Extreme Wisdom

• Bush supported Democrats, Obama likes Dictators

  It doesn’t take much to follow international and economic affairs between the two emerging nations of China and India. Bush reached out to India in his first days in office while challenging China to be less despotic. Obama, OTOH, can’t seem to treat India with much respect, preferring to focus [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:19pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Just make EVERYTHING 100% Transparent

  When you take all the corruption in Illinois government, all the unknown procedures at the US Federal Reserve, and the recent hacking of e-mails of the so-called “climate experts,” you come away with the obvious solution that virtually everything that impacts the public should be made public. We’ve spent decades hearing [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Incompetent Children in Charge of America

  Who are these clowns (the occupants, not the guests)? Obamas’ Uninvited Guests Prompt an Inquiry WASHINGTON — The Secret Service is investigating how a couple aspiring to be reality-show celebrities managed to appear at President Obama’s first state dinner without being on the guest list, provoking questions about security at the White [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:38pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• May as well say it’s “Indiana v. Illinois”

  For what it’s worth, the “Texas v. California” meme is a good one for America to be talking about right now. One model is failing while the other is succeeding, at least from an economic standpoint. America as Texas v. California Texas, on the other hand, is growing, creating wealth, and attracting [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:44am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Transparency could have averted the Meltdown

  It isn’t just that there is something wrong with a “shadow” economy. It’s that some entities actively created them for the purposes of creating opacity. Shining a Light On Shadow Economies: Hernando de Soto, champion of the poor, applies his insights about asset transparency to bastions of wealth. (Elisabeth Eaves, 11.26.09, [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:12am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• So much for respecting Science

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  Man-made Global Warming is close to being in total free-fall as a theory. Remind your “warmist” friends that they were the same people attacking Bush on the misuse of science. The Climate E-mails and the Politics of Science There can be little doubt after even a casual perusal that the scientific [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:58am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Ridicule is the best medicine

  Actually, he does have to do it if it undermines American prestige. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:46pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Tax Cuts would have worked better

  Leaving aside the issue of utter fraud in the “Stimulus” numbers game, more and more evidence is coming in that tax cuts work better as stimulus than spending. Of course, that was obvious to most of us from the get go. Large changes in fiscal policy: taxes versus spending. We examine the evidence [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Framing the Health Care Debate in Republican’s Favor

  Today’s lesson in Framing is brought to you by the word “Rationing” and the number “3″. Here is how it works. There is no reducing health care costs in America with out rationing. It’s just that simple. Observe. Rationing, the Unspeakable, But Honest Solution The honest solution is a word that cannot be [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:21pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Ridiculing the Ridiculous (Hat Tip IL Rev.)

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:47pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• You heard it here first

  Not like it was any surprise. Ex-CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is considering running for president in 2012 Oh Goody! An anti-Mexican party, a “sell out to corporate CEOs party” and a permanent Democratic Majority. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• How to make 2012 a Bloodbath for Democratic Senators

  With 23 seats to defend in 2012, and a chance for a few gains in the Senate in 2010, the Democrats could be in deep trouble in Obama’s Reelection Year. I checked into the races and states, and listed them for you below. If there is proper allocation of resources, the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Proof that Educrats hate America

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  I’m sure that many of the small number of Americans that find this site think I’m over the top when it comes to my views on just how awful the Education Bureaucracy is. I’m continuously heartened by the fact that the same awful Education Bureaucracy pretty much proves me right [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:47pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Some new respect for Sen. Meeks

  I can proudly say that I take a back seat to no one in lambasting politicians that kowtow to teacher’s unions. I’ve raked Sen. Meeks over the coals a few times on this site. I can now say that, whatever differences we may have, I applaud the fact that he is [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:12pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Our next “Worst President”

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  Obama Blunders Through Asia Undoing Bush’s years of deft diplomacy. The White House stated as Obama left Asia for home last week: “Overall, American leadership was absent from this region for the last several years.” Nonsense. Bush left office with U.S. relations with Asia’s big four–China, India, Japan, and Indonesia–taken together, [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:36pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Climate Totalitarians

