Political Debate: 2012 and Beyond
1/16/2012
by C.M. Jacks
Republican fringe candidate Ron Paul continues to set the standard for political loopiness in what is already a pretty loopy year. Recently in a video-taped encounter with a member of a 9/11 conspiracy group called "We Are Change"...
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1/7/2012
by Robert P. Heslin
"I mean, think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela – these countries are tiny, compared to the Soviet Union. They don't don't pose a serious threat to us..."
Remember this statement by Barack Obama? He made it in Oregon in May of 2008 while campaigning for President. Now, one of those tiny countries is building a missile base in a second tiny country so that the second tiny country can, if it wishes, fire nuclear-tipped ICBMs at an American city.
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1/4/2012
by Robert P. Heslin
Barack Obama's handling of the Keystone pipeline, which would bring billions of barrels of much-needed oil from Canada down to refineries in Texas, is yet another example of the President's habit of putting Democrat party politics ahead of the national interest, at great cost to an American workforce aching for gainful employment, as well as the country's energy security.
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1/3/2012
by Robert P. Heslin
At a time when the U.S. economy is failing and millions of Americans are out of work, the Obama administration has given an electric car company, Fisker Automotive, a $529 million federal loan guarantee which has not only NOT led to new American jobs, but instead resulted in a windfall of manufacturing jobs in Finland.
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11/28/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
It's not news that the Democrat party has bled support among white voters for decades now. But as the 2012 elections approach, party activists have made it increasingly clear that they intend to cut ties with the white working class.
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11/22/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
For the whole of his adult life, Barack Obama has been a creature of the governing elite. Reminiscing in Dreams From My Father he does, however, describe a brief interlude in the private sector, just after college, working as a research assistant for a multinational corporation.
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11/21/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
When an Obama media supporter as ardent as Chris Matthews starts venting like this, you know you're dealing with a serious case of disillusionment. Part lament and part old-school critique of the new social media, Matthews' rant is a fascinating peek into the servile mind of the legacy media.
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10/31/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
The story of Herman Cain's supposed sexual misconduct almost 15 years ago was supposed to destroy him by shifting the focus of the American public away from President Obama's dismal handling of the American economy. But it hasn't worked out that way.
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10/21/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Solyndra isn't the tip of the iceberg. It's the cancer cell found by the doctor which leads to further tests that reveal a body – in this case the body politic – riddled with cancer. The subsidizing of alternative energy by the Obama administration is a textbook case of fraud and waste on an enormous scale.
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10/13/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Congressman Ron Paul has some sensible libertarian notions about the banking system, but he is an off-the-charts outlier when it comes to foreign policy, especially as it concerns the War on Terror.
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10/6/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
In response to George Soros and his merry band of anticapitalist ingrates' latest hijacking of the news cycle, Rush Limbaugh has unloaded on them in a glorious monologue, excerpted here.
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9/22/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Despite all the wailing over "draconian cuts" from liberals and Democrats, and despite all the self-congratulations from establishment Republicans over their alleged fiscal discipline, the dismal fact remains that no real budget cuts are being made at all.
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9/10/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress was every bit as inconsequential as his detractors expected and his supporters feared. It was yet another in a long line of shamefully political events that have trivialized his administration and deepened the public's already fathomless cynicism for all things beltway.
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8/25/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Rush Limbaugh has delivered another superb commentary (Thursday, August 18, Hour 3) in which he eviscerates liberal notions of "fairness" – notions that make a mockery of that honorable but ill-used word.
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8/24/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Here we are in August 2011 and the political airwaves are thick with the usual liberal rhetoric calling the rich to task for not contributing their fair share of the economic burden as the country struggles through the great recession.
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8/15/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
In this memorable Fox News interview appearance, Amilya Antonetti, CEO of AMA Enterprises, struck just the right notes in the ongoing class wars: proud, unapologetic, and passionate.
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8/13/2011
"Barackalypse Now"
We first heard this phrase on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, but a quick Google search turned it up back in 2008, though in a different context. We think it rings truer than ever today.
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8/11/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Standard & Poors' downgrade of our country's credit rating may end up being the defining event of the Obama Administration – bigger than his blackness, bigger than Obamacare.
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8/11/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Scolded and brow-beaten by President Obama for not emulating his economic policies in Germany two years ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel has led her country to robust economic growth.
