Remember the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline in the early 1970s? Imagine today’s gas prices without it. Most Senate liberals had the good sense to vote for it, recognizing the need to produce more oil in the USA. Even Ted Kennedy voted for it. Some “experts” claimed it would only produce oil for a few years then run dry but it is still pumping away more than 41 years later. Only five senators were dumb enough to vote against it in 1973 when it passed overwhelmingly. All five were big favorites of the liberal media, of course.
The only one still in Washington is the Delaware Demoleft dimwit Joe Biden, now vice-plagiarist of the USA, then 30 or 31 years old, now in his seventies. The other no votes were cast by Senators Birch Bayh (D-Indiana), Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), and Edward Brooke (RINO-Massachusetts). It’s hard to believe Biden is still there. Be careful how you vote. You could be creating a long-term monster. People stupidly reelect these losers.
Suggested partial fix to the border control problem: Deport illegal aliens to D.C.
As they say in Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race - “Vote Carr, not Lamar.” Republican Challenger Joe Carr, that is: CarrforTn.com.
“Maybe in the end, Lamar is the ultimate reverse mortgage.”
Laura Ingraham, in Tennessee
to campaign for Joe Carr over Lamar Alexander
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Opinions
Media lies never stop
On January 10, 1967 President Lyndon “Big Ears” Johnson asked for a 6 percent surtax on personal and corporate income taxes to pay for the Vietnam War. Remember back in 1964 when the leftwing press told us Johnson would keep us out of war and that Barry Goldwater would possibly blow up the world? Media lies never stop. I always detested Johnson and consider him one of the worst presidents of all.
The State Department can’t find $6 billion. They can’t figure out what happened to it. That’s $16,438,356 every day for one year. That’s big bucks.
I still can’t believe George W. Bush signed the light bulb ban bill, phasing out the great incandescent light bulb, one of the great inventions of all time. You’d thing GWB would have nothing in common with statist politicians, nanny state types. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing anything so foolish?
Savvy writer Neal B. Freeman says that in political terms, the Bush 43 legacy is already set in stone. “He nurtured, promoted and helped entrench a consultant class that maintains a chokehold not only on party structure but on much of the donor base that funds it and the commentariat that promotes it.”
Neal B. Freeman
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The State Department can’t find $6 billion. They can’t figure out what happened to it. That’s $16,438,356 every day for one year. That’s big bucks.
I still can’t believe George W. Bush signed the light bulb ban bill, phasing out the great incandescent light bulb, one of the great inventions of all time. You’d thing GWB would have nothing in common with statist politicians, nanny state types. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing anything so foolish?
Savvy writer Neal B. Freeman says that in political terms, the Bush 43 legacy is already set in stone. “He nurtured, promoted and helped entrench a consultant class that maintains a chokehold not only on party structure but on much of the donor base that funds it and the commentariat that promotes it.”
Neal B. Freeman
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Random thoughts
Hillary “Dead Broke” Clinton’s book Hard Choices brought her a $14 million advance from Simon & Schuster publishers. At last count she was at a measly 77,236 books sold and would need 200,000 at $70 each to cover her advance, which seems unattainable. We now see another example of people burned by dealing with the sleazy Clintons. If you make nice with these losers you get taken.
Celebrity Net Worth says talk host Laura Ingraham makes $15 million per year and has a net worth of $45 million. She recently turned fifty years old, which seems young to me. I like to see the good folks making money and Laura is a good one.
Liberals Harry Truman, Walter Mondale and Cesar Chavez opposed illegal immigration. So did Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, along with moderate-liberal Dwight Eisenhower. Big media will never mention this fact. The liberal media yappers claim border control is only a conservative position.
More than a third of all Puerto Ricans are on food stamps. Back in the late 1990s, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, led a campaign of one to attain statehood for Puerto Rico. No one else seemed to believe in Newt’s crusade, even residents of Puerto Rico. You could bet every politician from the new state would be a Democrat. Newt always had a bunch of odd ideas he seemed fond of selling. He had few buyers on that one. You never knew what Newt would be pushing tomorrow.
“Mexico is now a third world slum, and we are FED UP with those who want to ‘fundamentally transform’ America to be like Mexico.”
