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Story here from the UK Daily Mail . Excerpt: Treasury Chief Secretary David Laws was fighting to avoid becoming the coalition Government’s first casualty tonight after it was revealed that he funnelled £40,000 of taxpayers’ money to his secret gay lover.
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Liberal Democrat Treasury Secretary paid 68K of taxpayer money to gay lover
Check out this campaign ad for Les Phillip. (H/T Lex Communis ) Here is the background information on Les . Excerpt: Les Phillip was born May 29, 1963, to Randolph and Elvina Phillip in the tiny Caribbean country of Trinidad – Tobago.
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Naturalized citizen from Trinidad running as Republican in Alabama
Here’s her own words from her YouTube channel: After a series of procedures on the Floor of the House, House Democrats voted to table a bill that would eliminate the proposed federal employee pay raise scheduled to go into effect next year and also freeze the pay for Members of Congress. Rather than cut spending as the people have asked, Democrats have passed the buck yet again.
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Democrats kill Michele Bachmann’s attempt to freeze federal salaries
Yahoo News reports . (H/T ECM ) Excerpt: Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn’t look all that bad.
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BP bused in 400 temp workers to clean an area for Obama’s photo-op
Consider this sample from government-run broadcast media. Christian taxpayers are paying him to say that about Christians
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How reliable are government-paid broadcasters like Tavis Smiley?
Here . Excerpt: The scene: My youngest daughter and I were returning from a couple of college visits. We were trying to find a gas station to fill up the rental car so I wouldn’t have to pay the good folks at AVIS $5 / gallon, or whatever exorbitant rate they charge these days.
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Neil Simpson posts on the worst GPS directions ever!
Miss Marprelate writing Her latest post is here and it’s funny. Excerpt: I found this cute little map online, it tells you all the “International Number Ones: Because Every Country is Good at Something”.
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Miss Marprelate compares Canada to the rest of the world
Here’s what the new Republican program is all about: YouCut – a first-of-its-kind project – is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. It allows you to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact. Vote on this page today for your priorities and together we can begin to change Washington’s culture of spending into a culture of savings
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The Republicans want YOU to tell them how to cut wasteful spending!
I see that Brian Auten posted some new audio from Bill Craig on the problem of evil, so I thought I would re-post my best post on the problem of evil, too.
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Everything I know about the problem of evil in one small essay
The world has been an eye witness to the total collapse of a sovereign Nation. This collapse is not the result of an invading army or a dictatorial regime whose tyrannical leader has died creating a power struggle for control. This collapse in not the result of a military coup which forced the Nation into chaos
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Obamaism Following Greek Example Spells Disaster For America
When we say conservative wing we’re not talking about just the so-cons or the religious right, as the media likes to categorize conservative’s but the fiscally responsible common sense conservative that inhabits the hearts of all right of center individuals throughout the spectrum. For more years than most people can count or remember, the GOP, has been run by a coalition of people who were either identified as the religious right or identified as politically moderate
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Bennett’s Failure Indicates the Rise of the Conservative Wing of the GOP
Americans are an extremely charitable people. We NEVER turn our backs on those in need—whether it be our fellow Americans in New Orleans, or strangers in distant lands like Haiti. However, even though Tennessee has been ravaged by floods that will take months to clean up and will wind up costing over a billion dollars in damage , the MSM has pretty much given Tennessee the back of its hand.
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Come on People–it’s Time to Dig Deep and Help the People of Tennessee.
I received this from Leader Boehner’s office today asking What is the Obama Administration’s Strategy to Confront and Defeat the Terrorist Threat? Unfortunatly after researching there doesn’t seem to many, if any, answers to these questions
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What is the Obama Adminstrations plan for the Terrorist Threat: 5 Questions Americans Want Answered
A hidden provision in the Health Care Takeover bill is causing quite a stir among small businesses and accountants. It seems that for any transaction in which a business spends more than $600, the business will be required to issue a 1099 form according to CNNMoney. Section 9006 of the health care bill — just a few lines buried in the 2,409-page document — mandates that beginning in 2012 all companies will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to contract workers but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year
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Bacon with a side of your Tax ID Number
“Arkansas’ 1st congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in northeastern Arkansas that elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives
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50Seats.Com, The Series: Part VII, AR-1 (Open)
Over the last few days, there has been some tremendous rainstorms throughout the Midwest and Southern states. Here in St Louis area we were hit pretty bad This was the story over a wide area, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and many other areas around the country. I know few of my friends got hit, some had flooding and loss of power and phone lines
This is original work from Verum Serum. They contrast the mainstream media’s reporting of the Georger Tiller killing with the killing of pro-life activist Jim Pouillon. Excerpt: Of course there has been real right-wing extremism, most notably the murder of abortionist George Tiller last Summer.
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Is the mainstream media fair in reporting on abortion violence?
Dean Baker The Guardian Unlimited , May 3, 2010 See article on original website Keynes quipped in the General Theory that the world is ruled by the ideas of long dead economists. I was reminded of this comment when I heard a member of Germany’s parliament scornfully dismiss the suggestion that the European Central Bank should target a somewhat higher rate of inflation
This morning, I was contemplating whether to go downstairs and buy a cup of coffee for $1.25 from the coffee shop on the first floor, or whether to take a cup of free coffee from the kitchen on the 27th floor where I work.
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In which I blame the coffee manufacturer for making bad coffee
Dean Baker Truthout, May 3, 2010 See article on original website The financial reform bills being considered by Congress will lead to a better regulated financial system, most importantly by creating a consumer protection agency that will prevent some of the worst abuses of the last decade.
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Financial Reform: Will We Feel Better the Morning After?
CEPR co-Director Mark Weisbrot responds to questions from a Greek journalist about the agreement reached Sunday for a 100 billion euro loan package, between the Greek government and the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF: 1. Are these measures [the Sunday loan agreement] good to resolve the problem
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Will the New Austerity Plan for Greece Work?
From Watts Up With That . Excerpt: No one can accuse Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of shying from controversy. In his first four months in office, Cuccinelli directed public universities to remove sexual orientation from their anti-discrimination policies, attacked the Environmental Protection Agency, and filed a lawsuit challenging federal health care reform.
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VA attorney general demands that university account for AGW research grants
If you like this, please donate to the San Antonio Tea Party: http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us (Even $1 will help) Unveiled ath the April 15th, 2010 San Antonio Tea Party. If you want to use it for your own personal Tea Party, please send a message. I obivously don’t own ALL of the footage, I just arranged it
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Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor: Election 2010
Story here in the radically-leftist New York Times. (H/T Hot Air ) Excerpt: AS we inch closer to a clearer understanding of the products and practices that unleashed the credit crisis of 2008, it’s becoming apparent that those seeking the whole truth are still outnumbered by those aiming to obscure it
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New York Times admits that GM repaid its bailout loans with TARP loan money
*** WARNING: This post is definitely for grown-ups only! *** I was listening to the latest Dr. J podcast on “Why Marriage Matters”, and I heard about a woman named Dawn Stefanowicz, who was raised by her gay father in Toronto
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Dawn Stefanowicz explains her experience being raised by a gay parent