It’s a Thunderous Thursday

And here is The News to keep you updated

Also, check out The Layfield Report, InstaPundit, Drudge, and Breitbart for more news

Wombat Socho gives us keen insight into the future of America with the entry Lost in (Divided) America

And we read of another who is following the #FreeKate philosophy of “love them young”

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news reported elsewhere in the blogosphere

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-Ed entitled Silently putting our troops in places we shouldn't be

h/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for his daily doses of Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day

Mr. Hoge also has a very interesting Quote of the Day

It would seem Mr. Hoge is successful in touching a nerve in the Walrus/Cabin Boy

The Walrus/Cabin Boy is so upset that he had started a website with a URL similar to Aaron Worthing’s blog entitled Allergic 2 Bull as reported by Mr. Hoge 

h/t to Becca Lower of Lowering The Boom for her entry on John McCain 7 months ago v. John McCain now when speaking about Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer

The Barracuda Brigade also wrote about John McCain attacking Deb Fischer

h/t to The Lonely Conservative for her article entitled Democrats Are Waging A War On America

The Lonely Conservative also goes into the TRUE roots about how racist Planned Parenthood is

The Bluegrass Pundit reports that 58% of voters want ObamaCare repealed in some fashion

And that is all the news that is news. I will be having Diane Sori and Joe Newby on Red, Right, and Blue this Saturday (more info will be in tomorrow’s news aggregate) at 1:30 PM Eastern. It should be an interesting show as we will be discussing the problems conservatives had been having with Facebook and also an event they are hosting on July 4. If you have any questions, comments, complaints, compliments, or rotten produce you want to toss at me, feel free to email me at rickbulow74@live.com. And please, help out a fellow capitalist and hit the tip jar.

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It’s a Wild Wednesday

and here is The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out Breitbart, The Layfield Report, InstaPundit, and Drudge for more news

And in case you missed it, here is the news from yesterday

Here we are 9 months after the Benghazi attacks, and there are still unanswered questions.  Robert Stacy McCain is not giving up until they are answered

And here is Smitty going back in time with a new take on an old familiar saying

Robert Stacy McCain exposes the latest narrative swirling about Edward Snowden that is propagating over at BuzzFeed

Robert Stacy McCain also explains why it's tough to be a man nowadays

Here is another entry in the longest running series The World's Youngest Blogger

And of course the Wombat Socho gives us our weekly dose of skin with Rule 5 Monday

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news reported elsewhere across the blogosphere

h/t to Michelle Malkin for her post over at BernardGoldberg.com for her article entitled Played Out: the Liberal Racists’ “Uncle Tom” Card

Bernie Goldberg also put out a very interesting article entitled Re-defining Racial Discrimination in America

And over on her own site, Michelle Malkin put out a good article entitled Midnight madness: Pro-abortion mob throws Texas state legislature into chaos over SB 5

Congratulations to Zilla Stevenson of Zilla of the Resistance for winning the Paul Revere Award

h/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for his usual Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day

Mr. Hoge also has a good nickname for Bill Schmalfeldt: Sore Loserman

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her op-ed entitled General Carter Ham...the man to take the Obama regime down...but will he

h/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his post entitled Liberals Want to Maintain 1965 Status Quo for Minorities (aka How to Piss Off a Socialist)

The gang over at Popehat say that if you criticize your dentist nowadays, you could end up in The Big House

According to The Bluegrass Pundit, people like Obama on Terrorism only; on all the rest, however, more than 50% hate him

And that is all the news that is news for today. If you like what you hear, feel free to help out a capitalist and hit the tip jar. Also, I am looking for more questions for a question and answer session I am planning on YouTube, so get those questions in. Email me at rickbulow74@live.com, hit me up on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) or on Facebook (RickBulow1974) and other methods of communication.

