Cain surge defies sceptics in Republican race - FT.com: Back in 1986, before he ever considered running for president, the most daunting challenge facing Herman Cain was figuring out how to compete in the pizza home-delivery market.
Mr Cain was then the president of Godfather’s Pizza, the fourth-ranked national chain at the time.
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Chavez to seize homes and hotels for the poor on idyllic Los Roques - Americas, World - The Independent
Chavez to seize homes and hotels for the poor on idyllic Los Roques - Americas, World - The Independent: Venezuela president Hugo Chavez's policy of nationalising strategic private businesses has taken a new twist with his announcement that his government will expropriate hotels and holiday homes at an upmarket Caribbean resort.
The president plans to turn Los Roques, an idyllic archipelago of deserted beaches of perfect white sand with swaying palms and dazzling coral reefs, into a state-run getaway for his country's urban poor.
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The president plans to turn Los Roques, an idyllic archipelago of deserted beaches of perfect white sand with swaying palms and dazzling coral reefs, into a state-run getaway for his country's urban poor.
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White House Video Praising Solyndra as a Recovery Act Success Story - YouTube
White House Video Praising Solyndra as a Recovery Act Success Story - YouTube
On May 26, 2011, the White House posted this video praising Solyndra as a Recovery Act success story.
Barack Obama’s gleaming example of green technology – Solyndra – filed for bankruptcy in August. The solar panel manufacturer squandered $535 million of stimulus money in a little over a year.
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On May 26, 2011, the White House posted this video praising Solyndra as a Recovery Act success story.
Barack Obama’s gleaming example of green technology – Solyndra – filed for bankruptcy in August. The solar panel manufacturer squandered $535 million of stimulus money in a little over a year.
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YOU LIE!!! Death Panels For Prostate Cancer Patients And Half Of Doctors Threaten To Quit Medicare In Texas | Red White Blue News
YOU LIE!!! Death Panels For Prostate Cancer Patients And Half Of Doctors Threaten To Quit Medicare In Texas | Red White Blue News: RWBN: Welcome to “Obamacare” world. Don’t tell the sheep but Palin and many others were right once again. The New York Times on Thursday reported that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the same group that recommended doctors scale back on mammograms for women, is thinking of recommending against use of the prostate-specific antigen or PSA test.
More great news when it comes to Government run healthcare.
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More great news when it comes to Government run healthcare.
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VIDEO RELEASE: Who Is Accountable for Fast and Furious?
VIDEO RELEASE: Who Is Accountable for Fast and Furious?: WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released a new video asking a simple question: who is accountable for the Obama Justice Department's failed Operation Fast and Furious? Oversight Committee Watchdogs and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have pushed Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department for a full accounting of the deadly program, but this investigation has been meet with silence, stonewalling and spin. New documents, however, show that Holder received at least five weekly memos - beginning in July 2010 – that contradict the Attorney General's May 3, 2011 sworn testimony denying knowledge of Fast and Furious until just weeks before.
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Kerchner – 1. Challenge to the Secret Service, 2. Ad: Obama’s SSN Fails E-Verify, 3. Trouble in Cook County
Kerchner – 1. Challenge to the Secret Service, 2. Ad: Obama’s SSN Fails E-Verify, 3. Trouble in Cook County
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By Charles Kerchner
CDR Kerchner’s Blog
A Direct Challenge to the U.S. Secret Service
When is the U.S. Secret Service going to investigate to find out who made and put the forged long form birth certificate PDF document regarding Barack Obama onto the White House servers on 27 April 2011 instead of investigating SSgt Daryn Moran?
After all, the Secret Service has the experts in their organization for investigation of forged items. They are charged with investigation counterfeiters, are they not? They have the perfect tools and skilled experts to investigate and find out who was the person who made the forged PDF file long form birth certificate and who placed it on the White House servers on 27 April 2011.
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Russians Cheer on the American Revolution
Russians Cheer on the American Revolution: Kremlin propaganda channel Russia Today gleefully reports “Occupation” protests in New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles.
Why is the agent of a hostile foreign power allowed to encourage revolutionary activity in America?
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Why is the agent of a hostile foreign power allowed to encourage revolutionary activity in America?
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‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters = Leftist Tools of Obama, Unions and Democrats « FactReal
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters = Leftist Tools of Obama, Unions and Democrats « FactReal: ● Idiot Wall Street Protestors are Tools of Unions, Democrats:
These people are out marching for big government. They’re advocating for Obama’s reelection. They are marching against Wall Street. Who’s in bed with Obama? Wall Street.
● Leftist Wall Street protestors agree with Obama that America needs class war:
After his first stimulus plan failed miserably, Barack Obama switched strategy and declared war on the rich.
This weekend Obama announced his latest tax the rich Buffett plan.
Showing their support for class warfare… Radical leftists converged on Wall Street [since Sept. 17, 2011]:
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These people are out marching for big government. They’re advocating for Obama’s reelection. They are marching against Wall Street. Who’s in bed with Obama? Wall Street.
● Leftist Wall Street protestors agree with Obama that America needs class war:
After his first stimulus plan failed miserably, Barack Obama switched strategy and declared war on the rich.
This weekend Obama announced his latest tax the rich Buffett plan.
Showing their support for class warfare… Radical leftists converged on Wall Street [since Sept. 17, 2011]:
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Obama the Divider « Commentary Magazine
Obama the Divider « Commentary Magazine: A Washington Post story from earlier this week reports, “There is a noticeably more aggressive, confrontational President Obama roaming the country these days, selling his jobs plan and attacking Republicans for standing in the way of progress by standing up only for the rich.” That report, if anything, understates things a bit. Obama has essentially given up on his governing responsibilities (at which he has shown himself to be terribly inept) in lieu of a fierce and near constant attack on his political opponents. I have my doubts as to whether that strategy will work. But the point I want to make is a different one, which is that Obama has become the most intentionally divisive president we’ve seen in quite some time.
It’s not unusual, of course, for the policies of presidents to divide the nation. And politicians running for re-election often highlight differences. But Obama now belongs in a separate category. Each day, it seems, he and/or his supporters are seeking to divide us. The rhetoric employed by the president and his allies is meant to fan the flames of resentment, to turn Americans against one another, and to stoke up feelings of envy, grievances, and rage.
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It’s not unusual, of course, for the policies of presidents to divide the nation. And politicians running for re-election often highlight differences. But Obama now belongs in a separate category. Each day, it seems, he and/or his supporters are seeking to divide us. The rhetoric employed by the president and his allies is meant to fan the flames of resentment, to turn Americans against one another, and to stoke up feelings of envy, grievances, and rage.
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AG Holder responds to critics on Fast and Furious - CBS News Investigates - CBS News
AG Holder responds to critics on Fast and Furious - CBS News Investigates - CBS News: In a letter to Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder has gone on the record with the most details yet about what he and other Justice Department officials knew about ATF's Fast and Furious operation, even though memos surfaced earlier this week showing multiple briefing memos mentioning Fast and Furious were sent to him as early as July of last year.
Holder says that his testimony to Congress, stating he first heard of Fast and Furious earlier this year, "was truthful and accurate... I have no recollection of knowing about Fast and Furious prior to the public controversy about it."
In his letter, Holder also criticized the House Committee investigating Fast and Furious, saying he cannot sit idly by "as law enforcement and government employees who devote their lives to protecting our citizens be considered 'accessories to murder'."
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Holder says that his testimony to Congress, stating he first heard of Fast and Furious earlier this year, "was truthful and accurate... I have no recollection of knowing about Fast and Furious prior to the public controversy about it."
In his letter, Holder also criticized the House Committee investigating Fast and Furious, saying he cannot sit idly by "as law enforcement and government employees who devote their lives to protecting our citizens be considered 'accessories to murder'."
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Occupy DC: Liberals Protest "Corporate Greed" & Overseas Wars - YouTube
Occupy DC: Liberals Protest "Corporate Greed" & Overseas Wars - YouTube
Useful idiots ...
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The Ulsterman Report – Democrats In Senate Ignore Obama Once Again - The Ulsterman Report
The Ulsterman Report – Democrats In Senate Ignore Obama Once Again - The Ulsterman Report
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With increasing worries of a 2012 Election Day landslide that will not be to their liking, Senate Democrats are all but ignoring President Barack Obama’s now infamous “Pass this bill now!” jobs bill proposal that called for, among other Big Government things, raising taxes on those making more than $200,000 per year – an amount that hardly compliments the president’s repeated assault on the so-called “wealthiest Americans”.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Yes reader – the Democrats continue to control the Senate – a fact Barack Obama seems to repeatedly ignore when he speaks about a “Do nothing” Congress) quickly tabled the Obama jobs proposal, while no other Democrats volunteered to sponsor the bill. It has simply sat legislative limbo due in great part to the fact the bill was yet another mishmash of far-left class warfare liberalism and Big Government deficit spending that left many Senate Democrats not wishing to be associated with such things so close to their own re-election campaigns.
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The Ulsterman Report – MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s Racist-Tinged Herman Cain Interview - The Ulsterman Report
The Ulsterman Report – MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s Racist-Tinged Herman Cain Interview - The Ulsterman Report: This week, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain subjected himself to the repeated snide, dismissive, and possibly racist words of MSNBC personality Lawrence O’Donnell. The now resulting fallout from this interview is proving of great benefit to Mr. Cain, while being viewed as further evidence of MSNBC’s inherent race-based dislike of any Black American who does not conform to the far-left ideology of the Progressive Democrats – in essence, that Black voters are to move to the back of the proverbial political bus, sit down and shut up.
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The Ulsterman Report – Obama Invokes Reagan AGAIN – Claims Reagan Would Support Obama Tax Hike - The Ulsterman Report
The Ulsterman Report – Obama Invokes Reagan AGAIN – Claims Reagan Would Support Obama Tax Hike - The Ulsterman Report: It appears Republican candidates for President are not the only ones attempting to lay claim to the still powerful political influence that is the Ronald Reagan legacy in America. President Barack Obama, in an interview given to CBS News this past week, indicated he was convinced Reagan would be quite supportive of Obama’s intent to initiated surtax on those making more than one million dollars per year – now more widely known as the “Buffett Rule”. (It should be noted that Obama originally intended to initiate the tax surcharge on those making more than just $250,000 per year, but he has quickly altered that intent after Warren Buffett himself publicly opposed such a plan.)
