When I think of pre-Revolutionary America I tend to think of the Boston Tea Party, not the one sparked by CNBC’s Rick Santelli. But pollster Pat Caddell is suggesting that Americans have again reached a “pre-revolutionary” state of mind, based on alarming new polling data showing that just 17% of Americans believe that the U.S. Government “has […]
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Lucille Ball, Candy Shop
http://youtu.be/uztA6JCKB4s Lucille Ball would have been 100 yesterday. With all the lousy news out there today, I thought we could all use a taste of her charms.
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Just when I was feeling pretty good about 2012, I see photos like this one from “The Response”, the 30,000-person prayer rally headlined today by Texas governor and probable presidential candidate Rick Perry. It gives me a slight case of the willies. Maybe it’s because I come from the Northeast where we don’t wear religion on […]
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Inflexible town officials and law enforcement officials around the country have found a new target to bully this summer: Children illegally operating lemonade stands, according to a piece by National Review editor Rich Lowry in The New York Post today. The law is the law, these buzz killers say. In one case, an official demanded on the […]
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Communist China released a statement last night in reaction to the S&P downgrade saying that the U.S. needs to cut its “bloated social welfare” programs. Communist China.
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“There was drama at the White House this week when a man tried to hurl himself over the fence. But the Secret Service intervened and talked the president into going back inside and finishing his term,” Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal, 08-05-11
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The culprits have been exposed. Those greedy millionaires that President Obama and the Democratic Party have been pounding on for months have been identified. There are 235,413 of them, according to solid reporting from Jennifer Epstein of Politico today. They comprise .01% of the U.S. population. A small subsection of them — 8,274 people– made more […]
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Anyone remember the show James at 15? If you were around in the 1970’s, it would be hard not to. Lance Kerwin played the title character in the popular teen drama that became James at 16 before it ended. It was the story of a boy trying to make it in this day and age, in […]
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University of Virginia Law School professor Christopher Sprigman tries to begin a Draft Hillary movement in the Chicago Tribune today. The former Obama supporter and Democratic National Committee lecturer blasts away at President Obama, writing: “I’m not a political expert, so I don’t know if Obama can be re-elected. I only know he shouldn’t be. […]
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A friend and neighbor sent me this Associated Press story today reporting on a fledgling bi-partisan effort in the U.S. Senate to stop sending “development aid” to China. Ya think? Twelve senators have signed on so far. (Twelve? I would have thought 99 would be sponsors — self-professed socialist Bernie Sanders from Vermont probably wants […]
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