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Celebrity Net Worth says talk host Laura Ingraham makes $15 million per year and has a net worth of $45 million. She recently turned fifty years old, which seems young to me. I like to see the good folks making money and Laura is a good one.
Liberals Harry Truman, Walter Mondale and Cesar Chavez opposed illegal immigration. So did Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, along with moderate-liberal Dwight Eisenhower. Big media will never mention this fact. The liberal media yappers claim border control is only a conservative position.
More than a third of all Puerto Ricans are on food stamps. Back in the late 1990s, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, led a campaign of one to attain statehood for Puerto Rico. No one else seemed to believe in Newt’s crusade, even residents of Puerto Rico. You could bet every politician from the new state would be a Democrat. Newt always had a bunch of odd ideas he seemed fond of selling. He had few buyers on that one. You never knew what Newt would be pushing tomorrow.
“Mexico is now a third world slum, and we are FED UP with those who want to ‘fundamentally transform’ America to be like Mexico.”
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Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
Oh how the left weaves a web of deceive of guile and lies concerning the invasion and yes, that is exactly what it is INVASION of illegal aliens that has used a ruse of fleeing from criminal elements in the country they are fleeing.
When actually, many of the so-called innocence that are fleeing are the criminal elements themselves (MS-13 Gangsters) who profit from illegal drug running, prostitution, murder and other mayhem.
Now the main actor(s) of this criminal enterprise is our own president, his cabinet and the loony left voting block who put political ideology ahead of the country in political and legal realms that would give a stronger democratic voting block in red states, i.e. Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It has already been proven that President Obama and his group of thugs from Chicago are venal and can be easily bought as in recent scandals brought out.
Now, if this isn’t bad enough, the “bleeding heart-do-gooders” who are shills and jesters for Mr. Obama will try and put a guilt trip on the other side or the “Right Side” by the ridiculous notion (“What would Jesus do on immigration?”).
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Oh how the left weaves a web of deceive of guile and lies concerning the invasion and yes, that is exactly what it is INVASION of illegal aliens that has used a ruse of fleeing from criminal elements in the country they are fleeing.
When actually, many of the so-called innocence that are fleeing are the criminal elements themselves (MS-13 Gangsters) who profit from illegal drug running, prostitution, murder and other mayhem.
Now the main actor(s) of this criminal enterprise is our own president, his cabinet and the loony left voting block who put political ideology ahead of the country in political and legal realms that would give a stronger democratic voting block in red states, i.e. Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It has already been proven that President Obama and his group of thugs from Chicago are venal and can be easily bought as in recent scandals brought out.
Now, if this isn’t bad enough, the “bleeding heart-do-gooders” who are shills and jesters for Mr. Obama will try and put a guilt trip on the other side or the “Right Side” by the ridiculous notion (“What would Jesus do on immigration?”).
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Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
I believe leadership voids are created when governments assume leadership responsibilities historically taken by individuals who would see things that no longer work and would work to create things to fix their problems. Leaders would simply “rise to the occasion” and assume the responsibility to lead. Today individuals elected or appointed to carry the burden or responsibility are simply not motivated to lead.
In education, local boards and superintendents make up the leadership teams charged with giving our children the best education possible. However, less attention is being given to improving education than to “keeping things the way they are.” The reason for this shift from improving learning to maintaining the status quo is, in my opinion, the absence of leadership.
Educational leaders cannot or will not rise in the time of need because today’s teachers, superintendents, principals and board members are restrained by their fears. Fear that they won’t be re-elected. Fear that they may be asked to work more for the same pay. Fear that in seeking to change long standing traditions, they may be labeled as “radicals.” Fear that they may ruin their chance for advancement and thus more benefits at retirement. Fear that they may be inconvenienced by having to alter their childcare arrangements. Fear that their athletic programs may have to adjust to a “learning is more important” attitude.
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I believe leadership voids are created when governments assume leadership responsibilities historically taken by individuals who would see things that no longer work and would work to create things to fix their problems. Leaders would simply “rise to the occasion” and assume the responsibility to lead. Today individuals elected or appointed to carry the burden or responsibility are simply not motivated to lead.
In education, local boards and superintendents make up the leadership teams charged with giving our children the best education possible. However, less attention is being given to improving education than to “keeping things the way they are.” The reason for this shift from improving learning to maintaining the status quo is, in my opinion, the absence of leadership.
