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POPSObama’s Threatened Veto of Indefinite Detention Bill Is NOT to Protect Liberty
By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees. he November 17 letter to the Senate from the Executive Office of the President says that the Obama regime does not want the authority it has under the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Public Law 107-40, to be codified. Codification is risky, the regime says. In other words, the regime is saying that under AUMF the executive branch has total discretion as to who it detains and how it treats detainees. Moreover, as the executive branch has total discretion, no one can find out what the executive branch is doing, who detainees are, or what is being done to them. Those who see hope in Obama’s threatened veto have jumped to conclusions if they think the veto is based on constitutional scruples. more How Does Liberty Die? http://bit.ly/txrqVR http://www.washingtonsblog.com
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POPSTaxpayers May Be on Hook for $150 Million Loss on Another ‘Green’ Company Venture capital firms earlier indicated a willingness to invest if Aptera received the federal advanced vehicle technology loan. But in the interim, the difficulties of launching EVs became apparent, he said. One thing that is certain is that the Energy Department’s venture socialism program clearly did not put company balance sheets at the top of the priority list when deciding where to send taxpayer dollars, instead relying on social engineering goals to guide their spending. Read more at http://netrightdaily.com
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POPSObama Doesn't Want Us to Know About "The Magical Shrinking Labor Force" -- falls even further. Admitting part of what your opponent says is true is very helpful towards establishing your own credibility and honesty. And then that makes the ensuing attack all the more potent. Why don't politicians do this more often? Possibly it's because some of them are dumbasses, but I think it's largely because they are underestimating the public's ability to process information. They really want everything in terms of general themes and slogans, because they figure there are some people out there who really can't process something as complicated as "the unemployed fraction is not as important as the employed fraction, which is itself falling." posted by Ace http://bit.ly/rH9oaa http://ace.mu.nu When the U.S. economy grows as slowly as this one has for the past year, history suggests there’s a 70 percent chance of recession happening in the upcoming year. But maybe we will be in the 30 percent group. By James Pethokoukis http://bit.ly/tmR
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POPSCongress Raids Obama’s Health Care Fund! ... to pay for benefits and programs in the health care overhaul in future years to fund more-immediate spending needs. read full report: http://bit.ly/vZ6qWr http://p.washingtontimes.com via http://conservativebyte.com
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POPSPakistan Blocks NATO Supply Route After Lethal Air Strike; 0bama Hits The Links Pakistan swiftly sealed its border with Afghanistan to NATO supplies – holding up convoys at the Torkham and Chaman crossings – the main overland US supply line into landlocked Afghanistan from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi. “We have stopped NATO supplies after receiving orders from the federal government,” said Mutahir Hussain, a senior local administration official in the tribal district of Khyber. The governor of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Masood Kausar, said NATO helicopter fire killed 26 soldiers and wounded 14 others. “We salute our martyrs,” he told reporters in Islamabad. Pakistani officials at the southwestern crossing in Chaman said NATO convoys were also being prevented from crossing. General John Allen, the US commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said: “This incident has my highest personal attention and my commitment to thoroughly investigate it to determine the facts.”
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POPS‘Climategate Two’ Emails Spark Outrage Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), long the most vocal global warming skeptic in Washington, blasted the scientists involved and the Obama EPA for continuing to get in the way of job growth in the name of discredited climate science. “Remember, the Obama EPA is basing these regulations on its endangerment finding, which relies on the flawed science of the IPCC. Now a recent report by the EPA Inspector General has revealed that EPA cut corners in the process leading up to the endangerment finding: it shows that EPA did not engage in the required record-keeping procedures or conduct an independent review of the science underpinning these costly regulations. If the first Climategate scandal – and the over one hundred errors in the IPCC science that were revealed in its wake – were not enough, the apparent release of the Climategate 2.0 emails is just one more reason to halt the Obama EPA’s job killing global warming agenda.
