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This week the Institute of Medicine held a workshop on "Envisioning a Transformed Clinical Trials Enterprise in the United States: Establishing an Agenda for 2020." During the 2-day meeting a variety of underlying themes were presented, none more transformative than that presented by Robert Califf, Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, Duke University and Editor-in-Chief of the American Heart Journal. Dr. Califf posed that a central flaw in the United States clinical trials enterprise (CTE) is that we have allowed the health care delivery system to evolve distinct from the CTE. Today, the two largely function independent of each other. I would suggest that this is the result of yet another split, between academic and community medicine. Although the benefits of NCI programs such as the Cooperative Groups and CCOPs, combined with the unique history of oncology and its dependence on pharmacologic-based research have mitigated the negative impact upon oncology compared with other fields of medicine, we have not escaped from this untouched. The untoward consequences of this dichotomy include:
A potential path towards convergence of the CTE and health care delivery systems may be the Meaningful Use (MU) program. The federal government has made it quite clear what it considers the primary goals of the nation's health care delivery system should be: the five overarching goals delineated by the IOM and adopted by ONC for MU. Conspicuously, supporting the CTE is not one of those goals. The message is clear; the CTE must cast itself as part of the MU objectives or else continue to remain apart, with all of the negative consequences outlined above. Research by itself is not a goal. The value of research in the real world is as a mechanism to achieving improved health and economic outcomes.
Reform of the United States health care delivery system is upon us and presents an unprecedented opportunity to recast the CTE as a vital and sustainable part of a new health care delivery system. To do otherwise is to condemn our future to our past.
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Council met on Tuesday, Jan. 14 in the Classrooms @ GreenStar for our first meeting of the year, with 12 of our 15 members, a number of Co-op staff, and three visitors in attendance. We heard that GreenStar had contributed one of four buses that took community members to Albany for the governor's State of the State address on Wednesday, Jan. 8, to express their desire to continue a moratorium on hydrofracking in New York. This and other community donations made it possible for almost 70 high school students from New Roots and LACS to attend the rally. We received much appreciation from the rally participants and the schools.
Brandon Kane, our General Manager (GM), presented the first item of business, his monthly report. Brandon informed us that total gross sales for last year were above $18 million for both stores combined. We also learned that the renovated community space and central kitchen projects are on schedule with the hopes to have them fully functional by the end of March. Brandon reported that member feedback about the switch to a "U-Pick 10% Off" day from the "10% on the 10th" sales day has been overwhelmingly positive. He also reported that staff will start utilizing an Open Book Management process this year, which will give more ownership to staff over the performance of their departments. Brandon also informed us that the Living Wage adjustment for this year brought the Co-op's lowest-level pay rate to $11.80 an hour.
The next item on our agenda set the date for our Annual Spring Membership Meeting, which will be held Friday, April 25 in the Space @ GreenStar, with the introduction of Council candidates and other presentations. We then approved holding a Member Forum/Open Mic meeting, as an opportunity for members to express their concerns, ideas, and suggestions, for Thursday, April 10, also at the Space. We then approved the Council content for the Spring Member Mailing.
We next approved a proposal that in part said: "Consistent with its previous position in opposition to hydrofracking in New York State, the Council supports the efforts of the Towns of Dryden and Middlefield (and others) to use the power of home rule to prohibit hydrofracking within their municipalities, and therefore agrees that GreenStar Cooperative Market, Inc., may be listed as a "friend of the court" (amicus curiae) in support of the defendant towns."
Our next agenda item, an executive session item regarding an individual, was tabled until the end of the meeting so that we wouldn't have to ask our visitors to leave until the end. We then approved amended minutes of our December meeting and approved minutes of a December executive session without amendments.
Our Governance Committee brought an application from a member to be seated as a Member-at-Large on our Personnel Committee, which we approved. Welcome to Marie Benner-Rhoades, and thank you for your service to our co-op.
The next agenda item, receiving results of our Council Self-Assessment Survey, was tabled until next month as the survey had not yet been completed by everyone.
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A tube coupling including a front and rear collet which are driven into biting engagement with a tube wall, the front collet being adapted to scrape the tube material to cold flow the same into abutments against which a flat portion of such collet sealingly bears, and the rear collet being adapted to cut chips or curls from the tube material to form the seal between such rear collet and the tube. An axially forwardly extending projection on the rear collet is provided with at least one cutting edge which penetrates the tube material in a true radial direction responsive to arcuate flexing of such projection caused by engagement along a portion of the front collet, such flexing and bite occurring with relatively reduced friction between the collets due to the configuration and flexure of the projection.
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nited States Patent 1191 Crawford TUBE COUPLING [76] Inventor: Cullen B. Crawford,
Gelchrist, Euclid, Ohio 44132 [22] Filed: Feb. 16, 1971 [21] Appl. No.: 115,171
[ 3,736fifl8 1451 May 29,1973
1,450,382 3/1969 Germany ..285/382.7
Primary Examiner-Reinaldo P. Machado Assistant ExaminerDavid H. Corbin Attorney-Oberlin, Maky, Donnelly & Renner [57] ABSTRACT A tube coupling including a front and rear collet which are driven into biting engagement with a tube wall, the front collet being adapted to scrape the tube material to cold flow the same into abutments against which a flat portion of such collet sealingly bears, and the rear collet being adapted to cut chips or curls from the tube material to form the seal between such rear collet and the tube. An axially forwardly extending projection on the rear collet is provided with at least one cutting edge which penetrates the tube material in a true radial direction responsive to arcuate flexing of such projection caused by engagement along a portion of the front collet, such flexing and bite occurring with relatively reduced friction between the collets due to the configuration and flexure of the projection.
6 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures Patented May 29, 1973 W L( A 59 v A 6| ez F INVENTOR. ""5 BX CULLE/V B. CRAWFORD A -TORNEYS 1 TUBE COUPLING This invention relates as indicated to tube couplings, and, more particularly, to tube couplings having collet members deformed inwardly into sealing engagement with the tube in a manner to obtain better holding power with less torque input.
