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February 8, 2013
A Real SolutionFollowing the tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school by a mentally disturbed individual, the political left has pursued gun control with renewed vigor. In addition to an 'assault weapons ban' the left has called for universa...
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August 21, 2012
Funding FailureJerry Brown has a problem. His state continues to spend billions more than it collects in taxes. Outlays for pensioners are starting to bite into day to day government functions. Unable to get higher taxes through his state's legislature Brown is tu...
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June 7, 2012
A glimpse into the liberal mindThe recent victory for Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall election was a stunning surprise for the left. Polling had been predicting a tightening race but Walker ended up winning the recall by a wider margin than he did during the general election....
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December 22, 2011
Eric Holder, Fear and IntimidationThis past weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to intimidate his critics by accusing them of racism. Under the Attorney General's watch more than a thousand weapons have been walked across the border by the ATF and more than 300 people a...
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October 20, 2011
The Obama Camp is Going to Attempt to Pass Stimulus Junior One Bill at a TimePresident Obama is in deep trouble, his approval numbers are at an all time low and his far left base is protesting in the street. More importantly, the President's latest jobs bill (Stimulus II) is so unpopular that his own party exercised the...
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September 7, 2011
Repeating FDR's mistakesThe liberal story line is that the recent recession and anemic recovery is different from previous economic downturns. It is claimed that a "different type" of recession drives a slow and weak recovery, just like the great depression. The liberal ...
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June 7, 2011
NPR defends Palin?While coming home I often listen to our local NPR station. This afternoons "All Things Considered" asked the question "How Accurate Were Palin's Paul Revere Comments?" The story started out with; "Sarah Palin is defending her knowledge of American h...
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May 11, 2011
Our beloved mediaThe death of Bin Laden highlights the continued slow death of the Main Stream Media (MSM) and its credibility. The media's overall portrayal of bin Laden's death has been overwhelmingly positive, which is a welcome respite from the usual fare. The na...
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May 6, 2011
Public Radio's not so sophisticated sophistryOn yesterday's Marketplace (5/5/2011), a daily public radio program, there was a piece titled "Welcoming more immigrants could help boost the U.S. economy". The piece starts with this opening;"President Obama says he is planning anothe...
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April 26, 2011
We have a committee for thatThe President has a great deal of faith in committees, except when he doesn't. For example, last year he created, by executive order, the debt commission - a committee designed to provide recommendations on how the country can balance its books. The...
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March 22, 2011
Are We Getting Our Money's Worth in Higher Education?President Obama has stressed that a college education is critical to the future of America and our ability to compete in the world marketplace. To achieve that aim, our government is spending 60% more in 2011 than 2008 and providing 123% more in tax ...
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March 3, 2011
Satirist Iowahawk schools Nobel Prize winner KrugmanLast week Nobel price winning Paul Krugman of the New York Times penned a column titled "Leaving Children Behind" wherein Krugman insinuated that schools in Texas were deplorable. This riled Dave Burge of well known blog Iowahawk, who...
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February 28, 2011
A real energy policy would have been helpfulGasoline prices keep going up and the consumer is getting hammered with gas well over three dollars. In 2008 the soaring cost of energy was the fuse that kicked off the US recession that was ultimately driven by the financial crisis. Bo...
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January 29, 2011
Democrat Rep slanders America to the Arab worldDemocratic representative Jim Moran of Virginia went the Arab television network Alhurra and blamed his party's November election losses on racism. I offer Representative Moran's statement that "a lot of people in this country ... don't w...
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January 21, 2011
Yes, Rep. Cohen - Obamacare is a takeover of our health care systemWhat is a "takeover"? The democrats have fully embraced the calls for civil discourse by comparing Republicans to Nazis. During the debate over repealing Obamacare Democrats continue to insist that Obamacare isn't a government takeover of...
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January 4, 2011
Socialism by Other MeansAs I pondered the direction our government had taken over the previous year, I looked at the definition of socialism by typing "define: socialism" into Google. The first definition presented was from Princeton's wordnet and read as fo...
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January 3, 2011
Beware the solution in search of a problemSo did you hear about the guy that couldn't get to his NetFlix because he was a BrightHouse user? How about the one where the average suburban housewife suing AT&T for not being clear about her DSL speed being advertised in megabits and not...
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November 16, 2010
California the neocolonial stateCalifornia imports more cheap labor from a third world country than any other state. California exports her prisoners. The state of California essentially outsources a substantial amount of its energy production, importing more of its electrici...