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POPSOccupy Movement’s Price Tag Over $20 Million This is the latest total of Occupation costs using Verum Serum’s totals plus more recent figures: http://www.verumserum.com/?p=32348 * Occupy Providence – $9, 000 * Occupy Raleigh – $60, 000 * Occupy Sacramento – $300,000 * Occupy San Diego – $2,400,000 * Occupy San Francisco – $100,000 * Occupy St. Louis – $2,200 * Occupy Seattle – $625,999 – Total: Over $21,273,499 Much Higher Than the $13 Million That Was Previously Reported Posted by Jim Hoft http://bit.ly/s3ol00 http://www.thegatewaypundit.com ALSO: The European Media Describes the Occupy Movement as “Anti-Capitalist,” Why Doesn’t the US Media? http://www.verumserum.com/?p=34274
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POPSCaddell & Schoen: Hand It to Hillary, Barack You've told Obama that he's a failure. This piece slaps Obama upside the head. This piece is Obama's Selma. This piece tells Obama he's a huge failure, that he's gotta get out of there because he's an embarrassment. He's gotta get out of there because he's not only destroyed the country, he's destroyed the Democrat Party. The world is crying for a leader now, not just America, the world is crying for a leader, a leader that the United States will listen to. We're talking to a narcissist here. You've got to flatter them if you want to move 'em. You can't sit there like this piece does and basically say, "Look, you blew it. You're a failure; you're destroying the country; you're destroying the party, for the good of everybody else you --" he's not interested in the good of everybody else. He's not interested in the good of the country or good of the party. He's interested in what's good for him. more http://bit.ly/uigYrp http://www.rushlimbaugh.com
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POPSThrill Is Gone » Matthews Turns On Obama "What's Obama's plan for a second term? Is he planning to continue doing the same thing? Is this as good as it gets?" In an explosive interview on MSNBC, Chris Matthews has harsh criticism for President Obama and his team of advisers. http://bit.ly/tyLihb http://www.youtube.com (1:36) ALSO: CNN: Voters Are Sick Of ‘Crony Capitalism’ CNN highlighted Breitbart Editor Peter Schweizer's new book "Throw Them All Out" and explained that the every day voter is sick of watching politicians go up to Washington to become millionaires on the tax payer dime. http://bit.ly/tHGN1M http://www.breitbart.tv (2:49)
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POPSReport: 80% of DOE Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Backers It also noted that officials “did not always record the results of analysis” of these applications. A loan program for electric cars, for example, “lacks performance measures.” No notes were kept during the review process, so it is difficult to determine how loan decisions were made. The GAO further declared that the Department of Energy “had treated applicants inconsistently in the application review process, favoring some applicants and disadvantaging others.” The Department of Energy’s inspector general, Gregory Friedman, … has testified that contracts have been steered to “friends and family.” …These programs might be the greatest—and most expensive—example of crony capitalism in American history. Tens of billions of dollars went to firms controlled or owned by fundraisers, bundlers, and political allies, many of whom—surprise!—are now raising money for Obama again. read full report: Report: 80% of DOE Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Backers
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POPSMedia Ignoring Veterans Call For Impeachment ... the veterans put it quite succinctly— We CALL upon every member of federal, state and local government, legislative, judicial, law enforcement and military, who have taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitutional Republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic, to act upon those oaths for the stated purpose of restoring the Constitutional Republic. We CALL upon ALL veterans and veteran organizations in America, who still believe in their oath to protect and defend, to unite with us at once - in this Declaration to Restore the Constitutional Republic. We CALL for ALL citizens who still desire freedom and liberty, to stand with us in peaceful protest, and carry our demands to right the wrongs against our nation in the preservation of freedom, liberty, justice and the rule of law. Decorated officers, service members and law enforcement concerned about the direction of our country will be the keynote speakers at this event, even if they have ...
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POPSA Night In Zuccotti Park They speak of theft, about government infiltrators and tales of Rikers Island castoffs being dropped off to roam and ravage the site. From underneath my blanket, I hear allegations of financial corruption and intimidation over sexual orientation. “I’m in a tent that keeps getting flooded, ransacked and robbed,” fumes a transgender group leader — a female who identifies as a male. He said that the transgender group would create its own police force for transgender protesters and females, since an immense distrust loomed over the OWS-created authority. … The threat of rape is very real here — for women and men. Sitting in the McDonald’s just moments after Bezabeh was hauled off in cuffs, Lauren DiGioia, 26, tells me about how she became one of the growing number of victims on her very first night in the park. … DiGioia, who is from Clifton, NJ, was shocked to see her alleged attacker’s image in The Post about a week later — and she identified him ...
