Month: August 2011

These riots were about race. Why ignore the fact? – Telegraph Blogs.

Rick Santelli: If Not For Tea Party, U.S. Would Be Rated BBB | RealClearPolitics.

Noonan: Theyve Lost That Lovin Feeling – WSJ.com.

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"It was 100% racial," claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car. "I had a black couple on my right side, and these black kids were running in between all the cars, and they were pounding on my doors and trying to open up doors on my car, and they didnt do one thing to this black couple that was in this car next to us.  They just kept walking right past their car.  They were looking in everybodys windshield as they were running by, seeing who was white and who was black.  Guarantee it.

"Eric, a war veteran, said that the scene he saw Thursday outside State Fair compares to what he saw in combat."That rated right up there with it.  When I saw the amount of kids coming down the road, all I kept thinking was, Theres not enough cops to handle this.  Theres no way.  It would have taken the National Guard to control the number of kids that were coming off the road.  They were knocking people off their motorcycles."Another witness, who asked to remain anonymous, said, "it was like a scene you needed the National Guard to control.

""To me, it looked like a scene out of a movie," claimed the anonymous witness. 

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via Witnesses describe mobs, some people claim racially-charged attacks – TODAYS TMJ4.

Dow’s losing streak now in ninth day – MarketWatch First Take – MarketWatch.

A day after President Obama held an “urgent” meeting with AFL-CIO bosses in the White House, the Democrat National Committee is hosting a huge birthday bash for Obama’s 50th birthday tonight in Chicago. The only problem is, DNC organizers apparently chose not to use union labor for the event.

Let Them Eat Cake! DNC Blows Off Unions For Obama’s 50th Birthday Bash! | RedState.

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The population loss is “the ultimate barometer of New York’s attractiveness as a place to work, live and do business,” the report’s co-author, E.J. McMahon, said. “It’s the ultimate indication that we’ve been doing things wrong.”

Most analysts blamed New York’s high taxes and skyrocketing cost of living for the mass exodus.

The Tax Foundation ranked New York highest in the nation in the combined state and local tax burden in 2008. And as small-business lobbyist Mike Durant noted, New York has also “consistently ranked worst or in the top three worst in business climate. You can’t suck every penny out of people and expect them to remain in New York.”

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via New Yorkers Fleeing State.

US STOCKS-Massive rout spells trouble for Wall Street.

Open Letter: Why I Oppose the Debt Ceiling Compromise Rand Paul | United States Senator.

“We have negotiated with terrorists,” an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”

Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists,” according to several sources in the room.

Biden’s office declined to comment about what the vice president said inside the closed-door session.

via Biden: Tea partiers like terrorists – Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan – POLITICO.com.

But we should really reserve judgement when you have so many instances of Biden acting purely and regally presidential. For example…