Items by alanrph

• ISLAM OPPRESSES WOMEN

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  The Qur'an and Islamic Law treat women as nothing more than possessions of men. The Qur'an sanctions wife beating. Islam also allows for child marriage, the virtual imprionment of women in their homes "temporary marriage" (i.e. prostitution) and more. [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:44pm EST
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  The Qur'an and Islamic Law treat women as nothing more than possessions of men. The Qur'an sanctions wife beating. Islam also allows for child marriage, the virtual imprionment of women in their homes "temporary marriage" (i.e. prostitution) and more. [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:24pm EST
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• FREE MARKET

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  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 76% of voters now say a free market economy is better than one managed by the government. Only 10% prefer an economy managed by the government. This also applies to the healthcare reform bill. [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:48pm EST
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• THOMAS SOWELL SEZ

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  There are no solutions, only trade-offs. Laws meant to protect man from folly create a nation of fools. Two very powerul conservative mottos not even considered by Democrats. As practiced by liberals. "if you see something you don't like just pass a law".' [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:09pm EST
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• LETTER IN PIONEER PRESS 12/10/2009

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  A deal is a deal Wow, Sen. Amy Klobuchar is at it again. I recently read that she thinks it unfair and worthy of government action when citizens want to break a binding cell phone contract; the termination fee is too high (Bill helps wireless users who switch, Dec. 4). Briefly, [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:28am EST
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• MY SOLUTION TO HEALTHCARE REFORM

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  The primary concern fo healthcare reform is to come as close to universal coverage as possible., The following from a bill sponsored by Senator Tom Coborn Republican of Oklahoma that was killed in committee: Very important, said to save $54 billion over ten years, is tort reform. Never to happen with Democrat [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:06pm EST
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• "SMITE THE NECKS OF THE UNBELIEVERS" Qur'an 47:4

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  Anyone that insults or even opposes Muhammad or his people deserves a humiliating death --- by beheading if possible. This is in accordance with Allah's command. [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:19pm EST
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• FROM A MEMBER OF THE DUTCH PARLIAMENT

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  Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem. Dear friends, Thank you very much for inviting me. I come to America with a mission. All is [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:09pm EST
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• MY SOLUTION TO HEALTHCARE REFORM

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  The primary concern fo healthcare reform is to come as close to universal coverage as possible., This from bilsponsored by Senator Tom Coborn Republican of Oklahoma that was killed in committee. Very important, said to save $54 billion over ten years, is tort reform. Never to happen with Democrat congress as American [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:46am EST
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• MY SOLUTION TO HEALTHCARE REFORM

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  This from bilsponsored by Senator Tom Coborn Republican of Oklahoma that was killed in committee. Very important, said to save $54 billion over ten years, is tort reform. Never to happen with Democrat congress as American Association of Trial Lawyers a.k.a. American Association for Justie pay 97% of political donations to [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:54pm EST
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• BARTISAN HEALTHCARE REFORM BILL...NO!!!!

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  In the past two days of Senate debate on healthcare reform Democrats bitch about Republican lack of bipartismanship. Of seven amendments sponsored by Republicans only one was approved. Exapmles of rejects: 1: protect preventive measures for women (mommagram) 2: protect medicare (stop rationing) 3: limit government control (socialism) 4: limit lawsuits (costs $54 [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:03pm EST
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• SARAH PALIN SEZ

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  If the election had turned out differently, she said, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks, and vice president Biden could be on the road selling his book, Going Rogaine. Biden has sparse hair. I report,U decide [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 2:16pm EST
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• ARGUING WITH IDIOTS BY GLENN BECK

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  How To Stop Small Minds And Big Government. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:04pm EST
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• MEDIA FAVOR DEMOCRATS

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  Why would the Associated Press assign 11 reporters to fact-check Palin's new book? Why would AP do such a thing? Do they have a history of assigning multiple reporters to fact check other books by out of power politicians? Isn't it also odd that the only major news service bothering to report' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:05pm EST
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• PRESS CONFERENCE WHITE HOUSE

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  Reporter: :Are you escalating the troops in Afghanistan or pulling out?" Obama: "YES"" [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:32am EST
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• YOU DON'T SAVE, YOU PAY.

