How many times have you heard Mr. Obama say he wants to reform the tax code so that the “wealthiest” Americans and biggest corporations pay their “fair share” of taxes. After the debt-ceiling bill Congress passed last fall, the president said the following: It also means reforming our tax code ...
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I have struggled along with most conservatives with the decision of who to support in the primaries and caucuses. I have watched all the televised debates and have read almost everything I could find on all the major candidates. I will support whoever the Republican nominee is, although I would ...
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I did it again. On Thanksgiving I jokingly said to a very liberal member of my extended family, “I thought you’d be at Occupy Wall Street tonight.” I thought it would elicit a laugh thinking even most liberals realize how stupid OWS is. To my surprise she told me she ...
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The country is more divided now that at any point in my lifetime, including the 60′s when anti-war protestors incited violence all over the country. I was just a kid then, but I remember vividly the images on television of wounded soldiers coming home from Vietnam, shootings at Kent State ...
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The Occupy Wall Street crowd claim they represent 99% of Americans. It’s time they were introduced to We Are The 53%. Their name represents the percentage of Americans who actually have a job and pay taxes for themselves and the other 47% who pay nothing. You won’t see these folks ...
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The term ‘Useful Idiots’ was originally invented in Soviet Russia to describe people who, while Lenin and Stalin were committing atrocities against their own people, blindly supported them and their cause out of ignorance. Today, the term is usually used to describe unthinking proponents of communism and socialism in America ...
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Our founders knew the dangers of big government long before Lord Acton uttered the phrase “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” They understood human nature as well as history. They knew that no matter how well-intentioned a benevolent government may start out, its natural course was to ...
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How Stupid Must We Be?
by Jeff Lewis on January 27, 2012
I sat through the president’s entire State of the Union speech Tuesday evening. I’ll probably get some kind of award for doing that because the TV ratings were the lowest for an Obama SOTU speech to date. It was on par with the ratings for George W’s last one in ...
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