Like most, I can't be sure whether or not the Missus is peeved or not. She didn't seem overly interested in sharing the moment with him, in any case. Probably better double the security detail on the White Doghouse for the next few days until she settles down.
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Hah! That's great, I didn't know there was a Mexican pop star with my maternal grandmother's first name. Between that and the Chi McBride charater on Pushing Daisies, my rural Ohio grandparents' given names are having a pretty multicultural 2009.
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Glenn Beck unveils a top key employee, Obama's White House Communications Director Anita Dunn telling students she loves Mao.
W.A.S.S.
The Alinsky plan: identify the target, freeze the target, destroy the target. At least Mr. Beck is applying this to deserving targets, not Joe the Plumber.
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Was all set with a comment citing number of deaths attributed to through failed policies,
whats wrong with revering Washington,Lincoln, et al., etc.. and was overcome by a feeling of sadness for my country. I truly HATE these people.
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How hard it must be for the Ego to find aides who are pro-American & do not love mass murdering, womanizing, dictators?
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I'm looking forward to see the replacements. Given the amount of scrutiny they can expect from Mr. Beck, et al, one would hope the administration would be clever enough to choose more mainstream candidates.
Analysis: If we line up the 14 sources which claim to be complete, the median falls in the 45.75 to 52.5 million range, so you probably can't go wrong picking a final number from this neighborhood.
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What bothers me here is she is a fan of Mao not due to his leadership or greatness at anything other than being on a T shirt. She probably wears a Che shirt. People in the white house should be driving at great examples, not some t shirt logo. F*&K!
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I think Dunn and Biden should go on a speaking tour together. Now that would be a hoot!
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
-George Washington
Didn't Mao also say something to the effect that women needed to spend more time cleaning his genitals?
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#9 Did anyone else see the clip? WTF kind of facial tic is that? She looked like a cow chewing a cud.
whitecollar redneck, my dog does that when I give him stale beer.
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As a rough proportion, about 98% of American progressives would be dead in a society organized along the lines of Mao's Little Red Book.
That's a point most American progressives never consider.
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Useful fools were the first to lined up against the wall.
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This woman has very quirky mannerisms. Lot of tongue activity. Probably would drive a body language analyst nuts.
So she reveres the greatest mass murderer of modern times? What a dipwad. Unfortunately there are far too many of these latent communists/Marxists who have come out of the closet with this administration.
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Despite some over=the=top theatricality on Glenn's part he really is doing great work in calling out these people in the White House. This woman needs to be shamed out of the WH as soon as possible, and we need to keep hammering home to the public what Zero is doing to the country with both his policies and choices of senior leaders/advisors. This gets more and more troubling by the day. At first I was amused at the obvious leftward tilt of the new administration, but not it feels sinister and dangerous.
Dunn is married to Obama thug lawyer Robert Bauer, who tried valiantly to get the DOJ to prosecute conservative critics and punish TV stations for running an ad critical of ObamaÂ’s relationship with Weather Underground Bill Ayers.
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It looks like a church because it's a graduation speech from Saint Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, MD; high school tuition $31,000 per annum.
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I wonder if she fantasizes about being on the Long March and eagerly rendering any service the Chairman required.
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It looks like a church because it's a graduation speech from Saint Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, MD; high school tuition $31,000 per annum.
Y'know, Mao got a lot of traction with the peasant mass of Chinese society by sending the kinds of people who would send their kids to a school like that out into the countryside to shovel night soil instead.
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Unfortunately there are far too many of these latent communists/Marxists who have come out of the closet with this administration.
Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-16 14:52
Actually, it is most fortunate, indeed, that they have swarmed out of the holes they have been hiding in.
I say this because there are people paying attention and making note of these...people...as they reveal themselves. Most convenient for when the trials begin. Or, maybe there won't be any trials.
The head of the Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday countered Obama administration claims that a landmark climate bill would be a boost to the economy. Keep an eye on this guy; we don't want him to "disappear".
President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats championing the bill have said mandating greenhouse-gas caps, renewable energy and efficiency standards would be a boon to an ailing economy, creating new low-carbon industries. Millions of so-called green jobs would be created under the cap-and-trade legislation being considered in the Senate, Democrats say. Go GREEN!
