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The Number One Question You Must Ask Small Government Republicans

How can Republicans worship our flag, but not our government?

Republicans won’t let us burn the flag but have no qualms destroying our government. From today’s New York Times editorial page…

Already, the mulish behavior of Congressional Republicans has led to the creation of the sequester, blocked action on economic growth and climate change, prevented reasonable checks on gun purchases and threatens to blow up a hard-fought compromise on immigration. Mr. Dole’s words should remind his party that it is not only abandoning its past, but damaging the country’s future.

via Bob Dole Misses His Republican Party – NYTimes.com.

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The Dirty Truth On Nike And Lance Armstrong

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Today Nike said it was severing ties with Lance Armstrong because he’s a bad influence on children. You know what’s really a bad influence on children? Paying them $74 a month.

At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when the police, using stun batons, moved in to end a protest over wages at a factory that makes clothing for Nike, a trade union representative said.

Cambodia – Protest at Factory for Nike – NYTimes.com.

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The Reason Fascists Steal Elections

These people will stay in power for as long as they succeed in making it harder for you to vote.

Republicans learned years ago that what they want we don’t want. That’s why they gerrymander, prevent blacks and hispanics from voting and filibuster the Democratic majority away in the senate.

Even though Republicans control the House more Americans voted for a Democratic congressional candidate in 2012 than they did a Republican. Thanks to gerrymandering the House stays red. We are not witnessing the will of the people.

From today’s LA Times…

Although the controversies dominating political headlines eventually might undermine PresidentObama‘s standing with voters, a longer-term reality – a declining number of people who identify themselves as conservatives – could cause much more trouble for his Republican opponents.

Less conservative America poses challenge to Republicans – latimes.com.

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Al Qaeda Needs New Sugar Daddy

Our thoughts and prayers are with anybody other than him.

Much like the planet his fortune has destroyed Saudi Arabia’s king is now on life support. I wonder how much he’s left in his will to Al Qaeda. Our thoughts and prayers are with anybody other than him and his family.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is reported to be clinically dead as the monarch is not recently seen in the public.

A Saudi journalist working for London-Based Asharq Alawsat says the Saudi monarch has been clinically dead since Wednesday.

He also quoted medical sources in Saudi Arabia as saying that the king’s vital organs, including his heart, kidneys and lungs, have stopped functioning.

via PressTV – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah clinically dead: Report says.

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