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It’s not citizens who are out of touch
If you listen to Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Howard Dean, you are told that the millions of Americans we see and read about who are protesting the proposed healthcare plan are “out of touch with reality” and “unpatriotic.”
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Each Saturday, L’Observateur will recognize individuals and businesses in the River Parishes who have gone “above and beyond” in their efforts to make this a better place to live, work, play and raise a family.
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If NRDC’s claims of starving polar bears were true, where are pictures?
Environmentalists and the media have successfully bamboozled half the populace and every school child in America into believing large numbers of polar bears are starving and drowning in the Arctic because of global warming.
43 years, 11 months and 30 days ...
Ted Kennedy, called the “Lion of the Senate” will be buried today at Arlington National Cemetery. President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy and, while the political itch might be too hard to overcome, we can hope he waits until after Mr. Kennedy has been buried to launch his “Do it for Teddy” campaign regarding health care reform.
Un-American? Sorry, Ms. Pelosi, protests are as American as apple pie
Un-American, disruptive, distorters of truth, manufactured outrage, Astroturf, hired guns, and Nazis are all terms used by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and their liberal allies to disparage those who are speaking out at healthcare town hall meetings.
Government-run health care? No, thanks -- how about real reform?
I can see it now ... the commercial features a screaming Howard “Yeaaahhh” Dean saying, “Now, coming to a medical clinic near you, health care from the same people who brought you Cash for Clunkers and the U. S. Postal Service.
The fatal flaw of democracies
"We just can't afford it!"
The tail of the recession that bit us
At the beginning of the Great Recession we had all sorts of experts who claimed we weren’t really in a recession and if we were, it was almost over. They were using some sort of newfangled math that didn’t take into account actual statistics.
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