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December 18, 2024
What exactly is ‘the working class’?I just finished Matt Vespa’s excellent Townhall article about how Rob Flaherty, Kamala Harris’ digital director knew something was not quite correct with her entire campaign. Vespa uses a phrase that has become a trope of prima...
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November 15, 2024
Why do liberals post self-deprecating videos?Some liberal women, in reaction to election results, are actually refusing to have sex with men. Their refusal is inspired by South Korea's "4B" movement against gender-based violence. Some South Korean women have vowed to have no sex, ...
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September 22, 2024
Will Donald Trump Be Similar To Julius Caesar?I watched Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator. (Yeah, I’m a nerd!) It was made in 2023 by (the very objective) BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for the (equally objective) BBC and PBS. It’s t...
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September 10, 2024
How the Left Exploits 'Christian Nationalism'Samuel Perry, a sociologist at the University of Oklahoma, in a New Yorker cover article by Eliza Griswold, said, "The greatest ethnic dog whistle the right has ever come up with is 'Christian' because it means 'people like us,' ...
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September 2, 2024
The Cold, Hard, Kamala-Repelling Truth about Electric VehiclesKamala Harris has flip-flopped on her E.V. stance. Her campaign staff, particularly communications official Ammar Moussa, contends it’s a “lie” that she supports E.V. mandates. However, then-senator Harris was ...
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August 29, 2024
Kamalita PerónThe elements of an economic plan presented by Kamala Harris consist of price controls, higher taxes, greater government spending, interventions, regulations, and subsidies paid for by printing a currency devalued by high inflation. These e...
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August 25, 2024
Pushback against Kamala’s price controlsKamala Harris, in an effort to have a good sounding talking point, proposes food price controls in order to stop “price-gouging.” She claims that price-gouging is why food prices remain high, is a product of corporate greed....
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August 13, 2024
California: Next Stop, VenezuelaJust when you think California didn't have enough foot left to shoot, it pulls out a gun and does it again. This time it involves the initial step toward California nationalizing the gasoline refinery industry. The California Energy Commission (C...
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August 9, 2024
Equality, Equity, and Kamala HarrisPeople are unequal. Some are smarter, taller, or just better than others. No amount of 'equity' will make them equal. Friedrich Hayek wrote, "There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make...
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August 9, 2024
Media have a long row to hoe to rehabilitate KamalaCalifornia’s then–attorney general, Kamala Harris, gave ballot titles, summaries, and support for Proposition 47 (The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act) and Proposition 57 (The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016). Propositio...
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July 28, 2024
Kamala Comes to CollectTo use the words of a small boy speaking to his idol, “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, “Say it ain’t so, Joe!” Yep, it’s so. Joe Biden and the Democrats failed (on purpose?) to groom Kamala Harris to lead the ...
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June 30, 2024
Donald Trump does Saul Alinsky one betterJoe Biden taunted Donald Trump several times during Thursday’s debate. Biden called Trump a “convicted felon,” a “sucker,” and a “loser.” It appears as if one (or more) of the people who prepare...
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June 18, 2024
Israel and "Proportionality'Antony Blinken, Secretary of State for the senile joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit, asked during a meeting with Israel's war cabinet in November, 2023, "What is your system of operation?" IDF Chief Herzi Halevi responded: ...
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June 14, 2024
Joe Biden Is Definitely Senile and DangerousThe mental acuity of the joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit arose in February, when special counsel Robert Hur released his report concerning Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur’s investigation found th...
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June 9, 2024
Biden’s border executive order is a jokeJoe Biden’s administration recently announced an executive order that will “shut down” the southern border. The administration claims that the new border policy will shut down the U.S.-Mexico border once illegal crossings...
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May 30, 2024
Trump is Correct About DeportationRegarding the issue of deportation, The New York Times published an opinion piece titled 'Trump's Taste for Tyranny Finds a Target,' by Jamelle Bouie. In it Bouie wrote: "Among the worst episodes in American history are those mo...