A number of different relatively deformable collet forms have been used to grip or hold tubes to be coupled by cutting or otherwise deforming the tube material. Particular reference may be had to U. S. Pat. No. 3,069,188, issued to C. B. Crawford, wherein two collets are adapted to be cammed into a tube surface to cold flow the tube material by scraping up abutments, with further camming distortion of the collets resulting in a flat surface thereof being against such abutment to resist longitudinal d pl cement forces. The seals developed between the collets and tube in such coupling and thus the coupling itself are operationally substantially 1 free from failure, however, a relatively large torque is required to be applied to the coupling nut in order to obtain the necessary seals.
Accordingly, it is the primary object of the present invention to maximize the holding power of the coupling while at the same time minimizing the torque required to effectuate the seals between collets and tube.
It is an important object of the present invention to provide a rear collet which when driven against the front collet will be cammed with relatively reduced friction into the tube material, to cut at least onecurl in such material. Preferably, at least one of the cutting surfaces is adapted to be cammed intothe tube material in such a manner as to penetrate in a true radial-direction. l
It is still another important object of the present invention to provide a rear. collet having an axially forwardly extending projection which has cutting edges and which is adapted to flex during closure, thereby better to direct the force applied from the pressure surface of the nut to such cutting surfaces. It has been found that a relatively direct thrust is thus developed on the collet, with the force vector between the pressure surface and the cutting edges being at an angle of about 20 with respect to thelongitudinal axis of the coupling.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a tube coupling which combines a rear collet of the type described having edges which cut the tube material with a front collet having edges to scrape up material abutrnents and flat surfaces to bear against such abutrnents. It has been found that such a collet combination forms seals between the collets and the tube which provide better holding power and which are effectuated with about one-half the torque required for conventional couplings.
These and other .objects'of the present invention will become apparent as the. following. description proceeds.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention, then, comprises the features hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, the following description and the annexed drawing setting forth in detail a certain illustrative embodirnent of the invention, this beingindicative, however, of but one of the various ways in which the principle of the invention may be employed.
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FIG. 1 is an exploded fragmentary section of the component parts of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a fragmentary enlargement of the front portion of the rear collet, with phantom lines indicating the operative position of the rear collet when coupled;
FIG. 3 is a vertical section of the present invention with the nut drawn up finger-tight upon the male connector portion of the coupler body; and
FIG. 4 is a vertical section similar to FIG. 3 with the nut drawn up wrench-tight on the coupler body.
Referring now to the drawing and initially to FIG. 1, the five component elements of the present invention comprising coupler body 1, front collet 3, rear collet 5, nut 7 and tube T are shown in coaxial alignment prior to coupling or assembly.
Coupler body 1 has a bore 10 of varying diameter extending longitudinally therethrough and a male connector portion 11 at one end thereof. The defining wall of bore 10 at the inner end of the male connector portion 11 has an annular concave groove 12 adapted to receive the end of tube T as will be described in more detail hereinafter. The wall structure of the bore proceeding to the left in FIG. 1 from groove 12 includes a substantially cylindrical sealing surface 13, which is preferably slightly flared outwardly on the order of 1 for ease of part disassembly, and a tapered frustoconical carnming surface 14. A cylindrical sealing surface 15 and a second outwardly tapered frusto-conical surface 16, which is preferably of less taper than surface 14, complete the wall defining structure of bore 10, with surfaces 15 and 16 forming at the intersection thereof annular edge 17.
Front collet 3 has a bore 21 extending longitudinally therethrough, such bore having a cylindrical intermediate defining surface 22 of a diameter equal to or slightly greater than the outside diameter of tube T. The front or leading portion of collet body 3 has a counterbore 23therein which is coaxial with bore 21 and defines in the collet body annular scraping edges 24, 25, cylindrical surface 26, and shoulder 27. The front annular surface of the collet forms a substantially transverse shoulder 28 with the periphery thereof being beveled as at 29 to reduce friction between parts having relative longitudinal movement and contact in assembly. The exterior of collet 3 is formed to include cylindrical portion 30, outwardly tapered frusto-conical surface 31, shoulders 32, 33 and cylindrical surface 34. The rear portion of bore 21 is defined by adjacent intersecting surfaces comprising outwardly tapered frusto-conical surface 35, which is preferably inclined at an angle of 45 from the axis of tube T, and cylindrical surface 36.
Rear collet'5 has a bore 40 extending longitudinally therethrough, which is of a diameter equal to or slightly longer than the diameter of the tube T. The front por tion of the collet 5 has a counterbore 41 therein which is coaxial with bore 40 and defines within the collet body edges or lips 42, 43, transverse shoulder 44, and cylindrical sealing surface 45. The leading annular surface 46 of the collet is inclined slightly rearwardly with respect to a transverse plane, with the preferable included angle between about 5 and 7. The peripheral edge 47 of surface 46 is rounded or beveled to reduce scraping and friction with surface 35 of front collet 3, as will be set forth in more detail hereinafter. The exterior of the rear collet at the front portion or projection thereof, as best shown in FIG. 2, includes a tapered surface 48 increasing in diameter from front to rear, which is preferably inclined at an angle of about 35 with respect to the axis of the tube, and an adjacent tapered surface 49 decreasing in diameter from front to rear, which is preferably inclined at an angle of about 15 with respect to such axis. The intersection of surfaces 48 and 49 forms edge 50 which is beveled to reduce friction and scraping encountered in assembly. It will be appreciated that bore 40, counterbore 41, leading edge 46, and tapered surfaces 48 and 49 define an axially forwardly extending projection P which functionally cooperates with camming surface 35 of the front collet during the coupling process, as will be set forth in more detail hereinafter.
The rear portion of collet 5 includes pressure flange 52, which externally comprises front shoulder 53, rear shoulder 54 and cylindrical surface 55, and an elongated tubular sleeve 56.
