“Biggest Government Ever” was the headline on Drudge linking this article. The frightening thing is that nearly all this expansion occurred under traitorous Republican leadership. Whether it was Medicare Part D, nation-building operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, No Child Left Behind or any other of the bank-busting do-gooderies dreamt up by our friends in Washington, the [...]
Today is a big day for the Huckabee Republican movement. Yeah I know it is Primary day in West Virginia which is only important for the Dems...and the only question there is how wide the margin will Clinton win by? There are two runoff elections to watch tonight. First in Mississippi-1 where Greg Davis is running for Congress. He has been endorsed by Mike Huckabee and Huck has spent time and mon
I’m working on some things this weekend, but in the meantime, here are two new blogs that I think have a great deal of potential (they’re new, so you’ll have to check back frequently for updates):
TheNewRight.com - the latest creation of Soren Dayton, John Henke and Patrick Ruffini.
DearRepublicanParty.com - A friend of mine who is [...]
T100 UPDATE: Grab a seat. This may take a whileWaterbury Republican American, CT - 15 hours agoBy Bud Wilkinson Republican-American Greg Bidou has been in hunting and gathering mode for weeks. Unbeknownst to me, he's been quietly stockpiling needed ...
New Hampshire may now have a second Republican candidate for governor. His name is James Adams and he seems to have party insiders excited. For whatever reason party insiders aren’t real excited about their other candidate, Joe Kenney. Several Republicans have considered taking on the popular, liberal governor of New Hampshire, John Lynch, including the [...]
Proof MO Republican Heads are interferring with elections and Ron Paul supporters in the Show Me State.The party will slowly die away because of these warmongering liberal big spender neocons.Liberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice
According to the Daily Telegraph, the Republican race is really over. Click on to their "Republican Nomination Race" link and you go straight to the Democratic one. Ron Paul is still in with the desire to get as many delegates as possible, but there is no desire to show it from the Telegraph's point of view. Ron Paul got 8% in North Carolina, and Mike Huckabee did even better on 12%! In Indiana, Mitt Romney was on the ticket as well and managed 5%. These guys are out of the race apparently, but that doesn't stop some people wanting to vote for them!The press is very "sided", so the maxim "don't always believe what you read in the papers" is very true.
Repubublican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal:"I've got the job I want." While admitting that he changed his given Indian name to Bobby after his favorite character on "The Brady Bunch," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal denied having any ambition to become Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) vice presidential pick at the National Press Club on Friday."First of all, like anybody whose name has been put on such a list, it's certainly flattering," Jindal said. "I've said it before ... I'll say it again. I've got the job I want."Jindal, a pro-life, pro-gun, anti-tax Rhodes Scholar, won a landslide victory to become governor of Louisiana in October 2007. An Indian-American, he is the first person of color to be elected governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction.Read Article...Bobby Jindal Republican Vic
~Snooper~From Times Online: United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency campThe US military is drawing up plans for a "surgical strike" against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilize Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards' special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi'ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country.Despite a belligerent stance by Vice-President Dick Cheney, the administration has put plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities on the back burner since Robert Gates replaced Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary in 2006, the sources said.However, US commanders are increasi
I promised you three months ago, dear reader, that I would check in with you after Coachella and let you know whether the experience merited another go-round in 2009. I am pleased to report that yes, in fact, it definitely does; the lame hipster greaseball who crashed at our partyhouse and the lack of artist parking at the festival notwithstanding.I arrived at the house I’d rented for our group at about 3:00 PM on Thursday afternoon, and the party didn’t end until I locked up and headed out 96 hours later. Even scouring the house on Monday to clean out the residue of four days of revelry held its own bit of charm.I did NOT see Prince. Call me a pop-culture philistine (wouldn’t that be an anti-philistine?) but I have NEVER understood his appeal. He’s an effeminate weirdo with a song
No it isn't Friday and before I wrote the title to this post I had to check the fair housing regulations. It doesn't seem to violate any laws to talk about the political affiliation of possible home renters. I have...
Seen over at HotAir.com.... Content Warning! Not Safe for work, around small children or animals or bitchy wives... This video exploits every Neo-Conservative Nuance. It goes from side splitting hilarious to just down right sad. If it is not clear, that this is not a good time to be a conservative or worse yet, a Republican, it should be very clear. after viewing this. I'm sure Keith Olbermann would just love this. Technorati Tags: Humor ,Funny ,Politics ,Republican ,Neo-Conservative ,Keith Olbermann
Today on nymag.com’s Daily Intelligencer blog, reporter Jada Yuan reveals that Hills stars Heidi and Lauren do have something in common- their political party of choice.
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Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity News, Celebrity Photos, Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad
Back in December, Ron Paul went in search of Huckabee critics in Arkansas and flew them out to Iowa for them to travel the state, telling Iowans how terrible Governor Huckabee was for the state’s Republican Party, talking about how he did more harm than a Democrat would and a bunch of other nonsense. [...]
via email I'm reminded of the time that Catherine - one of Shannon 's friends when she was little told me that she wanted to be President one day. Both of her parents, liberal democrats, were standing there with us...
