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College “confession” forums replace open dialogue in a world of speech codes
on September 29, 2013
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Political correctness is driving campus problems underground without solving anything....
Two arrests as robberies continue to hit San Francisco Bay Area news crews
on September 29, 2013
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Two 19-year old men have been charged with robbery, weapons and conspiracy offenses after a San Francisco television reporter was robbed of his equipment Friday. A security guard accompanying the reporter fired shots upon the men during the confrontation. From Reuters: Two teenagers have been arrested after...
Remember when David Gregory grilled Obama this intensively?
on September 29, 2013
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Ted Cruz swats away David Gregory's presumptions and accusations on Meet the Press...
Saudi cleric claims driving can damage women’s ovaries
on September 29, 2013
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Amidst a campaign to fight Saudi Arabia's de facto rule that bans women from driving, a Saudi cleric said that women who drive risk negative physiological impacts that could damage their ovaries. From Reuters: A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their...
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Did SNL really mock Obamacare?
on September 29, 2013
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So, a lot of folks are talking about last night's season premiere of Saturday Night Live and its skit on Obama's sell of Obamacare. Many are commenting that it mocks Obamacare. I'm not sure I really saw it entirely the same way. Check it out for yourself: To...
Tea Party California Caucus’ Tech-Based Gameplan for CA GOP Convention
on September 29, 2013
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No matter how much the elite media and establishment politicos want to kill-off Tea Party, it seems that we citizen activists refuse to roll over and die. If anything, we are pushing back smarter as well as harder. Case-in-point: Some excellent news about the Tea Party forcing...
Conservative media has come a long way, baby, but has a longer way to go
on September 29, 2013
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From The NY Times, the media world has changed:
Ask conservatives what went wrong for them the last time the government shut down, and many of them will bring up the cover of The Daily News of New York from Nov. 16, 1995. Under the block-lettered headline “Cry Baby,” it showed a cartoon of Newt Gingrich, then speaker of the Republican-led House, in tears, clutching a bottle and wearing nothing but a cloth diaper. Back then, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel was a year from its debut, Andrew Breitbart was a lowly assistant at E! Online, and The Drudge Report was an obscure gossip and news digest sent by e-mail — to the lucky few who had e-mail. But today, a fervent group of conservatives — bloggers, pundits, activists and even members of Congress — is harnessing the power of the Internet, determined to tell the story of the current budget showdown on its terms.
That’s debatable
on September 29, 2013
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I rise to stand in defense of my former home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations as the most corrupt state. From John: With apologies for the bad photography, I'm sending along the pic below that I recently snapped in Chicago. Close inspection will reveal that the...
House funding vote – LIVE (Update: House votes to avert government shutdown and delay Obamacare a year)
on September 28, 2013
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The House of Representatives is voting late tonight on amendments to the Senate Continuing Resolution.
Among the amendments being voted on are a one year delay in Obamacare, elimination of the medical device tax, and possibly a "clean" resolution to fund the military.
[voting concluded]
https://twitter.com/SpeakerBoehner/status/384171886436823040
https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/384174495675584512
House passes repeal of Medical Device Tax 248-174
[caption id="attachment_66310" align="alignnone" width="513"] (House Vote Amendment No. 1 Repealing Medical Device Tax)[/caption]
House passes Delay of Obamacare until January 1, 2015, 231-192
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(House Vote Amendment No. 2 Delaying Obamacare for One Year)[/caption]
(House Vote Amendment No. 1 Repealing Medical Device Tax)[/caption]
House passes Delay of Obamacare until January 1, 2015, 231-192
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(House Vote Amendment No. 2 Delaying Obamacare for One Year)[/caption]
Annoying Sitemeter Pop-up (Update)(Problem solved?)
on September 28, 2013
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Sitemeter is the free traffic meter I've been using since day one of the blog to keep track of visits and page views. It's public, and linked at the bottom of the page in the footer. The reason I like Sitemeter is it's free. And it's...
Dear Hamilton College Bd. of Trustees, maybe your Diversity Industry is making race relations worse
on September 28, 2013
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Saturday Night Card Game...
Cyberbullying gets complicated as schools, police combat fake social media profiles
on September 28, 2013
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Cyberbullying is getting more complicated for schools and law enforcement these days, as authorities are dealing with students creating fake online profiles to harass and threaten fellow classmates. And in one recent case in Tennessee, the student doing the cyberbullying also sent messages to herself...
Harry Reid’s government shutdown hostage countdown showdown
on September 28, 2013
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Harry Reid almost never allows up or down votes on Republican agenda legislation coming out of the House. He has taken the Senate hostage. A good example is the House Continuing Resolution which Reid would not allow to come up for a vote until Obamacare defunding...
“Adorable Care Act” Displays Vapidity of Liberals
on September 28, 2013
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It's come to this: the White House Twitter account is attempting to drum up support for Obamacare through the "Adorable Care Act," a meme template featuring cute animals. While the Obama administration and OFA both deny being behind the associated accounts, the White House takes...
CBS News buries poll result showing Tea Party support rising
on September 28, 2013
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I told you just a couple of days ago that the Gallup headline of a decline in Tea Party popularity was misleading.
The misleading headline, ignoring the details of the poll, was picked up far and wide, Congrats @Gallup for inspiring these 5 misleading anti-Tea Party headlines.
The Washington Post yesterday, however, revealed that the Tea Party popularity was rising, Obamacare fight reenergizes tea party movement (emphasis added):
The question about Tea Party support shows that Tea Party support rose rapidly this month, is higher than it has been for over a year, and is in the same range it has been in since early 2010, with the exception of the surge in support around the 2010 election:
The tea party movement rose to prominence in the early years of Obama’s presidency, helping drive a surge of conservative activism that helped flip control of the House to Republicans in 2010. At the time, according to CBS-New York Times polling, nearly a third of Americans considered themselves tea party supporters. The movement’s popularity, though faded, shows signs of growing again: A quarter of Americans in a new CBS-New York Times survey between Sept. 19 and 23 said they support the tea party, up four points from two weeks earlier."Oddly" enough, it was really hard to find the poll to which WaPo was referring. The rise in Tea Party popularity in the CBS-New York Times survey didn't get the attention of the misleading Gallup headline. I could not find any stories about that finding prior to the WaPo article. The rise in Tea Party support didn't get headlines at The Times, or at CBS News which ran this misleading headline about the Gallup poll instead, but nowhere in the article mentioned its own contrary findings:
The question about Tea Party support shows that Tea Party support rose rapidly this month, is higher than it has been for over a year, and is in the same range it has been in since early 2010, with the exception of the surge in support around the 2010 election:
Man charged in ‘sextortion’ case was high school classmate of Miss Teen USA
on September 28, 2013
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The 19 year old charged in the sextortion attempt of Miss Teen USA turns out to be one of her former high school classmates, which was a surprise even to her. From Reuters: Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf said on Friday it was "weird" to learn that...
