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Dependence on Government Jumps

July 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments

By rochester_veteran
The Heritage Foundation is reporting that peoples dependence on the government has jumped. This from Waterbury Republican-American:
The Heritage Foundation has released its annual estimate of how much people in the United States have come to rely on government. In 2009, the index rose from 239 to 272, an increase of 13.6 percent. It was [...]

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Tags: Communism and Socialism · Conservatism · Nanny State · National News · Politics · Taxation · Tea Party

Climategate, Move Along, Nothing to See Here…

July 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By rochester_veteran
The University of East Anglia, home of the now infamous Climatic Research Unit (CRU), recently commissioned an investigation of itself. From the Wall Street Journal:
Now a supposedly independent review of the evidence says, in effect, “nothing to see here.” Last week “The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review,” commissioned and paid for by the University [...]

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Tags: Communism and Socialism · From the Liberal's Mouth · Human Induced Global Warming Hoax · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Taxation

Joe Biden’s Nastiness

June 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Communism and Socialism · From the Liberal's Mouth · Moonbat Lunacy · National News · Politics · Taxation

The Cost of Obama’s Global Warming Agenda

June 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Communism and Socialism · Economy · Energy · From the Liberal's Mouth · Human Induced Global Warming Hoax · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Politics · Taxation

US Debt to be Larger Than GDP by 2012

June 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By rochester_veteran
Bloomberg reported some disturbing news recently on the state of US debt:
President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.”
The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product [...]

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Tags: Communism and Socialism · Economy · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Politics · Taxation

Obamacare Gotcha

June 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

By rochester_veteran
The Health Care Reform (NOT!) Bill, also known as Obamacare, is already showing it’s true face that we’ve warned you about. This from Terence P. Jeffrey of Human Events:
Remember the health care issue? Well, the fiscal consequences of the socialized medicine scheme enacted by President Barack Obama and Congress just two months ago are [...]

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Tags: Communism and Socialism · From the Liberal's Mouth · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Politics · Socialized Health Care · Taxation

Pelosi to Artistes, Taxpayers will Pay for Your Health Care Coverage

May 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments

By rochester_veteran
This just takes the cake. Check out the following video from CNS News, where the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, assures aspiring artists that they can quit their jobs and concentrate on their art and taxpayers will pay for their health care coverage.

“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says [...]

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Tags: Communism and Socialism · From the Liberal's Mouth · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Socialized Health Care · Taxation

Albany to Come After Seneca Nation of Indians for Cigarette Taxes

May 10th, 2010 · 19 Comments

Albany, in it’s gluttonous fiscal ways, is coming after the Seneca Nation of Indians for cigarrette taxes. From Diana Louise Carter’s article in the D&C:
For over 25 years we’ve had various administrations and various legislatures promulgate regulations. It’s made a lot of lawyers rich and the state hasn’t collected a nickel,” said Syracuse attorney Joseph [...]

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Tags: Our Community · Seneca Sovereignty · Taxation · Tea Party

The GM TV ads, is there some “truthiness” to them?

April 29th, 2010 · No Comments

By rochester_veteran
Lorrie Goldstein wrote an informative article in the Toronto Star, “The ‘truthiness’ of those GM ads”. She starts her article explaining the origins of the word “truthiness”:
Political pundits owe a huge debt of gratitude to comedian Stephen Colbert for coining the word “truthiness” on The Colbert Report in 2005.
Because “truthiness,” defined by the [...]

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Tags: Communism and Socialism · Economy · From the Liberal's Mouth · Liberal Media Bias · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Politics · Taxation

Dennis Prager: The Left’s War on Tea Partiers

April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I read this spot-on commentary by Dennis Prager yesterday (4/27/2010) and wrote to Dennis and asked permission to repost it here to RochesterConservative.com. We are experiencing these “racist” claims here in Rochester and our daily newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle’s OPINION page has been waging a relentless campaign of lies to malign the Tea Party [...]

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Tags: American History · American Traditions · Communism and Socialism · Conservatism · First Amendment · From the Liberal's Mouth · Liberal Media Bias · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Our Community · Patriotism · Politics · Socialized Health Care · Taxation · Tea Party