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DEMOCRATS USING REVERSE PSYCHOLOGYDEMOCRATS TRYING TO FOOL VOTERS IN FLORIDA'S 25TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT This weekend, Democrats are mailing a flyer (see images below) pretending to attack their fake-tea-party candidate, Roly Arrojo. As reported early this month, public records show Roly Arrojo is a Democrat who is pretending to be a Tea Party candidate. What's their objective? The Democrats' objective is to trick voters into voting for Roly Arrojo and not the Republican candidate David Rivera. Democrats want to divide the conservative votes. This only benefits the leftist Democrat candidate, Joe Garcia. See the Democrats' latest trick with your own...

HERE ARE THE DONATION RECORDS Yesterday, a group of lawyers filed a lawsuit to remove Republican David Rivera from the ballot. This, of course, will only benefit Joe Garcia. The Miami Herald reported that the "complaint, submitted in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, seeks to disqualify Rivera as a federal candidate based on financial disclosure forms Rivera filed while serving as state representative. Lawyers for Miami attorney William Barzee and Garcia supporter Maria Teresa Pascual filed the suit and held a news conference at the downtown Miami civil courthouse Thursday morning. Garcia was not there, though two of his campaign staffers...

...That such public-sector labor unions top the list of 2010 donors should cause no little controversy. When groups like AFSCME empty their coffers to benefit certain politicians—in this case, those who will put union interests ahead of the public’s—they are naturally spending the dues of their members, members who have, in many cases, been forced by this kind of politician to join the union in the first place. Since state, county and municipal employee salaries are funded with taxpayer dollars, it ends up being the general public which unwittingly donates these millions of dollars to partisan political campaigns. The Left...

...We’ve talked in excess Obama’s tax hikes, but here’s a refresher on how small businesses will be affected, thanks to just two policies: Small business and the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts (January 2011) Personal income tax rates will rise for all brackets, making the highest tax rate 39.6 percent and the lowest rate 15 percent. Currently, the lowest rate is 10 percent; the highest is 35 percent.Itemized deductions and exemptions will be phased out, which will have the same effect as higher marginal tax rates.The Death Tax, which has always been especially hard on small businesses,...

At the Vatican’s Synod Hall, over 250 Catholic bishops are meeting for the Special Assembly for the Middle East for the Synod of Bishops. It is intended that out of this meeting will come guidance for bishops on dealing with issues specific to the Middle East, but what we hear most clearly are the voices of Catholic bishops crying out about Muslim aggression, mass emigration of Christians and the attempt by Muslims to bring full domination of the Holy Land and all of the Middle East by Islam. Here are fifteen troubling quotes from Catholic Bishops, including one from Europe,...

...To that end, CFA advocates for spending transparency as a means to combat the explosive size of government. The Center for Fiscal Accountability works with local, state and federal elected officials to increase transparency for taxpayers, and has successfully helped 31 states pass transparency legislation since the federal legislation that created USAspending.gov went into effect in 2007. Federally, Grover and CFA have been some of the most vocal opponents of the President’s Fiscal Commission, pointing out that only when tax hikes are taken off the table can spending cuts be made. History has proven this multiple times over: this was...

CONGRESS (FL-25)Candidates for Florida's 25th Congressional District DAVID RIVERARepublican JOE GARCIADemocrat OBAMACARE NO [1] YES [7] TAXPAYER-FUNDED BAILOUTS NO [2] YES [8] RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS YES [3] NO [9] ABORTION ON DEMAND NO [4] YES [10] TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE YES [5] NO [11] AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS NO [6] YES[12] Sources: Here.

GOVENOR (FL-GOV)2010 Candidates for Florida Governor RICK SCOTTRepublican ALEX SINKDemocrat REPEAL OBAMACARE YES [1] NO [8] PLEDGE TO NOT RAISE TAXES YES [2] NO [9] ABORTION ON DEMAND NO [3] YES [10] PRENATAL INFORMATION BEFORE ABORTION YES [4] NO[11] SAME-SEX ADOPTION NO [5] YES [12] EXPAND SCHOOL CHOICE YES [6] NO [13] RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS YES [7] NO[14] Sources: Here

...When Mitch Daniels said last week that a VAT as a part of tax reform is worth exploring, he obviously didn't see the damage that a VAT did to Europe. The simple fact is that a VAT in the U.S. would lead, over time, to higher aggregate levels of taxation. It's likely that the other taxes will rise as a VAT grows. The burden of proof is on those who say this won't happen, since the facts of history show otherwise. As for a VAT as a total replacement, that's just not going to happen. If there was ever enough...

"Islam is NOT, nor has it ever been a religion, but an all encompassing political system."

