it's okay for obama and reid to lie when it's against repubs

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note the even tone of the article? the irony is that soc sec is not safe and is making us unsafe.

Social Security is safe in a federal shutdown - President Obama and Harry Reid have warned that social security benefits will dry up if the government shuts down. But that's not the case.

- http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/23/news/economy/shutdown_social_security/index.htm

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Ferguson: Obama’s foreign policy failed in Egypt
Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson joins Morning Joe from London to talk about the Obama administration’s handling of the events in Egypt and what his foreign policy strategy should be going forward.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41577220#41577220

Why I'm not holding my breath waiting for Libya to turn democratic

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Demonstrators in Benghazi holding an anti-Kadhafi poster yesterday.



Yeah, as we all noticed, Moammar "the dog" Kadhafi was an Israeli agent. So obvious, really.

Miscarriage = Murder?

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A new bill has been proposed in the state of Georgia that you could be investigated for murder if you have a miscarriage.

WHAT THE CRAP??

This is why I am more of a Libertarian than a Republican...this is just NUTS and needless regulation!! *headdesk* This is just ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.


May the odds be ever in your favor.

Egyptian Youth to Hillary Clinton: Where Was the Support?

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As the aftermath of Mubarak's removal settles in, Egyptian youth are now asking Hillary Clinton, via social media, "where was America's support for us?" Click the link to read Clinton's answer. Special thanks to Hotair.com.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/23/egyptian-youth-clinton-support/

Exit quotation: "The Obama administration drew heavy fire for its cautious response to the 18-day revolution, when it struggled to balance its support for the protesters with protecting U.S. interests, including a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel that President Hosni Mubarak maintained during his 29 years in power.

"The U.S. has taken a similar tack in responding to the other popular uprising spreading across the Middle East and North Africa. Clinton's answers came just hours before President Obama announced he was dispatching her to Geneva for international talks aimed at stopping the violence in Libya, the latest battleground.

"Another comment from the Egyptian youth on Wednesday criticized U.S. foreign policy for embracing oppressive regimes and treating them like true democracies.

""The United States has relations with many countries whose values we do not always agree with and whose actions we often criticize," Clinton responded. "But we do have relationships with China, with Russia, with Egypt in the past that are very complicated and which operate on several levels at once.""

Fresh Air on NPR. Yeah, seriously. I know, it's hard to believe.

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Coming home from a funeral visit to the Hoosier State today, I spent most of the time in the car (ok, transporting food and beverages from rest stop to rest stop along I-80) listening to NPR. Talk of the Nation, I love you but you were mostly boring today... except for a few commercial breaks about today's edition of Fresh Air.

Yeah, that one, with Terry Gross.

There are not words for how much I dislike that journalist [wordless]. She will literally believe anything anyone tells her as long as it fits her view of reality, ie - hating on the right. Fortunately, she was off and her sub interviewed Laurence Goldstone, a Constitutional scholar and author of the book Inherently Inequal, a study of 19th century Supreme Court decisions that undermined the 14th and 15th Amendments. Goldstone is not in any way a conservative, based on this interview. But the concluding quotation was amazing:

Fresh Air: Are there not times when there is a value to going back to the original words because, after all, laws are words, words have meaning, and are there cases where there’s a value in saying have we not created some kind of legal superstructure that really takes us far beyond the intent of the original laws?

Laurence Goldstone, author: I agree completely. This is a continuum, this isn’t a question of two absolutes. This isn’t a question of you either follow the Constitution absolutely positively, immutably, or you throw the Constitution away and just decide what you think. There are cases, most cases of course, where the justice will to go to the Constitution or a statute and say “this is what the statute means.” My problem is this - people anointing themselves, saying “I am the only authority.” When, in fact, every judge is an activist; they are doing their best (we hope they are doing their best) to interpret the law in the way they think is the most objective. Now in practice, of course, it tends to be more subjective.

But the idea that nine justices of varying political persuasions are getting together in a room and one of them is saying I think the Constitution means this and the other one says I think it means that, and coming to a majority vote. I think that’s just fine. The issue is not whether or not we throw the Constitution out, of course, we shouldn’t. And the issue is not whether or not we simply make laws out of the air because we like the social import of them. No, we shouldn’t do that either. But we should also recognize that people who read the Constitution differently than we do are not necessarily subverting the law, but are simply seeing the law in a different way than do we. And I believe that if we could start doing at that, and start looking at views counter to our own, in some reasonable way and not just assume some nefarious motives by people who disagree with us, we might be farther along in the country right now.

This is the civility we need to be reaching for, not some "you're saying bad words" tattling.

If you're interested in the link, however it pains me to link to Fresh Air, here you go.