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Each election cycle brings the electorate the same cast of characters. Only their names have changed. There is always the establishment character touting their indepensible experience within the system to protect the electorate and facilitate getting something done in Washington. Yet, although they have the experience they just haven't had the support needed to have accomplished change earlier and they desperately need the voter's help to make the needed changes. Then there's the outsider who has no baggage and is beholden to no one who casts himself as the noble prince of change, ready to ride his white charger to...

If John Kerry, having admitted to being a war criminal, is elected President will this mean that his friends in Europe will press for his trial? Will his position as President jeapordize the U.S. treasury since still living Vietnamese victims will be free to sue he and the US govt? Our government rejected these claims during the war but his legitimization would go far in a "World Court" situation.

The liberal press' silence on Mrs. Kerry is deafening. What little we've seen seems to fall in the catagory of a wealthy and charitable benefactress, just looking for ways to distribute her millions in the most socially acceptable way possible. But her image belies her past. Is she a closet felon of some sort? No, but she does have baggage. Enough so that if I were a Black American I would be hard pressed to accept her at face value. Having been born in Mozambique and educated in South Africa during aparthid she is a product of privelege in a...

Having grown weary of the Democratic drumbeat amplified by a sympathetic press of a "jobless recovery" I decided to check the figures myself. I found that since 1948 the average unemployment rate in America was 5.6%....exactly what it is today. Unfortunately, we allow the Dems to define the debate by transferring the percentage rate to individual job numbers making it seem that much worse to the casual listener. Dems will further charge that there aren't the same number of "good" jobs as in the past...that part time jobs at Mickey D's cannot be equated with good paying factory jobs. Well,...