Nut 7 includes coaxially aligned bore 60 and counterbore 61, which define within such nut cylindrical surface 63 and blind end pressure surface 62. Cylindrical surface 63 has female threads 64 formed along the front portion thereof, which threads cooperate with the male connector threads on coupler body 1.
In assembly, tube T is drawn axially through the aligned bores of the component elements until the end of the same is in engagement with annular concave seating groove 12, and the nut 7 is then drawn up finger-tight on male connector 11 to the position shown in FIG. 3. In such position, blind end pressure surface 62 abuts the rear shoulder 54 of pressure flange 52; beveled edge 47 on rear collet 5 abuts frusto-conical camming surface 35 of front collet 3; and beveled edge 29 of front collet 3 is in engagement with frusto-conical camming surface 14 of coupler body 1.
The relative movement and camming actions between the parts upon wrench tightening nut 7 will be described in a sequence beginning with the rear collet movement against the front collet and then proceed forwardly within such coupling, although it will be appreciated that the defined sequence of collet deformation is for purposes of clarity only and such deformation might in fact occur simultaneously or in reverse order. As pressure surface 62 of nut 7 moves forwardly, beveled edge 47 will shuttle downwardly along carnming surface 35, which downward movement will begin slightly to arcuately flex the forwardly extending projection P to bring tapered surface 48 into an abutting camming relationship with surface 35. Such initial flexure movement of the projection P will move cutting edge 43 toward the tube material and cutting edge 47 into such material, thereby to begin removal of the first chip or curl. As the camming movement continues, the projection P will further arcuately flex until, at the completion of wrench tightening, edge 47, tapered surface 48, and edge 50 are all deformed against camming surface 35. In such position, cutting edges 42 and 43 have removed two curls from the tube material, and such edges and flat surfaces 44 and 46 are effectively in sealing engagement with the tube.
Back slope 49 reduces the radial thickness of the projection adjacent pressure flange 52 and enables such projection to flex more readily for example than the projection shown in the referenced Crawford patent. The extent of arcuate movement for surface 47 is interrelated with the rearward inclination of surface 46 so that such surface will penetrate'the tube material in a true radial direction as shown in phantom in FIG. 2.
The degree of flexure in the projection P is additionally predetermined so that upon coupling the radially inner surface 58 of collet 5, as shown in exaggerated form at 59, will bulge slightly radially outwardly away from tube T, such bulge helping to create a more direct force vector from pressure surface 62 to the cutting edges 42, 43.
The unique configuration of projection P which allows flexure and clearance from the front collet except at the camming surface significantly reduces the sliding friction between such projection and camming surface 35. In fact, the present coupling requires only about half the torque to efiect coupling that it takes to seal conventional couplings, the reduction in torque obviously being a result of such reduced friction.
In regard to the camming movement of the front collet in response to forward movement of the pressure surface, beveled edge 29 will shuttle downwardly along camming surface 14, thereby to place edges 24, 25 into scraping engagement with the outer surface of tube T. The taper of surface 14 allows edges 24, 25 to travel a sufficient longitudinal distance along tube T to cold flow such material into two abutments 61 and 62. Camming surface 16 and edge 17 will, upon mating with surface 31, deformably force the rear radially inner surface 63 of the collet into engagement with the tube T and cause flat surfaces 27 and 28 to move to a more radial position against abutments 61 and 62, respectively. In the wrench tight position, the surfaces 27 and 28 are held against the force of the tube bulging radially outwardly, thereby to lock the same together in forming two of the major seals of the invention.
The differences in the seals formed by the rear and front collets should be readily apparent from the above discussion. Basically, the front collet cold flows the tube material into abutments which are engaged by flat surfaces thereon while the rear collet takes chips from the tube material, such chips curling backward from the edge travel. In addition, the front surface of the rear collet is designed to radially penetrate the tube material as opposed to the inclination of the flat surfaces of the front collet, and the slight separation of the radially inner surface of the rear collet does not occur in the front collet.
The combination of the two collet forms described has been found to increase tube holding power over known tube couplings, such as that previously referenced, while also reducing torque required. The resultant coupling force between pressure surface and seals is inclined at an angle of approximately 20 with respect to the longitudinal axis of the coupling.
Although the rear collet has been discussed exclusively from the standpoint of its combination with a front collet, it will be understood that such rear collet could singularly be used with a coupling body having a camming surface therein corresponding to surface 35 on front collet 3.
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
l. A tube coupling comprising a body member adapted to receive and seat the end of a tube, said body member having a camming surface therein; a front collet member having a bore through which the tube extends and a camming surface therein; a rear collet member having a bore through which the tube extends, a radially extending flange on said rear collet member and a frontal projection extending from said flange, said frontal projection having an annular and rearwardly inclined leading face with a radially inner cutting edge and including, as an exterior surface, a first forwardly positioned tapered surface increasing in diameter from front to rear and a second rearwardly positioned tapered surface intersecting said first surface at its forward end, decreasing in diameter from front to rear, and intersecting said flange at its rearward end, thereby to reduce the radial thickness of said projection adjacent said radially extending flange to enable said projection more readily to flex; and a nut slidable along the tube and threadedly engaging the body member to capture said front and rear collets with said nut, when tightened, being threadedly advanced along said body member, said nut having an internal shoulder to engage said flange to drive said rear collet forwardly, which in turn drives said front collet forwardly until said internal shoulder, said radial flange, said front collet and said body are in end to end abutment precluding further nut advancement, the forward advancement of said rear collet driving said frontal projection on said rear collet against the cam surface in said front collet to cause said frontal projection to flex and drive said cutting edge into biting engagement with the tube, said annular leading face being inclined rearwardly at an angle interrelated to the slope of said cam surface in said first collet, whereby said cutting edge penetrates said tube in a direction substantially radial to the axis of the coupling, when the nut has been fully tightened.
2. A tube coupling as set forth in claim 1 wherein said leading annular surface on said frontal projection is inclined at from about 5 to about 7 rearwardly of a transverse plane through the axis of the tube at said cutting edge when said frontal projection is unflexed.
