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Raise a Glass to the Past: America Rooted in Tradition, or a new covenant?
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-By Warner Todd Huston The newest Publius podcast explores America’s classical founding rooted in tradition. Tags: Publius+Forum , Warner+Todd+Huston , Podcast Bookmark to:5 hours ago -
US Media Ignores Obama’s Muffed Japan Visit
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-By Warner Todd Huston The Japanese media has reported that Obama’s recent state visit to their island nation was a big failure, but the U.S. media is mum on the mess that Team Obama made in Japan. He made multiple diplomatic gaffs and this is quite aside from the absurdly low bow that the incompetent president ...12 hours ago -
Unions Abusing Members to Force Them to Toe the Line
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-By Warner Todd Huston It’s called “pink sheeting,” a practice employed by union bosses to bully their membership to vote the “right” way. The practice consists of forcing employees to reveal deeply personal information about themselves — such as abusive relationships, addictions, or legal trouble — ...12 hours ago -
NPR: The Internet is at Fault for Fort Hood Assassin
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-By Warner Todd Huston National Public Radio (NPR) has a bit of foolishness penned by Daniel Schorr that really shows how useless NPR really is. In an pristine example of Schorr’s great intellect, he’s decided that the Internet is responsible for Nidal Hasan’s murderous rampage at Fort Hood earlier in the ...12 hours ago -
An Example of Electoral Foolishness in Illinois
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-By Warner Todd Huston The petition challenge is a long-time, widely abused, wholly cynical method of destroying your opponent here in Illinois. The petition challenge has been known to eliminate candidates from ballots all across the state — but most often in the tough town of Chicago — preventing voters from ...12 hours ago -
Special for the High School Class of 2010
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-By Vince Johnson Sixty-two years ago I was a 19 year old in the Class of 1947. Our commencement speaker emphasized how fortunate we were to be preparing for career opportunities in a world focused upon peace and prosperity rather than grieving over the death and destruction of the most devastating war in history. ...12 hours ago -
Deer Issue Catches Liberalism In Headlights
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-By Frederick Meekins Early in American history, one was pretty much free to do as one saw fit on one’s property so long as it was moral especially if one lived in a rural area where one’s actions were not likely to encroach upon the sensibilities of one’s neighbors. However, now it seems the landholdings of ...12 hours ago -
Marriage Hating ‘Psychologist’ Calls Palin a ‘Special Liar’
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-By Warner Todd Huston An anti-Palin screed somehow ended up on Psychology Today’s website. I know, I know, it’s shocking that Psychology Today could sponsor something that is less science than it is PC, hatespeak against conservatives, what with psychology being so scientific and all — but, there you have it. ...1 day ago -
Another Union Thief, This One a Cop
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-By Warner Todd Huston Chicago, Ill. — The president of the Chicago Police Sergeants’ Association has been caught stealing over $600,000 in union funds , authorities say. Sgt. John Pallohusky, 53, spent the stolen funds on gambling trips, lavish dinners, and online stock trading. He spent more than $163,000 ...1 day ago -
College Atheists Give Up Club: ‘What’s the Point?’
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-By Warner Todd Huston Denitown, Connecticut — Chip McKeown, president of the Atheist club at Connecticut’s College of Regional Accountant Practitioners (CRAP), has announced that the club will be disbanding at the close of this semester. Professor Freewind Pulcinski (pictured) expressed his disappointment ...1 day ago -
Chicago to Waste Millions on Park Plan
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-By Warner Todd Huston The Chicago Park District is wasting millions more of the taxpayer’s money by hiring a New York landscaping firm to redesign portions of Grant Park and Northerly Island just as it recently announced plans for employee lay offs to try and balance its $400 million budget. Chicago residents ...1 day ago -
Is FCC Declaring ‘Open Season’ on Internet Freedom?
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-By Scott Cleland The FCC, in proposing to change the definition of an “open Internet” from competition-driven to government-driven is setting a very dangerous precedent, that it is acceptable for countries to preemptively regulate the Internet for what might happen in the future, even if they lack the ...1 day ago -
A ‘Death Panel’ Surfaces
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-By John Armor This week, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force announced its recommendation that women between the ages of 40 and 50 no longer receive routine mammograms to detect breast cancer at its earliest, and most curable stage. This was a near-total reversal of the same Task Force’s earlier ...1 day ago -
Senate Approves Motion to Proceed on Obamacare
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-By Warner Todd Huston With a 60 to 39 vote, the Senate has passed the motion to proceed to move on with the debate over Obamacare. Again, it is important to note that this is only a vote to begin the floor debate on the bill. It is not a vote to pass Obamacare. In the Washington Examiner, Byron York has an ...1 day ago -
SEIU Fixing the Vote in Fresno, Too
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-By Warner Todd Huston A few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma’s in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation. Well, Sonoma wasn’t an isolated ...2 days ago -
BushdiditBushdiditBushdidit
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On Friday, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner blamed the Bush Administration for the country’s woes…. again. Oh, you can’t blame Tim “I Don’t Pay taxes” Geithner for this reflexive fall-back position of blaming all his failures on Bush. After all, this narrative comes from the top. It’s an Obama ...2 days ago -
Ill. GOP Ciairman: Coulson Thing a ‘Screw Up’
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-By Warner Todd Huston Jeff Berkowitz cornered Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady and asked him if the invite to Beth Coulson to the state-wide meeting with national party Chairman Michael Steele was a defacto endorsement of Coulson’s 10th District candidacy? Brady says no, there was no endorsement. At issue was a ...2 days ago -
Oak Park’s New Logo, the Long and Short of it
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-By Warner Todd Huston Oak Park, Illinois has created a new logo to help sell the city for tourism. The new logo is coupled with a new slogan: “Oak Park: Step Out of Line.” The town is very excited about its new logo. It has stiffened the citizen’s resolve to sell their town as a tourist spot…. OK, enough ...2 days ago -
This Chick Does Flicks: 2012
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-By Ann “Babe” Huggett I’m not given to laughing at inappropriate moments in movies, especially when it’s literally the end of the world, but no one warned me that within the current disaster mega hit 2012 there lurks such utter and impossible physical lunacy that all you can do is laugh. When 2012’s ...2 days ago -
Slap on Wrist for Senator Burris
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-By Warner Todd Huston The Senate ethics committee has “admonished” Senator Roland Burris for all the lies that he’s handed them in his testimony over his involvement in disgraced and impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pay-to-play scandal in Illinois. As Blago was making his last pass around the drain ...3 days ago
