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July 23, 2008
The group RightMarch is planning a "massive" rally at the Democratic Convention next month to protest illegal immigration. It "will feature dozens of prominent speakers and leaders in the fight for border security". And, it probably won't have much of an impact: Imagine -- 35,000 people, including 15,000 reporters, hearing...
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July 21, 2008
Former Vicente Fox payee Dick Morris has previously stated that one of John McCain's key talking points should be that Barack Obama's universal healthcare plan covers illegal aliens. He has a point, but as he himself admits McCain is probably too wimpy to mention that out of the misguided belief...
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July 19, 2008
No big surprise there. Late last month, the Barack Obama campaign hired Shaun Casey - a professor at Washington DC's Wesley Theological Seminary - as a religious affairs advisor. His exact title varies from report to report, but he'll be leading their outreach to evangelicals. And, he'll be stressing leftwing...
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July 16, 2008
Lionel Sosa is an extremely ethnocentric GOP advertising consultant who worked on George W. Bush's presidential campaigns. Last year, he crossed over and supported Bill Richardson because, as he said at the time, "Blood runs thicker than politics". Now, he's switched back and is working for John McCain: Sosa, the...
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July 15, 2008
Imagine for a moment life without the Internet. Imagine that your only source for information was the MSM, government officials, politicians, lobbyists, screened voters at townhall meetings, and protective staffers with their own agendas. That's a very close approximation to the knowledge base of John McCain: "I am learning to...
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July 13, 2008
Barack Obama spoke at the National Council of La Raza convention earlier today. See below for more on the NCLR. BHO's prepared remarks are here. BHO said many of the things he's said before; apparently his scriptwriters engaged in a lot of copy-and-paste. And, of course, he said many things...
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July 12, 2008
Back on July 2, Barack Obama read his "public service" address, and it contained this line that hasn't received much notice: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set... We've got to have a civilian national security force that's...
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July 11, 2008
John McCain is a sleazy panderer, but he's now shown he can do even worse. The same ad McCain released on Memorial Day - commemorating the service of Hispanics and none others - has been re-released under the title "God's Children". The video is below, and if anyone sees any...
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July 09, 2008
The exact motivations for the Jeff Zeleny/New York Times article "As America Learns About Obama, He Returns the Favor" (link) aren't clear. I don't know whether he thinks he's doing him a favor, or whether his bosses have realized that BHO needs more experience before being selected for something and...
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July 08, 2008
One of Barack Obama's most shocking statements was issued earlier today at a high school in Powder Springs, Georgia, where he said, among other things, the following (link): "We live in a global economy. And, you know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, 'We need to...
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Barack Obama gave an interview to Access Hollywood over the weekend, which was shown on their show as well as the Today Show. He and his family were apparently asked a series of puffball questions (by certified babe Maria Menounos), and they presumably answered with puffball answers. And, needless to...
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Barack Obama spoke to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) earlier today. Some of his remarks were already covered here. The facts the MSM won't tell you about LULAC are here. A pre-convention BHO lie is here. However, there's much more. In fact, too much, but I'll try....
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July 07, 2008
Denver, Colorado's ProgressNow - a group linked to both the Democratic Party and multi-millionaire illegal immigration supporter Jared Polis - is pushing the story of a poor, helpless, 61-year-old part time librarian who was arrested before a John McCain event just because she was holding a sign saying "McCain =...
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Barack Obama seems to think that just pandering isn't enough, he has to lie while doing it. The latest example is a quote relating to his appearance at the LULAC convention [1]: "I want to stop talking about the outrage of 15 million uninsured Hispanics in this country, the largest...
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Barack Obama, John McCain, and even Hillary Clinton will all be speaking at this year's convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), an illegal immigration-supporting group that was once patriotic but has since been radicalized. As shown by the attendees discussed below, the convention will be a...
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July 06, 2008
Need further proof that the Barack Obama candidacy is just an elaborate practical joke? Consider this February story: Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan [the "Global Poverty Act", S.2433] that...
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July 02, 2008
Someone created a user blog at my.barackobama.com and posted quotes from Barack Obama's book "Dreams of my Father". The blog was deleted in short order; details here. (Yes, her). Now for the disclaimer: it's hard to follow the post, so it isn't clear what text is from where; and, the...
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On his swing through Colombia en route to Mexico, John McCain among other things promoted NAFTA, supported the U.S.-Colombian Free Trade Agreement, promoted "free" trade in general, and said "I would like to see a hemispheric free trade agreement" (link). Presumably the "hemispheric" plan would be along the lines of...
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The Netroots/Nutroots is doing something that will hopefully lead to something that I've been pushing for almost two years: regular citizens going to public appearances by politicians and asking them tough questions rather than the puffballs lobbed by the MSM. FireDogLake's Blue America PAC hosts a page where you can...
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Barack Obama's speechwriters continue their sales job, today giving BHO a speech to read about public service. And, on his site you can find a "Plan for Universal Voluntary Public Service" (barackobama.com/issues/service), where he informs us that "this will be a cause of my presidency". I can hardly wait! Further:...
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June 30, 2008
Good news! Protesters at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver in August will be fenced in behind wire, so they can be seen and heard. Authorities are still trying to decide whether chicken or chain link wire will be used, but in any case free speech is alive and well,...
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Eli Saslow of the Washington Post lies in support of Barack Obama while giving him a front page advertisement in the story "In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying" (link). Consider this: On the television in his living room, Peterman has watched enough news and campaign advertisements to...
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June 28, 2008
Per this we're informed that the Democratic National Convention will simulcast their entire event in Spanish. The event will be held in August in Denver, Colorado. Damon Jones from the Convention says: "Spanish is the primary language for more than 35-million people in our country and more than 300-million people...
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June 27, 2008
Massachusetts governor (and Barack Obama quote source) Deval Patrick is back to supporting giving the in-state college tuition rate to illegal aliens (link). He considered trying to sneak it through without getting their legislature involved in January. This time around it's part of a larger proposal, the "Readiness Project", and...
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June 26, 2008
The Commission on Presidential Debates has released their plans for three debates, one in the townhall format, and the other two in a sit-down format. The latter format would negate Barack Obama's height advantage over John McCain. Unfortunately, that format would also result in yet another sham debate: The proposed...
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June 25, 2008
I don't know, you tell me based on this fundraising solicitation - thankfully deprived of actionable links - in which he complains that if John McCain or Barack Obama win they'll push amnesty. He also stresses border security. In fact, he stresses it so much, and to the exclusion of...
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June 19, 2008
Congratulations to Paul Waldman of Media Matters for America, who's just now won the BOSA, also known as the Barack Obama Sycophant Award, the Toady, the Yglesias, and other names too numerous to mention! Last seen here calling the NAFTA Superhighway a myth and then admitting that it exists in...
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According to a new ad from the Barack Obama campaign (link), he was brought up with "values straight from the Kansas heartland", including "love of country". Out with the "Black Values System", in with the "Kansas Values System"! And, some might even buy it, even those bitter folks clinging to...
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June 18, 2008
Larry Sinclair is a currently Duluth-based man about town with a long rap sheet (link) who claims that he had homosexual sex with Barack Obama in 1999 (link). At the same time, Sinclair claims that - after he gave him the money to go run for it - he used...
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From this: In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA. "Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified," he...
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June 16, 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama will be speaking at the National Council of La Raza convention in July, and McCain has proposed to BHO that they square off at a townhall meeting at the extremist-funding and -awarding racial power group's event (link). Says McCain: "There is a meeting in...
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June 15, 2008
Ross Perot has a new site called PerotCharts.com (h/t David Broder, link). Watch the Larry King schedule for impending appearances. The charts on the site are related to and in part derived from the work done by former Comptroller General David Walker, who resigned earlier this year in order to...
