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Entries from December 2010

Gas Price Predictions Haven’t Panned Out – Yet

December 28th, 2010 · No Comments

A CNN Money article published yesterday included a prediction about gas prices made by John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil.  He said that Americans could be paying $5 per gallon of gasoline by 2012.  In response, this designer of “Will Work for Fuel” merchandise says, “Tell me something new.” Since President Barack Obama took [...]

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Congress Leads Border Patrol Down Wrong Path

December 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Less than a week after another Border Patrol agent was killed by Mexican bandits, Congress forwarded to the White House a bill that, within two years of its enactment, will result in Customs and Border Patrol heading down the same misguided path the Department of Defense took in 2007 when it comes to interrogation technology. [...]

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Ten ‘Mama Grizzlies’ and a ‘Fat Guy’ GOP Future

December 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger It has not been a good year for President Barack Obama and the Democrats. And while most of the bad news was generated by Obama himself and the “ship of fools” he has surrounded himself with in the White House, it was congressional Democrats who paid the price Nov. [...]

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Media ‘Carrying Water’ for Democrat Congress

December 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

WARNING: To ensure you realize you’re not in the middle of a bad dream, pinch yourself before watching the Breitbart.com video below. Every thinking American knows the 111th Congress was, perhaps, the worst — definitely not the “most productive” — Congress in this nation’s history as news anchors nationwide might have us believe. The new [...]

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Netanyahu: Israel Won’t Apologize to Turkey (Update)

December 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Though Turkish government officials have, for months, been calling for Israel to apologize for their involvement in a May 31 military raid that left nine Turkish activists dead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out the possibility, according to new reports (See here, here and here) this afternoon. Such a stance should not surprise [...]

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FLASH: Poll Results Prove HuffPo Writer Right (Update)

December 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Barely a year after I was trashed on the pages of The Huffington Post, today marks one of those rare occasions when I felt inclined to read a portion of a Fred Goldring article, New Year’s Resolution 2011: Start Supporting President Obama, published on the ultra-liberal web site.  Surprisingly, it took only a few moments [...]

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GITMO Remains Open Despite Obama Efforts

December 27th, 2010 · No Comments

President Barack Obama cited national security interests, foreign policy interests and the interests of justice when he announced 23 months ago he would close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within 12 months.  Despite more than 140 mentions of GITMO on the White House web site since then, the facility remains open.  To celebrate that, I [...]

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