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Memo Exposes Obama Health Care Plan Lies

October 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I just received the following “internal campaign memo” in an e-mail from the McCain-Palin Missouri Team.  Because Missouri is a so-called “swing” state, I’ll share this memo exposing Barack Obama‘s health care plan lies with you: Missouri Issue Alert The Obama-Biden campaign continues to lie to the American people about John McCain’s health care plan. [...]

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Bailout Raises 700 Billion Questions

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Call it an example of the power of positive thinking or something else, but the economic bailout package expected to gain House approval today is raising at least 700 billion questions in my mind.  In particular, I’m concerned about the origin of the dollar amount being kicked around and the “legs” that seem to keep [...]

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Congress Makes ‘Lemonade’ of Economic Crisis

September 28th, 2008 · No Comments

The cartoon above depicts how many Americans feel about the $700 billion bipartisan economic rescue legislation making its way through Congress at this time — about to be involuntarily squeezed. Some fear it will leave them picking up the tab for the irresponsible actions of others, while others fear they’ll soon be feeling an even [...]

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Obama Tops List of Bought-and-Paid-For Politicians

September 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Who received the most money from Wall Street executives (i.e., the folks Barack Obama referred to in a recent speech as the ones “who got us into this mess”)?  According to one report, Obama tops the list of politicians who’ve been bought and paid for by the same folks responsible for the recent collapse of [...]

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Five Ways Today’s Liberals Would Have Screwed Up the Louisiana Purchase

April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today, after visiting the American Minute and reading about the 205th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, I began to ponder how things might have turned out if today’s liberals had been in charge of Congress at the time. I came up with Five Ways Today’s Congressional Liberals Would Have Screwed Up the Louisiana Purchase: 1. [...]

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Germans Built Seven-Mile Fence in Six Days!

June 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A few minutes ago, I heard news commentator Paul Harvey tell listeners that German engineers were able to construct a seven-mile-long fence in six days as part of security preparations related to the three-day Group of Eight (a.k.a., G8) Summit that took place in the historic Heiligendamm sea resort of Rostock June 6-8. In what [...]

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Spinal Transplants Could Transform Congress

March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

News that Chinese doctors have completed the world’s first successful spinal disc implant prompts me to speculate upon how complete spinal transplants would transform the decision-making process in Congress. According to the report in the UK’s Daily Mail, spinal discs from accident victims were transplanted into patients with disc degeneration in the cervical spine, the [...]

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