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POPS Just Like The Tea Party... (Bumped) Sunday, November 6th ... Found this on another site. I wonder if this missing girl has been reported to the police or is this another one of those situations that will be handled “internally” by the organizers? She has been missing for a week and this is the first I have heard of it. The contact info appears to list the parent contact. As of just a few hours ago, the mom was posting on the Occupy Los Angeles Face Book page asking for information: “Consuelo Reyes Springer Hello My daughter is missing I would like to know where I can contact in Occupy thank you UPDATE: I just checked the Center For Missing and Exploited Children and did not see the girl listed. I pray they her find unharmed. http://bit.ly/sE8aUB http://themorningspew.com Obama Compares #OWS With The Tea Party http://bit.ly/tUvTaV YT video (0:23) ALSO: Chart: Real Reasons for Attending the Occupy Protests by Doug Ross http://bit.ly/uGUokS http://directorblue.blogspot.com
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POPSIn Debate, Cain Attacks Media Dishonesty, Gingrich Attacks Obama ... videos Herman Cain and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spent much of the evening agreeing with each other while discussing entitlement reform. Gingrich had a stronger command of the issues at hand in the debate, while Cain passed off a fairly technical question on personal health care accounts as an alternative to Medicare, telling Gingrich after a pause "Uh, you go first." After Gingrich responded, Cain confused the issue with personal retirement accounts for Social Security. http://read.bi/s3Jo5k http://www.businessinsider.com
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POPSMark Steyn: Due Diligence Never Done on Obama ... and toss it down the toilet just in complying with federal paperwork. Obama and the great toxic alphabet soup of federal regulation – EPA, OSHA, SEC, DHSS – want to take that 10 percent and crank it up to 12, 14, 15 percent. Three years on, nothing has changed. Obama is proposing to raise taxes because of some cockamamie yarn Warren Buffett has been peddling about his allegedly overtaxed secretary. Yet the court eunuchs of the media persist in taking Buffett seriously as a archetypal exemplar of the "American business community" rather than as an especially well-connected crony. Sometimes, Obama cronyism is merely fiscally wasteful, as in the still underreported Solyndra "green jobs" scandal. One sympathizes with reporters assigned to the story: It's hard to get all the public monies and Solyndra-exec White House visit logs lined up in digestible form for the casual reader. But sometimes Obama cronyism is murderous: Eric Holder, a man unfit to be attorney general ...
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POPSMF Global Ties “awkward” for Obama Campaign according to WaPo ... Occupy Wall Street movement to help build momentum for his reelection.” But it gets better… “Obama held his first New York fundraiser for the reelection campaign at Corzine’s home on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, overlooking Central Park. Guests gave the maximum $35,800 donation to Obama and the DNC.” And best of all is…. “MF Global recently made a bond sale with an unusual clause, saying the interest rate on the bonds would rise 1 percent if Corzine ended up being appointed to a post in the Obama administration. There has been speculation that he could be in line for Treasury secretary if the president is reelected.” This report is the basis for a Republican campaign ad that practically writes itself. And now we know the real meaning of the “1 percenters.” MF Global ties “awkward” for Obama campaign according to WaPo by Myra Adams http://bit.ly/uO2Fny http://pjmedia.com/tatler ALSO: (Reuters) - Corzine retains leading white-collar defense lawyer
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POPSOfficial List of Occupy Wall Street’s Supporters, Sponsors and Sympathizers Socialist Party USA Sources: Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller US Border Guard Sources: White Reference, www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day blog Industrial Workers of the World Sources: IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances CAIR Sources: in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York Nancy Pelosi Sources: Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard Communist Party of China Sources: People’s Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The Telegraph Hezbollah Sources: almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia 9/11Truth.org Sources: 911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3) International Bolshevik Tendency Sources: bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine Anonymous Sources: Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement
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POPSLet's Be Clear--The Only Thing 'Botched' in 'Project Gunwalker' Was The Cover-Up .. by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), doing so made them "giddy": http://www.scribd.com/doc/57921671/Joint-Issa-Grassley-Report An increase of crimes and deaths in Mexico caused an increase in the recovery of weapons at crime scenes. When these weapons traced back through the Suspect Gun Database to weapons that were walked under Fast and Furious, supervisors in Phoenix were giddy at the success of their operation. And lest Issa's and Grassley's use of the term "giddy" be painted as a partisan attack on the Obama administration, keep in mind that we first saw that word in connection with "Project Gunwalker" when BATFE agent (and courageous whistleblower) John Dodson used it: "There were several instances. Whenever he would get a trace report back . . . he was jovial, if not, not giddy, but just delighted about that, hey, 20 of our guns were recovered with 350 pounds of dope in Mexico last night. And it was exciting.
