By LARRY WILKE

The liberals who were once all so giddy about demanding “time tables” and “exit plans” have now just quietly given up on the idea and they “hope” that you have too. On April 20^th, Obama “challenged” his Cabinet (The Termite Totalitarians) to “cut $100 million” from the budget within 90 days. That deadline passed. This whole “governmenting” thing is a lot harder than it used to be when Obama used to wake up from his afternoon naps covered in dried drool during his 143 day whirlwind Senatorial “career.” Never mind that “100 million” is trivial compared to the untold TRILLIONS that the progressive poltroons are simultaneously printing and wasting and they couldn’t even find that in ninety days.

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Building formerly knowns as the Sears Tower

By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Back in the Dream Time, elders were honored because of their accumulated knowledge.  If Pops knew a better way to saddle horses that knowledge helped Junior since he saddled horses.  Today if Pops knows how to tune-up cars what good is that when cars don’t need to be tuned-up anymore?  Now the old are relegated to extolling their own relevance while exclaiming, “I’ve never seen that before.”  Doddering ancients who use their cell phones merely to talk wonder why their grandchildren never answer their emails as Gen Z tweet each other: “Don’t trust anyone over 15.”  The world is moving so fast not only is today tomorrow’s yesterday, but the generations are living in different todays today.  Gen X and Y parents with their once hip lap-tops under their arms stare in wonder as their pre-teen Gen Zs text with one hand while Wii skydiving in the backseat.  For these new additions to middle-age who’re just old enough to remember Star Trek imagine Captain Kirk visiting Captain Picard, pointing at Commander Data and saying, “What’s that?”

After years of being treated as if the Wisdom of the Ages were as relevant as Confucius in a fortune cookie, now that we have Chicago on the Potomac, the wisdom gained in the City that Works is suddenly spot-on.  Of course George the Second’s doctrine of pre-emptive war made one old saying make sense beyond the Southside, “Never start fights but if you have to hit someone back first once in a while that’s all right.”   Then again ACORN has shown the everlasting relevance of Chicago’s best-known adage, “Vote early and vote often.”

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By NANCY MORGAN

Millions of Americans watch with horror as the Obama administration continues to implement its own version of ‘change.’ Change involves an unprecedented and systematic devolution of power to the federal government, in direct contravention of the Constitution.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Estimates are that about 9,500 people die per day in America. That means thousands of special services are carried on daily to honor the departed and ponder our own mortality. When celebrities or iconic figures die we are moved on a national scale to weigh our own brief stay on the planet. But what do we actually ponder and what questions does the death of icons provoke?

Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon are reported to be Catholic while Michael Jackson was a Jehovah’s Witness and Walter Cronkite was an Episcopalian. Some who belong to these religions may feel assured that because of their respective religious affiliations all is well with each of them.

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By ROBERT STARK

Bloomberg reports that “Wall Street Sets Campaign on ‘Populist Overreaction.’”  The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association has set out a PR campaign headed by Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson who oversaw the bank bailouts under President Bush. Their plan is to target media figures and institutions to try to stifle the growing sentiment against Wall Street due to the financial crisis and bank bailouts. “SIFMA represents about 600 securities firms, brokerages and asset-management companies. It counts among its members the biggest U.S. banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.”

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By DALE

Digging deep into the archive, we have uncovered a Sotomayor ruling that no one in the mainstream media will cover.  If you thought the firefighter ruling was a shocker, wait until you see this “Wise Latina” classic.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

People avoid silence because they’re afraid of what they might hear.   Although we value our freedom of speech, polite conversation in America is subject to one crushing rule, “Don’t talk about religion or politics!”  Most of us were raised with this stifling warning in our ears.  The purpose was to avoid arguments at the dinner table but the result is a population illiterate in the two subjects affecting life the most.  I can only talk about the weather for so long which displays the wisdom of memorizing sports stats and watching American Idol.  With the two biggest topics off the table we’re faced with either trivial pursuit or silence.  Bored with the weather and having neglected my memorization and viewing options I propose a topic to stimulate vigorous conversation without causing any bickering, economics.

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By NANCY MORGAN

With Obama’s ascension to the highest office in the land, America is quickly turning into two separate and unequal factions – the elites who decide the rules and the peons who are obliged to follow them.

Our political elites are currently crafting a drastic overhaul of a health care system 77% of Americans say they are happy with. They have decreed that all Americans will now be subject to the new health care rules. Those that don’t will be subject to $1,000 fines.  Congress itself, however, will be exempt from the rules they are demanding the rest of us follow. Congressional members have their own health care plan, one that is not available to the rest of us peons.

Oh, and the unions, who have attained temporary elite status by virtue of their campaign contributions, will be granted special rules allowing them to be exempt from the proposed taxes on health care that will be paid by the peons in flyover country. (That’s you and me.)

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By ROBERT STARK

On February 1st the Obama administration implemented the Peru Free Trade Agreement, which promotes the exploitation of Peru’s Natural resources and people by multi-national corporations. Indigenous Peruvians living in the the Amazon rose up in protest against the Trade Deal, which threatens their livelihood. Peruvian police cracked down causing a massive massacre. The deal benefits both the elites in Peru and American elites. The decrees which were later revoked by the Peruvian Congress allowed for exploitation of ancestral lands in the Amazon by U.S. Corporations.

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By ROBERT STARK

The Hate Crimes Prevention Act which has passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming margin is now facing hearings in the Senate. There are already similar hate crime laws in place, however, this bill imposes much stronger federal enforcement, which is a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment. It grants greater power to federal prosecutors to prosecute hate crime laws by prosecuting those who have been found innocent by local or state courts.

The current bill will extend special privileges to gays and transgender individuals that are currently only granted to ethnic and religious minorities. The most dangerous part of the Bill which is a direct assault against the First Amendment is that it allows for the prosecution as accomplices in a hate crime for talk show pundits that the person who commits the alleged crime claims to influence their actions.

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