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October 20, 2010
Badge of HonorLast week Canada failed in it's bid to secure a seat on the UN Security Council. The bid was blocked by a coalition of anti-Canadian Arab countries lead by the UAE, mostly over Canada's firm support of Israel. Today's Wall Street Journal (...
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September 28, 2010
Sibelius defends the indefensibleHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius writes an utterly unconvincing retort to charges of thuggery in her threats to health insurance companies, in today's Wall Street Journal. What is amazing about this display is that she does...
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September 13, 2010
The 'L' wordWhat do you call a person that tells you one thing, but knows that isn't true? For instance, in March the President said "My proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions — families, businesses and the federal gove...
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September 12, 2010
Export-Import bank to guarantee $1 billion in loans to the Mexican state oil company.Another example of Obama supporting foreign competition to US oil and supporting drilling anywhere but in the US.The Export-Import Bank of the US intends to guarantee $1 billion in loans to the Mexican state oil company. An article on the Fox ...
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September 4, 2010
Media Bigotry ShowingThere is no escaping the fact that traditional mainstream media outlets have been trying to label recent conservative movements as racist, or tinged with racism. This has been the case from the town hall meetings and the Tea Party to Glenn Beck's Res...
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August 30, 2010
What to look for in Obama's Iraq SpeechTomorrow evening President Obama will give a televised speech about the end of combat operations in Iraq. He will visit Fort Bliss earlier that same day before returning to Washington DC for his prime time address to the nation. After lis...
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August 29, 2010
Hypocrisy in the left's definition of 'tolerance'Commentators have noted the hypocrisy of those that claim that "sensitivity" has no place in the decision to build a Islamic center 2 blocks from ground zero, for them this is a constitutional issue. Many of those same pundits als...
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August 26, 2010
State Attorney Generals to impose cap & tradeAnthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) fetishist are in crisis. Hard scientific evidence is mounting that their exalted theory should go the way of the dodo. The "scientists" in the community continue to refuse to release data so th...
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August 19, 2010
Judges rule it's ok to lie about military serviceOnly in the twilight zone or California can a law that was passed to protect people from fraud be declared unconstitutional because "there is no evidence these lies hurt anyone".A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided in a ...
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August 16, 2010
Obama doesn't trust youPresident Obama penchant taking a bad situation and making it worse was on full display again during the "clarification" of remarks he made on Friday. It seems that Obama wasn't really commenting on the mosque, but religious freedom....
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August 14, 2010
Racism is deadIn today's Wall Street Journal regular column, "Best of the web" author James Taranto gives us one humdinger of a quote: "Racism is dead, and its killers were heroes. Nostalgia for racism lives on in the imagination of liberals who onl...
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August 12, 2010
Forcing States into DebtThe Obama administration just can't give up it's Chicago ways or it's blind big government ideology. The latest example is enshrined in the farcical bill passed during a special session of Congress. The New York Times describes the bi...
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August 10, 2010
White House in the Twilight Zone this 'Recovery Summer'You know you're in the summer of recovery when both the Wall Street Journal runs editorials titled "It isn't working" and "Why I'm not hiring" and the New York Time's front page story is "U.S. Lost 131,000 Jobs as Governments...
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August 8, 2010
Heartless, Universal Legal PlunderIf you follow politics, even in a cursory fashion, you couldn't miss the Democrats and their supporters attempting to paint Republicans as heartless when the renewal of jobless benefits came before the Congress. The weeping and gnashing of tee...
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August 2, 2010
A tax break for the limousine liberalsThe liberal magazine Slate has a thought provoking article titled "Unaffordable at Any Speed". The thrust of the arguments in the article are two fold, the first argument is that President Obama's electric car tax credit is going to...
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July 31, 2010
Fannie & Freddie ReduxIt seems that our esteemed leadership in the White House cannot stop meddling in the markets or overcome their socialist predilections. From education, to healthcare and home loans our government has screwed up so many facets of American lif...
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July 29, 2010
Do as I say, not as I doThe House Ethics Panel convened today to air the 13 ethics violations of which twenty term Congressman Charlie Rangel (D) NY is accused. The fact that the much anticipated meeting was delayed for nearly an hour caused rumors to run wild that Ra...
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July 28, 2010
Transparency for thee but not for meAfter signing the recent Dodd-Frank "financial reform" bill that was rammed through Congress, the President said "It will finally bring transparency to the kind of complex and risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis...
