tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63239860202175547052024-03-13T09:47:18.298-04:00Dell's Bottom LineNews, Commentary, Sports, Weather, Music...You're liable to find "all of the above" right here.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger789125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-56358657953586009052012-02-09T19:46:00.001-05:002012-02-09T19:48:09.774-05:00Kidney Stones Sideline Elderly Blogger<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just so y'all know; I had both kidneys rid of kidney stones on Wednesday and am still a little "under the weather" today. Had to break down and use the pain meds the doctor prescribed. It may be another day or two before I'm back in the saddle. Thanks for your thoughts, prayers and well-wishes. I appreciate every one of you far more than you know. - DRH</span></b><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-4816738796173498392012-02-09T13:09:00.000-05:002012-02-09T13:09:33.226-05:00CPAC Coverage From CSPAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The CSPAN streaming video feed seems to be the most reliable for CPAC coverage. You can access the streaming feed here:</span></b></div><div style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></b></div><b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"> http://www.c-span.org/Events/CPAC-Holds-Three-Day-Convention-in-Washington/10737428085/</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-1910061436483455722012-02-08T20:15:00.001-05:002012-02-08T20:17:13.268-05:00VA No-Shariah-Here Bill In Play: Will MD Man Up Soon?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://blueridgeforum.com/?p=4270" id="internal-source-marker_0.9048330058241393"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">VA No-Shariah-Here Bill In Play: Will MD Man Up Soon?</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
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<h2 dir="ltr"><a href="http://blueridgeforum.com/?p=4270"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">VA No-Shariah-Here Bill In Play: Will MD Man Up Soon?</span></a></h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UPDATE FEBRUARY 7! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Much skullduggery is afoot in Richmond!” Pamela Geller</span><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/02/afdisioa-action-alert-virginia-shariah-vote.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">highlights</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> activist Jim Lafferty’s warning.</span><br />
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<a href="http://bobmarshall2012.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Virginia U.S. Senate primary candidate</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and long-time independent-thinking Republican delegate</span><a href="http://delegatebob.com/meet-bob"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bob Marshall</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is the patron (sponsor) of</span><a href="http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB825"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">HB 825</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, limiting the application of foreign law in Virginia courts or administrative proceedings.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Today Marshall</span><a href="http://www.marylandthursdaymeeting.com/Archives/SpecialWebDocuments.2012/2012.02.06.Bob.Marshall.HB825.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">reports:</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“My HB 825 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB825"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB825</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> provides that no Virginia court or administrative agency may apply foreign law unless required or authorized by the US or Virginia Constitutions or federal or Virginia law. HB 825 passed the Courts Committee 10-6 Friday (2-3-12) despite a barrage of misinformation. (Two Republicans opposed HB 825, one Democrat voted yes.) I anticipate vigorous opposition when it is debated on the floor of the House of Delegates, possibly </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">as early as this coming Tuesday! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[Highlighting and underscoring </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Forum’s</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">]</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The portion of HB 825 dealing with Virginia courts is virtually identical to a bill in Congress (HR 973) introduced by Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) which has 84 co-sponsors including seven Chairmen of House Committees, one former Attorney General of California now in Congress, two Committee Vice Chairmen, and five Virginia Republican Members of Congress.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please read my analysis below and forward this email to your friends and then contact your member of the VA House of Delegates ASAP: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[Contact your delegate:</span><a href="http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">]</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Readers are urged carefully to review Marshall’s</span><a href="http://www.marylandthursdaymeeting.com/Archives/SpecialWebDocuments.2012/2012.02.06.Bob.Marshall.HB825.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">entire report</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+H08V0122+HB0825"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is last Friday’s committee vote in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">House of Delegates Courts of Justice</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> panel on HB 825.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile the</span><a href="http://www.adamscenter.org/about-us"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Adams Center</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All Dulles Area Muslim Society</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) urges their faithful</span><a href="http://www.adamscenter.org/announcements/Action__Alert__-__VA__HB__825__-__Contact__VA__Delegates"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to —</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For background on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the American Law for American Courts</span><a href="http://publicpolicyalliance.org/?page_id=2"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">movement</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, see their guiding principles and model statute</span><a href="http://publicpolicyalliance.org/?page_id=38"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> –</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By promoting American Laws for American Courts, we are preserving </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">individual</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> liberties and freedoms which become eroded by the encroachment of foreign laws and foreign legal doctrines, such as Shariah.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York (Jersey) Giants returned from their Super Bowl victory to a planned hero’s welcome in the Big Apple, complete with ticker tape, open top convertibles, keys to the city and all the trimmings. They should be justifiably proud of their accomplishment, and their fans deserve a quick victory lap to mark the occasion. But, as Doug Mataconis notes over at Outside the Beltway, isn’t there another parade which</span><a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/a-parade-for-iraq-war-vets/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">we’re still waiting for</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? He’s making reference to</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/nyregion/calls-for-a-new-york-parade-honoring-iraq-veterans.html?_r=1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">an article by Kate Taylor</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At least one large city, St. Louis, has gone ahead with a parade for Iraq veterans, on Jan. 28. And on Monday, the White House announced that President Obama and the first lady, Michelle Obama, would hold a dinner on Feb. 29 to honor troops who had served in Iraq.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But the Defense Department, noting that American soldiers are still fighting in Afghanistan, says it is too soon for a celebration with the recognition and symbolism of a New York City parade.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Col. David Lapan, a spokesman for Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, “We simply don’t think a national-level parade is appropriate while we continue to have America’s sons and daughters in harm’s way.