Following are comments made by Republican leaders as the Iraq war began in which they discussed how to pay for it.
Don Rumsfeld, March 27, 2003
“When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of [...]
Tony Zirkle is seeking the Republican nomination in a congressional district in Indiana was invited to speak at the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.The problem was that the gathering was to celebrate the birth of Hitler. Zirkle can be seen above standing in front of painting of Hitler with people on the dais wearing swastika armbands. Zirkle's response was this: "I'll speak before any group that invites me."Sadly enough, I believe this is the type of logic that makes him suitable to serve in the current Congress. Why exhibit good sense and head out the door once you see you're speaking at a Nazi gathering? Nope, just hold on to the ideology of speaking before anyone who invites you.Tony Zirkle will be speaking at the NAMBLA convention happening in Wisconsin n
Before the election of 2006 when Democrats regained control of the house and senate Democrats promised that they had a plan to lower the cost of gas. All we had to do was elect them and they would unveil their secret plan and gas prices would magically be reduced. It hasn’t happened, as a matter [...]
IF YOU LIVE IN INDIANA’S 2nd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
I wrote recently about my support of Luke Puckett, one of the Republicans running to be your next Congressman. Unlike Representative Donelly, he isn’t the kind of man who will say one thing in Indiana and do another in Washington. Well, it’s not enough that you [...]
Plot Revealed By "Anarchists" and "Anti-Authoritarians"Self-described anarchists and "anti-authoritarians" are planning to "shut down" the Republican National Convention, which will take place in St. Paul, Minn., on Sept. 1-4.Last month, the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) reported that over the past year, protest planning for the GOP event had grown at a "considerable pace" since the SDS endorsed disrupting the proceedings at its 2007 national convention.At that time, the SDS adopted a three-step plan to disrupt the first day of the convention. First, protesters plan to blockade the Xcel Energy Center, which will host the Republican convention. Second, they plan to disrupt delegates' transportation to the center. And finally, protesters plan to b
Republican Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia has uncovered the real problem with America’s problem in eliminating miliants in Iraq–the sale of Playboy and Penthouse on military bases! His “Military Honor and Decency Act” would ban sales of “sexually explicit material on military bases. Broun argues, “allowing the sale of pornography on military bases has harmed [...]
It’s good to see a Republican actually make sense when writing about the tax policy. This is from an op-ed by Bruce Bartlett:
It is an article of faith among Republicans that tax cuts are the cure for every problem the economy faces, and that tax increases are the equivalent of economic poison. Any hint by [...]
I just saw a commercial where Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich sit on a couch together and advocate “Climate Change” legislation.
The funny thing is that we have not had a warming period for almost a decade. In fact most long term climate studies that propose a “Global Warming” scenario end in the 1990’s, which coincidently [...]
It just gets harder and harder to take Bill Clinton seriously. The Trail quotes Clinton:
“If we were under the Republican system, which is more like the Electoral College, she’d have a 300-delegate lead here,” he said. “I mean, Senator McCain is already the nominee because they chose a system to produce that result, and we [...]
So the other day I bought this little republican elephant at Petsmart with the colors of an American flag, and when I brought it home, my dog went NUTS over this elephant.
He just won’t put it down. I think it’s safe to say he’s a conservative who believes in less government, lower taxes, strong [...]
The attacks from right wing loonies and the increasingly indistinguishable Clinton loonies are getting even more ridiculous. A video of Obama speaking about Clinton shows him scratching his face, but the loonies have used their warped imagination to claim he was making a one-fingered derogatory gesture.
It just took a quick glance at a couple [...]
As an eternal optimist (as good conservatives are), I’m resolved not to wallow in despair over John McCain’s looming nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. The fact that he secured the nomination, in large part, by wooing independents and liberals to cross over in the primaries and vote for him; it’s in the past, I’m over it.There is no conservative in the race. John McCain is not one, and I say that based on pure common sense. Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials were challenged based on a few of the positions that he espoused during his stint as governor of Massachusetts, but the keen political observer ought to understand that the leadership he exhibited there – over a very liberal constituency – exemplifies the left-most sympathies of which he is capable.
Texas Governor Rick Perry is tapping some serious Texas cash for the Republican Governor’s Association. In fact, 25 percent of the $7.1 million the group has raised since January has come from Texas.
Bob Perry, of course, has given a quarter million bucks. Not surprisingly, Trans-Texas Corridor interests have also given big bucks:
Others giving large sums include $50,000 from Williams Brothers Construction and $25,000 from Dannenbaum Engineering, both highway contractors with contracts to help build the $145 billion toll-road system pushed by Mr. Perry.
