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Obama’s Peace

January 25th, 2013

By Jan Barry Should President Barack Obama return his Nobel Peace Prize? That’s the sobering question posed in a stunningly serious satire posted on the online humor site TFE. “Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said today that President Obama ‘really ought to consider’ returning his Nobel Peace Prize Medal immediately, including […]

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Tags: Afghanistan, bin Laden, drones, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, satire, war
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A Nobel Peace Prize for Assange and Manning

December 10th, 2010

By Tom Carter It’s time to think about nominating Julian Assange and Bradley Manning for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Who better to represent the views of the anti-American euro-lefties who select the winner — five Norwegians selected by the Norwegian parliament — and their like-minded friends in the U.S.? Surely we could prevail on […]

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Tags: Assange, leftists, Manning, Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, Obama, satire
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Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

October 9th, 2009

When I heard the report that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, my reaction was two questions: “Huh?” and “What for?” I suspect that many millions of other people had the same reaction. Absurd awards of the political Nobels (Peace and Literature) never really surprise me, but this one is over-the-top. The President said: To […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Nobel Peace Prize, Obama
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