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Category Archives: Barack Obama
Did God Appear At The White House?
Joe emails: I hate to say it to many atheists who read your site, but God just appeared in the white house. No, I am not talking about Mr. Obama. I am talking about the question asked Obama about the … Continue reading →
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Tagged health care package, nationalized health care, professor gates, snap judgments, stimulus package, wiggle room
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Obama’s Health Care Fiasco
DENNIS PRAGER said on his radio show today: The American healthcare system works. The president talks about how we spend the most and we have the least effective results. We don’t. We have the best healthcare in the world. If … Continue reading →
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Tagged american healthcare system, buying life insurance, Dennis Prager, drug innovation, health insurance system, obama, obesity problem, president talks, violent crime
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Time To Start Worrying Over Obama’s Israel Policy
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky writes for The Jewish Press: President Obama’s long-awaited speech in Cairo on U.S.-Muslim relations met expectations. It was passionately read and delivered (except for one stumble: calling a "hijab" a "hajib," an understandable error), touched all the … Continue reading →
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Tagged audience reaction, fringe element, hajib, islamic radicals, muslim relations, understandable error
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Obama Hate In Jerusalem
From the Jerusalem Post: A new video posted on the Internet featuring inebriated American Jewish youth in a Jerusalem bar spouting hate-filled sentiments has garnered massive exposure and caused a firestorm in the media and the Jewish world. In the … Continue reading →
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The New Rage In Mug Shots
These are all real mug shots from the police:
Nuke Iran
Joe emails: I have to laugh at the new linkage to get the Palestinians their own state, namely the idea that only if Israel offers that up will the moderate arab states unite against Iran and its nuclear program. There … Continue reading →
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Tagged arab states, gulag, head over heels, israeli settlements, nuke iran, street cred
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Big Surprise That A Machine Politician From Chicago Turned Out To Be Corrupt And Lawless
George Will writes: The Troubled Assets Relief Program, which has not yet been used for its supposed purpose (to purchase such assets from banks), has been the instrument of the administration’s adventure in the automobile industry. TARP’s $700 billion, like … Continue reading →
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Tagged machine politician, political favoritism, president john f kennedy, slush fund, steel executives, troubled assets
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Obama’s Shameful Joke About Special Olympics?
Shmuel Herzfeld is Rabbi of Ohev Sholom — The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C www.ostns.org. He writes in the Washington Post: President Obama was only joking last week when he quipped on Jay Leno’s show that his bowling is "like … Continue reading →
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Barack Obama Seems Serious
He presents himself as a man with gravitas. But when he talks, he reveals himself as shallow. He doesn’t take ideas seriously. Dennis Prager says the Wall Street bonuses, AIG bonuses, are despicable but you can’t pass a law to … Continue reading →
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President Obama Cut An Endorsement Deal?
From TER: By TER Staff This caught our eye. It may get somebody in trouble. The President, while in office, is not allowed to cut endorsement deals. We’re pretty sure of that. If the Obama White House needs … Continue reading →
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