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  • Just say “no” to ObamaCare

    Today’s Denver Post report on Democrats’ running roughshod over Republicans to pass Obama care contained this gem from Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform: “If you’re a Republican and the Democrats have an 80-vote margin in the House, your one job is not to put your fingerprints on the murder [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:17am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Warning labels for baseball bats? Say it ain’t so!

    It’s natural to sympathize with the parents of Brandon Patch, the 18-year-old baseball pitcher who died after he was hit by a batted ball in 2003. Sooner or later, sympathy must yield to logic and reason, so when Brandon’s parents sued the bat’s manufacturer, Louisville Slugger, and a jury awarded them [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:00am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Twitter is mental flatulence

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    Kudos to David Harsanyi for his excellent column, “C’mon, admit it.  Twitter is useless.” To this point, I’ve found Twitter so aggressively worthless that I was forced to research exactly what I was missing. In the process, I stumbled across a useful New York Times tech column penned by David Pogue [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:54am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Ritter’s idea of ‘freeze’ more like a ’slushie’

    Walk into a typical third grade classroom, and most students can explain what means to “freeze” something.  They can explain that when water freezes it becomes ice and is solid. “Little Billie” Ritter may have missed those lessons because, as governor, he regularly demonstrates a poor grasp of elementary science. Remember in [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:17am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • The Secret of American Prosperity

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVh75ylAUXY [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:54am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Supreme Court’s power grab might backfire

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    In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme Court recently embraced, by a 4-3 decision, a judicial doctrine that would relegate the other two branches of government — and the voters — to a perfunctory role. The high court’s activist majority used Lobato vs. State not only to intrude on the [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Health mandate: Kiss your money and your freedom goodbye

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    Talk about personal responsibility is cheap. Legislating personal responsibility isn’t.  Take the movement to require everyone to purchase government-approved health insurance. If at first this seems like a reasonable requirement necessary to reduce cost shifting by those who do not pay their own fare, then step back and think again.  The [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:39pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Something is happening to … Big Government!

    Kudos to Rossputin.com for turning up this gem! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXtS2RMBukQ [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 7:41am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Obama’s dangerously deluded foreign policy

    Say what you will about Bill Clinton’s foreign policy shortcomings, but for the most part he had the good sense not to squander Ronald Reagan’s legacy of peace through strength. By contrast, Barack Obama’s foreign policy seems to be predicated on a boundless faith in his own persuasive powers and the [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 3:19pm EDT
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  • Who’s business is your health care?

    Our ongoing debate about government’s role in health care is proving worthwhile because it forces people to focus on the real tradeoffs in a system mandated — if not directly operated — by government, rather than one selected by individuals or their employers.  Today, our system is a dysfunctional hybrid. To [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Congress makes IRS look compassionate

    One of the best policies instituted by the Republican Congress that came to power in the 1994 election was dialing back the Internal Revenue Service’s auditing capacity and giving taxpayers a break for honest mistakes. However, as James M. Peaslee explained in the Wall Street Journal, the Democrat Congress has inexplicably [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 9:59am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Know the facts about ObamaCare

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    Last week, NBC News claimed that the flagging support for ObamaCare was due to “[M]isperceptions about the president’s plans for reform … that nonpartisan fact-checkers say are untrue.”  Fortunately, Heritage Foundation took the trouble to fact check the fact-checkers at NBC. So, when our teleprompted President or scripted Democrat lawmakers like [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 7:59pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Budget study should focus on big picture

    It’s becoming a ritual at the State Capitol: a committee is meeting to study the competing pressures of spending mandates and spending limits on the state budget.  Like those before them, this year’s panel has heard from a litany of experts and special interests, almost all of whom will complain [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 7:31am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Ritter: Forget that ‘no new taxes’ thing

    Well, it didn’t take long for Governor Bill Ritter to start chafing under his promise not to ask for new taxes to balance the budget. According to a report by Tim Hoover in the Denver Post, the Tax Ritter is already in the kitchen serving up waffles: Looking at tax breaks, he [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 11:09am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Markey snubs Eastern Plains

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    Many U.S. Representatives are using the August recess to hold town meetings — especially this summer with the debate over the federal government’s role in health care heating up — but not rookie Congresswoman Betsy Markey. The Fort Collins Democrat isn’t holding any actual town meetings.  You know, the type you [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 10:33pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Colorado wheat growers oppose Waxman-Markey

    Last month, I expressed my disgust with agriculture lobbyists inside the Beltway who paved the way for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill to pass out of the U.S. House.  As a wheat grower, I was particularly frustrated by the short-sightedness of the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG). Well, to give credit [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 4:23pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • A fiscal epiphany for Ritter, Bennet?

