Why the Obama Campaign Is Blowing the Election
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The great puzzle of President Obama’s re-election campaign is why previously successful political pros are creating so many ineffective initiatives that blow up in their faces like exploding cigars.
george @ May 18, 2012
The ‘War on Women’ Implodes
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Is the White House getting desperate and miscalculating?
george @ May 18, 2012
Will the Word ‘Likeable’ Stick to Obama?
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U.S. presidents have suit coats and jackets made from flypaper and Velcro. Words stick to their lapels, sleeves, and shoulders.
george @ May 18, 2012
Hoarding Tax Dollars
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As California heads for the fiscal cliff, a contractor discovers the depth of the insanity of government profligacy in the Golden State.
george @ May 18, 2012
Why is the U.S. doing Special Ops exercise with Egypt and Pakistan?
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Snubbing Israel in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood?
george @ May 18, 2012
Chinese Trolls and Chen’s Abusers
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As events unfold in the gripping saga of Chen Guangcheng’s desperate bid to flee Chinese oppressors, trolls for the Chinese government have posted comments on websites that, unwittingly, remind us why he is persecuted.
george @ May 18, 2012
60 Minutes Veils Education Jihad
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The creepy Islamic proselytizing going on behind the scenes of the Gülen Movement.
george @ May 18, 2012
Brookings Study: Romney’s Faith May Help With Conservatives
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Romney: Clinton Was Better President Than Obama
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Gov. Kasich: Obama’s Policies a Drag on Economy
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America’s aging aviation force: Father, son flew same fighter jet 30 years apart
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Military relies on outdated aircraft
Dave Deptula, a retired three-star general, knows the risks associated with flying older aircraft. While serving as the joint task force commander in 1998 and 1999 for Operation Northern Watch, Deptula flew 82 combat missions over Iraq. On one mission, as he was headed to a tanker to refuel, the master caution light came on, [...]
george @ May 18, 2012
The Time-Wasting Network (How Facebook takes the hard work out of goofing off).
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‘If time be of all things the most precious,” Benjamin Franklin said, “wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” But he had never heard of a status update. Facebook is the world’s foremost purveyor of information you shouldn’t care about. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what Henry Ford was to the automobile. He has mastered it on an industrial scale and is riding it to a vast fortune. At more than $100 billion, the valuation of Facebook equals the annual GDP of Morocco or Vietnam, countries that don’t top anyone’s list of economic powerhouses, but do actually produce…
george @ May 18, 2012
Bigoted Anti-Bigots (How the gay-marriage mob slimed Manny Pacquiao for giving his opinion)
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Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is guilty — of being true to his Catholic faith. The gay-marriage mob is guilty — of the very ugly bigotry it claims to abhor. And left-wing media outlets are guilty — of stoking false narratives that shamelessly demonize religion in the name of compassion. The attempted crucifixion of Pacquiao this week was fueled by an online army of cultural shakedown artists generously funded by billionaire George Soros and other so-called progressive philanthropists. On Tuesday, a freelance writer for Examiner.com published an interview with Pacquiao conducted at his Los Angeles residence. Journalist Granville Ampong asked the…
george @ May 18, 2012
With $2.6M deficit, NPR's budgetary headaches grow
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National Public Radio CEO Gary Knell joined the organization last December, knowing there were stone cold realities ahead, after his predecessor and several key fundraisers retreated amid various controversies. Now comes news that NPR is running a $2.6 million deficit for this fiscal year. The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi talks about a meeting Knell held with staffers Wednesday: While he is not gunning to cut staff or programs (“That’s the last thing I want to do”), he admits that with an election and the Olympics, this is a challenging year for expenses. More worrisome is that corporate underwriting is softer…
george @ May 18, 2012
‘F**k the Police’: First Wave of Anti-NATO Protests Hit Chicago
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Chicago isn’t exactly a hotbed of homespun America and apple pie motivated sentiment. But apparently even the residents of Chicago have limits regarding what they’ll tolerate in their neighborhood. And one of those limits is, apparently, anarchist and communist protesters. Today marks a moment when radical Leftist anti-NATO demonstrations in the city, affiliated with “Occupy NATO,” are hitting their stride. And as with all Leftist demonstrations, black bloc tactics are involved. To that end, a group of masked thugs from the protests went to the trouble of taking over Chicago’s Halsted Street, even going so far as laying down in…
george @ May 18, 2012
President Obama Is Ending Black America's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy (Obama is the Messiah!)
