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George Orwell
The money pit: Diebold vs. America by Denis Wright
Georgia was the first state in the nation to go 100 percent with electronic voting, thanks to Secretary of State Cathy Cox. This was a mantle she carried, and continues to carry, proudly. In fact, she's using it to bolster her run for governor in 2006, and indeed she is currently the Democratic front-runner.
But when you look at the facts Cathy Cox should be ashamed. She has failed the voters of Georgia. She has ensured that our elections are subject to fraud; she has knowingly allowed software that violates certification standards to be used in elections. She has wasted huge amounts of taxpayer funds on an election system that is proven to be ineffective at best, a downright scam at worst. And she has hidden or lied about these problems, not only to the voters of Georgia, but also to the state legislature.
Rupert Murdoch has agreed to host a political fundraiser for Hillary Clinton this summer, the FINANCIAL TIMES is reporting!
Murdoch's surprise decision to raise money for Clinton in July, on behalf of NEWS CORP., parent company of FOXNEWS and the NEW YORK POST, underlines a dramatic turn of relations between Murdoch and Clinton, who in 1998 coined the phrase “vast rightwing conspiracy” to denounce critics of her husband.
What is it about peace and prosperity and a two term Democratic Presidency that Democrats don't like?
According to one of the leading liberal bloggers, Markos Moulitsas (or as he is known in the blogosphere - Kos), it is nothing that terribly significant. The head of the netroots high command suggests in Sunday's Washington Post,
Just Say No ... to Bilingual Ballots by Newt Gingrich
Legislation to reauthorize the historic Voting Rights Act contains a bad idea for America and for all our voting rights. It would continue to force certain counties to provide ballots and election materials in foreign languages.
Supporters say that requiring bilingual ballots strengthens our democracy by allowing everyone to participate. But the reality is the opposite. By sending the message that learning English isn't important, bilingual ballots help consign immigrants to the margins of our democracy.
Hillary Clinton: Too Much of a Clinton Democrat? by Markos Moulitsas
Hillary Clinton has a few problems if she wants to secure the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She is a leader who fails to lead. She does not appear "electable." But most of all, Hillary has a Bill Clinton problem. (And no, it's not about that. )
Moving into 2008, Republicans will be fighting to shake off the legacy of the Bush years: the jobless recovery, the foreign misadventures, the nightmarish fiscal mismanagement, the Katrina mess, unimaginable corruption and an imperial presidency with little regard for the Constitution or the rule of law. Every Democratic contender will be offering change, but activists will be demanding the sort of change that can come only from outside the Beltway.
The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America by Tib
America is being destroyed by enemies within and with the help of a corrupted Congress and dumbed down (through public education and the corporate media), apathetic, indifferent and lazy public. The window for action to reverse the fascist trend of the last 50 years is fast closing and only an awake and vigilant citizenry can begin to comprehend and take action against the coming totalitarian devastation we have allowed to manifest in our country.
September 11, with the perpetrators in the shadow government and clandestine operations, signaled the final stages from the NWO (New World Order) cabal that they are now in a flight forward end game. The elders in this ‘open conspiracy’ for global totalitarian control of the planet, its peoples and resources, David Rockefeller, George H.W. Bush, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Prince Philip, the Rothschild’s, and the rest are pushing for some major advancement in their diabolical agenda before their mortal demise.
Ken Mehlman is the unflappable efficiency expert who chairs the Republican National Committee. Because he's not known for histrionics, his warning last week to GOP congressional staffers about this November's elections caused many on Capitol Hill to bolt upright.
Mr. Mehlman traveled to Capitol Hill to warn the staffers that they risked a disaster at the polls if they didn't pass meaningful legislation the conservative base cares about. Other GOP strategists go even further. "If the election were held today, I'd say the odds are 90% that we'd lose the House," says GOP consultant Mike Murphy.
Bill Clinton Hauls in Foreign Cash by Amanda B. Carpenter
Since leaving the White House, former President Bill Clinton has earned more than $16 million in honoraria from foreign interests, raking in money that could later be used to help finance the expected presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.).
Included among the former President’s honoraria was a $300,000 payment for appearing at an Australian conference that was condemned by a prominent Chinese dissident as a propaganda bonanza for the People’s Republic of China.
Why Spending Has Got to Give by David R. Henderson
Federal spending rose from about 18.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the Clinton administration to 20.3 percent by the end of George W. Bush's first term -- during the watch, that is, of a Republican president and a Republican Congress. Of course, much of this increase is in defense spending and homeland security. But President Bush has not chosen guns at the expense of butter: He has opted for both. He did not veto even a single spending bill. And real (that is, inflation-adjusted) domestic discretionary spending, not counting homeland security, rose by an annual average of 4.8 percent over his first four years in office.1 Someone who favors relatively small government could get awfully depressed looking at these numbers.
