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Entries from February 2011

CBP Officer: WMDs Have Been Detected in U.S. (Update)

February 12th, 2011 · 9 Comments

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in San Diego confirmed that weapons of mass effect (a.k.a., “WMDs”) had been found by U.S. officials, but not at the particular port where he was being interviewed by a reporter from ABC affiliate 10News.com. The video below aired during the local newscast Feb. 9 and featured this [...]

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Plaintiffs Behind $113 Billion ‘Shakedown’ Lawsuit Against Chevron on Verge of Being Labeled ‘Losers’

February 11th, 2011 · No Comments

Clench your right hand into a fist, then stick out your thumb and index finger.  Now, move your hand so that your thumb is slightly above and running parallel to your eyebrows in the center of your forehead. You’ve successfully displayed the international symbol that will soon describe the plaintiffs in the $113 billion “shakedown” [...]

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Muslim Brotherhood Gaffe Not Clapper’s First

February 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. surprised a lot of people when he told a packed House Intelligence Committee hearing room audience the Muslim Brotherhood is “a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” Not me, though.  I’m already familiar with his [...]

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No Electronic Flaws Found in Toyota Vehicles

February 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Remember all the hullabaloo about Toyota vehicles allegedly being unsafe as a result of sticky gas pedals? Turns out it was much ado about nothing, according to a news release from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood about his department’s joint investigation — with NASA engineers — into the matter: NASA engineers found no electronic flaws in [...]

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Oklahoma Leads Way in Election Law Reform

February 8th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger When I first moved to Oklahoma from New York in 1963, Tulsa was known far and wide as the Oil Capital of the World.  Other than possessing more miles of lake frontage than any other state in the nation, Oklahoma was not among the nation’s leaders in any other [...]

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Obama Correct in Saying ‘I didn’t raise taxes once’

February 7th, 2011 · No Comments

During an interview that aired just before the big game on Super Bowl Sunday, President Barack Obama made the following claims to Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly:  “I didn’t raise taxes once.  I lowered taxes over the last two years.  I lowered taxes for the last two years.” And he’s right!  He’s raised ‘em a [...]

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Cuomo Tries to Fool Public Into Thinking Tea Party Members Support His Budget Proposal

February 6th, 2011 · No Comments

It appears as if a dyed-in-the-wool liberal is trying to fool the public into thinking members of the Tea Party Movement support his controversial budget proposal for the Empire State.  That politician is New York’s recently-elected Democrat governor, Andrew Cuomo. Tonight, because I suspect it won’t be the last attempt by libs like Cuomo to [...]

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