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Entries from January 2010

Shifting Political Winds Blow Ill for Democrats

January 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Since the Roe v. Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 1973, the political left, right and center of American politics has divided most distinctly around the issue of abortion.  In that decision, the Court held that a woman may abort an unwanted pregnancy, for [...]

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Was Interrogation of ‘Meredith Reed’ Realistic?

January 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I welcomed the arrival of the first two Season 8 episodes of the Fox Network program “24″ in my living room last night. After all, what man doesn’t enjoy an occasional foray into the adrenaline-filled life of “Jack Bauer”? At about the 28-minute mark of the second episode, however, the story unfolding on my television [...]

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Martin Luther King Jr. Was a REPUBLICAN

January 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments

On this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, I offer a flashback to a post of Aug. 25, 2008:  It shows one of 50 billboards purchased by the National Black Republican Association to welcome then-presidential candidate Barack Obama to Denver in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention.  Notice they contain an important message often overlooked by [...]

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Constitution Gives Individuals Right to Bear Arms

January 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments

This morning, a reader shared a link to a USA TODAY online poll in which readers are asked to answer the question, “Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?” It was not until after I clicked “Yes” that I noticed the poll had been online for approximately 26 months.  The results: [...]

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Young Boy Booted From Venue as Obama Stumps for Democrat Martha Coakley in Boston

January 17th, 2010 · No Comments

At about 4:14 p.m. Eastern, minutes after President Barack Obama was nearly heckled off the stage at a campaign rally in Boston for Massachusetts Democrat Martha Coakley, a Fox News Channel camera showed a middle-aged man and a young boy — who looked to be about nine years old — being escorted out of the [...]

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GITMO Detainee Reentry Academy Airs Radio Spot

January 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

A parody with ties to President Barack Obama’s pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, my friend Bruce Chapman‘s mock commercial for the fictitious GITMO Detainee Reentry Academy deserves to be shared with a worldwide audience.  Enjoy and pass it on!

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Report on Fort Hood Shootings a ‘Whitewash’

January 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Appearing on Fox News Channel, retired Army Col. Ralph Peters described the recently-released Department of Defense report on the shootings at Fort Hood as a “whitewash” of a report that never asked the question, “Why did this happen?” Peters, author of “The War After Armageddon,” blamed the pervasive climate of political correctness in the Army [...]

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