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July 24, 2010
The $30 billion distortion of the higher education marketplace.The government's history of distorting the market place is long, storied, and usually ends badly. Federal interference in the market place began in earnest during FDR's New Deal policies in the thirties and continues to this day. Many economists be...
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July 12, 2010
DoJ racial preferences Bush's fault!Each morning I get an email from the New York Times (NYT) that outlines the day's headlines. To date I have yet to receive one that discusses the accusations that are shaking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to it's foundation. If you ...
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July 6, 2010
As transparent as crude oil.The Federal Government and the Coast Guard have issued new restrictions on press access to the Gulf oil spill and clean up. Reporters are not allowed within 65 feet of any cleanup vessel, or booms on land or in water. Failure to obey t...
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June 29, 2010
Stare decisis, sometimesCan we stop pretending that liberal jurisprudence is anything but warmed over politics in a judicial robe? Yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court in McDonald v. Chicago proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the left-leaning justices will vo...
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June 23, 2010
More misdirection from the White HouseThe headlines this morning are all about General McChrystal and an article in Rolling Stone. My prediction is that this episode will extend far longer than it should, and will be used as much and as often as possible to separate Obama from ...
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June 2, 2010
From the" words are important" departmentYesterday on Fox News Channel's special report, Charles Krauthammer argued that the term humanitarian should not be applied to ships whose soul intent was to break the blockade of Gaza. Krauthammer's analysis is spot on, and he makes it clear that t...
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May 5, 2010
A fun video on the Declaration of IndependenceFrom the website of Soomo Publishing comes a fun video, that in the words of it's creators is ". . . an anachronistic daydream asking the question, "If pop producer Timbaland had sought to build consensus around declaring independence, what...
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March 27, 2010
The consequences of the US-Russian START treatyIn an announcement with much fanfare, the President told the world that a new nuclear weapons deal has been reached with Russia. We have talked about the strategic implications of this agreement before. Ironically today's developments...
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February 24, 2010
Toyota in the congressional dockToday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on Toyota Motors recent quality problems. The House Committee has formerly invited Toyota CEO, Akio Toyoda to testify. Expect lots of grandstanding by our fearless Co...
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February 13, 2010
Police Officer jokes on Facebook about shooting gun rights advocatesIt's being reported that a police officer from East Palo Alto joked about gunning down proponents of the second amendment on Facebook. The article in today's Mercury News tells of the police officer in question joking about shooting someone as ...
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January 31, 2010
The Beck-O'Reilly 'Bold Fresh Tour'This evening I got to see Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly on their Bold Fresh tour in Tampa. The show is simple in it's format. Each personality presented a monologue that was equally funny and political. There was then a 15 minutes break and both a...
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January 22, 2010
The delusional leftOn Tuesday night, Alan Colmes delusional assertion on The O'Reilly Factor that the Bay State's election has little to do with healthcare when senator-elect Brown ran on being the 41st vote to block Obamacare was astounding. Rasmussen e...
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January 14, 2010
Out of fashionThe fashion industry produces an endless cycle of clothes as styles come into fashion and then go out again. Bell bottoms are now out of favor and straight leg jeans are all the rage, welcome to a repeat of the late seventies. In politics...
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January 12, 2010
Paying lip service to education"We need to stop paying lip service to public education, and start holding communities, administrators, teachers, parents and students accountable." - barackobama.comEmpty words from the leader of the party that would rather pay ...
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December 31, 2009
Mainstream Media ignore journalist subpoenaed on leakIn an effort to be "open and transparent" the Obama administration served subpoenas to a couple of journalist for revealing the new and hopelessly inept TSA rules issued after the recent Christmas day bomb attempt. ...
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December 21, 2009
Widening the achievement gapThe Democrats have consistently cultivated a public image as the party of the little guy, the party that stands up against big interests and protects the rights of minorities. You would think that a program that helps minority students, lowers ...
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December 21, 2009
Dems kow-tow to teacher's union - kill successful DC voucher progamNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
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November 5, 2009
A real planThere are so many problems with the current Democratic "health care reform" bills that it's hard to know where to begin. These plans can be summed up in one run on sentence:The current crop of Democrat-proposed health care bills all s...
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November 4, 2009
Obama & the unclenched fistOur President told the world in his interview on UAE TV that "If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us". I have to admit that I'm shocked to see that the Iranians have unclench...
