Martin Luther King once wished that we could be judged by not by the colour of our skin but by our personal achievements.
I’m old enough to remember my own medical school had a (unacknowledged) quota for Jewish students (ten percent of the class), blacks and Asians (one or two token students), and up to a […]

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Whew. President Obama’s first 100 days are behind us. Give-him-a-break time is over. Snark on. For the last three months, going to the newsstand has been like being waylaid by someone’s doting mother armed with a load of photo albums. “This is Barack giving a speech,” gushes Mom. “Here he is giving another. And in […]

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I wasn’t too surprised that Proposition 8,which defended traditional marriage, passed in California because of the large number of Black and Hispanic Democrats who voted against it.
Their votes were actually about how people traditionally live together, and the place of marriage in society, but fifty years after the sexual revolution, one doubts that the mainstream […]

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My grandkids are into Facebook, and most people in the US know how the anti war opposition used Facebook and other internet social sites to help catapult Senator Obama to win the US elections last year.
But using Facebook groups for political purposes is not limited to the US.
Here in the Philippines, we have a big […]

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To those out there desperately trying to paste together scraps of enthusiasm by singing the poetic praises of VP Dick Cheney, please don’t expect the average conservative out in flyover country  to join your little Republican booster club.     Certainly, there is not much to disagree with in what the former VP says.  No doubt, we’re […]

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I seethed in anger last March, when Nancy Pelosi helped to jiggle the votes for the Democratic convention so that the super-delegates and the caucuses would be able to nullify the popular votes in the primaries.
This enabled the hard left, who had hijacked a lot of the caucuses, to have their candidate Barack Obama win, […]

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Thanks to an (as it turned out) ill-timed trip planned months in advance, The Stiletto has not yet seen the new “Star Trek” prequel (maybe this week). In the meantime, The Stiletto is reading everything she can about the movie and has noticed that, for some reason, most articles include details about the writers’ childhoods […]

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You may be thinking that I am talking about the female servicemember, but I am actually talking about her counterpart, the military spouse (of which approximately 93 percent are still women).   According to the Rand Corporation, the research organization often used to conduct studies for the Department of Defense, although military spouses often have more […]

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I am aghast that the so called “catholic Democrats” are dismissing Professor Glendon as a conservative.
Actually, she is not a conservative. Even the New York Times noted that she is considered one of the founders of the Communitarian movement, a group that has long been associated with the Democratic party.
So, what is a communitarian?
Well, in […]

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I suspect the present day witch-hunt against those who “tortured” has more to do with politics than reality. Why? Because I’m old enough to remember the laments of the Church committee hearings back in the 1970’s.
Those hearings resulted in the CIA pulling back from the “hands-on” dirty work of spying, relying more on electronic surveillance […]

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Well Conservatives have been waiting around patiently for a leader to rise to the surface of the Republican Party.   Someone that would speak out boldly and radically in defense of our Nation, the Constitution and Conservatism.  Yes we need impetuous radicals in the Republican Party, too,  to counter the multitude of progressive radicals in the […]

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a timely rant…..by Darvin Dowdy
Do you hear it?  A resounding Death Knell  ( link1 ) for the Republican Party?  Has the cloaked Grim Reaper  ( link2 ) cast its shadow  of doom over the Conservative Movement?   The slow cadence of the funeral dirge has already begun as the procession  moves toward the two gravesites. 
But wait.  […]

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In these stressful times you might find yourself having trouble dropping off to sleep.  So many things to worry about, you know?  Well if you are in need of a good sedative tonight but are wanting to avoid heavy medication, may I recommend, hot off the presses, the “Republican Road to Recovery”.   Gingerly presented, courtesy […]

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A few days ago, a sister forwarded a plea that I join thousands of Mormons like us in protesting this Sunday’s segment of Big Love, which will include a portrayal of the temple rites practiced and held sacred by faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Instead of training my keyboard […]

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MEMO TO: Richard Feducci, Overlord of Finance
FROM: E Pluribus, Wondergod
SUBJECT: Five Year International Finance Plan
DATE: January 1, 2005
Happy New Year, Rich. Got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: We’re going to let the American economy crater. The good news: Everybody else’s will, too. The best news: By 2010, we’ll be on […]

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Luckily for me, I retired from medicine just in time.
If the Obama administration has it’s way, I would be fired for not giving out abortion pills.
Because quietly, the adminstration has released a proposal to remove HHS regulations recently added by the Bush administration that reinforced the 1964 Civil Rights act that said companies could not […]

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The Obama Revolution by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer is the first book to be written by an Obama staffer about the 2008 campaign. The book promises an insider account of the Obama campaign, but does it deliver?