3. A tube coupling as set forth in claim 1 including a beveled edge between said leading annular surface and said first tapered surface operative to engage the camming surface in said front collet.
4. A tube coupling as set forth in claim 1 including a beveled edge between said first tapered surface and said second tapered surface.
5. A tube coupling as set forth in claim 1 wherein said first tapered surface, said second tapered surface, and said camming surface within said front collet are inclined at angles of about 35, 15 and 45, respectively, with respect to the axis of said coupling.
6. A tube coupling as set forth in claim 1 wherein the engagement of said internal shoulder and said flange provides a resultant force upon tightening of said nut extending at approximately a 20 angle with respect to the axis of said coupling from said shoulder to said cutting edge.
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Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in northeast India have claimed at least 26 lives, with eight other people missing.
The army and air force has launched rescue operations in areas badly hit by the rains that have been lashing the states of Sikkim, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh for days.
In a remote area of northeastern state of Sikkim, at least 21 bodies, including those of members of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the Press Trust of India news agency said on Sunday.
In Assam state, five deaths were reported in widespread flooding that submerged a major wildlife sanctuary and parks, the news agency said.
Karma Zyatso, chief secretary of Sikkim state, said the workers, who lived in camps, were swept away by the swirling waters.
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The air force was dropping food supplies to people marooned by floods.
India's northeast has been especially hard hit by devastating rains during the monsoon, which runs from June to September.
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Congress Mulling Mandatory Isolation for Returning Ebola Doctors
October 28, 2014 | Filed Under Africa, Australia, Barack Obama, CDC, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ebola, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Health, Homeland Security, Liberals, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
After a doctor returning from treating patients in West Africa was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus, some in Congress are proposing that any healthcare worker returning from overseas after treating Ebola patients must be placed in isolation to make sure they are free of the disease.
Doctor Craig Spencer was diagnosed with Ebola upon returning to the US after taking care of Ebola patients in Guinea but when he first came home he was not exhibiting any symptoms. But only days after his return Spencer checked into Bellevue Hospital in New York and in short order was diagnosed with the virus.
The doctor is now in isolation and being treated for Ebola.
Before he began showing symptoms, Dr. Spencer was carrying on his life as normal, riding city mass transit, eating out, even going bowling. This is something that has alarmed lawmakers sparking a motion to make isolation mandatory.
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USA Falls to 12th Place in World Economic Freedom
October 14, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Entitlements, Ethics, Free Trade, Government, Government Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, President, Progressives, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
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In the year 2000 the USA ranked second on the Economic Freedom of the World report. Now, in 2014, the USA has fallen to 12th place.
That's right, the country founded on capitalism and economic freedom has been steadily losing ground among the most free nations as our system declines into welfare dependency, government sponsored crony capitalism (which isn't capitalism at all but fascism), and big government, regulatory strangulation.
The CATO Institute puts out its annual report measuring the economic freedom of the nations of the world and this year the leader in global economic freedom is Hong Kong. The rest of the top ten are as follows: Singapore; New Zealand; Switzerland; Mauritius; United Arab Emirates; Canada; Australia; Jordan; and, tied for 10th is Chile and Finland.
And what of the United States?
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Sen. Durbin's Wife A Lobbyist Who 'Accidentally' Got High Dollar Federal Contracts
October 6, 2014 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Congress, Crony Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Dick Durbin, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Government Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Lobbyists, President, Progressives, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Illinois Senior Senator, Democrat Dick Durbin was forced to respond to a Chicago Tribune story that revealed that his wife is a lobbyist who received high-dollar federal contracts. Durbin said it was purely coincidental… then offered to sell us the Brooklyn Bridge.
Durbin told the Tribune that his wife only lobbies with the State of Illinois, not the federal government, so the millions she rakes in from federal contracts is just a coincidence. Really. It was… a totally, unseen, completely accidental coincidence… that a Senator who is the third in line of power in the US Senate has a wife who just coincidentally got millions in federal contracts.
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Oklahoma Beheading Shows Authorities Are Putting Us In Danger
September 27, 2014 | Filed Under 9/11, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Liberals, Oklahoma, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Syria, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off
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After a Muslim convert in Oklahoma murdered a fellow co-worker at a food processing plant by beheading her, authorities there rushed to TV to claim that it was *just* workplace violence and that the Muslim murderer is not a terrorist. Since then we've seen every example of how this monster was a committed radical Islamist which makes him a terrorist whether he's connected to a particular group or not yet our leaders are burying their heads in the sand and refusing to admit the truth.
On September 26, a man whom the police keep calling Alton Nolan entered Vaughn Foods, his place of employment, and beheaded Colleen Hufford, 54, a woman that works there, a woman he knew. He also tried to kill another employee, Traci Johnson, 43.
As soon as the incident hit the media authorities in Oklahoma rushed to the TV to insist that Nolan was not a terrorist, that he had no ties to any terror group, and that the attack was only a run-of-the-mill, average, boring ol' case of "workplace anger."
This is all a pack of lies.
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Republican Leaders Pushing Wealth Redistribution
September 27, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Entitlements, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Liberals, Nanny State, Paul Ryan, Progressives, Senate, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Traditionally, Republicans are supposed to be against the redistribution of wealth in the USA. But it seems times may be changing with at least three purportedly conservative leaders in Congress suddenly advocating for at least some income redistribution.
According to Fortune magazine three major congressional Republican leaders are floating plans that call for some sort of redistribution.
Republican Senators Mike Lee and Marco Rubio have recently proposed what they are calling a pro-family and pro-growth tax reform plan that would refigure tax rates from the current seven brackets to only two; 15 and 35 percent.
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VIDEO: This Young Woman's 'Top 10 Reasons Why I'm Not a Democrat' Is Fantastic
September 24, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Liberals, Nanny State, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
Elly Maye has it 100% right about the liars who we all call "The Democrats."
This woman is brilliant.
