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Entries from April 2010

‘Fox Cleared of All Charges in Henhouse Scandal’

April 14th, 2010 · No Comments

“The accused fox was cleared of all charges after none of the hens who had occupied the henhouse prior to the alleged incident appeared in court this morning to testify against the fox.  Reporting live from the criminal court building in London, this is Peter Johnson reporting for BBC News.” Of course, the paragraph above [...]

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Obama ‘Scaring Dickens Out of Small Businesses’

April 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

An e-mail exchange took place last week between a St. Louis man who describes himself as “a long-time customer” of a large retail store chain and a representative of the company’s customer service department.  It began April 3 with a simple question: “Are you planning on bringing a (name of company) to the St. Louis [...]

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Axe Begins to Fall on Army Officer Challenging Obama’s Eligibility to Serve as President

April 13th, 2010 · 9 Comments

The axe appears to be falling on an Army officer who is refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until President Barack Obama proves his eligibility to serve as president of the United States by producing genuine proof of his citizenship in the form of his original 1961 birth certificate. Almost two weeks after Lt. Col. Terrence [...]

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‘Let ‘em have one finger, they take your whole hand’

April 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Twenty-six years ago, Ionel “Greg” Grigore came to the United States from Romania in search of freedom and opportunity.  Today, the 54-year-old St. Louis businessman finds himself again battling dark political forces not unlike the ones that caused him to want to leave the Eastern European homeland of his birth. Recently, I spoke with Grigore [...]

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University of Illinois Alums Honor Ecuadoran Crook

April 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments

When I read John Bambenek’s story about Rafael Correa published Sunday at BigGoverment.com, I was disgusted, disappointed and slightly disheartened, but not at all surprised.  After all, it was the alumni association at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that honored their alum-turned corrupt Ecuadoran president with the 2009 Madhuri and Jagdish Sheth International Alumni Award [...]

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ObamaCare Damage Eerily Similar to Bio Attack

April 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Experts at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced today the results of a study about two primary ways the United States could be harmed by a large-scale biological attack.  In reviewing the study, I recognized two eerie parallels between the devastating aftermath of a bio attack and the negative [...]

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Romanian Immigrant: ‘Let’s say I came from hell’

April 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments

While attending the K and N Patriots’ weekly anti-socialism rally Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo., I had the good fortune to meet Ionel “Greg” Grigore and his mother Dumitra. The Grigores, 54 and 74 respectively, came to this country during the 1980s in search of freedom and [...]

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