Bank Of America Analyst Advocates The “Unthinkable” — An Intentional Default On US Debt

Bank Of America Analyst Advocates The “Unthinkable” — An Intentional Default On US Debt

Bank Of America Analyst Advocates The “Unthinkable” — An Intentional Default On US Debt

Business Insider ^ | 04/17/2011 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:34:43 PM by The Magical Mischief Tour

We continue to be astounded by the emergence of the pro-default meme within financial circles.

Previously it was Chris Whalen and Dean Baker taking the stance that the US could default with minimal negative ramifications.

Now it’s someone at a major bank: BofA‘s credit strategist Jeffrey Rosenberg, whose note from Friday is titled The Case For Default (via @dutch_book).

He explicitly rejects the doom camp, and thinks temporary default could be managed without significant market interruption.

We don’t find his argument to be all that convincing.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-americas-jeffrey-rosenberg-says-the-us-should-default-2011-4#ixzz1Jq08RIAx

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In Wake of Massive Tornadoes, Media Avoids Reporting on Obama’s 64th Round of Golf Today

In Wake of Massive Tornadoes, Media Avoids Reporting on Obama’s 64th Round of Golf Today

In Wake of Massive Tornadoes, Media Avoids Reporting on Obama’s 64th Round of Golf Today

Sunday, April 17, 2011 | Kristinn

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:36:34 PM by kristinn

While Southern states reeled from a massive tornado outbreak that killed several dozen people, Barack Obama played his 64th round of golf as president today. The White House pool reporter filed reports on Obama’s departure for the links at Andrews Air Force Base and on his return to the White House. However there are no reports by the media informing the public about Obama’s golf outing.

The closest to a news report is a post on Twitter by CBS News Radio White House correspondent Mark Knoller. Keith Koffler at the blog White House Dossier also did a post based on the pool report.

Knoller also tweeted that Obama spent four hours on the golf course today.

The South got ripped by tornadoes this weekend, gas prices are hitting $4 per gallon, unemployment claims are up, the budget deficit is still out of control, the war in Libya is a cluster as is Afghanistan where our troops are still getting killed.

Yet the media gives Obama a pass by not doing its basic job of telling the American people how Obama spent his day.

THIS JUST IN! North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue says she spoke with Obama today and that he pledged “whatever it takes to rebuild North Carolina.” The governor did not say whether Obama was golfing when they spoke today.

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Media hesitate on Trump’s authorship charge

Media hesitate on Trump’s authorship charge

Media hesitate on Trump’s authorship charge

WND ^ | April 17, 2011 | Jack Cashill

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:13:11 PM by RobinMasters

On “The Sean Hannity Show” Friday night and at a Florida tea-party rally Saturday, Donald Trump elaborated on the charge that he has been making the past two weeks, namely that Bill Ayers helped write Barack Obama’s acclaimed 1995 memoir, “Dreams From My Father.”

Yet despite what Obama-friendly biographer David Remnick had previously called the “diabolical potency” of the charge, the mainstream media have resolutely failed to investigate its accuracy.

Trump all but dares them. At both stops, he emphasized the point that I make in “Deconstructing Obama”: As Trump put it to Hannity, “Without that book, [Obama] is not president.”

“Dreams” was essential to Obama’s ascendancy as “Profiles in Courage” was to John F. Kennedy’s. It served as the foundation of the genius myth on which Obama’s campaign was based.

“[Obama's] whole aura was caused by the genius of the first book,” Trump said accurately on Saturday, “which was written by Bill Ayers.”

Trump also told Hannity that “the guy who wrote the first book didn’t write the second book ['Audacity of Hope'].”

This is a point that Ayers had himself implied a few weeks back at Montclair State University when he praised “Dreams” – and claimed credit for writing it, albeit with a wink – but dismissed “Audacity” as a “political hack book.”

