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December 11, 2024
So, So, Many Silly WomenIt was a pleasant surprise to find that there are more, smart, educated women than the supposed number of fools that the mainstream media predicted would turn out to vote for Kamala Harris. Those poor souls are now shaving their heads and de...
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November 4, 2024
How Could He Possibly Lose?You may wonder if it is at all possible that Donald Trump could lose the election after all the polls and positive reactions from his rallies and podcast appearances. The contrast between his huge rallies and the pitifully attended Harris events t...
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October 30, 2024
About That Puerto Rico Slur….I was invited by my New York congresswoman, Nicole Malliotakis, to attend the Madison Square Garden Trump rally, but I politely declined because I loathe crowds. I did, however, watch the rally online when supposed MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe s...
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June 22, 2024
The Catcher in the Rye Enigma RevisitedThe 1951 J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye has long been one of the most controversial literary tomes, inspiring films and criminal conspiracies. John Lennon’s murderer, Marc David Chapman, carried the book at the murder and continued ...
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June 13, 2024
TDS destroys DeNiro and other once-favored celebsIt is a real mystery why Trump Derangement Syndrome has managed to destroy the legacies of so many formerly admired Hollywood celebrities. Robert DeNiro, whom I had always thought was a terrific actor, has become such a vicious and profane TDS victim...
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May 7, 2024
Warning: Everything on Social Media Is Probably FakeWhen I first starting writing for Breitbart.com way back in its first year, I was urged by my editors to make sure I carefully researched and documented any information in my columns. I would often insert the verifying link of the videos or newspaper...
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April 22, 2024
The Truth About IsraelMany years ago, I worked for Virgin Atlantic airline and was fortunate to be awarded a free fam pass on El Al airlines to Israel. I ended up trading the ticket away to another employee but I always regretted not taking this opportunity to v...
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April 13, 2024
Rush Limbaugh and the reason to doubt that O.J. Simpson really was guiltyO.J. Simpson, 76, died April 10, 2024, of cancer. Many in the media believe that he got away with murder. But I was never that convinced. Before I actually started writing opinion columns, I used to listen faithfully to Rush Limbaugh on radio. On ...
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April 3, 2024
Did Trump Really Do That? Progressive Media Never Tells the TruthA recent cartoon on Lucianne.com accurately pointed out the deceit of the left which ignores the truth of Biden’s disastrous reign while continuing to distort Trump’s statements. The cartoon shows a man pointing to a chart listing the ...
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March 11, 2024
Is New York City Really Dead?There is a hilarious YouTube video titled What NYC is Now mocking the disgraceful state of the city’s lawless state that is now a haven for criminals. The video may be in fun, but is sadly based on fact. Far too many edicts coming ...
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February 22, 2024
We Don’t Need a New GOP. We Need the Old One.Although I was born into a typical Democrat New York City family, I registered as a Republican as soon as I was old enough to vote. Why? Just to be different—but at heart, I was as enamored of John F. Kennedy as the nuns at my high sch...
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January 2, 2024
Elon Musk is RightElon Musk is presently the richest man in the world. He may also be the smartest. In an interview with the British prime minister, Musk warned about the dangers of AI (artificial intelligence). He said, "There will come a point...
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December 19, 2023
Is the Bubble You Live In Making You Dumb?A comic in a club started to make a joke about President Joe Biden and was promptly heckled by a woman shouting, “Stop it. I like Joe.” I watched the YouTube video of it and once again marveled at the very idea that anyone in 202...
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December 7, 2023
Apparently, I Am A Sexist BigotThe director of Disney’s latest flop, The Marvels, Nia DaCosta, is blaming hateful sexist, misogynists for the massive box office failure. What is probably really upsetting Ms. DaCosta is that more men than women bought tickets to the...
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November 10, 2023
Israel: Where Angels Do Not Fear to TreadSeveral years ago, I wrote a column entitled, “Something Evil This Way Comes” because there had been so many incidents occurring which defied common sense and smacked of nothing short of evil. Consequently, it came as no surprise ...
