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infoMania: Best & Worst of the Media, 3.25.2010

Host Conor Knighton and team wickedly skewer the week in media. Includes Health Care... more

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Second-home allowance and first-class travel scrapped in reform of MPs' expenses

The amount MPs can claim in expenses will be slashed by nearly a third under tough new... more

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That's Gay: Politicians

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OBAMA THE BEST MAN FOR AMERICA

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

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In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN — a taxpayer-supported organization — is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union — whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense — is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

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Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years — the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years.... more

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Wealthy Politicians Are On A Boat

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Why do politicians lie?

Because they have to! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lfEGehv4tw

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Time To Decide. Endless War? Or A New Strategy?

Yesterday we posted an article about the attacks of 9/11 and offered an outline of the events that lead up to them. Today we are thinking about America's reaction and the outcome of this terrorist action. How instead of directly confronting the source of the threat we have launched a huge military action spreading from western Africa to the mountains of Pakistan. Trying to impose our will on populations that don't really want us to be there.

It all started while I'm sitting here going through the morning news pondering, as I often do, what the heck we are doing on the other side of the world occupying countries that pose no real threat to us and treat their citizens better than a lot of countries we count as our friends. We are paying a tremendous price in men, money & prestige on a mission that threatens our security more than secures it. After all is radical Islam really a bigger threat to us or Russia, India & China? I think the threat within and next door is always greater than the one on the other side of the world. And if we are going to confront radical Islamist terror with a “war” than shouldn't it be a coordinated action by all parties who are threatened by it?

It's the kind of issue we look at here at PeaceThroughCourage and are always looking for potential ideas to help us get out of the quagmire we are in. Because like real quicksand the more we fight and struggle the deeper we get sucked into it. We think the time has come for liberals and conservatives come together to begin a dialouge on how we can end this “war”. And use some different startagies to combat the threat of terror. Because we have enough problems here at home to take care of. We offer this link as another way thinking about how to approach this problem.

The Asian way of handling the world
Is there an "Asian way" to resolving global challenges? The conventional answer is no. But elements of an Asian way are gradually emerging. Given Asia's growing influence, the world should pay attention – and may have much to gain.
The key to understanding Asian approaches is their pragmatism. Asians constantly adapt and change.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/04/global-problem-solving-asian-way

This video offers the views of one liberal and one conservative that do agree on the war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPdjlrsNHCM
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Mindsi2Yesterday we posted an article about the attacks of 9/11 and offered an outline of the... more

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Question Dine

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Italy for sale

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President Palin ?

J. Brown is Senior Fellow and Washington Director at the Institute for International Law and Human Rights and the founder of Undiplomatic, a blog on the intersection of foreign policy, politics, and pop culture. You also can follow him on Twitter.

Progressives who fail to take Sarah Palin seriously do so at their peril. In my mind, it's pretty obvious that she already is laying the groundwork for a run in 2012. And given her actions over the past two months, it is a safe bet that she will do anything and everything in her power to win.

The key question is not whether she will challenge Obama, but rather what kind of race she will run. Is Palin merely another ambitious politician willing to say and do anything to get elected, or are we witnessing the emergence of a genuinely anti-democratic populist — a successor to such notorious figures as Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and George Wallace?

I believe that Palin could represent a significant threat. She favors demagoguery over democracy. She celebrates her own lack of judgment and experience as her best qualifications for the office she seeks. She slanders Obama and other opponents, suggesting that they are willing to sell out America. She uses her supposedly folksy background to attack the media and elites as out of touch with average Americans. And she plays to the mob, appealing to and encouraging the most reactionary, angry, hateful, and fearful elements of our society.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, Palin appeals to the worst angels of our nature. Her supporters are ready, willing, and determined to follow her regardless of what happens between now and Election Day 2012. They will never accept an Obama presidency, even if he were to revive the economy, fix health care, and capture bin Laden. They are counting the days until Palin is able to push him aside and assume power herself.