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It’s a Manic Monday

And here is The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out The Layfield Report, Breitbart, Drudge, and InstaPundit for more news

Robert Stacy McCain + no caffeine = headlines on a tangent

h/t to Robert Stacy McCain for publishing the truth about the #FreeKate crowd

I have heard of Crony Capitalism before, but never heard of Crony Journalism

There is a little kerfuffle about the Comprehensive Immigration Bill, and it seems that Ted Cruz is making a desperate, last-minute push to derail it’s passage in the Senate

The Other McCain is right. Real life is NOT a reality TV audition 

The Wombat Socho tells us to greet his little friends with this weeks version of the FMJRA version 2.0

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news posted upon by bloggers elsewhere

Good news for those of you who miss the Twinkie from Hostess. According to the Bluegrass Pundit, they will be back on the shelves July 15

The Bluegrass Pundit also tells us to keep an eye on The Supreme Court this week for rulings on four major cases

a large tip of the fedora to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for his “Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?” and “Team Kimberlin” posts of the day

Also, credit goes to Mr. Hoge (W3JJH) for participating in the annual 2-day excursion called Field Day, sponsored by the American Radio Relay League. If you want to know what it is all about, here are the following entries:

• CQ Field Day, This is K3PZN, 8 Alpha Maryland DC
• Set Up for Field Day Part Two
• Set Up for Field Day
• Getting Ready for Field Day

Even while Mr. Hoge is relaxing and enjoying Field Day, he still takes the time to bring us the truth about a certain walrus/cabin boy

Mr. Hoge also has a good question for said walrus/cabin boy

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-ed today entitled The NSA leaks...a diversion like none ever before

Diane also had an interesting Op-ed yesterday entitled A hero NOT quite but a traitor NOT

The gang over at Popehat has an article giving us a very intriguing look into the charges against Ed Snowden

If you are into conservative fiction, be sure to check out Writestream tomorrow as they will have a panel on it  hosted by DariaAnne DiGiovanni where her guests will be two conservative fiction authors and a Senior Editor of Liberty Island Media. (I had never her of her guests, but will be sure to listen on the archive later after I spend the day with mom)

While MatchCon did not air on Own The Narrative on Saturday night, there was a special episode of TB-TV that talked about the meaning of life, men v. women, and other interesting topics.

And that is all the news that is news for today. check out my articles over at ViralRead for more interesting news in the world of Tennis, Auto Racing, and Pro Wrestling. Also, if you have any questions, compliments, comments, complaints, rotten produce you want to toss at me, feel free to hit me up on Twitter, Facebook, email, or other form of contact address or social media you might have for me.

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76th Rant: The IRS

Over the past few weeks we had been hearing of the IRS denying certain statuses to organizations that have the words “Tea Party", “Patriot”, or “Constitution” in it’s name. That is in and of itself profiling, and one of the things that the IRS should NOT be a part of. In fact, the IRS should be defunded and/or abolished because they are rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior.

I know most of you are asking what to replace the IRS with if it is abolished. The answer in my mind is simple. I had devoted earlier rants on this blog (see my Second Rant and my 13th Rant back in 2005 as well as my 19th rant in 2010) to the messed up Federal Tax System and said that we should go to the Fair Tax. In later rants I will go into why I think the Fair Tax is the way to go, but will ask you this. Take a look at the following picture and tell me just which one you prefer.

The two paychecks look similar, don’t they? Well take a closer look. The current paycheck has you losing all your hard earned money before it even reaches your hand due to all of the taxes that Uncle Sam inflicts. This is called taxing PRODUCTIVITY. Normally people who make $5 an hour (for instance) should expect to take home $400 every 2 weeks (not counting taxes) but instead they are taking home $275 – $300 (I know it might not be just like that, but am trying to give an example) every 2 weeks due to Uncle Sam taking that hard earned money out of your pocket.

Now with the FairTax, when you make $5 an hour which leads to $400 every two weeks you TAKE HOME $400 every two weeks. “Well now what about all of the taxes? How does the government get it’s share?” you ask. Well the answer is simple. Let’s say you go to the hardware store and buy a $10 hammer. The hardware store get $7.70 of the money and the remain $2.30 goes to the government. That is called taxing CONSUMPTION or WHAT YOU BUY.

If you want to know more about the FairTax, I will go into the truth of it in later rants, but one thing I recommend is to go to the Fair Tax website at http://www.fairtax.org and check it out. There are also some videos as well on YouTube which I will be playing and discussing in future rants. However, I will say that the FairTax will bring money, jobs, and growth back to the United States of America.

