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  • Advance Praise for “High Attitude — How Woke Liberals Ruined Aspen”

    04/19/2023 11:23:38 AM PDT · by libstripper · 23 replies
    The Aspen Beat ^ | April 18, 2023 | Glenn K. Beaton
    My book was published April 18, 2023 and is available on AMAZON. I would be grateful if you would read AND offer a review on Amazon, which is very important for the book to get traction. Here are a few items of “Advance Praise” by people I really respect who took the time to read advance copies: “Aspen, Colorado, is one of the most celebrated places in the United States, but like any other community it has its preening airheads, community-minded heroes, political bigots and ripoff artists. What most communities don’t have, however, is an alert critic who has seen...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: How Much Ruin Do We Have Left?

    04/22/2021 7:17:47 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 63 replies
    National Review ^ | 04/22/2021 | Victor Davis Hanson
    <p>As Americans know from their own illustrious history, any nation’s well-being hinges on only a few factors. Its prosperity, freedom and overall stability depend on its constitutional and political stability. A secure currency and financial order are also essential, as is a strong military.</p>
  • Pelosi, Democrats to Pack Next Relief Bill with Leftist Wishlist Items: ‘We Have to Think Big’

    05/07/2020 8:49:42 AM PDT · by rktman · 37 replies
    Breitbart.com ^ | 5/5/2020 | hannah bleau
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is cracking the whip on Democrat House members, encouraging committee chairs to finish outlining their demands for the next coronavirus relief measure — a measure the Speaker has already signaled will feature Democrat Party agenda items like universal vote-by-mail. “We have to think big,” Pelosi reportedly told her Democrat colleagues during a private call on Monday. According to Politico, the Speaker pushed committee chairs to “finalize their portions” by “close of business Monday with hopes of pulling together a final package by week’s end, according to multiple Democratic lawmakers and aides.” A timeline for the...
  • Ozymandias (Obamandias)

    07/26/2015 5:14:35 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 14 replies
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias ^ | 1818 | Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822 I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'...
  • Shapiro: We Live In An Era Where Private Views Can Ruin Your Career

    05/02/2014 7:17:54 AM PDT · by Nachum · 26 replies
    Truth Revolt ^ | 5/1/14 | Paul Bois
    On Thursday, TruthRevolt Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro appeared on The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly to share his personal concerns about the possible slippery slope of the NBA slapping a lifetime ban on Clipper's owner Donald Sterling for racist views he expressed on an illegally obtained recording, rather than any racist actions he had taken. "What we are seeing here is that thoughts matter significantly more than actions," said Shapiro, before highlighting prior lawsuits against Sterling alleging racial discrimination toward minorities. "Now he says the wrong thing and the NBA wants to oust him. So we live in an era, unfortunately,...
  • The structural flaws ruining America

    03/18/2014 7:15:09 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/18/2014 | Jazz Shaw
    When I hear the phrase “structural problems” coming out of the mouths of elected officials, candidates or political pundits, I immediately assume that I’m about to get another lecture on America’s crumbling infrastructure. (And make no mistake, there are more than a few bridges and roadways that need some work. Pennsylvanians don’t say that their state bird is the traffic cone for nothing.) But this weekend, our colleague John Hawkins has knocked together one of his big five lists on a similar sounding topic with, The 5 Structural Problems That Are Destroying America.We’re not talking about interstates in need of...
  • New report says millions of women at risk of falling into poverty, economic ruin

    01/12/2014 7:22:33 AM PST · by Libloather · 39 replies
    NBC News ^ | 1/12/14 | Daniel Arkin
    Although in recent decades women have made historic advances in nearly all areas of American public life, a staggering number of women across the country are still teetering on the verge of poverty and economic disaster, a new report released Sunday shows. The report, co-authored by NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress, takes a wide-angle snapshot of a national economic crisis — seen through the eyes of women. The key findings paint a portrait of an estimated 42 million women — and 28 million dependent children — saddled with financial hardship. "These are not...
  • School Threatens to Ruin Valedictorian’s Naval Academy Appt.

    06/13/2013 9:38:26 AM PDT · by Nachum · 94 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/13/13 | Todd Starnes
    A Texas high school principal threatened to sabotage a valedictorian’s appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy after the student delivered a speech that referenced God and the U.S. Constitution, the boy’s attorney alleges. Hiram Sasser, director of litigation with the Liberty Institute, said Joshua High School principal Mick Cochran threatened to write a letter to the U.S. Naval Academy disparaging the character of Remington Reimer. “It was intimidating having my high school principal threaten my future because I wanted to stand up for the Constitution and
  • Limbaugh Advertiser Tells MegynKelly: Coordinated Effort ToRuin My Company Is ‘Internal

    03/26/2012 1:31:00 PM PDT · by Nachum · 31 replies · 43+ views
    Mediaite ^ | 3/26/12 | Alex Alvarez
    On Monday afternoon, America Live host Megyn Kelly spoke with Mark Stevens, the founder of the global marketing firm MSCO and an advertiser for Rush Limbaugh‘s radio program who says his company has been targeted by people who want to put him out of business for his connection to the outspoken conservative host. Earlier, Limbaugh had addressed the matter on his show, where he said that Stevens believes there is a coordinated attack on his business spearheaded by a group he wouldn’t name, but that Limbaugh was happy to — Media Matters.
  • The Democratic Party and the Language of Bankruptcy