It would be easy to suggest that Palin is little more than a demagogue, that she would not move the United States away from its democratic traditions. And in fairness, we are still too early in Palin’s career to determine whether she is a genuine threat.

But do we really want to take the chance?

If Palin really does represent a move toward anti-democratic populism, she already is far more dangerous than any earlier demagogue. She’s not merely some nutjob with a radio following (Coughlin), or a regional figure who failed to move onto the national stage (Long). She’s the former Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States, a best-selling author, a canny entertainer, and a political superstar whose public profile resembles that of Angelina Jolie more than, say, Mitt Romney.

No previous populist anti-democratic candidate -- not Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968 -- ever had a serious chance of getting elected. Palin does. Change genders, and Palin is a modern day evocation of Senator Berzelius “Buzz” Windrup, the anti-hero of It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis’s Depression-era alternate history of America under a dictatorship:
The conspicuous fault of the [Democratic] Party. . . was that it represented integrity and reason, in a year when the electorate hungered for frisky emotions, for the peppery sensations associated, usually, not with monetary systems and taxation rates but with baptism by immersion in the creek, young love under the elms, straight whisky, angelic orchestras heard soaring down from the full moon, fear of death when an automobile teeters above a canyon, thirst in a desert and quenching it with spring water–all the primitive sensations which they thought they found in the screaming of Buzz Windrip.

Sarah Palin is ready. Should things get worse over the next three years, her folksiness and rhetoric may start appealing to more than just the far right.

So I'll say it again: dismiss her at your peril. Because if you do, you'll wake up with a Palin Administration in power. Even though "It Can't Happen Here."J. Brown is Senior Fellow and Washington Director at the Institute for International... more

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Sarah Palin & Bristol call 'Family Guy' Down syndrome gag a 'kick in the gut'

Looks like Seth MacFarlane's rattled the Mama Grizzly Bear's cage.

Sarah Palin fired back at 'Family Guy' over a recent episode that appeared to mock her son, Trig's, Down syndrome, in a Facebook post titled "Fox Hollywood -- What a Dissapointment:"

"People are asking me to comment on yesterday’s Fox show that felt like another kick in the gut. Bristol was one who asked what I thought of the show that mocked her baby brother, Trig (and/or others with special needs), in an episode yesterday. Instead of answering, I asked her what she thought. Here is her conscientious reply, which is a much more restrained and gracious statement than I want to make about an issue that begs the question, “when is enough, enough?":

"When you’re the son or daughter of a public figure, you have to develop thick skin. My siblings and I all have that, but insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet. Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them? As a culture, shouldn’t we be more compassionate to innocent people – especially those who are less fortunate? Shouldn’t we be willing to say that some things just are not funny? Are there any limits to what some people will do or say in regards to my little brother or others in the special needs community? If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they’re heartless jerks. - Bristol Palin"

In the taste-challenged episode, one of the show's characters dates a woman who apparently suffers from Down syndrome. The woman makes comparisons to Palin's 22-month-old son, Trig.

"My dad's an accountant, and my mom's the former governor of Alaska," the mentally disabled character said, without mentioning any names.

The irreverent cartoon stepped over the line just days after Palin lambasted both White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and radio talkmeister Rush Limbaugh for using the word "retard," which she considers an unacceptable slur.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/16/2010-02-16_sarah_palin__bristol_call_family_guy_joke_at_trig_down_syndrome_a_kick_in_the_gu.html#ixzz0fi4FpJJuLooks like Seth MacFarlane's rattled the Mama Grizzly Bear's cage. Sarah... more

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Mitt Romney attacked by passenger on flight from Vancouver Winter Olympics

Mitt Romney is used to politicians taking shots at him, but was caught off guard when... more

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WHACKO-TV THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US

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It's difficult to give up the power

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Help ProPublica with their Super Bowl Blitz

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Yulia Tymoshenko stokes Ukraine election tension

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Moral Hazard & Government Intervention

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Bring Home the Politicians

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Politicians Come Out for Pot Protest

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Advanced techniques of defeat

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