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Another day, another anti Obama billboard

By M. Johnston • Aug 13th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

“Our awesome president has once again been vilified on a horrific billboard in Missouri that compares him to homicidal maniacs Hitler and Mao Tse Tung. When asked for his reaction, the president said, “It’s horrifying. Disgraceful. Ignorant. And I hope and pray someone tears it down before the Chinese [...]

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Bad health bill for country with bad bill of health

By M. Johnston • Mar 21st, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

“Yes we can”?  Once again, I ask who the $#%@ is “WE” Mr. President? Strange, Obama said he was going to unite Americans, yet all he does is continue to divide them as this image shows.

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One happy president

By M. Johnston • Mar 16th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

A photo taken of Obama this week. Is he really having this much fun?  Did someone pass gas or something? Apparently he knows something we don’t.

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War is hell War is hell War is hell

By M. Johnston • Mar 12th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

From MSNBC.com week in pictures. Check the full image here. Gut-wrenching.  I thought Obama was going to bring our troops home? I know, I know, I know..

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Recovery? What recovery? New home sales plummet 11% in Jan!

By M. Johnston • Feb 24th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

“New home sales took a stunning plunge in January, dropping 11.2% to a new record low, wiping out all the gains the housing market had made over the past year. The figure blindsided analysts, who had expected a 3.8% increase, according to a Wall Street Journal poll. The plunge came [...]

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Holy yacht club! Bank bonuses up 17% in 2009 despite economy woes

By M. Johnston • Feb 24th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

That’s right, as banks are slashing our credit limits, raising interest rates, slapping unemployed folks with $40 late fees for being two days late on credit cards, charging outrageous interest rates, foreclosing on homes instead of lowering interest rates, and denying small business loans left and right, bank executives are surfing a tidal wave of [...]

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Change [of attitude] you can believe in

By M. Johnston • Feb 11th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

One of the most startling polls published to date here. When nearly 20% of Americans are “angry” you know we are in deep doo doo. I said it before and I’ll say it again, “Recovery? What recovery?”

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The politics of negro dialect

By M. Johnston • Jan 12th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

Since a lot of  liberal dems are playing politics and pulling a Roman Polanski over Harry Reid’s “negro dialect” comment (you know, having a big ol’ double standard), perhaps we should flesh out a working definition of “negro dialect” and see where that takes us..
Can we agree “negro dialect” is a euphemism for street talk? [...]

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Buck stoppin’

By M. Johnston • Jan 10th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

“Ultimately the buck stops with me… and when the system fails it is my responsibility..” -Barack Obama accepting responsibility for a lapse in intelligence analysis that permitted “a known terrorist (carrying explosives) to board a U.S.-bound airliner. Later in the same speech Obama flatly declared, “”We are at war.” You don’t say. source

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Health care and the “common good”

By M. Johnston • Nov 29th, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

The Sacramento Bee ran a great multi part story on health care reform today with an equally great back story about a local Sacramento man who is fighting the system to get the cancer surgery he needs to live.  As usual, the usual responders were out in force to either: 1) Blast the cancer victim [...]

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