The Real Story Behind Paul Ryan's Opposition To The Public Option And Health Care Reform

Paul Ryan: Empty budget proposal, empty hopes, empty suit
Although John Boehner initially assigned Roy Blunt to serve as the point person and the face of Republican health care "policy"-- i.e., unadulterated anti-Obama hysteria and complete obstructionism-- the fact that Blunt was utterly mired in decades of the most foul corruption and that he's busy trying to lie his way into Missouri's open Senate seat, necessitated that the Republicans switch the assignment. Foolishly, they gave it Source: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed

Obama Lock-Step with Hugo Chavez Moves Toward Formal Cut Off of Aid to Honduras

Obama is openly siding with Marxists Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega in punishing the government of Honduras.

U.S. moves toward formal cut off of aid to Honduras

Reuters

U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a "military coup," a U.S. official said on Thursday, a step that could cutSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed

Rest in Peace Teddy

It might seem hard to understand how someone that has never met someone could feel such a great loss when that person passes away. Teddy Kennedy wasn’t just a senator or the lion of the congress that many news agencies have coined him to be. He was bigger than life even with the tragic legacy of his brothers as his shield and the love of the people that returned him to his office every six years for almost five decades. He was a simple man that just loved life and loved people andSource: Papamoka Straight Talk RSS Feed

Why I Hate Barack Obama! Pastor Steven Anderson Sermon

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August 29 2009 CNN

(Heather): Well, it looks like the Secret Service has paid someone a visit. Good. That's the least they should be doing.

SANCHEZ: All right. Hello again, everybody. I'm Rick Sanchez with the next generation of news. This is a conversation. It is not a speech. And it is your turn to get involved.

It is my duty as a journalist to make you aware of a deeply disturbing trend takingSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

How much are tax-payers funding political parties already?

BBC IPlayer

Michael Crick’s programme is a must listen

I’ve just picked up on BBC IPlayer this great Radio 4 investigation by Michael Crick on the funding of political parties and the rise of what he calls “The Political Club”.

The programme blurb goes: “Michael Crick reveals how politicians are increasingly becoming a professionalised and separate class, who use their status to channel taxpayers’ money into the coffers of theirSource: Political Betting RSS Feed

‘Tenther’ Activists Add The Federal Highway System To List Of Programs To Kill

In a recent radio interview, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) made the seemingly-innocuous statement that the federal highway system, as well as federal laws ensuring safe drugs and safe airplanes, are constitutional. Nevertheless, Shea-Porter is now under attack by “tenther” activists who believe that virtually everything the federal government does is unconstitutional:

Author and historian David Barton, the president of WallBbuilders, [sic] says Shea-Porter’s commentsSource: Think Progress RSS Feed

Majority of Scots think the release was wrong - YouGov

Survey finds SNP Holyrood support down 5 points

Opinion polls confined to just Scotland are rare things indeed and according to UKPollingReport there have only been two this year - one by YouGov for the Sunday Times last January. UPDATE - the last Scottish YouGov poll was in June.

This morning the Daily Mail is carrying details of a new YouGov Scottish poll it commissioned following last week’s controversial release of Megrahi - the man convicted for theSource: Political Betting RSS Feed

The Imaginary Charles Grassley

Ruth Marcus has a column today about Charles Grassley and the prospects for bipartisan health care reform. Marcus treats the prospect that Grassley will support health care reform as an uncertain prospect, albeit one withdim prospects. On the negative side, she reports, Grassley believes that supporting reform could cost him his Senate seat to a GOP challenger and, even if he survives, make Republicans strip him of his seniority on the Judiciary Committee. On the other side of the ledger,Source: The Plank RSS Feed

Disagree Without Being Disagreeable

Whatever happened to the old addage, “You can disagree without being disagreeable.”?

I was having a debate at last week’s Drinking Liberally here in Canon City with an officer of the local Democratic Party. He argued that public discourse had fallen off in the past couple of years and become increasingly nasty. I pointed to the unbelievably nasty (even by today’s standards) back-and-forth between supporters of John Adams and supporters of Thomas Jefferson inSource: DemNotes RSS Feed

Glenn Beck Should Drink More Water

Why? Because with all of the diarrhea coming out of his mouth, he's in danger of dehydration.
Glenn Beck Twitter twit: "Does the nominee still have Diabetes? Could the Messiah heal her, or does she just not want to ask?"

via Media Matters
[UPDATED] I'm just gonna let M.M. do the work today ;-)
"Hey, Hispanic chick lady! You're emphatic empathetic! you're in!"

