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  • James Thoburn wrote a new blog post: DemSpeak   4 months, 1 week ago · View

    In honor of all the recent banter from the left regarding their extraordinary claims about what the healthcare bill will do for America (NOT!) I though I’d write a quick dictionary explaining what they really mean with each of these claims. Claim: “this bill will reduce the deficit by _(insert huge amount here)_ by _(insert two [...]

  • James Thoburn wrote a new blog post: Liar (Lost In Arrogant Resolve)   4 months, 1 week ago · View

    Barack Obama is a Liar.  Capital ‘L’ Liar.  Change we can believe in?  The only change he brought to Washington was the money from my pocket.  So much for those campaign promises of transparent honest government, of changing the way politics was done, of ousting the backroom deals.  And I’m not surprised to hear him [...]

  • James Thoburn wrote a new blog post: We sit upon the Great Abyss.   4 months, 1 week ago · View

    Tonight America may change forever.  In a few hours the house will vote on whether to send the senate version of the healthcare bill to the President’s desk.  If it passes, a few hours later, they will vote on the ‘fixes’ to the senate bill that will be sent to the Senate for a vote.  [...]

  • dennis powers wrote a new blog post: Taking the 10th   4 months, 1 week ago · View

    Your Honor, I’ll Take the 10th No, not the 5th – the 10th. The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides protection to the states from encroachment by the federal government. The federal government has become more and more involved in our everyday lives from the college football bowls to the compulsory low-flush [...]

  • James Thoburn wrote a new blog post: The Iceberg He Hit   5 months ago · View

    Van Jones probably wasn’t referring to the ‘economy’ President Barack H. Obama pretends to have inherited from his predecessor when at tonight’s NAACP awards ceremony he saluted Barry, who as he put it “volunteered to be the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg and we still floating.” Van Jones, who was fired almost immediately [...]

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