Cindi Ross Scoppe of the increasingly irrelevent State newspaper has published a rant blasting Governor Mark Sanford “and his loyalists” for “distortions” – lies – about the state-of-the-state and what’s required to fix some difficult problems.
“Screed” is another way to describe Ms. Scoppe’s diatribe.
CONTINUE…
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I was just informed of a remark made by the judge that banned homeschooling in California.
“California courts have held that … parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children,” Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the 3-0 ruling issued on Feb. 28. “Parents have a legal duty to see to their children’s [...]
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The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is to make an official complaint to the Garda Síochána today about the publication of what it considers to be a racially offensive article that appeared in the Irish Independent last week.
The ICI said it believed the publication of the article, “ [...]
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Mainstream economists and the Federal Reserve refuse to public acknowledge the connection between the devaluing dollar and the rising inflation rates. It has become commonplace to pretend that inflation is simply “rising prices” and the drop in value of the dollar is simply a sign of a weakening economy. That is only partially true. The [...]
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The United States is not a capitalist nation. The government refuses to let the two biggest lenders to new homeowners fail because the government is just “too big to fail” at any given point. Fannie and Freddie are getting a bailout and it is a bad policy decision on the side of the White House [...]
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For years Ron Paul has been telling the truth to Congress about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. We see now that they are collapsing and the Federal Reserve will be taking on the debt of these two unconstitutional entities. The last of Roosevelt’s New Deal is finally showing its true self–a giant redistributive scheme that [...]
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I still believe that the world is ripe for a third world war. Some disagree and say that we will probably never have another one. I’m not so sure. Oil supplies are crucial as far as governments go. Some people in high places have certain (bad) principles that they refuse to turn from. This is [...]
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Sheryl Longin made me stare at the screen in disbelief for about ten seconds. In her rant on Pat Buchanan where she makes the case that Iran is a warmongering state, she writes:
But how does Buchanan come to his conclusion that Iran does not want a war? I’ll let him speak for himself on the [...]
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That’s the question posed by Michael Howard in a London Times article this morning. I’ve been interested in the revision of World War II history–is what we’ve been taught all our lives really the truth? Was it really the “Good War”? That’s something Pat Buchanan tries to explain in his book Churchill, Hitler, and the [...]
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Time after time I hear “libertarian” Republicans (and even self-professed libertarians like Neal Boortz) declare that the policeman should always be given the benefit of the doubt. This afternoon on my way home from work I was listening to a local talk radio host who describes himself as a “little-L” libertarian defend the honor of [...]
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The Right is just as guilty as the Left in wanting to eradicate free speech. The Left, though, attempts to do it under the guise of free speech itself. This AlterNet article by Rory O’Connor doesn’t flat out call for a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, but he implies that he wishes for something similar [...]
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The Washington Post reports that Brian Williams will be the replacement for Tim Russert for the near future. He probably will be the permanent fill in if I had to take a guess, unless Tom Brokaw is feeling good enough to make a return to the cameras.
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I think when the news is boring and less infuriating, I get bored with politics. All it takes is a couple of articles to rile me up on any subject and I can spend two days posting about it. Last week I was just angry thinking about the fact that John McCain is the Republican [...]
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Over the years, Scott McClellan has delivered alot of important statements for the White House, covering issues including the Iraq War, the President’s position on Iran, and the Valerie Plame scandal. From 2003 to 2006 he was the Press Secretary, the mouth of the Presidency, and a vital part of the administration. Yet [...]
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In a writing contest Subway is sponsoring, children can win a grand prize of $5000 for athletic equipment for the child’s school. There is a catch, though.
”Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools [...]
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America has simultaneously been the most economically ignorant and the most capitalistic country in modern times. For over a hundred years after the founding of the country, our laissez-faire policies allowed for massive economic growth, capital saving, and wealth creation. This lack of restrictions on wealth-creating allowed for the massive capital saving that took place [...]
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This news isn’t being thrown around in the main stream so I think it is necessary to put it out to folks.
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war “very close”, a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday.
Separately, in comments certain [...]
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The Political Inquirer on Jimmy Barrett show (AM1140, Richmond, VA)
Samuel James from the Political Inquirer will be on a Richmond, Virginia radio station tomorrow with Jimmy Barrett to discuss the nanny state and the government’s role in regulating the food we can eat. The station is AM 1140 WRVA and Sam should be on around 8:35 AM Eastern time. The station’s website has a [...]
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