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May 22, 2024
Biden’s ‘bloodbath’ moment?Joe Biden increased tariffs on E.V.s made in China from 25% to 100%, ostensibly to reduce the number of E.V.s sold in order to protect E.V.s produced in the U.S. Was this Biden’s “bloodbath” moment? Former president Do...
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May 17, 2024
Biden’s Climate Change Scare Tactics Aren’t WorkingFirst, the stage must be set. The joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit says he’s the first climate president, says he’s making history by confronting the climate crisis, not denying it. “I’m taki...
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May 13, 2024
AI and ethicsArtificial Intelligence (AI) has become very popular -- and controversial. Congress is looking into the subject, especially AI ethics. Congress has it's work cut out for it. AI always reflects the ethics of the AI programmer, therefore we (soc...
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May 10, 2024
The truth behind Trump’s ‘execution spree’This is, for HuffPost, simply unbelievable, a new low even for them. The article headline claims there’s a GOP plan for an execution spree if Trump wins the election. Turns out the “spree” will be directed only...
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May 8, 2024
Democrats are Silencing Voices of OppositionThe Democrat Party has changed since Harry Truman said this: "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, un...
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May 4, 2024
Biden uses tax policy to buy votesJoe Biden is buying votes again. His tax revenue proposal for fiscal year 2025 promotes targeted tax increases that affect white individuals more than other groups with the goal of helping to ease racial wealth inequality. By raising taxes on accu...
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May 2, 2024
On oil prices, Biden between a rock and a hard placeFor the appeaser-in-chief, lower gasoline prices are becoming politically expensive. Joe Biden finds himself, as a “political and world leader,” between a rock and a hard place when it comes to rising gasoline prices, despit...
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April 30, 2024
Biden Does not Understand TaxesBiden is again on a tax-raising rampage. He proposes to increase income taxes by nearly $5 trillion for corporations. Increasing the corporate income tax rate to 28% (from 21%) will be a great driver of negative effects on the U.S. economy, reducing ...
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April 25, 2024
For Biden, What Goes Around Comes AroundApril 25th is the five-year anniversary of the launching of the 2020 presidential campaign of the incoherent joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit. The campaign began with Biden citing the MSM-driven lie attributed to then-President Donald Tr...
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April 20, 2024
Another useless Biden actionJoe Biden has finally issued sanctions against Iran. That's the good news. "And today, we are holding Iran accountable -- imposing new sanctions and export controls (of drones and steel) on Iran." The bad news is that his acti...
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April 19, 2024
Student Loan Forgiveness: Morally Reprehensible and Legally InvalidBarack Obama set the stage in 2015 for the student loan forgiveness fiasco when he announced the 'America's College Promise' proposal to make two years of community college free. On the proposal's web page is this: "Students shou...
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April 15, 2024
Student Loans and FairnessDemocrats want everything to be fair. Perhaps, then, Biden (and his sycophants) can explain how his student loan forgiveness and cancellation scheme is fair. The scheme certainly isn't even close to being fair. It benefits over 30 million America...
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April 10, 2024
Here comes another student loan forgiveness schemeThe Supreme Court, by a 6-3 decision in June of last year, stopped President Joe Biden’s plan to buy votes by canceling or forgiving $400 billion of federal student loan debts for millions of Americans. SCOTUS said Biden’s plan overstepped his autho...
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April 5, 2024
The BloodbathFirst we had Trump’s “bloodbath” remark about what will happen to the U.S. auto industry if Biden gets re-elected. The MSM, particularly MSNBC, Politico, and The New Republic, jumped on the remark. MSNBC’...
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January 9, 2024
Biden's ‘America Last’ Policy at WorkWhile considering the bumbling joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit's "America Last" policy, ponder what he wrote in 2019: "By nearly every measure, the credibility and influence of the United States in the world have dimi...
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December 9, 2023
Joe Biden Meets the GestapoLast night, I watched a documentary about the Gestapo. It occurred to me that it used the same tactics as the bumbling joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit and his minions. I did some research to substantiate my thought...
