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TEMS: Week in Review with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson

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Posted: September 11, 2009

(And if the log-in prompt doesn't come up in the chat box below, use this link instead.) Jazz Shaw of The Moderate Voice and The Monster moderate the chat, and we have Troll Gun Trivia Contest running before the show, for those who get there early -- and are registered! … Duane and I will talk about our remembrances of 9/11 and how we commemorated Patriot Day. … Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we'll take a look at the past week with Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show…

New crime in HopeandChange Era? Failure to insure

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Posted: September 25, 2009

" Those who refuse to pay their taxes will eventually go to prison for it, unless the person is someone like Tim Geithner, who then gets to run the agency that puts people in prison for failing to pay their taxes. … Ensign asked Thomas Barthold, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, what would happen if a taxpayer refused to buy health insurance and then refused to pay the subsequent fine, which could run to $1900 for an individual. … Senator John Ensign (R-NV) wanted to get an answer on the implications of the individual mandate in the ObamaCare bill floated by Max Baucus (D-MT) during the markup session…

Quotes of the day

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Posted: January 2, 2014

A de Blasio aide dismissed the idea that his inauguration was shadowed by Obama's, or by the common progressive critique of Obama's first term — that he lost his base, and gained little, by reaching to the center, and that he tried to court rather than forcing compromise. … "I am very comfortable with everyone's remarks yesterday and I think the ceremony represented the positive aspiration of New Yorkers for a more just city," he told reporters today after swearing in his new Police Commissioner, Bill Bratton, at a ceremony at 1 Police Plaza. … In their eyes, the New York of today is not just a place where many people struggle mightily to make ends meet — of course it is — but a giant gladiator arena where wealthy people in glittering suites watch and laugh while the less fortunate fight to the death for scraps…

Video: Smoking gun on NYT-spiked-ACORN story?

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Posted: April 2, 2009

The story Morris tells of a promise to drop a scandal story in exchange for an exclusive interview sounds a lot like a story I reported last May about the hardball play the Times tried with John McCain. … It would have, as Dick Morris explains in this segment, put the Obama campaign in violation of campaign finance rules that prohibit coordination between campaigns and third-party organizations. … Last night, Bill O'Reilly played what appears to be smoking-gun evidence -- an answering machine message from NYT reporter Stephanie Strom explaining how the editors shut down the story…

Video: Inhofe going to global-warming conference in Copenhagen

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Posted: September 24, 2009

The Oklahoma Republican has long called global warming science a "hoax," and has repeatedly warned that regulatory schemes to abate carbon and other polluting emissions would be excessively harmful to the economy. … A noted skeptic of global warming, Inhofe pledged to present "another view" on climate change during the December summit to hash out an international climate change agreement... … The leading Congressional skeptic of global warming plans his first trip to the annual conference in six years to act as the "only voice" of opposition, and hopes to force the attendees to deal with rising skepticism about the claims of climate-change advocates…

Bailout deal reached; Update: ACORN, other pork removed

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Posted: September 28, 2008

Lawmakers also included provisions allowing them to keep a close eye on the Treasury program, including a bipartisan oversight board appointed by members of both parties in Congress, an inspector general to monitor Treasury decisions, and regular audits from the Government Accountability Office. … The summary issued by Ms. Pelosi's office said the legislation will include provisions giving Treasury the ability to work with cash-strapped homeowners whose mortgages are purchased by the federal government to refinance into a more affordable mortgage. … A summary of the tentative agreement released by Ms. Pelosi's office said the plan "gives taxpayers an ownership stake and profit-making opportunities with participating companies; puts taxpayers first in line to recover assets if a participating company fails; (and) guarantees taxpayers are repaid in full -- if other protections have not actually produced a profit…

The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama

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Posted: October 21, 2008

Gibson asks Obama why he insists on raising capital gains taxes (which affect millions of American investors) even after history has proven that raising said taxes actually decreases government revenues from the taxes, and cutting capital gains taxes actually brings more revenue into federal coffers. … Second, he pledges to a Planned Parenthood gathering that the very first thing he'd do as president is sign the Freedom Of Choice Act, which—according to the bill's own supporters — would abolish bans on partial-birth abortion and parental notification laws nationwide while implementing tax-payer funded abortions. … If recent polls are to believed, freshman Senator Barack Obama has a better than average chance of becoming America's 44th President, the Commander-in-Chief of the planet's most powerful military, and the proverbial leader of the free world…

On my desk: The Manchurian President

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Posted: May 1, 2010

The book ties Obama to a number of other radicals who were associated with SED's parent group, whose founding members included fellow antiwar protesters, a politician known to be a communist collaborator, and a founding member of the Black Panthers. … The book, which comes out this week, promises an explosive look at Obama's relationship to radicals; Klein's original reporting on Van Jones helped expose the ties the "green jobs czar" had to radical leftists and pushed Jones into eventually resigning his post. … My friend Aaron Klein, now a WABC radio host who has done some amazing work in probing Islamist terrorism in the Middle East, and Brenda Elliott have turned their attention to domestic politics and Barack Obama in his latest book, The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists…

