LEE RODGERSDEBBIE ABROAD (one word) -- A
WASSERMAN (Schultz) TEST ...
ANOTHER PYRAMID SCHEME WITH NO WINNERS...
A WORD FOR MS. RICH, EX-AMERICAN
ANOTHER PYRAMID SCHEME WITH NO WINNERS...
A WORD FOR MS. RICH, EX-AMERICAN
Two-faced phony leftist hypocrite department ...
"Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for holding money in Swiss bank accounts in the past.
"'Americans need to ask themselves, why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account and secretive investments like that?" the DNC chair, a chief surrogate for President Obama's reelection team, said on Fox News Sunday this past weekend." -- The Weekly Standard --
Also in the news: Just last year, Nancy Pelosi, who's certainly in a position to know about legislation that might benefit China and other Asian countries, made millions on investments in those countries.
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How crazy are the Islamists? This crazy. Now they're pushing for the destruction of the pyramids and the other monuments that are THE attraction for tourists who visit Egypt and who make up a major part of the Egyptian economy.
Think they won't do it? They've already destroyed ancient and historic shrines in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mali. Pure evil, destructive savagery by a pseudo-religion that wants a return to the tenth century.
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"Annie Get Your Gun" -- the (non)-musical. Ann Coulter levels the charge that many of us knew, talked and wrote about all along, but the gutless Republicans have shied away from making ...
"Until someone can tell us otherwise, there is only one explanation for why President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers: It put guns in their hands to strengthen liberals' argument for gun control.
"Precisely because this is such a jaw-dropping accusation -- criminality at the highest level of government to score a political point -- Republicans refuse to make it.
"Liberals have been dying to reinstate the so-called 'assault weapons' ban, but they haven't been able to for political reasons. A typically idiotic Democratic scheme, the 'assault weapons' ban prohibited the sale of semiautomatics that are operationally indistinguishable from deer rifles, but which looked scary to liberal women.
"Obama had barely unpacked at the White House when he ... started railing about how our lax gun control laws were putting guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
"The claim was preposterous for many reasons, including the fact that the type and quantity of armaments being used by Mexican drug cartels can be obtained only from places such as North Korea, China, Russia, Venezuela and Guatemala."
-- Complete article at HumanEvents.com under "Editor's Choice" --
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Democrat politicians are such liars -- and their stupid followers so delusional -- they continue to bellow about outsourcing of jobs by Bain Capital twenty years ago. The FACT is ... that story originated with the left-wing Washington Post and that paper's own fact-checker exposed it as a lie. But the mindless cattle who make up the bulk of the Democratic rank-and-file (a term that, in itself, indicates robotic behavior) continue to lap it up.
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Denise Rich is, well, RICH. And wants to remain so. The woman who gave very generously to Bill Clinton's campaign and presidential library -- and some have hinted that she may have given ol' Bill even more personal favors -- and is alleged to have bought a Clinton pardon for her fugitive criminal husband ... has now aroused great indignation by renouncing her U.S. citizenship to save millions of dollars in taxes.
Among those most offended: Democrats who benefited from her largesse.
At the risk incurring displeasure from both right and left, I would remind one and all of the oft-quoted words of Judge Learned Hand, who spoke of a taxpayer's obligations: "Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."
Ms. Rich, whatever opinion one may hold regarding her renunciation (she also has Austrian citizenship), is only doing what a growing number of wealthy Americans are doing. Faced with a growing tax burden, largely brought about by Democrat politicians buying votes from the proletariat, they are simply voting with their feet.
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Booze, drugs, women, a "mood disorder" (?!); whatever ails Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., of Chicago, long absent from his duties in Congress with only vague and conflicting explanations from staff, family and friends, it has probably derailed any higher ambitions.
One report has it that he's in a well-known celebrity rehabilitation facility for drunks and druggies in Tucson, not far from my home. It's so popular with rich celebrities, a woman who works at the airport told me some are flying in so often, they're practically on a first-name basis with them.
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From Ricochet ...
David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale and author, most recently, of America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats), interviewed by Dennis Prager and responding to the question, "If the academics ran America, what would happen?"
"Look around you. You would have people graduating from high school and from college who know no American history, who have no concept of what this nation is for and what it achieved, who have no concept of what the nation stands for, why it should inspire them, why they should take care of it, why it’s any different from Denmark or Norway or Portugal.
"You’d have students graduating with no grasp of literature, having barely glanced at any of the great and deep artistic and spiritual traditions of the West. You’d have students graduating in this country that emerged from the Bible, this biblical republic, who’ve never opened the Bible in their lives and who’ve been taught that it is toxic. You’d have students emerging from colleges like Yale with ideas that families as traditionally constituted are the problem and that the sooner we can do away with them the better, and that heterosexuality is one random choice on a very long and growing list. Look around you and you can see exactly what would happen. It HAS happened and it’s a tragedy."
-- Thanks, Gordon --
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How surprised would you be if a terrorist attack occurred at the London Olympic Games? I'll be pleasantly surprised if it DOESN'T happen, despite the huge -- and costly -- prevention effort by the Brits.
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Americans seem to be wising up to the lying liars who infest television news. The Gallup poll finds that only 21% of Americans express confidence that they're getting the straight scoop from the Talking Heads of TV. That's down from 27% last year and 46% when Gallup began asking people about it back in 1993.
Take it from one who's worked among them for decades: Even that 21% figure is too high to be justified. It's a rare Big Media newsroom that doesn't function as a liberal propaganda mill.
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As an ABC alumnus (twenty-five years) I look with dismay upon the havoc wreaked among the formerly-successful radio stations owned by that prestigious broadcasting brand. I write of the stations owned and operated by ABC, not the affiliates which have only a contractual connection enabling them to carry the network's programs.
The latest ratings show that, under Cumulus Broadcasting ownership, the ABC stations are dying. In New York, WABC is in 13th place. Ditto WLS in Chicago. WBAP, Dallas-Ft. Worth is 19th.
KGO in San Francisco is mired in 13th place; KSFO is 20th. A dismal performance by two stations that, between the two, were the Bay Area giants for more than fifty years.
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Let's hear it for horniness!
Pauline Potter used to weigh 643 pounds. That was when she won the title of World's Fattest Woman last fall.
Now she's lost hundreds of those pounds ... says she burned beaucoup calories by having sex marathons with her ex-husband.
No word as to how much weight HE lost -- or why he's the EX-husband. However, speculation is encouraged.
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Jay Leno --
"With Obamacare, people will have to have health insurance. The same way every driver in California has car insurance." (Non-Californians: That's the joke. If you get hit by another car on a California highway, the chances are pretty high that the driver will be uninsured -- and maybe an illegal alien, as well.)
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."