientist" category. Here are the complete results for that category: Senate: 1. Tie: Rick Santorum (R-PA), Patty Murray...
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November 17, 2004
You promise to elect mainstream American conservatives with solid American values instead of what we've been getting, and I'll show you how to do it. Deal? OK, here's all you have to do: send out an email to everyone you know telling them about this new site that'll help Red...
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WaPo: ...all 180,000 employees and contractors are being required to sign the three-page forms as part of working for the agency... ...congressional critics and government watchdog organizations such as the Federation of American Scientists call the policy a potentially precedent-setting expansion of official secrecy whose provisions are overly broad and...
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November 15, 2004
Now is the time for all FReepers to come to the aid of a beleagured comrade! Apparently a FReeper is being sued by one Rev. Boise Kimber for assault and battery. This happened all the way back in the Sore-Loserman days. The suit was filed 9 months later, and...
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The frostbitten sirens are calling: CanadianAlternative.com is a collaborative project led by Communicopia.Net, an online communications company with offices in Vancouver and Toronto. We work with non-profit organizations and socially responsible businesses across North America to help them tell their stories and connect with their audiences. We are proud Canadians...
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Top contenders: - Zell Miller - Pat Robertson - Tommy - Steven Seagal - Henry Kissinger - the inventor of "Freedom Fries"...
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November 12, 2004
[Cross-posted to the Command Post; note that I've also posted several entries about possible voting fraud or error in this category at the same site. Please leave comments about this entry at the first link, not here] Id like to know if this eVoting system is used already, and if...
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November 10, 2004
If you're tired of relying on DU for your coverage of possible voting fraud or errors, go here: ...Although at first it seems suspicious that counties with a large majority of registered Demokrats would vote for a Republikan in an election that was 90% along party lines, the most dramatic...
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November 09, 2004
This is from a month ago: Federal, state, and local officials are gathering information about allegations of voter registration fraud that were first raised Channel 8 Eyewitness News. An employee of a private voter registration firm alleges that his bosses trashed registration forms filled out by Democratic voters because they...
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I guess possible voting fraud or major errors with eVoting don't matter if your guy wins. Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds is now leading the charge to discredit Olbermann's broadcast about possible voting fraud. Lesser lights weigh in. By discrediting one Olbermann broadcast, all possible instances of fraud or error will be...
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Links to videos of Keith "open your veins" Olbermann devoting 17 minutes to possible voter fraud as well as a 60 Minutes segment on blackboxvoting are here. This post has very many links to other DU posts on voting fraud. This page discusses possible overvotes in Ohio. This post discusses...
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November 08, 2004
The election's been over for almost a week, so I think it's time to look back at what lead to the Kerry landslide: Kerry's win in Arizona - something that would have been incomprehensible in August or before - was clearly due to his support for Prop. 200. See also...
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November 07, 2004
There's a concise, categorized roundup of voter fraud stories here. All of them contain links to media reports....
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Keith "open those wrists" Olbermann brings up the possibility of Kerry actually winning. I discussed this four days ago, but, then again, Keith "open those wrists" Olbermann says he's going to feature a voting fraud story on his cable TV program....
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November 05, 2004
The NYT article "A Blue City (Disconsolate, Even) Bewildered by a Red America" is almost too funny for words. I stopped reading when I got to the bit about discussing politics with the homeless I was laughing so hard. I have to believe there are smarter people in NYC than...
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November 04, 2004
Somewhere in Ohio there's a precinct named "Gahanna 1B". Here are some of the results from Gahanna 1B: Senate: Fingerhut (D) 180 Voinivich (R) 422 House: Brown (D) 185 Tiberi (R) 408 Prop. 1 (gay marriage) Yes 352 No 255 President: Kerry (D) 260 Bush (R) 4258 Holy moses indeed....
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AP: JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -- Several North Carolina counties reported problems with voting, including Carteret, where more than 4,000 early votes were lost because the electronic voting system could not store the volume of votes it received. It was unknown what affect the problem would have on local or state voting...
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Journalist Greg Palast says Kerry Won. While I didn't enjoy the race-baiting, the discussion of spoiled ballots is worth considering. Previous coverage starts here....
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Hello Democratic visitors. And, welcome. Here's today's reading: "Five Lessons Learned: The Donkey Gets Its Ass Kicked" and, jumping on the It's All About The Values bandwagon, "Living Poor, Voting Rich": In the aftermath of this civil war that our nation has just fought, one result is clear: the Democratic...
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November 03, 2004
Continuing our Kerry Lost? feature: Check out this table. In Florida's Calhoun county, four times as many Republicans voted as might be expected from the number registered. Over three times as many Republicans voted as might be expected in Dixie county. In fact, there are a large number of Florida...
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News of our leader's magnificent win have apparently not filtered down into the fever swamps. Some people think Kerry might still win once all the votes have been counted. For an example, look at Colorado: Bush 1,017,322 Kerry 898,566 difference = 118,756 Now, look at the county figures. All of...
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Lonewacko has issued the following statement: "Although I was a Kerry supporter, even going so far as to consider the possibility of a dynastic horror such as that described in the second part of this, I have now come to the full and voluntary realization that four or more years...
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November 01, 2004
[Cross-posted to redstate.org/story/2004/11/1/173936/781 and the Command Post] Here's what president Bush said at a campaign rally on July 4 in Charleston, West Virginia: ...on the Fourth of July, we confirm our love of freedom, the freedom for people to speak their minds, the freedom for people to worship as they...
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October 29, 2004
As readers might have figured out by now, I'm endorsing John Kerry to be president. I strongly urge all readers to consider the past four years, use that as a key to understanding what the next four years would be like under George Bush, and put their faith in divided...
