April 5, 2013 - Pensito

Huckabee Compares Obama to Hitler, Once Again Proving He’s from Arkansas

April 5, 2013 Buck Banks

When you bring that up you get people who get crazy on us. And they’ll start saying, ‘Oh there you go comparing to the Nazis.’ And I understand the reaction, but it’s the truth.

— Mike Huckabee, on his radio show, defending comparisons of the Obama administration to Nazi Germany.

Job Growth Slows Dramatically — Due to Sequester?

April 5, 2013 Buck Banks

88,000

Number of jobs the U.S. economy generated last month, the smallest gain in 10 months, adding to fresh evidence that the pace of hiring has slowed, the Wall Street Journal reports. The unemployment rate fell to 7.6% because of an unanticipated high number of people dropping out of the job market.

— First Lady Michelle Obama, mistakenly referring to herself as a “single mother” during an interview with WCAX-TV.

The ongoing debate over gay marriage is truly a test of wills.
It’s been recast as a movement to reverse societal ills.
But it’s not so much a revolution
As it is a sudden evolution —
We wouldn’t be shocked to see Senate Democrats start growing gills!

North Carolina GOP Bill Would Impose Poll Tax on College Students

April 5, 2013April 5, 2013 Jon Ponder

photo-sen-bill-cook-nc — N.C. Sen. Bill Cook

In 21st century Jim Crow, it is not just African-Americans whose voting rights are being put risk by neo-Confederates. In North Carolina, the tea partyists who have recently taken over the legislature and governor’s mansion are targeting any group that reliably votes against them, including college students of all races.

A bill filed recently in the N.C. legislature, where Republicans hold veto-proof majorities (which are irrelevant because the governor is also a Republican), would impose a poll tax on the parents of college students who register to vote in the town where they go to college, which the Supreme Court has ruled is their right:

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Most Americans Would Defend South Korea Against North Korea

April 5, 2013 Buck Banks

55%

Of Americans say the United States should use its military forces to defend South Korea if that nation is attacked by North Korea, while 34% disagree. Americans are split on whether such an attack is likely.

Day: April 5, 2013

Huckabee Compares Obama to Hitler, Once Again Proving He’s from Arkansas

When you bring that up you get people who get crazy on us. And they’ll start saying, ‘Oh there you go comparing to the Nazis.’ And I understand the reaction, but it’s the truth.

— Mike Huckabee, on his radio show, defending comparisons of the Obama administration to Nazi Germany.

Job Growth Slows Dramatically — Due to Sequester?

88,000

Number of jobs the U.S. economy generated last month, the smallest gain in 10 months, adding to fresh evidence that the pace of hiring has slowed, the Wall Street Journal reports. The unemployment rate fell to 7.6% because of an unanticipated high number of people dropping out of the job market.

First Lady as Single Mother

Believe me, as a busy single mother — or I shouldn’t say single — as a busy mother, sometimes when you’ve got a husband who is president it can feel a little single. But he’s there.

— First Lady Michelle Obama, mistakenly referring to herself as a “single mother” during an interview with WCAX-TV.

It’s Not Flip-Flopping!

North Carolina GOP Bill Would Impose Poll Tax on College Students

Most Americans Would Defend South Korea Against North Korea

55%

Of Americans say the United States should use its military forces to defend South Korea if that nation is attacked by North Korea, while 34% disagree. Americans are split on whether such an attack is likely.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.