Some rumors never die. 

Many people still think FDR knew the Japanese were about to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 and did nothing to forestall the onslaught in order to get an excuse to enter World War II on the side England. 

Many people still think Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone in the assassination of JFK in 1963 anymore than they think Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald in a Dallas police station without some assistance.  

Many people still think the World Trade Center towers couldn’t have collapsed in 2001 solely because two fuel-laden airliners crashed into them. 

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Less than four months into the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, Lou Pritchett, a former vice president of Procter and Gamble, posted an open letter to Obama on his blog which began, “Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.”

  The original missive had been sent by the legendary corporate executive, noted public speaker, author, and teacher to the New York Times which chose not to print it although less distinguished publications did.  It was subsequently accorded the seal of accuracy by leftist-leaning Snopes.com and … Read the rest

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  With gasoline and heating oil prices reaching and surpassing $4.00 a gallon and $5.00 and even $6.oo on the near horizon, Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu should be given a nice round of applause for being so insightful in 2008 when he said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”   

We’re not quite there yet but we’re on the Chu trajectory. 

Chu’s reasoning, if you can call it that, was that high gas prices would force Americans to buy more fuel efficient cars and move their residences closer to … Read the rest

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“Valor” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery.”  The only real issue concerning the just-released war film, “Act of Valor,” is that it is mistitled since it depicts not just one but multiple instances of amazing personal bravery. 

I wouldn’t dare suggest movie critics don’t respect the courage of our military and, especially, among the Navy’s SEALS.  At least none of the critics have said that–although most of them find fault with virtually everything else in the movie.  Then, too, how could they criticize or … Read the rest

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Fastidious Felix Unger of TV’s “The Odd Couple” fame often expressed his frustration with his slovenly roomie Oscar Madison by sighing, “Oscar, Oscar, Oscar,” a frustration that could just as well apply to the Academy of Motion Picture Awards for its blatant liberalism and tireless adherence to politically correctness. 

  I, for one, don’t give a tinker’s damn who or what wins an Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards of Merit festivities on Sunday.  

Not that it matters but no one seems to know the derivation of the term “Oscar.”  What does matter is that the Academy Awards show is meaningless … Read the rest

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   On first meeting then-President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in 2001, President George W. Bush said of Putin that, ”I looked the man in the eye.  I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.  He added, “I was able to get a sense of his soul.”

Putin has proven himself straightforward, but trustworthy?  I don’t know what Bush detected in his soul but the former head of the USSR’s secret police, the KGB, could be described as trustworthy only from a Russian perspective. 

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Contrary to popular perceptions, things aren’t always what they appear to be, especially when it comes to politics. 

Politicians and media commentators have a unique ability to reinterpret reality so that, by the time they’re finished with their spinning, it’s difficult to distinguish the real from the fantastical and truth from baldfaced lies.  They don’t change what’s real and what’s true but they often succeed in so muddying the waters that the average observer doesn’t see the difference between reality, truth, and prevarication.  

  A classic case in point is former President Bill Clinton who apparently confused his fellow Democrats to … Read the rest

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According to Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you, and once a Muslim, always a Muslim. 

That fact has become relevant in the campaign for the Republican nomination for the presidency ever since Sen. Rick Santorum called into question Barack Obama’s religion when Santorum alleged the president was motivated by “some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible” and also referred to Obama’s “radical Islamic policies.”    

First of all, let’s stipulate that religion has no place in American politics–with one important exception: If someone has misstated his religion and misled the electorate, the issue … Read the rest

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  Few people would contest the fact that homosexuals have made enormous strides over the last forty years in gaining both acceptablility in America’s straight world, advances unimaginable prior to the Stonewall Riots in 1969.   

Those upheavals in New York City’s Greenwich Village in turn led homosexuals to promote the misnomer “gay” and emboldened them to successfully intimidate the American Psychiatric Association into changing its long-standing diagnosis of homosexuality as a deviant mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to a variation on the norm. 

Forced re-definitions rarely result in alterating realities.    

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  Preparing for an apocalypse can take on various forms.  They can range from building elaborate, underground structures stockpiled with enough provisions to last an individual or a family for months or more to digging a hole in that same ground and covering yourself with a tarp.   

Both approaches make as much sense.  Besides being much cheaper, the hole technique  would in all probability be about as effective in securing one’s survival as the million dollar building. 

However, in no way is that analysis intended to diminish the magnitude of the multiple threats to Americans’ safety–and sanity.

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