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From One Nation Under Bush: PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla."I want you to stand, raise your right hands," and recite "the Bush Pledge," said Florida state Sen. Ken Pruitt. The assembled mass of about 2,000 in this Treasure Coast town about an hour north of West Palm Beach dutifully rose, arms...
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You know those wacky fun posts containing quotes from democraticunderground.com moonbats? For balance, I present the following (redstate.org/story/2004/10/29/163222/68). Unfortunately, I think this type of "thinking" represents a larger slice of the GOP than the DU does of the left. Bin Laden Well folks, John Kerry has just gotten his most...
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October 27, 2004
Yeah, I don't know who Carl Worden is either, but this anti-Bush essay does have a few interesting ideas, not all of which you or I will agree with. Nonetheless: That's it, I've had it. I've been a registered Republican since I pulled my first lever in a voting booth,...
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October 22, 2004
One of the contributors at PoliPundit posted the following: It appears that John Kerry is working overtime to do or say anything to convince voters that he is a man. This week alone he (supposedly) killed a goose, in order to be seen as a he-man hunter... Does he not...
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October 20, 2004
If you go to this entry at another blog, you'll find no less than two instances of "Deleted - Off topic Moderator" replacing comments I left. That's certainly their right, but for the sake of my readers who might be wondering, "would our own Lonewacko leave off-topic comments, or is...
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October 18, 2004
VLAH-duh-mir Putin: "I consider the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at coalition forces but more personally against President Bush... International terrorism has as its goal to prevent the election of President Bush to a second term... If they achieve that goal, then that will give...
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October 16, 2004
NYT magazine offers "Without a Doubt", a ten-screen discussion of Bush and how his faith motivates his decisions. It's from Ron Suskind, the author of "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill". Suskind was the senior national-affairs reporter for The Wall...
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October 15, 2004
From Robert A. George of the New York Post: Sixteen years ago, just out of college, I volunteered at the Republican National Convention as a man named George Bush prepared to begin a fall campaign that would see him defeat a Democrat from Massachusetts. The sparkling words of an acceptance...
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October 14, 2004
A completely unverified comment left here would seem to explain a lot of things if true: Yeah, right, Schieffer is anti-Bush. Perhaps you didn't know that Schieffer's brother is a former business partner of George W. Bush, and was appointed by Bush to be an ambassador. Perhaps you also are...
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October 13, 2004
K: r we as safe as we ought 2 b? still w/ homeland sec, but not border... yet b: did rght thng bout flu... we relied on english co. q: y b rely on english co? being lectured by prez on fiscal resp is like soprano... kerry caught bush on...
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October 12, 2004
I saw this site in comments somewhere, but I don't know anything about them. They've got a petition encouraging politicians to put their various plans on video tapes, which could then be shown on TV or download on the internet. In the video the candidate can't mention their opponent. I...
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October 11, 2004
From this: The third and final debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry has been thrown into doubt after a state judge in Arizona ordered a hearing on whether the event, scheduled for Wednesday, should be halted because the Libertarian Party's nominee for president has not been invited. Judge F....
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Responding to Kerry's "nuisance" comment from the NYT, President Bush said the following today in Hobbs, NM: Just this weekend, we saw new evidence that Senator Kerry fundamentally misunderstands the war on terror. Earlier he questioned whether it was really a war at all, describing it as primarily a law...
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"There will not be a treaty signed aboard the battleship Missouri, but we can break [terrorism's] back so that it is only a horrible nuisance and not a paralyzing influence on our societies." -- Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under George H.W. Bush...
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October 10, 2004
Let's say you see the following on a test: Q. Given a barometer, how would you measure the height of a building? The obvious answer is, of course: Measure the barometric pressure between the ground and the top, and do the math. What if a student thinks or pretends to...
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October 08, 2004
I'm sure all America got quite a laugh out of that Bush line in last night's debate. Unfortunately: ...Kerry startled Bush by saying that the president is counted as a small business for tax purposes because he once earned $84 from a timber company he owns. "I own a timber...
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Sheryl, I'd like to thank Charlie for throwing me a puffball question via you. Thank you Charlie. Bush is launching into his standard flip-flop speech. No earpiece needed here! Audience member Robin: "Boxers or briefs?" But seriously, can't these people ask a tough question that can't be answered by one...
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October 07, 2004
From Howard Fineman of Newsweek: ...The second and third presidential debates will shift the focus the second, part way to domestic matters; the third, all the way. Bush's aim will be to paint Kerry as an unpalatable liberal who accumulated nothing but bad Big Government ideas during his 19...
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Can you guess which publication this excerpt is from? Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove in his first debate with John Kerry? That's the latest rumor flooding the Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera during the Miami debate. The image...
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October 06, 2004
From FactCheck.org (watch that TLD!): Edwards said Halliburton "did business with Libya and Iran, two sworn enemies of the United States" and is now "under investigation for having bribed foreign officials" while Cheney was CEO. Iran: Indeed, Halliburton has said it does about $30 million to $40 million in oilfield...
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October 05, 2004
Just answer the question, please... What about what Bremer said? Two minutes later, Cheney had not only not answered her question, he said he'd do it all over again. He might have left some wiggle room there; perhaps he wouldn't have done it exactly the same way... Edwards is stressing...
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October 03, 2004
Bush, from the 9/30 debate: And secondly, to think that another round of resolutions would have caused Saddam Hussein to disarm, disclose, is ludicrous, in my judgment. It just shows a significant difference of opinion. We tried diplomacy. We did our best. He was hoping to turn a blind eye....