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June 14, 2008
Almost a year and a half ago I created a satirical petition called "Require Global Warming Classes in All Public Schools" (link). A couple months ago I created a video with a similar theme. From my humor to Barack Obama's seriousness, as a month ago he sponsored a bill called...
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June 13, 2008
Lou Dobbs is rumored to be considering running for governor of New Jersey, but in a voice mail message to an NJ newspaper he denied it (link). Note, however, that he said he wasn't "considering anything right now", so that might change. Needless to say, such a rumor is like...
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June 12, 2008
Ron Paul has suspended his presidential campaign and will be transferring $4.7 million in donations to a new group to be called "The Campaign for Liberty". They'll be engaging in online advocacy via videos and blogs and supporting other candidates for office (link). And, per reason.com/blog/show/127008.html, they'll be encouraging his...
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Barack Obama is moving parts of the Democratic National Committee ("DNC") to Chicago. While it's a wonderful town aside from being flat as a pancake, it's known for very dirty politics (in U.S. terms). So, Obama should fit right in. Per this, "Obama's senior staff will largely take over the...
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June 11, 2008
For an unknown reason, on June 10, 2008 Jake Tapper of ABC News posted an entry entitled "Dragged Kicking and Screaming, Tancredo Will Pull Lever for McCain". The reader might remember that from a couple months ago, yet Tapper posted it like it happened just recently and with no acknowledgement...
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June 10, 2008
From this: Jim Johnson, the disciplined, discreet and obsessively meticulous vice presidential vetter for Barack Obama, is a stalwart of the Washington establishment... In the mid-1990s, he headed up a power trifecta: mortgage giant Fannie Mae, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Brookings Institution... Yet...
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The annual National Council of La Raza convention - to be held July 12 to 15 in San Diego - will be a star-studded affair. We already knew that John McCain was going to speak to them, now comes the not-so-surprising word that Barack Obama will also make an appearance...
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June 04, 2008
On a conference call today (link via this), Matt Lewis of Townhall asked John McCain about his Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez, a former cabinet level official with the Mexican government who worked directly with Vicente Fox. He's also appeared on several cable TV shows promoting a "free flow" of...
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June 03, 2008
Barack Obama's speech announcing that he's the Democratic Party's nominee is here. Admidst all the puffery and empty promises - probably written by someone else - this stands out: I honor [John McCain's] service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. Ohhhkay. While being...
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Get used to saying "President John McCain", because Barack Obama has supposedly clinched the Democratic nomination. Assuming a matchup between McCain and Obama, I predict that BHO has a 0.1% chance of being elected our next president. Further, I predict that McCain will win by at least 10 points. (And,...
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June 02, 2008
Showing intense, heroic bravery, Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr has denounced two white nationalists who endorsed him, including one who is just a commenter on a message board (reason.com/blog/show/126790.html). Barr's campaign manager says: The Barr campaign is not going to be a vehicle for every fringe and hate group to...
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May 30, 2008
Most people agree that the three lowest forms of comedy are sarcasm, stand-up, and making fun of Andrew Sullivan. The latter is also rather difficult since he makes a lot of posts, and all of them are pretty stupid. However, just to fulfill our quota, consider a recent one where...
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Earlier this week, Arizona governor Janet Napolitano met with Vicente Fox to discuss immigration matters. Two Mexican newspaper reports are linked from here, and neither go into much detail on what was discussed, and, while the conversation was supposedly friendly but "firm", it's not difficult to imagine that the two...
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May 29, 2008
Chris Bowers of Open Left has started a project called "Searching for John McCain" in which he wants bloggers and others to create a "Googlebomb" designed to get MSM articles that have negative information on John McCain to the top of that search engine's results: openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6044 The approach is supposedly...
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May 26, 2008
For Memorial Day, the John McCain campaign has released the following video to Youtube and on his site [1]. Rather than commemorating all veterans, McCain has focused on one group: Hispanics. From the script: My friends, I want you, the next time you're down in Washington, D.C., to go to...
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May 25, 2008
The results 0.2% of the country have been waiting for are finally in: Bob Barr has been nominated as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. It's unfortunate that the loons at the LP couldn't have nominated someone entertaining. Now that it's apparently official, this means that Bob Barr can finally get...
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May 23, 2008
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post - last seen here lying about Tom Tancredo - offers "Obama as You've Never Known Him!" (link), a sleazy slab of mockery attempting to portray those who have legitimate questions about the various links Barack Obama has as believers in UFOs. He discusses a...
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May 22, 2008
On April 9, 2008 I sent an email to Stephen Gordon asking him to provide me with Bob Barr's full immigration position since that listed on his site is quite sparse and in interviews he hasn't been pinned down on specifics. Gordon said that Doug Bandow would be coming up...
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May 20, 2008
Some forms of MSM deception are so gross you have to wonder why they'd put their reputations on the line. I guess they're playing a numbers game, assuming that they'll be able to fool many more people than learn the truth. Today's egregious example involves the big Obama rally in...
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May 19, 2008
The Internets are abuzz with the rumor that there's a video tape of Barack Obama's wife Michelle Obama railing against "whitey" at Reverend Wright's church. At post time the video - if it even exists - has not been released. Our new buddy Larry Johnson says that Karl Rove has...
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May 16, 2008
The John McCain campaign is requiring all their staff members, volunteers, and vendors to disclose lobbying links and the like: No person working for the Campaign may be a registered lobbyist or foreign agent, or receive compensation for any such activity. I'm going to guess that "foreign agent" is meant...
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May 08, 2008
The Washington Times - last seen imposing new, euphemism-friendly guidelines - offers the editorial "McCain's quest for the Hispanic vote". After a preliminary, and partially incorrect, intro describing the "Hispanic vote", they sink lower than they have in the past: In an effort to attract Latinos and stem the tide...
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May 06, 2008
Yesterday on his show, Rush Limbaugh said this about an event where he ran into Bill Clinton and someone else: I shook his hand, he left, comes back, the mayor of Los Angeles, I thought it was a Secret Service agent, maybe a shoeshine guy. Turns out he gives me...
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May 05, 2008
"Feliz Cinco de Mayo" from John McCain, as he launches a Spanish-language section of his website: johnmccain.com/espanol There's a "hablando claro" ("straight talk") link at the top which should give background on his policies, and I was expecting it to say something in Spanish that he wouldn't say on his...
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May 02, 2008
Yesterday former Joe Biden campaign worker and Barack Obama supporter Marty Parrish, at a townhall meeting in Iowa, asked John McCain about a sleazy charge in a recent book that he called his wife a "c--t". The charge appears in a book by Cliff Schecter, associated with Brave New Films,...
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April 29, 2008
Youtube and Google are working with local politicians to have a presidential debate in September in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here's the announcement video: Unfortunately, based on their past history, the "debate" will be like the CNN/Youtube "debates", featuring puffball after puffball which the candidates will simply answer with their stock...
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April 27, 2008
Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday finally got to interview Barack Obama, and the transcript is here. There is one mention of "immigration" in the entire transcript, and it's only an aside: Over the years, John McCain has broken with his party and risked his career on a number of...
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From this: In 1995, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created to raise funds to help reform the Chicago public schools. One of the architects of the Challenge was none other than Professor Bill Ayers. Ayers co-wrote the initial grant proposal and proudly lists himself on his own website as the...
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April 21, 2008
Barack Obama has refused to appear at a North Carolina debate which was to be held on April 27. The moderator of the debate? None other than the lovely and talented Democratic cheerleader Katie Couric. There's certainly no reason for him to have attended the event since he's got the...
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April 18, 2008
FingerGate (aka MiddleFingerGate) enters its bitter second day with some people saying that, during a sequence of semaphoric hand gestures (!) at a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina yesterday, Barack Obama flipped off (aka gave the bird to, gave the finger to) Hillary Clinton. The campaign's video is here, it...
