The Journal
obama
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Nothing is Free
I have said this before, but campaign promises in Queensland and arguments in US about health insurance coverage make the point worth repeating. When people say something should be free, what they are really saying is…
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Something’s Happening in the World
Remember this? Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a directive to Iran’s military and political leaders to ‘take all necessary steps to protect’ the revolutionary government of Iran. An order from Gen Mohammed Ali Jaafari, the…
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More Americans Trust Netanyahu Than Obama
The margin is not high, but still, that’s one little bright spot in a world of depressing news. The Washington Examiner reports: Americans might be more frustrated with Obama than they are irritated by Netanyahu. “A poll…
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Let’s Overlook Obama’s Failures – Mariela Castro
Yep, Obama gets a ringing endorsement from the pampered niece of Fidel Castro. “Let’s overlook President Obama’s failures during his first term,” advised Raul Castro’s daughter Mariela to Congresspersons Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey and Sam Farr…
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Pay Up for the Misery Tour
A black bus that looks like a monstrous hearse, and not one US flag in sight. This is the bus Darth Vader would have picked. Not just a misery tour, but a genuinely stupid idea.
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Kicking Our Allies
A few days ago communist China launched its first (albeit recycled) aircraft carrier. Whatever else this is, it is an attempt to project Chinese authority over the Western Pacific. A renewed reason to demonstrate and affirm moral and material support…
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The Good Samaritan Did Not Use a Government Credit Card
Those dastardly right-wing Christians are at it again. This time they are claiming that we serve the poor best by being financially responsibile: … we do not need to “protect programs for the poor.” We need to protect…
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Thoughts on Bin Laden’s Death
I wrote a few weeks ago that the death penalty should be kept as an option, but used very rarely – when it seemed to be the only way to protect society from a vicious and dangerous…
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Emperor Obama
Minion: Sire, the people have no fuel! Obama: Then let them drive hybrids. I am surprised (OK, I’m not) that this has not had wider coverage in the press. Fuel prices in the US have risen…
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Libya vs Iraq
Muammar Ghadafi (or however we’re supposed to spell his name this week) is not a nice guy. He doesn’t seem to me to be quite at the Saddam Hussein level of gassing the Kurds and running over…
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US and UN Condemn Britain Over Links to Libya
The US ambassador to London, Louis Susman, made an implicit attack on the UK’s attempts to welcome Col Gaddafi back into the international diplomatic fold in recent years. ‘I would suggest that to deal with [Gaddafi]…
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A Tree By Its Fruits
So what kind of fruit tree is Obama? From Hot Air: The Bible says that you will know a tree by the kind of fruit it bears, meaning that you will know what someone believes by…
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Nonie Darwish On The Enemy Within
Nonie Darwish says she believes it was inevitable the Muslim Brotherhood would take edvantage of any civil unrest after what they would have seen as encouragement in President Obama’s Cairo speech: I foresaw that there could…
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Can Obama Really be That Naive?
‘Don’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood’, President Obama is reported as saying, ‘they don’t have majority support.’ Maybe not, but they do have majority support for the majority of things they believe in – an islamist state,…