    08/11/2011 5:15:13 AM PDT · by Puzzleman · 9 replies
    National Review Online ^ | August 11, 2011 | Michael Knox Beran
    What does a political regime do when its philosophy doesn’t work and is leading to ruin? It can’t scrap the philosophy, which is its raison d’être and the basis of its power. Were it to chuck the philosophy, its core constituencies would abandon it. So instead it blames those who have most cogently pointed out the defects of the philosophy...
  • House passes Ryan's '12 budget; conservatives want more cuts

    04/15/2011 12:24:33 PM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 11 replies
    the hill ^ | 4-15-11 | Erik Wasson and Pete Kasperowicz
    The House on Friday approved a fiscal year 2012 budget resolution from Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that seeks to drastically limit government spending next year and in years to follow. But the vote on the measure — which imposes $5.8 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade — came after a clear sign that at least half of the Republican Caucus supports even tougher spending cuts. The final tally was 235-193, with four Republicans opposing it. Every Democrat voted "no."
  • President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012 (The Way It Should Be)

    04/04/2011 10:38:42 AM PDT · by Rational Thought · 7 replies
    The NRSC/YouTube ^ | 03/31/2011 | NRSC
    Video @ the link..... http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNRSC
  • THOMAS SOWELL: Democratic Congress led nation to financial ruin

    09/09/2010 7:15:03 PM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    9/09/10
    Link only - OPINION: Democratic Congress led nation to financial ruin
  • Feingold is only Dem. against finance reform bill

    07/11/2010 4:35:30 PM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 18 replies · 1+ views
    ap ^ | 7-11-10 | ap
    <p>MILWAUKEE—When the U.S. Senate votes in the next few days on the controversial financial reforms backed by President Barack Obama, Wisconsin's Sen. Russ Feingold is expected to be the only Democrat voting against it.</p>
  • Ratcheting to Ruin (The U.S. government moves closer to a debt death spiral)

    07/11/2010 9:23:53 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 07/11/2010 | Monty Pelerin
    The U.S. government moves closer to a debt death spiral. Arguably, we are already in the beginning phase of this spiral as this rather scary observation points out: The nation's debt leapt $166 billion in a single day last week, the third-largest increase in U.S. history, and it comes at a time when Congress is balking over higher spending and debt has become a key policy battleground. The one-day increase for June 30 totaled $165,931,038,264.30 - bigger than the entire annual deficit for fiscal year 2007 .... The figure works out to nearly $1,500 for every U.S. household, or...
  • Cap & Ruin

    06/11/2010 8:23:59 PM PDT · by sheikdetailfeather · 3 replies · 212+ views
    Canada Free Press ^ | Friday, June 11, 2010 | Philip V. Brennan
    Sen. Harry Reid has a dandy idea: force his troops in the United States Senate to pass a bill - The American Power Act (APA) – by July that will skyrocket your electric bills, wreck an already staggering economy drive jobs overseas and cause more unemployment in the midst of a depression, all in the name of preventing the planet from getting spit roasted by the phantom threat of global warming.
  • Why Obama’s ‘Health-Care Reform’ Will Ruin Health Care in America

    03/19/2010 3:38:44 PM PDT · by Nachum · 3 replies · 349+ views
    big journalism ^ | 3/19/10 | Rich Trzupek
    Nobody has to read the 2,310 pages of the health care bill to know why it will ruin health care in America. You don’t have to go any further than page 49, which marks the end of Subtitle E, “Governance,” to understand what’s coming. Subtitle E creates the office of the “Health Choices Commissioner,” the person charged with putting into effect all of the wonderful regulatory mechanisms that H.R. 4872 demands. But, in the regulatory sense, the Commissioner is not a person. The Commissioner is rather an institution, one that will have powers and responsibilities unprecedented in American history.
  • SIX SYLLABLES TO A SAVAGE TRUTH

    08/09/2009 5:35:58 PM PDT · by Robert Drobot · 25 replies · 1,615+ views
    PrudentBear.com ^ | July 16, 2009 | Stewart Dougherty
    On December 9, 2008, $65 billion of investor money was at peace. On the fear-greed seesaw that is said to characterize investor emotion, fear was down on the ground, while greed was high in the sky, having all the fun. Greed was earning a steady 1% per month, making fear look like an over-cautious fool. On December 10, 2008, six simple syllables transformed that greed into lead, sending it crashing to earth while launching fear to the moon. The syllables were these: "It's all just one big lie," and they were spoken by Bernard Madoff. It was an admission that...
  • Fiscal Ruin Of The Western World Beckons [Implosion Of The Welfare State]

    07/19/2009 10:44:14 AM PDT · by Steelfish · 17 replies · 824+ views
    Telegraph(UK) ^ | July 19th 2009
    Fiscal ruin of the Western world beckons For a glimpse of what awaits Britain, Europe, and America as budget deficits spiral to war-time levels, look at what is happening to the Irish welfare state. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 18 Jul 2009 Events have already forced Premier Brian Cowen to carry out the harshest assault yet seen on the public services of a modern Western state. He has passed two emergency budgets to stop the deficit soaring to 15pc of GDP. They have not been enough. The expert An Bord Snip report said last week that Dublin must cut deeper, or risk...
  • Dear IRS,

    03/10/2009 12:53:46 PM PDT · by keep your powder dry · 12 replies · 1,440+ views
    Dear IRS, I'm sorry to inform you that I'm not going to be able to pay the taxes owed on April 15th, but all is not lost. I paid these taxes, accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL tax, corporate income tax, dog license tax, federal income tax, unemployment tax, gas tax, hunting license tax, fishing license tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax, luxury tax, Medicare tax, city tax, school and county property tax up to 33% the last four years. Real estate tax, Social Security tax, road use tax, toll road tax, state and city...