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Narcissism and Tyranny — The Consequence of Executive Egocentrism

May 31, 2012 by

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By Mark Alexander   May 31, 2012 “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” –Benjamin Franklin, 1758 (Editor’s Note: Your Patriot team rolled out our new homepage this week. While the appearance changes will be obvious, there are also numerous technological upgrades. One key improvement is that reader comments are now […]

Armed EPA Agents Visit Ashville Man

May 31, 2012 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ Sometimes a small incident says volumes about a large government agency. In this case the Environmental Protection Agency. Around 1.45 PM on May 23, Ashville, North Carolina resident Larry Keller was in the midst of an international call which he had to cut short in order to answer his front door. […]

Obama Stimulus Money for Video Games, Racial Studies

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By Cliff Kincaid ~ An important revelation from author Edward Klein is the name of the Obama ally who allegedly offered a $150,000 bribe to Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright to be quiet until after the 2008 election. Klein named him as Dr. Eric Whitaker, executive vice president and associate dean at the University of Chicago […]

The White House Defends Public Equity

May 31, 2012 by

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By Mike Brownfield ~ Up is down, left is right, good is bad, and day is night. If you wander inside the Washington, D.C., beltway, you’ll enter a bizarro world where, at times, commonsense is replaced by a localized logic that is completely divorced from the reality. The latest example of political gobbledygook comes courtesy […]

Climate Change Australia – Kiss Goodbye To Those Green Billions

May 31, 2012 by

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By Andrew Bolt ~ Terry McCrann on the next colossal waste of your cash: The Australian Government Treasury has blown the whistle on the Gillard Labor Government’s clean energy slush – sorry, finance – fund. It has made it official. Most if not all of the $10 billion of taxpayer money will be flushed straight […]

Obama’s Tall Fiscal Tales + More

May 30, 2012 by

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The Patriot Post  Chronicle   The Foundation “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” –John Adams Editorial Exegesis “Mitt Romney ‘warned about a “prairie fire of debt.” That’s what he said,’ Mr. Obama said on […]

Demanding the Truth about Obama

May 30, 2012 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ Billions of words have been written about Barack Hussein Obama. He has written two “memoirs.” You could fill a library shelf with the books that have been written about him, few of them flattering. He has given thousands of speeches and interviews over the past three years he’s been in office. […]

Booker’s Comments re Bain, Capitalism Not a Surprise

May 30, 2012 by

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By Star Parker ~ Winston Churchill captured what this presidential election is about when he observed, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” It’s why the young black Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker, (pictured, far right) got high-level […]

Talks with Iran

May 30, 2012 by

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A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ We don’t know what’s really going on because we are forced to rely on the media. Maybe the talks with Iran are just a meaningless smoke-screen? What if the war has already started? What if their attempts to build a Doomsday Device are being torpedoed and being taken out by […]

Lawmakers Probe Fast-Track Approval for Connected Green Companies

May 30, 2012 by

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By Lachlan Markay ~ Congressional investigators are probing potential cronyism in a pair of federal green energy programs, including the Energy Department loan program that guaranteed a $535 million loan to now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra. In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar sent on Tuesday, embedded below, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), chairman of the […]

The Real Story of How Obama Killed Osama  humor

May 29, 2012 by

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The Real Story of How Obama Killed Osama

Brute Force in Syria

May 29, 2012 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ One need only compare the statements of diplomats and world leaders against the reality of what is occurring on the ground in Syria. Its dictator, Basher al-Assad, the son of the former dictator, has been killing thousands of Syrians since the insurrection began on May 15, 2011. Similar to the protests […]

NewsBusted – 12-151 – Video

May 29, 2012 by

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Topics in today’s show: – An important piece of Breaking News – Mitt Romney is still rich! – President Obama is attacking almost everything he can about Mitt Romney’s former employer Bain Capital. – Even though he was on ‘teleprompter’, President Obama twice mistakenly referred to his two non existent sons at two separate campaign […]

