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October 20, 2020
How to get a head start on preparing for post-election civil unrestSome of you may be concerned that your family has not made adequate preparations for the probable civil unrest ahead. Here's a primer on how to fix that.
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December 25, 2019
2019 American Thinker Holiday QuizIf you enjoy literature, history, and movies, and your cosmology includes Messier objects and Klingons, then this is your quiz.
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October 31, 2018
Eavesdropping on Obama’s revolutionary guards (Organizing for Action)There is nothing like the local coffee shop near my home to hear the unvarnished truth.
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October 19, 2018
San Francisco: Now so bad, it'll make you cryI observed a city that carefully and deliberately schemed to become an open sewer.
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October 17, 2015
In the worst event...You don't have to be in a doomsday cult to prepare intelligently to survive a natural or man-made catastrophe.
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October 7, 2015
Second Amendment foes lying about gun controlOnly dictators, tyrants, despots, totalitarians, and those who want to control and ultimately enslave you support gun control.
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July 23, 2015
Five years, eight months since 'Allahu Akbar' rang out at Ft. HoodJihadist monster Nidal Hasan still breathes while on death row at Ft. Leavenworth.
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April 11, 2015
Thinking the unthinkable about Obama's Middle East PolicyI am not generally given to doomsday fantasies, but I'm starting to get unnerved by where I see President Obama’s Middle East diplomacy taking us.
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February 5, 2015
Physician, do no harm - except in CanadaTime to amend the Modern Hippocratic Oath.
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October 29, 2014
Obama and the baby-killersI had thought that the dazzling vulgarity of B. H. Obama, his appointees, and their unremitting hatred for Israel and the Jewish people could no longer shock my soul
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October 2, 2014
Fourteen questions about Ebola that will never be askedThe press Pretorians who protect the president won't summon the courage to confront him.
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August 5, 2014
Where is Atticus Finch when you need him?Illegal aliens threaten Amerca's health and welfare.
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July 25, 2014
The Devil's best trick is making people believe he doesn't exist4 million women at risk of genital mutilation in Iraq.
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July 18, 2014
Ridiculous EPA rules make wildfires more dangerousDoD vehicles denied firefighters because they don't meet "emission standards."
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July 15, 2014
A bio-terror threat at the border?Who else is coming over the border besides Honduran children?
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July 4, 2014
A Detour on Independence DayTake a break from the scandals, corruption, and catastrophes of the current administration for a second. You won't regret it.
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March 25, 2014
Administration to cancel Hellfire and Tomahawk missile programs“This really moves the U.S. away from a position of influence and military dominance.”
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March 2, 2014
Russia and China play the 'long game' while Obama dithersMilitary budget cuts shows that Obama is eager for America to fall from superpower to also-ran.
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February 11, 2014
Another strange Obama admininstration arms purchaseAlmost 600,000 AK rifle magazines. For Syrian rebels? Really?
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February 6, 2014
Mulsim Brotherhood in the Oval OfficeA senior member of the MB is invited to the Oval Office, and is photographed with the President.
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December 25, 2013
2013 Christmas QuizA challenging quiz designed for the entire family. An AT tradition
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October 10, 2013
Name the names now!Compel the White House to release the names of those who came up with the idea to withhold the military death benefit, and those in the White House who authorized this heinous act
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October 3, 2013
Feds' punitive shutdown in Western parksThe Feds are not only closing the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 1.2 million acres are being systematical depopulated
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October 1, 2013
Fed bureaucrats blaming GOPHow the fed bureaucrats are playing politics with the shutdown
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August 24, 2013
Student who balked at wearing RFID chip returns to schoolIndividuals with conviction, faith, and courage still make a difference in 21st century America.
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August 14, 2013
Obama's 21st century tyrannyIf a President can unilaterally change or alter Obamacare or any other Federal law without Congressional approval, then our political institutions have been effectively dissolved
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August 12, 2013
Iran's nuclear shot in the armTehran now has access to a higher grade of uranium ore thanks to the Chinese and Zimbabwe.
