Throughout the history of this country, we have always valued institutions based largely on the contribution they make to society. For example, universities and colleges have been held in high esteem because of the societal gain derived from education, parks and libraries because of the gain derived from reading and recreation, and churches because of the gain derived from moral and spiritual instruction. Yet certain aspects of this valuation are changing.
Over the past few decades, our culture has shifted under the onslaught of postmodernism, so the moral and spiritual instruction supplied by the church is no longer valued as it used to be. Therefore, the value which older generations drew from churches via instruction and oversight is now being encroached upon by another value: the almighty dollar.
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Mr. Romney, it appears that despite the fact that approximately seventy percent of the GOP base does not approve of you as the GOP candidate for the 2012 General Election for the Office of the Presidency, you will be the standard-bearer of the Party. Depending upon what you do over the next six months, you may be the last presidential candidate of a united GOP. If you don’t want this as your legacy, don’t muff it, Mitt!
If you don’t want to be a 2012 McRomney version of the 2008 McCain debacle, you must act boldly and inclusively, and choose wisely. In an election that should rival Ronald Reagan’s landslide victories for the American people (booting the Lying King from his lair in the Oval Office), the GOP and Independent electorate are not inspired. It will take divine intervention to save our republic from the grasp of the unholy alliance of treasonous Socialists, Marxists, and Communists, dancing at the end of the manipulative strings of anti-American domestic and foreign interests. It is as if the U. S. citizen/taxpayer is a Cinco de Mayo piñata to be battered by the self-appointed, global elite ne’er-do-wells. You may be one of them, but you are going to need to separate yourself from them, if you are serious about becoming the 45th President of the USA. Read More
Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple’s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago, in flight from Chicago’s winters, he settled here and began making cardiovascular catheters and other medical instruments. One thing led to another, as things have a way of doing when the government stays out of the way, and although Cook died last year, Cook Medical, with its subsidiaries, is the world’s largest family-owned medical devices company.
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Former NPR and current Fox News political analyst Juan Williams made an excellent point Monday night on "The O'Reilly Factor." Williams said the major reason President Obama had not endorsed same-sex marriage is because of the strong opposition to it in the black and Hispanic communities.
Who could have doubted, though, that the president favors expanding the definition of marriage to include gays and lesbians?
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For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd given that he's essentially running unopposed. Though don't tell that to West Virginia Democrats, who cast nearly half of their votes for Keith Judd, an inmate currently serving time in a Texarkana, Texas, prison. Judd received 41 percent of the vote. In 1968, Eugene McCarthy received 42 percent of the vote and forced incumbent Lyndon Johnson from the race.
But that's not what I'm talking about. It's important to remember that primaries serve other functions than just picking the nominee. Primaries force party bosses, activists and strategists to test their messaging, update their databases and, most especially, get the party's fundraising apparatus going.
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In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel.
May ’67 was Israel’s most fearful, desperate month. The country was surrounded and alone. Previous great-power guarantees proved worthless. A plan to test the blockade with a Western flotilla failed for lack of participants. Time was running out. Forced into mass mobilization in order to protect against invasion — and with a military consisting overwhelmingly of civilian reservists — life ground to a halt. The country was dying.
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I have good news and bad news. Actually, I don’t. What I have is the appearance of good news and the reality of bad news.
First what looks like the good news: The unemployment rate has dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 8.1. Now the bad news: Some of the decline has resulted from people leaving the work force, many of them frustrated because they haven’t been able to find a job in a very long time.
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National Public Radio's Kai Ryssdal recently talked about the weak economy. His guests, two reporters from The Washington Post and The New York Times, acknowledged the obvious — that the economy is underperforming.
Yet, in the 20 minutes of my sitting and listening in the car in bad Los Angeles traffic, I heard no one mention the words "President Barack Obama."
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Who is Rashad Robinson? And why has his fringe, race-baiting organization been able to pressure several major corporations into abandoning a pro-limited-government legislative association — all for a few cheap social-justice brownie points?
Conservative consumers need to get informed, get active and stand their ground against free speech-squelching progressive activists who have demonized the American Legislative Exchange Council. This isn't just a battle over ALEC. It's a war against the left's shakedown artists taking aim at our freedoms of speech and association.
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The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created.
The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their trespassing, vandalism and violence is a de facto suspension, if not repeal, of the 14th Amendment's requirement that the government provide "equal protection of the laws" to all its citizens.
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T1983 in Moscow, we came in from the cold. Ending our tour of what was then the Soviet Union, a group of editorial writers from across the United States stepped on American soil for the first time in three weeks. Our reception that night was at the U.S. Embassy. We were free. Back home. Oh, Freedom!
All we'd seen from Irkutsk in Siberia to Yerevan in Armenia was an evil empire already beginning to crumble, but still a police state. And a nuclear power.
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Not all Gays, Lesbians, Transgendered and BiSexuals are happy that President Barack Obama jumped (at least figuratively speaking) out of the wedding cake at George Clooney’s $15 million-Hollywood fundraiser last night.
Not all LGBTs are licking the icing off the wedding cake, and not all LGBTs would willingly identify Barack Hussein Obama as their self-proclaimed ‘Patron Saint’.
There must be some, if not many LGBTs, who know at heart that Obama did not “evolve” to a same-sex marriage embrace on his own, or because that’s what his wife and daughters wanted. They must know that filthy lucre played a big part in his public adoption of the issue that “includes everybody and gives everybody a shot and treats everybody fairly”.
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