<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>PoliticalMachine Forums » RSS Feed » US Domestic Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/PoliticalMachine_com/forum/259</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In US Domestic</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:42:45 PM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:42:45 PM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>Nitro Cruiser</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/483334</comments><description><![CDATA[ We&nbsp; know that the Obama administration " weaponized " many, formerly trusted US agencies. The first was the EPA in an effort to bully businesses, pushing the global warming cult, to the point of  falsifying scientific data . This was followed by the IRS,  targeting  conservative organizations and businesses in this largely ignored scandal. Exposed, leading culprits plead the 5th and electronic records were destroyed (sound familiar?). Little to nothing was done with a complicit  DOJ  turni...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/483334</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/483334</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 1:54:08 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2017-06-05T13:54:08-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>The Politicizing of Government Institutions</title></item><item><author>Anthony R</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/480579</comments><description><![CDATA[One thing that always seems to define modern left wing people, and I&#39;m talking about the progressives who burn people in effigy and smash storefronts, not the classical liberal that you saw dancing at Woodstock festivals; is the idea that only their beliefs are valid. Its not just that they believe their ideas are the only ones that can be valid, but that any other point of view is vile, and not only vile, but borderline criminal. It is an offense so egregious to oppose their set of beliefs ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/480579</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/480579</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2017 3:49:05 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2017-02-11T15:49:05-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Militant Progressives</title></item><item><author>Phil Osborn</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/466784</comments><description><![CDATA[ I feel as though I&#39;ve suddenly been dropped into Orwell&#39;s&nbsp;1984, where actions are masked by words whose meanings &nbsp;have been carefully contorted to match a hidden PC standard.&nbsp; Any subject matter that does not fit the purposes of the puppet masters is excluded via marginalization.&nbsp;     My central thesis, part A:  There are ways and means to get at the truth in nearly every situation.&nbsp;   First, you have to be free to consider the possibilities regardless of ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/466784</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/466784</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 8:40:37 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2015-06-02T08:40:37-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Free Thinking or Else</title></item><item><author>emb-digitizing</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/449355</comments><description><![CDATA[ Cheaper is NOT always Better   Instead, we have No Minimum charges, just a flat rate of US$2.50/1000 stitches.&nbsp; More, 20% discounts when your accumulated amounts exceed US$500   Quality Assurances   We know clear how to minimize thread breakage and to sew out smoothly, save your cost and headaches in production.   Customers Satisfactions   It is not the sales talk but the detail-minded cares from your enquiries to orders that gradually build your trust on us.  Why not give us a...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/449355</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/449355</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 2:18:45 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2014-10-08T02:18:45-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Embroidery Digitizing - worth you to work on….</title></item><item><author>Rightwinger</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/414816</comments><description><![CDATA[    I was recently in a friendly--for the most part--discussion about gay marriage.     Now, I really have no valid opinion on the subject, but I will say that I don&#39;t think galaxies are going to explode, if gays and lesbians are given the right to say "I do". After all, in the words of the great&nbsp;country&nbsp;music legend/drag queen icon&nbsp;Dolly Parton, "They should have to suffer, right&nbsp;along with the rest of us."   And besides, I really don&#39;t think it&#39;s my place to ju...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/414816</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/414816</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 5:11:03 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-01-10T17:11:03-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Why am I a Hater?</title></item><item><author>system_of_natural_liberty</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/362194</comments><description><![CDATA[        Normal   0       false   false   false                 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                    &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-pape...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/362194</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/362194</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 6:04:55 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-05-10T18:04:55-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>The Cause of Rising Health Care Costs</title></item><item><author>JillUser</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/416930</comments><description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently posted a blog article on Facebook about Governor Jan Brewer pointing her finger in the President&#39;s face. &nbsp;My friend&#39;s status above said article was " It never entered my brain that this was anything other than a crazy woman disrespecting our president." but she wanted us to read this blog article to teach what it was "really" about.    The article was a lesson in rules for "White Folks" when dealing with "Black People". &nbsp;The author instructed White F...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/416930</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/416930</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 7:51:15 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-03-04T19:51:15-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Race Relations in America</title></item><item><author>Rightwinger</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/417330</comments><description><![CDATA[Since the 1970s, an endless parade of government officials and candidates has campaigned on how we must act now, to get free of Middle East oil.  Yet, here we are, forty years later, still tied to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and others, and every time some angry Muslim (is there any other kind?) throws a rock, our gas prices jump.  Why? We only get approximately 14% of our oil from the Mideast, anyway; the rest comes from domestic drilling, Canada and Mexico.  Yet, it seems to be Arab oil...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/417330</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/417330</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 6:00:56 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-05T18:00:56-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Americans Taking it up the Pipeline</title></item><item><author>samantha360</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/417228</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems as though there is now a new killer out there and it&#39;s not what you would expect. It&#39;s sugar!