A Message From Lucianne
 Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy
|
|
How Obama Turned
America into Venezuela
FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:AVFD15, 3/9/2013 2:19:18 PM
|
| Hugo Chavez’s death was met with tributes from Iran, Bolivia, China and El Salvador. The Western left did not waste much time adding their withered roses to El Comandante’s coffin. George Galloway called him another Spartacus. Jimmy Carter described him as a leader who fought for the “neglected and trampled.” Michael Moore praised him for declaring that the oil belongs to the people. Whether or not the oil belongs to the people is a matter of some debate considering how much of it ended up in Chavez’s pocket. Chavez died with an estimated net worth of 2 billion dollars making
|
 
Reply 1 - Posted by:
excalgalcg, 3/9/2013 2:26:48 PM (No. 9216968)
Very depressing article, but true. I wonder how long we will take this?
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
SteelTurman, 3/9/2013 2:27:43 PM (No. 9216971)
Must read!
Thanks OP.
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
reilly, 3/9/2013 2:35:42 PM (No. 9216980)
Maybe some day we could have Barry and Mooch stuffed and mounted next to the Washington Monument. That particular attraction, rest assured, would never be closed down by some future government cutback!
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Spidey, 3/9/2013 2:48:26 PM (No. 9216993)
The left is trying to leverage Chavez´s death into the culture of giveaways to the poor.Never mind that giveaways are a short term answer to a long term problem.
The Miami paper told the real Chavez story the other day and it was roundly ignored by the rest of the lapdog media.
there could be spotty examples of government handouts solving people´ long term poverty problems bu I haven´t seen any examples.
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
rlwo, 3/9/2013 3:20:42 PM (No. 9217023)
Amazing they can spout the "for the people" slogans while he robbed his country of $2 billion.
|
Reply 6 - Posted by:
uno, 3/9/2013 4:23:27 PM (No. 9217085)
The Obamboozler is a Caracas head hooked on smoking Socialism!
|
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 3/9/2013 4:30:10 PM (No. 9217094)
In Obama´s class-struggling world view, there are no Americans.
There are simply us vs. them.
Good vs. bad.
It´s called manichaeism, in case philosophy is still taught at the American monoversity.
|
| |
|
Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 3/9/2013 5:22:14 PM (No. 9217139)
The left wing media may want to start monitoring the left elitist´s pay and the poor multiple. I know they have a lot of time to keep tabs on the ceo and employee multiple, but this would be a meaningful way for them to see how much they really care about the poor. Obama, John Kerry, and Soros are always funding soup kitchens, aren´t they?
|
Reply 9 - Posted by:
vesicant, 3/9/2013 5:33:01 PM (No. 9217154)
Withered roses? Yes, I think the Rolling Stones song "Dead Flowers" is very apt.
|
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Grant Hodges, 3/9/2013 7:07:12 PM (No. 9217276)
The Democrats, of course, along their FL, Stinky the Gunrunner, saw in the Housing Bubble,that they could run industries intheground while stealing everything not bolted down, and when the industry goes belly up, just blame it on the Republicans, and the media and battered wife Rinos will help them make it stick.
Now...the Democrats see the opportunity to steal the country and hand the national bankruptcy to the dumb Republicans. John McCain will be standing there agreeing with them. Mitt, too.
Don´t expect Rand Paul to save us. He´s not even from this planet.
|
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Husker Infidel, 3/9/2013 7:24:08 PM (No. 9217291)
Washington DC and its suburbs remind me of the royal court at Versailles. They are living high while the rest of the country suffers. This country is beginning to resemble France circa 1789.
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "AVFD15"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "AVFD15"
|
The Media: What
Difference Does it Make?