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FDR Invented The 'Liar-In-Chief' And Tore Down the Democrat Party And The Country
September 21, 2014 | Filed Under Adolph Hitler, Anti-Americanism, Britain, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Entitlements, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Franklin Deleno Roosevelt, Germany, GOP, Government Corruption, History, Japan, Jobs, Liberals, Nanny State, PBS, Policy, President, Progressives, Regulation, Republicans, Rights, Socialism, Taxes, The Great Depression, TV, Warner Todd Huston, WWII | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
PBS and documentary maker Ken Burns have done it again with a wonderful look at the political lives of Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt. But if the series did anything it revealed to a discerning viewer how Franklin rebuilt the presidency on a pillar of hate and lies and remade the Democrat Party into a party driven by purposeful misdirection and deceit.
Certainly the series approaches these two consequential presidents as good for the country. Neither were as salubrious for the country as popular opinion holds and both did a lot of damage. To Burns' credit he does allow conservative commentator George Will to slip in a few digs at how both Teddy and Franklin tore down the presidency and turned our country from a constitutional republic built on a pretty straightforward explication of the political raison d'être of any particular party, candidate or era and into a nation run by sneaky politicians who lie straight-faced to the people and don't care about the Constitution at all.
Teddy Roosevelt did his bit to end our Constitutional republic, granted, and was followed by Woodrow Wilson who pounded a few more nails into that coffin. But it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who really destroyed the country.
The truth is, Franklin was an utterly failed president in everything but his leadership in WWII. It has to be acknowledged that his stewardship of the war was great and maybe a lesser president would have left the US more vulnerable. But there is no doubt that he materially hurt this country in every other arena.
His domestic policy was a disaster, his economic policies utterly failed, and his disregard of the rule of law and the US Constitution was a disgusting display of arrogance and hubris. By forcing the world into war, Hitler ended the Great depression, not Franklin Roosevelt.
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Still a Slavish Flack: Carney Blames TV Networks for Fewer Obama Speeches
September 14, 2014 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, CNN, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government Corruption, Iraq, Jobs, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Syria, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
By joining CNN as an on-air commentator, former Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney has passed through the revolving door between the Obama administration and the media, but he is still Obama's man and in an interview with his new employer he noted that the TV networks are to blame for Obama not being allowed to make more TV speeches. It is lain that Carney will continue to be a bind flack for Obama even on CNN.
Carney stepped down from his post as White House press secretary in June and by September it was announced he was joining CNN as a news commentator. But Carney rose up as an Obama flack one more time in a new interview released on the eve of his debut on the cable network.
In the Wednesday interview Carney explained away Obama's inability to understand the "optics" of the presidency, said he was serious about putting a halt to the terrorism of ISIS, and said that Twitter was a helpful tool for the White House.
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Cities That Have Used Military Equipment for Riot Control Might Owe Feds Millions
September 11, 2014 | Filed Under 9/11, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Homeland Security, Law, Liberals, Liberty, Military, Patriot Act, Pentagon, Police State, Policy, President, Progressives, Regulation, Security/Safety, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
On Tuesday, Obama administration officials testified that local police who received surplus military equipment from a government program were never supposed to use that equipment for riot control and if the items were misused, cities may be forced to repay millions in grants given them by the government to purchase the equipment.
The testimony was delivered before Congress by members of the Defense and Homeland Security departments on Tuesday afternoon in a hearing that was spurred by shocking images from Ferguson, Missouri where police used a variety of military-styled equipment to quell rioting last month. Local police obtained some of that surplus military equipment through the Pentagon's 1033 Program.
During the hearing Senators pointed out that many departments have been given equipment that they really have no legitimate need for. During the hearing it was revealed that one small Oklahoma county sheriff's department for instance, received two 18-ton MRAP armored vehicles even though the department has only one full-time peace officer.
Several Senators questioned just why local police need military equipment at all. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul noted that 12,000 bayonets have been given out to local police and he wondered why a weapon of war like that, one used solely for killing and not peacekeeping, needed to be placed in the hands of a police department.
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We Should Not Call Them The 'Ruling Class,' But the 'Immunes'
August 17, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Courts, Crime, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Eric Holder, Ethics, Federalism, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Judges, Law, Liberals, Nanny State, Policy, President, Progressives, Regulation, Republicans, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-by Warner Todd Huston
In the bad old days when Kings reigned and the various classes of royalty vied for position the only danger for the "ruling class" was the fear that another member of their class might strike a blow against them. Unlike the lower classes, the rulers of antiquity were immune from the vagaries of life and out of reach of the law. In fact, there was no law. Unfortunately, we are headed right back in that scheme of life.
But one of the societal schemes that the founders of our country set about the task of destroying was that of the divine right of kings, the idea that royalty is subject to no earthly authority.
The founders wanted to create a society that allowed for social mobility among all citizens. They wanted a meritocracy where people could get ahead from the result of their own work and abilities. Above all they wanted a stable rule of law so that such stability could fuel growth.
For nearly 200 years their model worked admirably. But thanks to the drive toward communism starting at the end of the 1800s it appears that the founders' societal invention has been destroyed.
The question for today is this: are we are living at the end of the American way of life? Has it been destroyed so badly that it is unable to be returned with the mere election of new leaders?
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Pelosi Breaks Decorum, Chases Republican Around House Chamber
August 3, 2014 | Filed Under Budget, Central America, Children, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Nancy Pelosi, Progressives, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
After Congressman Tom Marino (R, PA) made the assertion that the Democrats did nothing about the immigration mess when they controlled both houses of Congress, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke House decorum by running after the Pennsylvanian to berate him for his address.
Marino appeared on the floor on Friday, August 1, to voice his support for the passage of the Republican effort to deal with this immigration crisis and noted that Democrats are full of complaining, but are culpable, at least in part, for the situation getting as bad as it has gotten.
"We don't have law and order," Marino said of the border crisis. "My colleagues on the other side don't want to do anything about it."