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April 17, 2008
A few days ago a group of libertarians in Washington DC decided to hold a flash mob at the Jefferson Memorial and gathered with their iPods to dance at midnight, for one uninteresting reason or other. They apparently weren't causing a disturbance, there was apparently only a few other people...
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April 16, 2008
Tonight's ABC News Democratic debate starring Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulous with appearances by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was apparently fairly bad to very bad, depending on one's partisan inclination (transcript link). It was very bad to Obama supporters, who were dismayed by the debate focusing on "trivialities" such...
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April 15, 2008
Mike Huckabee has launched his own Political Action Committee (PAC) called, euphonically enough, "Huck PAC" (huckpac.com), saying: "Our goal is to secure a better future for our country by changing our punitive tax system, standing firm for the sanctity of life and traditional marriage, and protecting our borders and giving...
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April 14, 2008
A 1995 profile of Barack Obama had this news which was apparently a minor stir a couple weeks ago: Obama took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October's Million Man March in Washington, D.C. Needless to say, that event was organized by and featured a keynote speech from...
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Very short video with just one more data point illustrating what's wrong with CNN and the MSM in general. A lightweight question like the following would never be featured in a real debate, in fact it sounds like something from a Politburo "debate". This was from the 2/21/08 "debate", for...
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April 13, 2008
The following is fake, but the picture is real: the New York senator downed a shot of Crown Royal whiskey, had a beer and chomped down a slice of cheese pizza, as her aides rushed to fill her request for another slice, with pepperoni... To make it even better, it...
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April 11, 2008
Speaking in San Francisco at a fundraiser for the wealthy (and in Marin County no less; pictures of his tour here), Barack Obama smeared Pennsylvanians and others by saying: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the...
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The U.S. Department of Justice administers the Foreign Agents Registration Act (usdoj.gov/criminal/fara; "FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal"), and the WashTimes has cross-checked some...
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April 08, 2008
Various Democrats have said and done some surreal things, but certainly a contender for their Top 100 list is this press release from the Democratic National Committee (via this) complaining about a Google ad John McCain is running. Well, actually, they aren't complaining about the ad itself, only the fact...
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April 06, 2008
John McCain offers an interminable web ad called "Tolerance" (link), which basically says we shouldn't hate on each other. It's akin to something that employees are forced to watch at their indoctrinations or when they need reeducating, and it's difficult to imagine it coming from even Barack Obama or Hillary...
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April 05, 2008
Former Republican representative from Georgia Bob Barr has joined the Libertarian Party and thrown his hat into the ring for president of the U.S. He's certainly the most mainstream, most sane person to run Libertarian for a long time, if not forever. He "occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for...
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April 02, 2008
In the future, animatronics will probably be used to produce fake videos featuring politicians in "compromising situations". For now, we can watch newly-joined Libertarian Mike Gravel (D-Pluto) do it to himself, making a music video featuring The Beatles song forever associated with a heinous crime that mortified the nation:...
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March 31, 2008
In an absurdly obvious attempt at pandering, Barack Obama wants to make Cesar Chavez' birthday a national holiday (barackobama.com/2008/03/31/obama_calls_for_national_holid.php): ...As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago... Just one problem: unlike...
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March 28, 2008
Senator Bob Casey, Democrat from Pennsylvania, has endorsed Barack Obama and will go on tour with him. Per an Obama flack: "There are few stronger advocates for working families in Pennsylvania than Sen. Casey." Yes indeed, and it doesn't matter whether they're U.S. citizens or citizens of foreign countries who...
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March 23, 2008
I confess that when the Eliot Spitzer story broke I felt like I'd won four free hours with Ashley Alexandra DuPre's librarian cousin and put aside all concerns about whether there was something else involved. Frankly, after the issue with driver's licenses for illegal aliens I didn't really care. However,...
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March 21, 2008
The brain trust of Reason Magazine, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, offer "Where the votes are". The laugh-a-minute article tries to pretend that the libertarian vote means something: As David Boaz of the Cato Institute and David Kirby of America's Future Foundation note in a study of public opinion polls,...
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March 19, 2008
Sean Hannity is digging up dirt on yet another radical preacher linked to Barack Obama. This time it's Reverend James Meeks of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, whose day job is as an Illinois state senator. However, this time around the links are a bit more tenuous than in the...
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The Mickster deconstructs Obama's Sermon on Racism here, listing several problems with it. Commenter "fhdpjosc" offers this followup: [Obama's] rhetoric is very carefully crafted to appeal to two different audiences: black and white. And the language he uses leaves each audience with opposite understandings. ...For example, Mickey calls this Obama...
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March 16, 2008
Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has a new crusade: trying to stop the Fox News "virus" that supposedly spreads from Fox to the rest of the MSM, specifically as it relates to criticism of Barack Obama. Their foxattacks.com/virus page makes it clear that, if Greenwald had his way, Fox...
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March 13, 2008
National Public Radio (NPR) has launched a new site called "Get My Vote" (getmyvote.npr.org), at which they solicit commentaries from their listeners describing what presidential candidates have to do to get their vote. Visitors can submit commentaries in video, audio, or text form. Think if it as a Volvo-driving version...
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March 12, 2008
Yesterday's Lou Dobbs show on CNN featured a video clip from earlier that day of Barack Obama lying about Dobb's position on deportations (transcript link, video link): When I hear Rush Limbaugh or you know Lou Dobbs or some of these people talking about how we need to send them...
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March 10, 2008
[UPDATE: Fox News reports he will resign. In his press conference he didn't say anything about that, but another event is set for 7pm NY time. UPDATE 2: Mob links? This says it's in the court papers (PDF link), but a quick scan didn't bring anything up. That would indeed...
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March 09, 2008
From this: Taking no chances, Daley called Obama in for a series of meetings that lasted two months. Obama’s major problem with Daley was that he was a corrupt sonnovabith, having just seen 4 of his top aides convicted in the city’s largest patronage scandal. It seemed a given that...
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Democrat Bill Foster beat Republican Jim Oberweis 53% to 47% in a special election for Dennis Hastert's former House seat in Illinois (link). Foster will only serve until the end of the year; a new election will take place in November for the full term. There are no doubt many...
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March 06, 2008
Ever-excitable Andy (link) and others (link, link, etc.) are up in arms over this report pointing out where "NAFTAgate" - the story that Barack Obama's senior economic policy advisor reassured Canada that the candidate's position on NAFTA was mostly just bluster - originated: A candid comment to journalists from CTV...
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March 05, 2008
A group called "Campaign to Defend America" ("CDA") has released an anti-John McCain ad that you can see here. They're supposedly going to be spending in the low seven figures running it on TV. It points out various ways that McCain is "McSame as Bush". Cute. And, it also ends...
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March 03, 2008
As previously discussed, Barack Obama senior economic policy advisor Austan Goolsbee discussed the candidate's position on NAFTA with Canadian government officials, supposedly letting them know that his anti-NAFTA statements were simply political posturing. Now, a Canadian government memo on the meeting has been released, despite previous denials of such a...
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March 01, 2008
Hillary Clinton supporter, San Francisco real estate developer, and Harvard center head Walter Shorenstein is complaining about pro-Barack Obama bias by the MSM. Beth Fouhy of the Associated Press writes (link): ..."I am absolutely outraged with the media coverage of the presidential campaign," Shorenstein wrote in the memo, which was...
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February 28, 2008
According to the following report from Canada's CTV, last month a senior representative of the Barack Obama campaign called Canada's ambassador to the U.S. and informed him that, despite any anti-NAFTA statements Obama might make, it would all just be bluster and he wouldn't really mean it. Supposedly a Clinton...
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February 24, 2008
Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton support NAFTA, but Obama is trying to say her support is stronger. Or something. From this: Barack Obama accused Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday of trying to walk away from a long record of support for NAFTA, the free trade agreement...
