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Right Online headliners fire up what's right
Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, excited Right Online attendees in Las Vegas on Friday discussing issues ranging from from the economy to health care. The Conservative conference, held at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, hosted other headliners like Republican Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle, Congressman Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, and conservative activist and talk radio host Herman Cain.
Franken warns liberal activists: Conservatives are miserable but motivated
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat and Senator Al Franken, Minnesota Democrat, addressed Netroots Nation activists on Saturday highlighting Congressional Democratic accomplishments while reminding audience members the Democrats no longer have a 60 vote filibuster proof majority in the Senate. They also stressed the enthusiasm of grassroots conservatives who want to roll back recently passed left wing legislation like health care reform.
Republicans question trial lawyer tax cut
Treasury department change could cost $1.53 billion.
Progressives fearful and angry at Fox News, White House
A Net Roots Nation conference panel that convened at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas on Thursday titled “Responding to Attacks on Community Organizers and Progressive Groups” held a heavy emphasis on the liberal response to the recent story involving former USDA official Shirley Sherrod who was ousted from her position following the release of a video clip of her making questionable remarks. More video of the original clip was released to reveal further context of Ms. Sherrod’s remarks.
Without preconditions, Palestinian Authority gets to fly flag in Washington
The State Department has announced the status upgrade of the Palestinian Authority, the group whose parent organization perpetrated the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
Government report: race and gender a factor in killing GM dealerships
Were race and gender some of the reasons why certain GM dealerships were closed down and others not? According to a newly released government report from the Office of Special Inspector General For the Trouble Asset Relief Program it appears it may have been used as a criteria.
Fighting an unnamed enemy waging an unrecognized war
Since arriving in office, the Obama administration has delved deeply into its thesaurus to find ways of speaking about Islamism without mentioning it. In his June 2009 Cairo speech, a not atypical example, President Obama referred repeatedly to ‘extremists,’ ‘violent extremists’ and ‘violent extremism.’ He even referred at one point to anti-Israel terrorism by its Palestinian euphemism – ‘resistance.’
ACLU 'rethinking' the Second Amendment?
The Florida ACLU helping a retiree get his seized guns back is just the latest in a small series of moves by ACLU state affiliates in support of gun rights. The traditionally anti-second amendment national ACLU may be changing course, too.
Bush Attorneys Deserve Reputations Back
Three years ago, it already was obvious that no laws were actually broken by ham-handed members of Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department. Now, those lawyers have been officially cleared. They deserve bigger stories from the establishment media.
Georgetown professor misses the mark on NYC Islamic center
Georgetown University professor relies on the tired 'intolerance' canard to distract from the real issue at the heart of the Cordoba Initiative furor: terrorism.
Steny Hoyer maintains individual mandate is not a tax
“I don’t see this as a tax. I think it is personal responsibility for all of us to make sure that we take care of ourselves to the extent we can. To the extent we can’t, we need to get some assistance from people,” said House Majority leader Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, when I asked him on Tuesday about the Obama administration’s recent admission that the individual mandate is indeed a tax.
Breitbart: NAACP is trying to snooker America
Following Andrew Breitbart’s release of a video showing now former USDA official Shirley Sherrod making questionable racial remarks to an NAACP audience regarding how she handled an interaction with a white farmer, she resigned from her position at the USDA on Monday.
Sen. Graham on Kagan vote: Elections have consequences
Solicitor General Elena Kagan was approved by a 13 -6 vote by Senate Judiciary Committee members on Tuesday. While the vote was mainly along party lines, Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, voted in favor of moving her nomination along for a vote among all Senate members.
America demands more - and it shows
If Americans ask too much of their government, Europeans ask too little.
Look who’s talking
“You’re a racist!” Screamed kids (not the NAACP) in response to racial slurs thrown back and forth, from kid to kid; in a class of routinely ill-behaved high-schoolers. Prior to my current position, I did time as a substitute teacher. Among many anecdotes I have about the students, this one is most pertinent in the current climate.