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Company that owns Zuccotti "Protester" Park Just got 168 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama DOE!!!!...Thick as Thieves!!!!
Company that owns Zuccotti "Protester" Park Just got 168 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama DOE!!!!...Thick as Thieves!!!!:
Ok Sorry I let the cat out of the bag in the title...but this is huge news that I have seen nowhere else!...
I don't think this has been connected yet....read and enjoy!
Sooo...I ask myself a simple question...how can these protesters be all camped up in this Zuccotti Park right in the middle of downtown Manhattan and nobody is even telling them "Move along"...now the park is in a nice area..hell it's right in the financial district...a very nice area. They are trashing the place, that's coming from the people down there, not my assessment. Now there are usual park rules there...no sleeping on benches...no overnight sleep outs...the typical and mundane rules etc etc. This park also routinely gets cleaned every night, now it hasn't been cleaned since sept 16th...and it's becoming a "sanitary problem"...I'm sure that's no exaggeration with people pissing and god knows what else all night long in the park...so it's no stretch to imagine how cruddy it is by now.
You can read one of the many articles here about that...
Astroturff .... the 99% people are A SOCIALISTS USEFUL IDIOTS ~~ The Munz
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Ok Sorry I let the cat out of the bag in the title...but this is huge news that I have seen nowhere else!...
I don't think this has been connected yet....read and enjoy!
Sooo...I ask myself a simple question...how can these protesters be all camped up in this Zuccotti Park right in the middle of downtown Manhattan and nobody is even telling them "Move along"...now the park is in a nice area..hell it's right in the financial district...a very nice area. They are trashing the place, that's coming from the people down there, not my assessment. Now there are usual park rules there...no sleeping on benches...no overnight sleep outs...the typical and mundane rules etc etc. This park also routinely gets cleaned every night, now it hasn't been cleaned since sept 16th...and it's becoming a "sanitary problem"...I'm sure that's no exaggeration with people pissing and god knows what else all night long in the park...so it's no stretch to imagine how cruddy it is by now.
You can read one of the many articles here about that...
Astroturff .... the 99% people are A SOCIALISTS USEFUL IDIOTS ~~ The Munz
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E-mails suggest Rahm, and maybe Obama, pushed early to spotlight Solyndra amid financial warnings; Update: Obama appointee pushed Solyndra loan — despite conflict of interest with wife’s law firm « Hot Air
E-mails suggest Rahm, and maybe Obama, pushed early to spotlight Solyndra amid financial warnings; Update: Obama appointee pushed Solyndra loan — despite conflict of interest with wife’s law firm « Hot Air: We already knew that people in the White House were rushing OMB in August 2009 to approve Solyndra’s half-billion-dollar loan so that The One could get his all-important green jobs/stimulus photo op at the plant. Some OMB analysts complained at the time, in fact, that the time pressure might affect the diligence with which the loan was being reviewed. Oh well. What we didn’t know was who in the White House was pressuring them. Over to you, WaPo:
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Protesters Accused of Hurting NYC Economy
Protesters Accused of Hurting NYC Economy: NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday accused the Wall Street demonstrators of trying to cripple New York City's economy.
"What they're trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city," the mayor declared in his harshest criticism of the three-week-old protest that has caught the attention of the nation.
"They're trying to take away the tax base we have because none of this is good for tourism."
Although he expressed sympathy for "some of their complaints," Bloomberg warned that addressing them has to be accomplished "without hurting people and making the problem worse."
Kind of counter productive for them, if they hurt the economy, they can't get the money other people are working for!! ~~ The Munz
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"What they're trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city," the mayor declared in his harshest criticism of the three-week-old protest that has caught the attention of the nation.
"They're trying to take away the tax base we have because none of this is good for tourism."
Although he expressed sympathy for "some of their complaints," Bloomberg warned that addressing them has to be accomplished "without hurting people and making the problem worse."
Kind of counter productive for them, if they hurt the economy, they can't get the money other people are working for!! ~~ The Munz
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Obama Fundraiser Pushed Solyndra Deal From Inside - ABC News
Obama Fundraiser Pushed Solyndra Deal From Inside - ABC News: An elite Obama fundraiser hired to help oversee the administration's energy loan program pushed and prodded career Department of Energy officials to move faster in approving a loan guarantee for Solyndra, even as his wife's law firm was representing the California solar company, according to internal emails made public late Friday.
"How hard is this? What is he waiting for?" wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy loan guarantee program. "I have OVP [the Office of the Vice President] and WH [the White House] breathing down my neck on this."
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"How hard is this? What is he waiting for?" wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy loan guarantee program. "I have OVP [the Office of the Vice President] and WH [the White House] breathing down my neck on this."
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White House adviser on Solyndra: '*#~@ show' - Dan Berman - POLITICO.com
White House adviser on Solyndra: '*#~@ show' - Dan Berman - POLITICO.com: When Solyndra hit the fan in August, White House energy adviser Heather Zichal may have summed it up best.
"*#~@ show," Zichal wrote in an email Aug. 25.
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"*#~@ show," Zichal wrote in an email Aug. 25.
Zichal’s email is one of dozens showing Obama administration officials were planning how to handle a Solyndra bankruptcy days before the solar company went under.
On Aug. 17, Dan Utech, an energy special assistant in the White House, wrote in an email that DOE had learned Solyndra was beginning to shut down operations.
“It’s unclear what that means in terms of how many people are involved at Solyndra, but we’re now in a place where this could break at any time. DOE communications will be reaching out to WH comms shortly to coordinate.”
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White House feeds off protest anger - FT.com
White House feeds off protest anger - FT.com
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Weeks after taking to the streets in Manhattan, Occupy Wall St demonstrators are camped a block from the White House. Many of them are wondering: do they have a friend inside?
While not endorsing the protests, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have expressed understanding of the movement that has spread rapidly across the country.
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Fast and Furious: A Primer « Grand Rants
Fast and Furious: A Primer « Grand Rants
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Not sure what Operation Fast & Furious is all about? You’re not alone, as most of the mainstream media still are not covering this travesty. But the Washington Post has done a stellar job of boiling it down to its essential pieces, complete with quotes from those involved. Kudos to Sari Horwitz and Laura Stanton for their great work:
This could be President Obama’s Watergate. Until the wheels really start coming off the wagon, however, perhaps he should party like it’s 1973…
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Company that owns Zuccotti "Protester" Park Just got 168 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama DOE!!!!...Thick as Thieves!!!!
Company that owns Zuccotti "Protester" Park Just got 168 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama DOE!!!!...Thick as Thieves!!!!: Ok Sorry I let the cat out of the bag in the title...but this is huge news that I have seen nowhere else!...
I don't think this has been connected yet....read and enjoy!
Sooo...I ask myself a simple question...how can these protesters be all camped up in this Zuccotti Park right in the middle of downtown Manhattan and nobody is even telling them "Move along"...now the park is in a nice area..hell it's right in the financial district...a very nice area. They are trashing the place, that's coming from the people down there, not my assessment. Now there are usual park rules there...no sleeping on benches...no overnight sleep outs...the typical and mundane rules etc etc. This park also routinely gets cleaned every night, now it hasn't been cleaned since sept 16th...and it's becoming a "sanitary problem"...I'm sure that's no exaggeration with people pissing and god knows what else all night long in the park...so it's no stretch to imagine how cruddy it is by now.
You can read one of the many articles here about that...
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I don't think this has been connected yet....read and enjoy!
Sooo...I ask myself a simple question...how can these protesters be all camped up in this Zuccotti Park right in the middle of downtown Manhattan and nobody is even telling them "Move along"...now the park is in a nice area..hell it's right in the financial district...a very nice area. They are trashing the place, that's coming from the people down there, not my assessment. Now there are usual park rules there...no sleeping on benches...no overnight sleep outs...the typical and mundane rules etc etc. This park also routinely gets cleaned every night, now it hasn't been cleaned since sept 16th...and it's becoming a "sanitary problem"...I'm sure that's no exaggeration with people pissing and god knows what else all night long in the park...so it's no stretch to imagine how cruddy it is by now.
You can read one of the many articles here about that...
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Judge Rejects Obama Admin. Appeal – Refuses to Block Alabama Immigration Law | Stand With Arizona
Judge Rejects Obama Admin. Appeal – Refuses to Block Alabama Immigration Law | Stand With Arizona: Federal District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn again refused to halt Alabama’s tough new immigration enforcement law, pending appeal – this time turning back an “emergency” request by the U.S. Department of Justice and left-wing non-profits who advocate for illegal aliens. She upheld provisions which authorized police to detain people suspected of being in the country illegally if they cannot produce proper documentation when stopped for any reason, among other provisions.
Blackburn said…that the law’s challengers, including President Barack Obama’s administration and civil rights and immigrant advocacy groups, had not shown they were likely to prevail in their efforts to get the law struck down. She also found the public interest would not be harmed by letting the measure stand while the groups appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
“Alabama has an interest in enforcing laws properly enacted by its Legislature and not likely to be found unconstitutional,” the judge wrote. “Moreover, the public has an interest in having properly enacted valid laws enforced.”
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Blackburn said…that the law’s challengers, including President Barack Obama’s administration and civil rights and immigrant advocacy groups, had not shown they were likely to prevail in their efforts to get the law struck down. She also found the public interest would not be harmed by letting the measure stand while the groups appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
“Alabama has an interest in enforcing laws properly enacted by its Legislature and not likely to be found unconstitutional,” the judge wrote. “Moreover, the public has an interest in having properly enacted valid laws enforced.”
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DRUDGE REPORT 2012®: GE HEAD CALLS FOR LOWER CORP TAXES; BUT GE PAID ZERO!
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®: GE HEAD CALLS FOR LOWER CORP TAXES; BUT GE PAID ZERO!
The corporate titan President Obama picked to help create millions of new jobs thinks lowering corporate taxes and eliminating all tax loopholes for U.S. companies will put more Americans to work. General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt sits down with Lesley Stahl to discuss the creation of jobs, the U.S. business climate and his own company, General Electric, in a 60 MINUTES segment to be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 9 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
General Electric makes 60 percent of its profit overseas, where the corporate taxes are lower than in the U.S. Immelt thinks the U.S. needs to follow suit. “I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the UK – everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero,” he tells Stahl. “The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less,” Immelt says.
