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Business Owner Says Economy Not Turning Around

April 15th, 2010 · 10 Comments

The Obama Administration wants Americans to believe the economy is beginning to turn around and that President Barack Obama’s efforts are starting to result in more and more “saved and created jobs.”  Ask Rick Misch for his assessment of the economy, however, and you’ll find the economic picture he sees daily isn’t as pretty as [...]

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‘Irritable Bowl Syndrome’ Under Control in 2009

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

“Irritable Bowl Syndrome,” the affliction first identified among fans of the Texas Longhorns football team in December 2008, seems to be under control in 2009.  They are, after all, set to take on the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the BCS National Championship Game Jan. 7 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. You might recall [...]

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Trojans Win Rose, Hokies Win Orange, Fans Bored

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Though college football fans were treated to a back-to-back pair of dull bowl games, I was able to add one more win and one more loss to my predictions record for the bowl game season. In the first game, played in Pasadena, Calif., the #5 USC Trojans defeated the #8 Penn State Nittany Lions, 38-24, [...]

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Kansas Defeats Minnesota in Insight Bowl — Yawn

January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Big 12 North’s Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Big Ten’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, 42-21, late yesterday afternoon in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Because the game was aired on NFL Network, I didn’t watch it and will not give spend much time writing about the efforts of these two unranked teams.  I will, however, [...]

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College Football Bowl Game Predictions Offered

December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below: Monday, [...]

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Democratic Leadership Yields Poverty

September 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Question: What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate “all” have in common?  Answer: Democrat leadership. That question and answer were supplied by a reader in the form of a comment below Chris Cillizza’s article, Drudge-ology 101: McCain, Obama and Media Bias, published this morning in The Washington Post’s The Fix blog.  [...]

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Message to ESPN ‘Experts’: ‘I Told You So!’

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments

If I had one thing to say to the two ESPN college football “experts” I chided in a post published prior to yesterday’s contest between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Cincinnati Bearcats, it would be this:  “I told you so!” Yes, that’s the message I would send to Rece Davis and Brian Bennett.  After all, [...]

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