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As Qualified Men Dwindle, Military Looks For A Few Good Women… ~ (“Locked and Cocked!”)

March 28, 2013 1 comment

As Qualified Men Dwindle, Military Looks For A Few Good Women

kdlg.org ^ | March 25, 2013 | Tom Bowman

Posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:02:43 AM by Tailgunner Joe

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LOCKED and COCKED !!!!!

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When the Pentagon said earlier this year that it would open ground combat jobs to women, it was cast in terms of giving women equal opportunities in the workplace — the military workplace.

But the move has practical considerations, too. The military needs qualified people to fill its ranks, and it’s increasingly harder to find them among men.

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Biden cites the ‘black-helicopter crowd’

March 20, 2013 Leave a comment

Biden cites the ‘black-helicopter crowd’

 

Politico ^ | 3/20/13 | DONOVAN SLACK

 

Posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:44:34 PM by Nachum

 

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Joe Biden und Barack Obama in Springfield, Illinois, right after Biden was formerly introduced by Obama as his running mate (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Vice President Joe Biden says requiring Americans to register guns would “cross a cultural line” that would incite conservatives and conspiracy theorists.

 

“The idea that you register your guns – it may make logical sense to say this, but there isn’t a constitutional right to own an automobile. There is a Second Amendment Constitutional right to own a weapon: the right to have and bear arms,” he said in an interview with NPR’sAll Things Considered.”

 

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Two smothered stories: Vets running away from Obama; even NPR fans not happy with illegal aliens « « Coach is RightCoach is Right

September 28, 2012 Leave a comment

 

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

 

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The battleground states that the media’s fake polls are assigning to Barack Obama are populated by a large number of military veterans. Florida alone has 1.6 million and Ohio Virginia and North Carolina have nearly 1 million each.

 

These numbers are extremely important because at least one Left wing media outlet Reuters, is reporting that Mitt Romney has an insurmountable 20 point lead over Barack Obama among veterans. While insisting that their Democrat skewed survey “results” are showing a growing overall lead for Obama, Reuters has been forced to acknowledge that veterans are less supportive of Obama now than they were four years ago.

 

This lead whether it is being accurately reported or shorted holds across all veteran age groups. This will be a major factor in the election because 49% of veterans are 65+ a group that intends to vote at 86%.Obama’s problem with veterans is that they are aware of his policies and hostility toward the military…….

 

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Jury Finds Baseball Star Roger Clemens Not Guilty On All Counts

June 18, 2012 Leave a comment

Jury Finds Baseball Star Roger Clemens Not Guilty On All Counts

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Posted on 06/18/2012 1:56:01 PM PDT by navysealdad

A jury found baseball star Roger Clemens not guilty on six charges that he lied to Congress in 2008 about his use of performance enhancing drugs. Clemens was charged with lying to Congress about his use of performance enhancing drugs.

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A Republican Liberation Movement

June 11, 2012 4 comments
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English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The left’s greatest fear is the emergence of a new power relationship between populist politicians and a people looking for more freedom and less control. It is the thing that terrifies them and keeps them up nights. They know that such a power relationship has the potential to sweep away everything that they have done; all the intermediaries they have built up between the people and the government; all the insulation that keeps the people away from the centers of power and keeps the centers of power away from the people.

People are not interested in abstract debates, they are interested in concrete benefits. The left has made it its mission to give them concrete benefits, while hiding the true cost of those benefits, and the restrictions that come with them. Only when people have grown used to the benefits, do they begin to experience the true cost and the power of the cage that has been built around them with their consent.

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Sen. Orrin Hatch Threatens To Punch ‘Radical Libertarians’ In The Mouth

May 23, 2012 Leave a comment

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) adopted a combative tone in a recent interview with NPR where he said that he is “doggone offended” by libertarians. He told NPR “I despise these people” and implied that he is happy to intimidate those that “dump on” him with threats of violence.

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Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World? by Patrick J. Buchanan

January 29, 2012 4 comments

U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad.

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The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as those that dethroned regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Lebanon.

The project miscarried in Belarus.The NDI is one of several agencies, dating to the 1980s, that were set up to subvert communist regimes. With the end of the Cold War, however, these agencies were not decommissioned, but recommissioned to serve as something of an American Comintern.

