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POPSWhat Obama Might Look Like If He Read Polls And Michael Barone's Column
He had already realized that his sentiments were leading him away from the Whigs and toward the new Republican party, and in 1856 he became a Republican. He quickly came to the fore in the party as a moderate opponent of slavery who could win both the abolitionists and the conservative free-staters, and at the Republican national convention of 1856 he was prominent as a possible vice presidential candidate. Two years later he was nominated by the Republican party to oppose Douglas in the Illinois senatorial race. Accepting the nomination (in a speech delivered at Springfield on June 16), Lincoln gave a ringing declaration in support of the Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." The campaign that followed was impressive. Lincoln challenged Douglas to a series of debates (seven were held), in which he delivered masterful addresses for the Union and for the democratic idea. He was not an abolitionist, but he regarded slavery as an injustice and an evil .....
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POPSClimateGate: Follow The Money -- facts that were laid bare by last week's disclosure of thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, or CRU. But the deeper question is why the scientists behaved this way to begin with, especially since the science behind man-made global warming is said to be firmly settled. To answer the question, it helps to turn the alarmists' follow-the-money methods right back at them. Consider the case of Phil Jones, the director of the CRU and the man at the heart of climategate. According to one of the documents hacked from his center, between 2000 and 2006 Mr. Jones was the recipient (or co-recipient) of some $19 million worth of research grants, a sixfold increase over what he'd been awarded in the 1990s. Why did the money pour in so quickly? Because the climate alarm kept ringing so loudly: The louder the alarm, the greater the sums.
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POPSswine flu Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine flu "Nearly 100,000 Americans die every year from adverse reactions to FDA-approved prescription drugs. That's twenty-five times the number of people killed by H1N1 swine flu (even if you believe the CDC's numbers)." "Understanding risk According to death statistics tables available on the 'net, you are ten times more likely to die in a car accident this year than be killed by swine flu." "So for every person the CDC claims was killed by H1N1 swine flu this year, common painkillers like aspirin have killed four! Yet you don't see the CDC, FDA, WHO or mainstream media running around screaming about the extreme dangers of aspirin, do you? All those deaths apparently don't matter. Only swine flu deaths lead to hysteria." full article at source.
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POPSStopTheWitchHunt.org Target Conservative Commentators' "Hate-Speech" The website is designed to give voice to the millions of Americans who believe it is time for talk-show hosts and elected officials to stop stoking the racial anxieties of the fringes of America. Beck and his fellow band of hooligans have been telling scary stories about President Obama whom Limbaugh has disrespectfully referred to as "the little black man child." Beck recently accused the biracial President of having "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." And he has attacked a number of key Administration officials accusing them of being socialist and anti-American. Limbaugh, who has a history of making racially charged remarks about Obama, has called the mixed-race president "a halfrican American." Days before the President's inauguration in January, Limbaugh said, "I hope he fails" - the verbal equivalent of putting a razor blade in a candy apple. StoptheWitchHunt.org is just the beginning of a multi-media campaign to support a new resistance to these .
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POPSGrowing Up Bin Laden Wife and son bare secrets of terror kingpin (married to a monster). Najwa says Americans were kind and friendly, but the country was not to her conservative tastes. Pets met horrible ends. A monkey the children loved was run over by one of Osama's men. She watched the television in horror as the Twin Towers fell, claiming the lives of 2,991 people. Najwa says she has not spoken to Osama since the attacks. And this is the kind of animal species, the pals of Obama that exist at Gitmo, yet liberals defend this trash. Incredible. Just revolting.
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POPSWealth Care Not Health Care! If god wasn't on Their side, they wouldn't be rich. If god was on our side, we wouldn't be so pitiful. Right? Might is not only Right but Rich and White! Let's save the Status Quo.
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POPSMeet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life
How did Skousen become an expert on communism? He claimed, as his apologists still do, that his years with the FBI exposed him to inside information. He also boasted that he worked closely with J. Edgar Hoover. But both claims are open to question. Skousen's work at the Bureau was largely administrative, according to Ernie Lazar, an independent researcher of the far right who has examined Skousen's nearly 2,000-page FBI file. "Skousen never worked in and he never had significant exposure to data concerning communist matters," says Lazar. Skousen also trumpeted the insight he says he gained researching "The Naked Communist." But this research was as shaky as his résumé. Among the theories Skousen charged a healthy fee to discuss was the alleged treason of FDR advisor Harry Hopkins. According to Skousen, Hopkins gave the Soviets "50 suitcases" worth of info on the Manhattan Project, along with nearly half of the nation's supply of enriched uranium.
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POPSThank You Mr. President Thank you for creating a massive federal entitlement program that will push us closer day by day to national bankruptcy while you fiddle. Every large government entitlement program -- Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid -- is racing towards bankruptcy. Now, you have created a new one to sink the ship of state. A rescue party led by the Republicans will, sooner or later, look mighty handy to the voters.
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POPSRush Wishes Wilson Wouldn't Have Apologized OBAMA: There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This too is false. The reforms -- (crowd rumbling) the reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. WILSON: You lie! (crowd rumbling) OBAMA: It's not true. Last night was uncomfortable, especially how about if you're a parent and you had your children in school this week, the president's speech to the kids, just as I said, it was to set up last night's speech. We're being told and kids are being told to look up to this man. It was an awful speech. He was petulant; he was childish; he was a community organizer and agitator; he lied; he was divisive; he attacked me; he attacked Sarah Palin; he attacked conservative Republicans in Congress who dare to challenge government-run health care. He continued to attack tens of millions of Americans who spent the summer attending town hall meetings. It was crude.
