Rand Paul is a hypocrite. I won't celebrate his filibuster becuase it is built on a false premise. What is that premise? Basically, drones impact American Civil liberties. (H)is remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.
“When I asked the president, can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It’s an easy question. It should have been a resounding an unequivocal, ‘No,'" Paul said. "The president’s response? He hasn’t killed anyone yet. We’re supposed to be comforted by that." Here is the interesting thing: while Senator Paul was filibustering, Eric Holder was testifying about that very issue. Continue reading...
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He had been in office for a year. Popular with the electorate, he promised to help the poor, something that left the business community aghast. With cries of socialism and wealth redistribution, he was immediately set upon in an attempt to bring down his presidency and ensure the moneyed business community were the ones truly in charge. Sound familiar? The year was 1934 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Continue reading...
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Author: TriSec
Date: 03/05/2013 11:22:30
Good Morning. Today is our 4,167th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty report from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com: US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,178 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,080 We find this morning's cost of war passing through: $ 1, 429, 628, 675, 000. 00
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80 years ago today, Franklin Delanoe Roosevelt gave the first of his inaugural addresses. “Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself” as it was known would be the last time a President was inaugurated on a day other than January 20. Continue reading...
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Teabaggery 101
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 03/03/2013 15:11:05
Are you angry with your government? Sick and tired of the news blaring this weeks crisis and party bickering while no work gets done and you suffer? Well, just in time for tax season, you should join the TEA PARTY MOVEMENT! That's right, Velveeta is here today to instruct you on how to become a Teabagger™ a purely grass roots movement that has no ties to any political party and was started by real Americans like the Koch Brothers and members of the tobacco industry and moved along by Fox News, who saw the need for Americans to get up and fight!
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Good Morning! Why, I have a date with my wife this evening! Javi is off to a concert with his grandpa, and shall be spending the night over in Melrose. The benefits of having a working musician parent...it's the Melrose Symphony's "Children's Concert", but unlike other children's concerts you may have heard about, this one has a strict age limit and dress code, and they play *real* classical music, not just Peter and the Wolf and other kid-friendly things. Javi was old enough to go last year, but we had a schedule conflict and couldn't make it. So Javi gets a road trip, and Mrs. TriSec and I will have an evening to ourselves. Imagine that!
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It's here. Starting today, the fiscal manifestation of a dysfunctional Congress becomes real. Created over a year ago as a Sword of Damacles to ensure a sensible budget was created (voted into place by congressional Republicans), the "sequestor" was meant to be the financial equivalent of mutual assured destruction of nuclear weaponry. The trigger was actually cocked last year when the Congress once again failed to agree on a budget that reduced the deficit the required amount (Republicans objected to tax increases and cuts in military spending; Democrats objected to cuts in domestic programs and "entitlements"). As the ball dropped in Times Square on New Years Eve, the sequestor took effect. Republicans were wise enough to understand the implications of immediate tax increases on everyone and finally allowed a bill to go through to retroactively prevent the tax increases on everyone making below $400K (although the FICA tax cut was allowed to expire). They punted the spending cuts down the road for two months.
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Help me out here...
Author: Raine
Date: 02/28/2013 14:43:59
There are some quarters out there saying that the The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its protections are obsolete in the post-Jim Crow era. This act has been around for a mere 48 years and people want to see it gone. According to some people, It's out of date, out of touch and racism may be no more or less rampant in the south. Chief Justice John Roberts, a vocal skeptic of the use of race in all areas of public life, cited a variety of statistics that showed starker racial disparities in some aspects of voting in Massachusetts than in Mississippi. Then he asked the government’s top Supreme Court lawyer whether the Obama administration thinks “the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North. One Justice went so far as to say that the VRA represents racial entitlement:[/url
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The age old question of "are we alone in the universe?" sparks interesting debates, theories, and discussions. Does life exist on other planets? Is it intelligent? Is it more advanced than us? Have they destroyed their ecosystem like we are in the process of doing and looking for other planets where they can start over? That latter question is one that has popped up in various science fiction movies, and for good reason. The ecological movement of the 70s resulted in the EPA and big steps towards reducing and cleaning up pollution. Nowadays, the altering of our climate via pollution (greenhouse gasses) has become so politicized that even good science has been demonized and sacrificed upon the altar of political posturing.
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Author: TriSec
Date: 02/26/2013 11:24:12
Good Morning. Today is our 4,160th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do - with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com: US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,177 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,081 We find this morning's cost of war passing through: $1, 427, 314, 700, 000 .00
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