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Another Obama Pick Should Withdraw His Name

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled hearings tomorrow to examine the nomination of David Ogden, President Barack Obama’s choice for Deputy Attorney General. According to a news release from Morality in Media, Mr. Ogden has a long history of making “ACLU-minded” arguments in court cases involving obscene materials, harmful-to-minors materials, and child pornography.  That in [...]

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Blog Sets Single-Month Traffic Records

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks to all — conservatives and liberals alike — who helped this blog set several new traffic records during the month of August. Those records include unique visitors (43,527), total visits (56,695), page views (170,850) and almost two-million hits (1,974,521). The average visit duration was 2.5 minutes — or 162 seconds to be exact. Much [...]

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Obama’s Half-Brother on CNN’s ‘Situation Room’

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

It appears CNN reporter David McKenzie must be a reader of this blog.  McKenzie’s video report about Barack Obama‘s half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, aired on The Situation Room, hosted by Wolf Blitzer, on the same day as I published a post, Media Silent About Obama’s Hut-Dwelling Sibling. Worth noting in the video is the [...]

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Did Saddleback Mark Beginning of End for Obama?

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A new Reuters-Zogby poll released today shows Barack Obama trailing John McCain by a 46 percent to 41 percent margin. A dismal showing at the Saddleback Civil Forum caused many Americans to change their minds about supporting the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee.  Conversely, it appears at least some of those Americans seem to have [...]

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Is Obama Campaign Issuing Distress Signal?

August 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Photos accompanying an article at the Gateway Pundit blog show that tickets for Barack Obama‘s nomination acceptance speech on the last day of the Democratic National Convention feature the American flag printed upside down — an international signal of distress — on both sides.  Is this a signal that the Barack Obama campaign is in [...]

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Video Offers ‘Best of John McCain’ at Saddleback

August 17th, 2008 · No Comments

The video above offers the “Best of John McCain” from his one-hour question-and-answer session with Pastor Rick Warren during last night’s Saddleback Civil Forum held at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. For a complete review of the forum, read my post, Saddleback Civil Forum Observations Offered.

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Saddleback Civil Forum Observations Offered

August 16th, 2008 · 30 Comments

Pastor Rick Warren hosted presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain tonight during a two-hour Saddleback Civil Forum held at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.  Pastor Warren asked Obama questions during the first hour, and a session with McCain followed.  Below are my observations about questions both candidates had opportunities to address. Obama offered [...]

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