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By Mr. Curmudgeon:Along a ridge at a cemetery, a stone wall marks the farthest advance of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Pickett's Charge at the battle of Gettysburg marked what historians call the high watermark of the Confederacy, the crowded moment when the war to preserve America's constitutional system would prevail or die. Lincoln's Army of the Potomac held the stone wall and stopped Lee's attempt to preserve the South's slaveocracy.Tuesday night, America's political right and the Republican Party hit a stone wall and, like Lee's army, they will never recover. In spite of extraordinary get-out-the-vote efforts by...
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By Dr Walid PharesWhen Senator Barack Obama ran for office in 2008, most Americans of Arabic and Middle Eastern origin supported him. Mobilized as were many Americans for "change" on the one hand, these communities were also submitted to an impressive campaign by Islamist-leaning organizations and supporters of Arab regimes, on the other hand, all opposed to the incumbent's foreign policy then. They used President Bush's endorsement of Arizona Senate Republican John McCain to frame Obama's opponent as anti-Arab and border Islamophobe. To them, Obama was squaring off with a candidate who supported the so-called "Bush wars" in Iraq and...
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by Clare LopezIf reporting from the Washington Times is accurate, it looks like the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin was in on the plot to attack the U.S. mission in Benghazi. According to an October 27, 2012 report, Libyan witnesses from the Benghazi neighborhood where the U.S. compound was located told reporters from the Associated Press (AP) that "150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants began sealing off the streets" leading to the facility "around nightfall."The Department of State "Background Briefing on Libya," provided by telephone to reporters on October 9, 2012 states that...
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By Mr Curmudgeon:One can't help but notice the many liberal newspapers jumping off the Obama bandwagon. Many are hitching their crumbling credibility to Mitt Romney's wining steed: the Des Moines Register; the Tennessean; the Orlando Sentinel; and the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel to name a few.But Obama can take comfort that the Big Three remain steadfast in their support: the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.The Times claims "Mr. Obama prevented another Great Depression" and "prevented unemployment from reaching 12 percent." Tell that to the 23 million unemployed that currently make up the 14.7% of Americans...
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There is precious little doubt, this is the song playing in most Democrat operatives heads this morning. If it's not, it should be. For all the BOOMERS out there, we all remember the scene at the drive-in theater where John Travolta made his feeble attempts at getting a bit to frisky with the luscious Olivia Newton-John (Sandy). She of course re-buffed his advances, jumped out of the car and left us to hear Travolta's rendition of the song " Sandy ".Sandy Why-Oh-Why is one of the lines in this musical score, and I am sure this is the line replaying at...
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Mr Curmudgeon:During the third and final presidential debate held in Boca Raton, Florida, conservative columnist Ann Coulter Tweeted, "I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard." Many among the media elite were highly offended that Coulter would use 'retard' to describe the man they consider the savior of America - President Barack Hussein Obama.Mitt Romney, who bested the president in the three-game series - as evidenced by his post-debate rise in the polls - proved to the American people, if not the media, he is knowledgeable and, more importantly, the only serious candidate of...
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The official story surrounding the events of September 11, 2012 in Bengzahi, Libya which left four Americans dead, has now officially fallen apart.After numerous flips and flops by the Obama administration, which originally attempted to paint the incident as a Muslim outcry over an anti-Islamic video, whistle blowers throughout the U.S. government, including within the White House, the State Department, national intelligence agencies and the U.S.military have made available stunning details that suggest not only did operational commanders have live visual and audio communications from drones overhead and intelligence assets on the ground, but that some commanders within the military...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:Denial is not a river in Egypt. That in effect is the theme of the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel's Friday editorial endorsement of Mitt Romney for president. "When President Obama came into office in 2009, the economy was in freefall and though untested, he inspired us with promise of hope and change. Now, four years later, we have little reason to believe he can turn things around," said the Sentinel."... Rather than articulate a compelling vision for growth," continued the Sentinel, "the president falls back on the tired talking point of increasing taxes for the wealthy ... it's...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:Fox News reports that their network obtained copies of State Department e-mails proving the Obama administration knew the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was the work of an Al Qaeda-affiliated terror network and not a mob angered by an anti-Islamic video posted on YouTube.A State Department e-mail sent to the White House Situation Room two hours after the attack reads, "Ansar al-Sharia (an Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group) Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack."The administration's cover story, blaming the attack on a Libyan mob angered by an American-made anti-Islamic video, was obviously meant to deflect blame from...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:We can all breathe a sigh of relief. 150 observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations-affiliated elections watchdog, will be on hand this November 6 to assure America's presidential balloting is fair and clean.Just in case you were wondering, no, they won't be monitoring Chicago's electoral corruption - where eager souls vote early and often, or that rise from the dead just for the occasion.According to The Hill, the NAACP, ACLU and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights approached the OSCE to express their concern that Republicans were engaging...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:Here in battleground Florida, Obama received something of a shock. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper, which happily endorsed him for president in 2008, announced it is backing his Republican challenger in 2012."Economic growth, three years into the recovery, is anemic. Family incomes are down, poverty is up. Obama's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, highlighted these and other hard truths in this week's second debate," said the Sentinel in its lead editorial on Friday, "We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years."The newspaper even engaged in a little...
