By ROBERT HOUDESHELL

On January 20, 1961, newly elected president John F. Kennedy implored Americans “Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country.”

Contrast this with a statement from a progressive I know, “I hate conservatives because Ronald Reagan ended a student loan program that would have let me go to college.”  My first two thoughts were:  ”Hey, I worked my way through college and you could have too!”  Secondly, I thought “Ronald Reagan didn’t do this to you specifically.  Trust me, he didn’t say “I’m going to screw this guy out of his college for some hateful conservative reason.”

This reminded me of the notion of “self-interest.”  Please don’t confuse self-interest with selfishness.  They are different.  All of us operate off of self-interest; the self-interest to succeed, stay alive, see our families thrive.  However, unhealthy self-interest is most closely aligned with selfishness.  I submit that anyone, of any political affiliation, that votes for a candidate or party because of what that candidate or party can do for them should be cautious.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Never since the mid 1970s when the Water Gate Congress insisted on abandoning our South Vietnamese allies after the war had been won have I seen defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in such a bold and decisive manner.

As I survey the scene in America today I’m beginning to wonder if we would be in any worse shape if we’d lost the Cold War.  From sea to shining sea Americans watch as the once greatest industrial nation on earth board up our factories and ship our manufacturing capacity to other countries.  It seems like every other day the last investigative journalist in America, Glenn Beck is exposing one more Marxist in President Obama’s inner circle.  That big lovable fuzz-ball Rush Limbaugh is judged a racist based on manufactured quotes and lies repeated by the President’s trained peacock and the rest of the establishment media while America watches accusations of racism used to squash any criticism of Barack H*@%$*n Obama.  Freedom of speech dissolves as we learn it’s profiling for some to mention the man’s middle name while at the same time school children are taught to memorize songs using his middle name extolling his Nobel sized accomplishments mmm mmm mmm.

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What Socialism Is

By NANCY MORGAN

When a word comes too close to actually identifying an inconvenient reality, secular progressives spring into action. The offending word is either redefined or reduced its first letter, thereby signifying that polite society will no longer accept it. You’ve heard of the N word, the B word and now comes the S word.

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By LARRY WILKE

Lost between the liberal cracks of deceit and diversion last week was the revelation that the Obama administration will be raising the ten year deficit outlook from their admitted seven trillion dollar total to nearly ten trillion dollars. The mathematical dynamics and technicalities that have always alluded the Obama liberals right around tax time invariably confuses them when it comes to accepting the damage that they have done to the nation with their Marxist meddling.

The oily and evasive liberals are hard to pin down when it comes to their numerical insufficiencies. Back in April of this year, Depressed Secretary Robert “Chuckles” Gibbs said that, “Only in Washington, D.C. is one hundred million (dollars) not a lot of money. It is where I come from. It is where I grew up.” That being the case, where does goofy Gibbs stand on a monetary difference of at least two TRILLION dollars? (That’s just the difference between the perpetually spiraling Obama deficits, that’s not counting the TWENTY times larger deficit of Obama versus Bush.) Such fiscal discrepancies should have Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank asking Gibbs, “On what planet do you spend most of your time?”

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

The multiple poodle-press pronouncements delivered from behind the curtain make it appear the Wizard of O is leading in several directions at once.  The media’s reporting-by-press-release contradicts itself.  I agree with the Omaniacs on the talk show circuit with thrills running down their legs when they say our rock-star president is smart and has an agenda.  Therefore, when I look at all the contradictions I cannot attribute any of it to a lack intelligence or direction.  When the actions of intelligent, motivated people make no sense, perhaps we’re looking at them through the wrong lenses.  Perhaps instead of using their words to discover their goals we should follow their actions looking to the foundation to judge the house being built.

The Wall Street Journal says “Obama Aspires to a ‘Light Touch,’ Not a Heavy Hand.”   The Los Angeles Times states, “Obama to propose strict new regulation of financial industry.  … The plan would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system, as well as creation of a watchdog agency to look out for consumers’ interests.”

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

There was a time when the Communist daily paper Pravda, which means truth in Russian was anything but.  It carried the party line of the Communist dictatorship, which had enslaved the world’s largest country.  Ordinary Russians huddled in basements and forests to listen to illegal short-wave radio broadcasts from Voice of America hoping to hear the truth, praying they wouldn’t be caught since listening to proscribed broadcasts was a crime and meant disappearing into the feared gulag.

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