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February 21, 2008
I won't be live-blogging it, but I can tell already that tonight's Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be a disgrace. Some part of that is due to the fact that one of the questioners is Jorge Ramos of Univision. He's not only a supporter of cultural...
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February 18, 2008
And, no, I don't just say that because of Michelle Obama's slightly-possibly-open-to-interpretation statement that: for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country (The quote here apparently initially left out the "really", and that version was spread around; I'm going to assume with some...
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February 17, 2008
One brave politician (other than John McCain) is willing to call amnesty "amnesty". Unfortunately, that politician is none other than Cynthia McKinney. Wrap your mind around this: This Draft Manifesto was produced by a group of Reconstruction Party activists who met in New Orleans on Saturday, Jan. 26 in support...
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The Queen's minions have been busy digging up dirt on the Man of Hope. First up is Larry Johnson with this warning about Barack Obama's links to three questionable figures: Tony Rezko, William Ayers, and Rashid Khalidi. The first will go on trial later this month, the second is a...
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February 16, 2008
David Walker - until Friday the U.S. Comptroller General and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) - has quit apparently in order to continue warning about overspending and the general dire condition he perceives we're in without being hampered in what he can say. He'll be joining the new...
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Ripping a page from Mr. Power Glutes himself, I'm announcing a new feature, the awarding of The Peter Slevin Award for Mainstream Media Puffery. The first winner of the award is [...drumroll...] Peter Slevin of the Washington Post, who on February 12 offered "Ebullient Obama Rallies in Madison" (link), a...
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February 14, 2008
As with other Democrats (and some Republicans), Barack Obama's campaign features group identities as one of the key features of their outreach, and that can be seen in the "People" menu at their site. For instance, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders have their very own special page at aapi.barackobama.com. Americans...
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February 11, 2008
Via this and newsbusters.org/blogs/d-s-hube/2008/02/11/another-flag-issue-obama, we learn that a Cuban flag - superimposed with an image of Che Guevara - is on the wall of Barack Obama's Houston office. The report is here, and the segment showing the flag is below: The three ladies are apparently volunteers who apparently simply opened...
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In the unlikely case that anyone's opposition to John McCain needed bolstering, now comes George W. Bush's brother and Florida governor Jeb Bush: "John McCain is a patriot and devoted conservative leader... Like no other candidate in the field, John McCain has made tremendous sacrifices for this nation. He is...
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February 07, 2008
John McCain has picked up key endorsements from three current and one former border state governors. First up: President Bush plans to give an implicit endorsement of onetime rival John McCain's conservative bona fides tomorrow [at CPAC] as the Arizona senator seeks to consolidate the party behind his candidacy... Bush...
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February 06, 2008
Gov. Dr. Howard Dean M.D. has declared John McCain the GOP nominee and is already outlining his battle plan [1]: How we'll beat John McCain ...After championing campaign finance reform and ethics legislation to score political points, he now has a staggering amount of lobbyists involved in every aspect of...
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February 05, 2008
The nutroots/netroots and some of those with links to the Mexican government were backing Mark Pera in a primary House race against fellow Democrat and incumbent Rep. Dan Lipinski. The latter appears to have soundly come out ahead, 53% to 26% with over 3/4 of precincts counted....
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As a non-partisan (i.e., independent) voter in California, I was allowed to vote in the Democratic primary. And, I did so. And, for Hillary Clinton. On the one hand, Obama is the weaker general candidate, someone who a few pointed questions at townhall meetings could knock out of the race....
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The Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, and John McCain campaigns were apparently in on a deal that caused Huckabee to win West Virginia's delegates. From an official Ron Paul press release (link): In an agreement first reported by West Virginia television station WSAZ, the three Ron Paul delegates were secured through...
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February 03, 2008
On May 1, 2006 Barack Obama marched and spoke at the big Chicago illegal immigration march, an event whose main organizers include several people with links to the Mexican government and Mexican political parties. On this recent video, Maria Elena Durazo of the AFL-CIO - now a national co-chair of...
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I can't make sense of this, via this, nor will I try to. However, I fully expect it to start becoming part of an email chain, if it isn't already. Basically, there's supposedly some sort of hand-written Russian document from the GRU - Russian military intelligence - archives that will...
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January 27, 2008
Is Barack Obama a Muslim who practices Islam and who attended a madrassa (madrasa) in Indonesia? Despite whatever emails you might have received, it appears that the answer to that is no. According to him, he's a "committed Christian" (link). His church is the Trinity United Church of Christ, whose...
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January 26, 2008
From this: [Rick Davis, John McCain's current campaign manager and current or former president of the McCain-associated Reform Institute] helped arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire [Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska] whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S....
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January 25, 2008
John McCain's Hispanic outreach director [1] is Juan Hernandez, a U.S.-Mexico dual citizen and former Mexican government official who said the following in 2001 about Mexican immigrants to the U.S.: "I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think 'Mexico first.'" He also said [2]:...
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January 24, 2008
Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger join forces to offer "Beyond Payday Loans". The two promote plans to help the "unbanked" (those without checking accounts), and in so doing completely mislead about the seemy underbelly of their proposals: the San Francisco program they mention is designed in large part to give...
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January 22, 2008
I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave a full analysis of the following video to professional media critics, but I know there's a lot of stuff there. It features America Ferrera - flash-in-the-pan star of Ugly Betty - campaigning prior to the Nevada caucuses with to-the-manor-born Chelsea Clinton. And,...
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January 21, 2008
There seem to be a large number of sock puppets (per Wikipedia an "online identity used for purposes of deception within an Internet community") running loose on various blog sites and leaving comments supporting various candidates such as Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, and occasionally others. Now, certainly, many or most...
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Tonight's CNN "debate" (link) was as worthless as all the others have been, featuring just one very basic, very weak question about immigration matters. Joe Johns - CNN "reporter" who left whatever little journalistic integrity he had back in Jena, LA - asked: Senator Obama, we all know what universal...
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January 19, 2008
Here's a chart showing the differences between the entrance poll percentages for the Republican candidates in the Nevada caucus for whites and Latinos (link) vs. the percentage of the vote they received with 95% of reports in (link). Each number is the entrace poll percentage minus the near-final result. Those...
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January 17, 2008
Does Barack Obama belong to an anti-white, far-left church? Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ certainly appears to have made some interesting statements (link, link, link). The last includes excerpts from Obama's book. The candidate to a certain extent responds here, for instance saying that...
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January 16, 2008
I'm not 100% completely a fan of Lou Dobbs for various reasons, mostly because he doesn't seem that willing to end the careers of some of those he interviews by relentlessly hammering them on their lies. On the other hand, he still has to get guests so I can understand...
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Yet another Democratic debate was held yesterday on MSNBC, featuring Brian Williams and Tim Russert as moderators (transcript link). It was as ripped-from-the-Soviet-archives as we've come to expect from such debates, only this featured even more questions solely about process and horserace and even fewer about issues. It also featured...
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January 15, 2008
While John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama tour the countryside telling prospective voters just how bad things are, some people in Capitol City are living it up: those lucky few who get to dine at the U.S. House of Representatives' own eating establishments. Thanks to Nancy Pelosi's "Greening the...
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January 11, 2008
Details here....
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January 08, 2008
James Kirchick of the New Republic - home of the odious Jason Zengerle - offers "Angry White Man/The bigoted past of Ron Paul", an attempt by the Beltway establishment to sink his candidacy by revealing excerpts from his old newsletters. Apparently much or all of it was ghostwritten, and the...
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January 06, 2008
Last night, Charlie Gibson of ABC News moderated two debates sponsored by WMUR and Facebook, featuring the Republican candidates and then the Democrats. Like all the preceding debates, it was like something ripped from the pages of the Soviet Union. First, the Democrat version (transcript link) does not feature a...