Where the old Comintern of Lenin sought to instigate communist revolutions across the West and its empires, post-Cold War America decided to promote democratic revolutions to remake the world in the image of late 20th century America.In 2002, McFaul wrote a book: Russia’s Unfinished Revolution.Vladimir Putin‘s men are not unreasonably asking if he was sent to Moscow to finish that revolution. Putin has already accused Hillary Clinton of flashing the signal for street demonstrations to begin – to protest Russia’s December’s elections.

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Marines, Why Do You Do This to Your Families? by Laurence M. Vance

January 9, 2012 Leave a comment

From September 27, 2010, to April 11, 2011, the approximately 1,000 Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, based at Camp Pendleton, and known as the “Darkhorse” Battalion, suffered the loss of 25 men in the Sangin district of Helmand province in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. An estimated 470 enemy fighters were killed. A favorable ratio to be sure, but still 495 deaths too many.

Beginning this past October 30 and ending on November 5, NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman did a seven-part series for All Things Considered on the Darkhorse Battalion called “‘Darkhorse’ Battalion and the Afghan War.” Here is how the series was introduced:

A year ago, nearly 1,000 U.S. Marine officers and enlisted men of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment deployed to restive Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. By the time their tour ended in April 2011, the Marines of the 3/5 – known as “Darkhorse” – suffered the highest casualty rate of any Marine unit during the past 10 years of war. This week, NPR tells the story of this unit’s seven long months at war – both in Afghanistan and back home.

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Suspicious Activity Reports From U.S. Malls Being Processed By Police State Fusion Centers

December 29, 2011 1 comment

Suspicious Activity Reports From U.S. Malls Being Processed By Police State Fusion Centers

SHTFPlan ^ | 12/29/2011 | Mac Slavo

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Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:43:54 PM by JohnKinAK

It didn’t take long for the See Something, Say Something campaign initiated by the Department of Homeland Security last year to show promising results. According to a report from St. Paul Minnesota’s KARE11 and NPR, actionable human intelligence is on the rise at the nation’s largest mall, and it’s being cross-referenced with personal information and threat assessments via the recently made public nationwide network of government Fusion centers.

While a mystery to most Americans, the existence of Fusion centers recently made waves when they were brought to the mainstream public’s attention by talk show host Alex Jones and former governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura. As we highlighted in everything you do is monitored, fusion centers are the digital backbone of the modern day domestic spying network and make it possible to track, itemize, aggregate and analyze the personal activities of every American.

Now, those fusion centers have new intelligence assets to draw on for information – your friends, neighbors and fellow citizens – and many of them are delighted to help.

Brad Kleinerman entered the spooky world of homeland security.

As he shopped for a children’s watch inside the sprawling Mall of America, two security guards approached and began questioning him. Although he was not accused of wrongdoing, the guards filed a confidential report about Kleinerman that was forwarded to local police.

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Krauthammer Slams Nina Totenberg: ‘I’m in the Middle of a Sentence’

November 28, 2011 Leave a comment

Krauthammer Slams Nina Totenberg: ‘I’m in the Middle of a Sentence’

Breitbart.com ^ | 11-27-11

Posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 3:08:51 PM by STARWISE

“I’m in the middle of a sentence, and I am going to get to the end, and I will let you know with punctuation, alright?”

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When Will the Media Do an Anal Exam of Obama Like They Do of Every Republican?

November 22, 2011 Leave a comment
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When Will the Media Do an Anal Exam of Obama Like They Do of Every Republican?.

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RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you something. We got another Republican debate tonight. It’s sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. It’s gonna be moderated by Wolf Blitzer, CNN. It’s gonna be broadcast by CNN. It’s a Heritage Foundation debate on foreign policy. And from what I’m told, old Wolf is out there preparing a response to Newt Gingrich if Newt chides him for the way he’s conducting things as the moderator.

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Lawyer: Cain May Have Violated Confidentiality of Harassment Settlement

November 1, 2011 Leave a comment

The lawyer for a woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in the late 1990s says that Cain may have violated the confidentiality terms of the agreement by commenting on its specifics over the past 24 hours.

