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crankster
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Jan 28, 2015 - 07:44pm PT
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I'm not sure what Berkeley has to do with anything. What I meant was conservatives flock to Fox and talk radio and dominate the markets in viewership. There is no shortage of air time for conservative media. It's nonstop. The networks do an ok job, but they are right of center, mostly. Except PBS.
So, a few colleges don't want a certain right wing speaker. It's inconsequential overall. Conservative speech being quelled? Nonsense.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Dare you to watch.
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jan 28, 2015 - 10:21pm PT
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Palin's First Amendment rights allow her to look like as big of an idiot as she wants to be.
And if you don't like it, she'll shoot you in the face.
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dirtbag
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2015 - 09:48am PT
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It's nice that bookworm's special ed class provides him access to the Internet.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 29, 2015 - 10:39am PT
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That was one strange article. National Review must be desperate.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jan 29, 2015 - 11:55am PT
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bookworm posted of course, $1,000,000,000,000 is "free" in libspeak
Funny how not a single liberal ever said it would be free which is why there were actual payfors in it (the much maligned tax hikes).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/01/27/revised-cbo-outlook-shows-the-damage-wrought-by-obamacare/
On pages 128 and 129, you learn how the cost of Obamacare to the federal government is less than projected. In 2010, the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation projected that the ACA “would cost the federal government $710 billion during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.” The agencies now report that “those provisions will cost $571 billion over that same period, a reduction of 20 percent.” The CBO says the reasons for this are many, but it highlights a key factor. “Another notable influence on the downward revision to projected federal costs is the slowdown in the growth of health care costs that has been experienced by private insurers,” the report notes, “as well as by the Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-27/obamacare-will-cost-20-less-than-initial-projections-cbo-says
Through 2019, the law's insurance provisions will cost an estimated $571 billion, down $139 billion from the CBO's initial estimates.
But you can keep getting your news from websites that also have headlines like 'Get out of here, you low-life scum!' John McCain goes ballistic on protesters who called for 'war crimes' prosecution of Henry Kissinger during hearing and Constipation, bad breath and ruined tastebuds: What flying REALLY does to your body (and how to fix it) They seem to be serving you quite well. That one about constipation and bad breath might be really helpful I'm guessing.
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HighDesertDJ
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Jan 29, 2015 - 12:03pm PT
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John posted Surely the President was well-acquainted with New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, decided by the Warren Court more than fifty years ago, vindicating the First Amendment rights of the New York Times Company - a corporation. How is a restriction on who can disseminate their political opinions, based on the identity of the speaker, not a violation of the First Amendment?
A corporation entirely devoted to journalism in a case centered around freedom of the press. I'm going to guess that the NYT editorial board would not have come to Sulzberger's defense had he began insisting that dictating his employee's healthcare choices were an extension of his corporation's "first amendment rights" just as the NYT is not entirely immune from libel.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Jan 30, 2015 - 04:01am PT
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Splater wrote:
It's about the war people dream we had, not the actual war.
I thought the movie was about the moral dilemmas individuals at war face, but we all see the world through our own prisms.
Sophia A. McClennen, the author of Splater's link wrote:
"the film depicts Kyle as a hero and a martyr, the real American sniper was heartless and cruel. Rather than struggle with moral dilemmas as we see in the film, the actual man had no such hesitation and no such conscience."
What are her sources for what Kyle was thinking? She sounds bitter that the movie is doing well.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Jan 30, 2015 - 06:34am PT
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I thought the movie was about the moral dilemmas individuals at war face,
My take, too.
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Norton
Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:04am PT
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Since the ONLY reason the Repubs have lost the last two Pres elections is because their
candidates were not conservative enough....
their primary voters will nominate the most reliably extreme, pure, conservative
therefore
look for Ted Cruz to battle Chris Christie, with Christie taking the nomination
and pick Rand Paul as his VP
with Sarah as Secretary of State
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dirtbag
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2015 - 09:39am PT
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Darn--no Mitt.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:46am PT
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The 2016 POTUS winner is already in the bag.
It's completely rigged.
It will be another useless fool puppet that you politards can spend your next several years drooling at ......
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Cragar
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MSLA - MT
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:52am PT
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And the new Dem or whatever will continue down the same road. That road is paved better than any interstate in the US, however there are virtually ZERO offramps, except the few that lead to the Koch's and whatnot
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dirtbag
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2015 - 09:56am PT
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It will be fun watching Jindal, Cruz and Palin debating.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jan 30, 2015 - 10:39am PT
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I agree..Sarah would make a hot, naughty nurse....
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jan 30, 2015 - 11:11am PT
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It will be fun watching Jindal, Cruz and Palin debating.
After the glory of the 2012 primary the RNC could raise hundreds of millions of dollars this time around simply holding weekly debates and selling them PPV to Democrats.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 30, 2015 - 11:24am PT
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I was going to start a separate thread, Democrat Candidates, but I didn't want to start another political thread (even though it's a pretty interesting topic).
If Hillary runs, with there be any challengers? If she doesn't, what then? Anyway, I really like what Bernie Sanders has to say, and the way he says it.
Here's an excerpt from an article that I found worth the read:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/30/sanders-focus-not-clinton-whether-2016-run-could-mobilize-masses
Separately, in an interview set to air on C-SPAN's Newsmakers this Sunday, Sanders makes it clear that his current strategy is less about targeting Clinton and much more about raising, with urgency, the issues that neither of the two major parties have proven capable of addressing: the rise of of the billionaire class, the impact of money in politics, the unprecedented threat of climate change, and a generation of wage stagnation ...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 30, 2015 - 11:34am PT
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"There's nothing more entertaining than getting really high and watching GOP primary debates"...
Maybe there should be a game show, Double Jeopardy.
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