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pentagon’s position doesn’t really make sense. Iraq and Afghanistan are, after all, separate conflicts fought in separate countries for very different reasons. While there’s no small degree of overlap between veterans of the two conflicts, it seems somewhat silly to say that veterans from the Iraq War shouldn’t be honored until the conflict in Afghanistan is over, or as long as American troops are “in harm’s way,” which seems pretty darn open ended to me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s certainly not the way we’ve handled these things in the past. When the V-E Day came in May 1945, the nation didn’t wait to celebrate that achievement until V-J Day had come three months later (and few people had reason to know that the end of the war in the Pacific Theater might be that near at the time). In fact, on</span><a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/a-parade-for-iraq-war-vets/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ticker-tape_parades_in_New_York_City"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">June 10th, 1945</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, just a month after the end of the conflict in Europe, New York City held a ticker-tape parade for General Dwight D. Eisenhower while the conflict in the Pacific still raged.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m a Giants fan. Always have been. Named my youngest son after NFL great Kyle Rote Sr., running back for the New York Football Giants. And the Giants certainly earned a SuperBowl victory parade.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But refusing to honor our military Veterans is a disgrace. Shame on all concerned.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-34418460007718940362012-02-07T15:11:00.000-05:002012-02-07T15:11:13.452-05:00Break The Democrat’s Strangle Hold On The Senate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22772046364061582" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Break The Democrat’s Strangle Hold On The Senate</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If I have to start hitting people between the eyes with a 2 x 4, I’ll do it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Republican Presidential primary season has everyone talking presidential politics and forgetting what could turn out to be the most important issue of the year - CONTROL OF THE SENATE.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even if the President should win re-election, it’s the control of the Senate that will make all of the difference.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The slate of Senate elections will heavily favor Republicans in 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Democrats will defend 23 seats, while Republicans will defend 10. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Six Democratic incumbents have declined to run: Sens. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Nelson, and Jim Webb of Virginia. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Republicans, by contrast, have only one vulnerable seat left open, vacated by retiring Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Democrats will face between eight and 11 competitive races to defend seats they currently hold. The most competitive Democratic-held seats represent Hawaii, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Republicans, meanwhile, will face only two to four competitive races to hold onto seats. Competitive GOP-held seats will be contested in Arizona, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Nevada.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dell’s Bottom Line:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It won’t be easy, but control of the Senate is within reach. Great strides were made in 2010 and there’s absolutely no good reason why that job can’t be completed in 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Find out the status of YOUR state’s senatorial campaign and act accordingly. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Football Giants won the SuperBowl and it was - as you might expect - a wild party atmosphere on the plane ride home!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will New York celebrate the SuperBowl victory with a parade?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or will the Big Apple continue it’s tradition of having no parades for winners??? After all, there was just one winner and many, many losers. Don’t we have to be considerate of the feelings of those who didn’t win the big game?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the story of two sex addicts. Not just any two, mind you. Two very prominent men with a history of cheating on their spouses and how the major media outlets have reacted to both.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You may - or may not - have heard this story within the past 24 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/9062444/John-F-Kennedys-mistress-details-their-affair-in-new-book.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mimi Alford </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says she was a 19-year-old virgin just a few days into an internship at the White House when Kennedy seduced her in his wife’s bedroom following a pool party with two close aides and other young women.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I was in shock,” she wrote. “He, on the other hand, was matter-of-fact, and acted as if what had just occurred was the most natural thing in the world.” They kept up the affair after she left Washington to go to college, and she last slept with him just three days before his fatal trip to Dallas when he told her: “I wish you could come with me to Texas. I’ll call you when I get back.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The now 69-year-old retired church administrator, who lives in New York City, uses the memoir, called Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath, to set out in sometimes graphic detail how she spent days and occasionally nights with the notoriously sex-addicted president.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She tells how he refused to kiss her on the lips, and once instructed her to perform a sex act on one of his friends, which she did. On another occasion, he asked her to similarly “look after” his younger brother Teddy, but she refused.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus far, the American media have avoided this report like the plague. To them it’s just one more “mistress story” that really isn’t news.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But wait! This “mistress” certainly earned top billing on all of the alphabet channels in May of last year.</span><br />
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/schwarzenegger-children-tweet-reaction-dads-fathering-kid-household/story?id=13618503"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mildred Patricia Baena is the woman with whom former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a son</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> about 14 years ago, ABC News has learned.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birth records show Schwarzenegger's son Christopher and his newly revealed child were born less than a week apart.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Known as Patty, Baena</span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/schwarzenegger-love-child-echoes-power-brokers-affairs/story?id=13622992"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">reportedly worked in the famliy home as a housekeeper</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and assistant for more than 20 years, until January.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amid the public speculation,</span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/women-walk/story?id=13622581"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Schwarzenegger's wife and mother to four of his children, Maria Shriver</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, was in Chicago Tuesday at the star-studded tribute to Oprah Winfrey, which also featured appearances from Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Madonna, and ABC News' Diane Sawyer.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wearing a glittering blue halter gown, the former first lady of California didn't appear to show any evidence of her recent marital troubles as she paid tribute to her friend Winfrey.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"For more than 30 years you have bestowed upon me the most amazing friendship. You have shown love, support, wisdom, and most of all, the truth …," Shriver said, pausing for a moment after she uttered the phrase "the truth."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quite typical of the top story reported by every legacy media outlet and you can read the ABC News story by </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-arnold-schwarzeneggers-love-child-revealed/story?id=13626896#.TzAZA-TF-So"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">clicking right here.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The President of the United States - a man said by many to have a serious addiction to sex with a long list of bedroom conquests - is cited for seducing a 19 year old intern in his wife’s bedroom and that isn’t newsworthy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Governor of California - a man said by many to have a serious addiction to sex with a long list of bedroom conquests - is reported to have a child outside of his marriage and it’s bulletin material for the legacy media. And it stayed that way for several weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Notice any bias here???</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The legacy media will go to great lengths to protect it’s “Camelot President”, John Fitzgerald Kennedy - a notorious womanizer - and will maul the Governor of California for doing exactly the same thing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did I mention the political party affiliation of these these two models of decency represent? No, and I don’t have to.