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Radley Balko is a policy analyst specializing in civil liberties issues and is the author of the Cato study, “Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking.” Executive Summary Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home. These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they’re sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects. This paper presents a history and overview of the issue of paramilitary drug raids, provides an extensive catalogue of abuses and mistaken raids, and offers recommendations for reform. Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Interactive Map Overkill

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White House releases trusted Internet ID plan

White House releases trusted Internet ID plan

White House releases trusted Internet ID plan

Computerworld ^ | 16 April, 2011 03:20 | Grant Gross (IDG News Service)

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 7:08:47 PM by newzjunkey

The U.S. government will coordinate private-sector efforts to create trusted identification systems for the Internet, with the goal of giving consumers and businesses multiple options for authenticating identity online, according to a plan released by President Barack Obama’s administration.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will work with private companies to drive development and adoption of trusted ID technologies, White House officials said. The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), released by the Department of Commerce on Friday, aims to protect the privacy and security of Internet users by encouraging a broad online authentication market in the U.S.

“The fact is that the old password and username combination we often use to verify people is no longer good enough,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said at an NSTIC release event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “It leaves too many consumers, government agencies and businesses vulnerable to ID and data theft.”…

The trusted ID technologies described in NSTIC would allow online users to dump passwords in favor of credentials that can be used on multiple websites. The Obama administration hopes…………………………..

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Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them (via ~ GUNNY G: BLOGGER 1984 (+) BLOG & EMAIL ~)

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote o … Read More

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The case for betting on Obama in 2012

The case for betting on Obama in 2012

The case for betting on Obama in 2012

https://peregrine5700.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/obama-cannot-be-defeated-in-2012-video-walter-williams-up-from-the-projects/ ^

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:25:51 PM by wendy1946

The following item is being passed around in email and, apparently falsely, is being attributed to Dr. Walter Williams of George Mason University, sometimes heard filling in on Limbaugh‘s radio program.

It is scary stuff nonetheless regardless of who wrote it:

Can President Obama be defeated in 2012? No. He can’t. I am going on record as saying that President Barak Obama will win a second term. The media won’t tell you this because a good election campaign means hundreds of millions (or in Obama’s case billions) of dollars to them in advertising. But the truth is, there simply are no conditions under which Barak Obama can be defeated in 2012.

The quality of the Republican candidate doesn’t matter. Obama gets reelected. Nine percent unemployment? No problem. Obama will win. Gas prices moving toward five dollars a gallon? He still wins. The economy soars or goes into the gutter. Obama wins………

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Fight Like A Girl…

Fight Like A Girl

Fight Like A Girl

Legal Insurrection ^ | April 17, 2011 | William A. Jacobson,

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:18:39 PM by onyx

Fight Like A Girl

In using that term, Sarah Palin issued a political call to action directed at the men who rule the Republican Party:

“We didn’t elect you just to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic,” Palin said during a rally in front of the Wisconsin statehouse in Madison. “What we need from you, GOP, is to fight.” Pointing to the national champion University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, Palin said the GOP could learn from its resolve and “needs to learn how to fight like a girl.”

But the phrase signaled far more. Palin acknowledged what those of us who have followed the Tea Party movement have known for a long time: Women have been the driving force and energy behind the Tea Party movement.

But even more than that, Palin took a phrase usually considered an insult and turned it into a compliment.

In one sentence, Palin did more to advance the cause of women in politics than all the Women’s Studies Ph.D’s in all the universities in this country combined.

Update: Sissy Willis reminds us of the day. Be sure to watch the video of pre-nominee “drill baby drill” talk. I just paid $68 to fill my car this morning. How much longer until they come out with one of those automobile windmills?

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Ask George III if Demonizing the Tea Party Works

Ask George III if Demonizing the Tea Party Works

Ask George III if Demonizing the Tea Party Works

American Thinker ^ | April 17, 2011 | Lee Cary

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:08:39 PM by neverdem

Future historians will describe the Democratic Party’s demonization of the Tea Party movement as a major political blunder that put them squarely on the wrong side of America’s 21st Century financial crisis.

When Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on a conference call that he’d been instructed by “the caucus” to use the word “extreme” when referring to the Tea Party, he carelessly revealed the previously obvious but unacknowledged truth. Democrats have a coordinated plan to demonize the Tea Party movement (TPM) via their oft-repeated meme that implicitly characterizes law-abiding citizens as terrorists — as with fundamentalist Islam or domestic militias, contemporary lone gunman or historical mass murderers (recall Nancy Pelosi‘s comment about Nazis in conjunction with TPM gatherings).

Using “extreme” is an extreme tactic on the part of Democrats. And a dumb one, guaranteed to galvanize the TPM into a stronger and more determined effort. One might ask: How could Democrats be so brazenly stupid as to think the tactic will be widely successful, particularly with independents? Even with the support of the legacy liberal media?

Maybe they just don’t know much about early American history. They should, since many of them have law degrees. And all of them can read…or, at least, most of them.

They should know that the historical precedent for the TPM wasn’t the Tea Party event in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Significant for American history as that was, and still is, it isn’t the precursor of today’s TPM. Something else was.

The Continental Association, established on October 20, 1774, was the first Tea Party-like movement in American history. On that date, Peyton Randolph, President of the First Continental Congress, signed a document on behalf of those self-identified therein as “We, his majesty’s most loyal subjects.” The document came in response to the so-called Intolerable Acts passed by the British parliament……

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Donald Trump on Obama: Investigate Rezco!

Donald Trump on Obama: Investigate Rezco!

Donald Trump on Obama: Investigate Rezco!

Conservative Spotlight ^ | April 17, 2011 | Fred Dardick

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:48:38 PM by FredDardick

I highly doubt Donald Trump is presidential material, but he sure makes for one great Republican attack dog. Finally a celebrity big enough to get the attention of Americans outside of the conservative community is speaking out against Obama’s shady past. After once again raising legitimate concerns over Obama’s sham “birth certificate” during an appearance on the Fax News program Hannity, Trump expressed alarm over Obama’s real estate dealings with convicted Chicago influence peddler Antoin “Tony” Rezco.

For those of you who still haven’t heard, Obama’s Chicago home that he bought in 2005 was located on a property split into 2 parcels; one with the house and the other an adjacent side yard. The owner was willing to sell the properties separately, but only if they were purchased at the same time. Since Obama couldn’t afford to buy both, he had to find a sugar daddy to back him or he could kiss his dream home goodbye.

Obama did exactly what you would expect out of a sleazy Chicago politician………………………..

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Sen. Paul to DOE : My Toilets Don’t Work ‘And I Blame You’

Sen. Paul to DOE : My Toilets Don’t Work ‘And I Blame You’

Sen. Paul to DOE : My Toilets Don’t Work ‘And I Blame You’

cnsnews.com ^ | April 15, 2011 | Eric Scheiner

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:48:40 PM by PROCON

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continues his lambasting of Energy Department regulations on consumer products. Blaming a Department of Energy (DOE) secretary for his non-functioning toilet a month ago and comparing new government regulations on efficiency standards to actions of “the collective” from Ayn Rand’s 1937 novel ‘Anthem’.

“You restrict my purchases, you don’t care about my choices, you don’t care about the consumer frankly, you raise the cost of the all the items with all your rules, all your notions that you know what’s best for me,” Paul said to DOE Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hogan at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on March 10th.

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Flushing Out RINOs, Neo-cons, Faux Conservatives, Controlled Opposition, and the Clueless

Flushing Out RINOs, Neo-cons, Faux Conservatives, Controlled Opposition, and the Clueless

Flushing Out RINOs, Neo-cons, Faux Conservatives, Controlled Opposition, and the Clueless

Canada Free Press ^ | 04/17/2011 | Jim O’Neill

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:26:10 PM by johnsmom

The existence of the United States as a free republic under the rule of Constitutional law, hinges on how “we the people” deal with the the issue of Obama’s eligibility to be POTUS. Remolding the US Constitution into a “living” constitution, a “plastic” constitution, a changeable constitution, is to destroy the Constitution, and the United States as a free republic.

