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Michael Filozof
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July 23, 2024
Will Biden’s resignation be this year’s October surprise?Donald Trump will have more trouble campaigning against a sitting First Female president.
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July 2, 2022
New York Moves to Nullify Supreme Court Decision Upholding Gun RightsIt's an act of breathtaking defiance and spitefulness not seen since Southern states engaged in "massive resistance" to the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board decision.
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April 19, 2021
How Generations of Presidents (Including Reagan) Wrecked Our CountryIt's been an ugly 60 years.
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March 9, 2021
Why the Left Hates CuomoCuomo played ringmaster at the diversity circus, and now his own lions are trying to eat him.
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January 23, 2021
Disrupting Congress: All fun and games when liberals do itNobody gets charged with fomenting insurrection, either.
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January 15, 2020
How Scalia Botched Heller and Let the Left Undermine the 2nd AmendmentThe Second Amendment is in worse shape than ever. It's the late Antonin Scalia's fault.
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August 9, 2019
Proposed Gun Laws Would Do Nothing to Prevent Mass Killings, and Everyone Knows ItWhen you look at the history, you begin to realize that a goal other than preventing mass shootings has to be at issue here.
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June 28, 2019
The Treaty of Versailles at 100: Wilson's Progressive AbominationThe treaty that ended World War I, signed one hundred years ago today, practically ensured future conflict and charted a course directly toward World War II.
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March 5, 2019
Debbie Dingell's daddy issuesIt's frightening that our rights are in the hands of people as unglued as Debbie Dingell.
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March 1, 2019
Who Comes after Trump?The Trump presidency is seriously at risk of amounting to nothing more than a flash in the pan.
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September 27, 2018
The Kavanaugh fight isn't about abortion. It's about guns.Democrats don't need to fight the culture wars of the 20th century. They're looking to the future.
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June 28, 2018
As Trump replaces Kennedy, time for some conservative judicial activismI have a few words of advice for President Trump in choosing a replacement for retiring Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy.
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April 20, 2018
Cuomo pardons paroled felons so they can vote for himThe most cynical, manipulative, Machiavellian – and dangerous – liberal in the nation has outdone himself.
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March 14, 2018
Florida's bump stock ban and the slippery slopeToday, it's bump stocks – for no good reason. What will it be tomorrow?
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March 6, 2018
New York State moves to ensure more school shootingsProposed by a Democrat, needless to say.
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February 21, 2018
Cries to 'Ban the AR-15' Based on Ignorance and HysteriaSome facts you may not have known – and that liberals far and wide still don't know – about the AR-15 rifle.
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January 13, 2018
Trump was right...literallyThe U.N. recently released data for "World Toilet Day." How does the report square with Trump's recent remarks on certain "hole" countries?
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April 26, 2017
Veteran faces 21 years in prison for possession of pistol magazinesNew York is busy prosecuting combat veterans of Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
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March 24, 2017
Schumer’s Machiavellian filibuster gambitIn the high-stakes confirmation process for Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, take a look at the positively Florentine tactics of Sen. Chuck Schumer.
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February 6, 2017
The United States Cannot Survive as Presently ConstitutedThe nation is like a car careening down the road, with two people fighting over the wheel. One pulls the car left; the other swerves back to the right. Sooner or later, a crash is inevitable.
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January 31, 2017
Chuck Schumer: Constitutionally illiterate, or intentionally deceptive?What is this nonsense about a "religious test"? Especially coming from someone who should know better?
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October 11, 2016
The Coming National Gun Ban – and How the States Can ResistConservative, pro-gun “red” states might have one final ace in the hole.
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June 18, 2016
Army generals for gun controlThe military has become an adjunct of the left-wing Deep State.
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May 26, 2016
Would Obama Trump The Donald by pardoning illegals?What better way to snub Trump...and get that shiny permanent voting majority for Democrats in the process?
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April 29, 2016
The Troubling Prosecution of Dennis HastertThere are some serious problems here, no matter how much the former Republican House speaker might (or might not) have deserved punishment.
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February 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders's New Hampshire victory speech: TerrifyingSuch unapologetic, full-throated socialism is new in American politics.