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-87986489933216490972012-02-06T12:42:00.000-05:002012-02-06T12:42:58.043-05:00Secret Romney - Santorum ‘Deal’ Never Happened<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9792490166195779" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Secret Romney - Santorum ‘Deal’ Never Happened</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So very much of what most call “news” during a heated political campaign is really just guesswork and conjecture. A case in point; recent headlines suggested strongly that Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum had reached some sort of agreement NOT to attack each other during the primary campaign. That suggestion is hogwash.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/06/romney-turns-guns-on-santorum/">“Generally speaking</a>, political campaigns don’t waste time or effort attacking competitors who pose no threat to their standing. The Mitt Romney campaign has mostly focused on Newt Gingrich for its attacks, which made sense in December and January, as Gingrich had the poll standing and the cash to pose a serious threat — a threat fulfilled in South Carolina. Now, however, the Romney campaign</span><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-shifts-targets-to-santorum"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">has a new target</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The campaign has sent out three press releases attacking the former Pennsylvania senator in the past 24 hours — and is trotting out lead-surrogate former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to attack Santorum in a conference call this afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Rick Santorum is a nice guy, but he is simply not ready to be President,” Pawlenty said in a statement released by the Romney campaign. Pawlenty also attacked Santorum for his record as “pork-barrel spender” who is not as conservative as he presents himself to be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The new focus is a response to Santorum’s strong position leading up to Tuesday’s Minnesota caucus, leading Romney 29% to 27% in a Saturday poll by the Democrat-leaning </span><a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_COMO_205.pdf"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Public Policy Polling.</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Additionally, Santorum has been the only candidate who seems capable of tripping up the usually-unflappable Romney. In the two Florida debates, Santorum drew blood with attacks on the Massachusetts health care law Romney championed. The Romney campaign issued a separate list of Santorum’s “false attacks” on Romney’s signature legislative achievement in the Bay State.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dell’s Bottom Line:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stay involved in the process and absorb as much information as possible, but don’t buy everything every camp is selling. This is a prime example. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mitt Romney didn’t attack Rick Santorum because, at the time, Santorum was not a threat and it would have been a waste of time, money and energy to stomp on a dying horse. Far better to attack the candidate who poses the most formidable threat - in this case, Newt Gingrich. But, now that the worm has turned, so to speak, and Santorum is raising eyebrows, the Romney campaign has turned it’s guns around.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Romney camp would love it if Santorum ran out of money and steam today! The Santorum camp is holding on for dear life and hopes to stay at least in third place (or higher) in the race because the guy in third is carrying the vital swing votes for one of the top two. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s the same reason Ron Paul is still with us. He’d like that third spot, if possible, to carry political muscle into the process - especially at the convention. That prospect continues to dim on a daily basis. Netting just 7% of the vote in Florida - after many years of campaigning on the very same issues - had to be the death knell for Dr. Paul’s presidential hopes. Third place is the best he can hope for and recent Santorum support would tend to put the final nail in the Paul political coffin. That’s not to say he won’t hang around and/or run as a third party candidate, it just means he’s done as a viable candidate for this year’s Republican party nomination. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-8969208528486930622012-02-06T11:33:00.000-05:002012-02-06T11:33:29.806-05:00Brian Williams Is ‘Rude’ And ‘Vulgar’ - The Legacy Media<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.18032042299574125" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Williams Is ‘Rude’ And ‘Vulgar’ - The Legacy Media</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“This is just another sign of the growing incivility and really vulgarity of our modern American politics in campaigns. These campaigns have gotten so ugly and so nasty, that they’re now tarnishing the whole system....I can never recall a President stepping off Air Force One, which is itself a symbol of the presidency in American democracy, and being subjected to such public rudeness. I think really we’re a better people than this little incident illustrates.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The fact is, when I see that still, I cannot help but to be reminded of the still photograph that was captured in 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, of the young woman Hazel screaming at a young Elizabeth Eckford on her way trying to get into Little Rock High School, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas....That image captured all of the ugliness, all of the nastiness of the larger political milieu, and I feel that this picture [of Governor Brewer and President Obama] does as well.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">— Newly-hired MSNBC weekend anchor Melissa Harris-Perry on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, January 26.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Finger pointing — that photo everybody was talking about today. Who have you ever seen talking to the President like this?...The governor of Arizona with her finger in the face of the President of the United States. You don’t see that often or maybe ever....”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">— Brian Williams on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NBC Nightly News</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, January 26. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It would seem reasonable to conclude that Brian Williams is, therefore, rude and vulgar, but you won’t see this photo on any of the alphabet networks. And I doubt strongly that Brian Williams will ever show it either.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-71768391090456945642012-02-05T18:43:00.000-05:002012-02-05T18:43:42.123-05:00Recovery? What Freakin’ Recovery? Doug Ross Unloads<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.2879633889366735" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Recovery? What Freakin’ Recovery?</span><br />
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<h3 dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/02/dear-pro-journalists-if-economy-is.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear pro journalists: if the economy is improving...</span></a></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...then</span><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/if-the-economy-is-improving"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">perhaps you could explain</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why did new home sales in the United States hit a brand new</span><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/real_estate/new_home_sales/index.htm?iid=HP_River"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">all-time record low</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> during 2011?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why are there</span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/01/12/the-worst-economic-recovery-since-the-great-depression/2/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">6 million</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> less jobs in America today than there were before the recession started?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of homeless female veterans</span><a href="http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/24/10227869-number-of-homeless-female-veterans-more-than-doubles"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">more than doubled</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by</span><a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/34snapmonthly.htm"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">3 million</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> since this time last year and by more than 14 million since Barack Obama entered the White House?