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Clinton alludes to 1995 bombing, says words matter
Post Date: 2010-04-17 05:59:48 by noone222
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton warned of a slippery slope from angry anti-government rhetoric to violence like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, saying "the words we use really do matter." The two-term Democratic president insisted he wasn't trying to restrict free speech, but in remarks Friday he said incendiary language can be taken the wrong way by some Americans. He drew parallels to words demonizing the government before Oklahoma City. On April 19, 1995, an anti-government conspiracy led by Army veteran Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. "What we learned from Oklahoma City is not ...
America's Constitutional Revolt
Post Date: 2010-04-16 20:48:19 by Eric Stratton
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America's Constitutional Revolt Larry Kudlow Thursday, April 15, 2010 So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying. We know that this is a decentralized grassroots movement, with many different voices hailing from many different towns across the country. But the tea-party message comes together in the “Contract from America,” the product of an online vote orchestrated by Ryan Hecker, a Houston tea-party activist and national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots. With nearly 500,000 votes recorded in less than two months, this Contract forms a blueprint of ...
Library of Congress plan for Twitter: a big, permanent retweet
Post Date: 2010-04-16 10:19:02 by Jethro Tull
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By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 16, 2010 The Library of Congress' project to archive Twitter was a nod to the significance of the social networking site that gave voice to imprisoned journalists in Egypt and fueled a rallying cry for users to donate money for relief efforts in Haiti. It also will memorialize a mountain of information on the mundane, from burned breakfast bagels to delays on Metro's Red Line. Internet scholars say those everyday recordings are useful to researchers, who will comb through the 50 million messages -- known as tweets -- spouted each day to provide a snapshot of our culture, in real time. "We've been seeing in the ...
Next Supreme Court Justice to Solidify Right Wing, Neoliberal Control
Post Date: 2010-04-16 05:54:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Next Supreme Court Justice to Solidify Right Wing, Neoliberal Control - by Stephen Lendman On April 9, Justice John Paul Stevens delivered a letter to President Obama stating: "Having concluded that it would be in the best interests of the Court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well in advance of the commencement of the Court's next Term, I shall retire from regular active service as an Associate Justice." NBC anchor Brian Williams called him a "liberal lion," a "lawyer's lawyer." UPI's Michael Kirkland said he led the Court's "four-member liberal bloc." AP's Mark Sherman and Calvin Woodward said he "carved a ...
Former Gov. Bush: Still in charge at the Capitol?
Post Date: 2010-04-15 21:59:12 by Jethro Tull
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Ease class-size limits — check. Cut corporate income taxes — check. End tenure for new teachers and link teacher raises to student performance — check (with an asterisk). All of those measures, and others, championed by former Gov. Jeb Bush have been approved by the Florida Legislature or are advancing through it. The Republican left office nearly four years ago, but he's finding that as a private citizen, he's become a legislative Wizard of Oz — thunder and lightning and pulling the levers of power from behind the curtain. "Unfortunately, this is his best legislative session ever," said state Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach. ...
Pigs at the Trough
Post Date: 2010-04-15 09:33:42 by Eric Stratton
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Pigs at the Trough Cal Thomas Thursday, April 15, 2010 Most Americans may not be fluent in the language of economics, but thanks to our Puritan heritage ("waste not, want not") we understand waste quite well. The annual ritual of rendering unto Caesar on April 15 brings with it the always-useful "Congressional Pig Book." Compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), the "Pig Book" lists some of the more outrageous spending indulged in by our "public servants" in pursuit of the only bipartisan activities still practiced in Washington: spending and re-election. There are 9,129 pork barrel projects listed in the "2010 Congressional Pig ...
How did they manage to scrape by?
Post Date: 2010-04-15 06:44:22 by Ada
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Imagine opening your newspaper or Web browser and seeing the following headline: “Supreme Court declares income tax unconstitutional.” (Now imagine cleaning up the mess you made after reading this headline and doing a vaudeville “spit take” with your coffee.) It probably seems farfetched, but America’s court of last resort dropped this very bombshell in 1895. The legal battle represents just one chapter in the story of the federal income tax, which began in the Civil War era. Congress approved a version of the income tax in 1861 but neglected to set up the actual mechanics of collecting it. An unnamed staff historian for the Internal Revenue Service who ...
2nd Amendment Pole
Post Date: 2010-04-14 20:25:50 by Itistoolate
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In God we trust. Obama's new Attorney General, Eric Holder, has already said this is one of his major issues. He does not believe the 2nd Amendment gives individuals the right to bear arms. This takes literally 2 clicks to complete. Please vote on this gun issue question with USA Today. It will only take a few seconds of your time. Then pass the link on to all the pro gun folks you know. Hopefully these results will be published later this month. This upcoming year will become critical for gun owners with the Supreme Court's accepting the District of Columbia case against the right for individuals to bear arms. Here's what you need to do: First - vote on this one. Second - ...
