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Republicans Need to Toughen Up

October 4th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Republicans are, generally speaking, wonderful people.  But what I dislike most about them is their inability to address the most-critical issues of our time in such a way that the “average man” can know and make sense of them… in the same way that Gov. Chris Christie is able [...]

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Organizing for America ‘Astroturf’ Effort Exposed

February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

A friend of mine who is on the e-mail list for the Barack Obama front organization, Organizing for America, shared the latest electronic message he received from the group late this morning.  It appears unedited below for your reading displeasure: (Name removed) – Yesterday, Democrats in the Senate successfully blocked the repeal of health reform [...]

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Republicans Begin Push to Repeal ‘ObamaCare’

January 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments

With news out of Washington, D.C., that House Republicans will, today, begin their push to repeal ObamaCare (a.k.a., “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”), I’m offering another look at my video interviews with doctors, patients and others on the subject of government-run health care. The first video (below) appeared in a March 25 post, [...]

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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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Eric Balderas ‘Posterboy’ for Immigration Reform

June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Just imagine for a moment that you are Barack Obama… I know it’s distasteful, but do it anyway… and assume that your number one goal, politically, is to make it possible for your party to win U.S. elections in perpetuity, with little or no chance of a strong challenge [...]

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Jo Ann Emerson Banks Money from Radical Unions

May 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments

I’ve developed a keen interest in a certain seven-term incumbent Republican RINO Republican congresswoman during the past four weeks.  Elected to serve the people of Missouri’s 8th Congressional District, her name is Jo Ann Emerson and, during the past four election cycles, she has accepted campaign contributions from some very radical unions. During her last-three [...]

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‘Let ‘em have one finger, they take your whole hand’

April 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Twenty-six years ago, Ionel “Greg” Grigore came to the United States from Romania in search of freedom and opportunity.  Today, the 54-year-old St. Louis businessman finds himself again battling dark political forces not unlike the ones that caused him to want to leave the Eastern European homeland of his birth. Recently, I spoke with Grigore [...]

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