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of children living in poverty in America risen for</span><a href="http://fcd-us.org/resources/2011-child-well-being-index-cwi#node-1128"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">four years in a row</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why is the percentage of Americans living in "extreme poverty"</span><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/extreme-poverty-is-now-at-record-levels-19-statistics-about-the-poor-that-will-absolutely-astound-you"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">at an all-time high</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why is the Federal Housing Administration on the verge</span><a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/federal-mortgage-insurer-headed-toward-collapse-181641.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">of a financial collapse</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why do</span><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/12/less-than-a-quarter-of-companies-to-hire-in-2012-careerbuilder.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">only 23 percent</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of American companies plan to hire more employees in 2012?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of self-employed Americans fallen</span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/story/2011-09-07/Fewer-people-choose-to-be-self-employed/50305432/1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by more than 2 million</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> since 2006?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why did an</span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2011-09-05/Summer-ends-on-sour-note-for-jobless-teens/50247060/1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">all-time record low</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> percentage of U.S. teens have a job last summer?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why does median household income keep declining? Overall, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of</span><a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/archives/shocking-charts-and-statistics-that-prove-that-america-is-no-longer-a-wealthy-nation"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">6.8%</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> since December 2007 once you account for inflation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why has the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/11/poverty-america-likely-worse-report"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by 10 million</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> since 2006?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why is the average age of a vehicle in America now sitting</span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/story/2012-01-17/cars-trucks-age-polk/52613102/1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">at an all-time high</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why are</span><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/18/real_estate/florida_vacant_homes/index.htm"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">18 percent</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of all homes in the state of Florida currently sitting vacant?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why are</span><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/04/pf/young_adults/index.htm?iid=HP_LN"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">19 percent</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 living with their parents?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If the economy is getting better, then why does the number of "long-term unemployed workers" stay so high? When Barack Obama first took office, the number of "long-term unemployed workers" in the United States was approximately 2.6 million. Today, that number</span><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">is sitting at 5.6 million</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But there is some good news.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today, the price of an ounce of gold is over $1700.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The era of great prosperity that America has enjoyed for so long is coming to an end.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, our long-term economic decline is about to accelerate.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So enjoy this "bubble of hope" while you can, because it won't last long.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As I have written about</span><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/are-george-soros-the-imf-and-the-world-bank-purposely-trying-to-scare-the-living-daylights-out-of-us"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">previously</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, many are warning that Europe is on the verge of a nightmarish financial crisis that could potentially plunge us into a</span><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-signs-that-we-are-on-the-verge-of-a-devastating-global-recession"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">global recession</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> even worse than 2008.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So let us hope for the best, but let us also</span><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/warning-signs-that-we-should-prepare-for-the-worst"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">prepare for the worst</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that the economy </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">isn't</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> recovering in any meaningful way. Which excludes</span><a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/02/lies-damn-lies-and-obamas-unemployment.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">drones and legacy media</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.”</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-12621598996639852082012-02-05T16:01:00.000-05:002012-02-05T16:02:05.448-05:00Rick Santorum Earns Ed Morrissey’s Endorsement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“My
focus will be on beating Barack Obama and promoting the conservative
agenda, in that order, throughout 2012, and I also believe that any of
those three could beat Obama in a general election campaign.” - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed Morrissey</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill</span><br />
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Note: As part of my on-going publication of blogger endorsements, it’s
my pleasure to republish today’s statement from one of my friends and
most-trusted names in the Conservative blogosphere - Ed Morrissey, who
writes at HotAir. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">posted at 3:45 pm on February 5, 2012 by Ed Morrissey</span></h4>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As
I wrote earlier, decision time has come to Minnesota, where I live.
Unfortunately, I can’t officially participate in that choice, since we
have a caucus system rather than a primary — and one cannot cast an
absentee vote in a caucus system. I checked twice with my BPOU
officials (a BPOU is a “basic political organization unit,” akin to a
precinct) and there is no provision for proxy voting. I will be in
Washington DC for CPAC and some company meetings when the caucuses take
place on Tuesday evening.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Very
early in the process, I promised Hot Air readers that I would disclose
my choice for President in the primaries when I had fully made up my
mind. Just as I did four years ago, I didn’t fully make up my mind
until shortly before the caucus. Last time I caucused for Romney; this
time, if I had the opportunity, I would caucus for Rick Santorum.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before
I explain that decision, let’s be clear. I could cast a vote happily
for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich in a general election. Both are
massive improvements over the current incumbent, and both have admirable
qualities that would reflect well on the GOP once in office — even if
those admirable qualities aren’t always on display now. I will
enthusiastically support any of those three men should they win the
nomination. My focus will be on beating Barack Obama and promoting
the conservative agenda, in that order, throughout 2012, and I also
believe that any of those three could beat Obama in a general election
campaign.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why
Santorum? In my estimation, Santorum is the last consistent
conservative standing, and the only one both promoting the conservative
agenda </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and campaigning as a conservative</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in the race. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That
doesn’t make Santorum perfect; he lacks the executive experience I’d
like to see, and some of his positions in the past and present give me
pause. However, compared to the heterodoxies of his competitors in the
GOP race, Santorum has a superior record on promoting conservative
policies and values.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even
more than that, though, Santorum has demonstrated a level of personal
integrity in this race that outshines the rest of the field. Santorum
has campaigned with blue-collar Reagan Democrats in mind, pushing for an
economic plan that would revitalize manufacturing and small business.
