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Obama & Imposter-News Reporters

November 19, 2009

Obama, while visiting China, talks to imposter-news "reporter" Major Garrett of FOX….
Obama warned the United States' climbing national debt could drag the country into a "double-dip recession," though he said he's still considering additional tax incentives for businesses to reverse the rising unemployment rate.
"There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire [...]

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Food For Thought

November 17, 2009

The richest nation in world history has a problem…
About 14.6 percent of U.S. households, equal to 49.1 million people, "had difficulty obtaining food for all their members due to a lack of resources" during 2008, up 3.5 percentage points from 2007 when 11.1 percent of households were classified as food insecure.
…anti-hunger groups pointed to the [...]

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We Are So Screwed

August 16, 2009

On June 15th, The Reverend wrote this…
"As I have blogged previously, I firmly believe that any health care reform coming out of Washington, inevitably, will exclude a public option and, most likely, will tax employer-provided health care benefits as well. Love to be wrong about that."
Two months and a hundred swastikas later….
Senator Kent Conrad [...]

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California Punishes Poor, Protects Rich

July 22, 2009

Remember this?
"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore…"
California is adding a new line….
'So we can f*ck them over.'
Hard to believe….
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders announced Monday that they had reached a deal to close California's $26.3-billion deficit and begin paying all [...]

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"Ask Marilyn" Flubs One

July 21, 2009

Marilyn Vos Savant is an extremely brilliant woman who writes answers to questions in the Sunday Parade magazine. This past Sunday, I think she flubbed one, badly. Take a look…
My wife and I have lost more than a third of our life savings in the stock we set aside for our retirement. How can our [...]

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"Reason"-ed Anal Openings

July 20, 2009

The Washington Post, D.C.'s premier Villager rag, gave space to Reason.com and Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on Sunday. The resultant article is a nasty hitpiece on President Obama weaving a thread equating him with Jimmy Carter….
Like (President Jimmy) Carter, Obama is smart, moralistic and enamored of alternative energy schemes that were nonstarters [...]

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Tea Parties…..The Sequel

July 1, 2009

I had almost forgotten about those bizarro Tea Parties held around tax day in April……when I came across schedules for even more Tea Parties to be held this weekend. Yep, no joke.
Parties in northeast Ohio are scheduled for Cleveland, Canton and Ravenna.
Here's a message from the Canton Tea Party organizers……
Declare and Defend your [...]

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The National Threat From Capitalism

June 22, 2009

One of the Akron Beacon Journal's favorite columnists, the Washington Post's George Will, is back in this morning's Journal, even though the Beacon has yet to tell it's readers about the blatant errors Will has made in a couple of his previous columns,….errors never retracted. It's very obvious that today's newspapers no longer feel obligated [...]

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Why So Extreme?

June 20, 2009

The modern Republican Party's plight can be compared, I think, to the experience of American Protestantism in the last half of the 19th century. I'll explain in a minute.
Today, many moderates, Democrats, Independents, as well as liberals, have difficulty comprehending what looks like an obvious and ongoing denial of reality by the modern Republican Party. [...]

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Choices & Competition

June 15, 2009

Here's a link to update this post….it's a must read.
From yesterday's Face the Nation on CBS with Bob Schieffer….
Schieffer countered (Senator Mitch) McConnell's(R-KY) contention that the Obama plan would choose (or deny) which treatments a covered individual may get; the White House is not proposing any kind of rationing board, he said. He also repeated [...]

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