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August 10, 2013
California's anti-gun stupidity on steroidsThe current California Assembly and Senate are the most moronic collection of corrupt political whores since the Assemblée Législative help inaugurate the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
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July 26, 2013
Unions screwed by ObamacareIt only took this nation's union leadership 1,223 days to figure out they had been totally bamboozled by Obama
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June 28, 2013
How Not to Identify TerroristsLife-saving terrorist identification programs simply will not fly in Obamaland -- aka Seattle, Washington.
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May 23, 2013
Could Iran become a nuclear superpower?Iranian nuclear industry gears up to eventually produce 20-30 bombs a year.
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May 12, 2013
You, too?This is how I look when I read about the IRS investigating conservative groups!
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April 30, 2013
Terror attack in San Jose?A disturbing story of a failed poisoning at a local Starbucks leaves us with many unanswered questions. It will be instructive to watch the follow-up reporting (or lack thereof) by the hyper politically correct MSM of the San Francisco Bay Area
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April 6, 2013
California 'Lumber Products Assessment' a tax by any other nameAre there no limits to the greedy, grubbing, gluttonous addiction to forever-increasing taxation?
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April 3, 2013
Owen's Already Owin'My niece just had her second child, a beautiful bundle of smiles and soft blond hair, Owen. Yet I harbored a deep, unspoken concern that this country has already set substantial obstacles in front of this innocent boy.
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March 26, 2013
Lifestyles of the Rich and UnionizedYour tax dollars at... "work," I'd guess you'd call it.
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March 3, 2013
The feverish de-legitimization of personal self-defenseThe madness of the government schools.
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January 11, 2013
Obama Provoking a Constitutional CrisisIt is no historical accident that this country's most serious Constitution crisis since Ft. Sumter revolves around civilian possession of small arms.
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January 6, 2013
A recipe for activism against efforts at gun controlWe must let our legislators know exactly what the electoral consequences of their votes will be.
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December 21, 2012
Gun confiscation raised by rising star DemocratOne of the supposedly brightest lights among the next generation of Democrat presidential contenders has just spoken about gun confiscatiion.
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December 4, 2012
Fiscal cliff negotiations the opportunity of a generation to stop further tax hikesThe GOP negotiates like clueless little girls.
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November 28, 2012
Here's how to really soak the richHow to raise $3.2 trillion in 10 years without touching the tax rate.
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November 25, 2012
Hurricane damages and the national debtA single day's debt could pay for rebuilding New Jersey.
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November 22, 2012
Another Thanksgiving Day Readers' QuizA good way for families to burn off all the food they've eaten.
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November 8, 2012
Scenes from Obama's AmericaTuesday, our country split apart along the dangerous fault lines of class, race, gender, age and faith, and we can already glimpse the consequences.
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November 5, 2012
A National Security HybridB.H. Obama has issued 139 executive orders since becoming president. Some are fairly benign; many are deeply troubling, specifically as to the wholesale consolidation of emergency powers into the office of the presidency.
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October 27, 2012
Media Misleading May Prompt Post-Election ChaosIf Obama loses, what would be the result among his most strident backers? Will they just turn off their TV set and go to bed after such a shock?
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October 23, 2012
Obama Gave Himself Away Last NightLit with the bright flash of summer lightening, three words showed America why B.H. Obama is so spectacularly unsuited to hold the office of the Presidency.
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October 18, 2012
Fort Hood and the ElectionWithout a doubt, this commander-in-chief must be held personally accountable for the allowing this particular court-martial to be twisted, delayed, delayed and further delayed for base political calculations.
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October 12, 2012
A captive audience watching Biden's boorishnessQuite a few of my fellow passengers were watching the Great Delaware Boor last night as we cruised at 34,000 feet above the Great Plains on a non-stop from Newark to San Francisco.
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October 7, 2012
Texas school district to require students to wear RFID chip whil on campusOrwell and Huxley must be outraged that their warnings have gone so unheeded.
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October 5, 2012
Obama's Debate Con?Barack Obama has always been a fine actor and Wednesday night he deftly played the role of a debate loser with Oscar-worthy brilliance. I think it was a con.
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October 2, 2012
Obama waives child soldier sanctions - againWhat are to make to this three-year disregard of the law's intent, that some children are actually expendable?
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September 20, 2012
Why does Homeland Security need 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition?DHS purchase includes almost half a billion rounds of hollow point ammunition, banned by the Hague Convention of 1899 for use in international warfare
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September 13, 2012
DefenselessOur worst fears concerning the safety our US Marines and our foreign diplomats have been confirmed.
