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Tweet There’s a sad story making the rounds telling about a woman on a safari in Africa who wanted to get a picture of herself in the same frame as some rhinoceroses: The Beeld newspaper reported Tuesday that Chantal Beyer said the game park owner snapped pictures and suggested that she “stand just a little [...]

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Tweet Most politicians would have pandered in response to the question a CAIR person posed in the video below.  Not Allen West.  As he said, near the end of his own answer to the question, “I’ve been on the battlefield….”  Maybe we ought to make battlefield experience a prerequisite for honest politicians.  It seems that [...]

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Tweet Earl sent me a link to an article about the shameful corruption that characterizes Argentinian politics.  Earl included in his email a reference to the Perons, whose malevolent aura still hangs over the Argentinian political scene: Argentina’s government has become a massive racketeering operation. The list of international swindles the government has committed entirely [...]

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Tweet Obama wants more and more of our money, so that they government can exercise more and more control over every aspect of our lives.  John Hindraker has the bottom-line about that worldview: The real lesson of the Sanford fiasco is, given the frequency with which politicians display appalling judgment, weak character, and a pathological [...]

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Tweet In response to an earlier post I did about Obama’s habit of lying about easily verifiable events, beliefs and associations in his past, echeccone made the statement, one we’ve often heard, that “every politician lies.” There’s a kind of sweeping truth to that statement, but its very broadness hides the fact that not all [...]

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