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Race Hustling Charlatan James Clyburn Says Newt Gingrich “Will Say Anything to Get a Charge”

December 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment

“Go to your bosom; knock there and ask your heart what it doth know that is like my brother’s fault.” – Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene ii – Congressman James Clyburn was asked by MSNBC’s non-partisan Newt-hater, Mika Brzezinski, what he thought of Gingrich’s recent surge in the Republican polls. Clyburn said, with a [...]

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VP Joe Biden Says Women Will be Raped if Republicans Don’t Pass Obama Jobs Bill

October 20th, 2011 · 9 Comments

I’ve heard of fear-mongering before but this latest example from Vice President Joe Biden takes the proverbial cake: If the Republicans don’t pass this bill, then rape will continue to rise. Murder will continue to rise; rape will continue to rise; all crime will continue to rise. This is despicable and cheap. Think about it. Any congressman could propose [...]

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Union Hypocrisy

September 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union of Nevada (UFCW) accuses WalMart of abusing its employees by paying them little more than minimum wage and granting only nominal benefits. The UCFW has hired non-union workers to engage in protests of WalMart’s employment practices. Guess what the UFCW pays its workers? You got it: Minimum wage! And guess what benefits [...]

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The Left’s Love of Democracy, Part 2 Million

August 28th, 2011 · No Comments

Michael Walsh of the National Review tells us how much the Wisconsin unionists respect democracy and care about children (emphasis is mine): Well, isn’t this just lovely: MILWAUKEE — Protesters crowded the street outside Messmer Preparatory School in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood as Governor Walker visited the school Friday to read to children. The protests came just [...]

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Paul Krugman Wants U.S. to Prepare for Attack from Space Aliens

August 16th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Left wing God of Keynesianism, Paul Krugman, has said more crazy things than Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Ron Paul combined, yet he remains the go-t0 guy for the mainstream media on everything ecconomics. Which is proof that you can get away with a lot of wackiness after you win a Nobel Prize. Here’s the latest from Michelle Malkin [...]

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John Kerry Politicizes Debt Downgrade then Says We Shouldn’t Politicize Debt Downgrade

August 7th, 2011 · 2 Comments

 “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”  - John Kerry on funding the Iraq War – The always entertaining John Kerry just said the following on Meet the Press: It’s the Tea Party’s downgrade. The debt downgrade was caused by the Tea Party. About ten seconds later he said this: Speaker John Boehner has tried to politicize [...]

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The Agenda of the Dependent

July 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online talks about the agenda of the poor and the middle class (emphasis added): About 50 percent of taxpayers don’t pay federal income taxes. Almost half of American adults receive either the majority of or all of their income in some form from government. They are naturally desirous of [...]

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