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January 03, 2008
Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have won the Iowa Caucuses. Neither are qualified for any elected office, and for the same reason: their strong support for illegal immigration. However, the good news is that should they continue on they'll be extremely vulnerable on that issue and it might lead to...
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December 22, 2007
From this: Federal prosecutors for the first time brought their corruption investigation to the desk of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, making public Friday the allegations of two convicted insiders who say the governor offered them state business for their political backing. In a 78-page court filing that identifies the governor only...
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December 18, 2007
Apparently there's been some sort of cosmic shakeup or something, because the Washington Post has finally told the truth about something relating to immigration. Bearing in mind that this is probably just a fluke, Michael Dobbs' "Fact Checker" column basically agrees with my earlier assessment and says: Asked about the...
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December 17, 2007
Last week, a fifth-grader asked Barack Obama a raw question about immigration and terrorism at a stop in Iowa. Obama's response shows that he's not qualified for any political office:...
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December 15, 2007
Rudy Giuliani gave a big speech in Florida earlier today, and his remarks as prepared for delivery are here: joinrudy2008.com/article/pr/1085 [After my administration ends] We'll hand over a country where we've ended illegal immigration where it has to be done - at the border. And also a country who's arms...
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December 11, 2007
George P. Bush ("George Prescott Bush") has joined the Fred Thompson as the National Chair of his "Young Professionals for Fred Thompson" group. This is at least the second link he has to the Bush family. "P." is a budding racial demagogue who spoke out against the Border Patrol's use...
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It's odd how even the mention of the name "Mike Huckabee" on a blog or similar will trigger an avalanche of glassier-eyed-than-many-Ron-Paul supporters ready to leave generic comments. Whether these are from real supporters or those who are paid to be the same, many of them have the same tenor....
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December 08, 2007
Speaking on the John McLaughlin Group, Lawrence O'Donnell (Senior Political Analyst at MSNBC) smeared the entire Mormon religion and all adherents including Mitt Romney, calling it racist and pro-slavery in a lengthy tirade. This post will be updated if video of his meltdown becomes available. UPDATE: You can watch his...
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December 07, 2007
He explains why here, and it's pretty good. Any political debate is aimed at citizens. It is about issues of concern to the entire community, not a segment of the community. It is vital that all political debates and discussions take place in the public square, not in separate enclaves....
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December 05, 2007
Youtube and/or CNN censored the list of video replies to their raw footage of the recent CNN/Youtube GOP debate. On November 29, 2007 I uploaded two highly critical videos about the previous night's debate, and added them as replies to two of the CNN/Youtube-provided videos. My videos were in the...
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December 04, 2007
Perky Katie Couric [1] has decided to do something about the MSM's complete inability to call the presidential candidates on their endless lies and misleading statements, and will be asking them a series of tough questions in the coming days ("10 Tough Questions For 10 Top Candidates", link). And, I...
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NPR held a Democratic debate earlier today, and it currently looks like they asked a few incredibly weak questions on immigration that simply allowed the candidates to give their stock speeches. Not only that, but the questions appear to have been designed to make the candidates look slightly reasonable by...
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December 02, 2007
The "Iowa Brown and Black Forum" was held yesterday. Edwards gave a shout out to Obama and said he wants to raise the minimum wage to $9.50; B. Hussein Obama agreed. Then, the card games began, with Obama saying: "When America gets a cold, black and brown America get pneumonia,...
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[UPDATE: I didn't listen, but it looks like NPR did a CNN on immigration.] On Tuesday, December 4, NPR will be holding a radio-only presidential debate featuring the Democratic candidates from 11am to 1pm Pacific, so be sure a leave a note on the dash of your Volvo. A GOP...
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David Broder offers the completely clueless "Republicans would be wise to tab McCain and Huckabee" (link). He wants that ticket explicitly due to their immigration stances. And, Broder not only fails to do his job but he may be spreading Huckabee misinformation and he's being misleading about a program Huckabee...
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December 01, 2007
Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times offers "CNN: Corrupt News Network". He calls CNN "corrupt" for spending so much time on immigration matters, explicitly saying it was an attempt to boost Lou Dobbs' ratings. More on that mostly unbelievable charge below. ...this most recent debacle masquerading as a presidential...
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November 30, 2007
Someone with a supposed bomb strapped to his chest took hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in New Hampshire earlier today. Indications are that he's released the hostages and that he's a local man who was known to have issues. Hopefully it will work out peacefully. The political impact will...
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November 29, 2007
Part 1 is here. At last night's debate, CNN gave Mike Huckabee so much time to demagogue college discounts for illegal aliens that they didn't give Mitt Romney enough time to make the essential point that what Huckabee supported would have deprived U.S. citizens of college discounts. They also failed...
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Analyzing all the ways that CNN and Youtube are trying to lead America astray with their bogus "debates" would take a tremendous amount of time. So, I'm just going to look at two of the ways (Part 2 is here). The first is keyed to this video, the question asking...
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November 28, 2007
[UPDATE: Videos showing how CNN went wrong here and here.] 1. Huckster really showed how to demagogue, changing what appeared to be a question about giving illegal aliens college discounts into an answer generating pro-military applause. Romney made the important point that there's only so much money to go around......
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November 27, 2007
A running Dennis Kucinich artifact is "Campaign Updates" featuring a business-suited female anchor in a newsroom-style set (example here). Watching a couple of these in the past, my first thought was, "where's Kevin Trudeau? Will Dennis himself be showing up to try to sell us herbal supplements?" Not only do...
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November 26, 2007
The presidential debates so far have been a mockery of a sham, featuring shallow questions, few follow-ups, and even worse in the case of the last CNN debate. The following video proposes a new type of debate. Each candidate - together with their policy advisors - would face off with...
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November 23, 2007
The second Youtube/CNN debate will be held on Wednesday, November 28, and I can tell already it's going to be as bad - if not worse - than the first one. They'll ask a series of lightweight questions, and throw in a few humorous entries designed to portray those on...
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November 21, 2007
Mark Kleiman - someone who is shockingly a UCLA professor - writes [1]: The Bush Administration plans to steal hundreds of thousands of votes, most of them Democratic votes, in the 2008 elections by the simple expedient of sitting on new citizenship applications until after the elections. He links to...
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10 Questions.com lets people vote on their favorite questions for the political candidates, which their MSM partners (NYT and MSNBC) will presumably try to get the candidates to answer (two have already come in: youtube.com/profile?user=10ques). My issue with the site is that it allows those who can drive traffic to...
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The mainstream media has been working feverishly to promote Mike Huckabee, as have various low-level Democrats. Are those completely unrelated, or is the MSM taking their marching orders from the Democratic Party? And, is The Huckster being promoted because: 1. They're simply reporting on what's happening... 2. They just need...
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November 20, 2007
Rudy Giuliani held a conference call earlier today, and "Captain Ed" says (captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016063.php): Iowa wants to know about the NAFTA superhighway coming through the state -- Giuliani will not support any kind of NAFTA superhighway, anywhere. What a relief! Of course, as detailed at the last link, Juliani's law firm...
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November 18, 2007
The following video describes how CNN failed to note the material affiliations of some of the audience members who asked questions at Thursday's Democratic debate. And, one of the audience questions included an outrageous lie. Since CNN approved the questions in advance, they're responsible for that lie. Here's a rundown...
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November 17, 2007
Thursday's CNN Democratic debate featured more than wimpy questions and a CNN-approved lie. Some of the audience members who asked questions weren't just regular Joes and Janes. And, CNN failed to disclose those links. From the transcript: [Wolf Blitzer:] you're going to be hearing directly from voters here in Nevada....
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November 15, 2007
Just started watching, and so far both questions CNN has gone to the audience for had major issues. First, the claim that the questioner was racially profiled is just that: a claim, not a fact. Second, the question about immigration contained a lie: terrorists have indeed crossed our southern border,...
