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    Political views and content[edit]
    Victor Davis Hanson, a regular contributor since 2001, sees a broad spectrum of conservative and anti-liberal contributors:
    In other words, a wide conservative spectrum—paleo-conservatives, neo-conservatives, tea-party enthusiasts, the deeply religious and the agnostic, both libertarians and social conservatives, free-marketeers and the more protectionist—characterizes National Review. The common requisite is that they present their views as a critique of prevailing liberal orthodoxy but do so analytically and with decency and respect.[27]
    The magazine has been described as "the bible of American conservatism".[28]

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    LOL Spamarama..and denial..SOS

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    When annatta, cosmicrocker, noise, dukkah makes a post longer than 2 sentences it's total BS.

    The spin is deeply buried in the garbage he is spewing you'll get dizzy trying to read it.

    He use to do that with Libya......paragraphs and paragraphs of garbage that didn't make sense.
    It doesn't make sense because you can't read nor comprehend more than a few words at a time. But it's OK, we understand...
    Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    it's mostly an opinion piece.. don't be a Desh. NAt Review has a lot of #NeverTrumpers -but read it for yourself
    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Its fucking right wing trash


    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    When annatta, cosmicrocker, noise, dukkah makes a post longer than 2 sentences it's total BS.

    The spin is deeply buried in the garbage he is spewing you'll get dizzy trying to read it.

    He use to do that with Libya......paragraphs and paragraphs of garbage that didn't make sense.
    Yet you cannot refute anything they post. Your shtick is to cry and attack the posters.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    LOL Spamarama..and denial..SOS
    That's all the mentally challenged fool has.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ra...in_other_media



    The Raw Story (also stylized as RawStory[2]) is a left-leaning American online news organization founded in 2004 by John K. Byrne. It covers current national and international political and economic news and publishes its own editorials and investigative pieces. The Raw Story is a progressive news site,[3] bringing attention to stories that it sees as downplayed or ignored by other media outlets. It is owned by Washington, D.C.-based Raw Story Media, Inc.

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    Citation in other media[edit]
    The Raw Story has been reported on and featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, LA Weekly, the New York Post, the Toronto Star, The Hill, Rolling Stone, The Advocate, Roll Call,[4] and Mother Jones.[5] With an average 10.7 million readers per month (2015),[6] the site is described by Newsweek as, "Muck, raked: If you're looking for alleged GOP malfeasance, the folks at rawstory.com are frequently scooping the mainstream media."[7]
    On August 4, 2008, the Online News Association announced that RawStory.com was a finalist in the 2008 Online Journalism awards in the "Investigative, Small Site" category[8] for the story, "The permanent Republican majority",[9] about improper partisan influence in the prosecution of former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama.
    The website's original reporting has also been referenced by MSNBC's Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell,[10] The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. It was also referenced in 2011 by The Telegraph newspaper, as being the news website that first revealed a contract had been awarded to Ntrepid by United States Central Command as part of Operation Earnest Voice, intended to deploy operatives to create fake online personas abroad.[11]
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    Raw Story anniversary logo, 2014
    According to the site's masthead, as of July 2018, the editor and publisher is Roxanne Cooper. Other editors include Eric W. Dolan, managing editor, and senior editors David Edwards, Travis Gettys, Martin Cizmar, Tana Ganeva, and Sarah Burris.[12]
    Raw Story Media, Inc.[edit]
    Raw Story is wholly owned by Raw Story Media, Inc.
    John K. Byrne – founder, chairman and CEO, partner
    Michael Rogers – vice chairman and managing director, partner
    Raw Story partners John K. Byrne and Michael Rogers announced on April 2, 2018, that they had acquired AlterNet via a newly created company "AlterNet Media." Byrne stated, "AlterNet will continue to carry content from the Independent Media Institute, its prior owner, and former AlterNet writers may appear with Independent Media Institute bylines.[13]




    where is the problem with them?

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    ^^Stuck on moron.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    But then the cagey Sondland tacked back by reciting his phonecall question to the president, in which he asked the existential question of what Trump wanted from Ukraine — with Trump answering “Nothing!”

    All day long, the grinning Sondland played Roadrunner to Adam Schiff’s Wiley E. Coyote, as he slowed and pulled up to offer up Trump — only to scoot away in a puff of dust as soon as Schiff tried to wrap his hands around him.

    What we are left with so far are two inconvenient truths that won’t go away.