America is a melting pot, but that don't mean the recipe calls for shit.
Post Date: 2010-04-14 13:56:04 by gengis gandhi
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write that down. lets print it onto t shirts and sell it.
Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-04-13 18:08:37 by abraxas
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Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections April 13, 5:16 PMC Conservative Examiner Anthony G. Martin n October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President. (AP Photo/David Longstreath). The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, has been training at Fort Stewart, Georgia and is composed of 80,000 troops. According to the Army Times, They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal ...
Mississippi schools ordered to end racial imbalance
Post Date: 2010-04-13 16:27:15 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Mississippi schools ordered to end racial imbalance A judge on Tuesday ordered a small south Mississippi school district to stop allowing hundreds of white students to transfer out of majority black schools, calling the practice a violation of a desegregation order and federal law. U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee sided with the Justice Department in its complaint against the Walthall County School District. The district’s schools in Tylertown are about 75 percent black with 730 students. The Salem Attendance Center is 65 percent white with about 650 students in grades K-12. Salem and the Tylertown schools are about 10 miles apart. The Justice Department contended the school district ...
Good Riddance! [Justice John Paul Stevens]
Post Date: 2010-04-13 13:38:49 by James Deffenbach
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When Republicans appoint justices like John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court, it does lasting damage to the country. When Supreme Court Justices retire, there is usually some pious talk about their “service,” especially when it has been a long “service.” But the careers of all too many of these retiring jurists, including currently retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, have been an enormous disservice to this country. Justice Stevens was on the high court for 35 years — more’s the pity, or the disgrace. Justice Stevens voted to sustain racial quotas, created “rights” out of thin air for terrorists, and took away American citizens’ rights to ...
Is Libertarianism a Part of the Right or the Left? Neither. We Are Unique
Post Date: 2010-04-13 06:43:40 by Ada
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I recently published this article: Block, Walter. 2010. "Libertarianism is unique; it belongs neither to the right nor the left: a critique of the views of Long, Holcombe, and Baden on the left, Hoppe, Feser and Paul on the right." Journal of Libertarian Studies; Vol. 22: 127–70. It is 44 pages long, replete with footnotes, references and all other such scholarly accoutrements. The present essay is a layman’s version of that paper. Most people are too busy to wade through such a long and thorough examination of this question, or, indeed, most other issues. But, this topic is important for libertarians, so I thought I would offer the present essay as a more accessible ...
University of Ottawa Activist Student Persecutions: The Case of Marc Kelly
Post Date: 2010-04-13 06:01:53 by Stephen Lendman
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University of Ottawa Activist Student Persecutions: The Case of Marc Kelly - by Stephen Lendman On October 21, 2008, for the first time in school history, the University of Ottawa (U of O) Faculty of Science, without cause, deregistered undergraduate Marc Kelly, an exemplary student, expelling him for the semester and preventing him from completing the final three courses he needed to graduate. The official email sent him read: "The Faculty of Science has been asked to deregister you. (This) message is to notify you that you are no longer registered...." The official reason was the Department of Physics' displeasure over the nature and methods of his valid, legitimate ...
Microchipping begins in 36 months/Ad campaign begins NOW [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-04-11 11:34:30 by abraxas
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Targeting Activist University of Ottawa Students
Post Date: 2010-04-11 05:53:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeting Activist University of Ottawa Students - by Stephen Lendman Until his early March Board of Directors removal, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya was Fulcrum Publishing Society (FPS) Ombudsman, the English-language student newspaper at Canada's University of Ottawa (U of O). It resulted from his critical reports, including a preliminary February 23 one for FPS's editorial mistreatment of Professor Denis Rancourt, fired in March 2009 for his political activism - specifically his courageous stance on Occupied Palestine. In 2007, after criticizing university opposition to academically boycotting Israel, repression against him intensified under new president Allen Rock, a former ...
The New Intolerance [Excellent counter-public-education Read!!!]
Post Date: 2010-04-10 09:51:12 by Eric Stratton
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The New Intolerance Pat Buchanan Friday, April 09, 2010 "This was a recognition of American terrorists." That is CNN's Roland Martin's summary judgment of the 258,000 men and boys who fell fighting for the Confederacy in a war that cost as many American lives as World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq combined. Martin reflects the hysteria that seized Obamaville on hearing that Gov. Bob McDonnell had declared Confederate History Month in the Old Dominion. Virginia leads the nation in Civil War battlefields. So loud was the howling that in 24 hours McDonnell had backpedaled and issued an apology that he had not mentioned slavery. Unfortunately, the governor missed ...
When did 'anti-government' become a bad thing?