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September 22, 2023
Is the Pope Catholic?That question used to be rhetorical and used to signify a definite and emphatic yes to any statement. In 2023, however, it is less sure — particularly in light of one Catholic cleric who aired his dissenting opinion. Since the pan...
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August 31, 2023
Why Diversity?Our world in 2023 is filled with different cultures, and we are familiar with the individuals from these diverse nations. This is a wonderful connection and one of the reasons I loved growing up in Manhattan and being exposed to so many people from o...
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May 29, 2023
Answering the Big Question: Ron or Don?A very dear friend and a former Heritage Foundation associate responded to my last column on American Thinker with the following: Happy to tell you in a private email why the GOP needs to dump Trump (for whom I voted twice), but it requires too ...
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May 22, 2023
Trump vs. DeSantis-Not Really an Option with TDS SurgingSeveral months ago, I wrote a column, “Why do you still hate Donald Trump?” and asked readers to give me a good reason why they felt that way. Over 99% of the responses to my query came from those who agreed wholeheartedly with the column...
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March 30, 2023
College Bound? Beware of Indoctrinate USeveral years ago, I watched a documentary that forecast the disastrous decline of education due to the progressive control by censorship of academia. Indoctrinate U (2007) by Evan Coyne Maloney was an eye opener to any parent of students entering th...
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February 5, 2023
Isn’t It Time to Stop Blaming God for Tragedies?While I actually haven’t personally heard anyone blame God when they lost a close one in a tragedy, it’s a timeworn message in fiction novels. The protagonist wails against God when tragedy occurs or sometimes we read the words of an athe...
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December 22, 2022
What Eddie Fisher SaidPerhaps only senior citizens will recognize his name and a few millennials might know that he was the father of Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher). Other cinephiles might know that he left his wife Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor, who left him f...
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December 4, 2022
Censorship works only if you're dumbMuch of today's hot topics involve Elon Musk disclosing details of Twitter's censorship of the New York Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop. Since I bookmark the N.Y. Post webpage, I had already read the article, as had mi...
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November 18, 2022
No Way to Win? Then Fix the Machine!“We have put together" ... "the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization” in history…..Joe Biden 2020 Don't believe he said it? Don’t believe he said this? He may have misspoken o...
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November 11, 2022
Why Do You Still Hate Donald Trump?Donald J. Trump was our 45th president and in spite of the unbelievable hostility he faced in the mainstream media, Hollywood, and all public forums, he did a very good, possibly the best job for the country. Yet TDS, Trump Derangement ...
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November 2, 2022
What you might not know about Lucianne GoldbergLucianne would have laughed uproariously at what is happening in San Francisco and at what Elon Musk is doing with Twitter. I can hear her say, “It’s over for the coverups.” The media will still try and bamboozle us w...
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October 21, 2022
Kanye’s Anti-Semitism Remarks Warrant DebateOne of the reasons I rarely post on Twitter is that it’s very easy for typos to become memes. Remember Trump’s Covfefe tweet? What did it mean or was it a just a slip of the mouse? Thus, we don’t really know whether Kanye West reall...
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September 20, 2022
Are You Really that Smart If You Can’t Recognize B.S.?My husband, who was a Marine during the Vietnam War, was always talking about the IQ levels of fellow soldiers, and he would express surprise at the low level of intelligence of some draftees. We would then get into arguments on the validity...
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August 11, 2022
Greenpeace's Patrick Moore and the hardcore evidence against climate change mythsOne of the most interesting persons I interviewed for the New York Sun was Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace. I had mistakenly expected him to be one of those left-wing environmental wackos, but he was anything but. He had left Greenpeace...
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December 20, 2020
In Our Hearts We Know Trump WonNow that we know that the Supreme Court includes seven weak lily-livered cowards, we can’t expect it to recognize the full impact of the Deep State machinations. To many Americans, what is happening today smacks of high treason with a coup in p...