Educational leaders cannot or will not rise in the time of need because today’s teachers, superintendents, principals and board members are restrained by their fears. Fear that they won’t be re-elected. Fear that they may be asked to work more for the same pay. Fear that in seeking to change long standing traditions, they may be labeled as “radicals.” Fear that they may ruin their chance for advancement and thus more benefits at retirement. Fear that they may be inconvenienced by having to alter their childcare arrangements. Fear that their athletic programs may have to adjust to a “learning is more important” attitude.
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Random thoughts
David Brooks, media-designated “conservative”, claims we need a more autocratic approach in which the government could cram immigration reform down our throats. At least he used to say so. Maybe he is less brazen about it these days.
One of the best writers around, so good he will never appear on Fox News (they ignore the great ones), nails it. I’ll bet few have heard of him.
“Threatened incumbent GOP Senator Thad Cochran, like Barack Obama, has successfully practiced ‘regime politics’ - deliberately changing the electorate in order to protect the entrenched political class. In Cochran’s case, it meant calling his own base ‘racist’ and shoveling money to far-Left groups to disenfranchise them.”
James Kirkpatrick on VDARE.com 6-29-14
Rupert Murdoch, of Fox News, supports immigration amnesty.
“Remember, it’s the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Immigration.”
Phyllis Schlafly on WND.com
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Thomas Mann
While American military veterans are ignored at veterans hospitals, twenty doctors are on duty around the clock at the Ventura County military base in California to treat all illegal alien kids deposited there. Crazy, isn’t it. Imagine this happening during the Reagan presidency.
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One of the best writers around, so good he will never appear on Fox News (they ignore the great ones), nails it. I’ll bet few have heard of him.
“Threatened incumbent GOP Senator Thad Cochran, like Barack Obama, has successfully practiced ‘regime politics’ - deliberately changing the electorate in order to protect the entrenched political class. In Cochran’s case, it meant calling his own base ‘racist’ and shoveling money to far-Left groups to disenfranchise them.”
James Kirkpatrick on VDARE.com 6-29-14
Rupert Murdoch, of Fox News, supports immigration amnesty.
“Remember, it’s the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Immigration.”
Phyllis Schlafly on WND.com
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Thomas Mann
While American military veterans are ignored at veterans hospitals, twenty doctors are on duty around the clock at the Ventura County military base in California to treat all illegal alien kids deposited there. Crazy, isn’t it. Imagine this happening during the Reagan presidency.
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Taxes
Since our taxes are too low here, Vice Plagiarist Joe Biden joined up with those calling for a “Global Minimum Tax.” You can never pay enough in taxes. Three Senators, including one RINO (Republican In Name Only) Lindsey Graham, proposed a “carbon tax” on gasoline in March 2010. Senators Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry came up with this idiotic idea, with an initial tax (sure to go up from there) of 20 cents per gallon. Lindsey reached across the aisle to help his liberal Democrat pals. What did gasoline cost under G.W. Bush, $1.78?
Egypt gets $1.3 billion per year from us in foreign aid, or $1.3 X 1,000 X 1,000,000. That’s big bucks. It’s $3,561,644 per day. Egypt openly hates the USA, but not enough to turn down our generosity. RINO Arlen Specter proposed “power sharing” with his Democrat pals. A few years later Snarlin’ Arlen re-switched parties and again became a Democrat in 2009, trying to hang on to his Senate seat. He lost anyway. He died in 2012.
I didn’t realize this - states set their own tax rates on lottery winnings, apparently not in line with normal state tax rates. You’re better off to win in a state with no income tax, of course. Tennessee, Texas and Florida come to mind.
“Liberals depend on stupid.”
AngryWhiteDude.com
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Egypt gets $1.3 billion per year from us in foreign aid, or $1.3 X 1,000 X 1,000,000. That’s big bucks. It’s $3,561,644 per day. Egypt openly hates the USA, but not enough to turn down our generosity. RINO Arlen Specter proposed “power sharing” with his Democrat pals. A few years later Snarlin’ Arlen re-switched parties and again became a Democrat in 2009, trying to hang on to his Senate seat. He lost anyway. He died in 2012.
