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Third Party in 2012 Campaign?

February 28th, 2010

By Tom Carter Will there be a serious third-party candidate in the 2012 presidential campaign?  The way things are going, it’s beginning to look like that could happen.  If it does, it will be a right-wing third party, its candidate will not win, and it may well guarantee the re-election of Barack Obama.  Let’s look at [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: 2012, candidate, CPAC, Democrat, Nader, Perot, Republican, third party
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Who Won at the Summit?

February 26th, 2010

By Tom Carter “Who won at the summit?” seems like a silly question.  This was supposed to be a sit-down (remember The Sopranos?) where apparently irreconcilable opponents could work out their differences for the common good.  The problem is, no one who understands what’s going on in Washington expected that to happen.  And, inevitably, politicians [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, Executive Branch, health care, losers, President, summit, winners
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The Health Care Summit

February 24th, 2010

By Tom Carter It’s hard to imagine how anything very positive will come out of the President’s health care summit in Washington tomorrow.  An article in Politico describes the atmospherics and the haggles involved in detailed negotiations.  A gaggle of congressional Democrats and Republicans will meet with the President at Blair House for about six hours, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Blair House, Democrats, health care, Obama, Republicans, summit
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Keep Rahm in the White House

February 24th, 2010

By Tom Carter I’ve wondered for quite a while what was going on inside the White House — how do they manage the place, who has real influence, who does the President listen to?  The first indication I saw of disarray and poor management was the way the health care reform effort was handled.  From [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Emanuel, leadership, management, Obama, staff, White House
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Racism, Education And Tea

February 23rd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin As noted in my bio, I do not own a television.  But in this day and age, there are other ways to get hold of interesting visual media than writing out a check to Comcast.  Which is how I found this special on education by John Stossel, a news anchor who recently [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: African American, black, charter schools, minority, vouchers
Categories: Life, Politics | Comments (9) | Home

Multiculturalism in Action

February 22nd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Of course, that was said back in the good old days, when people were simply oblivious to evil.  Today I’m not sure that even Edmund Burke would quite understand the idea of a culture that, through the [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: culture, death penalty, justice, Law, multiculturalism, Muslim
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Apology Tour In Space

February 22nd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin When NASA was created, its first stated goal was to beat our ideological enemies, the Russians, to landing a man on the moon.  It is therefore a twist of high irony that at the same moment when our country has chosen to abandon the pursuit of manned space flight and a return [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: cooperation, Indonesia, manned space flight, NASA, outreach
Categories: News, Politics, Science | Comments (6) | Home

More Enemies Within?

February 19th, 2010

By Tom Carter According to recent media reports, the Army detained five soldiers at the huge Fort Jackson, SC training base in December in an investigation into an alleged plot to poison soldiers’ food.  It’s not clear whether they’re still being held.  The Army has stated that there’s no evidence that poison was actually introduced [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Arab, army, Fort Jackson, Military, Muslim, poison, terrorism
Categories: Media, Military, News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Objectivity vs Progressivism

February 17th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin I’ve been meaning to write a piece on objective versus subjective reality for a while now, and I was given such a perfect opening to the subject the other day that I simply could not resist any longer. A newspaper in Atlanta, called Atlanta Progressive News, fired a reporter for… get this: trying to [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: engineers, objectivity, progressive, reporter, scientists, truth
Categories: Media, Politics, Science | Comments (6) | Home

Special People vs Lazy People

February 17th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I recently posted an article about the way our language gets constant modifications so that no one is offended by a wayward word. The Washington Post has an article by Timothy Shriver concerning “the language of bigotry.” After reading his opinion and concerns I’m confronted with mixed emotions. As much as I sympathize with [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: dropouts, intellectual disability, retarded, university
Categories: Life, Politics | Comments (16) | Home

Too Fat to Fly

February 17th, 2010

By Tom Carter Movie actor and director Kevin Smith was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight on February 13 for being “too fat to fly” in one seat. He had previously purchased two seats, as many airlines require of passengers beyond a certain size. However, he was on standby for an earlier flight, and there [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: airlines, comfort, passengers, safety, seats
Categories: Life, News | Comments (8) | Home

Where Are They?

February 17th, 2010

By Tom Carter A recent commentary by Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, is worth watching (video below).  He addresses the question of racism, mainly hidden below the surface, among some who strongly criticize President Obama. I’ve also noticed that every time I see a Tea Party rally or activity on TV, there are virtually no faces there [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, discrimination, Olbermann, racism, Republican, Tea Party
Categories: History, Life, Politics | Comments (15) | Home

The Weakness of the Democrats

February 15th, 2010

By Tom Carter Fred Barnes is the executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a moderate, practical conservative.  His column today is an incisive review of the present state of the Democratic Party’s rule in Washington.  One would think that with a Democrat in the White House and majorities in both the House and the Senate, the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, Democrats, health care, majorities, Obama, summit
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

Weather Is Not Climate

February 14th, 2010

By Tom Carter One doesn’t have to be a global warmist or a denier to understand that the hard winter being experienced, with record snowfalls in much of the U.S., means very little in terms of global warming.  In fact, the argument can be made that warming results in more moisture in the air, causing [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: climate change, energy policy, global warming, Gore, Pachauri, snowstorms
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Ambush at Blair House

February 14th, 2010

By Larry Ennis President Obama wants to meet with Republican leaders for a supposed health care summit, to be held at Blair House on February 25. This choice of meeting places brings back memories from long ago. Two people calling themselves Puerto Rican nationalists tried to ambush President Truman as he was leaving Blair House in 1950. [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Blair House, Democrats, health care, Obama, polls, Republicans
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

State of the Union from the Kitchen Table 2010

February 13th, 2010

by Jane Thomas Each year I write a State of the Union from the Kitchen Table. As a general rule, I do not share it with others; however, I have been encouraged by my friends and family to do so this year. It has become a rare experience in American politics to elect a President [...]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: campaign financing, capitalism, democracy, freedom, health care
Categories: Economics, History, Life, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Retreat from the New Frontier

February 12th, 2010

By Tom Carter President Obama’s decision to end U.S. manned space flight programs for the next decade or two is one of the most disappointing things he’s done so far.  By killing the Constellation program, troubled as it may have been, the President has put the U.S. in the position of relying on Russia and maybe China [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: budget, China, Constellation, manned space flight, NASA, Obama, Russia
Categories: News, Politics, Science | Comments (4) | Home

Supreme Court Justice Clinton

February 11th, 2010

by Jason Gallimore Sources in Washington are saying that lawyers for the Obama administration are working behind the scenes to make plans for any possible US Supreme Court vacancies in the coming year. Justices Stevens and Ginsburg are rumored to be considering retirement, with age certainly being a factor. Progressives will be happy to see [...]

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Tags: Ginsburg, Hillary Clinton, nomination, Stevens, Supreme Court
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Telling It Like It Is

February 11th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I make no secret of the fact that my political views are conservative. I’m a Republican because it’s the party that best aligns with what I hold as my political philosophy. I am by no means completely satisfied with the Republicans, but for the present it is my only choice. Like a [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: condescension, Democrats, elitists, liberals, radicals, Republicans
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Free Market Compensation

February 11th, 2010

By Tom Carter The President is taking incoming fire from the liberal left on recent comments he made regarding the bonuses of a couple of Wall Street CEOs.  When asked about the bonuses of the CEO of JPMorgan Chase ($17 million) and the CEO of Goldman Sachs ($9 million), he praised both as “savvy businessmen” and [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bonuses, compensation, free market, left, liberals, politicians, salaries
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (0) | Home

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