And, Perry appointees are coughing up major dough as well:
Houston auto dealer Thomas Friedkin, a Perry appointee to the Parks and Wildlife Commission, contributed $150,000 through Friedkin Business Services.
Some of the Texas don
Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest
By EILEEN SULLIVAN,
The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency — a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.
Using authority granted by Congress, the government also [...]
Democrat's 2000 Vice Presidential NomineeSays "He Willl If Asked"Lieberman May Go Zell...Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a keynote address on behalf of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) at the Republican National Convention in September.Republicans close to the McCain campaign say Lieberman’s appearance at the convention, possibly before a national primetime audience, could help make the case that the presumptive GOP nominee has a record of crossing the aisle. That could appeal to much-needed independent voters.McCain has yet to ask Lieberman to speak, either in primetime or elsewhere, at the convention. But if McCain thinks it will help make his case for the White House, as some of his allies suspect
In a curious strategical move, Colorado's Republican candidate for Senate Bob Schaffer is deflecting his ties to one criminal by focusing on his links to another. His trade-off? Jack Abramoff for Dick Cheney.
After the Denver Post mentioned that Schaffer's "model" for a guest-worker program — the one in place in the U.S. protectorate the Mariana Islands — was in fact guilty of well-documented human rights abuses, things got hot for Bobby.
It turns out Schaffer's fact-finding mission to the Islands in '99 was funded by Jack Abramoff's firm, Preston-Gates, which lobbied on behalf of sweatshop-loving factory owners, and sweatshop-friendly government officials. So, as duty demanded, Schaffer took time off from parasailing and slapping little children (pictures document the parasai
Click here to read: ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE AMERICA NOW (Via NewsWithViews.com)
It’s an excellent article.
Cross-Posted @ The American Nationalist News Service
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If you have not dropped by in awhile you will notice the heading for this blog has changed. According to the heading I claim to be a "Proud Huckabee Republican!" "So what is a Huckabee Republican?" you ask. Sit down and I'll tell ya.8 months ago you would have to drag me kicking and screaming if you wanted to even try to call myself a Republican. Remember when I started this blog I considered myself and "independent voter." Following the 2008 Huckabee campaign I am changed in several ways. One of those ways is that I have actually drifted towards the Republican party. If you told me that I would eventually join my county's GOP I would have said "Dude, you're nuts!" However that is exactly what I have done. In time I will start attending meetings and becoming active. For those of you out t
I’d like to apologize to the readers for neglecting the column last week; I had some family obligations that took my attention. Specifically, my grandfather was in the hospital. I’ll spare you the most intimate, gory details of what happened to the old man, but I can’t resist the opportunity to touch on the state of health care in our nation, specifically in southern California.Grandps was actually released from the hospital on Wednesday, but not because his problem was solved. They drained his bladder (for the first time in three days) and sent him home with a prescription for painkillers and a urine bag, pending surgery that was yet to be scheduled.A Democrat would look at his predicament and conclude that the way to solve the problem is to expand Medicare or create some new entitl
No, we won’t be seeing Howard Dean on the ice anytime soon, but it looks like there is some friendly competition brewing between the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention Committee.
Somehow I have a feeling that this will probably be one of the last “friendly” competitions before things really start to get ugly [...]
April 8, 2008Nearly a year after their blow-up, Rosie O’Donnell is still sore at Elisabeth Hasselbeck.“I tried my best but it’s hard for me when I’m not the boss,” O’Donnell, 46, said on The Martha Stewart Show Tuesday, reflecting on her experience on The View. “There was people there telling me what to do. There was a little Republican who scared me.” During O’Donnell’s final weeks on the show, the Republican Hasselbeck, now 30, and the liberal O’Donnell famously sparred in May 2007 over the Iraq war. Whoopi Goldberg, 52, later took over O’Donnell’s spot.
Not confirmed yet but the chatter is getting louder and louder. I wrote a brief post about this a month ago but have been thinking about it for quite sometime. Condi has repeatedly said that she does not “do politics” but her name keeps popping up as a potential running mate for McCain.
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Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry of North Carolina was on one of those photo op visits to Iraq in order to prove he is willing to risk his life in defense of America when he encoutered a serious problem. The congressman wanted to gain entrance to a gym in order to relax after his ordeal in [...]
T100 UPDATE: With spring comes renewed excitement over projectWaterbury Republican American, CT - Apr 4, 2008So much for any thought of doing a "dirty-rag cleanup" of the Triumph. Nope, the job is being done right thanks to Greg, who has the British motorcycles ...
Political Extra tells us that Republican polling outfit McLaughlin & Associates has a new poll out--the first in many months--with Sen. Collins up 23 points on Rep. Allen.I've never heard of the company. And the poll has a relatively high 5% margin of error. So make of it what you will.But it's safe to say that the junior senator is still in the lead in this race.
Overnight March 31st the door to W & M College Republicans Chairman Emeritus and Virginia Informer Editor in Chief Emeritus Joe Luppino-Esposito was vandalized with shaving cream, glitter, and issues of the Virginia Informer printed shortly after former W & M President Gene Nichol’s retirement.