Make no mistake, the question of Obama’s eligibility to be POTUS is of vital importance, and seeing as Donald Trump is the ONLY figure of national stature to address the issue, it is incumbent on every constitutional conservative (read that as “patriotic American”) to support Trump, until something better comes down the pike—and I don’t see anyone else coming down the road at the moment…..

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Gaps in White House Visitor Log Explained

Gaps in White House Visitor Log ExplainedGaps in White House Visitor Log Explained

A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 16 April 2011 | John SemmensPosted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 2:37:45 PM by John SemmensDespite pledges that his Administration would be “the most transparent in history,” logs of who comes and goes to confer with the President and his staff at the White House have glaring omissions.

Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney attributed the incomplete record to “efforts to serve conflicting objectives. On the one hand, we want to be as open as possible. On the other, we want to respect an individual’s right to privacy. So, we tried to compromise by allowing those who preferred that their visits not be acknowledged to opt out of having their names recorded.”Concerns that the selective reporting of who visits with the President could undermine trust in the Administration was taken in stride by Carney.

“It basically boils down to whether you have faith in the honesty of the President,” Carney said. “If you do, you accept that some things must remain private. If you don’t, you’re going to be demanding documentary proof of everything just like the ‘birthers’ are about where the President was born. Is having to produce papers to verify stuff the kind of country we want to live in? I think not. I believe the American people trust the President to tell them what they need to know for the good of the country.” read more…

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Truth in Media: Independent Journalists “Who Tell the Truth” Need our Support!

Truth in Media: Independent Journalists “Who Tell the Truth” Need our Support!

Truth in Media: Independent Journalists “Who Tell the Truth” Need our Support!

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Global Research, April 21, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a tumultuous year, and we’ve only just begun. War and militarization are being passed off by mainstream media as “humanitarian intervention“; our environment and health are being compromised to protect investments and corporate interests; poverty is running rampant in every corner of the world, and yet still we are expected to pay for unjust wars and corrupt financial schemes at great expense to us and our families.

The writers who contribute articles to Global Research are dedicated to stopping this tide of disinformation and making real information available. Thanks to their commitment and sacrifice, we can start to change the system through increased awareness.

Often, however, journalists pay a high personal and professional price for telling the truth. Professional journalists committed to truth in media are invariably penalized by their corporate employers. They are pressured into accepting media disinformation as routine, as part of the job. They are encouraged to skim the surface or to convey half truths.

This is a system which rewards mediocrity. Those who lie are promised fame, funding and career advancement. Those who refuse to abide by the standards of the mainstream media are not only fired, they are blacklisted and their prospects extinguished. Journalists who have the courage to say the truth find themselves marginalized and excluded, and therefore often driven into poverty. Indeed, a considerable number of journalists who contribute to Global Research find themselves in this predicament.

Global Research has therefore initiated a fundraising campaign to assist journalists, researchers and contributors who have either lost their jobs with the mainstream media or who have been excluded from employment opportunities as professional journalists. As part of our mandate to deliver independent news and analysis to the broader public, we believe it is important to support and encourage journalists in their endeavours.

We know that our readers turn to Global Research for independent coverage of world events which is not coloured, created or manipulated by corporate, government or insitutional stakeholders. Therefore, we ask you to support us in supporting the writers who continue to bring you the material you need in order to understand what’s happening in the world around you………………

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How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U. S. Civil War (via ~ GUNNY G: BLOGGER 1984 (+) BLOG & EMAIL ~)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898013/posts How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War Reason Papers ^ | Spring 2006 | TIMOTHY SANDEFUR http://tinyurl.com/2y8xg3 Posted on 09/17/2007 5:35:27 PM EDT by Delacon How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War By Timothy Sandefur [Reason Papers vol. 28, pp. 61-83, Spring 2006] I. Introduction For decades, outspoken libertarians have seen the Civil War not only as a h … Read More

