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Democrats and Labor Bosses Said, ‘It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government’

February 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Republican governors Scott Walker, Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Mitch Daniels are not the originators of the fear of the overreaching power of public employee unions.  That credit goes to FDR and the president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany.  In 1955, Meany said, “It is impossible to bargain collectively [...]

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St Louis TV Stations Cover Health Care Town Hall

March 11th, 2010 · No Comments

More than 2,200 people packed the health care town hall meeting Wednesday morning in St. Charles, Mo.  Even if they had wanted to skew their coverage, the overwhelming anti-ObamaCare sentiment at the St. Charles Convention Center likely convinced them otherwise. Below are video clips of the coverage of the meeting provided by three St. Louis [...]

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Top 10 Headlines Obama Doesn’t Want to Read

January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Below are the “Top 10 Headlines President Barack Obama Doesn’t Want to Read” following Republican Scott Brown’s victory last night over Democrat Martha Coakley in the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts: 10. Brown to Toss Coin at Super Bowl 9. NBC Names Brown Host of The Tonight Show 8. Brown Wins, Obama [...]

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Homeland Security’s Napolitano: ‘System Worked’

December 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano can’t seem to get her story straight. On Sunday, she told a CNN “State of the Union” audience “the system worked” to stop the attempted Christmas Day terrorist bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam.  A day later, she said airline security failed.  Finally, the [...]

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Commander-in-Chief Obama Just Doesn’t Get It

November 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Perhaps it was indicative of President Barack Obama’s disdain for those he’s charged to lead.  No matter the official excuse given by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, yesterday’s actions by Commander-In-Chief Obama prove he just doesn’t get it. In a piece published today at NBCChicago.com, writer Robert A. George captured the flavor of what I was [...]

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Americans Ask Media, ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments

High noon showdowns took place at some 100 locations around the country Saturday as conservatives and anti-socialism Americans gathered for “Can You Hear Me Now” rallies focusing attention on mainstream news media outlets’ blatant bias and consistent failure to report both sides of important news stories. The video below shows how KSDK, the NBC affiliate [...]

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Video Raises New Doubts About Oklahoma City Bombing Evidence, Investigation (Update)

September 27th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Almost four months ago, I used the headline of a post on this blog to declare, “It’s Time for Government to Reopen Investigations Into TWA Flight 800, Oklahoma City Bombing.”  Today, news of more evidence related to the latter incident appeared on the web site of Oklahoma’s largest daily newspaper. NewsOK.com article. The evidence in [...]

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