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• The Destruction Of Freedom

  By POLITICS 24/7 guest blogger Michael Duminiak There are those who claim that the reduction of freedom is not the foundation of the Obama Administration.  As one who believes that Obama and his allies are indeed basing their agenda on the destruction of freedom, I think it is important to examine the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:44am EST
  by Kempite

• Republican National Committee Contemplates A Litmus Test For Their Nominees

      Indiana Congressman James Bopp , Jr. recently circulated a draft resolution for the Republican National Committee to implement a practicew that would essentially vet the candidates that the party fields for elected office as nominees whom they fund and endorse. The resolution would prohibit the RNC from endorsing or contributing financial [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:53am EST
  by Kempite

• Liberal Hypocrisy Proven Again! They Want A War Tax But Some Won’t Pay Any Taxes

      I consistently contend that liberals are hypocrites and that the contemporary, predominantly liberal, Democrat Party, possesses a hypocrisy based ideology. Hypocrisy is so ingrained in liberalism that it seeps into everything from the way they do business to the policies they promote and the double standards they operate under. For example. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by Kempite

• Happy Thanksgiving From POLITICS 24/7

  “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” -Frederick Koenig Be sure to click here to read “She Set The Table For Thanksgiving“  a reflection of what our thanks is really for [...][...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:15pm EST
  by Kempite

• She Set The Thanksgiving Table

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      She was an older woman. Her face was etched with a history of struggles and her heart strengthened by a faith in a force that was the backbone of her survival. She was a bright lady, industrious and ingenious. Determined and strong willed, her fury could be unlike the [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:30am EST
  by Kempite

• In New Jersey, Former Phila. Eagle To Run For Congress & Former CNN Anchor To Run For Senate

       John Adler is a freshman Democrat Congressman representing New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District. He came to office after winning a close election down ticket from the landslide, 15% plurality that Barack Obama polled on the same line. New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District is not a safe district for Democrats and [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:32pm EST
  by Kempite

• Plate Hate Offers A Remedy To Holiday Road Rage

       Summertime often provides a steady stream of traffic. If you’re not struggling through rush hour traffic on the weekday, come late afternoon Friday, you’re finding yourself coping with congested roads filled with weekend tourists traveling to the mountains, the beaches, the lake or the quaint and once quiet hamlet [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Kempite

• 9/11 Never Forget Coalition Calls For Action

      Today, the families of 9/11 victims gathered together to make an emotional appeal for support from fellow Americans. Led by Debra Burlingame, the sister of Charles Burlingame, the pilot of the hijacked plane that was intentionally flown into The Pentagon, the  “9/11 Never Forget Coalition”  urged all to join them on December [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:44pm EST
  by Kempite

• “HOPE Is Fading Fast” Takes On New Meaning For President Obama

      I wish I could take credit for this little gem but it comes to POLITICS 24/7  from our great conservative compatriots at PatriotRoom.com.    But more than that, I wish I were the creative individual that came up with the snappy play on words and use of imagery that makes the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  by Kempite

• Lou Dobbs Running For Elected Office?

     Last week POLITICS 24/7 listed Lou Dobbs, the financial guru and now former CNN anchor, as a winner of the week. We congratulated him for leaving a news outfit that was beneath him and discussed speculation about him possibly running for US Senate in his home state of New Jersey. Well [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:28pm EST
  by Kempite

• Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down. This Week’s Winners & Losers 11/16/09-11/22/09

    Week of 11/16/09  through 11/22/09 LOSERS Recovery.gov & Vice President Biden   In his State of the Union address, President Obama claimed that a spending package as big as his historic stimulus package, we had to make sure we spend it right. He added “Here in Washington, we’ve all seen how quickly good intentions [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:28am EST
  by Kempite

• Attorney For 9/11 Conspirator Warns Against A Civilian Trial

      Scott Fenstermaker is the attorney for one of the 9/11 Five…….the five enemy combatants who admitted to playing a roll in the attacks of September 11th in 2001. Under the direction of attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama Administration decided that these mass murders, who are responsible for the most [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:32pm EST
  by Kempite

• Senate Overcomes Filibuster of Their Government Healthcare Takeover Bill

      After House Democrats passed a 1,990 page bill that would have the government takeover health care in America, today, in an unusual Saturday session, Democrats in the US Senate have voted to place their own 2,074-page bill that would have government takeover healthcare in America. Democrats claim that the bill is [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:47pm EST
  by Kempite

• Louisiana’s Landrieu Exposed As The Magnolia Madame

      POLITICS 24/7 has uncovered another Capitol Hill prostitution ring. In light of Saturday’s procedural vote to prevent a filibuster that would kill the Senate version of a government healthcare takeover, Politics 24/7 confirms that Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is an active political prostitute and it has been further confirmed that [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:40pm EST
  by Kempite

• Radical Muslims Outsmart Themselves

    Guest Editorial by Mike Duminiak  Somalia is “ruled” by a large number of armed groups. In the classic ‘might makes right’ story, any group of yo-yos with a large amount of fire power can stake out some territory and then ‘rule’ that scrap of land. The people living in that area [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by Kempite

• Rudy The Red Republican Senator In Democrat Blue New York ?

