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Wisconsin Protests Result of Political Incest

March 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition, defines “incest” as, “The crime of cohabitation between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.” However, it took an ugly confrontation between Wisconsin’s unionized public employees and their employer, the State of Wisconsin, to redefine the term and to finally [...]

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Democrats Ignore Basic Economic Facts

October 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger Democrats are fond of talking about the Clinton era budget surplus President George W. Bush “squandered” and the terrible financial mess President Barack Obama “inherited.” Both arguments ignore a few basic facts. First, presidents don’t control spending, Congress does. Second, outside events have to be taken into account before you [...]

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Obama Employs Name-Dropping Tactic

September 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Recently (here and here), I’ve noted President Barack Obama inclination toward dropping the names of some of his predecessors — including Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan — into interviews with members of the news media. Because I fully expect the president to continue this practice until his current [...]

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Obama Hints at Fairness Doctrine on Sunday Shows

September 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Brace yourselves, conservatives:  While President Barack Obama used his appearances on the Sunday talk shows to push for government-run health care, he also fired what could be considered an Oval Office “missile” aimed squarely at conservative talk radio. During a poignant segment of his interview the president that was broadcast on FACE the NATION this [...]

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Barack Obama ‘a man they barely know’

December 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Albeit late and in a far-too-abbreviated manner, at least one member of the mainstream news media has finally admitted that he and his brethren in the Fourth Estate failed to properly vet President-elect Barack Obama when he was a mere candidate for the highest office in the land. In an otherwise left-leaning commentary published Thanksgiving [...]

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What’s Wrong Is What’s Missing 66 Years Later

December 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In today’s edition of American Minute, William J. “Bill” Federer highlights the words of an American president following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and points out what is wrong with America 66 years: “DECEMBER 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately [...]

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