Jersey Shore? Fuhgeddaboudit. Jersey City is the gem of reality TV. Shore is MTV. Jersey City is FBI. Like, how real is that? Killer videos of pols talking trash and passing cash have been unspooling in federal court in Newark at the trial of Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Beldini was busted last Summer in an […]

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The story carries the headline: France: Catholic Church Rejects Ban on Full-Face Veils
Except the “Catholic Church” did no such thing. The Bishop in charge of “interreligious dialogue” in France made a statement, but his opinion is not the opinion of the Catholic church.
“If we want Christian minorities in Muslim majority countries to enjoy […]

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According to published reports, analysts both overseas and in the U.S. note that President Obama’s State of the Union statement about revoking tax breaks for companies outsourcing jobs could open a ‘Pandora’s box’ full of problems.
A survey by independent analysts in India, Asia Sentinel of industry officials, finds that the nature of outsourcing itself does […]

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Democrats carped over the big spending of the Bush administration.  (True conservatives did, too, by the way.)  But when they got the reins, both the White House and Congress, Democrats made Republican spending look positively thrifty.
When they have lots of money, Democrats spend money on all sorts of government programs.  And when we have less […]

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The President’s State of the Union (SoU) address last week had a little something for everyone, contradictory policies, and not enough in any single area to make a difference in the economy.
First, there was something for everyone.  Bank bailouts are suddenly distasteful and the taxpayers need recompense for saving them; the […]

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When I came to the Philippines, I ripped my CD collection into MP3’s and brought most of my collection here on mp3 CD’s or on my hard drive. I had a fairly nice collection of “elevator music” (to use my son’s description), mainly because I worked in rural areas where it was easier to listen […]

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President Obama, who has overlooked various pork barrel spending projects placed into unrelated bills by the Congress, is reported to have decided to freeze the budget to NASA to prove he can cut the Federal Budget.
To put it bluntly, this means there is no money for the proposed Moon landing under his watch.
“This represents a […]

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Obama certainly looks down his nose in a condescending manner. Why do I hear “KNEEELLLLLLLLL BEFORE ZOD!!!” from Superman II in my ear?
In opening the State of Union, Obama mentioned the Speaker of the House, the Vice President and the American people. What, no acknowledgement of illegal aliens? Obama apparently is not as tolerant as […]

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Back in the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter was unlucky. He seemed to have a tin ear and do nothing right, and so Teddy Kennedy decided to rescue the party and run against him. Americans who saw the huge increase in gasoline prices, a sour economy, inflation that ate their savings, and mortgage rates of 12 percent, […]

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…He responds, not by changing his direction, apologizing, or bringing in new, non-communist people to take crucial lead positions in the administration; he brings in his old campaign manager, David Plouffe.

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What does one do with a country like Haiti, where years of occupation, corruption, and many different types of aid from outside hasn’t worked?
Lots of “it’s your fault” type stuff all over the internet: a lot of it uses the left wing’s meme of “Blame America” (and the right shouts back “Blame France”). Not mentioned, […]

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Unless you’ve been living in a closet for 2 week, or are a die-hard Obama supporter trying to avoid the news, Scott Brown, the Republican, won the special election to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.
Yes, that Ted Kennedy.
Was this simply a local election, judged solely on local issues?  I don’t think […]

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…one Earthquake all too physically destructive, the other a virtual earthquake - shaking our political fabric to its very core, and with it, destruction of the hopes and dreams of the far left.

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One of the headlines on Drudge reads:
CNN’s Gupta steps in for fleeing doctors…
The actual headline at CNN says: Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims, but the URL says “haiti.abandoned.patients”.
From the story
Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field […]

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There are a lot of Democrats like myself who will wonder why the Democratic party is using what they know is an obscene word, instead of bringing up the very real issues of the election.If you who aren’t familiar with the gay community, the word “teabagging” is a euphemism for a practice that normal Grandmoms […]

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PHOENIX –David Keller–Arizona representative John Shadegg (R) plans to retire after eight terms in the congress, Shadegg wanted to retire after his seventh term, but House Republicans convinced him to stay for one more term. Some pundits speculated Shadegg would run for the Senate in 2010 had John McCain been elected president. 
In a statement, Shadegg […]