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POPSLiberal Propaganda... For Kids! One of the few things the left is doing effectively is indoctrinating our kids. The kids watch a video like this one, then their teacher discusses it with them and asks the children to think about what they saw and contribute their own ideas.
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POPSConservative Books On Top, But NYT Concludes Marx is “back in vogue” Always count on the Fishwrap of Record to have its finger on the pulse of America! *** Via Christian Toto at Human Events: Marji Ross, president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, isn’t surprised by the newspaper’s stance against these like-minded books. “Very rarely do they review conservative books,” Ross says. “What they sometimes do is mention a book that is conservative on their “Inside the List” feature. It’s a way to defend themselves against the accusation they ignore these books.” The New York Times did see fit to print reviews of major liberal books from Michael Moore (Dude, Where’s My Country?), Eric Alterman (What Liberal Media?) and Al Franken (Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) but has yet to examine the aforementioned right-leaning bestsellers. Having one’s book reviewed in The New York Times meant something up until recently. “Traditionally, most publishers and authors are very eager to get in the New York Times to review their books," Ross say
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POPSThe Truth About Canadian Healthcare If you're in a nation with universal healthcare, I urge you to go to the source site and sign the petition to the US media. Don't let the opponents of Healthcare Reform paint a deceitful picture of Universal Healthcare. Sign the petition, and leave a comment about just what Universal Healthcare means to you and how shameful American Healthcare is.
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POPSAdventures in being Proselytized: LaRouchePAC
LaRouche followers will tell you the only way to learn their ideas is to buy a DVD. The DVD is $25. The conversation you are likely to have with a member of LaRouchePAC on the street is aimed at getting you to either sign up or buy something. They will tell you that the knowledge they have has the potential to prevent a Major Disaster. If they have a solution to save the entire country, isn’t it immoral to charge money for the solution? If you are making the whole thing up, then why are you selling us lies? The most interesting thing about the LaRouchePAC is that despite this immorality and despite the crazy nature of LaRouche’s ideas, he manages to get loads of young people to support him and peddle his weird Nazi-accusations. LaRouchePAC is nothing more than a cult. The outlandish nature of LaRouche’s claims create an us vs. them mentality among his followers. When they face arguments, they turn to other members for support and validation The very core of a cult.
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POPSA Day in the Life of a Right-Wing Extremist Moxie's got your number....she looks both scary and fierce. Especially look out for 20 something, blond hair, blue-eyes females from the south. They are particularly dangerous. Take all precaution to protect yourselves from this mob.
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POPSConservative Propaganda, part two This one's a real knee-slapper. The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in America is the current healthcare system; people can't afford to get sick. In reality, the Single-Payer system will prevent people from going bankrupt from unexpected medical bills; something that commercial healthcare can't say. Every G20 nation except the US has Socialized medicine, and their healthcare is vastly superior to the US's, plus the fact that every single citizen gets all the healthcare they need. America needs to remake its medical system, and you can't let fearmongering by the corporate-owned Republicans stop it from happening. Expose lies like this cartoon for the hysterical drivel they are.
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POPSObama: UNCLOS United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty Senate Democrats may not listen to conservative objections to the pact, but they should pay some attention to the views of people like Newton B. Jones of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. "As recently as 1987," he points out, "the Navy had 594 ships. At that time, we were not at war. Since then, despite growing threats from around the globe-the Middle East, Korea, China-we have built an average of only six ships a year, while decommissioning 20. The Navy's fleet is now only 281 ships, less than half its size in 1987." He goes on to note that "...numerous reports recommend a fleet of 55-75 submarines, but the Navy is building only one a year. Our submarine fleet has shrunk from 100 in 1990 to 53 today. The American Shipbuilding Association estimates that at current rates, China will have twice as many submarines as the United States in only five years." Not coincidentally, Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, wrote the foreword for the book,
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POPSWe've Been Trapped Inside a Bad Health Care System So Long, We Don't Know How Much We're Missing
Other points: My neighbors heal, recover, and go on with their lives. The U.S. disability rate last year was 19.1 percent, and rising fast. In Canada, it's 14.3 percent My neighbors start small businesses. Americans routinely stay chained to jobs they hate because they can't afford to lose coverage. My neighbors stay home with their kids. My neighbors invest. They've got stable household budgets that aren't being thrown off by surprise health events. My neighbors travel. Americans don't get vacation time; and when they do get it, they tend to stay in-country. A lot of Canadians take three weeks off in the winter to go somewhere fabulous and warm. That $15K-a-year savings will buy a whole lot of margaritas in Cancun. My neighbors seldom go bankrupt. The Canadian bankruptcy rate has soared in the past year to 4.3 per thousand. In the U.S., it's 11.1 per thousand. Perhaps most important: My neighbors have never seen anyone die because they didn't have health
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POPSUnion Attempting To Get Anti-Nationalized Health Care TV Ad Pulled So why is this ad “demonstrably false?” Because it runs contrary to the politics of the SEIU, that’s why. Facts don’t matter, only politics. Though how the SEIU could demonstrate that the ad is false before even seeing it is beyond me. And remember, these same anti-free speech thugs are the same ones telling us that we don’t need secret ballots in the labor organizing process.
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