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October 20, 2015
Court decision paves the way for Australian-style gun banThe Second Circuit has ruled that nearly all of New York's tyrannical "SAFE Act" does not violate the Second Amendment.
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August 24, 2015
Donald Trump and His EnemiesTrump-hatred says more about the critics themselves than it says about the target of their criticism.
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June 19, 2015
Obama's contempt for Second Amendment on full display at press conferenceMore wild (and wrong) conclusions from the president in the wake of a shooting.
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June 15, 2015
New York prison break demonstrates dangers of gun controlWhy is there a double standard for cops and citizens?
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March 28, 2015
Conservatives' worst nightmare is next at batReid is out as Democrat majority leader. The next one will be so much worse.
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February 16, 2015
Obama Administration Plans Major Ammunition BanBut how will the cartels get their ammo?
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January 26, 2015
Shouting match leads to gun confiscation, forfeitureA new 2nd Amendment lawsuit seeks to challenge Commisar Cuomo's Constitution-free gulag.
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January 11, 2015
Obama's Free Community College Proposal Is RidiculousMaking community college into yet another government entitlement.
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January 2, 2015
Guns Confiscated after Man Seeks Insomnia TreatmentNew York has become a police state. Conservatives (and everyone else), beware.
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December 2, 2014
New York's Plot to Gut the Second AmendmentOn December 9, the gun-grabbers of New York enter into a high-stakes judicial gamble against the right to bear arms.
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September 6, 2014
White Cop Fatally Shot by Black Felon; No RiotsStrange how these things work out.
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September 3, 2014
Why Should We Care about ISIS?The war hawks in Washington are again beating the tom-toms. But if they're going to be consistent, they'd better beat them a lot harder.
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July 1, 2014
Immigration Criminal Voted for Gun BanHow an illegal alien helped destroy the Second Amendment rights of 20 million New Yorkers.
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February 18, 2014
Did Cuomo Aide Commit a Gun Crime -- and Get Away with It?"All animals are equal... but some animals are more equal than others."
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January 18, 2014
No Place for Dissent in Andrew Cuomo's New YorkThe idea that a sitting governor of the fourth-largest state in the nation can tell people he disagrees with politically that they have "no place" in the state he governs is breathtakingly frightening
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October 30, 2013
Man Arrested, Guns Seized for Carrying More than 7 RoundsPaul Wojdan of Lockport, NY has become the latest victim of New York State's anti-gun fascism.
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August 23, 2013
Obama Takes Refuge on CampusIs it just me, or has anyone else noticed that President Obama speaks almost exclusively at colleges and universities in Blue States?
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February 5, 2013
New York's 'SAFE' Act: The 'Rape' of the Second AmendmentYou will not believe the incredible lengths Governor Andrew Cuomo has gone to make innocent New Yorkers into criminals.
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November 9, 2012
Election 2012: The Final Victory of the Counter-CultureRomney lost not because he was incompetent or evil, or because he would have made a poor chief executive, or because he was an out-of-touch plutocrat. He lost because he is un-hip.
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October 23, 2012
A Most Pathetic 'Debate'This presidential campaign has devolved into a plastic, synthetic, insincere, focus-grouped attempt to pry defined constituencies away from their iPhones long enough to put one party or the other into power.
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October 18, 2012
A Moment of ArroganceLittle things can sometimes mean a lot, and throwaway lines spoken while a candidate is fumbling around for an answer can reveal something about his true mindset.
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September 16, 2012
U.S. Government Supports Pussy Riot (But Not 'Innocence of Muslims')Selective support for freedom of expression.
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September 14, 2012
Bernanke Sucker-Punches Romney CampaignBernanke's gambit is designed almost entirely to undercut the main pillar of the Romney campaign: that the economy remains moribund and that Obama is unqualified and incompetent to fix it.
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September 5, 2012
Election 2012: Great Society vs. New Left RadicalsThere's some striking contrasts between the Republican convention in Tampa last week and the Democratic convention in Charlotte this week.
