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A new ad from the Democrat National Committee featuring Republicans Paul Ryan and John Boehner claims “Republicans voted to abolish Medicare”. The ad will air on cable and in Washington, D.C., backed by a “healthy” six-figure ad buy.

Usually the leftist media can be counted upon to unite, seize upon an anti_Palin meme and run with it. That liberal solidarity, however, has all but vaporized in the wake of Levi Johnston's latest round of charges against Sarah Palin and her family, as promoted by Vanity Fair magazine. The first cracks in liberal media wall appeared when only CBS of the big three alphabet television networks bought into the myth Vanity Fair's editor Graydon Carter had hoped to spread to take down Palin, as NewsBusters' Kyle Drennen reported: "Teasing an upcoming segment on Thursday’s CBS Early Show about new...

Classrooms are filling up as kids head back to school, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's two children are among them. In an interview with The Associated Press, Duncan said students should take more responsibility for doing well in school, and he called on their parents to step up, too. Duncan said that is the message of President Barack Obama's address to students on Tuesday. He also thanked teachers for being "unsung heroes."

I do not understand why Charles Johnson would want to push it, given his visceral hatred of such conspiracy nuts, and especially given that it relies upon the testimony of three Truthers, and he is the author of what I shall begin calling the Charles Johnson Axiom: Truthers lie. Few, I'm sure, have missed the irony here, but among them seems to be Charles Johnson himself, so I'll explain why I keep quoting that: He is using the Charles Johnson Axiom "Truthers lie" to establish the veracity of Van Jones, who is himself, in fact, a Truther. How that logic...

You remember the song “Dueling Buses” from the film Deliverance? Oh, that’s right — the phrase dueling buses is the tagline CNN has politely given to the latest White House strategy to combat opposition to ObamaCare. Taking a page directly out of the opponent’s playbook, Obama’s on-again off-again organizing arm Organizing for America is conducting a cross-country bus tour to rival the Tea party Express, which started its journey August 28. Well, they say imitation is the highest form of flattery. -snip- See if you can guess which picture represents true grass-roots support and which is a staged organizing event...

A year ago on Labor Day, the nightmare scenario described in the headline above was still a real possibility. Labor and its allies went on to make sure that something quite different unfolded, but what if it had actually happened the way the headline says it did? What would the economy look like now? To answer that question, look at what has happened this year. A $787 billion economic stimulus package was passed by the majority Democratic Congress and signed by President Obama early this year. There was almost unanimous opposition from the Republicans. Only three GOP senators voted for...

According to an article in the Los Angeles Times on September 4, the United States has announced a major cutoff in aid to Honduras, saying that it had terminated “more than $30 million” which had previously been suspended. The announcement added that: "It may eliminate as much as $200 million more if Honduras does not restore democratic rule and reinstate President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a coup." In addition, the United States also threatened on September 3 to “withhold recognition of the new president who emerges from elections scheduled in November” unless Zelaya is reinstated prior to the...

AS SOCIALISTS, we support the right of oppressed peoples to fight for self-determination unreservedly, just as we oppose imperialism, without caveat. This perspective is generally accepted by the left without question in contexts such as Latin America or Africa, where bitter fights against U.S. and European imperialism have been fought and, in some cases, won. Yet, when it comes to the Middle East and Afghanistan today there is suddenly much less clarity about what radicals and Marxists should be saying. Nowhere is that more evident than in the case of Afghanistan, which has suffered under the yoke of U.S. imperialism...

Do You Agree With President Obama’s Plan To Speak To School Students By Video? Do You Agree With President Obama's Plan To Speak To All Public School Children By Video? Yes No Other:

Here are the news stories, editorials, and videos that conservatives dugg Thursday, September 3, 2009. Please take a moment to digg these articles at Digg.com, then get back over here! What is Digg? And why should I care?