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October 02, 2004
From "Voter Registrations Hit Snag Over Citizenship Check Box": A tiny check box about citizenship on voter registration forms has touched off the latest battle over voting rights in Florida, where Gov. Jeb Bush's administration has advised election supervisors to reject applications on which the box is blank... Jenny Nash,...
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October 01, 2004
As expected, misconstruing "Global Test" is the main BushBot talking point. Here's what Kerry said last night: Kerry: No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America. But if and...
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September 30, 2004
Bush decided to go to the U.N. all by himself? "[long list deleted...] Does that make you feel safer, America?" Bush doesn't know how we're going to pay for homeland security... Bush is modernizing our border protection... [false] Bush: We have to stay on the offense [and neglect the defense]......
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September 15, 2004
From this: A fund-raiser for [New Jersey] Gov. James E. ["I'm a Gay American"] McGreevey pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he solicited $40,000 in cash and campaign donations as part of a shake-down scheme in which the governor has also been implicated... The indictment also said an unidentified state official...
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September 14, 2004
In a letter Tuesday night to Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the Subcommittee of Telecommunications and the Internet, Rep Christopher Cox, R-Calif., called for a probe into what he described as "the continued use by CBS News of apparently forged documents concerning the service record of President George W....
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Lettermen, Leno, lesser gabbers' staffs now searching computers for old crack jokes: Marion Barry is back. The former mayor of Washington, D.C. who served prison time on a drug charge more than a decade ago claimed the Democratic nomination for a City Council seat on Tuesday, a spot that almost...
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September 12, 2004
CalInsider directs us to "Hey, Guys, the Action's Down There": Look at Kerry's chief supporters and you see a new kind of elite, a veritable "hip-ocracy" of high-tech tycoons, Hollywood moguls and celebrities, and a bevy of Wall Street financiers. This group is bolstered by Americans with graduate degrees and...
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September 10, 2004
From the Cato Institute's Doug Bandow: George W. Bush presents conservatives with a fundamental challenge: Do they believe in anything other than power? Are they serious about their rhetoric on limited, constitutionally restrained government? ...A few high-octane speeches cannot disguise the catastrophic failure of the Bush administration in both its...
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September 05, 2004
From April 17, 2001's "Bush envisions Western Hemisphere free trade zone": President Bush pledged to representatives of nearly every nation in the Western Hemisphere Tuesday that he would press Congress for fast-track trade authority to help create a free trade zone throughout the Americas. Bush, in his inaugural address to...
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September 02, 2004
I nodded off starting around the one hour mark, so I might have missed some of it. Nevertheless here it is, with comments in bold: Globalism creates new markets for our goods, but also new competition for our workers [and I'm helping] Americans can compete with anyone anywhere in the...
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September 01, 2004
So far, I'm only aware of two instances were anything related to immigration or similar matters has even been discussed at the GOP convention: 1. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in his speech: "[American workers are threatened by] low-cost, highly-skilled labor from abroad" 2. "[Kansas] Republican challenger Kris Kobach said Monday...
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August 30, 2004
8/30/04 NYT: Outside a hotel in Times Square, delegates to the Republican National Convention were swarmed by protesters dressed in black and swearing at them. Blocks away, delegates engaged in shoving matches with protesters seeking to spoil their night at the theater. And outside "The Lion King" on 42nd Street,...
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August 28, 2004
#4 links to this story: Congressional Quarterly reported Friday that after attending four previous conventions, Philadelphia's Jesse Walters was chosen as a delegate to this year's GOP convention in New York only to resign the position, saying he could not support Bush and expressing concern with the rightward move of...
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August 26, 2004
CalBlog provides word that the leader of the international election monitors who'll be making sure that this November's elections are fair and transparent is Alcee Hastings. He's currently a representative from Florida. In a prior life he was a federal judge. Oh, by the way, he's a Bush-bashin' Dem who...
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NewsMax has an overview of the kinder, gentler, more "compassionate" GOP platform: Calls for expensive federal social programs, backtracking on big government, pandering on "women's health," backing off on illegal aliens is this the Democratic or the Republican platform? Except for a stand against abortion, the GOP draft platform...
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August 25, 2004
From "Daniel Weintraub: Lawmakers sit on study praising offshoring jobs": A new analysis commissioned by the Legislature suggests that sending American jobs overseas, far from being a blow to employment, can actually help preserve existing jobs and create new ones. The paper, prepared by the Public Policy Institute of California,...
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August 22, 2004
From the AP: The three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November. Despite concerns over whether the so-called touchscreen machines can be trusted, the testing companies won't...
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August 20, 2004
Since the release of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, Kerry and forces under his command as well as independent operatives have launched a series of strikes, even going as far as hacking Amazon's page. And, of course, the recent Chris Matthew/Keith Olbermann/Michelle Malkin...
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10. The joke's on you: corruption isn't funny. 9.-1. See #10. OK, now that I've taught you an important, Moesha-style life lesson, the jokes are here and here....
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August 19, 2004
Front Page Magazine reports on all the people and groups tied into George Soros' network of 527s in the article Soros' "Reform". The article lists so many names who are tied to Soros it's almost mind-numbing: Soros believes he is the apostle of something he calls "the open society" under...
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By now, you have probably seen Ted Rall's latest screed: "NYC to GOP: Drop Dead". Our sources have uncovered the version before it was edited by Common Dreams: Tourists are pleasantly surprised when New Yorkers act as friendly and polite as the people back home in Maybury [ed: it's "Mayberry"]....
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August 18, 2004
Here's a flashback to September 1, 1997, courtesy of National Review and Ronald Bailey (also a writer for Reason Magazine). Note that the article is from NR, despite the URL: 'THE survival of civilization in something like its present form might depend significantly on the efforts of a single man,"...
