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That Was Then … When Politics Required Thought

It was so long ago that a new young senator from Illinois named Barack Obama might have been mistaken for an idealist. It was so long ago that the usual naifs thought the little potboiler of a book he wrote, a thinly disguised campaign biography covered in political clichés, was an eloquent appeal to principle. […]

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Obama: ‘Raising the Debt Ceiling…Does Not Increase Our Debt,’

While reading from the teleprompter in front of the Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington DC, President Obama suggested that raising the National Debt Limit would not increase the Nation’s Debt. Well – actually – he didn’t suggest that. . . He simply said it: “Now, this debt ceiling — I just want to remind people […]

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Government Spending Is Ruining Families

Janice Shaw Crouse The economic picture in the United States gets worse with each passing day of the Obama administration, and families are especially hard-hit. While the damage is already devastating, the ramifications will continue wreaking havoc on today’s children when they are adults starting their own families. Comedians refer back to President Obama’s 2008 […]

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Immigration, Race, and Social Conflict

Steve McCann Many are beating the drums for legalizing untold millions of undocumented immigrants in a nation facing not only the worst long-term economic conditions since the Great Depression but a society rapidly coming apart at the seams. Both party establishments, the mainstream media, and the hierarchies of major corporations are behind this push. Temporarily […]

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Runaway Federal Spending Threatens Economic, Military Strength

Lee Crognale: Should the federal government cut spending? Put that question to the American people and you’re likely to get a “yes” in response. A recent poll by Rasmussen Reports found that 65 percent of Americans believe that cutting spending will help to ease the nation’s economy woes. Unfortunately, the president and his allies in […]

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The Brokest Nation

Remember how alarmed we were toward the end of 2008, when we realized that Congress for the first time in history was going to run a deficit of a trillion dollars? Congress had never run a deficit even half that size, and some speculated that the deficit for fiscal 2009 could even approach $2T. Luckily, […]

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Professor Forces Students to Pledge They Vote For Obama and Democrats

A professor in Florida is under fire today after forcing her students to sign a pledge to vote for Barack Obama and Democrats. Oliver Darcy over at Campus Reform has more: A college professor has been placed on leave after she allegedly forced her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in […]

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Democrat Fairy Tales and the End of Camelot

The Democrat’s convention was one fairy tale after another designed to inspire the newly self-anointed party of the middle class. The Democrats offered speaker after speaker of nothing more than immoral embellishments and artful praise for Barack Obama and the failing Democrat ideology. I was almost entranced by Bill Clinton’s incantations, but somehow I was […]

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