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf warned a Senate energy panel that there would be "significant shifts" from emissions-intense sectors such as oil and refining firms to low-carbon businesses such as wind and solar power.
"The net effect of that we think would likely be some decline in employment during the transition because labor markets don't move that fluidly," Mr. Elmendorf said, testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
"The fact that jobs turn up somewhere else for some people does not mean there aren't substantial costs borne by people, communities, firms and affected industries," he said.
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In other words - in the classic liberal mold - we will destroy several productive industries and simply hope that new ones will arrive to take their place. Because jobs and businesses just create themselves.
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The CBO may be the last objective and reasonably honest governmental agency left. And I'm not so sure about them. Most of the rest issue a pack of lies to fit an agenda.
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mandating greenhouse-gas caps, renewable energy and efficiency standards would be the coup de grace a boon to an ailing economy An idea from those who are clueless about producing real value in an economy.
Given his incompetence in handling the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it was surprising to many that Mayor Ray Nagin was reelected. A poster on the Huffington Post put this absurdity down to the stupidity of the New Orleans voters.
Next month, we'll see if New Yorkers will rate the same judgment. Both Mayor Bloomberg and many City Council members will be seeking reelection despite residents voting for term limits twice.
Mr. Bloomberg has arrogantly ignored their wishes and is running for his third term under the rationale that the public needs more choice in the time of an economic crisis.
Certainly he thought differently after September 11, 2001, when the city faced a much more deadly crisis and would have welcomed a third term for Mayor Giuliani. Then Mr. Bloomberg insisted that the public vote be upheld.
However, Mr. Bloomberg could only circumvent the public wishes for a third term with the cooperation of the City Council, which also had over 35 members who would be term-limited out of office.
Do New Yorkers have the gumption to vote out both the mayor and the self-serving City Council members? Mr. Bloomberg has spent $65 million to make sure they don't. So the question remains: How stupid are we?
In a fascinating American Thinker column on Sunday, "Do Not Blame Barack," Selwyn Duke compares today's voters with the ancient Romans who adored and praised Julius Caesar and rejoiced in their loss of freedom.
He quotes Marcus Tullius Cicero who wrote: "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions .... Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.' Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man."
Campaign ads today invariably make much of the same promises that worked for Caesar and for that matter President Obama. How easy it is to seduce us with the language of deception when our powers of discernment have been dulled by lack of exercise.
I've been watching the Bloomberg television ads and reading his campaign mail and I wonder if others are asking the same question: "Mr. Mayor, you've been in office for nearly 8 years. Why haven't you addressed these problems before?" What he claims he has achieved is highly debatable.
Ask any teacher if he's really improved the public schools. The answer will be a resounding "No!" They are bogged down in filling out regulatory forms instead of teaching.
One teacher told me she feels like she's the one who has to pass the exam instead of spending her time teaching.
As for the so-called improved test scores, I've written before about how they can be faked by administrators. Just Google "testing scandals in NYC public schools" since Mr. Bloomberg took office and judge for yourself how valid his success statistics are.
Parents need to do their own homework before swallowing how well the system is since the mayor took over the School Board.
Much is made about the mayor's $1 salary and his philanthropic donations to charity.
However, the amounts given to charity coincide with his political aspirations and the fact is that in 2001, his net worth was around $4 billion and is now rumored to be between $16 and $20 billion. No wonder he wants to stay in office.
Those of us who own homes in Staten Island are less impressed with the mayor who balances his budget by raising our property, water, and sewer taxes. In addition, he's raised fines on traffic and sanitation violations that are frivolous and punitive.
I voted for the mayor when he first ran in 2001 because I believed that he had the determination to cut spending and would refuse to cave in to onerous union demands. He has done neither and the only determination he still shows is how to ruin our lives with his nanny decrees.
I've never voted for a Democrat for mayor before and I wish the GOP had not succumbed to bribery to endorse Mr. Bloomberg. All that candidate would have had to say is that he would overturn the Bloomberg nanny laws, and cut spending and taxes. Boom: GOP landslide.
As for the City Council races, how many people even know who represents their district? Out of 51 districts only three seats are held by Republicans. All three honored the wishes of the voters and voted "no" to extend term limits.
