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Uncle Sam Broke, Living in Phone Booth

March 26th, 2011 · No Comments

In his most-recent effort, my liberal cartoonist friend David Donar at Political Graffiti paints Uncle Sam as a broke, disheveled homeless man with liquor on his breath.  When asked by a representative of the United Nations if he is changing into “Super Nation,” Uncle Sam responds, “Sorry, I’m broke!  Now, I’m just living in this [...]

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Tsunami Info Center Web Site Fails on Day of Big Quake Despite Tens of Millions in Federal Funds

March 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Like millions of people around the world, I awoke hungry for details of the 8.9 megaquake that struck Japan just after 2:30 p.m. local time Friday.  When I landed at the web site for the International Tsunami Information Center, a center in Honolulu that was allocated $28 million for fiscal year 2011 and $29 million [...]

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Big Government Puts Ozarks in the Crosshairs (Update)

January 27th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Farmers, ranchers and other land owners in 13 Missouri counties are up in arms these days, fearful that the federal government will designate their land in the Ozarks of Southern Missouri as the “Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area.” As members of the Ozarks Property Rights Congress, they’re meeting tonight at the Hayloft Restaurant in Mountain [...]

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Journalist Banned from Climate Change Conference

November 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments

It appears that drug cartel-related kidnappings and murders are not the only crimes taking place in Mexico these days.  According to a message received this morning, Phelim McAleer has been denied press accreditation for the Cancun Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Only days before the international conference opening today, the United Nations refused access [...]

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Are Communists Succeeding in Takeover of USA?

September 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Described as “an excerpt from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen,” the “1963 Communist Rules” consists of 45 tactics and objectives related to a gradual communist takeover of the United States.  They were entered into the Congressional Record Jan. 10, 1963, by U.S. Rep. Albert S. Herlong Jr., a Floridian who served in Congress from [...]

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Israeli Delegation Skips Obama’s UN Speech

September 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

The Israeli delegation to the United Nations opted out of listening to President Barack Obama deliver a pro-Palestinians speech at the United Nations this morning.  Perhaps better than anyone, they understand that the 44th president of the United States has, despite sometimes-flowery words to the contrary, little regard for the State of Israel, one of [...]

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Insider: Global Warming Consensus Never Existed

June 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments

The National Post is reporting that a prominent climate scientist and insider at the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on man-made global warming. The Canadian publication cites Mike Hulme as stating in a recent academic paper that the actual [...]

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