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Nazzo fast, Guido

There ain’t no such thing. Obama needs to stop rushing to the coronation, methinks.

November 11, 2008February 13, 2021
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Too much Change?

The Washington Times reports that The Bringer of Light’s Hope and Change Agenda, which caused such a snit all over the Intertubz this weekend, has…

November 10, 2008February 13, 2021
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Let’s have a gun post…

Enough political crap for a moment–I wanna talk about guns and shooting and about a well-spent afternoon. So I got up yesterday morning, full of…

November 9, 2008February 15, 2021
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Geopolitical Challenges

(Via LawDog) Stratfor has a good thought piece on the geopolitical challenges faced by The Obama on his ascendancy to the throne. (Well, it is…

November 9, 2008February 15, 2021
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Foot in mouth disease

(Via the Drudge Report) President Hopey-Changey (thank you Tam for that moniker) got off the teleprompter again: President-elect Obama called Nancy Reagan on Friday to…

November 8, 2008February 15, 2021
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Some Change

(Via the Drudge Report) So the stock market’s down about 4% this week and unemployment is up. The Enlightened One has bold, sweeping statements on…

November 7, 2008February 13, 2021
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A potential starting point

(From Chaos Manor) If we are to renew the Party of Reagan, we’re going to have to get back to the roots of conservatism. Russel…

November 7, 2008February 15, 2021
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Re-enlisting with a bang

Staff Sgt. Andrew Petrulis, USAF, recently re-enlisted while in Iraq. Blackfive has the picture that you don’t want to miss.

November 7, 2008February 13, 2021
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Hope seems to be in short supply in the markets today

Change–negative change–is not. After Huge Two-Day Selloff, Stocks Near Recent Low How’s all the Change working for ya? (Yes, I know it’s evil to gloat…

November 6, 2008February 15, 2021
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Spreading the wealth?

(Via the Drudge Report) Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred…

November 6, 2008February 13, 2021
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Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps Two things: “Journalism” from the New York Times. Sorry,but automatically suspect. All of the quotes were from McCain…

November 6, 2008February 13, 2021
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Oh, and another thing…

Don’t blame Sarah! Let me note something that goes with theprevious post–Sarah Palin is the only reason I, and many like me, decided to hold…

November 6, 2008February 13, 2021
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Renewing the Republican Party

I’ve been thinking about the election a good part of the day (at least, while I wasn’t at the range shooting). I’ve read any number…

November 5, 2008February 13, 2021
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Democrats to assume power…

Stock market has the biggest post-election loss in history, big spending ahead. Oh, and we want a “windfall profits tax” on oil companies (they missed…

November 5, 2008February 15, 2021
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It strikes me…

In 1976, a new generation of young people helped vote Jimmy Carter into the White House. The results of that are decidedly…mixed. In 2008, a…

November 5, 2008February 15, 2021
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And that’s, as they say, that

Fox News has just declared Barack Obama the winner in the US Presidential race. At this point, there are two things that we need to…

November 5, 2008February 15, 2021
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Once more, with feeling

Well, the time for campaigning for elected office is almost over, and it’s time for the voters to say their piece at the ballot box.…

November 4, 2008February 13, 2021
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John Ross on the election

“Reagan in a skirt“–you gotta love it!

November 2, 2008February 15, 2021
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Say what?!

(Via the Drudge Report) Obama admits that he would bankrupt a major company (or perhaps industry, it depends on how you read it)? So if…

November 2, 2008February 13, 2021
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Seeing Sarah

Yesterday was a first time thing for me–Son and I (Daughter was home sick; Mrs. Freeholder wasn’t interested) went to a political rally at the…

November 2, 2008February 13, 2021
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And now for some good news

(Via Timebomb 2000) We now have one less “choir boy” in the world: An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this morning in…

November 1, 2008February 15, 2021
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Selfish my Aunt Fanny

(Via the Drudge Report) I don’t give a hootwhat The Anointed One thinks (or, perhaps, parrots): wanting to keep the money I’ve earned, through my…

November 1, 2008February 13, 2021
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Dan Cooper, come on down!

(Via Timebomb 2000) You’re the next contestant on “My Big Mouth Got Me Fired!” Of course, USAToday, anti-freedom bunch that they are, have to quote…

October 31, 2008February 15, 2021
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Have you voted yet?

If you haven’t, allow me to introduce your to what Barack Obama has planned for your guns if he gets elected. As gun owners, we…

October 31, 2008February 15, 2021
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So…how’s that bailout thing workin’ for ya?

Exactly as foretold, if this is any evidence: The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal…

October 30, 2008February 13, 2021
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“If I died right here today,” he said. “I’d die a happy man.”

Charlie Taylor’s hands, wrinkled and mottled, grasped the wheel firmly. His feet, in old-guy black Rockports, moved the rudder pedals. In his eyes was a…

October 30, 2008February 15, 2021
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Cooper Firearms speaks

(Via Say Uncle) Well, sorta, anyway. First they post a statement on their web site, then they pull it down. Silence now reigns. Michael Bane…

October 29, 2008February 15, 2021
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Obama a sellout?

Perish the thought: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From…

October 29, 2008February 13, 2021
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Lessons unlearned

(From Snowflakes in Hell via Days of our Trailers) Cooper Firearms build works of art in metal and wood. Very attractive, very spendy. And very…

October 28, 2008February 15, 2021
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It’s a good thing I’m a single issue voter this year

And for John McCain, he’s damn lucky that it’s all about the Second Amendment. Republican presidential candidate John McCain told CNBC that the government’s top…

October 28, 2008February 15, 2021

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