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Bully Party
When bipartisan debate fails, Dems fall back on a knuckle-sandwich
approach to politics.
BY Matthew Continetti
...President Obama divided the world into those who join me,
and those who support the battalions of financial industry
lobbyists descending on Capitol Hill. For the president, the
only middle ground is where hes standing. Reasonable alternatives
to his policies simply do not exist. It is Obama alone who determines
which arguments are legitimate and which are misleading.
Its rhetorical blackmail: Agree with me, the president is
saying, or Ill call you a liar and a hack. more...
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God and Man at the National Prayer Breakfast ~ Obama was
so ecumenical that he never once mentioned "Jesus" or
"Christ" or called himself a follower of Jesus Christ
or a Christian. It wasn't as if the president was pinched for text;
this was a 2,000-word oration, with numerous figures mentioned.
more...
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Great Peasant Revolt of 2010 ~ "I am not an ideologue,"
protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members
last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a
set of political convictions. More
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Internet ~ Leave Them Tubes Alone
by David Harsanyi
As there is no real problem with the Internet, it's not surprising
that some of our top minds have been working diligently on a solution.
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Obama Inconsistencies ~ INTERESTING....MAKE UP YOUR OWN
MIND Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and US President Makes Up
Constitutional Quotes During State Of The Union (SOTU) Address President
Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer
a "lawyer." He surrendered his license back in 2008. more...
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President Say Anything Does So, Again and Again ~ Stung
by his defeat in Massachusetts after a personal appearance on behalf
of Martha Coakley and a long speech telling Massachusetts voters
why they had to send her to Washington, President Obama seems intent
on punishing the entire nation with speech after speech after speech.
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White House land grab ~ Proposal to seize land would favor
animals over Americans ...thanks to whistleblowers at the Department
of the Interior, we now learn they're planning to increase their
control over energy-rich land in the West.
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After Massachusetts, What's Next for the GOP? ~ Have you
ever watched as a dear friend becomes smitten with someone you know
is not for them? You listen as they swear how Mr. or Ms. Right has
finally... more...
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Lessons for the GOP in Brown's Victory ~ Fresh off the
best week they've had in years - literally - conservatives and Republicans
would be something less than human if they denied themselves the
opportunity to savor an amazing... more...
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(Mis)Reading the Tea Leaves ~ With the election of Mr. Brown,
the voters of Massachusetts signaled a repudiation of President
Obama's Chicago style, big-government, spendthrift ways. More
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Wisdom of Massachusetts Voters ~ Following the death of
Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature
rushed to change a procedural rule thus allowing Democratic Governor
Deval Patrick to replace... more...
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Getting Lectured on Human Rights by Mexico
by Mona Charen
The Obama administration is deeply embarrassed by the legislators
of Arizona. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, in discussions
with representatives from China (China!), cited the Arizona law
as evidence of human rights failures in the U.S. ...
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Founders' Solutions for Illegal Immigration
by Chuck Norris
It seems that the whole country is taking sides in the battle over
the border in Arizona. Yet it truly remains the tip of the iceberg
of our immigration troubles. Spurred on by the national debate,
at least 10 other states are seeking to enact tougher immigration
laws. ...
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Founders' Illegal Immigration Solutions, Part 2
by Chuck Norris
Watching U.S. members of the House and Senate, and the president's
Cabinet in a joint session of Congress stand and applaud Mexican
President Felipe Calderon's slam of Arizona's new immigration enforcement
law, I thought, "What a despicable act of disloyalty to one
of their own states and a ludicrous leadership move to boot, especially
when 71 percent of Arizonians agree with its new immigration law."
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Immigration and Liberty
by Walter E. Williams
My sentiments on immigration are expressed by the welcoming words
of poet Emma Lazarus' that grace the base of our Statue of Liberty:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free." Those sentiments are probably shared by most
Americans and for sure by my libertarian fellow travelers, but their
vision of immigration has some blind spots. more...
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Protecting Our American Identity
by Diana West
Excellent news: Most Americans approve of Arizona's new immigration
law. And by wide margins. According to Pew, the overall number is
59 percent. The New York Times poll came in at 60 percent. According
to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, that overall number is higher
still: 64 percent. These solid majorities show stirrings of a surprisingly
resilient national survival instinct. ...