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  Here is a math problem for you: Assume that the legislation establishing government control of medical care is passed and that it "brings down the cost of medical care." You pay $500 a year less for your medical care, but the new costs put on employers is passed on to [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:14pm EST
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• SARAH RAPS ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

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  Wearing all black she stands up with her big belly and belts out ONE! TWO! THREE! My name is Sarah Palin you all know me Vice President nominee of the GOP Gonna need your vote in the next election Can I get a "What? What?" from the senior section McCain got experience, McCain got style But [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:20pm EST
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• JOE THE PLUMBER

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  As told by Sarah Palin in Going Rogue: A man named Joe Wurzelbacher was in his front yard playing football with his young son when Barack Obama walked by his driveway. Joe had a question to ask about his plan to buy a company that makes rom $250,000 to $280,000 [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:06pm EST
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• GOODWILL, BUT DOESN'T HELP

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  As many had predicted, the election of Barack Obama triggered a surge of goodwill for the United States in many areas of the world. Americas traditional friends felt inspired by the man and by the choice. One year later, there is scant evidence that President Obama has managed to translate [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:18am EST
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• ALL OF ISLAM IS RADICAL

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  In June, in his Cairo speech, President Obama effectively built a connection with the Muslim mainstream. Maybe he could spark the debate by asking the same audience this question: Whenever something like Fort Hood happens you say, This is not Islam. I believe that. But you keep telling us what Islam [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:16am EST
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• FROM SARAH PALIN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

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  "Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska , I was mayor of my home town. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them that this job involves...... I guess a small town mayor is sort" [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:07am EST
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• DEMOCRATS FAVOR TRIAL LAWYERS

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  MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWSUITS The Senate bill does not change medical malpractice law, though it encourages states to explore alternatives to civil litigation. Republicans are urging limits on damages awarded in malpractice suits. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that could save $54 billion over the next decade. Democrats will [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:30pm EST
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• TEDDY KENNEDY SEZ

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  "Making detainees think that they are drowing is unacceptable." Attorney general Mukasey replies: "then we should keep them out of your car, Senator Kennedy." [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:37pm EST
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• YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'RE GETTING OLD:

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  when the peeping Tom leaves a note saying "please pull the blinds." and when the bendy parts get stiff and the stiff part gets bendy. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:23pm EST
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• JOHN KERRY TO COLLEGE STUDENTS

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  As said by John Kerry to Caifornia college students in 2006: "You know, education, if you make the most of it , you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to do well, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:49pm EST
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• JOHN KERRY TO COLLEGE STUDENTS

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  As said by John Kerry to Caifornia college students in 2006: "You know, education, if you make the most of it , you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to do well, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:06am EST
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• JOHN KERRY TO COLLEGE STUDENTS

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  "You know, education, if you make the most of it , you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to do well, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." What a petty insult to soldiers who are preserving our way' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:29pm EST
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• THOMAS SOWELL SEZ

  —For Personal Responsibility

  No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. The current economic downturn that has [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:34pm EST
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  No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:33pm EST
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• EVEN MODERATE ISLAM IS RADICAL

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  Girl says she was flogged for attire CAIRO A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law. Silva Kashif said a policeman in a Khartoum market [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:30am EST
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  After living in North Minneapolis for ten years there is no doubt in my mind that the black profile and that of my early years have no resemblence. Most of those in that area fit that profile with a few exceptions as you will find in any other community. [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 2:50pm EST
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• THANKSGIVING PRAYER

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  Dear precious Lord, We bow our heads in heartfelt, thankful prayer; For all the ways You've blessed our lives And for Your loving care. We thank You for the hands That have prepared this special treat And pray that You will bless all those Who have no food to eat. Amen' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 2:18pm EST
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• SOCIALISM VS FREE MARKET

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  Central planning was always ill-equipped to provide the goods and services consumers wanted at the prices they were willing to pay. Capitalism can do that well. The question is, will it be allowed to in an environment where capitalists are held in such low esteem? [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:34pm EST
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• DAVID BROOKS OF N Y TIMES ON HEALTHCARE REFORM

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  Reform would make us a more decent society, but also a less vibrant one. It would ease the anxiety of millions at the cost of future growth. It would heal a wound in the social fabric while piling another expensive and untouchable promise on top of the many such promises [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:53pm EST
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• PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION

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  [[IMAGE:http://images.blogstream.com/i/userImages/122/122737_5222.jpg,291x400]] Partial birth abortion is murder. Roe v Wade allows abortion through the second trimester at 27 weeks of gestation. Baby (not fetus) is viable (able to sustain independent life) from 20 to 24 weeks of gestation. The Republican congress passed the Partial Birth Abortion three times three times being vetoed [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:32pm EST
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• IRAQ WAR O.K. WITH CLINTON

