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Entries from January 2010

Harry Reid Has 188 African-American Facebook Fans, But Most Are Not African-Americans

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

I went to the Facebook page, AFRICAN AMERICANS FOR HARRY REID, and found that most of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fans — all 188 of them (as of 4:30 p.m. Central today) — were not African-Americans. That’s funny.  I thought Senator Reid’s apology to President Barack for making racial slurs about his skin [...]

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Which Way Will ‘Doomsday Clock’ Hands Move? (Update)

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Describing themselves as a global community of citizens and scientists making the world safer for future generations, the folks behind the web site TurnBackTheClock.org are sure to generate a lot of buzz during the next few day as they keep the world in suspense, wondering which direction they’ll move the hands on the so-called “Doomsday [...]

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No Buggy Required to Avoid Health Care Mandate

January 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments

My first thought after reading the headline of an article in the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times was, “I’m gonna become Amish.”  The headline:  Amish families exempt from insurance mandate. Delving into the article, I learned that the health care reform legislation now floating through the halls of Congress does not specify that members of the [...]

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Pinch Me, I Must Be Dreaming! — Headline Touts Bumper Crop of Crude Oil in America’s Future

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Take a wild guess at the name of the national publication in which the headline above recently appeared.  Was it: The Wall Street Journal The Weekly Standard; The Dallas Morning News; or BusinessWeek. If you guessed Business Week, you would be right.  For the first time I can remember, I recommend you read an oil [...]

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Records Show Keith Gladney Firing Unusual Event (Update)

January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Less than three months after he had received a positive performance review from his superiors at the St. Louis County (Mo.) Department of Health, Keith Gladney was fired Dec. 23 from his job as an animal control officer.  Thanks to information I obtained recently via the Missouri Sunshine Law (See this post for details), I [...]

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CIA Deaths, Terrorism Could Have Been Prevented

January 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments

James Chapman was as distraught as any patriotic American about seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan being killed in an explosion set off by a double-agent Dec. 31. The 67-year-old Marine Corps veteran made it clear that he hated to see our nation’s security compromised the way it was Christmas Day when a 23-year-old Nigerian man, [...]

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Great Moments in Democrat Racist History: FDR

January 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Liberals love to make virtuous icons out of Democrats who’ve served as presidents of the United States.  In the video above, Kevin Jackson, author of “The Black Lie,” dispels some of the myths surrounding one of those presidents — President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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