But GE paid NO TAXES on $5 billion in profits last year!
Pressed by Stahl about whether this move would actually translate to American Jobs, Immelt admits the strategy is up for debate, but, “Personally, I think [lowering taxes] will create jobs.” Reminded that American corporations are sitting on piles of cash and that giving them more may be questionable, Immelt says, “Companies should invest in the United States. It’s still the world’s biggest economy. And if companies just are going to sit on cash, they’re going to lose,” he tells Stahl. “Because only the people that are going to invest their way through this crisis are going to win.”
It is also particularly important that the government focus all it efforts on creating jobs, says Immelt, because it’s not doing so now. “I think, Lesley, there needs to be a sense of national urgency around jobs…If you just looked at how many hours a day do Republicans spend on job creation, do Democrats spend on job creation, and does the White House. It’s no where close to 100 percent,” he says. “We’re not spending enough time on jobs.”
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The corporate titan President Obama picked to help create millions of new jobs thinks lowering corporate taxes and eliminating all tax loopholes for U.S. companies will put more Americans to work. General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt sits down with Lesley Stahl to discuss the creation of jobs, the U.S. business climate and his own company, General Electric, in a 60 MINUTES segment to be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 9 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
General Electric makes 60 percent of its profit overseas, where the corporate taxes are lower than in the U.S. Immelt thinks the U.S. needs to follow suit. “I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the UK – everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero,” he tells Stahl. “The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less,” Immelt says.
But GE paid NO TAXES on $5 billion in profits last year!
Pressed by Stahl about whether this move would actually translate to American Jobs, Immelt admits the strategy is up for debate, but, “Personally, I think [lowering taxes] will create jobs.” Reminded that American corporations are sitting on piles of cash and that giving them more may be questionable, Immelt says, “Companies should invest in the United States. It’s still the world’s biggest economy. And if companies just are going to sit on cash, they’re going to lose,” he tells Stahl. “Because only the people that are going to invest their way through this crisis are going to win.”
It is also particularly important that the government focus all it efforts on creating jobs, says Immelt, because it’s not doing so now. “I think, Lesley, there needs to be a sense of national urgency around jobs…If you just looked at how many hours a day do Republicans spend on job creation, do Democrats spend on job creation, and does the White House. It’s no where close to 100 percent,” he says. “We’re not spending enough time on jobs.”
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Fireworks: MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Hostile Interview With Herman Cain | RealClearPolitics
Fireworks: MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Hostile Interview With Herman Cain | RealClearPolitics: Lawrence O'Donnell tries to pit Herman Cain as anti-black and a draft dodger in a bizarre interview that didn't seem have to a point other than to attack Mr. Cain. However, the GOP presidential candidate remained poised throughout.
Mr. Cain worked for the Navy in the field of ballistics during the war. Lawrence O'Donnell? He received a deferment since he was attending college.
O'Donnell tried to paint Cain as some sort of traitor to blacks because he didn't participate in protests and sit-ins during the Civil Rights era.
"I did not insult the intelligence of all black Americans," Herman Cain said about his 'brainwashing' comment. "I insulted the attitude of those that will not consider an alternate idea." He also said black voters "did not consider my statement insulting because a lot of them are thinking for themselves."
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Mr. Cain worked for the Navy in the field of ballistics during the war. Lawrence O'Donnell? He received a deferment since he was attending college.
O'Donnell tried to paint Cain as some sort of traitor to blacks because he didn't participate in protests and sit-ins during the Civil Rights era.
"I did not insult the intelligence of all black Americans," Herman Cain said about his 'brainwashing' comment. "I insulted the attitude of those that will not consider an alternate idea." He also said black voters "did not consider my statement insulting because a lot of them are thinking for themselves."
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Romney Criticizes Obama at Military College | The Weekly Standard
Romney Criticizes Obama at Military College | The Weekly Standard: This morning, Mitt Romney used his foreign policy address at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina to criticize what he called the Obama administration's "feckless policies of the last three years."
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"I believe we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world," Romney said, with an audience of cadets sitting behind him. "Not exceptional, as the president has derisively said, in the way that the British think Great Britain is exceptional or the Greeks think Greece is exceptional. In Barack Obama’s profoundly mistaken view, there is nothing unique about the United States."
Romney criticized the president on cutting the defense budget, as well. "I will reverse President Obama’s massive defense cuts," he said. "I will begin reversing Obama-era cuts to national missile defense and prioritize the full deployment of a multilayered national ballistic missile defense system."
In his closing argument, Romney contrasted his vision of America's role in the world with that of Obama. "I will not surrender America’s role in the world," he said. "This is very simple. If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president. You have that president today." The cadets appluaded.
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Citadel
"I believe we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world," Romney said, with an audience of cadets sitting behind him. "Not exceptional, as the president has derisively said, in the way that the British think Great Britain is exceptional or the Greeks think Greece is exceptional. In Barack Obama’s profoundly mistaken view, there is nothing unique about the United States."
Romney criticized the president on cutting the defense budget, as well. "I will reverse President Obama’s massive defense cuts," he said. "I will begin reversing Obama-era cuts to national missile defense and prioritize the full deployment of a multilayered national ballistic missile defense system."
In his closing argument, Romney contrasted his vision of America's role in the world with that of Obama. "I will not surrender America’s role in the world," he said. "This is very simple. If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president. You have that president today." The cadets appluaded.
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Ala.: Inmates can replace Hispanic farmhands - Mackenzie Weinger - POLITICO.com
Ala.: Inmates can replace Hispanic farmhands - Mackenzie Weinger - POLITICO.com: Alabama farmers frantically looking for workers to replace those that have fled the state in the wake of its tough new immigration law should just stop by their local prison, according to the head of Alabama’s agriculture department.
John McMillan, commissioner of the Alabama Dept. of Agriculture and Industries, told the Montgomery Advertiser on Thursday that inmate labor through the state’s worker release program offers a short-term solution to the sudden labor shortage that has hit Alabama since enforcement of its illegal immigration law kicked in.
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John McMillan, commissioner of the Alabama Dept. of Agriculture and Industries, told the Montgomery Advertiser on Thursday that inmate labor through the state’s worker release program offers a short-term solution to the sudden labor shortage that has hit Alabama since enforcement of its illegal immigration law kicked in.
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Cantor slams Wall Street 'mobs' and Dems for egging them on - The Hill's Video
Cantor slams Wall Street 'mobs' and Dems for egging them on - The Hill's Video: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) described Wall Street protesters as a mob on Friday and implied Democrats were egging them on.
In a speech to the conservative Values Voter Summit, Cantor said he was “increasingly concerned by the growing mobs” and criticized Democrats who have showered praise on the protesters in New York and other cities.
“Some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans,” Cantor said.
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In a speech to the conservative Values Voter Summit, Cantor said he was “increasingly concerned by the growing mobs” and criticized Democrats who have showered praise on the protesters in New York and other cities.
“Some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans,” Cantor said.
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FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service - Nextgov
FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service - Nextgov: The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.
The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice recordings.
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The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice recordings.
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Execution by secret WH committee - Salon.com
Execution by secret WH committee - Salon.com: Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there’s a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters:
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions . . . . There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council . . . . Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate. . . . The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process. . . .
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American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions . . . . There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council . . . . Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate. . . . The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process. . . .
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VIDEO: New Tone? MSNBC‘s Host Uses Steve Jobs’ Death to Blast Sarah Palin » Blog » Family Security Matters
VIDEO: New Tone? MSNBC‘s Host Uses Steve Jobs’ Death to Blast Sarah Palin » Blog » Family Security Matters
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It's On: MSNBC's Ratigan vs. Obama-Defending Schultz...Schultz Walks Out! - YouTube
It's On: MSNBC's Ratigan vs. Obama-Defending Schultz...Schultz Walks Out! - YouTube
Ed Schultz is a leftist who can't handle the truth .. math sucks because it is factual. It is not filled with emotion and spin. He can't deal with it.
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Ed Schultz is a leftist who can't handle the truth .. math sucks because it is factual. It is not filled with emotion and spin. He can't deal with it.
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Van Jones Media Mouthpiece Gets Russian Cash » Publications » Family Security Matters
Van Jones Media Mouthpiece Gets Russian Cash » Publications » Family Security Matters
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Progressive TV and radio star Thom Hartmann took time off from covering Van Jones and his “Rebuild the Dream” movement on Wednesday to briefly talk to this columnist about his relationship with the Vladimir Putin regime of Russia. The conversation quickly went sour when Hartmann objected to questions about how much he is being paid by Moscow. He grabbed my video camera, covering the lens briefly in the process, and stomped away, objecting to “gotcha” questions.
The entire spectacle was captured on camera and posted on YouTube.
During another embarrassing incident, Van Jones refused to sign a copy of his Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) manifesto when asked to autograph it. “No thank you,” he sternly said before asking, “Who are you?,” looking at my name badge, and walking away to the next adoring crowd of Van Jones groupies. Jones, a “former” communist, is the new face of the progressive movement that is backing the “Occupation Wall Street” protests and is trying to guarantee President Obama a second term. He was fired as Obama’s “green jobs czar” when the truth about his extremist background and statements started to emerge in reports originally by blogger Trevor Loudon and then Glenn Beck on Fox News.
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Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com
Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com: A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
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The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
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Lawrence O’Donnell Interviews Herman Cain | Video | TheBlaze.com
Lawrence O’Donnell Interviews Herman Cain | Video | TheBlaze.com: There’s a lot we could cover regarding the back-and-forth interview Thursday night between Lawrence O’Donnell and Herman Cain. A lot. But we’ll focus on one thing: O‘Donnell’s smug accusations that Cain sat on the “sidelines” during the Civil Rights Movement and Cain’s response. Oh boy — here we go.
Let‘s start with Mediaite’s explanation of the exchange:
O’Donnell and Cain talked about so much more, as well, from a passage in Cain’s book where he describes “staying out of trouble” rather than directly participate in the civil rights movement, to Cain’s military service. O’Donnell, in fact, openly admonished Cain for his lack of participation in the movement — which, obviously, did not sit well with Cain one bit. “Did you expect every black student and every black college in America to be out there in the middle of every fight? The answer is no.”