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Democrat Staffer Threatens Writer With Attack By IRS
August 2, 2014 | Filed Under Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Houston, Liberals, Nanny State, Progressives, Texas, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Well, one American found out that calling a Congresscritter could result in an attack on him by the IRS just because he had the gall to call and ask questions.
A writer for PJ Media called the office of Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee and instead of being treated professionally by this woman's staffers, the writer was called names and his questions were ignored.
The writer called the Democrat's office because on the floor of Congress she uttered an outright lie and the writer was seeking a comment on the incident.
On July 30, Jackson Lee said that Democrats "did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had the authority."
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Dem Chair Says Obama 'Doing His Job Less Often' Than Any Prez Since Cleveland?
July 31, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Crony Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Jobs, Liberals, Liberty, Nanny State, President, Progressives, Regulation, Senate, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again we see how stupid Democrat Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is with a clumsy comment filled with false implications and absurd assumptions not to mention unintentional hilarity as this fool proclaims that Obama has done his job "less often" than any president since Grover Cleveland.
In an appearance on the odious and bottom rated MSNBC, Wasserman Schultz made this messy verbal blunder which in itself is pretty amusing. But underlying her garbled, inarticulate point is a base assumption that proves the lies that Democrats promulgate of what constitutes a president's job.
But first the video, courtesy of the NRCC:
If you don't want to watch the video, here is what this nitwit said…
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New York Times' Egan Shows Vast Ignorance of Religion, the Founders and the Constitution
July 23, 2014 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Atheism, Christianity, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Islam, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Regulation, Religion, States Rights, The New York Times, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
In the pages of The New York Times columnist Timothy Egan unleashed an attack on religion that was at once wholly uninformed about both religion and American history yet entirely typical of how uninformed liberals typically are about both religion and history. Egan's anti-religious rant was also quite hysterical by saying that there is little difference between business owners who don't want to pay for abortion drugs and radical Islamic terrorists, another opinion increasingly gaining cachet on the left.
Egan began his screed seemingly assigning acts of evil–or at least acts of bias–to God himself. Then he somehow made the World Cup into a religious battle between Popes, found room to slam Texas Governor Rick Perry, and concluded that "God is on a rampage" in 2014.
Now, let us first understand that God is in no way associated with the evil man does in his name. Egan's claim that God is at fault is a childish exercise that is akin to blaming J. D. Salinger for the murder of John Lennon because shooter Mark David Chapman was a reader.
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VIDEO: Actor Paul Rodriguez Shocks CNN by Saying We Need to Deport Illegals
July 21, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Children, CNN, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DREAM Act, Education, Ethics, Family, Government, Government Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Regulation, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez appeared on CNN and shocked those on the panel with his patriotic, American ideals and said that the USA has no reason whatsoever to keep all these hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who are streaming across our border for Obama's free handouts and his promise of amnesty.
He directly addressed some bleeding heart, anti-American Catholic priest saying, "Let us say we allow these seven thousand children to stay here and grow up American and go to our schools, what do we say to the sixty thousand that are going to follow them? And the hundred and fifty thousand, can we house them all father? De we have the whereabouts? We can't even take care of our own kids here now!"
Mr. Rodriguez is 100 percent right, folks.But it's too bad that CNN has like 25 viewers now and no one saw this appearane!
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Proved Liberals Hate Bipartisanship
July 9, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Entitlements, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, President, Progressives, Regulation, Rights, Socialism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Silly little Mark Zuckerberg thought that because he knew how to create an Internet-based tech company he could obliterate America's borders and legalize illegal immigration with his "smarts." While his effort has thus far proven to be a failure, one thing he did succeed in doing is unmask the lie that liberals are interested in bipartisan solutions to… well, to anything.
A recent article in Politico reports that Suckerberg's starry-eyed attempt to force Congress to legalize illegal aliens has pretty spectacularly failed despite having some of the biggest names on the left and in the tech industry onboard for the effort the Sucker branded FWD.us.
Suckerberg and all his little left-wing tech buddies gathered tens of millions of dollars to push amnesty but, as Politico termed it, they "hit a brick wall."
The news site also noted that several of Suckerberg's high profile lefties have abandoned the project to undermine our national sovereignty not because it has thus far failed, but because of the bipartisan way Sucker and his group attempted to push the plan.
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Now Destroying Unions is the Same as Reforming Government
July 8, 2014 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Jobs, Labor Law, Liberals, Nanny State, Pensions, President, Progressives, Public Employees Unions, Regulation, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Teachers Unions, The Law, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Years ago folks that stood against unions always had that one obstacle of "private" concerns in the way of urging people away from unionism. But today, with most unions being tied directly to government, now fighting unions is an act of beneficial government reform.
Once upon a time, the biggest hurdle for those arguing against unionism was the simple truth–and it was a truth–that unions and businesses were private concerns and if the two entities agreed to co-exist, who was an anti-union activist to say anything against the arrangement?
This is a simple, logical question that always made anti-union activists look like meddling outsiders. And the truth is, no matter how right they were that unionism is a bad idea for everyone, they were meddlers!
But today we have a far different situation for those who stand against unions. Since 1959 when unions were first allowed to organize government workers unions have slowly encroached into nearly every aspect of government causing spending to soar, bloating pensions beyond belief, and destroying the efficiency of government.
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Obama Administration Apologizing for 'Miscues' Over Immigrant Kids
June 24, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Central America, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Law, Liberals, Mexico, President, Progressives, South America, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
At a town hall-styled meeting held at St Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia, members of the Obama administration were forced to apologize for not informing local residents that they intended to warehouse hundreds of illegal immigrants in the community.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had made plans to ship hundreds of illegal immigrants to the small farming community from facilities overflowing with illegal aliens in the south and southwest. But officials made no effort to discuss the issue with local residents ahead of time.
The town hall was called when residents found out about the government's plans.
