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Is Release Of Oil Reserves A Signal Of Panic In The White House?

June 29, 2011
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Bernanke is at a loss as to why the economic recovery once again is on life support. 429,000 unemployment claims up by 9000 this past week, the biggest jump in a month.  Obama shortens the time line for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan; and now without any sign of a supply disruption, he releases 30M gallons of [...]

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For-profit colleges promise veterans a high quality degree — but do they deliver? (VIDEO)

June 28, 2011
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I found something like 22 percent of veterans who are paid for under the new GI Bill — post-9/11 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan — are going to for-profit colleges. I also found that the tuition paid to colleges under the GI Bill, 35 percent of that money is going to for-profit colleges. So for-profit [...]

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Wanted Dead Or Dead

May 8, 2011

All the talk of not wanting to spike the ball somehow creates a false impression of nobility when it comes to the death  of Osama bin Laden.  The truth of the matter is that most covert operations, if not all, are a messy business with success determined by stealth, cunning, and in most cases brute force.  Had not [...]

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Obama In Quandary, Refers to Libya as ‘Turd Sandwich’ (VIDEO)

March 27, 2011

Panelist and NBC White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie on Meet The Press earlier today reported that President Obama in a meeting called the military action in Libya a “turd sandwich,’ indicative of Obama’s ambivalence on employing U.S. force in Libya.  Watch the entire video here→

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Obama Supporter Michael Moore Suggests Obama Should Give Back Nobel Peace Prize

March 26, 2011

Filmaker Michael Moore, a supporter of Obama for President in 2008, tweeted against the President’s recent military action in Libya.  Moore points out the dichotomy of U.S. foreign policy bombing against the Libyan tyrant at the same time not applying the same standard to the Saudis (invasion of Bahrain). In 2009, Moore objected to Obama’s resurgence of forces [...]

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Obama Is Weak

March 18, 2011

The ENGLISH are calling Obama weak : Don’t they get ESPN in England?  Didn’t they see the fact that Obama’s Pen is Mighty on ESPN? Obama’s pen is mighty — how is that going to help the nuclear disaster in Japan. How is that going to change housing starts (lowest in history) and the falling [...]

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U.S. Foreign Relations Still Marked by Bargains With The Devil (VIDEO)

February 8, 2011

As Condoleezza Rice pointed out the Bush approach to foreign relations with Hosni Mubarak was one of “stability at the expense of democracy.” These so-called devil bargains between the U.S. and dictators, Middle East expert Aaron Miller, explains are ones that fundamentally hold“…that as long as autocrats helped advance U.S. interests by maintaining stable relations with [...]

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In Your Face

August 24, 2010

Heated exchanges, protests, and inflamed rhetoric have surrounded the issue of the potential muslim cultural center and prayer room.  Although it isn’t exactly at Ground Zero, and it can’t be defined as a mosque; nevertheless, this real estate transaction is ill-advised and inappropriate. Some in the news media have argued that this is a New [...]

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

July 5, 2010

Read between the lines of the Rolling Stone article that resulted in the resignation of 4 star General McChrystal, and you will see that even the military has reservations about the inexperience of its Commander-in-Chief.  Consider this 4th of July that the first Commander-In-Chief was George Washington, a proven leader of men in the field, not [...]

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