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Empty chair ‘lynchings’: Anti-Obama protests gone too far?

At least two recent incidents in which empty chairs were hung from trees by rope have critics decrying what they say are racially offensive displays meant to symbolize the “lynching” of President Barack Obama. In Austin, Texas, a homeowner hung an empty folding chair from a tree branch in front of his house and [...]

The Significance of Party Platforms

House Speaker John Boehner was quoted during the Republican National Convention as saying, “Have you ever met anybody who read the party platform? I never met anybody.” Scoffing at the party’s platform is the typical attitude of establishment-backed politicians who don’t want to be bothered with addressing the hopes and goals of grassroots voters. Downgrading [...]

Anti-Obama Pic #2 Political Documentary: Now Bigger Than 3 Michael Moore Movies

It’s a heated contest between conservatives vs liberals in the political documentary genre, too. 2016 Obama’s America grossed $26.2M by end of today (give or take some bucks) and passed 4 of Michael Moore’s five political documentaries to become the #2 all-time biggest. Only Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, his highly criticalexamination of the first term of [...]

Sharia Law Alive And Well In America

As the Democratic National Convention is taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina, American Muslims couldn’t be happier. Just days prior to the opening of the convention, 20,000 Muslims gathered in Charlotte for their Jummah convention. And they did so with the blessings of the Democratic National Committee. Unlike the Republican National Convention which paid tribute [...]

Clint Eastwood: Obama is the “Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on the American People”

Clint Eastwood recently opened up to his hometown newspaper, The Carmel Pine Cone, about the actor’s much buzzed about speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Despite criticism from the mainstream media, Clint Eastwood is happy with the speech he delivered. “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. Romney [...]

Report: Federal bulletin warns of anarchist violence during RNC

Tampa Bay Online Violent anarchist protesters could use improvised explosive devices and attempt to close area bridges during the Republican National Convention, according to a federal bulletin obtained by CNN. The network said the document, prepared by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, addressed law enforcement concerns about anarchists during the convention. The [...]

Obama Camp Dupes Media On Non-Existent Abortion Controversy In Republican Platform

President Obama’s team took misleading politics to a new low yesterday, vilifying pro-life Republicans and the GOP’s longstanding platform language on the sanctity of life. Yesterday the Platform Committee of the Republican Party went through the GOP platform, as the Republican National Convention is set to convene and nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to [...]

GOP Convention theme: ‘We Built This!’

It seems a clever way to hammer home Obama’s biggest gaffe of the campaign season. Make the president’s “you didn’t build that” quote into a theme for the GOP convention that will be held in Tampa next week (as long as the weather doesn’t scuttle the entire enterprise). The GOP is turning what [...]

Let Sarah Speak: The 20 Best Quotes from Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was the GOP vice-presidential candidate in 2008. She’s also the most prominent woman in the party, she may have been the MVP of the GOP‘s incredible 2010 election cycle, and she’s one of the best speakers that Republicans have to offer. That’s why it’s such a shame that she’s not being given an [...]