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Edward Achorn: Let the good times roll! (Until the train runs out of track)

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Mar 302010
 

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
From the U.S. Declaration of Independence, denouncing the tyranny of King George III

By EDWARD ACHORN
Providence Journal, March 30, 2010

I’ve often wondered what Thomas Jefferson and his cohorts, big fans of freedom and limited government, would make of the “swarms of officers” our own politicians have sent hither. Today’s pols, empowered by elections and special-interest contributions rather than divine right, make old King George look like a piker. Continue reading »

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Two presidents visit U.S. troops: The styles of Barack Obama and George W. Bush in photos

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Mar 302010
 

President Obama made his first trip as chief executive to Afghanistan over the weekend to, among other things, visit troops close to Kabul. He spoke to them at Bagram Airfield and we had the full text right here.

The White House released this picture by official White House photographer Pete Souza, showing the president shaking hands and grabbing a soldier’s finger, and the troops’ reactions.

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Posted by DagnyTaggart at 9:38 pm  

Couple asked to use water

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Mar 302010
 

Burkets use well, contending chlorine sickens wife

By Phil Ray
Altoona Mirror, March 30, 2010

HOLLIDAYSBURG – Greenfield Township is attempting to force an elderly Claysburg-area couple, Donald R. and Janet Burket, to use township water even though Donald Burket contends the chlorine makes his wife sick.

Donald Burket and his daughter, Wendy, also of Claysburg, were before Blair County Judge Tim Sullivan Monday arguing against a township request for a court order forcing the couple to use township water or face a fine for civil contempt of township ordinance.

The case was before Sullivan in 2008 when he ruled the Burkets must hook into the Greenfield Township water system. His decision was upheld by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.

They have done that and they are paying the standard monthly rate for township water, but the Burkets contend that while they are hooked into the system, they should not be required to actually use the water for daily living purposes. Continue reading »

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Apple Boycotts Glenn Beck — Promotes Che Guevara

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Mar 302010
 

by Humberto Fontova
BigJournalism.com, March 30, 2010

“More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of (Glenn) Beck’s program,” reports the Washington Post. “A handful of advertisers, such as (IPhone owner) Apple, have abandoned Fox altogether.”

We can only assume this Apple “boycott” was prompted by what CBS’s Katie Couric (quoting the Fox commentator’s critics) describes as Beck’s “inflammatory, unfair, despicable, hateful rhetoric.”

This same hyper-sensitive-to-hate-speech Apple, by the way, has just launched an IPhone application featuring Che Guevara’s quotes.  Yes!  “Now you can carry around Che Guevara’s quotes on your IPhone!” Continue reading »

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America’s Quiet Anger

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Mar 302010
 

By James P. Gannon
The American Spectator, March 30, 2010

There is a quiet anger boiling in America.

It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans — and see their government reward those who do not.

It is the anger of small town and Middle American folks who have never been to Manhattan, who put their savings in a community bank and borrow from a local credit union, who watch Washington lawmakers and presidents of both parties hand billions in taxpayer bailouts to the reckless Wall Street titans who brought down the economy in 2008. Continue reading »

Posted by DagnyTaggart at 9:08 pm  

So You Say You Want a Revolution?

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Mar 302010
 

By Matt Patterson
American Thinker, March 30, 2010

How are the people to react to the erosion of liberty that is the Obama health care regime? To be sure, lawyers will challenge it in the courts, and November is right around the corner, giving opportunity to punish those traitorous politicians who acquiesced to the debasement of our Constitution.

This is all to the good. But we cannot count on lawyers and politicians. God help us if we do. We the people in our righteous anger must take matters into our own hands: It is time for a strike.

The only peaceable protest that could possibly have any effect on the implementation of ObamaCare would be to withhold the tax revenue required to fund it. Unfortunately, Franklin Roosevelt long ago imposed the odious practice of “withholding,” whereby the government takes what it considers its share before it even gets to you. Continue reading »

Posted by DagnyTaggart at 9:00 pm  

Group arrested not Christian or militia, insider says

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Mar 302010
 

By the CNN Wire Staff
March 30, 2010

Members of a militia charged with plotting to kill police were not Christian or a militia, a man acquainted with the group said Tuesday.

“This is a group that I would classify as neither a militia or a Christian group,” said Michael Lackomar, a member of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia. “They’re really a fringe group outside of anything we do.

“They’re more of a private army or a terrorist organization or really just a criminal organization.”

Federal authorities on Monday charged nine members of a group called the Hutaree militia with conspiring to kill a Michigan law enforcement officer and then kill other officers at the funeral. Continue reading »

Posted by DagnyTaggart at 5:21 pm  

Top Stories March 29, 2010

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Mar 292010
 

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Female suicide bombers blamed in Moscow subway attacks

Making the Housing Crisis Worse

Questions surround Midwest raids against “militia” groups

The next move of the Alinsky left

Political Economy: The Panic Timeline

More…

Christian militia accused of plotting to kill cops

Hard Indoctrination, Soft Indoctrination, and the Books that Change Us

James Carafano: Obama’s U.S. is unprepared for disaster

Coverage Now for Sick Children? Check Fine Print

EDITORIAL: Dems play the terror card
Democrats last week began a well-orchestrated campaign to change the subject from Obamacare by declaring Republicans the newest terrorist threat.

It was a Republic, but we couldn’t keep it
At the close of the Constitutional Convention a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government had been created. Franklin’s reply: “A republic, if you can keep it.” We couldn’t.

BREAKING VIDEO: Reid Supporters Throwing Eggs And Assaulting Andrew Breitbart

Obama in Rude Denial
It’s All A GOP Plot – The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or as much as a billion dollar charges because of the new health-care law, the issue was front-and-center with key lawmakers.

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