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November 1, 2009
Dede Scozzafava proves her detractors right!It is being reported today that Dede Scozzafava is endorsing Democrat Bill Owens. In one fell swoop she proved her detractors right. Her actions also speak to the Republicans that made excuses for her such as Newt Gingrich; they were dead...
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October 31, 2009
What Diversity?Liberals, or as they refer to themselves now, "progressives", have been pushing diversity in America for years. The people of the United States have been told that diversity is good in all things from the economic marketplace to ideas...
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October 19, 2009
The Obama Way: Eliminate Competition of IdeasOn September 8th President Obama told ABC news "...... Democrats and Republicans understand that I'm open to new ideas, that we're not being rigid and ideological about this thing, but we do intend to get something done this year." Th...
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October 13, 2009
Obama has found his oppressorWhy would President Obama openly challenge the highest rated news channel in existence? Obama's poll numbers are dropping, his policies are running into serious problems even though his own party has a super majority, and even his personal app...
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October 6, 2009
Who needs death panels?The WSJ today succinctly illustrates the morass of government healthcare in a Review & Outlook column titled The War On Specialists. In an effort to both reduce costs and increase the number of General Practitioners, the Admi...
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October 5, 2009
Social justice on the agenda at Climate Change Treaty meetingA draft of the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty dated September 15th is currently available for inspection here. (H/T Watts Up With That). Some of the draft language is best described as a communist manifesto dressed up in UN leotards. Some not...
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October 5, 2009
US dominates Medical Nobel PrizesToday, October 5th, three Americans were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine. This continues the strong showing of US medical research, with US researchers counting for eighteen of the last thirty winners. US institutions where the r...
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October 4, 2009
Governmental Capriciousness RisingThere is a troubling pattern of capriciousness that has emerged from our current government. No one can take for granted that our government will do as it says. The word of the US government used to be something that world leaders, companies, e...
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October 1, 2009
Inside the Rather mindToday in an interview with Dan Rather by Neil Cavuto we learn that Dan thinks the story that 60 minutes II ran about President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service record was true and that CBS news withdrew the story to curry f...
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September 28, 2009
Rookie MistakesThe press is all agog over the President leading the UN security council which came out with extremely artfully worded resolution that endorses the eventual goal of "a world without nuclear weapons". That document is so carefully wordsmithe...
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September 21, 2009
Obama bullies HondurasNow that Barack Obama leads American foreign policy, the ugly Yanqui bully is back in Central America. Today's Wall Street Journal continues it's coverage of US bullying the small Central American country of Honduras. The cause of the Obam...
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September 15, 2009
The theater of distractionAs predicted the House of Representatives today put on a national distraction today by putting together a "resolution of disapproval" for Rep Wilson's outburst last week. What makes this typical "politics as usual" is the fac...
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September 14, 2009
Keeping your eye on the ballWith the success of the recent 9/12 protests the left is running scared. The Democratic Party needs the collective eyes of the nation to be taken off the ball if they have any hope of sliding what they are pitching across the plate. Some ...
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September 10, 2009
Obama only talks the talkThe Commander in Chief gave a rousing speech to a joint session of congress and I heard a few things that I liked. The President talked the talk that most Americans want to hear. The critical question is, will he walk the walk? Let's look...
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September 7, 2009
Government drives costs upIf anyone wants to get a concrete real world example of how absurd the "the government will bring health care costs down" argument is, go no further than higher education. According to the Digest of Education Statistics 2008 the cost of a f...
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August 23, 2009
The changing Obama messageAs the anger directed towards Obama Care and the Democrats increases the message changes or morphs in an attempt to see what resonates with the American public. We now hear less about "healthcare reform" and more about "hea...
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July 8, 2009
The numbers game18 - Have you heard that number recently? Eighteen ethics complaints. Type that phrase into Google's news site and you get 670 results. This is the number we hear repeated again and again whenever the name "Sarah Palin" co...
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July 7, 2009
Why not negotiate from a position of strength?In today's Wall Street Journal Keith Payne has an excellent article titled Arms Control Amnesia. While the rest of the press continues to talk about the self inflicted death of a pop star, Mr. Payne actually analyzes what our President is doing...
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May 10, 2009
Welcome to the Banana Republic ClubWelcome the latest entry into the Banana Republic Club: The United States of America. And how did the USA get admitted you ask? Here are just a few of the achievements that garnered it entry into this "well respected" club.1. Th...