Category: Government
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Defending Hillary
It doesn’t happen often, but in this case I completely agree with Hillary Clinton. She is drawing fire after comparing Russia’s moves in Ukraine to “protect” people there to what Hitler did at the beginning of World War II. The fact of the matter is, that is exactly what Hitler did, especially in the occupation…
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Who’s Really the Racist Here?
Eric Holder is now trying to get 11 states to lift their restrictions on felons voting. Because it is somehow racist. This is the same guy that claims voter ID laws are racist. And that punishing students for WHAT THEY DO is racist. Conservatives think that the same laws should apply to everyone. Commit a…
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More Security Theater
US currency is going through another redesign to make it harder to counterfeit. Sounds great, until you realize that 20 year old bills without all the new features are just as valid, and counterfeiting those hasn’t gotten any harder. So is it bad to design anti-counterfeiting measures into money? No. But I would be curious…
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Quote of the Day – Longest Edition
It’s been a long time, but I couldn’t pass this one up. “The German language permits the creation of words of endless length, many of which refer to laws.” From Der Spiegel The law complicates everything.
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From Formerly Great Britain
A former U.K. soldier says he found a discarded shotgun and turned it in to police — and now faces at least five years in prison for doing so, ThisIsSurreyToday.co.uk reported. Paul Clarke was found guilty of possessing a firearm Tuesday after personally handing it over to Surrey Police on March 20, the Web site…
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The Health Care Speech
Now with running commentary! Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge…
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Why is it
That people get so mad about health insurance companies supposedly screwing some people occasionally that they are willing to turn that function over to a government that screws almost everyone pretty much every day?