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POPSVignettes from the Federal Corruptocracy The sucker, in case you hadn't figured it out, is you, the taxpayer. http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com Then, there is the black robed union of corruptocrats: Case claims judge threatened defendant American jurisprudence: Fair, reasonable, following the rule of law and delivering the best chance for justice anywhere, right? Well, how about a Texas district court case in which there are allegations a judge threatened a participant, ordered that his assets be seized, told him he was not allowed to hire defense counsel and then pronounced he had the full power of the Navy, Army and Marines to enforce his will? http://www.wnd.com
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POPSObama Has Even Lost The Occupy Wall St. Crowd! Those are brutal numbers. And suggest that essentially what we are seeing with the Occupy Wall St. movement is 2008's unprecedented youth support for Obama grown bitterly cynical. That Obama can win back that support with any gesture seems unlikely, but he's certainly going to have to do a great deal more than throw obscure 99% references into phone calls by his advisers. by Glynnis MacNicol http://read.bi/vuoVKk http://www.businessinsider.com
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POPSHey, This Obama Is Kind Of a SCOAMF™... Isn't He? .. Then there was health-care reform: "Eighty percent of the country wanted them to get costs under control, not to extend the coverage. They used all their political capital to extend the coverage. I always had the feeling the country looked at that bill and said, 'Well, he may be doing it because he wants to be a transformational president, but I want to get my costs down!'" As John McClane might say, "Welcome to the party, pal!" A large number of the "millionaires and billionaires" who occupy Wall Street's corner offices contributed to Obama's campaign and voted for him. Leaving aside the fact that they should have been smart enough to see this coming, is it really surprising they've grown weary of being demonized ... especially by someone as ineffective as Obama? It'd be different if it was a wink-wink, nod-nod kind of deal where some light bitching about "the rich" was just part of the act, but all they see now is a ruined economy ...
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POPSAnother Poll, Another Blow ... Investors Business Daily Poll Among independents, it was 54%-36%. Back in September, the readings were 50%-44% and 53%-38%, respectively. Americans are frustrated over the continued sluggish economy, says Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which conducted the poll. As Vice President Joe Biden recently admitted, after nearly three years in power, the Obama administration owns the economy. Half of Americans give Obama poor or unacceptable marks in creating jobs and economic growth vs. 24% who say he's doing well. Among independents, it's 51%-18%. 33% of swing voters give him an "F" vs. just 2% who give an "A". That underscores Obama's intensity problem. In addition to his deteriorating support among independents, just 77% of Democrats say Obama deserves re-election while 88% of Republicans say he doesn't. The Occupy Wall Street movement, while directed at fat cat bankers, also reflects broad dissatisfaction among . .
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POPSMove Over Solyndra: Here’s $1.2 Billion SunPower Instead, it received a lifeline twice the size of the money sent down the Solyndra drain.... Most of the attention on SunPower centers on Democratic Congressman George Miller, who has been a big proponent of SunPower because it has a major manufacturing facility in Miller's district and his son happens to work for the company as a lobbyist-- supported the very loans that pay his sons $178K/year salary! Using OpenSecrets,org, I searched the 2008, 2010, and 2012 cycles, and then under 'occupation' type I wrote in 'sunpower', and was happy to see 156 entries for people who work at SunPower and who gave money in these campaign cycles. I sorted all of the 156 entries into six columns to help me to better understand the data. >> http://bit.ly/nmkYH5 << The data is pretty clear- donating money to Democrats, in particular to Barack Obama, assures your company will receive massive loans regardless if your company is profitable or a good investment.
