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President Barack Obama on Friday defended his health-care law in the face of continued Republican-led calls for repeal, declaring that the time to fight the overhaul has passed. Obama was speaking at the annual conference of Families USA, a liberal advocacy group that played a big role in the health-care overhaul.

As President Barack Obama prepares for Tuesday's State of the Union address -- considered by many to be the real kickoff of his 2012 presidential campaign -- a group of vocal progressive activists have launched what they promise is an aggressive campaign to fight his re-election. The group of 150 liberal activists, authors, and academics -- including Code Pink's co-founder Medea Benjamin and author Daniel Ellsberg -- Tuesday released a petition announcing early opposition to Obama's re-nomination by Democrats. Many of the names included are Greens and indies, not necessarily Democrats themselves, but they said they intend to "actively seek...

As most of us know, one of the most powerful weapons wielded by the Right, and particularly, we bloggers, are quotes from prominent “progressives.” If you remember, we were able to accomplish a great deal in exposing the intent of the public option that was to be included in ObamaCare by quoting President Obama, members of Congress, and other experts in heath care. Their own words were used against them, as they stated their intentions openly.

While I am sure that there are some seriously good snarky answers to this - and feel free to leave them if you want - I am seriously trying to figure this one out. Dictionaries haven't helped and haven't really found a good socio-political one. I've wondered about this many times as I often think that many of the frustrations I have with politically and theologically like-minded folks are rooted in subtle differences between what it means to be a "liberal" or a "progressive." Sure, this could all be semantics and no person is one-dimensional, but in church, politics and...

Media Matters founder David Brock holds Glenn Beck responsible for three assassination attacks that took place last year.During a Chris Matthews Show interview that aired Wednesday, Brock discussed Saturday’s Tucson shooting rampage and went on to list three 2010 instances in which somebody targeted liberals.“I mean, Glenn Beck himself has been responsible for three thwarted assassination attacks this year,” Brock said. “Well, you want to know what they are? So he burned Nancy Pelosi in effigy on his set, he tried to poison her with a chalice. Some weeks later somebody tried to firebomb Nancy Pelosi’s house. That guy’s mother...

Lame Duck Lib - "We elect DLC Democrats that undermine our values, and we elect inexperienced black Democrats that have no core values. Democrats are so desperate for victory that we think we are winning with Blue Dog Democrats. We think we are winning with DLC Democrats, and we think we are winning with Barack Obama."... "My reasons are simple, I trust the opponent (Republican, Tea Bag, Nazi) in front of me with whom I totally disagree more than the supporter (“Liberal”, “Progressive”, or “Democrat”) behind me with a knife out ready to stab me in the back for his...

David Brock of the progressive Media Matters appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball and outlandishly claimed Glenn Beck is “responsible for three assassination attempts.” This is just one of those videos that is packed with so much dumb you can’t gather words together to describe it. Instead, I recommend you just watch it to see the stupidity flowing from this mans mouth.

The left knows full well what they are doing regarding the murders in Tucson last week. They have done this before its never been this good for them. They are harnessing emotional and sensational moments and attaching what they want to it specifically to get their base and, hopefully, many more to HATE their intended target. Consider this example. In my line of work I have talked with many people who are well educated and smart about current events. They hold positions of great authority and power and routinely do things or make decisions that affect people, or our country....

In some respects liberals and progressives have it easy. All they have to do is look around and they can find problems for government to solve. Kids are too fat? Let’s get the government to decide how restaurants market their offering. Somebody walked away with a bad haircut? Impose government testing and licensing for barbers. Crime getting out of control? Let’s ban all guns. Someone loses their job? Let’s give them three years of unemployment checks. And just in case there were not enough real problems, liberals try and use government to solve problems that don’t even exist: global warming,...

