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20th Century Man
Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 1/31/2013 5:13:28 PM
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| "Is the Supreme Court about to declare war on the twentieth century?" asks Bruce Ackerman, a law professor at Yale, in a Puffington Host post. If so, it would seem a little late, as we are almost one-eighth of the way through the 21st century. But his claim is that the court is stuck too far back in the past--in the 18th and 19th centuries rather than the 20th, which Ackerman regards as some sort of progressive golden era.
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iamtinman, 1/31/2013 5:57:48 PM (No. 9151171)
Who flippin cares what one more academic wonk thinks? We have just had 4 years of an administration full of academics and politicians. I don´t know which were worse!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/31/2013 6:21:20 PM (No. 9151214)
Mark Levin has observed that America´s three equal Branches of Government are Constitutionally designed and specifically directed regarding the duties of each, and thus to maintain checks and balances on each other so that none becomes more powerful than the others resulting in tyranny. However, instead of each Branch serving independently of the other two, the three now seem to be acting as one, which is EXACTLY what the Founders sought to prevent!! They had experienced tyranny under central planning BIG Government and wanted to prevent that from happening in the USA.
´´Progressivism,´´ refuses to debate policy, (-they ALWAYS know better!? -NOT!), much less be accountable for their unending failures, and instead irresponsibly insists on their tunnel-visioned lefty/lib agenda of dictating to everyone else. ...THAT is not, ´´freedom!´´
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curious1, 1/31/2013 8:54:21 PM (No. 9151438)
#2, they knew the people had to maintain the necessary incentive to the three branches in order to keep them as checks and balances. Over time, a little slumber, a little apathy, and suddenly the tiger thinks it´s ready to pounce!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bubber, 2/1/2013 12:15:54 AM (No. 9151656)
Just how many were murdered in the name of progressives last century...
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Carney Compares Questions about
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/21/2013 3:37:37 PM
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Jay Carney tried to avoid questions about the series of scandals surrounding the Obama administration by comparing them to questions about the president’s birth certificate. At today’s White House press briefing, CBS’s Major Garrett asked Carney if the White House thought Republican inquiries about recent scandals were “legitimate.” (Reporters mentioned the Benghazi attack, the IRS scandal, the Department of Justice’s investigations of reporters, and the Department Health and Human Service’s efforts to raise funds from private companies to promote Obamacare.)
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Offensive...in More Ways Than One
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American Thinker, by W.A. Beatty
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Get on and stay on the offensive. When your position is indefensible, don´t defend it. Rather than defend, go on offense. Try to change the subject. Deride anyone who questions your position. Accuse the questioners of being racist/bigoted/homophobic/insensitive/offensive. Make up things if you have to. The MSM will eat up what you have to say and will widely print/broadcast it. The MSM will then bury any retractions/corrections they offer in response to your ravings. That is the first set of rules practiced by politicians -- of every stripe. The strategy has
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Obama ´In the Morehouse´
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American Thinker, by Jeannie DeAngelis
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Recently, President Obama, with Valerie Jarrett in tow, graced the podium at Morehouse College to deliver the keynote speech at the historically all-male black liberal arts institution´s commencement ceremonies. Morehouse´s alumni include notables such as actors/Obama bootlickers Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as non-bootlicker Herman Cain. Without the assistance of a Marine to shield him from the rain, Obama put on his best "in the house" accent and greeted distinguished guests and 2013 graduates. Then, after talking about hair and Michelle´s feelings about rain, the president bestowed dispensational entitlement
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Snowe: President thought opposition to
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The Hill, by Alexander Bolton
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/21/2013 6:46:53 AM
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President Obama believed that opposition to his healthcare reform law would fade after the 2010 election, according to former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Obama courted Snowe’s support in an attempt to make the bill bipartisan. He assured her GOP opposition to the law would be short-lived, she said. “He thought the opposition to it would lessen after the [2010] election. I said, ‘It’s just the beginning.’ I said, ‘It’s going to grow because I can tell you it’s not going to go away and it’s going to get worse,’” Snowe said in a radio interview
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´Let Me Be Clear´
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American Thinker, by Lauri B. Regan
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While Obama hit the links for his 123rd round of golf since entering office (Sunday´s foursome included Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary and the subject of one of the week´s non-scandal scandals), White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer hit the Sunday talk-show circuit. Reminiscent of Susan Rice´s Sunday talk-show blitz during which she lied to the American people about what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, Pfeiffer paraded from show to show in attempts to clean up Obama´s messy week. It felt a bit like "Sesame Street" as it became clear that the word of the day was "irrelevant."
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Report: Justice Department targeted TWO
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko
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The Fox News Channel is outraged over new revelations that three of its reporting staffers were targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice in criminal investigations related to their attempts to obtain information from government sources. James Rosen, the network´s chief Washington correspondent, has become a First Amendment cause celebre over his treatment by the Obama administration. But the DOJ, Fox says, also investigated the Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter William La Jeunesse and Fox News producer Mike Levine. Rosen, according to affidavits filed by FBI agents, was considered a possible criminal co-conspirator The Washington Post reported Monday morning that Rosen
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The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups — saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago. Press secretary Jay Carney said again that no one had told President Barack Obama ahead of the first news reports: not his top aide McDonough, nor his chief counsel Kathy Ruemmler, nor anyone from the Treasury Department. Monday’s revelation amounts to the fifth iteration of the Obama administration’s account of events, after initially saying that the White House had first
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WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Serviced scandal today spread further within the White House and closer to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney today disclosed that Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, and other top White House officials had advance warning that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. But he insisted McDonough and the other White House officials purposely kept Obama out of the loop.McDonough “rightly chose not to take action” to inform Obama, Carney told reporters at the daily White House briefing.
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Obama: "As An African American
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: You are the mantle of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and Ralph Bunche and Langston Hughes and George Washington Carver and Ralph Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These men were many things to many people and they knew full well the role that racism played in their life. But when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses. Every one of you has a grandma or an uncle or a parent whose told you at some point in life
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BREAKING: WashPost Reports
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn´t "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn´t in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued. Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010.” Reporter Ann Marimow began:
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Candy Crowley: Is it Possible
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Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard
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"Can you see in your mind´s eye a way that this might not have been political, that this was a misguided stupid way to sort, but that they didn´t intend it to be some kind of political attempt to harass the Tea Party?" So actually asked CNN´s Candy Crowley of her guest Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) concerning the Internal Revenue Service scandal Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary):CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: Moving on to the IRS problem at this moment, which is really sort of in its infancy. There will be lots more hearings coming up this week
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White House Aide calls
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A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers’ trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.”The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president’s inner circle, as he appeared on all five major Sunday morning talk shows in an effort to move the administration past what commentators have described as a “hell week” of controversy and missteps.
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If Your Doctor Asks You About
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Stuart Varney said this morning on "Varney & Co." that one of his producers was given a questionnaire with some surprisingly intrusive questions on it when he switched doctors. One of the questions was whether he/she was concerned about unsecured weapons in the home. Another asked whether he/she was "in a relationship in which you have been physically hurt or are you afraid of your partner?" Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that the question about guns comes out of a post-Sandy Hook executive order by President Obama, but it will be required under Obamacare. Varney expressed amazement
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While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters. “So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care
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