    Impending mortality tends to focus the mind, and looming elections tend to focus politicians’ ears on vox populi.  But just as theologians debate the sincerity of “deathbed conversions,” voters should be skeptical of lawmakers who find religion as elections near. Although 15 months remain until the 2010 elections, Democrats are learning [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 5:12pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • ‘New energy economy’ collides with endangered species

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    The Endangered Species Act may present the newest, largest road block to the development of wind energy across Colorado’s Estern Plains and neighboring states, the according to an Associated Press story in The Denver Post. Should the lesser prairie chicken become listed as threatened or endangered—and it’s close now—there would be [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 7:37am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Five questions for health care townhalls

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    Anyone who can attend a townhall meeting by one of Colorado’s U.S. Senators or Representatives — if they have the courage to listen — might benefit from these questions from Heritage Foundation that get to the root of key questions about Obama Care: Can you promise me that I will not [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 10:02am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Obama explains how ‘public option’ will end private insurance

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    He says, “Nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care.”  He says, “If you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep our plan.  Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.” That’s what he says now, [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Does Obama believe his own words?

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    Listening to President Obama explain “his” health care plan, I can’t help but wonder if he actually believes his own words. Maybe it’s been so long since the adoring press corps has held him accountable for his innumerable exaggerations, omissions and misstatements that he believes he can create a new reality [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Phony gun votes by Bennet, Udall

    The Washington Post reports that the ballyhooed vote by Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall in favor of nationwide reciprocity for concealed-carry permit holders was a sham, staged with the permission of anti-gun-rights Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.): Only two Republicans went against the gun lobby, but that was enough to [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Pro-life Dems could block ObamaCare

    If it’s such a political “loser” to be on the pro-life side of the abortion issue, someone forgot to tell 39 Democrats in the U.S. Congress who appear to be prepared to block the House health care “reform” bill unless it specifically prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 1:32pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Ritter backs cap-and-tax despite costs to Colorado

    Kudos to Heritage Foundation for this clip of Gov. Bill Ritter waffling on Waxman-Markey but backing the basic concept of cap-and-tax, despite documented costs to Colorado’s economy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Igpvmf9oTg [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 7:06am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • NEA lawyer: It’s all about power, money, job protection

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piPkgAUo0w Not since the late Albert Shanker has a teachers union official been so candid about the true priorities of the National Education Association.  Shanker, the late president of the American Federation of Teachers famously said: “When school children start paying union dues, that ’s when I’ll start representing the interests [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 9:05am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Press corps rips Obama’s ‘prepackaged’ events

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5vzOAEQ-A [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 6:59am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Farm lobby blew it on cap-and-trade

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    Once climate-change regulators strangle the economy and carbon-counters turn gas, oil and electricity into expensive luxuries, perhaps American farmers will recognize how “our friends” in Washington, D.C., sold us out in the name of political compromise. Last week, Capitol Hill’s agriculture lobby had a choice:  withhold support from the Waxman-Markey climate [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Another year of state budget brinksmanship?

    Grappling with declining state revenues makes for some very unpleasant budget choices, as Governor Ritter and the Democrat majorities in the state legislature learned over the past 12 months. It’s fair to criticize those choices, including the governor last year denying for several months that a problem existed.  Yet anyone who [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 8:00pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Mr. President, first heal Medicare

    America’s health care system certainly has its share of problems — of which most emanate from politicians’ tinkering, tempting frustrated consumers with promises of better benefits at someone else’s expense. So the prospect of President Obama and Congress remaking American health care in their own image should scare the pants off [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 3:10pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • “Senator” Boxer meet “Doctor” Evil

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGR83Imoto [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 7:15am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Obama’s General Motors

    President Obama claims to “have no interest” in running General Motors.  He does so with a straight face — and the same monotonous cadence that he employs whether condemning North Korea for nuclear explosions or joking with Jay Leno.  But his actions, as well as his words, betray him. The significance [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 6:50am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Obama gives rule of law only lip service

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    President Obama says he seeks “empathy” in a Supreme Court justice.  His first nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, says a “wise Latina woman” would generally make better decisions because of “the richness of her experiences” than a white man. Those views reveal the extent to which political and personal agendas have supplanted [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Democrats’ arrogance adds to taxpayer insult

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    If Democrats in the 2007 General Assembly were devious for passing Gov. Ritter’s infamous property tax hike without voter approval, the current crop plunges to new depths. In an act of sheer arrogance, this year’s Democrat majority poked taxpayers in the eye just for spite. Recall that the aforementioned property tax hike [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 8:00am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Hillman Farms’ newest addition!

