Archive for the ‘National Politics’ Category
Forbes Magazine just ran a rather awesome, if not damning, article. I loved it. It listed the states where there are more “takers” vs “makers”. And, it very quickly condemned those states, as well as advising anyone investing to steer clear of those states. One of them, being my own. They chide those states for [...]
Tags: alabama, california, death spiral state, Entitlement Programs, forbes, hawaii, illinois, kentucky, maine, makers, Mississippi, New Mexico, new york, ohio, south-carolina, takers
Posted in 2012 Presidential Race, economic-policy, Entitlement Programs, Legislative Process, National Debt, National Politics | No Comments »
Immediately after the Kentucky US Senate primary, Rand Paul made what a lot of people consider a gaffe that got all kinds of media exposure: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The entire country went bonkers over the fact that Rand Paul would dare do the unthinkable and dick [...]
Tags: 1964, civil right, civil rights act, conservative, liberal, maddow, rachel, rand paul, tea party
Posted in 2010 Elections, 2010 US Senate Races, Fed Policy, National Politics, Political Correctness, Racism, Senate Races | 2 Comments »
The Republicans are pushing a measure to end TARP and return unspent funds to lower, make that, not increase, the national debt. I am betting Nancy Pelosi will not allow this subversive effort to limit her ability to spend huge amounts of money to occur. Any takers?
Tags: debt, H.R. 4173, nancy pelosi, republicans, tarp
Posted in Legislative Process, National Politics | No Comments »
Sometime in 2007 or so, some people decided the US was too polarized. I’m not terribly sure that’s a bad thing. But, it became a political issue that the Democrats used to some success I suppose. Obama was going to fix that polarization problem. It was change you could believe in. His people didn’t listen. [...]
Tags: area 51, civil rights, conservative, constitution, denial, extremist, fiscal, flat earth, hank wilson, harry reid, kkk, ku-klux-klan, nancy pelosi, nazi, obama, polarization, religious, republocan, rightwing, slavery, sufferage, teabagger
Posted in Ethics, National Politics | No Comments »
I try to come up with witty post titles to show how clever I am. However, in Eric Holder’s case this week, he’s got me. There are so many choices to pick from I get a brain freeze simply trying to pick one, or two, or three. Now, I’m not stupid, and most people [...]
Tags: 2001, 9/11, ABSCAM, attorney general, bill clinton, CIA, civilian, combatant, court, eric holder, fbi, hillary clinton, jack-murtha, jamie-gorelick, janet-reno, kenneth starr, khalid sheikh mohammed, khobar towers, lindsay-graham, marc-rich, military, miranda, monica lewinsky, Osama-Bin-Laden, pardon, september 19, special counsel, terrorist, threat, unindicted co-conspirator, united states vs usama bin laden, uss-cole, vince foster, whitewater, world trade tower
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Ethics, Idiot of the day, National Politics, terrorism | No Comments »
I’ve stolen that title from Classically Liberal. It’s not really the point I’m shooting for, but it’s close enough and the article is a riot. A lot of people have been claiming Obama’s socialist. I have for that matter. However, people supporting Obama have dismissed those claims as rhetoric. However, Obama’s White House PR person [...]
Tags: anita dunn, bailout, bill clinton, classically liberal, democratic socialists of america, famine, farmer, george-tenet, iraq, mao, obama, socialism, socialist, war, wmd
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Ethics, Fed Policy, Idiot of the day, International Politics, Media, National Politics, National Security, Political Correctness, The Media | No Comments »
First, the obvious: Per Eric Holder, the new hate crimes bill was not intended to protect everyone equally under the law. I got a problem with that. The ONLY intent of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is to insure everyone is protected equally by the law. For the US Attorney General to [...]
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Posted in Ethics, Fed Policy, National Politics | No Comments »
No sooner than I post my rant on Obama surrounding himself with communists, Paul Krugman once again proves my point. For those who don’t know, Paul Krugman is an avowed liberal. Damn proud of it too. No sooner than I read the news about Van Jones being a communist, Paul had this to offer: The [...]
Tags: commie, fascist, karl marx, liberal, nazi, obama, paul krugman, socialist
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A fellow had this to say, among other things: ….we had already seen two tax cuts sold on massively, easily documented false pretenses; a war launched with constant innuendo about a Saddam-Osama link that was clearly false, and with claims about WMDs that were clearly shaky from the beginning and had proved to be entirely [...]
Tags: afghanistan, atrios, axis-of-evil, bias, bush, central intelligence agency, CIA, czar, dishonesty, environtment, fbi, federal bureau of investigations, iraq, kos, liberal, National Debt, obama, osama, paul krugman, politicization, rational, reflexive, saddam-hussein, socialization, tip line, white house, wireta[pping, wmd
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Energy Policy, Entitlement Programs, Fed Policy, global warming, Health Care Debate, Idiot of the day, International Issues, Iran, National Debt, National Politics, National Security, Oil Policy, Opinions, Politics | No Comments »
Someone’s running a poll on Facebook. It’s about how people voted and how they would voted again. It’s fairly interesting so far: If the 2008 Presidential Election were held today, would you vote the same way? I voted for Obama and I stand by that vote. 45,676 (35.2%) Take the next poll »or+ Create [...]
Tags: facebook, obama, poll, visible vote
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, National Politics, Polls | 3 Comments »