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Obama’s Christmas Stocking

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Every Christmas, stockings are hung by the chimney with care, with the anticipation that each stocking owner will be properly rewarded for his or her behavior over the past year.    What will President Barack Obama get this Christmas?  If this citizen were Santa he would receive:

  • A lump of coal for using our economy, which had begun to stabilize when he took office,  as an excuse to pass a so-called $787 billion stimulus bill, which funded every big government program on the liberals’ wish list.

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December 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am

After the Tea Party

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Congratulations to all who participated in the nation-wide tea party protests.

Yes, you were heard, but in order to have a lasting effect, there must be a follow through.

If there had been no follow through after the 1773 protest in Boston Harbor –  no addition protests, no convening of the First Continental Congress, no Revolutionary War – there would be no United States of America. Read the rest of this entry »

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April 16th, 2009 at 12:00 am

Enough!

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The White House and the Democrat Congress are preparing to ram Obama’s massive budget blueprint down our throats as early as next week.

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March 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am