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7/30/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
With the political beating President Obama has taken in the past couple weeks during the debt-limit negotiations, you might wonder how anyone could view him as lucky in any way. Yet lucky he surely is.
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7/21/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
When the Obama administration – or anyone – releases a document on a Friday before a long weekend, it's obviously trying to reduce the amount of attention it gets from the media.
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6/25/2011
According to an article in USA Today, the ability of the US Government to make good on its financial promises to citizens is gravely deficient.
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6/22/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
When President Obama decided to fight the war in Afghanistan in 2009, he ordered an extra 50,000 troops for the effort, more than doubling the number of soldiers deployed to nearly 100,000.
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6/22/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Rush Limbaugh has given us as clear and powerful an explanation of what ails the economy – and who is responsible for it – as we have heard.
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4/25/2011
The International Monetary Fund has just set a date for the moment when the so-called "Age of America" ends and the U.S. economy is surpassed by China's: 2016. Mark your calendar.
The prediction casts a cloud over the U.S. dollar and the Treasury market. IMF forecasters claim it doesn't matter who is elected U.S. President next year — whoever we elect will be the last American President to govern over the world's largest economy.
Just a decade ago, the U.S. economy was three times larger than China's. Now, according to one bond strategist in Europe, "We are witnessing the end of America's economic hegemony."
The United States has dominated the global economic scene for so long, no-one remembers anything else.
America overtook Great Britain as the world's leading economic power at the end of the 19th century. Both countries practiced similar kinds of constitutional government, and had respect for civil rights and property rights.
China doesn't. The Age of China promises to usher in a vastly different set of moral and economic values.
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4/22/2011
The Obama Administration wants to sell a sizable share of its stake in General Motors, insiders say. Such a sale in the near term would probably mean U.S. taxpayers will take a hit on the government's 2009 bailout of the beleaguered Detroit auto maker, which amounted to $50 billion.
To break even, the U.S. Treasury must sell its remaining stake—roughly 500 million shares—at a share price of $53.00, far above the $31.27/share it closed at today on the New York Stock Exchange.
Government officials say privately that they'll accept the loss because Obama would like to cut ties with the auto maker. A sale this summer makes more likely a full divestiture by the Treasury by the end of the year, thereby avoiding costly political complications in 2012.
GM's shares are down due to recent events that have shaken investor confidence, particularly the steep rise in gas prices, which have hurt sales of big, highly profitable trucks.
Wall Street is also anxious over the sudden departure of Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell, and a high-profile sales blitz in January and February, which could improve earnings in the first quarter, but hurt them after that.
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4/21/2011
Weakness in the US dollar is causing the price of everything to go up. Currency experts say this picture is unlikely to change any time soon.
The greenback could very well crash through all-time historical lows when compared to other major world currencies.
While there's no single explanation for the dollar's weakness, there are several contributing factors: the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies, enormous new national debts and deficits, and the looming spectre of debt downgrade by rating agencies such as Standard & Poors, reacting to the ongoing financial mismanagement in Washington.
In short, as trader Dennis Gartman recently observed, "the rout of the US dollar" is in full effect.
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3/12/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the paragon and patron saint of modern liberalism, had some surprising things to say about public-sector unions. His observations have a direct bearing on present-day controversies unfolding in places like Wisconsin and Ohio.
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2/22/2011
Congratulations to Congressional Republicans for voting to defund ObamaCare and the President's unaccountable coterie of Czars. The vote came on an amendment to a government-spending bill sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana).
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2/11/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Ominous signs suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood's influence in Egypt is on the rise. Thirty years after assassinating President Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel, they are emerging as a potent force in post-Mubarak Egypt.
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2/3/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
The Judge even cited Obama's own words in the ruling. While campaigning against Hillary Clinton for the Presidential nomination in 2008, Candidate Obama described, crisply and clearly, why insurance mandates can never be made to work.
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1/31/2011
by Robert P. Heslin
Almost from the moment he first declared his candidacy for the Presidency, Barack Obama campaigned as the anti-Bush. Pick any policy, foreign or domestic, and you would find Mr. Obama and Mr. Bush on opposite sides of it.