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The Massachusetts Senate race is getting the headlines on Drudge. Hmm…makes me wonder what’s going on, when a state most famous for it’s welfare and compassion might vote for a Republican. Yes, I’m old enough to remember Romney and Senator Brooke, but they are the exception to the rule.
The funniest line in the race this […]

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The advertising campaigns on our local cable TV is “Malaysia, truly Asia”, suggesting that you can visit there and see all of Asia in a microcosm: The beaches of SEAsia, the foods of India, and the bargains of China, all in one.
Well, last week’s attacks on seven churches just lost them the visits of a […]

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A headline about President Obama’s Speech on national security from the Philippine Inquirer notes:
Obama speech won’t bump ‘Lost’ premiere–White House 
Well, after a kerfuffle about the President “bumping” Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special, it’s nice to see that President Obama has his priorities intact. (I should note that Pope John Paul II rescheduled his installation […]

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Pacifism
–noun
1. Opposition to war or violence of any kind.
2. Refusal to engage in military activity because of one’s principles or beliefs.
3. The principle or policy that all differences among nations should be adjusted without recourse to war.
In my post yesterday I mentioned that a so-called conservative friend on my facebook page had posted a video […]

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In my daily attempt to shed light on the liberal’s statist agenda that seeks to convert our fine republic into a socialist doormat for the world, I come across a great many characters with quite a few interesting viewpoints.
Throughout 2009, as President Obama and the liberal congress made it increasingly obvious that the oath they […]

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Thanksgiving 2009 in Slidell, Louisiana.

As a book reviewer I am the first to attest to the theory that fact is often stranger than fiction. I have not counted up the number of books that I have read in 2009, but I’ll bet it is way more than the regular person! The one genre of […]

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Phoenix-psburton- Republican strategists making the rounds of cable shows seem in a particularly good one might say gleeful mood this week. The November elections may be months away, but if the first week of 2010 is an augury of things to come. The GOP may be in sight of a path back from the political wastelands.
The […]

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Way back in 2001, letters containing powdered anthrax were sent to a bunch of news reporters and Congressmen, and because the powder was so fine several innocent people, mainly those who worked in the Post Office, died from the infection.
Despite initial worries that it was terrorism, later reports assured the American people that it probably […]

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TedLipien.com, SAN FRANCISCO — One group of U.S. Government employees that has not received much media scrutiny in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attack are U.S. diplomats who had issued and failed to cancel Mr. Abdulmutallab’s U.S. visa.
U.S. Consular Officers at the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Robin […]

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Being a long time Tolkien fan, I noted that the fan-site “The One Ring Net” had a note saying that the Professor’s birthday was January 3rd, and they suggested:

Tonite at 9 pm, raise a glass of your favorite Beer to celebrate the birthday of JRR Tolkien.
How appropriate. I usually don’t drink, but I suspect that […]

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It took a year for President Barack Obama to do it, but in his weekly address to the nation today (1/2/10) he finally got mad enough to get his teleprompter to use the word “terrorism.”
 
“All those involved in the attempted act of terrorism on Christmas must know you, too, will be held to account.”
(OK! The […]

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Autism Sunday 2010 - The International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome falls on 14th February. The Founders of Autism Sunday, parents and carers of a teenager with autism, Ivan and Charika Corea from the United Kingdom have urged campaigners around the world to use the occasion to campaign and lobby on the […]

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2009 has been, if nothing else, newsworthy.
It is the year Barack Hussein Obama, became our president; began his destruction of our economy in the name of “leveling the playing field; named a wide variety of unqualified “friends” to important positions in government and the judiciary; broke virtually every campaign promise; repeatedly apologized to the world […]

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A Broken System
To say that there was a breakdown in our transportaion security system, does a disservice to the word breakdown. 
Red flags and clear warnings not being used to thwart the recent attempted airliner bombing,  Shine a light on more than just a lack of screening equipment.  The basic threat assessment process was shelved […]

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