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Entries from February 2009

Obama Stimulus Plan MIGHT Create Jobs

February 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

After reading about military doctors using new magnetic technology to treat patients for depression, I realized immediately that President Barack Obama’s so-called “Economic Stimulus Plan” just might create jobs — albeit in a back-door fashion. In much the same way as tanning beds became all the rage back in the early ’80s, I predict this [...]

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Satellite Crashes, Icebergs Melt, Polar Bears Drown (Corrected)

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

After launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., early this morning, a rocket carrying a satellite intended to allow scientists to monitor global warming from space never achieved orbit and then plunged into the ocean near Antarctica, according to an Associated Press report today. What the news cartel failed to report about the incident was [...]

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Will Stimulus Offer ‘Shot in the Arm’ for Economy?

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

When it comes to opinions about the economy, three schools of thought seem to exist among people in the United States: One school, attended by President Barack Obama, Democrats in Congress and other liberals across the land, believes the so-called “Economic Stimulus Package” is the answer to the nation’s economic ills. A second school, which [...]

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Army Officer to Challenge Obama’s Eligibility (Updated)

February 24th, 2009 · 22 Comments

I understand the temptation to question the credibility of a U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq who has both called President Barack Obama an “impostor” and said he will join as a plaintiff in a challenge to Obama’s eligibility to be commander-in-chief.  Why?  Because that soldier is a second lieutenant. Having earned a commission [...]

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Biotech Firm Offers ‘Mental Stimulus Package’

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Quincy Bioscience President Mark Underwood is so concerned about the declining quality of memory among federal government officials that he is offering free bottles of a brain-enhancing supplement to any member of Congress or official in the incoming administration who has forgotten to pay taxes within the last 10 years. Though Underwood describes the supplement [...]

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Poll: Most American Voters Favor Offshore Drilling

February 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Most American voters support increasing access to domestic offshore oil and natural gas resources and would oppose any new laws or regulations that blocked development of those national resources, according to a poll released today. The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute, found that 61 percent of Americans who [...]

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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon: ‘If there’s debt, Missouri kids and grandkids will pay that debt off’

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

While attending President Barack Obama’s so-called “Fiscal Responsibility Conference” in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, liberal Gov. Jay Nixon (D-MO) made some boneheaded comments on CSPAN. Shown in the video above, he appears to have no qualms about burdening future generations of Americans (i.e., “Missouri kids and grandkids”) with record levels of debt. Under the [...]

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