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"Imminent threat"? Where have we heard that before? Except, this time it's from John Kerry: We will use superior military force to overcome any enemy. Let me be clear: like you, I defended this country as a young man. And I will defend it as president. I will never hesitate...
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Br'er Drudge links to the site of one of Kerry's former paramours: HedgeFundMistress.com. And, no, it's not Alex Polier. Her name is Lee Roystone, and apparently she accompanied Lurch to Earth Day 1990 or some such and she's selling a fiction book or something. Apparently the books aren't selling, because...
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August 17, 2004
Via TalkLeft comes the Wired News report "Hackers Take Aim at GOP": Online protests targeting GOP websites could turn out to be more than symbolic during this month's Republican National Convention, possibly blocking a critical communications tool for the party... So it's no surprise that hardened electronic activists are planning...
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August 16, 2004
In a previous post, I disclosed how Operative #843 had said the Touro/Torricelli/Kushner connection would become important. The Old Grey Lady reports in "Inquiry Said to Be Focusing On Plan for Touro College": The federal investigation into Gov. James E. McGreevey's accusation that a former aide tried to extort him...
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August 15, 2004
Operative #843 informs me that this is important: Golan Cipel's demands also included a last-minute push to have McGreevey's administration approve development plans for a private medical college in the state... Investigators were notified after Cipel's lawyer asked that McGreevey intervene with a plan by Touro College to build a...
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August 13, 2004
"Never get into a rubber-band fight with a Southerner, y'all hear?" "I never should have attented that John Kerry facial pumping party!" "Yes, you're right! This is a frozen fake smile!" "I want you to join the Kerry Army!"...
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NJ Gov. McGreevey did it all wrong. He should have declared himself a "Corrupt American." Then, the big skeleton "in the closet" would be the fact that he's also a "Gay American." The fact that he was indeed a "Gay American" would have then overshadowed the claim to be a...
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For future reference. It's now a Bush talking point, so it doesn't much bear repeating....
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August 12, 2004
Unfortunately, we haven't yet reached the age where simply cheating on your wife with another man (or trying to coerce your TV star wife into giving you a Lewinsky in a sleazy Paris sex club) is commonplace and only of note for the Star and the National Enquirer? Apparently not....
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Here's an interesting post about colonialism in Mozambique: Teresa Heinz grew up the daughter of a rich dentist in the slave holding Portuguese territory of Mozambique. I spent some time there in Lorenzo Marques and Beira back in the 60s and have a pretty good idea of the life of...
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August 11, 2004
From this: Even though most environmental groups are determined to oust President Bush from office this November, those groups are benefiting from an unprecedented level of federal assistance, according to a Washington, D.C., research group... The audits, according to CRC's David Healy, show that in the fiscal year 2004 budget,...
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I'm posting this for a friend: Hi ladies! I'm a tall, very successful 59-year-old male in the prime of his life and loving every minute of it! I own (or co-own, or will shortly own) several luxury homes, I have a few SUVs, and two smart daughters with good personalities....
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August 10, 2004
Both from this. 1. ..."last night, Teresa took the microphone and said, "Hello, Nevada!" Kerry leaned into his fatigued wife quickly and said, "Arizona." "Oh, Arizona!" she replied. "We're in Arizona. We're still in Arizona. and we are going to Nevada..." That's OK, I get all those states confused too....
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August 09, 2004
According to U.S. News & World Report, President Bush is challenging John Kerry to a peasant food eat-off: Don't be surprised if fitness freak President Bush starts showing up at Dunkin' Donuts. Seems the prez thinks what people like about him over Sen. John Kerry is his ability to be...
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The story about the private California high school that was teaching its students that there are 53 states, four branches of government, and two houses of congress: one for Democrats and the other for Republicans has finally hit blogdom. Now, you might wonder why this school would teach such inaccuracies....
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August 08, 2004
Hey kids! How'd you like to be a Ready Deputy! Ready Deputies work with the America Prepared Campaign to keep us all safe. And, we're holding a contest! Your school could win Tom Ridge as your Principal for a Day! No, it's not a joke. Not only is there such...
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They're coming to America to make sure our elections are fair and transparent. And, they need your help. This fall, U.N. observers will be coming to the U.S. from countries from Albania to Zimbabwe. They'll be making sure that voting in November's election is completely fair and that all votes...
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The video of this was quite funny, but I don't have a link, just the picture and "No train stop confuses Kerry supporters in Kansas. Inadvertent snub blamed on miscommunication": "We raised our hand [perhaps they had Wendy's cups in the other hand --LW] to wave, but the engineer...
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August 06, 2004
From InfoWeek: Phishing scammers have gone political, message-filtering firm SurfControl said Wednesday. For the first time, phishers have targeted people who contribute to political campaigns, SurfControl said as it rolled out an alert about a pair of messages that masquerade as contribution come-ons for the Kerry-Edwards ticket... The messages, complete...
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August 05, 2004
This would be so very funny if it weren't so sad: John F. Kerry today said entertainer Bill Cosby's recent admonition that black Americans need to take greater personal responsibility for poor education and high crime was "excessively exclusive" and ignored the government's role in helping minorities. I understand exactly...
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Story here....
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August 04, 2004
Here's a handy chart showing which states are strongly for Bush, strongly for Kerry, or somewhere in between. (Via liberaltarian TheAgitator)...
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August 03, 2004
That must have been the (so-called) thought process behind a recent letter sent to Fox News by, among other luminaries, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. This is a UPI report on the letter, but I could only find it at this site: Several members of Congress...
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The Columbia Journalism Review has a short quiz to test your political knowledge. (If you want to take the quiz, do so now, because spoilers are ahead). Here are the first two questions: 1) In what magazine were the Bush twins recently featured wearing formal gowns? 2) John Kerry wants...