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November 1, 2020
Voting Against EvilIf ever you sought proof that evil and its master were running rampant in our country since a pandemic that originated in atheistic China hit us, one look at the lockdown in Catholic churches would confirm it. I’m not sure if the lockdown...
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October 15, 2020
Why don't we all recognize this horror?Recently, my pastor noted during his homily that it was Respect Life week. He mentioned that President Trump had signed an executive order to protect babies born alive. The order reads: "Every infant born alive, no mat...
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September 28, 2020
And here's the rest of the story...The late broadcaster Paul Harvey had a signature introduction to his commentary, "and here's the rest of the story." He would relate the interesting backstories of news that were generally about celebrities or news events but...
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September 16, 2020
Falling for the Biggest Hoax in HistoryIt will probably take months if not years for the truth of the Covid-19 pandemic to emerge, but when it does will any politician take responsibility for the lies and disinformation or the damage this hoax caused this great nation? I don’t think...
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June 2, 2020
Why on Earth am I So Hopeful?It could be spring and the reappearance of leaves on bare trees and flowers blooming, but I think it’s really because I do not watch network news or read the New York Times, The Washington Post or The Drudge Report. I live in New York City, whi...
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December 2, 2019
Hold on There. Civil War Not NecessaryMy husband watches a lot of videos on YouTube and some are entertaining, but some are downright scary. I watched one recently made by a man defending the Electoral College because he lives in flyover country. He made a lot of sense and clearly unders...
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October 10, 2019
Dismaying Dumbed-down DiscourseWho knew there were so many ignorant people in the world? In 2006, I watched a comedy called Idiocracy about our country becoming so dumb thanks to cultural influences that a man with average intelligence is regarded as a genius after...
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September 24, 2019
Thrilling New Novel Reveals Who is America’s #1 EnemyIn 1960, Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the desk in anger at a summit in the United Nations, but what most remember about this Communist Russian leader were his words to Western leaders. ”We will bury you.” Level-headed USSR d...
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August 28, 2019
It’s a Good Thing I Don’t Live in the Country with the ‘Best Medical Care’Most of the Democrat candidates pushing Medicare for all cite Canada’s system as the envy in the entire world. Bernie Sanders has been touting Canada’s health care system as far superior than anything here in the United States....
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August 16, 2019
Missing the Point of Gun OwnershipIf there were ever a survey asking gun owners why they buy guns, I’d wager the majority of them would say that it basically is for protection. The Second Amendment was not written for hunters but for the people’s self-protection, includin...
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July 5, 2019
Open Your Eyes. The Planet’s Not Dying (At Least Not Here in America.)In a way, I can’t blame those who grew up in the Cold War for being pessimistic about the future. We lived then in an age of potential nuclear annihilation and Hollywood made sure that we knew about what would happen if it occurred. The studios...
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April 11, 2019
Pro-Life Propaganda, or Just the Truth?Before I actually went to see the film Unplanned, I read the review in Variety by Owen Gleiberman, who called it effective propaganda (if you’re part of the choir). He writes: “Unplanned” isn’t a good movie, but it...
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February 15, 2019
The Silent Scream and the Lies of Roe v WadeOn my first bus trip to the Right to Life March in DC, the driver put in the tape of the infamous film, The Silent Scream, narrated by Dr. Bernard Nathanson. Nathanson was one of the original co-founders of NARAL, (the first abortion advocate group),...
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January 30, 2019
Catholic Church Leaders Are a Bunch of CowardsThe bishop who rushed to judgment on those Covington students finally apologized and said he was bullied into making a premature statement. Hogwash. We know that the media, the liberal left, and celebrities have been pounding on the church for sex sc...
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January 23, 2019
Real Women Don't Need a Women's MarchReal women know how to handle toxic masculinity without feminist and radical lawyers organizing silly marches wearing pink pussy hats. Real women were laughing at these so-called well-educated females who marched with disdain against the newly electe...
