Rand Paul Causes A Vicious Senate Cat Fight Over Patriot Act. Book tour puts Rand Paul's 'secret' weapon on national stage. ERIK SCHELZIG and STEVE PEOPLES, The Associated Press Posted: Friday, January 9, 2015, 3:23 AM.
5 (political) reasons 2014 sucked—and 5 reasons to be optimistic in 2015. It wasn’t the best of times or the worst of times, but 2014 did have some highs and lows.
So as we head into a new year, here’s a quick review—and a look at why 2015 could see real progress for peace, freedom, and prosperity. 1. Evil torturers catch a break: How America got distracted from a national travesty. The United States is in real trouble when the story about the hacking into Sony Pictures computers and their decision to pull an inane comedy totally big foots the deeply troubling Senate Intelligence Committee’s study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program.
Talk about using the holidays to flush bad news. Between the salacious internal Sony emails, the Obama administration’s watershed reset of U.S. -Cuban relations, and Christmas the average American will not get reporting on the fine print in the Senate Committee report nor a full analysis of the ambiguous CIA response. Actually, Rand Paul Knows Exactly What He Is Talking About. Appearing with Megyn Kelly to discuss the Cuba situation last night, Sen.
Marco Rubio (R-FL)Heritage ActionScorecard Sen. Marco Rubio Senate Republican Average See Full Scorecard82% discussed the policy change toward Cuba. Sen. Ron Paul destroys America’s two-party system in one interview. 103Share 18Tweet 3Share 0Reddit 0Share 2Stumble 1Email Print Friendly Libertarian hero, former Texas representative, and presidential candidate Ron Paul said an interview that the notion that we have two parties in America is dead wrong.
Rand Paul breaks silence over Obama’s Iraq decisions. On Monday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) commented on President Barack Obama’s recent decision to authorize military airstrikes against the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq.
Paul, who critics accuse of having an “isolationist” stance on foreign policy, didn’t completely disagree with the president, but pointed out that President Obama’s previous actions have helped create the current crisis. Politics. ABC reporter asks President Obama: does it bother you that you will be remembered as an “imperial” or “do-nothing” president. ABC’s Jon Karl pointed out to President Barack Obama that he once took former President George W.
Bush for pushing the limits of executive power this week. Karl notes that despite that original charge, the two great public opinions will be of him as an imperial president, who pushes the boundaries of the law, or as a “do-nothing” president who can’t get anything done due to his relationship with Congress. Showing no mercy, Amash slams his defeated opponent during victory speech.
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Justin Amash (R-Mich.) held on to his 3rd congressional district seat Tuesday night, defeating his establishment challenger Brian Ellis 57-43. In his victory speech, Amash minced no words about his Republican primary opponent. Ellis, after conducting a nasty smear campaign — Amash highlighted the word nasty — called his opponent to concede. Snowden Leaks Documents on NSA Intelligence Relationship with Israel. In his latest leak, ex-NSA tech Snowden has revealed that chaos which has taken over the Middle East is the result of the cash and support granted by the US to Israel.
The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald further writes that Obama is merely pretending to be ‘helpless’. Another document reveals Israel was flagged as top spy threat to U.S. by the NSA itself. A clear examination took place in which the former Guardian unveils the exotic contrast that exists between the UN’s public declarations and actual doings behind the curtain. Barney Frank 'Appalled' By Obama Administration: 'They Just Lied To People'
‘What is She Doing?’ When Nancy Pelosi Gets Owned on the House Floor, She Reacts in Unbelievable Way. Normally, the Congressional votes are about as exciting as watching paint dry on growing grass, but when House Representative Tom Marino accused the Democrats of not being brave enough to pass immigration reform when they controlled the Congress, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi jumped up and came at the guy!
Marino struck a nerve by pointing out that the Democrats owned the entire Congress and White House for two years and did nothing about illegal immigration. Nancy Pelosi then crept up on Marino and began taunting him. Rep. Listen to Bill Clinton admit he could have killed bin Laden hours before 9/11. On September 10, 2001, former President Bill Clinton was speaking before a group of Australian business leaders. New audio has emerged of this discussion, in which Clinton talks about how he could have killed Osama bin Laden, but chose not to. “I nearly got him…and I could have killed him; but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent children. And then I would have been no better than him; so I didn’t do it,” Clinton is heard saying. The audio was released on Australian’s Paul Murray Live, care of former politician Michael Kroger. Former Commission Heads Endorse Rep. Walter Jones' 9/11 Declassification Bill. Russell Brand: “Terrorism is coming from” Sean Hannity.
In his web series “The Trews,” this week comedian Russell Brand watched “Hannity” so that you didn’t have to, and ripped apart Fox News host Sean Hannity for extremely “childish” and biased coverage of the incredibly complicated Israel-Gaza conflict. In response to a totally reasonable press release by the Council on American–Islamic Relations, which asked that American taxpayer funds not go towards killing innocent people in Gaza, Hannity wondered, “Why is America’s largest Muslim so-called civil rights group showing sympathy to terrorists? Let’s have a debate.”
