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Cupcakes, Pop Tarts And Wackobirds

March 13th, 2013 11:06 pm
"The country needs more senators who care about liberty, but if Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms. He needs to know what he’s talking about.” Sen. John McCain regarding the Sen. Rand Paul March 8, 2013 Filibuster
 
 
March 13, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
          Patrick Henry knew the score.
          It was about six months af...
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Standing By Rand

March 6th, 2013 11:05 pm
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” President Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
 
 
March 6, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
           It’s not always about what it’s about.
           When it all started, it was about cows, but it really wasn’t about cows at all.
           It was about drones. A Predator drone that was used by local cops in La...
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Obama's Giving Us The Needle

February 27th, 2013 11:04 pm
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives.” President Theodore Roosevelt.
 
 
February 27, 2013
 
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
 
          What we don’t get enough of is the Obamas. That’s why I was so grateful when I saw Michelle Obama show up for the Oscar ceremonies.
          She goes where not only angels fear to tread, but also where she isn...
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You Didn't Answer The Red Phone, Hillary

February 20th, 2013 11:03 pm
"We started giving out scholarships to people from all backgrounds for superior academic performance and demonstration of humanitarian qualities. Unless you cared about other people, it didn’t matter how smart you were. We’ve got plenty of people like that. We don’t need smart people who don’t care about other people.” Dr. Benjamin Carson, Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Johns Hopkins Hospital

February 20, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
          Every man has his price.
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I Know That He's Been A Cheatin

February 13th, 2013 11:01 pm
"The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government, but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” President Ronald Reagan
 
February 13, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
          Love was in the air. It was the Valentine’s Day-season and it was love at first sight for me.
          He said all the right things, in all the right ways and I dearly wanted to believe him.
          But what was "love,” I asked myself?
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Farewell To The People's Mayor

February 6th, 2013 11:00 pm
"Public service, when it’s done honestly, and it’s done well, is the noblest of professions.” Mayor Edward Irving Koch, Dec. 12, 1924-February 1, 2013
 
 
February 6, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
          Would that we could drop Al Sharpton from the public scene as easily as the "Reverend” dropped God from the Pledge of Allegiance in a recent MSNBC promo spot.
          Who are these people and where did they come from – the people who have so ma...
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The Have My Cake And Eat It Too Club

January 30th, 2013 10:59 pm
"Have you ever thought how embarrassing it might be to have to preach what you practice?” Hamilton G. Park, Salt Lake Tribune,1951
 
 
 
January 30, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
          In an age where five-year-olds are getting suspended for pointing a paper gun or a finger at their classmates and saying "Bang,” it’s time these kids start to realize: "Rules are rules.”
          Either that or they should really figure out how to join the "Ha...
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Who's Sorry Now? Nobody

January 23rd, 2013 10:59 pm
"Had I been president and found you did not read the cables from Benghazi and from Ambassador Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post. I think it’s inexcusable…it was a failure of leadership.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Remarks to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Benghazi Congressional Hearings, January 23, 2013
 
January 23, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
          If you tuned your TV to the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi today, you probably expected...
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A Ripple of Hope

January 16th, 2013 10:56 pm
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” - Robert F. Kennedy, University of Cape Town, South Africa, June 6, 1966
 
 
January 16, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
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Being Dead For Two Centuries Is Not The Point

January 9th, 2013 10:55 pm
"As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.” "Let’s Give Up on the Constitution,” New York Times Op-ed., Dec. 30, 2012, by Louis Michael Seidman, Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University
 
 
January 9, 2013
 
By: Li...
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