Two governorships have fallen to Republicans, if the headlines have it right.
Yet most of the pundits are saying this is not a sign of disenchantment with the Congress and the President, but only local politics.
I’m not sure I agree. I think it is a sign that the “ordinary” folks are worried, and that they trust […]

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Ah, a British paper just pooh poohed the British victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saying that Prince Hal was not outnumbered 4 to 1, merely outnumbered 2 to 1.
Actually, the author misses the point, which is that the elite knights of France got slowed down by the mud and were massacred by ordinary British […]

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The latest kerfuffle on the Health Care bill is that the Obama church has leashed the Am Cath types against the Catholic bishops.
For those of you who are not Catholic, much of the church bureaucracy is full of those who claim Vatican II to justify changing the Catholic church into a Episcopalian wanna be church.
Luckily, […]

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In this day and age, it is difficult to get people to clearly tell you what they believe and support. It’s pretty much impossible to get this honesty from politicians. I have decided to air out my views on a variety of topics, at the risk of possibly alienating a few. I believe it is […]

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Juxtaposed on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on Saturday were two stories that tell opposite sides of the lingering economic crises.  One article discussed the slight uptick in global trade as an indicator of the economic recovery to come.  The total interchange of good and services between countries fell more sharply in […]

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While his accusation was out of order and unseemly, again we see he was right.  Wilson accused the President of lying when Obama said that health care reform wouldn’t cover illegal immigrants.  Recently, Obama tipped his hand on that claim, saying we had to make more the existing illegal ones legal so they can get […]

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Using a slight of hand and having his propaganda mill obscure what has been done, the Democrats and the Obama administration are planning to fund abortion in their health care bill.
The original “compromise” on abortion was a slight of hand that would force people to pay for abortion coverage themselves, similar to the way you […]

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It is foreboding of trouble when a proponent of an idea invokes the name of an ideological opposite in order to garner support.  And so it was when in desperation Sen. Jay Rockefeller ventured boldly about his public option for health care, “I think Adam Smith would have cooked up this amendment.”  [1]
The amendment failed […]

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Ah, the yearly collection for the Catholic campaign for human development is going on, and Catholics are once again asked to put their money into a fund that is essentially run by the left of center ideologues at the Catholic Bishop’s Conference.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Well,  for one thing, few people know where the money […]

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Ms. Lewis not only refused to answer, she refused to even look at him. Instead she immediately jumped into a prepared statement, saying, “Here’s the question that we really should be asking…” Wallace attempted to stop her, saying, “…no, no. Answer his question…” but she continued avoiding it, seeking instead the collective white guilt that had so been so effective in the past, “There are poor people in this country…” she started…” Wallace tried to redirect her back to the question seven more times, but she continued to talk over him…

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The precedence for Congress to micromanage wars is as old as this country. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington couldn’t get money from Congress to pay and clothe his troops.
 
Members of Congress interfered with Abraham Lincoln’s choices of Civil War generals.
 
President Franklyn Delano Roosevelt wisely waited until Nazi Germany sank some American ships before entering […]

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FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, Commentary by Ted Lipien, September 16, 2009, San Francisco — Censorship from Russia and China comes home to America in profit-oriented and staying-in-the-market-at-any-cost decisions by American businesses and sometimes even US government agencies, as FreeMediaOnline.org, a San Francisco-based media freedom nonprofit, has been documenting and reporting.
Few […]

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Censorship and self-censorship have become a permanent feature of the media scene in Russia under Mr. Putin’s rule. Many Americans, however, were surprised last week that this kind of censorship with origins in Moscow has now reached corporate boardrooms in their own country and even put limits on news generated by US taxpayer supported Radio […]

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If I were to be asked why I am leery of the President’s Health Care bill, I Could tell you in one phrase:
It’s the bioethics, stupid.
You see, few lay people read bioethics journals, and so the public is blissfully unaware how many philosophers in academia are busy writing  “quality of life” formulas that will decide […]

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FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, September 6, 2009, San Francisco — Neither the Voice of America nor Radio Liberty, both US government-funded international broadcasters, provided Internet users and radio listeners with a Russian translation of an article about Vladimir Putin which sparked a major controversy over censorship both in Russia and […]

