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by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty - vs- Tyranny Yeah, Right, fer Sure- Not When Obama changes his mind it's evolving. Whenever anybody else does it's flip-flopping. At least that is how the left sees it. Yahoo News - Scooping up dollars for his campaign at a New York fundraiser, President Barack Obama told supporters on Monday that "the American people are on our side" when it comes to issues like same-sex marriage. The president spoke at an event hosted by openly gay singer Ricky Martin, the LGBT Leadership Council and the Futuro Fund, where he tied his announced support for gay marriage last week to past civil rights struggles. "We have never gone wrong when we expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody," the president said to cheers from the audience. "That doesn't weaken families, that strengthens families. It's the right thing to do." His comments came after presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney...

by Lrs Carpenter Rational Nation USA The Associated Press is running a story on Republican Senatorial candidate, and successful businessman Ron Johnson that is critical of his employing prison inmates. Following are excerpts from the AP article. MADISON, Wis. —  Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson, who has campaigned against government subsidies to business, employs up to nine prison inmates at his plastics factories whose health care costs are paid by the state, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Johnson, a political newcomer challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, is running as a businessman and job creator who opposes subsidies as government interference in the free market. He holds a slight lead in the race, according to recent polls.  Public records show that Pacur Inc. and Dynamic Drinkware LLC, two companies run by Johnson, employ up to nine inmates at a time through a state Corrections Department jobs program.  Johnson's compa...