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August 02, 2004
"He's in the back, doing Vicky." "Ter, please." "Well, that's what he's doing. Where are we going next? I'm tired." "We'll be in Wisconsin soon. That's America's Dairyland, right John?" "Yes, John. It's America's Dairyland. They have lots of cows there." "Bel WA? Is that Canada?" "No, Ter. It's in...
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Here's something I support 100%: Here is an idea that can be the activist centerpiece of the 2004 campaign. It can also be used in gubernatorial, senatorial and future campaigns. It will generate more excitement among activists than anything else we've done. It is a venture that will create bigger...
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PowerLine's post 'The Limits of Populism' directs us to this MidHudson Valley News article: A member of the Kerry advance team called Nikolas Restaurant at the Newburgh Yacht Club the night before and ordered 19 five-star lunches to go that would be picked up at noon Friday. Management at the...
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August 01, 2004
Or, to put it a few other ways: Which candidate is less of a "populist?" Which candidate is less likely to relate to "average Americans" and share their concerns? To state it cynically, which candidate is slightly less likely to sell the rest of us out to global elites? And,...
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July 31, 2004
In the photo above, we can see that John Kerry had what appears to be a medium Frosty. In a prior report, I had wondered whether he ordered a small Frosty off the Value Menu. Apparently he had not. Also, in front of him you can see the chili....
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July 30, 2004
John Kerry, John Edwards, wives, entourage, hangers-on, and the press visited Newburgh NY today: Kerry fielded questions about foreign policy, presidential politics, abortion and the death penalty in a 12-minute interview at a Wendy's fast-food restaurant in this GOP-leaning Hudson Valley community. After polishing off a bowl of chili and...
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July 29, 2004
"What if? What if?" He sounds like William Shatner just before he breaks into song. What's this deal about one America, and ending divisions? Does that mean the Democrats are going to stop being the party of race and class baiting? And, how are the delegates going to come down...
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From Reuters' report "'Fahrenheit 9/11' Shown on Prime Time TV in [______]": U.S. director Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" was shown on prime time [______] television on Thursday after playing to packed cinemas for a week... "We hope this film will lead Americans to see the reality of their...
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July 28, 2004
From ABC News: ...Stephen Bing, a wealthy film producer who, with little fanfare, has managed to steer a total of more than $16 million of his money to Democratic candidates and the supposedly independent groups that support them... ...Democratic Party officials said they knew nothing about the man who law...
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"Hello everybody, this is Brad Williams! Welcome to Fantabulous Offers! You might remember me as Lorbock from Battlestar Gallactica. I have a question for you... Are you searching for a reason to believe in John Kerry? Join with us today as we explore all the reasons you should believe! And,...
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Guess who! Behind veneer of unity, Democratic leadership works to squelch anti-war sentiment Boston -- As Teresa Heinz Kerry gave her prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK: Women for Peace attempted to bring an anti-war message onto the convention floor. She unfurled...
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July 27, 2004
This is a second-hand report by a listener to South Florida's Steve Kane Show. I couldn't find anything at the second link about this, so apparently it's radio-only: I just heard Brian Craig (and Steve Kane) discussing the incredible humiliation of Randi Rhodes at the Democrat Convention yesterday. What happened...
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"And the Lord! Yeah, the Lord! Yahweh gave me this giant hand which I will use to smite all heathen Republicans throughout this great land! Amen, amen! And, with my giant hand I will sign all manner of social legislation! Amen! Can I hear an Amen?"...
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"John Kerry, minion finalize their plan to enslave Mankind." More details on Kerry's plan here. (Props to Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds)...
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Far-lefty Marc Cooper on a DNC party: Follow the money, they say. So I did. And it led right to the Wellfleet oysters and mango lobster cakes. And the grilled swordfish. And the stuffed figs and sushi. As well as the ham, turkey, pasta, grilled vegetables, smoked duck, jumbo shrimp,...
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July 26, 2004
The liberaltarians at Reason provide a run-down of Kerry's record on civil liberties: Then it was Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.) who argued alongside the ACLU in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software. Ashcroft "was kind of the go-to guy for all of us on...
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If I had gone to Boston to cover the DNC, right about this time I would be looking for the nearest exit. Sated with the stream of groups to which Kerry will grant benefits and the good that he will do, I would seek a breath of sanity. Exiting the...
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July 25, 2004
Talk radio favorite Matt Drudge is playing a recent interview ESPN did with John Kerry. Apparently the interview was done in relation to the Yankees-Red Sox game Kerry attended earlier today. ESPN has a report on the game, but it doesn't mention the most interesting part. What's not featured in...
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July 23, 2004
From this: President Bush came right out and asked African-Americans for their vote on Friday. In his address to the National Urban League, Bush said he understands that the "Republican Party's got a lot of work to do." And he urged Democratic voters to consider some questions. "Does the Democratic...
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July 22, 2004
I suggest you see the original version of the Manchurian Candidate instead. The Manchurian Candidate is a great film for those interested in the Manchurian Candidate....
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From Eric Leonard at KFI: Undercover federal air marshals on board a June 29 Northwest airlines flight from Detroit to LAX identified themselves after a passenger, "overreacted," to a group of middle-eastern men on board, federal officials and sources have told KFI NEWS. The passenger, later identified as Annie Jacobsen,...
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July 21, 2004
Br'er Drudge alerts us to this WaPo report: After Berger's previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some went missing... Archives employees determined that that draft and all four or five other versions of the...
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The Mystery Of Flight 327 has been partially solved: Annie Jacobsen's recent piece for WomensWallStreet.Com made waves. Her account of flying with her family while 14 Middle Eastern passengers acted in a threatening and apparently coordinated manner makes for a terrifying read... ...I am nominally the "news director" for Stanford...