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November 4, 2023
From Hamas to Iran to China: Follow the MoneyIranian foreign minister Javad Zarif and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement in 2021. China now has its strongest ever economic foothold in Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman S...
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October 28, 2023
Barack Obama’s Puppet Appeases IranIn 2012, then-president Barack Obama announced new U.S. sanctions against foreign banks that helped Iran sell its oil. He said the sanctions would increase pressure on Iran for failing to meet its international nuclear obligations. ...
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October 13, 2023
Joe Biden’s Iran Appeasement“Peace in our time,” declared Joe Biden. No, wait, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said that on 30 September 1938, after returning from a meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich. Chamberlain effectively cleare...
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September 29, 2023
Dealing with ConsequencesT.S. Eliot wrote, "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because ...
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September 16, 2023
The Dems' Big Lie'The big lie' is the phrase Democrats ironically have chosen to hang onto Trump's unwillingness to accept his 2020 election 'loss.' Why is this choice ironic? Two reasons. First, Democrats also don't accept e...
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August 17, 2023
When Democrats marshal their facts"One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don't share a common baseline of facts," said Barack Obama in 2019. "There's a well-known senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynih...
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June 9, 2023
Ready for Socialized Electric Power?Ever hear of the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA)? Sounds great, doesn't it? Yet, like "The Inflation Reduction Act" (the largest climate legislation in government history), its title has very little to do with i...
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May 26, 2023
Recipe for Disaster: A Democrat President and a Democrat SenateWe have a Democrat president who will nominate anybody who will further his agenda and a Democrat-controlled Senate that places ideology and vote-buying ahead of country and will approve any cabinet member or judge that a Democrat president nomi...
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May 17, 2023
Biden's KampfJoe Biden said in 2020 that his was a "battle for the soul of this nation." In his announcement video Biden said, "In that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime." He was...
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May 9, 2023
Media botched the Allen, TX shooterThe MSM say Mauricio Garcia, the perp in the Allen, TX shooting, was a "white" male associated with "neo-Nazi" and "White Supremacist" groups. Different mugshots have been published of persons with t...
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April 24, 2023
All the President's RelativesHarken back to 20 January 2021 when the doddering fool who occupies the Bully Pulpit was inaugurated. He appointed Nicholas McQuaid, a White House lawyer during the Obama presidency, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Ass...
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April 15, 2023
Thirty Years of Global Warming PropheciesNBC News recently touted a report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that says, "The chance to secure a livable future for everyone on Earth is slipping away." It further reported, "There is a ...
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August 4, 2021
The Biden Military Witch-huntA manufactured panic over the January 6 rally has provided Biden and his flunkies with an excuse to attack the U.S. military. The Biden administration has implemented an effort to root out political "extremism" in the military in orde...
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July 23, 2021
Price Gouging and PoliticsDo you remember what happened on May 7th of this year? The Colonial Pipeline, which originates in Houston, Texas, and carries gasoline to the Southeastern United States and the Eastern Seaboard, suffered a ransomware cyberattack by a cyber...
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July 15, 2021
Understanding General Mark MilleyThe first thing I learned at Army Officer Candidate School is that all officers have two primary duties: accomplish the assigned mission and take care of the men ('men' is an all-inclusive term that includes women). I didn't rise to...
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June 30, 2021
Lester Holt: Poster Child for Media BiasWe have another demonstration of MSM bias. When on March 30, 2021, NBC News anchor Lester Holt received the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism from Washington State University, he argued "That fairness is o...
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June 22, 2021
Does Raising the Minimum Wage Cause Job Loss?Does raising the minimum wage cause job loss? It's a complicated issue, with such factors as economic growth, economic justice, income, the deficit, fairness, inflation, poverty, inequality, the work ethic, and eligibility for benefits thro...
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June 11, 2021
In defense (against leftists) of an objective view of realityI revisited "Collectivized Ethics," an essay written by Ayn Rand in 1963. I was so impressed by its applicability to today that I had to share it. A student once asked Barbara Branden: "What will happen to the poor in an ...
