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Monday, June 17, 2013
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on June 17, 2013 at 02:22 pm
A recent poll shows North Dakotans strongly supporting the currently discussed immigration “reform” bill. Before we jump to too many conclusions here, though, we should examine the primary question posed…...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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on June 12, 2013 at 05:06 pm
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (Benjamin Franklin, 1759) Before we decide that Edward Snowden is a “traitor”,…...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
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on June 4, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Word has just come down from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s office that he has decided NOT to appoint anyone to serve out the late Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg’s term. …...
Sunday, May 26, 2013
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on May 26, 2013 at 10:55 pm
Memorial Day has rolled around again . . . the beginning of the glorious season of summer in America. Along with the traditional observances of the day of the valor…...
Friday, May 24, 2013
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on May 24, 2013 at 01:04 pm
We in America tend to think of London as a storybook world. The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London, rainy streets…...
Thursday, May 09, 2013
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on May 9, 2013 at 07:19 pm
San Francisco DA George Gascon, has weighed in with his idea on how to combat what is a raging problem in fighting crime – the theft of cell phones, and…...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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on April 23, 2013 at 01:23 pm
Is anyone else getting sick of the press attempting to make excuses for the Tsarnaevs? Regarding these young men (and note, I did not say “boys”), it would seem that…...
Monday, March 25, 2013
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on March 25, 2013 at 12:51 pm
We keep hearing about the “autopsy” being performed by Reince Preibus, Republican National Committee chairman. He believes that, now, after a morals-neutral Progressive campaign has once again failed to deliver…...
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on March 25, 2013 at 11:25 am
Democrats opposing Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Lamar Alexander in their efforts to give parents choice in their children’s education and opportunities for low-income students to benefit from school choice,…...
Monday, March 18, 2013
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on March 18, 2013 at 11:25 pm
I just read Mark Steyn’s “Song of the Week” feature on “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” and enjoyed his informative and erudite discussion of the remarkable Chauncey Olcott and a…...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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on March 13, 2013 at 12:34 pm
When you don’t have a superior product to sell, the last thing you want to offer is a choice. Education – or the lack thereof – has been much in…...
Thursday, March 07, 2013
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on March 7, 2013 at 01:01 pm
What could you do with an expense account of half a million dollars per year? I don’t know about you, but most of my acquaintances could paint the world a…...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
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on February 5, 2013 at 02:17 pm
It is probable that we are witnessing the end days of at least one part of our political culture – the Republican Party. It would seem that our extensive exploration…...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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on January 16, 2013 at 03:46 pm
President Obama went ahead and decreed that he and his family should enjoy lifelong Secret Service protection. No one really argued with him. It was undoubtedly one of his more…...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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on January 15, 2013 at 03:32 pm
Directly following the horrendous massacre at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut, I proposed that, rather than banning guns (inasmuch as Connecticut and the rest of America have already banned murder…...
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on January 15, 2013 at 03:25 pm
Again with the “get with the times”, “demographics are changing and Republicans need to change with them if they want to win elections”! Last time we examined the perceived abandonment…...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
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on January 1, 2013 at 01:51 pm
So, President Obama chose, on the far fringe of the grass that is growing on the edge of the "fiscal cliff" to issue an Executive Order authorizing pay increases across…...
Sunday, December 23, 2012
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on December 23, 2012 at 11:31 am
I am completely out of patience with this. It is disgusting beyond the gag reflex to keep hearing one self-serving, suppliant politician after another bowing and scraping on yet another…...
By
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on December 23, 2012 at 11:23 am
Last time we discussed the spurned Conservative vote and why we needed that vote to win. But that doesn’t really interest the people who talk about lost elections – people…...
By
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on December 23, 2012 at 11:21 am
Among the best known symbols of Christmas are the bells – church bells chiming, sleigh bells jingling, and the ringing of the Salvation Army’s bells. The Salvation Army kettles themselves…...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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on November 13, 2012 at 10:33 am
With all the post-mortem commentary on the airwaves, very little of it has focused on those people who had a tremendous impact on this election – by staying home. For…...
Friday, November 02, 2012
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on November 2, 2012 at 10:53 am
I recently had a conversation with the regional director of a national tea party organization. He told me that they have a strict policy of never endorsing a single candidate.…...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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on September 18, 2012 at 11:03 am
On this Constitution Day, September 17, 2012, we have yet one more threat to our Bill of Rights: Islamists half a world away and their accomplice in the White House. …...
Thursday, August 09, 2012
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on August 9, 2012 at 08:20 am
As the weeks before the election dwindle down, and on the eve of the Republican Convention, it seems appropriate to consider the state of the GOP. We have at the…...
Monday, July 30, 2012
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on July 30, 2012 at 08:55 am
Last week I ran across an item on Drudge. Rob Port also wrote about it in his Sayanythingblog. A vicious, deadly attack was perpetrated against innocent shoppers in a Salt…...
Thursday, July 26, 2012
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on July 26, 2012 at 05:26 pm
BETTER THAN GUN CONTROL? With all that’s been said in the past several days about alleged mass murderer James Holmes, and throughout the resuscitated gun control discussion, there are a…...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
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on June 14, 2012 at 11:25 am
Who cares what secrets the Justice Department is keeping from us? Who cares what we don’t know about Fast and Furious? What are we doing about what we DO…...
Friday, May 11, 2012
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on May 11, 2012 at 08:51 am
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the…...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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on April 11, 2012 at 07:43 am
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve…...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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on March 29, 2012 at 02:21 pm
To no one’s surprise, last week President Obama was caught on a hot mic again. This time he was leaning over to apprise Russian President Medvedev of his…...
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