He could easily have tipped over into class-warfare populism while
Gingrich and Romney bashed each other over their work at Bain and
Freddie Mac in order to ingratiate himself with that sector by playing
on latent envy. Instead, he defended capitalism and both of his
competitors on the campaign trail more effectively than either could
defend themselves. In contrast, Romney keeps demonstrating a lack of
fluency in conservative politics and philosophy, while Gingrich has
conducted a personal, angry campaign that threatens to reinforce every
negative stereotype about conservatives, both at times putting
themselves and their ambitions above the party they seek to lead.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In
the general election, I want to beat Barack Obama and send him into a
prosperous retirement with his family. In the primary, I want a party
leader who demonstrates the kind of integrity and consistency that only
Santorum has shown. He worked hard for my vote, and I only wish I could
be in the state to cast it on Tuesday.”</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-62717320026556630752012-02-04T14:27:00.001-05:002012-02-04T14:27:15.484-05:00“This Week In Blogs” - The Video That’s Going Viral<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://publicintelligence.net/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist</span></a></h2>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 1, 2012 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in</span><a href="http://publicintelligence.net/category/news/featured-news-2/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Featured</span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Public Intelligence</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A
flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote
suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used
for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The document,</span><a href="http://publicintelligence.net/fbi-suspicious-activity-reporting-flyers/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism”</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,
lists the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP
address” as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting
terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a
suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using
“software to hide encrypted data in digital photos” or other media. In
fact, the flyer recommends that anyone “overly concerned about privacy”
or attempting to “shield the screen from view of others” should be
considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Logging
into an account associated with a residential internet service provider
(such as Comcast or AOL), an activity that could simply indicate that
you are on a trip, is also considered a suspicious activity. Viewing
any content related to “military tactics” including manuals or
“revolutionary literature” is also considered a potential indicator of
terrorist activity. This would mean that viewing a number of websites,
including the one you are on right now, could be construed by a hapless
employee as an highly suspicious activity potentially linking you to
terrorism.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The “Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities”</span><a href="http://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-SuspiciousActivity/Internet_Cafe.pdf"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">contained in the flyer</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
are not to be construed alone as a sign of terrorist activity and the
document notes that “just because someone’s speech, actions, beliefs,
appearance, or way of life is different; it does not mean that he or she
is suspicious.” However, many of the activities described in the
document are basic practices of any individual concerned with security
or privacy online. The use of PGP, VPNs, Tor or any of the many other
technologies for anonymity and privacy online are directly targeted by
the flyer, which is distributed to businesses in an effort to promote
the reporting of these activities.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the entire report by </span><a href="http://publicintelligence.net/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">clicking right here.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dell’s Bottom Line:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How incredibly foolish is this?</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This
administration is doing everything it can, as quickly as it can, to
control every aspect our our lives. And they’re openly encouraging YOU
to actively help them!</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s only one sure way to put a stop to this madness. That opportunity arrives on November 6th.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-4985911240326576752012-02-04T12:35:00.001-05:002012-02-04T12:35:16.806-05:00"You May Kiss My Ring"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"> It's quite obvious that President Barack Obama has declared cultural war on Catholicism. He has ordered his administration to require Catholic hospitals to take part in abortion and abortion related procedures - very clearly in violation of the religious beliefs of the Church. This will not end well for the upstart politician from Illinois - or his CINO supporters. </span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-58926415432977564152012-02-02T21:28:00.002-05:002012-02-02T21:28:37.085-05:00Today's 'Toon from Tony!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-38351947462630559842012-02-02T13:11:00.001-05:002012-02-02T13:11:23.846-05:00Holder Tells Congress He’s Taking Action....Against “Whistleblowers”!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span id="internal-source-marker_0.28391107313247255" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holder Tells Congress He’s Taking Action....Against “Whistleblowers”!</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Never Mind The Illegal Acts That Cost People’s Lives</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
real news of the day is taking place in Washington, D.C. A
Congressional hearing that delves deep into what actually took place on
Fast & Furious, with Attorney General Eric Holder occupying the hot
seat.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To
give you a sense of the attitude held by Holder, watch and listen as
he tells Darrell Issa how he has responded to mistakes within his
agency.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><object style="height: 390px; width: 480px;"><param name="movie"
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.8856358216604668" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suddenly Pious Obama Preaches “Love Thy Neighbor”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I wonder if Obama’s God also approves of murdering babies?” - DRH</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And now the man is going all Godly on us!</span><br />
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><img height="247px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/BAZp68msmzrFgnL4xpRr6OiIkrl3ROa5OK5AKn2qewC8JJInay7kUOVmdE-Qde7SVMhq37M4BEAq9ut1D-c6Kn8Pg4qy_QtW1Qb_H7V3WogIRAmuD1Q" width="380px;" /><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That would be your President, Barack H. Obama. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44367?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=6ff80cc2a9-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">“Launched to an unsuspecting world</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
from stage prop Greek columns in the summer of 2008 as The Messiah who
could walk on water, Barack Obama revealed today all he has since done
is for Jesus. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All
that was missing at the National Prayer Breakfast, when he claimed that
