Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said Tuesday that he supports the Internal Revenue Service’s political targeting of Tea Party groups because “they are the Taliban wing of American politics.”
And he doesn’t think the comparison is in any way unfair or over the top.
Bond’s Taliban remarks were made in response to a question posed by MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/14/heres-why-this-ncaap-official-thinks-its-good-the-irs-targeted-tea-party-groups-hint-it-involves-the-taliban/
from FT:
This week, a new book, “The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America” by David A. Stockman was published in the US, garnering a great deal of notice. The attention is due not so much to the 742-page book, which is dense with discussions of obscure financial topics, but because of the author, who once played a critical role in American economic policy.
Mr Stockman was the proverbial whiz-kid of American [...]
From Liberty Blitzkrieg:
Dear Mr. President:
In response to partial release of the Department of Justice memos describing the underlying legal justifications for the targeted killings of American citizens and others in the course of counterterrorism operations, we are writing to emphasize Congress’ vital oversight role in these matters. Every American has the right to know the underlying legal rationale that ensures due process.
Authorizing the killing of American citizens and others has [...]
What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn’t work the way you’d think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillinfrom men with syphilis just to see what would happen if the disease went untreated. It seemsunlikely that officers would coerce enlisted men into exposing themselves to debilitating nerve gas. Few expected that President Obama would preside over the persecution of an NSA whistle-blower, or presume the guilt of all military-aged males killed by U.S. drone [...]
by Michael
The American people have spoken. It is estimated that approximately 6 billion dollars was spent on political campaigns in 2012, and we ended up exactly in the same place that we were before. Barack Obama is still in the White House, the Democrats still have solid control of the U.S. Senate and the Republicans still have solid control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Clearly, the American people want more [...]
Here’s a difference a HUGE DIFFERENCE
CONVICTED: Bush 1300+, Clinton 1000+, Obama 0.0
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Financial Fraud Conviction Scorecard:
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics [...]
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics is capable of exposing its own filthwhen it comes to legitimate scandal, and this DOJ non-prosecution madness involving [...]
France’s President Francois Hollande showed a fine understanding of American politics Tuesday when he refused to endorse a US presidential candidate.
Asked by a reporter at the UN General Assembly in New York whether he backed Democratic incumbent Barack Obama or his Republican rival Mitt Romney for the White House, a smiling Hollande shot back: “Who do you think?”
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/CNG—cac244400f044e319f2e9adc74625f14—1b1
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics is capable of exposing its own filthwhen it comes to legitimate scandal, and this DOJ non-prosecution madness involving Goldman [...]
Financial Fraud Conviction Scorecard:
Bush: 1300+, Clinton: 1000+, Obama: 0.0 (+/-)
Meanwhile, not a word of complaint from a single Democrat in Congress, which is especially infuriating given the broad bi-partisan agreement among voters that criminal bankers need to do time. Too concerned with keeping up appearances and the next election cycle, neither side of the false left-right paradigm of American politics is capable of exposing its own filth when it comes to legitimate scandal, and [...]
Russell Brand is delving into the world of American politics – at least in the only way the British comedian knows how.
While promoting his FX Show Brand X With Russell Brand at the Television Critics Association on Saturday, the funnyman made a comment about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
He told reporters that if she ever appeared on his show, he would forget the politics and go straight to her sex appeal.
Brand [...]
WASHINGTON — Americans paid the lowest tax rates in 30 years to the federal government in 2009, partly because of tax cuts President Barack Obama sought to combat the Great Recession, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday.
A sharp decline in income — especially among the wealthiest Americans, who pay the highest tax rates — also played a role, according to the report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Household income fell [...]
When you see a new poll, what do you look at first? With the general election campaign nominally underway, most people would say that they look at the head-to-head matchup between President Obama and Mitt Romney.
But I’m still intensely focused on the president’s job approval numbers.
The reason has to do with my view of a presidential campaign when an incumbent is on the ballot. Based on my read of the [...]
I follow politics closely now a days and i wasn’t even aware of this event that happened. Listen to his lame ass excuse. This man does not like America and is doing everything in his power to take her down…..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299439,00.html
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for “true patriotism” since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299439,00.html
Watch [...]
Conservatives won a substantial victory Thursday. The physics of American politics — actions provoking reactions — continues to move the crucial debate, about the nature of the American regime, toward conservatism. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has served this cause.
The health-care legislation’s expansion of the federal government’s purview has improved our civic health by rekindling interest in what this expansion threatens — the Framers’ design for limited government. Conservatives distraught about the survival [...]