&nbsp;  A study by&nbsp; Nature &nbsp;suggests that like tobacco and alcohol sugar should also be regulated by the Government.  Now I&#39;m all for protecting the health of the general public but this seems like it may be going a little far. They are not only talking about raising taxes on sugary products but actually putting age limits on who can buy certain products just as they do...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/417228</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/417228</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 7:26:59 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-02T19:26:59-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>UCSF States Sugar is Bad, Real Bad...</title></item><item><author>CharlesCS</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/407408</comments><description><![CDATA[I’ll be perfectly honest and state that I really don’t understand the possible repercussions of a Gov’t shutdown. The concept sounds scary but there are conflicting reports over just how bad a Gov’t shutdown really is. I myself find it hard to believe politicians who are stating that this would be disastrous for our nation as they always tend to exaggerate things for their own political purposes. I also find it hard to believe that an entity such as the US Gov’t can actually be shutdown without ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/407408</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/407408</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 9:26:55 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-31T21:26:55-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Gov&amp;rsquo;t shutdown, what does it mean to you?</title></item><item><author>Rightwinger</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/415137</comments><description><![CDATA[ When will enough be enough? When will someone in authority finally stand up and say &ldquo;no more&rdquo;?   President Obama once again ignores constitutional strictures with his recent &ldquo;recess appointments&rdquo;, while the Senate was still in session. Bottom line, he simply said, &ldquo;you&rsquo;re in&rdquo;, without bothering with the process of legal Senate confirmation.    Where is the outrage in the House and Senate? That&rsquo;s the Legislative Branch&rsquo;s job.    Of course,...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/415137</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/415137</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 6:08:36 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-16T06:08:36-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Enough of this...isn't it?</title></item><item><author>Rightwinger</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/415051</comments><description><![CDATA[I&nbsp;don&#39;t really know what the nuclear disaster in Japan has to do with bringing us closer to global thermonuclear war, and I didn&#39;t see any specific&nbsp;mention of Iran.&nbsp;But gee...they must be happy to be using it again; that mean ol&#39; Ronald Reagan kicked the whole thing out of vogue for a while, there, didn&#39;t he?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/415051</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/415051</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 6:32:20 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-10T18:32:20-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Doomsday Clock Moved One Minute Closer To Midnight</title></item><item><author>stevendedalus</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/414957</comments><description><![CDATA[ De-schooling, schools without walls, alternative  schools, freedom and open schools&mdash;are all predicated on the premise that  traditional or prevailing schools are oppressive. Somehow out of, and in spite  of, this oppression, democratic esprit presses for change and enlightenment.  There is a subtle contradiction here. History notes that oppression succeeds by  suppressing the conscious level of subjects by the ruling class and delimited  for the expediency of industry, but as the co...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/414957</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/414957</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:32:28 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-07T09:32:28</pubDateParsed><title>Another Look at Education</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/404850</comments><description><![CDATA[How big is a Trillion of &hellip; anything?&nbsp;"1" followed by 12 zeros (1,000,000,000,000) or for the more astute, 10 12 . Here are some amusements concerning one trillion of something&rsquo;s ... To gain perspective:    10 12  Seconds: =~16.7 billion minutes = ~277.8 million hours = ~11.6 million days = ~31.7 thousand years.  10 12  Dollars: If spent at $1/second = $60/minute = $3,600/hour = $86,400/day =~ $31.6 million /Year &hellip;  for  ~31.7 thousand years.  10 12  Dollar bills (6 in....]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/404850</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/404850</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 5:02:07 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-11-30T17:02:07-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>How costly are the current administration's bailouts?</title></item><item><author>hongluobo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/413229</comments><description><![CDATA[Breitling Callistino The Breitling watch is the worlds favorite watch for pilots around the world,&nbsp; Breitling Blackbird &nbsp;The British Red Arrows,&nbsp; replica Breitling Blackbird &nbsp;The US Air force Thunderbirds and Japans Blue Impluse all wear Breitling watches, Breitling Callistino &nbsp;as well as many airline pilots. bjkshdj4 Virgin Airways, British Airways, Delta, U.S Airways, etc Breitling opened its first factory in 1884 in switzerland.&nbsp; replica Breitling Callistino &nbs...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/413229</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/413229</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 5:06:53 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-11-09T17:06:53-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>replica Breitling Blackbird</title></item><item><author>Phil Osborn</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/412425</comments><description><![CDATA[Update: 090512&nbsp; Note that I&nbsp;am starting a NEW BLOG, as I&#39;m sure that I am going to hit the limit pretty soon, which used to be 512K, I think.&nbsp; Also, who wants to wade thru all this?&nbsp; Not ME!&nbsp; So, the new news is no news about the KPFK/Occupy deal - at least any that I&#39;m privy to, and then there&#39;s a lot of nonsense and wild speculation on my part, if anyone cares...&nbsp; Wow, doesn&#39;t that just GRAB ya?&nbsp; I know that you&#39;re asking yourselves:&nbsp;...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/412425</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/412425</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 7:42:46 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-10-02T19:42:46-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Occupy Earth</title></item><item><author>ShadowWar</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/407822</comments><description><![CDATA[  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility storing melted fuel from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant has not done enough to address crumbling concrete modules encasing the radioactive material, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in a letter made public April 15. The 30 dry shielded canisters at the DOE  &nbsp;    facility at Idaho National Laboratory contain melted fuel from the Three Mile Island-2 reactor core. The concrete modules are ―showing significant cracking and deg...