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Since President Obama declared his support for marriage equality last week, many politicos (including myself) have speculated about whether black voters, who are divided on the issue, will abandon him. The consensus among gay rights supporters and foes alike is a resounding "no." Sure, some black clergy are outraged, but even they admit this issue is no deal breaker. And the ongoing debate over an unlikely black backlash eclipses what promises to be the most profound impact of the president's "evolution." President Obama has single-handedly dismantled the "don't ask, don't tell" policy within the black church — that silent disdain…
george @ May 18, 2012
The Age of Innocence
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The people who pioneered democracy in Europe and the United States had a low but pretty accurate view of human nature. They knew that if we get the chance, most of us will try to get something for nothing. They knew that people generally prize short-term goodies over long-term prosperity. So, in centuries past, the democratic pioneers built a series of checks to make sure their nations wouldn’t be ruined by their own frailties.
george @ May 18, 2012
Fully Deserving the Heat [Obama supporter Dwyane Wade throws tantrums, curses his head coach]
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No matter what else happens in this series, Dwyane Wade damaged himself Thursday night. Damaged his brand. Hurt his reputation. He played badly and acted worse — and he played really, really badly. As badly as he's ever played in his career, perhaps… Wade went for the toddler's trifecta, using pantomime to blame his poor play on injury, then whining to referees for help and finally getting in the face of his own coach, Erik Spoelstra, who tried to defuse their third-quarter incident afterward by saying it was no big deal, it was the kind of thing that happens all…
george @ May 18, 2012
Is Obama going to lose the Arkansas Democratic primary? (Operation Razorback Chaos)
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Via Jorge Bonilla in the Greenroom, who sounds the call for “Operation Razorback Chaos.” Two words, my friends: Open primary. It’s magic time. In West Virginia, federal inmate Keith Judd recently swiped 42 percent of Democratic votes from the president, indicating the level of dissatisfaction among the rank and file. And according to a Talk Business–Hendrix College poll conducted on May 10, Obama leads John Wolfe, a virtually unknown candidate, in Arkansas’s 4th congressional district by only 7 points, 45–38. Three weeks earlier, the Talk Business–Hendrix College poll showed the president leading by 65–24 in the slightly less conservative 1st…
george @ May 18, 2012
Can the EU Save Abu Shahala?
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European Union Committee for Foreign Affairs chairman Dr. Fiorello Provera said this week that the EU was obligated to intervene on behalf of Muhammad Abu Shahala. Abu Shahala was sentenced to death by a Palestinian Authority court for selling the Beit HaMachpela (House of the Patriarchs) to Jewish families in Hevron. "Abu Shahala's conviction has no justification, and therefore the European Union will intervene to save his life," Provera wrote in response to a plea by Hevron's Jewish community asking the EU intervene on Abu Shahala's behalf. "It is inconceivable that a man who sells his house will be convicted…
george @ May 18, 2012
MN GOP state convention: Backing Pete Hegseth for US Senate endorsement
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Leadership and national reach.
Today begins our two-day Republican state convention in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and I’m attending as both a delegate and as media. Later this afternoon, Mitch Berg and I will broadcast live from the convention to give our analysis of the events, including the speeches of GOP luminaries. Ron Paul will speak to the convention at [...]
george @ May 18, 2012
Home Invasion Suspect Shot Dead(Mo)
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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – St. Louis police are calling it a case of justifiable homicide. Two men broke into a home in north city Wednesday afternoon and began robbing several people inside. One of the occupants of the home in the 4700 block of Labadie shot at the suspects, hitting one and possibly the other before the intruders ran off. However robbery suspect Jerome Burse, 38, collapsed outside the home and was taken to the hospital, where he later died. The second suspect remains at large. Those inside the home, including a 7-month-old girl, escaped injury.
george @ May 18, 2012
Mother and Son Busted in Car Burglary Ring [Stole from mourners in cemetery]
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A Miami mother and son are facing charges related to a string of car burglaries at a South Florida cemetery and day care centers, police said Thursday.
george @ May 18, 2012
Romney Defends His Record at Bain
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His defense of his record as a private-equity executive was his most public move to defuse Democratic attacks on him as a heartless corporate raider.
