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The Newt moment?

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Wednesday, November 23. 2011

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A successful presidential candidate taps into the public mood. Newt Gingrich must be hoping the public is bristling with irritation and high dudgeon.

At the Republican debate on the economy, Gingrich eyed CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo the way Franklin Roosevelt might have looked at Adm. Yamamoto had the Japanese commander been selected to moderate a foreign-policy debate shortly after Pearl Harbor. A lawyer argues the law when he doesn’t have the facts on his side, and vice versa; Gingrich litigates the debate question even when he has a perfectly suitable answer. [Full Story »]

Food stamp use

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Wednesday, November 23. 2011

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From TheoSpark.net

Food stamp use is up sharply at military base commissaries nationwide:

2008: $31,146,015

2009: $52,954,938

2010: $72,831,952

2011: $87,837,643 (and we’re still in 2011 - the meter is still running)

Source: the Defense Commissary Agency [Full Story »]

Letter To The Editor

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Wednesday, November 23. 2011

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Dear editor,

Vision.

What is it that we see when we are away from home, whether at work or engaged in recreational activities? Do we see inspired individuals and communities? Are we able to recognize the positive character traits of common sense and wisdom being present in the fabric of our society? [Full Story »]

Letter To The Editor

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Wednesday, November 23. 2011

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Dear editor,
My question is, “What has happened to the school system?”

When attending a meeting recently I was shocked to hear that not only are more curriculums to be known this year but also there is an unnecessary crippling decision to increase class sizes!

WHY??? [Full Story »]

Letter To The Editor

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Wednesday, November 23. 2011

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Dear editor,
I appreciate the picture of the 49 first graders of Eastman High School, which was on the front page of The Dodge County News dated November 16, 2011.

I was a first grader at Plainfield. I recognized Virginia Coffee as the teacher but I could not recognize any of the students. Please identify if you have the names of each. [Full Story »]

America the mobile?

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Wednesday, November 16. 2011

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The acid test of the American Dream is whether people can rise beyond the circumstances of their birth.

With Occupy Wall Street doing for income inequality what the tea party did for debt, the state of the American Dream is more and more central to the political debate. Are we divided between the top 1 percent and a vast wasteland of the dispossessed, as many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters have it? Or are we still the land of opportunity, as top House Republican Paul Ryan insisted in a recent speech at the Heritage Foundation? [Full Story »]

The Penn State case

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Wednesday, November 16. 2011

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The Sports Illustrated Top 25 has Penn State ranked #4. Number four, that is, in players with the highest arrest rates. Thanks to VDare.com writer Paul Kersey for pointing this out. [Full Story »]

Letter To The Editor - Worse and getting worse.

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Wednesday, November 16. 2011

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Dear editor,

Worse and getting worse.

American citizens what is going to become of them? [Full Story »]

Romney: Proficient, unloved

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Wednesday, November 2. 2011

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It might have been Mitt Romney’s most revealing moment in all the Republican debates. Badgered by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was continually interrupting him, Romney appealed to CNN moderator Anderson Cooper to reassert the rules of the debate: “Anderson?” [Full Story »]

Obama feels our pain

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Wednesday, November 2. 2011

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President Obama’s reelection fundraiser in Los Angeles, where rich Democrat folks turned out to hear Obama bash the rich, was loaded with pro athletes and leftwing Hollywood stars. No news photographers were allowed. Tickets cost $36,800 per person. Eva Longoria introduced Obama to a wealthy crowd, including former basketballer Magic Johnson and actor Will Smith. [Full Story »]