To a British citizen, one of the recent U.S. Presidential election’s most interesting aspects has been the staggering lack of shame with which foreigners have sought to engage themselves in the USA’s electoral processes.
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Last week, the Mexican government carried out a number of operations in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, aimed at Jaime "El Hummer" Gonzalez Duran, one of the original members of the brutal cartel group known as Los Zetas. According to Mexican government officials, Gonzalez Duran controlled the Zetas' operations in nine Mexican states.
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Even before the election, with the realization that a Barack Obama presidency lay on the horizon, many saw a silver lining in the cloud that drifted into Washington, DC, from the left coast. "The right will be re-energized," many thought, "and we'll have a better Republican candidate and improved prospects in 2012."
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The results are in: Obama 52 percent. McCain 46 percent. The "Obama Landslide" is pure fiction. Republicans have no reason to move to Harper's Canada (this year) although Berlusconi's conservative Italy looks simply divine.
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The accelerating drug war in Mexico cries out for more attention. The horrific violence signals something already too big for Mexico to fight alone. It will spread north. The U.S. can't afford to wait.
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This week, there is growing evidence that people who have in mind doing away with the presidency of the United States - and all other aspects of our secular, democratic and constitutional form of government - are similarly convinced of their inevitable success.
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During the presidential campaign and in the post-election analysis many conservatives have lamented impending socialism.
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The bankruptcy of Iceland, now receiving a $2.1 billion two-year loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “to support an economic recovery program,” has been depicted as something that could never happen to America. Is the U.S. too big to fail? Or is the U.S. going through the same process, albeit on a slower basis?
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These are the best of times for white-hating black women. They can openly proclaim their beliefs, and be rewarded and praised for them, (like author Denene Millner whose The Sistahs' Rules
Girl tells Shariah court of rape, convicted, executed for adultery.
Britain's MI6 intelligence service has identified a group that raises funds with impunity in London as the organization whose militia members in Somalia imposed a death sentence on a 13-year-old rape victim, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
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The question was put to me with stark simplicity. “What was it all for?” asked the elderly lady, a wistful look in her eyes.
“The country that they died for has gone,” she continued, glancing down at the red poppy on her lapel.
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Sphere: Related ContentSet aside any Obama euphoria you feel. The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to some 123 million votes for Barack Obama and John McCain.
Sphere: Related ContentHold on. Just a minute. Not only was there no landslide and no mandate, there was no election. The Electoral College doesn't even vote until Dec. 15. And there's one thing that may stand in their way from affirming last Tuesday's popular vote: the Constitution.
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Shame on The New Yorker and its editor David Remnick for playing a role in the attempt of Bill Ayers and his publisher to resurrect both Ayers’ book and his reputation.
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Hamas is claiming close and ongoing ties with America's upcoming Obama Administration, according to a report published Tuesday in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. The relationship was kept under wraps until after the US elections so as not to harm Obama’s election prospects.
Sphere: Related ContentWho says you can't have it all? The Democrats, the Left, now have the White House, control of both houses of Congress, a majority of governors' mansions, a majority of state legislatures, the entertainment media, the elite news media, the unions, the educational establishment, the lion's share of the philanthropic community and increasing power over the courts.
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Sphere: Related ContentU.S. Rep. Paul Broun attacked President-elect Barack Obama's agenda as "Marxist" and derided some fellow Republicans for abandoning conservative principles during a speech in Augusta on Friday, his first since being re-elected in Georgia's 10th District.
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Conservative pundits are justifiably indignant about media bias in the current election. Victor Davis Hanson catalogs the numerous failures to take Obama to task over his questionable associations, his inconsistent positions on the issues, and his unwise redistributionist fiscal proposals.
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Great nations do not have trade partners. They have trade competitors and rivals. Trade surpluses are superior to trade deficits. Tariffs on foreign goods are preferable to taxes on U.S. producers. Manufacturing, not finance, is the muscle of the nation.
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To win the future, conservatives must -- in my opinion -- also find ways to make our timeless classical liberal principles relevant to the 21st century. This, in my estimation, is the most important intellectual discussion we can engage in for the next months (or possibly years).
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The GOP has been laid low, thanks to politicians who swapped their principles for power and lost both. As the chief electoral vehicle for conservative and free-market ideas, the Republican party cannot regain America’s confidence —nor should it — until the guilty have been cast into the nearest volcano.
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Now that Putin is showing himself as being on course to rebuild the former empire of the USSR, should America ask his help on how to strengthen its own position around the world? Should the West ask Osama bin Laden for some pointers on protecting itself against Islamic terrorism?