guidance for what he is doing to the Free World comes from above, were
the Gregorian chants.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Marxist misery he’s foisting on the Free World with his job-killing and
spirit-killing policies don’t come from Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky,
because, according to a freshly minted pious Obama, it is all for Him.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some
of the true believers at this morning’s prayer breakfast must have all
but fallen off their chairs when they heard the new Sermon from the
Mount from a politician who has admitted he gets his prayer reminders
via his Blackberry.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“And
so when I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same
rules as folks on Main Street, when I talk bout making sure insurance
companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick, or
making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the
most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will
make the economy stronger for everybody. But I also do it because I
know that far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and
treated unfairly over the last few years, and I believe in God’s command
to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself.’” (</span><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/obama-i-pushed-dodd-frank-and-health-care-reform"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Buzzfeed</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Feb. 2. 2012)”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the rest of Judi McLeod’s piece by </span><a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44367?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=6ff80cc2a9-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">clicking right here.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dell’s Bottom Line:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I really need to buy a new pair of “swampers”, the BS from this man is getting so deep it’s just unbelievable.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And
now that the campaign is in full swing, watch the alphabet networks
highlight Obama’s “regular Sunday worship”...instead of his usual and
customary 18 holes of golf.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s next, baptisms on the Potomac?</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-49853626149623682772012-02-02T11:33:00.002-05:002012-02-02T11:33:25.288-05:00Conservatives Should Focus On Control Of The Senate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span id="internal-source-marker_0.4776551876276499" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conservatives Should Focus On Control Of The Senate</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“With no chance of even nominating a Conservative for President, the focus swings to the next best thing.” - DRH</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Call it “doom”. Call it “gloom”. Call it “all of the above”.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conservatives
are down in the dumps these days and with good reason. The remaining
Republican candidates in the 2012 primary are about as appealing to
Conservatives as Castor oil. They offer us nothing in exchange for our
support and the hierarchy has been doing everything in its power to
shove the TEA Party movement off to the side without as much as a “thank
you” for handing control of the U.S. House of Representatives over to
them in 2010. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And
the very worst part to swallow is Mitt Romney - clearly the leader in
the chase for the Republican nomination, is about as Conservative as
Bernie Sanders. Despite what Ann Coultergeist might babble, Romney
isn’t even close to holding Conservative values. In fact, if he were to
switch parties today, Romney would blend in perfectly with moderate
Democrats.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Newt
Gingrich? I’m not sold. Watching Newt sink into negative campaign
mode with Romney in the run-up to the Florida primary was sickening.
Conservatives want a fighter; we just want one to understand that
Barack Obama is the opponent!</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rick
Santorum? By comparison to Romney and Gingrich, Santorum looks like a
saint. Certainly a viable alternative. He’s a good and decent man, but
just doesn’t have the political magnetism it takes to attract excited
support.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What to do?</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">David Freddosso was thinking along these same lines when he wrote this piece for the </span><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/conservatives-can-build-un-bossable-senate/352046"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Examiner.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“It
understates the case to say that some conservatives are disappointed
with the idea of nominating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to
face President Obama this fall. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So
what to do if and when Romney finally sews this up? The temptation is
always there to drop out of the political process. But if conservatives
are interested in advancing their cause from beneath Romney's banner --
as they will likely have to -- they must think beyond the presidential
race and to the elections that will provide context to its result for
the next four years.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
institution in greatest need of conservative influence right now is the
U.S. Senate, the place where House conservatives' ideas for limiting
government and expanding the economy have been going to die for the last
13 months. This year's Senate contests offer many opportunities to
push the party and the nation to the right, and conservatives should pay
attention.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
2010 Senate election campaign had its share of conservative flops --
think especially of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and Sharron Angle in
Nevada. But it also brought in a contingent of active, stalwart
freshmen who have shown independence in their first year of service.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike
Lee of Utah, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ron Johnson
of Wisconsin and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania have added their
conservative voices to those of longer-serving colleagues like Jim
DeMint of South Carolina, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Jeff Sessions of
Alabama.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But they remain outnumbered. The challenge in 2012 will be to build up this group. And the opportunities are certainly there.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In
Arizona, the iconoclastic and libertarian-leaning Rep. Jeff Flake
appears to have consolidated establishment GOP support for his open-seat
Senate bid.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In
April 2004, I was surprised to run into Flake in Allentown, Pa. -- he
was there supporting then-Rep. Toomey in his first bid against liberal
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
was one of many lonely fights in which history would later vindicate
Flake. He made few friends in the House with his mid-2000s crusade
against his colleagues' earmarks, but he eventually won that battle --
and the grudging respect of House leadership.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In
Texas, the Democrats' best candidate dropped out of the open-seat U.S.
Senate race before the filing deadline, so the action will be in the
primary. Ted Cruz, the state's former solicitor general and a rising
conservative star, is challenging the GOP establishment favorite, Lt.
Gov. David Dewhurst.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cruz
has climbed from nowhere to 18 percent support in the most recent poll.