I've been told over and over again that this is a Democrat town and there's nothing we can do about it because so many mindlessly vote down the party line. What I do know is that we can use a little change around this town.
But that means we have to get off our backsides, pay attention, and vote out the incumbents who should have been kicked out through term limits. That means entertaining the possibility that more Republicans in the City Council might mean lower taxes.
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Can Your Vote Be Bought?
Well Yes and no.
You can try, but I'm VERY EXPENSIVE.
Doubt you'd want to, and then when I put you in prison for bribery, you just might have second thoughts.
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It's the old punchline, we know what you are and are just negotiating the price.
That's why the culture [of corruption] has to destroy people who show integrity. The slightest crack or crevice must be made into a sixteen lane highway to demean and diminish those who daily show more integrity than the accusers could show in a lifetime.
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So the govmint took a lot more from me in taxes last year than $250 and now they want to give me a $250 old fart bribe to support health care legislation? What a bunch of maroons they have in D.C. (D.C. = Deficit in Credibility) Keep the $250; I don't like all the attached strings.
Saint Olympia is getting the full media treatment.
By providing the only Republican vote for Obamacare, she is being hailed as a courageous statesman (stateswoman?). Charlie Gibson interviewed her live on "World News." She made the morning TV rounds, mapped strategy in the Situation Room, played Hardball. Dana Milbank's tribute to her political skill (and gibes at her studied indecision) landed atop The Washington Post's front page.
Check out this AP piece: "Forget Sarah Palin. The female maverick of the Republican Party is Sen. Olympia Snowe. . . . 'When history calls, history calls,' Snowe told her colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee, several hours into the debate."
I don't want to be too snarky here. Snowe is a diligent senator, she's not a grandstander, and she was clearly struggling to do what she sees as the right thing. But Republican defectors tend to get good press, especially, as in this case, if they're helping salvage a Democratic president's top domestic priority.
Imagine the coverage a Democratic senator would have gotten by breaking with his party to help George Bush pass his Social Security plan. No one hailed Joe Lieberman (yes, he's an independent, but he caucuses with the Dems) for turning against Obama on the Baucus bill.
Maybe it comes down to this: It seems like this health care debate has lasted longer than the Afghan war. Snowe may have brought the legislation one step closer to passing. I suspect most journalists want something to pass so it feels like we spent all that time on something momentous. If health reform goes down in flames, then we've expended all this energy on a mere footnote.
And besides, there aren't many flinty Yankees like Snowe left on the Hill.
Hot Air's Allahpundit takes issue with the AP report: "They acknowledge that her Senate seat is entirely safe, in which case what's so 'mavericky' about casting a vote that (a) ensures a degree of input into the final bill that other Republicans can only envy and (b) earns her the sort of fawning media coverage of which this very piece is a sterling example?
"The Palin comparison is useful, though. If Sarahcuda had said something as comically insipid as 'When history calls, history calls,' Tina Fey would have an entire skit built around it on SNL this week. As it is, our moronic media's treating it as some sort of faux-profound rendezvous with destiny."
How angry are some on the right? Red State's Erick Erickson provides a clue:
"Olympia Snowe has sold out the country. . . . So we should melt her.
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She shoved retirement of analog TV down our throats in the middle of a depression so WTF do you expect from the POS from Maine?
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Yeah, and they still have problems with the TV transition (out here at least) after years of planning and a rescheduled due date. I know, let's have them completely redesign Health Care quickly, quickly now!
Even the daily show was goofing on her, and her most incoherant prepared remarks. And for her efforts, gets to be used as a negative association by the media, licky boom boom down.
Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds is starting to "turn the corner" in Virginia's governor's race, one former Democratic governor said Thursday.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who served as governor of Virginia between 2002 and 2006, asserted his would-be successor has begun to surge from behind in the state's closely-watched race.
"I actually think Creigh is starting to turn the corner," Warner said this afternoon during an interview on MSNBC. "Creigh Deeds was underestimated in the Democratic primary."
"I think you're going to see him charge and come out in these last few weeks," Warner added.
Deeds has trailed former Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell (R) in the polls for the bulk of the race, with McDonnell having opened up a wider margin in newer polls after Deeds had narrowed the gap by attacking McDonnell's graduate school thesis.
