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Full title: 17 trying to storm governor's office are arrested; larger rally is planned Friday I cannot link the original article found on TheOlympian website (WA newspaper online) due to copyright complaint. SEIU is protesting budget cuts to 'state services'. The union is said to have 'brought' 500 protesters to the capital and some tried to storm the Gov. Chris Gregoire's (D) office. Seventeen people were arrested and the SEIU is promising bigger protests Friday. The union insists that the budget be met by ending corp tax exemptions instead of the proposed cuts to services.

We are wounded today, bleeding red ink, and everyone knows who is guilty. Our suffering is the fault of a small group of people, here and abroad: they are the greedy. You know them. We all can point them out. Greedy people gobble up unfair amounts of precious resources, keeping vast sums for themselves and sticking it to the rest of us. The greedy are pushing us to the brink. If we had the courage to stand up to them we could solve so many problems. It is time we put a stop to all the damage such selfishness causes...

If President Obama doesn’t kill us by denying us access to health care, he’ll kill us with tax increases. His new budget proposal includes nearly two trillion dollars of new taxes. According to Obama, while it would not exactly be against the law to work or to save, these are bad things and need to be heavily taxed. And, besides, we’re not doing enough for the moochers in society. People have a right by being born in this country, or not, to their fair share of what the evil people create through their work and their creativity. Equal pay...

Anyone critical of President Obama being in India right now is an "idiot," MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bluntly served on his morning show, which prides itself on being a safe haven for different views. India is "exactly where [President Obama] should be" right now, he opined. With Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass on as a guest Monday morning, Scarborough clamored that President Obama "needs" to be in India right now for the sake of U.S. foreign policy. "I would send my President to India, like once a month, if I could, for long weekends," he emphasized. Scarborough hit left-wing...

David Cameron today defended the Government's plans to limit housing benefit, saying it was not fair for working people to see their taxes used to fund homes 'they couldn't even dream of'. The Prime Minister dismissed reports there could be a climbdown over the proposals, telling Labour leader Ed Miliband: 'We are going forward with all the proposals we put in the spending review and in the Budget'.

The One Nation Working Together rally sure has a tiny population. As the AP so delicately phrased it, reporting on the rally's attendance, merely "thousands of people"--not tens or hundreds of thousands as with the descriptions of Glenn Beck's rally last month--punctuated with "sparse groups," roused themselves to the nation's capital, despite free bus rides and that ever popular free lunch offered by the unions and other rally organizers. John Avlon of the Daily Beast admits that compared to the Beck rally Yes, the music was better and the crowd more diverse, but this rally provided plenty of evidence the...

HOUSTON—At midnight on the first of the month, a scene unfolds at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sites that underscores the deep financial strains that many low-income American consumers still face. Parking lots come to life after 11 p.m. as customers start to stream into the stores, cramming their shopping carts full of milk, infant formula and other necessities. Then at midnight, when the government replenishes their electronic-benefit accounts with their monthly allotments of food stamps, nutritional grants for mothers with babies or other aid for needy families, they head for the registers. "We're not starving or anything, but we come...

Are any networks planning on covering today's ralley?

Yes, folks, there are two Americas: the authentic America of community builders and the other America, made up of socialist group-thinkers, moochers, and no-accounts, many of them living off government grants or welfare checks. The tension between these two Americas has been a constant tug-of-war for nearly a hundred years, since our premier socialist-progressive president, Woodrow Wilson, bore the first rotten fruits of liberal fascism on our shores. With the election of the first socialist-progressive president in decades, the political tension between the two Americas has reached fever pitch. Independent voters, who were lulled like sheep into the lion's den...

If this dopey quote had come out of Dubya’s mouth, tell me it wouldn’t already be a slogan emblazoned on a t-shirt at Zazzle underneath a Bush/chimp photo comparison: As the president walked around the restaurant, some cordoned-off reporters shouted out to him questions, including one about the war in Iraq. But the president was in no mood today to discuss the issue with reporters in that setting. He ignored questions for a bit, then turned to the reporters. “We’re buying shrimp, guys,” he said, smiling. “Come on.”

Some things need to be said about the mob that showed up to glom some applications for Section 8 welfare housing in East Point this week, and I’m your guy — the (ahem) author of The New York Times best-seller “Somebody’s Gotta Say It.” My experience with these Section 8 “clients” goes back to the mid-1970s when I had a law office at the First National Bank building in Decatur. It was my misfortune to occupy an office down the hall from the Decatur Housing Authority. Being a quick learner, I figured out I needed to be somewhere else on...

The White House today confirmed what many islanders have been anticipating for weeks: The first family will return to Martha's Vineyard for vacation next month. President Obama and his family are scheduled to vacation on the island from Aug. 19 to Aug. 29.

More 20-somethings are moving back home with Mom and Dad -- and happily accepting financial assistance. So pronounced is the trend -- many parents, on average, are giving their 20-somethings 10 percent of their combined income ... Look, 20-somethings, it's only partly your fault that the economy is still a mess -- most of you voted for you know who -- but it isn't your fault that you lack the skills to deal with it. Your generation has been coddled like no other generation before it -- never has any generation been given so much for doing so little --...

Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone. While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of...

Our slide to Socialism seems to have taken another lurch downward. Who would have believed that out of every six dollars Americans make, one dollar is straight from the government? According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, government handouts increased from a low in the early '50s of 4% to over 16% today. In total, we are looking at 2 trillion dollars a year going to the "Great Society" - an average of $17,000 per family. I remember growing up poor on a Wisconsin farm. While most of our liberal neighbors were happy to get their literal government cheese,...

<p>OWOSSO, Mich. (AP) - A mid-Michigan woman says she was denied entry into Canada because she is on welfare.</p> <p>Rose Kelley of Owosso says she has filed a discrimination complaint with the Canada Border Services Agency over its refusal to let her and her two children cross the border via the Blue Water Bridge connecting Port Huron with Sarnia, Ontario.</p>

Archive for Monday, September 03, 2007 Close the bank on mooching siblings By Cheryl Lavin September 03, 2007 Dear Readers: The Buck Stops Here wrote to say that his sister-in-law Lola was the world’s greatest mooch. She’s been living off of her parents all her life and borrowing money from his wife since they were in school. His wife promised she would stop lending Lola money once they got married,but she hasn’t. Lola charged gas, groceries and a birthday party at Chuck E.Cheese’s on Buck’s wife’s credit card. She rang up a debt of $5,000. But it turns out, Lola...

The airwaves and the Internet wires have been burning with all manner of rhetoric over the past three months, but perhaps the three that most bear retaining in the minds of Americans is: Elections have consequences. Usually elections revolve around familiar "wedge" issues, abortion, gay marriage, gun rights, and taxes, but this time part of the electorate has raised the ante. This time, they have made a statement on what form they would wish for society as a whole. The fundamental form of society is important. A society can allow people to live without fear, to achieve their full potential,...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders. The man with a serious chance to become the nation's first black president argues that government should instead combat the legacy of slavery by improving schools, health care and the economy for all. "I have said in the past - and I'll repeat again - that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed," the Illinois Democrat said recently. Some two...

Clinton Settles Disputed Pub Bill Clinton Settles London Pub Bill After ‘Oversight’ LONDON, Dec. 20, 2000 President Clinton has settled with British tabloid The Mirror, after he walked out of a London pub without paying and the newspaper picked up the lunch tab. The Mirror said today it had received a check for $36.17 from the U.S. Embassy in London to cover the lunch. But The Mirror, never one to give up a chance to embarrass American officials, ran an article pointing out the check from the American Embassy had come up short. “He still owes us £3 (about $5)...