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Thoughts from the right side
By Marshall Miller
Which is it?
Senate candidate Obama 2003: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer healthcare plan.”
President Obama 2009: “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.”
Vice Plagiarist Biden 2009 with the new math, D.C. style: “We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.” [Full Story »] 

A little common sense
By Rich Lowry
One of the few strictly accurate things that President Barack Obama routinely says about his health-care reform is that it’s much bigger than just the so-called public option. Yet when his administration signaled that the public option could be dropped, the left threw a collective tantrum.
Why the uproar over what Obama at his recent Colorado town hall called a “sliver” of reform? After all, the left should be delighted about the movable feast of statism in the congressional bills: new mandates on employers and individuals, $1 trillion in new spending over 10 years, heavy regulation on insurers, a vast accretion of new bureaucratic power, and higher taxes. What’s not to like?
But nothing offers the near-term promise of moving toward a single-payer government-controlled system quite like the public option. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,
Every time I see a man with a pit bull, I think what a coward and a loser. If someone is so insecure about himself and his masculinity and macho image that he can’t, or is too afraid to fight his own fight, that he has to put a poor, innocent animal in a ring to fight to make up for his own lack of machismo, there is something wrong with that man. [Full Story »] 

Thoughts from the right side
By Marshall Miller
Is Georgia Congressman Jim Marshall a conservative? I get tired of hearing Democrat phonies being praised as “conservative” when they go to Washington and vote the liberal line with their leftwing fraternity brothers. I believe Jim is a liberal-leaning Democrat who attempts to straddle the issues, same for his fellow Democrat John Barrow. You don’t hear these people talking about switching parties, do you? They like being Pelosicrats. [Full Story »] 

A little common sense
By Rich Lowry
Like Richard Nixon, Barack Obama wants to govern on the strength of a silent majority, although with a twist. Obama wants the majority that opposes or questions his policies to stay silent.
Obama’s White House and its allies have unleashed a barrage of criticism and condescension at people daring to show up at town-hall meetings and ask their elected representatives pointed questions. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,
I am writing this to try to explain why each one of us needs to contact our congressperson and let them know we do not want government controlled healthcare. Let us be very practical.
First, the government has spent more money since Obama came into office than all Presidents from George Washington through George Bush combined. So, in six months, we have spent more than in over 200 years. We will never pay off this debt. Our grandchildren and great grandchildren and generations to come will be slaves to the government. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,
The family of Bobby Landmesser would like to express their sincere disgust to the person or persons who stole the fishing pole and fish off of his grave that was part of the family’s flower arrangement. [Full Story »]