The Roger Report for Friday, February 17, 2012 - The Roger Hedgecock Show - Talk Radio

Human Events: The perfect Democrat Latino

Democratic Party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has nominated Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to Chair the 2012 Democrat Party nominating convention where Barack Hussein Obama is expected to be nominated for a second term. 

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Obama loses backing of SF Fundraiser

San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell, one of the Democratic Party's most generous benefactors, is keeping her checkbook closed when President Obama holds high-priced California fundraisers this week. 

Whoa- ICE Agent shootout kills 1 wounds 1 -at each other!

The incident was sparked by an unspecified dispute between Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the GlennM.AndersonFederalBuilding near the city's oceanfront, according to law enforcement authorities.

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CBO: Unemployment at 15%

The Congressional Budget Office released a report Thursday that showed real unemployment in America at 15 percent for the month of January, a figure considerably higher than the White House's oft-cited 8.3 percent figure that does not include part-time workers seeking full-time work or those who have given up hope of finding a job altogether.

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Detailing the roster of leftist kooks funding Media Matters

The list of Media Matters' foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who's Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left Tides Foundation ($4,384,702), George Soros' Open Society Institutes ($1,075,000), the Ford Foundation ($966,466), the Sandler Foundation ($400,000) - endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization - and the Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.

They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization MoveOn.org ($50,000), the Barbra Streisand Foundation ($85,000), the kids' shoes-powered Stride Rite Charitable Foundation ($25,000), the Lear Family Foundation ($55,000) - endowed by the TV producer and People for the American Way founder Norman Lear - and the Joyce Foundation ($400,000), whose board of directors included Barack Obama from 1994 to 2002.

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Scott Brown up by 9 over Elizabeth Warren

Republican Scott Brown (49 percent) has a 9-point lead over Democrat Elizabeth Warren (40 percent), according to a Suffolk University/7NEWS (WHDH-Boston) poll of likely general election voters in Massachusetts. Nine percent were undecided, and 2 percent would choose someone else.

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NYT features Op-ed touting Chicomm Tyranny

The fundamental difference between Washington's view and Beijing's is whether political rights are considered God-given and therefore absolute or whether they should be seen as privileges to be negotiated based on the needs and conditions of the nation.

The West seems incapable of becoming less democratic even when its survival may depend on such a shift. In this sense, America today is similar to the old Soviet Union, which also viewed its political system as the ultimate end.

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