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  • Thanksgiving: The First Libertarian Holiday

    Thanksgiving is here once again, and with it come visions of children's plays with Indians and Pilgrims, complete with little Pilgrim hats made of construction paper. The story told in these plays and learned by public school students at every grade level is a simple one.

    The Pilgrims arrived' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Where Is The Lie On Global Warming?

    Global warming is something I’ve been watching for years… not the so-called “fact” that man is causing our world to heat up and explode, but rather the political circus that has replaced true scientific inquiry.

    For those of you tuning in late, apparently politicians have decided that the science [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:00pm EST

  • Admin: Thanksgiving Week

    I want to apologize for not doing much in the way of blogging over the past few days. We have relatives in for the holiday week, and I'm not able to spend much time in front of the computer right now. I will definitely post a Thanksgiving entry, and will' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:08pm EST

  • Can Senate Pass ObamaCare?

    That's the big question on everybody's mind, isn't it... Is it possible for the Dems to pass their ObamaCare bill in the Senate? Liberals will reply heatedly that of course it is, and assert we're just being silly, engaging in wishful thinking, or maybe even cast aspersions upon our character [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Dems Drooling To Spend Bailout Funds

    Let's assume, for the purposes of discussion, that there are approximately $200 billion from the TARP fund that won't be used. PresBo wants to "pay down" the deficit. The GOP wants to "give it back" to the taxpayers. So, what do Congressional Democrats want to do with it? Spend it [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • NY Terror Trials Are Bad Idea

    I haven't said anything yet about the terrorists being tried in civilian courts, but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion.

    Trying the terrorist suspects in civilian court is an extremely bad idea for a variety of reasons. Let's look at the most obvious first: Miranda.

    It [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:00am EST

  • "Jobs Saved Or Created" Has NO Credibility Left

    [www.wnd.com]

    It's official... the number of jobs "saved or created" that is being trumpeted by the White House has NO credibility at all. It's all a giant guessing game designed so that PresBo can claim a political victory where one doesn't exist.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Interest On US Debt - $4.8 Trillion

    Remember when PresBo projected the budget deficits for the next decade based upon his profligate spending habits? According to those projections, the national debt will increase by $9 trillion over the next decade. And more than half of that debt we accumulate, $4.8 trillion to be precise, will be interest [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • Senate Democrats Finally Unveil A Bill

    Well, the Senate Democrats have finally agreed on an ObamaCare bill. They have named it the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".
    [www.nytimes.com]

    You can read the bill itself here:
    [documents.nytimes.com]

    And you can see a comparison of the House and Senate bills here:
    [www.nytimes.com]
    [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:00pm EST

  • How Government Boosted Unemployment

    Some economists believe that the Obama White House and liberal "stimulus" efforts have actually increased our unemployment rate over where it would otherwise be.
    [www.nypost.com]

    When you subsidize something, you get more of it. Extending unemployment benefits from 26 to 79 weeks was guaranteed to leave many more [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:00pm EST

  • Obama's Home Teleprompter Breaks Down

    Here's a video news report from the Onion News Network, describing a malfunction with Obama's home teleprompter. If you want a chuckle this morning, watch this video.


    Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner


    UPDATE: For those of you who didn't know, and apparently some [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:10am EST

  • Dems Don't Get It On ObamaCare

    Here's the story. In recent elections and polls, all agree that independent voters, who helped win the Presidency for Obama last year, are rapidly turning away from the Democrats because of their massive spending agenda. I'll give them credit, the Democrats are finally accepting this as fact instead of propaganda... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:45am EST

  • More "Jobs Saved Or Created" Troubles

    PresBo's "jobs saved or created" numbers took two more hits today.

    First, the White House bowed to inevitability and "voluntarily" removed 60,000 jobs from the total claimed because of obvious and glaring errors... such as $42,000 creating or saving 5,000 jobs. And keep in mind that the numbers had' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:30pm EST

  • Question On ObamaCare Haste

    I have a question concerning the heavily liberal push to pass ObamaCare. This is a question that has puzzled me for a while, now. You see, the Democrats are pushing hard to pass the bill... and are telling Congressional Democrats that passing ObamaCare will build support for them in the [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:00am EST

  • CMS Report Affirms CBO Report On ObamaCare

    If you'll remember, yesterday I mentioned the CBO report showing that the House ObamaCare bill would increase health costs... among other things.
    [politicsalabama.blogspot.com]

    Now the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has also released a report... one that, in many ways, affirms the CBO report.
    [www.politico.com]
    [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:45pm EST

  • CBO Report: House Bill Reduces Medicare Benefits

    I want to start this one by reminding you of two facts. First, the major assurances we get about ObamaCare is that it won't increase the deficit, it will decrease costs, and medicare benefits won't be reduced. Second, House Republicans wanted to hold the vote on the House bill until [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:30am EST

  • ObamaCare News Roundup

    Here are some more news stories and opinion pieces about ObamaCare that you should be aware of.