There’s More to the Story on Obama’s Pick for America’s Top Nuclear Regulator

May 29, 2012 by

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By Jack Spencer ~ Last week, President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Dr. Allison Macfarlane, a nuclear waste expert from George Mason University, as the United States’ top nuclear regulator. Conventional wisdom is that Dr. Macfarlane satisfies all the major political interests involved with the NRC decision.  She is a vocal opponent of […]

Climate Change Australia – Slowly, The Smart People Are Winning

May 29, 2012 by

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By Andrew Bolt ~ Global warming guru Ross Garnaut said, on the implementation of the new Tax on Carbon Dioxide emissions: It’s not the first time we’ve had contests between knowledge and ignorance that are of great significance for the future of our civilisation but this is certainly one of them. He’s right: A study […]

Memorial Day 2012

May 28, 2012 by

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  The Patriot Post  Brief   The Foundation “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” –John Adams Essential Liberty Col. Tom Manion, USMCR (Ret.), wrote in The Wall Street Journal about the remarkable men and women in uniform and what they give for our great nation. He should know — his […]

AP ‘Fact Check’ Ignores Obama Stump Speech Claim of ‘Slowest’ Spending Growth ‘Since I Took Office’

May 28, 2012 by

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By Tom Blumer ~ At the Associated Press aka the Administration’s Press on Saturday, Andrew Taylor’s “Fact Check” item on President Obama’s stump speech claim in Iowa on Thursday dove into the trees without first looking at the forest. Distracted by ridiculousaurus Rex Nutting’s write-up earlier in the week at MarketWatch (“Obama spending binge never happened”), […]

Lie To The Little People, New York Times Columnist Says

May 28, 2012 by

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By Andrew Bolt ~ Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is also a global warming evangelist, so I doubt he thinks lies should be used to justify only big spending: This is hard to get people to do, much better, obviously, to build bridges and roads and healthcare clinics and schools. But my proposed, I actually have […]

On This Memorial Day

May 28, 2012 by

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By Chet Nagle ~ “From now until the end of the world, we and it shall be remembered. We few, we Band of Brothers. For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.”  William Shakespeare (King Henry V) There is a chain made of blood and iron. The heavy links are anchored in […]

Sunday Music – Vale Robin Gibb And Donna Summer

May 27, 2012 by

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During this last week, another two music legends passed away, adding another two wonderful voices to the choir of angels. They were Robin Gibb and Donna Summer, and I’ll mention each in turn, with Robin Gibb first. ROBIN GIBB Robin Gibb was a member of that famed group Bee Gees. They had a huge volume […]

The World as a Giant Playpen

May 27, 2012 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ Having spent most of my life in the last century and the rest in the new one, it affords me the opportunity to look back at the blunders, the slaughters, and the triumphs of a considerable period of time. I often wonder why people like scary movies when all they have […]

Archaeology and Victimhood

May 27, 2012 by

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By Tom McLaughlin ~ Even archaeology is political these days and it slows down research. Muslim Arabs discourage Israeli Jews from excavating ancient sites like the Temple Mount because findings might bolster Jewish claims to disputed territory. Christians and Jews tend to be more open to whatever may emerge from archaeological digs. They’re happier when […]

A Deal with Iran

May 27, 2012 by

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A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ According to this piece in Israel HaYom: “Don’t underestimate Obama’s willingness to undercut current allies (including Israel and Saudi Arabia) in the process of cutting a deal with the Iranians. There is much more at stake here than the mere stymieing of Israeli attack plans.The interim agreement with Iran that […]

Climate Change Australia – Climate Commissioner Flannery’s Latest Eco Plan: Pulling Teeth

May 27, 2012 by

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By Andrew Bolt ~ More of those green jobs that climate changers keep promising: The Australian Government’s Commissioner for Climate Change and Global Warming campaigner, Professor Tim Flannery says mercury tooth fillings should be removed from corpses before they are cremated. And the best part of this scheme is that the capital investment is so […]

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