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September 12, 2012
What's really going on in Cairo and Benghazi attacks?Why didn't the US Marines use the necessary force to defend the Cairo and Benghazi diplomats? Something smells wrong
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August 10, 2012
California town pioneers in fiscal irresponsibilityThe loan shark strategy to spend without raising taxes.
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July 30, 2012
Spot the male chauvinist pigNorth Dakota Democrats have given evidence of their real attitudes toward women. Still awaiting a response from Sen. Barbara Boxer.
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July 9, 2012
A Democrat consultant gets itI wish she worked for the GOP. Do the Romney folks get it too? Inquiring minds want to know.
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July 7, 2012
California digs fiscal grave on high speed rail boondoggleDenial, stupidity and a willful disregard for basic economics are fully deployed in adding to California's already astronomical debt service.
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July 6, 2012
Institutionalized graft in the Golden StateThe Democrats in the California State Assembly really believe their constituents are fools
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July 3, 2012
California madnessThe Democrats' commitment to the help unemployed and less fortunate is another out and out lie.
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July 1, 2012
Spotted in a Bay Area Mall Parking LotI saw this brand new bumper sticker in the parking lot of a local San Francisco Bay Area shopping mall.
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June 11, 2012
Ray Bradbury: Big talent on a small planetRay Bradbury added to our small planet's store of knowledge with his vivid imagination.
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May 26, 2012
The folly of low flow toiletsThis sign was in discovered in our bathroom at a major chain hotel in Springdale, Utah, just outside Zion National Park.
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May 14, 2012
California Bullet Train BluesDisaster hurtling down the tracks, bureaucrats continue to squander public money. Poster project for government waste gets even more absurd.
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May 6, 2012
Justice for the victims of Maj. Hasan?One thousand and fourteen days. One hundred and forty-five weeks. That how long the thirteen families who lost their sons, husbands and fathers will have waited until the court-martial of Maj. Nidal Hasan begins in late August
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May 3, 2012
California Assembly passes bill to ask vendors about their sexualityYour choices in the bedroom are of interest to the state of California if you want to sell them stuff.
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April 27, 2012
The Thought Police Arrive in SacramentoWe don't have to travel to the future -- only to Sacramento -- to find a progressive government that mandates what people should be thinking and not thinking.
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March 24, 2012
An armed citizenry and its enemiesSturm, Ruger & Company, America's 4th largest gun manufacturer, announced that it has temporarily suspended the acceptance of new orders. Not too worry, though.
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March 10, 2012
Berkeley's idea of 'free speech'Conservative's have long known that liberals relish the use of police authority for their own personal agendas.
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March 9, 2012
Removing the Keystone (Pipeline)The Keystone XL pipeline's demise tosses another shovel full of dirt onto the lid of this country's coffin...and hard-leftists know it.
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March 9, 2012
Debt crisis? What debt crisis?While the country was distracted by the MSM's carefully orchestrated faux contraception crisis, February's budget deficit added an additional $229 billon to out nation's debt.
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February 25, 2012
California prying into bedroom sex activityNew regulation: to remain a judge in the Golden State, our appointed and elected jurists must declare their sexual orientation.
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February 21, 2012
What servicing our debt has really cost us$4.5 trillion spent paying interest on our debt since 2000.
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February 18, 2012
CA says mobile food vending trucks a 'threat' to kidsActually, the trucks are a threat to government's monopoly on school food.
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February 16, 2012
The Rising Fever of DespotismThe United States now suffers the fever of despotism, in great part because Congress has relentlessly abrogated its sworn constitutional duty.
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February 9, 2012
How the MSM spins the HHS decisionIgnore the fundamental trampling of our Constitution and muddy the waters with a variety of distractions, half-truths and omissions.
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January 31, 2012
Obey the feds or elseA 21st century American morality play, complete with small dogs, the excessive use of force by a federal government agency, and two opposing viewpoints on the role of government in our daily lives.
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January 29, 2012
America's worst regulatory agency outdoes itselfNew regulations reflect a decision process heavily influenced by three primary sources: Joseph Stalin, Al Gore and Pee-Wee Herman.