That leaves him another 18 points behind Dewhurst, who had led by 29
in September.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I invite you to read the entire post by </span><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/conservatives-can-build-un-bossable-senate/352046"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">clicking right here.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As
Conservatives we are resigned to once again hold our nose and vote for
anybody but Obama. In 2012, it appears likely that vote will go to Mitt
Romney. However, a concentrated effort on electing Conservative
candidates to the United States Senate is a very worthy goal. It could,
in fact, become more important than ever - especially if Obama should
win a second term.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ll
let the presidential primary chips fall where they may, and taking a
much closer look at the senate races over the next few months.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-80433393388671910392012-02-02T10:22:00.001-05:002012-02-02T10:22:19.825-05:00Gingrich Challenge To Florida’s Winner Take All Primary Is Ill-Fated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span id="internal-source-marker_0.8433399135140043" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gingrich Challenge To Florida’s Winner Take All Primary Is Ill-Fated</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Courts
have repeatedly held that control of the process by which a party
nominates its candidates is protected by the First Amendment’s right of
association.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s
about the same as passing a law that you know is unconstitutional from
the very start. That’s what the Republican National Committee did when
it adopted Rule 15(b)(2) four years ago. The intent was to penalize a
state’s party committee in the event of rules violations regarding
primary and caucus dates, specifically. But a legal precedent had
long-since been set which caused that rule to become instantly
unenforceable.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s the back-story from</span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/02/can-gingrichs-challenge-in-florida-succeed/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ed Morrissey. </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Newt Gingrich wants Florida to</span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/01/gingrich-to-challenge-floridas-winner-take-all-rule-demand-proportional-award-of-delegates/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">apportion its delegates proportionally</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, not winner-take-all. So does the RNC, at least officially. </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/02/rnc-memo-outlines-stance-on-florida-winnertakeall-113220.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rule 15(b)(2)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,
adopted in 2008, says that any primary or caucus that takes place
before March 1st with the exceptions of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and
South Carolina, “shall provide for the allocation of delegates on a
proportional basis.” However, can the RNC actually </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">enforce</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
this rule? Even the RNC doesn’t think it can, as its top attorney,
Bill Crocker, and one of its subcommittee chairs, John Ryder, explain:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With
regard to proportionality, the RNC does not have the authority to
intervene in a state’s primary plans beyond the imposition of the Rule
16 penalties. A contest procedure exists for challenges to a state’s
delegation or delegates. The RNC cannot consider any issue regarding
Florida’s delegation unless and until a proper contest is brought. If a
contest is properly and timely filed, the Committee on Contests and the
RNC will have the opportunity to hear the contest and determine if
there are any further steps to be taken beyond the penalties that have
already been imposed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reid Wilson at the</span><a href="http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/02/why-gingrichs-florida-challeng.php"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">National Journal</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
says that Rule 16 is as far as the RNC can go, which involved the loss
of delegates to the convention, as well as a number of other perks and
privileges. Case law favors the state GOP on its decision to stick with
winner-take-all:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s
more, taking the fight to court isn’t likely to produce a favorable
outcome for Gingrich. Courts have repeatedly held that control of the
process by which a party nominates its candidates is protected by the
First Amendment’s right of association (Most recently, the Supreme Court
decided, in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">California Democratic Party v. Jones</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,
that even an open primary in which non-party members voted violated a
party’s rights). Good luck convincing a federal court to intervene in
internal party rules.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We’ve
said it before, we’ll say it again: Knowledge of the rules of the game
makes a big difference. It’s why President Obama beat Hillary Clinton in
2008. It’s why Gingrich isn’t on the ballot in Virginia. And it’s why
Romney remains in control of this race.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read Ed’s entire post by </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/02/can-gingrichs-challenge-in-florida-succeed/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">clicking right here.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dell’s Bottom Line:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s no joy in Gingrichville tonight. Mighty Newt has struck out.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s
rather confusing is the fact that the legal advisers to the Gingrich
campaign failed to research this issue and reach the exact same
conclusions prior to letting their candidate issue a blustery public
statement indicating a challenge to the winner take all provision.
Twenty-four hours later, Gingrich looks the fool for not doing his
legal homework.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What
this means is that Gingrich can challenge the decision, but stacks of
case law - to and including Supreme Court decisions - indicate it would
be a total waste of time.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-47489879044401220492012-02-01T22:50:00.005-05:002012-02-01T22:50:53.176-05:00Today's 'Toon from Tony!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-24951853730235384142012-02-01T20:42:00.001-05:002012-02-01T20:42:22.815-05:00Gingrich Challenges Florida ‘Winner Take All’ Primary Results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span id="internal-source-marker_0.3383209774327952" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gingrich Challenges Florida ‘Winner Take All’ Primary Results</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...And It Seems He has An Extremely Valid Beef</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill via </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/01/gingrich-to-challenge-floridas-winner-take-all-rule-demand-proportional-award-of-delegates/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Allahpundit</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve
scratched my head, wondering why the Republican National Committee
allowed every news agency to give out the “winner take all” description
of the Florida primary, when that proviso was supposed to be stricken.
