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• ‘Give Credit to the Activists’: ‘The Nation’ Lists the 20th Century’s 50 Most Influential Progressives

  March 19, 2012 at 8:14am

  In reply to hillbillyinny.

  @Socialism.Rocks – Go reread your history books. The Puritans did indeed believe in economic determinism, but their system is not the one that founded this country. The final product was our Constitution, and that is in no shape or form anything like what Karl Marx talked about…at all. It is quite the opposite, and the founding fathers (and the rest of America at the time) were afraid of creating a big, over-reaching government body like England, France, and Spain had at the time. What we have today (socialism-light) would have scared the bejeebees out of them. That information you can find by reading the Federalist Papers.

• ‘Give Credit to the Activists’: ‘The Nation’ Lists the 20th Century’s 50 Most Influential Progressives

  March 19, 2012 at 7:46am

  In reply to REVerse.

  @Socialism.Rocks

  You need to put the weed bowl down and learn how to use Google before making uninformed statements.

  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=8016634&page=1

  The top 10 most broke states are all blue states. Broke as in they do not have any money, or are having such huge budget shortfalls, from paying out to much of their own money in their own states, that they are looking to the fed to help them out. Or in the case of NJ they elected a R to come in and clean up what the Ds have created over the last sixty years.

• Irony: Anti-War Protester Screams Pro-Gitmo Woman Should be ‘Hanged’

  October 10, 2011 at 2:42pm

  In reply to elosogrande.

  @eddardstark

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution

  We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  The phrase “People of the United States” has sometimes been understood to mean “citizens.” This approach reasons that, if the political community speaking for itself in the Preamble (“We the People”) includes only citizens, by negative implication it specifically excludes non-citizens in some fashion. It has also been construed to mean something like “all under the sovereign jurisdiction and authority of the United States.” The phrase has been construed as affirming that the national government created by the Constitution derives its sovereignty from the people, (whereas “United Colonies” had identified external monarchical sovereignty) as well as confirming that the government under the Constitution was intended to govern and protect “the people” directly, as one society, instead of governing only the states as political units.

• Verizon Union Workers Bused To CEO’s Home For Protest

  August 19, 2011 at 8:13am

  I don’t get why those union guys are outside of Lowell McAdams home protesting. He is the CEO of Verizon WIRELESS. Ivan Seidenberg is the CEO of Verizon Communications. VZW is not a unionized company, Verizon Communications is.

  Anyone that can take 10 seconds to type Verizon Wireless into Google and click on the Wiki link is able to read that Verizon owns 55% of VZW and Vodaphone owns the rest. Separate companies, with separate goals and leadership.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Wireless

• ‘A Down’s Syndrome Baby Will Expand Your World’: Sarah Palin’s Poignant, Moving Email About Her Unborn Son Revealed in Email Investigation

  June 13, 2011 at 8:08am

  In reply to Bob_R_OathKeeper.

  I hold Vitter to the same standards that I hold Weiner to. I hold him to the same standards that I hold Mark Sanford to. I hold him to the same standards that I hold Bill Clinton to. Get out now. If you can’t keep your own house in order, how can I trust you to keep our house in order? Cheat, lie, or steal from your wife and family, what are you going to do to people that aren‘t related to you or you don’t know personally? You are already displaying that you aren’t making good decisions, time to get your head straightened out. Come back once you get your life in order, but get out for now.

• Does French D-Day ‘Art Installation’ Desecrate Omaha Beach?

  June 6, 2011 at 8:02am

  In reply to sing it out.

  Sicboy
  Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:20pm

  Why is the Blaze ignoring the story about Rick Perry and the forced injections of young girls. And how did Perry become a millionaire while holding office???

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  Because unlike you, I am sure that the researchers at TB understand how to use the internet to find out what is truth and what is a lie. It took me all of 30 seconds to find the story you are talking about on PolitiFact who gave it a rating of “Pants on Fire” meaning it is a HUGE lie.

  Think for yourself. Do your own research.

• Town Hall Attendees Boo Paul Ryan for Defending Current Tax Rates for the Rich

  April 21, 2011 at 7:59am

  In reply to thepatriotdave.

  Killa From Wasilla
  Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:36am

  Trickle down has never worked.

  The theory is fundamenta­lly flawed, and relies on a deistic view of the market as a sentient, self-inter­ested, self-corre­cting entity. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  It’s no coincidenc­e that since GOP became the party of supply-sid­e economics, every Republican administra­tion has left this country in a recession.

  Yes, that includes St. Ronald. (Remember the Crash of 1987?)
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  You are either: not as informed as you think you are, spouting what they tell you to spout, or just looking to get a rise out of people for your own personal jollies. Which is it, because your claims are easily refuted by doing a quick search with that super secret information gathering tool called Google.

  http://www.house.gov/jec/growth/prosper/prosper.htm

  Specifically:

  The percentage of households in the low income category dropped during the 1980s. This group comprised 27.5 percent of all households in 1980, 28.5 percent in 1982, and only 25.3 percent by 1989. As a share of all households, the proportion of those with low incomes became less prominent by the end of the 1980s.

  Meanwhile, the percentage of households with incomes over $50,000 jumped from 17.6 percent in 1980 and 1982, to 23.5 percent in 1989. This remarkable increase in the proportion of high income households is another sign of solid income growth.

  Notice how the strong upward mobility has affected the middle category. This group comprised 55 percent of all households in 1980, 53.8 percent in 1982, and 51.1 percent by 1989. In this one sense, the middle class did indeed shrink during the 1980s. Is this good or bad?

  If the middle class shrinkage had resulted from massive income losses resulting in expansion of the low income group, it would clearly signal that something was seriously wrong. However, a review of the data shows that the reverse was happening. Income gains were pushing a greater proportion of middle class households into the high income category. Of the 4 percentage point reduction in the middle class percentage between 1980 and 1989, all of it is accounted for by net upward movement into the high income category.

• Rand Paul Defends Tea Party on Sen. Floor: I Dare You to Come to a Rally

  April 15, 2011 at 2:24pm

  In reply to DocStrangelove.

  I still don’t see a link to your source of information. You are delusional if you think I am going to go simply on what you have to say about it. As for the other stuff that I found, I found that they cannot tie it to him. There is no smoking gun. I really don’t care if Ron Paul said it or not. He isn’t exactly a politician that I go crazy over. I am a skeptic on almost anything political though, especially when in the words of the people doing the reporting, they cannot verify what they are talking about.

  He could very well be a racist. He very well could have written those things. What if he isn‘t and didn’t though as he says and it was someone else trying to make him look bad. Don’t you find it kind of odd that it came out right when he was running for President? Especially when you figure that he was running against both the Democrats, and against Republicans since he didn’t want to concede that the GOP choice of McCain had beaten him? Odd in my opinion, very odd.

• Ronald Reagan Was a Conservative: Peggy Noonan Schools Liberals Trying to Rewrite Reagan’s Presidency

  February 6, 2011 at 8:27pm

  Obobodu
  Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:27pm

  WOW…you people sure have been brain washed.
  Reagan wasn’t all that great for the average working man. He was good to the rich though!!
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  WOW…you sure have been brainwashed.
  It took me all of 10 seconds on Google to look up a real fact about Reagan from a credible source.

  http://www.house.gov/jec/growth/prosper/prosper.htm

  I think that this just dismantled all your misinformation. As Glenn tells us, do your own homework.