Key Takeaways from President Obama and a 21st Century Military Contrary to popular belief and Republican propaganda, the defense budget is not being but is rising at a lesser rate. So far every budget Obama has had has increased military spending. Military strategy should drive budges not the other way…
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From Evansville Courier & Press: Applicants for public welfare programs would have to pass drug tests under a measure that some Republican state lawmakers were hoping to push – until Friday. In the Indiana House, Democratic Rep. Ryan Dvorak of South Bend sought to add an amendment to that bill:…
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From SPLC: [T]he people behind a website called “Target of Opportunity” (motto: “Eliminating the planet of liberals one at a time”) have taken things several steps further, creating a “Hit List” profiling supposed liberal enemies of America. “This website is a list and record of people that betray and endanger…
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From ABC News: A new federal and state task force was created [yesterday] to investigate mortgage fraud that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, and the panel immediately subpoenaed 11 financial institutions. Attorney General Eric Holder said the new unit would consist of 55 Justice Department lawyers and analysts and…
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From SPLC: A Georgia administrative law judge has left in place a subpoena directing President Obama to appear at a hearing on Thursday regarding a “birther” complaint challenging the president’s eligibility for office. Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi issued his decision Friday, writing that the president’s legal team “failed to…
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From The Cap Times: A couple hundred people gathered at the Capitol Wednesday night for Gov. Scott Walker’s State of the State speech. But the last thing they wanted to do was to actually hear it. They were there to drown it out, with shouting, with singing, with profanity, and…
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From Constitutional Law Prof Blog: Most Americans take pride in the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” However, Reporters Without Borders has ranked the United States 47th in its Press Freedom…
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Arizona’s renowned petulant megalomaniac, supremacist Jan Brewer, miserably attempted to have a “face-off” with the President of the United States. Behaving like a scorned teenage girl, she looked as though she was ready to take off her earrings and go full throttle for the Trashy and Low Class of the…
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