By NANCY MORGAN

My liberal friend Pam and I are a perfect example of the class warfare currently being waged in America between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots.’ Also known as ‘the war against the rich,’ or, in a nutshell, socialism.

Though Pam and I are lifelong friends, we couldn’t be more different. Pam is the quintessential liberal, quick to espouse views that show America in a bad light. Sarah Palin is evil, Bush is bad and anyone (like myself) that doesn’t base their decisions on feelings is, well, just plain uncompassionate. End of story. I, on the other hand, am a traditional, conservative Christian.

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By DALE

By now, everyone is aware of attempts of some on the Left to infiltrate the Tea Party, but lesser known is the new magazine devoted to such activity.  And you’ll never guess who made the inaugural cover…

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By LARRY WILKE

What’s the rush? It’s only the BUDGET.

According to Politico, Congress is “poised to miss its April 15^th deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber.” (“Congress sees no budget rush” 04/12/10) With that “Congressional Mulligan” as my outline, I am “poised” to miss the IRS’ “April 15^th deadline” without considering filling out their ridiculous and repetitive forms. I am a proud and un-hyphenated American citizen as opposed to one of our “Congressional Potentates,” how well do you think that that plan will work out for me?

Lost within the hubris and sarcasm of the liberal Congress missing an April 15^th budgetary deadline, it isn’t difficult to figure out why this one will go by the boards. Congress and all of its lemmings and lackeys are too busy poking and probing the returns of ordinary citizens in order to bankroll any number of progressive programs and pogroms meant to penalize the productive. After all, Obama has a “scamulus” bill, a “health scare” bill and a “controversial” globaloney warming/climate change bill that are in dire need of the disposable and non-disposable income of the nation’s middle (and soon to be lower) class.

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By KEN HOAGLAND

For many Americans the distance between what they believe is best for the nation and what government actually does has become an infuriating chasm that was never meant to exist in a representative government designed to reflect the will of the majority.

No other single public policy so reinforces a perception of self-dealing, unfairness and incompetence as the corrupted federal tax code. Bloated beyond decipherability at 67,500 pages of regulations, the income tax system is driven by personal power, lobby profits and, through tax inducements and penalties, a changing menu of citizen and business manipulation.

Married people pay higher rates than singles living together; income is commonly double and tripled taxed; pastors are told what they can and can’t say from the pulpit, and foreign competitors enjoy significant cost advantages over American producers because of our tax system.

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By LARRY WILKE

“It’s just going to be like Christmas. It’s going to be great. You know, no worries about the bills.” This was the cathartic cry of one DeCarlo Flythe, yet another of the fifties of millions of new beneficiaries of today’s Bolshevik benevolence. What was once a “privilege” has now been “changed” into a “right” through collectivist chicanery and socialist sorcery. This became a “right” based solely upon the totalitarian tenets of “fairness” enabled by sclerotic socialism, not the Constitution of the United States, but these types of annoying details do not matter when you have an “agenda” to impose.

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By MELLISA WHITTINGTON

I was listening to Neil Cavuto, who often entertains me with his slightly vitriolic sarcasm about the state of our Union. He tries to delicately balance his anger and disgust with the direction of our country’s finances, with his journalistic integrity to report the facts. While the information is generally disheartening, and sometimes downright depressing, he manages to get a laugh. But it got me thinking about the looming April 15th tax day. We all think we pay too much, but in my broad, general estimation, it’s only going to get worse from here.

I did some research the other day. I found out, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the IRS.gov site, a few interesting  and scary facts:

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By ROBERT LUTZ

I just couldn’t stand it any longer. Adults petrified at best, incompetent and apathetic at worst. Unskilled, socially inept, entitled kids in charge. A state and federal government growing by the hour, disturbing patterns and obvious correlations emerging…

What started out as a logical part-time gig (I tutored peers at 15) to support an acting/screenwriting habit has become a desperate crusade to save this country. If that sounds hyperbolic, refer to the tired cliché about our kids being the future. Granted, I’m perhaps more jaded than most, having spent ten years in the second worst district in the nation. But given the likelihood the same atrocities display themselves in and around every major city, infecting once safe neighboring suburbs; we’re raising a generation of youth widely suited for lower-rung jobs and incarceration.

If they land in the private sector, many will be forced to compete in a highly saturated labor market, where wages have been severely compromised due to our fear of being called racist. Never mind the fear of yet higher taxes and more crippling regulation stifling any economic rebound. And how much bigger can the pubic sector get? The latter has grown exponentially, such that the numerator is crushing the taxpaying denominator, scoring a burden ratio that will flatten us in “X” number of election cycles.

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By FAIRFIELD “PINPOINT” EDWARDS

Editor’s Note: Unconventional Wisdom is a new series designed to unravel the misleading “conventional wisdom” of our times.  In this edition, the Clinton Surplus Myth is examined by the numbers.

Everyone is aware of the perception that the Clinton years were a golden age of fiscal management and economic genius.  First, let it be said that there was indeed an impressive period of surplus revenues during the Clinton years, especially in light of recent American history since the Great Depression and the New Deal.  However, the entire set of numbers show a more complete picture and put the surpluses in their proper perspective.

Without further ado, here are the statistics (in millions because the numbers are so outrageously large):

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By LARRY WILKE

On February 9^th, yet another liberal IED exploded in Washington. Surprisingly, I will wager that you haven’t heard a single word about it until now. The “revenue recidivist” himself said that he is “agnostic about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.” For those who are fond of brevity, this is known as a “Kerry” or a “flip flop.” For those more historically inclined, this is an “HW.”

When an Obama claims to be “agnostic” about something, it is a good idea to be absolutely firm on the definition of what it is that he is talking about because we know that he himself isn’t. “Agnostic: a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.” This comes from the “Dictionary” in my telephone. (My how technology has changed our lives.) Let’s delve into this liberal looking glass of a word.

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By NANCY MORGAN

Joseph Romero, a 6 year-old Arizona boy, was diagnosed as transgender last October and is beginning his/her transition to becoming a female. When he/she reaches the age of 12, he will be given female hormones containing estrogen and plans to undergo surgery when she is an adult in order to become a full woman.

In the UK last September, a 12 year-old boy turned up at school as a girl. Over the summer holidays his parents changed his name to a female one and allowed him to don female garb and wear his hair in pigtails. The youngster is now preparing to undergo hormone treatment and surgery – and could become the world’s youngest sex-swap patient in the coming years. His school has graciously provided him/her a separate toilet and changing room.

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