Thousands Gather for Glenn Beck Rally in DC (A Thousand Camping Out Overnight at Lincoln Memorial)
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Thousands of people have already poured into Washington, D.C. for a Saturday rally organized by conservative radio and television commentator Glenn Beck.SNIPAlthough camping is illegal on the National Mall, hundreds of people are choosing to spend the night on the grassy lawn of the Mall on both sides of the Reflecting Pool. They are doing that to get a better view on Saturday. Police say, as long as people remain awake, they may stay.(Check out the video report of the crowd and Beck's pre-rally visit to the site at the source link. In the video, the reporter says there are...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 03:27:42 PM
Civil Servants Find Themselves Cast in Unlikely Role -- Fat Cats
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Move over Wall Street traders -- seems there's a new vampire squid in town. Civil servants? Passage Tuesday of a controversial bill sending billions of dollars to states to shore up payrolls for public school teachers further stoked the debate over whether government employees, their unions and their benefits packages are bankrupting the country. "[The bill] will make the teachers unions happy, but it won't make teaching in schools better," said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., at a press conference Tuesday during which he and other Republican leaders criticized legislation earmarking $26 billion in aid for school districts and other state...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 03:27:42 PM
Oklahoma poised as unlikely same-sex battleground
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NORMAN — A federal judge’s ruling Wednesday in California — and a federal judge’s decision last month in Massachusetts — have made conservative Oklahoma in the middle of the country an unlikely battleground for gay marriage. Longtime Broken Arrow couple Sharon Baldwin and Mary Bishop, who are the named plaintiffs challenging Oklahoma’s Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, said California’s case does not carry any legal precedent in their own case. However, Baldwin said it shows “the tide is turning” and more judges could follow the lead of what has happened in California and Massachusetts. On the other side of the...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 03:27:42 PM
"NO HABLO INGLES" Civil Disobedience Campaign
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Rush Limbaugh has made a brilliant suggestion for a nationwide civil disobedience reaction to the judge striking down the Arizona illegal immigration law: EVERYONE leave your Drivers Licences at home and reply to EVERY official request for identification with "NO HABLO INGLES" and force all law enforcement to arrest you and run down your ID themselves and then take them to court for illegally requiring citizens to identify themselves while looking the other way for illegal aliens. With full participation by ALL CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES nationwide, the entire legal system can be brought to IT'S KNEES IN ONE DAY. This act...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 03:27:42 PM
Groups against Ariz. law plan 'civil disobedience'
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Groups opposed to Arizona's tough new immigration law said Tuesday that they were planning "civil disobedience" on July 29, the day the legislation takes effect. Alfredo Gutierrez, organizer with the group Somos America and a former state senator, declined to specify what the "civil disobedience" would be, but emphasized it will be nonviolent. Gutierrez characterized the protests as acts of defiance and hope for the Hispanic community. The groups plan to hold a candlelight vigil at the state capitol downtown, march to a nearby church at 4:30 a.m. for a nondenominational service and then to the federal courthouse, they said....
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 03:27:42 PM
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