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GOP Bigwigs Resort to Lies to Stop Rand Paul | Print |  E-mail
Written by Thomas R. Eddlem   
Friday, 19 March 2010 00:00

Rand PaulThe Establishment neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party has a problem in Kentucky: Their anointed U.S. Senate candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, is losing. According to a March 7 SurveyUSA poll, Dr. Rand Paul would defeat Grayson 42-27 percent if the May 18 primary were held now. “Paul, an eye surgeon, political activist, and son of Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul, is ahead among all demographic groups and in all parts of the state,” SurveyUSA reported.

 
Jobs Bill: The Law of Intended Consequences | Print |  E-mail
Written by Bob Adelmann   
Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:30

With great fanfare, the Obama administration celebrated its first policy victory of the year — the $17.6 billion jobs bill. Eleven Republican Senators helped push the bill through the Senate, 68-29.

 
Healthcare Bill Rife with Provisions Funding Abortion PDF  | Print |
Written by Joe Wolverton, II   
Thursday, 18 March 2010 12:50

As the House of Representatives rushes to pass the version of a healthcare bill passed in December by the Senate, particular emphasis is being paid by Americans to key provisions in the measure. One of the most controversial elements, and one of most importance to many voters, is whether the bill under consideration will permit federal dollars to fund abortions.

 
Mitch McConnell: One Smart Political Pragmatist | Print |  E-mail
Written by Bob Adelmann   
Thursday, 18 March 2010 08:38

Republican Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had a strategy even before President Obama was inaugurated, according to the New York Times. Recognizing that Republicans had lost control of the Senate as well as the presidency, that strategy was to use his 30-plus years of political wheeling and dealing to slow down the Democrat juggernaut, and wait for reinforcements.

 
States Say Enough Is Enough, Tell Feds to Butt Out | Print |  E-mail
Written by Joe Wolverton, II   
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 14:52

Nothing gives this writer purer pleasure than to report on the multitude of states’ rights initiatives being passed by state legislatures across our great Republic. As happy as such news makes me, it must in equal measure drive the journalists at the establishment’s “newspaper of record” — the New York Times — crazy.

 
Mount Vernon Statement Shoptalk | Print |  E-mail
Written by John F. McManus   
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:00

Mount Vernon StatementOur country is in trouble. Ongoing military commitments, enormous indebtedness, high unemployment, failing schools, citizen restlessness, and a President and Congress trying to lead the nation into socialism. So what should be done to correct all of this?

 
NatGeo's "Wolf Wars" Flacks for Radical Greens | Print |  E-mail
Written by William F. Jasper   
Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:00

wolf"Wolf Wars," the cover story for the March 2010 issue of National Geographic, may seem, at first read, to be a "balanced" report on the ongoing battle pitting ranchers, hunters, recreationists, and conservationists of the Rocky Mountain states against Big Green environmentalists and Big Government (federal and state) bureaucrats. Author Douglas Chadwick does, after all, seem to report sympathetically on the plight of ranchers like John and Rae Herman of Montana's Hot Springs area, whose 800-head Angus cattle operation has been hard-hit by wolf predation. However, like most media reporting on wolves, his article hymns the supposed overall benefits of the reintroduction of Canis lupus to the ecosystem.

 
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