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GM: A loose nut behind the wheel

GM: A loose nut behind the wheel

GM: A loose nut behind the wheel

American Thinker ^ | April 17, 2011 | Ralph Alter

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 2:58:15 PM by jazusamo

There is no more appropriate metaphor to describe the flailing hybrid corporation known as Government Motors than that provided by the report of a Chevy Cruze owner hurtling down the freeway when the steering wheel came off in his hands. At least as much as a 1.4 liter 4 cylinder power plant can be said to hurtle.

The once formidable giant corporation still sadly reflects the popular sentiment, “As GM goes, so goes the nation.” America, from all the available reports, rattles down the world’s economic, political and cultural freeways like an underpowered compact car, rudderless and apparently incapable of changing direction. It should really be a joke, but when one asks the question: What do you get when you cross the inefficiency of a labor union with the sclerosis of a federal bureaucracy? The answer could be a.) Government Motors or b.) the Obama administration or c.) both of the above.

Now comes t he report from………………………………………

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Descending Into Madness: Beck Says GOP Trying To Politically Assassinate Him, Bachmann & Palin

Descending Into Madness: Beck Says GOP Trying To Politically Assassinate Him, Bachmann  Palin

Descending Into Madness: Beck Says GOP Trying To Politically Assassinate Him, Bachmann  Palin

Fav Stocks ^ | April 17, 2011 | Nicole Belle

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 12:56:54 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

He’s losing it.

It’s only a matter of time before the men with the strait jacket show up. In Beckistan, not only is world controlled by Soros-funded liberals, but the GOP now wants to “politically assassinate” him and his fellow truth tellers, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck claimed that the Republican Party is out to politically assassinate him, Sarah Palin, and Michele Bachmann. [..]

Beck said, “May I just, I mean they’re going to call me a conspiracy theorist, but let’s go on a little conspiracy here, and I don’t claim to know what it is, and maybe it’s all coincidental, but I don’t believe in coincidence.

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Arrogance in Office

Arrogance in Office

Arrogance in Office

http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/arrogance-in-office/ | 4/17/11 | Hans

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 2:15:59 PM by David DeGerolamo

In my last post, I suggested we need to attack the structures that enable the Imperial Presidency (History Repeats Itself).

The keyboard was not yet cool from my fingers when our current president made a public declaration of his arrogance:

In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill – and in one case simply says he will not abide by it.

Last week the White House and congressional Democrats and Republicans were involved in intense negotiations over not only the size of the budget for the remainder of the FY2011 budget, and spending cuts within that budget, but also several GOP “riders,” or policy provisions attached to the bill.

One rider – Section 2262 — de-funds certain White House adviser positions – or “czars.” The president in his signing statement declares that he will not abide by it.

Full Story: ABC News

He simply will not abide by the lawful “will of the people”. Just a simple declaration, with nose up in the air: “I will not…………………..

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Chicago–Communist Paradise of the Midwest ~ By Al Benson Jr.

Chicago–Communist Paradise of the Midwest ~ By Al Benson Jr.

Chicago–Communist Paradise of the Midwest ~ By Al Benson Jr.

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By Al Benson Jr.It seems that the “Windy City” has had a love affair with communism that goes back a long time. Originally, you can trace it back to 1860 when the Republican Party convention was held there–the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln to run for president on the Republican ticket that year.

There were several “Forty-Eighter” socialists, refugees from the 1848 socialist revolts in Europe, there that year for the convention and some of these socialists, such as Carl Schurz, actually helped to write the Republican Party platform in 1860. In our book Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists Walter Kennedy and I have noted this. On page 61 we stated: “In chapter one we noted the close ties between radical European socialists/communists and Lincoln.

In that chapter we pointed out that we are not suggesting that Lincoln was a communist, only that for some reason, these early American socialists/communists found the new Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln very attractive.” So Lincoln was nominated, ran, and won, with the help of these Forty-Eighter socialists/communists–and it started in Chicago. How fitting.