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Are Ohio Dems Trying to Rig the Census? ~ In the crucial
bellwether state of Ohio, the Democratic governor has created a
heavily partisan committee that may be able to tip the scales on
the upcoming 2010 census. What makes... more...
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ABC Offers Serious Look at Global Warming Skeptics, But Downplays
ClimateGate
By Scott Whitlock
ABC's Nightline on Thursday provided a welcome look at the significant
number of meteorologists in America who are skeptical of man-made
global warming. Instead of simply dismissing their views, reporter
David Wright interviewed Accuweather's Joe Bastardi and allowed
him to assert, "I think that the warming that we're having
is cyclical in nature." more...
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CARBON DIOXIDE, CO2, DOES NOT CAUSE SIGNIFICANT WARMING OF THE
EARTH.
by John Coleman, KUSI Meteorologist
YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT IS NOT CREATING A CLIMATE CRISIS. More
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Climate Change (International Conference) Totally Ignored By
Media
By Noel Sheppard
Four days after Senate Democrats introduced a new bill to limit
carbon emissions, an international conference discussing the scientific
holes in the theory of man-made global warming began in Chicago.
More
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Global Warming Debate as 'Important' as Winning World Wars ~
U.K. Journalist and ClimateGate Vanguard
By Jeff Poor
If you asked people what the two key events in the 20th century
were, most would likely point to World Wars I and II because they
transformed civilization. However, can something like the debate
over climate change be as equally transformative? More
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Earth Hour ~ Let us forget, for a moment, that Earth
Hour is a pointless exercise serving only to make environmentalists
feel better about themselves by marginally reducing electrical demand
for 0.01% of the year. Let us disregard, for a moment, that the
basic reason for having an Earth Hour in the first place
is fatuous, more...
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Global Warming Update ~ John Coleman, founder of the Weather
Channel, in an hour-long television documentary titled "Global
Warming: The Other Side," presents evidence that our National
Climatic Data Center has been manipulating weather data just as
the now disgraced and under investigation British University of
East Anglia Climate Research Unit. More
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Real Risks on Climate Change ~ We are not weighing in on
the climate debate. We are not opining on whether the world's climate
is changing, at what pace or due to what causes, Securities and
Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro insisted on announcing
the SEC's new "interpretive guidance" on climate change.
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Abstinence Education Works After All ~ Abstinence-only sex
education has been a favorite target of the cultural elite, who
argued it was naive at best and dangerous at worst. More
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Boy Scouts of America: Still America's Best ~ It happens
so often now that Im sorry to say Im not surprised anymore:
teenage boys dropping the f-bomb as a matter of every-day
language; slouching around with no concern for others; and being
just plain rude. more...
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Fallacy of "Fairness": Part I ~ If there is ever
a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's
thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination
would be the word "fair." It is a word thrown around by
far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it.
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Fallacy of "Fairness": Part II ~ A recent flap
in a Berkeley high school reveals what a farce "fairness"
can be. Because this is ultra-liberal Berkeley, perhaps we should
not be surprised that a proposal has been made to eliminate four
jobs as science teachers and use the money saved for programs to
help low achievers. More
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Fallacy of "Fairness": Part III ~ People like philosopher
John Rawls call treating everyone alike merely "formal"
fairness. Professor Rawls advocated "a conception of justice
that nullifies the accidents of natural endowment and the contingencies
of social circumstances." He called for a society which "arranges"
end-results... more...
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Letter to the editor
Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure
of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny
gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate
and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes
and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular
R&B ringtone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that
her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination
of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly
pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy
pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health
care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis"
is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or
nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture",
a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on
luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or,
heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based
in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to
because someone else will always take care of me".
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility
and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health
care difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD
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The Other War
It's a war the so-called mainstream media apparently have decided
to ignore. Though its death toll is higher than Iraq's and Afghanistan's
combined more...
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Blacks Held to Lower Standards in Perpetuity ~ One idea that
transcends political lines is that blacks are inferior and should
be held to lower standards in perpetuity. In 2007, the Department
of Justice (DOJ) under George W. Bush... more...
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Diversity in Life ~ It's not at all uncommon to watch a
college basketball game and see that 90 to 100 percent of the players
are black. According to the University of Central Florida's... more...
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The TRUTH about MLK and the Democrats!