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The Iowa Republican: King: Liberal Policies Benefit Illegals

Written by Congressman Steve King

American workers depend on this administration to protect their jobs from illegal workers by enforcing immigration laws and opposing amnesty. Instead, President Obama and liberals in Congress are determined to pursue a legislative agenda that benefits illegal immigrants at the expense of American

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Copper Harbor sunset

Blogging from Mohawk, Michigan.
Until this morning, I had never set my eyes upon Lake Superior. Like many people, my mental vision of the inland sea (It's not really a lake) is colored by the Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
On this evening, "Gitchee Gumee" couldn't sink anything.
Copper Harbor is as the end of the Keweenaw Peninsula, which of course is part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Pretty sunset, isn't it?
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Congress bailing out landlords

From the NY Post:
A bill winding its way through Congress proposes to prop up deteriorating apartment complexes by injecting $2 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program into an effort to stabilize multifamily properties in default or foreclosure.
The bill, which is called the TARP for Main Street Act and was sponsored by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn and Manhattan), would use TARP funds that have beenSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed

Deeds on local radio Sunday

Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds will appear on a local Hampton Roads radio program this Sunday. The show, “Faith Toward God,” is hosted by local funeral director, Carlos A. Howard.

Listeners will have the ability to call in with questions. The call in number is (757)624-9475.

Prior to the show, Deeds, accompanied by Chesapeake Del. Lionell Spruill, Sr., will make a campaign stop at D’Egg Diner on Main Street in Norfolk.

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Man-whore John Edwards to admit paternity of ex-mistress’ child

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a campaign worker with whom he has admitted to having an affair.

Raleigh, N.C. — Sources have told WRAL News that they expect former U.S. Sen. John Edwards to admit that he is the father of his former mistress’ 18-month-old daughter.

Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, confessed last August to having an affair with Rielle Hunter, whoSource: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed

Why you can't buy wine at the supermarket

From the Village Voice:
While you can get a drink of just about any kind of fermented beverage in thousands of establishments of all sorts in this city, at just about any time of the day or night, there's one thing you still cannot do in New York: pick up a bottle of wine while you're buying groceries.
The thing is, New York's blue law isn't about lingering religious attitudes about alcohol, the way it is in places like Utah.
New York's grocery store wine ban is purely aboutSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed

The Rachel Maddow Show: House Releases New Evidence in U.S. Attorney Scandal

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Rachel reports on the latest revelations to come out of the U.S. Attorney firings scandal.

Maddow: In 2006, nine U.S. federal attorneys, prosecutors, were surprisingly and suddenly fired by the Department of Justice under George W. Bush. U.S. Attorney Paulson Charlton of Arizona was fired while he was in the midst of building a case against Republican Congressman Rick Renzi for an allegedly illegal land swap deal that wouldSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

OBAMA IS HITLER!!!!

Let us, for the moment, leave aside the question of why the media suddenly doesn’t like comparing the President to Hitler. Instead, let us today address the more pressing question of why the media doesn’t like facts.

If you believe Nancy Pelosi, Rep. John Dingell, little girls totally not planted at Obama town halls, and “reporters” asking Gibbs “questions” at today’s White House “briefing,” then you are probably certain that there are scoresSource: Red State RSS Feed

US Looks To Vietnam For Tips On Losing

This Associated Press article almost slipped by us, since it mostly seems to have been picked up by ultra left sites like Common Dreams:

US looks to Vietnam for Afghan tips

By SLOBODAN LEKIC (AP)

August 7

BRUSSELS — Top U.S. officials have reached out to a leading Vietnam war scholar to discuss the similarities of that conflict 40 years ago with American involvement in Afghanistan, where the U.S. is seeking ways to isolate an elusive guerrillaSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

THE ECONOMY WON’T BE SAVED BY PROFITEERING BANKS

Umbrellas out at the Bank of England (pictured above), which is pumping another £50 billion into the UK economy in a further attempt to lift us out of recession. The Bank will raise the total amount of new money created under Quantatitive Easing (QE) to £175 billion. The move is bigger than economists had expected, but the Bank feels the recession has been “deeper than previously thought”. It also noted that the world economy is still in recession. Now it’s all very well boostingSource: British Blogs RSS Feed

Chris Matthews Accuses Jim Dean of Trying to "Kill" Ben Nelson

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Chris Matthews unloads on Jim Dean, brother of Gov. Howard Dean, and chair of Democracy for America, for DFA's ads targeting Sen. Ben Nelson on health care reform.

Matthews: That's what you're saying.

Dean: I understand what you're saying. We're challenging him.

Matthews: No, I'm saying what you're saying, not what I'm saying. You're trying to kill this guy, so he'll turn around, squirm in bed aSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

In Afghanistan It’s Now All About the Little Girls

Women and Children First

Here is U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, writing on his Twitter page:

helped open a school in the Panjshir Valley yesterday. built by Greg Mortenson. smiles on those young faces said it all! power of education (15 July 2009)

And then some more tweets about women…

Presided over retirement for Vice Adm. Nancy Brown today. What a role model, not just forSource: OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY RSS Feed