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Let‘s start with Mediaite’s explanation of the exchange:
O’Donnell and Cain talked about so much more, as well, from a passage in Cain’s book where he describes “staying out of trouble” rather than directly participate in the civil rights movement, to Cain’s military service. O’Donnell, in fact, openly admonished Cain for his lack of participation in the movement — which, obviously, did not sit well with Cain one bit. “Did you expect every black student and every black college in America to be out there in the middle of every fight? The answer is no.”
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Occupy Wall Street’s 99%… Meet the 53% | TheBlaze.com
Occupy Wall Street’s 99%… Meet the 53% | TheBlaze.com: Meet The 53%. Who are they? The term 53% refers to the people who are actually paying taxes for themselves and the rest of the country.
The 53% is a group of responsible young people organizing across the country. However, this group is not camping out in parks around the country and demanding the entire capitalist system be destroyed. These men and women have jobs (most of them work at more than one job in order to make ends meet), but they are talking about attending the Minneapolis Occupy Wall St. protest scheduled for today – Friday, October 7th.
Here’s a statement from their web page;
So, like, when you’re, like, community organizing for solidarity and stuff, it’s totally cool to have this little hashtaggy thingy when you’re on twitter, so other people, like, totally know what you’re talking about and stuff. So if you’re, like, totally gonna spread the word about being one of the 53% of people who actually, like, pay taxes in America and don’t just, like, hang out protesting stuff all day… like, here’s the hashtaggy thingy. See you at the protest! #iamthe53
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The 53% is a group of responsible young people organizing across the country. However, this group is not camping out in parks around the country and demanding the entire capitalist system be destroyed. These men and women have jobs (most of them work at more than one job in order to make ends meet), but they are talking about attending the Minneapolis Occupy Wall St. protest scheduled for today – Friday, October 7th.
Here’s a statement from their web page;
So, like, when you’re, like, community organizing for solidarity and stuff, it’s totally cool to have this little hashtaggy thingy when you’re on twitter, so other people, like, totally know what you’re talking about and stuff. So if you’re, like, totally gonna spread the word about being one of the 53% of people who actually, like, pay taxes in America and don’t just, like, hang out protesting stuff all day… like, here’s the hashtaggy thingy. See you at the protest! #iamthe53
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The Goal: Occupy the White House and Congress in 2012 | Godfather Politics
The Goal: Occupy the White House and Congress in 2012 | Godfather Politics: While the Leftists are trying to punish the people who create jobs, Conservatives should stay focused on the real problem – Congress and the Presidency.
While the leeches and special interest groups want to increase the power of government to make it more difficult for the producers to produce, Conservatives need to direct their time, energy, and money in getting the best people elected in 2012. Don’t expect the media to be fair. Don’t expect today’s politicians to take any blame for what they’ve done to our nation and the economy.
It’s interesting that the protests are taking place in the most liberal cities in the US – New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It’s not surprising that the biggest culprit, Nancy Pelosi, wants God to bless them. Where’s the ACLU when you need them? Isn’t she mixing religion and politics?
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While the leeches and special interest groups want to increase the power of government to make it more difficult for the producers to produce, Conservatives need to direct their time, energy, and money in getting the best people elected in 2012. Don’t expect the media to be fair. Don’t expect today’s politicians to take any blame for what they’ve done to our nation and the economy.
It’s interesting that the protests are taking place in the most liberal cities in the US – New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It’s not surprising that the biggest culprit, Nancy Pelosi, wants God to bless them. Where’s the ACLU when you need them? Isn’t she mixing religion and politics?
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Frances Fox Piven Indoctrinating College Students Be Ready Violent Streets Battles - YouTube
Frances Fox Piven Indoctrinating College Students Be Ready Violent Streets Battles - YouTube
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Video Exposing How ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Was Organized From Day One by SEIU / ACORN Front – The Working Family Party, and How They All Tie to the Obama Administration, DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides and George Soros | Video | TheBlaze.com
Video Exposing How ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Was Organized From Day One by SEIU / ACORN Front – The Working Family Party, and How They All Tie to the Obama Administration, DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides and George Soros | Video | TheBlaze.com: Breakdown of the Connections Between The Working Family Party, SEIU, ACORN, The New Party, The DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides, George Soros and The Obama Administration:
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Glenn Beck Video Montage on Wealth Redistribution | Video | TheBlaze.com
Glenn Beck Video Montage on Wealth Redistribution | Video | TheBlaze.com: On TV Thursday night, Glenn played a video montage of various faith, political, and economic leaders — in their own words — trumpeting Marxist philosophy. He played it again on radio Friday. We’ve included it below so you can see it again.
Who does it star? There’s Jim Wallis, Donald Berwick, Van Jones, and even President Obama:
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Who does it star? There’s Jim Wallis, Donald Berwick, Van Jones, and even President Obama:
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President Tantrum: Eat My Peas and Do My Homework - John Ransom - Townhall Finance
President Tantrum: Eat My Peas and Do My Homework - John Ransom - Townhall Finance: The Republicans are trying to get a vote on the Senate floor for the exact jobs bill that Obama has been puffing up his chest about for the last three weeks.
You know? The jobs bill that he recruited sixth-graders to write to Congress about as he kicked off the It’s All Your Fault reelection tour against a "do nothing" Congress?
President Truman? No. President Tantrum.
"For those of you who did skip class today, I've got a homework assignment for you," Obama told a crowd of kids in North Carolina early in September after the jobs bill was announced but before it was fully presented to Congress, "tell your Congress person that the time for gridlock and games is over; the time for action is now…. You can write a letter. When was the last time you did that?"
Very innovative strategy from the Obama administration: getting sixth-graders to write lobbying letters to Congress about a bill that hadn’t even made it through the inboxes in Congress. “Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet?”
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You know? The jobs bill that he recruited sixth-graders to write to Congress about as he kicked off the It’s All Your Fault reelection tour against a "do nothing" Congress?
President Truman? No. President Tantrum.
"For those of you who did skip class today, I've got a homework assignment for you," Obama told a crowd of kids in North Carolina early in September after the jobs bill was announced but before it was fully presented to Congress, "tell your Congress person that the time for gridlock and games is over; the time for action is now…. You can write a letter. When was the last time you did that?"
Very innovative strategy from the Obama administration: getting sixth-graders to write lobbying letters to Congress about a bill that hadn’t even made it through the inboxes in Congress. “Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet?”
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Obama Denial Comes Fast and Furious - Bob Beauprez - Townhall Finance
Obama Denial Comes Fast and Furious - Bob Beauprez - Townhall Finance: As reported on these pages two days ago, Eric Holder lied in testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2011 when he said, "I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." Documents now in the public domain indicate that Holder was extensively briefed numerous times months before the May 2011 Congressional hearing by DOJ officials and had received an official request for an investigation of the ATF gunrunning operation from the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on March 9.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) has been under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice since 2003, and thus is Holder's direct responsibility. The Attorney General's assertion that he had only just learned of Operation Fast and Furious simply doesn't hold up against the facts. Further, it invites the obvious question; "What was he trying to hide, and why?"
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) has been under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice since 2003, and thus is Holder's direct responsibility. The Attorney General's assertion that he had only just learned of Operation Fast and Furious simply doesn't hold up against the facts. Further, it invites the obvious question; "What was he trying to hide, and why?"
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Obama's Behavior Is Getting Worse - David Limbaugh - Townhall Conservative
Obama's Behavior Is Getting Worse - David Limbaugh - Townhall Conservative: Obama's Thursday news conference was a sober reminder of the nature of the man in the Oval Office. I infer that even many of his supporters in the liberal media are finally catching on to the magnitude of his personality disorders.
How could a man in his important position continue to act so childishly, accepting no responsibility for his policies and behavior and demonizing everyone who dares to disagree with or oppose him? It's worse than embarrassing; it's unsettling.
From the conference we are reminded that Obama believes that:
--Only "big and bold" intervention by the government can get an economy moving; so long as he cites a few "expert economists" who agree with him, there can be no other legitimate opinion.
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How could a man in his important position continue to act so childishly, accepting no responsibility for his policies and behavior and demonizing everyone who dares to disagree with or oppose him? It's worse than embarrassing; it's unsettling.
From the conference we are reminded that Obama believes that:
--Only "big and bold" intervention by the government can get an economy moving; so long as he cites a few "expert economists" who agree with him, there can be no other legitimate opinion.
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Van Jones’ Tea Party Envy | FrontPage Magazine
Van Jones’ Tea Party Envy | FrontPage Magazine: Of all that the Tea Party has accomplished, perhaps the movement’s most unlikely achievement to date is the admiration it has inspired on the activist Left. Disillusioned with President Obama and the rapid dissipation of a long-term left-wing dominance that Obama’s victory was supposed to usher in, left-wing activists and commentators have come to look upon the Tea Party as a model to revive their faded political fortunes.
Speaking for many on the Left, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen recently acknowledged, “I suffer from Tea Party envy.”
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Speaking for many on the Left, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen recently acknowledged, “I suffer from Tea Party envy.”
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Ninety-Nine Percent Narcissists | FrontPage Magazine
Ninety-Nine Percent Narcissists | FrontPage Magazine: The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators call themselves the “99 percenters,” pitting those whom they characterize as the rich, greedy 1 percent capitalists against the 99 percent of the people whom the 1 percent are supposedly exploiting. A more accurate description of the demonstrators is that they are 99 percent narcissists engaging in a form of self-glorified street theater. And that’s giving them the benefit of the doubt that 1 percent of them may be misguided but authentic idealists.
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This Is What a Mob Looks Like | FrontPage Magazine
This Is What a Mob Looks Like | FrontPage Magazine: I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.
No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want — as is typical of mobs. They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate “Wall Street.” You know, the same Wall Street that gave its largest campaign donation in history to Obama, who, in turn, bailed out the banks and made Goldman Sachs the fourth branch of government.
This would be like opposing fattening, processed foods, but cheering Michael Moore — which the protesters also did this week.
