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BREAKING NEWSIG Report on Fast & Furious Gun Running Released">BREAKING NEWSIG Report on Fast & Furious Gun Running Released

The Depart­ment of Jus­tice released their Inspec­tor General’s report on Fast and Furi­ous this morn­ing.  In total, 515 pages with redac­tions (Click to Down­load PDF).

Okay, what is really in the report?  Is it a white wash?  Is the report a start?  How com­plete is it?  Does it clear Attor­ney Gen­eral Holder?  Does it answer ques­tions about Bor­der Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death?  Does it address who else in the United States have been injured or killed by these guns?  Does it address where these guns are now at?  Does it address what Barack Obama knew and when?  Does it address the tens of thou­sands of doc­u­ments Con­gress has asked for and Obama and Holder refuse to turn over? 

Will Attor­ney Gen­eral Holder now answer his con­tempt of Con­gress charge?

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Union Strike Over Health Care?  In Chicago?!

Chicago teach­ers go on strike today.  Union­ized teach­ers in Obama’s home town, now run by Rahm Emanuel.  And accord­ing to the union spokesper­son, they are not argu­ing over money, just ben­e­fits, specif­i­cally health care.  Why are these union work­ers not grate­fully embrac­ing Obamacare?

The Atlantic

Sure, there are more areas of con­tract disagreement—teacher eval­u­a­tions and job secu­rity.  As a par­ent and tax­payer, hav­ing seen, and as a for­mer stu­dent hav­ing even suf­fered with some very bad teach­ers, man­age­ment needs com­plete con­trol over teacher eval­u­a­tions to get rid of poorly per­form­ing teach­ers.
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Is this Obama justice?  A race-motivated lynch mob?

It is beyond shock­ing to see a lynch mob occur­ring right in front of us, demon­strat­ing the inhu­man­ity and unciv­i­lized behav­ior of peo­ple ani­mals. Per­son­ally, I’m dis­gusted at what I am wit­ness­ing, at the poor cor­po­rate cit­i­zen­ship demon­strated by Twit­ter, and at the impo­tent response of fed­eral, state, and local law enforce­ment. (And peo­ple won­der why many of us ‘cling to our guns’ and demand respect for the Sec­ond Amend­ment right to bear arms.)

If there was ever an edu­ca­tional moment for Obama, this is it.

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Hertz Fires 25 Muslim Drivers

What is unfair about this?  Hertz asked the work­ers to clock out for prayers, they refused, were sus­pended, offered last chance, some accepted instruc­tions to clock out and were rein­stated, the oth­ers refused and were fired.  Seems fair.  Hertz should not be required to pay work­ers to pray.
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Another Death by an Illegal Alien

Another Death by an Ille­gal Alien… The Fox arti­cle (below) does not ade­quately spell out the atroc­ity com­mit­ted by this ille­gal alien and why he deserves exe­cu­tion for the mur­der of Matthew Denice:

Nicholas Gua­man was drunk …. when he ran a stop sign and struck a motor­cy­cle dri­ven by 23-year-old Matthew Denice of Milford.

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Obama’s Gift to America

national debt

Notable Quotes

  • It is still about the econ­omy, and we are not stu­pid.” — Mitt Romney
  • San­to­rum 2012 — A woman’s place is bare­foot, preg­nant, and in the kitchen.
  • I am always right when I am not wrong.
  • For every ille­gal with a job, there’s an Amer­i­can with­out one.
  • Friends don’t let friends use Wikipedia.
  • The “Tea Party” is any Amer­i­can that ques­tions the sta­tus quo.

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