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Entries from December 2009

Gingrich: ‘Impeach Judges, Crush and Replace Left’

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Regardless of how you feel about Newt Gingrich, you must admit he makes a lot of sense in a speech delivered at the David Horowitz Restoration Weekend last month.  While I regret that I must have missed seeing it when it was published one month ago, I’m pleased to be able to share it today. [...]

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‘White-Coating’ Truth About Health Care Reform

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Thanks to health care reform becoming an issue of heated national debate, doctors now appear to be wearing their trademark white coats everywhere they go.  At least, that’s what President Barack Obama would have Americans believe.  So much so, in fact, he’s “white-coating” the truth about health care reform. Today at WhiteHouse.gov, the photo above [...]

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Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Vietnam War Hero Robert L. Howard Passes Away at 70

December 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Robert L. Howard, the only American soldier ever nominated for the award three times for three separate actions, died today in Waco, Texas, at the age of 70. Below is the citation describing the events of Dec. 30, 1968, that earned then-Sergeant First Class Howard the nation’s highest military honor [...]

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Trucking Firm Closes Three Days Before Christmas (Update)

December 23rd, 2009 · 7 Comments

Arrow Trucking Company suspended operations yesterday, leaving hundreds of drivers across the country out of work three days before Christmas.  [See important updates below!] The decision by officials at the 61-year-old company, once considered one of the country’s largest and most financially-sound flatbed motor carriers, came as a shock to many. “The drivers had no [...]

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‘Build-A-Scare’ Promotes Climate Change Agenda (Update)

December 22nd, 2009 · 7 Comments

Al Gore must be working as a consultant at Build-A-Bear Workshop®.  Evident in the company’s three “Build-A-Bearville®” videos below is an unhealthy dose of the junk science-laden, polar-bears-are-dying propaganda on which the former vice president has made hundreds of millions of dollars since leaving public office. I’m thinking the St. Louis-based company should consider changing [...]

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If It’s Time To Eat The Dog, Where’s PETA?

December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

When can a Christmas gift be something extra special to a conservative and more like a lump of coal to a liberal?  When it comes in the form of a book, “TIME TO EAT THE DOG? the real guide to sustainable living,” by Brenda and Robert Vale. Though I have yet to receive a book [...]

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Rule Change Could Make Death Panels Permanent

December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

On the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) pointed out how a rule change contained in the 2,700-page government-run health care bill being pushed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is illegal and, if allowed to go uncontested, will result in the death panel provision of the bill becoming permanent. In the 11-minute [...]

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