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By rochester_veteran NY Governor David Paterson came up with a good idea to diffuse the controversy that surrounds the proposed Cordoba Initiative Mosque, that will be built 600 feet from Ground Zero. From NY1: “I don’t have any objection to it being built there, but I’m very sensitive to the desire of those who are [...]

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By rochester_veteran A fair warning, this post is a rant about the barbaric and ignorant Taliban who murdered the 10 medical missionaries in northeastern Afghanistan. From npr.org: the bodies of 10 members of a medical team – six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton – were flown to Kabul from the northern province [...]

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By rochester_veteran rochesterconserative.com member, HowardRoarke, tipped me off to an article on the New Zeal Blogspot about Journolist members connections to Marxist and far left organizations as well as having ties to the Obama campaign. From the New Zeal Blogspot: Many “JournoListas” were involved with Marxist based based organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America, [...]

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By rochester_veteran A Federal Judge overturned California’s Proposition 8, the ban on homosexual marriage. This is the second time a Judge has overturned legislation that was voted in by the people of California. The first was back in May of 2008, when the California Supreme Court struck down Proposition 22, which was voted in back [...]

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By rochester_veteran I haven’t posted about the proposed mosque that the Cordoba Initiative is planning to build near Ground Zero in New York City. I chose to post about it today because the final hurdle for approval for building it was cleared when the Landmarks Preservation Commission denied landmark status for the building that’s currently [...]

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By rochester_veteran A Rasmussen Poll that was published yesterday showed that 56% of New Yorkers support repeal of the Health Care Reform Bill. Fifty-six percent (56%) of New York voters favor repeal of the new national health care bill, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. Considering that New York is [...]

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By rochester_veteran The New York Times met with the Obama Administration and reviewed the Afghan War information they obtained from WikiLeaks. I didn’t know about this until RC Forums member SMZ brought this up yesterday and tired_of_it provided the link to the salon.com article on it. Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet reports: I did [...]

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By rochester_veteran Rush Limbaugh was all over Clinton appointee, Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling that ripped the guts out of the Arizona immigration law sb1070. From RushLimbaugh.com: The Associated Press, partisan political operatives, and the Democrats are just doing handstands. They are ecstatic. Susan Bolton, the judge, “has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona’s new [...]

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By rochester_veteran The un-Constitutional “Disclose Act” failed 57-41 in yesterdays (7/27/2010) cloture vote in the Senate! The Republicans all voted against it. If it had passed, the so-called “Disclose Act” — more properly referred to as the “Incumbent Protection Act” — would have: Imposed sweeping new regulations on organizations to keep them quiet and cripple [...]

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By rochester_veteran Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, had an interesting and informative article in the Wall Street Journal about Independent voters and where they stand. From Who Are the Independents, and What Are They Thinking?: At this point, independents are significantly closer to Republicans than they are to Democrats on [...]

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