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SECRETARY OF DEFENSELESSNESS …
CHICAGO: GUN-CONTROL MODEL …
LIBERALS' HIGH-TAX DELUSION

Let us be clear: While he disguised himself as a Republican for political purposes (to get himself elected Senator from generally conservative Nebraska), Chuck Hagel is a hard-core leftist. He supports Iran, detests the only real democracy in the middle-east, Israel, and favors gutting our military. So he's a natural to be chosen by Obama for Secretary of Defense, even though a lot of Democrats – at least those who know anything about him – detest him. But evidently most Americans either don't know the threat to their own security this man represents … or are too dumb to care, having failed to learn a basic lesson about defense preparedness: Better to have it and not need it ... than need it and not have it.


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When – not “if” – Obama okays the Keystone pipeline, perhaps the greenies will figure out that he only blocked that project to keep them locked-in for the election.
    Of course, there is always the possibility that Obama's good friend Warren Buffett, whose railroad is making millions transporting the Canadian oil to U.S. refineries that would flow much less expensively through that pipeline, might yet persuade his pal Barack to postpone the project once again. After all, if screwing over the public makes more bux for Warren, it must be a good thing!


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Reality reminder: Chicago has some of America's toughest (anti-) gun laws. It is also the nation's murder capital with more than 500 killings in 2012; 506 at last count. Of course Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former hatchet-man for Barack Obama and an opponent of legal gun ownership, sends his own children to an expensive private school which employs armed guards for protection.
    Obviously, the peasants can't be granted the same right.

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Gun haters, who love the idea of news media publicizing names and addresses of registered gun-owners, are apparently too stupid to figure out that such revelations also tell criminals who isn't armed. Them.
    Of course, such revelations also make many – and wiser – gun-owners decide not to rat-out themselves by registering weapons in the first place. Many have already decided that registration = confiscation.


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Hillary Clinton the “Most Admired Woman” in America? So says the Gallup Poll. Who's next? Ma Barker? Lizzie Borden? Half of that lovable couple, Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde?

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Can liberals really be so dumb as to believe that people smart enough to earn and accumulate substantial wealth are incapable of finding ways to protect it against higher taxes? Some answers are obvious: Invest in tax-exempt securities (i.e., bonds issued by government entities) or invest in foreign businesses and leave income or profits abroad (there are ways of doing it; ask Mr. Immelt, CEO of General Electric, economic advisor to Obama, whose company knows plenty about that process).
    There are really, really rich people who've used these and other tax-avoiding tactics for years. Why do you think the tiny island of Grand Cayman is one of the largest financial centers in the world?

    Want to ban overseas investment? Sure ... and create economic chaos even worse than we already have and construct trade and financial barriers resembling those historically created by failed dictatorships.

    Yet simpletons insist on believing that higher tax RATES automatically result in higher tax INCOME. Wrong ... and stupid. And ultimately self-destructive. But it feeds the envy impulse.


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Burt Prelutsky is becoming less concerned about the debt Americans are leaving for younger generations ...
    "Far too many people are up in arms over the dreadful economy we are leaving for our kids and grandkids. I used to be one of them. But ever since the youth of America helped saddle us with Obama, not once, but twice, I say it serves them right. These young shmoes are not only convinced there’s a free lunch, but a free breakfast, a free dinner and free healthcare."
... and on the leaders in Congress ...
    “I believe I have finally figured out why people as dense and as boring as John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are the GOP leaders in the House and Senate. I mean, why, when the future of the Party rests with young, funny, well-spoken, charming and photogenic, guys like Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio, have we tied ourselves to those two old Washington stiffs? The only way I can figure it is that both sides have arrived at detente. So long as the Democrats stick with a pair of deadheads like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the GOP will play fair and do likewise."

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Reader John offers a witty but more conventional view …
    “Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want … and their kids pay for it.”

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“GOP concerns about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration at the highest levels of the Obama Administration recently got confirmation from an Egyptian magazine, Rose El-Youssef.
    “The article, which was translated into English by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, named six influential Muslims within and without the Obama Administration who it said turned the White House 'from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.'
    “The six named in the article are: Rashad Hussain, U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Eboo Patel, President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships; Mohammed Elibiary, Homeland Security Advisory Council; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council; and Imam Mohamed Magid, Islamic Society of North America president.” – Godfather Politics
    … and the stupid, gullible, uninformed American public dozes on ...


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"Muslims should try to force Jews out of Israel by warfare, economic boycotts and diplomatic isolation. These blood-suckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs … there is no place for them on the land of Palestine.” – Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's “moderate” Muslim president, September 2010.

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Worth remembering …
    Ignorance is a lack of information.
    Stupidity is having information but an inability to interpret it and arrive at a sensible conclusion.

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John, another reader, contributes this status report on American education. It consists of actual student answers to exam questions …
    Q: Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?

    A: At the bottom of the page.

    Q: The River Ravi flows in what state?
    A: A liquid state.
    Q: If you threw a gray stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?

    A: Wet.

    Q: If you had 3 apples and 4 oranges in one hand; 4 apples and 3 oranges in the other, what would you have?
    A: Big hands.
    Q: In which battle did Napoleon die?

    A: His last one.


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Dan Sorkin forwards a note that might have come from my old friend, colleague and avid golfer, Officer Vic ...

    My boss phoned me today. He said, "Is everything okay at the office?"
    I said, "Yes, it's all under control. It's been a very busy day, I haven't stopped."
    "Can you do me a favor?" he asked.
    I said,"Of course, what is it?"
    "Pick up the pace a little. I'm in the foursome behind you."
Lee Rodgers"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."
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