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/407822</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/407822</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 9:21:26 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-04-22T21:21:26-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Three Mile Island fuel modules at DOE facility cracking!!!</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405447</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Obviously this was a bad Idea.&nbsp; Probably won&rsquo;t be the last &hellip; but it has been educational, in a bad way. This series had nothing to do with religion at all, go figure. And since I am writing this, I don&rsquo;t feel inclined to repeatedly tell you  this is my opinion  so  just take it as a given . Since I do not have a Religious  preference  (and very specifically  yours ), it is impossibl...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405447</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405447</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:08:21 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-03-02T12:08:21</pubDateParsed><title>What is the Truth … finish?</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/390126</comments><description><![CDATA[  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have been harangued for being a Republican Party hack on almost every article I have written, for what purpose I know not. As I see it, there is a right side, a left side and the middle. Don&rsquo;t you have to pick one? But I place all three groups on the left side of the scale at present in the degrees one would expect. &nbsp;I did not abandon the Republican Party; they abandoned me when they decided to use the Democrat Party pla...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/390126</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/390126</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 9:55:48 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-03-02T09:55:48-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>The cesspool that IS Congress</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405586</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a  mindboggling  concept for me, on every level I can think of. The problem here is that people want to  bastardize  the concepts of self-preservation and a need for actual real security  with  some sinister plot to deprive those who would  do us harm  of&nbsp;their &ldquo;rights&rdquo;? I do realize there is some merit to &ldquo;rights&rdquo; here, but they should in  NO WAY , trump the protection of our citizenry &helli...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405586</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405586</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 7:58:40 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-03-01T19:58:40-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Profiling was a way of life?</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405164</comments><description><![CDATA[When I write an article, I normally try to follow the theme (usually just the title) not always easy, but  I try . I do not particularly care if you like my choice of words or the topics I choose, but you owe all of us here the courtesy of asking for clarification instead of lambasting  me  because you have decided what I was thinking. How in the world could you even guess my thoughts when you cannot understand what I am writing?  I am an Atheist (as I have stated) and as such, I am always fai...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405164</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405164</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 3:43:27 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-02-27T15:43:27-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>The Bible is not the worlds rule book or Encyclopedia</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405155</comments><description><![CDATA[I will say that I understand children need to be protected and nurtured and brainwashed (for lack of a better term), but what is dumped into their heads from birth is all they have to work with. They do not have the cognitive skills or the reasoning ability to question things and wouldn&rsquo;t comprehend it if they could. Nor are they able to refuse or opt-out, so in their world the gospel, so to speak is whatever they have witnessed or  been told . Just because the parents believe something to...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405155</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405155</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 5:04:23 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-02-26T17:04:23-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>What is the truth?</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405094</comments><description><![CDATA[From the beginning &hellip; The saying that &ldquo;all people are created equal&rdquo; could not be further from the truth (Thanks Jim). The only thing equal at birth is a complete lack of  knowledge . Then the DNA does its work and like fingerprints, there is never another equal human being. If your parents are religious (Islam included), then they start  brainwashing  indoctrinating their children in  THEIR  dictated views, and for children resistance is futile. If one teaches their children t...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405094</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405094</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 1:54:46 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-02-24T13:54:46-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>What is the truth?</title></item><item><author>BoobzTwo</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405515</comments><description><![CDATA[This was still  in my to-do list  and was where  I  intended this series to go (never finished it) ... but never got to. I do not have any stunning solutions, just my simplistic view that if you STOP stepping on my foot, I would not feel obligated to kick you in the shin (and vice versa) ... and maybe civil discourse could result. I see now I was wrong &hellip; peace cannot be one-sided and you religious folk never offered me any peace at all. I have to assume it is of no import to you whatsoeve...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405515</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405515</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 8:18:56 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-02-22T20:18:56-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>What is the Truth?</title></item><item><author>ShadowWar</author><comments>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405421</comments><description><![CDATA[Just in case you have not seen this:  Two years&nbsp;ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;   This&nbsp;is a partial chart on&nbsp;the impact his administration has had on the lives &amp; pockets of Americans:           &nbsp;    January 2009      TODAY       % chg        Source         Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S.      $1.83      $3.104       69.6%        1         Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)      $43.48      ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405421</guid><link>https://forums.politicalmachine.com/405421</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 3:28:52 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-02-17T15:28:52-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>The last 2 years, what has happened?</title></item></channel></rss>