As told to The Virginia Informer, Mr. Luppino-Esposito was awoken between 4:00 and [...]
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Alexander Calls for Legislation to Help Homeowners, Warns Democrats Not to Turn Mortgages Into Junk Bonds
Says Democratic Proposal Would Lead to Higher Monthly Mortgage Payments for American Families
“Their legislation raises the risk involved in mortgage lending and would lead to higher interest rates and higher monthly [...]
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said last night that, among the 3 remaining candidates, he thought Barack Obama had the best chance of bringing the country together. He said that he believed that Barack Obama, for generational reasons, could best bring the country together.read more | digg story
Scratch what I said last time; I’m tired of mowing somebody else’s lawn.With both interest rates and housing prices falling, I started house-hunting about two weeks ago. Nothing too fancy; and certainly nothing like my dream estates in La Cañada Flintridge, but something manageable, something charming, and something to call my own…And of course, it has to be in Pasadena.I actually found one. It is in Pasadena, and it’s totally affordable, but it’s on the northwest side. Which, if you know Pasadena, means that it’s in a less-than-desirable area. However, the actual crossroad that the house is on is reasonably well-maintained. The houses are all bright 1920’s-era cottages that can only be described as “… so cute.” And the roads are lined with mature trees that arch over;
An article from The National Black Republican Association regarding Barack Obama and some little known fact to most Americans. Whether you are black or white, brown or yellow, liberal or conservative, it is worth reading carefully before you vote... [comments by ZZ Bachman]
It looks like Tom Reynolds, Congressman from New York’s 26th Congressional district has decided to call it quits after 10 years in the House. During those years, Reynolds had become a strong voice for the conservative movement, always ranking in the 80% range on American Conservative Union rankings. Shortly after he was elected, he got [...]
I’m going to lead off this week’s article with an update on my lawn situation: I’ve now mowed it myself three times. In return, I’ve received one “thank you”, but no hint that Alex actually intends to buy a new mower and resume his landlordly groundskeeping duties. I’m not really complaining though. The initial fight with the pull-starter of my neighbor’s rickety old pushmower, the act of pushing it back and forth across the lawn, detaching the bag to empty the clippings, the smell of fresh-cut grass mixed with exhaust; they’re all whimsical reminders of childhood chores.The only problem with this lawn care arrangement, as I touched on before, is that I think I’ve more or less assumed responsibility for it….Oops.That’s the problem with low expectations: if you set t
Today, Barack Obama finally spoke out about the Pastor Wright scandal. His speech deserves a response.My fellow Americans, today Senator/Presidential Candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech that was eloquent in tone but empty in new or convincing substance. In fact, his speech went a long way to confirm the very worst suspicions that many are beginning to come to about who he is and what he truly believes.The Senator devoted the first several paragraphs to a civics lesson and still more to his personal history growing up and his wife's lineage to slaves and slave owners. Interesting stuff, to be sure, but not what we came to hear today.14-15 paragraphs deep, you stop qualifying and addressed the meat of the issue.I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend
With the Republican nomination well settled, I think it's an appropriate time to start guessing who John McCain may select as his running mate. To help educate my guesses, I've tried to pull together data on which states are most likely to flip from the party they voted for in 2004. Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post put together this list last week of states he thinks are most likely. I've also used electoral maps from SurveyUSA which were constructed from poll data in each state. Here is the map if Senator Obama is the Democratic nominee. Senator Clinton's map is here. The maps illustrate differences in the strengths and weaknesses between the Democratic candidates which should guide Senator McCain's Vice Presidential selection. Senator Obama's strength is in the mid-west
A week has gone by and I still haven’t paid my narrative respects to Bill Buckley yet. Were he not such a homophobe (yet so eerily flitty at the same time, with his aristocratic airs), I’d feel bad about that. He did, after all, pave the way for the Reagan revolution, and for that the US owes him a tremendous debt of gratitude.This week’s column would also be a perfect place to dance on the rapidly-excavating political grave of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a.k.a. “The Sheriff of Wall Street”, a.k.a. “Client Nine”. But I’d rather deftly abstract from the former AG’s hooker habit by again explaining the difference between liberals and conservatives thus:“Having principles means that it’s possible to run afoul of them; exposing you to charges of hypocrisy. Having no
I've been puzzled by the Mississippi exit polls which indicate that Republicans made up 13% of all the votes in the Democratic primary there, and 76% of them voted for Senator Clinton. This is a sharp reversal from most previous states, where Senator Obama captured the majority of Republican voters. Andrew Romano at Newsweek made this post trying to explain the vote. It shows that the Republican voters who voted for Senator Clinton tended to like her less then they liked Senator McCain - but they disliked Senator Obama even more. Of all Clinton Republican voters in Mississippi 94% said Obama did not inspire them, 89% said they would be dissatisfied if he were the nominee and 86% said that Obama was not trustworthy. The same numbers for Senator Clinton are 61%, 41% and 72% respe
I want to say upfront that I voted for George Bush...twice. But hindsight is, as the well worn cliche goes, 20/20. But he was the lesser of the two evils. But my blanket support of repubs is loooong gone. Why? Well, in my eyes, repubs were always the choice of reason, of logic, of hope and self determination. But as the Years After Reagan(YAR) grow more and more, they have slipped further and further away from his beliefs. Bushy and his admin. used the guise of 9/11 to go and start a monumentally disastrous war in Iraq. The rest of his policy is neither here nor there in regards to his war on terror. Which I don't get too hung up on. The same people who are terrified of wire tapping don't have any qualms about big brothers cameras watching our every move. Yet they pitch a hi
Petlane.com is an online retailer of pet products. Their site currently features political dog biscuits. For Republican dogs, there is a red bag of dog biscuits that are elephant shaped; for Democratic dogs, there is a blue bag of dog biscuits that are donkey shaped. So how do you figure out what your dog is? [...]