    What ObamaCare will do to insurance
    This is an opinion piece written by a registered Democrat in New York. He says when NY mandated coverage, prices went up, and all he could [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:30am EST

  • Former Inspector General Cleared of Wrongdoing

    Do you remember the case of Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who was fired from his job by President Obama after he discovered wrongdoing by prominent PresBo supporters? Apparently an investigation has concluded he did nothing wrong, and he is now suing to get his job back.
    [www.wnd.com]

    Walpin [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • US Seizes Four Mosques In Anti-Terrorism Probe

    In what is probably the largest anti-terrorism bust on record, the US seized four mosques and a NY skyscraper owned by a Muslim non-profit who, the government claims, funnels money back to Iran.
    [www.msnbc.msn.com]

    Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:15pm EST

  • ACORN Suing Federal Government

    It seems that ACORN is suing the Federal Government in order to get their funding back.
    [www.politico.com]

    A non-profit organization filed a lawsuit against the federal government Thursday morning, seeking to overturn a law stopping the flow of federal funds to ACORN.

    The suit, filed in federal [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:00am EST

  • WH Mulls Spending TARP Money To Reduce Deficit

    Something amazing has happened in the White House: they’ve discovered that they can rob Peter to pay Paul. In other words, they want to take money from the TARP program (money that was borrowed in the first place, so it’s deficit spending) and use it to reduce the deficit.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:30pm EST

  • How Will Health Care Change If ObamaCare Passes?

    PresBo promised “Change we can believe in” while he was running for office. Now that he’s pushing a hugely unpopular government takeover of our health care system, what is likely to change? David Gratzer of Forbes.com attempts to answer this question.
    [www.forbes.com]

    Here's what it will change. First,' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:00am EST

  • Even Supporters Don’t Believe Hype On ObamaCare

    Supporting this round of “healthcare reform,” amounting to little more than a government assumption of central authority, is an ideological commitment. It has little to do with covering everybody, balancing the budget, creating jobs, or doing what is best for the country… it’s merely a push to remake the country [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:30pm EST

  • Unemployment Figures Half The Story

    The labor department announced an October unemployment figure of 10.2%. However, I would like to point out AGAIN that THAT number doesn't tell the whole story. When the labor department reports the unemployment figures, that is the number of people who filed unemployment claims in that month. The Labor department' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • Upcoming Recess & ObamaCare

    The House passed an ObamaCare bill that is widely viewed as extremely liberal. Now they get to come home and face their constituents during a recess that may well be a flashback to the tumultuous summer recess that saw millions of Americans urging their Congressmen to oppose the ObamaCare bills.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:30am EST

  • Partisan Incongruity

    Has anybody else noticed the way the political discourse has moved in this country just recently? After the 2008 election loss, "conventional wisdom" was that the GOP had to move to the center to survive. And, despite the wishes of their rank-and-file members, they're been trying to do this.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:15pm EST

  • Ft. Hood Shooter Tried To Contact Al Qaeda

    The more we hear about the Ft. Hood shooter, the more it looks like he was acting as an Islamic terrorist, and that his motivations were religious in nature. Officials haven't announced a determination, but then they're still investigating. So why do I think "the worst" of him? Because of [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:00am EST

  • Pray For Recovery Of Ft. Hood Shooter?

    It's been a few days since the Ft. Hood shooting and we still don't have any definitive statements regarding motive. However, many Americans think it was motivated by Islamic terrorists. And you know what? Some who support Islamic terrorism think so, too.

    Apparently a Facebook user named Khadeeja posted [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:30am EST

  • Breaking: House Passes ObamaCare

    The House passed an ObamaCare bill tonight on a vote of 220-215. In all, one Republican supported the bill and 39 Democrats voted against it.
    [www.politico.com]

    The House of Representatives passed legislation for the first time Saturday night that would provide health coverage to almost every American [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:38pm EST

  • Pelosi Says Democrats Have 218 Votes For ObamaCare

    This whole “can the Democrats get 218 votes” drama is drawing to a close as the House prepares to vote on their bill… and Pelosi says they have 218 votes.
    [www.politico.com]

    Hours before an expected vote on a sweeping health care bill, House Democrats believe they've secured the' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:10pm EST

  • ObamaCare Bill Establishes Waiting Lists For Care

    One of the criticisms being leveled against ObamaCare is that the government would ration care in order to cut costs. This is a claim that Democrats have categorically denied. But if you read the ObamaCare bill that Pelosi is pushing in the House, you'll find that it specifically allows for' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Dems Have Vote In House... Or Do They?

    The Democrats' Congressional leadership and the White House have been very careful every since the Tuesday elections to make sure we know that they are confident that ObamaCare will pass. Pelosi even scheduled a vote for Saturday and has been proclaiming that they have the votes they need.

    But' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • Unemployment Hits 10.2% In October

    Economists had expected unemployment in October to hit 9.9%, but instead it hit 10.2%, rising above 10% for the first time in 26 years.
    [www.politico.com]

    Democrats – headed into an historic health care vote this weekend — got smacked in the face with a 10.2 percent unemployment rate [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:45pm EST

  • Troubling Info On Ft. Hood Shooter

    I would like to preface this by saying the information reported below is still hearsay and unconfirmed. That said, it appears as if the shooter, Major Hasan, may be a lifelong Muslim who was upset at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and defended suicide bombings.
    [www.chron.com]

    At [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:45am EST

  • Breaking: 12 Dead In Fort Hood Shooting Spree

    I normally focus on political issues, and either quote news stories or provide opinion on current events. At this time I will be providing links to stories on a terrible tragedy.

