It’s Time To Repeal The PATRIOT Act
June 19th, 2013It’s back. The PATRIOT Act — that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans. Since 2006, Team Bush, and then Team Obama, have allowed the little-known, hugely powerful National Security Agency to run a daily
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Today In Not Being ‘The Stupid Party’: Bobby Jindal Has Some Awful Advice For The GOP
June 18th, 2013Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is calling on his fellow Republicans to stop “navel-gazing,” and commit to going on offense against Democrats, in an op-ed published in Politico Tuesday. “At present it looks as if the entire Republican Party needs to go to counseling,” Jindal writes of the GOP’s post-election self-examination. “It’s really getting embarrassing, all
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Poll: Florida Governor Scott Hits All-Time High Approval, Still Trails By Double Digits
June 18th, 2013According to a new Quinnipiac poll, Florida governor Rick Scott’s approval rating has hit its highest level ever — but he still trails likely challenger Charlie Crist by double digits in his 2014 re-election campaign. The poll finds that 43 percent of Florida voters approve of Scott’s performance as governor, while 44 percent disapprove. Although
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WATCH: Joe Biden Resumes Gun Reform Push In White House Speech
June 18th, 2013Two months after Congress blocked the expansion of gun sale background checks — on what President Barack Obama denounced as “a shameful day for Washington” — Vice President Joe Biden insisted that “we have not given up” on passing new laws to reduce gun violence in America. Speaking from the White House, Biden reported that
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House Republicans Hold A Hearing To Defend NSA Surveillance
June 18th, 2013The name of Tuesday’s hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence sounded more like the subtitle to a Stanley Kubrick film: “How Disclosed NSA Programs Protect Americans, and Why Disclosure Aids Our Adversaries.” Chairman Mike Rogers’ (R-MI) clear goal was to give the members of the intelligence committee a chance to trumpet the value
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