If Democrats really want to address the issue of “Toxic Politics,” a great place to start would be with what Progressives call the “arrestables.” What are arrestables and how do they work? What they are is fairly self-explanatory: arrestables are protesters who are predetermined to be arrested. Who they are is where it really gets interesting. They are a mix of professional protesters and anarchists, organized largely (but not exclusively) through a working relationship between community organizers like Lisa Fithian of RANT, Susie Benjamin and Jodie Evans of CodePink (major Obama fundraisers), and Bernadine Dohrn of the Weather Underground Terrorist...

The Tuscon massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand. They need to be reminded. You need to be reminded. Confront them. Don’t be cowed into silence. And don’t let the media whitewash the sins of the hypocritical Left in their naked attempt to suppress the law-abiding, constitutionally-protected, peaceful, vigorous political speech of the Right.They want to play tu quo que in the middle of a national tragedy? They asked for it. They got it. ***The progressive climate of hate: A comprehensive illustrated primer in 8 parts:I. PALIN HATEII. BUSH HATEIII. MISC. TEA PARTY/GOP/ANTI-TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE...

Last week I wrote an article entitled "The Global Warming Hoax Has Been Totally Exposed." In the article I discussed that some scientists, and award winning ones too, have expressed fears that global cooling is the real danger to our species, and based on history and current climate data, it is coming. I am not here to present evidence that global cooling is actually occurring. I am here instead to try and explain how the false mantra of global warming is a political effort by progressives. Here is the historical progression:

A Challenge To Glenn Beck: Will He Cool His Paranoid Anti-Government Rhetoric? To be clear, there’s no evidence Loughner was a Glenn Beck watcher or that Beck bears any responsibility for Loughner’s actions. Still, these tragic events provide an opportunity to re-examine the implications of extreme conservative rhetoric. The danger is real: A person who genuinely believes that progressive governance is an organized conspiracy to destroy American liberty might feel justified in taking drastic measures in response. Here's a look into the progressive comment section of the very same post: Heard on Stephanie Miller's show this AM that one of...

In light of the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in a shooting spree resulting in the death of 6 (including federal judge John Roll) and the wounding of 12 others, I want to underscore the culture of violence and threats of violence being furthered by the Progressive Left by reprising a statement from 2008 in which then candidate Barack Obama told his supporters "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun....I want you to get in their faces..” The past two years have been very heated in rhetoric coming from the left, and it...

From Rasmussen A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that “conservative” is still the most favored description. Forty-two percent (42%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they view it as a positive if a candidate is described as politically conservative. Twenty-one percent (21%) say it’s a negative description, and 36% rate it somewhere in between the two....Being described as a progressive, on the other hand, is a positive for 22% of voters and a negative for 34%, with 41% seeing it in between. See liberals? You're not fooling ANYONE by calling yourselves "progressives." You are the lipstick on a pig!...

The other day I was in a shopping center parking lot and saw two stickers in the rear window of a mini-van. The first, which was in the lower left area of the window, said "Veterans for Obama". Okay, I thought; I don't understand it, but there it is. The second sticker was a few inches to the right, and said this; "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin. I don't normally stop to ponder window stickers, but this pairing left me standing, slack jawed, and wondering,...

An historical perspective on what the socialist Dems mean by "progress".

snip So exactly what is it that George Soros is trying to accomplish? Well, in a nutshell, what he wants is a Big Brother-style one world government based on extreme European-style socialism, strict population control and the radical green agenda. It would be a world where the state tightly regulates everything that we do for the greater benefit of the environment and of society as a whole. snip The truth is that to those in the international banking elite, Soros is considered to be something of a “black sheep” and an “outsider”. Much of what Soros is trying to accomplish...

10 minutes of cold blooded ruling class chatter about encroaching enslavement.

If the lefties of the world are having any troule coming up with resolutions for 2011 then maybe this could help them out.---------- Give more and be more charitable with other peoples money. Find more legitimate reasons to have an abortion for convenience. Watch what I eat, since Michelle Obama wont let me eat what I eat. Quit smoking, the president needs them more than I do. Support gay marriage by trying it out. Work harder with others at building bridges over border fences. Stop using the race card as a crutch Rewrite the Constitution on Wikipedia. Fight for a...