Posted on July 31, 2009 by usna1957
So, what do we do with Scott Graham?
He lives in Buffalo, N.Y., and he suffers from Sickle Cell Anemia – he has no insurance.
The local ambulance service has transported him to the Emergency Room 603 times – sometimes twice a day — but that is not as often as he has called the 911 [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2009 by usna1957
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”
Barack Obama (Dreams, p. 99-100)
President Obama has appointed a Czar who was an admitted Communist in the mid-90 – and a left-wing [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2009 by usna1957
El Universal (Mexico City) 7/27/09
Recurrent violence in Chihuahua
Despite the massive Joint Operation Chihuahua [the combined military & police operation designed to curtail crime in the state] another 21 persons were assassinated in the last few hours in the state of Chihuahua, ten of them in the border city of Juarez. There [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2009 by usna1957
WSJ (Opinion):…”Big Government is why New Jersey created only 6,800 private sector jobs from 2000 to 2007—while public sector jobs grew by more than 55,800. Big Government is the reason New Jersey ranks as the worst of 50 states on the Small Business Survival Index. And Big Government is a leading reason New Jersey has [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2009 by usna1957
A man who is willing to die at the wheel is always likely to beat a man with a faster car — if he can survive to the end of the race.
Credo of Enzo Ferrari
Automobile racing has been around since the second car hit the street.
Filipe Maasa suffered a fractured skull last week when his [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2009 by usna1957
(CNSNews.com) – During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Democratic Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers.
“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2009 by usna1957
To paraphrase George Will: It is hard for Professor Gates to assume victim status when he is a Black Distinguished Professor at the most prestigious university in the world, living in a city with a Black Mayor, in a state with a Black Governor, in a nation with a Black President.
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Posted on July 27, 2009 by usna1957
The attack on the Liberty was never the subject of a valid Navy Investigation (the Navy investigation was literally completed by Adm. John McCain — yes, that one — before the dead crew were even buried), or a Congressional Investigation.
The Officers and crew of the Liberty have requested such a public investigation, but none has [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2009 by usna1957
The federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is more than $33 BILLION in the red, and has just assumed the $6.2 BILLION pension debt guarantee of Delphi Corporation – a General Motors division GM split off in 1999.
The Wall Street Journal figures that if the third – or fourth, depending upon how you count – [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2009 by usna1957
I continue to be amazed by a California media and a public who can look at a $15 billion cut when we have a $26 BILLION deficit, and declare a victory.
Somewhere there still appears to be an $11 billion problem, and one that will simply grow with the continuing revenue dip caused by the continuing [...]
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