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Jimmy Carter has done it again: pushing peace with a murderous government who has a history of killing their political opponents, and who has broken agreements in the past.
Jimmy Carter also speaks of hope.
In a statement Saturday, the members of The Elders founded by former President Nelson Mandela said they hoped the deal would ease […]

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Only last week, David Brooks was praising President Obama, and actually cited the fact that he allowed Dr. Mark Dybul to stay as an example of Obama’s bilateral approach to government:
Dybul is one of those heroes one meets too rarely in government. He worked as an AIDS doctor in San Francisco in the 1980s and […]

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On his first day on the job, President Barack Obama signed an executive order (his second) barring executive branch staff from accepting gifts from lobbyists. All well and good, but this  could create a sticky wicket with the government of Canada, which is in a position to give the president a rare and precious gift: […]

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Congressman Murtha again shows his ignorance of his own district when he offers to house Gitmo prisoners in his Congressional district in Pennsylavania.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Democrat who is a leading critic of the Iraq war says he would have no qualms about transferring Guantanamo detainees to a prison in his Pennsylvania district.
Suspected […]

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When I heard that President elect Obama was planning to appoint Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the new Surgeon General of the US, I thought it was a great idea.
But apparently, he’s stubbed some partisan toes along the way, and they are planning their revenge.
A couple years ago, iconoclastic filmmaker Michael Moore made a movie Sicko […]

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 In case anyone missed it and especially for my American friends, please take this link  to Michael Tomasky’s American “Hall of Shame” for the year 2008. His choice of Sarah Palin as runner-up (to Bernard Madoff) is well backed up by this vituperative but accurate description of “everyone’s favourite hockey Mom” (sic … or do […]

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Subtitle: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Although American Theocracy is Kevin Phillips’ thirteenth book, it is the first one I have read. In fact, I had never even heard of Mr. Phillips until I saw him on Charlie Rose a few years ago. That interview coincided […]

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Pilot Mike Connell, Karl Rove’s computer guru and a key witness in a potential criminal case against the long time Bush political operative, died instantly when his Piper Supercub crashed and exploded in a neighborhood near Akron, Ohio one week before Christmas.
Mike Connell had been caught up in at least two major legal probes, one involving the disappearance […]

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A recent poll by CNN discovered that our illustrious VP Dick Cheney has gained the dubious honor of being the most disliked VP ever! The Midwest Voices out of Kansas City screams out the headline Good riddance to Dick Cheney. Pretty much that seems to be the general sentiment.
The question becomes, why is he so […]

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John Edwards Affair/Scandal:
Rielle Hunter Back in New Jersey

John Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter and daughter, Frances Quinn, are back on the East coast. After money man, Fred Baron, passed away October 30, Hunter’s hush money payments have stopped and she was forced to trade ritzy Santa Barbara for a more pedestrian setting: New Jersey.

It’s the […]

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Yes, I’m not a psychologist, but as a Family Practitioner in rural areas, I’ve diagnosed and treated my share of mental illnesses in my patients. So I am appalled at the press swallowing the spin that Governor Blagojevich’s desire for money/bribes is a “mental illness”.
CBS2Chicago:
Gov. Rod Blagojevich knew for months he was under investigation, so […]

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Here in the Philippines, we figure that all politicians are on the take.
Politicians visiting the Presidential palace get gift boxes containing thousands of dollars in pesos; fertilizer funds are funneled to politicians to distribute right before an election (and many, but not all, of the politicians made money off the deal, by buying the fertilizer […]

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The New York Times allowed G-d knows how many innocent trees to die so that it could publish a self-serving, deeply disingenuous op-ed by terrorist-cum-educator William Ayers – who actually expects us to feel sorry for his being pilloried during the presidential campaign:
I was cast in the “unrepentant terrorist” role; I felt at times […]

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