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    • Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy — video that now has forced the official to resign.

      Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.
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      Bye Bye and don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out

    • We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.

      In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.

      Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement.
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      Disgustingly racist but we all know the story

    • As California's whooping cough epidemic continues to grow, health officials are urging women and seniors to get vaccinated.

      Department of Health officials said the number of whooping cough cases have climbed to 1,496 cases as of July 16 statewide. This figure is five times the number of cases logged the same time last year
      In 2010, five California residents have died from the disease. All were Latino babies under 3 months old who were too young to be immunized. Also, a sixth infant death is under investigation.

      Typically, a case of whooping cough appears similar to a common cold up to approximately two weeks. This is followed by weeks or months of rapid coughing fits that sometimes end with a whooping sound.

      Officials advise seniors and women in child-bearing years to get vaccinated..

    • Carly Fiorina, 55, has been contending with chemotherapy and radiation treatments and reconstructive surgery because of breast cancer, so she is understandably undaunted by the relatively minor challenge of winning a U.S. Senate seat in this state that last elected a freshman Republican senator in 1982, that has not supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, and that has not elected a right-to-life candidate in statewide voting since 1998. This race will test the power of the rising Republican wave.

      Fiorina might surf it from here to Capitol Hill because her opponent, Barbara Boxer, 69, is the Senate’s fiercest liberal, and California is an intensely unhappy laboratory for liberalism—high taxes, opulent entitlements, thick regulations, and subservience to government employees’ unions.
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      Carly will win this race by 3-5 points

    • New polling from Pennsylvania moves that state’s Senate race from the Toss-Up category to Leans GOP. Pat Toomey now leads Joe Sestak by seven points.

      With two months of summer left before the fall campaign season begins in earnest, Rasmussen Reports polling shows that Republicans are poised to pick up Democratic-held Senate seats in three states— Arkansas, Indiana, and North Dakota. Two others are leaning that way–Delaware and Pennsylvania. Arkansas' Blanche Lincoln is the only incumbent senator currently projected to lose a seat. The others are open-seat races following retirements by Democratic incumbents.

      At the moment, outside of the Toss-Up states, no Republican-held seats appear headed for the Democratic column.
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      And, the Dems are starting to panic

      (tags: democrats GOP)
    • Bill Emmerson shifted his official residence from Redlands to Hemet so he could run for a state senate seat vacated when Senator John Benoit was appointed to fill the late Roy Wilson's position on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.

      In this case, Emmerson, who left an assembly seat for a Riverside County senate district when he won in June, should not be accused of carpet bagging. His move from Redlands was a return home.

      Though Emmerson was active in the Redlands community where he lived and represented the San Bernardino County-based 63rd Assembly District, he held deep roots in Hemet.
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      And, he represents California dentists well

    • Under pressure, the Democrats are cracking. On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there is a realization that Nancy Pelosi's hold on the speakership is in true jeopardy; that losing control of the Senate is not out of the question; and that time, once the Democrats' best friend, is now their mortal enemy. Since January, when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, the President's party has tried to downplay in public what its pollsters have been saying in private: that Obama's alienation of independents and white voters, along with the enthusiasm gap between the right and the left, means that Republicans are on a trajectory to pick up massive numbers of House and Senate seats, perhaps even to regain control of Congress.
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      Unless the Congress passes some meaningful economic reform, the Dems will suffer massive losses in November
      (tags: democrats GOP)
  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day July 19, 2010 – Taxing It All

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Socialists like Castro, Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama will tax the air you breathe if it brings about the redistribution of income they covet. But, this scheme does NOT work – not even in a utopian police state like the Soviet Union.

    Remember?

    The current American economic morass was created by government largess in the housing market and “cheap” money. But over regulation of financial markets/business to redistribute economic activbity will NOT solve anything.

    The latest unemployment figures for the State of Nevada are out this morning and they are NOT good – 14.2%.

    If the President does not take some constructive pro-market economic action by the Fall, he and the Democrats will suffer massive losses at the polls – and, then, the Republicans will do it.

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