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1/28/2011
The Commander in Chief gets asked a tough question about U.S. military campaigns and mixes up Iraq and Afghanistan during a YouTube forum. He is politely corrected by the moderator. Can you imagine the uproar if President Bush had made the same mistake?
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12/15/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Once upon a time, Harlem congressman Charlie Rangel served honorably in the Army and was awarded a Purple Heart in the Korean War.
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12/15/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
The economic meltdown in Greece gives us a glimpse of our future if we don't stop the federal spending binge we've been on since Obama took office. Republican victories in the November elections are a good first step...
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12/14/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
The left's class-warfare rhetoric has heated up since the electoral beating they took in November. But higher decibels in an argument don't translate to higher levels of logic. The truth is famously the opposite.
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11/23/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
If Congress does nothing on taxation policy between now and the end of the year, we're in for huge and unwelcome changes in the tax code.
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11/8/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Our sixteenth President was a fountain of wisdom, anecdotes, homilies and sayings. As President Obama faces the remainder of his term, he could do worse than to consider these quotes from the country's first Republican.
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11/5/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Talk of voter fraud has been much heavier than usual this election season. There are reports of voting machines with preselected candidates, and efforts to register non-citizens to vote, to say nothing of the usual last-minute below-the-belt political hits that are as old as politics itself.
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10/14/2010
President Obama, as quoted by Mike Allen in Politico, supposedly came to the realization that there's "no such thing as a shovel-ready project." We at ElectionDebates.com can think of at least one. There's a big milestone for it coming up on November 2nd.
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10/6/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
If by some unfathomable twist of fate all the polls are proven wrong, and Democrats escape the ballot box punishment they so richly deserve, what happens to the country?
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10/3/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward has written a new book, "Obama's Wars", which offers a revealing and disturbing portrait of our Commander in Chief and his administration.
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9/28/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, the world was heartsick at the stories of people suffering and dying in the streets of this island nation.
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9/28/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Ominous new evidence is already building up that the concerns many of us have about Obamacare are fully warranted. Six months after its passage the federal government is already taking frightening new steps to control us under the guise of taking care of us.
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9/27/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
This is an update to our July 24th article on President Obama's performance in handling the controversy involving General McChrystal and the notorious Rolling Stone feature story. New information has since come to light from Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars.
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9/22/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Democrats thought they'd be coasting to electoral victory by now. They assumed public outrage over Obamacare would be fading. They assumed that economic and polling numbers would be on their side, and that the President would be well-positioned to persuade the country to swallow the bitter pill of tax hikes.
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9/21/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Government bean-counters in Los Angeles are finding out how little good the Obama Administration's stimulus gravy train is doing them.
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9/13/2010
The worst of Obamacare is still years away, but Americans are getting a taste of it now, and it's bitter. Compelled by burdensome new federal mandates, health insurance companies are canceling policies or revising them to cost more and cover less.
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8/12/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and Congressional Representative from San Francisco's 8th District, is the distilled essence of hyper-partisan hard-left liberalism.
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8/9/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
It's undoubtedly true that when Judge Vaughn Walker stepped into the voting booth back in 2008 to cast his vote on Proposition 8 as a private citizen, he voted 'No' – as was his right.
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 8/6/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
With the passage of Obamacare, every American has lost freedom of choice. The majority of Americans oppose government health care rationing.
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August 2010
by Robert P. Heslin
The stimulus. We knew much if not most of it would be wasted. Now Senators John McCain and Tom Coburn have confirmed our suspicions with a report which catalogs our misspent tax dollars in painful detail. Twenty examples from it are shown here.
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7/24/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
As Democrats opt to "Cut & Run" in Afghanistan, terrorist groups grow and thrive to launch more attacks in America.
New updates.
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7/14/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
The fact that Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, two of the prime suspects in the subprime mortgage collapse, had the nerve to put their names on a finance reform bill is bad enough.
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7/9/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Leadership and temperament count in politics – all the more so when the political setting is the White House. That's the painful lesson the country is learning as the Obama presidency unfolds.
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6/7/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
When President Reagan lowered taxes with the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) in 1981, the reversal of the country's economic fortunes was not instantaneous. ERTA's tax rate reductions didn't go into effect until 1983. Those of us old enough to remember can recall how sluggish the markets were in 1982. It wasn't until the lower rates kicked in in 1983 that the 80s truly took off.
