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‘I Wouldn’t Want to Wish This Upon Anybody’

March 25th, 2010 · 9 Comments

When Cynthia Rice told me, “I wouldn’t want to wish this upon anybody, especially with all the complications,” she was referring to the long and challenging road she and Jim, her husband of 16 years, have traveled prior to and following his successful liver transplant operation March 21, 2006.  After speaking with her at their [...]

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HEALTH CARE: There’s a Target on Your Back!

March 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments

One year ago today, I published a post in which I reported that President Barack Obama had yielded to public pressure and dropped his plan to charge wounded war veterans for their treatment.  Little did I realize that the president, then still enjoying his “First 100 Daze”, was merely adjusting his sights and taking aim [...]

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Top 10 GOP Comments at Town Hall Meeting

March 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Anytime you have thousands of voting-age people assembled in one room, you can count on politicians to be there, too.  That was the case Wednesday morning when more than 2,200 people gathered at the St. Charles (Mo.) Convention Center hours ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival in the St. Louis suburb. Below are the Top [...]

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Town Hall Attendees Say It’s Not Just Health Care

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Though President Barack Obama came to the St. Louis area to talk primarily about health care, many of the people who attended a health care town hall meeting in St. Charles, Mo., Wednesday morning had more than just health care on their minds.  Prior to the meeting, I spoke with several of them.  Their comments [...]

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Warm Weather Greets Anti-Socialism Protesters

March 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments

As the afternoon temperature approached 60 degrees for the first time this year, approximately 75 conservatives participated in a rally against socialism Saturday, March 6, at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo.  The video below offers highlights of the sentiments expressed at the rally. Rally participants caught the attention of passing [...]

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‘Any House member who votes for the Senate health bill is casting a career-defining pro-abortion vote’

March 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Douglas Johnson believes the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought to the House floor last November was extremely bad (before the House fixed it by adopting the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) — but the Senate health bill (H.R. 3590) is worse.  Furthermore, he warned in a news release today that members of the House of Representatives that [...]

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Tell Obama, Congress Abortion Is Not Healthcare

March 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you remember the Red Envelope Project, you’re probably familiar with the name, Christ Otto.  Below, I share an e-mail Christ sent me this evening that requires IMMEDIATE ACTION. Please join me in sending Congress the message that abortion is not healthcare. Last year I shared a dream I had about red envelopes [...]

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