MLK FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND AGAINST DEMOCRATS
By Frances Rice
As we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us pause
to reflect on who he was and why his struggle to obtain civil rights
for black Americans was necessary. More
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Bill Clinton Helped Cause 2008 Financial Crisis
By Noel Sheppard
In the past 20 months, liberal media members have routinely blamed
2008's financial crisis on George W. Bush, Republicans, Wall Street,
and greed.
Someone that has hardly ever been accused of having a hand in what
led to the tumult is former President Bill Clinton. more...
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The Real Party of Wall Street
by Michael G. Franc
The Democrats populist assault on all things Wall Street,
we are told, helps them politically regardless of the legislative
outcome. more
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Don't Mess With Texas...Textbooks! ~ By now, you most likely
know that Texas has become ground zero for the latest battles in
the textbook wars. While conservatives and progressives take their
stands on the issue, I wonder: What would America's Founders think
about this feud? more...
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Obama's Plan to Cripple Education Reforms ~ To date, the
only area in which we have found ourselves in agreement with President
Obama was over his announced intention to enforce strict and elevated
education standards and move toward paying teachers based on merit.
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Tebow Takes a Stand ~ The Super Bowl is a cultural phenomenon.
It's not only watched by godzillions of people worldwide, it's the
only televised broadcast where the audience tunes in not just for
the... more...
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McCain-Feingold - A Blow for Free Speech ~ From the commentary
in the mainstream media, I thought there had been a coup d'etat
in Washington. The New York Times said what happened "strikes
at the heart of democracy."... more...
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The Bigger the Government, the Less You Are Needed ~ Among
the things left and right, religious and secular, agree on is that
one of the few real needs human beings have is to be needed. When
we are not needed, life feels pointless. more...
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Consent of the governed - and the lack thereof ~ Our Declaration
of Independence observes: "We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent
of the governed, -- more...
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Conservative or Conservationist? ~ Russell Kirk wrote, Conservatism
is not a political system, but a way of looking at the civil order.
Put more plainly, it is a world view. more...
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Electoral College ~ In order to appreciate the reasons for
the Electoral College, it is essential to understand its historical
context and the problem that the Founding Fathers were trying to
solve. More
Electoral
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Four Presidents won the popular vote but lost the presidency
~ Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election
to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote
but lost the election to Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); Grover Cleveland
won the popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison
(1888); Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George
W. Bush (2000). More
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History of Senate Selection ~ Press criticism of the Senate
as a millionaires' club, more responsive to powerful
corporations than to public opinion, resulted in the 17th Amendment
in 1913. It gave the privilege of electing senators to the voters
rather than to state legislatures. More
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Initiative and Referendum ~ An honest politician and a big fat
F in Democracy 101 ~ Honesty may be the best policy. But, if
you are trying to destroy democracy, it's not the most common. ...
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Patriot Act ~ Judge Napolitano ~ Andrew P. Napolitano is
a 59 year old former New Jersey Superior Court Judge. He is a graduate
of Princeton University , and Notre Dame Law School. At Princeton
he was a founding member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton along
with Justice Samuel Alito.
Judge Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge
in the history of the State of New Jersey . YouTube.
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Polarization May Be Our Best Hope
by Mona Charen
Recent liberal laments about the increasing "polarization"
of American political life are as predictable as the seasons. But
pleas for centrism ring pretty hollow in light of recent history.
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Praise of the Rotation of Power ~ As the Afghanistan War
intensifies -- Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000
new American troops -- it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not
so. It's become America's war. more...
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Property Confiscation
by John Stossel
In America, we're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Life,
liberty and property can't be taken from you unless you're convicted
of a crime. more...
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Sunday, 21 March 2010 was a psychological punch in the
gut for some 70% of Americans who have been adamantly
and vocally opposed to ObamaCare. We can't surrender! We must
encourage each other with the battle cry: We have just begun
to fight! We must focus to Repeal the Deal - to Fire Pelosi,
Reid and, ultimately, Obama!!
We must choose to be re-invigorated and to re-gird ourselves.
We must internalize Edmond Burke's dictum:
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else
they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle."
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We can join with Hugh Hewitt and his staff in both their
rage and their recommitment...