Post Date: 2010-04-10 06:46:07 by Ada
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Henry David Thoreau may have been a "Tea Party terrorist" -- if you believe New York Times columnist Frank Rich. You'd think that, after a couple of centuries of major American figures describing government as, at most, something to be tolerated, political pundits would have made their peace with the idea that skepticism toward state power has a core place in American political life. If your toes tingle at the thought of more coercive programs, laws, politicians and bureaucrats, you're the (very) odd duck, not the folks with anti-government views. And yet, we still get the likes of Frank Rich throwing high-profile hissy fits because "the unhinged and sometimes armed ...
Congressman John J. Duncan Blasts "Useless" Air Marshal Service
Post Date: 2010-04-09 17:43:34 by James Deffenbach
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Video Washington, DC -- Mr. DUNCAN: Madam Speaker, probably the most needless, useless agency in the entire Federal Government is the Air Marshal Service. In the Homeland Security Appropriations bill we will take up next week, we will appropriate $860 million for this needless, useless agency. This money is a total waste: $860 million for people to sit on airplanes and simply fly back and forth, back and forth. What a cushy, easy job. And listen to this paragraph from a front-page story in the USA Today last November: “Since 9/11, more than three dozen Federal air marshals have been charged with crimes, and hundreds more have been accused of misconduct. Cases range from drunken ...
How $1 Trillion Time Bomb Posts a Phony Profit
Post Date: 2010-04-08 13:55:16 by DeaconBenjamin
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April 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Home Loan Banks are a frequently overlooked band of government-chartered cooperatives whose name screams systemic risk with every word. Federal means Uncle Sam. Homes are a declining asset. A loan is money out the door. And banks are the things that get taxpayer bailouts when they’re too big to fail and enough of their loans go bad. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that these 12 regional lenders collectively suffered massive losses last year. What’s astonishing is that you wouldn’t know it by looking at their bottom-line earnings or from the strange way their regulator measures their capital cushions. Last week, the FHLBs, ...
True Confessions from America's Census Workers [Glimpse of both heads sharing same body]
Post Date: 2010-04-07 10:26:11 by Eric Stratton
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True Confessions from America's Census Workers Michelle Malkin Wednesday, April 07, 2010 President Obama's politicized, profligate U.S. census drive is so desperate for positive press that it has now recruited former Bush senior adviser Karl Rove to do public service announcements. Rove pleads on video: "Please answer the 10 easy questions. They're almost the same ones Madison helped write for the first census back in 1790." Message: If you don't join the census bandwagon, James Madison will have lost! Sorry, Mr. Rove. Playing the Founding Fathers card isn't going to quell conservative criticism of how the Obama administration has exploited the census ...
Parting Company [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-04-07 07:25:59 by Eric Stratton
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Parting Company Walter E. Williams Wednesday, April 07, 2010 Here's the question asked in my September 2000 column titled "It's Time To Part Company": "If one group of people prefers government control and management of people's lives and another prefers liberty and a desire to be left alone, should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?" The problem that our nation faces is very much like a marriage where one partner has broken, and has no intention of keeping, the marital vows. Of course, the ...
Who Killed Martin Luther KIng?
Post Date: 2010-04-07 06:58:00 by Ada
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Douglas Valentine worked as a researcher for the King family and testified at the trial about suspicions that Dr. King might have been under U.S. government surveillance at the time of the assassination. On Dec. 8, a jury in Memphis, Tenn., deliberated for only three hours before deciding that the long-held official version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination was wrong. The jury's verdict implicated a retired Memphis businessman and government agencies in a conspiracy to kill the civil rights giant. Though the trial testimony had received little press attention outside of the Memphis area, the startling outcome drew an immediate rebuttal from defenders of the official ...
Amish Exempted from (Obama) Soetoro Care [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-04-07 06:07:03 by noone222
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Does your faith free you from forced Obamacare? Why Amish won't have to purchase insurance, but Muslims will cry foul Posted: April 06, 2010 8:34 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2010 WorldNetDaily President Obama signing health-care reform bill at the White House (White House photo) The recent health-care reform legislation carries a controversial mandate that all Americans obtain health insurance, but careful study of the passed law reveals there are some groups – the Amish, for example – that can obtain an exemption. For devout Muslims, however, whose religious beliefs forbid purchasing insurance, the mandate is still binding, religion or not. And most other religious, ...
Court: FCC has no power to regulate Net neutrality
Post Date: 2010-04-06 11:50:00 by Jethro Tull
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The Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to impose strict Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out the FCC's August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers and had voluntarily ended them earlier in the year. Because the FCC "has failed to tie its assertion" of regulatory authority to any actual law enacted by Congress, the agency does not have the authority to regulate an Internet provider's network management practices, wrote Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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