      Politicos are painting a picture that will allow New York state to become a battleground state in next year’s midterm elections. A number of established Albany insiders who forecast the political climate like Al Roker giving the weekly weather, are indicating that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:27pm EST
  by Kempite

• This Week’s Political Winners and Losers

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     Week of 11/8/09 through 11/15/09 LOSERS Eric Holder Once considered one of the most prominent prosecutors in America, Eric Holder’s decision to forego a military tribunal for the five enemy combatants who have plead guilty to planning the attacks of 9/11, is an irresponsible travesty that will have a negative impact of such [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:20am EST
  by Kempite

• The Truth Is Hard To Accept And In The Case Of Iran, Few Do.

      Some realities are so disturbing that we would rather not deal with them. This habit tends to be a political phenomenon that we often encounter and that we often pay a dear price for. For decades our federal government has refused to face the harsh realities of deficit spending. They [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Bows Down To Hirohito’s Son…….Good Going Barry!

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       President Obama has begun a tour of Asia. He is pushing for the establishment of free trade agreements, similar to those that we have elsewhere in the world. On his first leg of the trip, the President went to Japan and met with the island nation’s new Prime Minister, Yukio [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:55pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Refuses To Properly Prosecute The War On Terror

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       We must all live with the consequences of our decisions but not all of us make decisions that hundreds of millions of other people will heave to live with as well. Perhaps that is why whom we choose to elect and represent us  in government is much more important [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:56pm EST
  by Kempite

• “Honey, You Remember Dada?

     “I missed you so much.  I’m sorry I went away“ Those are the words spoken by this soldier on his return home from the war.  Who is the one he speaks those words to?  It is to the one who rushes to his side before anyone else can get to [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:15pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Moves Towards A Final Decision Concerning Afghanistan

     If the reports coming out of Associated Press are accurate, President Obama may be prepared to take some measures in Afghanistan which would do us quite well. But those measures will not help us in either the short or the long-term if they are half measures. AP reported the following [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:21am EST
  by Kempite

• Yup, This Is Veterans Day. So What Are You Going To Do About It?

      On this Veterans Day, we have much to reflect on regarding our past and much to think about regarding our future.  We also have many people to honor. The events of last week at Fort Hood in Texas have punctuated the importance of this year’s Veterans Day, and not only [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:56pm EST
  by Kempite

• How Government Run Health Care Will Rip Your Heart Out

      Last week former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop made his views on existing healthcare reforms known to our nation’s legislative leaders. His message to them was, be careful about the reforms they make and also urged that whatever they do, do not make a bill that forces doctors and medical [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:50pm EST
  by Kempite

• The Berlin Wall Came Down, But Now The Washington Wall Goes Up

      This week marked the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is the anniversary of an event worthy to revisit and rethink. Of the dominoes that remained standing during the Cold War, the Berlin Wall’s fall, set in motion, the end of communism in Europe. And not [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:59am EST
  by Kempite

• Connecticut’s Republican Governor, Jodi Rell Will Not Seek Reelection

      Republican Governor Jodi Rell has just announced that she will not seek reelection next November. Her decision will move up the start of the Connecticut race for Governor. This typically liberal New England state is not friendly to Republicans and so many Democrats have already been looking into a run [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:29pm EST
  by Kempite

• The Week’s Best & Worst In Politics-Winners & Losers

    LOSERS Dede Scozzafava The NY State Assemblywoman and Republican nominee for Congress in NY’s 23rd CD, was outed as closet liberal, crashed, burned and decided to take everyone out with her.  She withdrew from the race on Saturday & endorsed the Democrat nominee over the Conservative candidate, Republican Doug Hoffman.  He lost in a narrow race and [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  by Kempite

• Why Did They Vote The Way The Did?

    As riveting as last night’s government healthcare takeover vote was, part of the mystique behind it involved hundreds of individual stories that involved political horse trading, private deals, favors, bribes and even extortion-like coercion. To actually pass this very unpopular and contentious bill took more arm twisting and bone [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:16pm EST
  by Kempite

• Reform Bill Passes The House But It’s A Version That Will Not Fly In The Senate

      While last night’s rare Saturday session of the House of Representatives and their subsequent vote on the big government takeover of the American health care system was at times suspenseful, ultimately it won passage. The vote was quite close though. In the end 39 Democrats opposed the bill and [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  by Kempite

• Healthcare Debate Update: Stupak Anti-Abortion Funding Amendment Passes

      By a vote of 240 to 194, the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which provides language that will have prohibit the House bill for a government takeover of heath care, from allowing any funding of abortion procedures passed. The move which satisfied a the handful of anti-abortion Democrats who were needed to pass [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  by Kempite

• Government Health Care Takeover May Go Down Because of Abortion

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    Passage of the Pelosi-Obama government takeover of health care may all come down to the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment is sponsored by Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan and Republican Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania and what is does is create language in the health care government takeover bill which not [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:40pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Asks Democrats To Walk The Plank On Healthcare Vote

