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1. The New Hampshire debate is Monday, June 13. The roster includes Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Gary Johnson, former New Mexico Governor, a declared candidate for the Presidency has been refused entry into the debate because he doesn’t meet the criteria set by the
Today, Mitt Romney announced his 2012 candidacy for POTUS in Stratham, New Hampshire. He claims that Obama “has failed America”. A few things are misplaced with his presence in NH and his words. First, why was he announcing in NH, when the state of Massachusetts, where he was governor and instituted a healthcare plan that
A few notes on Energy policy: In his recent speech at Georgetown, Obama said” And when it comes to the oil we import from other nations, we can partner with neighbors like Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, which recently discovered significant new oil reserves, and with whom we can share American technology and know-how.”….Instead of sharing
A few things going on that bear mentioning: Sen. Chuck Schumer was caught on an open phone line in conference call with Senate Democrats, not realizing that reporters were on the line. He was telling the group that in the budget fight with the GOP, the word “extreme” was to be used. “”I always use
With the world aflame, rioting in the Middle East; earthquakes, tsunamis, a nuclear plant meltdown in Japan; and wildfires in Hawaii and Texas, the head of our country is hard at work : filling out his picks for March Madness. We have budget problems : he ignores them. Let the Republicans come up with a
Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. Fifty seven years after being censured by the Senate, he has now been vindicated. The Marxists have taken over the Federal government. Not only do they hold high positions in this administration, they and their fellow travelers in the public sector unions are making a play for state governments, also.
Thirty years of Mubarak rule in Egypt is over. Eighteen days of protests throughout the country and the main one in Tahrir Square in Cairo have shifted the country to a different path. The protesters got what they demanded. Hosni Mubarak is gone, the parliament dissolved and the constitution suspended by the military now in
February 6, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s birth. When the nation saw the news report of the February 1980 presidential debate in Nashua, New Hampshire, we saw the man Ronald Reagan was. I was working for NSA, living in Maryland and like most of the intelligence and defense personnel, dealing with
The President’s State of the Union speech was a speech of many personalities. It was a combination of how wonderful America is, the “first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea”. There were parts that sounded rah-rah America, which was heartening, until you remembered who was saying them. Since Barack Obama’s ideology
