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By: John Stossel - 9/4/2010 |
You own a business, maybe a restaurant. You’ve got a lot to worry about. You have to make sure the food is safe and tastes good, that the place is clean and appealing, that workers are friendly and paid according to a hundred Labor Department and IRS rules.
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By: Michael Reagan - 8/30/2010 |
It’s almost as if President Obama’s agenda includes provoking anger at himself. And it’s not just Republicans he’s provoking. It’s just about anybody who crosses his path, even his party’s deranged left wing. Long-time liberal Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel is a case in point. The veteran Harlem congressman reacted to criticism from the president, who called on him to “end his career with dignity,” by remarking that Obama hasn’t “been around long enough to determine what my dignity is.”
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By: Chuck Norris - 8/25/2010 |
Last week, the media, White House and nation were in a hullabaloo over a Pew Research Center poll that revealed that 1 in 5 Americans believes President Barack Obama is a Muslim. The poll received so much attention and response that the White House released a rebuttal reiterating that President Obama is "a committed Christian." The fact is Americans are more baffled now by Obama’s personal religion than they were when he first came into office.
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By: Pat Buchanan - 8/25/2010 |
"Where are the Republican leaders who will reject pandering and prejudice?" wailed The Washington Post in its most recent editorial in support of Cordoba House mosque near Ground Zero. Like the controversy over the mosque, the Post editorial reveals the two Americas we have become, uncomprehending of and hostile to each other, even as we drift apart.
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By: Michael Reagan - 8/17/2010 |
The members of the media who savaged my stepmother Nancy Reagan for buying new china for the White House -- dinnerware that will last for decades -- have for the most part either ignored the cost and the significance of Michelle Obama’s regal visit to Spain or downplayed it.
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By: Tina Dupuy - 8/17/2010 |
The MSNBC documentary series Lock Up ran a story earlier this month about a Maricopa County Jail inmate charged with identity theft named Cecil Kunkel. The 29-year-old Kunkel has a swastika tattooed on top of his “skinhead.” He’s covered in “white power” slogans and imagery. The only ink-free spot on him is an empty space in the shape of another swastika over his heart. The crew first finds him spending time in the hole as disciplinary action for refusing to house with black inmates. When asked why he refuses, Kunkel says, “Because it’s wrong…nothing personal - it’s just the way it is.”
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By: John Stossel - 8/17/2010 |
Last weekend, President Obama pandered for votes by trashing Social Security privatization. "I’d have thought that debate would’ve been put to rest once and for all by the financial crisis we’ve just experienced," Obama said. "(N)o one would want to place bets with Social Security on Wall Street."
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By: Pat Buchanan - 8/16/2010 |
Have we ever had a president so disconnected from the heart of America? On Friday night, at a White House iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Obama strode directly into the blazing controversy over whether a mosque should be built two blocks from Ground Zero.
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By: Chuck Norris - 8/16/2010 |
More than they have been at any other time in U.S. history, our First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion are in jeopardy. As if recently passed "hate crime" laws and a politically correct culture weren’t bad enough. Now our president is using international pressure and possibly law to establish a prohibition against insulting Islam or Muslims. Let me remind us how we got here.
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By: Chuck Norris - 8/11/2010 |
Sarah Palin said this past week that unlike Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, President Barack Obama lacks "the cojones" to deal with illegal immigration and America’s border problems. I agree. In fact, hers was an understatement. Actually, the only cojones President Obama has shown throughout this whole American boundary debacle are those to oppose that fine governor, turn his back on the great people of Arizona, empower drug lords, and enable illegal immigration and contraband to continue to run through our borders like gnats through screens.
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By: John Stossel - 8/11/2010 |
I’m getting tired of Alan Greenspan. First, the former Federal Reserve chairman blamed an allegedly unregulated free market for the housing and financial debacle. Now he favors repealing the Bush-era tax cuts.
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By: Pat Buchanan - 8/11/2010 |
Federal Judge Vaughn Walker is truly a visionary. Peering at the 14th Amendment, Walker found something there the authors of the amendment never knew they put there, and even the Warren Court never found there: The states of the Union must recognize same-sex marriages as equal to traditional marriage. With his discovery, Walker declared Proposition 8, by which 5.5 million Californians voted to prohibit state recognition of gay marriage, null and void. What the people of California voted for is irrelevant, said Walker; you cannot vote to take away constitutional rights.
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By: John Stossel - 8/4/2010 |
In "Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity," I bet my readers $1,000 that they couldn’t name one thing that government does better than the private sector. I am yet to pay. Free enterprise does everything better. Why? Because if private companies don’t do things efficiently, they lose money and die. Unlike government, they cannot compel payment through the power to tax.
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By: Chuck Norris - 8/2/2010 |
Last week, I gave evidence of how the Obama administration is importing its overseas policy of assassination and implementing it stateside against U.S. citizens it deems as radical threats to American security and safety. (If you have not read Part 1, please do so before you read the rest of Part 2.)
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By: Pat Buchanan - 8/2/2010 |
High among the blunders of history was the "blank cheque" Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit. Five weeks later, Vienna cashed the check and declared war, after Belgrade refused to submit to all 10 demands of an ultimatum. Russia mobilized; Germany and France followed. And war came, the bloodiest in all of European history with 9 million soldiers in their graves.
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By: Steven Samblis - 8/2/2010 |
ADMIRAL MICHAEL MULLEN: These, the scope and the volume of these leaks are unprecedented. And the specifics of them and I’ve been through some of them. But we’ve still got a lot of work to do to, to really put the details together. But I think the leaks themselves don’t look clearly at the war that we’re in. There is an ability to put this kind of information together in the world that we’re living in and the potential for costing us lives, I think, is significant. I said when it first occurred I was appalled. I remain appalled and that the potential for the loss of lives of American soldiers or coalition soldiers or Afghan citizens is clearly there.
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By: Pat Buchanan - 8/2/2010 |
Asked if the United States might send still more troops to Afghanistan, if the Obama surge is not succeeding by year’s end, Vice President Joe Biden answered, "I do not believe so." So, that is it. Biden is saying the 100,000 U.S. troops in theater or on the way is our limit. If Kabul and the Afghan army fail with this investment of American forces, they will be permitted to fail. All the chips we are going to commit are now on the table.
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By: Martha Randolph Carr - 7/19/2010 |
We can all agree that Middle Class America is bone tired of bailing out Corporate America for the foreseeable future. There were millions of federal tax dollars paid out to large corporations in 2008 and 2009 to save them from their own hubris while the actual taxpayers lost their jobs, their savings and in too many instances their homes. It has worn us out hearing about the woes of big executives who had to go without their bonuses and sell their second homes.
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By: Pat Buchanan - 7/2/2010 |
For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao’s China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring. In 2011, said the Financial Times, China will surpass the United States as first manufacturing power, a title America has held since surpassing Great Britain around 1890. Each years, China passes a new milestone.
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By: Pat Buchanan - 6/26/2010 |
In Year One of the Reagan Revolution, in which he was a shining star, Budget Director David Stockman told reporter William Greider: "Kemp-Roth (President Reagan’s 1981 tax cut) was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate. ... It’s kind of hard to sell ’trickle down.’ So the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really ’trickle down.’ Supply-side is ’trickle-down’ theory."
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