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July 23, 2012
Where There Are Sheep, Wolves Will Always ThriveThe great danger of the "Batman" shooting is that the still-deluded folks among us will believe that more government power and more gun control will solve the problem.
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July 2, 2012
Can Government Now Tax Handgun Ammunition 10,000%?In 1993 that the late Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY) proposed adding a 10,000% Federal tax to 9mm handgun ammunition as part of "HillaryCare." Has the chief justice now opened the door?
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June 30, 2012
Why I Walked Out on John RobertsI was excited about the opportunity to see the head of one of the three coequal branches of government in person.
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June 28, 2012
Hard Questions for Conservatives In the Wake of SCOTUS RulingIs it even possible to advance a conservative agenda any more in the United States as presently constituted ?
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June 16, 2012
If We Took the Constitution Seriously, Obama Would Be ImpeachedArticle 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates the power of Congress, states that "Congress shall have the Power To... establish an [sic] uniform Rule of Naturalization."
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May 31, 2012
The Origins of Leftist Racial OrthodoxyIf "diversity" is good, why do liberals congregate in lily-white enclaves like Vermont (the whitest state in the Union, according to the Census) and Marin County, California?
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April 12, 2012
Can George Zimmerman get a fair trial?Those who think that racially-charged prosecutions are a thing of the past should think again. Maybe it's time to rewrite To Kill a Mockingbird
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March 24, 2012
What if Trayvon Had Been White, and the Shooter Black?Such an event occurred in 2009 in Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. Roderick Scott, a black man, shot and killed an unarmed white teen, Christopher Cervini, whom he believed was burglarizing a neighbor's car.
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February 26, 2012
Anti-Gun Fascism in CanadaMan arrested for "possession of a firearm," strip-searched and home searched by police after his four-year old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school.
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February 13, 2012
Anti-Gun Justice Becomes Victim of Armed RobberyAh, yes. There is such a thing as "poetic justice" after all!
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February 9, 2012
Will 'Known Unknowns' Put Romney into the White House?How the emerging "Super-PACs" could land an undeserving and uninspiring candidate a seat in the Oval Office.
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January 10, 2012
Ron Paul Is Wrong about IranThere's a lot I like about Ron Paul. But his Iran policy is dead wrong.
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November 18, 2011
Prepare Yourself for Obama's Second TermFor some time now, many conservatives have thought that President Obama is the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter. Maybe they should be thinking about the election of 1996 instead.
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September 11, 2011
Ten Years Later, 9/11 Reveals Depth of American DeclineAfter 9/11, the left (which had undertaken a largely-successful 40-year campaign to undermine American values and American patriotism) was terrified to see Americans rally to the flag, to the military, and to patriotic values.
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September 8, 2011
Urban Gun Buyback Targets Nerf GunsFrom the "They can't really be this stupid - can they?" category
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August 12, 2011
The Wasted Valor of the Navy SEALsThe SEALs died in vain, and their valor was squandered by a nation led by incompetents and craven political hacks that have no idea how to win the war in Afghanistan after a decade of trying.
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August 2, 2011
Obama's Let's Pretend TheologyIs Obama deliberately lying about the nature of Islam, or is the commander-in-chief really that ignorant?
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July 21, 2011
The 70-Million-Check ConstituencyObama and the left have a massive constituency of tens of millions who do not comprehend the true meaning of money, only caring that the government check is in the mail.
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July 1, 2011
The Need For A Militant Conservative MovementIt's time for conservatives to face the truth: there is no conservative party in the United States. There is a leftist party, and a slightly-less-leftist party.
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June 13, 2011
Retired Cop Gets $293,000 Thanks to Union ContractPerhaps the "thin blue line" should be called the "fat blue line."
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May 27, 2011
PATRIOT Act Renewed - But is it Legal?One more example of the absolute contempt that Obama, the "former constitutional law professor" has for the actual Constitution
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May 26, 2011
Don't Believe Everything You Hear About NY-26Most of the commentary about the election comes from national talking heads who have no idea what the candidates or the campaign were actually like.
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May 2, 2011
Does the Death of bin Laden Really Change Anything?There is a lot that it doesn't change.
