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Dan Calabrese

Republican congressional candidates have done good work in developing a 21-page agenda, and putting it in front of the American people, in advance of November’s mid-term elections. This is what they should do – make the case for how they would govern.

But I’m not sure they’ve done great work, and given the seriousness of the nation’s problems, that’s what we need.

Is there one in the room?

The pledge hits all the important points about spending restraint, and reveals in stunning detail how the rules and culture of Washington have made it impossible to cut spending, and almost as impossible to avoid increasing it. The pledge is also specific about how the GOP would replace ObamaCare and what it would do to enhance national security. (Interesting that vowing to keep Guantanamo Bay open is now a campaign selling point. How things change.)

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Andy Hefty

My friend Dan Calabrese continues to write about the abuses of so-called medical marijuana.  Naturally, this divisive topic brings out some passionate and sometimes very ugly comments.  So I thought I’d address a few from the comments on his most recent column.

Biblical Reference to Genesis 1:29. Someone tried unsuccessfully to convince Dan that God Himself put marijuana on this earth to ease the pain of Adam, Eve and their beloved offspring.  Here’s what the user wrote (quoted verbatim):

Nope.

Keep your mind open this plant was created by GOD and labled (sic) by man.

GENISIS (sic) 1:29

God said, “Behold I have given to you every plant whose seed is sown, that is upon the face of all the earth, and every unfruitful tree for the requirements of building and for burning; and (every tree) on which there is fruit whose seed is sown shall be yours for food.

Now, for the actual reference, quoted verbatim:

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Dan Calabrese

Bill Clinton was a much better politician than Barack Obama will ever be, not only because he had the ability to make you think he was on your side – Obama can do that while campaigning – but because Clinton had the ability to govern in a way that also made it look like he was doing that.

If only government controlled it all.

So when he was asked in an interview with Yahoo News and the Huffington Post to explain the appeal of the tea party, Clinton deftly made it sound like he gets it – saying we should all listen to the tea partiers because they’re just making the case that everyone but average Americans is doing OK.

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Brett Noel

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Dan Calabrese

This is so easy, it’s almost unfair to do it, but let’s be unfair. Imagine: Early in the Afghanistan War, U.S. fighter jets take out a prominent mosque in Kabul. As soon as the debris is cleared away, the Bush Administration deeds the land over to Franklin Graham, who announces he will build a missionary Christian church on the site.

Now, what are they writing in the New York Times, Mother Jones and Salon?

Exactly.

I love my country, but . . .

When it was decided that a mosque should be built at the World Trade Center site – not exactly on the site of the Twin Towers, but close enough that the building at the actual site was damaged by the debris – the developers could not have been so clueless as to think no one would be upset. You don’t have believe that attending a mosque means supporting terrorism – and I, for the record, do not – to understand that such a decision is highly provocative.

Why, then, has the American left embraced support for this project – almost as if they want it to be a defining issue in the current political environment? Indeed, it seems that the more upset right-wingers become about the mosque, the more virulently left-wingers support it.

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Brett Noel

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Joe Bell

This month President Barack Obama signed the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act” into law, declaring, “There will be no more taxpayer funded bailouts, period.”

Obama’s critique of previous bills he has signed has been wrong and it is likely his record will remain unblemished. One glaring past error is illustrated by an interview with ABC News, where George Stephanopoulos asked the president if the mandate to purchase health care insurance is a tax. Failure to comply will result in paying a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service.

Obama rejected Stephanopoulos’s assertion that the penalty seemed to conform to the dictionary definition of a tax and said, “Nobody considers that a tax increase.”

Congress should end the income tax

The Times said, “The law describes the levy on the uninsured as a ‘penalty’ rather than a tax.

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Mark Watson

Barack Obama, the first left-handed, cigarette-smoking, Hawaiian-born, Reverend Wright devotee ever elected president has proven once again that Democratic presidents work tirelessly on behalf of the downtrodden and working poor that Republicans hate.

A 24-year-old snippet from a speech before the NAACP by a current US Agriculture Department worker was released this past weekend. The employee, Shirley Sherrod, talked about not helping a white farmer because he was white. Sherrod is African-American.

Johnny Stupidly.

When the sound bites began making the media rounds, the Obama Administration did what it does best, it overreacted and fired Sherrod. According to Sherrod, she was called on Monday, while she was driving, and told to pull over to the side of the road so she could be told she had to resign or get fired.

Sherrod insisted her remarks were about reconciliation, not the stoking of racism. Her claims of innocence were ignored.

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Ashley Stinnett

When news first broke that The Daily Caller had obtained documents and other such evidence asserting that a left-wing journalist web site had plotted to cover up controversial stories revolving around then-candidate Barack Obama’s pastor, as well as conspire to destroy the lives of anyone who opposes their agenda, most Americans probably shrugged it off realizing this is simply old news.

We feel the same way about you!

After all, conservatives and traditional Americans alike have come to accept (like it or not) the reality that they are indisputably hated by the mainstream media.

But something else happened. Professionals all across the so-called journalism industry took a step back and realized just how badly the industry is faltering.

And this new evidence that has been brought to the public’s attention is the most damaging.

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