Duly Noted – The Greek Crisis is Also Yours

The beneficiaries of allocated handouts are always surprised when they are presented with the donor's final bill.

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Democrats and the T.E.A. Party

After more than two years of vilification and excoriation have Progressive Democrats found the lever to destroy the T.E.A. Party? [...]

Bachmann Can’t Have It Both Ways

Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann is trying to have her cake and eat it too where it concerns a Federal Marriage Amendment and states' rights.

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Personal Honor among Leftists and Conservatives

Compare the really creepy trio of Weiner, Edwards and Blagojevich with the six Republicans who just participated in the New Hampshire Debates (forget, please, for the moment politics, and think only of personal honor.)  Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum have never been accused of adultery or perjury [...]

What Housing Bubble?

What the pundits want you to buy into is that some how the price of homes were being driven up for no reason what so ever and it reached this magical ceiling and it all came crashing down. How do we fix the problem? In order to jump start the economy we have to roll [...]

The Bear in the Woods

Which GOP best antidote for the poisonous bite of the bear that Ronald Reagan so famously warned us about?

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Silliness About Who Has To Give Up Their Day Jobs

It is unfair how some private citizens have been forced to give up their day jobs in order to run for President, while others serving in Congress have not.

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U.S. Middle-East Policy Still in Disarray

The revolts throughout the Arab world have shown that Israel is not the central problem, and yet our president and his State Department seem to follow the old line that the Palestine question is the root of all the Middle East's problems.

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How much is the Oil coming from the Strategic Reserve going to cost us, again

What happens to the oil prices as Obama tries to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserves? They will go up. But if the Democrats were smart, they would not have sold the oil to the oil companies. They would have exchanged the oil for future oil in kind. 

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Book Review – The Patriot’s History Reader

This companion volume to A Patriot's History of The United States is a useful compilation of important historic documents.

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Duly Noted – Making Crime Pay and the Courage of Our Convictions

  "We like to forget that freedom is not a natural condition nor is it gained or maintained for free."

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Man Induced Environmental Disaster

 

The continuing environmental disaster occurring in the states of Arizona and New Mexico are proof positive that environmentalists are a danger to the planet.

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Homeowners’ Associations Becoming Unavoidable and Quasi-Governmental

90 percent of new homes in Maricopa County are located within HOAs. They are becoming impossible to avoid. You trade in almost all your rights to live under an essentially socialist government that has little oversight. It has gotten worse in the economic downturn, with HOAs aggressively racking up unfair and excessive fees on existing [...]

Recovery? What Recovery?

Keynesian economics has failed to remedy another recession or depression, depending on your point of view.  Governments never seem to learn from their mistakes. 

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Is Jon Stewart America’s Most Consistently Misinformed Talk Show Host?

Stewart may be, considering that he doesn't check where he gets his "facts" from and who is responsible for creating them.  [...]

Michele Bachmann: Queen or Kingmaker?

Remember Sarah Palin? She's the former leading lady of the conservative core of the Republican Party. As of Monday evening, she's a reality TV star, Republican fundraiser and media obsession - but her presidential ambitions are now foreclosed. The reason is that Sarah Palin's quasi-vacant seat at the Republican table has been filled by conservative sensation [...]

Lessons In Apologetics #7: Panentheism

According to Alfred North Whitehead, God is bipolar. According to process theology, God changes over time, must rely on us for the accomplishment of His plans in the world, and cannot assure from eternity past that He will ultimately prevail.

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Whither Palestine?

Where is President Obama trying to go on the Palestinian state question, and how likely is he to have any success, given Palestinian and Israeli positions? In the following essay, an analysis will be presented. The popular saying "only fools dare to tread where wise men fear to go" is probably applicable here.

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The “Courtier’s Reply” Ploy

Atheists have a new tactic to avoid confronting the voluminous evidence for God: When your debate opponent catches you dismissing valid scholarship, cry "Courtier' Reply!"

 

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On Wisconsin! Democrats Take Big Hit in Likely Landmark Decision

Supreme Court strikes down lower court ruling of a liberal activist judge.  Governor Scott Walker and Republican majorities are vindicated while the awesome power of public unions lording over ordinary taxpayers is curtailed…at least for the moment. in the Badger State.  Automatic withdrawal of members' union dues from government paychecks takes a hit in the new law, causing overriding concern for [...]

Duly Noted – Bluntly About NATO

NATO may have outlived its usefulness to Europe and to the United States under the present circumstances

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Obama Bombs Bombing Libya

The irony of liberal Democrat Obama instigating military action while Republicans object, relying upon the Democrat-passed War Powers Act of 1973 to challenge him.  

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Understanding Our Enemies’ Intentions

To date, too few Western leaders have taken Iranian leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Ali Khameneiat their word when they say that Israel must disappear from the map and/or the pages of history. Nor should jihad be understood only in terms of martial actions; jihad can and does take the form of economic warfare and [...]

Stan Musial Deserves a Better Biography

George Vecsey's Biography of "Stan The Man" is disappointing for a variety of reasons.  

 

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The Secret Knowledge

 David Mamet's foray into political philosophy is a triumph, or is that too modest a word?

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