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I can see liberals' blood boiling over this one, after all he was a U.S. Senator and Illinois State Senator before becoming president....and? 

Time is ticking. If they are going to announce this, it will be now.

Very quickly, for the handful of readers who share my quirky interest in monetary data. By the way, any commentator on this thread who wilfully conflates Monetarism and Keynesian demand theory one more time is disqualified and sentenced to Dante’s 8th Circle of Hell (Bolgia IX) for sowers of discord and schism. Seminator di scisma, fuor vivi. The most useful M1 monetary gauge for the eurozone – real six-month M1 growth – has continued to churn higher. The July data suggest that EMU money contraction bottomed out in April and May. The core is now rising fast, and Ireland is...

Filmmaker Michael Moore took to Huffington Post Live on Thursday to offer a few words of advice: Start practicing the words “President Romney.” It’s all about the money, he said — and Mitt Romney is going to raise more than President Barack Obama. “Mitt Romney is going to raise more money than Barack Obama. That should guarantee his victory,” Moore said, later adding, “I think people should start to practice the words ‘President Romney.’” Don’t be fooled by the Republicans, he warned: To assume that the other side are just a bunch of ignoramuses who are supported by people who...

Thinking about getting a campaign going at the gas pumps. It wouldn't take much to print this on Avery Labels and sticking them on gas pumps.I also have this in MS Word format if anyone wants it.

40 Clint Eastwood Quotes Illustrating the Obama Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tE0M9R1YXH0

University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman has said her college needs to be a global leader when dealing with energy sustainability. Yet, Coleman's own university provided residence has the most expensive energy costs among state universities, both in total costs and cost per square feet, with a gas-electric-steam bill reaching nearly $30,000 in one year. When receiving a grant for "sustainablity fellows" from Dow Chemical last year to help people "live cleaner, greener and sustainably," Coleman said: "[This partnership] is broad and comprehensive as sustainablity itself, and frankly, I believe it is the only way to solve problems as...

In celebrity-shy Colorado, a president's son definitely qualifies. While the first President George Bush was in the White House, George Walker's little brother Neil lived in Denver, where he got embroiled in an S&L scandal known as Silverado. But Neil's fame -- and infamy -- here is nothing compared to what he has now achieved in China. When Neil Bush was put on the board of Silverado, a savings and loan, in the '80s, his primary credential was his political family. Today, Neil Bush is co-chair of a Beijing-based real estate company, CIIC, and has a Sina Weibo account with...

It has not been done before. The general wisdom is that you don't attack people who buy ink by the barrel. This "general wisdom" no longer obtains, for it is no longer "general" nor "wise." The media is a biased as it's going to be, and things will only get worse through November. Despite the rise of the New Media, the MSM is still having a massive influence on coloring coverage of this election. And they have to be stopped now - they have to become the story. Consider... According to Breitbart: Among voters watching the Republican National Convention itself,...

A Freeper who has been a regular contributor here and a good friend of mine has come down with a serious illness. It can be made better but I ask for your prayers for our brother conservative Doug. Thank you

Both Dick Morris and James Carville have released polling data that points to a Mitt Romney victory in November. Although they have gone their separate ways, in the 1990s they were both important members of Bill Clinton’s successful political machine. While Carville’s Democracy Corps has found Barack Obama leading Romney by a slim 49/47 – two point improvement for Romney over their last poll-, the sample universe over surveys Democrats by 6 points with a D-R-I breakdown of 38/32/28. There are very positive items here: the 38/32 Republican/Democrat Party identification split sharply contrasts with the 34.9/34 Republican to Democrat split...

As I listened to Condoleezza Rice deliver a most powerful foreign policy speech last night at the GOP convention – “Where does America stand?” she challenged – my thoughts turned to Rimsha Masih, an11-year-old Pakistani girl persecuted for her Christian faith.. She was snatched from her home in Islamabad two weeks ago, beaten and thrown in prison. Her alleged crime: Blasphemy. The accusation was made against Rimsha by a Muslim neighbor. He claimed he saw the young Christian girl burning pages of a Noorani Qaida, a textbook for beginners learning the Koran. Under Pakistan’s penal code, young Rimsha can be...

SYDNEY — The world's richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, urged those "jealous" of the wealthy to "spend less time drinking" in a piece the government described as "insulting" on Thursday. Rinehart, whose family iron ore prospecting fortune of Aus$29.2 billion (US$30.1 billion) also makes her Australia's wealthiest person, hit out at those who she said were envious of the rich. "There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire," she wrote in an industry magazine column. "If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself -- spend...

Gay acceptance on TV at all time high, GLAAD report finds A new GLAAD report shows LGBT presence on America's TV channels are continuing to grow with an acceptance of gay people and famlies at an all time high. America's gay media advocacy group Gays and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation released its sixth annual Network Responsibility Index (NRI) report today (30 August), which maps the quantity, quality and diversity of images of LGBT people on television. Mapping the quantity, quality and diversity of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on television, the primetime programming of the five broadcast...

 

During his speech last night Paul Ryan said something that many have heralded as the most powerful quote from his speech: College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. So powerful that Crossroads Generations has already made an ad about it:

Do not buy into the narrative:“Well, President Obama inherited the largest set of problems of any president in history, perhaps except FDR and maybe Abraham Lincoln…” (Wasserman-Schultz) “…Obama reiterated that he had inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression…” (Robert Reich) The excuse of inheriting a bad situation is simply another false narrative being foisted upon the public by those who ought to know better (and undoubtedly do). Barack Obama sought the job of the Presidency with his eyes wide open. It doesn’t matter what he inherited. He knew he was going to inherit it. He wanted it. He...

by John HillStand With Arizona In a despicable ruling today, a federal court has blocked a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November - in clear violation of a U.S. Supreme Court precedent upholding the practice. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. ruled that the law, overwhelmingly supported by Texas voters and legislators, imposes "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor" and that "a disproportionately high percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics in Texas live in poverty". This ruling is an outrage on several fronts....

The people interviewed here in 2008 said that they agreed with McCain’s positions on the issues, but that they would be voting for Obama anyway. If that’s not because of racism, then I’d love to hear some other explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfA2b9YSag&feature=player_embedded