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No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want — as is typical of mobs. They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate “Wall Street.” You know, the same Wall Street that gave its largest campaign donation in history to Obama, who, in turn, bailed out the banks and made Goldman Sachs the fourth branch of government.
This would be like opposing fattening, processed foods, but cheering Michael Moore — which the protesters also did this week.
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Holder may have had fingers in 'Fast and Furious' for years
Holder may have had fingers in 'Fast and Furious' for years: One member of Congress has started using the word "accessory" in talking about members of the Obama administration who had their fingers on the pulse of the Operation Gunrunner Fast and Furious stunt under which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ordered gun dealers to sell weapons to unqualified buyers, who then dumped them into the Mexican drug cartel civil war.
And that may include Attorney General Eric Holder.
After all, despite his sworn assurance to Congress in a May appearance on the Hill that it was only within the "last few weeks" that he even heard of the project, a stack of memos reveals that if he paid attention to his office work, he knew about the situation a year earlier.
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And that may include Attorney General Eric Holder.
After all, despite his sworn assurance to Congress in a May appearance on the Hill that it was only within the "last few weeks" that he even heard of the project, a stack of memos reveals that if he paid attention to his office work, he knew about the situation a year earlier.
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Unhinged Martin Bashir Excoriates 'Vacuous' Sarah Palin During Steve Jobs Eulogy
Unhinged Martin Bashir Excoriates 'Vacuous' Sarah Palin During Steve Jobs Eulogy: Liberal MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Thursday used Sarah Palin's announcement that she won't be a candidate for President as another excuse to trash the "vacuous," "crass" and "vindictive" Republican. The anchor even sought to contrast the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs to Palin, who he asserted has "created nothing."
After praising the businessman, Bashir mocked, "The other represents the very worst form of American opportunism: Vacuous, crass, and according to almost every biographer, vindictive too."
He continued, asserting that while Jobs "transformed the culture," Palin has "created nothing, produced nothing and served no one but herself."
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After praising the businessman, Bashir mocked, "The other represents the very worst form of American opportunism: Vacuous, crass, and according to almost every biographer, vindictive too."
He continued, asserting that while Jobs "transformed the culture," Palin has "created nothing, produced nothing and served no one but herself."
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Who Will Regulate the Government?
Who Will Regulate the Government?: The United States has the largest government on Earth, measured in annual government expenditures. Our great wealth permits a hefty bulk of regulation, much like a bigger dog can have more fleas. But the spending and regulatory burden can no longer be tolerated. The quagmire of intricate rules and carefully tailored exceptions is making the United States an increasingly difficult and cumbersome place in which to do business, as corporations find themselves having to expend larger amounts of time, energy and money complying with numerous regulations, says Clyde Wayne Crews, vice president for policy and director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The U.S. government justifies these regulations as symbols of progress in the fight to rein in the natural excesses of free market capitalism. However, an enormous federal government that controls approximately a quarter of national income has equally excessive tendencies. This state of affairs begs the question, if it is the responsibility of government to maintain oversight and check excesses of corporations, who will regulate the government?
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The U.S. government justifies these regulations as symbols of progress in the fight to rein in the natural excesses of free market capitalism. However, an enormous federal government that controls approximately a quarter of national income has equally excessive tendencies. This state of affairs begs the question, if it is the responsibility of government to maintain oversight and check excesses of corporations, who will regulate the government?
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Occupy DC Organizer | Washington Hispanics | The Daily Caller
Occupy DC Organizer | Washington Hispanics | The Daily Caller: A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital.
TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots.
One group of about ten Hispanic protesters marched behind a Caucasian individual from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting rent control in Washington, D.C.
Asked why they were there, some Hispanic protesters holding up English protest signs could not articulate what their signs said.
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TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots.
One group of about ten Hispanic protesters marched behind a Caucasian individual from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting rent control in Washington, D.C.
Asked why they were there, some Hispanic protesters holding up English protest signs could not articulate what their signs said.
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Look What the Federal Reserve Will Be Paying For | Godfather Politics
Look What the Federal Reserve Will Be Paying For | Godfather Politics: As of three weeks ago, the Federal Reserve openly and brazenly violated its own professed purpose of “maintaining the stability of the financial system of the United States” and declared that it will lend US dollars for the bail-out of a sovereign foreign nation that has proven unable to exercise even the lowest level of financial discipline and thus has ruined not only its own financial system but also the financial system of a whole continent. This is not the first time the Federal Reserve has done this; but in previous occurrences, such decisions were rather concealed from the public, and only investigations by journalists and investors brought them to light.
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Obama: I’ll win if 2012 choice is between me and the Republican Congress - TheHill.com
Obama: I’ll win if 2012 choice is between me and the Republican Congress - TheHill.com: President Obama challenged Republican lawmakers Thursday to pass his jobs package and deny him a key plank in his campaign platform: running against a “do-nothing Congress.”
Obama blasted opposition to his $447 billion jobs act and demanded that opponents explain their opposition, continuing a refrain he has used on the road for the past month.
“If Congress does something, then I can’t run against a do-nothing Congress,” Obama said, smiling. “If Congress does nothing, then it’s not a matter of me running against them, I think the American people will run them out of town. Because they are frustrated.”
In the last campaign, Obama turned his run against Bush .. but the American people were too gullible and forgot that he wasn't running against Bush. Now he plans on convincing them somehow that he is running against the congress ... and so many will believe it.
Lord knows he can't run against a leader .. how would he? On what he has done? He has completely sunk the nation ~~ The Munz
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Obama blasted opposition to his $447 billion jobs act and demanded that opponents explain their opposition, continuing a refrain he has used on the road for the past month.
“If Congress does something, then I can’t run against a do-nothing Congress,” Obama said, smiling. “If Congress does nothing, then it’s not a matter of me running against them, I think the American people will run them out of town. Because they are frustrated.”
In the last campaign, Obama turned his run against Bush .. but the American people were too gullible and forgot that he wasn't running against Bush. Now he plans on convincing them somehow that he is running against the congress ... and so many will believe it.
Lord knows he can't run against a leader .. how would he? On what he has done? He has completely sunk the nation ~~ The Munz
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Blog: How much is too much profit? Ask Obama
Blog: How much is too much profit? Ask Obama: Barack Obama believes he should decide how much we should earn. Just in the last few days he went into his favorite mode: attack dog.
When Bank of America decided to respond to the Durbin amendment (which cut down the charges they could charge merchants when debit cards are used to pay for purchase) by charging customers five dollars a month should they decide to use debit cards, Barack Obama attacked the bank by stating that they should only earn a "certain amount of profit."
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When Bank of America decided to respond to the Durbin amendment (which cut down the charges they could charge merchants when debit cards are used to pay for purchase) by charging customers five dollars a month should they decide to use debit cards, Barack Obama attacked the bank by stating that they should only earn a "certain amount of profit."
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Meet the Obama link to Wall Street terror
Meet the Obama link to Wall Street terror: Stephen Lerner, a controversial anti-capitalist SEIU organizer, is one of the forces behind the protests on Wall Street and nationwide, according to quotes obtained by a socialist activist who doubles as a Washington Post columnist.
WND was first to report Lerner was the brain behind some of the economic protest templates being used by the Occupy Wall Street campaign.
Lerner recently laid out a mass economic protest plan intended to bring down the stock market, and boasted his plan could be used to cause a new financial crisis. His ideology prompted some conservative critics to go so far as to label him an economic terrorist.
Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, columnist Harold Meyerson, the vice-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, quoted Lerner describing how a coalition is fomenting the current economic protests.
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WND was first to report Lerner was the brain behind some of the economic protest templates being used by the Occupy Wall Street campaign.
Lerner recently laid out a mass economic protest plan intended to bring down the stock market, and boasted his plan could be used to cause a new financial crisis. His ideology prompted some conservative critics to go so far as to label him an economic terrorist.
Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, columnist Harold Meyerson, the vice-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, quoted Lerner describing how a coalition is fomenting the current economic protests.
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September Job Report Shows High Unemployment in America
September Job Report Shows High Unemployment in America: Yesterday at the White House, President Barack Obama faced the media to once again plug the American Jobs Act–his plan for more stimulus spending, paid for with even more taxes on America’s job creators. And this morning, not a day later, America received a reminder of why a continuation of the President’s tried-and-failed policies is not a prescription for success: In September, the U.S. unemployment rate held steady at a dismal 9.1 percent with 14 million Americans still out of work. About 103,000 jobs were added, but 45,000 of those were simply Verizon strikers returning to work, and the number of long-term unemployed (27 weeks or more) increased by 208,000.
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Michelle Obama Coached On Teleprompter Too - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)
Michelle Obama Coached On Teleprompter Too - Washington Whispers (usnews.com): There's one less thing President Obama has over his wife Michelle: mastery of the Teleprompter.
Speech coach Christine Jahnke, author of the new book The Well-Spoken Woman, reveals that she taught the first lady how to use a Teleprompter in advance of her pitch in 2009 to the Olympic Committee in Denmark to pick Chicago for the 2016 Olympics, won by Rio de Janeiro.
"She is obviously a fine speaker," Jahnke says. "But the Olympic speech was on a Teleprompter, and she was less familiar with that technique."
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Speech coach Christine Jahnke, author of the new book The Well-Spoken Woman, reveals that she taught the first lady how to use a Teleprompter in advance of her pitch in 2009 to the Olympic Committee in Denmark to pick Chicago for the 2016 Olympics, won by Rio de Janeiro.
"She is obviously a fine speaker," Jahnke says. "But the Olympic speech was on a Teleprompter, and she was less familiar with that technique."
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Some ‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protesters Lash Out At Questions « CBS Sacramento
Some ‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protesters Lash Out At Questions « CBS Sacramento: SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Hundreds of protesters gathered in Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday to stand in solidarity with the growing nationwide demonstrations aimed at corporate greed, but some members of the peaceful event showed hostility to media members over basic questions about the goals of the protest.
“Occupy Sacramento,” which was portrayed as the local foothold for the rally that has entered its third week in front of Wall Street in New York City, drew impassioned speakers and a wide variety of viewpoints when the rally began Thursday morning, with demonstrations lasting past midnight.
Police warned protesters that they could be subject to citation or arrest by 11:00 p.m., but no arrests had been reported by midnight.
