According to DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan, these Democratic leaders, “will present the American people a handy 10-point blueprint for how the Republican-Tea Party would govern, based on actual positions taken and held by Republican-Tea Party members.” The blueprint includes repealing the health-care law, privatizing or phasing out Social Security, extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, repealing financial reform and abolishing the Education and Energy Departments.

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/07/28/republican%E2%80%93tea-party-con...

Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money.

Jon Ponder | Jul. 20, 2010

Megyn Kelly
By now, if you’ve heard nothing else about the New Black Panthers Party voter-intimidation incident, you know that the folks at Fox News are positively in a snit that such a huge, huge scandal is being ignored by what Fox News star Sarah Palin calls the lamestream media.
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/07/20/why-is-media-ignoring-race-baiti...

The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org.

The US population is represented along the length of the football field, arranged in order of income.

Median US family income (the family at the 50 yard line) is ~$40,000 (a stack of $100 bills 1.6 inches high.)

--The family on the 95 yard line earns about $100,000 per year, a stack of $100 bills about 4 inches high.

--At the 99 yard line the income is about $300,000, a stack of $100 bills about a foot high.

--The curve reaches $1 million (a 40 inch high stack of $100 bills) one foot from the goal line.

--From there it keeps going up...it goes up 50 km (~30 miles) on this scale!

The human population growth of the last century has been truly phenomenal. It required only 40 years after 1950 for the population to double from 2.5 billion to 5 billion. This doubling time is less than the average human lifetime. The world population passed 6 billion just before the end of the 20th century. Present estimates are for the population to reach 8-12 billion before the end of the 21st century. During each lecture hour, more than 10,000 new people enter the world, a rate of ~3 per second!

Of the 6 billion people, about half live in poverty and at least one fifth are severely undernourished. The rest live out their lives in comparative comfort and health.

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/human_p...

To all my well meaning friends that suggest we keep the Bush tax cuts. To those that think increased taxes are passed to consumers and to those who think that tax cuts to the rich will create jobs, I hope these links help you to understand. The reason our recovery is slow is because business is holding money or investing it overseas

Giving the largest share of a tax cut to rich people who are most likely to save a great deal of it is not a very intelligent thing to do when the economy is struggling to pull out of a recession. The result has been a sputtering and long overdue 'recovery' that has created far fewer jobs than almost any economic recovery in American economic history in spite of the added benefit of historically low interest rates.

by James Kroeger

http://nontrivialpursuits.org/economic_stimulus.htm and then read this:

http://nontrivialpursuits.org/collectivist_schemes.htm

Now it is official. You can say what you want about Fox News, but what the mainstream media and the liberal cable news outlets have done is not responsible journalism. There was a concerted effort to make sure that Barack Obama was sheltered from anything that would harm his chances of becoming the next President. In that way America was sold something they knew very little about. This is surely not fair and balanced. Tucker Carlson, who used to work for CNN and MSNBC and now works for Fox, brought the emails to light because they were listed on the left-leaning site JournoList. Ezra Klein, who created JournoList, has removed the emails. Are you trying to hide something Ezra? No problem we now know what was said.

The problem does not stop there because it is still happening. Recently, the Black Panther and DOJ dropping the charges was not covered by the mainstream media, The Acorn undercover video story was not covered, the story of Van Jones having to step down over his remarks in speeches was not covered by the mainstream media. all of these were not covered because they could be damaging to the President's image. Give me a break! News is just that, news, the good and the bad.

Bob Ellis of the right-leaning Dakota Voice said it best.

"Journalism has an extremely important function in any society. Journalism has the role and ability to bring information about the government “of the people, by the people and for the people” to those people so that they can make informed decisions about what policies and politicians to support.

Unfortunately, the dominant segment of journalism in our country (including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, Associated Press, Newsweek, Time magazine and a host of smaller newspapers across the country) have abdicated their role of providing objective, balanced information coverage to the people, and have embraced an advocacy role to advance a liberal agenda.

This leaves American citizens in the lurch, having to go the extra mile to educate themselves and learn the truth, often having to sift through layer after layer of media-perpetuated propaganda."

This should not be allowed to continue.

Shirley Sherrod was wronged.