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I saw a young woman today in Joplin wearing a t-shirt that said in green letters “Sustainable…Joplin.” Sustainable Joplin is the local chapter of “the Institute of Ecolonomics,” a group that pushes things like hydrogen cars. She hopped in a Toyota 4×4 with the “V-8” badge on the grill. Al Gore writ small. Hillary Clinton […]

From President Bush’s comments at the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC: It’s important that we recall these lessons because the evil and hatred that inspired the death of tens of millions of people in the 20th century is still at work in the world. We saw its face on September […]

The Tancredo branch of the GOP has taken to insisting that they will support comprehensive immigration reform after we give them what they want – The Wall and The Purge. Any student of history and politics can tell you what will happen if we follow that course. The Wall and Purge crowd will get what […]

So far, only the New York Post has said the word “czar”, but it was merely a matter of time before it came out in the new Czarist Amerika: A Port Authority security task force yesterday urged that the nation adopt mandatory security standards for cargo and that the president appoint a port security czar […]

Sixty-five years ago today, “the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace […]

Thanksgiving Day, 2006 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America As Americans gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, we give thanks for the many ways that our Nation and our people have been blessed. The Thanksgiving tradition dates back to the earliest days of our society, celebrated in […]