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  This is taken from an address by The President of the United States of America to the citizens of the U.S. and quoted verbatim. "Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack" [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:12pm EST
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• SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

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  All this talk about health reform makes a farce of the notion of a "public option" that will simply provide competition to keep private insurance companies honest. What politicians can and will do is continue to drive up the cost of private insurance until it is no longer viable. A [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:07pm EST
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  This is taken from an address by The President of the United States of America to the citizens of the U.S. and quoted verbatim. "Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack" [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:29pm EST
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• BUSH BASHING

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  GOP HAS A RIGHT TO ATTACK OBAMA I notice an increasing number of complaints that Republicans are always attacking President Barack Obamas policies of reckless spending. Just because a party is elected into power does not mean all dissent ceases; the last time I checked, we were not a one-party country. And [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:37pm EST
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• DAVID BRODER ON HEALTH REFORM

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  Health reform The challenge: Make the savings real WASHINGTON Its simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:24pm EST
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• LINCOLN - KENNEDY COINCIDENCE ?

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  Lincoln was elected President in 1860, Kennedy in 1960. Both were slain on a Friday and in the presence of their wives. Both were shot from behind and in the head. Their succesors, both named Johnson, were southern Democrats and both were in the senate. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:01pm EST
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• MARCH 17 2003

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  I have been informed by the media that the male life expectancy is now 74.4years. I don,t know what to do because today I am 74.4 years and tomorrow, being my six month birthday, I will be 74.5 years old. Does that mean that I will tip over, or will [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:41pm EST
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• PISTOL PACKIN' BABE

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  Watch out for Carol, the pistol packin' babe!' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:25pm EST
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• THOMAS JEFFERSON SEZ...

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  When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:11pm EST
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• WE NEED TORT REFORM

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  Health-care costs are exploding out of control. Virtually everyone has noticed increases in premiums, co-pays, deductibles, etc. The number of uninsured Americans continues to grow. Much of the health care cost problems can be contributed to medical malpractice lawsuits. Astronomical verdicts have led to massive increases in the cost to [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:30pm EST
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• ANOTHER DEMOCAT IN JAIL

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  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Louisiana congressman who famously hid $90,000 cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking bribes, the longest term ever imposed on a congressman for bribery charges. William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans for nearly 20 [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:39pm EST
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• MEDICALIZING MASS MURDER

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  What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre playing [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:40pm EST
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• ABOLISH CORPORATE INCOME TAX

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  Moving from taxes on productivity to taxes on consumption is based in sound economic theory and principle; objections from both the right and the left are founded in the misconstrued ideological notions of starving the beast and taxing the rich. Ultimately, a broader sales tax base, when and ONLY when [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:33am EST
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• HASAN CLAIMS "CIVIL RIGHTS"

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  Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was born and raised a Muslim, yelled "Allahu Akbar ("God is the greatest") while shooting people in the back, and sought Islamic fatwas from American-born Yemeni al-Qa'eda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (who'd been his imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia), have" [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:56pm EST
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• ACORN AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZER OBAMA

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  Eventually the "Pimp and Pro" ACORN story should help to focus national attention on ACORN political corruption and ACORN's status as an unofficial arm of the Democratic Party. But that's not where the Obama/ACORN/Far Left enablers in the liberal media establishment want to go. During the campaign Obama denied any [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:43pm EST
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• OPEN STATE BORDERS TO INSURANCE

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  I WAS PLEASED to see Gov. Tim Pawlenty make the case for opening state borders to other insurance carriers to create greater competition for lower-cost health insurance rates. Several years ago when the HMOs were getting started, legislation was written prohibiting many companies from writing health insurance in our state. Our National [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:06pm EST
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• ALAN , NEAL AND SKIPPY

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  [[IMAGE:http://images.blogstream.com/i/userImages/122/122736_5222.jpg,560x400]] [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:06pm EST
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• MUSLIM OBAMA BANS NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

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  Barrack Hussein Obama has eliminated the traditional National Day of Prayer observance at the White House. Does this not warn American Christians that the Republic is taking a drastic change away from its biblical tradition in favor of Islam when Obama celebrates Ramadan but will not touch the National Day of [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:58pm EST
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• OBAMA INCONSISTANT

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  It was fascinating to see Barack Obama warning us not to leap to conclusions about the killings at Fort Hood, Texas after the way he leaped to conclusions over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, when he knew less about the facts than we already know about the massacre at [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:08pm EST
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• O.K TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS

