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by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USAPurveyor of TruthPresident Obama poked a stick in Russian President Vladimir Putin's eye Monday when he announced sanctions would placed on several high-profile Russian and Ukrainian officials. As one might expect it is being reported that Strong Arm Putin will respond by, you got it, placing sanctions on certain United States Senators.TPM - Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USAPurveyor if TruthHouse Republican leaders are adopting an agreed-upon conservative approach to fixing the nation’s health-care system, in part to draw an election-year contrast with President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.The plan includes an expansion of high-risk insurance pools, promotion of health savings accounts and inducements for small businesses to purchase coverage together.Well...

Speak Softly And Carry A ... Wet Noodle? A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet*******************************I must tell you -- I am embarrassed by our President. I mean red-faced embarrassment.  Obama is proving to be the empty suit we warned he was back in 2008.  That doesn't make me feel any better ... being right, I mean.  In fact, it scares the heck out of me. Look.  Mitt Romney was right...

The Continuing Hoax of Global Warming!Dems Intend to Ram "Global Warming" Down Our Throats, too!A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet**************I would have enjoyed a full-throated belly laugh at the spectacle of idiots on display recently as the Democrats held an all night talkathon on Global Warming, er, Climate Change.  As I said -- I WOULD HAVE -- had I not remembered how such antics -- so easily seen through...

Sacrificing America's TroopsAmerica's Next War Will Be A Blood Bath A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet****************Look.  I'm no "super patriot" or anything approaching that.  I do, however, have a deep and abiding love for America and at one point in my youth signed my name to the necessary papers stating that I would willingly give up my life for my country as a soldier in the United States Army. I...

Obamacare: a legacy unraveling While the majority of the population slept our misdirected government engineered major changes to their legacy legislative effort, Obamacare. Most startling of the alterations, many will be able to keep their traditional plans intact deep into 2017. Thirty other changes, through Executive edicts, have been implemented to make this egregious law more palatable to voters in 2014 and...

Commentary by James ShottThese days talk of government excesses is routine. A list of recent infractions contains things like the Internal Revenue Service using its resources to persecute applicants for non-profit status and the National Security Agency collecting data on every American’s phone calls and email. Government excesses have been growing for a long time, and since 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked four airliners...

Brushfires of FreedomA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet****************During this country's first "... times that try men's souls...," a member of a small minority of the American colonists, thought of as a radical, a rabble rouser, even a traitor, kept the fires of freedom burning in the hearts and minds of his fellow colonists.  His name was Samuel Adams.  He was known by his friends as just plain "Sam."Just...

Game of StonesCzar Putin Resurrecting Old Soviet EmpireA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet******************Once upon a time in the land of Russka, Czar Vladimir of Putin, perceived himself of a notion, and was, thereby, convinced (easily and quickly) that somewhere it was written that he, and ONLY he, would be the savior of the glorious  Empire of the Council of Soviets.   An invasion of the ancestral...

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by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USAPurveyor of TruthHow is the public served by muzzling one of the most thoughtful, accomplished and respected political voices of her time just because she happens to be a Republican?Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was extended an invitation to speak at Rutgers University graduation ceremonies, as well as receiving an honorary degree from the University. Rutgers University...

By Findalis of Monkey in the MiddleBy Dennis MacEoinEverybody hates Israel. That is not just accepted wisdom, it is a reality that chokes all rational debate on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. There are exceptions, of course, such as Canada, but most of Western Europe has slipped from support for Israel to support for the Palestinian cause, as if both sides might not have valid claims to the disputed...

by: Les CarpenterRation Nation USAPurveyor of TruthToday the Senate rejected President Obama's nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the DOJ's civil rights division. In a surprising 47-52 vote seven democratic senators joined republicans to deny Mr. Adegbile confirmation.This defeat highlights the break with the Obama administration and Senate leadership by more moderate centrist democrats. In what is developing as a...

State Representative Strachota became the first woman to be elected as Assembly majority leader after Representative Kramer was ousted by GOP.By H. Nelson GoodsonMarch 6, 2014Madison, WI - On Tuesday,  State Representative Patricia Strachota (R-West Bend) was selected as the new Assembly majority leader, making her the first woman to get elected to the position in state history. She replaced former majority leader...

Michael Joseph Pepe (News photo taken in 2006)Pepe showed no remorse when he was sentenced on Friday in federal court after a 2008 conviction for raping and molesting at least seven girls, who are Cambodian nationals between the age of 9 to 12.By H. Nelson GoodsonMarch 5, 2014Los Angeles, CA - On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Dale S. Fischer sentenced Michael Joseph Pepe,  60, of Oxnard,  a retired...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USAPurveyor of TruthAs the United States and the World watch and react (or not react, sometimes the best response) we are witnessing geopolitical posturing (and hyperbole) kicking into high gear. The management of this site has stocked up on healthy snacks (and not so healthy beverages :-) ) to watch the irrationality place itself out. As much as it is tempting to pontificate on the...

The Los Angeles Police Department continues to deny media access to mugshots of suspects charged with felonies, unless they are looking for more victims.By H. Nelson GoodsonMarch 4, 2014Los Angeles, CA - Hispanic News Network U.S.A. has learned that the Los Angeles Police Department has a policy that denies media requests for mugshots of those suspects charged with a felony crime, unless they are looking for more...

Commentary by James ShottSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave a speech on the Senate floor last week where he said this about the disastrous implementation of the Affordable Care Act: "Despite all that good news, there’s plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue."This abjectly stupid remark ignores the problems millions of the people Harry Reid serves as Majority Leader have encountered at...