I didn’t realize this - states set their own tax rates on lottery winnings, apparently not in line with normal state tax rates. You’re better off to win in a state with no income tax, of course. Tennessee, Texas and Florida come to mind.
“Liberals depend on stupid.”
AngryWhiteDude.com
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Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
As much as we want to complain about things, we’ve got it so much better than so many others. A couple of months ago I was selected by Samaritan’s Purse to join a team of volunteers going to Rwanda to hand out Operation Christmas Child (OCC) shoe boxes to the children over there. What a life-changing experience that was for me. Homes without water or electricity; children without shoes, without school supplies, without hygiene items, without toys, without candy and yet, these children were happy. Of course, they were much happier after they received the gift-filled shoeboxes that many, like you, packed!
It’s very humbling when a child gets excited over receiving wooden pencils or a pad of paper. At one of our distribution stops we were told that the children each receive one wooden pencil at the beginning of the school year and they have to make it last because there might not be another one. How many pencils do we throw away? We all need remember that someone else is praying for the things that we take for granted. [Full Story »]
As much as we want to complain about things, we’ve got it so much better than so many others. A couple of months ago I was selected by Samaritan’s Purse to join a team of volunteers going to Rwanda to hand out Operation Christmas Child (OCC) shoe boxes to the children over there. What a life-changing experience that was for me. Homes without water or electricity; children without shoes, without school supplies, without hygiene items, without toys, without candy and yet, these children were happy. Of course, they were much happier after they received the gift-filled shoeboxes that many, like you, packed!
It’s very humbling when a child gets excited over receiving wooden pencils or a pad of paper. At one of our distribution stops we were told that the children each receive one wooden pencil at the beginning of the school year and they have to make it last because there might not be another one. How many pencils do we throw away? We all need remember that someone else is praying for the things that we take for granted. [Full Story »]
Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
I want to thank you for publishing the photograph of Chauncey High School in the June 11, 2014 issue of The Dodge County News. The picture settled a long-running friendly dispute between a friend of mine and I.
I remember the cupola being on top of the building when I was in the third grade in 1938. My friend contended that there had never been a cupola on the building. If I am not mistaken, a strong wind blew this bell tower away in the 1940s. All of us who graduated from Chauncey take great pride in the fact that the building is now 100 years old.
Sincerely,
Ovid S. Vickers
I want to thank you for publishing the photograph of Chauncey High School in the June 11, 2014 issue of The Dodge County News. The picture settled a long-running friendly dispute between a friend of mine and I.
I remember the cupola being on top of the building when I was in the third grade in 1938. My friend contended that there had never been a cupola on the building. If I am not mistaken, a strong wind blew this bell tower away in the 1940s. All of us who graduated from Chauncey take great pride in the fact that the building is now 100 years old.
Sincerely,
Ovid S. Vickers
D.C. establishment elite
Many outsiders simply become part of the Washington, D.C. establishment elite after they are elected. Many move to the D.C. suburbs and become lifers detached from their home states. RINO liberal Richard Lugar sold his house in Indiana in 1976 as soon as he was elected to the Senate. He finally lost the Republican Primary in 2012 by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin. Maybe the voters finally noticed he had left the area years before. Lugar recently donated $4,000 to liberal Democrat Michelle Nunn’s campaign. Some kind of Republican he became - good riddance.
VDARE.com (great site I check daily) writer Thomas Martel calls conservatives playing ball with liberals on immigration reform “left-libertarianism Open Borders loonyism.” The Libertarian (losertarian) Party supports open borders in its platform and usually gets about one or two percent of the vote.
Sacramento, California is now requiring cab drivers to understand English and the drivers are complaining, naturally, probably not complaining in English, either. Customers are saying that they are unable to communicate with their drivers, says Downtrend.com writer Robert Gehl.
Remember John F. Kennedy’s tax cuts? I never cared for any Kennedy and always thought JFK’s tax cut program (which produced a surge in tax revenue) was the only thing he did that I approved of. Liberal Democrats Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey attacked the tax cuts, claiming they would wreck the economy.
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VDARE.com (great site I check daily) writer Thomas Martel calls conservatives playing ball with liberals on immigration reform “left-libertarianism Open Borders loonyism.” The Libertarian (losertarian) Party supports open borders in its platform and usually gets about one or two percent of the vote.