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POPS...... Enthusiasm Gap ...? THE CAMERA EYE: OBAMA PITTSBURGH, PA 2008 VS. 2011 Wed Oct 12 2011 08:23:29 ET Enthusiasm Gap? http://www.drudgereport.com/flashoo.htm
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POPS In Support of the #OWS Protests . . and to the election of Richard Nixon. . . I think the conservatives should get behind this movement. We should make sure these people are able to stay in downtown Boston and New York City and Atlanta and wherever. We should send aid convoys from Red States to the #OWS protests to show that we, too, have been victimized by Barack Obama’s donor base. And we should make sure they get free bus tickets to the Democrat Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Posted by streiff http://bit.ly/pZUtLM http://www.redstate.com
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POPSThe Media Notices that Obama is sort of Full of Crap Q. And secondly, on your jobs bill, the American people are sick of games — and you mentioned games in your comments. They want results. Wouldn’t it be more productive to work with Republicans on a plan that you know could pass Congress as opposed to going around the country talking about your bill and singling out — calling out Republicans by name? Q. My question has to do with your powers of persuasion. During the debt ceiling debate, you asked for the American public to call members of Congress and switchboards got jammed. You have done a similar thing while going around the country doing this. Talking to members of Congress, there’s not the same reaction; you’re not seeing — hearing about phones being jammed. Talking to one member of Congress, he told me there’s a disillusionment he’s concerned about with the public that maybe they just don’t believe anything can get done anyway. Are you worried about your own powers of persuasion,
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POPSObama Brags on His Thuggish Contraception Policy Now the thing about babies is, they cost money up front, but then they also generate jobs as a result. What does President Obama say he wants to create? Jobs. This is one of those classic “sin makes you stupid” situations, isn’t it.
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POPS Think Those Occupy Wall Street Types Are Just Harmless Kooks? It’s impossible to believe there is no interplay between the far-left people in this administration and these demonstrators. And if that happens it’s the worst of all possible worlds – because it amounts to a potential coup d’etat by the Left. There might well be elements within the power structure of the Soros-funded swamps who are aiming to create a crisis mentality among the public and scare them into keeping Obama in office. He’s anything but conciliatory in his tone and he gets more combative the worse his poll numbers look. He won’t move to the center as things get worse and now we have rioters in New York City and other places. Obama-affiliated union bosses are talking about making Jamie Dimon uncomfortable, shortly after Dimon – a former Obama donor – joined Mitt Romney’s team. It has the feel of ruthless, raw political bullying. Chicago-style muscle. Hugo Chavez electioneering.
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POPSDeja Vu: White House Responds to Unanimous 0-97 Senate Vote Against Obama Budget Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said Democrats "don’t even want to use (the Obama budget) as a starting point. Why? We got the answer earlier this week from Senator Schumer, when he indicated that Democrats now believe avoiding this debate altogether helps them in the next election." by Jake Tapper http://abcn.ws/oDTwc0 http://abcnews.go.com
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POPS"Occupy Wall Street" ... 0bama's Radical Political Machine Occupy Together Meetups in 323 cities http://bit.ly/nSd9P2 SEE: #OccupyWallStreet Union March From Foley Square on Wall Street http://occupywallst.org ALSO: Alinsky Rules Return For Obama Politics: The hippie horde attempting to mob and "occupy" Wall Street this week has a method to its madness. It's all about getting President Obama re-elected by employing classic Alinskyite tactics. But the "Occupy Wall Street" mob that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge last weekend and drew 700 arrests bears all the earmarks of a professional political machine effort to keep Obama in the White House. more INVESTORS.COM http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587010/201110041858/Alinsky-Rules-Return-For-Obama.htm
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POPSSenate Dems Block Vote on Obama’s Jobs Bill The GOP-led maneuver, and Reid’s counterattack, shows that Republicans are more united against Obama’s plan than Democrats are for it. The Nevada Democrat announced his new strategy on the same day he blocked a Republican effort to force a vote on Obama’s jobs bill. by Publius http://bit.ly/qk0Mvk http://biggovernment.com
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