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Joseph Finlay
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June 9, 2014
Five Years to FreedomThe Obama administration recently secured the release of an American soldier who spent five years in captivity after leaving his post in Eastern Afghanistan in 2009. Debate -- if not righteous indignation -- has raged concerning the wisdom of tr...
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April 21, 2013
Would the Boston Bombing victims be used as props in the Immigration Debate?The recent and failed Senate gun control ramrod bill featured the unfortunate use of the Sandy Hook victim's families as props to provide a leftist notion of moral authority to the impetus to pass the ill-conceived legislation as Boston reeled this w...
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April 27, 2010
National Guard headed soon to the streets of Chicago?Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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April 7, 2010
Putin-Chavez partnership in oil and weapons forgedNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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March 31, 2010
'Stand and Deliver' math teacher dies at 79Jaime Escalante, the brilliant teacher who shattered the liberal educational establishment's notions of academic achievement and expectations for inner city students, and who was portrayed by Edward James Olmos in the inspirational 1988 film "St...
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March 17, 2010
Army softens training for recruitsNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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March 15, 2010
'Green Zone' bombs at box office"Green Zone," the story of a rogue US Army officer trying to unravel the alleged WMD deceptions and subterfuge of the Bush White House in the early weeks of the Iraq War, has flopped during its opening week. The film stars Matt Damon ...
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March 5, 2010
New natural Climate change discovery in the ArcticAs AGW advocates employ various Rope-a-Dope survival strategies after the knockout barrage of Climategate, scientists have unearthed the existence of possibly another major contributor in the blame game of climate change which could trump all the pre...
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February 27, 2010
Noblesse Oblige: Why the Left Has It All WrongChances are that if one has lived any length of time or achieved a modest success of character, humility, or enterprise, then he is at least unconsciously aware of the concept of noblesse oblige. The term of French origins is defined as "the inf...
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February 25, 2010
Women to serve on submarinesIn a move likely to stir much debate among sailors and sociologists alike, the Navy is lifting the ban on women serving aboard submarines and eliminating one of the few remaining gender-specific career tracks in the US military. Mara Gay of AOL New...
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February 21, 2010
Military controlled by 'a small but powerful subculture of evangelical Christians?'After the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood by Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan, and news this week of the thwarted plot of the "Fort Jackson Five," new evidence emerges that the media is starting to take the practicing of religious-based extremism in the...
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February 16, 2010
The Winter Olympics: A Dying Proposition?The current 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada presents a confluence of sport, civilization, and pageantry -- all of which, upon reflection, are uniquely Western. With the notable exceptions of a few winter sports-loving Asian nations like Jap...
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February 11, 2010
Former Congressman Charlie Wilson dead at 76Charlie Wilson, former Democratic Congressman from Texas and driving force behind the CIA's covert war against Soviet aggression in Afghanistan - later portrayed by Tom Hanks in 2007's "Charlie Wilson's War" - has died at the age of 76. Wi...
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February 5, 2010
Emanuel trapped by his own PC rulesRahm Emanuel has run afoul of the PC police, causing the left to cannibalize one of its own and Emanuel to make the rounds on the apology circuit. Carl Franzen of AOL News has the story of the furor over the White House Chief of Staff's ch...
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February 2, 2010
Ill-gotten gains going to Haitian reliefMove over newly annointed global warming spokesman Osama Bin Laden, you have a new competitor this week for the title of "Most Outrageous Thing an International Terrorist(s) Would Say."The Somali pirates - longtime pillars of the internatio...
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January 29, 2010
Bin Laden scolds the west over global warmingAdd Osama Bin Laden to the growing list of Third world tyrants and despots who use the narrative of US-induced climate change to weaken American influence abroad and to redistribute the world's wealth: Osama bin Laden has ...
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January 25, 2010
Compare and contrast; Israel response to Haiti earthquake and the terroristsWhile the world - led by the United States and Israel - rushes to the aid of the devastated nation of Haiti, Osama Bin Laden has chosen to take credit for the failed Christmas Day attack in the US and has vowed future attacks on the US and Israel: ...