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January 14, 2019
If President Trump is really a racist or a Nazi, then please explain these factsI recently watched that insane viral video of a Millennial snowflake losing his mind when a Trump-supporter walks into a store where he works. He shouts, "F‑‑‑ your f‑‑‑‑‑‑ president! He's a racist, stupid pie...
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October 18, 2018
A wake-up call for the deplorablesSometimes it's important to preach to the choir, because I'm pretty sure only the choir shares my political opinion. It is absolutely imperative that the deplorables come out in force in a few weeks because they will be able to do ...
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July 3, 2018
How to Read the News: A Guide for Truth-SeekersBecause my home page is the website lucianne.com, I am able to access news sources from around the world. Although most of the subscribers to the site lean conservative, there is a healthy balance in the comments posted in response to the articles....
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April 19, 2018
Would You Vote for a Felon? I Plan To...The GOP primary in June for Staten Island promises to be newsworthy and a difficult decision for residents of this conservative NYC borough. The race will be between two men I have supported in the past and for whom I have great respect, b...
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October 8, 2017
The Unbelievable Stupidity of Those Who Believe that Laws Stop the LawlessLady Gaga is the latest celebrity weighing in on the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre by blaming lawmakers (aka Republicans) for not passing more gun control. Yoo-hoo Lady G, no law would have prevented the slaughter because the alleged susp...
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February 23, 2017
How to Tell if News Is Really NewsMedia approval ratings are at an all time low and the public is routinely confronted by what ultimately turns out to be ‘faux’ news. But this is not a surprise because we have been aware of this for some time. In fact, it all started with...
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March 16, 2014
Has Charles Rangel Forgotten the Real 9/11?In East Harlem, my old neighborhood, two buildings collapsed because of a gas leak, scores are injured or missing, and at last count, 8 persons were killed in this tragedy. The 13th district Democrat Congressman, Charles Rangel, calls it ‘our c...
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February 3, 2014
Why Gays Have So Much Influence on Our CultureWe've had the Gaymmys; we've had Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson suspended for expressing unfavorable comments about anal intercourse; HBO has a new series, Looking about three gay men looking for love. It seems as though just about every telev...
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January 25, 2014
Our Future Could Be Awesome If Only...Call me a cockeyed optimist but many of the recent reports about our energy resources and discoveries in medical advances conjure up visions of an America enjoying low gas and energy prices; low unemployment, high wages and low cost medical treatment...
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December 9, 2013
Nothing Unique about BashirThere has been much ado about MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir's contemptible attack on Sarah Palin, which has now resulted in Bashir resigning from the left wing network. But to those of us who write from the right his remarks are anything but unique. Des...
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November 12, 2013
Why Republicans Lose in Urban AreasSee also: The Coming Hispanic Civil Rights Movement Fourteen years ago, I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the Richmond County Women's Republican Club annual dinner. I had started my column at the Staten Island Advance the year before, and as an ...
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September 22, 2013
What the Secular Media Doesn't Know about Pope FrancisIn recent columns in the mainstream press, columnists have been distorting gleefully the Pope's recent statements to make it appear he's the liberal that will bring the Catholic Church in line with their own agenda. (See: What the Pope really s...
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February 6, 2013
Murder in Turkey Strikes Close to HomeIt was a note on my daughter's Facebook page asking for prayers for Sarai Sierra, the young mother of two, then missing for a week traveling alone in Turkey, that made me wonder if my daughter knew her. Sarai Sierra's battered body was discovered nea...
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May 26, 2012
Happy Days Are Here AgainThose words are reminiscent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign in 1932 when he defeated Herbert Hoover, symbolizing a putative end to the Great Depression. The tune gave hope to Americans who had suffered greatly after the Crash of 1929 an...
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January 5, 2012
Daydreaming about a President PerryI know, I know. Gov. Rick Perry came in fifth place in that dumb Iowa caucus, where genuine Republican voters were probably in the minority. He has announced that he is returning to Texas to reassess his campaign, but I hope it's only to ...
