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04
Jul
2009
The Left’s Assault on the Declaration of Independence  

9 hours ago by Get in Shape

Quote of the Day: No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people. ~ Thomas Paine Morning Bell: The Left's Assault on the Declaration of ...

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Palin Resigns: “We are not retreating, we are advancing in another ...  

18 hours ago by Rufus

More here, and just about everywhere else on the Internet, including Threedonia’s Friday Open Thread. (And for the record; we are all in a bar, celebrating Independence Day Eve. Kriskey caught the news on one of those scrolls when he looked at the bar TV to check on the score of the BoSox-Mariners g ...

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02
Jul
2009
The Problem With Power  

1 day ago by KevinCK

In a letter to a friend, the historian and political theorist Lord Acton wrote: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. And lately, we can see exactly what he means. Monica Conyers, wife of Senator John Conyers, recently confessed to takin ...

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01
Jul
2009
Hitchens: Lets ban the burka  

3 days ago by JohnFN

Christopher Hitchens believes its time to drop the veil – as as matter of law. Western masochism about other people’s “culture” often obscures this obvious fact. Think of the things that we all have to do now, like submitting to humiliating searches at airports, or showing our ID to people who have ...

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California, Here We Come!  

3 days ago by Mike

The Washington Examiner has a good editorial up about some recent puzzling comments made by President Obama. While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address on Monday his model for the nation’s economy – ...

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30
Jun
2009
Sympathy: Empathy’s Red-Headed Stepbrother  

4 days ago by Mike

In yesterday’s Best of the Web, James Taranto remarks upon the Supreme Court’s decision in the Ricci case. Specifically, he notes a little sparring between Justices Alito and Ginsburg regarding the role of “sympathy” in the justice system. …an exchange between Justice Ginsburg (writing for the disse ...

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We’re All Anti-Semites Now  

4 days ago by whitewraithe

June 26, 2009 By Henry Makow Ph.D. Anti-Semitism used to refer to a racial prejudice against Jews. Now “hate” is a codeword for something else: Opposition to Zionism, a political program that many Jews find repugnant. By equating “hate” with opposition to Zionism, organized Jewry has given everyone ...

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Krugman making it too easy  

4 days ago by JohnFN

Nobel economist and sham columnist, Paul Krugman of the New York Times, has labeled anyone opposed to the Democrats behemoth crap-and-trade legislation as a “traitor to the planet.” Even as President Obama has relented on some of the finer points of the legislation, Krugman has pushed it a step furt ...

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28
Jun
2009
‘Cap and Trade’ More Like ‘Bait and Switch’  

6 days ago by Mike

Andrew Price at Commentarama has the best summary of this fiasco I have seen anywhere: Why did they do this? Short answer: they don’t like you. Longer answer: Environmental theologians, like Al Gore the Prophet, believe that carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping “greenhouse” gas, is the primary cause of g ...

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27
Jun
2009
Bill? What bill?  

7 days ago by JohnFN

Just like the stimulus package, Obama’s cap and trade catastrophe passed without a single member of the house reading it. To give more cause for concern, the bill doesn’t officially exist. There is no copy available to read. By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which ...

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