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Leftist Donna Brazile Warns The GOP Civil War is Over, The Tea Party Won
June 13, 2014 | Filed Under Budget, Business, CNN, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Jobs, Liberals, Media, President, Progressives, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-by Warner Todd Huston
Old Clinton hack Donna Brazile has a message for her readers: the GOP civil war is over and the Tea Party won. While Brazile is usually fully expected to be typically and wholly wrong in her left-wing proclamations and while asking a liberal what is going on with conservatives is usually a waste of time, like the stopped clock, Brazile got this one more or less right.
Brazile piece written her piece for CNN notes that the whole of Washington was surprised by GOP strongman Eric Cantor's primary loss and is shocked that he will not be returning to Congress even as he thought he was headed to a big primary win and looking forward to more and more power if not the Speaker's chair itself.
After chronicling Cantor's loss Brazile also touched on the run off that establishment Republican Thad Cochran has been reduced to in Mississippi and pointed out that Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell only won his own primary in Kentucky by edging closer to Tea Party principles during his campaign.
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To Democrats, Republicans are 'Terrorists,' But the Taliban is Legit
June 11, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, California, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, House of Representatives, Islamofascism, Jihad, Liberals, New York, Progressives, Taliban, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
While Democrats always pretend to look aghast at the purported "vile rhetoric" of the right, the truth is it is the left that is filled with a constant stream of hate speech. Worse, while Democrats are positive that there is no such thing as a terrorist in Afghanistan, Iraq or the wider Middle East, they are equally certain that the only true terrorists are Republicans. And we have two democrats affirming that position this month.
Take California's Democrat Representative Jackie Speier who just yesterday said that the Taliban surely aren't terrorists. They are, she insisted, legitimate representatives of the Afghan government.
Naturally, this terror excuser said this on MSNBC, the least trusted news source in America. Speier told MSNBC's Kristen Welker, that the Taliban is not really a terror outfit.
"Let me underscore the term 'terrorists,'" Speier told MSNBC. "The Taliban is a part of the fabric of Afghanistan."
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Up The Establishment: GOP Powerman Eric Cantor Loses Re-Election Bid to Tea Partier
June 10, 2014 | Filed Under Congress, Conservatives, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Republicans, Tea Party, Virginia, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Despite his million-dollar re-election campaign, number two establishment Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia just lost his re-election bid to one of those eeeevil "Tea Party" Republicans in a hard-fought primary race. This is a big, big, BIG loss for the establishment GOP. (John Boehner hardest hit.)
With most of the votes officially in, Brat won the 7th District primary with 56 percent to Cantors dismal 44 percent. Cantor even lost his own home district, Henrico County!
Cantor lost to Randolph-Macon College economics professor Dave Brat, a novice politician who made his outsider status his main selling point.
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Cops Murdered: 'The Beginning of the Revolution'
June 10, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Las Vegas, Liberals, Nevada, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Saying "this is the beginning of the revolution," a couple gunned down two Las Vegas police officers as they ate lunch last weekend. The pair killed themselves in a WalMart not long afterward. As this incident was reported, it occurred to me that I have been warning of this horrible state of affairs, and I am afraid this is not going to be a one-off incident.
As we learn more of the pair of shooters we find that they have a history of seeing government as an enemy to the people. But they aren't alone.
In the after math as police talked to the media about the shootings, Sheriff Doug Gillespie told the media, "What precipitated this event, we do not know. My officers were simply having lunch."
But is the sheriff right? Is this incident really such a surprise?
The shootings that ended inside a Las Vegas WalMart with a pair of murderers insisting that they were killing "law enforcement" officers as a means to start a revolution is exactly the sort of thing I have warned about many times.
Firstly, we need to realize this is not a "gun" problem. This is a government problem.
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GOP: Obama's Impeachment Off The Table
June 9, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Liberals, President, Progressives, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
This may anger many conservatives–especially those who don't necessarily call themselves "Republicans"–but the GOP establishment has essentially said that impeaching Obama is off the table. As much as I despise this president, I have to agree with the decision.
According to The Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard: "Despite anger in many quarters of the nation over the president's prisoner swap, Republicans are backing off impeachment threats because they fear it would rally President Obama's Democratic base and kill the GOP's chances to win the Senate, according to congressional insiders and sources."
Sources tell Bedard that the GOP establishment think that launching any impeachment efforts now would only rally the Democrats right before the 2014 general elections.
Though I am no fan of the GOP establishment, this is sensible thinking, really.
But I would also say that there is no point launching any impeachment efforts after the election, either.
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Questions on Bergdahl POW Release: Dad a Muslim Symp? Soldier Deserted? Obama's Actions Illegal?
June 1, 2014 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Army, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Koran, Liberals, Military, President, Progressives, Religion, Sharia, Taliban, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
With Update: More Anti-American Tweets from Robert Bergdahl…
There are an awful lot of unanswered questions and controversies in this POW release of US soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Firstly, it seems he actually deserted the army, he didn't just get accidentally captured. Secondly, it seems his father might be in sympathy with our Muslim enemies. Last, Obama's action in negotiating with the terrorists for his release may have violated the law because he did it all secretly without telling Congress.
There is a story from a member of Bowe's own unit that details his weirdo behavior, wacky ideas, and ultimate desertion. According to one of the soldiers who served with Bergdahl, he didn't get captured after wandering off. He was in the process of deserting the Army when he got captured.
In this soldier's telling, Bergdahl was making all sorts of strange claims–he said he once beat up drug dealers back home and that he once joined the French Foreign Legion and he did neither–and kept telling his troop mates that he was going to become a mercenary so he could shoot people.
In one part of this soldier's story, Bergdahl sent all his belongings home just before he disappeared into Taliban country. Why would he do that unless he intended to leave?
Then the idiot ended up captured by the Taliban after he deserted to go become a "mercenary," whatever he thought that was?
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Obama Admits Government is a Failure? VA Allows Vets to Get Private Care!
