Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Open Letter to Sen. Sherrod Brown: Publicize Failures of Health Care Reform
Dear Senator Brown: I am in receipt of your e-mail of July 20, the text of which follows this letter. In that e-mail, you promise to vote for health care reform, and you use various tales of woe to illustrate the allegedly ruinous state of our health care system. So you want stories about the health...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Does New Hate Crimes Legislation Exempt Armed Forces Members as Victims?
Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that new hate crimes legislation likely will exclude members of the Armed Forces as victims. His reason for this is the lack, in his opinion, of any history of hate crimes against them. When asked by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) if the recent murder of an...
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
The Political Quote of the Month?
“Barack Obama will fall like a hot air balloon with a prick in it” – talk show host Bill Cunningham, July 5, 2009. I would modify that slightly as follows: “The Obama presidency will fall like a hot air balloon with a prick in it.”
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Conservatives are “Rooting Against America” by Opposing Cap and Tax
Get a load of this quote from Misrepresentative Henry Waxman, co-author of the Cap and Tax bill that passed the House of Misrepresentatives Friday: He was asked by Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC, “ "Republican leader John Boehner, in explaining why he was reading the bill on the floor," meaning the...
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Not Good for the Resume – Supreme Court Throws Out Sotomayor Ruling
President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, took a most untimely black mark to the resume today when the Court reversed her ruling that unfairly denied promotions to white firefighters because of their race. The reversal comes only a couple of weeks before her confirmation...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Rocks in Their Heads: City Tickets People for Parking in Their Driveways
Sometime in the 1950s, the city council of Toledo, Ohio passed a law that proved a fell precursor of far too many subsequent examples of Government sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong. To paraphrase the law slightly while capturing the mindset of the Government that created it: Thou shalt not...
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Does Obama Understand the Iranian Election?
President Obama lauded what he called the “vigorous debate” that he maintains is a part of today’s Iranian election. He also took credit for initiating this so-called debate with his recent tour of the Arab nations. Obama said, “ We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Dept. of Justice Halts Verification of Voter Citizenship in Georgia
Here’s an appropriate follow-up to a story I posted Sunday, in which I discussed the Obama Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against three New Black Panthers who had been charged with voter intimidation. These three gentlemen, one armed with a nightstick that he brandished at voters,...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Obama Justice Dept Drops Voter Intimidation Charges against Black Panthers
During the presidential elections, three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense were charged by the Bush administration with using threats, coercion and intimidation against voters. Two of them stationed themselves outside a Philadelphia polling place so that voters could not avoid...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
What is The Most Important Qualification for a Judge?
Maybe I’m just being silly, but I could have thought that knowledge of the law and the ability to apply it fairly and equally was the most important criteria for a judge. On the basis of how recent minority appointments to the Supreme Court have been treated, I was obviously wrong. Judicial...
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