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MLK Day – Humor

January 19, 2015 by

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The Patriot Post ~ Black and White Gun Free Zone I Work Hard Because… Syria Needs Our Help Meme: What If I Told You… Quote: Comparing Obama and Hitler Je Suis… Boehner’s Poison Plot Liam Neeson and Guns Read more excellent articles at The Patriot Post

VA Not a Scandal, Says Pelosi + More – Daily Digest

May 28, 2014 by

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The Patriot Post ~ THE FOUNDATION “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to E. Carrington, 1788 TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS VA Not a Scandal, Says Pelosi Nancy Pelosi lives in an alternate universe. Sometimes we think that’s the only explanation for her bizarre pronouncements. […]

Benghazi Panel Filled + More – Daily Digest

May 22, 2014 by

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The Patriot Post ~ THE FOUNDATION “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV, 1781 TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS Benghazi Panel Filled In an act of political judo, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) nominated five […]

‘A Broken Record’ + More – Daily Digest

April 17, 2014 by

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The Patriot Post ~ THE FOUNDATION “As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise […]

This Once-Prosperous American City Went Bankrupt. Who’s To Blame?

January 31, 2014 by

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By Rob Bluey ~ Detroit, once a booming metropolis with a strong economy and strong society, declared bankruptcy last July. After 50 years of electing Democratic mayors, the city now has a state-appointed emergency manager overseeing its financial operations. What happened to this once-great American city? Detroit’s problems stem from years of failed liberal policies, […]

Mission Accomplished – or Not + More – Wednesday Digest

December 4, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ THE FOUNDATION “Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it.” –James Madison GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Mission Accomplished – or Not The 2008 presidential campaign never really ended for Barack Obama – everything he does and says is a political calculation or stump speech, and this […]

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Gets 28 Years In Prison For ‘Astonishing And Devastating’ Theft And Corruption

October 12, 2013 by

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By Pamela Geller ~ And Obama just gave these thieving bastards 320 million dollars, but our military dead get no funeral or death benefit. Keep voting for democrats, suckers. NPR: Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of, among other things, extortion, fraud and conspiracy. During the trial he was accused of running a kick-back scheme that fattened […]

Wednesday Digest The Lights Are Off, but Somebody’s Home + More

October 2, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ THE FOUNDATION “We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” –Thomas Jefferson GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS The Lights Are Off, but Somebody’s Home Parts of the federal government ceased functioning at full throttle Monday at midnight, leaving Congress considering what to do next. Republicans are shifting strategy now that the […]

News From the Swamp: IRS Targeting Continues

August 14, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ THE FOUNDATION “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” –James Madison GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS News From the Swamp: IRS Targeting Continues During congressional testimony on IRS political targeting of Tea Party […]

Dog Gone  Humor

August 13, 2013 by

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A Note From Mark Alexander

August 5, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ No, this is not the regular edition of The Patriot Post, but I will explain that in a moment — and give you some great news about big improvements in our email content. Congress has adjourned for their August recess, which means the Left won’t be mounting their collective assault on Liberty […]

Detroit’s Bankruptcy Marks the Tip of the Iceberg

August 3, 2013 by

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By Rachel Greszler and Alison Acosta Fraser ~ Detroit’s recent filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection would protect the city from its creditors while allowing it to restructure its debts. The proceedings that follow will, in many respects, set precedents for the swell of municipal bankruptcies that are likely to follow. Some of these precedents […]

Obama’s Bargain: Continued Stagnation

August 2, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ “No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.” –George Washington While on his “Look What I Did to the Economy” tour in our hometown of Chattanooga Tuesday, Barack Obama offered up a new “grand bargain.” In exchange for raising corporate taxes, he promises to spend more […]

New Normal? Hope Not

July 28, 2013 by

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By Tom McLaughlin ~ It depresses me to drive down main street in my small town of Lovell, Maine and see vacant businesses. The hardware store has been closed up for more than a year and it’s a twenty-mile round trip now when people here need a nut or a bolt. There used to be […]

Phony President Offers Moldy Economic Agenda

July 26, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” –James Madison On Wednesday, Barack Obama pulled some moldy pizza out of the fridge, popped it in the microwave and offered it as fresh gourmet fare. That was the essence of his over-hyped economic speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. But Obama’s […]

Detroit’s Got Nowhere To Run And Nowhere To Hide

July 26, 2013 by

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By Frank Hill ~ Among the more fascinating discussions we have had over the past 5 years have been with people who believe this following statement with all their heart, souls and minds: ‘More government spending on infrastructure, civil servants and public welfare programs is the way to solve our economic troubles ranging from unemployment, […]

If Obama Had a City, It Would Look Like Detroit

July 25, 2013 by

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Detroit Is a Metaphor for Obama’s America By Mark Alexander “The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.” –Thomas Jefferson (1821) Launching the next leg of his perpetual campaign, Barack Hussein Obama took his “Change the Subject” […]

Statism Is Turning America Into Detroit – Ayn Rand’s Starnesville Come To Life

July 25, 2013 by

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By Daniel Hannan ~ Look at this description of Detroit from today’s Observer: What isn’t dumped is stolen. Factories and homes have largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves now target cars’ catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the adults in some areas are unemployed. In many neighbourhoods, the only sign […]

Stand Your Ground

July 24, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts.” –Patrick Henry Editorial Exegesis “Same-sex marriage isn’t the only subject on which […]

Zimmerman’s New Name

July 23, 2013 by

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Racial Fiction

July 22, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice.” –Thomas Jefferson Opinion in Brief Editor’s Note: Barack Hussein Obama walked into a White House press briefing Friday afternoon, unannounced. He used the briefing to deliver his political assessment of the Zimmerman/Martin case. […]

Schultz One-Ups Harris-Perry’s Detroit Delusion: Motor City’s Bankruptcy Is ‘Thanks To A Lot Of Republican Policies’

July 22, 2013 by

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By Tom Blumer ~ Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry blamed Detroit’s bankruptcy on “government (that) is small enough to drown in your bathtub,” and claimed that it reflects “exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us.” Nothing can top that, right? Wrong. MSNBC’s Ed […]

The Importance of Senate Fili-Bluster

July 19, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ “Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.” –John Adams It may seem like an opaque argument over procedural rules, but it will have lasting consequences for the nation. We refer to the Senate fight over the filibuster of presidential […]

Crisis, Scandal and Tyranny

May 17, 2013 by

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The Patriot Post ~ “If the federal government should … make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” –Alexander Hamilton It was a bad week for […]