The race, along with New Jersey's gubernatorial election, have been seen as bellwethers for GOP and Democratic fortunes nationally amidst an increasingly competitive political landscape in recent months.
"It's a challenging race, it's a challenging year," Warner said.
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Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D) raised less than half as much as former Rep. Rob Potman's (R-Ohio) $1.3 million in the third quarter, his Senate campaign just announced.
Fisher's $620,000 quarter comes after he raised around $1 million in each of the last two.
Fisher's primary opponent, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D), has undergone her own fundraising troubles, raising less than half a million dollars through six months and reorganizing her finance team recently. She has yet to announce her third quarter totals, but they are not expected to be strong.
While Fisher has already built a big lead over her, he probably could have put the nail in Brunner's coffin with a strong quarter.
Portman now has $5.1 million cash on hand, which is three times more than Fisher's $1.6 million.
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For a second there, I was thinking Natalie Portman and Carrie Fisher.
Fifty-three House Republicans have written President Barack Obama asking him to remove "safe schools czar" Kevin Jennings from that position.
The lawmakers accused Jennings of "pushing a pro-homosexual agenda" and said that Jennings's past writings exhibit a record that makes him unfit for the position.
"We respectfully request that you remove Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, from your Administration," the Republicans wrote. "It is clear that Mr. Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications and ethical standards to serve in this capacity."
Jennings has come under scrutiny from conservative personalities like talk show host Sean Hannity for his handling of an alleged incident involving underage sex, as well as Jennings's own reported personal history with drugs and alcohol -- charges the GOP members echoed.
The letter was primarily assembled by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), and was joined by 53 Republican colleagues, including two members of leadership: House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) and House Republican Conference Vice Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.).
Jennings, who founded the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teacher Network (GLISTeN), was appointed by Obama to head the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, a position Jennings assumed in July.
"Kevin Jennings cannot gain the approval of parents who want their children safe and their schools drug free," the Republican congressmen said. "You should replace him with someone who has a record of educating children in a safe and moral environment."
The Jennings controversy follows the Sept. 6 resignation of Green Jobs Czar Van Jones and the long-blocked nomination of Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar.
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"You should replace him" .....NOT...Nobammer needs to cut loose ALL these a$$hats and save the country $$$$$$$$
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Considering his friends, his statements and his position in Education, I think it reasonable to ask him if he ever had sex with a minor. Then, if he did, when did he stop.
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If President Barack Obama escalates the "disastrous" war in Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington has some advice for Vice President Joe Biden: resign.
Planting The Huffington Post, her popular news and aggregation site, in an ever firmer place to the left of the Obama administration, Huffington cited the arguments Biden has made in private against Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for 40,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, and wrote that "if the president does decide to escalate, Biden, for the good of the country, should escalate his willingness to act on those reservations."
Huffington's attack on the escalation plans under consideration by the White House ran under a banner headline which said: "Arianna: Why Joe Biden Should Resign."
While Huffington Post was decidedly pro-Obama in its 2008 campaign coverage, its editor-in-chief has not been afraid to take on his administration and the Democratic Congress. Just a few days ago, she told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos that embattled Democratic congressman Charles Rangel should step down from his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee while under an ethics investigation.
A long-time conservative who was once married to a Republican congressman before she underwent an ideological conversion experience, Huffington has turned her website into a popular platform for liberal bloggers but bristles at the idea that there's only a left and a right viewpoint on hot-button political issues. And she's adamant that her site will not simply carry water for the administration now. "There's absolutely no way you'd call the Huffington Post a partisan defender of the Obama White House," she told POLITICO in July.
Indeed, Huffington has been a fierce critic of both Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and top economic adviser Larry Summers. In March, it was Geithner who was in Huffington's cross-hairs, and she also talked then about the need for a resignation. "[Use] any window dressing you want, just take the steering wheel out of Geithner's hands," Huffington wrote, noting that "it might seem extraordinary to be calling for the resignation or demotion of President Obama's point man on our financial system."
The following day, Huffington focused on the other high-profile economic guru. Her headline: "Larry Summers: Brilliant Mind, Toxic Ideas."