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  According to witnesses, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan entered a medical facility at Fort Hood, prayed briefly, then shouted "Allahu akbar" before he began gunning down American troops. Now I don't know which to be more afraid of: Muslims or government-run health care systems. President Obama honored the victims by immediately' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:38pm EST
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• YA, YOU BETCHA THAT'S FOR SURE

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  If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, You might live in Minnesota . If you're proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each year because Tower and Embarrass is the coldest' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:18pm EST
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• JESSE LEARNS FROM BARACK

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  Democrat Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member You can't make up stuff better than this! Isn't politics grand? HURRAH FOR THE DEMOCRATS! Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member Mel Reynolds Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:08pm EST
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• STOOPID VOTERS FOR FRANKEN

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  A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation has found that mistakes made with absentee ballots in the contentious 2008 U.S. Senate recount between Al Franken and Norm Coleman are leading to changes in the way many votes will be counted in future elections. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS contacted dozens of cities and counties [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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• STOOPID VOTERS FOR FRANKEN

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  A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation has found that mistakes made with absentee ballots in the contentious 2008 U.S. Senate recount between Al Franken and Norm Coleman are leading to changes in the way many votes will be counted in future elections. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS contacted dozens of cities and counties [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:36pm EDT
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• SEE CHAPTER NINE OF THE KORAN

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  I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:25am EDT
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• HISPANICS RENEW PAYNE AVENUE

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  Our Hispanic population is doing a good job to renew Payne Avenue on the east side of St.Paul. A lot of this has to do with the bright colors used to paint the exteriors of their buildings and the charming business names they use. This is nothing like the browns [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
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• OBAMA AND ACORN IN BED TOGETHER

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  ACORN sued the state of California to get out of paying its own employees the minimum wage, and even fought their efforts to create a union. Before subprime became a household word, ACORN waded into the mortgage market, supporting policies that helped lay the groundwork for the catastrophic lending collapse [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
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• TOP 1% PAY 40% OF INCOME TAX

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  Percentiles Ranked by AGI AGI Threshold on Percentiles Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid Top 1% $410,096 40.42% Top 5% $160,041 60.635 Top 10% $113,018 71.22% Top 25% $66,532 86.59% Top 50% $32,879 97.11% Bottom 50% [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:53pm EDT
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• ALAN, NEAL AND SKIPPY

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  [[IMAGE:http://images.blogstream.com/i/userImages/122/122736_5222.jpg,560x400]] [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:20pm EDT
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• FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT

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  The Freedom of Choice Act (H.R. 1964/S. 1173) was a bill in the 110th United States Congress which "declares that it is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child; terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability; or terminate" [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:18pm EDT
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  [[IMAGE:http://images.blogstream.com/i/userImages/122/122736_5222.jpg,560x400]] [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:36pm EDT
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• WILL WE WAKE UP TOO LATE ?

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  Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year each bill more than a thousand pages long too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:29pm EDT
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• DAYTON FOR GOVERNOR ?

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  Former Senator Mark Dayton was endorsed by AFSCME over the weekend so in honor of their endorsement Id like to post Time Magazines previous story on one of Americas Worst Senators Mark Dayton: When he was elected in 2000, Minnesota Democrat Mark Dayton seemed well prepared, having worked as an aide [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:02pm EDT
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• PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION

  —For Personal Responsibility

  [[IMAGE:http://images.blogstream.com/i/userImages/122/122737_5222.jpg,291x400]] Above is an actual image of partial birth abortion. Liberls will not admit tht this is murder. To make this perfectly clear, Roe v Wade allows abortion through the second trimester, 27 weeks of gestation, where baby (not fetus) is viable (alive) from 20 to 24 weeks of gestation. Republican [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
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• HISPANICS RENEW PAYNE AVENUE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Our Hispanic population is doing a good job to renew Payne Avenue on the east side of St.Paul. A lot of this has to do with the bright colors used to paint the exteriors of their buildings and the charming business names they use. This is nothing like the browns [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
  by alanrph

• ACTIVISM, THE WAY LIBERALS COMMUNICATE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  The subject of this letter is activism, something that is frequently carried out by riot and civil disobedience. The subject of the demonstration is typically based on a popular liberal political agenda and carried out by using inexperienced young people as pawns. These are young people who are looking for [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:22pm EDT
  by alanrph

