Presidential Politics: There’s some good news and some bad news for the President. First the good: back when gas was about $3.39 a gallon (locally) I predicted that if it went up another 40 cents then President Obama would lose in November. Gas did go up by that much and more, but it has come […]
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President Barack Obama has had a tough time of it in recent weeks. Did the trouble start when he was trying to honor a Polish American and made a reference to Polish concentration camps,” or was that much ado about nothing? When I first read about this, I dismissed it, thinking that he obviously meant
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The Democrats and the Unions tried to unseat Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in a special recall election because they felt that he was attacking public employees (like teachers) by undermining their ability to engage in collective bargaining. Earlier, Democrat legislators had temporarily fled the state to try to stall voting on some of the measures
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Barack Obama and Mitt Romney demonstrated again this week why they are going to be running against each other in November. The President has reversed course and okayed the completion of at least a portion of the Keystone oil pipeline. It is a move that will frustrate environmentalists, despite the fact that apparently the Environmental
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I read in the Washington Post that protesters in Yemen, who want to oust the ruthless dictator there, are upset that the United States won’t help them. These protesters think that the USA is just chasing headlines–when the body count gets too high, like in Libya, the United States gets interested. Meanwhile, the United States
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