When writing about the economic crisis, Huffington has targeted Wall Street, wagging her finger at both Republicans and Democrats. Similarly, she's written critically of the lobbying industry--again, both sides of the aisle aren't immune. And now, after talking about the need for resignations from top White House officials and a powerful Democratic committee chairman, Huffington's latest column focuses on Biden, who she thinks should consider resigning out of principle, not because of incompetence or malfeasance.
"If Biden truly believes that what we're doing in Afghanistan is not in the best interests of our national security -- and what issue is more important than that?" she wrote, then keeping his doubts to himself would not be enough. And once he resigned, she wrote, he "would then become the natural leader of the movement to wind down this disastrous war and focus on the real dangers in Pakistan," she wrote.
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The frigging left again. The 'REAL war' must now be fought in Pakistan, thence London, thence Detroit, thence......
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BO scares me. Biden not so much. Push comes to shove, I don't care that much for either. I like to see some conservative candidate arise that puts America first, is proud of America, respects the American people, upholds the Constitution, doesn't engage in a bunch of social engineering and weird environmental engineering, is for small government, is fiscally conservative with taxpayer's money, etc. There is always the State of Texas...
After nearly a year-long tour in Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden's son, Joe "Beau" Biden III, said he is "absolutely" considering a run for the Senate seat his father occupied for 36 years.
"I'll be making the decision in due course," Biden, 40, told "Good Morning America" today in his first television interview since his return to Delaware last month amid speculation that he would make a bid for the seat.
One of a handful of elected officials to serve in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion in 2003, Biden took a leave of absence from his job as Delaware's attorney general to join his unit as a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, or JAG.
The Senate race is shaping up to be a difficult one. The recent entry by Republican Rep. Mike Castle -- Delaware's only member of the House of Representatives and a popular former governor -- has complicated the outlook for Biden and transformed what was once seen as a safe Democratic seat into a toss-up.
But Biden would start his campaign with resources that any other first-time Senate candidate would envy, including the backing of the White House. He made an impressive debut on the national stage last year, introducing his father at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and speaking movingly about the 1972 car accident that claimed the life of his mother and sister, and left him and his younger brother gravely injured.
For his part, the vice president himself has said his son would "make a great senator."
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A former contractor for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police has been charged with rummaging through state computers to retrieve confidential information about "Joe the Plumber."
Brett A. Gerke, 52, of 2329 Woodcreek Place on the Far North Side, is charged with attempted unauthorized use of property.
Gerke entered a diversion program on Oct. 2, which typically results in the dismissal of a criminal charge. He has not entered a plea. The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail.
The State Highway Patrol says that Gerke used a law-enforcement computer network on Oct. 16, 2008 to access personal information about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.
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He'll never spend a day in jail; he'll keep his job, and he'll have his pick of future jobs thanks to his 'friends'.
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Joe the Plumber formed opinions are exercised rights of free speech in expressing same. He deserves respect.
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.
Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.
While earmarks are hardly new in Washington, "in 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year," said Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats. He is now a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information, an independent research organization.
Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, called the transfer of funds from Pentagon operations and maintenance "a disgrace."
"The Senate is putting favorable headlines back home above our men and women fighting on the front lines," he said in a statement.
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CORRUPTION....CORRUPTION......CORRUPTION..will this ever end?? DISGRACE??....I can't even come up with a word that discribes this!!
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...the word embezzlement comes to mind. Then again, that could be applied to the entire Beltway culture vis a vis the wealth of America created by the skill and labor of its people.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Saint Olympia is getting the full media treatment.
Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds is starting to "turn the corner" in Virginia's governor's race, one former Democratic governor said Thursday.
Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D) raised less than half as much as former Rep. Rob Potman's (R-Ohio) $1.3 million in the third quarter, his Senate campaign just announced.
Fifty-three House Republicans have written President Barack Obama asking him to remove "safe schools czar" Kevin Jennings from that position. 
If President Barack Obama escalates the "disastrous" war in Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington has some advice for Vice President Joe Biden: resign. 
After nearly a year-long tour in Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden's son, Joe "Beau" Biden III, said he is "absolutely" considering a run for the Senate seat his father occupied for 36 years. 
A former contractor for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police has been charged with rummaging through state computers to retrieve confidential information about "Joe the Plumber."
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis. 