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The GOP 3 Year Pledge
Posted by: Duane R. Patterson at 10:45 PM
Like you, I watched with disgust and dismay as the Democrats
in the House of Representatives joined hands, jumped off the
cliff, and saddled the next several generations of Americans
with trillions of dollars of new debt, and ensured that unless
defeated in court, or defunded by future Congresses, the American
health care system, the greatest such system in the world,
will never again be as great as it is today. Like you, I am
shaking with anger that the Democratic Party did not listen
to their constituents. more...
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The Socialists
Won A Battle; Now It is Our Turn ~ Yesterday was my sons
9th birthday and for his present, the government jacked his
future. As he sat in the floor and happily opened his gifts,
Bart Stupak appeared on television and revealed that hed
sold his soul. The joy was sucked from the room
more...
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We can track
all the Congressional candidates in the country at Sean
Hannity's website
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CATO on Health Care Reform ~ Better, more affordable health
care requires free-market reforms:the freedom to purchase health
plans across state lines; tax reforms like "large" health
savings accounts; making health insurance portable, controlled by
the individual more...
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Democrats' Political Death Wish ~ GOP Senate Whip Jon Kyl
was a guest on my show Thursday and reported that Congressional
Democrats have indeed decided to use reconciliation to resurrect
the remains of Obamacare, despite.. More
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Great Scott! ~ Some of the most melancholy letters and e-mails
that are sent to me are from people who lament that there is nothing
they can do about the bad policies that... more...
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Questions for Supporters of 'ObamaCare' ~ President Barack
Obama repeatedly tells us that one reason national health care is
needed is that we can no longer afford to pay for Medicare and Medicaid.
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Republicans and the Health Care Pow-Wow ~ It's an opportunity
to show which party has better ideas.
Some congressional Republicans want to turn down President Barack
Obama's invitation for a nationally televised, Feb. 25 White House
pow-wow on health care. They fear that if GOP leaders show up for
the event, they will end up agreeing to a bad health-care bill in
the name of bipartisanship. More
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Ronald Reagan on Government-Run Health Insurance ~ This
is absolutely on point with what is happening today ~ including
the importance of writing to Congressmen and Senators!! Even if
you've heard it before, it's well worth the time to listen once
again!! YouTube
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Talking Points vs. Realty ~ In a swindle that would make
Bernie Madoff look like an amateur, Barack Obama has gotten a substantial
segment of the population to believe that he can add millions of
people to the government-insured rolls without increasing the already
record-breaking federal deficit. more...
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Thousands of patients die and suffer under British health care
~ "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until
it's free." - P.J. O'Rourke ~ While many Americans complain
about the cost of health care in the United States -- and lawmakers
in Washington, DC are seeking control of the medical industry --
perhaps all concerned should first learn about the horrors more...
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Venerating Lawyers More than Doctors ~ What we are seeing
here, ... is something unprecedented in our history: Many trial
lawyers will earn as much as most physicians, and fewer and fewer
physicians will earn as much as successful trial lawyers. More
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Fox's Fairly Imbalanced Pro-Muslim Influence ~ Should Fox
News register with the State Department as a foreign agent -- an
agent of Saudi Arabia? more...
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LittleGreenFootballs - An Open Letter to Charles Johnson
~ On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured an article on
Charles Johnson, whose website -- littlegreenfootballs -- had for
years been very popular among conservatives and among all those...
more...
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Obama's Three Hundred Imaginary Terrorists ~ In justifying
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's civilian trial, the Obama administration
is fond of citing a seemingly slam-dunk factoid: 300 other terrorists
are currently sitting in federal prisons after being tried in civilian
court. more...
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The Dismantling of America
America has been a remarkably good and strong culture,
Orson Scott Card said at the 26th Annual Gala dinner of the Washington
DC Chapter of the BYU Management Society this weekend, but
the Goodness of the culture has already been so damaged that it
can barely be said to exist. And the Strength of the Culture is
eating itself up from within. more...
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Liberal Violence: Five Names You Should Know ~ Unfortunately,
there are dangerous kooks, trigger-happy wackos, and lone gunmen
out there. Bad people exist. Crazy people exist -- and every so
often, one of them snaps and there's a resulting body count. To
most people, this is just a tragic fact of life. more...
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Sarah Palin...Dunce or Genius?