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It’s the Weekend

And here’s The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out The Layfield Report, Drudge, Breitbart, and InstaPundit for more news

And in case you missed it, here is the news from yesterday

What do you get when you see Robert Stacy McCain up early? The Unlubricated Truth

The Other McCain does some hard-hitting news once more. This time doing a series on the death of Michael Hastings. Here are the following entries on it:

• ‘Fire Can’t Melt Crazy!’
• Michael Hastings ‘Was Hauling Irish Ass’
• Turbocharged Luxury Death

There is a good entry in regards to the Massachusetts Special U.S. Senate Election Debate

GOOD pic of Obama and Russian President Putin and what they are actually thinking

Smitty hit the nail on the head in regards to Obama’s Berlin Speech from Wednesday

And our own lovable Wombat Socho has a good article about technothrillers

In addition to The Other McCain, there is other good news about the blogosphere.

h/t to Alicia Fix Luke (aka the Barracuda Mama) of the Barracuda Brigade for her entry Rand Paul SLAMS McCain For Posing With Kidnapper Rebels In Syria (VIDEO)

h/t to Michelle Malkin for her article over at BernardGoldberg.com entitled Uncovering the Camp Bastion Cover-Up

And speaking of BernardGoldberg.com, here is a h/t to Bernie Goldberg, the purveyor of the site, for his article entitled Freedom In an Age of Terrorism

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-ed entitled The wisdom of Solomon...needed then and needed now

h/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his article entitled TREASON By Another Name IS OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY

Meanwhile, over on Hogewash, W.J.J. Hoge is welcoming us to Summer which starts today

Speaking of Mr. Hoge, a major h/t to him for his Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day

h/t to Becca Lower of Lowering The Boom for her entry entitled Rahm Emanuel to Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings: ‘I’m not going to let you do to me what you did to Stanley McChrystal’

h/t to DariaAnne DiGiovanni for her article On Jury Duty and Plea Bargains

h/t to Liz Harrison of Goldwater Gal for her post on the #EpicFailure that was Obama's speech in Germany

Tune in to Own The Narrative tomorrow for a wonderful day of shows. First is Red, Right, and Blue with Billie Cotter and I at 1:30 PM Eastern. And then at 11 PM (if there is enough for a panel) will be MatchCon.

And that is all the news that is news for today. I am still looking for questions for a question and answer session I am planning to do on YouTube in the future so feel free to hit me up via DM on Twitter (@RickBulow1974), Private message on Facebook (RickBulow1974), email (rickbulow74@live.com), or even on my YouTube page (RickBulow74) and I will answer them. I am planning on doing it if I have 10 – 20 questions. Remember, I am an open book so if there is ANYTHING you want to know about me feel free to ask.

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It’s a Wild Wednesday

And here is The News to keep you informed

Also, check out Breitbart, The Layfield Report, InstaPundit, and Drudge for more news

And in case you missed it, here is the news from yesterday

And now for your cute fix, here is The World's Youngest Blogger

Cute fix 2 from The World's Youngest Blogger

The Wombat Socho gives us more insight into Rule 2 (aka the FMJRA)

Congrats to EBL for having 40 (40!) links for the FMJRA for this past week

Here is more from Robert Stacy McCain on the whole #FreeKate Controversy:

• Speaking of (Alleged) Perverts
• A Psychosis Called ‘Equality’

It would seem wierdos, freaks, and degenerates are terrorizing a city in Ohio, and no I do not mean the politicians.

Did the Sequester rape and kill someone?

