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The Game Changes
Tribune Media Services, Inc., by Victor Davis Hanson
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 10/11/2012 4:21:23 PM
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| Usually after a presidential debate, both sides spin the results. But after the first face-off between President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, Obama’s exasperated handlers made no such effort. How could they when most opinion polls revealed that two-thirds of viewers thought Obama lost? Within minutes of the parting handshake, the liberal base went ballistic. Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, and Michael Moore all but accused Obama of embarrassing the progressive cause. The post-debate spin focused not on whether the president had been creamed by challenger Mitt Romney, but rather on how
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/11/2012 5:53:51 PM (No. 8926655)
Because he lives in a special reality and is an arrogant and aggressive liar, Obama is fragile and vulnerable. Obama can be exposed when he is without his mainstream media protectors and amen chorus. Obama is lost without his dual teleprompters.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dotonbut, 10/11/2012 6:37:05 PM (No. 8926726)
Re #2
Don't ignore the fact that those carrying the load are much more motivated. Also, those suffering from white guilt who voted for Obama have had their inoculation.
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Obama’s Climate of Intimidation
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American Spectator, by Matthew Sheffield
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 6:14:10 AM
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Both parties constantly make accusations that their rival is engaged in hypocritical, unethical, or illegal behavior. Given the drastic lack of ideological diversity in the American elite media, the general public usually only hears about such accusations against Republicans. Beyond the fact that biased reporting shapes public opinion to favor the left, it may also have an effect on law enforcement. The persistent lies that have been told about right-leaning political groups by leading Democrats, including President Obama himself, may have led to the IRS abuses of power that we’ve heard so much about in recent weeks.
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FBI names former USC professor to list of most wanted fugitives
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Los Angeles Times, by Richard Winton & Kate Mather
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 6:07:46 AM
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A former USC professor was named Monday to the FBI´s Ten Most Wanted fugitives list after he was indicted for sex crimes against children abroad, FBI officials said. Walter Lee Williams, 64, became the 500th person named to the list, officials said. He faces charges of sexual exploitation of children, traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. Bureau officials said they had identified at least 10 alleged victims between the ages of 9 and 17. Many live in Third World countries, officials said, adding that Williams has traveled extensively
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Immigration and the Republicans
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Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 5:57:15 AM
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Writing today in the Corner at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg takes up the point I discussed earlier today about the necessity for Republicans not to frame the immigration reform issue as one in which their principal motivation is to avoid allowing more Hispanics become Democratic voters. He agrees with me that’s wrong, but he also says that supporters of the gang of eight bill are mistaken to try and sell their legislation to the GOP on the grounds that it is good politics. He thinks the debate on the bill should rise and fall on its merits,
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Left Loses Big in Citizenship-Verification Supreme Court Case
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PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 5:01:45 AM
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Something perverse happened after the Supreme Court’s decision today invalidating citizenship-verification requirements in Arizona for registrants who use the federal voter registration form. The Left knows they lost most of the battle, but are still claiming victory. That’s what they do. Election-integrity proponents and the states are saying they lost, but don’t realize they really won. The Left wins even when they lose, and conservatives are often bewildered and outfoxed in the election-process game. Earlier today, I called the decision a nothingburger. After re-reading the case and reflecting a bit more, it’s clear that the decision was a disaster
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7-Eleven Stores Operated ´Modern Day Plantation System,´ Feds Claim
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ABC News, by Aaron Katersky
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 4:27:41 AM
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The owners of 7-Eleven franchises in New York and Virginia created a "modern day plantation system" in which undocumented workers were furnished with stolen identities and forced to work 100 hours a week for a fraction of their wages, according to a federal authorities. Ten stores in New York and four in Virginia were seized today as part of the federal investigation which found the undocumented workers from Pakistan were given identities stolen from children and the deceased, according to federal prosecutor Loretta E. Lynch. Farrukh Baig, his wife Bushra, and seven others were charged with fraud, identity theft
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Chrysler Expected to Formally Refuse Jeep Recall
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Associated Press, by Tom Krisher
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 4:23:43 AM
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DETROIT -- In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs that are at risk of catching fire in rear-end collisions. The government says 51 people have suffered fiery deaths in Jeep Grand Cherokees and Libertys with gas tanks mounted behind the rear axles. But Chrysler is expected to stick to its contention that the SUVs are as safe as similar vehicles on the road. The Jeeps, it says, met all federal safety standards when they were built,
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The Reckless Rhetoric of Palin and Cain
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Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/17/2013 4:41:05 PM
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According to Sarah Palin, the GOP’s vice presidential candidate in 2008, the United States is “becoming a totalitarian surveillance state.” And Herman Cain, who ran as a GOP presidential candidate in 2012, said, “This train is running full speed down the tracks towards socialism and towards communism. Yes, I said it. Before we stop it and reverse it, we got to slow it down. That’s what we do in 2014.” Now, we actually know what genuine totalitarian surveillance states and communist nations look like, and America is nothing close to becoming anything like them. Whatever one thinks
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Barbara Walters Defends Maher Calling Trig Palin Retarded: ‘I Don´t Think He Intended it to be Mean-Spirited’
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Newsbusters, by John Nolte
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/17/2013 5:19:02 PM
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As NewsBusters reported last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called out vulgarian comedian Bill Maher for referring to her Down Syndrome son Trig as "retarded." On ABC´s The View Monday, co-host Barbara Walters astonishingly defended Maher saying, "I don´t think he intended it to be mean-spirited" (video follows with transcript and commentary): WHOOPI GOLDBERG: At a recent standup show in Las Vegas, comedian Bill Maher apparently called Sarah Palin’s five-year-old developmentally-challenged son Trig retarded. And Sarah blasted him on Twitter as a bully. Is that, is it, is he a bully? Is he a bad, what is he?
