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December 28, 2011 By Jeannie DeAngelis For those Americans who were still unsure whether Barack Obama really does lack authenticity, the President has finally come clean and confirmed that he does indeed have a tendency to lie. Prior to Christmas, courtesy of Barbara Walters and the ABC News program 20/20, President Obama presented the nation [...]
Posted 12/27/2011 07:09 PM ET Islamofascism: Scores of Christians attending Catholic mass in Nigerian churches were slaughtered in their pews by massive bomb blasts on Christmas Day. While decried as “un-Islamic,” a frightening number of Muslims believe the bombings are justified. The year that began with a New Year’s attack on an Egyptian Coptic Christian [...]
Posted 12/27/2011 07:09 PM ET Political Correctness: First the Pentagon hosts the 9/11 imam. Then the Marines open a mosque at Quantico. Now the Army’s letting JROTC cadets wear the hijab. What next? In a letter to a Muslim group sent on Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s behalf, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Larry [...]
Posted 12/27/2011 07:09 PM ET Debt: Wasn’t it just last summer Republicans and Democrats nearly came to blows over raising the debt ceiling? Well, guess what — President Obama is back, asking for another $1.2 trillion. Are we being gamed here? After last summer’s imbroglio, the debt limit was raised to $15.194 trillion. At [...]
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The purported great orator has produced no memorable lines or results By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, December 27, 2011 It was just over three years ago that Barack Obama echoed the words of great men in his much-ballyhooed speech on race: “We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union [...]
Is liberalism or Muslim outreach more important to the president? By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, December 27, 2011 It’s no longer news that President Obama’s vaunted outreach to Islam has been a bust. Numerous polls over the past three years have shown that after a brief flurry of enthusiasm, regard for the [...]
By Peter Morici Published December 27, 2011 FoxNews.com This holiday season, we should be thankful that the values that define America—personal liberty and individual pursuit of happiness—are increasingly embraced around the globe. The Arab Spring and upheavals in Russia are affirmations that ever more of humanity finds hope in democracy. The remarkable economic progress of [...]
Published December 28, 2011 Associated Press WASHINGTON – Democrats lamented U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson’s decision to retire rather than seek a third term in Nebraska, fearing the move sets up Republicans for an easy and crucial victory in their effort to reclaim control of the chamber next year. Nelson, the lone Democrat in Nebraska’s five-member [...]
by Lexi Stemple | December 27, 2011 GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry isn’t taking his rejection from the Virginia primary lying down. The Texas governor has filed a federal lawsuit in a U.S. District court to get on the ballot in the Old Dominion state. Virginia has some of the toughest ballot restrictions in the [...]

