OK, so, clearly I’ve taken a little time off from posting, partly to clear my head, and partly because each of the posts I’ve been working on have either needed more attention than I have had time to give them last week, or because I didn’t feel that they successfully conveyed my points. Either way, [...]
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Big Surprise: After a week of denying ANY INVOLVEMENT in the scandal, after claiming that his Twitter account was hacked, after claiming to be a VICTIM, Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has admitted that it was all just him. He sent the picture, and he did it more than once. It was just “…me doing a dumb [...]
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“(The President) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and [...]
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Maybe you’ve heard…or maybe you haven’t…but WAAAAAAAAY back on March 22, Republican Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney posted a commentary at National Review Online that, if he were elected as President, “…on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states.” Sounds great, right? Well, let’s take [...]
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When last we spoke, I posted a very lengthy analysis about the President’s Speech from April 13th, which outlined his plans for dealing with our Nation’s Economic Woes. Among those plans included the proposal of raising taxes. His argument, of course, is that raising taxes on the “Top 2% of Wage Earners” help to fix [...]
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I pay a guy in my neighborhood to trim my grass. The community does the actual mowing, but I pay someone to come out and run the weed-whacker and trim the edges. He’s retired, it takes him about 10 minutes every couple of weeks, and I pay him $10/month to avoid the $40/per trim charge [...]
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In many of my posts, I’ve asked “Rhetorical Questions” as lead-ins to make my points. “Why do we have a House & Senate?” “What purpose does “Black History Month” really serve?” “What exactly is a ‘War on Poverty?’” I ask these questions specifically to give me the opportunity to examine the issue and provide what [...]
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“The Congress shall have the power…to declare War…” – The United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 The line between Freedom and Tyranny is paper-thin; specifically, the paper on which the Constitution of the United States was written. Our Constitution was intended from its initial inception to be VERY SPECIFIC regarding which branches of our [...]
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