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January 25, 2012
The debt iceberg aheadThe MSM spends endless hours discussing the minutiae of the GOP candidates and the primaries, while each day this nation digs itself about $4.1 billion deeper in debt
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January 22, 2012
Department of the Interior's anti-science political correctnessThe remains of 160,000 Native Americans dating from thousands of years ago will be "repatriated."
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January 13, 2012
California overfishing wealthy taxpayersCalifornia's share of top-earners has dwindled even as their numbers climbed nationally
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January 6, 2012
Egypt's sword of DamoclesThe Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt may want to annihilate Israel, but they will have to think twice about it.
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January 5, 2012
Iran building missile base in VenezuelaThe situation that is unfolding in Venezuela has some resemblance to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. At that time, Cuba was acting on behalf of the USSR; now Venezuela is acting on behalf of Iran
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January 1, 2012
Obama administration turns to notorious Jew hater to mediate in AfghanistanSheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa in 2003 calling for the killing of US troops in Iraq.
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December 26, 2011
DoD celebrating diversity with hijabThe Defense Department will now allow JROTC cadets to wear an Islamic headscarf (hijab) during training and parades formations.
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December 25, 2011
The material and the spiritualI have thought hard about why it took so long to actually do the right thing.
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December 4, 2011
The curious views of Howard Gutman on anti-SemitismThe US Ambassador to Belgium makes a "distinction" about anti-Semitism that stuns his audience.
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November 24, 2011
A Thanksgiving Day Readers QuizA family-oriented, cross-generational quiz of twenty-four sets of challenging questions to both entertain and recall times past.
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November 18, 2011
What does Occupy Wall Street Want?What do they want? Here is a list of demands posted on the Occupy Wall Street website. As a humorous exercise you can keep track of how many violations of the Constitution this list encompasses.
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November 15, 2011
OWS plans escalation in New YorkAs the spotlight of the MSM dims on the encampments, the OWC cattle, herded by their ACORN trained street agitators, will become more outrageous in their actions to recapture the media's attention.
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November 7, 2011
The Occupiers have gone too far...OWS was just flickering video images on the news and aging hippie spouting the usual Marxist palaver. No more. This has now become personal
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November 5, 2011
OWS set pieces driving away independent votersOWS, Obama's personal stinking army, continues its assault on personal property.
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October 31, 2011
The Hard-Left OWS PlanThe hard progressive left in America has been unleashed into the streets by the community organizer in the White House. The current crop of street pawns, the banal cattle of Occupy Wall Street movement, are fed, herded, and coldly led by professional agitators.
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September 28, 2011
Dem Governor suggests suspending electionsWhen the mask slips and we can see the grotesque visage beneath, the tyrants' foul hatred of this Republic glowers at us.
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September 22, 2011
Hi-speed train to financial ruin in CaliforniaObama and his union cronies continue to pick the pocket of US taxpayers when it comes to high-speed rail.
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September 16, 2011
Why everyone should pay income taxesIncome taxes are just another wedge issue used by cynical politicians to garner votes at the expense of our society.
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September 2, 2011
The new rulesThe presidential election on November 6th, 2012 will be critical to our survival as a free nation
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August 21, 2011
Behind the green curtainSo reach into you wallets America, $11,000 of your after tax dollars is just a start.
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August 19, 2011
Why is MLK Memorial Made in China?We have publicly humiliated ourselves, admitting to the world of our national incompetence and stupidity.
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August 9, 2011
The Boondoggle ExpressThe largest construction boondoggle in recorded human history has just doubled in cost, and not a shovel's worth of earth has been excavated yet.
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June 30, 2011
Our partners in peace, the Muslim Brotherhood?While we were sleeping, literally and figuratively, this President decided that the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood are actually swell folks who deserve our recognition.
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June 29, 2011
TSA cancer danger coverup?Shocking new information released under FOIA on the danger of those airport body scanners
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June 12, 2011
Obama and his Jewish supportersDiscussing the Obama's Administrations deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, double- dealing duplicitous betrayal of Israel with my Jewish friends has become increasingly hazardous to our friendships.
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June 2, 2011
The bitter harvest of ethanolPresident Obama's re-election peril thanks to ethanol. Talk about delicious irony.
