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the great roundup begins
2007-07-09 05:12:00
IMMIGRATION The elites brave debate has been silenced by the benighted masses. Even with the ad hoc endorsement of amnesty by the old media and polls confirming their stewardship of the issue, immigration reform has been stopped. Kennedy's shouting to opponents about the evil of their plan to roundup and send 20 million illegals home summed up the debate: since option one (the roundup) is
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last of the great society
2007-06-25 04:04:00
HIPPIES This is the last gasp for the summer of love - their present positions in the media, government bureaucracy and academia are at a pinnacle and will only recede in the coming decades. This is their Tet offensive - apparitionaly winning, but they may end up on the wrong side of history. Back in the late sixties/ early seventies communism was still expanding, the west was beginning a
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dont ask your doctor
2007-06-10 02:29:00
HEALTH CARE Spiraling health costs can easily be reduced by curtailing all the new medicine and procedures that cost so much. Big Pharma is our enemy driving up costs - we should take the European model and not let them advertise the benefits of their drugs. That way consumers are kept in the dark over what potential ailments they have and do not see their doctor to learn more. This is the fault
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law and order
2007-06-07 04:04:00
FRED THOMPSON What's not to like about Fred Thompson? Well he supports campaign finance reform (incumbent protection reform), but that is about it for now. He actually sounds like a politician who believes in the Constitutions provisions for federalism/states rights. Economics and national defense - so far so good. Entitlement reform will hopefully be a major focus in the GOP primaries. Giuliani
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gwb america
2007-06-05 01:01:00
MODERN LIBERAL LAMENT This is George W. Bushes America . We live in tyranny with detention camps, torture and wiretaps. 40 million Americans are uninsured and the genocide in Darfur continues. The US ignored Hiv/aids too long in Africa. Big oil has jacked up gas to over $3 a gallon and global warming is spreading rapidly. The assault weapons ban has lapsed and look at the Virginia Tech massacre.

select news fit to print
2007-05-22 00:53:00
NEWS MEDIA The news is a report of what is new so they don't report much on what has remained the same. Advertising is their customer so they report mainly to get viewers/readers that advertisers want to reach. The fact that some things are getting better all the time is not news in the sense that no political action is needed. They only report the expose and love to report acute rather than
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jimmy leaving for caracas
2007-05-18 03:06:00
SOCIALISM Why is everyone leaving? The Democratic Republic of Germany (communist newspeak for socialism) had to build a wall around West Berlin to keep all of east Germany leaving for West Germany. More people left Vietnam after the fall of Saigon then immigrated there. North Koreans are trapped deep inside an isolated totalitarianism. Rafters are leaving Cuba in droves - don't they know about
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research mercantilism
2007-05-06 05:32:00
STEM CELLS How is the nation responsible for a new research discovery assigned? Much research is done and credited as being discovered in the US, but often by foreign born persons - some US citizens, some with student visas. Half of all grad students are from over seas - largess of the US taxpayer to the university system. The brain drain from the rest of the world seems to benefit us well but
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the sky is falling again
2007-05-05 02:34:00
RECYCLING Just because one time one trash barge could not get rid of its garbage from NYC does not mean that there is a lack of landfill space. Just because an area you remember as farmland as a kid now has houses does not mean that sprawl is overwhelming farmland. Whoever believes these things has never been on an airplane across the U.S. When you look down there is barely anything there -

college for everyone
2007-05-04 03:37:00
IMMIGRATION Marxists talk as though people where living an idyllic country life and then rounded up - almost against their will - forced to move to the cities and work in factories. They mention the squalor and suffering of the cities, but most likely this was occurring in the country side - just concentration in the city made the problems more acute, less diffuse. Then Henry Ford came along,
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soup lines for everyone
2007-04-28 03:45:00
UNIVERSAL RIGHTS There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes. Despite this, a lot of people believe in universal positive rights. Everyone has a right to health care, a home, a decent paying job, a good education (material rights) the socialists say. Not just the right to pursue these things but rather they must be given to everyone on earth even if they are capable but unwilling to
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corporate welfare as we know it
2007-04-23 05:21:00
WEALTH Not all robber barons are the same. The so-called gilded age of the late 1800's and supposedly re-emerging today is full of popular populist myths. The original robber barons extracted tolls along the Rhine river by force in the middle ages - but Rockefeller and Gates competed in a competitive marketplace to gain their commanding advantage and did not rely on the fiat power of government.
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removed from accountability
2007-04-15 04:18:00
FEDERALISM Sitting at the bar, hat with sunglasses on the bill - cell phone plopped down on the table (to be spun occasionally), Joey contemplated all the injustices in the nation. You see, the states are cash strapped - their peoples don't tolerate large tax increases, and state government is often limited in open ended borrowing. Inbetween cell phone calls at the top of his lungs to Friends,
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religious fools
2007-04-08 00:41:00
RELIGION The chief characteristics of religion throughout history are (1)belief in a deity, (2)a doctrine of salvation, (3)a code of conduct (4)the use of sacred texts and (5)religious rituals. Also religion requires a leap of faith to explain some things that are not explained by science or are in contradiction to science. The Global Warming Religion fits this bill, a branch of the commi-enviro
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