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June 3, 2021
'Social Justice' Means Treating Some People UnjustlyThe definition of 'social justice' is imprecise. That's where the rub begins. It has precise meaning only for its user, is what the user wants it to be. So, can it be precisely defined? Perhaps, if we focus upon it...
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May 21, 2021
Biden Is FDR Reincarnated, and Just as DestructiveGeorge Santayana (1863–1952), in The Life of Reason: Five Volume in One, wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." It appears as if Joe Biden can't (or won't) remember and is going to repeat w...
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October 25, 2020
Marxism: A Breeding Ground for Useful Idiots"Useful idiot" is a pejorative term for a person who propagandizes for a cause without fully understanding (due to naïveté, stupidity, or on purpose) the cause's goals, who is cynically used by the cause's founders....
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October 14, 2020
NASCAR has become a microcosm of the Democratic Party.I was listening to the NASCAR race at Concord, N.C. last Sunday. I was several times "treated" to a commercial decrying racism and racial inequality. After hearing it for the third time, I began to think about the tran...
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October 2, 2020
New Biden ad sets record for concentrated bluster in just 15 secondsHave you seen Joe Biden's most recent political commercial? I viewed it yesterday on YouTube. It blames Donald Trump for over 200,000 deaths and 14 million jobs lost. Then it says Trump spent the entire debate blaming others. ...
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August 12, 2020
The Myth that Is Systemic RacismWhat is "systemic racism"? As Jenée Desmond-Harris wrote, "[t]he phrase 'systemic racism' is used to talk about policies and practices entrenched in established institutions that harm certain racial groups and...
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August 1, 2020
The Real Problem with Saying 'All Lives Matter'Back in 2015, several dozen demonstrators interrupted Democrat presidential candidate Martin O'Malley (D-Md.) while he spoke at the Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix. They shouted, "Black lives matter!" The for...
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June 21, 2015
Here We Go AgainDylann Roof killed nine people on Wednesday night. That was a tragedy, but we and the victims' relatives can take comfort in knowing that they are with God. But what is more tragic is the politization that Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama and the...
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June 10, 2015
The Next Phase of the Industrial RevolutionEver heard of the Luddites, who took their name from Ned Ludd? They were English textile workers who protested, from 1811 to 1816, against the development and implementation of labor-saving technologies. They protested against stocking frames, spinni...
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May 23, 2015
Is the end of free speech near?The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution states (in part): "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech[.]" Regarding free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1964, with unanimity, said: ... we consider this ca...
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May 15, 2015
The Incarceration Speech: Typical HillaryIn a speech to the David N. Dinkins Leadership & Public Policy Forum at Columbia University on April 29, Hillary said, "It's time to end the era of mass incarceration." The problem is that in her speech she offered platitudes r...
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May 5, 2015
Exposing Warren and BidenAT editors have done a great job of presenting articles that expose Hillary Clinton's fecklessness, greed, SecState shenanigans, and unelectability. Articles by Thomas Lifson (here, here, and here) and J.R. Dunn illustrate that fact. ...
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April 26, 2015
Hillary's Hypocritical Attack on Hedge Fund Managers and TaxesHillary Clinton declared, on April 15 at Kirkwood Community College in Monticello, Iowa, "And there's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers that I saw on I-80 as I was driving here over the ...
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April 21, 2015
Government is the number-one problemA Gallup poll conducted on 5-8 March 2015 found that 18% of Americans see government as this country's number-one problem. That problem beat out the economy (11%), unemployment (10%), and health care (7%). March was the fourth month in a...
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April 19, 2015
Is a call for slavery reparations coming in 2016?Charles Payne, host of Fox Business News' Making Money, said on Thursday: I think that there's going to be an official apology from the White House to slavery in America and then a major push to get cash, and I'm talking lots of cash...
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April 16, 2015
Hillary, 'Smart Power', and Obama's Foreign PolicyTo say that U.S. foreign policy during Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama's reign has been a disaster would be an understatement. But the disaster was on purpose, not due to his incompetence. As Victor Davis Hanson wrote: His foreign...
