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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS KEITH OLBERMANN?July 28, 2010 While engaging in astonishing viciousness, vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful, law-abiding Tea Party activists of being violent racists. Responding to these vile charges, conservative television pundits think it's a great comeback to say: "There is the fringe on both sides." Both sides? Really? How about: "That's a complete lie"? Did that occur to you simpering morons as a possible reply to the slanderous claim that conservatives are fiery racists? The most notorious accusations of "racism" at anti-Obama rallies so far has consisted of the allegation that...

A chef at a Stockholm restaurant rushed out of his kitchen on Thursday afternoon and threw a meat cleaver at a departing thief as his restaurant was robbed for the second time in a week. The robbery took place at 2pm at a restaurant in Hässelby Villastad in west Stockholm. Two masked robbers held staff at knifepoint and forced them to hand over all the cash in the till. "Apparently the chef's meat cleaver struck one of the robbers in the back, but they were able to disappear from the scene. The same restaurant was robbed a week ago and...

It may be the most celebrated missing recording since Watergate: the nonexistent or unaccounted-for video of the tea-party protesters at the Capitol who three black congressmen claim yelled racial slurs at them on March 20, the eve of ObamaCare's enactment.... First, there turns out to have been at least one report of a corroborating witness to the alleged slurs. Washington notes that in its March 23 edition, the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News published this interview with Heath Shuler, the local congressman, a Democrat who voted against ObamaCare: Shuler was walking with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an African-American, toward the Capitol building when...

On Monday evening, April 5, my home phone rang. The caller ID said "Freedom, Inc.," the name of the black political club that ushered my congressman, Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), to power. Wondering whether the call might have something to do with the articles I have been writing about the media smear of the Tea Party protest on March 20, I answered the phone. Once the female caller fixed that I was indeed who I was, she launched into a barely audible spiel for some cause that I could not quite make out. Innocent? Maybe, but the call came in...

Much has been made of the abuse showered on members of Congress at a recent tea-party demonstration on Capitol Hill. Georgia Congressman John Lewis was greeted with racial slurs. Emanuel Cleaver, a black congressman from Missouri, was spat on. Congressman Barney Frank, who is openly gay, was tarred with homophobic epithets. Later, Democrats in various cities had their offices vandalized. And Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida said one of his 5-year-old twins picked up the phone and heard a voice threatening to kill him if he voted for the bill. The startled child, Grayson told me, initially thought the threat...

Jack Cashill: The early Soviets coined the word “agitprop” as a blend between the Russian agitatsiya (agitation) and “propaganda.” Although the Soviet Union may have passed away, its communication techniques are alive and well, nowhere more demonstrably than in the media firestorm ignited on March 20 at the nation’s Capitol.

Regarding the Cleaver spitting claim... I watched the video from flopping aces closely... before walking up the steps, Leave it to Cleaver had espied the man in the black shirt shouting with his hands cupped around his mouth, the wheels instantly churned in his victim class mind to confront the man. As he inched closer he nonchalantly turned his head away from the man and when he knew, from the sound of the man’s shouts, that he was nearest the man, he pulled a slip artist stunt, jerked around facing the man and charging him with the offense. But his...

See the video. There was a Capitol Policewoman standing right there. If the Congressman had been intentionally spit on, the man would have been arrested!We challenged the racebaiting liars who falsely claimed the Tea Partiers were a violent bunch of racists to come up with proof that the protesters outside the U.S. Capitol preceding the Sunday vote on health care were as bad as they have said over and over and over. Funny thing is, that even with all those video cameras rolling, they couldn't come up with one example. Until now. The Huffington Post is in high dudgeon (for...

Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat, is shown walking past protesters on Saturday, where it seems the alleged spitting incident he says occurred. Questions remain, however, whether or not the spitting was a result of intense yelling and spitting happened by accident or if the spitter in question intentionally spit on the lawmaker.

