Various publications are saying that Hillary Clinton has gone on the record as saying that she would reduce presidential powers back to the pre-W levels if she is elected president. “I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency,” Clinton told the Boston…
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Huckabee: Abortion is the American Holocaust
Jamie Crawford at CNN’s Political Ticker blog reports this about Mike Huckabee: “Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we…
Ron Paul Tops for Military Donations
My hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, got this write-up placed on memeorandum this afternoon: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the congressman from the Houston area who opposes the Iraq war, has gotten more contributions than any other White House contender from donors identified as affiliated with the military. According to a Houston Chronicle analysis of…
NY Senators Fund Woodstock Museum, Get Donations
USA Today reports: Days after a Senate committee approved $1 million for a Woodstock concert museum, the project’s Republican billionaire backer and his family contributed $29,200 to help the Democrats who requested the money, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer. … The New York senators put their names jointly on all their earmark requests,…
China: U.S. Shouldn’t Approve of Dalai Lama
Reuters says: China expressed fury on Tuesday that the United States is to honor the Dalai Lama with an award and warned that the activities of his supporters were increasing in Chinese-controlled Tibet. The Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since staging a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, is to…
Giuliani Not Fit To Live
So say the leaders of Palestinian terrorist groups. “If I had the occasion to meet him (Giuliani), I would hurt him,” said Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group in the West Bank’s Anskar refugee camp. “For the sake of the American people, Giuliani shouldn’t be elected. He is a disgusting…
There You Go Again, Jimmy
Jimmy Carter says that the United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law. From CNN: “I don’t think it. I know it,” Carter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights,” Carter said. “We’ve said that the Geneva Conventions do…
SCHIP, Media, Government, Truth
The SCHIP debate is interesting because it pits certain core beliefs that conservatives and liberals allegedly hold in direct opposition to each other. Whether to hold the line on spending and entitlements or grant additional taxpayer dollars to the poor – this is bread-and-butter stuff. Throw in a few pinches of liberal guilt – "we’ve…
The Myth of Student Free Speech
Saw this and it made me laugh. OK, so this kid decides to wear his John Edwards 2008 T-shirt to school (High School) and gets upset about his free speech being infringed upon when they sent him home. “Bong Hits for Jesus” anyone (a.k.a Morse v Frederick)? The point is that a school has a…
Obama is the Wrong Man
When Barack Obama first announced he was running for the Dems presidential nomination I have to admit that I was interested. After all he’s obviously a very intelligent guy and is a strong orator. When Obama took young black men to task back in June for failing to be proper fathers I thought he might…