Sacramento, California is now requiring cab drivers to understand English and the drivers are complaining, naturally, probably not complaining in English, either. Customers are saying that they are unable to communicate with their drivers, says Downtrend.com writer Robert Gehl.
Remember John F. Kennedy’s tax cuts? I never cared for any Kennedy and always thought JFK’s tax cut program (which produced a surge in tax revenue) was the only thing he did that I approved of. Liberal Democrats Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey attacked the tax cuts, claiming they would wreck the economy.
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Random thoughts
RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) claim conservatives need to support the party nominee, usually a non-conservative. I agree - most any Repub is better than any Demo leftist. But when Indiana RINO Richard Lugar lost his Senate primary by a 60% - 40% vote, he refused to support the man who defeated him. Lugar was hurt by the fact that he hadn’t lived in Indiana since he sold his house in 1976 and moved to the D.C. suburbs. In fact, the Republican Party cut off funding for the nominee, walking away and forfeiting the seat to a liberal Democrat for six years, perhaps more. We’re supposed to support victorious liberal Republicans but they seldom reciprocate.
The party did the same in Missouri. Democrats took both seats so we’re stuck with Demo losers in both states. It’s rather difficult to take control of the Senate when you throw away winnable elections. No wonder the people refer to them as the Stupid Party. All Republicans running for Georgia’s open U.S. Senate seat are preferable to Michelle Nunn, a big-time leftwing loser. Ms. Nunn has been endorsed by Hanoi Jane Fonda and ultraliberal Emily’s List, which supports liberal women candidates. Back to liberal Republican Richard Lugar: He has donated several thousand dollars to Michelle Nunn’s Senate campaign.
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The party did the same in Missouri. Democrats took both seats so we’re stuck with Demo losers in both states. It’s rather difficult to take control of the Senate when you throw away winnable elections. No wonder the people refer to them as the Stupid Party. All Republicans running for Georgia’s open U.S. Senate seat are preferable to Michelle Nunn, a big-time leftwing loser. Ms. Nunn has been endorsed by Hanoi Jane Fonda and ultraliberal Emily’s List, which supports liberal women candidates. Back to liberal Republican Richard Lugar: He has donated several thousand dollars to Michelle Nunn’s Senate campaign.
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Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
Insurance is nothing more than a form of protection for whatever the future may bring. We all seek a form of security protection. In each of our lives things are going to change from time to time. Security must not be seen as a one-sided affair. The one insurance that we truly need requires certain specifics without any ins and outs.
The greatest insurance can be found in the teaching found in the Holy Bible. It tells us that we should not have any other God before us. In our everyday living we are faced with different gods. A god is something we put our heart and faith in. Heathenism is a god of material things. Domination has become a powerful god in this nation among its citizens.
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Insurance is nothing more than a form of protection for whatever the future may bring. We all seek a form of security protection. In each of our lives things are going to change from time to time. Security must not be seen as a one-sided affair. The one insurance that we truly need requires certain specifics without any ins and outs.
The greatest insurance can be found in the teaching found in the Holy Bible. It tells us that we should not have any other God before us. In our everyday living we are faced with different gods. A god is something we put our heart and faith in. Heathenism is a god of material things. Domination has become a powerful god in this nation among its citizens.
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Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
What a perverse country we now call the United States of America and an oxymoron in the word “United”, given the compete enmity that is now so prevalent among the populace of this once so great nation. And who perpetuated this awful and epidemic asunder? The president himself, (Barack Obama, his spouse and those thugs that Mr. Obama appointed to his cabinet) that has now caused such a disarray and a fissure in our constitution would mirror the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” and all the kings men couldn’t put him back together again, he was so broken.
Start with the most recent news item of how that legalized Mafia or otherwise known as (IRS) targets everyday citizens in a shakedown of your banking account for the governments booty. Well, let me back up a tad bit, “everyday citizen?” Perhaps NOT! Unless you are a liberal democrat elected senate and state representative who is Mr. Obama’s lap dog who carries water for this tyrant and will act as a praetorian sentinel then you’re safe from the (IRS) but if you are a Christian, conservative, Tea Party voter or any other “red colored state valued identifier,” all bets are off, the IRS is coming after you as discovered this past year in all of Mr. Obama’s scandals.