They don't even know what they are protesting for ~~ The Munz
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“Occupy Sacramento,” which was portrayed as the local foothold for the rally that has entered its third week in front of Wall Street in New York City, drew impassioned speakers and a wide variety of viewpoints when the rally began Thursday morning, with demonstrations lasting past midnight.
Police warned protesters that they could be subject to citation or arrest by 11:00 p.m., but no arrests had been reported by midnight.
They don't even know what they are protesting for ~~ The Munz
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» Rand Paul: Obama’s Rhetoric Could Turn ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violent Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
» Rand Paul: Obama’s Rhetoric Could Turn ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violent Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!: During a Fox Business interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senator Rand Paul warned that Barack Obama’s implicit support for the grievances of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters could provoke them to turn into a violent mob.
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Scaling the heights of hypocrisy once again, Barack Obama – whose 2008 campaign was funded by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley – sympathized with the OWS protesters yesterday while grandstanding as the man to bring Wall Street back in line, despite the fact that his own cabinet is full of former Wall Street executives and he is even more reliant on Wall Street for his 2012 presidential run.
Course .. AP says he is not saying what the truth of the bill is ...
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NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: Wall Street Protesters To Be 'Met With Force' If They Target Police Officers « CBS New York
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: Wall Street Protesters To Be 'Met With Force' If They Target Police Officers « CBS New York: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly had some strong words for “Occupy Wall Street” protesters Thursday, blaming participants for starting skirmishes which led to more than 20 arrests on Wednesday.
“What they did is they counted. They actually had a countdown — 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 — they grouped together, they joined arms and they charged the police. They attacked the police. They wanted to get into Wall Street, they wanted to occupy Wall Street,” Kelly told reporters.
Police arrested 28 people Wednesday — mostly for disorderly conduct. There was at least one arrest for assaulting a police officer and police said one protester even knocked an officer off his scooter.
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“What they did is they counted. They actually had a countdown — 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 — they grouped together, they joined arms and they charged the police. They attacked the police. They wanted to get into Wall Street, they wanted to occupy Wall Street,” Kelly told reporters.
Police arrested 28 people Wednesday — mostly for disorderly conduct. There was at least one arrest for assaulting a police officer and police said one protester even knocked an officer off his scooter.
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My Way News - FACT CHECK: Obama claims miss some evidence
My Way News - FACT CHECK: Obama claims miss some evidence: WASHINGTON (AP) - Are President Barack Obama's ideas for job creation really bipartisan as he claims? Not when the means for paying for them are put in the equation.
The president dodged various facts and and left some evidence in the dust in his latest challenge to Republicans to get behind his jobs program or offer a real alternative.
A look at some of the claims in his fast-paced news conference and how they compare with the facts:
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The president dodged various facts and and left some evidence in the dust in his latest challenge to Republicans to get behind his jobs program or offer a real alternative.
A look at some of the claims in his fast-paced news conference and how they compare with the facts:
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Poll: Cain surges, opens up 20-point lead on Romney - Yahoo! News
Poll: Cain surges, opens up 20-point lead on Romney - Yahoo! News: In news sure to inject shock and awe into the Republican political primary season, a Zogby poll released Thursday showed Herman Cain leading the Republican field, topping former front-runner Mitt Romney by an astonishing 20 points. Cain would also narrowly edge out Obama in a general election, the poll found, by a 46�“44 margin.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, would lose by a point to the president, 40 percent to 41 percent. Texas governor Rick Perry, who has slipped in the polls of late, would lose to the president 45 percent to 40 percent
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Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, would lose by a point to the president, 40 percent to 41 percent. Texas governor Rick Perry, who has slipped in the polls of late, would lose to the president 45 percent to 40 percent
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Property tax bills anger Cook County homeowners | The Chicago Local - Yahoo! News
Property tax bills anger Cook County homeowners | The Chicago Local - Yahoo! News: It's sticker shock in the mail. Tax bills went out to Cook County homeowners this week and the big jump in the amount due to many homeowners has some wondering if they can keep their house.
CBS 2′s Dana Kozlov takes a look at how the dramatic jump in property tax bills is affecting people and what you can do about it.
According to the Cook County Clerk's office, tax rates are up for schools, park districts, municipalities and other government bodies. Some of those tax levies have made double-digit increases in tax rates.
The property tax reality was setting in with Markham homeowner Patricia Taylor on Wednesday.
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CBS 2′s Dana Kozlov takes a look at how the dramatic jump in property tax bills is affecting people and what you can do about it.
According to the Cook County Clerk's office, tax rates are up for schools, park districts, municipalities and other government bodies. Some of those tax levies have made double-digit increases in tax rates.
The property tax reality was setting in with Markham homeowner Patricia Taylor on Wednesday.
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News from The Associated Press - Census: Housing bust worst since Great Depression
News from The Associated Press: Census: Housing bust worst since Great Depression
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American dream of homeownership has felt its biggest drop since the Great Depression, according to new 2010 census figures released Thursday.
The analysis by the Census Bureau found the homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent last year. While that level remains the second highest decennial rate, analysts say the U.S. may never return to its mid-decade housing boom peak in which nearly 70 percent of occupied households were owned by their residents.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American dream of homeownership has felt its biggest drop since the Great Depression, according to new 2010 census figures released Thursday.
The analysis by the Census Bureau found the homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent last year. While that level remains the second highest decennial rate, analysts say the U.S. may never return to its mid-decade housing boom peak in which nearly 70 percent of occupied households were owned by their residents.
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Soros fails to quash insider trading conviction - FT.com
Soros fails to quash insider trading conviction - FT.com: George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has lost a case at the European Court of Human Rights to have his criminal conviction for insider dealing quashed.
The failed appeal at announced in a 4-3 decision the Strasbourg-based court is the latest twist in a nine-year battle by the 81-year-old Mr Soros to clear his name following his conviction in France in 2002.
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The failed appeal at announced in a 4-3 decision the Strasbourg-based court is the latest twist in a nine-year battle by the 81-year-old Mr Soros to clear his name following his conviction in France in 2002.
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Democrats vs. Republicans: Stars they Won’t Pay to See; Movies They Hate and Love (Poll) - The Hollywood Reporter
Democrats vs. Republicans: Stars they Won’t Pay to See; Movies They Hate and Love (Poll) - The Hollywood Reporter: On Sept. 23, Morgan Freeman went on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight to proclaim that Tea Party opposition to President Obama "is a racist thing." The timing wasn't ideal, considering Dolphin Tale had opened that day and the film was tracking particularly well among conservatives, many of whom the star had suddenly maligned.
While only 627,000 people saw Freeman on CNN that night, millions soon viewed the clip as Drudge Report, Twitter, Facebook and other digital outlets turned it into a viral sensation -- not difficult given how partisan and personal politics have become in this run-up to the 2012 presidential election. "He belongs on my 'no pay, no watch' list after his latest, nearly hallucinatory raving," wrote one commenter on a conservative media site.
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While only 627,000 people saw Freeman on CNN that night, millions soon viewed the clip as Drudge Report, Twitter, Facebook and other digital outlets turned it into a viral sensation -- not difficult given how partisan and personal politics have become in this run-up to the 2012 presidential election. "He belongs on my 'no pay, no watch' list after his latest, nearly hallucinatory raving," wrote one commenter on a conservative media site.
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GOP belief in free markets will be put to the test | Campaign 2012
GOP belief in free markets will be put to the test | Campaign 2012: You might be surprised to hear there is a Harry Reid Research and Technology Park. You won't be surprised to learn that U.S. taxpayers are funding part of it.
This monument to the Senate majority leader was not subsidized through some earmark Reid stuck in an appropriations bill. The $2 million grant came through a little-known part of the Commerce Department known as the Economic Development Administration. As Republicans assert that this time they are serious about cutting spending, killing a corporate welfare agency and pork machine like the EDA would be a great start.
Freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., has introduced the EDA Elimination Act of 2011. In the upper chamber, conservative Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., proposed a similar measure. While EDA is relatively small and nearly unknown, Pompeo sees this as a crucial fight. He calls the EDA "pure redistribution" and the prime example of how federal involvement in the economy allocates wealth "by political processes rather than market processes."
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This monument to the Senate majority leader was not subsidized through some earmark Reid stuck in an appropriations bill. The $2 million grant came through a little-known part of the Commerce Department known as the Economic Development Administration. As Republicans assert that this time they are serious about cutting spending, killing a corporate welfare agency and pork machine like the EDA would be a great start.
Freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., has introduced the EDA Elimination Act of 2011. In the upper chamber, conservative Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., proposed a similar measure. While EDA is relatively small and nearly unknown, Pompeo sees this as a crucial fight. He calls the EDA "pure redistribution" and the prime example of how federal involvement in the economy allocates wealth "by political processes rather than market processes."
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News from The Associated Press - Obama to GOP: Act on jobs or get run out of town
News from The Associated Press: Obama to GOP: Act on jobs or get run out of town
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A combative President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Thursday to unite behind his jobs bill or get ready to be run "out of town" by angry voters. Hoping to use public frustration and economic worry as leverage, he called his proposal an insurance plan against a painful return to recession.
In a news conference long on restatements of his ideas, Obama laid bare the dynamic that now is Washington: The era of compromise is over.
Frustrated over getting nowhere with Republicans, Obama demanded that they explain themselves to the country and promised to keep "hammering way until something gets done."
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A combative President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Thursday to unite behind his jobs bill or get ready to be run "out of town" by angry voters. Hoping to use public frustration and economic worry as leverage, he called his proposal an insurance plan against a painful return to recession.
In a news conference long on restatements of his ideas, Obama laid bare the dynamic that now is Washington: The era of compromise is over.
Frustrated over getting nowhere with Republicans, Obama demanded that they explain themselves to the country and promised to keep "hammering way until something gets done."
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Reid's ‘nuclear option’ changes rules, ends repeat filibusters - TheHill.com
Reid's ‘nuclear option’ changes rules, ends repeat filibusters - TheHill.com: In a shocking development Thursday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered a rarely used procedural option informally called the “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules.
The Democratic leader had become fed up with Republican demands for votes on motions to suspend the rules after the Senate had voted to end a filibuster.
