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No-bama

January 16, 2012

In trying to decide who should be our next President, we first have to ask if our current President deserves a second term. This should be based upon his performance in office, not on the political party to which he belongs. Does Obama deserve a second term ? Let's look at his record. I have [...]

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Newt, Polling, and Obama's Big Class Warfare Speech

December 8, 2011

Newt Watch: With Gingrich leading in the Republican primary polls, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) threatened to release a thousand pages of material from Gingrich's 90's ethics investigation. Unfortunately for Mrs. Pelosi, Gingrich quickly pointed out that it would be a violation of House ethics rules were Pelosi to release that information. Oops. How [...]

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Newt And Everything Else

November 18, 2011

Here's the rest of the scoop on Newt Gingrich's not-so-conservative positions, from the Cato Institute: Gingrich's campaign nearly imploded this summer when he dismissed Rep. Paul Ryan's, R-Wis., Medicare reform plan as "right-wing social engineering." But that gaffe was a window into Gingrich's irresponsible approach toward entitlements. In 2003, Gingrich stumped hard for President George [...]

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Newt And Freddie

November 17, 2011

In his 2011 book, "To Save America", GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wrote the following (from Bloomberg): [The two companies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae] “are so thoroughly politicized and preside over such irresponsible lending policies that they need to be replaced with smaller, private companies operating without government guarantees, whose leaders focus on making [...]

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Super Committee, Presidential Race, ObamaCare

November 15, 2011

Not-So-Super Committee: The congressional Super Committee is tasked with cutting $1.2 trillion from future deficits over the next decade. They can accomplish this by cutting spending or raising taxes. They have 9 days left to complete their mission before automatic cuts to defense and entitlements go into effect. Thus far, the Super Committee has been [...]

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Quotable Quotes

November 11, 2011

The Lord Of The Flies movement takes baby steps… All Animals Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others: “We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out to curb the influx of derelicts.” – OWS kitchen volunteer Rafael Moreno All Animals Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others, Part [...]

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Cain Puts Foot In Mouth…Plus Bonus OWS Quiz !

October 19, 2011

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain once said foreign policy was not his strong suit. And he keeps proving himself correct. Yesterday, Cain said he might release all the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in exchange for one American hostage. Apparently, Mr. Cain didn't get the memo – we don't negotiate with terrorists ! Can you imagine [...]

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The GOP ? What's That ?

October 8, 2011

A 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll discovered that most people don't know what the Republican party acronym 'GOP' stands for. I wasn't too surprised by that. It's not that important. For the record, 'GOP' stands for 'Greed Over People' (source: MSNBC). A new poll is much more disturbing. Pew Research found that most Americans aren't paying [...]

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Liberal Bachmann Blather

July 3, 2011

Now that Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) is making some noise in the GOP Iowa primary, the attacks from the left have begun in earnest. No surprise there. It's to be expected. After reading a half dozen or so attack pieces from the left against Bachmann, you begin to pickup the common threads. Thus far, the left [...]

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Here It Comes Again

June 29, 2011

Presidential campaign season is here, which means the mainstream media will begin actively campaigning for the Democrats, as usual. One of the ways the media does this is by asking Democratic candidates policy questions on current issues, and then turning around and playing Trivial Pursuit with Republican candidates, asking them history and science questions in [...]

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New Hampshire GOP Debate

June 14, 2011

Last night, CNN hosted a GOP primary debate in New Hampshire (rush CNN transcript here). The Republican presidential contenders were Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain. After watching this debate, I'll say this right up front – I'd vote for any of them over Barack Obama [...]

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Ron Paul Wins CPAC Presidential Poll

February 13, 2011

For the second year in a row, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Politicial Action Conference (CPAC). Paul is noted for his Libertarian political views. Here are the full results of the poll: Congressman Ron Paul (Texas): 30% Mitt Romney (Mass.): 23% Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson: 6% NJ [...]

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