"Pop the champagne, cue the music, let's party! McCain has wrapped up the Republican nomination.""Champagne? For McCain, are you kidding?""How bout some Cold Duck, would that suffice?""Why are you in the mood to celebrate?""I thought we should, after all, McCain's our man!""McCain's our man, true, tell me one thing McCain's said this election that you can recall?""Umm, I can't remember anything McCain has said.""Have you felt "inspired" by anything McCain has said?""Ah, actually nothing I can recall.""So let me get this straight, you want to celebrate the nomination of a guy whom you say does nothing to inspire you and you can't remember a single thing he's said the whole election?"True.""Then why did you want to celebrate?""Because all the fun and excitement is over on the Democrat's sid
Hi everyone:
Red and I decided to comment on tonight's media coverage and John McCain's big day. The Democrats are going to be fighting with each other for the next three months. This is Wonderful. Please vote it up on YouTube so people will watch it. Enjoy!!
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a nominee. Senator John McCain of Arizona will be the Republican Presidential nominee.McCain faced a rocky road to the nomination. Once the frontrunner and once political dead in the water, McCain went against all odds to make an enormous comeback. Can he go all the way?Word has it that President Bush will officially endorse McCain tomorrow.
Not surprisingly John McCain has officially won the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Delegates earned in Ohio and Texas today have put him over the top. See the break down of vote tally state by state here.
Presidential candidate John McCain had a straight talk moment while addressing supporters yesterday (February 29, 2007). McCain appears to have summed up his entire political career in six words.
He was having a hard time getting his wording correct throughout the entire speech. At one point he told the crowd that:
“I’m a proud conservative liberal Republican…”
He [...]
Here's proof the braintrust at the Republican party will a) lose and b) lose big....they think they're fighting the 2006 election all over again.
This comes from CNS news...
Master political strategist Karl Rove spoke to the American Jewish University this week. He stated that the key to attacking opponents isn't to attack their strengths -- it's to attack weaknesses they perceive as strengths. In 2004, Democratic nominee John Kerry staked his campaign on his perceived strength: his military experience. But, as Rove explained, that wasn't his strength -- he was vulnerable on foreign policy, a candidate with a record of attacking the military. By pointing out Kerry's weakness on the military, the Bush campaign was able to completely undercut Kerry.
Obama perceives his greatest strength
1874 Nast cartoon depicted GOP as an elephant demolishing the flimsy planks of the Democrats.The "Third-Term Panic", by Thomas Nast, originally published in Harper's Magazine 7 November 1874.This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years.See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain and also in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case 1902, and that most commonly run for a period of 50 to 70 years from that date.February 28, 1854 - The Republican Party of the United States is organized i
*** IRRELEVANT PREFACE: My unspoken battle of wills with my landlord ended last night. I wanted him to mow the lawn and he, apparently, did not want to mow it. He won...His wife told me on Monday night that the lawn mower was broken, which I suppose explains the Amazon growing in my front yard, but doesn’t really excuse it. And after an anonymous benefactor trimmed the hedges this weekend (Is the hedge trimmer broken too, Alex?) I felt compelled to borrow a mower from my neighbor across the street, and spend a cool evening collecting two full yard waste bins of grass clippings from my small front lawn. ***___________________________________A few weeks ago, my department at work relocated from the second floor of our building to the fourth. Not exactly an earth-shattering event, but a go
I know this will shock the pants off some of you, but a number of my close friends are nuns. Two girls I went to school with even became nuns. I got a call from one of them the other day. Only partially joking, my nun friend told me she was sure to go straight to hell, since she tapped Obama's name on the touch screen in the California primary.However, despite the wafer wars of the 2004 elections, the American Bishops have given devout rosary banging Catholics some very narrow wiggle room when it comes to pro-choice candidates. Its permissible to vote for them, if there is a morally grave reason to do so.In this election a number of Catholics are going to decide there is a morally grave reason not to vote for John McCain, even though he is pro-life.That reason is George Bush. And at
From the Capital Press Corp (Source: True North):
SEIFERT ANNOUNCES NEW REPUBLICAN LEADS
SAINT PAUL — (February 26, 2008) — State Representative Marty Seifert today announced the six Republicans who voted to override Governor Tim Pawlenty’s veto have been removed from their leadership positions.