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July 20, 2004
This has already been linked by a few more popular blogs, but not by the Pope. Thus herewith: I have been cleared to reveal the following info. I'm not allowed to say where I got it. I have a reader who is involved with the government's efforts to fight terror,...
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Now that their last publicity stunt was shot down, MoveOn moves on, offering a commercial entitled "Debate." It offers a preview of the upcoming Bush-Kerry debate, where cardboard cutouts of the blood rivals morph into who they really represent. (MoveOn has not heard about morphing being a bit outdated.)...
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From the FTC: I am not aware of any instance in which the Federal Trade Commission has investigated the slogan of a news organization. There is no way to evaluate this petition without evaluating the content of the news at issue. That is a task the First Amendment leaves to...
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July 18, 2004
Cablenewser has the scoop: In a document to be sent to the Federal Trade Commission Monday morning, MoveOn.org complains about "deceptive practices" allegedly used by FOX News. "The Commission should institute an enforcement proceeding against Fox News; order Fox News to cease and desist from using the slogan and mark...
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July 16, 2004
From Editor & Publisher: ...In the latest development, MoveOn.org and other groups announced this afternoon that on Monday they will deliver "legal papers" to Fox News' studio in New York City, challenging the network's use of the tagline "Fair and Balanced." Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause, will lead a...
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July 15, 2004
In addition to the 1968 Olympics, I'm vaguely reminded of the "clapping incident" in the California Assembly. Drudge, of course, goes for the Gold....
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Per NewsMax: Tax legislation proposed by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry last year was designed to crackdown on companies doing business overseas - but the proposal had one giant loophole: an exemption for companies like the H.J. Heinz Foods Co... The source of the claim is a three-month old TCS...
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Cat Scratch Fever! chugga chugga chugga Cat Scratch Fever! chugga chugga chugga Oh, sorry, just getting ready for Ted Nugent to replace Mike Ditka as the IL GOP's next glimmer of hope. Based, franky, on whether he can control himself enough to avoid saying something really bad, I'm considering throwing...
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July 14, 2004
It's hard to read the Telegraph UK story "TV code calls for 'bias' warnings" without constantly thinking Orwellian thoughts. Just a few snippets: Foreign news channels such as Rupert Murdoch's Fox News may be made to carry on-screen "health warnings" under proposed new guidelines published yesterday covering accuracy and impartiality...
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These rather poorly written blog entries have the scoop, including some real reporting: "Heinz Foundation Still Working for Kerry Campaign?" "Kerry Campaign Uh-Oh!" Yeah, I realize the irony of me talking about something being poorly written. But, I've already stated the purpose of this blog....
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It's not just another anti-union piece from Front Page Mag, they've got the dirt from SEIU's past. Check out "How Socialist Unions Rule the Democratic Party": This biggest union in the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which by years end will have 1.8 million members, at its June...
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What purports to be the full text of the 33 Fox News Channel memos featured in 'Outfoxed' are available in a PDF file at this site....
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July 12, 2004
The link-laden article "Hollywood Hate Group Assaults Bush" isn't about the K-Dawg concert per se. Rather, it discusses MoveOn's collaborations with certain Hollywood "celebrities." Did you know that Ed Asner was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America? For those fun facts and more, "move on" over to the...
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Speaking of Fox, one of their reporters rocked down with the K-Dawg, and has some interesting quotes from Meryl Streep. Her debriefing by VRWC operatives includes the following: "The most cringe-worthy moment came when he actually got up out of his seat and grooved to the Dave Matthews band," Crowley...
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The makers of the newest "documentary" Outfoxed tell us: We are happy to provide here the full text of the 33 memos if Fox will give us permission. They have been made available by request to reporters. Thankfully, we have people like an 18-year-old college student to do the heavy...
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VRWConspirator Matt Drudge is reporting that one of the Bush-Hitler ads is still on MoveOn's server. However, the .mpg file seems to have been moved since then. Based on the file name (www.moveon.org/images/ renamed.again.renamed.mov. FKbxnT3hzaHCcOR7vWvRYmZpbGUtMTM4OQ--.mpg) I believe I can come up with a logical explanation. Obviously, this was just a...
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July 11, 2004
Now awaiting the merging of the Kerry/Edwards themes......
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If you're ready, click here. If you need to get the uncomfortable feeling out of your senses, try this. (Just remember, I invented the Batman & Robin meme four days ago)....
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From this: NAACP chairman Julian Bond condemned Bush administration policies on education, the economy and the war in Iraq on Sunday, imploring members of the nation's oldest civil rights organization to increase voter turnout to oust the president from office. "They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division," Bond said...
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From WND: In a speech to business leaders in India, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., gave credence to a rumor that the U.S. has captured Osama bin Laden and for political reasons is waiting for the right moment to reveal it, according to the Indo-Asian News Service... The congressman, who made...
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July 10, 2004
From the Boston Herald's "Crude jokes, insults OK with Kerry camp": When in doubt, play the Vietnam card. That's long been a tactic embraced by Sen. John Kerry and his aides in the face of political trouble. It's what the Kerry camp resorted to again Thursday to excuse the vile...
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From this: Nevada's position as a battleground state in the presidential election has sparked a surge in fake voter registrations, Clark County's top election official said. "We've never seen anything close to this," said Larry Lomax, registrar of voters. So far, the office has flagged several hundred suspicious registration forms,...
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July 09, 2004
From this: Havana, Jul 9 (EFE).- Cubans will no longer have to find pirated copies of the controversial film "Fahrenheit 9/11" in the island's illegal "private video libraries" because the government has decided to debut Michael Moore's documentary across the country this month. The film, a harsh critique of U.S....
