Some Republicans are worried that an anti-government surge among conservatives will lead to lower participation in the U.S. census, which they fear could reduce the number of Republican seats in Congress and state legislatures. The census, which is currently being collated and is gathered every ten years, dictates the distribution of federal funding, how many...
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CNN contributor and prominent Republican blogger Erick Erickson is threatening to pull out a “shotgun” to scare away census workers. Erickson — the founder of the conservative blog RedState — said on his Macon, Ga.-area radio show Thursday that if a census worker carrying a longer American Community Survey form came by his house, he would “pull...
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The policies enacted by FDR created the biggest middle class in the history of human civilization. Though it has lost ground, the middle class is also here to stay. To move the country forward, in other words, Obama must learn from the battles that FDR fought in the 1930s. Today, the stakes are just...
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William Sumner's philosophy is so harsh and reactionary that to embrace it openly would be political suicide. He believed that social welfare through state intervention replaces the survival of the fittest with the survival of the unfit. And that is disastrous for civilization.
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Shame, shame on those dems for not giving the little people a break. Tsk tsk.
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Outrage is a lot like alcohol. Outrage intoxication often causes: belligerence, overconfidence, impulsiveness, self-righteousness, sanctimoniousness, verbal aggression, threats, provocation, violence, and disregard for the consequences of one’s actions. And of course, it is virtually impossible to reason with somebody who is drunk on outrage. Welcome to the effects of propaganda, prejudice and closed minded social...
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Debunking Canadian health care myths By Rhonda Hackett As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one. Often I’ll avoid answering, regardless of the questioner’s nationality. To choose one or the other system usually...
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At a speech in Portland, Maine, President Barack Obama criticized Republicans who already want to repeal health care reform. “It’s only been a week,” he told the crowd. “Can you imagine if some of these reporters were working on a farm? You planted some seeds, and they came out the next day, and they looked,...
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Various forms of same-sex sexual activity have been recorded in more than 450 different species of animals. "Male Amazon River dolphins have been known to penetrate each other in the blowhole." Needless to say, I will never have quite the same visual again when hearing the term ‘blow job’.
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We are Americans. Stop now and smile with the remembered pride that comes with that claim and all it took to get us here. Americans. The power of that word alone should be enough to make us stop in our tracks and remember who we are, where we’ve come from and just exactly what...
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Earlier this month the RNC sent a census-style fundraising mailer with a return number that leads to a phone sex line offering “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute.” A voter in Minnesota received the mailer and called the number intending to complain about the attempt to...
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