enlarge That’s Nikki Haley, Tea Party darling and new Governor of South Carolina speaking on the steps of the Statehouse in Columbia. Originally scheduled to include an appearance by The Donald, this tea party rally was anticipated to have around 2,000 participants. Unfortunately, Trump was made a chump by Obama and dropped all ego-glorifying pretension to running for president, which included backing out of this South Carolina appearance. So there’s Nikki Haley, all by her lonesome…. literally : Trump’s decision to not enter the GOP presidential race left local Tea Party leaders stewing about the way they had been treated. But about 30 people were on hand Thursday to thank Gov. Nikki Haley, lawmakers and activists for their work to require more on-the-record Legislative votes. It was all part of a tough week for the state’s Tea Party movement. On Wednesday, the S.C. House reversed course and approved a controversial sales tax break for online retailer Amazon. Thursday, the S.C. Senate voted down a proposal that would have rebated any better-than-expected state tax collections to income tax filers. Columbia Tea Party chairman Allen Olson expected as many as 2,000 would have attended Thursday’s rally had Trump been there. But The Donald, a favorite of many who attended the group’s Tax Day rally with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., elected to not run and dropped the rally from his schedule. “It was a kick in the gut, but it gives you a chance to regroup,” said Olson. “He’s a businessman. He showed his worth.” And frankly, he showed the worth of the tea party. Thirty attendees, huh? Yeah, that’s a powerful and influential group. Contrast that to the 2,500 who came out in March to protest state budget cuts to education and health care . But who do you think the media will ask about–appeasing those 30 never-say-die tea partiers or the thousands of populists fighting for education and healthcare?
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enlarge That’s Nikki Haley, Tea Party darling and new Governor of South Carolina speaking on the steps of the Statehouse in Columbia. Originally scheduled to include an appearance by The Donald, this tea party rally was anticipated to have around 2,000 participants. Unfortunately, Trump was made a chump by Obama and dropped all ego-glorifying pretension to running for president, which included backing out of this South Carolina appearance. So there’s Nikki Haley, all by her lonesome…. literally : Trump’s decision to not enter the GOP presidential race left local Tea Party leaders stewing about the way they had been treated. But about 30 people were on hand Thursday to thank Gov. Nikki Haley, lawmakers and activists for their work to require more on-the-record Legislative votes. It was all part of a tough week for the state’s Tea Party movement. On Wednesday, the S.C. House reversed course and approved a controversial sales tax break for online retailer Amazon. Thursday, the S.C. Senate voted down a proposal that would have rebated any better-than-expected state tax collections to income tax filers. Columbia Tea Party chairman Allen Olson expected as many as 2,000 would have attended Thursday’s rally had Trump been there. But The Donald, a favorite of many who attended the group’s Tax Day rally with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., elected to not run and dropped the rally from his schedule. “It was a kick in the gut, but it gives you a chance to regroup,” said Olson. “He’s a businessman. He showed his worth.” And frankly, he showed the worth of the tea party. Thirty attendees, huh? Yeah, that’s a powerful and influential group. Contrast that to the 2,500 who came out in March to protest state budget cuts to education and health care . But who do you think the media will ask about–appeasing those 30 never-say-die tea partiers or the thousands of populists fighting for education and healthcare?
Continue reading …Earth to David Brooks: Where in Conservative Talk Radio Do They Oppose Any Changes to Medicare?
May 22, 2011 No Comment
When PBS and NPR “conservative” commentator David Brooks appears on both networks on Fridays, he often repeats his lines. On Friday, on both networks, he repeated his trashing of Newt Gingrich as unqualified to run a 7-Eleven. But he also insisted that conservative talk-radio hosts (which ones?) don't want to touch Medicare and hate the Paul Ryan budget. He named no names. Here's how it came out on the PBS NewsHour : I happen to think one of the important things Ryan did was, he said, if we're going to be serious, we have to be serious about entitlements. We can't just be for expanding Medicare coverage forever. But there are people in the party on talk radio and also people like Gingrich who have said, we should never, never touch this.
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Android, as Andy Rubin (no relation) has pointed out on multiple occasions, plays a game of numbers. And at Google I/O , the company carrying on its development shared some large ones: 100 million activated devices with 400,000 being added each day . However, like in many games, different players can catch up or overtake each other at different points. Just ask Nokia and RIM . To stay on top, operating system vendors implement strategies that lock consumers in. The more money consumers sink into iPhone apps, for example, the more incentive they have to stay with that platform; the same is true for accessories that use Apple’s 30-pin dock connector that has been around since the third-generation iPod. With Android having become the lead operating system for every smartphone company that licenses its OS with the notable exception of Nokia (which nearly did), Google showed that it’s intent not just on moving Android into other devices with sufficient computing horsepower such as tablets and, increasingly, TVs, but now has its sights set on having just about everything that can’t run Android directly feed into it. Google is taking two approaches – one for things that plug into Android devices, and one for things that don’t. Continue reading Switched On: Adding to Android’s army Switched On: Adding to Android’s army originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 May 2011 15:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …With Osama bin Laden dead, it’s time to release John Walker Lindh—the notorious “American Taliban” captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan just months after 9/11—says father Frank Lindh in the New York Times . “Like Ernest Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War, John had volunteered for the army of…
Continue reading …The behemoth gossip industry relentlessly ferrets out any and all scurrilous details about celebrities, churning out “rivers of cash” that amount to about $3 billion a year, and often tossing privacy laws by the wayside, reports the New York Times in a lengthy look. And thanks in part to the…
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Via TheThinkingAtheist H/t: @JoanEisenstodt Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Political Carnival Discovery Date : 22/05/2011 00:36 Number of articles : 4
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Continue reading …Now that another prophecy about the end of the world has has fizzled , attention is turning to the 89-year-old radio evangelist who made the prediction in the first place. Harold Camping has made no statement yet, his Family Radio website has yet to be updated, and the preacher is nowhere…
Continue reading …Campaign ’12 Weekend Roundup: Mitch Daniels Will Not Run, Cain In, Pawlenty Probably Running
May 22, 2011 No Comment
**Written by Doug Powers Last week, George Will said that if a Republican wins the presidential election next November, it will be either Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels. Will’s prediction has already been narrowed down: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said early Sunday that he won’t run for president because of family considerations, narrowing the field Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Michelle Malkin Discovery Date : 21/05/2011 23:30 Number of articles : 5
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