admin @ May 18, 2012
Y! Big Story: Annular solar eclipse, transit of Venus and other non-doomsday celestial phenomena
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WDoomsday, schmoomsday. Why settle for dusty ol' Mayan calendars and 12/12/12 apocalyptic visions, when 2012 has been offering up so many stellar—and planetary—sightings? We Earthlings have already been treated to nice meteor showers as well as a magnificent supermoon, and this weekend brings an annular solar eclipse. ~snip~ That's not even the best treat: Venus will be ambling between Earth and the sun in a rare (though non-earth-shattering) planetary alignment. ~snip~ A solar eclipse happens this Sunday, except for the Eastern seaboard (sorry). It's an "annular" eclipse rather than a total one, which means the sun's edges peek out from…
george @ May 18, 2012
Spilled secrets in Mutchmor anti-bullying workshop set off ‘domino of tears’
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A session designed to help girls at Mutchmor Public School “recognize their inner voice” drastically went off the rails last week when secrets the girls had written on paper airplanes were read aloud, creating a “domino effect of tears” and prompting the school to send a letter home to parents to explain the debacle. As part of Education Week, the Glebe elementary school invited a speaker to give an anti-bullying workshop and help students focus “on the tools that they have inside of them.” There were separate sessions for girls and boys. Well, there was a session for girls. The…
george @ May 18, 2012
Oregon bans Native American mascots in schools
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Facebook prices shares at $38 – Unfriend US? Lawmakers say pay the piper first
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Illinois attorney general dives for disabled swimmer
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Couple living in luxury pleads guilty to welfare fraud
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Man found week after crash shows improvement
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Romney releases first TV ad since Santorum drop out
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Rubio blasts decision to give Castro’s daughter visa
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Chaplain group claims religion under attack in military- WH opposes liberty amendment for chaplains
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Supposed Obama-Wright ads plan knocked down- Wright claims he was offered money to stay quiet
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UK gov’t won’t read your emails, will track your phone
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Teen found with loaded gun after texting teacher
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Georgia landscaper battles flesh-eating bacteria
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Defense paints Edwards as a sinner, not a felon- VIDEO: Setback for Edwards defense team?
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The Vetting – Exclusive – Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in
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Note from Senior Management: Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him. It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential…
george @ May 18, 2012
Arizona Secretary of State Threatens to Remove Obama from Ballot
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Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is threatening to keep President Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in November unless he receives confirmation from Hawaii that it has a valid birth certificate on file for him. Bennett, who spoke to Arizona radio host Mike Broomhead Thursday, said he requested the confirmation eight weeks ago and has not gotten it. Hawaii, he said, does not have to supply a certified copy of the birth certificate, merely send him an email confirming that it has one. Asked by Broomhead if he would remove Obama’s name from the ballot if Hawaii fails to…
george @ May 18, 2012
Nigerian illegal supervised airport security guards; got victim's fake ID before his murder
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An airport security supervisor at a NJ-based international airport has been arrested and charged with using the identity for 20 years of a man who was brutally murdered. Nigerian native Abimbola Olumuyiwa Oyewole, 54, has been in the US illegally since 1989, AP reported. He was in charge of 30 guards at Newark Intl airport when nabbed. Oyewole was hired before the TSA existed, the controversial federal agency said, noting that that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey checked and cleared Oyewole's credentials when hiring and promoting him. NOTE the TSA recently released a report singling out…
george @ May 18, 2012
We 'like' our privacy: Meet the Facebook resisters..
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More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least once a month, but millions more are Facebook holdouts. They say they don't want Facebook. They insist they don't need Facebook. They say they're living life just fine without the long-forgotten acquaintances that the world's largest social network sometimes resurrects. They are the resisters.
george @ May 18, 2012
Boston Univ. student charged in New Zealand crash
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Class warfare: Teachers union boss on losing streak (WI)
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MADISON — Mary Bell calls herself an “unlikely advocate” — just a Wisconsin Rapids school teacher who heard the call. She speaks with an earnest edge to her voice, hoping to persuade Wisconsinites to the rightness of her cause. The image, of course, is contrived. She is a handsomely paid activist, who is years removed from the classroom. And she heads the state’s most powerful lobbying organization — the Wisconsin Education Association Council. But most Wisconsinites simply call it “the teacher’s union.” Long before Scott Walker came to the statehouse, Bell was a union firebrand. “This is a highly emotional,…
george @ May 18, 2012
Obama, congressional leaders talk debt
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President Obama and congressional leaders met Wednesday, one day after House Speaker John Boehner drew a line in the sand over what could be another bitter showdown between the White House and Congress later this year.
george @ May 18, 2012
Revealed: China's first stealth jet heads on test runs – ..