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May 20, 2011
Obama's anti-Israel speech should surpise no oneOur President forgot to include that Hamas and Fatah must first acknowledge the right of Israel to exist. Must have been an oversight, a silly mistake.
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May 10, 2011
A hijacking dry run?The false sense of security, the Kabuki theater of the absurd, what we call the TSA screening process is simply a joke
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May 1, 2011
Nonunion civil servants restore the civilityWhen there is no public employees union, remarkable things can happen.
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April 24, 2011
Who is running Boeing?Unelected, unconfirmed appointees tell Boeing where it must locate its new factory
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April 13, 2011
Feed people, not machinesWhat are you doing next weekend? If planting a vegetable garden is not on your "honey-do" list, a few unsettling facts may change your plans. Simply stated, we are running low on food in this country.
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April 11, 2011
Inflating Our Way to a Government-Controlled EconomyHow to destroy the middle class and indenture the poor without raising taxes.
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March 25, 2011
It gets even uglier in WisconsinWhy are the unions speeding down this dark road of thuggery and intimidation?
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March 17, 2011
The neighborhood mosqueThere is more than a culture war being fought in our urban cities.
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March 17, 2011
Wisconsin or Venezuela?Police stand watching as union thugs destroy recall petitions for Democrat senators. Hugo Chavez would be proud.
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March 12, 2011
The union bullies in Wisconsin target businesses (updated)Reeking of of fear, desperation and recklessness
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February 23, 2011
The inflation disaster is nearFive dollar a gallon gas will shatter the Federal Reserve's tightly constrained lid on inflation and accelerate the other half our long anticipated "double dip" recession.
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January 18, 2011
The dangerous internet passport proposalA cynical evisceration of our Constitutional protections of privacy, speech, press and association.
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January 8, 2011
The Changing Military BalanceOne country is building toward a future regional projection of power, another is cutting back
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December 24, 2010
Middle East Bloody EndgameThe slow, simmering buildup to war between the Iranian proxies of Hamas and Hezb'allah and Israel continues to ramp up in rhetoric, intensity, and violence.
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December 13, 2010
A government jobs program, San Francisco styleYa gotta love bureaucrats, what other sub-species of homo sapiens can feather bed their offspring's nest with such extravagant devotion
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December 5, 2010
Obama admin shutting barn door after horses are stolenBugs, Daffy, Elmer, and Wily E. have now surfaced as senior members of this Loony Tunes Administration
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November 23, 2010
Replace the TSA with the Louisville OptionA cheap and effective way to fight airborne terrorists.
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November 20, 2010
The degradation must stopWe must continue to roll back this madness, and to excise the people who are willing to compromise our Constitutional freedoms.
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August 25, 2010
US taxpayers funding mosques26 examples of federal funds going to fund construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of various mosques abroad
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August 8, 2010
Newsweek columnist says US funding mosque constructionPerhaps we all missed the memo
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June 20, 2010
Where's the Navy?Currently the U.S. Navy is a virtual non-participant in the operational execution of stopping the oil leak.
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March 10, 2010
Show me your papersAll United States citizens may be required to carry a biometric I.D. card!
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February 16, 2010
Targeting Middle AmericaThe porous southern border has admitted not just hard-working seekers of a better life anxious to join the American middle class
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February 10, 2010
Price gouging in spaceWhen America needs to buy launch capacity, we will pay inflated prices to our rivals.
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February 4, 2010
The War on America's GreatnessForty years from today, when Americans can objectively look back at the failures of the Obama Administration that crippled this country, they will point to this.
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January 28, 2010
Arrogance in the AirSelf-righteousness and an unbridled lust for control over the lives of 307 million Americans are the hallmarks of environmental laws in America.
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January 19, 2010
California HubrisThe height of governmental hubris and arrogance was on full display in California this morning.
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December 14, 2009
The Debt SpiralOur current federal deficit is accelerating like an avalanche. There are consequences for this policy.
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November 23, 2009
Word fun in the senate health care billHow many times does the phrase "community based" appear in the bill?
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November 22, 2009
Our national debt: How much would 12 trillion eggs weigh?149 dozen eggs for each of the 6.6 billion humans on this plane
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November 14, 2009
Fun with Deficit NumbersEach second in October the federal debt could pay for a new Corvette Z06. That's enough Corvettes to stretch from New York to Shanghai.