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On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews in Germany and Austria. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. For the first time, tens of thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps simply because they were Jewish.
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Not surprisingly, McCain actually turned out to be a pretty awful candidate. That he still got 46 percent of the vote attests more to the value of the brand than to his performance.
McCain’s was essentially a vanity candidacy, driven by little more than his assumption that his own personal awesomeness entitled him to be President.
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Seventy years ago, on November 9, 1938, the Nazis burnt down synagogues and smashed windows of Jewish shops. It was the notorious "Night of Broken Glass" ("Kristallnacht"). Nearly one hundred Jews were murdered, about 25,000 Jews were deported to concentration camps.
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The election is over and everywhere you turn, people are saying that the Republican brand sucks, conservatives are on the way out, and free markets are over.
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Well it didn’t take long. Less than one week after the U.S. election, here comes One World Government right on cue.
Sphere: Related ContentThird-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to almost 123 million votes for Barack Obama and John McCain.
Sphere: Related ContentIt is the story of our lifetimes: a financial crisis is underway and getting worse. As the recession deepens, our jobs and savings are threatened, and our children and grandchildren will probably live in a country with lower living standards and fewer opportunities than what we have enjoyed.
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On election night, just after Barack Obama was declared the President-elect, Fox News interviewed Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, who is thought to be a rising star within the ranks of the GOP.
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Give me liberty or give me death!”
“Live free or die!”
What's that? Oh, don't mind me. I'm just trying out slogans for the 2012 campaign and seeing which one would get the biggest laughs
The NY Times published another report on secret military operations today.
Of course, this information was fed to the paper by anonymous sources like all of the other secret operations they reported these last 8 years.
While America struggles with the sub-prime and credit market crisis, Shariah Islamic Finance, also known as Shariah-Compliant Finance, is quickly infiltrating our financial markets – and bringing Islamic shariah law with it.
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One of the most interesting electoral outcomes last Tuesday was the passage in Arkansas of a ballot measure prohibiting the adoption of children by unmarried couples. The underlying goal of the initiative was to prevent homosexual couples from raising children in the state.
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Professor Mark Lilla of Columbia University is one of the more recent individuals to come out to insult Governor Sarah Palin. Nothing like using your “intellectual” time to pile on to not only Mrs. Palin, but Conservatives as an entire group and average Americans as a whole.
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Let me begin by saying that, with the election of Obama, whole sale death is now unleashed. I think people only saw the “Pro-Choice” movement as an American issue and they believed that Obama could only affect abortion rights in the United States. This was one aspect of the battle, but the true scope of the war is world-wide. The goal is to fund abortion and groups advocating abortion everywhere here on Earth with U.S. tax dollars.
Sphere: Related ContentThe current economic crisis will end. The recession will come to an end. They always do. During the economic crisis and the recession, the threats to human life still exist, and they will still be there when the good economic times return. Behind the chaos of the election and the economic crisis lurks the greatest threat to innocent human life since the invention of partial birth abortion.
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We are still a nation where conservatives (34%) outnumber liberals (22%). 40% are up for grabs, and the Democratic party has been attracting them by sounding conservative (Talk right, vote left).
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The results of this election have left me numb.
It was a dream where things happen as you just stand there and watch, and can’t do anything about. Call it ’surreal’.
On September 11, 2001 America was struck by terrorists. The damage, horror of watching bodies jumping to their deaths, was shocking, a true nightmare, and left us all running for our lives. How can we forget?
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Presidential-elect Barack Obama has promised to improve U.S. relations with Egypt and Syria. Aides said Obama had sent senior foreign policy adviser Robert Malley to Egypt and Syria over the last few weeks to outline the Democratic candidate's policy on the Middle East.
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I heard this question on the news, "How will Republicans promote potential party leaders for upcoming elections, especially since they will not get any positive press from the mainstream media?"
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As Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea writes in his own take on this issue, "Across the nation, gun sales are up. The cause is attributed to fear over what new citizen disarmament edicts a Barack Obama presidency will bring."
Sphere: Related ContentLast week it was Jeremiah Wright who burst back on to the national scene casting himself in the role of a victim. Now it’s Bill Ayres’ turn have his say. Anything these two men could have to say can only bedevil the Barack Obama transition team.
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As appetizing as it might be to discuss some current events, I want to dedicate this post to a subject that is very near and dear to my heart . . . America's silent genocide . . . abortion.
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