Reid said these motions, which do not need unanimous consent, amount to a second-round filibuster after the Senate has voted to move to final passage of a measure.
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The Democratic leader had become fed up with Republican demands for votes on motions to suspend the rules after the Senate had voted to end a filibuster.
Reid said these motions, which do not need unanimous consent, amount to a second-round filibuster after the Senate has voted to move to final passage of a measure.
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News from The Associated Press - Feds to design health insurance for the masses
News from The Associated Press: Feds to design health insurance for the masses
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation's health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Thursday.
The report by independent experts from the Institute of Medicine lays out guidelines for deciding what to include in the new "essential benefits package," how to keep it affordable for small businesses and taxpayers, and also scientifically up to date
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation's health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Thursday.
The report by independent experts from the Institute of Medicine lays out guidelines for deciding what to include in the new "essential benefits package," how to keep it affordable for small businesses and taxpayers, and also scientifically up to date
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World facing worst financial crisis in history, Bank of England Governor says - Telegraph
World facing worst financial crisis in history, Bank of England Governor says - Telegraph: Sir Mervyn King was speaking after the decision by the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to put £75billion of newly created money into the economy in a desperate effort to stave off a new credit crisis and a UK recession.
Economists said the Bank’s decision to resume its quantitative easing [QE], or asset purchase programme, showed it was increasingly fearful for the economy, and predicted more such moves ahead.
Sir Mervyn said the Bank had been driven by growing signs of a global economic disaster.
“This is the most serious financial crisis we’ve seen, at least since the 1930s, if not ever. We’re having to deal with very unusual circumstances, but to act calmly to this and to do the right thing.”
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Economists said the Bank’s decision to resume its quantitative easing [QE], or asset purchase programme, showed it was increasingly fearful for the economy, and predicted more such moves ahead.
Sir Mervyn said the Bank had been driven by growing signs of a global economic disaster.
“This is the most serious financial crisis we’ve seen, at least since the 1930s, if not ever. We’re having to deal with very unusual circumstances, but to act calmly to this and to do the right thing.”
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Pelosi on Occupy Wall Street Protesters: "God bless them" | The Weekly Standard
Pelosi on Occupy Wall Street Protesters: "God bless them" | The Weekly Standard
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During a press conference Thursday afternoon, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi praised those participating in the "Occupy Wall Street" protests. "God bless them," Pelosi said, "for their spontaneity. It's independent ... it's young, it's spontaneous, and it's focused. And it's going to be effective."
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"The message of the protesters is a message for the establishment everyplace," said the House Democrats' leader. "No longer will the recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive joblessness on Main Street."
Pelosi did not comment on--and was not asked about--the law-breaking that occurred during the protest over the weekend. About 700 protesters were arrested by New York City police after the protesters "swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours," according to CBS News.
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NewMediaJournal: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters, Union Members Turn Violent
NewMediaJournal: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters, Union Members Turn Violent: Protests on Wall Street turned violent Wednesday when police clashed with demonstrators marching through Lower Manhattan in the largest show of strength yet for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Police said late Wednesday that 28 people were arrested during the march, mostly for disorderly conduct, the New York Post reports. One police officer suffered minor injuries...
At one point, protesters were reportedly Maced and threatened with police batons when about 150 marchers demanded access to Wall Street from Broadway.
The protests against corporate America are expected to spread to New Jersey on Thursday as a show of solidarity with demonstrations that started last month outside the New York Stock Exchange. Rallies are planned at the Statehouse in Trenton and in Jersey City. Protesters are expected to call for an end of corporate control of government, starting at 2pm.
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Police said late Wednesday that 28 people were arrested during the march, mostly for disorderly conduct, the New York Post reports. One police officer suffered minor injuries...
At one point, protesters were reportedly Maced and threatened with police batons when about 150 marchers demanded access to Wall Street from Broadway.
The protests against corporate America are expected to spread to New Jersey on Thursday as a show of solidarity with demonstrations that started last month outside the New York Stock Exchange. Rallies are planned at the Statehouse in Trenton and in Jersey City. Protesters are expected to call for an end of corporate control of government, starting at 2pm.
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Democrats: $250K isn't rich - POLITICO.com Print View
Democrats: $250K isn't rich - POLITICO.com Print View: Democrats are increasingly abandoning their biggest talking point on taxes: Families earning more than $250,000 a year are “wealthy” and should pay more.
That figure — $250,000 for a household — has been at the tip of the tongue of so many Democratic candidates and lawmakers in the past few elections that it’s become ingrained in the party’s tax philosophy. But they’ve taken a beating from Republicans and have grown increasingly divided on the issue, since that income level would not only cause tax increases for some small businesses but also hit upper-middle-class suburban voters in swing states.
So Democrats on Capitol Hill and the White House are settling on an easier sales pitch: Tax the millionaires, believing that public opinion is firmly on their side that the truly rich should pony up more cash as the economy struggles and the national debt continues to grow.
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That figure — $250,000 for a household — has been at the tip of the tongue of so many Democratic candidates and lawmakers in the past few elections that it’s become ingrained in the party’s tax philosophy. But they’ve taken a beating from Republicans and have grown increasingly divided on the issue, since that income level would not only cause tax increases for some small businesses but also hit upper-middle-class suburban voters in swing states.
So Democrats on Capitol Hill and the White House are settling on an easier sales pitch: Tax the millionaires, believing that public opinion is firmly on their side that the truly rich should pony up more cash as the economy struggles and the national debt continues to grow.
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NewMediaJournal: Social Security Disaster
NewMediaJournal: Social Security Disaster: Politicians who are principled enough to point out the fraud of Social Security, referring to it as a lie and Ponzi scheme, are under siege. Acknowledgment of Social Security's problems is not the same as calling for the abandonment of its recipients. Instead, it's a call to take actions now, while there's time to avert a disaster. Let's look at it.
The term was derived from the scheme created during the 1920s by Charles Ponzi, a poor but enterprising Italian immigrant. Here's how it works. You persuade some people to give you their money to invest. After a while, you pay them a nice return, but the return doesn't come from investments. What you pay them with comes from the money of other people whom you've persuaded to "invest" in your scheme. The scheme works so long as you can persuade greater and greater numbers of people to "invest" so that you can pay off earlier "investors." After a while, Ponzi couldn't find enough new investors, and his scheme collapsed. He was convicted of fraud and sent to prison.
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The term was derived from the scheme created during the 1920s by Charles Ponzi, a poor but enterprising Italian immigrant. Here's how it works. You persuade some people to give you their money to invest. After a while, you pay them a nice return, but the return doesn't come from investments. What you pay them with comes from the money of other people whom you've persuaded to "invest" in your scheme. The scheme works so long as you can persuade greater and greater numbers of people to "invest" so that you can pay off earlier "investors." After a while, Ponzi couldn't find enough new investors, and his scheme collapsed. He was convicted of fraud and sent to prison.
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Activist to actor: Tea party not 'racist' (OneNewsNow.com)
Activist to actor: Tea party not 'racist' (OneNewsNow.com)
"It just got to my soul this time because this is a man I've looked up to," Akbar tells OneNewsnow. "I didn't grow up with a father so I looked for figures that I could find that were respectable, professional minority men -- and he was one of them.
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A black tea party activist is calling actor Morgan Freeman to task for labeling the tea party movement as "racist."
Recently Freeman was a guest on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. The Oscar-winning actor said the tea party's anti-Obama stance is rooted in racism. (View related YouTube video)
Ali Akbar is a black tea party activist and publisher of TeaPartyBrew.com.Freeman: "Their stated policy -- publicly stated -- is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What underlines that? 'Screw the country -- we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.'"
Morgan: "But it's not necessarily a racist thing."
Freeman: "It is a racist thing."
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Stop Liberal Lies - Michelle Obama’s taxpayer-funded spending is an embarrassment for the White House
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Although ignored by most of America’s liberal-dominated media, several online US news sites are reporting that Michelle Obama’s grand tour of southern Africa earlier this year cost American taxpayers nearly half a million dollars – and that’s just for the flights. This follows in the wake ofclaims this August from sources inside the White House itself that the First Lady may have spent “$10 million of taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.” Without all the figures available, it is impossible to establish the total cost to the public purse of Michelle Obama’s 42 days of holiday during that period, which included her trip to Spain last year (though not the Obamas’ recent sojourn in Martha’s Vineyard).
But we do now know for sure that her visit to Africa in June, with a sizeable entourage in tow, cost taxpayers at the very minimum $424,142 in transportation costs, according to figures obtained by Washington-based watchdog Judicial Watch. As the ‘Washington Whispers’ blog atUS News and World Report noted:
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Michelle Obama’s taxpayer-funded spending is an embarrassment for the White House
Although ignored by most of America’s liberal-dominated media, several online US news sites are reporting that Michelle Obama’s grand tour of southern Africa earlier this year cost American taxpayers nearly half a million dollars – and that’s just for the flights. This follows in the wake ofclaims this August from sources inside the White House itself that the First Lady may have spent “$10 million of taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.” Without all the figures available, it is impossible to establish the total cost to the public purse of Michelle Obama’s 42 days of holiday during that period, which included her trip to Spain last year (though not the Obamas’ recent sojourn in Martha’s Vineyard).
But we do now know for sure that her visit to Africa in June, with a sizeable entourage in tow, cost taxpayers at the very minimum $424,142 in transportation costs, according to figures obtained by Washington-based watchdog Judicial Watch. As the ‘Washington Whispers’ blog atUS News and World Report noted:
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Van Jones Says ‘Watch Out’: Occupy Wall Street and Leftists Will Eclipse Tea Party in 2012 | CNSnews.com
Van Jones Says ‘Watch Out’: Occupy Wall Street and Leftists Will Eclipse Tea Party in 2012 | CNSnews.com: (CNSNews.com) – Left-wing activist and former Obama administration official Van Jones said “watch out” because his Save the American Dream movement, along with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, would eclipse the Tea Party in 2012.