“Herman Cain and others have already disclosed that there was a confidential settlement,” says Joel P. Bennett, a Washington-based attorney specializing in employment law, who also represented the woman when she negotiated her settlement.

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“I don’t know if she’ll ever go public,” he said Tuesday.

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Without having the agreement in hand, Bennett says he doesn’t know what it specifically says about Cain’s obligations under the non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses.

“I haven’t seen the agreement” in a dozen years, he said. “I haven’t seen whether it goes both ways.”

But even if it doesn’t, Bennett says, “If an employer makes a confidential agreement, and then discloses it, there’s a reasonable assumption that the employer has waived the confidentiality part of the agreement.”

Bennett said his client, a graduate of an Ivy League university, worked in professional positions in government for many years before her tenure at the restaurant lobbying group, and does so currently.

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Did Juan Williams Link Christians to The Oklahoma City Bombing?

October 29, 2011 1 comment

Did Juan Williams Link Christians to The Oklahoma City Bombing?
Big Journalism ^ | 10/28/11 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:05:58 AM by ZGuy

In his recent assessment of his year since he was unceremoniously — and illicitly in many folks’ estimation — fired by NPR, Juan Williams indulged one of those fallacious assumptions that just screams left-wing spin. It is the sort of straw man argument that casts aspersions on others — this time against Christians — while pretending to be the logical adult in the room, not to mention while pretending not to be casting aspersions. It is a logical sleight of hand that many liberals use.

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Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: ‘The Problem That We Have Here is the Constitution’

August 7, 2011 1 comment

Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: ‘The Problem That We Have Here is the Constitution’

Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: ‘The Problem That We Have Here is the Constitution’:

ABC’s Cokie Roberts said something on national television Sunday that made her colleague George Will shake his head on camera.

via BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984(+): Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: ‘The Problem That We Have Here is the Constitution’.

Obama’s Contempt for the U.S. Constitution (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))

July 30, 2011 Leave a comment

UNDISGUISED CONTEMPT Selwyn Duke, in the American Thinker, writes, “Leftists…could attempt to change the Constitution so that it reflects their agenda, but this is a long, drawn-out, difficult process that requires, of all things, actual public support for your aims. And it’s easier to change the courts – and install `ideological’ justices who will impose left-wing orthodoxy from the bench – than the will of the subjects. Consider that liberals a … Read More

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Bill Clinton Calls For Internet ‘Ministry of Truth’

May 19, 2011 1 comment

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Mr Bill “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” Clinton, a man who knowingly lied to the nation on live television at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, has called for the creation of an Internet ‘ministry of truth’ style organization that would be run by the federal government or the UN to address “misinformation and rumors floating on the Internet.”

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Why Don’t We Hear About Soros’ Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations? – FoxNews.com

May 17, 2011 Leave a comment

Why Don’t We Hear About Soros’ Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations?

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Published May 11, 2011

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Editor’s note: This is the first of a two part series on George Soros and the media.

When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.

Prominent journalists like ABC’s Christiane Amanpour and former Washington Post editor and now Vice President Len Downie serve on boards of operations that take Soros cash. This despite the Society of Professional Journalists‘ ethical code stating: “avoid all conflicts real or perceived.”

This information is part of an upcoming report by the Media Research Centers Business & Media Institute which has been looking into George Soros and his influence on the media.

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JUAN WILLIAMS: I Get Nervous Walking Past Young Black Men

March 19, 2011 Leave a comment

he most interesting part of the interview came at the end with this exchange, especially since it seemed to come out of nowhere:Helmand: “I happen to agree with Schiller that your comments were bigoted. I think that if I were to say that I clutch my purse every time I walk by a black man that might resonate with a lot of Americans.

It might be the truth but it’s a bigoted statement. I certainly wouldn’t have fired you but I do think there was some truth in that video that we don’t get to talk about because we are afraid to have actual discourse in this country.”Williams: “I can’t believe that you just said that. You think that simply saying what you think is evidence of bigotry that all of a sudden it’s as if you were walking by a black man that would mean if you were bigoted if you were somewhat nervous.

Let me just tell you, with the amount of black on black crime in America, I get nervous and I’m a black man. So, I mean, wait a second…

“Helmand: “There we go again, Juan. I would find that to be racial profiling that’s a bigoted comment.”

via JUAN WILLIAMS: I Get Nervous Walking Past Young Black Men.