|
|
Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 5/9/2013 9:35:35 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Stretching Oscar Wilde’s adage “I never put off til tomorrow what I can do the day after,” some in the mainstream media have finally started to Think Again about the Benghazi attack launched last year on the anniversary of 9/11 — thanks to new revelations by high-ranking State Department whistle-blowers including experts in security, counterterrorism, and the No. 2-ranking diplomat in Libya under slain Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Contrary to the “spin” that the U.S. Consulate assault was a spontaneous response to an anti-Islam YouTube video, the truth is that American officials knew “from the get-go” that it was a premeditated terrorist
|
Coexistence Following the
Gun and Immigration Debates
|
|
Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 4/25/2013 10:29:26 AM
Post Reply
|
|
In his 1831 book celebrating America, Alexis de Tocqueville warned, “In democratic societies, there exists an urge to do something even when the goal is not precise, a sort of permanent fever that turns to innovations, … (which) are always costly.” After a spate of traumatic tragedies that impact the gun and immigration debates, feverish politicians are rushing to innovate complex legislation without thoroughly and publicly examining the underlying problems and before “we the people” consent to their solutions. Lawmakers should Think Again, considering that only 4 percent of Americans currently “mention guns or immigration as the most important problems
|
|
Obama’s Psychodramas
|
|
National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 4/23/2013 9:01:43 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent. The shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords and the horrible mass murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School were cited as reasons for rapid enactment of new gun-control laws — even though the proposed tougher registration rules would not have prevented either mayhem. Tightening up the process for legal acquisition of firearms would not much hinder the mentally ill from getting their hands on guns. And the various measures needed to stop a crazy
|
Political Correctness: Intolerance
Masquerading as Tolerance
|
|
Aspen Times (CO), by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 4/11/2013 11:02:21 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Last month, world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon and up-from-nothing African-American idol Ben Carson expressed his contrarian opinion that marriage is between a man and a woman and that no group could change this millennia-old social institution. Appalled medical students at Johns Hopkins University, allegedly a place of intellectual inquiry and diversity and “a forum for the free expression of ideas,” circulated a petition to remove Carson as commencement speaker. Having gained widespread media attention for his recent National Prayer Breakfast speech in which he critiqued political correctness, Carson apologized for his off-the-cuff, maladroit and incorrect political critique of same-sex marriage, reiterating his
|
Discerning Frack from
Fiction: What´s Relevant
|
|
The Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 3/14/2013 10:08:32 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Last week, political, media and celebrity worlds converged to produce headlines worthy of “News of the Weird.” Sean Penn eulogized anti-American strongman Hugo Chavez as “a friend (America) never knew it had,” while Dennis Rodman declared North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “an awesome guy.” Upon returning from the starving gulag-state, Rodman scored a Sunday interview with George Stephanopoulos, and CNN declared him a “diplomatic triumph.” But perhaps the most captivating cause celebre — likely to transform advocates into media and campus darlings — is the crusade to halt the drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). However, if you expect
|
| |
|
How Obama Turned
America into Venezuela
|
|
FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 3/9/2013 2:19:18 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Hugo Chavez’s death was met with tributes from Iran, Bolivia, China and El Salvador. The Western left did not waste much time adding their withered roses to El Comandante’s coffin. George Galloway called him another Spartacus. Jimmy Carter described him as a leader who fought for the “neglected and trampled.” Michael Moore praised him for declaring that the oil belongs to the people. Whether or not the oil belongs to the people is a matter of some debate considering how much of it ended up in Chavez’s pocket. Chavez died with an estimated net worth of 2 billion dollars making
|
Sequester: Drama Even
Tarantino Wouldn´t Touch
|
|
Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 2/28/2013 8:37:48 AM
Post Reply
|
|
This year, Hollywood hit award pay dirt for political dramas inspired by American history. Unlike “The Avengers” — the top-grossing superhero movie — best-picture nominees “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty” featured authentic, determined and courageous Americans who endured adversity and mortal danger to overcome morally inferior antagonists. Though we´re living through the umpteenth act of a gory political spectacle involving the U.S. budget, Think Again if you expect that Quentin Tarantino will adapt it for the silver screen. Devoid of heroes or valiant rescues, the drama serially unfolding in Washington isn´t even telenovela-worthy, particularly the latest installment known as the
|
|
‘War on Women’ 2.0
|
|
National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 2/21/2013 9:43:00 AM
Post Reply
|
|
‘Ladies Man,” read the lead-story headline at the Huffington Post on February 12, plastered above a photo of a smiling Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.). “GOP Savior Votes No on Violence Against Women Act. . . . Hours before State of the Union Response.” Welcome to the scorched-earth phase of the Democrats’ “war on women” campaign, and the beginning of a ruthless offensive to hold their Senate majority, and possibly to retake the House, in 2014. Democrats have nearly perfected the following exercise in cynical electioneering: 1) introduce legislation; 2) title it something that appeals to the vast majority of