I have spoken with all six members and received their resignations from their lead [...]
Peter Fenn ; Frank Donatelli discuss the current state of the Republican race with emphasis on the New York Times article on John McCain. Is the fallout becoming something different than people first expected?
A homosexual Republican governor gave an interview to this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. No, not the one from Florida! Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose wife ALLEGEDLY caught him several years ago with the staff of a stiff staffer, jumped with alacrity to point out that the profits from his new book “On My Knees” [...]
THE articles introduced in yesterday’s reflection, on February 14, were written in the last two or three days.
More than two weeks ago, on January 27, 2008, the digital publication Tom Dispatch reproduced an article translated for Rebelión by Germán Leyens: "Why the Debt Crisis is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic," by Chalmers Johnson. This American author has not been awarded the Nobel Prize, as has Joseph Stiglitz, the famous and well-known economist and writer, or even Milton Friedman himself, who inspired neoliberalism and led many countries down that disastrous path, including the United States.
Friedman was the most intensive advocate of economic liberalism opposed to any government regulations. His ideas nurtured Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. An active m
When in the previous reflection I asked McCain what he thought of the Five antiterrorist Cuban Heroes, I did so because I remembered what he had published on page 206 of his book Faith of My Fathers, co-written with his assistant Mark Salter:
“It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment. Having no one else to rely on, to share confidences with, to seek counsel from, you begin to doubt your judgment and your courage. But you eventually adjust to solitary, as you can to almost any hardship, by devising various methods to keep your mind off your troubles and greedily grasping any opportunity for human contact.”
“When in 1970 my period of solitary confinement was finally ended, I was overwhe
YESTERDAY, I said that while Bush was speaking to Congress, McCain was being honored at the Versailles Restaurant of Little Havana.
It was there that most of the fiercest enemies of the Cuban Revolution and their families took up residence, Batista’s followers, the big landowners, owners of apartment buildings and millionaires who tyrannized and plundered our people. The United States government has used them at will, to organize invaders and terrorists who have shed our people’s blood through almost 50 years. Later, illegal emigrants joined that stream, along with the Cuban Adjustment Act and the brutal blockade imposed on the people of Cuba.
It is incredible that, in this day and age, the Republican candidate, honored as a hero, is turned into an instrument of that Mafia. Nobody ha
ONE of the most hostile U.S. newspapers when it comes to Cuba, headquartered in Florida, offers the following report:
“Taking advantage of the negotiations to free the Bay of Pigs’ prisoners, the CIA tried to use a key person in the talks, American lawyer James B. Donovan, to deliver a lethal gift to Fidel Castro: a wetsuit contaminated with a fungus that lacerates the skin and an underwater breathing device infected with tuberculosis...the gear in fact was given to the Cuban leader in November 1962.
“The revelation is one of many anecdotes in After the Bay of Pigs, a book on the negotiations held between the Committee of Relatives for the Liberation of Prisoners and Havana from April to December 1962.
“The 238-page book, published late last year, was written by Cuban exile Pa
(Part One)
THESE reflections are self-explanatory.
On the now well-known Super Tuesday, a day of the week when many U.S. states selected the candidate of their choice from among a pool of aspirants to the presidency of the United States, one of the possible candidates to substitute George W. Bush was John McCain. Because of his pre-designed image as a hero and his alliance with strong contenders like the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, other hopefuls had already gladly given their support. The heavy propaganda of weighty social, economic and political factors in his country and his style of conduct had made him the candidate with the best possibilities. Only the Republican extreme right, represented by Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, dissatisfied with certain insignificant conces
So I’ve been watching the presidential race, something I’ve never really done, and I have always consider myself a Republican… but what makes someone a Republican or Democrat or Independent or whatever?
It seems to me that even though there are these major parties running our government no one actually agrees with everything that their “party” [...]
So it struck me today, as I watched CNN pretty much all morning… In the Republican party, the choice is now down to McCain versus Huckabee, right? (Although some would argue, the race is pretty much already won by McCain)… But lets say, for 1 second, that there is a still a choice.
I’ve been listening [...]
