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    House passes bill to ban welfare in strip clubs, casinos, and liquor stores

    Somehow, 27 Dems and 1 Rep managed to vote 'Nay' on this. All 28 represent the worst of government entitlement programs... not using them as a safety net from which to climb back up, but sustaining a lower class of reliable voters leeching resources from the rest of us. Somebody read the bill...
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    Bill Clinton promotes outsourcing of US jobs to Haiti

    http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/11/2585334/thousands-of-haitians-march-demanding.html No possible way to take this out of context. The poster-child of the Democrat party travels to Haiti to laud a US company that outsourced its manufacturing to a factory in one of the poorest nations on...
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    The most ironic moment in OWS to date

    OWS kitchen stops serving food and starts serving up delicious irony. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL How dare they? They're withholding food from homeless, starving beggars. They protest the 1%, while becoming their own 1%...
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    21 illegals immigrants sue public hospital, get taxpayer-funded dialysis

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/health/10grady.html?_r=2&scp=9&sq=Atlanta&st=cse This is indefensible. Shove compassion up your ass, the US is not the world's free clinic. Give them their treatment, then get them on a plane to their home country the next day. See what happens when you...
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    Evil politicians give big tax breaks to super-wealthy, big business: Guess where?

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/san-francisco-passes-twitter-tax-break-plan-2011-04-05-1830150?dist=afterbell -The aforementioned measure passed today http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/03/twitter-tax-break-takes-stage Before we go any further... I'd just like to point out that this...
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    Massacre in Ivory Coast

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/02/ivory.coast.unrest/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn Humanitarian crisis that looks to be getting worse. How can the US stand by and let this happen? Precedent has been set.
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    Obamacare provision buys $2 billion in votes

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/uncovered-new-2-billion-bailout-obamacare# And why is this, you ask? So, as claimed by opponents, and denied by believers, Obamacare is on track to be one of the biggest union/corporate vote-buying pieces of legislation to...
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    Democrat urges protestors to "get bloody"

    http://nhjournal.com/2011/02/23/dem-rep-to-unions-time-to-get-%E2%80%98bloody%E2%80%99/ Another example of the left's self-righteous rhetoric, in which violence, racism, hate, or any other form of less-than-civil discourse must be condemned on the Right, but is acceptable to those with the...
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    The WI Bill - Real Analysis

    Since we have a couple threads talking about it, and a whole state protesting it, I figured it would be beneficial to actually break it down to see what effect the legislation has. http://legis.wisconsin.gov/JR1SB-11.pdf The Bill deals with a few topics: State Finances, Collective Bargaining...
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    More Budget Fun

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrzxtoepgAU Sen. Sessions calls out the President for blatantly lying to the American people, in stating that by 2015, under his budget, the national debt would not be increasing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTuzmyMwH7E Sessions confronts Obama's budget...
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    Obama plans high-speed money shredder, made in China.

    Obama announces plans to spend over $60 billion on high-speed rail, with the contract going to his new Job Czar Overlord Prefect, the chairman of GE. This comes on the heels of announcements that Obama wants to "open up" markets in China, by giving them our technology, letting them build stuff...
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    New Title: Staunch liberal admits to being lifelong Conservative Republican

    See end of thread for stunning revelations! http://www.businessinsider.com/sorry-america-stimulus-spending-on-road-construction-does-nothing-to-lower-unemployment-2010-1 So what many opponents have been saying all along looks to be right. Road construction spending has been a *massive*...
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    True wealth distribution in the US

    I thought this deserved a separate thread, but this is based on the other thread about wealth distribution. We constantly have these threads arguing who controls how much of American wealth, and every time, we see figures saying, "The top X% control y% of the wealth in America!", but we...
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    Fast food, government regulation, personal responsibility, and a Christmas ham.