“It was very easy when [the] Tea Party first started, to dismiss them, to laugh at them and say ‘this is just nothing, it’s some kind of joke, it’s a fad, it’s going to go away,’” Jones told reporters after the Save the American Dream rally in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
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“It was very easy when [the] Tea Party first started, to dismiss them, to laugh at them and say ‘this is just nothing, it’s some kind of joke, it’s a fad, it’s going to go away,’” Jones told reporters after the Save the American Dream rally in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
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Times Touts 'Unexpected Success' of Wall Street Protest; Almost Ignored NYC Tea Party in 2009
Times Touts 'Unexpected Success' of Wall Street Protest; Almost Ignored NYC Tea Party in 2009: The left-wing, anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street camp-out in Lower Manhattan stretched into its third week, bolstered by an influx of labor unions. The story made the front of Thursday’s New York Times along with a large photo of protestors in Foley Square, “Seeking Energy, Unions Join Wall Street Protest.”
It’s a far cry from the paper’s coverage of the first major Tea Party rally in Manhattan. The paper’s hostile reporting of the nationwide Tea Party rallies on April 15, 2009 (Tax Day) virtually ignored a supportive crowd of thousands, citing in a single sentence an Associated Press report on Newt Gingrich speaking at the Manhattan rally.
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It’s a far cry from the paper’s coverage of the first major Tea Party rally in Manhattan. The paper’s hostile reporting of the nationwide Tea Party rallies on April 15, 2009 (Tax Day) virtually ignored a supportive crowd of thousands, citing in a single sentence an Associated Press report on Newt Gingrich speaking at the Manhattan rally.
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White House Clarifies That Obama Disclosed Knowing About Operation Fast and Furious on CNN Espanol in March | CNSnews.com
White House Clarifies That Obama Disclosed Knowing About Operation Fast and Furious on CNN Espanol in March | CNSnews.com: (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama said he heard about the botched federal gunrunning operation Fast and Furious “on the news” and related that point in a March 22 interview on CNN Espanol. At the White House today, Press Secretary Jay Carney, when asked about when Obama learned of the operation, first said it was during a press conference in El Salvador but later clarified to CNSNews.com that it was on the CNN program, which had aired that same day.
In the March 22 interview, Obama said: “There have been problems, you know. I heard on the news about this story that fast and furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico and ATF knew about it but didn't apprehend those who had sent it. Eric Holder has -- the attorney general has been very clear that he knew nothing about this. We had assigned an IG, inspector general, to investigate it.”
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In the March 22 interview, Obama said: “There have been problems, you know. I heard on the news about this story that fast and furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico and ATF knew about it but didn't apprehend those who had sent it. Eric Holder has -- the attorney general has been very clear that he knew nothing about this. We had assigned an IG, inspector general, to investigate it.”
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Meet the Obama link to Wall Street terror
Meet the Obama link to Wall Street terror: Stephen Lerner, a controversial anti-capitalist SEIU organizer, is one of the forces behind the protests on Wall Street and nationwide, according to quotes obtained by a socialist activist who doubles as a Washington Post columnist.
WND was first to report Lerner was the brain behind some of the economic protest templates being used by the Occupy Wall Street campaign.
Lerner recently laid out a mass economic protest plan intended to bring down the stock market, and boasted his plan could be used to cause a new financial crisis. His ideology prompted some conservative critics to go so far as to label him an economic terrorist.
Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, columnist Harold Meyerson, the vice-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, quoted Lerner describing how a coalition is fomenting the current economic protests.
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WND was first to report Lerner was the brain behind some of the economic protest templates being used by the Occupy Wall Street campaign.
Lerner recently laid out a mass economic protest plan intended to bring down the stock market, and boasted his plan could be used to cause a new financial crisis. His ideology prompted some conservative critics to go so far as to label him an economic terrorist.
Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, columnist Harold Meyerson, the vice-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, quoted Lerner describing how a coalition is fomenting the current economic protests.
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Biden on U.S. Economy: ‘We Have Turned It Around’ | CNSnews.com
Biden on U.S. Economy: ‘We Have Turned It Around’ | CNSnews.com: (CNSNews.com) – When pressed by NBC Meet the Press moderator David Gregory about the Obama administration’s role in the current state of the U.S. economy, Vice President Joe Biden said, “We have turned it around,” adding that Americans believe the Bush administration “got us in this trouble.”
Biden was interviewed as part of The Atlantic magazine and the Aspen Institute’s Washington Ideas Forum on Thursday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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Biden was interviewed as part of The Atlantic magazine and the Aspen Institute’s Washington Ideas Forum on Thursday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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Democrat-Backed ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent | Conservative Byte
Democrat-Backed ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent | Conservative Byte: Thousands of union workers joined protesters marching through the Financial District Wednesday for Occupy Wall Street’s largest rally yet against “corporate greed.”
The march was mostly peaceful – until after nightfall, when scuffles erupted and some of the younger demonstrators were arrested when they tried to storm barricades blocking them from Wall Street and the Stock Exchange.
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The march was mostly peaceful – until after nightfall, when scuffles erupted and some of the younger demonstrators were arrested when they tried to storm barricades blocking them from Wall Street and the Stock Exchange.
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Thanks Mr. President: Electric Bills About to Spike | Conservative Byte
Thanks Mr. President: Electric Bills About to Spike | Conservative Byte: Already weary of high gas prices and 9.1 percent unemployment, many Americans are about to get another kick in the wallet thanks to large increases in their electricity bills.
From Alaska to Georgia and Wyoming to Florida, utilities are seeking permission to pass on hundreds of millions of dollars in new charges to customers to help upgrade aging infrastructure and build new or retrofitted power plants that comply with tougher environmental regulations, a Daily Beast review of regulatory filings has found.
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From Alaska to Georgia and Wyoming to Florida, utilities are seeking permission to pass on hundreds of millions of dollars in new charges to customers to help upgrade aging infrastructure and build new or retrofitted power plants that comply with tougher environmental regulations, a Daily Beast review of regulatory filings has found.
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Iranian Warship Route to U.S. Coast Leaked Online: Report | TheBlaze.com
Iranian Warship Route to U.S. Coast Leaked Online: Report | TheBlaze.com: Last week, an Iranian Naval Commander threatened to deploy ships off the U.S. coast as a provocative show of force.
Now it looks like Iran might actually be serious.
A new map that allegedly shows the expected path of the Iranian Naval expedition to the U.S has leaked online from an Iranian website, according to MEMRI.
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Now it looks like Iran might actually be serious.
A new map that allegedly shows the expected path of the Iranian Naval expedition to the U.S has leaked online from an Iranian website, according to MEMRI.
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Wall Street Protester Explains Why They are There | Video | TheBlaze.com
Wall Street Protester Explains Why They are There | Video | TheBlaze.com: Ever since the beginning of the Occupy Wall St. protests, many have been trying to find a unified message. Is it about the banks? Obama? Student loans? Retirement? Affordable broccoli? According to this girl, all of the above.
The Washington Times caught up with one protester on Wednesday who launched into a tirade about what she was upset about and what the protests were all about. Her explanation ranged from forgiving student loans and mortgages, to elderly people having to work, to affordable broccoli. And there was also some anti-Obama sentiment mixed in:
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The Washington Times caught up with one protester on Wednesday who launched into a tirade about what she was upset about and what the protests were all about. Her explanation ranged from forgiving student loans and mortgages, to elderly people having to work, to affordable broccoli. And there was also some anti-Obama sentiment mixed in:
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Soros-Backed Voting Study Promoted By Soros-Funded Media | NewsBusters.org
Soros-Backed Voting Study Promoted By Soros-Funded Media | NewsBusters.org: Once again the media is completely ignoring the fact that an initiative it’s covering was funded by left-wing financier George Soros. The Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice released a report opposed to new laws needed to combat voter fraud. This story was in turn promoted by Soros-funded progressive news sites that brought it to the national stage.
The Brennan Center for Justice, part of New York University’s Law School, reported that voting law changes “could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.” This 64 page report went on to explain that the effects “fall most heavily on young, minority, and low-income voters, as well as on voters with disabilities” and that the “wave of changes may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election.”
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The Brennan Center for Justice, part of New York University’s Law School, reported that voting law changes “could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.” This 64 page report went on to explain that the effects “fall most heavily on young, minority, and low-income voters, as well as on voters with disabilities” and that the “wave of changes may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election.”
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Tea Party Envy - WSJ.com
Tea Party Envy - WSJ.com: Let's give credit where it's due: The Washington Post's Richard Cohen seems to have coined the excellent phrase that is our headline today. "I suffer from Tea Party envy," he confessed at the outset of an early-August column. Although he contemns everything the Tea Party stands for, he continues, "I am jealous of its sense of purpose, its determination and its bracing conviction that it is absolutely right."
Now, the left thinks it has found its Tea Party in the combined efforts of the Occupy Wall Street drum circle and something called the American Dream Movement, described in an Associated Press dispatch:
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Now, the left thinks it has found its Tea Party in the combined efforts of the Occupy Wall Street drum circle and something called the American Dream Movement, described in an Associated Press dispatch:
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Obama: "If Congress Does Something Then I Can't Run Against A Do-Nothing Congress" | RealClearPolitics
Obama: "If Congress Does Something Then I Can't Run Against A Do-Nothing Congress" | RealClearPolitics: "And so, Bill, the answer -- the question then is, will Congress do something? If Congress does something, then I can't run against a do-nothing Congress. If Congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them, I think the American people will run them out of town. Because they are frustrated."
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Obama, Democrats Plan to Tie GOP to Wall Street - Ken Walsh's Washington (usnews.com)
Obama, Democrats Plan to Tie GOP to Wall Street - Ken Walsh's Washington (usnews.com): The burgeoning of populist protests in New York and other cities shows that resentment over the economy is growing, and Democratic strategists are moving aggressively to show that President Obama and his party are taking steps to solve the problem while Republicans are standing in the way.
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The Democratic National Committee is starting what a spokesman called a coordinated attack with the Obama re-election campaign and state parties designed to link Republican presidential candidates to Wall Street. As part of that effort, the DNC this morning released a new 105-second web video called "Republicans: On the Side of Wall Street, Not Consumers" which can see here:
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[See photos of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests.]
The Democratic National Committee is starting what a spokesman called a coordinated attack with the Obama re-election campaign and state parties designed to link Republican presidential candidates to Wall Street. As part of that effort, the DNC this morning released a new 105-second web video called "Republicans: On the Side of Wall Street, Not Consumers" which can see here:
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