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January 3 –

TAX TRICKERY FOR THE GULLIBLE …
REPUBLICAN “PERMANENT” FANTASIES …
ANTI-GUN NEWSPAPER HIRES GUNMEN

The typical Democrat clod who, seething with envy of the more successful, applauds higher taxes on rich folk – and never figures it out: His Democrat demagogues posing as “leaders” noisily enact laws that purport to take money from the evil rich … while quietly creating loopholes and granting exemptions that evade those very laws.

    The Democratic party leadership has never abandoned the political philosophy enunciated by President Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor, Harry Hopkins: “We will tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect and elect.”
    That is precisely the strategy that elected – and re-elected – Barack Obama.

    It is historical fact, revealed in Soviet KGB files that came to light after the Soviet Union fell: Harry Hopkins was a communist spy for the USSR. It is his philosophy that still guides the Democratic Party. And most of its members are too ignorant to know it.


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Make no mistake about it. The really rich can afford the legal and accounting advice that enables them to avoid the feverish grasp of panting liberals and their tax collectors (a glance at the Kennedy family trusts should be enlightening) while the real burden is borne by smaller business owners and professionals – merchants, doctors, etc. – who create most American jobs.

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“If the federal government took over the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.” – The late economist Milton Friedman

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    Of all the absurd claims made by both sides in the great “fiscal cliff” debate, the most egregious – mostly coming from Republicans seeking justification for their sell-out to Obama – is that this-or-that taxpayer protection is “permanent.”
    Note this well: There is nothing truly permanent in politics.

    What one Congress and president can do can always be undone by a successor – or the courts. Given some interpretations by judges, not even the constitution is permanent.


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    Millions of Americans, ignorant of history that is so seldom – and poorly – taught in our schools, agree with the thesis that gun ownership by citizens is unnecessary because we are under no threat of a tyrannical government. They are delusional, as wiser people have known throughout the years.
    Prof. Walter Williams has collected some quotes on the subject:

    Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”

    James Madison: "(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

    Thomas Jefferson: "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."

    George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, which inspired our Constitution's Bill of Rights, said, "To disarm the people -- that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

    The late Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey: "Certainly, one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. ... The right of the citizen to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible."


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    Irony: That New York state newspaper that published the names and addresses of all legal gun owners in two counties didn't like it when a competing newspaper published similar information about the first paper's employees who were involved in publishing the original story; even less when gun-rights supporters put the same information on the internet about all the first paper's employees.
    So now the paper that thought it just fine to publish the names of people who own guns legally … has fearfully hired – what else? – armed guards. Hired gunmen.
     The paper is obviously run by hypocrites who are also cowards.


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    First, House Speaker John Boehner refuses to move ahead with part of a pork-laden bill disguised as relief for Hurricane Sandy victims … then gets heat from New Jersey's governor, the blowhard Chris Christie … then reverses himself and announces he'll go ahead with it. All within a matter of hours.
    It may or may not happen, depending on just how angry the majority of his fellow House Republicans are over his sell-out to Obama on the bogus “cliff,” but Boehner is far past his “sell-by” date. He should go. By any measure, he's a failure.


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    So Al-Jazeera has bought Al Gore's failed cable-TV operation. Not that the tiny audience will likely notice any difference.
    On the bright side, it's likely to be more pro-America than MSNBC. Or CNN.

    Gore, solid Democrat phony that he is, rushed to complete the deal before January 1. Why? Because he saved a ton of money by concluding the transaction before the higher tax rates – which he supported – kicked in.


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Media bias is a built-in burden for any aspiring Republican politician, who must assume that anything he/she says is likely to be taken totally out of context and twisted for the benefit of a Democrat opponent.
In the recent presidential election we had a perfect example. When he uttered the words, Mitt Romney was clearly referring to a bloated government payroll, fattened even more by Obama's hiring of still more deadwood (how many aides DOES Michelle have? Dozens! While predecessor First Ladies got by with one or two.)   

    The words Romney used were, “I like to fire people.”
   
    He
should have known before they left his lips out the leftist media would isolate that statement as meaning he wanted to drive even more people out of real jobs. Sure enough, that's exactly how the Obamunists played it – and millions of dummies bought it.

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Burt Prelutsky dares to be politically incorrect …
    “We’re all well aware that you can’t speak honestly about blacks and Latinos without some self-righteous left-wing clod accusing you of racism. We are supposed to simply grant them a special status, pretending that it’s only white bigotry that prevents them from taking their rightful place among society’s elite. In order to do that, of course, we have to ignore the fact that the illegitimacy rate among blacks is over 70% and among Hispanics, 50%. We also have to pretend that although 79% of Asians and 76% of whites stick around long enough to get their high school diplomas, whereas only 60% of blacks and 58% of Latinos do so, it plays no role in explaining why these two groups make up such a large percentage of the perpetual underclass.
    “There is in fact no surer way of guaranteeing that people will never reach middle-class status than by raising kids without fathers, who will then drop out of school the first chance they get. But we are all supposed to pretend that they are the innocent victims of a racist society because to do otherwise smacks of bigotry.”

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    The once-vaunted Big Ten's image as a powerhouse football conference has again taken a beating in the big Bowl games. While Michigan State and Northwestern salvaged second and third-level games, the big boys got their heads handed to them: Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Purdue – all went down in flames.
    Best game so far: South Carolina's last-minute win over Michigan. Look for the name of Jadeveon Clowney, defensive end from South Carolina, to be prominent in the NFL in the future. The kid's a terror on the field. His hit on a Michigan running back shook the ball loose and corrected a blatant error by the referee on the preceding play. That official should never be allowed to wear a whistle again.


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The word for today: forte.
    Pseudo-sophisticates insist on pronouncing it "for-TAY." Wrong.
    The correct pronunciation is "FORT."
    Just like an edifice constructed to defend against enemy attack.
    No charge.

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Mike presents a checklist that may remind some of a New Year's Eve, either recent or not-so-recent …
THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Innovative
2. Preliminary
3. Proliferation
4. Cinnamon

THINGS THAT ARE
very DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Specificity
2. Anti-constitutionalistically
3. Passive-aggressive disorder
4. Transubstantiate

THINGS THAT ARE
IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. No thanks, I'm married.
2. Nope, no more booze for me!
3. Sorry, but you're not really my type.
4. Good evening, officer. Isn't it lovely out tonight ?
5. Oh, I couldn't! No one wants to hear me sing karaoke.
6. I must be going home now. I have to be at work in the morning.


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Reader Peter offers this touching domestic tale …
    Tim decided to tie the knot with his long time girlfriend. 
    One evening after the honeymoon he was assembling some gear for a hunting trip. 
    His wife was watching him. She finally speaks. 
    “Honey, I've been thinking, now that we are married I think it's time you quit hunting, shooting, and fishing. Maybe you should sell your guns, your boat and the motorcycle.” 
    Tim gets this horrified look on his face. 
    She says, "Darling, what's wrong?" 
    "For a minute there, you were sounding like my ex-wife.” 
    "Ex wife? I didn't know you were married before!" 
    "I wasn't.“
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