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• Black hole of debt triggers Obama defections but re-election is possible

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As he took the oath of office before a record two million people, his approval rating over 70 per cent, Barack Obama believed he had been called on by history to remake America. He had already spoken of a new “grand bargain” with the American people. The country, he was soon to profess, was on the crest of an ...
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• The Shooter Gets it Right. Because Hes Actually Worked up a Sweat.

  
  River City Sports Blog — Authority: 120
  Merry Christmas. Heres a special Christmas greeting to someone who actually gets it. Charley Walters writes a column for the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Known as "The Shooter," he pitched for the Minnesota Twins in the late 1960s. Walters is a terrific columnist, not because hes going to challenge Thomas Boswell for a ...
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• America-Land of Lost Dreams

  
  FreThink — Authority: 99
  Image by kolix via Flickr In 1963 Martin Luther King made his famous “I have a dream” speech. Two years later many of those who shared his dream rioted for six days in Watts. What happened, what changed? Nothing. And that was the problem. Those who heard King’s speech and wanted to share his dream were ...
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• Criminalizing Christmas Cookies, Candy Canes, and Crèches

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  This year, America is receiving a subliminal holiday message that Nativity scenes pose a more imminent threat than Gitmo detainees being tried on American soil. Regardless of personal Christmas traditions, most Americans agree that the Nativity visually represents the biblical story of Jesus’s birth. Thus, ...
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• Daley Machine Nervous: Political Realignment in the Works?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  For some time now — here , here , and here — I have been arguing what at first must have seemed counterintuitive: that a great political realignment may be in the works. Today, in The Washington Post , William M. Daley warns his fellow Democrats that they are in danger of bringing just such a ...
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• At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Possessed a Copy of the Koran

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 141
  Did you know that? I noticed a mention of this fact in Barack Obama’s Cairo speech : I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, “The United States has ...
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• Away With The Manger by Chuck Norris

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 435
  I’m willing to bet that President Obama’s Christmas address this week will shine with religious significance about as bright as his unusually short Thanksgiving Proclamation , which gave a token reference to God via a quote from George Washington. Even in Obama’s superstar Christmas interviews with Oprah ...
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• Washington Meets GI Joe

  
  Politics, Guns & Beer — Authority: 125
  Me: “I wonder what would happen if we could get our hands on the DNA of like, Washington or Jefferson, and clone them.” The Inconvenience: “I already know what would happen.” Me: …? The Inconvenience: “They totally did this on GI Joe . Dr. Mindbender made a clone of like Ghengis Khan, Alexander, ...
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• Have Yourself a Maoist Little Christmas?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 141
  The far right  is making a bit of hay about some of the baubles (“Images of communists and transvestites, oh my!”) on the White House Christmas tree this year, and Andrew Sullivan characterizes the feigned outrage as a form of paranoid McCarthyism. But as a devoted Obama supporter, I will say this about the ...
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• Advice for Peoria from Thomas Jefferson

  
  The Peoria Chronicle — Authority: 422
  And now, here is some advice from our third U. S. President that we would be wise to follow here in Peoria — and, for that matter, all other levels of government: A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth ...
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• Why This Conservative Wants To Be Like Al Gore

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  I have to admit it. I am jealous of former Vice President Al Gore. I want what he’s got, at least in a generalized way. It isn’t that I envy him for having been vice president. The number two spot has traditionally been one not well regarded and only a few VPs have made the position an important one, if only in ...
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• The American Founding: A Big Tent of Diverse Interests

  
  American Creation — Authority: 478
  In my last series of posts I have been attempting to start a dialogue around two questions that I think may head us down the road toward putting this "Christian Nation" debate in the correct frame of argument.  In that vain, the questions I have proposed are: Which Christian ideas, if any, helped ...
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• Harry Reid Forgets Democrats’ History

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 435
  In light of Senator Harry Reid implying that the Republican party defended slavery, I’m republishing my review of Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past , by Bruce Bartlett: “[V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat.” On December 5, 2002, ...
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• A Christmas Message from the Thomas Jefferson Club President

  
  Thomas Jefferson Club Blog — Authority: 136
  Dear Patriot, I wish you and yours a beautiful Christmas and Holiday season! As I look back on 2009, I am extremely proud to have worked with so many of you to build an organization that proactively addresses the myriad of issues that face our country. Along the way many of you joined our ranks and answered the ...
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• The Declaration of Independence

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 434
  JOHN ADAMS-Declaration of Independence-Drafting in 1776   John Adams – God Save The American States Declaration of Independence The Meaning of Independence Day – Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address   Background Articles and Videos ...
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• ObamaCare Down My Throat

  
  Common Folk Using Common Sense — Authority: 119
  From The Politico : Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas. “We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our ...
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• December 20, 2009

  
  DailyLearners.com — Authority: 128
  Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -Thomas Jefferson more about Jefferson
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• Could Asians Be Assimilating On Western Free Market Ideals?

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 129
  Asians now comprise as the fastest growing nationalities among foreign students in America. Thats according to the Economist , ``STUDENTS flock to American universities from all over the world. But according to the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, over 40% of the 106,123 foreign students in the country ...
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• All power is inherent in the people - not government

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 439
  "We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles. The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries ...
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• Potential new imaging technique ‘helps identify malignant breast tumours’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Washington, Dec 18 (ANI): A research team led by an Indian-origin scientist from Kimmel Cancer Centre at Jefferson has come up with a novel imaging technique that would help identify malignant breast tumours.Currently used imaging techniques miss up to 30pct of breast cancers and cannot distinguish malignant tumours ...
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