My friends, I was very, very wrong and for that, I am terribly sorry. I said that I believed that the entire Benghazi, Libya debacle was over-hyped by the Republicans; and I still believe that, to a point. However, there are many things that have come up since then, which I simply cannot defend. They are: The IRS …
It’s stuff like this here, that makes my blood boil about this Presidential Administration. The Video: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The Story: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, in an extensive interview with Fox News, alleged that the injured survivors of the Benghazi terror attack have been “told to be quiet” and feel they can’t come forward …
I hate be a part of the right-wing echo chamber, but what the hell already! These idiots are bitching about a budget and they are doing stupid stuff like this, what the hell! Quote: With the White House closing its doors to public tour groups in order to save money for the sequester, it’s worth …
This is very interesting: (H/T InstaPundit) David Petraeus was betrayed by his own bodyguards and vengeful high-ranking enemies in the CIA, who made sure his affair with his biographer was exposed to the public, a new book claims. MailOnline can reveal a new angle on the story that rocked Washington last fall. It comes from …
Hmmmmm… Maybe Cornell West has a point: The dismissal of an investigation into major media companies suspected of giving clients a sneak peek at crucial data drew great surprise on Wall Street, where traders make their living profiting from blips of information moving at the speed of light. Federal authorities had been pursuing allegations that …
I have mixed feelings about this one: “Soldiers with minority religious beliefs and atheists often feel like second-class citizens when Christianity is seemingly officially endorsed by their own base,” American Atheists president David Silverman told Fox News. “We are very happy the Pentagon and the Army decided to do the right thing.” A military spokesman …
Just thought I’d answer a progressive blogger. Digby who runs Hullabaloo, which is a left-wing blogger, reacting to this story here, asks the following: I have to say that while Scott Walker is clearly the meanest of all the GOP wingut Governors (and Jan Brewer is clearly the dumbest) Rick Scott has got to be …
A very good point: Obama won two elections giving voice to these policies, but within the neocon-dominated punditocracy and a Congress subject to pressure by the increasingly extremist American Israel Public Affairs Committee, they are akin to kryptonite. Hagel’s critics have been quick to unsheathe the McCarthyite tactics employed whenever opposition to any position of …
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They are still at it….: You might think that President Obama’s comfortable reelection last month would put an end to the Republican birther conspiracy. But if you do, you don’t know Arizona Republicans. The latest battle for the movement that believes Barack Obama is ineligible to be President was fought Monday at the state’s Electoral …
I guess that is another promise broken, WaPo reports: At a meeting with the Business Roundtable on Wednesday morning, President Obama publicly warned Republicans that he would not negotiate over the debt ceiling. But after those opening remarks, reporters were ushered out of the room so Obama could talk to the gathered CEOs in private. …
Erick Rush writing at Canada Free Press, which has a ton more ads that I will ever have here: On November 19, Pravda’s Xavier Lerma wrote an article asserting that President (I use the term loosely) Barack Obama had been re-elected “by an illiterate society.” Some conservatives have been wont to dismiss and ridicule some …
Because if this here is any indication, we’re screwed. WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Fears of going over the fiscal cliff were showing signs of receding on Wednesday, as both Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama indicated optimism about reaching a deal and U.S. stock markets rose. In comments early Wednesday morning, Boehner said he was …
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Because this is nothing more than this Presidential Administration trying to run this oil company out of business: WASHINGTON — Government officials have temporarily banned BP from new federal contracts because of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill that killed 11 workers and polluted hundreds of miles of Gulf of Mexico shoreline. The Environmental Protection Agency …
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I have noticed this as of late, First the Christmas tree thing, and this: President Obama and his daughters went shopping at an independent bookstore in Arlington on “Small Business Saturday,” the annual marketing event for promoting mom-and-pop shops across the country. According to press reports, the president picked up 15 children’s books in about 20 …
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For having brass gonads to ask this of black Christians. Of course, they’ll play the card with him.