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Barack Obama’s Promise of Transparency MIA (Update)

January 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Almost a year has passed since the editorial cartoon above appeared in a BMW post published under the headline, Obama Has Yet to Fulfill Pledge of Transparency. Unfortunately, it seems nothing has changed since he took office — and people are starting to notice. In the video below, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb talks about how [...]

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Tax Reformers Highlight Obama’s Broken Promises

March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

The folks at Americans for Tax Reform have published a commentary that highlights President Barack Obama’s failures to live up to his campaign promises. First, ATR recalls that then-candidate Obama promised to allow “Sunlight Before Signing” by adhering to a policy of waiting five days before signing any legislation that comes to his desk. Next, [...]

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Before You Vote, Listen to ‘The Poll Whisperer’

October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

My fellow Americans, I implore you to heed this advice:  Before casting a vote for president Nov. 4, listen to “The Poll Whisperer.” The Poll Whisperer speaks to you from somewhere deep inside your head, in a voice that only you can hear.  He speaks to you at the moment you consider each vote you’re [...]

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Obama’s ‘Cotton Candy’ Promises Lack Substance

October 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Describing the way many of his contemporaries deliver “good stuff” instead of “God’s stuff” from the pulpit, my pastor used his sermon this morning to describe such a practice as “cotton candy preaching” — that is, it’s “light, fluffy and sweet, but lacks substance.”  The same can be said for campaign promises made by one [...]

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Hate Hurts America Hates Free Speech

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This morning, the Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition used a news release to tackle two objectives. While the “headline” objective was to announce that HHA had launched a re-designed website, the primary objective seems to have been reminding the world that HHA members think Michael Savage is targeting Muslims with on-air “hate speech” [...]

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Blogger ID’s Peacetime Use for Army’s Lie Detector

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The inability of presidential candidates — namely Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — to tell the truth has received a lot of attention in both traditional and new media during recent months. Today, however, it appears a solution is available that could help voters detect a lie as it emerges from a candidate’s mouth. [...]

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