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November 14, 2007
One unremarked note about the topic of Hillary Clinton's weakness is that some of her minions, while effective, are also lightweights. Media Matters has been able to get a few of their smears into the wider sphere, but they've also damaged what little reputation they had by failing to contextualize...
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November 10, 2007
Holy Globalism! It was like a tinfoil festival as sometime in the 90s (perhaps July 16, 1994), Rudy Giuliani presented an award to David Rockefeller at a meeting of the Business Council for the United Nations [1]. In his laudatory introduction, he mentioned all the globalist groups with which DR...
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November 09, 2007
From this: Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy. Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted the question and said it would not happen again....
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November 03, 2007
Would you put it past the New York Times to try to subliminally program their visitors to think ill of those who oppose their support for illegal immigration? (All five of you who think the NYT wouldn't stoop that low should read NYT: Toothless yokels against Senate immigration grand compromise!...
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November 02, 2007
The article "NYC Chinatown Donorgate Under-Covered" has a roundup of the coverage that Hillary Clinton's large donations from dishwashers and other low-wage Chinese immigrant donors - some who can't be found - has received, then says that some of the missing donors come from an area known for immigrants from...
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October 31, 2007
The United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty has been voted 17-4 out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, meaning it will now be voted on by the Senate; when exactly isn't known. See the brief introduction from Sen. James Inhofe here, and see the first link for background information....
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An example of just how much of a public disservice the presidential "debates" have been is offered in John Edwards' answers to a couple questions from NBC News' Brian Williams at last night's Democratic debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia (link, direct link). Williams asked this: Senator Edwards, should there...
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October 30, 2007
Showing just how sleazy and incompetent the Democratic Party is, their Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wants people to go to campaign events and - rather than ask tough questions about policy - help them craft smears [1]: With 2008 fast approaching, the DCCC is urgently mobilizing our Rapid Responders to...
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October 29, 2007
The Democrats and some Republicans want to ratify the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, which would give a UN body control over 70% of the Earth's surface and would allow them to create a de facto global taxation system. On Thursday, November 1 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
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10Questions.com is a new site that aggregates Youtube and similar political videos and allows visitors to vote on their favorite. The top 10 will then be asked of the presidential candidates, with the candidates then asked to upload replies. The site is co-sponsored by several blogs as well as the...
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October 25, 2007
Mike Glover of the Associated Press offers a partial lionization of Mike Huckabee in "Iowans Gives Huckabee a Second Look". It's similar to the Adam Nagourney puff piece, starting with: Mike Huckabee, who strums a bass guitar and cracks jokes at campaign stops, is quietly establishing himself with Iowa voters...
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October 22, 2007
On July 6, 2004 Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee - currently a presidential contender - spoke on his monthly radio show and, responding to a caller's question about illegal aliens, said the following: "If they're illegal they're not about to show up at some public institution and say I'd like funds...
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October 17, 2007
This site "techPresident" (techpresident.com) has launched a new feature called "10 Questions" that's highly similar to the existing site Community Counts (one of those behind CC is involved in 10Q). Basically, people will upload video questions for the candidates, others will vote on the top questions, the top ten questions...
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October 11, 2007
As part of his pledge to "end illegal immigration", Rudy Giuliani wants to require all foreigners in the U.S. to carry a biometric ID card. As discussed at the link, that would either be ineffective or it would eventually result in a national ID card for all. Back in 1986,...
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October 08, 2007
This video shows how you can make Ron Paul a top-tier candidate, specifically by reducing the popularity of his opponents. The video mainly consists of a series of text screens and the script is below. This shouldn't be considered an endorsement of Ron Paul; while I support him on sovereignty-related...
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October 02, 2007
The far-left is on the warpath, with General Wesley Clark calling for Rush Limbaugh to be removed from Armed Forces Radio as part of a followup to a MediaMatters-originated smear. That follows the same group having smeared Bill O'Reilly, and, apparently unrelated to that, the San Francisco supervisors (led by...
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September 30, 2007
Republican National Committee general chairman Mel Martinez may quit his post as soon as a GOP candidate emerges, sources say. And, I say, "mind the door, and farethee well". ...News of his departure comes as Republican candidates are criticized for skipping forums aimed at Hispanic and black voters, and reports...
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Brave New Films is a sleazy [1], left-wing organization, akin to the low-rent Hollywoodish version of ThinkProgress. A few days ago, John Ehrenfeld from that site tried to attend [2] a Rudy Giuliani appearance, only to be kicked out apparently after Guiliani staffers learned who he was with. Thinking ahead,...
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September 28, 2007
From this: Every baby born in America should receive money that can later be used to pay for college, Clinton told the crowd at the Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference in Washington on Friday. "I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that...
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September 26, 2007
The Democrats are offering yet another debate this evening, broadcast on MSNBC and featuring Tim Russert as moderator. He and a "reporter" from a Northeast TV network just asked the candidates whether they supported sanctuary cities. Then, Russert and the "reporter" just listened as the candidates blathered on. All of...
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September 12, 2007
Former Hillary Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu almost committed suicide, thus possibly explaining his weird behavior on the train bound for Denver Chicago which let him off at a hospital in Grand Junction. ...he typed out a suicide note and sent copies to several acquaintances and charitable organizations, according to people...
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September 11, 2007
I usually laugh at rather than laugh with TAPPED, but this post highlighting "town mouse Rudy Giuliani saying embarrassingly stupid things about flyover country while in flyover country" found me regretfully doing a little of the second. For instance, the bit of advice about "Do not, under any circumstances, make...
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September 09, 2007
The transcript contains some real valuable nuggets. Here's John Edwards: Just a few months ago, I was in Canton, Mississippi, as part of a poverty tour, and I met with poultry workers who worked in a poultry plant in Canton, Mississippi. And one of them was a man named Daniel...
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Mike Huckabee has sent a letter to Fred Thompson challenging him to a series of "Lincoln Douglas-styled debates". This follows Thompson telling Sean Hannity that the current debates are "not designed really to illuminate people's thoughts and feelings". If your meter hasn't yet pegged, "Cap'n Ed" supports the idea. A...
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According to this video, Popular Mechanics and the History Channel fabricated evidence in their show purporting to debunk 9/11 myths of the conspiracy variety. It's not possible to verify the claims for various reasons, but it would certainly be interesting to hear their reply (or a reply from one of...
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September 06, 2007
Breaking now: Hillary Clinton donor Norman Hsu was arrested at a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado this evening. What the former "Hillraiser" for Hillary Clinton and donor to other campaigns was doing in that run-down town is not entirely clear....
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September 05, 2007
I missed most of the first part, but even without seeing the transcript I can tell it was just as horrible as the past debates. The question isn't, "how can you not call it amnesty". That allowed Giuliani to side-step the question and McCain to break out his dictionary and...
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Here's Fred Thompson's first TV ad. At the end you can see his apparent slogan: "Security, Unity, Prosperity". Please, no one tell him about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (spp.gov). Let's just make that an inside joke....
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September 04, 2007
Here's the Spanish language version of the Great Seal of the United States of America, direct from usa.gov/gobiernousa (upper right hand corner). Usa.gov is the offical web site of the U.S.A. Their (our?) about page (usa.gov/About.shtml) says it's from the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Communications....
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August 30, 2007
Watch the following video, I dare you! Do you now doubt that Mitt Romney is not best choice for Leader? What is the matter with you if you have doubts? Remember: Mitt Romney is the only candidate who bent the iron bar at the Algoronok Festival! It was not Rudy...
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August 27, 2007
Normally, a high class site like this wouldn't even acknowledge somethig like this, but it is Larry Craig, so: Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom, according to an arrest report...
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August 22, 2007
The guidelines for appearances by president Bush was recently obtained by the ACLU under an FOIA request, and it details the many ways that both Bush and the media were to be blocked from seeing protesters: any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers....