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April 9, 2015
Fighting the McCarthyism of the DemocratsSenator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) made accusations in 1950 about fifty-seven State Department employees being communists. He was then attacked by President Harry Truman and his Justice Department, Senator Millard Tydings (D-MD), chairman of the Su...
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March 24, 2015
Higher Education Arrogantly Ignoring its ProblemsSteve Cohen, college planning author and lawyer, spoke on January 11, 2015, at the College Board's annual Higher Education Colloquium's "College Costs and the Middle Class: Irreconcilable Differences?" symposium. About his mes...
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March 17, 2015
Republican Presidential Candidate: Your Ammo Is Prepared For YouThat Hillary Rodham Clinton is the current presumptive Democrat presidential candidate is beyond discussion. Democrats want her. They are, in fact, desperate for her. That's just fine. She will be easy pickin's – if...
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March 3, 2015
Is it okay for Obama to Ignore the Constitution?Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama thinks it's permissible to rewrite federal statutes, like immigration laws and ObamaCare's employer mandate and signup deadlines. Example: Regarding laws governing U.S. immigration policy, when Obama signed th...
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February 24, 2015
GOP Losing In Polls. So What?On February 17, Guy Benson wrote, "Poll: GOP Somehow Losing DHS Funding PR Battle". The article cites a "CNN poll" that is actually an article by Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Director of Polling. The "poll" results: ...
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February 18, 2015
Extending Unemployment Benefits Doesn't WorkIn 2001, the liberal British economist Dr. Richard Layard wrote: There is ample evidence that unemployment (and employment) is affected by how the unemployed are treated. Other things equal, countries that offer unemployment benefits of lon...
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February 11, 2015
There's Unemployment, Then There's <em>Unemployment</em>The BLS January U-3 "official" unemployment rate is 5.7 percent. "Official" means that this is the percentage the MSM reports. It does not include "discouraged" unemployed workers who have not looked for work in the...
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February 6, 2015
Confronting Al SharptonOf Al Sharpton, Peter Flaherty, president of the'National Legal and Policy Center said: "He's good at harassing people and making noise. CEOs give him his way because it is a lot easier than confronting him." Sharpton declares ...
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January 31, 2015
Insanity Reigns"In politics, never assume that because something is insane, it will not be done." That is a very profound, very true statement by Dr. Thomas Sowell. To wit: Just when gasoline prices were getting reasonable, Dear Leader Bara...
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January 22, 2015
Al Qaeda is 'On the Run'Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama, in 2012, concluded that al Qaeda was not a threat to America. He said in his 2012 State of the Union speech that "al Qaeda operatives who remain are scrambling, knowing that they can't escape the reach of th...
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January 13, 2015
Dropouts are the Real Problem"Give a man a fish and he'll eat today. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever." That old saying is one of the favorites of conservatives who see education as a path to a better future. But that saying assumes that ...
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December 27, 2014
Kwanzaa -- A Made-up HolidayDid you know that "Kwanzaa," that made-up holiday celebrated from December 26 through January 1, was invented by Ron N. Everett, known today as Dr. Maulana (Swahili for "master teacher") Karenga? About Kwanzaa, Karenga said:...
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December 20, 2014
The Computer Is Objective?We've all heard the old saw, "The analysis must be objective because a computer did it." Nothing could be further from the truth. There are two elements to every computer: hardware and software. Hardware is the computer c...
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December 13, 2014
Waging War 'On The Cheap'One aspect of the making of the atomic bomb during WWII was purely political: an Interim Committee Scientific Council, comprised partly of Nobel laureates Ernest Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and Enrico Fermi, wrote that a politica...
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April 15, 2014
Democratic 'Equal Pay' HypocrisyTalk about hypocrisy! Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama has outdone even himself. In his weekly radio address, Obama reiterated the importance of ensuring equal pay for equal work. He then highlighted actions his administration has t...