The Media and the Republicans

March 18, 2011 Leave a comment

The American mainstream media, once the most dominant news gathering entity in the world, has lost its credibility and is in the process of losing its influence. Yet the Republicans and some conservative intelligentsia in Washington D.C. still foolishly curry the media’s favor, cower in fear of their by-gone power and do not understand their motives and mindless acquiescence to group-think mentality.

via The Media and the Republicans.

NPR: Entertaining Our Way To Socialism

March 9, 2011 Leave a comment

In a way, the history of National Public Radio, now known simply as NPR, follows the slow, incremental creep of America toward socialism. Its very existence, in fact, serves as a milestone along the socialist path, since it was created by an act of government — the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. The legislation was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the liberal Democrat who beat conservative Republican Barry Goldwater in a crucial presidential race in 1964.

via NPR: Entertaining Our Way To Socialism.

Obama’s Contempt for the U.S. Constitution

March 1, 2011 Leave a comment

UNDISGUISED CONTEMPT

Selwyn Duke, in the American Thinker, writes, “Leftists…could attempt to change the Constitution so that it reflects their agenda, but this is a long, drawn-out, difficult process that requires, of all things, actual public support for your aims. And it’s easier to change the courts – and install `ideological’ justices who will impose left-wing orthodoxy from the bench – than the will of the subjects.

Consider that liberals are ever trying to destroy tradition, as it stands in the way of progressivism. Consider that a consistent definition of liberalism – one that epitomizes the modern left those progressives – involves the desire to change the status quo. So what it means is that, by definition, a liberal who understands the Constitution cannot believe in it.”Aha! So that is why Obama told an NPR radio interviewer in 2001 that the Warren Court did not “break free from the essential constraints” found in the Constitution and therefore one of the “tragedies” of the civil rights movement was that “the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth…”

Upon hearing a tape of the interview, Ed Morrissey of CaptainsQuarters blog fame, “The government does not exist to determine the acceptable level of wealth of its individual citizens. For government to assume that role, it would have to end private property rights and assume all property belonged to the State. That is classic Marxism. Barack Obama complains that the Constitution is a `charter of negative liberties.’ That’s because the Constitution was intended as a limiting document, to curtail the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states and the individual.

Barack Obama wants to reverse that entirely.

And that’s radical change you’d better believe in, or else.”

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Police Officers FIRED for being TEA Party Members

October 27, 2010 Leave a comment

Before It’s NewsOct 27, 2010

Today I received a plea for help from the Tawakoni Area TEA Party.

They have a Mayor that is out of control and hates the TEA Party too.

He has fired 2 long time officers for no other apparent reason than the simple fact that they belong to the local TEA Party chapter.West Tawakoni is a small town in East Texas, they don’t have a lot of TEA Party members and I am not sure how well connected to the media they are, but I know how connected I am, and I know that I have friends in the powerful, and LARGE Dallas TEA Party.

I an certain that they will want to get involved in this.This has been sent to Drudge, Breitbart, FOX and Friends, several local media here in the Dallas area, but I can’t stress this enough, the MEDIA needs to get ALL OVER this one. If you have ANY contacts in the media, send this to them.

The media, and most of Conservative America got their knickers in a twist over Juan Williams being fired by NPR, a case that was, in MY opinion, a libber reaping what he had sown, but if Conservative America can get involved and outraged over that, what will their reaction to this be?I sincerely hope it’s not one of apathy.

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Please, feel free to forward this to your email list and to ALL media that you may have contact with! It is that important!From Lake Tawakoni Area TEA Party News

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Video: Dem Congressman: Juan Williams Is “Un-American”

October 25, 2010 Leave a comment

Rep. Keith Ellison D-Minn. appeared on the Ed Schultz show and said Juan Williams is ‘Un-American’ and people like him contribute to ‘profiling and harassing Americans’ for his comments last week on Muslim airline passengers. Schultz agreed and said the Congressman’s comments were ‘right on the mark’.Williams responded to his firing by saying NPR was looking for a reason to get rid of him, and jumped all over the comments to do so.

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