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It’s Racist To Kill A Black Zombie

August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment

“Resident Evil 5″ is the latest in a series of video games, and an upcoming movie, about diseased undead zombies roaming the planet and eating people. This media franchise debuted in 1996, but now that this franchise has earned untold millions of dollars, the Moochers and Crybabies are starting to claim that the game is [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Media · The Left · The US

The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons

August 13th, 2010 · Comments Off

Via the UK Telegraph: 1. The Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people 2. Most Americans don’t have confidence in the president’s leadership 3. Obama fails to inspire 4. The United States is drowning in debt 5. Obama’s Big Government message is falling flat 6. Obama’s support for socialised health care is [...]

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Tags: Government · Media · The Left · The US

The Obama Presidency: Extravagant and Out Of Touch

August 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Via UK Telegraph: The First Lady’s ill-conceived trip to Marbella and the complete disregard for public opinion and concerns over excessive government spending is symbolic of a far wider problem with the Obama presidency – the overarching disdain for the principles of limited government, individual liberty and free enterprise that have built the United States [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Media · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US

More on McDonald

July 1st, 2010 · Comments Off

Says Glenn “InstaPundit” Reynolds at Pajamas Media: Nonetheless, the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment decisions have made a major difference. In particular, they have offset the gun-control community’s longstanding effort to “denormalize” firearms ownership — to portray it as something threatening, deviant, and vaguely perverse, and hence demanding strict regulation, if not outright prohibition. That effort [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Freedom/Independence · Government · Guns · Media · The US

The NRA and the DISCLOSE Act

June 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Says the NRA: The National Rifle Association believes that any restrictions on the political speech of Americans are unconstitutional. In the past, through the courts and in Congress, the NRA has opposed any effort to restrict the rights of its four million members to speak and have their voices heard on behalf of gun owners [...]

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Tags: Censorship · Crime/Law · Election · Freedom/Independence · Government · Guns · Media · The Left · The Right · The US

Mayor Bloomberg Said What?

May 13th, 2010 · Comments Off

Found at the Oneida Dispatch via SayUncle: Let me get this straight. A terrorist bought a car off of Craigslist, fireworks in Pennsylvania, and inflammable fertilizer, parked his dud-car-bomb in Times Square, got onto an international flight, and was only caught at the last minute as the plane was taxing to the runway. Mayor Bloomberg’s [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Government · Gun Free Zone · Guns · Media · New York · Terrorism · The Left

Media Bias at ABC, NBC, and CBS

May 8th, 2010 · Comments Off

While polls found 70% of Arizonans favored the crackdown on illegal aliens, ABC and CBS and NBC ran 37 stories (74%) that were negative, 10 were neutral, and only three were positive toward the Arizona law’s passage. From Newsbusters: When political scientists compare populism and elitism, they could certainly find a test case in the [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Immigration · Law Enforcement · Media · The Left · The US

Your Hope And Change

April 12th, 2010 · Comments Off

Says Real Clear Politics: Obama‘s Approval Rating: 46.1 Approve 47.3 Disapprove Says Rasmussen: Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal. When the government refuses to follow the will of [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Insurance · Media · The Left · The US

Obama Has Got To Go

February 17th, 2010 · Comments Off

Or so says CNN: 52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll. 44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else. [...]

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Tags: Election · Government · Media · The Left · The US

Captain America Is A Liberal Weenie?

February 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Says Warner Todd Huston at Publius Forum: Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. In issue number 602 of Captain America, a new story line has begun called “Two Americas.” In it the current Captain (there have been a few of [...]

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Tags: Government · Media · Taxes · The Left · The US

US Better If Elected McCain?

January 14th, 2010 · Comments Off

Via Breitbart: A new sheaf of opinion polls show Americans sharply divided on President Barack Obama‘s first year in office, as his ratings on key issues like health care and the economy hit new lows. In a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, US voters were split 45-45 on whether Obama’s first year was a [...]

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Tags: Government · Media · The Left · The US

Is There Anyone Out There That Still Believes In Wikipedia?

December 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post: All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like [...]

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Tags: Censorship · Global Warming · Internet · Media · Technology · The Left · World

Fake News Scoops Real News

December 6th, 2009 · Comments Off

Via FOX News: ABC didn’t cover it. CBS didn’t either. And NBC apparently wouldn’t go near it. The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up — and now they’ve even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central. “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” produced its [...]

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Tags: Censorship · Global Warming · Government · Internet · Media · The Left · The US

Global Warming Not So Hot?

December 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Nothing here I haven’t been saying for years. From the UK Daily Express: The scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”. Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going. [...]

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Tags: Australia · Crime/Law · Global Warming · Government · Media · Politics · Science · Taxes · The Left · The US · World

Associated Press Remains Liberal

November 18th, 2009 · Comments Off

From FOX News: Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently “Going Rogue” is no normal book. When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages. Reviewing [...]

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Tags: Media · Politics · The Left · The Right · The US