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The Bumbling President

November 29th, 2009

By Tom Carter I’ve said before that while I didn’t vote for Obama, I want him to be a successful president.  That’s best for the country and for maintaining U.S. power and influence in the world.  While it was obvious from the beginning that he lacked experience and had succeeded on the strength of a shallow [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, climate change, Copenhagen, Middle East, Obama
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ACORN

November 29th, 2009

By Larry Ennis I’m not sure if any of you are following the ongoing political saga of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the efforts being made to make it look legal. ACORN is a group of activists who have openly tried to steal elections and bring undue pressure to bear on mortgage banks, [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: ACORN, Beck, Brown, Holder, Obama, SEIU
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ABC’s Visitors

November 28th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin A few weeks ago, ABC started airing a new show, V.  The theme is age-old — aliens appearing with open hands and ulterior motives.  But the devil, as they say, is in the details…and oh, what a devil it is: They co-opt the press, picking a reporter who looks amenable to coercion (“Show [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: ABC, science fiction, V, Visitors
Categories: Arts, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

Obama’s Strategic Mistakes

November 28th, 2009

By Harvey Grund Fred Barnes, a conservative political commentator for Fox News and the editor of the Weekly Standard magazine, wrote a straight factual piece in the Wall Street Journal that details Why Obama Isn’t Changing Washington. To start with, Barnes reviews the President’s statements when campaigning for office:  “Change must come to Washington,” Mr. [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Fred Barnes, mistakes, Obama
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

ClimateGate

November 28th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin Last weekend, an anonymous hacker (or possibly whistle-blower) released nearly 160 MB of emails exchanged between some of the most prominent US and European scientists in the climate change debate.  The results aren’t getting quite the degree of media attention they deserve, especially in light of the upcoming Copenhagen meeting, but after [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: AGW, climate, corrupt data, emails, global warming
Categories: News, Politics, Science | Comments (10) | Home

Hate Criminals Not Intimidated

November 28th, 2009

Hate crimes are as old as the Bible and, when you boil it down, people who commit this type of crime are doing so because of their own insecurity and emotional instability. Laws and rules may have a small impact on a few of these people but they will not come near to solving the problem.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: double jeopardy, equal protection, hate crimes
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (12) | Home

In Search of a Tractor

November 27th, 2009

By Larry Ennis In Search of a Sears, Roebuck David Bradley Garden Tractor I’d bet good money that a lot of folks don’t know that Sears was originally called Sears, Roebuck and Company. It was, if I recall correctly, the largest company of its type in the world. Using the U.S. Postal Service and the [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: collector, garden, Sears, tractor
Categories: Life | Comments (3) | Home

Demoralized in America

November 26th, 2009

I read the news and see that the Democratic majority has totally bought into President Obama’s vision of Utopia; a United States that needs to be remade into a country that is less of a threat to our enemies and more acceptable to European Socialists.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Democrat, government, malfeasance, Obama
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Tosh, Travis, and the Widemans

November 26th, 2009

By Larry Ennis They were four close friends who time and distance separated, but throughout life they were never farther apart than the blinking of an eye. We are often tempted to wonder if God is real. I’m guilty at times of falling prey to such blindness. Thinking back, we are often amazed by recollections we [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: dry creek, firewood, fishing, snake
Categories: Life | Comments (1) | Home

Extremists of Left and Right

November 25th, 2009

By Tom Carter It’s been said that the political spectrum isn’t really a straight line, with the most extreme right-winger standing out on one end and the most extreme left-winger out on the other end.  In reality, it’s more like a line curved to form a circle, with the extremists of left and right standing shoulder [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, extremists, left, liberal, radical, reactionary, right
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A Bailout By Another Name

November 24th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin Since its inception in 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has safeguarded our nation against the possibility of bank failure.  And give FDR credit where credit is due, the FDIC was able to keep people from having bank panics for over 70 years by perception alone. But have you ever asked yourself [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: bailout, bank failures, banks, FDIC
Categories: Economics, History, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Ending War

November 24th, 2009

By Jan Barry  Army Captain Paul K. Chappell attended West Point with an unusual goal, “determined to study war the way a doctor studies an illness.” What he found in his studies and in a war tour in Iraq was a pragmatic way of envisioning what it would take to create a cure for war [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Chappel, peace, veterans, war, West Point
Categories: History, Military, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Eric Holder’s Traveling Circus

November 23rd, 2009

By Larry Ennis Attorney General Eric Holder has yet to set up shop for the trials of the Gitmo Five. Meanwhile, the Five are reportedly already wanting to lay down certain rules that will allow them to make a mockery of all the victims and our justice system. Were it my decision to make, there [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: federal trial, Guantanamo, Holder, liberal, New York, Obama
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Keeping It To Yourself

November 22nd, 2009

By Larry Ennis More evidence has surfaced that the Fort Hood killer was being monitored by the FBI and that, as shown in his emails, he was getting ready to do something of a terrorist nature. This information comes from both Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and  Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Fort Hood, investigation, Levin, Lieberman, Nidal Hasan, Obama
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Health Care Reform Details

November 22nd, 2009

By Tom Carter The Washington Post has published a good interactive graph that compares the costs and features of the House and Senate health care reform bills (click the image).  You’ll find a lot of things that bring up questions.  At the most comprehensive level, reconciling the differences between these bills in a House-Senate conference [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: health care reform, House, reconciliation, Senate
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (0) | Home

Good Old Harry

November 21st, 2009

By Larry Ennis As the time to vote for health care reform in the Senate speedily comes this way, we start to see and hear of different little sweetheart deals being cut by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others to insure the passage of one of Obama’s favorites. One of the principle holdouts in [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: health care reform, Landrieu, Louisiana, Reid, Senate
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (11) | Home

The Value of Money

November 20th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin One of the stock complaints people make when they point out that there are individuals unable to pay the bills for the things they need, is that “a person’s value shouldn’t be judged by the amount of money they possess.” Now on the surface, this sounds like a reasonable and compassionate statement, and [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, economy, free market, money, productivity, socialism
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (15) | Home

Mandates and Penalties

November 19th, 2009

By Mary Jones Please read this press release from the Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. One of the many things a lot of people don’t know is that if the House health care bill becomes law, you will not be able to opt out of health care or make your own [...]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: freedom of choice, health care, penalties, taxes
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (16) | Home

Everything He Touches…

November 18th, 2009

By Larry Ennis According to The Washington Post online early edition today: Dearly Beloved President is not helping matters a lot here at home as he travels around Asia in an effort to look good there. Or maybe he just needs to lay low until some of his problems cease to be. Eric Holder, Obama’s [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Afghanistan, diplomacy, health care, Holder, Obama, Palin
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

Religion and Public Education

November 18th, 2009

The broader picture is: The United States is not a “Christian nation”; it is a nation based not on religion but on morality, a basic morality that forms the basis of ‘civilization’ as we understand it and practice it — a morality that exists apart from any religion — a morality that is, by law, the basis of even the most ardent atheist’s behavior.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: litigation, religion
Categories: History, Life, News | Comments (6) | Home

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