    http://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/132413126/oh-that-hamburger-is-900-calories-yes-please So basically this study shows that the argument, "If people knew how bad food was, they wouldn't eat it." is basically wash. You can't regulate people to live a healthy lifestyle... it's a matter of personal...
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    Passing of an Icon - Ron Santo dies at age 70

    http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101203&content_id=16246292&vkey=news_chc&c_id=chc&partnerId=rss_chc This is a very sad day... summer will never sound the same. Ron will be remembered not just for his career as a player, but for his tremendous spirit in the face of his personal...
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    Unemployment increases to 9.8% after poor jobs report

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nonfarm-payroll-up-39000-in-nov-rate-at-98-2010-12-03 Got some good reports earlier in the week, it's unfortunate that this report was so far below expectations. You would expect that with the better outlook for retail this year, businesses would see it as an...
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    Obama Visits Kokomo, IN: Official Thread - Endorsed by Robert Gibbs

    Obama and Biden are coming to Indiana this morning to tell the people of Kokomo what a great job they did saving the city from collapsing into Detroit. Official predictions for the speech, place your bets: -President will roll up sleeves (Confirmed) (+1 if VP does the same) -He will take...
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    Latest on a long list of reasons the UN is worthless

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/21/suspected-war-criminal-lands-job-united-nations/ It's amazing how people can still defend the UN as a worthwhile organization anymore. History will look back on it as being formed with good intentions, but executed disgracefully. [/COLOR][/LEFT]
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    BREAKING: President Obama Open to Extending Bush Tax Cuts for All Incomes

    No story yet, just crossed CNBC. Looks like he's hopefully already moving toward meeting Republicans in the middle... could be a Clinton move part 2.
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    Rand study: Legalizing marijuana in CA will not significantly impact drug cartels

    http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/10/12/index.html So basically, the only way this proposition would make any sort of impact on drug smuggling would be if California replaced Mexico in supplying the rest of the US with higher-quality pot. I highly doubt the US government is going to stand...
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    Barney Frank takes hedge fund manager to the bank - Now with more progressive antics!

    The offshore bank, that is. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1288443 If he's not already the most corrupt congressman serving today, he's making a good run at it. Just another example of how the bailouts/stimulus were mostly handouts to the well-connected amongst...
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    N.Y. to Ban Food Stamps Used on Sugary Drinks

    http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/10/07/n-y-to-ban-food-stamps-used-on-sugary-drinks/?test=latestnews [/COLOR][/LEFT] As much as I hate government intrusion, food bans, smoking bans, etc., I've always said that once you start taking taxpayer money to support yourself, you lose the right...
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    And then there was 1

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/summers-to-leave-at-end-of-the-year-2010-09-21 That makes Tim the last sap left on Obama's economic council. What are the odds on him leaving sometime prior to the end of the year? I'd say it is getting more and more likely every day. I like the bolded...
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    An question of religious freedom... a not so easy answer

    Reading the thread on France banning the burqa got me thinking a bit, and led to the question of, how much can be excused under the reasoning of "religious freedom", even when it comes into conflict with the laws of a land? The obvious answer, I think most would agree on, would be when those...
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    As more bad economic news comes in, advisers bail, Obama stumps, Michelle vacations

    More worse-than-expected employment news came out today, suggesting that the economy may be headed south again. This happens the day after Obama's top economic adviser quits, which happens a couple weeks after the head of Obama's Office of Management and Budget quits...
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    Dodd helps Indian Casino in his state get $54 million in stimulus

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mohegan-sun-casino-owners-received-54-million-stimulus/story?id=10889408 Why is Dodd not in prison? Does anybody still believe that "stimulus" money is anything but a new name for "pork barrel" money? This has got to be one of the greatest scams ever...
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    New report on what everyone already knew - Pakistan is our enemy

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/13/pakistan-funds-influences-taliban-afghanistan-report-says/?test=latestnews So something that has already been widely reported, proven, and accepted by everyone, for over a decade, but never acknowledged on a political scale, is reported again at a time...