• FUNERAL WITH ST. AUGUSTINE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Love never disappears, for death is a non-event. I have merely retired to the room next door. You and I are the same; what we were for each other, we still are. Speak to me as you always have, do not use a different tone. Do not be sad. Continue to laugh at [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
  by alanrph

• WHAT'S THE BIG HURRY

  —For Personal Responsibility

  People who would never let some high-pressure salesman rush them into signing a contract to buy a car, before they have a chance to read the contract, may see nothing wrong with a President of the United States trying to rush Congress into passing a thousand-page bill before anybody has [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:13pm EDT
  by alanrph

• DEMOCRATS OVERSPEND

  —For Personal Responsibility

  FIVE SPENDING BILLS PASSED BY DEMOCRATS ON OCTOBER 15 Bill No. 1----Dems 235 Yea and 10 Nay-----Repubs 6 Yea and 163 Nay Bill No. 2----Dems 237 Yea and 8 Nay-----Repubs Yea and 168 Nay Bill No. 3----Dems 221 Yea and 23 Nay----Repubs Yea and 170 Nay Bill No. 4----Dems 237 Yea and 7 Nay-----Repubs [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 1:35am EDT
  by alanrph

• FIRST SIGN OF OLD AGE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  First time to notice old age: Bendy parts (arms, legs, neck) become stiff and stiff part (******) becomes bendy. [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by alanrph

• OBAMA SEZ HE INHERITED

  —For Personal Responsibility

  WASHINGTON What is $1.42 trillion? Its more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canadas, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Its the federal budget deficit for [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 6:26pm EDT
  by alanrph

• SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Reem Yahya and a team from the University of Haifa studied Arabs and Jews while showing them images of hands and feet in painful situations. The two cultures perceived pain differently. The Arabs perceived higher levels of pain overall while the Jews were more sensitive to pain suffered by members [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 12:41am EDT
  by alanrph

• UNIONS CONTROL SCHOOLS

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Its difficult to improve failing schools when you cant create alternatives such as charter schools and cant remove inept or abusive teachers. In New York City, for example, unions ordinarily prevent teachers from being dismissed for incompetence so the schools must pay failed teachers their full salaries to sit year [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:04pm EDT
  by alanrph

• THOMAS SOWELL SEZ

  —For Personal Responsibility

  "If everything is connected to everything else in a market economy, then it makes no sense to have laws and policies that declare some given goal to be a good thing, without regard to the repercussions, which spread out like waves across a pond when you drop a rock in" [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 4:04pm EDT
  by alanrph

• WHO DISCRIMINATES?

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Articles Oct. 11 were complaining about the treatment of Muslims in this country. That may be a valid argument. This country was built on the principles of free speech and religion. I wont dispute that there are problems of discrimination against Muslims in the United States. As bad as the treatment [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:42pm EDT
  by alanrph

• ALL ISLAM IS RADICAL

  —For Personal Responsibility

  "A woman should be able to wear what she wants and not be publicly whipped for it", says Mrs. Hussein, a defiant Sudanese journalist, and on Monday her belief will be put to the test. Mrs. Hussein has been charged in Khartoum, Sudans capital, with indecent dress, a crime that carries [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:50pm EDT
  by alanrph

• PHONY ACORN

  —For Personal Responsibility

  ACORN calls itself a community group, but it is really a multi-million-dollar, multi-national conglomerate. Its political agenda is driven by a relative handful of political thugs for hire. ACORN spends millions promoting economic policies (like raising the minimum wage), but doesn't always want to abide by them. In fact, ACORN sued' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:42pm EDT
  by alanrph

• JUST PASS A LAW

  —For Personal Responsibility

  JUST PASS A LAW A common practice carried out by Democrats is, if you don't like something "JUST PASS A LAW". Now Senator Amy Klobuchar is doing her Democratic duty by sponsoring a bill to control wireless phone companies. Her main point is to abolish fees charged for' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:04am EDT
  by alanrph

• DANGER OF ISLAM

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Dangerous consequences that are likely to come from manifestations of "cultural sensitivity" -- such as the fact that U.S. guards at Gitmo must handle copies of the Koran only when wearing gloves because the detainees regard infidels as "unclean". That means all of us. [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
  by alanrph

• HATE CRIME BILL

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Last week, Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives passed a controversial "hate crimes" measure by attaching it to the defense authorization bill. Historically, there has an unwritten policy in Congress of keeping the defense authorization as a "clean bill" so that our military would not be used as [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
  by alanrph

• NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro called the Nobel award a positive step, although he said it was more a repudiation of former President George W. Bush than a recognition of anything concrete Obama has done. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
  by alanrph