At this point in American politics, whether a presidential candidate avoided service in Vietnam is probably an issue that has lost its electoral salience. While the controversy undercut Bill Clinton — and to a lesser extent, George W. Bush — its relevance in national campaigns seems to have come and gone.
So, when the AP ran a 1,200-word piece yesterday on Romney’s Vietnam-era deferments, it’s tempting to think the story just doesn’t matter. [...]
Michael Snyder: What the Republican Party has done to fiscal conservatives over the past year and a half has been a betrayal so vast that it is difficult to find words to describe it. Back in 2010, the Tea Party was riding high and a flood of new Republicans was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives in one of the greatest landslides in U.S. political history. On election night 2010, more [...]
In 2008, more than 550,000 gave more than $200 to Barack Obama, entering their names in the longest list of individual donors ever seen in American politics.
That list was a snapshot of the hope Obama inspired in a cross sections of liberals, young professionals, African-Americans, and Democrats who saw in him a generational and historic moment. But now, as Obama struggles to keep pace with his 2008 fundraising clip, that [...]
Not so long ago, the term “bleeding heart liberal” had currency in American politics as a way to accuse someone of costly naïveté. Here was a label that could be slapped on anyone who advocated policies that aimed for fairness and decency, pursuing feel-good outcomes at the supposed expense of taxpayer interest, public safety and common sense.
These days we need a new term to describe a strain of politics that [...]
by Michael
What the Republican Party has done to fiscal conservatives over the past year and a half has been a betrayal so vast that it is difficult to find words to describe it. Back in 2010, the Tea Party was riding high and a flood of new Republicans was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives in one of the greatest landslides in U.S. political history. On election night 2010, [...]
Andrew Rafferty
NBC
May 20, 2012
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday slammed President Barack Obama for being the most divisive figure in American politics.
“The man who today occupies the White House and is running for president is a very different person,” Rubio said at a high-profile GOP fundraiser, where he claimed Obama has abandoned the ideals he ran on in 2008. “We have not seen such a divisive figure in modern American [...]
Sharif Christopher Matar
reason.com
May 16, 2012
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) will no longer be actively campaigning in forthcoming primaries for the Republican presidential nomination. But the libertarian politician’s legacy – including controversial yet popular stands on everything from auditing the Federal Reserve to withdrawing troops from abroad to radically cutting government borrowing and spending – is just getting started.
Paul, says Brian Doherty, a Reason senior editor and author of the new Ron [...]
They (Norm Ornstein) dont get any smarter when it comes to knowledge about the history of
the inner workings of Congress.
Published: April 27
Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made [...]
America: The Price of Supremacy (April 18, 2012)
“The mythology runs more or less like this: in the aftermath of the First World War, America withdrew from the international responsibilities it had briefly taken up during that war, refusing to join the League of Nations and distancing itself from global politics. In the vacuum thus formed, the coming of the Great Depression sent the conflicts that drove the world to war in 1914 [...]
The Daily bell
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tax Day Doesn’t Belong to the Tea Party Anymore … Over the past several years, few annual occasions have been more symbolic of the direction of political discussion in our country than Tax Day. This year, the IRS due date bears witness to the impact of the Occupy movement in American politics. Back in 2009 and 2010, Tax Day protests were a high-water mark for the Tea [...]
If the Buffett Rule isn’t about middle-class economic security, and it’s not even about eliminating the ability of millionaires to pay less than their secretaries, what is it about? It’s about politics. But that doesn’t make it wrong or even cynical.
The central dividing line in American politics is the Republican Party’s refusal to accept any higher tax revenues on the rich. Republican taxophobia killed several attempts to reach an agreement [...]
The ADL and Dershowitz will come for you on a witch hunt, and go Joe McCarthy on your ass, like they did with two highly respected and very competent professors at Harvard & The University of Chicago, respectively, John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt, because those two professors had the audacity and balls to suggest, in a very professional, well-written, exceedingly well reasoned and objective scholarly work, that the Israeli Lobby has [...]
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Halftime in America, Clint,Eastwood calls it. Halftime? No folks, the game’s in overtime for Wall Street, the Super Rich and their “mutant capitalism,” as Jack Bogle calls America’s out-of-whack economic system in his “Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.”
It’s an economy so distorted we’re creating an ever-widening inequity gap bigger than the one that ignited the 1929 Crash [...]
NY Post
February 13, 2012
Samuel L. Jackson said he voted for President Obama because of his color: “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says in an outspoken interview in the March issue of Ebony.
Jackson sounds off on his feelings for Obama to writer Kevin Powell, saying: “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] [...]
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