And we have Obama and Putin thinking about hospitals

Apparently the sad, pathetic, disgusting troll Bill Schmalfeldt is getting senile in his old age. Either that or he has CRS (Can't Remember Shit) and CRAFT (Can't Remember A Fucking Thing)

The Other McCain has a good question about NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news posted elsewhere

h/t to The Thinking Americanist and American Power for their pieces on Edward Hastings (Michael Hastings RIP and Remembering Journalist Michael Hastings)

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-ed entitled America's sovereignty trumps the almighty dollar

h/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his blog entry entitled Obama on Syria – Too Complex for Mere Mortals

h/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for his Are You Pondering What I 'm Pondering, Quote of the Day, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day entries

h/t to Felicia Cravens of Free Radical Network for her entry entitled Are You a Radical

And that is all the news that is news for today. if you want to see more, feel free to follow me on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) as I will be putting more news up sometime. Also, feel free to help out a capitalist and hit the tip jar.

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75th Rant: American Exceptionalism

Last week someone had said that a friend and I had ruined 60 years of what he believed to be an American, going on to say there is no more American exceptionalism. Well I am here to say that what he said is FAR from the truth. Like my good friend (and host of Live and Direct with G-Ski Rocks every Monday and Wednesday night at 9 PM Eastern on BlogTalk Radio) G-Ski Rocks of 20-20 Radio says, this is the greatest country on the planet BECAUSE of the exceptionalism in each and every American here. In order for American exceptionalism to be no more, well that would mean that each and every person who believes in it is dead and buried. While the Obama Administration might want that to happen, there is no way IN HELL that I will let that happen on my watch.

The history of American exceptionalism came from Alexis de Tocqueville back in 1831 an in 1840 when he wrote in his book Democracy in America. He wrote:

The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.

While de Tocqueville TALKED about American exceptionalism, the specific term was first used in 1929, when the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, disagreeing with Jay Lovestone of the Communist Party of America that America was so resistant to revolution because of the increasing strength of American capitalism, and the country's "tremendous reserve power" (a strength and power which he said prevented Communist revolution), called Lovestone's ideas "the heresy of American exceptionalism." In the 1930s, academics in the U.S. redefined American exceptionalism as befitting a nation that was to lead the world, with the newer United States ready to serve the older European societies as an example of a liberated future free from Marxism and socialism. More recently, socialists and other writers have tried to discover or describe this exceptionalism of the U.S. within and outside its borders.

In future blog entries I will get into the details of American exceptionalism from my point of view, and give certain examples of it. But know that the only way American exceptionalism can die, in spite of everything Obama and his cronies do, is if the AMERICAN PEOPLE do not believe in it.

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It’s the Weekend

And here’s The News to keep you updated

Also, check out Breitbart, The Layfield Report, Instapundit, and Drudge for more news

And in case you missed it, here is the news from yesterday, Wednesday, and Tuesday

Here is the latest on the #FreeKate issue. Now a criminal is supporting Kate

Also, it seems that there is evidence that after Kate was arrested, she contacted the victim

And of course, you knew that this was probably inevitable

And in a victory for decency and common sense, a judge had issued a peace order against Bill Schmalfeldt

There is also a question of who the liberal is: Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news broadcast elsewhere.

W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash has the actual pdf of the peace order against Bill Schmalfeldt

Mr. Hoge also has his usual Are you Pondering What I'm Pondering? (with a double dose today) and the Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

Why is Mr. Hoge posting about Brett Kimberlin? He gives the reason here

h/t to Liz Harrison (aka the Goldwater Gal) for her article entitle Wisconsin is an example of how the liberals control the narrative

Jackie Wellfonder over on Raging Against the Rhetoric asks a very important question: Has Social Media Changed Your Life For The Better?

h/t and a hearty Congratulations to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for The Friday Fume turning 100

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her op-ed entitled The blame game...and 'We the People' are the losers

h/t to Becca Lower of Lowering the Boom for bringing us a lil entertainment news with her entry entitled That's Entertainment

Don’t forget a huge day of shows on Own The Narrative tomorrow, beginning at 1:30 PM Eastern tomorrow with Red, Right, and Blue. At 4 PM Eastern is Truth Serum with Gerald Harrison, and then at 11 PM There is MatchCon.

And that is all the news that is news for today. Follow me on Twitter for more news and other interesting tidbits. Also, if you like what you have read here feel free to hit the tip jar and help out a fellow Capitalist.

