As Congress begins to focus on the next major fiscal issue, whether to raise the nation’s debt limit, Democrats can’t seem to agree on how to approach the issue, even as they fall all over themselves to explain why they think it’s vital to raise the limit now but eagerly voted against doing so a […]

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President Obama’s speech on the debt and his budget plans Wednesday was disappointing on many levels, and press reactions reflected that. Reports called out the president for again presenting no details and passing the heavy lifting to others. Both The Washington Post and Politico highlighted the excessively partisan tone of the speech, while The Wall […]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kristen Piontek press@move-on-up.org 314-323-8528 “Meet Me in St. Louis” Black Conservative Convention to be Hosted by Move-On-Up.org Move-On-Up.org, a social network of African American conservatives, will host convention to network and strategize for 2012 election season. ST. LOUIS, Mo. (April 15, 2011) – Move-On-Up.org, has announced plans for a black conservative convention, […]

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  This afternoon, President Obama is set to speak about his plan for addressing our nation’s debt crisis. However, there are important questions about the president’s approach. Will he acknowledge that something significant must be done about the debt when he asks Congress to raise the debt ceiling, as some Democrats are now saying? And […]

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 Source: AP “There are simply too many pressing issues at stake in our city, state and our country for us to have any other focus than our communities.”–Rep. Jamilah “Niecey Williams”Nahsheed Isn’t it ironic that a person who claims they are a “voice for the people” is a recipient of payday loan industry money? Isn’t […]

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 Quote of the Day: Rep. Jamilah ‘Niecey Williams’ Nasheed: ‘Domestic Violence is Self Inflicted’ Ass-Hat: “A general term for someone who carries out actions with such stupidity that they might as well wear their ass as a hat.” – Urban Dictionary Rep. Jamilah aka “Niecey Williams” Nasheed issued a statement yesterday urging a truce between […]

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Tomorrow, President Obama is going to give a speech on his plans to deal with the debt. The speech comes a week after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his plan to tackle long-term debt and deficits, weeks after Obama released his own budget that ignored the problem, and months after the president’s own […]

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Dear Editor, I’ve been watching the debate over Prop B, the “Puppy Mill Initiative”, and have concluded that everyone’s afraid to say what really needs to be said. That is, that domestic animals are property, and animals DO NOT have rights! There, I said it. To claim otherwise is to diminish mankind’s station. People have […]

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Hat tip:JRCMO2012 We’ve been chronicling Rusty Carnahan’s prodigious fundraising since the beginning of the year. (here, here, and here)

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5 “At the age of 42, I’ve come to a fork in the road. At such a juncture a man can change his beliefs in order to preserve his party, or a man can change his party in order to preserve his beliefs. Today I choose the latter. I’m a Democrat.” –Chris koster (8-1/07) A […]

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