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December 31st, 2009

By Brianna Aubin Well, I’ve been here for about four months now, and in those four months I’ve managed to make a lot of posts about economic doom and gloom. And while it’s all unfortunately very true, it does tend to get a bit stale after a while. So I thought to round off the [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: free market, pirates, Somali, Somalia, stock exchange
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The Political Year That Was

December 31st, 2009

By Harvey Grund 2009 has been, if nothing else, newsworthy. It is the year Barack Hussein Obama became our president; began his destruction of our economy in the name of “leveling the playing field; named a wide variety of unqualified “friends” to important positions in government and the judiciary; broke virtually every campaign promise; repeatedly [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Casey, diversity, Hasan, Muslim, Obama, political correctness, terrorist
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The December Spending Spree

December 29th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin At the beginning of the month, the White House held a jobs summit in order to discuss the record levels of unemployment. The Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business were not invited (who needs business organizations at a jobs conference?). Paul Krugman was. Why is this important? Two [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: deficit, Federal Reserve, inflation, Krugman, money supply, spending, TARP
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The Afghanistan Train Wreck

December 28th, 2009

By Tom Carter The classic metaphor is watching two trains chug along toward each other in slow motion, knowing that they will collide head-on but being unable to do anything about it. That’s what the Administration’s Afghanistan policy looks like. The President made his speech at West Point, declaring that he would send an additional [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan, Powell Doctrine, strategy
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Freedom and Religion

December 27th, 2009

By Tom Carter According to a report by WBBM, the Chicago CBS affiliate, a kerfuffle over religion erupted a few days ago in the Illinois state capitol building in Springfield. Seems there were a variety of religion-related displays in the capitol. They included a nativity scene, a Christmas tree, a Soldiers’ Angels wreath, a tabletop display from the ACLU [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: establishment clause, First Amendment, freedom of speech, religion
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The “Right” to Health Care

December 26th, 2009

By Tom Carter The Senate and House have both passed health care reform legislation. There are quite a few differences in the two bills, and those differences will have to be worked out before a final bill is passed by both houses and sent to the President for signature. At this point it seems likely [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Democratic, health care, legislation, Republican, rights
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Tis the Season

December 22nd, 2009

By Jan Barry Swan cygnet, Monksville Reservoir, Long Pond Iron Works State Park, West Milford, NJ (Photo from Wild Life by Jan Barry) A snowstorm has turned this area of New Jersey into a sparkling winter landscape. The rumble of highway traffic and freight and commuter trains that surround the village of South Bound Brook [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: canal, conservation, kayak, landscape, preservation, wildlife, winter
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What It’s Really All About

December 21st, 2009

By Brianna Aubin “The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.” So says George Monbiot. And he is absolutely right. This is probably a little late to be reporting on Copenhagen or Mr. Monbiot’s blog entry, but the delineation of ideas in the article are so [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Copenhagen, global warming, Huxley, Monbiot, Rand, values
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The Real President Obama

December 21st, 2009

By Harvey Grund There’s no way around this. Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill have just perpetrated the most criminal rip-off in the history of this country on the American people. And with its passage now a certainty, the only thing left to do is to start working on getting it repealed. [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: health care, Obama, statism
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

Taxpayer Funding for Abortions

December 19th, 2009

By Tom Carter One of the biggest controversies in the health care debate has been the issue of whether taxpayer dollars will be used to pay for abortions. There’s already a law on the books, the Hyde Amendment, that forbids spending federal funds for abortion. However, those who oppose federal funding of abortions feel that the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: abortion, health care, partisanship, reform
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The Tragedy of Innocence

December 18th, 2009

By Tom Carter How can it be tragic to be innocent? Perhaps when someone has been wrongly convicted of a crime and spends many years in prison, sometimes on death row, only to be freed when it’s found that he didn’t commit the crime. I recently read John Grisham’s The Innocent Man. This book was a departure [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: death penalty, DNA, Fritz, Grisham, innocence, Oklahoma, Williamson
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Cycle of Violence

December 17th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin It’s a commonly accepted fact that if a child is raised in an abusive household, there’s a good chance that he’ll turn out to be an abuser himself. If your parents beat you, it becomes more likely that you’ll grow up to beat your kids. Grow up with a drunk, it becomes [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: affirmative action, class warfare, communism, free market, national socialism
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Climate Doom, Snow, Bombing

December 15th, 2009

By Tom Carter I came across a column today by Anne Applebaum, one of the most well-informed, fair-minded writers you can find. She’s particularly knowledgeable on issues and history regarding Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Her Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004, is by far the best book [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bombing, children, climate change, Copenhagen, psychology, snow, war
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Obama’s Low Approval Ratings

December 13th, 2009

By Tom Carter President Obama’s approval ratings have been constantly falling, according to most major polls. Real Clear Politics does an excellent job of pulling all the polls together and averaging them, providing better numbers than any one poll taken in isolation. The polling calculations presented today by Real Clear Politics are interesting and should [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: approvals, Congress, health care, polls, President, RCP
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Getting to Catalina Island

December 13th, 2009

By Larry Ennis I’m a lover of days past. I could go on about my youth in Alabama, but my youth was more diverse than just Alabama. How about my life in California? Southern California as seen through the eyes of a youngster from rural Alabama. Oh, wow! With encouragement from my cousin Shela (her [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Catalina Island, SS Catalina, Wrigley
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Federal Funding of ACORN

December 12th, 2009

By Tom Carter Judge Nina Gershon, of the United States District Court in Brooklyn, ruled yesterday that Congress cannot single out ACORN to deny federal funding. As some constitutional experts had expected, Judge Gershon ruled that Congress’ action against ACORN constituted a bill of attainder, an unconstitutional act that punishes a group or individual without a [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: ACORN, bill of attainder, Constitution, federal funding
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Against Free Speech

December 11th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin As I’m sure every reader of this blog is already aware, it is very important that words and language be used responsibly. After all, words matter. Language matters. It is, in some ways, a stronger weapon than anything in the arsenals of the governments of the world, up to and including nuclear [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Arianna Huffington, censorship, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, speech
Categories: Media, News, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Al Gore and Truth

December 10th, 2009

By Tom Carter Two days ago Slate.com published an interview with Al Gore by John Dickerson. The interview was part of a publicity tour in which Gore is flogging his new book, Our Choice. In addition to Gore’s standard preaching on climate, he addressed the so-called ClimateGate e-mails scandal. This is the first reaction I’ve seen from [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Al Gore, climate change, climate shift, climategate, e-mails, global warming
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Harry Reid: A True Statist?

December 9th, 2009

By Harvey Grund An insult was in order for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after reading this lead story in Politics Daily, but why stoop to name calling? Harry Reid is what he is, and that is someone who either truly believes that the country is better off with a free market that has been [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Harry Reid, health care, Obama, Statist
Categories: Economics, History, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Disastrous Lessons

December 8th, 2009

By Jan Barry Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, despite public statements that he sought no wider war, destroyed his political career. John F. Kennedy’s decision to veto hawkish generals and advisors and wage a secretive, low-key counterinsurgency campaign—which included approving a military coup that killed the American-installed president of [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Afghanistan, Bundy, Eikenberry, Johnson, Kennedy, troops, Vietnam
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