Monthly Archives: August 2011

Time to face the facts: REALITY trumps Leftist name calling

“Bitter”, “Clingers”, “Astroturf”, “Crazies”, “Racists”, “Hostage Takers”, “Hobbits”, “Terrorists”, “Extortionists”…. whatever.   The Right is Right. The Tea Party’s call for fiscal responsibility has been the only voice of sanity in American politics for the last couple of years. As … Continue reading

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First class Spartan

Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins delivered an inspiring speech at the annual Big Ten luncheon in Chicago on August 3rd: Privilege leads to Responsibility. Classy, inspiring and well worth a listen!     Greg Johnson of the Grand Rapids Press … Continue reading

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Saturday Shorts 8-6-11

Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:   The War on Lemonade ~ Government saving us from little kids and their lemonade stands. Beware those conniving grade-school … Continue reading

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The Perils of BIG-GOVERNMENT-CENTRAL-PLANNING Made Simple

A short video from our friends at Heritage clearly illustrating the problems associated with federal control over our public schools – although it can be applied to Washington’s interference with every other aspect of our lives as well!:     … Continue reading

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Why Lefties should only get 3/5 of a vote

Whoopi Goldberg during one of her tirades against the “racist” conservatives, sometime in the last year or two, said something along the lines of “Yeah, the Founding Fathers were so great they thought blacks were only worth 3/5 of a … Continue reading

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One With Them

Open Doors has just launched a campaign called “One With Them” to encourage solidarity with Christians worldwide who are victims of persecution. Incredibly, this is an issue that many Christians here in America aren’t even aware of.   This new … Continue reading

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Dupes Hit with Dose of Reality

On his show today Rush was relating how the big media types are stunned that the D.C debt deal failed to help the U.S. credit rating – well duh! Here’s a transcript of the segment: Simpletons Shocked to See Debt … Continue reading

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Time for some blueberries

OK – enough with the depressing fiscal disaster for a bit – take a break and eat some blueberries! August is peak blueberry time, at least here in Michigan. Here are some upcoming festivals:   National Blueberry Festival – South … Continue reading

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A Voice of Truth in the Swamp of Sophistry

Lest we forget, we do have a couple champions for sanity among the poltroons on Capitol Hill. Senator Rand Paul (KY) is one of them. Here’s an open letter from Sen. Paul (8-1-11):   ~~~~~ To paraphrase Senator Jim DeMint: … Continue reading

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“The Tea Party Won”? Get real!

Yippee! Another big-government-as-usual pseudo solution to a crisis! Let’s all celebrate the wonderful bi-partisan compromise! Aren’t you just giddy with delight?   No….? That’s because we “little people” actually live in the real world.   The only winners in this … Continue reading

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Should we start calling it “Anti”-Social Media?

The Daily Mail reports on an Oxford University scientist’s proclamation: Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback.   They do things that are ‘Facebook worthy’ because the only way they can … Continue reading

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Stop Spending!!!

Gulag Bound has a brief tutorial on the national budget disaster, “Raising the Debt Ceiling” For Dummies: To say that our government is simply spending more than it takes in is an understatement when it comes to the out-of-control spending … Continue reading

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