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Barack Obama’s Vision for the State of Israel

September 24th, 2011 · No Comments

With the Obama Administration doing almost everything possible to undermine Israel, I thought I’d offer a 2011 update of the State of Israel coin originally “minted” in 2009 as one of Barack Obama’s Seven Mystery States Coin Collection. If you enjoy this blog and want to keep reading stories like the one above, show your [...]

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Chrysler Pushing ‘Foreign Policy’ Ad Campaign While Ex-Dealers Sue Government for Millions

February 18th, 2011 · No Comments

Chrysler will soon begin an advertising/marketing push to cast the automaker’s dealers as “embassies,” according to an Automotive News report*.  The push will coincide with the new brand tagline, “Imported From Detroit,” introduced in a Super Bowl XLV commercial featuring the rapper, Eminem.  One would think, however, that Chrysler might want to focus on “domestic [...]

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Ecuadoran Government Officials Play Key Roles in $113 Billion Shakedown Lawsuit Against Chevron

February 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Carter Wood of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Shopfloor blog is, perhaps, the only person on the planet who has written as much as I have about the $113 billion lawsuit in which Chevron Corp. is entangled in Ecuador.  Below, with his permission, I share his latest article, In Chevron Shakedown, Ecuador’s Government [...]

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World Too Dangerous for Well-Intentioned Amateurs

December 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Sixty-six years and six months ago, the largest amphibious force ever assembled sailed across the stormy waters of the English Channel, bound for the heavily fortified beaches of Normandy, France.  Nearly half of the 156,000 invasion troops were Americans.  They and the troops of allied nations suffered massive casualties [...]

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Was President Obama Confused About India?

November 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments

One headline that jumped out at me appeared on the NDTV web site and would lead most to believe that President Barack Obama had done well on Day One of his visit to India. I suspect, however, that the headline stems from confusion on the part of President Obama about the duties of the people [...]

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Did Obama Place INTERPOL Above U.S. Law?

December 29th, 2009 · 8 Comments

After learning recently that President Barack Obama had, on Dec. 17, quietly amended Executive Order 12425, I decided to find out what impact, if any, it might have on Americans.  At first blind to the potential ramifications of the amendment, I was startled at what I found once the pieces of this disturbing political puzzle [...]

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Obama Causes Writer to Worry About Israel

April 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In an American Thinker opinion piece today, Cliff Thier expresses grave concern about the future of Israel and worries that President Barack Obama will use U.S. Air Force assets to prevent Israeli forces from taking out Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.  Among other things, he writes: Israel knows it must do take out the nuclear weapons [...]

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