    Apparently, an Army Major named Nadal Malik Hasan, a psychologist or psychiatrist at Fort Hood army base in [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:44pm EST

  • Interesting Details From ObamaCare Bills

    Today brings news of some interesting aspects of the ObamaCare bills currently being considered in Congress.

    Fines Necessary To Fiscal Balance
    As you know, the cornerstone of the House bill is the individual mandate, where everybody would be forced to purchase health insurance or be fined. As you also [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • Opinions On Election Impact Differ

    Ask what Tuesday’s elections mean to the Democrat agenda in Congress and you get as many answers as you have opinionators. Pelosi says the elections are a victory for ObamaCare and nothing to worry about. The White House agrees, saying things are going fine. But what do Congressional Democrats from [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:30pm EST

  • Stimulus “Jobs Saved” Follies

    Remember how early estimates of “jobs saved or created” were disputed by an AP report showing that many of the jobs did not exist or were counted multiple times?
    [politicsalabama.blogspot.com]

    So the administration blasted the AP report and came out with a revised estimate that had been “scrubbed” [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:30am EST

  • I Was Polled By Rasmussen

    Have you ever read poll results and wondered just who were the mysterious "they" who answered all these questions? Most people say they haven't been polled and don't know anybody who has. I was polled once during the last Presidential election, and tonight, it just happened to me again.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:30pm EST

  • Election Recap

    As I reported last night, Republican Chris Christie was elected Governor in New Jersey (49%-45%) and Republican Bob McDonnell was elected Governor in Virginia (59%-41%). These are two big wins, and the Virgnia results should give liberal Democrats pause. The state voted solidly for Obama in 2008, but one year [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • Breaking: Dems Leading In New York Race

    With 38% of precincts reporting, the Democrat candidate for Congress in New York holds a lead of 50% - 45% over the Conservative Party candidate.
    [www.timesunion.com]

    This one is too early to call... so we'll all find out together tomorrorow morning.


    ' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:45pm EST

  • Breaking: GO PWins New Jersey Governor's Race

    It appears that, in addition to the GOP victory in Virginia, the GOP also won in New Jersey. With 58% of the precincts reporting as I write this, the GOP candidate has 50% of the vote. The democrat trails with just 44% of the vote.
    [elections.nj.com]

    That's two' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:30pm EST

  • Breaking: GOP Wins Virginia Governor's Race

    It appears as if the GOP candidate in the race for Governor of Virginia has scored a win in this first test of voter's attitudes since the 2008 Presidential elections.
    [www.politico.com]

    McDonnell's decisive victory over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds brings an end to eight years of Democratic [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:15pm EST

  • Dirty Tricks In NJ Election

    Here's the deal. The Democrat candidate for Governor of New Jersey is facing an unexpectedly close race. Suddenly, a robo-dialer begins calling residents of Somerset County. The message? Vote for third-party candidate Dagget and, by the way, the GOP's Chris Christie is a terrible person.

    When asked, a spokesman [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:00am EST

  • Three Elections Today

    Today should be interesting, to say the least. There are three elections being held across the country today, and many pundits are looking at this as a test for Obama's influence on elections... and as a sneak peek as to how the 2010 elections may turn out.

    Voters in' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Swine Flu: Epidemic or Hysteria?

    You know, it seems to me this whole swine flu scare so far has been more scare than fact, you know? Sure, I know that 5,000 people have died from it this year worldwide, but did YOU know worldwide 3,000 people die from malaria and 6,000 from AIDS EACH DAY?
    [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • Monday ObamaCare News Roundup

    This afternoon I give you some more news articles and opinion pieces about ObamaCare in Congress. Enjoy the reading.

    Health care bill is 1,990 pages long
    This is incredibly long, and spends approximately $2.2 million per word. They claim that the "essence" of the bill is the same as [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:00pm EST

  • Taxpayer-Funded Study Helps Congressmen Get Re-elected

    This one tops everything. Would you believe that Congress used taxpayer dollars to fund a study to find out how to improve the chances of re-election for sitting Congressmen and help them to avoid facing their constituents?

    It's true, they did.
    [blog.heritage.org]

    The lesson: avoid your constituents’' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:45am EST

  • Dems Divided On ObamaCare

    When it comes to Congressional support for ObamaCare, we know that the Republicans will oppose it. Why? They want free-market solutions to problems instead of the government-control being offered in the bills. So the fact that Republicans oppose the legislation isn't news. What IS news is that Democrats have to' [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • GOP Better Pay Attention To NY23

    In the NY Congressional race that will occur on November 3rd, there were three candidates. The Democrats chose Bill Owens and the Republicans chose Dede Scozzafava, a liberal-leaning politician who was backed by GOP leaders. The third candidate was a Republican running for the Conservative party, and is the most [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
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