Secrecy Surrounds Silver Star Medal Revocation

Are John F. Kerry's medals also in danger of being yanked? Don't count on it.  Why his acolyte, retired US Navy Captain Wade Sanders, had his Silver Star for battlefield gallantry revoked, is a mystery.  Will incurious news media get to the bottom of the story?  Answer: It's doubtful.

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Who Will Shift the Balance Back to Productive Capitalism?

The firewalls that used to be in place restricting speculative capitalism need to be set back up. There is a difference between productive and speculative capitalism, and it is speculative capitalism that is contributing to the dire economic situation we are in now.

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Top Military Brass Slam Obama, Reid Proposed Budget Cuts

The question is – will we force our military to do more with less? The President has not made the distinction between cuts and military strategy, instead proposing defense cuts while expanding the military’s mission (Libya, Japan, Haiti, fighting pirates off the coast of Africa) and expecting our troops to maintain their current duties.

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Ambassador Butler, You Are on the Wrong Side!

U.S. Ambassador Lawrence Butler is wrong to condemn the resistance and the valor of the Iranian regime's victims instead of the crimes and atrocities committed by the Mullahs’ agents and torturers. A survivor recalls the execution of her parents and siblings for things like merely holding a memorial for a teenager who was shot for [...]

Truth Versus The Politics of Washington

None of the major players in this dog and pony show over the national debt and government spending have the answer.  But I can give you a real plan.  It is a plan that the Republican led House would reject.

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Balanced Budget Amendment Pros and Cons

The USA has more economic flexibility under our current system than it would after a budget-balancing amendment. All we have to do is reel in spending.

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The Casey Anthony Jurors: Hardly the Sharpest Noggins in the Courtroom

"Beyond a shadow of a doubt" means beyond any doubt whatsoever.  On the other hand, "beyond a reasonable doubt" means beyond any doubt arrived at through-say it with me now–reasoning.  Quite a difference between the two.

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Can’t We Just Regulate All American Industries Out of Existence?

I am a simple man and I thought this was ridiculous from the start. What happens if you are eating a potato chip and you accidentally cut your gum? Are you going to take a handful of antibiotics to fight the gang of bacteria flowing through your bloodstream? Probably not, but many people were forced [...]

A Candle in the Dark: Iranian Opposition TV Provides Hope

Iran National Television is getting the truth out about the Mullahs in Tehran. It always tells and discloses the pain of people of Iran and the crimes of the Iranian regime against the women and youth. It must not be silenced.

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Debt Ceiling: At the Crossroads

The bottom line is businesses cannot stand more regulation and taxes this is why hiring is slow. The smart play is to not raise the Debt Ceiling and start cutting the massive debt numerous Administrations and Congresses have created.

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Bachmann’s Tumultuous Road to the Lead

For conservatives, Ms. Bachmann’s weakness may be considered that she does not always prioritize the conservative movement over her personal preferences.

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Duly Noted; America Praised and Cursed

Condemning the USA is a symptom of subconsciously felt impotence.

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America’s Current Fiscal Crisis In Perspective

The nation has not yet hit rock bottom economically, but certain sectors such as California's government appear determined to get it there before any serious effort can be made to change course.

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Making Sense in the Age of Post-Intelligibility

We are currently bombarded with the aberrant claims of fashionable slave drivers who call themselves post-modernists, radical environmentalist, post-humanist, and other popular aberrations. In a recent interview on C-SPAN, a post-humanist said that the best way to save the environment is to have a world with no people. No wonder our prospective jurors and college [...]

Camp Ashraf

Like thousands of others who have loved ones in Iraq's refugee camp Camp Ashraf, it's hard for me to sleep at nights not knowing what could happen tomorrow. I just put my trust in the world conscious that it will not allow a new massacre to recur.

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The Gang of Six: Are they Rapists?

Is the Gang of Six Plan to solve the debt ceiling a good idea?

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Somali people suffer from Islamist cruelty and famine

The terrorist group Al Shabaab has reneged on lifting its ban on aid agencies. 

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I Love Sarah….BUT

Maybe, just maybe, Sarah is too complete, that is why the dislike for her by some.

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Boehner Begins The Cave-In

  Tea Party activists and other knowledgeable people were predicting that this would happen.  It happened before with the budget deal and seems to be happening again. 

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The Deception of Baseline Budgeting

If we really desire a return to fiscal sanity at the federal level; baseline budgeting must go.

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The New York Times Finds Its Poster Boy for White, Right-Wing Christian Terrorism

When it came to light that Anders Behring Breivik was responsible for the heinous acts of terrorism in Norway which, as of this writing, claimed the lives of 76 people last Friday The New York Times wasted no time in putting forward a narrative.

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The Left Wing Circular Firing Squad

Liberals have set themselves up for failure primarily because, as the rest of us all know, liberalism does not work. 

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Debt Ceiling: Entitlement Payments Secure!

President Obama used scare tactics on whether or not to send out Social Security checks due to the lack of raising the Debt Ceiling.

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What The Left Fails To Grasp Is That Gold Equals Jobs

Thomas Frank is yet another big name on the left to note and deplore the powerful uprising in favor of restoring the gold standard.

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New GOP Contemplates Suicide by Open Caucus in 2012

One of the latest disasters within the new GOP precincts is a push for either open primaries, caucus primaries or the worst of all options, both. Instead, the GOP should go to a closed primary system in every county across the country as it is the only way the GOP will ever produce a "conservative" [...]

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