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By Elise CooperMike Gallagher has recently written a new book, 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate. This book is both humorous and informative, written by someone who has been a radio talk show host for over thirty years. Included in his rundown are Walmart, steakhouses, McDonalds, flag pins, football, the Second Amendment, success, freeways, the military, and the Founding Fathers. American Thinker interviewed Gallagher about this year's election and his book.Gallagher describes liberals as those who always want to correct, fix, mend, and adjust people's lives. He goes on to say that they enjoy talking about America's faults and...
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By Dr Phil TavernaThe first Presidential debate was fun to watch. 67 % of those polled thought Obama would win. I didn't think Obama could win. There would be no teleprompter to help him along. There would be no screaming ideologs to faint for Obama. Obama was all alone with nothing but his ideology.For months Obama and the liberals have crowded the airways with millions of dollars worth of ads that were for the most part nothing but lies. And the best part was to see Obama try to repeat the lies as though Governor Romney was just going to...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:To be perfectly honest, I didn't think Romney had it in him. The first presidential debate was a stunning wake-up call to President Obama and his gushing followers. Romney was in total command of the debate, hammering the incumbent on his failed economic policies, refusing to allow Obama to frame the debate with the usual Democratic Party bumper sticker talking points. Obama looked more like the challenger than a sitting president. Romney kept his square jaw up and facing the president, smiling - Reagan-like - while Obama hurled one tired charge after another.Even the Obama media was forced...
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by Elise CooperDo Americans feel safer today than they did four years ago? Considering the many dangers in today's world: riots in Muslim nations against U.S. interests, a U.S. ambassador and three others dead at the hands of jihadists, an undetected Russian submarine in restricted U.S. waters, and China launching intercontinental ballistic missiles to possibly achieve a first-strike nuclear capability against the U.S.Meanwhile, President Obama has created an atmosphere of appeasement and indecision regarding national security. American Thinker interviewed national security experts to get their opinion on the Obama administration's explanations to the American people.The Obama administration would like...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:Abdullha Ismail is dead. As one of 10,000 angry Islamic protestors attending a Lahore, Pakistan, American hate-fest, Ismail joined in the obligatory U.S. flag burning. He was standing too close to the flaming emblem of the land I love. "Witnesses said he had complained of feeling unwell after the smoke from a U.S. flag burnt at the rally," said the International Herald Tribune. He died shortly after he was admitted to that city's Mayo Hospital.The late Ismail, like many of his fellow Muslims, was angry at Western encroachments on his "civilization." There is little doubt anti-colonial anger is...
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Too many people today think they are entitled to be rude to others, including in the workplace. Then when they can't hold a job, they think are entitled to live off the government dole, taking money from others. We need a revival of civility and manners.As rudeness is becoming increasingly common in our culture, Americans are finding it more difficult to work with each other. Far too many people now lack morals and manners. The U.S. has become a materialistic culture full of self-interest and lacking in respect for humanity. The outward manifestation of this is an inability to get...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:A reader once asked if I ever considered running for public office. "No," I told him, "because I would ignore my political opponent, questions from the press, and spend the bulk of my campaign attacking voters for transforming our Founder's well-conceived government into the world's largest criminal enterprise. An organization, led by community organizers, that exists for the express purpose of committing organized theft. People say they like it when someone "speaks truth to power," but in American politics, that corrupting power is the people.Americans that voted for politicians who built an intrusive authoritarian administrative bureaucracy, engineered a...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:Surprise, surprise. The Obama administration suspended most joint military operations with the American-trained Afghan army due to a string of "insider attacks" on U.S. and coalition forces. "These actions balance the tension of the recent video with force protection, while maintaining the momentum of the [Afghan training] campaign," said a statement released by NATO's International Security Assistance Force.It appears the Pentagon joins with the U.S. State Department in blaming a 13-minute anti-Islamic video with disrupting America's diplomatic and military alliances with our Muslim "friends" around the world."Now such partners will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and approved...
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By Mr. Curmudgeon:"We reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney of the controversial video "Innocence of Muslims" that sparked protests at U.S. embassies throughout the Islamic world, "We have made clear that we find it offensive and reprehensible and disgusting. We have denounced it. We have said we find it offensive and reprehensible, but we will not - you know, we cannot and will not squelch freedom of expression in this country."That begs the obvious question: Why...
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