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By rochester_veteran
Obama, along with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, announced yesterday that the economy is in recovery, regardless of the data, employment figures and how the stock market is performing. From Yahoo News:
President Barack Obama, with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke at his side, insisted the US economy was “strengthening” Tuesday despite foreboding data and [...]

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Rochester Tea Party, Campaign For Liberty and Young Americans For Liberty activist, Gabe Sukenik, is producing a news show called Mainstream AlternaTiV. I thought I’d feature the promotional video for the show.

Please check out the premier show of Mainstream AlternaTiV. RV

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By rochester_veteran
Vice President Joe Biden was in Milwaukee, Wis. this past weekend and visited Kopp’s Frozen Custard and ordered an ice cream cone. Check out the following video to see yet another incident of his nastiness:

Yup, you heard that right. When Biden went to pay for the cone, the manager said, “Don’t worry, it’s on [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Oliver North had an article on the McChrystal Resignation published in TownHall.com today. Here’s an excerpt:
McChrystal’s firing has been likened to President Abraham Lincoln’s replacing George McClellan during the Civil War and President Harry Truman’s sacking Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War. Not accurate.
Both McClellan and MacArthur vocally opposed the stated [...]

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By rochester_veteran
As was expected, Obama accepted General Stanley McChrystal’s resignation. In a surprising move, Obama appointed General David Petraeus to fill the position of Commander of the Afghanistan operation.
Flash back to September 2007, during the Senate confirmation hearings on the Surge in Iraq, when Obama beat up on the same General David Petraeus. Just as [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Toby Harnden of telegraph.co.uk is reporting that General Stanley McChrystal has tendered his resignation to Obama:
A senior Capitol Hill source tells me that General Stanley McChrystal had tendered his resignation to President Barack Obama and that the White House is actively discussing a replacement who could be quickly confirmed by the Senate.
The source said [...]

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By rochester_veteran
There’s an interesting article on by Anne Gearan on Townhall.com about the Rolling Stone article on Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his lack of confidence in the White House and being on the outs with the Obama Administration.
In Rolling Stone, McChrystal is described by an aide as “disappointed” in his first Oval Office meeting [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Much ado was made when embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward attended the Isle of Wight yacht races. From Politics Daily:
Critics slammed BP’s embattled CEO Tony Hayward for leaving the United States to attend a yacht race while the company’s ruptured oil rig continues to disgorge thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Even though human induced (anthropogenic) global warming has been exposed as a hoax, the Obama administration will not give up on instituting legislation to tax Americans for it. This from Ben Lieberman of the NY Post
President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.
That’s a Harvard University study’s estimate of [...]

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I came across this interesting article by Mohammad Qayoumi in Foreign Policy online, yesterday. It’s a photo essay of how life used to be in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, in the 1950’s. I posted and excerpt of the article and I suggest you go to the Foreign Policy online to read the entire article. I didn’t [...]

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