Dick Morris, speaking on FOX's "On the Record" on Sept. 3, said that Van Jones, President Barack Obama's "green jobs" adviser, must resign after he reportedly signed a petition calling for an investigation into whether 9/11 was an inside job. Morris was not dissuaded by Jones' subsequent denial that he believed there was an actual conspiracy. "An investigation as to whether it was an inside job or not? You have got to be kidding," Morris said. "And this guy is in the administration and they're not calling for him to quit? What does Obama use for vetters?" Jones also got...

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Here are the news stories, editorials, and videos that conservatives dugg Wednesday, September 2, 2009. Please take a moment to digg these articles at Digg.com, then get back over here! What is Digg? And why should I care?

Yeehaw!!! Amazing rally outside Mt. Vernon! September 4, 2009 We keep saying it, and you might doubt how it could continue to be true, but we just had one of the greatest stops of the “Tea Party Express.” The setup for this incredible event was quite strange. We had been approached several weeks ago by people outside of the tiny community of Mt. Vernon, Texas about whether we would consider doing a quick “whistle stop” rally. The catch: it would be at a rest area, located at mile marker 143 on I-30. We agreed to do the stop, figuring we’d...

With their wedding day quickly approaching, Vanessa Caldwell and Cole Parker are still hammering out key details: cupcakes or a tiered fantasy in frosting? But they know how they’ll pay for the big day. Or — more precisely — who will pay for it. Their guests. The 75 invited are being asked to pony up cash to cover everything from the champagne toast to the candy favors to the silk fabric for the wedding dress. So much for the rules of yesteryear. Used to be, guests gave fine china and silverware toward the couple’s new life together. Asking for cash...

I think it's an indication that China has realized that the New York investment houses are basically organized crime syndicates and [they're] selling paper instruments of no value that really only enrich the N.Y. investment houses themselves, so if anyone ripped them off, we would not be too unhappy about it. - Chris Powell, Secretary Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, Inc.

Hard-edged propaganda now suffuses America's history textbooks. A thorough cover-to-cover reading of almost any high school history text leaves you with the impression that the United States is at best embarrassing, and at worst a menace to world peace. I think I was in fifth grade when I began to suspect that textbooks weren't entirely on the level. The first tip-off came from the word problems in math class. They typically began with scenarios that, even to a 10-year-old, seemed a little unlikely: "Julio's mom is a welder. His father is a pediatric nurse. If his mom welds for 9...

NEW YORK – Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed disappointment Friday at news outlets that used a picture taken and distributed by The Associated Press depicting a U.S. Marine mortally wounded in combat in Afghanistan. The AP distributed the picture despite personal pleas from Gates and the dead Marine's family in a case that illustrated the difficult decisions in reporting on a conflict where Americans have seen relatively few images of fallen U.S. troops over eight years. The picture, by AP photographer Julie Jacobson, showed Lance Cpl. Joshua "Bernie" Bernard, 21, lying on the ground with severe leg injuries after being...

Book sales ... blog visits ... tea parties ... town halls ... a national poll ... There is increasing evidence of a shift in the political winds: the nation is swinging right after President Obama's victory last November. A recent Gallup poll found that people who identify themselves as conservatives now outnumber liberals in every state. And that tilt is reflected in book sales, with three political books by conservative authors listed in the Top 10 New York Times nonfiction bestsellers: "Culture of Corruption" by Michelle Malkin, "Liberty and Tyranny" by Mark R. Levin, and "Catastrophe" by Dick Morris and...

There’s a shell game in government that makes it nearly impossible for you and I to stop the runaway spending. Worse, it’s designed to get you to focus on a seemingly insoluble problem far away, while the real solution lies just down the street, practically in your own backyard. Let me use the concrete example of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, to show how this masterful diversion plays out. I’m sure it works much the same where you live. [Disclosure: I'm currently running for Lehigh County executive, which is why I'm learning about this.] How they avoid tar and feathers Three-quarters of...