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April 4, 2014
In the Name of Global WarmingFirst, it was cows. Now it's humans. Will Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama not stop until everything is regulated in the name of global warming, or climate change, or whatever it's called this week? On March 28, 2014...
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March 7, 2014
Playing Politics with Our SecurityStephen E. Ambrose, in Citizen Soldier, wrote about how Americans' superior weapons were taken away by the unexpected Normandy hedgerows, and how the war subsequent to Operation Overlord became one not of generals and colonels to fight, but of ca...
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March 4, 2014
Peace through StrengthPoliticians think they can make peace by negotiation. History suggests otherwise. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in 2010, said, "We all know there is no alternative to peace through negotiations, so we have no alternative other th...
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February 18, 2014
Obama's Candid MomentDear Leader Barack Hussein Obama, during a visit to Monticello on Monday, February 10, said, "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want." That statement, made to French President Francois Hollande and Monticello Foundation presid...
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January 27, 2014
What Part Of 'Enough' Don't They Understand?The U.S. Congress has raised the debt ceiling 78 times since 1960. Ronald Reagan oversaw the largest number of debt ceiling increases (17), and George W. Bush approved a near doubling of the debt ceiling during his two terms in office. Reagan raised ...
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January 27, 2014
Irony Abounds As Food Stamps AboundThere was an e-mail going around in March 2012 (and still going around): Subject: Irony The SNAP/Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stam...
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January 21, 2014
Hillary's 'Political Football' BaggageHere it is, early 2014, and already pollsters are gearing up for the 2016 presidential election. Quinnipiac University of North Haven CT, recently released a poll that has former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New Jersey governor Chris Christ...
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January 12, 2014
It's All About Vote BuyingLast month, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said: "Economists agree that unemployment benefits remain one of the best ways to grow the economy in a very immediate way." Pelosi continued, "[It's an] ...essential lifeline that millions of Americans and their fam...
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December 23, 2013
Gays vs. the Book of DisciplineLet me say right up front that I am a Methodist. Have been all my life. So the "issue" manufactured by the LHBTQ (see No. 5) crowd and the MSM really hits close to home. We have our Book of Discipline, which states our beliefs. It has been around sin...
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August 14, 2013
Fair Housing, Obama StyleJimmy Carter, the 39th president of the U.S., was, until Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama came along, considered as the worst president in U.S. history. But Jimmy Carter, to his credit, in 1976, did say, "I am not going to use the federal gover...
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July 24, 2013
Selective 'Race Baiting' ContinuesAl Sharpton, et al. convicted George Zimmerman. The MSM, with NBC leading the way, also convicted Zimmerman. Fortunately, the U.S. is a country of law, so a trial by jury was held. Still, "race baiters" nearly got Zimmerman convicted. To say that Al ...
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April 13, 2013
Obama and Ayers: It's Too LateAs Carol King sang in her 1971 song, "It's Too Late" for action on this information. The song's lyrics (written by Toni Stern) are also very prophetic: "There's something wrong here, there can be no denying." It seems that well-known se...
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April 7, 2013
A Nice Reminder of How the Stimulus Is Working OutIn an effort to jump-start the nation's economy, the Democrat-controlled Congress, in February 2009, passed Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama's "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" (better known as the "Stimulus"). In fact, in order ...
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March 31, 2013
The PLO Rewrites HistoryDear Leader Barack Hussein Obama visited Israel last week. While there, he took a quick trip to Ramallah ("Height of God") to hold talks with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. During the press conference after the meeting, Obama sai...
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March 16, 2013
The Man who would be KingIt must be quite nice to be king. Or at least think of yourself as king. Dear Leader Barack Obama exhibited that behavior while at a "working lunch" hosted by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) last Wednesday (March 13). The food consiste...
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March 6, 2013
Sequestration: A Teaching MomentI got an (unsolicited) e-mail the other day from The national PTA (Parent Teacher Association) entitled "Congressional Inaction on Sequestration Harms Students and Families". The e-mail (here is the web version) says that the "National PTA disappoint...