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April 14, 2011
The Federal Budget and the Crisis of DemocracyThe budget reflects the existential crisis of democracy. Our books cannot be balanced without an authoritarian governing process on one hand, or a disastrous collapse of American currency and credit on the other.
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March 20, 2011
Libya and the Left's Sickening Hypocrisy on the Use of Military ForcePresident Obama has just committed American forces to engage in acts of war against Moammar Qaddafi. Where are the protesters? Where are the accusations that Obama is a liar and a Nazi?
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February 21, 2011
Why I Changed My Mind About UnionsI dislike unions. But I didn't always feel that way. My first job as a 16-year old grocery store shelf-stocker was a union job. I grew up in a union household; my father was an employee of one of the Big Three automakers.
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January 22, 2011
Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's Dumbest DecisionRoe is so bad it makes other controversial decisions -- like Plessy v. Ferguson or Dred Scott -- look like models of Solomonic wisdom by comparison.
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January 13, 2011
Guns are not the problem, and gun control Is not the answerAs if on cue, the hounds of gun control began baying as soon as the news of the murders in Tucson became public.
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January 10, 2011
The Left, Not the Right, Owns Political ViolenceThe left's protracted association with political violence.
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January 6, 2011
The Constitutional Hypocrisy of the LeftThe astonishing reaction of the political Left to the Republican House majority's decision to begin the 112th Congress by reading the Constitution
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December 29, 2010
Is the Republican Party Finished?The lame-duck session of the 111th Congress proved one thing beyond a doubt: the Republican Party does not represent the interests of conservatives.
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December 19, 2010
End of DADT: The Final Blow Against Cultural ConservatismThe military, the last bastion of cultural conservatism to which Americans rallied en masse after 9/11, has now been conscripted by the Left.
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November 23, 2010
Has U.S. Foreign Policy Ever Been This Screwed Up?American foreign policy is in a state of total disarray.
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November 9, 2010
Obama's Ignorance of World Affairs on Full Display in IndiaP.C.-inspired statements that managed to offend both India and Pakistan and reveal an astounding ignorance of South Asian politics and history
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November 3, 2010
After the Party's Over, A Dose of RealityBy all means, Tea Partiers, celebrate. But not for long.
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July 29, 2010
What Is the Endgame for Conservatives?Conservatives who read the polls are already anticipating Republican gains in this November's Congressional elections. But what will change?
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June 25, 2010
Have the Democrats Learned Anything from Vietnam?The Vietnam War was the defining event for the modern Democratic Party.
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June 10, 2010
Israel, the World's 'Dirty Harry'Cutting through the crap and doing what needs to be done.
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May 11, 2010
Elena Kagan and the Yale-Harvard NexusIf it sometimes seems that the nation is governed by an elite liberal clique of college fraternity and sorority pals who are out of touch with average Americans, that's because it's largely true.
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May 3, 2010
What If Arizona Were Quebec?Just suppose that Quebec had to deal with hordes of undocumented English-only Americans filling prisons, carrying American flags through the streets, and demanding affirmative action.
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March 22, 2010
Is ObamaCare Headed for a Supreme Court Smackdown?Passage of legislation by Congress and the signature of the President are not enough. The next step is judicial review by the Supreme Court, an independent and co-equal branch of government.
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March 5, 2010
Influence, Corruption, and Misconduct: Albany's Lesson for AmericaWhen politicians go wild.
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November 12, 2009
It's Time to Surrender in AfghanistanWe have already surrendered in deed, if not in name.
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July 27, 2009
The Truth About Cops and RaceBigoted white cops picking on poor, innocent blacks, just like Selma, Ala. in 1963. Really? Perhaps Mr. Obama, who lives in a bubble, ought to get out into the real world and get his facts straight
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March 8, 2009
Obama and the Triumph of the FabiansBarack Obama is following a path to power first traveled by the British Fabians. The parallels have much to teach us.
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February 18, 2009
The Stimulus will lead America in the direction of Western New YorkIf you want to know what President Obama's new style of government-led, Democratic Party economic and political policies will bring to the country, you need look no further than Western New York