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Who is he? Obama keeps allies, enemies guessing in second term
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The Hill, by Justin Sink
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Posted By: ketchuplover- 6/17/2013 6:31:12 AM
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Five months into his second term, allies and enemies are as confounded as ever about who President Obama really is. Is he the dyed-in-the-wool liberal that his biggest supporters and critics suggest? Or is he a pragmatic, even cynical, politician who cares more for his popularity than taking risks for his ideological goals or living up to his rhetoric? Even in the short period since his reelection, Obama has provided evidence to support conflicting interpretations. His efforts to pass immigration reform, the unsuccessful push for stricter gun controls and tax hikes on high earners buttress the case for Obama-as-ideologue.
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Jeb Bush labels conservative critics ‘the chirpers’
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Washington Post, by Aaron Blake
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/17/2013 1:22:30 PM
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Jeb Bush says he’s not worried that his work toward comprehensive immigration reform and his ties to the GOP establishment will alienate conservatives and negatively impact a potential 2016 presidential campaign, referring to critics as “the chirpers.” “If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record,” the former Florida governor said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. “And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.” Bush (R) pointed to his conservative
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Edward Snowden Is In The Process Of Destroying Any Support And Sympathy He Has Built Up
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Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/18/2013 5:34:23 AM
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Amid a steady rise of backlash, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency´s surveillance methods, conducted a live chat on The Guardian´s website Monday morning. Judging from some of the pointed questions he´s been asked and the reaction to newly leaked revelations over the past few days, it´s clear that much of the sympathy and support Snowden had built up for his early exposures is eroding. Many Americans supported his decision to leak information about a pair of National Security Agency surveillance programs, which, he detailed, gathered information
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Rubio Aide: ‘There Are American Workers Who, For Lack of a Better Term, Can’t Cut It’
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National Review Online, by Rich Lowry
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Posted By: trapper- 6/16/2013 11:18:45 PM
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Politico’s Playbook has an excerpt from a new Ryan Lizza piece from the New Yorker that is not yet online. It contains a passage on the back-and-forth between labor and the Chamber that has a quote from a Rubio staffer that is going to raise eyebrows, to say the least: “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly.” Here is the entire context:
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Shootings leave 7 dead, at least 30 injured during chaotic Father´s Day weekend in Chicago
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 6/16/2013 6:51:07 PM
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A series of shootings this weekend has Chicagoans on edge. A total of 11 separate shootings since Friday night have resulted in seven deaths and at least 30 injuries in the Windy City. The victims range in age from 16-years old to 40-years-old, according to multiple media reports. The last of the shooting deaths came early Sunday morning when police chased a man down a dark alley on the crime-ridden West Side. The suspect jumped out of the window of a moving car the officers were attempting to pull over, he fell down fleeing
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Iran to send 4,000 troops to support President Assad in Syria as British Armed Forces play war games on border
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Daily Mail [UK], by Suzannah Hills
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/16/2013 11:08:12 PM
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Iran is preparing to send 4,000 troops in to Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the wake of America´s announcement it will be providing ´military aid´ to the country´s Muslim rebels. President Barack Obama made the pledge earlier this week after the U.S. claimed it found ´conclusive evidence´ Assad´s regime has used chemical weapons against the rebel forces--which includes the most extreme Sunni Islamists--and has called for Britain and France to back the move. While Britain hasn´t made a guarantee either way as yet, more than 350 Royal Marines are being sent to Jordan
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