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Once while filling in at an emergency room. I heard a conversation between an attending physician and the doc who had just arrived to work the evening shift. The attending physician asked him to check the X ray to ensure that the NG tube he had just placed was in the correct position before they […]

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I started working on an article earlier this morning about Representative Charles Rangel and his attempt to throw the race card into the healthcare reform debate.  In researching past quotes of Charles Rangel, I came across a quote of his which makes me want to immediately fly to New York or Washington DC, wherever this uneducated […]

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Well I bet nobody saw this coming.  Bogged down by sinking approval numbers for the President, and a growing disdain among Americans for the democrat led senate, Charles Rangel has enacted the ever-so-popular liberal defense mechanism, the race card.
 Rangel, the Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee stated that “bias” and “prejudice” toward Obama are fueling opposition […]

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Liberals have wasted no time in politicizing Ted Kennedy’s death. Rather than spending time honoring their fallen comrade, an idea which quite honestly makes me throw up in my mouth a little, they instead are using his death as a political rallying cry to tug at everyone’s emotions to support Obamacare.
Almost immediately after the attending […]

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Yes, the Academy of Family Physicians has been hijacked by the Democratic party to push their health care bill.
My latest email tells me:
We are closer than ever to achieving significant health care reform in America. Unfortunately, propaganda and misunderstanding about pending legislation threaten to derail its success.
“We” are closer? That implies that all Family physicians […]

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There is a lot of nonsense being written by all sorts about the late Senator Teddy Kennedy, but as a Senator, he was a hard worker for his constituents.
Yes, I know. Kennedy didn’t do such things personally, but he had a large and energetic staff to help him, and half the “trick” of being in […]

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There isn’t a lot in the local (Philippine) papers about the details of the US Health Care bill, but one article in our local newspaper mentioned that the President was getting out his own “activist base” to counter the grass roots protests at the town hall meetings.
WASHINGTON, August 18, 2009 (AFP) - President Barack Obama […]

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Does Huntsman’s Road Through Beijing Lead To The Obama White House?
When President Barack Obama rang up Utah’s moderate Republican Governor Jon Huntsman a while back to feel him out about joining a Democratic administration, insiders say the first question out of his mouth went something like this: “So, are you going to run against me […]

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In the news lately we here the term “czar” being mentioned more and more frequently.  Many Americans may think this just a cute title for another President Obama appointee, but when you delve into the issue a little deeper the concept becomes at a minimum, troubling.  
There are currently (15) cabinet members appointed by the President […]

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The rhetoric on the US Health Care debate needs to calm down a bit on both sides. There is enough fear in the grassroots about the bill that plans to ram through a bill at this point will only result in a Republican sweep in 2010.
Let’s cut through the rhetoric and check a few facts.
One: […]

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Yes, it’s recess time for the US Congress, and there are some red faces in Congress because the Wall Street Journal and the local newspaper in Seattle just noticed a cushy trip to the Galapagos, the Great Barrier Reef, and the South Pole as a fact finding trip to discover “global warming”.
One would think that […]

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FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, Commentary by Ted Lipien, August 18, 2009, San Francisco — Ever since the United States Information Agency (USIA) was dismantled in a foolish post-Cold War cost-cutting move, the U.S. State Department and American diplomats abroad have not been able to present a coherent message to foreign […]

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To begin: An excerpt from a discussion about National Health Care that frames my argument.
“Beyond the political and economic considerations in the debate regarding national health care are questions of whether citizens in the United States possess the right to such care. Few people question that Congress has the power, both under the Commerce Clause […]

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On August 15th (August 14 in the US), Japan surrendered, ending the long struggles of World War II.
One would think that the end of a war that cost millions of Asian civilians their lives would cause rejoicing, but a lot of news organizations are ignoring the story.
The New York Times, admonished last year by a […]

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Michael Jackson was a pop star icon who earned the title, ‘King of Pop.’  He was a talented singer and dancer who broke down barriers for the African-American community.  Unfortunately, he was also a tortured soul who suffered through two marriages and divorces, along with medical and substance abuse problems.  His lifestyle and behavior often […]

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