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New Video: ‘Obama Killed My Granny’

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments

While new videos featuring school children singing the praises of President Barack Obama seem to surface almost daily, the new video above is different in that it doesn’t feature any praise of the nation’s 44th president.
Sent to me by a Facebook friend in my hometown of Enid, Okla., the video uses crayon drawings — the [...]

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Chinese Billboard: Wal-Mart is Coming!

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

My oldest son, Matt, just returned from a two-week trip to China.  Along the way, he found evidence that Wal-Mart is everywhere.
While traveling through a small mountain town approximately 500 miles north of the country’s border with Vietnam, he spotted the “Wal-Mart is coming” billboard shown above.

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Amendment to Block Health Care Rationing Fails

May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Foster Friess
Guest Blogger
The idea of a government-run HMO proposed by President Barack Obama and Democrat leaders should scare us all.  Further cause for concern stems from $1 billion of taxpayer dollars shoehorned into the stimulus to fund research into the comparative effectiveness of medicine.  Referred to as “Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER),” Sally Pipes writes, [...]

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Black Friday Deals Offered to Help Economy

November 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Black Friday sales are generating quite a bit of buzz this year, what with news media outlets focused on the prospect of another economic depression as “imminent.”  As my small contribution to helping stimulate the economy, I offer the following links to retailers with web sites offering Black Friday sales information:
Amazon, Bass Pro Shops, Best [...]

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Ten Ways the Funeral Industry Might Change

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Being a middle-aged man, I think about end-of-life things more often than I once did and it shows up in this blog. Last week, I stumbled upon a way to realize funeral cost savings of $900 by purchasing simple wooden caskets. Today, I stumbled upon a BRANDWEEK article highlighting how some people — including [...]

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