The debate, which is already not really a debate as Brand points out, then devolved into Hannity shouting at his guest from the Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center, Yousef Munayyer. Munayyer was invited to offer his opinions, but Hannity was not interested in hearing them because they offered a more nuanced understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Jon Stewart wonders why we keep sending so many weapons to the Middle East.
On Tuesday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart questioned how the United States interpreted the word “peace.” After playing a series of clips in which politicians from both sides plead for peace in the Middle East, Stewart wondered what the country was doing to actually bring peace to the region. “We’re the United States! Dick Cheney refuses to answer whether he would support Rand Paul for president. On Sunday, former Vice President Dick Cheney would not say whether he would support Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) if the libertarian-leaning tea party champion were to become the Republican nominee in the next presidential election. ABC’s This Week host Jonathan Karl asked Cheney, “Rand Paul, many see him as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2016.
Given where he stands, again, much in opposition to most of what you just talked about–could you support a Republican nominee, Rand Paul for president?” Cheney replied, “I haven’t picked a nominee yet, but one of the things that’s right at the top of my list is whether or not the individual we nominate believes in a strong America, believes in a situation where the United States is able to provide the leadership in the world basically to maintain the peace.” The former vice president continued, “Rand Paul, by my standards, as I look at his philosophy, is basically an isolationist.”
Has Rand Paul been right all along about Israeli independence? Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has argued in the past that the U.S. should explore cutting aid to Israel because a more independent Israel would be better off. As the fighting intensifies in Gaza, Israel is starting to realize what independence means, Breitbart reports. “Israel is acting with greater independence than it has in decades, ignoring Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry as they push for a ceasefire that most Israelis see as premature,” Joel B.
Pollak writes. “In previous rounds in Gaza, the Israeli government had to weigh carefully the risk that it might alienate the White House if it pressed too hard for victory. Here’s what Halbig v. Burwell’s all about in 7 steps. So here is what the Russians are telling people happened to MH17. The courts just made a decision that could completely undermine Obamacare. A top federal appeals court dealt a crippling blow the Affordable Care Act Tuesday. Vous quittez Facebook... Want to know just how crazy John McCain and Lindsey Graham are on foreign policy? Fukushima crisis under control within nine months, says Tepco - Japan - RFI. Tepco said it aims to start reducing radiation leaks from the Fukushima plant within three months, and to reach “cold shutdown” of the reactors within six to nine months.
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex. US Sending 300 More Combat Troops to Iraq. A week and a half ago, President Obama broke his “no boots on the ground” pledge, sending 300 military advisers to Iraq. At the time, administration officials explained it by claiming they weren’t technically combat troops, and that the pledge was simply not to send “combat troops” to Iraq. Epic Rant: It Took Just 82 Seconds For Megyn Kelly To Utterly Destroy Obama. Ron Paul Responds to President Obama’s Statement on Iraq. Vous quittez Facebook... Vous quittez Facebook... (VIDEO) ABSOLUTE CHAOS IN IRAQ BUT WHITE HOUSE CLAIMS 'ENDING THE WAR IN IRAQ' AS A MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT. This week terrorists have taken over the cities of Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq.
They already had taken control of Fallujah. The country is spiraling out of control, but that didn’t stop White House spokesman Josh Earnest from claiming that ending the Iraq war is one of the administration’s major accomplishments. Obama Admin: We "Don't Actually Know The Cost Yet" Of Our Own Education Plan. Steve Forbes: Link dollar to gold or face Great Depression II. Influential financial publisher and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes is out with a new warning that the U.S. faces an economic catastrophe due to the Federal Reserve's loose dollar policy, and returning to a strict “gold standard” is the only way to avoid disaster.
In Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy -- and What We Can Do About It, Forbes blames President Obama's money team for the stagnant economy, high prices, declining mobility and big government. Vous quittez Facebook... What do we do about a lawless federal government? Kennedy slams Rick Santorum for his attacks on libertarians. Vous quittez Facebook... Dr. Ron Paul 'Liberty Defined: The Future of Freedom': Multimedia.
Free Trade Over Protectionism. How Washington and its Allies Use Social Media to Topple Governments & Manipulate Public Opinion. Rand Paul on Education: "I Don't Think You'd Notice If The Whole Department Was Gone Tomorrow" New poll: Rand Paul beats Hillary Clinton in Colorado. Rand Paul Taps a New Constituency. Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy. » Breaking: Sen. Harry Reid Behind BLM Land Grab of Bundy Ranch Alex Jones. Justin Amash: Young people have lost trust in government. BlogEntry?id=23272916&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fabcnews.go. Let’s Just Get Rid of the DEA Already. NATO: US Troops Could Be Deployed to Eastern Europe. Ron Paul: "There Is Going To Be Some Built Up Hostility Redirected At The United States" Official YAL Pocket Constitutions. Socio-political commentary.... : NATO sounds alarm as Russian forces build on Ukraine border.
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