     High Drama grips Washington, DC today in a way that has rarely ever been matched before. Few votes have ever been quite as transformative as the healthcare and insurance reform bill which Democrats and Nancy Pelosi are proposing on behalf of President Obama. The political intrigue being witnessed on this [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by Kempite

• Voters Made Clear How Congress Should Vote on Healthcare Reform

     Democrats are scrambling to pass a version of health and insurance reform that would have government control it. Currently they are trying to hold true to a scheduled rare Saturday but as more arms are twisted and language in the bill is tweaked, the Hose leadership is suggesting that [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:52pm EST
  by Kempite

• We Mourn Those Lost In Fort Hood Massacre and Must Honor Their Lives

     In what was one of the worst mass murders on an American military base in history, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist, went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas, days after he learned that he was being deployed to the Iraqi or Afghani war front. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  by Kempite

• Protesters Storm Congress To Prevent Passage Of Government Health Care Takeover

       Today, an unknown number of Americans will be gathering on the East Front Steps of the U.S. Capitol at 12 noon.The purpose——to make sure that that the House of Representatives understand that there will consequences to face if they pass their recent 2,000 page initiative that will have government [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:37am EST
  by Kempite

• National Review & POLITICS 24/7 Join Forces. Of sorts.

  National Review, a magazine which I have always greatly appreciated, just moved up a few notches in my book.  . Through their internet  site which mirrors their magazine, National Review Online or NRO , recently linked to POLITICS 24/7 in order to convey a  message about the 2009 elections. Author Jim Geraghty posted the image [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  by Kempite

• ATTN: DEMOCRATS; “Put Your Weapons Down, And Your Hands Up!”

      It’s said that  history has a way of repeating itself.   After seeing the results of the 2009 elections, it  looks like it is doing so right now.  Before the wheels started falling off the Republican bandwagon in 2006, Republicans suffered big defeats in both Virginia, and New Jersey, in 2005. Those [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:09pm EST
  by Kempite

• Chris Christie Wins New Jersey!! Republicans Win ‘09 Big!!

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    So far, in Republican strongholds like Monmouth and Ocean County, Chris Christie is over performing! Christine Todd Whitman was the last Republican to win statewide office in New Jersey and she did so, in part, due to racking up large pluralities in Monmouth and Ocean. Chris Christie is winning those [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:26pm EST
  by Kempite

• Exit Poll Proves Voters Are Not Voting For Christie, They’re Voting Against Corzine

     As the composition of today’s election for Governor of New Jersey begins to become clear,   an exit poll has shown some good news  and some bad news. When Chris Christie voters were asked whether they voted for Christie or against Corzine, 42% of them answered that they voted against Christie. This [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  by Kempite

• Fearful Jersey Democrats Start Campaigning For Chris Daggett

      In one of the most corrupt states in the Union, sleazy politics should come as no surprise to anyone.  But when an incumbent Governor and his state party stoop down to sleazy tactics in the closing hours of an election, you know they’re losing it———-figuratively and literally. PolitickerNJ.com, the state’ s premier [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  by Kempite

• Early 2009 Election Projections; Christie & Hoffman Win!?

      While most of the contests in the 2009 elections are local , the most focus and attention is on statewide elections, a special election and the nation’s largest city. POLITICS 24/7 is not taking much of a gamble by projecting two term, incumbent Mayor Mike Bloomberg the winner in New York [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:19pm EST
  by Kempite

• Poll Shows Incumbents Are At A Disadvantage In Today’s Elections

      A new poll conducted by Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates between the 27th and 29th of October has found that as voters go to the polls on this Election Day, they are anything but happy. Of likely voters only 27% of the respondents consider health care the top issues of concern [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:20am EST
  by Kempite

• Foxx Cried Wolf And It Must Be Denounced By Fellow Republicans

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     “I believe that the greatest fear that we all should have … to our freedom comes from this room, this very room, and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill,” “I believe we have more to fear from [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:17am EST
  by Kempite

• Election Eve 2009 Offers a Mix of Blowouts & Nail Biters But Republicans Look Good

      As voting on Election Day 2009 is about to begin in just a mere few hours, most of the races taking place in America are municipal elections.  These local elections are in many ways, the most important ones.   The effects of the leaders elected on the local level have some [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:45pm EST
  by Kempite

• Scozzafava Endorses Liberal Bill Owens and Says Goodbye To Her Assembly Seat

      After accepting the fact that she was outed as the liberal that she is, Assemblywoman and Republican nominee for Congress in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Dede Scozzafava, ended her campaign. She saw the writing on the wall and realized that her liberalism did not appeal to the people [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  by Kempite

• If Republicans Want To Win Big In 2010, They Must Scozzafavarize RINO’s

      Regardless of whether third party candidate, conservative Doug Hoffman, wins the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District on Tuesday or not, the fact that a district wide and nation wide backlash forced liberal Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava out of the race, was already a dramatic victory of [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:52am EST
  by Kempite