• JUST PASS A LAW

  —For Personal Responsibility

  As said by conservative economist Thomas Sowell "there are no solutions, only trade-offs." Do consumers need a new government agency or personal responsibility? [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 12:07am EDT
  by alanrph

• DEMOCRATS OPPOSE TORT REFORM

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Congressional budget analysts said Friday that lawmakers could save as much as $54 billion over the next decade by imposing an array of new limits on medical malpractice lawsuits -- 10 times more than previously estimated. New research shows that legal reforms would not only lower malpractice insurance premiums for medical [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 6:55pm EDT
  by alanrph

• OBAMA'S ANTI-GUN AGENDA TO SUPREME COURT

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Chicago Gun Ban Case to Determine Gun Rights For All States The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, and decide whether the right to keep and bear arms secured by the Second Amendment protects Americans from overreaching state and [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 11:02am EDT
  by alanrph

• CHARLIE BROWN AND PUNKIN PATCH

  —For Personal Responsibility

  The great public option pushed by Obama with approval of AFL-CIO is demonstrated by cartoon in Saturday Pioneer Press shows Charlie Brown in a punkin patch shouting "AND THE GREAT PUBLIC OPTION WILL RISE OUT OF THE GREAT PUNKIN PATCH" [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 10:19am EDT
  by alanrph

• SOMEBODY LIES?

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Congressman Joe Wilson got into more trouble for telling the truth than President Barack Obama got into by telling a demonstrable lie about adding millions of people to the insurance rolls without adding a dime to the deficit. As regards providing medical insurance for illegal immigrants, I doubt that the [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
  by alanrph

• OBAMA LIES

  —For Personal Responsibility

  If ACORN and labor unions have to tell people how to vote, where to vote, etc. I wish to heck they would find another project. If folks are voting to see what the democrats will "give them", I'd rather have them remain in the dark. Don't vote unless you care [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:09pm EDT
  by alanrph

• THE ANOINTED ONE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them, "I am sent to save you." My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. I shall save you with hope and Change. Go, [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 7:27pm EDT
  by alanrph

• PUBLIC OPTION CHALLENGE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  My position on the "public option" with HR 3200 the Healthcare Reform bill is to replace it with HR 2355 Healthcare Choice. This bill sponsored by Republican Representive Shaddeg is designed to allow Individuals to choose any one of 1300 policies available in all 50 states of the U.S. This [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 10:51pm EDT
  by alanrph

• KORAN, A BOOK OF HATE

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Barack Obama, Tony Blair, and other Western leaders have praised the Koran as a "book of peace" -- without providing any evidence of actually having read it. It's time they did -- and it's time that all Westerners got to know the book that inspires our enemies to commit their [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 10:05pm EDT
  by alanrph

• TRIAL LAWYER RULE DEMOCRATS

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Physicians in Western Europe, with its much lower health care costs, do not spend half their time looking over their shoulders or perform unnecessary tests and procedures for fear of litigation. They don't have to worry about frivolous lawsuits driven by a contingency fee system unique to the USA. They' [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
  by alanrph

• WE NEED PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Do Americans have an allergy to consequences? We are not personally responsible for overdrafts, for being obese or for consuming too much oil. It's the bank's fault, it's McDonald's fault, it's General Motors' fault for producing SUVs. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Our present Obama administration is doing it's best to' [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 4:29pm EDT
  by alanrph

• "BUT....BUT....I WAS BEING NICE TO THEM"

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Cartoon, not funny, in Sunday Pioneer Press. Voice speaking , Obama?, from within the white house with a nuclear missle projecting from the roof. We have rried to negotiate or pacify previously with it never to work. [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 2:38pm EDT
  by alanrph

• OBAMA WITH ACORN

  —For Personal Responsibility

  Exactly how deep and damning were ACORNs activities and ACORNs ties to Barack Obama? Well, its difficult for the average American to find outand some people like it that way. In St. Paul Obama's ties with ACORN were virtually next door to each other. With Obama's campaign office at 777 [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 8:53pm EDT
  by alanrph

• OBAMA FAVORS MURDER

  —For Personal Responsibility

  A May report found that for the first time since Gallup began asking about abortion in 1995, more Americans are now anti-abortion than supportive of abortion rights. As it is now Obama, our anointed one, favors the Freedom of Choice Act that would reinstate the legality of partial birth abortion(murder [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 5:25pm EDT
  by alanrph