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January 10, 2010
NFL hiring practices a racial shamThe Seattle Seahawks have reached a deal in principle with famed and the current University of Southern California coach Pete Carroll, paving the way for the coaching legend to likely make a huge splash into the NFL coaching ranks. The national and ...
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December 25, 2009
Christmas in America - then and nowThe first Christmas in the new nation began almost as precariously as the very first Christmas in Bethlehem. The early results of the American war effort by Christmas 1776 had been under whelming , and gave little indication that men who had pledged ...
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November 29, 2009
Climategate: 'The stones cry out'The extraordinary revelation of Climategate through the alternative media the world over raises provocative questions about the health of Western notions of truth, science, and intellectual freedom . Jonathan Leake, writing in the UK's Times Online,...
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November 23, 2009
Sports broadcasters suspended because of one viewer complaintIn wake of Maj. Nidal Hasan's terrorist actions at Ft. Hood, various public figures and media outlets have cautioned against an anti-Islamic backlash in the USA. Apparently, Fox Sports, the NBA and the Los Angeles Clippers have received the mes...
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November 8, 2009
Napolitano's terrorist radar screenWhat kind of behavior and characteristics trigger scrutiny from The Department of Homeland Security and its head, Janet Napolitano? It seems that Major Hasan's behavior raised no official eyebrows despite his outspoken views and possible links to rad...
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November 5, 2009
75% of America's youth unwanted by Uncle SamSince the end of the draft in 1973, the all-volunteer US military has been without peer in deploying superior fighting men and women able to meet the physical and mental demands of modern combat and its ever-advancing technological and asymmetrical c...
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July 14, 2009
TOTUS injuredYou knew it had to happen sooner or later? Even technology has its limits: The President's constant reliance on the use of teleprompters has resulted in the first known case of teleprompter catastrophic failure:President Barack Obama was just warming...
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July 12, 2009
Ghana speech cognitive dissonanceThe following excerpts of President Obama's speech to Ghana's parliament on Saturday contain some revealing and perhaps self-indicting characteristics of what the President considers to be hallmarks of "good governance": As I...
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June 15, 2009
Obama at the AMAIn what has become a predictable opening salvo to every proposal and initiative of the new Adminstration, President Obama used the backdrop of fear and disaster on Monday in an attempt to gain traction with the American Medical Association for health...
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January 26, 2009
The faithless community?President Obama's effort at religious all-inclusiveness at the Inauguration has not escaped the notice of many African-American Christians. What follows is further evidence that many Christians are less than thrilled with the exaltation of mult...
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December 30, 2008
The politics of crime statisticsA new study by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston, finds that since 2000 there has been a 40% increase in shooting deaths among black males between the ages of 14-17. One should always be cautious when attempting to ...
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December 27, 2008
Chinese Navy ready to Be a PlayerAs the Somali pirates continue to capture the world's attention and draw the ire of commercial shipping interests, the Chinese Navy has decided to send ships into the area to discourage future mischief. The move is significant as it represents ...
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December 22, 2008
Dems and dynastiesThe Democrats and MSM have largely hailed the 2008 electoral gains by the Left as a "people-driven" phenomenon. While that point alone could be easily refuted by a close examination of campaign spending and backers like George Soros, ...
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December 20, 2008
The next complaintFor those of you wondering about what new red meat the NAACP would seek out to remain relevant with the "historic" election of the first World President and the reshaping of a country that for the first time can give us all pride...well...w...
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December 19, 2008
The oil opportunityIt has been said that crisis leads to opportunity. This principle tends to hold true regardless of whether you believe Saul Alinsky's version, or hope for genuine solutions to problems that benefit us all. The incoming administration is t...
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December 8, 2008
Obama still dodging straight answers on his smokingIt has been said that "he who is not faithful in the small things, will not be faithful in the important things." As has been noted by AT, Barack Obama has yet to kick his smoking habit. When asked by Tom Brokaw on NBC's "Meet th...