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Posted by Scott Michaels in Politics on 03 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
State Bureaucrats Send People One-Dollar Checks
State Bureaucrats Send People One-Dollar Checks
Recently, bureaucrats over in Washington state — in the new spirit of giving that you see everywhere you look, these days — sent each of about a quarter-million welfare recipients a check for one dollar. This appears to be a ploy designed to squeeze another forty or so million dollars from...
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Posted by admin in Politics on 02 26th, 2009 | No Comments
Republican Party Wants To “Reeducate” Specter, Snowe, Collins
Republican Party Wants To “Reeducate” Specter, Snowe, Collins
In a display highlighting new RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s willingness to take a pair of nunchucks to any Republican member of Congress who deviates from the party line, Steele admitted the other day that serious consideration was being given to how so-called renegade Senators Arlen Specter,...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Politics on 02 14th, 2009 | 21 Comments
Obama Upholds Bush Religious Discrimination Policy
Obama Upholds Bush Religious Discrimination Policy
Obama upholds Bush's religion policies Proving he’s no amateur when it comes to tacking as far right or left as necessary to capture some vital constituency, President Barack Obama recently upheld a key Bush administration policy allowing groups receiving federal dollars to discriminate in...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Politics on 02 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Obama Screwed Up
Obama Screwed Up
About three weeks into his new administration, President Barack Obama made a candid admission that he wasn’t the presidential superman he’d initially appeared to be by saying he’d “screwed up” on several of his nominees to top government posts.  Responding to the tax troubles...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Politics, Technology on 02 7th, 2009 | No Comments
Feds Delay Digital TV Switchover
Feds Delay Digital TV Switchover
Showing yet again how totally uncommitted about deadlines at least two of the three branches of our government can be, officials recently announced a delay in the much-anticipated switchover to one-hundred percent digital television signal transmission, which was scheduled for this coming February 17th...
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Posted by Scott Michaels in Politics on 02 6th, 2009 | No Comments
Bush Chief of Staff Tells Obama to Wear a Coat
Bush Chief of Staff Tells Obama to Wear a Coat
Proving yet again that some people just can’t let the recent presidential election go, former Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who used to be known for his public discretion and reticence to say anything controversial within earshot of a reporter or television camera, recently went out of his way...
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