I’m beginning to understand what it takes to be considered one of the worst people in America by the “enlightened” thinkers: an obese Wall Street executive with wrinkles.

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Healthcare conference caller from Maine: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Barack Obama: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”

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I was in a local supermarket where my tab came to $8.83. I handed the cashier–a 15-year-old high girl who will be in tenth grade when school re-opens–a twenty. Then reached into my pocket and pulled out eighty three cents. “I don’t know how much change to give now,” she told me. “I already got a total before you handed me the extra money.” “You can’t do $20.83 minus $8.83 without using the register as a calculator?” I asked. “No,” she replied. “We always use calculators in school…”

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“We paid a high price [during the Tet offensive] but so did you [Americans]…. Do not forget the war was brought into the living rooms of the American people….The war was fought on many fronts. At that time the most important one was American public opinion.”–General Vo Nguyen Giap, commander North Vietnamese forces

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A lot of Americans are so used to calling something a “right” they never stop to consider what that really means. Such is the case currently with regard to health care. Do Americans actually have a “right” to health care? No, they don’t–not unless it’s coerced. What do I mean?

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It’s hard to know where to start explaining what a debacle Obamacare is. So let’s go with something simple: the president is a liar, and it only took Investor Business Daily about fifteen minutes of slogging through the House’s version of the healthcare bill to discover a whopper.

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Talk, as the old saying goes, is cheap. It gets even cheaper when it is completely undermined by events which reveal it to be nothing more than rank hypocrisy. For revealing such hypocrisy, thoughtful Americans owe a debt of gratitude to a most unlikely source: North Korea.

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Berlin 1945: Police around the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium) are preparing themselves for the crush of fans, expected to number in the tens of thousands, for the official ceremony honoring of one of Germany’s greatest leaders: Adolf Hitler.

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In his immortal book, “1984,” George Orwell envisioned a society in which government controlled every aspect of human behavior. Yet despite having such control, the government recognized the need to periodically “de-pressurize” the proletariat as a means of preventing revolution. Thus they created a character named Emmanuel Goldstein and a program called “Two Minutes Hate.” America may not be a totalitarian society, but our mainstream media and political ruling class has certainly decided who its Emmanuel Goldstein is: Sarah Palin.

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After the 9/11 attacks, Americans were promised that the World Trade Center would be re-built and the Deutsche Bank Building, damaged by same, would be torn down. Almost eight years later, neither task has been accomplished. So what’s this got to do with the cap-and-trade bill? Plenty.

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For Barack Obama, it has become woefully apparent that some meddling is “more equal” than other meddling. Ordinary Iraqi citizens protesting totalitarianism and getting killed for it? Let’s wait and see what happens. Honduras ousting a president attempting to illegally re-write the Country’s constitution? Illegal and a “terrible precedent.”

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Mary Bono Mack (CA); Michael Castle (DE); Mark Kirk (IL); Leonard Lance (NJ); Frank LoBiondo (NJ); John McHugh (NY); Dave Reichert (WA); Christopher Smith (NJ).

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According to Osama Bin Laden, one of the principle reasons for the perpetration of the 9/11 atrocities was to cripple the American economy. He and al Qaeda needn’t have bothered. A feckless Congress and a clueless president are more than up to the job.

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The ABC television network has decided to drop the apparently over-burdensome pretense of being an unbiased news source. Next Wednesday, they’ll be broadcasting from inside the White House, presenting America with president Barack Obama’s vision for nationalizing health care. Dissenting voices? Off limits.

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Does anyone remember when liberals were champions of human rights and freedom? I don’t mean their infatuation with their PC domestic agenda, such as gay marriage or amnesty for illegal aliens. I mean the JFK, “I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world” kind of freedom. So what’s president Barack Obama’s response to thousands of Iranian protesters putting their lives on the line against a totalitarian regime? He doesn’t want to “meddle” in Iran’s affairs.

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My take on the David Letterman “comedy” bit regarding Sarah Palin and her daughter:

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And so reality gives way to appeasement and moral equivalency. The extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust, the primary impetus for the founding of Israel, is “no better or worse” than the Palestinians’ self-inflicted culture of psychosis in which any attempt to build a functional, coexisting society has been trumped by their multi-generational desire to annihilate the Jewish state.

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The American left will never accept the idea that liberating Iraq was a good thing for one over-riding reason: our failure to find weapons of mass destruction. Yet as this administration is forced to grapple with an out-of-control North Korea and a nuclear ambitious Iran, Iraq offers an example of the difference between symbolism and substance: of the three countries, the only “axis of evil” member that is no longer a nuclear problem is Iraq.

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For anyone who believes there’s no double-standard with regard to liberals versus conservatives, here’s an exercise in creative thinking:

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A question for Colin Powell, Tom Ridge, Newt Gingrich and all the other so-called “big tent” or “moderate” Republicans: have you all been in a coma for the last two elections?

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The margin was “razor-thin,” but a Democratically-controlled Senate (59-40, awaiting the Coleman/Franken result which will likely make it 60-40 Democrat) rejected the Obama administration’s plan to bring Gitmo terrorists to the United States. The vote was 90-6.

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Another week, another list:

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Few things are more fascinating to me than the American left’s continuing attempt to disconnect cause and effect with regard to the war against Islamic terror.

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The latest laundry list:

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Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) has decided to switch political parties. Republicans are reportedly devastated–which goes to the very heart of the problem with that political party.

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In its latest sop to the far left, the Obama administration is going to release hundreds of photos showing U.S. troops ostensibly mistreating prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. The true number of pictures runs into the thousands. Why release some, but not all? According to Fox News, “(the Pentagon) is choosing not to include the substantial number of additional photos submitted as evidence, many of which did not lead to disciplinary action.” Translation: pictures which don’t show America in the worst possible light don’t make the cut.

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With the kind of 20/20 hindsight that only “progressive” thinkers possess, demands are being made to prosecute those who authorized the use of coercive interrogation techniques on hardened terrorists. Too bad those of us who believe in protecting America couldn’t engage in the same kind of “after the fact” choices. Maybe some of us would choose the alternative to waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: letting Los Angeles suffer the same kind of attack New York and Washington D.C. did on September 11, 2001.

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Another week, another list:

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Perhaps the most profoundly troubling story of the year emerged last week, in a combination of reporting by Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. It speaks volumes about the ambitions of progressive power-seeking, and the attempt to impose a worldview on America by the most direct means available–whether we like it or not.

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So little time, so much to comment on. A few more quick hits:

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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”–Winston Churchill

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According to the conventional wisdom, one of the main reasons we’re in dire economic straits is because people are defaulting on their mortgages. One of the excuses we’re hearing for these defaults? Buyers didn’t read the details of their mortgage contracts, and were unaware that their payments could go up in the future.

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Can we all stop kidding ourselves now–or are we going to keep pretending this so-called stimulus package is something other than the apex of corruption, mindless ideology and self-interest run amok?

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