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August 19, 2007
What is George Stephanopoulos of ABC News trying to hide from his viewers? Obviously, one thing he's trying to hide is a grown-up discussion of immigration matters: neither August 5's GOP "debate" nor today's Democratic debate featured any questions about immigration. There's not a single instance of "immig*", "undocumented", or...
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August 13, 2007
I don't want Mitt Romney to be president, but if I did I'd work night and day to get as much attention as possible to this NSFW video: link. Once again: the end of it is NSFW. Now that's a smear! And, sleazy too, and one that only a small...
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Adam Nagourney of the New York Times offers a completely sympathetic profile of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee entitled "For a Joke-Telling Candidate, a Second-Place Finish". Here's one of those fun jokes: Or consider this, as he invited Republicans to join in "a Q. and A." with him in West Des...
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August 12, 2007
Discussing all the subtle digs and Beltway and far-left assumptions of "Walking A Hard Line On Campaign Trail in Iowa" by Sridhar Pappu of the Washington Post (link) would take too much time. So, let's concentrate on this: ...The following day Tancredo [has] just come from a town hall where...
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August 11, 2007
Can mainstream media hacks like Tavis Smiley or George Stephanapolous be dragged kicking and screaming into covering immigration matters now that Tom Tancredo has placed fourth in the Ames, Iowa straw poll? Note that he did that despite being the victim of a hoax the day before (link). I'd say...
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August 10, 2007
I give up. Well, not really, but that's how I feel after watching some of the submissions for the Youtube/CNN Republican debate (to be held at some unknown future date). As with the Democratic version, expect CNN to pick the worst of the worst in order to a) not make...
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August 09, 2007
Via this we learn that a Santa Monica lawyer named Henry Reynolds has apparently registered imwithfred2008.com, a take off on the real Fred Thompson site imwithfred.com. It apparently featured Klan imagery or statements in an attempt to smear Thompson to those who mistakenly entered the wrong URL. That lawyer is...
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Jake Tapper finally earns his keep and has an article looking back at Rudy Giuliani's support for illegal immigration: But if Giuliani inherited [Ed Koch's sanctuary for illegal aliens policy], he reissued it and seemed to embrace it. At a June 1994 press conference, Giuliani decried anti-illegal immigration policies as...
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August 07, 2007
In the past, this site has been sharply critical - to say the least! - of the mainstream media ("MSM"), pointing out that they consistently fail to ask politicians tough questions that would reveal the glaring holes in those politicians' policies. Now, I have to retract that, based on this...
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August 06, 2007
On August 3, Lauren Kornreich of CNN posted an entry at their "Political Ticker" blog falsely entitled "Tancredo: Bomb Muslim holy sites first" and containing the following false statement: On Tuesday, Tancredo warned a group of Iowans that another terrorist attack would "cause a worldwide economic collapse." He said that...
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August 05, 2007
In previous GOP and Democratic debates, various MSM hacks have featured at most one or two questions about immigration matters, all of them worthless. The Tavis Smiley/PBS Democratic debate had no immigration questions at all. Now comes George Stephanopoulos of ABC News with a continuation of the trend: the ABC...
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August 04, 2007
Delivering the welcoming address at this year's YearlyKos convention, Chairman Dean (Dr. Gov. Howard Dean, M.D. to those not part of The Collective) ended with the following: "America was knocked down by the far-right wing of the Republican Party for the last eight years and by God we're going...
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August 02, 2007
Dear CNN: Please do not choose the following video for the upcoming GOP debates. If you ask Mike Huckabee this question, it just might end his political career, as well as showing the millions who watch the debate just how lightweight the questions the mainstream media usually asks are. So,...
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From this: On April 24, 2003, a board member of Chiquita International Brands disclosed to a top official at the Justice Department that the king of the banana trade was evidently breaking the nation's anti-terrorism laws. Roderick M. Hills, who had sought the meeting with former law firm colleague Michael...
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July 27, 2007
Mitt Romney is apparently going to pull out of the next CNN/Youtube "debate" because he doesn't want to answer questions like those from snowmen. Rudy Giuliani is likewise unsure. Hugh Hewitt thinks it will turn into a chance for CNN to ask a series of leftwing questions, and is suggesting...
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July 25, 2007
Go, Fred, go! On the following clip, Fred Thompson is asked about his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and their support for the (internet hoax known as the) North American Union by the "truther" who runs houston911truth.org (her musings on the event). He responds smooth as silk to...
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From this: Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards squeezed into a pair of Spandex bike shorts today and pedaled on the RAGBRAI route with champion cyclist Lance Armstrong. In fact, here's a picture: The candidate was sweaty after about a dozen miles, but there was no evidence of helmet hair. Look,...
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July 24, 2007
The Youtube/CNN debate sucked. The questions that CNN selected were little different from what MSM hacks would have asked; the videos from "average citizens" were little more than props. Of course, that's to be expected: if CNN had selected any of the small number of tough questions, it would have...
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July 23, 2007
[UPDATE: If you too think the debate sucked, please vote up this 1 second video saying... the debate sucked.] -------------- One of the people who selected the extremely puffball questions is Sam Feist, their Political Director. Could everyone send him an email letting him know what you think? He's at...
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July 22, 2007
As we all know by now, on Monday CNN and Youtube will be holding a debate which will most likely be a "debate". The moderator is none other than Super Puffball Anderson Cooper, former anchor for a news program for kids (Channel 1). Some of the questions will be provided...
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July 19, 2007
Unlike others, I'm not going to call this "Obama: Genocide Is Okay" (link) or "Barack Obama, The Pro Genocide Candidate" (link), because I feel that the title is correct: presidential candidate and Democrat Barack Obama is simply saying that some level of genocide is perfectly acceptable. Kind of like background...
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Rudy Giuliani has a new video at Youtube where he: asks You Tube viewers for their opinion on his 12 Commitments to the American People. Voters are encouraged to leave their video or text responses here on You Tube or on Rudys12Commitments.com. At post time, no comments are showing. Now...
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July 15, 2007
On Monday, lightweight presidential contender John Edwards will be starting a "Road to One America" tour to begin in New Orleans and end in Kentucky three days and eight states later. The supposed goal will be to highlight the apparent fact that 10% of Americans live in poverty; in actual...
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July 14, 2007
The Los Angeles archdiocese of the Catholic Church - led my Cardinal Roger Mahony, aka "the pedophile protector" - is going to settle its outstanding lawsuits in regards to sexual abuse by priests for $600 million. Unfortunately, this means that Mahoney won't be forced to take the stand, something that...
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July 10, 2007
John McCain's campaign manager (Terry Nelson) and his chief strategist (John Weaver) have both quit or been fired. While his support for Iraq may have played some role, his immigration stance and his reputation as a RINO and perhaps the fading of his supposed role as a "maverick" probably played...
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July 07, 2007
Presumed presidential candidate Fred Thompson has hired someone who gives him extensive links to the Bush family. Needless to say, many of those who have (finally) seen the light on just how horrific George Bush has been will be willing to overlook warning signs like this: Longtime Republican consultant Randy...
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About a week ago, Senator Chris Dodd posted a Youtube video urging citizen journalists to go to campaign appearances by the presidential contenders and ask them about his Dodd Amendment and other issues. The video has been viewed by over 340,000 people, roughly the 2000 population of the Reno, Nevada...
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July 03, 2007
Via this we find this short interview (conducted by someone with the somewhat improbable name of Lyric Wallwork Winik) with U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao: You could lose your job to a foreign worker—not because he's cheaper but because he has better workplace skills and discipline. That's the message Labor...
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June 28, 2007
From this: Eleven minutes after voting in favor of cloture on the Senate immigration bill, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback changed his mind—and his vote—to oppose cloture, MSNBC reported earlier today [link]. Now it seems that the Brownback campaign has changed its mind again, this time on a press release it...