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July 08, 2004
From WND: Already praised by the Communist Party USA and the Revolutionary Communist Party, Michael Moore's hit film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has a new honor great notices in the today's edition of the Socialist Worker, the newspaper of the International Socialist Organization. "Millions upon millions of people in the U.S....
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That's the headline of a new report from Reuters: "Bush Ties to Enron, Big Business Back in Spotlight." The title "Teresa Heinz-Kerry Ties to Enron, Big Business Back in Spotlight" apparently got lost on the editing room floor....
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National Review has an excerpt from Brent Bozell's new book "Weapons of Mass Distortion: The coming meltdown of the liberal media." Here's an illustrative anecdote: ...The media's pervasive bias determines precisely which stories are (and are not) covered, and in how much detail. Indeed, the media elite deliberately attempt...
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From "Bilderberg 'performance' key to Edwards VP pick": Sen. John Edwards' standout "performance" at the super-secret Bilderberg meeting in Italy last month may have been a key reason for his selection as John Kerry's vice presidential running mate, according to the New York Times. The 50th anniversary conference of the...
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July 07, 2004
Wouldn't that be fun? I'm sure someone somewhere is combing through the public records as we speak. In the meantime, Ann Coulter's starting on the work: In one of Edwards' silver-tongued arguments to the jury on behalf of a girl born with cerebral palsy, he claimed he was channeling the...
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...Where the film really shines is in its main objective of painting a portrait of the American president. Bush is presented as a man ill-equipped for his position, who stumbled his way into power, while lacking the basic intellect, charm and proper etiquette expected from a statesman. Through the subtle...
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July 06, 2004
It's the small things that tell you so much, ain't it? A claim by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in his biography "My Life" that his wife Hillary was named after New Zealand's Edmund Hillary, regarded as the first man to climb Mt Everest, has been questioned... Clinton recalls visiting...
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The AP has details about Edwards' wealth: John Edwards rose to political prominence criticizing President Bush for creating ``two Americas,'' one for the privileged and one for everyone else. A look at his finances shows he's one of the privileged......
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This anti-John Edwards Talking Point (#492 of a series) was brought to you by the RNC. (Via the wacky liberaltarians at Reason)...
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Last year, John Edwards spoke to MALDEF, and the speech is here What's interesting is that he's speaking to MALDEF, a far-left group which is not a grass-roots group, but which was founded by the Ford Foundation. In his speech, Edwards praises affirmative action; Kerry - for a brief moment...
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Oh, I'm sorry, here's the correct headline: KERRY PICKS GEPHARDT KERRY PICKS TRIAL LAWYER I don't want Bush to win, but I certainly don't want Kerry to win. But, as when we're watching baseball and the score is 11-3, we frequently wish the other team would get just a few...
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July 04, 2004
Per Drudge: VP Cheney dropped his personal physician from his medical team, his aides said Sunday, as NEW YORKER mag reported the doctor has 'history of abusing prescription narcotics'... Drudge reports that the physician in question is Dr. Gary Malakoff. Note, of course, that the allegations are only against the...
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Michael Moore is considering offering a reward: "There is not a single factual error in [Fahrenheit 9/11]. I'm thinking of offering a $10,000 reward for anyone that can find a single fact that's wrong." Here's a list of "Fifty-six Deceits in Fahrenheit 911". And, there are several other errors noted...
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July 02, 2004
John Kerry has been indicted - for heresy. It gets even more interesting: On 14 June 2004 DE FIDE filed its first Libellus Litis (Bill of Complaint) in the Ecclesiastical Court of the Archdiocese of Boston. The Criminal Complaint alleges that United States Senator JOHN F. KERRY, as a baptized...
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First there's this: "The Carlyle Group - which [Moore] bashes in the movie as some sort of shadowy war profiteering company - has become part owner of Loews Cinemas, which is currently showing his film." Then there's this: According to the firm's web site , 5.5 percent of the Carlyle...
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July 01, 2004
Scream along with Dean: The National Draft Dean for VP Committee (NDVPC) announced today that it would use Democratic party rules allowing draft petitions to mount a floor fight at the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 25 to put former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's name in contention for the...
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Captain Drum quotes this LAT report: Last week, the Bush campaign e-mailed a 78-second video to millions of supporters that included images of Adolf Hitler amid a stream of Democrats inveighing against the president. Ensuing protests over the video's use of images of the Nazi dictator led Bush aides to...
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June 29, 2004
Ed Koch says "Moore's Film Is Shocking Propaganda": It is shocking to me that Americans in a time of war, and we literally are at war with Americans being deliberately killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere by Islamic terrorists, will attack their own country, sapping its strength and making its...
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Yesterday I pointed to yet another tasty Bleat: Why should the government have given you the money in the first place? They didnt give it to me. They just took less of my money. That was the last straw. Now she was angry. And the truth came out: Well, why...
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June 28, 2004
When I saw her in person I thought she was only worth $500 million or so. If I'd known she was a billionaire I would have hit her up for a loan....
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She'd give you helpful, handy tips on how to conserve gas....
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June 22, 2004
I'm jealous! Here are some of the comments on the new card: "[The new debit card] gives you a lot more privacy in purchasing merchandise." - Frederick Henry, 35, of West Palm Beach, Fla. "The more money you have in your hand, the more you spend. But with [the new...
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June 21, 2004
The horror! CHICAGO (AP) Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan pressured his wife, actress Jeri Lynn Ryan, to have sex in clubs while others watched, she charged in custody documents related to their divorce that were released Monday... Avant-Garde Ryan told the governor nothing about the allegation of visiting sex...