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    I know most of you come to MH.com for politics, but it’s Kentucky Derby Day, so I couldn’t resist showing you our newest arrival, a little filly born 30 April 2009. [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2009, 5:54am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Two Trillion Tons

    With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWanfam9qc [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2009, 8:41am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Stealing is wrong — even if government does it

    We allow government to tax and spend, recognizing that forcibly taking the fruits of someone else’s labor would constitute theft if anyone else did it. In turn, we expect our elected officials to remember that their responsibility is to represent taxpaying families and businesses — not to protect government at all [...]
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    Posted: April 14, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • TABOR on life support

    Seventeen years ago, Colorado voters frustrated by the excesses of an unresponsive government passed the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR), a constitutional amendment designed to limit government spending and give voters to final word on tax hikes. Initially, government officials largely adhered to TABOR’s strictures, ever mindful that the voters had [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 5:57am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Supreme Court’s tax decision is Mullarkey

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    Colorado’s constitution plainly says that state and local governments can’t raise taxes without permission from voters.  If only the Colorado Supreme Court could read plain language. Instead, the court’s liberal majority ignores terms that should obviously protect taxpayers and instead emphasizes extraneous arguments that accommodate government. This latest legal chicanery comes from [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 7:31am EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • ‘Big boy britches’ time for Obama

    “The country looks to the President on occasions like this to be reassuring to the nation. Some Presidents do it well, some Presidents don’t.” That’s how ABC’s Peter Jennings assessed President George W. Bush’s performance on Sept. 11, 2001.  The criticism was superficial, shortsighted and unfair, given that President Bush’s finest [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 7:49pm EDT
    by Mark Hillman

  • Drivers pay more, get less due to Dems’ doubletalk

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    Beginning July 1, Colorado drivers will pay higher taxes — we’re told to call them “fees” — on every vehicle every year when we renew our license plates. The increase of $29 to $51 per vehicle is projected to generate $250 million annually to repair unsafe roads and bridges, Gov. Bill [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 3:47pm EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • So long, old friend

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    I always hoped this day wouldn’t come, but it has with today’s closing of the Rocky Mountain News. My affection for the News began well before my days in newspaper.  When the Rocky began rural delivery in Eastern Colorado, my family subscribed and each morning I’d dash out to the road [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2009, 6:48am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • When is a limit not a limit?

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    Emboldened that the state supreme court still hasn’t ruled on Gov. Bill Ritter’s plainly unconstitutional property tax hike, tax-and-spenders at the State Capitol are drawing up their game plan for another end-run around voters. If they can get away with hiking property taxes by claiming it’s not a tax increase, then [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 6:25am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • A Letter from The Boss

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    I’ve had many requests for this letter after I read it on the Mike Rosen Show.  Enjoy! To All My Valued Employees, There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 6:22am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Big government is back — with a vengeance

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    The era of big government is back — with a vengeance. President Obama returned to Denver to sign into law his American Reinvestment and Recovery Act — the biggest spending bill in history, conservatively priced at $787 billion. In reality, this “stimulus” encourages nothing but government dependency and the belief that you [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 10:59pm EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • TUESDAY RALLY AGAINST OBAMA’S $3 TRILLION DEBT

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    Holding Barack Obama accountable in Denver Americans for Prosperity in Colorado will be holding an event to put light on the theft bill–also known as the “stimulus” bill or the so-called American Reinvestment and Recovery Act–he will be signing in Denver on this Tuesday, February 17 between noon and 3pm. BARACK OBAMA: YOU [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 3:08pm EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Get taxpayers off the PERA-go-round

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    When President Bush and Congress first proposed a financial bail out for Wall Street investors last September, a grassroots chorus — from the Left and the Right — decried using public taxpayer funds to pay off the debts of private investors. In Colorado, the state’s largest pension fund has lost 25 [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 5:00am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • TABOR for Dummies

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    Here they go again. Faced with a budget that’s hemorrhaging dollars, it was only a matter of time before one of our spendthrift legislators made headlines by erroneously pointing the finger of blame at Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). Never mind that last spring Governor Ritter and the Democrat-controlled legislature ignored [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 5:54am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Ritter’s day late, dollar short budgeting

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    Colorado faces a $630 million budget shortfall and stark options now that half of the fiscal year is past and so much money is already spent. Balancing a budget during a recession is a difficult, thankless job.  But balancing this year’s budget didn’t need to be this hard if only the [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 8:09am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Christianity and freedom

    For some 15 years, I’ve been an avid reader of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis.  The November 2008 edition features excerpts from a very timely speech, “How Christianity Shaped The West,” delivered by noted conservative author Dinesh D’Souza at a National Leadership Seminar in Colorado Springs. D’Souza explains that Christianity, as distinct from [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 7:29am EST
    by Mark Hillman

  • Backbone Radio links

    Links mentioned by hosts and guests on the Dec. 7 edition of Backbone Radio: Terrorism, Sharia, etc. — Interview with Frank Gaffney Center for Security Policy (Frank Gaffney) Investigative Project on Terrorism (Steven Emerson) Jihad Watch (Robert Spencer) Mattel doll “Islam Is The Light” Interview with Jeff Wright Campaign For Liberty American Civic Literacy Program Civics test [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2008, 5:40am EST
    by Mark Hillman
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