Thursday, June 28, 2007

House votes to accept $4,400 pay raise

"WASHINGTON - Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000."

Ron Paul voted against this pay increase.

The Yay's and Nay's

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VICTORY!

Senate blocks amnesty bill with 53 'NO' votes!

List of those who voted 'no' and those who voted 'yes' to follow.

46 Y - 53 N - 1 DNV
Senators up for election in 2008 are bolded.
Name
Party
State
Vote
AkakaDemocratHIY
BennettRepublicanUTY
BidenDemocratDEY
BoxerDemocratCAY
CantwellDemocratWAY
CardinDemocratMDY
CarperDemocratDEY
CaseyDemocratPAY
ClintonDemocratNYY
ConradDemocratNDY
CraigRepublicanIDY
DoddDemocratCTY
DurbinDemocratILY
FeingoldDemocratWIY
FeinsteinDemocratCAY
GrahamRepublicanSCY
GreggRepublicanNHY
HagelRepublicanNEY
InouyeDemocratHIY
KennedyDemocratMAY
KerryDemocratMAY
KlobucharDemocratMNY
KohlDemocratWIY
KylRepublicanAZY
LautenbergDemocratNJY
LeahyDemocratVTY
LevinDemocratMIY
LiebermanIndependentCTY
LincolnDemocratARY
LottRepublicanMSY
LugarRepublicanINY
MartinezRepublicanFLY
McCainRepublicanAZY
MenendezDemocratNJY
MikulskiDemocratMDY
MurrayDemocratWAY
NelsonDemocratFLY
ObamaDemocratILY
ReedDemocratRIY
ReidDemocratNVY
SalazarDemocratCOY
SchumerDemocratNYY
SnoweRepublicanMEY
SpecterRepublicanPAY
WhitehouseDemocratRIY
WydenDemocratORY
AlexanderRepublicanTNN
AllardRepublicanCON
BarrassoRepublicanWYN
BaucusDemocratMTN
BayhDemocratINN
BingamanDemocratNMN
BondRepublicanMON
BrownDemocratOHN
BrownbackRepublicanKSN
BunningRepublicanKYN
BurrRepublicanNCN
ByrdDemocratWVN
ChamblissRepublicanGAN
CoburnRepublicanOKN
CochranRepublicanMSN
ColemanRepublicanMNN
CollinsRepublicanMEN
CorkerRepublicanTNN
CornynRepublicanTXN
CrapoRepublicanIDN
DeMintRepublicanSCN
DoleRepublicanNCN
DomeniciRepublicanNMN
DorganDemocratNDN
EnsignRepublicanNVN
EnziRepublicanWYN
GrassleyRepublicanIAN
HarkinDemocratIAN
HatchRepublicanUTN
HutchisonRepublicanTXN
InhofeRepublicanOKN
IsaksonRepublicanGAN
LandrieuDemocratLAN
McCaskillDemocratMON
McConnellRepublicanKYN
MurkowskiRepublicanAKN
NelsonDemocratNEN
PryorDemocratARN
RobertsRepublicanKSN
RockefellerDemocratWVN
SandersIndependentVTN
SessionsRepublicanALN
ShelbyRepublicanALN
SmithRepublicanORN
StabenowDemocratMIN
StevensRepublicanAKN
SununuRepublicanNHN
TesterDemocratMTN
ThuneRepublicanSDN
VitterRepublicanLAN
VoinovichRepublicanOHN
WarnerRepublicanVAN
WebbDemocratVAN
JohnsonDemocratSDDNV
Joe Biden is running for POTUS

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Mitt Romney's Past Animal Abuse

According to a Time.com article, shocking details of a horrible act of animal cruelty have come to light. The act? Strapping a dog container to the top of a car and then taking it on a twelve hour road trip from Boston to Ontario, all while the a dog was within the container. The perpetrator? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The Romney pet was a dog named Seamus, an Irish Setter.

Article: TIME

Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto Show 6-26-07


FBI wants students to stop travelling

THE FBI IS visiting the nation's top technical universities in a bid to stop students taking their holidays outside the country. MIT, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts, have all had a visit from the spooks to warn them about the dangers of foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive academic research.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Ron Paul in Arizona

"Dr. Paul addressed a sold-out crowd of ARA members and guests delivering his signature message that harkens back to the fundamental principles America was founded upon: limited constitutional government, personal responsibility, low taxes, free markets, non-intervention and sound monetary policies."



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Rick Perry & Rudy Giuliani Linked To NAFTA Superhighway & SPP

Gov. Perry has received campaign contributions from Cintra and Zachry Construction Company, a San Antonio-based construction firm selected by TxDOT to build out the Trans-Texas Corridor. It has also been established that Cintra is represented in the United States by Bracewell and Giuliani, Republican Party presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's Houston-based law firm.



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Report: Iranian Forces Enter Southern Iraq

According to AFP, the Sun tabloid is reporting that British forces have spotted Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces in southern Iraq. The British defense minister would not confirm or deny the report and refused to make a comment on the matter due to it's sensitive nature.

"An unidentified intelligence source told the tabloid: "It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran -- but nobody has officially declared it.""

Breitbart Article

The Sun Article

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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Democrats Plan To Cut Cheney Out Of Executive Funding Bill

"Following Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney's office."



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Bush exempts himself from security too, LA Times to report

"The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight by an independent federal watchdog," the Los Angeles Times will report Saturday.



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City Council Member: "Screw Folk's Constitutional Rights"



Sacramento City Councilwoman Bonnie Pannell voted to restrict access to constitutionally protected material in the public library system. Here is what she has to say on the matter of constitutional rights.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Ron Paul Excluded In Iowa

Kent Snyder, Chairman of the Ron Paul 2008 for President campaign, was recently interviewed by radio host Jan Mickelson of WHO News Radio 1040. The topic of the interview was the arbitrary decision to exclude Ron Paul from a panel in Iowa. The groups Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance decided to bar Ron Paul because they decided, on their own, that Ron Paul is not a credible candidate, despite winning most internet polls and having a large conservative backing.Ron Paul, despite his golden voting record when it comes to taxes, is not welcome in Iowa, or at least that is what Edward Failor would have Iowans believe. Edward Failor is a board member of the Iowans for Tax Relief and a member of the McCain presidential campaign, an interesting little coincidence.



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Friday, June 08, 2007

U.S. military arming Iraqi guerrillas.

"BUHRUZ, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. forces have begun arming nationalist guerrillas and former Saddam Hussein loyalists -- and coordinating tactics -- in a marriage of convenience against al Qaeda radicals in one of Iraq's most violent provinces, senior U.S. commanders tell CNN.

This new alliance, a result of the deepening divisions among Iraqi insurgent factions, was on display earlier this week at a highway intersection in the town of Tahrir. There, a group of some 15 insurgents publicly chanted: "Death to al Qaeda.""


Full Link: CNN

This is the exact same bonehead move we made when the Soviets were at war in Afghanistan, we went in and armed and trained a bunch of guerrilla forces; a move that came back later to bite us in the ass.