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REPUBLICAN PARTY, RED FROM THE START by Alan Stang

REPUBLICAN PARTY, RED FROM THE START by Alan Stang

REPUBLICAN PARTY, RED FROM THE START

by Alan Stang

February 1, 2008

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Many patriots these days lament that the Republican Party has “lost its way” and “gone wrong.” It has “diverged” from the fiscally responsible, small government philosophy of Republican heroes like Robert Taft whom Eisenhower’s handlers finagled out of the nomination for President in 1952. We are told that is why today’s Republican Establishment hates Dr. Ron Paul with such a passion; that they hate him because, like Taft, he is the quintessential Republican. Patriots who say that are mistaken, of course. The reason the Republican Establishment hates Dr. Paul is precisely that he is not a traditional, mainstream Republican, that his platform of freedom is an aberration. The Republican Party didn’t “go wrong,” didn’t “go left.”

It has been wrong from the beginning, from the day it was founded. From the beginning, the Republican Party has worked without deviation for bigger, more imperial government, for higher taxes, for more wars, for more totalitarianism. From the beginning, the Republican Party has been Red.

Why? In 1848, Communists rose in revolution across Europe, united by a document prepared for the purpose, entitled Manifesto of the Communist Party. Its author was a degenerate parasite named…………………………….

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REPUBLICAN PARTY, RED FROM THE START by Alan Stang Rate This // REPUBLICAN PARTY, RED FROM THE START by Alan Stang February 1, 2008 NewsWithViews.com Many patriots these days lament that the Republican Party has “lost its way” and “gone wrong.” It has “diverged” from the fiscally responsible, small government philosophy of Republican heroes like Robert Taft whom Eisenhower’s handlers finagled out of the nomination for President in 1952. We are to … Read More

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ARE YOU HAPPY YET WITH YOUR 1.6-GALLON “KLINTON TOILET”? (via ~ GUNNY G: BLOGGER 1984 (+) BLOG & EMAIL ~)

ARE YOU HAPPY YET WITH YOUR 1.6-GALLON “KLINTON TOILET”? January 7, 2010 ARE YOU HAPPY YET WITH YOUR 1.6-GALLON “KLINTON TOILET”? Tired of flushing multiple times? Tired of cleaning up needless messes? Why don’t the damn things just work as they should? Here’s a great article that will explain the history and result of what happened. -Gunny G ***** The Relentless Misery of 1.6 Gallons by Jeffrey A. Tucker Recently by Jeffrey A. Tucker: If You Bel … Read More

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Ayn Rand’s scary vision of government coming true

Ayn Rand’s scary vision of government coming true

Ayn Rand’s scary vision of government coming true

coachisright.com ^ | April 17, 2011 | Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:28:03 AM by jmaroneps37

While you were sleeping, your industrious federal government was busy establishing new guide lines for 2011 washing machines that, according to my source, cut down on efficiency, deceive the customer into thinking hot is hot, cold is cold, and make her lights flicker.

Doing things on the sneak is a characteristic of the Obama administration that I find especially odious, and this “Energy Efficient Washing Machine” two step is cloying to say the least. My source, who is most reliable, reports she bought a new basic model, and was shocked to discover after doing her first load of laundry, “when set on HOT, the sensor automatically adds COLD along with the hot.” The warm is a mix of both and the COLD SETTING ADDS HOT AS WELL.”

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Do We Just Lie Down and Let Them Fool Us With Trump?

Do We Just Lie Down and Let Them Fool Us With Trump?

Do We Just Lie Down and Let Them Fool Us With Trump?

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Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:09:23 AM by reasonisfaith

One of the oldest tricks in warfare is to distract the enemy. The statists are partly succeeding in fooling us this way, with Donald Trump.

Step back, and redefine the battle. It is not a battle only against Obama.