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What a perverse country we now call the United States of America and an oxymoron in the word “United”, given the compete enmity that is now so prevalent among the populace of this once so great nation. And who perpetuated this awful and epidemic asunder? The president himself, (Barack Obama, his spouse and those thugs that Mr. Obama appointed to his cabinet) that has now caused such a disarray and a fissure in our constitution would mirror the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” and all the kings men couldn’t put him back together again, he was so broken.
Start with the most recent news item of how that legalized Mafia or otherwise known as (IRS) targets everyday citizens in a shakedown of your banking account for the governments booty. Well, let me back up a tad bit, “everyday citizen?” Perhaps NOT! Unless you are a liberal democrat elected senate and state representative who is Mr. Obama’s lap dog who carries water for this tyrant and will act as a praetorian sentinel then you’re safe from the (IRS) but if you are a Christian, conservative, Tea Party voter or any other “red colored state valued identifier,” all bets are off, the IRS is coming after you as discovered this past year in all of Mr. Obama’s scandals.
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A vote-buying scheme
How about the destruction of the economy, not just the health care system, caused by Obamacare. How can people with no medical experience administer a national health program? Maybe those pushing the plan should prove the plan works. The truth is, socialized medicine has never worked anywhere.
It’s a vote-buying scheme - free medicine for all. Freebies pull in the votes. Mitt Romney found out he couldn’t compete with free stuff.
Charlie Crest, Florida’s former Republican governor, now switched to the Demoleft Party, on Obamacare:
“I think it’s great.”
Charlie didn’t talk that way when he was a Republican. One thing about Charlie - he’s always on your side, at least for a little while.
“The only thing the Republican party excels at is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Republican Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana
Laura Ingraham 1 National Rifle Association 0
Once again the National Rifle Association lost touch with the American working folks, the vast middle class, the voters. The NRA backed Eric Cantor, while Laura Ingraham and the ignored voters made history by nominating Dave Brat, Tea Party - backed economics professor.
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It’s a vote-buying scheme - free medicine for all. Freebies pull in the votes. Mitt Romney found out he couldn’t compete with free stuff.
Charlie Crest, Florida’s former Republican governor, now switched to the Demoleft Party, on Obamacare:
“I think it’s great.”
Charlie didn’t talk that way when he was a Republican. One thing about Charlie - he’s always on your side, at least for a little while.
“The only thing the Republican party excels at is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Republican Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana
Laura Ingraham 1 National Rifle Association 0
Once again the National Rifle Association lost touch with the American working folks, the vast middle class, the voters. The NRA backed Eric Cantor, while Laura Ingraham and the ignored voters made history by nominating Dave Brat, Tea Party - backed economics professor.
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Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
All Dodge County citizens are invited to join in on a discussion regarding our school calendar. Your input will perhaps jump start the transition to better schools, fewer drop outs, higher test scores and greater satisfaction of teachers, parents and students. Right now the Board of Education (BOE) has firmly placed its support on an ineffective, inefficient and counter productive school calendar. A school calendar that is guaranteed to rob our students of up to 25% of everything they learned the previous year. Extrapolate that waste to our school budget and it represents a waste up to 25% of the 30 to 40 million tax dollars provided by you and I!
The BOE approves this calendar every year on the recommendation of the superintendent in spite of their knowledge of the great loss of learning and the waste of our tax dollars. They seem to be willing to trade the loss of learning and waste of monies to avoid experiencing the discomfort that leadership frequently brings the change (“change” in education is apparently a four letter word).
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All Dodge County citizens are invited to join in on a discussion regarding our school calendar. Your input will perhaps jump start the transition to better schools, fewer drop outs, higher test scores and greater satisfaction of teachers, parents and students. Right now the Board of Education (BOE) has firmly placed its support on an ineffective, inefficient and counter productive school calendar. A school calendar that is guaranteed to rob our students of up to 25% of everything they learned the previous year. Extrapolate that waste to our school budget and it represents a waste up to 25% of the 30 to 40 million tax dollars provided by you and I!
The BOE approves this calendar every year on the recommendation of the superintendent in spite of their knowledge of the great loss of learning and the waste of our tax dollars. They seem to be willing to trade the loss of learning and waste of monies to avoid experiencing the discomfort that leadership frequently brings the change (“change” in education is apparently a four letter word).
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