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Oil Spill Response Puts Barack Obama on Hot Seat

June 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

President Barack Obama knows all too well how easy it is to criticize others when you’re not in charge.  Five years ago, as shown in the video below, he seemed to revel in criticizing President George W. Bush for allegedly taking too long to respond to Hurricane Katrina and for being ineffective when he did [...]

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Drilling Plan for Doomed Rig Approved By Obama

April 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Dan Riehl brought to light an interesting piece of trivia related to the offshore drilling rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  It appears the blame for this event, one of history’s worst environmental disasters, can’t be shuffled off to President George W. Bush. That’s right!  It seems the initial exploration plan for the British [...]

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‘Solastalgia’ the Next Liberal Buzzword

April 26th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Remember when the word, gravitas, entered the public conversation for the first time?  Well, stay tuned, because solastalgia is next. A rarely-used 131-year-old word at the time, according to Merriam-Webster, gravitas was introduced en masse to the American vocabulary by members of the liberal media within 24 hours of President George W. Bush’s selection of [...]

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Clinton’s Waco Actions Render Claims of OKC Bombing Cover Up More Believable Than Ever

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments

If President Bill Clinton was the man in charge of the federal government’s bungling of the standoff at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco 16 years ago, then claims about his involvement in a cover up of the Oklahoma City Bombing become more plausible. The video above shows former Clinton advisor Dick Morris sharing details [...]

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Secret Memo ‘Spirited Out’ of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Office Contains Damning Jobs Language

February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment

This is big news.  Late this morning, I obtained a heavily-edited draft copy of a not-yet-released secret memo.  Originally dated Aug. 1, 2003, my sources tell me it was “spirited out” of the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sometime during the past five days. Most telling about the memo (below) is the [...]

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Questions Pit ‘W’ Bashing Against Love of Obama

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Several times each day, I find in my inbox one of those “must-forward” e-mails from some well-intentioned person upset with someone or something.  Usually, I delete them quickly.  Today, however, I felt compelled to share excerpts (below) from one such message that uses rhetorical questions to slam the media bias apparent when one compares coverage [...]

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White House Press Corps Emits Sucking Sound

December 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In the middle of reading a CBS article about President Barack Obama’s day in Hawaii, I think I heard a sucking sound — you know, the kind of sound that comes members of the White House press corps generate as they suck up to the current head of household at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Here’s why: [...]

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