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Let ‘em Eat Cake

August 8th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The President’s wife has gone on vacation in Spain. Total cost for her little getaway? How about $375,000? The good news is that we taxpayers aren’t paying for all of it. According to the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, the First Lady is traveling just like any other private citizen. According [...]

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Tags: cost, First Lady, Michelle, press coverage, security, Spain, vacation
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Royalty American Style

August 3rd, 2010

By Larry Ennis When Bill Clinton became President, one of his favorite lines was to assure us all that he felt our pain. Of course, pain is different for different people. Headache, sore back, and, in the case of national pain, it was the economy, stupid — money or the lack of it. Bill and [...]

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Tags: Chelsea Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky, money, politicians, royalty, wealth
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The Ruler and Why It Was

July 27th, 2010

By Larry Ennis A recent post concerning “cheating” and the adverse effect it has on society caused me to remember my own guilt. Believe me, I’m guilty of more than one infraction of the cheating rule. However, I think this story has a moral value. You can be the judge. This story, like most of [...]

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Tags: affirmative action, cheating, gender, GM, race, training, union, workers
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Old Warriors I Have Known

July 23rd, 2010

By Larry Ennis This tale is based on fact; however, I’ve taken some liberties and woven in some fiction as well to insure continuity. When I was sixteen years old my best friend was a wiry little guy named Gary Navotney. Gary lived with his mom, dad, two brothers, and one sister in a house [...]

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Tags: auto industry, Hoffa, labor movement, Reuther, Teamsters, UAW, workers
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Black Militants at Polling Places

July 13th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Two weeks ago a Department of Justice attorney exposed the Obama Administration’s refusal to investigate voting rights violations when whites are prevented from voting by black militants. The charge by former DOJ attorney Christian Adams was serious enough to get a hearing before the federal civil rights commission. Most of the national media has [...]

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Tags: DOJ, elections, Ike Brown, New Black Panthers, voting rights
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Housing and Government Waste

June 26th, 2010

By Larry Ennis My wife and I purchased our first home in 1965. It was a three bedroom box built on a 50×120 lot. That was before many of today’s ecological concerns. The house had asbestos siding and a poured basement. The price was $10,900. My mortgage payment including insurance was $67.00 each month. The [...]

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Tags: FHA, fraud, HUD, mortgages, prisoners, tax credit, waste
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The Limits of Presidential Power

June 25th, 2010

By Larry Ennis With vastly expanded powers of government available at the discretion of politicians and bureaucrats, private individuals and organizations can be forced into accepting the imposition of powers that were never granted to the government by the Constitution. The above is a quote from a Thomas Sowell article in Investor’s Business Daily. Sowell [...]

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Tags: BP, Constitution, constitutional, due process, executive power, presidency
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The Ides of November

June 23rd, 2010

By Larry Ennis The Washington Post recently ran an article by columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. titled “How Obama changed the right.” It’s an interesting article that attempts to dissect the conservative movement in this country. Dionne seems to think that conservatism has been reborn. Like many other media sages, he seems to let his own [...]

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Tags: conservative, Dionne, liberal, Obama, religious, religious right, secular
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Cumulative Voting

June 20th, 2010

By Larry Ennis With the tragedy unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico and along its shoreline, some other things are just slipping by. Almost completely unheralded is the recent modifying of the way voting is being done in an increasing number of local elections, touted as a way to insure better representation of minorities. This [...]

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Tags: ACLU, cumulative voting, judges, liberals, minorities, one person one vote
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The Day After

June 16th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I intended to write something yesterday before the President made his Oval Office pitch. After all the efforts put forth by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I was expecting more. I knew the President would use the Gulf catastrophe to put forth his energy tax/cap-and-trade agenda. After the obligatory shot at [...]

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Tags: 9/11, BP, cap-and-trade, commission, disaster, Gulf, Obama, oil spill
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Helen Thomas

June 12th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Having become a victim of old age myself, I have a certain affinity for Helen Thomas and old people in general. Never a fan of Thomas because of her liberal venom and self-righteousness, I should be delighted with her present predicament. I say “should” be, but in fact I’m far from it. [...]

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Tags: Helen Thomas, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, retirement
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Al Underwater

June 6th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The great BP oil spill that is destroying the Gulf Coast brought back some old memories. When I was a young man one of my heroes was a gentleman named Al Hanson. Al, his wife Norma, and their daughter Jeanie were our neighbors. We lived in a small suburb of Avalon, California. Avalon [...]

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Tags: BP, Catalina Island, deep-sea diving, disaster, oil
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Smoke or Fire?

June 1st, 2010

By Larry Ennis Sometimes it’s almost scary how things suddenly fall into place. Of course a lot of these magic moments depend on your perspective and may not be all that enlightening to others. One such moment occurred recently when a discussion came about here on Opinion Forum about a piece by Dr. Jim Taylor [...]

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Tags: BP, Gulf of Mexico, information, oil, political contributions, propaganda
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A Tea Party Dilemma

May 23rd, 2010

By Larry Ennis The Tea Party has become a rallying point for a great number of voters who feel they have been used by the Washington bureaucrats. The Tea Party was instrumental in getting Republican Scott Brown elected to the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Of special significance was the fact that the state had gone [...]

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Tags: business, Civil Rights Act, Rachel Maddow, racism, Rand Paul, Tea Party
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Blue Moon Saturday Nights

May 22nd, 2010

By Larry Ennis Ben Waters was a close friend of my Grandpa Henry. They had worked together for many years in the Brook Side Coal Mines. The fact that Ben was black and Henry was white never mattered one iota. The two men fished, hunted, made moonshine, and even raised gardens together. Ben had been [...]

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Tags: Alabama, blues, blues man, guitar, moonshine, music, roadhouse
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South Park and J.C.

May 16th, 2010

By Larry Ennis South Park the cartoon series has become a national treasure of sorts. Like The Simpsons and King Of The Hill series, South Park mimics and pokes fun at everyday life in America. I watch all three shows whenever possible. To me, they are strictly humor derived from the black mood that has [...]

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Tags: Christianity, Islam, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, religion, South Park
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From Whence I Came

May 5th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I have long tried to understand what motivates some people to feel that they have a license to treat their fellow man with so little respect or kindness. My parents were mild-mannered and humble southern people. My mother was a Baptist and saw to our Christian up-bringing. That simple and innocent statement [...]

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Tags: Alabama, bullies, bullying, California, fat kids, health, Michigan, school
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Tom Hanks on World War II

April 4th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Tom Hanks is gifted actor, almost an icon. He also considers himself an activist of sorts. Sadly enough, Hanks is nowhere near as good an activist as he is an actor. Only Vice President Joe Biden can match Hanks when it comes saying stupid things. Proof of Hanks’ stupidity is in an [...]

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Tags: Japan, Pacific Theater, racism, Tom Hanks, World War II
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For the Greater Good

April 2nd, 2010

By Larry Ennis My mother and I share the dubious distinction of both being senior citizens, her at 90 and me at 70. Both of us receive Social Security and Medicare. We are both concerned about what our status will be under the new health care law. As more information emerges it’s beginning to appear [...]

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Tags: costs, health care, Law, Medicare, seniors, Social Security
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When Will They Learn?

March 25th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I have been waiting since the inception of the Tea Party for the day when it would become a target for a smear campaign. Now the left has launched a full-blown attack complete with charges of death threats and racism. Let’s start with the death threats. Because the Tea Party movement is [...]

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Tags: Democrats, demonstration, health care, Hoyer, Palin, Pelosi, Tea Party
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