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Big Brother Loves You, Will Text You to Prove It

May 11, 2011
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Big Brother Loves You, Will Text You to Prove It

By Jim Lakely Worry not, scared Americans. The government bureaucracies that brought you the eternal “Orange Alert” in airports are now stepping up their efforts to protect you from a terrorist attack by plugging into your cell phone: Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city. If Times Square needs to be evacuated because of a bomb threat or if a hurricane is bearing down on Queens, warnings will be bounced from cell…

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Giving Obama a Mulligan for Playing Golf While Poland Mourns

April 20, 2010
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Giving Obama a Mulligan for Playing Golf While Poland Mourns

Stephen G. Smith, the editor of the reliably conservative Washington Examiner, penned an op-ed piece on Monday defending President Obama’s decision to play golf on Sunday when the erupting volcano in Iceland grounded his planned trip to Poland to attend the funeral of fallen president Lech Kaczynski. You’ll find no greater fan of golf on Earth than me. But I’m not convinced by Smith’s attempt to make light of this kerfuffle. Smith starts out chalking up complaints about Obama’s golf outing on such a dark…

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Liberty, Equality, and ‘Barack the Good’

March 30, 2010
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Shelby Steele returns to the pages of the Wall Street Journal with another provocative essay on the Barack Obama Phenomenon. But is freedom really in conflict with "the good"? Or is something else going on?

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The Sad Decline of Peggy Noonan

March 22, 2010
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The Sad Decline of Peggy Noonan

It’s almost getting tiresome to me, this picking on Peggy Noonan for her naivete concerning Barack Obama. Almost. She’s coming around to the truth of Obama’s hard leftism and the phoniness of his HopeyChange campaign rhetoric slower than my quest to lose that extra 20 pounds I’ve been carrying around for five years. At some point, I expect Noonan’s BS meter to finally redline, and read a column in the vital Wall Street Journal in which her great talents are righteously unleashed on Obama. But…

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Will Conservatives Endorse Big Government Education?

March 18, 2010
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Will Conservatives Endorse Big Government Education?

At a time when conservatives regularly promote limited government and condemn further encroachment by the federal government into the nation’s health insurance system, the last thing they should be doing is lending support to a program that will increase the government’s role in citizens’ lives. Unfortunately, that is exactly what one noted conservative is doing when it comes to education in America. Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn encourages conservatives to follow his lead in endorsing the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), a…

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Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

January 26, 2010
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Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

President Obama will be delivering his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night — and it should be an interesting address in the wake of the Massachusetts Miracle and the collapse of ObamaCare in Congress. Certainly, the speech-writers have been working overtime this week to make the proper (and, hopefully, humblng) adjustments. The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank peopled by scholars of a libertarian bent, is going to be live-blogging Obama’s speech. It will be using the “Cover it Live” program, which means…

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UK Entertainers Bemoan Tax Hikes, Portend Grim U.S. Future

May 12, 2009
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UK Entertainers Bemoan Tax Hikes, Portend Grim U.S. Future

    An excellent article at Big Hollywood notes that prominent entertainers in the UK are coming out in opposition to the government’s plan to push the top individual income tax rate over 50 percent. The article by Big Hollywood columnist "Stage Right" quotes Andrew Lloyd Webber from an oped the renowned composer wrote for the Daily Mail pointing out that the contemplated tax hikes would push many of the nation’s most productive people into exile:

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Obama’s Science Project

January 31, 2009
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Obama’s Science Project

            Science has become the real church of the post-Christian West, the authority in all things, including the vast areas of knowledge it is utterly unequipped to handle. And what science means is always defined with an eye toward politics and the hoped-for destruction of Christian civilization, Mike D’Virgilio writes.  

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Obama’s Grand Melodrama

January 22, 2009
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Obama’s Grand Melodrama

            S. T. Karnick identifies the real narrative behind the Obama phenomenon.  

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Obama Featured in Superhero Comic

January 9, 2009
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Obama Featured in Superhero Comic

Now that he has raised the Dead, it only makes sense that President-elect Barack Obama has become the subject of a superhero comic book. The amusingly inane lefties at Marvel Comics are releasing a special issue of Amazing Spider-Man this coming Wednesday, in which Obama and Spider-Man team up to stop a villain called The Chameleon from disrupting the presidential inauguration. USA Today quoted Marvel editor in chief Joe Quesada as saying the decision was nonpartisan and was based on Marvel’s excitement over hearing that…

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Obama Raises the Dead!

January 8, 2009
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Obama Raises the Dead!

    President-elect Barack Obama has a true miracle to his credit: raising the Dead. The remaining members of the classic rock group the Grateful Dead have just announced they will tour this year for the first time in half a decade. Band members told Rolling Stone magazine in November that they had resolved their personal and artistic differences after an October concert to benefit Obama. —S. T. Karnick Comment on this article!

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The 2008 Elections: What Did They Mean?

November 11, 2008
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The 2008 Elections: What Did They Mean?

        Economist and Heartland Institute think tank president Joseph Bast looks at what the recent elections say about the basic ideas and attitudes of the American people today.

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Angelina Jolie’s Political Leanings Causing Speculation, Concern

September 18, 2008
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Angelina Jolie’s Political Leanings Causing Speculation, Concern

          Hollywood watchers are wondering whether Angelina Jolie will follow her father’s lead and come out in support of Sen. John McCain’s bid for the presidency. Don’t laugh: this actually matters.

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Homosexual Activists Attack Obama Supporter

October 23, 2007
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Homosexual Activists Attack Obama Supporter

A homosexual activism group has called on presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to disassociate himself from a gospel singer who believes homosexual behavior is a choice and not a biological compulsion. Donnie McClurkin, who is scheduled to be among a group of gospel singers raising money for Obama at a concert in South Carolina this weekend, has drawn homosexual activists’ ire by saying, "Sexuality, everything is a matter of choice," as quoted by AP. The AP story quotes McClurkin as saying he disapproves of…

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