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AFP Responds to NLRB Threat to Sue States for Protecting Workers' Private Ballot
AFP responses to President Obama's multiple attacks on our 1.6 million Free Market Activists. Proud Socialists march at the so-called "One Nation" rally led by labor Unions as an attempt to counter Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally. "The NLRB's aggressive action to undermine state protection of workers' right to a private ballot shows how determined the board is to accomplish card check by backdoor means against the wishes of the American People and Congress. The NLRB is led by Obama's recess-...

A Letter to Sheriff Dupnik (WARNING Right Wing Hatespeach)
It took many drafts and revisions to ensure my mind was properly represented and anything that could be distorted as a threat was removed, but i finally mailed a letter bearing my glorious signature to Sheriff KKKlerance Dupnikkk. It follows. I wrote this letter the moment I heard you spouting your heartless Leftist claptrap. You have no shame. A demented young Leftist who reads The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf kills six innocent people (including a nine-year-old girl, a Federal Judge, an...

Take Action: Tell Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare!
AFP responses to President Obama's multiple attacks on our 1.6 million Free Market Activists. Proud Socialists march at the so-called "One Nation" rally led by labor Unions as an attempt to counter Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally. As many of you remember, the Health Care takeover bill was rammed through Congress in face of massive public opposition last year. The new Health Care law is projected to cost $2.5 Trillion during the first ten years the plan is fully implemented and puts a substan...

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders Urges Obama Not to Concede to Republican Right-Wing Ideology
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders Urges Obama Not to “Concede to Republican Right-Wing Ideology”… Because when you think of a Democrat teetering on the verge of right-wing ideology you think of Barack Obama. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, is pressing President Obama to keep his campaign promise not to cut Social Security benefits in a possible deal with Republicans. Sanders has joined a lobbying campaign by more than 200 labor Unions and liberal groups pressing ...

Obama: Time to tackle nation's challenges again
President Barack Obama speaks at a memorial service for the Victims of Saturday's shootings at McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Citing "great challenges for us to solve," President Barack Obama is pledging to work with Democrats and Republicans in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting that killed six, grievously wounded a member of Congress and brought legislative debate to a virtual standstill. In his weekly radio and Internet address...

Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton Attend Richard Holbrooke Memorial Service
After Tucson Shootings, a New Start for Congress? Unlikely Are Record Retail Sales Good for U.S. Consumers? The GOP's health-care Repeal: Tactless timing?...

Civility returns
The president received praised from all corners for his call on Wednesday to be more civil in political discourse. Some people refuse to listen. From Alex Beam of the Boston Globe, today: “Threats from the un-silent armies who take their marching orders from Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Fox News make for good bulletin board material at fund-raising time. There is, however, another current of thought within Public Broadcasting, being kept strictly on the down low: Public broadcasters — ...

There's a New Sheriff in Politics
The Thread is an in-depth look at how major news and controversies are being debated across the online spectrum. Tags: blogs, Internet, Media, tuscon shooting In his Speech in Tucson Wednesday night, President Obama called on Americans to expand their “moral imaginations” and “remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.” Well, never hurts to aim high. For now, at least, the president seems to have put an end to the...

Political Tone Had No Role in Arizona Shootings
Ernest Istook was a GOP representative from Oklahoma for 14 years, now a fellow at the Heritage Foundation "He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn't listen to political radio. He didn't take sides. He wasn't on the left. He wasn't on the right." That's how Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner's best friend described him on ABC's Good Morning America. But such facts rarely get in the way when pundits and politicians want to push their ideological agenda. CBS News reporte...

Reuters poll 71% of Americans AGAINST raising debt ceiling
Reuters poll - 71% of Americans AGAINST raising Debt ceiling Let this be a heads up for the new GOP controlled House. Ooops, did I incite something by saying that? Despite Turbo Tax Cheat Timothy Geithner’s “warning” that not raising the Debt ceiling in March would lead to “catastrophic economic consequences”, the American People aren’t buying it. A poll conducted by Reuters (hardly a Right Wing operation) shows that 71% of those polled are against rai...

Update On MMA Fighters Challenge To Meet Obama In Octagon
Criticize or challenge Obama and you can lose your job. Jacob Volkmann, after being interviewed by a Leftist TV reporter, who inserted his political views, imagine that, has been placed on administrative leave with pay from his job as a High School wrestling coach in Minnesota for making comments about Obama. He made derogatory comments about Obama’s lack of intelligence and challenged him to a fight in the octagon. Volkman, says he is now under investigation by White Bear Lake High School...

Trying to erase tear down this wall.
It is my first instinct to treat this report of Ronald Reagan Jr’s… commentary… by simply letting it pass by without a response.  For those not wishing to click through, the boy (use of term deliberate) is indulging elderly liberal fetishists everywhere by making the claim that his father was suffering from Alzheimer’s as far back as the 1984 debates*, as well as ‘details’ regarding a supposed operation in 1989 that had even the US News & World Report d...

Paranoid Narratives
David Frum zeroes in on the sort of Rhetoric that's worth worrying about: The problem is not Military metaphors. It's not Glenn Beck joking about poisoning Nancy Pelosi's wine or Paul Krugman hanging Joe Lieberman in effigy at a party. The problem is, rather, the construction of paranoid narratives that might justify violence to a violent-minded person. When scruffy Protesters drew swastikas on photographs of President George W. Bush, that was obnoxious. It was not likely to incite...

