If the history of slavery ought to teach us anything, it is that human beings cannot be trusted with unbridled power over other human beings — no matter what color or creed any of them are. The history of ancient despotism and modern totalitarianism practically shouts that same message from the blood-stained pages of...
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Archive for May 2nd, 2010
Filtering History
Democrats Try To Lock Up Their Base
“You have to decide what your goals are.” That’s what the Democratic staffer who wrote the marriage penalty into Obama’s Health Control Law told a Wall Street Journal reporter. Indeed, the Democrats and their feminist allies have decided on one of their major goals. It is to increase the number of single moms by...
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Whose Country Is This?
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there. Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America’s immigration...
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Stand Up For Arizona
Major demonstrations are to be held in 70 cities on May 1 to protest the new Arizona law to cope with an army of half a million illegal aliens now living there. Since Gov. Jan Brewer signed that law a week ago, Arizona has been subjected to savage attack as the modern embodiment of...
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Christian preacher arrested for saying homosexuality is a sin
A Christian street preacher was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God.
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Borel: From journeyman to Mr. Kentucky Derby
For Calvin Borel to complete his improbable middle-aged trek from career journeyman to Kentucky Derby legend, all it took was borrowing from Yogi Berra. It was just some deja vu all over again. For the second straight year, Borel, the ebullient 43-year-old Cajun jockey, dominated the Kentucky Derby with a rail-hugging ride that led...
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Bolivia nationalizes 4 power companies
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales announced a workers’ day takeover of four power companies on Saturday, expanding the state’s dominion over key industries. Morales signed the nationalization decree at offices of one of the companies in the central city of Cochabamba hours after police and soldiers moved in to secure them....
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Goldman the goat
Former President Bill Clinton says he’s “not at all sure” Goldman Sachs “violated the law.” But try telling that to his fellow Democrats, let alone the Securities and Exchange Commission. And to the Justice Department, which has jumped aboard the “get Wall Street” bandwagon by opening a criminal probe. Looks like Dems, led by...
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8 Questions for the Constantly Broke
If you find yourself nervously checking your bank account balance before payday, then perhaps it’s time to make some changes. Before swearing off restaurants or cutting up your credit card, ask yourself the following 8 questions, which are designed to help get you back on top of your finances. Do I know where my...
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O, Such Sad Deception
In his book entitled Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer recounts the tragedy of a town whose hopes had been abysmally dashed when they discovered that the man they deemed messiah was, in fact, a fraud. The novel begins with gruesome descriptions of massacres, the gory details which Singer drew almost word for word...
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