|
Valentine Wish: Repair the
State of Our Unions
|
|
Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 2/14/2013 9:05:01 AM
Post Reply
|
|
“First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes the baby in the baby carriage,” goes the rhyme. Unfortunately, in large swaths of American society, this rhyme is playing in reverse, with dire consequences for lower-income Americans. Given five decades of deteriorating marriage trends, it appears Americans concur with H.L. Mencken, who joked, “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who´d want to live in an institution?” Since 1960, the percentage of married Americans plunged from 72 percent to 51 percent last year, a record low. Meanwhile, babies born to unwed mothers skyrocketed from 4 percent in 1960 to 41 percent in
|
|
The State of the Democrats
|
|
National Review Online, by Yuval Levin
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 2/13/2013 11:33:41 PM
Post Reply
|
|
My reaction to last night’s State of the Union address begins from compassion for my fellow wonks, and ends with a sense that the Democrats’ political fortunes in the coming years may not be so rosy as many on the Left would like to think. By the end of the speech, I was feeling sorry for the White House policy staff. It’s perfectly clear looking over the text that they have just been through a months-long budget policy process that must have ended in total failure. Anyone who has been through this annual exercise at the White House would recognize the tell-tale signs. The phrase “I will direct my cabinet
|
| |
|
|
History Doesn´t Reward Bullies
|
|
Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 1/31/2013 9:55:26 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Considered a cancer-surviving “badass on a bike,” it turns out Lance Armstrong is just a badass — and a fraud. Armstrong´s admission that he doped his way to seven Tour de France titles even prompted CBS News CEO Jeffrey Fager to Think Again about his network´s role in the “Miracle Man´s” narrative. “We helped create the myth,” he acknowledged, because “we wanted to believe this absolutely inspirational story. But we were duped.” Unearned moral superiority and blazing self-righteousness hastened Armstrong´s rise as he slandered and sued whistle-blowers into submission. “I was a bully in the sense that I tried to control
|
Think Again: The Truth About
Playing the Liar Card
|
|
Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: AVFD15- 12/6/2012 11:41:11 AM
Post Reply
|
Believing a free press to be a vital safeguard of liberty, Thomas Jefferson said, “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” Many believe the inverse of Jefferson´s maxim — the people are uninformed, and therefore the government can´t be trusted. After all, what well-informed American would knowingly allow politicians to lead us to the monumental economic and budgetary “cliffs” we face? Despite a proliferation of new media, it´s increasingly difficult to separate fact from narrative. Combined with rancorous political discourse in which opponents are demonized in order to delegitimize competing arguments and render unnecessary
Headline corrected by staff
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Republican probe of Benghazi
attacks turns to Hillary Clinton
|
|
Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 6:52:16 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
|
Seattle to melt buyback guns
into peace bricks
|
|
Associated Press, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
|
Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat
|
|
Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
|
A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman
|
|
New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
|
Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
|
|
Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
|
Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up
|
|
National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
Post Reply
|
|
There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
|
Fox Analyst Shreds ‘Cowardly,
Duplicitous’ Admin Over Benghazi:
‘Sacrificed American Lives For Politics’
|
|
Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:47:07 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Ahead of the Benghazi hearings in which three witnesses are set to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade invited Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters to discuss the issue. Peters was unflinching in his criticism of the “cowardly” Obama administration — and the “establishment media” that aids it. “Is this a national security coverup?” Kilmeade asking, explaining that the witness testimony is expected to say the administration was deceitful in its handling of the situation. “The administration, facing the election, went into panic mode, wanted to contain it,”
|
Stephen Hawking backs
boycott of Israeli academics
|
|
Associated Press, by Gregory Katz and Aron Heller
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/8/2013 12:08:27 PM
Post Reply
|
|
British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should respect a Palestinian call to boycott contacts with Israeli academics. The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending "based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott." University officials said they had "previously understood" that Hawking´s decision was based solely on health concerns — he is 71 and has severe disabilities — but had now been told otherwise by Hawking´s office.
|
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education
|
|
Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
|
Mark Sanford wins South
Carolina special election
|
|
Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
|
| | |
|