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Senator Chris Dodd has stolen my idea! But, I don't mind, and he may or may not have developed the idea himself. He wants citizen journalists to attend campaign appearances by his competitors for president and ask them tough questions: Call, visit, or find your Senators while they're home on...
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June 22, 2007
Appearing on the Piolin radio show in support of immigration "reform", aka a massive amnesty for illegal aliens, Senator Teddy Kennedy broke into song... in Spanish. Please distribute widely. Related: America empty boxed: Kennedy immigration press conference UPDATE: I should have mentioned that this was played on KFI's John &...
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As previously discussed, CNN and Youtube are soliciting questions for their upcoming Democratic debate. My entry is a question for Hillary Clinton concerning her support for the anti-American DREAM Act. Unfortunately, a glance through the other entries reveals only one other person who asks similar questions, and he's got some...
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As long as you don't look at the year, a calendar stuck on February 31 is almost close to being on the right track every four years. Bill Richardson is a lot like that, saying yesterday at a town hall meeting in Phoenix that we should tell our friends to...
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June 17, 2007
Youtube wants their users to submit videos with questions for the upcoming Democratic debate to be held on CNN on July 23rd and moderated by fluffball Anderson Cooper. I just watched a few of the current submissions, and boy is my spirit tired. While one of them features the attractive...
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June 11, 2007
Apparently KFI AM 640 Los Angeles hosts John & Ken - frequent opponents of illegal immigration - want Rudy Giuliani to be president. Or, at least John Kobylt does. He seems to think that the amnesty that Rudy supports isn't amnesty. He is, of course, wrong. This is oddly similar...
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June 06, 2007
The following video shows a "truther" reporter (Matt Lepacek) from Alex Jones' group trying to ask Rudy Giuliani pollster Ed Goeas some questions about 9/11. (h/t Dave Weigel) After much back and forth, the reporter is arrested and led away, and Goeas says, "would the real media like to ask...
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June 03, 2007
I thought the performance of Chris Matthews in the GOP debate was horrific, but Wolf Blitzer is trying to in effect outdo him by asking a series of puffball questions and then just letting the candidates blather on. This is extremely unhealthy for our political system; instead of letting them...
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June 02, 2007
If a presidential administration keeps doing the same thing over and over but somehow expects a different result, are they sane or insane? Jim Rutenberg and Carl Hulse of the New York Times offers the somewhat unique* "Bush's Push on Immigration Tests His Base": President Bush's advocacy of an immigration...
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mahalo.com is a new "search engine" from Jason Calacanis, formerly head of Weblogs, Inc. It's actually more like a cross between Wikipedia, dmoz.org, about.com, and Squidoo, or something like that. Rather than trying to answer all requests, they're only concentrating on the top 10,000 searches, and then providing pages that...
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June 01, 2007
Youtube's political editor Steve Grove has been interviewing the presidential contenders, and I've left comments pointing out how lightweight the interviews are. However, they appear to at least be making baby steps towards asking slightly more difficult questions. In the latest, they interview John Edwards and ask him a series...
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May 27, 2007
Speaking on Meet the Press, New Mexico governor and Democratic presidential contender Bill Richardson lied about the border fence: MR. RUSSERT: The wall hasn't worked? GOV. RICHARDSON: No, it hasn't worked. MR. RUSSERT: Anywhere along the border, the fence hasn't worked. GOV. RICHARDSON: It hasn't worked. What has worked is...
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May 24, 2007
Criticizing Bush's endless stream of blather on immigration is just about the lowest hanging fruit possible, but let's look at his latest stream of semi-consciousness [1]. First, he sounds like Howard Dean ("scapegoating immigrants") when he accuses his opponents of targeting illegal aliens. Then, he enters his peevish/defensive mode with...
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May 23, 2007
From this: President Bush has signed a directive granting extraordinary powers to the office of the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight. The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive" [whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html]was signed May 9, notes Jerome R. Corsi in a WND...
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In response to my query, Bill Richardson's communication director informs me: Governor Richardson has never "worked" for the OAS. Last year he was appointed a special envoy to the Secretary General for Latin America. That means the SG could call on the Governor to assist, on a purely humanitarian and...
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From "Richardson enters '08 race by letting Latinos know he's 1 of them": Democrat Bill Richardson has officially entered the presidential race with a naked appeal to Hispanics, saying in an interview that it's "rudimentary politics" to make sure the country's fastest growing voting bloc knows he's one of them....
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May 18, 2007
From this: A state investigation has found that Tan Nguyen's congressional campaign committed no crime last year when it mailed 14,000 letters telling immigrants they could be jailed for voting, the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. However, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that its voting-rights section is still investigating...
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May 15, 2007
In March I put a Bill Richardson video on Youtube (link) containing audio of him saying the following: "We have to band together and that means Latinos in Florida, Cuban-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, South Americans - we have to network better - we have to be more politically minded -...
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May 12, 2007
On this uninteresting April 30 video (link), you can see Hillary Clinton introduced by California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, one of her campaign's co-chairs. Meanwhile, back in the 90's, Nunez was just a bit more radical than that video might suggest. On this video (link) from an anti-Proposition 187 rally...
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May 08, 2007
The following video shows John Edwards being asked about the WTC 7 by one of those who apparently believes in the 9/11 Truth/MIHOP/LIHOP theory. The reason this is here isn't because of the topic, but to remind everyone that it's not that difficult to ask politicians non-standard questions and then...
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May 05, 2007
Via this, Chris Matthews muttered "Oh, God" under his breath after Rep. Ron Paul responded to a question he asked during the May 3, 2007 GOP debate. If you want to have real debates featuring real questions, sign the petition urging Lou Dobbs to moderate at least two debates: one...
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April 27, 2007
Unless we take action now, the upcoming presidential debates will just be an opportunity for politicians to recite their talking points, and moderators will continue to ask puffball, general questions rather than asking questions designed to reveal flaws in the candidates' arguments. I urge everyone to sign this non-partisan petition...
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April 24, 2007
Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee has deleted his campaign videos from Youtube and then resubmitted what appear to be the same videos [*]. This procedure deletes comments which had been left on the videos and resets their view counts, ratings, links, etc. They also appear to have changed their commenting...
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On May 3, the GOP presidential candidates will be debating live on MSNBC and it will be streamed live at Politico.com. The latter site is looking for user-submitted questions for the candidates. You need to sign up, but that's free. You can also vote up questions. Unfortunately, the current top-ranked...
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Naomi Wolf offers "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps". First, let's get the easy stuff out of the way. This is in al-Guardian, and she plays the "I'm one of the Smart Americans, I am!" game: ...Even as Americans were focused on Britney Spears's meltdown and the question of who...
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April 22, 2007
John Edwards recently got two haircuts for the exorbitant price of $400 each, and tried to bill the campaign for them. Various "liberals" are now aghast at the coverage that this matter has received, particularly that from Maureen Dowd. For instance, this. In an attempt to reach out, let me...
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April 19, 2007
Bill Richardson has shown once again that he's completely unfit for any political office. From this: Presidential candidate and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) said Monday the reason he has not called for the removal of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is that the two both have Hispanic backgrounds. Richardson,...
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April 12, 2007
Hillary Clinton has selected Raul Yzaguirre - former president of the National Council of La Raza ("The Race") - as the co-chair of her presidential campaign. He'll head up her "outreach" to Hispanics. In actual fact, he'll help her even more strongly support illegal immigration, as Yzaguirre's history shows. NCLR...
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April 08, 2007
The following is not a fake: Caption: President George W. Bush discusses the security of America at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota Thursday, Aug. 15 [2002] "More and more people understand that being a patriot is more than just putting your hand over your heart and saying the Pledge of...
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April 04, 2007
Jeff Jarvis from