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Flying over the skies of Chengdu in southwest China, the Chinese's latest stealth plane – the J-20 Might Dragon – is a testament to China's growing prowess in military technology. The debut flight of the plane may serve as a warning to the U.S. air force, which has been plagued by a list of problems in their jets – including the revelation that some of their jets have a faulty oxygen system which have slowly been poisoning their pilots. Sightings of the black plane taking off have again led to claims that the plane was developed off the back of…
george @ May 18, 2012
Pension reform is key to California’s budget crisis
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William Bennett says Gov. Jerry Brown should look to Wisconsin as role model in solving the state’s huge budget shortfalls
george @ May 18, 2012
Interview with Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz
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Tea time.
Last evening conservative favorite Ted Cruz, the insurgent candidate in the Republican Texas Senate Primary who is closing the gap as we hit less than two weeks from primary voting day, gave me 15 minutes of his time for a few questions about taxes, term limits, immigration and Sarah Palin’s endorsement. Below is our conversation. [...]
george @ May 18, 2012
He Said What? Zimmerman's Letter From Jail Before He Was Released (DETAILS)
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Days before bonding out of a Florida jail, George Zimmerman wrote a two page letter to a supporter, which has now been released to the public. Zimmerman believes, "this will all work out for me in the future…I have given my burden to the Lord and he has blessed me with tremendous patience!" The two-page letter obtained by The Smoking Gun was written by Zimmerman in a response to a letter of support sent by an Ohio man who wanted to deposit money in his jail account. Zimmerman explained that he was only allowed to accept funds from individuals on…
george @ May 18, 2012
'I have paid my dues and I'm done with the U.S': Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin..
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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, under fire over the tax consequences of renouncing his U.S. citizenship, said on Thursday he is obligated to and will pay 'hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.' The social media entrepreneur and investor said in a statement, emailed to Reuters by a spokesman, that his decision to move to Singapore was 'based solely on my interest in working and living' there.
george @ May 18, 2012
Romney unveils debut general-election TV ad [Day One]
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Mitt Romney's campaign released its first television commercial of the general election Friday, a spot that outlines a series of "day one" goals for a Romney presidency. The ad, expected to run in Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia, features a narrator speaking over stock footage of the American heartland and Romney on the campaign trail, outlining what "a Romney presidency would be like." “Day one, President Romney immediately approves the Keystone pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that Obama blocked. President Romney introduces tax cuts and reforms that reward job creators, not punish them. President Romney issues order to begin…
george @ May 18, 2012
Lawyers for NATO protesters allege improper arrests (8 NATO Protest Leaders 'Pre-Detained')
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Officers wearing Chicago Police uniforms raided an apartment in Bridgeport late Wednesday and detained at least eight activists without justification, lawyers working on behalf of NATO protesters alleged today. Police refused to provide any details about the alleged raid or whether they were detaining people. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was asked about the allegation after announcing at a news conference this afternoon that there had been “zero arrests, as far as protest activity today.” Asked about the Bridgeport incident, McCarthy said only that there was an “inquiry” authorities were looking into and he would have to gather further information before…
george @ May 18, 2012
Embracing dangerous delusions and not our friends
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Two weeks ago, US Congressman Joe Walsh published an oped in the Washington Times in which he called for the US and Israel to abandon the two-state solution. After running through the record of Palestinian duplicity, failed governance, terrorism and bad faith, he called for Israel to apply its sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. In his words, he said Israel should, "adopt the only solution that will bring true peace to the Middle East: a single Israeli state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Israel is the only country in the region dedicated to peace and the only…
george @ May 18, 2012
Defiant Message From Greece
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Alexis Tsipras, head of Greece’s radical left party, said in an interview with the Journal that there is little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country and if it does, Greece will repudiate its debts.
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The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth
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May 18, 2012 The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth Roger L. Simon Reading the extraordinary revelation about Barack ObamaÂ’s youthful literary career on Breitbart.com [1] — that his agents published a promotional book in 1991 with a bio of Obama saying he was born in Kenya — set my old mystery writer mind ablaze.How could that be? Why would they think such a thing?There are only two forks in this road — either he was born in Kenya or he wasnÂ’t.I have never been a conspiracy theorist and will assume the latter, although I have to confess that for the…
george @ May 18, 2012
Odierno: For Women to Succeed in Infantry, Ranger Training May Be Necessary
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Susan Jones
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