‘Government’ Archives
Grassley: the government is a predator »
Medicare is part of the social fabric of America; to say that I support it is not to say that it’s the best program that it can be. The government is not a fair competitor, it’s a predator. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), during the Senate Finance Committee’s public option debate on Tuesday when asked if he supported [...]
Kennedy: there is freedom of speech, but … »
My family’s seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in political life. It’s a terrible thing when people think that in order to get their point across they have to go to the edge of violent rhetoric and attack people personally. It’s fine for people to debate the issue and attack the issue, but when they go and stoop to [...]
Mark Lloyd: white people need to step down in seats of »
… there’s nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called nuclear weapons »
The politicians who are making nuclear weapons are backward, retarded. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, during his speech at Columbia University in September 2007 *Source This comment is laughable in respect to the recent information released by US intelligence that reveals a second nuclear weapons facility near Qom. [...]
Mark Lloyd: free speech is warped and exaggerated »
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. … he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global [...]
Hugo Chavez attacks Fox News: ‘I laugh when I »
I laugh when I see people from Fox News. I laugh at you. You know how Sean Penn calls you? ‘The stupid people from Fox News’ — not you, of course – not you, of course not. I laugh when I see people from Fox News. I laugh at you. You know how Sean Penn calls you? ‘The stupid people from Fox News’ — not you, of course – not you, of [...]
Paterson’s wife implies Obama shows racism »
You never heard of that before, David’s the first African-American governor in the state of New York and he’s being asked to get out of the race. It’s very unusual and it seems very unfair… I never heard of a president asking a governor not to run … so I thought it was very unusual that this would be asked of David and I don’t [...]
Ron Bloom: The blather about free trade »
In today’s world the blather about free trade, free markets & the joys of competition is nothing but pablum for the suckers. Ron Bloom, Obama's manufacturing czar *Source
Dennis Blair: Iran is playing US »
Iran is covertly supplying arms to Afghan insurgents while publicly posing as supportive of the Afghan government. Shipments typically include small arms, mines, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs), rockets, mortars, and plastic explosives. Taliban commanders have publicly credited Iranian support for their successful operations against Coalition [...]
Ex-CIA Directors’ letter to President Obama »
... Attorney General Holder's decision to re-open the criminal investigation creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy for those whose cases the Department of Justice had previously declined to prosecute. Moreover, there is no reason to expect that the re-opened criminal investigation will remain narrowly focused. If criminal [...]