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Christopher Hitchens reviews Mikey Moore's latest opus and at the same time manages to eviscerate just about everything the "liberals" believe about Iraq, Afghanistan, and the general GWOT....
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A Democratic activist named Chaz Proulx is organizing a protest: Many concerned citizens from around the state will be protesting the so-called "2004 Liberty Dinner". DATE: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:00 - 9:00 pm Plymouth State University's Prospect Hall Governor Benson is the keynote speaker. He will be addressing the...
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June 20, 2004
"After what you've told me, Mr. President, I don't know if I want to. [laughter]" "Don't worry Dan, you're already 30 minutes into giving me a wet sloppy one." UPDATE: Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds weighs in....
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TalkLeft points to the article 'George Bush: The Torturer-in-Chief' written by Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. If you want to see frothing-at-the-mouth hatred of Bush, look no further. She also "uses" enough "scare" quotes to "scare" anyone off using "scare" quotes "ever" "again." A taste:...
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June 19, 2004
If you're going to buy the book anyway, do it here. That way you can prevent the Amazon fee from going to a "liberal."...
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The New York Times' scathing review of Bubba's Book should be examined in the same manner as a Kremlinologist analyzing show trials and posthumous rehabilitations: 'The Pastiche of a Presidency, Imitating a Life, in 957 Pages'. What exactly is the NYT trying to say? Are they just being contrary, or...
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June 18, 2004
The New York Times summarizes Bubba's book in 'In a Sprawling Memoir, Clinton Cites Storms and Settles Scores'. It's not a review, just a summary with some notes. About the only part where the NYT raises its left-leaning eyebrows is in this sentence: He explained the sudden appearance of Mrs....
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From this: Monroe County Democrats have teamed up with High Falls Brewery to offer two free 2-ounce beers to those who register to vote at [todays East End Festival in Rochester NY]... Four ounces of beer? I think it would require at least a twelve-pack of tallboys for most people...
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June 12, 2004
In 1991, Reagan visited the set of Star Trek: TNG. Pictured above, he meets Brent Spiner, aka "Data." (Via this)...
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The BoiFromTroy attended a California League of Conservation Voters meeting last night, and here's what he says Antonio Villaraigosa said: "After all, let's face it. Is anyone excited about electing John Kerry or do you really want to defeat George Bush?" As you'll recall, Antonio Villaraigosa is Kerry's Campaign Co-Chairman......
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Presented in the interesting-if-true category is this (alleged) News Release from the Soviet Union's ITAR-TASS News Agency in May 1987: SENATOR KERRY ON THE FAILURE OF THE REAGAN DOCTRINE WASHINGTON, MAY 5 THE IRANGATE IS A PROOF NOT ONLY OF ABUSE OF POWER BY A FEW OFFICIALS OF THE CURRENT...
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June 11, 2004
From 'Mandarin on the menu as Zimbabwe looks East': Zimbabweans are to learn Chinese. At least that is President Robert Mugabe's plan - to prepare the people for the expected influx of Chinese tourists and to strengthen ties with the Asian country... Over the years, tourism from Europe has slumped...
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June 10, 2004
Here's the Weekly Standard's recap of the Hunker in the Bunker Take Back America conference. Previous coverage here and here....
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June 09, 2004
Details here. (Via this)...
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June 08, 2004
Publicity-seeking idiot Ted Rall attempts to explain himself....
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June 07, 2004
Wesley Pruden channels Spiro Agnew to discuss the Reagan haters (not a permanent link). Peggy Noonan says the 'Reagan Commemoration [is] Driving [the] Media Nuts': "[Journalists] are willing, over the next few days, to concede what is so obvious that they have to concede it - his personal goodness, etc.,"...
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June 06, 2004
"... one dollar? But, I only want half hot chocolate, half coffee. One half hot chocolate would be 50 cents, one half coffee would be 45 cents. Add that together, and it equals 95 cents, not one dollar... OK, let's look at this another way... OK, fine, whatever..." [minutes later]...
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June 05, 2004
Tonight on Art Bell's radio show: First Hour: Michael Badnarik-Libertarian Issues- badnarik.org Maurice Cotterell -Secret Codes- website First Hour: Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate for President, will discuss current and future political issues. Main guest, author Maurice Cotterell, explains esoteric secrets of the sacred solar science of ancient China. Badnarik's...
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June 04, 2004
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June 03, 2004
Here's a live report from the Hunker in the Bunker conference: In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists Wednesday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan. "Their idea of equal rights is the...
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June 02, 2004
Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! The Hunker in The Bunker is coming to Washington's Marriott Wardman Park Hotel! Hunker! Bunker! With Julian Bond, The Right Reverend Jesse Jackson, and more! Hunker in the Bunker: The Bush administration is controlled by a "right-wing conspiracy," and the prospect of President Bush's re-election is "almost...
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It's not satire if everything is true....
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June 01, 2004
The "tell-all" from John Kerry's alleged "intern" is now available. I didn't even bother to scan the first (of six) pages because I already knew it wasn't going to be a hostile expose. If I'm wrong, let me know. Previous Alex Polier coverage starts here, and ends with this long...
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May 23, 2004
According to the latest Pew report: At national organizations (which includes print, TV and radio), the numbers break down like this: 34% liberal, 7% conservative. At local outlets: 23% liberal, 12% conservative. At Web sites: 27% call themselves liberals, 13% conservatives. This contrasts with the self-assessment of the general public:...
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From Josh Marshall: Along related lines, I can't help but wonder whether the spill the president took from his bicycle today won't become iconic in the same way that the state dinner the first President Bush attended in Tokyo on January 8th 1992 in which he collapsed into the...
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May 2