First it was the Republicans and now the Democrats are getting into the act. The Video: The Story via the Daily Caller: While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against …
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 …
The truth comes about the Republicans paid parrot on Libya: “He was removed from here because he was a disaster as a manager,” the second employee went on to say, expressing the belief that Hicks’ reassignment had “nothing to do with him being a whistleblower, it had everything to do with his management capacity or …
I know I have written about this subject before and now, I believe my opinion is changing. For the record, I believe that the terrorist attack in Libya was a tragic event. But, these hearings make me want to vomit. …and here is why: Look who is representing these “Whistleblowers”, Via the BooMan Tribune: (H/T …
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Boy, the GOP sure is hell-bent on losing and I mean, badly in 2016 aren’t they? Go read. Freakin’ idiots deluxe. Others: david-frum, Facebook, No More Mister Nice Blog, A plain blog about politics, Post Politics, The Week, First Read, Politico, Power Line, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, The Moderate Voice, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and The Hinterland Gazette
….with me anyhow….. I admit it, I actually used to respect Glenn Beck; his teachings on the socialist left, when he was with Fox News Channel was invaluable to me. I used to love the Chalkboard thing. I even checked to see, using various sources; to see if he was right or not; and, most …
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I saw this at HotAir.com yesterday, and I thought I would write a little something about it. Quoting Mike Huckabee in the Christian Post: “And it’s not because there’s an anti-homosexual mood, and nobody’s homophobic that I know of,” he continued, “but many of us, and I consider myself included, base our standards not on …
If this one does not make you misty eyed, nothing ever will. Via AlterNet: (Update: Original found here) I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I …
A perfect example of which can be found below here: So what happened to Detroit? MLK’s “Dream” came true…America’s founding principles of liberty, equality, and democracy came true for black people, and full citizenship and civil rights were extended to millions of African-Americans, who had previously been marginalized and excluded from the mainstream of American …
Pat Caddell: Pat Caddell, the Fox News Contributor and Democrat pollster who engineered Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential victory, blew the lid off CPAC on Thursday with a blistering attack on “racketeering” Republican consultants who play wealthy donors like “marks.” “I blame the donors who allow themselves to be played for marks. I blame the …
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The first is from Daniel Larison from The American Conservative: The funny thing about this quote is how often his defenders and supporters would use this same argument during the election to protect him against criticism. Romney supporters often relied on his record as a famously unprincipled political weather-vane to defend him against any substantive …
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It appears so: For the last four years, Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and the American Freedom Defense Initiative have held events at CPAC featuring guests she invites to discuss the influence of Islamism on America. But this year, the American Conservative Union (ACU) has no room for Geller or her message. In 2009, she brought …
In light of the grilling that Chuck Hagel received at the hands of the Jewish right, Paul Abrams has some very tough questions for John McCain: 1. You are trying to establish accountability for Benghazi where four Americans tragically died. For clarification, nearly 12 years later, could you tell us whom you hold accountable for …
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This is what happens when you invade sovereign nations based upon bad intelligence and do not bother to verify said intelligence. BAGHDAD – Car bombs struck two outdoor markets and a group of taxi vans in Shiite areas across Iraq on Friday, killing at least 36 people and wounding nearly 100 in the bloodiest day in more than two …
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That is that the Democrats have basically told the “Blue Dogs” to piss off and die: With his suddenly aggressive second-term agenda, President Obama is recasting the Democratic Party around the priorities of the growing coalition that reelected him—and, in the process, reshaping the debate with the GOP in ways that will reverberate through 2016 …
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