An RVO listener told us today the spitting incident at the DC Health care protest did occur and he was about 10 feet away. Regular caller “Wayne” said he drove to DC on Saturday to take part in the Tea Party protest, and, in particular, to deliver a “pink slip” notice to Congressman Courtney’s(D, CT 2) office. Listen to him describe how he was treated. Wayne said the protest was orderly and well behaved, and he said he saw only two signs that the left could seize upon, but hardly controversial considering what the left did to “W”. One was...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressman who was spat on by a protestor on Capitol Hill says he is declining to press charges, but turns out the Capitol Police say they made no arrests.</p> <p>Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver was making his way through a group of angry protestors when the incident occurred. It was one of several ugly incidents in a day of protests against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul measure, which faces a House vote on Sunday.</p>

I hate vanities, but need to let all those close to the Third Congressional District in Kansas (Kansas City, Olathe, Overland Park, Leawood, etc.) that John Rysavy is a Constitutionalist who supports American Judeo-Christian values. He needs help because he is running against a Republican who is not awful, but who has been in KS politics for many years. John is a "newbie" who believes that, as a nation, we need new blood that understands COMMON SENSE. His website is above. Please check him out, and if you can, please donate generously of your time, your talent or even your...

Sure, the economy sucks. Unemployment is at least 10.2% and, yes, if you include part-time workers who would rather have full-time jobs it may be over 17%. The government is showering our cash on Wall Street and burning through piles of our children and grandchildren’s money “saving” phantom jobs in Congressional Districts that don’t exist. Oh yeah, and Congress is planning for a government take-over of our health care system, legislating higher energy prices and raising taxes. Sheesh, no wonder we’re feeling blue. Well, not to worry, three-term Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) has found a solution: Stop Complaining So Much....

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Here is video from a "Coffee" hosted by Missouri Democrat Congressman Emanuel Cleaver where he repeatedly told those in attendance "There is no health care bill," and refused to discuss the issue. Cleaver is using the technicality that there is no one final bill ready to be voted on as an excuse to dodge the huge issues connected to the Health Care debate. Cleaver knows there is a Democrat Bill that is on the table that is the centerpiece of this debate. You can read it for yourself, all 1,018 pages of it! Cleaver just does not want to talk...

Reminder: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, 5th District, Missouri, will be holding his monthly "coffee." Here are the details: COFFEE with CLEAVER AUGUST 8, 2009 JP Coffee 3390 SW Fascination Dr. Lee's Summit, MO 8-10 AM

A congressman backing Hillary Rodham Clinton says white voters are supporting Barack Obama based on the view that he is articulate and his election would allow the nation ‘‘to get this boogeyman called race behind us.’’ Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who is black, told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that Obama ‘‘is articulate. In the black tradition, he would probably be mediocre.’’ ‘‘For white Americans, it’s like, this guy can speak,’’ Cleaver said in the radio interview. ‘‘If you put him on a level with a lot of other African-American public speakers, he may not even measure up.’’ But Cleaver also conceded...

Black liberationists who pour bile upon America rarely want to leave it, preferring to wallow in the "white" wealth they claim to distrust than risk penury and persecution in their imagined Marxist paradises. Eldridge Cleaver, a prominent figure in the Black Panthers, once tried life abroad in those glorious countries free of racism and oppression -- Cuba, Algeria, among others -- and returned shaken and depressed. He had seen the future and it seemed to him pretty crummy and not a little bit scary. "Pig power in America was infuriating," Cleaver concluded. "But pig power in the communist framework was...

Sorry if this is a vanity or has been noted previously. I searched and didn't find anything. Just heard a report on MSNBC that Psychologist Kathryn Faughey was killed a few days ago by a man weilding a meat cleaver. This story was already posted, but what I just heard was that the police trail was cold because they have no name and are prohibited from reviewing her records. She only had 1000 patients, he had an appointment, but apparantly the police can't even look at her records without a court order which they are still !!! waiting for. Meanwhile...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man slashed to death a 56-year-old psychologist at her Upper East Side office clinic and seriously injured another therapist who tried to help her, police said.< >On her Web site, she described herself as a specialist in cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing thoughts that cause feelings or behaviors.