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Obama Fails to Mention Inflation in SOTU Address

January 26th, 2011 · 3 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the text of a news release issued today by the National Inflation Association. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last night did not make one single mention of inflation, when it is the belief of the National Inflation Association that massive price inflation (especially food inflation) will become America’s [...]

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Should Jo Ann Emerson Run as Independent?

May 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments

Should U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson follow the same path Florida Gov. Charlie Crist took and opt to run as an independent in her re-election bid for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District seat?  Several factors lead me to believe she should.  For instance: Emerson voted twice for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the Obama [...]

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Entitlement Mindset on Display in Nearly-Empty Lot

April 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Earlier this week, I posted a video which ended with a shot of a sign — “$10 Parking” — next to an almost-empty parking lot.  Today, I provide more perspective about why I found the sign noteworthy. I came across the sign after following a squad of riot gear-wearing law enforcement officers as they departed [...]

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Tea Partiers Prove Obama Wrong in Quincy

April 29th, 2010 · 12 Comments

If Deputy Police Chief Ron Dreyer’s objective Wednesday afternoon was to provoke Tea Party activists to violence during President Barack Obama’s stop in Quincy, Ill., his efforts fell flat.  The video below proves what Tea Partiers have said all along:  “We’re not violent!” According to a Quincy Whig-Herald newspaper account published after the event, Deputy [...]

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Letter to Senator Jim Bunning Right on Target (Update)

March 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

While watching Fox News Channel this morning, I saw live coverage of Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) on the floor of the U.S. Senate reading a powerful, on-target letter written to him by a constituent who lives in Louisville.  The letter was so powerful that I decided to call Mike Reynard, Senator Bunning’s press secretary, and [...]

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ABC Preps Wall Street Comedies for Primetime

March 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments

From the “I DON’T LISTEN TO HOLLYWOOD!” department: Believe it or not, ABC television is prepping to air pilots for two new television comedies based upon “recent Wall Street carnage and the sad toll it’s taken on that once-mighty warrior, the investment banker.” The sad toll it’s taken on that once-mighty warrior, the investment banker?  [...]

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Wall Street Journal Runs ‘Tasteless’ Headlines

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments

The headlines of a pair of Wall Street Journal articles should have never appeared next to each other, but they did today. While reading the WSJ Opinion Journal online this afternoon, the writer-editor in me noticed the pair of headlines shown in the graphic at right.  Appearing below the subhead, “Taste,” the first headline, The [...]

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