Republicans Lose AllegienceOne of the most reliable constituencies of the Republican Party in recent years has been born again Christians. Our latest national survey of likely voters, however, shows that the Republican Party has lost the allegiance of many born again voters. The November election is truly up for grabs - and if the election were held today, most born again voters would select the Democratic Party nominee for president, whoever that might be. The study also looks at the preferences of evangelicals, the role of "values voters," and people’s beliefs about whether Mormons are Christians.Read Article... Politics Republicans Voters
So on to the Republicans. It is a bit of a simpler storyline than the Democrats, despite having three players. Let's look at them one at a time:McCain:He did what he had to do, won the lion's share of delegates and the big states, cemented his front-runner status, and give-or-take has locked up the nomination. He has some nicey-nice he needs to make somehow with the conservative wing of his party (one shocking exit poll result I remember seeing last night: in his home state of Arizona he lost the conservative vote to Romney!). But all that being said, it is pretty difficult to see a reasonable path for either Romney or Huckabee to take the nomination from him.Romney:A poor showing for him last night, and universally seen as the loser of Super Tuesday. Won his home states of Utah and Massac
I know, I know. 246 more days till the United States presidential elections and there are fewer faces running than when I first stepped out of my own little world and tried to imagine this beautiful country without another Republican in office. I’m not really trying to pick sides on this statement but come on, [...]
Y'all are totally making my election year, and greatly elevating my opinion of registered members of the Grand Ol' Party (at least those in states that have held primaries/caucuses so far). Thank you, thank you, thank you for making the one GOP Presidential candidate whose election wouldn't completely horrify me the front-runner. Please, please, please keep it up. On the Democratic side, Obama is my horse, though I could certainly live with Clinton. But on the GOP side, if McCain's momentum continues, I'll be grateful to not be in the position of dreading November, since I'd feel like I could live with either outcome. I disagree with McCain on the vast majority of issues, and I think he's eroded his integrity a bit in recent years by toeing the party line for political reasons more th
What political camp are you part of this presidential election? Are you Democratic, Republican, or independent? And why is this question part of an information technology driven blog?As I open my email this morning I see a breaking news alert from CNN. I’m informed Rudy Giuliani may drop out of the presidential race after his loss to John McCain in Florida. But, Mr. Giuliani may endorse McCain after he removed himself from the running. What? Is it that easy? Are the Republicans that united while the Democrats are almost brining out their boxing gloves at the debates? Will Obama drop out and endorse Clinton after his loss in Florida? And can someone please tell me where are all the independents?Again I’m sure you are now ask yourself, why I am talking about this on an IT blog. It brings
It seems as if both parties—Republicans and Democrats—are now squarely located in the center. The welfare-warfare state is simply accepted, unquestioningly, by the leadership of both parties. At this stage the question must be asked: are Republicans conservatives anymore? David Hill has doubts:Republicans, as a whole, are not as conservative as they once were. Research results I am seeing suggest to me that this is key to why the rules are changing. Conservatives no longer benefit from the domination they once enjoyed.So does Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times, who observes:Recently I met a general who had served over there, and I asked him why we had started a war with Iraq. He paused, dropped his voice, and made me promise not to quote him. Then he only hinted at an answer, which see
Iowa was Huckabee's, Wyoming Romney's and New Hampshire belonged to McCain. I think it's pretty fair to say that the Republican race is very chaotic and very wide open. Rudy is waiting for Super Tuesday and Thompson is hoping for the South.Fred Thompson will most likely not stay in it too long because he basically has no strategy.It's probably do or die for Romney in Michigan. He has lost two races in which he has outspent his opponents by at least 7 to 1 or more (not to mention one was his neighboring state) and he has run a pretty negative campaign, voters don't seem to respect that very much. Romney may not drop out after Michigan because he does have the money to stay in the race for a while, but it would be highly unlikely that he gets much support. If Romney cannot win Michiga
Will We Recognize
This Place By The Time Bushtard
Is All Done With It
Dollar Sinks Lower
And Lower Everyday
Crash Is Immenent
Our Military
Is Depleted, Stuck In A
Quagmire, Civil War
Bushtard Wants To Go
On World Tour, To Give Middle
Finger One Last Time
And The Right Wing Is
Threatening Us With A True
Nutcase: Huckabee
Earth To Huckabee:
Religious Insanity
Is Not A Virtue
America Can't
Afford Another Bushtard
In Highest Office
Four More Years Of That
And We Are Through, Kiss All Your
Sorry Asses Good
Bye, If You Thought It
Was Retarded With Bushtard
Imagine More With
A Christo-Fascist
Like Huckabee, I Have A
Theory On This Though:
The Religiously
Insane Wing Of The Right Wing
Is The Bottom Of
That Totem Pole, At
The Top Of That Food Chain Are
Elite Neocons
These Two Groups
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Bigots with guns: “[W]e need the National Guard to clean out all our cities and round them up. They are hard-core criminals. They have no problem slitting your throat and taking your money or selling drugs to your kids or raping your daughters, and they are evil people.” — Chris Simcox, co-founder [...]
A Book Review: Rescuing Our Country and Our Values from the Right — Strategies for a Post-Bush America
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly: Don’t let the page count on this volume fool you. Ellingsen, a professor at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, packs in a remarkable amount of history, mostly of Christianity in America. He not [...]