    One, Trump sent lethal military aid to Ukraine and never fired any prosecutor; the Obama administration, led by Joe Biden, got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired and forbade sending lethal aid to the Ukrainians. Those facts eroded any argument that Trump endangered the Ukrainians in a way Obama had not.

    In that regard, Trump did not smear Joe Biden; Joe Biden smeared Joe Biden when he bragged in front of the Council on Foreign Relations that, as tough-guy Joe, he quashed Ukrainian investigations by leveraging U.S. aid — with the sort of language that Schiff could only have hoped Trump had used:
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    I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.

    Two, Lt. Col. Vindman and Adam Schiff, both on the record (the former under oath) have stated that they did not know the identity of the whistleblower — the font of the entire impeachment inquiry.

    Yet when asked for the identity of the second person to whom Vindman (possibly illegally) had leaked a classified presidential call, Vindman refused to answer — with Schiff jumping in to state that neither was going to reveal the whistleblower’s identify.

    That was a circumlocutional admission that they both probably had lied and of course knew who the whistleblower was — contradicting their prior testimonies.

    Otherwise, neither would have worried about identifying this second anonymous recipient of Vindman’s leak, though Vindman had eagerly revealed the other leak receiver as George Kent.

    All this is unsustainable.

    If Trump is impeached, the Senate will call in Leaker X and he will be forced to testify under oath about many things, but especially about who prepped him on the presidential phone call, and what exactly his relationship was with Vindman, Schiff, and his staff. The resulting ball of collusion could be explosive.

    A couple of other takeaways:

    I doubt most Americans agree with the Democratic hysteria that arming the Ukrainians is a way of fighting the Russians (with over 6,500 deliverable nukes) over there rather than “here.”

    The public heard two conflicting narratives: One, the noble Ukrainians really deserve military aid; and, two, Ukraine is really, really the most corrupt nation in the world. Lt. Col. Vindman managed to combine both narratives: He waxed eloquently about how his essential talking points reflected the righteous Ukraine cause, and he also bragged that he’d called the Ukrainians himself to set them straight, while being asked three times to be Ukrainian minister of defense!

    Meanwhile, the clock ticks.

    The Democrats thought it was initially smart to draw out this melodrama in the hopes that a Christine Blasey Ford or even a rank Michael Avenatti clone might show up with new “walls are closing in” bombshells. But so far, the soap opera is sheer boredom, Schiff playing the insufferable windbag.

    No wonder Trump slowly creeps back up in the polls, and impeachment — without either bipartisan or 51-percent public support — slowly does the opposite.

    Day by day, we get closer to the primaries, more debates, the conventions, and the election — all out of sight, out of mind, as a greedy Schiff sucks out all the cable news oxygen.

    The 35–40 new swing-state House members are losing precious days to be able to campaign on promised “bipartisanship” work on the “issues,” rather than chasing impeachment. They are already being targeted by the RNC.

    While these mice scurry about chasing bits of stale cheese, hawks such as Horowitz and Durham circle above with possible referrals and indictments as the accusers may soon be the accused. At some point, if Trump nears the high 40s in the aggregate polls and impeachment falls to the low 40s, Pelosi will want to call it off — but how and when, she knows not.

    Meanwhile, the Democratic debate proved an afterthought. It was the monotonous doppelgänger of the inquiry — same old faces, same old nostrums, same old “Trump is the worst — ” (fill in the blanks). Biden looked as enfeebled as he sounded oddly hale, and for now has stopped apologizing for his past.

    It was unlikely that too many Americans watched some ten hours of the impeachment inquiry, went to dinner, and then ran back to the TV for two more hours of the Democratic debate.
    And if they did, they certainly did not hear the 2018 winning midterm messages of moderation, practical solutions, and blue-collar pragmatism, but instead more wealth taxes, Trump is an ogre, Medicare for All, and a nocturnal replay of the daylong sanctimonious petulance.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...-afterthought/
    It IS all very stale, isn't it?
    I'm listening to Holmes speaking now...and it's all so mundane. I'm sure Hill will be
    more of the same. These people with absolutely no 1st hand information, presuming,
    assuming, opining, etc. A guy met with another guy who told this guy what the Prez
    is thinking, planning and doing. Utter nonsense. All of them simply having an overrated
    sense of self-importance...especially Vindman who is guilty of subordination and not
    following chain of command.
    Sondland was the only 1st hand witness who dealt directly with the Prez.