CBS Drama Showcases Blank Book that Mocks Palin as Empty-Headed
Dunce ~ On this past Tuesdays episode of The Good Wife
on CBS, viewers were treated to a scene in which a ballistics expert
opens a gift, from a partner of a law firm, to find a book about
Sarah Palin ...more
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Stewart Calls Palin a Genius: 'You Can't Underestimate This Woman'
~ Comedian Jon Stewart actually called Sarah Palin a genius
Wednesday. As he reviewed her performance on the "Tonight Show"
the previous evening, the "Daily Show" host said, "I
don't say this to a lot of comics, especially new ones, but if you
had a day job, you should quit it." ...more
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Pentagon Shooter ~ Weir Waves Napolitano's 'Right-wing Extremism'
Report To Brand Bedell ~ John Patrick Bedell was a registered
Democrat who believed George W. Bush was behind 9-11. So how does
Good Morning America portray him? As a right-wing extremist ...more
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Sex, Violence and Hate: The Top 10 Most Disgusting Attacks on
Conservative Women
March is Women's History Month, in which we acknowledge the accomplishments
and contributions of women in history and in society today. More
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Tea Parties ~ Dissent is the New Racism in Obamas Post-Racial
America
With liberals now branding entire states RACIST, what happened in
Boston can provide insight about those on the left who love to hurl
that charge.
CRASHERS, PALINPHOBES and COMMUNISTS at BOSTONS TEA PARTY
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The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen
Among the things left and right, religious and secular, agree on
is that one of the few real needs human beings have is to be needed.
...more
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What I Said to the Republican Members of Congress
This past weekend, after President Obama addressed the annual retreat
of Republican Members of the House, I, along with my Salem Radio
colleague Hugh Hewitt, and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal,
were also invited to address them. More
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Losing Our Religion, By State Order ~ Even with its centuries-old
roots throughout the region, is Christianity history in the West?
more...
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EXCELLENT SUMMARY!
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older
ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe
it. Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history
lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat
or Republican. Facts are Facts!!! more...
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Judging Alito - Obama's Ultimate Arrogance
by Thomas Del Beccaro BigGovernment
President Obama's State of the Union obviously was a first in more
than one way. Obama point blank, called out (to use the modern vernacular)
our Supreme Court Justices on national TV. He did so because he
politically disagreed with their legal decision. In doing so, Obama
demonstrated his supreme arrogance - and let America know just how
far he is willing to go to get his way. More
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Lobe Divided Will Not Stand ~ WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama
tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic
Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams
lobe from its... more...
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Obama's Populist Impersonation of Truman Can't Possibly Work
~ Barack Obama's embarrassing new attempt to channel Harry Truman
with his angry populist appeals is doomed to failure for three reasons:
wrong guy, wrong Congress and wrong country. Wrong Guy.... more...
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AMERICAS TEAPARTY MOVEMENT
Happy Birthday to the Party of HELL NO! In 2009 big things happened
in America. Some were good and some were not. One of the good big
things was the birth of the Tea Party Movement. More
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'Grassroots' Coffee Party Organizer Exposed as Obama Political
Operative
It turns out that the "grassroots" organizer of the "progressive
alternative" to the Tea Parties, the Coffee Party, has been
exposed as an Obama political operative. More
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Obama vs... Palin? ~ Here's how you know, if you are the
President of the United States, that things are going in the wrong
direction. More
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Tea Parties ~ Dissent is the New Racism in Obamas Post-Racial
America
With liberals now branding entire states RACIST, what happened in
Boston can provide insight about those on the left who love to hurl
that charge.
CRASHERS, PALINPHOBES and COMMUNISTS at BOSTONS TEA PARTY
...more
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Tea Party Convention Attendees ~ If you read any of the
extensive coverage of the Tea Party Convention going on this weekend
in Nashville, TN, be prepared for dramatic stories of rampant grassroots
infighting. The real story is much different. More
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Tea Party Movement vs. Elites
The most recent media attacks on the Tea Party movement have some
of their populist defenders nervous. More
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Tea Party Power to Solve the Debt Problem
The New York Times ran a front-page story this week called Party
Gridlock in Washington Feeds New Fear of a Debt Crisis. More
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Winners and losers from last week's
Mass-acre ~ The dust is still settling from the fallout of the
special election in Massachusetts to replace the late Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy. The rejection of socialism, high taxes and government
restrictions... more...
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