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Barry O’Bama, Republicanocrat

October 25th, 2012

By Jan Barry If Barry O’Bama were a registered Republican, Republicans would be hailing him as a brilliant commander-in-chief who took out Osama bin Laden, sent in the Marines to spearhead a military surge in Afghanistan, saved Wall Street, Main Street and the American automobile-SUV-and-pickup-truck industry from bankruptcy, stood shoulder to shoulder with Israel in […]

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Tags: Democrat, election, left, Obama, perceptions, Republican, right, Romney
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Brother, You Ain’t My Keeper!

October 28th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last week, Pres. Obama gave a speech in Portland where he declared, yet again, that he is his “brother’s keeper.” …we believe in a country that rewards hard work and responsibility. We believe in a country that prizes innovation and entrepreneurship. But we also believe in a country where we look after […]

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Tags: brother's keeper, charity, coercion, election, left, leftist, Obama, taxes
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The Medium and the Message

September 27th, 2010

By Tom Carter Why has our political discourse become so uncivil? There are a number of explanations, but the most important is that we simply have too much access to bad information. The information explosion of the past couple of decades has come about in different ways. The most deleterious has been the internet, a […]

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Tags: extremism, information, internet, left, newspapers, radio, right, sources, TV
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Don’t Blame Bush, Blame the Right!

June 17th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin The President has met the enemy, and he is the Tea Parties. Or at least, that is apparently what Mr. Weber of the Huffington Post thinks is responsible for Obama’s inability to follow through on the great promises of his candidate days. In the Post’s latest attempt to find something, anything to […]

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Tags: Constitution, government, left, partisanship, presidency, right, tea parties
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A Tale of Two Infiltrators

April 16th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin So about a week ago, a guy named Jason Levin (who is, scarily enough, an Oregon middle school teacher) decided that he was going to start a movement called “Crash the Tea Party.” The idea: get lefties with signs designed to be caricatures of Tea Party signs to join the protests and […]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: conservative, counter-protesters, Democrats, infiltrators, left, Tea Party
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