Fiscal Conservatives Have Upper Hand in Fight Over 'Emergency' Spending Bill by
Despite this, a determined group of senators led by Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran (R.-Miss.) added approximately $15 billion in unrelated and routine pork spending to the president’s request for $94.5 billion in emergency funding for the war on terrorism and hurricane recovery. The president seized on this as an ideal opportunity to exert some much-needed leadership on spending.
On April 25 top budget officials sent the spendthrift senators a blunt warning: "If the President is ultimately presented a bill that provides more than [$94.5] billion, he will veto the bill." Veto threats don’t come any stronger.
'Draft Hillary' push will launch in Nashville by BONNA de la CRUZ
A movement to draft Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president aims to prove Democrats can win in Southern states, and that's why they're launching their national campaign in Nashville later this month.
The group, called Hillarynow.com, thinks she can appeal to the country-music and NASCAR-loving crowd associated with Southern towns such as Nashville, said Bob Kunst, the Miami Beach-based organizer.
RNC Chairman Warns of Possible GOP Catastrophe by Robert Novak
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman met with Republican members of Congress this week to impress upon them just how bad the opinion polls are looking for them, and warning that they face a possible catastrophe in November.
This warning contributed to GOP determination to pass a tax reconciliation bill that will extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts beyond their current expiration dates at the end of the decade.
Burns says counting aliens hurts state by NOELLE STRAUB
Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., introduced legislation Tuesday that would exclude illegal immigrants from state population counts when divvying up the 435 congressional seats, which could give Montana a second representative in the U.S. House.
The bill, called the Fair and Accurate Representation Act of 2006, would require the secretary of commerce, who oversees the Census Bureau, to adjust the total population figures so that illegal aliens are not counted when deciding how many representatives each state will get.
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Breaking Free From the Left/Right Paradigm by Le Patriote
Free-thinking individuals step outside the left/right paradigm and are not blindly loyal to any political party. They consider each candidate based on their record of honesty and integrity and their support for American values such as the constitution of the United States and rights and freedoms of the individual, a record that can only be established by actions that support words. Furthermore, they are aware of, and they vote for candidates that are aware of and oppose, the globalist New World Order agenda. If we are to survive as a nation, we must consider America as a sovereign nation worth fighting for and not as a spoke in the wheel of globalism. We must also turn away from collectivist thinking and return to the moral values upon which our nation was founded. If we do not, we will not survive as a nation much longer. It’s as simple as that.
Demography can seem like destiny in politics, but geography still counts for plenty. As voters of both parties well remember from the 2000 presidential election, the location of a party's votes can sometimes be more important than their number: Democrats lost the White House despite receiving over 500,000 votes more than the Republicans. Similarly, the total number of votes cast for the Senate's 55-member Republican majority is some 3.6 million lower than the number cast for its Democratic minority. Clearly, for Democrats to change the balance of power in Washington, they must figure out how to be popular in the right places, not just how to lead in national opinion polls, as they do now.
Two-tiered Internet: Panel paves way for fees by Jay Fitzgerald
Republican-controlled House committee yesterday rejected a measure by U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Malden) that would have barred telecommunication companies from socking Web sites with extra fees based on bandwidth usage.
Markey’s so-called “Internet neutrality” amendment was defeated on a 34-22 vote by members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
With defeat of the amendment, Markey warned yesterday that America is moving closer to a two-tiered Internet system in which telecom firms such as AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and other firms can start giving special price deals to some users - while hitting others with higher fees.
Politicians Should Quit Grandstanding; Focus on Long-Term Energy Solutions
As public anger over soaring gas prices continues to build, members of Congress have noticed that their re-elect numbers continue to go down. And so they are scrambling to find someone or something to blame. Big oil companies are the favorite scapegoat, but the President, China, automakers, the Iraq War, and speculators are also popular targets.
A generic third-party presidential candidate emphasizing border security would tie a Democratic candidate and defeat a Republican, according to a new poll.
The Rasmussen Reports national survey asked respondents how they would vote if "a third party candidate ran in 2008 and promised to build a barrier along the Mexican border and make enforcement of immigration law his top priority."
Ask me why I am not surprised. “President Bush on Wednesday named Tony Snow, a conservative pundit who has nonetheless been critical of the administration, as his press secretary—the latest move in Bush’s effort to remake his troubled White House,” reports MSNBC. “Snow, a Fox News commentator and speech-writer in the White House under Bush’s father, has written and spoken frequently about the current president—not always in a complimentary way. While Snow is an experienced Washington hand, he is an outsider when it comes to Bush’s tight core of advisers.”
