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Questions Pit ‘W’ Bashing Against Love of Obama

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Several times each day, I find in my inbox one of those “must-forward” e-mails from some well-intentioned person upset with someone or something.  Usually, I delete them quickly.  Today, however, I felt compelled to share excerpts (below) from one such message that uses rhetorical questions to slam the media bias apparent when one compares coverage [...]

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White House Press Corps Emits Sucking Sound

December 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In the middle of reading a CBS article about President Barack Obama’s day in Hawaii, I think I heard a sucking sound — you know, the kind of sound that comes members of the White House press corps generate as they suck up to the current head of household at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Here’s why: [...]

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Obama’s West Point Greeting Lags Behind W’s

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Was there much of a difference between the greetings received by President Barack Obama Tuesday night and the greeting President George W. Bush received Dec. 9, 2008, the last time he visited the United States Military Academy at West Point?  Watch the video below and judge for yourself. Related: Six Important Facts About the Assault [...]

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Van Jones Still Has Ear of Obama Administration

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Van Jones, President Barack Obama’s controversial former “green jobs” czar, serves on the advisory board of an independent environmental organization actively working with the White House, reports Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily.com. Jones resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of [...]

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TIME Gets It Right on Motive Behind Peace Prize

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Believe you me, it’s a rare occasion when I agree with the folks at TIME.  Today, however, is one of those occasions.  The lead paragraph of their article, Obama’s Nobel: Another Slap at George W. Bush, sums up accurately the reason why the current occupant of the Oval Office won a once-prestigious award despite having [...]

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Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Member Steve Chapman Newest Resident in ‘State of Denial’

October 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Steve Chapman, a member of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, has established residency in the State of Denial, one of the seven mystery states then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said he had visited while on the campaign trail May 9, 2008. In an editorial published today, Chapman writes: Obama, it’s true, has done things that involve [...]

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‘W’ Was Right, Iran Is Dangerous

September 21st, 2009 · No Comments

“Iran was dangerous. Iran is dangerous. Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon.” President George W. Bush used the words above 19 months ago during a White House interview with NBC reporter David Gregory (see this post for details). At the time of the interview, many on the [...]

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