Bachmann: Stop Barney Frank’s power grab in the financial sector

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Posted: December 11, 2009

We just need to get this on our radar screen quickly and start perusing its 1300 pages more than members of Congress did before having it crammed down their throats. … She also encourages people to call their Representatives today to at least try to stop this bill, but like Bachmann, I think the chances of stopping it there are negligible, especially since Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank have a 75-seat majority and the bill has flown under the radar during the health-care debate in the Senate. … Those of us who know her on a more personal basis know that's a pretty good description of Michele personally, but politically, she's about as tough as they get…

Quote of the day

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Posted: October 1, 2009

If more conservative talkers took up the theme of challenging liberalism's bedrock assumptions the way Beck does from time to time, liberals would have to defend their problematic premises more often." … Pestritto is a young political scientist at Hillsdale College in Michigan whom Beck has had on his TV show several times, once for the entire hour discussing Woodrow Wilson and progressivism. … His on-air weepiness is unmanly, his flirtation with conspiracy theories a debilitating dead-end, and his judgments sometimes loopy (McCain worse than Obama?) or just plain counterproductive (such as his convoluted charge that Obama is a racist)…

Missing 20 million votes?

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Posted: November 5, 2008

They're added to the rest of the ballots in the precinct (and checked against the rolls), and presumably counted with the rest of the ballots. … Update: Readers ask about absentee ballots in California as a potential source for new votes, but for those to qualify, they have to be received by the time the polls close on Election Day. … *** Highest turnout rate since '08 -- 1908: Provided the number stands, the turnout rate for yesterday's election was the highest in 100 years, according to the estimate from turnout guru Dr. Michael McDonald at George Mason University…

Great news: ACORN helping hire workers for U.S. Census

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Posted: March 17, 2009

Buckner said the bureau received an overwhelming number of qualified applicants -- more than 1 million -- for the 140,000 census taker jobs filled to complete the first phase of the effort. … "The Census (Bureau) is a nonpartisan, non-political agency and we're very dedicated to an accurate account," bureau spokesman Stephen Buckner told FOXNews.com. … Not a huge deal, I think, given the sheer numbers we're talking about -- the Census Bureau has 250 organizational partners soliciting one million applicants for 140,000 jobs -- but combine this with The One's tentative efforts to assume greater control of the census and we're looking at hours and hours of rich bloggy goodness next year when the inevitable stories about lost forms and miscounts start to appear…

Sixth Circuit orders Ohio to implement new system to verify voter registrations

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Posted: October 14, 2008

Note the point made by the correspondent in the latter clip (or by the Republican lawyer quoted here): It's not really voter impersonation that's the big worry, it's the logistical nightmare of poll workers having to sift so many bogus registration forms that bona fide registrations can't be processed in a timely manner. … Her shameful actions to disenfranchise Republican absentee voters, block the transparency of early voting and refuse the proper verification of newly registered voters have rightfully damaged her credibility as a nonpartisan election administrator. … The full panel reversed that ruling today, which means now she'll have to report mismatches between names on registration forms and names on DMV records to the local county elections boards…

DNC lies shamelessly about support for Obama’s horrific budget

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Posted: April 3, 2009

In fact, the canvassing of Obama's vaunted e-mail list of 13 million people resulted in just 114,000 pledges -- a response rate of less than 1 percent. … "Supporters of President Obama's Budget to Hand Deliver 642,000 Pledges Gathered from Around the Country to Capitol Hill," announced the Democrats' news release. … At Democratic National Committee headquarters yesterday morning, party workers were loading minivans with Xerox boxes, each addressed to a different congressional office…

Quotes of the day

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Posted: September 18, 2009

We now have a populist news media that exaggerates the importance of the Van Jones and Acorn stories to prove the elites are decadent and un-American, and we have a progressive news media that exaggerates stories like the Joe Wilson shout and the opposition to the Obama schools speech to show that small-town folks are dumb wackos... … And it was guaranteed that this backlash would be ill mannered, conspiratorial and over the top — since these movements always are, whether they were led by Huey Long, Father Coughlin or anybody else. … Dowd, Carter and Sharpton can't grasp that conservatives are less hung up on race than they are and that we can get past Obama's skin color…

CNN demonstrates that they don’t understand what subprime means

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Posted: October 9, 2008

The financial crisis came from government deliberately distorting the lending market to push people into subprime loans who could not afford the houses they were buying -- and the advocates of that policy counted on "greed" to make it work. … Who accused regulators like Armando Falcon of racism for blowing the whistle on the bad financial decisions at Fannie and Freddie resulting from the massive underwriting of these loans? … In fact, thanks to the CRA and groups like ACORN, lenders got accused of racism if they didn't lower their standards -- and so long-established prerequisites for mortgages like income standards and down payments disappeared…

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