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5/2/2010
by Robert P. Heslin
Democrats killed the physical fence, and Obama stopped the virtual one. Do Americans want open borders like Obama does?
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10/14/2008
by Amy Hawkins
The activities of a highly-aggressive voter-registration group, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) are coming under increasing scrutiny as fraud charges against them mount up in election battleground states across the country.
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10/8/2008
by Robert P. Heslin
From reporter Jim Brown of OneNewsNow.com comes unsettling (but well-founded) speculation about what kind of changes we can expect in the makeup of the Supreme Court in the event of an Obama victory in November.
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8/4/2008
by Robert P. Heslin
Larry Kudlow, writing for NewsMax, offers compelling evidence of a political sea-change happening before our very eyes. The fortunes for both political parties seem to be in a state of reversal; great news for the Republicans, and terrible news for the Democrats.
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7/27/2008
by Annette P. Hartpence
With the November elections just months away and gas prices headed towards $5/gallon, the issue of oil drilling and energy has become white-hot, and Democrats find themselves on the defensive as calls for an end to the oil drilling moratorium mount. Let's look at the Dems' arguments. Do they hold water? Or are they selling snake oil?
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7/23/2008
by Annette P. Hartpence
ProtectOurBorder.com lays out for us in damning detail just how bad Barack Obama is on illegal immigration.
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7/14/2008
by C.M. Jacks
In December of 1995, President Clinton vetoed oil drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), claiming that “…the coastal plain was the biological heart of ANWR and exploration or development would ruin the pristine area.” The spot price of crude oil at the time was around $17/barrel.
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6/30/2008
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It's not who you think.
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6/22/2008
by Robert P. Heslin
The nation’s mortgage melt-down has evolved into an American real estate crisis amid falling home prices, record foreclosures, and weakening consumer confidence – all of which threatens to produce the nation’s worst economic disaster since The Great Depression.
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4/1/2008
by Robert P. Heslin
The political ideology that has killed more human beings than any other in the history of the World Needs your money. Liberals! Dig Deep into your pockets to fund Communism's Good Work!
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3/25/2008
by Robert P. Heslin
Senator Barack Obama's Chicago church once published an open letter from a Palestinian activist who labeled Israel an "apartheid" regime. Furthermore, the letter claims the Jewish state worked on an "ethnic bomb" that kills "blacks and Arabs."
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3/19/2008
by C.M. Jacks
While Senator Barack Obama said he couldn't overthrow his friend and pastor of 20 years for a racially charged and divisive hate speech, apparently he had no trouble calling for the head of Senator Trent Lott, the Republican Senate majority leader, for embracing a colleague with a segregationist past on his 100th birthday.
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3/3/2008
by Amy Hawkins
Both Democrat party candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, tell us they can provide health care for all – mandated or not. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
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2/25/2008
by Robert P. Heslin
Felicia Benamon writes in EnterStageRight.com that it used to be that the average American voter had a pretty good head on their shoulders. Not so much anymore. Too many Americans are allowing the likes of Barack Obama to sway them into thinking they will be rescued from their problems should he win the Presidency.
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12/6/2007
by Robert P. Heslin
If you missed this recent episode of Rush Limbaugh, allow us to summarize the facts for you. Rush says it’s official: the Dems have blown their chance in Congress.
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10/26/2007
by Robert P. Heslin
A fascinating report from RealityCheck.com is worth keeping in mind as the mainstream media continues to inundate audiences with gloom-and-doom economic news at every opportunity.
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8/16/2007
by Robert P. Heslin
Is it too much to ask Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to conduct themselves and their party honorably in the energy debate?
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7/5/2007
by Robert P. Heslin
Yes, everybody wants a cleaner and more environmentally safe planet. Yes, we should all go green or do what we can to eliminate waste. Yes, we need to take care of the Earth...
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6/29/2007
by Robert P. Heslin
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad campaigned for the Iranian presidency, he promised Iranians that he would put the country’s oil wealth “on people’s tables.” Not only has he failed to make this or any of his economic pledges come to pass, his economy is on the verge of collapse.
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2/21/2007
by Robert P. Heslin
Two cousins were arrested Wednesday on federal charges of conspiring to wage holy war against Americans overseas, including U.S. military forces in Iraq.
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