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Obama Announces Retreat from Afghanistan!

December 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments

“RETREAT!” Just-obtained excerpts of tonight’s Afghanistan strategy speech by President Barack Obama seem to indicate the strategy is no strategy at all.  As evidenced in the sentence below, it’s both a withdrawal and an announcement of a timetable for beating feet out of the stone-age nation: “Taken together, these additional American and international troops will [...]

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White House Asks ‘Who Do You Trust?’ (Part 2)

December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Earlier today, I published a post, White House Web Site Asks ‘Who Do You Trust?’ When It Comes to Government-Run Health Care, which made special note of the graphic above.  A short while later, someone who had read that post mentioned that it reminded him of a particularly-memorable scene from the 1989 movie, “Batman”. In [...]

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Blogger Approached About Appearing in Documentary Special About Militia Movement

December 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments

What is it with me and this bond I seem to have with the militia movement? On March 18, I was inspired to write and publish a mostly-humorous post under the headline, Yikes, I Might Be Part of the Militia Movement! The inspiration came in the form of news that the Missouri Information Analysis Center [...]

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White House Web Site Asks ‘Who Do You Trust?’ When It Comes to Government-Run Health Care

December 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments

Few would disagree with the assertion that four words now appearing on the White House web site constitute “the fundamental question on health insurance reform.” Those words are “WHO DO YOU TRUST?” In order to answer that question, I compared the White House “spin” to what I heard directly from medical professionals and others in [...]

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Order Fries, Get Ketchup, Ban Landmines

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Shown in photos above and below, a ketchup packet designed by the advertising agency Publicis Mojo for the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines is clever, though I doubt it will end the use of landmines. What’s next? I fully expect the concept to be adopted soon by promoters of Hollywood slasher, horror movies of the [...]

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Van Jones Still Has Ear of Obama Administration

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Van Jones, President Barack Obama’s controversial former “green jobs” czar, serves on the advisory board of an independent environmental organization actively working with the White House, reports Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily.com. Jones resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of [...]

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