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Who’s Parenting Our Children?

U.S. education bureaucrats have gone mad. And parents like me are letting them get away with it.  The New York Post reports today that school officials on Long Island and elsewhere are now placing electronic devices on children they deem “overweight” to monitor the children’s physical activities. They are doing it without even asking the permission of parents. If I wasn’t so busy watching […]

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Bad-Ass Patriots

http://youtu.be/7dKWBDdAN0Y Only in today’s music world would a patriotic rock band be seen as radical, but that’s exactly what Madison Rising is quickly becoming known as in the liberal-dominated music industry — bad-ass radical.  The pro-military, pro-free-market, anti-protest rockers are considered so against the grain, in fact, that they were banned from playing in Zuccotti […]

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The Obama Brand Squandered

  Maureen Callahan pens an 1,800-plus-word piece in The New York Post today on the rise and fall of President Obama’s brand.  It’s a great read. Callahan captures a presidency at sea brilliantly, at one point equating the President with the 1980’s “New Coke” marketing fiasco. “What happened to Cool Barack Obama?,she asks. “The one who sank […]

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