(The Hill) House Republicans and Democrats started Friday morning’s debate over whether to defund last year’s healthcare law, and as part of this debate sparred over whether members should be allowed to call that law “ObamaCare.” After two House Republicans called it “ObamaCare,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) asked the chairman whether these “disparaging” remarks should be allowed on the House floor. (more…)
This is why we must engage right now in Wisconsin…. Ground Zero for AFSCME and Obama’s socialistic future. We Must support Governor Walker. (National Review OnLine – Stanley Kurtz) American politics just keeps getting more polarized. Be assured that Obama wants it that way. I argue in Radical-in-Chief that Obama’s long-term hope is to divide America along class lines (roughly speaking, tax payers versus tax beneficiaries). (more…)
h/t PatriotDreamer (WSJ) — Research spending and technology exports were some of the menu items Thursday evening when President Barack Obama sat down for dinner with corporate chieftains from Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.
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Morning Housers…. Whoot, Whoot, it’s friday….. Menagerie has a great thread lined up for this all to join in this morning. It’ll post at 10am. What’s on your mind today?
We are all familiar with how far entrenched the labor unions are with the current administration. Indeed, I think we all agree that Obama has been bought and paid for by the unions, and now he is doing their bidding. Check out the Organizing For America Web Page. my.barackobama.com (more…)
(Michelle Malkin) Public employee unions who force state workers to join and force them to fork over dues have a lot of chutzpah posing as freedom-fighters, don’t they? […] where the SEIU Purple Army and assorted Big Labor enforcers are trying to bring the state to its knees over the brave and necessary fiscal discipline that GOP Gov. Scott Walker has introduced. (more…)
MANAMA, Bahrain – Army patrols and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault Thursday that uprooted their protest camp demanding political change. Medical officials said four people were killed. (more…)
10. The Watts Riots: August 11-15, 1965
The term Watts Riots of 1965 refers to a large-scale riot which lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in August 1965. By the time the riot subsided, 34 people had been killed, 2,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested. (more…)
I know this is not the normal open thread picture. But it just,… well,….. needed to be shared. The more you look at it, the more it just speaks volumes. It is easily my favorite pic of the year so far. It’s frilliant.
What’s on your mind today?
It’s looking like Glenn Beck was right when he shared his view on what was driving Iran’s ideology, the 12th Imam…… (AFP)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that a new Middle East is being created which would be free of the United States and Israel, as he backed the Arab uprisings but warned Egyptians to be watchful of America’s “friendly face.” (more…)