I for one, will not spend my money on products that comply with a regressive political ideology that wants to do to me, and what was done to Nick Berg, in the same manner that they slaughter their meat. To get a certification, a company must: Have Halal employees who are involved in the production which “includes the person in charge, those who order the raw materials, and those in charge of packaging.” In other words, the company must hire halal compliant employees . . . .

...The number of people employed by the federal government is slated to hit 2.15 million by the end of this year (excluding the postal service). 1.43 million of these workers are civilians. The Washington Times has characterized it as “the largest federal work force in modern history.” Congressional Republicans have recently proposed a “Net Federal Hiring Freeze” to combat payroll expenditures adding to the national deficit, but legislative action has yet to be taken. While this polling might be explained by dim job prospects and the current wave of anti-Washington fervor, it seems likely that the low opinion of federal...

...Many progressives point to the New Deal as a significant standard for government growth (and, similarly, government "stimulus"). However, government spending averaged 9.4% of GDP during the New Deal Era - just in FY 2010, federal spending has been over two and half times that, amounting to 23.8% of GDP. The failure of both the FDR and Obama Administrations to control spending and spur economic recovery is evident. FY 2009 was the first year federal spending exceeded $3 trillion. FY 2010 is the second. Since FY 2007 (before Democrats took control of the House) federal spending has increased by $724...

Election time is upon us. So cast your vote in the InterviewGuests.com poll for the Top 100 Talk Show guests for 2010. The InterviewGuests.com family of PR agencies and affiliates together book more guests on more talk show outlets than any other agency in the world, to the best of our knowledge. Yet, we cannot complete this monumental project without the help of talk show hosts and producers like you. We want to compile for you the most accurate VIP Dream Interview Guest (DIG) List, so make your opinion count! Simply check the box next to any of the 1000...

I Came across a liberal article today that was steeped in total and utter ignorance "Top ten Reasons why liberals are better than conservatives." HAH! After two years of Obama and the Democrats, you must be blind not to see the fallacy of this statement. Add to this the trashing of our constitutional rights by Democrats for decades. With this in Mind, I decided to refute it with something of my own. Why Liberals are really WORSE than Conservatives. BTW, this guy claims to be centrist. He certainly is not. 10) Liberals prefer to be sensitive to the issues of...

JOE GARCIA'S FRIENDS TELL US WHO THIS DEMOCRAT ISA Man is Known by the Company he Keeps WHO IS JOE GARCIA? Now that Democrat Joe Garcia is running for Florida’s 25th congressional district (FL-25), he has tried to soften his image by cutting his hippie-curls and by pretending to sound conservative while subtly peddling his leftist agenda coated with fake altruism. But those who have listened to him for years know that those "changes" are just artificial. Even if he tries to hide his true personality and radical agenda, voters can always count on his friends to tell us...

The President seems to have some trouble with basic economics. He even admits that he is “no math teacher.” In a speech discussing the what is poised to be one of the largest tax hikes in history, Obama was using some numbers that need some explaining. He was particularly fond of using the number $700 billion, the “cost” he is alleging of preventing these tax hikes. First, it’s ludicrous the President of the United States is calling the aggregate amount of their own hard-earned money taxpayers will get to keep if current tax policy is extended. His implication that this...

Though it has yet to pass a budget on time in the modern era, California was especially late in its annual appropriations this year - waiting 99 days to rangle a budget deal through the state legislature. Per usual, backroom wheelings and dealings secured a massive spending missive, totaling $87.5 billion for Fiscal Year 2011, which started July 1. Although lawmakers has waited 100 days to pass a budget, they were so eager to ram the spending through that they couldn't wait a few extra days to ensure there was time to actually read the bill...

Researchers are scratching their heads over the massive number of college dropouts. “During a five-year period, more than $9 billion was spent by state and federal governments to support students at four-year colleges and universities who left school before their sophomore year,” according to the American Institutes for Research (AIR). “California, Texas and New York led the nation in government spending on students who dropped out before their second year.” “Every fall, first-year college students receive significant funding from colleges, states and the federal government,” said Dr. Mark Schneider, an AIR vice president. “And every spring, hundreds of thousands of...

October 13, 2010 "FLA: Sahar Mohammed To Evangelist Bill Keller: “Jihad Upon You" - “Your Days Are Numbered.”" SNIPPET: "NaplesNews NAPLES — The Collier County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a possible death threat made against a Naples-based online evangelist who has called Islam a “false religion” about “death and hate,” and who is trying to build a “Christian Center” at ground zero in New York City in response to the planned mosque. Bill Keller, 52, who hosts a paid-programming television show on MyTV8, which he described as the O’Reilly Factor from a “Biblical perspective,” said the threat was on his...