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December 25, 2011
What is So Darn Scary About Christmas?As a child growing up in Spanish Harlem in a run-down tenement building, Christmas always meant a time of good cheer to me regardless of our dire circumstances. My Jewish neighbors (yes, there are poor Jews) would always treat us with Challah b...
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December 13, 2011
Why Tebow? Why Now?The word "miracle" has been bandied about lately -- particularly when describing Tim Tebow's amazing come-from-behind victories as a Denver Broncos quarterback. Theologians are less apt than sportscasters to ascribe that definition to a footbal...
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October 14, 2011
Hold On There, Romney Pushers!So I get this email from Chris Christie telling me that this is the most important election in generations and why I need to vote for Mitt Romney because he's the best chance we have of defeating Obama in 2012. Why is the governor of New Jersey pushi...
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January 20, 2011
Would You Write for the New York Times?One of the nice things about Facebook is that I get to converse online with kindred souls facing the same dearth of paid writing assignments in this economy. One recent conversation turned to the current journalistic reporting on the Tucson mas...
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August 1, 2009
That Billion Dollar Stimulus Package is CriminalThe $787 billion stimulus package that President Obama signed in February has generated confusion in those who've read it and are now asking, Where's the stimulus, where are the jobs?" I'd like to use the simple analogy that my son Evan suggeste...
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July 13, 2009
The 'Wise Latina' Faces the SenatePresident Obama's first court nominee and potentially the first Hispanic Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, will be answering many questions during her Senate confirmation hearings this week. But more than likely, hot button issues like abortion, affirmative ...
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June 26, 2009
Mullahs Cannot Stop the Persian ReawakeningIran is now saying that Neda was killed because she was mistaken for the sister of an Iranian "terrorist." A photograph of Neda Agha-Soltan on CNN.com shows a beautiful young woman with shining hair and a winsome smile unfettered by the tra...
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May 6, 2009
Gullible AmericaAs the gullible of the world start to relax after being told that the swine flu may not become a pandemic, the rest of us marvel at the breadth of their naïveté. One would think they'd recall the similar hysteria in 2002 over SARS. ...
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April 23, 2009
Manufacturing Consent for the Gay AgendaGay marriage is in. The Vermont legislature has deemed it a constitutional right. Nearly every cable and network television show features stereotypical homosexual characters. Hollywood and Television films on gay martyrs win awards even if the factua...
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April 12, 2009
The Parallel Universe of Clinton and ObamaIn 1993, many of the citizens who voted for Obama last year were probably still in grade school. They can be forgiven for not remembering the early years '93-‘94 of the Clinton administration. Their parents, however, have either lapsed memories...
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March 12, 2009
Are you smarter than me?If you surf the Internet, you've seen the ads for IQ tests which claim: Barack Obama's IQ is (the numbers vary from 135-171); Joe Biden's is 150; Hillary Clinton's is 155 and so on. Naturally, Republicans are rated much lower and a fake article on th...
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February 15, 2009
Modern Feminists and their FollyI was still a teenager when the second wave of feminist activism began with the publication of Betty Friedan's "The Feminist Mystique". There was something off about the whole movement but I was too young to recognize what it was that turne...
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November 17, 2008
Republicans --You Can't Say I Didn't Warn YouJohn McCain is a class act. A good and decent man who loves his country and that is why he lost. What has been made absolutely clear in this election is that the Republican Party has an abundance of class acts when what it really needs are hard core ...
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September 8, 2008
Sarah Palin's Not That SpecialBy now some of the Sarah Palin hoopla will have died down and people can view her candidacy for the Vice President more realistically. While it's fair to say that the mainstream media was surprised -- no, make that stunned -- by the Governor of ...
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May 22, 2008
Youth Voters are backing The Wrong CandidateJohn McCain may be the oldest candidate running for the presidency but he appears to be the only one interested in the economic welfare of those younger than seniors. How anybody under the age of fifty can vote for a candidate who refuses to offer a ...