Harry Reid has described opponents of the controversial government healthcare bill as equivalent to those who opposed an immediate end to slavery. “You think you’ve heard these same excuses before? You’re right,” Reid said. “In this country there were those who dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down, it’s too early. Let’s wait. Things [...]
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The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a video today asking who should held accountable for “Fast and Furious,” a scandalous Department of Justice operation that purposefully put assault weapons into the hands of Mexican drug lords and is now blamed for killing hundreds of people, including U.S. border agents. The video takes [...]
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Senate Republicans vow they will retaliate for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) decision to unilaterally change the Senate’s rules Thursday without prior warning or negotiation. Republican aides say their bosses will now be even more reluctant to allow the Senate to conduct routine business by unanimous consent, forcing Reid to gather 60 votes for [...]
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On Thursday, the US senate was poised to cast a pro forma vote on final passage of a China currency bill when Senate Republicans attempted to use the rules of the Senate to attach a post-cloture amendment. The Republican amendment would have required a vote on President Obama’s jobs bill, forcing Democrats to vote on the plan the president [...]
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A former fundraiser for President Obama lobbied the administration to approve a loan guarnatee for the now-bankrupt solar firm Solyndra despite a conflict of interest with his wife’s law firm, according to the Associated Press. The report on White House emails sheds new light on the role of a former fundraiser for President Obama in [...]
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Everyone knows that the term fascist is a pejorative, often used to describe any political position a speaker doesn’t like. There isn’t anyone around who is willing to stand up and say, “I’m a fascist; I think fascism is a great social and economic system.” But I submit that if they were honest, the vast [...]
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As of three weeks ago, the Federal Reserve openly and brazenly violated its own professed purpose of “maintaining the stability of the financial system of the United States” and declared that it will lend US dollars for the bail-out of a sovereign foreign nation that has proven unable to exercise even the lowest level of financial discipline [...]
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Jonathan Silver, administrator of the U.S. Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, is resigning from his post, Fox News reports. Until now, Silver was the head of the DOE’s Loan Programs office. That office oversaw the program that gave now-bankrupt Solyndra its $535 million loan guarantee. The transaction left taxpayers on the hook when the [...]
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Joe Biden, speaking at a conference earlier today, said what a lot of Americans have on their minds. “A significant majority of the American people believe that the country is not moving in the right direction,” Biden said. “That is never a good place to be going into reelection whether it’s your fault or not [...]
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A Wisconsin judge has decided – in a fight over families’ access to milk from cows they own – that Americans “do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow.” The ruling comes from Circuit Court Judge Patrick J. Fiedler in a court fight involving a number of families who owned [...]
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‘Call to action’ says purge of corruption required to restore constitutional republic Back quite a few years ago when the American people were suffering under a despot called King George III they drew up a list of his offenses and told him they were not going to allow his government by fiat to be “destructive” [...]
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Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that Obama administration officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious might be accessories to murder. “We’re talking about consequences of criminal activity, where we actually allowed guns to walk into the hands of criminals, where our livelihoods are at risk,” Gosar said in [...]
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The Obama administration passed another fiscal milestone this week, according to new data released by the Treasury Department. As of the close of business on Oct. 3, the total national debt was $14,837,099,271,196.71—up about $44.8 billion from Sept. 30. That means that in the less-than-three-years Obama has been in office, the federal debt has increased [...]
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Families were more dependent on government programs than ever last year. Nearly half, 48.5%, of the population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2010, according to Census data. Those numbers have risen since the middle of the recession when 44.4% lived households receiving benefits in [...]
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Apparently Barack Obama marched with the New Black Panthers in Selma, AL during his 2007 presidential campaign. The photos were uploaded to the photo sharing website Flickr, but have since been scrubbed clean, but someone was smart enough to get some screenshots before they were taken down. These photos sort of make the voter intimidation [...]
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