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It’s a Manic Monday

And here’s The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out Drudge, The Layfield Report, Breitbart, and InstaPundit for more news

Doug Mataconis speaks out a lot on Twitter, but here is what Smitty would REALLY like to hear from @DMataconis

The Other McCain has the TRUTH about Chris “Tingles” Matthews of MSNBC

Robert Stacy McCain asks a very important question: Why aren't you homeschooling yet?

Want your blog noticed by many in the blogosphere? read The Other McCain and link to the articles there (whether in a news aggregate like I am doing now or in an article much like the Evil Blogger Lady (aka EBL) does here, and you can be featured in the FMJRA for the week. You must link to 5 articles on The Other McCain to be considered for the FMJRA, and one way to do it is to just link to the Live At Five that the Wombat Socho does every weekday.

And for your cute fix: here is The World’s Youngest Blogger in total shock by Obama’s Scandal list

Think it impossible to compare Algore to the NHL? Well it happened

And here’s the latest on the #FreeKate controversy

The Rush Limbaugh Show will be on the air 25 years this August, and yet he is still winning and destroying the liberals

According to a Canadian lesbian (if there really is such a thing /end Greg Gutfeld impersonation) is now telling us that relationship is a euphemism

In addition to The Other McCain, other bloggers had written about the news of the day and of the weekend

h/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for his Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day updates

Mr. Hoge also has The history of the Universe, Part One on his blog as well

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-ed entitled Aiding and abetting the enemy and now wanting to do so on our own shores

h/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for the Weekend Edition in which he did a two-part expose on Saturday and yesterday as to how corrupt Obama is

h/t to Chip Jones of Conservative Report Online for his article on asking the right questions in regards to Benghazi

h/t to Wayne Dupree of World of Newsninja2012 for reporting on the NSA Whistleblower who spoke to the UK Guardian on camera

According to The Right Scoop, a former CIA Operative says there is no way to get the whistleblower back from China

And that’s all the news that is news for today. If you have any questions about the news aggregate or about me, hit my Twitter DM (@RickBulow1974) or send me a private message on Facebook and I shall answer them. Some of the best questions will also be answered on my YouTube channel and also in a blog.

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It’s the Weekend

And here’s The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out Breitbart, The Layfield Report, Drudge, and InstaPundit for more news

And The Other McCain has the latest on the #FreeKate Scandal

And it is things like the Mainstream Media buying into Obama’s lies that Andrew Breitbart fought against and also started the Bigs which eventually formed into www.breitbart.com

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Allies landing on Normandy, France, during World War 2 (also known as D-Day) and many stood with the veterans

Major h/t to Robert Stacy McCain for seizing on conclusions which others might not see

In addition to The Other McCain, there is other news which was picked up by those of the New Media

h/t to The Thinking Americanist for his article entitled What the Government is doing with your internet and phone calls (with video)

h/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for schooling Bill “the Cabin Boy” Schmalfeldt on the use of web analytics

Mr. Hoge also has his usual Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering (to which we are blessed with a double helping of it) and Team Kimberlin post of the day to entertain all of us

h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-ed entitled Dishonor and Disrespect on D-Day

h/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his usual Friday Fume

h/t to Joe Newby for his article exposing Scott Rohter and WePluriBus for the fraud it is

Stay tuned to Own The Narrative for some wonderful talk tomorrow. On Red, Right, and Blue I will be discussing how bad zero tolerance has gotten in schools and also the epic meltdown of “Baghdad” Jim McDermott beginning at 1:30 PM Eastern. Then at 4 PM Eastern Gerald Harrison will be on the air with Truth Serum. And to wrap up the day is MatchCon with a star-studded panel including the following:

• Titan92, OTNN contributor & sometime show host;
•  Barbara Mulligan Buffing, CNR;
• Billie Cotter, OTNN co-host of Red, Right and Blue ...;
• Aaron Walker, Aaron Worthing @ Allergic2Bull blog;
• Liz Harrison, GoldwaterGal Media, "The Right War" at FTR Radio;
• Kyle Becker, IJReview.com editor and former Verizon customer

And that is all the news that is news for today. If you like what you read, feel free to hit the tip jar and help out a fellow capitalist.

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