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Cartoon Highlights Obama’s Make-Work Future

December 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Under the headline, Make-Work, Red Planet Cartoons offers a great observation of what the future will look like if Barack Obama gets his way and becomes the FDR of the 21st Century. With obvious references to the boondoggle that was Boston’s “Big Dig” project and to the hole-digging logic of Keynesian economics, the cartoon shows [...]

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Unanswered: ‘Is Barack Obama the Anti-Christ?’

November 14th, 2008 · 26 Comments

Early this afternoon, I came across a post, 50 Buzziest Blog Posts of All Time, published Sept. 17, 2008, at Nerve.com.  Listed 17th among the “buzziest” blog posts is a four-year-old entry from the apostropher blog.  It’s headline raised the still-unanswered question, “Is Barack Obama the Anti-Christ?” Aside from the obvious attention-getting aspect of the [...]

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‘Hurricane Barack’ Losing Strength

September 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Once a Category 5 storm, Hurricane Barack is beginning to weaken, according to election forecasters.  Below is a time line of the storm’s track: July 27, 2004 — The storm first appeared on the political radar, having surfaced from the weather underground as a no-name tropical depression during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. [...]

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Good News from Children’s Hospital St. Louis

May 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Fox News Channel reported yesterday that “Boston’s Children’s Hospital bills itself as the hospital for children — and now it’s also the hospital for children who want a sex change, a procedure some critics are calling ‘barbaric.’” The news about the Boston hospital prompted me to wonder whether or not the highly-rated Children’s Hospital of [...]

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