Dana Loesch |
Motherhood is Political
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on Sunday, May 8, 2011
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Survey: 66% of Juarez Residents in Favor of International Intervention to Stop Drug Cartel Violence
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Latin American Herald Tribune - CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Nearly all (93 percent) of the inhabitants of this violent Mexican border city say they feel insecure and 71 percent of them reject the presence of the Federal Police, according to a survey published by a local university. The 2nd Citizen Crime Perception Survey was presented Friday by the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez’s Social Research Center, which noted that there was slight improvement compared to the 2009 poll, when 96 percent of residents said they felt unsafe. According to the poll, 25 percent of those surveyed said they had been the victim of some type of police abuse in the past year. The survey also revealed that 66 percent of the residents of that Mexican city across the border from El Paso, Texas, would be in favor of an intervention by international forces to solve the violent-crime problems.
Socorro Velazquez, head of the Social Research Center, said at a press conference that the survey shows “there are no safe places” in the city. “Six out of 10 say they feel ‘completely insecure’ in this border city. Then if we add the 33 percent of the population that say they feel ‘not very secure’ we have 93 percent of Juarez residents over the age of 18 who perceive the city to be unsafe,” Velazquez said. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Survey: 66% of Juarez Residents in Favor of International Intervention to Stop Drug Cartel Violence
Hayes: It is Simplistic and Childlike to Think of al-Queada and bin Laden as "Bad Guys"
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Everyone from Madeleine Albright to John Kerry to Joe Biden adopted the term as well. In a 2009 appearance on Face the Nation Defense Secretary Gates talked of choking off “potential recruits for the bad guys.” And last summer General Petraeus told a Congressional hearing that “you have to have contact with bad guys to get intelligence on bad guys.” When President Obama announced the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” he quoted a Special Forces soldier, who described a fellow soldier this way: “He’s big. He’s mean. He kills lots of bad guys. No one cared that he was gay.” Understandably, the line got lots of laughs. The source of the humor was the confounding of stereotypes, but it was the invocation of “bad guys,” with its blunt simplicity, that made the joke work. The phrase is self-consciously playful but also insidious. An adult who invokes it is expressing a layered set of propositions.
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Hayes: It is Simplistic and Childlike to Think of al-Queada and bin Laden as "Bad Guys"
Free The Federal Lands for States to Develop
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From americanthinker.com -When the United States was formed the Congress owned no lands. It is time to establish the right of land ownership for every state in the union. The best and most comprehensive way economic initiative can be returned to the states has to do with control of the land within each state, which bears directly on oil and gas exploration and drilling. Recognition of the sovereign right of each state to control the use of lands within its borders would result in an incredible increase in exploration and drilling, the creation of jobs both within and alongside that activity, and would quickly reduce our dependence on OPEC and non-friendly sources of oil and gas. Just the declared intention to do so would by itself dramatically impact world oil prices. Consider the tremendous economic activity and the attending prosperity that is now occurring in North Dakota (population less than 700,000). The key is that oil and gas drilling and related business development are under the mandate of North Dakota, not Washington, DC. More News New Mexico
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Happy Mother's Day!
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Sowards Senate Campaign Gearing Up
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The duo also has an impressive catalogue of clients, including Sharon Angle for Senate (NV), Romney for President, Republican Governor's Association, Mike Leavitt (UT-Gov), Republican National Committee, Sean Bielat for Congress (MA-4), and Mike Lee (UT-Sen). Sowards reported raising $152,035 in the first quarter and retains over $150,000 cash on-hand according to the most recent financial filing, dated April 15th, with the Federal Election Commission. "Conservatives, Tea Party members and voters in general are looking for a well-funded, well-organized alternative to Liberal Republican Heather Wilson," said Sowards. "I am happy that a growing number of people believe that I am that candidate, who has the credentials and values to wage a winning campaign for this open U.S. Senate seat in 2012." "Voters rejected Heather Wilson in a primary four years ago for the same reason they will reject her this time," continued Sowards. "We will wage a creative campaign that will have the strength and message necessary to win, as the candidate that stands with integrity, while defending firm Constitutional principles."
Greg Sowards is an inventor and entrepreneur with 5 U.S. Patents. He is a commercial contractor and owner of Kid's Kountry Child Care Centers a business with 70 employees. Sowards has been married 37 years. The Sowards have 6 married children and 17 grandchildren. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, 1/70 - 9/72 and a graduate of Brigham Young University.
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Truthers, Birthers, and Newters
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Townhall - My father, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, has been in politics as long as I can remember. And as long as I can remember, media coverage about him has contained misstatements of facts. The vast majority are simple mistakes that are easily corrected, understood and rewoven into an ongoing storyline. But one of them seems to have taken on a life of its own, and simple corrections have not sufficed to set the record straight. Why does this happen? I can't be sure, but I suspect that the narrative created by these untruths proves to be so much more compelling and more dramatic than what actually happened that it proves irresistible. I'm talking about the story of my father's visit to my mother while she was in the hospital in 1980. Read full column here: News New Mexico
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Zito: Will Medi-SCARE Tactic Work Politically?
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Townhall - With the 2012 election approaching, you wouldn’t expect to hear one of Washington’s savviest Democratic strategists praise Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., for his budget plan on Medicare. “Any time you hand your opponent a club, knowing full well he is going to beat you over the head with it for 18 long months, that is courageous,” the strategist says. Democrats’ 2012 slogan will be that Ryan – and everyone else with “Republican” attached to their names – is taking Medicare from seniors.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius began late last week, saying that Ryan’s proposal will lead to early deaths among seniors. One Republican strategist says his party can’t allow Democrats to “get away with the fundamental dishonesty” of frightening “every senior on Medicare today” because “they know darned well the program will remain unchanged for anyone 55 or older.” Yet “Medi-scare” is a strategy that worked for Democrats before. Will it work again? Read full column here: News New Mexico
Zito: Will Medi-SCARE Tactic Work Politically?
O'Reilly: Truth versus Ideology
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O'Reilly: Truth versus Ideology