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February 28, 2013
'Forward!' They CriedBenito Mussolini is one of history's most reviled men. He was also a socialist. Mussolini began as a socialist;. Alessandro Mussolini, his father, preached a revolutionary socialism of Italian nationalism, anarchism, socialism, and communism. Alessan...
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February 16, 2013
Obama's Minimum Wage Increase FallacyIn Tuesday night's (February 12, 2013) State of the Union show, er, speech, Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama said: We know our economy is stronger when we reward an honest day's work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimu...
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January 25, 2013
The Facts on Food StampsFirst, it was the Head Start program, now it's the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps. Studies indicate that these programs are, at best, ineffective. Yet, we taxpayers are forced to continue to fund/support them. That ...
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January 19, 2013
King HypocriteThe AT cartoon by Erin Bonsteel showing Obama's disdain for the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment while children (human shields?) are strapped around him, is both appropriate and timely. "They ["Dear Leader" Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden] will ...
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January 6, 2013
Congress Hides Behind A TechnicalityThe U.S. Senate, on January 1, 2013, at 0200hrs (that's 2AM for you non-military types), voted 89-8 to pass a "fiscal cliff deal" bill that raises taxes by $600 billion (in addition to ObamaCare taxes). The Senate proclaimed the bill to be a massive ...
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January 5, 2013
Confirmed: Diane Feinstein Doesn't Know AnythingSenator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), on December 17, 2012, announced that she will introduce a bill in the next Congress to stop the sale, transfer, importation, and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devi...
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December 29, 2012
Fiscal Cliff: Yeah, It's ComingDespite the plans of Representative John Boehner (R-OH), the U.S. is going to go over the fiscal cliff in January 2013. Boehner's plan "A" was stillborn. It was an offer that President Barack Hussein Obama would not sign. Boehner's plan "B" could not...
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December 6, 2012
Global Warming Meets Economic RealityIs global warming a myth or a reality? It all depends upon who you ask. This study says "yes." This study says "no." That world famous climatologist AlGore says that there is a "scientific consensus" that global warming is real. Really? From Skeptica...
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December 3, 2012
Recessions and Tax HikesIn August 2009 President Barack Hussein Obama said, "You Don't Raise Taxes In A Recession." He actually said that. At the 42 second mark of this video, Obama says that he has not proposed tax hikes during a recession. This source, however, says: Pres...
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November 20, 2012
Why the Secession Petitions?President Barack Hussein Obama is not the first president to be faced with secession. The most famous secession that resulted in the Civil War was, first and foremost, about economics. Today we are witnessing the same reason cited for the various sec...
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November 3, 2012
(Un)Employment In PerspectiveIn Friday's final employment statistics release before the presidential election, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did manage to keep the "official" U-3 unemployment rate below 8 percent, but just barely. The BLS reported the October 2012, U-3 u...
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October 22, 2012
Obama Lawlessness: Part IIIn September 2009, Paul Krugman wrote, "And the purpose of stimulus is, first and foremost, to mitigate unemployment." So with Krugman's statement providing background, let's see what is currently going on (or not going on) with the stimulus. Did you...
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October 7, 2012
Just How Stupid Do They Think We Are?The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that the "official" U-3 unemployment rate for September 2012 was 7.8 percent. That figure was reported by, among others in the MSM, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR), C...
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October 3, 2012
Four More Years? Of This?President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama says that he needs four more years to fix the economy. Never mind that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at a "less than spectacular" rate of 1.3 percent in the second quarter of 2012. Or tha...
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August 2, 2012
Government Motors Troubles Means Troubles For US TaxpayersIn February, 2012, General Motors (GM, a.k.a. Government Motors) bought seven percent of PSA Peugeot Citroën, both of which suffered huge losses last year. The purchase was made ostensibly to gain manufacturing synergy. GM became the seco...
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July 16, 2012
Do Obama's Executive Orders Reveal A Pattern? (updated)President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama has offered over 900 Executive Orders (EO), and he is not even through his first term. He is creating a wonderland of government controls covering everything imaginable, including a list of "Emergency ...
