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"RUSH: I know I'm fighting an uphill battle here, folks, on trying to convince you Republicans in Ohio and Texas to cross over, pimp yourselves for a day, vote for Hillary to keep this campaign going, this Uncivil War, Democrat Party. I know what's going to happen. Even if I convince you to do it -- remember what this is, this is about us winning. You have to understand, it's not about Hillary winning; it's about us winning. It's about our party winning. It's about those people losing.""RUSH: I know I'm fighting an uphill battle here, folks, on trying to... more
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An American in Paris, Zachary felt an overwhelming urge to do something this election. Having done nothing four years ago, this time he took a month off to volunteer for the campaign in the U.S. Having seen firsthand the election fever there, he couldn't imagine such a fever could exist abroad. But in this 21st century, Zachary had hope. Arriving back in Paris post-Super Tuesday, Zachary took his friends Gregoire and Arnaud at Honkytonk Films to the streets with him to see whether this cosmopolitan city had caught the U.S. Election Mania.
So here is a rough-cut we made for current.tv collective journalism assignment on the US election fever abroad.An American in Paris, Zachary felt an overwhelming urge to do something this election.... more
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The next American president is likely to affect more than just life inside the United States. See what young Egyptians have to say about the 2008 candidates.The next American president is likely to affect more than just life inside the United... more
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What do people outside the U.S. think of our Presidential candidates and what would happen if the whole world could vote?What do people outside the U.S. think of our Presidential candidates and what would... more
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Frank Rich on the Clinton campaign's "bigoted lie."
Last month a Hispanic pollster employed by the Clinton campaign pitted the two groups against each other by telling The New Yorker that Hispanic voters have “not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” Mrs. Clinton then seconded the motion by telling Tim Russert in a debate that her pollster was “making a historical statement.”
It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that, given that it branded Hispanics, a group as heterogeneous as any other, as monolithic racists. As the columnist Gregory Rodriguez pointed out in The Los Angeles Times, all three black members of Congress in that city won in heavily Latino districts; black mayors as various as David Dinkins in New York in the 1980s and Ron Kirk in Dallas in the 1990s received more than 70 percent of the Hispanic vote. The real point of the Clinton campaign’s decision to sow misinformation and racial division, Mr. Rodriguez concluded, was to “undermine one of Obama’s central selling points, that he can build bridges and unite Americans of all types.”
If that was the intent, it didn’t work.Frank Rich on the Clinton campaign's "bigoted lie."
Last month a... more
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A rumour on the conservative website humanevents.com indicates that current Repulican frontrunner John McCain has planned a 'crowd-pleaser' that may backfire.
Jed Babbin reports that "McCain has prepared a video featuring President Ronald Reagan to make the introduction.”
Jed goes onto predict a dire outcome if such an incident were to take place. If, and only if, his theory proves accurate, I wonder about the outcome for McCain.
Baddin writes:
“If McCain uses this video, it is very likely to backfire badly. This is the group before which Ronald Reagan said in 1975 that, “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.
“Very few of the 2008 CPAC crowd will see McCain as the successor to Reagan and Reagan's principles. McCain has sacrificed conservatives' fundamental beliefs throughout his Senate career. If McCain uses this introduction, the boos will be very loud.”
A rumour on the conservative website humanevents.com indicates that current Repulican... more
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Americans living overseas shave been voting for Democratic candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, while others - for the first time ever - cast ballots online.
But some voting experts expressed fears that Internet ballots were vulnerable to tampering, computer hacking and could not be authenticated or recounted.Americans living overseas shave been voting for Democratic candidates in the 2008 U.S.... more
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An interesting look at the candidates' campaign money--who's top dog in your state?An interesting look at the candidates' campaign money--who's top dog in your... more
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Is he ready or isn't he? Does he have enough experience or doesn't he? This article suggests he may have more varied experience than his opponents suggest.Is he ready or isn't he? Does he have enough experience or doesn't he?... more
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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi asks, "Why do the media insist on reducing one of the most exciting presidential primary seasons in American history to a simple horse race?" A sick op-ed about how the media is trivializing the presidential race beyond all meaning.
"This 2008 presidential race looked interesting once, a thrillingly up-for-grabs affair in which real issues and real ground-up voter anger threatened to wrest control of America's politics from the Washington Brahmins who usually puppeteer this process from afar. And while the end result in Iowa (a historic and inspirational Obama victory, coupled with a hilariously satisfying behind-the-woodshed third-place ass-whipping for status quo gorgon Hillary Clinton) was compelling, the media has done its best to turn a once-promising race into an idiotic exchange of Nerf-insults, delivered at rah-rah campaign events utterly indistinguishable from scholastic pep rallies. "If there's policy in this race," one veteran campaign reporter tells me with a sad laugh, "I haven't noticed it.""Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi asks, "Why do the media insist on reducing one... more
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As a result of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Congress established different mandatory penalties for cocaine and crack cocaine, with significantly higher punishments for crack cocaine offenses. There is a 5-year minimum prison penalty for a first-time trafficking offense involving 5 grams or more of crack cocaine or 500 grams or more of powder cocaine (see top chart above) and a 10-year mandatory minimum penalty for a first-time trafficking offense involving 50 grams or more of crack cocaine or 5,000 grams or more of powder cocaine.
One gram of pure powder cocaine will convert to approximately 0.89 grams of crack cocaine
Historically, the majority of crack cocaine OFFENDERS are black; powder cocaine OFFENDERS are now predominantly Hispanic. ***In spite of the fact that White and Hispanic Americans make up 66% of the people that USE crack????????*******
If this is not subliminal at it's best!
In 2006, African-Americans accounted for 82 percent of crack cocaine-related arrests, while white and Hispanic offenders accounted for 72 percent of powder cocaine-related arrests
Bottom Line:
1. Members of Congress might need some remedial math, especially on decimals? If 1 gram of powder cocaine = .89 grams of crack cocaine, why is the amount of crack cocaine for five years of jail time (5 grams) 100X less than for powder cocaine (500 grams)?
2. Nobel economist Milton Friedman once called the minimum wage "the most anti-black law on the books." For once I have to disagree with Milton, I think the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 is now the most anti-black law on the books. By far.As a result of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Congress established different... more
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Nevada is an early caucus state and is in a catastrophic drought. Do presidential candidates have a plan to avert disaster in the dead dry Western state?Nevada is an early caucus state and is in a catastrophic drought. Do presidential... more
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