Why did the MSM treat Barack Obama’s guided tour through the Middle East and Europe as a Major Event that required their nightly news anchors to fly to Jordan (CBS’ Katie Couric), Israel (ABC’s Charles Gibson) and Germany (NBC’s Brian Williams)? Believe it or not, John McCain talked them into it, reports The Associated Press: […]

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Come on, people. You don’t have to be Adrian Monk to figure this one out. As soon as I read about how German government statisticians couldn’t explain the sudden disappearance of over one million Germans, I knew immediately what the deal was (and it was elementary, Watson, or whatever your name is): They’re obviously already […]

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John McCain, of all people, should know that to make a claim, as he did recently, that America is winning the war in Iraq is disingenuous in the extreme. There is no doubt at all that conventional warfare, with battlefield deployment of forces and conventional tactics, will be won by the combatant with the overwhelming […]

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Giving his first press conference during his Middle East tour today, Barack Obama has shown his lack of knowledge and insight not only with the military strategies of our armed forces, but the politics and circumstances of the conflicting nations there, and of a democratic government and its processes.
Although admitting that there has been success […]

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It’s not so much that Barack Obama is so perfect a being that he lacks the sorts of foibles comedians seize upon to mock mercilessly, it’s more that jokemeisters don’t want to navigate a minefield of hypersensitivity that could destroy their careers. The fact that Obama has proven as prickly and prissy as any other […]

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David Schussler
With the upcoming elections just around the corner, is there enough time for Obama to assume credentials to substantially change the public’s opinion of his lack of experience in world affairs? For all of his community action experience, Obama still doesn’t even understand that the Iraqis deserve the same human rights that he has […]

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I almost swallowed my teeth.
Susan Faludi has an editorial in the NYTimes essentially saying that Obama is a wimp, and that she is happy about it.
Faludi’s theory is that we are beyond the macho paridigm (she uses a statue “the rescue” of a man protecting his wife and newborn from a Native American attack as […]

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By RB Scott 
In April Thomas Sowell, a respected conservative scholar, wrote an insidious column undercutting Barack Obama and attacking preemptively the presumptive stupidity and gullibility of an American electorate that would elect him President simply to make a little history. (http://www.townhall.com/col umnists/ThomasSowell/2008/0 4/29/an_old_newness )  
This would not be particularly noteworthy were Sowell not […]

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David Schussler
When speaking of fuel prices, environmental outlooks, food supply, freedom, trade, immigration, or war, market forces are in play. Market forces are a natural part of human evolution. As we have developed as a people, science, philosophy, religion, and business have enveloped our thinking and reasoning. This evolution of thought has created symbiotic relationships […]

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Barack Obama launched a Web site that fact-checks “smears” about him, his wife and his career. It remains to be seen whether this is an effective tactic against negative campaigning, but it certainly isn’t very funny.  
The New Yorker did much the same thing with its cover depicting President Obama - in full Muslim regalia […]

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Recently a few readers have sent me an e-mail that has been circulating around the internet for the past few months warning about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The e-mail says:
Think you know who this man is? This possible President of the United States!! We CANNOT have someone with this type of mentality running our […]

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The presidential candidate for change has adopted the twin themes of "hope" and "change" for his political campaign. These themes are the creation of David Axelrod, Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser. It was a stroke of brilliance to tap into the widespread disaffection with Washington D.C. and the growing irritation among normal citizens that they […]

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Boy, people are so easily upset these days. As I recall it was Zsa Zsa Gabor, that came out with the great line “The only worse than being talked about, is not being talked about”. In Ms. Gabor’s world, press was everything, there is no such thing as bad press. Any press is better than […]

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“The Economist” is a rightly respected commentator on the US Elections but in a recent article about Barack Obama they disappointingly argue that:
“Mr Obama needs to embrace centrism as a matter of conviction rather than flirting with it as an instrument of political expediency.”
For many of us looking at Obama as a real beacon […]

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For someone who is selling himself as a “uniter,” Barack Obama has managed to create fissures and fault lines between and among every conceivable voting bloc – and has even divided spouses and families.
Case in point: Jesse Jackson père and fils having a public falling out over the elder Jackson’s having been caught on tape […]