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June 24, 2012
Why Stay in the EU?If European monetary integration, the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the euro are so unpopular, why are countries sticking with them? Could the reason be bailouts? Let's look at the history. The European project began with the c...
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May 24, 2012
Romney Must Focus on Value Creation, not JobsGovernor Romney can best respond to criticisms of his record at Bain Capital by focusing on value creation as the key to both jobs and shared prosperity. He is a veteran at creating value, and that is why he is capable of bringing jobs, jobs, j...
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May 14, 2012
Can Obama Learn from the Successful Economies?Will Obama learn from Sweden? Will he learn from Canada? Or will he cling to the European socialist economic model that is currently failing? Sweden Anders Borg, Sweden's finance minister, reduced Sweden's deficit and created economic gro...
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April 30, 2012
Obama's Epic Green FailAs we get into the campaign season (has Obama ever left it?), some recollections of what President Barack Hussein Obama said and has done (courtesy of Peter Schweizer and Ashe Schow) are both humorous and instructive. Humorous because you have ...
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April 29, 2012
Disregard The Markets: Obama Knows What's Best For UsPresident Barack Hussein Obama said of the automobile industry bailout in Cannon Falls, MN, in August, 2011, "If we're going to help you, then you've got to change your ways." Is that chutzpah and hubris, or what? Obama continued, "You can't j...
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April 24, 2012
Obama Grabs Credit AgainRegarding jobs and community colleges, President Barack Hussein Obama has (according to this press release), through the Giving American Workers the Skills they Need to Compete program: made historic investments in community colleges. In 2011, the A...
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March 31, 2012
Regulations Govern Our Lives - Then Send Us The BillRichard Terrell's cartoon (more a picture of reality) on March 25, 2012 about the maze of regulations thrown up by the Departments of Interior (DOI) and Energy (DOE), as well as by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), really describes the count...
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March 15, 2012
Solar Energy: Popular but CorruptNo one has ever been against solar energy. Far from it. In fact, according to a recent survey by Kelton Research, 92% of Americans say it's important for the U.S. to develop and use solar energy. This support for solar power is cons...
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March 12, 2012
Retracted: $50 Light Bulb That Replaces A 25¢ Bulb Got A $10 Million Government 'Prize'Retraction and Apology On March 12, 2012, American Thinker ran as a blog an article entitled, "$50 Light Bulb That Replaces A 25¢ Bulb Got A $10 Million Government 'Prize'," about the "L" Prize and the winner, Philips Lighting North America. I offer...
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March 10, 2012
So When Are We Allowed to Be Intolerant?I passed a television today and was compelled to stop and watch what proved to be a mesmerizing message from a commercial/PSA. The commercial had many participants, all of them wearing tee-shirts with the phrase "Don't stand for intolerance" on...
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February 27, 2012
Spreading the Wealth Around Gets PersonalWhile campaigning for president, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, in Ohio in October 2008, was approached by plumber Joe Wurzelbacher, who asked Obama about his tax plans. Senator Obama used very twisted logic to explain to Wurzelbacher that he wa...
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February 25, 2012
The Effect of Political Correctness on PoliticsThe late Charlton Heston once said, "Political correctness is tyranny with manners." The rationale of political correctness (PC) is to prevent supposed minorities from being offended (the manners) -- to compel people (the tyranny) to avoid using word...
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February 20, 2012
From Obama, What Next?We have witnessed President Barack Obama, and his administration, issue edicts, work against and/or ignore the US Constitution and Congress, and be inconsistent when it suits him. The question now becomes, "What will Obama do next?" In August, ...
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February 14, 2012
European Green Energy Subsidies WaneWill the European economic situation affect the green energy industry? While many people have praised various nations for subsidizing green or renewable energy production, they forget that governments can quickly change their minds when it come...
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February 12, 2012
Accommodation Reaction To OverreachDemocrats (liberals, progressive) nearly always overreach or overstate their positions. Republicans (conservatives) nearly always respond with compromise, not wanting to appear as obstructionists. After all, every time conservatives stand up to...