Taylor Marsh has repeatedly been posting Clinton talking points against Obama for months, and does it yet again today. The Clinton campaign held a conference call with bloggers earlier in the week to push their latest line of attack against Obama based upon his “present” votes in the Illinois legislature. Today Marsh brings up a case where Obama voted present on a measure allowing victims of sexual abuse to have court records sealed to protect their privacy. She ignores the fact that Obama has explained that he voted present because there were questions as to whether the measure was Constitutional. It must be kept in mind that, as a former professor of Constitutional law, Obama would be more likely to recognize such Constitutional issues. Such devotion to the Constitution would be a welcome change.
HB 854 — OBAMA VOTED PRESENT BECAUSE A BILL WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Obama Voted Present On The Floor And In Committee On A Bill That Would Seal Sexual Assault Victims’ C
I'm dead serious about this and I want to get my readers' opinions.I'm currently registered as an Independent. I want to be able to vote in the primaries and I was going to register as a Democrat in order to do so. However, now I'm thinking it might make more sense to put my vote towards choosing the Republican candidate because the Republican candidate will likely determine the tone of the debate we will hear during the months between the primaries and the national election.The reason I think I'm comfortable doing this is because the only person that I would be truly upset to see as the Democratic nominee would be Hillary Clinton (basically because she is just as much a scary corporatist as any Republican). Luckily, I think most people have figured this out about her and I don't know anyone that is gung-ho Hillary. I really don't think she'll get the nomination and I would be satisfied with any of the other Democratic candidates. I trust all of you guys to pick us a good cand
Tuesday I finally got around to re-registering to vote so that I could be on the Republican rolls and support Ron Paul at the February 5th California primary. It’s a good thing I did, too, as on Thursday I received a card from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters informing me that-
You are registered as a Nonpartisan or Decline to State voter for the February 5, 2008 Presidential Primary Election. The American Independent and Democratic parties have agreed to allow non-affiliated voters to voter their parties ballot for this election only. If you want to vote American Independent or as a Democrat, please indicate only one political party preference by completing, signing, and returning the attatched postcard no later than December 21, 2007. Your Vote by Mail ballot will be mailed to you beginning the week of January 7, 2008. For more information call (408)299-VOTE [8683] or (866)430-VOTE [8683], 1-800-345-VOTE [8683].
In other words, the California Democratic Party and
A glass-half-empty view of the Republican candidates:
Giuliani:
Giuliani doesn't provide a good role-model to the nation's husbands. To a small extent, voting for Rudy is a defeat for the concept of public shame. Giuliani seems to make "expedient" decisions.
Paul:
I've mentioned before that Paul is an ideological zealot. If one were to ask him about the effectiveness on a certain program or policy, he'd say, "The government shouldn't be doing that" or "The United States shouldn't interfere with other countries." It would be like going to an accountant and hearing him expound on the virtues of a flat tax when all you want him to do is get you a bigger tax refund or listening to a lecture from you podiatrist on the Hippocratic oath during a visit for an ingrown toenail.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 the Des Moines Register hosted the last Republican debate before the critical January 3rd Iowa caucus. Carolyn Washburn of the Register was the moderator. One of the main topics of the debate was the fair-tax. Huckabee has been gaining major popularity in Iowa recently and he is one candidate who is in favor of getting rid of the income tax. Huckabee has proposed a "fair-tax", also known as a consumption tax, to replace the income tax. A consumption tax would be based on what people buy instead of their income. The more you buy, especially luxury items, you will be taxed more. Those that have less money to spend will be taxed very little. "That means the rich people aren't going to be made poor, but maybe the poor people will be made rich. That ought to be the goal of any tax system — not to punish somebody but to enable somebody, so they can have a part of the American dream," Huckabee said. Romney on the other hand is
Last night's Republican debate was moderated by Carolyn Washburn, the Des Moines Register's editor and was sponsored by the Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television.The Line Up: Rudolph Giuliani, Alan Keyes, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo, Fred ThompsonAwards:Most Articulate and Intelligent with a Small Dose of Crazy (or, if you will, the Prophetic): Alan KeyesMost Articulate and Confident but Suave/Creepy and Weak on Specifics: Mitt RomneyAward for Being Economically Sound but Utterly Failing to Say Much that the Average Voter Can Understand or Get Behind (also known as the H. Ross Perot Award): Ron PaulAward for Making the Worst Quasi-Theological Statement: Tom Tancredo"There are two sides to your human component, you know. One is the God-filled side. One is the human side. And there are things that feed either side, you know? And which ever you feed the most becomes the dominant side. And so you have to concentrate on feed
While most people believe that Mitt Romney won the Republican Debate today, Fred Thompson just made my year. The liberal moderator for PBS asked the group of Republican Candidates to raise their hands, "If Global Climate Change is a Serious Threat and Caused by Human Activity."
As some of the candidates were about to raise their hands, Fred Thompson told the woman that he was not going to raise...
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