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Who Will Be the New Chamberlain?

Friday, 18 July 2008 7:42 A GMT-05
Upcoming talks in Geneva with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whose anti-Israeli rhetoric about wiping them from the face of the earth evokes an eerie feeling of dejavu. What immediately comes to mind is the image of Hitler and the naiveté

Oil Prices, Who’s to Blame?

Friday, 18 July 2008 6:42 A GMT-05
Having lived through the 1970’s oil crisis, I watched misstep follow misstep as the nation endured a torturous period of gas lines, and hoarding.  Just think if we would have allowed more drilling in this country and build more nuclear pow

$888 Million Tax Hike!

Thursday, 18 October 2007 3:47 P GMT-05
$888 Million is the proposed tax increase for Cook County in Illinois.  This is not a Federal tax increase, it is not a State tax increase; it is the tax increase proposal for one County in Illinois. Cook County Board President Todd Stroger

Impending Chicago Exodus

Thursday, 18 October 2007 10:12 A GMT-05
Chicago is a microcosm of life in a Democrat controlled world.  The Windy City has been dark blue for so many years that cronyism is a way of life.  It is no wonder that the City of Chicago and Cook County are going broke and that the respo

The Specter of Hillary

Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:07 P GMT-05
The time has come for a change!  This is a common sentiment at election time and I find myself agreeing with it more and more each day.  As I look back over the past twenty years I realize that for nearly half my life the Presidency has res

Nobel Prize Far From Noble

Sunday, 14 October 2007 12:00 P GMT-05
The Nobel Peace prize has never recovered it’s prestige after having been awarded to Yasser Arafat & Jimmy Carter.  It suffered another cataclysmic blow to its credibility this year after having been awarded to one of the modern era&rs

Mexican Consulates to Enter Fray

Friday, 5 October 2007 11:47 A GMT-05
The battle that is being fought in this Country on the issue of illegal immigration is about to get much more complicated.  We have heard in recent weeks the President of Mexico stepping up the rhetoric in defense of his citizen’s defiance

Target Halloween 2

Thursday, 4 October 2007 8:50 A GMT-05
As so often happens in this politically correct Country that we live in, a movement to crush tradition builds up momentum until it snowballs across the Nation.  As a follow up to the Target Halloween piece here is a story from Broomfield Colorad

Target Halloween

Thursday, 4 October 2007 7:41 A GMT-05
How far are the immigrant cultures to our country going to change the fabric of our lives?  We are seeing the deionization of all religious symbols in our society, a campaign that has been waged by the Left for years.  Instead of Christmas

Mexican Flag vs. American Flag

Wednesday, 3 October 2007 8:31 A GMT-05
Tensions in this Country over the illegal immigration issue have been mounting steadily over the past couple of years.  Americans are increasingly expressing their aggravation over the never ending push by the Mexican community to remake the Uni

Our Country?

Monday, 24 September 2007 7:40 A GMT-05
I settled in last night to watch NBC Sunday Night Football.  My family and I love to watch all the pre-game activities, especially the video to the tune of the Mellencamp song this is our Country” in which there are clips of kids, average

Another Assault on Marriage

Tuesday, 28 August 2007 12:49 P GMT-05
The latest “potential” attack on marriage is coming from . . . California, where else?  Since the pro-gay marriage lobby has been voted down in its unrelenting attempt to redefine marriage, they have garnered potential support for ab

Haditha Innocents

Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:10 A GMT-05
Looking back to May 2006 we can recall that the witch hunt that surrounded the firefight in Haditha Iraq .  Congressman Murtha, D-Pa and a former Marine, publicly seemed to make it his personal mission to bring the Marines involved in the firefi

Democrats Fail Again!

Wednesday, 18 July 2007 6:18 P GMT-05
Dare we hope that the Democrats will let the issue rest, for a while at least?  I’m not that optimistic, I am just glad that cooler heads have prevailed again.  If you haven’t guessed what I’m talking about yet, the latest

McCain Campaign Falling Apart

Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:52 P GMT-05
It comes as no surprise that the McCain campaign is falling apart; all but finished for all intents and purposes.  The Senator has done everything possible to alienate the conservative base in the years since he lost to George W. Bush in his las

Iranian Troops in Iraq

Tuesday, 26 June 2007 8:43 A GMT-05
Since we can not get a news report in the United States that has not been bent to fit the agenda of the main stream media, we have to find out what is going on in the world from international sources.  Perhaps, if stories like this get through t

Muslim Violence in the U.S.

Thursday, 7 June 2007 8:29 A GMT-05
Since the mainstream media is the last place you will learn about the chain of Muslim violence in this Nation we have to look to alternative sources of information to get the full picture of the violence being perpetrated in the Untied States by radi

Iranian Threats - Enough Already!

Sunday, 3 June 2007 5:33 P GMT-05
How long are we, as an ally of Israel, going to tolerate the anti-Semitic ravings of the President of Iran?  Let me qualify this by stating that I am not Jewish, I simply believe that if we are to be considered Israel’s ally then the time

GOP Immigration Backlash

Friday, 1 June 2007 7:51 A GMT-05
If you listen to callers on talk radio shows across the nation, you have a good feel for the negative response of the conservative base to being force fed this immigration amnesty bill.  Many Americans feel that GOP members in Washington, from t

Definition of Torture

Friday, 25 May 2007 9:01 A GMT-05
Over the course of the war against islamo-fascist terror we have heard how American forces have ?tortured? poor terrorists. From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo stories of humiliation and desecration of holy books have been equated with ?torture?. This ha

GOP Sell Out

Friday, 18 May 2007 2:39 P GMT-05
I never thought I would see the day that I turned my back on George Bush and the GOP, but that day has finally come.  I was a tremendous advocate of President Bush and the GOP through the Global War on Terror and turn a blind eye to the run away

Democrat Spending

Wednesday, 16 May 2007 8:43 P GMT-05
There are many, and I count myself among them, who criticized the GOP for excessive spending in recent years.  From what was heard on the talk shows leading up to the mid term election one would think conservative voters were set to teach the GO

Al Andalus

Monday, 16 April 2007 1:30 P GMT-05
Ferdinand and Isabella must be rolling over in their graves as Spain continues to become the focus of Islamic “reconquista”.  From the proposed tunnel linking the Iberian Peninsula to Morocco to the wave if immigration that is overwh

Democrat Lynch Mob

Sunday, 4 March 2007 6:33 P GMT-05
It was only a matter of time until the Democrat Lynch Mob began its run at President Bush over the Iraq war.  The icing on the cake is that they are also going after him on the response to Hurricane Katrina.  It would have been too much to

Mars Is Melting!

Sunday, 4 March 2007 6:18 P GMT-05
Ok, we are all under the continuous assault of the global warming sect.  All scientific data that disproves global warming is dismissed out of hand and the establishment hands out awards to the most unstable of proponents of this ridiculous noti