May 28, 2014 | Filed Under Air Force, Anti-Americanism, Army, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Coast Guard, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Health, Liberals, Marines, Military, National Guard, Navy, Obamacare, President, Progressives, Regulation, Taxes, Transparency, Veterans, Veterans Administration, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
After several weeks of scandalous failure to provide timely healthcare to our military veterans, some dying waiting for care that would never come, the Veteran's Administration has now decided to allow veterans to pursue more private healthcare options to improve their treatment. But isn't government turning to the private sector in stark contrast to the theme of the age of Obama, one that holds that private business "didn't build that" and that we need to further empower government?
On May 24, the Associated Press reported that VA chief Eric Shinseki has announced a new plan for VA hospitals and healthcare providers to work more with private doctors. Shinseki told the press that the VA is "increasing the care we acquire in the community through non-VA care."
Shinseki makes this concession as 26 VA facilities thus far have come under investigation for forcing sick veterans to wait for months to receive medical care. Up to 40 or more veterans died waiting for care on these lists.
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New IRS Obamacare Rule Guarantees Massive Job Loss
May 27, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Health, Jobs, Law, Liberals, Obamacare, President, Progressives, Regulation, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
For the last two years many businesses have been warning that because Obamacare will hurt them so badly they will cease offering employees healthcare and dump employees onto the Obamacare exchanges. But now the IRS has ruled that business will not be allowed to do this and this move guarantees that companies will begin a massive wave of layoffs to make up the costs.
An article in The New York Times relays the bad news to employers that no matter what they thought they were going to do, they are stuck with the massive new costs of Obamacare and they won't be able to escape that massive tax increase by just closing out their healthcare benefits.
"Many employers," the Times reported on May 25,"had concluded that it would be cheaper to provide each employee with a lump sum of money to buy insurance on an exchange, instead of providing coverage directly."
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Liberal Columnist: Anti-Black Racism Used Against Bill Clinton, Too
May 12, 2014 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Race, Racism, Republicans, Senate, The Atlantic, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Proof that liberals can see racism everywhere they look, a liberal columnist has written a piece saying that Obama isn't the only President that white racists attacked. They "racialized" Bill Clinton, too.
On May 8, one of The Atlantic's race-centric writers, Ta-Nehisi Coates, felt the need to disagree with another writer for his publication by insisting that, just as the do Obama, white racists did, indeed, attack Clinton with their bigoted antics
Coates was responding to The Atlantic's Peter Beinart who wrote a May 2 piece reminding readers that "not all Republican opposition to Obama is racist."
Beinart summed up the feelings of liberals well saying that today they feel both frustrated and liberated at the same time.
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Fox News Explores the NSA's 'Secret War,' Asks 'Who is the Enemy'?
May 8, 2014 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, al Qaeda, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, CIA, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, FBI, Fox News, Government, Government Corruption, Hezbollah, Homeland Security, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Journalism, Liberals, Media, NSA, Policy, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Taliban, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the US government has engaged in a secret war against… well, even those not under a rock are fuzzy on just who the government views as the enemy. That is exactly what Fox News looks to explore with its new special, "Fox News Reporting: The NSA's Secret War – Who's the Enemy?"
Fox News will present the one-hour special, hosted by Bret Baer, focusing on the National Security Agency (NSA). The special takes viewers inside the operational heart of the NSA's headquarters. The program will feature interviews from those within the agency as well as the agency's critics, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), General Keith Alexander and General Michael Hayden, among others.
The special will air on May 10 at 10 PM Eastern. Don't miss the broadcast, but if you do it will be rebroadcast on Sunday, May 11, at 9PM Eastern.
The following guests will appear with FNC's Bret Baer:
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
General Michael Hayden, Former Director of NSA (1999 – 2005)
General Keith Alexander, Former Director of NSA (2005 – 2014)
James Bamford, Author of "The Puzzle Palace" and "The Shadow Factory"
Matthew Aid, NSA Historian and author of "The Secret Sentry"
Bart Gellman, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Intelligence Reporter
Thomas Drake, Former Senior Executive of NSA, Whistleblower
Dennis Kucinich, Former U.S. Representative D-OH)
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Mass. Democrat Says Gov't Should Control Media
May 1, 2014 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Bill of Rights, Censorship, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Liberals, Liberty, Massachusetts, Progressives, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
That darned old media is just out of control and filled with "hate crimes," Senator Ed Markey (D, Mass.) says. So, he thinks the best solution is that government should control everything we see and hear. What could go wrong with that, Mr. Orwell?
Markey has proposed a tax dollar-wasting "study" to find ways to force broadcast media from showing "hate crimes" to we stupid, uneducated Americans. Markey is here to save us from ourselves, you see.
As to that whole First Amendment, freedom of speech thing? Markey doesn't see any reason why that should be a problem. Why? Well, he doesn't really say, but just take his word for it, won't you? He should change his name from Markey to Malarkey.
Of course, not everyone is hailing Malarkey's idea as such a great idea. Gene Policinski, who works at the First Amendment Center, says that this is something we'd better notice. "Anytime government in any form or level looks to study our speech–even something that we might all consider detestable speech–we need to pay attention."
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CA Candidate That Lobbied For Obamacare Running as… a Republican?
May 1, 2014 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, California, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Lobbyists, Obamacare, President, Progressives, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Politics might make strange bedfellows, but this one really takes the cake. In California Elizabeth Emken is running for the 7th District U.S. House seat in an attempt to unseat Democrat Ami Bera. But even though Emken was a lobbyist for Obamacare, she is strangely running as a Republican and using Bera's support for Obamacare as a weapon against him.
A recent fundraising email that Emken sent out, for instance, states: "As you pay your federal taxes today, I thought you'd like to know how much more Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Ami Bera have signed you up to pay over the next 10 years. Obamacare alone will cost the federal government $1.4 trillion to expand and subsidize health insurance coverage."
"And to add insult to injury, the IRS is in charge of enforcing it," her email continues. It ends saying, "I don't know about you, but I believe we are taxed enough already. We need leaders who are willing to stand up for the taxpayers and help create a tax environment that encourages growth and productivity, not a government that punishes you for success."
This is all good stuff and the standard GOP line against Obamacare. So, why is this so odd coming from Emken?
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