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Entries from April 2010

Drilling Plan for Doomed Rig Approved By Obama

April 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Dan Riehl brought to light an interesting piece of trivia related to the offshore drilling rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  It appears the blame for this event, one of history’s worst environmental disasters, can’t be shuffled off to President George W. Bush. That’s right!  It seems the initial exploration plan for the British [...]

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Entitlement Mindset on Display in Nearly-Empty Lot

April 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Earlier this week, I posted a video which ended with a shot of a sign — “$10 Parking” — next to an almost-empty parking lot.  Today, I provide more perspective about why I found the sign noteworthy. I came across the sign after following a squad of riot gear-wearing law enforcement officers as they departed [...]

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Quincy Doctor Calls Out Tea Party’s Chubbies (Update)

April 30th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Waiting to hear President Barack Obama bash Wall Street during a White House to Main Street Tour stop in Quincy, Ill., Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Young W. Yu overheard me speaking with a lady in line ahead of him.  After I asked her if she wanted President Obama to nationalize the nation’s banks, the Blessing Health [...]

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Blogger Renews Call for End to Cinco de Mayo (Update)

April 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Illegal immigration reform is, once again, at the forefront of public attention thanks in part to the appropriate stance taken by Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) and members of the Arizona legislature took on the issue recently.  Therefore, I reissue my call for Americans to stop celebrating Cinco de Mayo until our nation’s borders are secure [...]

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Obama Worshipers Full of Blissful Ignorance

April 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Curious to find out what it is about President Barack Obama that drew young people to hear him speak in Quincy, Ill., I interviewed several of them as they prepared to enter the Oakley Lindsay Civic Center Wednesday afternoon.  As the video below reveals, I learned that the Obama worshipers were full of blissfully ignorance. [...]

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Tea Partiers Prove Obama Wrong in Quincy

April 29th, 2010 · 12 Comments

If Deputy Police Chief Ron Dreyer’s objective Wednesday afternoon was to provoke Tea Party activists to violence during President Barack Obama’s stop in Quincy, Ill., his efforts fell flat.  The video below proves what Tea Partiers have said all along:  “We’re not violent!” According to a Quincy Whig-Herald newspaper account published after the event, Deputy [...]

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Tea Partiers Greeted by Black-Suit Riot Squad (Update)

April 28th, 2010 · 13 Comments

Today, I experienced a moment I will not soon forget. Shortly after President Barack Obama arrived at the Oakley Lindsay Civic Center in Quincy, Ill., late this afternoon, about two-dozen law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear from head to toe faced off with a crowd of about 200 Tea Partiers. Was it violence or [...]

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