Recent Blog Entries

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  ‘WE WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT THE LIES’

  5 hours ago

  Posted by Ma Ko
  Today, inside, they dedicated a new statue of another American giant, Fredrick Douglas – a man born into slavery, but who knew instinctively that he was not born a slave. No man is. To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of l...
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  Bieber-Babies & Boobs

  16 hours ago

  Posted by Chip Murray
    “One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.” – Sam Levenson, humorist I spent a couple of years in my prime in Bacliff Texas just a stones throw from Gilley’s where I discovered Willie, Waylon and...
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  Courage

  June 15

  Posted by Chip Murray
  “One man with courage is a majority.” ~ Thomas Jefferson   Once upon a time I lived in the San Fernando Valley of California. One day in the middle of the afternoon I heard the dog next door barking and smelled smoke. All I remember is running through a burning house filled w...
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  NUTS!

  June 13

  Posted by Chip Murray
  “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand!”~ Milton Friedman There are simply no words to describe the stark contrast between our lives twenty years ago with what we are all experiencing today. For one thing...
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  THE POLITICS OF FEAR

  June 12

  Posted by Michael Connelly
  It seems that the scandals just keep on coming. First, Americans are abandoned to die in a terrorist attack in Benghazi and the American people are lied to about the attack by the President and members of his cabinet. All of the facts are still unknown and the cover up continues. Then we learn tha...
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  One Nation Under...Carlyle?

  June 12

  Posted by Chip Murray
  I spent this past weekend in Syracuse with family I haven’t seen in forty years, sat in the same church in the same pews I once sat next to my Grandparents in and visited their graves with my cousins and “Uncle Bill from the Hill”. Sunday was a perfectly sunny day, sandwiched in be...
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  Good luck tracking this, Big Brother!

  June 11

  Posted by Ma Ko
  Recent news of the NSA collecting metadata of phone calls from communication companies, along with federal law enforcement seeming to continue to press for expansion of its ability to collect personal information online without warrants, has many questioning how safe their own privacy is. Although ...
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  Depending On Where You Live, You’re Screwed

  June 11

  Posted by Jon McKeone
  A great 3 part, so far, series on how the collapse of our government could affect you.   http://www.capitolhilldaily.com/2013/04/government-collapse/ http://www.capitolhilldaily.com/2013/05/federal-reserve-theft/ http://www.westernjournalism.com/depending-on-where-you-live-youre-screwed/
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  Progressive Compassion & Willful Bindness

  June 10

  Posted by Chip Murray
  Transparency & the Rule of Law will be the Touchstones of this Presidency.~ Barack Obama, January 2009 How many of us pulled the lever for Obama five years ago hoping for a kinder, gentler, more open and inclusive America? How many of us bought into the notion that Obamacare = Compassion?...
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  Goodbye to Chicago

  June 10

  Posted by Jon McKeone
  And he doesn't even mention crime rate!  Former State Senator and Republican Cook County Board President candidate Roger Keats and his wife Tina are leaving Illinois to live in Texas. They bid farewell to their Illinois friends with the following letter.    Dear friends,  As ...