It’s a battle against statism and against socialism.If we lose our focus, we go down.

The marxists/statists know that if they can figure out a way to stage one of their own (Trump) against another of their guys (Obama), it will take our attention away from the target, confuse us and divide us.

Evidence: Trump supported Harry Reid against the heart of the tea party, Sharron Angle. Trump wants Hillary to be Commander in Chief. He gives thousands of dollars to the most virulent leftists like that Weiner guy in Congress.

There’s more evidence that Trump could be working directly under Hillary Clinton than there is evidence he might actually care about the birth certificate.

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Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract [illegal through and through!!!]

Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract [illegal through and through!!!]

Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract [illegal through and through!!!]

Slashdot ^ | 4/17/11 | timothy

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:50:00 AM by Clint Williams

Hugh Pickens writes

“Judge Roger Hunt has unsealed the confidential agreement between Righthaven and the Las Vegas Review-Journal that has allowed Righthaven to sue over more than 250 charities, impoverished hobby bloggers, reporters, and the newspaper’s own sources, for $150,000 each in damages and forfeiture of the sites’ domain names, and the contents of the agreement could end up being ruinous for Righthaven’s campaign of copyright lawsuits. The problem is that Stephens Media, the company that owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal, didn’t actually assign any of the rights related to copyright to Righthaven except the right to sue — and that has been found in Silvers vs. Sony Pictures to be illegal under case law. In other words, none of the important things that come with a copyright — such as the right to make copies of a work, or distribute it, or make ‘derivative works’ — were handed off to Righthaven. Only the right to sue was given, and that makes the copyright transfer bogus, argue lawyers for the Democratic Underground, which is being sued for one of its website users posting the first four paragraphs of a 34 paragraph story.”

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THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE! ARE COPS CONSTITUTIONAL? POLICE AS A STANDING ARMY… and More, MUCH MORE…

THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE! ARE COPS CONSTITUTIONAL? POLICE AS A STANDING ARMY… and More, MUCH MORE…

THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE!

ARE COPS CONSTITUTIONAL?

POLICE AS A STANDING ARMY…

and More, MUCH MORE…

http://gunnyg.blogspot.com/2011/04/right-to-be-left-alone-are-cops.html#links

http://www.constitution.org/lrev/roots/cops.htm

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Glenn Beck, Reality Check Says You’re Part of the Problem| The Post & Email

BECK DENOUNCES “BIRTH CERTIFICATE” ISSUE AND MOCKS THOSE SEEKING THE TRUTH

by Nobarack08, blogging at Nobarack08

Why has Glenn Beck vehemently refused to discuss the questionable documentation of Obama’s purported birth in Hawaii? Is he afraid to be labeled a false patriot or, even worse, a traitor?

(Apr. 15, 2011) — Glenn Beck’s ranting about the ‘birthers’ has hit a low note again. The fact is that every time the issue of Barack Obama’s ineligibility surfaces into the news and it can’t be ignored, the media mouthpieces all come out of the closet and spew the same talking points as if on cue and competing for the same coveted media pageant title like Miss USA parading around in her swimsuit, spouting her version of world peace.

Glenn Beck, or as I liken him to the false patriot and profiteer: that’s right, false patriot.

Glenn likes to surround himself with bastions of society that tout the law and United States Constitution, but only to the point where it doesn’t conflict with his views and selling points.

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How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U. S. Civil War (via ~ GUNNY G: BLOGGER 1984 (+) BLOG & EMAIL ~)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898013/posts How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War Reason Papers ^ | Spring 2006 | TIMOTHY SANDEFUR http://tinyurl.com/2y8xg3 Posted on 09/17/2007 5:35:27 PM EDT by Delacon How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War By Timothy Sandefur [Reason Papers vol. 28, pp. 61-83, Spring 2006] I. Introduction For decades, outspoken libertarians have seen the Civil War not only as a h … Read More

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Obama’s Domestic Imperialism

Then, Obama delivered his transitional slight of hand; “We believe in the words of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, ‘Through government we should do together what we cannot do for ourselves as well.’” Thanks to the Washington Examiner’s research department, we now know President Lincoln’s words in context.

