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Topic: With Democracy For All
and Freedom for None |
With Democracy For All
and Freedom for None
Canada Free Press, by Daniel Greenfield
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Posted By:snowcloud, 11/28/2012 11:08:18 AM
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| It would be tempting to attribute the disaster spreading across the Middle East to a brief flirtation with democracy snake oil, but for the better part of the last century the political class of the United States could talk of nothing else. Nearly every war was fought was to spread democracy, protect democracy or worship at the altar of democracy. For much of the 20th Century it was the working assumption of the sort of men who got up to give speeches in crowded halls that it was democracy that made America special.
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Comments:
This is exactly what is happening right now in Amerika.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 11/28/2012 1:28:20 PM (No. 9037777)
Rigged elections abetted by a one party media does not equal democracy.
This is just using the appearance of democracy to give cover to dictatorial regimes.
Stalin did it.
Hitler & Mao too.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 11/28/2012 8:06:56 PM (No. 9038435)
Didn´t Ruth Bader Ginsberg go to Egypt and suggest that they no copy our Constitution because it provided too many limitations on government?
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Canada Free Press, by Erik Rush
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Posted By: snowcloud- 5/18/2013 12:05:50 PM
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It is now safe to say that if one cannot see the abject evil of the Obama administration as well as the endemic corruption and criminality in our federal government, it is only because they are refusing to look. Due to what some are calling a “perfect storm of circumstances, three scandals have rocked Washington, but these are only the grossest symptoms of the systemic infection that has been festering there for decades. Those such as myself who suspected on September 12, 2012 that the Obama administration’s narrative relative to the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya,
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‘The Incident in the Rose Garden Rain’
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 5/17/2013 9:47:21 AM
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Armed by the arrogant confidence that comes via a protective circle of self-serving, back-scratching politicians (including Republican ones), who do nothing to deter his increasing taunts against all things American, President Barack Hussein Obama continues to publicly trash the cherished image of the military. Taking a leaf straight from the book of his overbearing wife, Michelle who used military members in full dress as props on the night she invaded living rooms via satellite from the White House to announce this year’s Best Picture, yesterday big brave BHO used Marines holding umbrellas to shelter both himself and
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Liberal Rednecks: A Salute
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Canada Free Press, by Kelly O´Connell
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Posted By: snowcloud- 5/12/2013 10:09:33 AM
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The term Liberal Redneck will strike progressives as an absurd contradiction. Yet, Conservatives will have an immediate, wearying familiarity with the angry, judgmental, uninformed and doctrinaire viewpoint of this group. In fact, the Liberal Redneck is every bit as small-minded, bigoted, dismissive, self-righteous, judgmental, uneducated and intolerant as the worst fundamentalist. The problem in America today is that there is never a level playing field offered for the discussion of ideas. Therefore, most important topics are only mentioned in a predetermined format. In other words, one can mention, for example—gay marriage,
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The Rogue Helping Obama
Steal America
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 5/10/2013 12:52:19 PM
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The deadly, almost under-cover assassin of conservatism in America is not the Fundamental Transformation of America-pushing Barack Obama and the Democrats but Karl Rove and his big-money financiers. Conservatism is the dead man walking in the politics of America today, and there’s no way to revive the corpse as long as Karl Rove is still at the GOP helm. From the Truth-is-stranger-than-Fiction department: A brilliant May 8 piece in the New York Times by Thomas B. Edsall draws back the curtain on the forces battling for GOP control between the well-heeled establishment
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Checkmate: From global
makeover to takeover
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Canada Free Press, by Doug Hagmann
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Posted By: snowcloud- 5/8/2013 11:41:50 AM
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We’re rapidly approaching a potential checkmate moment in the Mideast. There are 41 nations plus the U.S., for a total of 42 nations currently participating in military maneuvers off the coast of Iran. Despite all of the saber rattling about Iran, we are being deceived about the coming global battle, which will almost certainly begin in Syria, not Iran. What we are seeing is both deadly serious and under-appreciated by most Westerners, who have grown weary of wars and rumors of wars in the Mideast long ago. Exhaustion aside, the events continue to march
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Nobody Drowned at Watergate
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Canada Free Press, by Joy Tiz
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Posted By: snowcloud- 5/7/2013 1:09:12 PM
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The mainstream media no longer has the luxury of ignoring Benghazi. Nor can they brush it off as another Watergate type of scandal: nobody died by drowning or other means at Watergate. The emergence of the whistle blowers has made the story too big to ignore, as much as the media would prefer it would go away. You will note that when it wasn’t until after their beloved Obama was safely ensconced in the White House for another four years did the media show any interest in the biggest story of the administration.
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Legions of American soldiers must have turned in their graves when the President of the Unites States of America made a mockery of their sacrifice by throwing in with Mexico yesterday. Speaking to a captive audience of young minds made up of mostly high school and college students—his trademark age group home and abroad—Obama delivered his address at the iconic National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. In his arrogance, ‘El Obamabore’ tried to supplant Davey Crockett, James Bowie and William B. Travis as chief American hero in the minds of today’s Mexican Youth.
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CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson
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Posted By: Drive- 5/17/2013 3:02:24 PM
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.
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Raindrops wash away
reeling O’s fake veneer
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New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:28:00 AM
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Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake. So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons
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Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse
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Fox News, by Matt Kibbe
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM
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In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,
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Lew asks Congress for debt increase,
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The Hill, by Peter Schoeder
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Posted By: DW626- 5/18/2013 6:12:33 PM
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have "no choice." "We will not negotiate over the debt limit," Lew wrote. "The creditworthiness of the United States is non-negotiable. The question of whether the country must pay obligations it has already incurred is not open to debate." Lew said that while President Obama is willing to discuss plans to reduce the nation´s deficit with Congress, those talks must be kept separate from any effort to raise the nation´s debt cap.
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Weiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting
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New York Times, by Raymond Hernandez
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:43:54 AM
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The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department. Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income. An adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said that Ms. Abedin was not obligated to do so. The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband,
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Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
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Wall Street Journal, by John D. McKinnon*
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/17/2013 10:23:18 PM
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The Internal Revenue Service´s watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012 he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president´s re-election campaign. The disclosure to the Treasury general counsel and the deputy secretary was a cursory one, according to J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. He said he didn´t reveal conclusions of the probe, which was in its early stages, and his disclosure came as part
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McCaskill Calls For Firing Of All
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KMOX [St, Louis], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/18/2013 2:46:31 PM
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Washington – Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, issued a video statement Friday in response to reports that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative nonprofit groups. (Snip) “There’s a reason Lady Justice wears a blindfold in America. That is because in America, we don’t apply the law based on who you are, who you know, or what you believe. We apply the law equally.” “We should not only fire the head of the IRS, which has occurred, but we’ve got to go down the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure
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