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Smiles and Frowns

December 7th, 2009

By Larry Ennis There is so much going on that it’s hard to comment on everything. The climate and global warming fiasco is playing out to be much more fiction than fact in my opinion. The recent discovery that many in the scientific community were less than truthful on the climate change situation only reinforces my [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: abortion, Gene Simmons, health care reform, Susan Boyle, Tiger Woods
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Health Care and Government

December 7th, 2009

By Tom Carter Robert J. Samuelson takes an interesting look at health care spending. Does government control health care, or does health care control government? President Obama’s critics sometimes say that he is engineering a government takeover of health care or even introducing “socialized medicine” into America. These allegations are wildly overblown. Government already dominates [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: costs, deficits, health care reform
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Misplaced Priorities

December 6th, 2009

By Tom Carter The opening paragraph of Richard Cohen’s recent column in The Washington Post: The truth is that if Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused killer of 13 people at Fort Hood, had entered the officers club there with a nice handbag on his arm, perhaps a Gucci tote, he would have been out of the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: don't ask don't tell, extremist, gay marriage, islamist, Muslim
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Sarah and the “Birthers”

December 6th, 2009

he Obama White House and the Liberal Mobs headed by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed are in the process of attempting to do terrible damage to the free market in the United States and if the free market dies, the United States is essentially dead. That is a much, much larger and much more immediate issue than trying to prove that the “Capo di tutti capi” of the aforementioned Liberal Mob should not be where he is, doing what he is already doing.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: birthers, conservative, liberal, Obama, Palin
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The Debt Economy

December 5th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin I remember once that I was writing a comment to an online newspaper article when I needed to reference the national debt figure, so I went surfing for one of the debt clock websites. I promptly found one of those Java clocks that update the debt by the second, and used the [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: debt, deficit spending, dollar, Federal Reserve, inflation
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Mortals, Messiahs, and Chickens

December 5th, 2009

By Tom Carter It’s been interesting to see the reactions to President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan. He announced the decision to send 30,000 more troops, but he assured the country (and the enemy) that they’ll begin coming home about a year after the deployments are complete. This was a classic of Clintonesque triangulation — the number [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, conservatives, liberals, Obama
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ClimateGate Revisited

December 4th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin Is it just me, or is there a significant portion of our world trying to pretend that this issue doesn’t even exist? Obama is heading off to Copenhagen soon with grand US emission targets; when reporters asked questions about the scandal, his scientists insisted that global warming was a proven fact and [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: AGW, climate, Copenhagen, corrupt data, emails, global warming
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Enjoy It While You Can

December 4th, 2009

By Brian Bagent No politics. No philosophy. No religion. No moralizing. Dear Readers, Pour yourself a glass of Merlot, turn on The Nutcracker Suite, sit down, and just listen. You don’t have to watch it live, or even see a video of it. And if you don’t have a CD of it, you can listen [...]

Articles written by Brian Bagent
Tags: Beethoven, Christmas, concert, Mozart, music, Nutcracker Suite, Strauss
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The Tiger Woods Tease

December 3rd, 2009

By Harvey Grund I’ve been a bad boy, Tiger Woods readily and publicly admits, … but I don’t want to talk about it! OK, so he made a mistake — he slipped up — he had an affair or whatever the heck he did — that’s one thing, and no, he doesn’t have to discuss [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: accident, charity, golf, scandal, Tiger Woods, tournament
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Why Afghanistan Is Important

December 2nd, 2009

Pakistan has had nuclear capabilities and weaponry for years and the last thing the world needs is ‘nuclear Pakistan’ falling into the hands of the Taliban.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan, strategy, West Point
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

A Strategy Certain to Fail

December 2nd, 2009

By Tom Carter President Obama announced his strategy for the war in Afghanistan in a speech at West Point last night. He predictably chose a middle path, a domestic political decision designed to satisfy conservatives that the war isn’t being abandoned and to satisfy liberals that the commitment is neither large nor unlimited. He sought to [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan, strategy, West Point
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A Doctor’s Diagnosis

December 1st, 2009

By Brianna Aubin The other day, I was combing YouTube for article material when I came across some videos of a discussion held on government-run health care. One of the speakers was Dr. Arthur Astorino, Jr., chairman of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. He is against the idea of government-run health care, but I hope [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: costs, government-run, health care, medical insurance
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The Hidden Tax

December 1st, 2009

By Brianna Aubin Imagine that there are 100 people in the economy, and each person is in possession of $10. That would create an economy with a total M0 money supply of $1000 (M0 is the amount of hard currency and bank notes in circulation in an economy). Now imagine that a money fairy swept [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: central bank, Federal Reserve, inflation, money supply, purchasing power
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Judgment Day

December 1st, 2009

By Larry Ennis Today our President has promised to deliver his very long-awaited decision on how his Administration will conduct the war in Afghanistan. Owing to his lack of experience in this area of policy making, he would be smart to throw in the towel. The cost in life and resources makes on-the-job training for this [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, strategy
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