    I wonder if Pencilneck will rush out of the hearing on a break today with
    another fake news headline for his comrades at CNN.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor...ervative_views





    Political views[edit]
    Hanson is a conservative who voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections.[16] He defended George W. Bush and his policies,[17] especially the Iraq War.[18] He vocally supported Bush's Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, describing him as "a rare sort of secretary of the caliber of George Marshall" and a "proud and honest-speaking visionary" whose "hard work and insight are bringing us ever closer to victory".[19]
    Hanson is a supporter of Donald Trump, authoring a 2019 book The Case for Trump.[20] Trump praised the book.[20] In the book, Hanson defends Trump's insults and vile language as "uncouth authenticity", and praises Trump for "an uncanny ability to troll and create hysteria among his media and political critics."[20] According to Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada, the book "focuses less on the case for Trump than on the case against everyone else," in particular attacking Hillary Clinton.[20] According to Lozada, Hanson indulges "in casual sexism, criticizing Clinton’s “shrill” voice and her “signature off-putting laugh,” and inexplicably suggesting that while “Trump’s bulk fueled a monstrous energy; Hillary’s girth sapped her strength.”"[20] Hanson praises the Trump administration for its "inspired" and "impressive" Cabinet members.[20] In the book, Hanson blamed Barack Obama for "deliberately [whipping up]" "much of the current division in the country", while ignoring Trump's birtherism or attacks on Muslims.[20] The book likens Trump to a hero of ancient literature, sacrificing himself for the greater good.[20] Hanson expressed support for Trump's proposed border wall on the Southern border, saying that walls around houses deter criminals.[20]
    Neoconservative views[edit]
    He has been described as a neoconservative by some commentators, for his views on the Iraq War,[21][22] and has stated, "I came to support neocon approaches first in the wars against the Taliban and Saddam, largely because I saw little alternative."[23] Hanson's 2002 volume An Autumn of War called for going to war "hard, long, without guilt, apology or respite until our enemies are no more."[24] In the context of the Iraq War, Hanson wrote, "In an era of the greatest affluence and security in the history of civilization, the real question before us remains whether the United States— indeed any Western democracy—still possesses the moral clarity to identify evil as evil, and then the uncontested will to marshal every available resource to fight and eradicate it."



    he is a neocon trump ass licker

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    It IS all very stale, isn't it?
    I'm listening to Holmes speaking now...and it's all so mundane. I'm sure Hill will be
    more of the same. These people with absolutely no 1st hand information, presuming,
    assuming, opining, etc. A guy met with another guy who told this guy what the Prez
    is thinking, planning and doing. Utter nonsense. All of them simply having an overrated
    sense of self-importance...especially Vindman who is guilty of subordination and not
    following chain of command.
    Sondland was the only 1st hand witness who dealt directly with the Prez.

    I wonder if Pencilneck will rush out of the hearing on a break today with
    another fake news headline for his comrades at CNN.
    Holmes heard trump asking about the requested investigation the day after trump called the Ukrainian leader.



    IT IS FIRST HAND Taint lapper

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    It IS all very stale, isn't it?
    I'm listening to Holmes speaking now...and it's all so mundane. I'm sure Hill will be
    more of the same. These people with absolutely no 1st hand information, presuming,
    assuming, opining, etc. A guy met with another guy who told this guy what the Prez
    is thinking, planning and doing. Utter nonsense. All of them simply having an overrated
    sense of self-importance...especially Vindman who is guilty of subordination and not
    following chain of command.
    Sondland was the only 1st hand witness who dealt directly with the Prez.

    I wonder if Pencilneck will rush out of the hearing on a break today with
    another fake news headline for his comrades at CNN.
    Indeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    Pack up the Plantation -this thing is DOA.. We are now into Zombie hearings -the Articles ain't nothing.
    It's a walking dead exercise
    hahahaha ... You should probably listen to Fiona Hill and Mr. Holmes. Trump doesn't care about Ukraine, only about 'investigations'. Pretty explicit testimony.

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    Political views and content[edit]
    Victor Davis Hanson, a regular contributor since 2001, sees a broad spectrum of conservative and anti-liberal contributors:
    In other words, a wide conservative spectrum—paleo-conservatives, neo-conservatives, tea-party enthusiasts, the deeply religious and the agnostic, both libertarians and social conservatives, free-marketeers and the more protectionist—characterizes National Review. The common requisite is that they present their views as a critique of prevailing liberal orthodoxy but do so analytically and with decency and respect.[27]
    The magazine has been described as "the bible of American conservatism".[28]

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