Maybe now I’ll find out!</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the meantime, here’s the meat and potatoes...</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“He’s
got a case, I think. Simple rule: Every state that goes before April 1
is required to award its delegates proportionally. Florida was
supposed to go after that date but moved up its primary in defiance of
the RNC’s wishes. They were penalized by having</span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/31/politics/florida-primary-faq/index.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">half of their 99 delegates taken away</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
— but for some reason, their “winner take all” rule was allowed to
remain in effect despite the date change. So Romney ended up with 50
delegates last night while Gingrich got squat.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But maybe</span><a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/02/01/florida-primary-might-not-be-done-deal/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">not for long</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Newt Gingrich campaign is gearing up to challenge the results of the
Florida Republican presidential primary based on the Republican National
Committee’s own rules which state that no contest can be
winner-take-all prior to April 1, 2012…</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fox
News has learned exclusively that on Thursday, a Florida Gingrich
campaign official will begin the process of trying to have the RNC rules
enforced so that the Sunshine State delegates are distributed based on
the percentage of the vote each candidate got.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RNC
Chairman Reince Priebus warned Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny
Curry of the violation in a December letter quoting the rule,
“…’winner-take-all’ states cannot hold a primary or caucus before April
1, 2012.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Newt’s
goal here, of course, is to signal to his supporters that he’s in the
race for the long haul by scrapping for every available delegate. If
Florida used the simplest possible proportional rules instead of “winner
take all,” Romney would win 23 delegates from his 46 percent last night
and Newt would win 16 — reducing a 50-delegate margin to just seven in
one fell swoop.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read Allahpundit’s entire piece by </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/01/gingrich-to-challenge-floridas-winner-take-all-rule-demand-proportional-award-of-delegates/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">clicking right here.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dell’s Bottom Line:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
waited until at least two of the big dogs - Associated Press and Fox
News - declared the delegate totals before repeating them locally, but
in the back of my mind was the original ruling concerning the winner
take all provision. Not a soul mentioned it until today...But, I’m glad
they finally did!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-21013158522226439562012-02-01T15:43:00.003-05:002012-02-01T15:43:29.704-05:00As a public service, here's a reprinting of the Republican primary/caucus schedule from 2012 Presidential Election News<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As a public service, here's a reprinting of the Republican primary/caucus schedule from <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/">2012 Presidential Election News:</a></span></b></div>
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<strong>Full Primary/Caucus Calendar</strong><br />
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<tr class=""><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>January 3, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Iowa (caucus) – <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012/01/mitt-romney-wins-iowa-caucuses-by-8-votes/">Results</a><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>January 10, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">New Hampshire (primary) – <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012/01/2012-new-hampshire-primary-results/">Results</a><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>January 21, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">South Carolina (primary) – <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012/01/south-carolina-gop-primary-today-polls-open-7am-to-7pm-et/">Results</a><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>January 31, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Florida (primary) – <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012/01/florida-gop-primary-results/">Results</a><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class=""><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>February 4, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Nevada (caucus)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>February 4–11, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Maine (caucus)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>February 7, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Colorado (caucus)<br />Minnesota (caucus)<br />Missouri (primary) – *See note below on Missouri<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>February 28, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Arizona (primary)<br />Michigan (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 3, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Washington (caucus)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 6, 2012</b><br />(Super Tuesday)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Alaska (caucus)<br />Georgia (primary)<br />Idaho (caucus)<br />Massachusetts (primary)<br />North Dakota (caucus)<br />Ohio (primary)<br />Oklahoma (primary)<br />Tennessee (primary)<br />Vermont (primary)<br />Virginia (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 6-10, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Wyoming (caucus)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 10, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Kansas (caucus)<br />U.S. Virgin Islands (caucus)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class=""><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 13, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Alabama (primary)<br />Hawaii (caucus)<br />Mississippi (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 17, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Missouri (GOP caucus) – *See note below on Missouri<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 18, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Puerto Rico (primary)</span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 20, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Illinois (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>March 24, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Louisiana (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>April 3, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">District of Columbia (primary)<br />Maryland (primary)<br />Wisconsin (primary)<br />Texas (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class=""><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>April 24, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Connecticut (primary)<br />Delaware (primary)<br />New York (primary)<br />Pennsylvania (primary)<br />Rhode Island (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>May 8, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Indiana (primary)<br />North Carolina (primary)<br />West Virginia (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>May 15, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Nebraska (primary)<br />Oregon (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>May 22, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Arkansas (primary)<br />Kentucky (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class=""><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>June 5, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">California (primary)<br />Montana (primary)<br />New Jersey (primary)<br />New Mexico (primary)<br />South Dakota (primary)<br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr class="alt"><td valign="top" width="140"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>June 26, 2012</b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Utah (primary)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /> </span></td></tr>
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*Missouri:
Missouri will hold a primary on February 7th, 2012, which will not
count for delegates toward the 2012 GOP convention. The Missouri
Republican Party will hold a caucus on March 17th, 2012, which will
determine the delegates sent to the 2012 GOP convention.<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323986020217554705.post-85198532940663594002012-02-01T15:24:00.001-05:002012-02-01T15:24:22.154-05:00Need Your Spirits Boosted Today?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span id="internal-source-marker_0.4834023305091655" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Need Your Spirits Boosted Today?</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dell Hill via </span><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gallup-state-numbers-predict-huge-obama-loss/352881"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The Washington Examiner</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You look as though you need your spirits boosted today.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DR Hill has just what you need!</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gallup-state-numbers-predict-huge-obama-loss/352881"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">“Gallup released their</span></a><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/152372/Obama-Approval-Above-States-2011.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=Politics%20-%20Presidential%20Job%20Approval"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
yesterday, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very
worried. If President Obama carries only those states where he had a
net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48
percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election to the
Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And here’s how the electoral map would look...</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><img height="480px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5U4iB0Y-uVOaCHiSQMOgsid2U8jgnF21KS3xM-_B6tAHzTu8sSTKc2Ji7puUlmIoQCmhV934n9EUQHtfIwsdCYzgaBFrpk_papWDon1HXg6aagXKM54" width="643px;" /><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There! Now don’t you feel better?</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You’re Welcome.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1