The actual quote: “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.”

I encourage President Obama to continue researching and quoting Abraham Lincoln. Let me suggest the following Lincoln statements:

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Eliminating the U. S. Department of Education. Save big money and improve education at the same time

Eliminating the U. S. Department of Education. Save big money and improve education at the same time

Eliminating the U. S. Department of Education. Save big money and improve education at the same time

American Thinker ^ | 04/16/2011 | Frank Ryan

Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:18:11 PM by SeekAndFind

Cosmetic budget cuts will not solve our nation’s debt woes. Real change is required to right our county. Waste must be identified, isolated, and eliminated.

One such change is to abolish the U.S. Department of Education.

The Department of Education was established to promote “student achievement and prepare them for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and insuring equal access.”

Since 1979 when

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Why Get Angry w/ Trump for Doing Heavy Lifting Lily-Livered Republicans Couldn’t be Bothered With?

Why Get Angry w/ Trump for Doing Heavy Lifting Lily-Livered Republicans Couldn’t be Bothered With?

Why Get Angry w/ Trump for Doing Heavy Lifting Lily-Livered Republicans Couldn’t be Bothered With?

Reaganite Republican ^ | April 17, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:03:42 AM by Reaganite Republican

Isn’t it kind of a loser mentality to get mad

at someone for running circles around you

while making everybody look incompetent…?

Hey, I’m not endorsing Donald Trump for president: pretty ruthless guy, I’d really have to think about it. Then there’s having to endure four -or more- years of the ceaseless bragging, I dunno lol.

But I’m absolutely delighted to see somebody, anybody actively seeking some clarification on all

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The Tea Party Could Be Republicans’ Biggest Foe Come 2012 (Mitt a “moderate conservative”)

The Tea Party Could Be Republicans’ Biggest Foe Come 2012 (Mitt a “moderate conservative”)

The Tea Party Could Be Republicans’ Biggest Foe Come 2012 (Mitt a “moderate conservative”)

The Bottom Line of UC Santa Barbara ^ | April 16, 2011 | Tim Fucci

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:30:39 AM by 2ndDivisionVet

On the heels of Barack Obama’s announcement of his 2012 reelection campaign, speculation has been mounting over which candidate Republicans will nominate to challenge Obama. But you won’t find the next Ronald Reagan in this group of potential candidates.

With 20 months left until the presidential election, the list of potential candidates is still long.

UC Santa Barbara political science professor Dr. Ted Anagnoson, who specializes in the study of the American presidency, explained that unlike in 2007, when Republicans and Democrats declared candidacy early in the year, in 2011 Republicans are still waiting to make official declarations of candidacy.

“As soon as a candidate declares

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Obama moves forward with Internet ID plan

Obama moves forward with Internet ID plan

Obama moves forward with Internet ID plan

CNET ^ | April 15, 2011 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 1:01:05 AM by UniqueViews

The Obama administration said today that it’s moving ahead with a plan for broad adoption of Internet IDs despite concerns about identity centralization, and hopes to fund pilot projects next year.

A 55-page document (PDF) released by the White House today adds a few more details to the proposal, which still remains mostly hazy and inchoate.

It offers examples of what the White House views as an “identity ecosystem,” including obtaining a digital ID from an Internet service provider that could be used to view your personal health information, or obtaining an ID linked to your cell phone that would let you log into IRS.gov to view payments and file taxes. The idea is to have multiple identity providers that are part of the same system.

Another concern: Although the White House is describing the NSTIC plan as “voluntary,” federal agencies could begin to require it for IRS e-filing, applying for Social Security or veterans’ benefits, renewing passports online, requesting federal licenses (including ham radio and pilot’s licenses), and so on. Then obtaining one of these ID would become all but mandatory for most Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.cnet.com …

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