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Entries from July 2010

‘Stealing Tea’ Just the Beginning for Scott Rupp, RINO Incumbent in Missouri State Senate Race

July 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

In a post yesterday, I reported on Scott Rupp (sounds like “roop”), an incumbent seeking re-election to the Missouri State Senate.  I went so far as to accuse the Republican in Name Only of falsely painting himself as a Tea Party activist (See “Stealing Tea” for details).  Today, I share a list of Rupp’s under-reported [...]

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Missouri Senate Candidate Guilty of ‘Stealing Tea’

July 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments

When men who didn’t serve in the armed forces pretend to be decorated war heroes, they’re labeled as “fake veterans” and can even be prosecuted for for what many call “stolen valor.”  Recently, one Missouri politician began mailing campaign literature that leads me to believe he’s guilty of stealing the valor of members of the [...]

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Salazar Invites Employees to Attend Blacks In Government National Training Conference

July 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar loves to communicate with his employees.  Unfortunately, he chooses the strangest topics to cover in his messages to “All DOI Employees.” In recent months, he’s touted bureaucratic growth, promoted deviant sexual behavior and  bashed “Big Oil,” just to name a few.  His most recent message, sent yesterday via one of his [...]

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Offshore Drilling Moratorium No Longer Necessary

July 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Another reason why we don’t need a moratorium on offshore drilling:  nobody else is going to be taking risks during the next six months like BP did three months prior to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that left 11 dead and created one of the worst ecological disasters in [...]

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Poll Shows Voters Overwhelming Oppose New Taxes on Nation’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry

July 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the text of a news release issued today by my friends at the American Petroleum Institute, a nonprofit organization representing the interest of some 400 of the nation’s oil and natural gas companies.  Please read it and share it widely as it’s the kind of information the mainstream media folks are [...]

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Flight 93 Father: Ground Zero Mosque Second Being Built on Site of September 11 Attacks

July 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs is leading the fight against the ground zero mosque in New York.  Today, she posted the following letter from the father of Tom Burnett Jr., one of the heroes aboard United Flight 93: To our fellow 9/11 families and to all who are concerned about the Ground Zero [...]

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Is Limiting Jobless Benefits ‘Wrong-Headed’?

July 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Is it “wrong-headed” to put a limit on the length of time during which an individual should receive unemployment benefits?  Donna Brazile thinks it is.  In the e-mail message below, the Democrat political strategist and former Al Gore presidential campaign manager tells people on the Democratic National Committee mailing list that much. FROM THE DEMOCRATIC [...]

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