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The Senate’s passage this week of legislation renewing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is nothing more than a shocking ‘rub your nose in it’ for the average American. It rubber stamps the Feds ability to wire tap with impunity.
There are a number of cases wending their way through the court system about illegal, as […]

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Today, I read an article from the New York Times entitled “Obama won’t commit to event at military base.” The article was written, presumably after a press release announcing the event was disseminated, and states that Senator Obama will not commit to a Presidential Town Hall slated to be convened at the Bell County Expo […]

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Well Jessie thinks he is. Jessie Jackson, and the other member of the Bobbsey Twins, Al Sharpton are quick to poke their nose into areas that do not concern them. If it concerns racial issues, you can guarantee that these two jokers will be poking their noses in. Of course, […]

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Jesse Jackson’s comment about wanting to cut Obama’s nuts off has led to an interesting side effect for one entrepeneur.
Who would ever expect an everyday website advertising a business would become popular because of Reverend Jackson’s comments.
Well apparently the owner of “Obama’s Chocolate Nuts” is a happy man today thanks to the Rev. Jackson’s crude […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog  
On our most recent sortie through Sir Winston’s old papers and notes, we came across an item of interest, particularly in light of the philosophical divide that is the subtext of the current United States presidential contest.
It is an early draft of The Atlantic Charter , the 1941 statement composed by […]

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Our good friend the Rev. Jessie Jackson is once again in the news. Alas for our good Reverent, this latest goof may result in him and Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman reversing roles, with Duane offering some spiritual guidance to Jessie when in comes to becoming a better human being.
In something right out of Saturday Night Live […]

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Peter Steinfels of the NYTimes has read and analyzed Senator Obama’s speech proposing to increase funding of church charities as is done by President Bush’s “faith based initiatives”.
The original report was hopeful (NYTIMES LINK). The first part sounded hopeful:
In embracing the same general approach as Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama ran the political risk of alienating […]

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When The Stiletto was but a little penknife, a family member who was a young child during WWII recounted how easily the locals could pick out American spies: When an Americans eats, (s)he holds the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right hands while cutting food, then puts the knife down and switches the fork to the right […]

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It’s official. There were WMD’s in Iraq. Not fully developed WMD’s, but the infrastructure, scientists, and supplies available waiting for sanctions to be lifted and voila, Saddam back to normal.
The LATimes reports:
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached this Canadian port Saturday, completing […]

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Obama’s been in the news courting faith voters, talking to evangelical leaders.
McCain? He’s been visiting Colombia and Mexico. Ho hum. Yawn.
I was bemused when one political writer wondered if the hostage rescue in Colombia had been “timed” for his benefit. Tres estupido.  What if the rescue had gone wrong? But of course, the rescue merely […]

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The NYTimes has an interesting photo of Obama on one of their articles. THIS PHOTO. Maybe it’s an optical illusion, but dang, his arm is long, and his fingers are long…and as a doc, it made me stare…
No problem. Probably tall and thin, like his father.
Several others in his African family have the long thin […]

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Sometimes, when true believers come up to me and ask if I “Know Jesus Christ as my personal savior”, I answer: “Know Him? I almost got my a** shot off for him”.
That usually confuses them and shuts them up long enough for me to get away.
But my point was that words are cheap, and that […]

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New York’s X Governor Eliot Spitzer must be kicking himself round his Manhattan real estate office. If Spitz had played his cards sharper he could be in Albany watching state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno take flight from the capital sans state-owned helicopter.
Republican Bruno, a spry septuagenarian with a Crisco crest, first took office […]

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Usually when I write “Grandmom’s guide to computer” series, I get a geek who corrects my ignorance.
That’s fine: I’m a doctor, not a geek, and the series is trying to explain basic computer stuff that I had to learn painfully on my own to others who might, like me, be from the stone ages of […]

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The folks that created the constitution made the presidential spot open to whoever the public elected. This was a good decision, and one that has worked well for many years. In the 1970’s though we started to see a new trend. He with most money won.
Here we are in 2008, and the silliness has reached […]

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