What Americans Need to Do Now, After the Shooting and Tragedy In Arizona
This week President Obama helped the nation mourn in Tucson. Today let's celebrate American Democracy and the freedoms we enjoy and not let a nut with a gun in any way interfere with a full-throated, passionate dialogue that is as American as apple pie. For in order for Democracy to thrive it's imperative that we resist the impulse to tell opinionated people who are exercising Political Speech that its their fault for inciting deranged people from acting out their darkest fantasies. On the contr...

Top Ten Enemies the Pro-Abortion Left Fears
Now that Conservatives are gaining some power in Washington, the battle over Abortion is being reignited.  Pro-lifers could do very little to stop the pro-choice forces while so-called liberals controlled nearly every level of government.  But times have changed.  And that means those who fight for The Unborn are even more dangerous to the pro-abortion Left.  Here are a list of their top ten enemies. It is important to note that this list is meant to be for today and not all ...

Revolving Axis of Evil
In their search for villains, media elites, not to mention political ones, frequently overlook genuine malefactors. After the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the United States, President Bush was “persuaded that Islam was a peaceful and vibrant faith,” Brian Kennedy of the Claremont Institute pointed out. President Obama only went further to affirm Mr. Bush saying, that hearing Muslims praying at Mecca is one of the most “beautiful sounds in the world,” Kennedy noted in a talk on Fr

Obama urges Americans to work together after rampage
Legislative work in Washington came to a halt this week while lawmakers and citizens from both parties mourned the Victims of a gunman who went on a rampage in Arizona on January 8, killing six people and wounding 14, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Obama gave a well-received Speech at a memorial service for the Victims on Wednesday in Arizona and he revived the theme of national unity in his weekly radio and Internet address. The president lauded lawmakers who came together to pay...

Michelle Obama's open letter to parents about Tucson
First Lady Michelle Obama has penned an Open Letter to parents about how to talk to Children about the shootings in Tucson last weekend. The full letter: "Dear parents, "Like so many Americans all across the country, Barack and I were shocked and heartbroken by the horrific act of violence committed in Arizona this past weekend. Yesterday, we had the chance to attend a memorial service and meet with some of the families of those who lost their lives, and both of us were deeply mov...

Briere, Giroux score in 3rd in Flyers' win
** CORRECTS DATE **Philadelphia Flyers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky (35) blocks a shot as Atlanta Thrashers Right Wing Niclas Bergfors (18) looks for a rebound in the first period of an NHL hockey game Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 in Atlanta. Danny Briere and Claude Giroux scored third-period goals, Sergei Bobrovsky made 27 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Atlanta Thrashers 5-2 on Friday night. Philadelphia has won five of six to open a four-point lead over second-place Tampa Bay in the Eastern C...

Poll: Certainty about equality unchanged since 2006
Sen. Bennet: Education's a civil right Atlanta — Having a black president hasn't exactly led Americans to think their country has moved closer to the ideal of racial equality preached by Martin Luther King Jr., according to a new poll. The AP-GfK poll found 77 percent of people interviewed say there has been significant progress toward King's dream, about the same percentage as felt that way in 2006, before Barack Obama was elected. Just more than one in five, 22 percent, say they feel the...

U.S. Plans to Sue 4 States Over Union Organizing Laws
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: January 14, 2011 NYT The National Labor Relations Board announced on Friday that it planned to sue four states — Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah — in an effort to overturn recently approved state Constitutional Amendments that prohibit Private Sector workers from choosing a union through a process known as card check. The labor board asserts that the amendments conflict with federal labor laws and are pre-empted by the Supremacy Clause of the ...

States May Face Lawsuits over Secret Ballot Union Laws
Four states voted in 2010 to require votes for Unions to be done by secret ballots. Today the National Labor Relations Board informed the state Attorney Generals that if they do not move to block the requirement from being implemented, the states will face Lawsuits.  From the NLRB’s statement: Under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, private-sector employees have two ways to choose a union: They may vote in a secret-ballot election conducted by the NLRB, or they may persuade an em...

CWA: Feeling the heat as people pushback against public-sector unions
WThe Communications Workers of America blasted an email yesterday decrying the sensible approach of some Republican Governors in curtailing the power, and yes, greed, of public-sector Unions. Big Labor is feeling the heat. CWA, the labor movement and its allies are preparing for battle as states across the country declare a renewed war on unions, with special attacks on the rights, wages and pensions of Public Employees. Republican lawmakers in at least 10 states have or plan to introduce anti-...

Cuomo Seeks Arms In Budget Battle
As The Daily Politics reported earlier, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking financial help from supporters as he braces for an expected pushback from public-sector Unions and education groups. “Many groups will oppose our agenda,” Cuomo wrote in a letter sent to supporters, which was also obtained by Gannett’s Albany Bureau today. “Some groups will support part of our agenda and oppose others. We can only be successful if the Friends of Andrew Cuomo committee can push this ag...

Horoscope fans want to keep their signs
Sofia Whitcombe began her day with the startling realization that she might not be exactly who she thought she was. "My whole life, I thought I was a Capricorn," the 25-year-old publicist said. "Now I'm a Sagittarius? I don't feel like a Sagittarius!" It felt, she said, like a rug had been pulled from under her feet. "Will my personality change?" she mused. "Capricorns are diligent and regimented, and super-hard-working like me. Sagittarians are more laid back. This is all a little off-putting."...