  The recent hacking of emails from a British University expose the mindset of the Climate Totalitarians. It is as we skeptics have said all along. These are bad people, as a group, and individually. They are morally compromised. In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes In one e-mail, the center’s [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Rhee V. Weingarten

  It would be great to see the Good Guys win this one. There is no intellectually sound case for K-12 Teacher Tenure. Precipitate a strike. Fire them all. D.C. Schools Chief Targets Tenure WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it wants to remake public education around the principle that the best teachers [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:31am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• There is a “Republican Plan,” and it’s better

  You can debate the differences in policy approaches, but if you say that the Republican don’t have a health care alternative, you are either mis-informed, or lying. The Republican Alternative Exactly the opposite of the House Democrat health plan, the Republican alternative would actually reduce the cost of health insurance and [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:48pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Andrzejewski rises in the Polls

  Latest Polls show Adam in Top Tier. The link has all the crosstabs. Full Disclosure - I do consulting work for the Campaign. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:38am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Boys X (Estrogen + Emasculation) = (Trades + Military) - Slackers

  Hows that for some “Social Chemistry?” Take a nation of Boys, boil them in feminist stew of estrogen-soaked PC curricula for 12 years, and you end up with kids who are more interested in the trades and military (Good) with a precipitate (remember your chemistry class) of saggy-pantsed slackers. Add “helicopter parents” [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:20am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• He was watching the “Live MMA” (to the tune of Y-M-C-A)

  Res Ipsa Loquiter - the thing speaks for itself. Is Ultimate Fighting Gay? I had heard the accusations and innuendo. And just two minutes into the first preliminary fight of last week’s Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event I saw something that confirmed them. I was in a sports bar in the San [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:50pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Daily Howler - Gore to make “climate” a “moral” issue

  It is really hard to make a moral issue out of greed, lies, and imposition of a soft form of tyranny Al, but go nuts trying. Gore Out To Change The World In Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, Gore argues that the prospect of disruptive climate change presents [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:15pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• A horrific decision designed to damage American interests

  The calculation behind the KSM trial is staggering. This was not a mistake. It was intent. Trial and Terror The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda terrorists to New York City for a civilian trial is one of the most irresponsible ever made by a presidential administration. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Repairing the American Dream

  As a guy who grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois, I am probably considered by some a traitor to my class. After all, I’m a vocal opponent of the “educational apartheid” practiced by suburban soccer moms and their emasculated husbands. The school district, as an entity, is one of the [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Public Waking up to role of Unions in Economic decline

  Republicans might be waking up too As you read the linked poll, note that this was an organic reaction on the part of the electorate, and not a PR campaign fomented by “right wing media.” People started paying attention, that’s all. It is now incumbent on the right that we capitalize [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• An interesting and funny site

  Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:40pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• One bad decision after another

  We need to start asking just whose interests Obama is promoting here. 9/11 Trial Poses Unparalleled Legal Obstacles Mr. Mohammed and his four co-defendants in military custody have admitted their active involvement in plotting the Sept. 11 attacks and have boasted of their success in killing 3,000 people. Once the Justice Department [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:34pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:31pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Obama achieving what Republicans never could

  He’s making America more Conservative. After decades of not understanding that health care couldn’t be divorced from your individual responsibility, more Americans (if Gallup is to be believed) now understand that Government isn’t responsible for our health care. This is nothing short of amazing, but it tracks with Unions falling under [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:32pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• 25 years of nearly uninterrupted growth was bound to make us stupid

  A few posts down I told you about this stupid woman who whined about not getting mammogram because it cost $90 and she didn’t have health insurance. WHILE SHE WAS IN AN OFFICE FOR A $400 BOTOX treatment!!! Now, I present to you these pointless dumb-ass yuppies. They are out of [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:15pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Cut Spending, then cut it again!

  There is no way to tax our way out of the hole we are in. If Illinois raises taxes, it will merely send more business to other states, and keep existing business from hiring or investing. Public Employee unions led us to this condition. Cutting their pay and benefits is what [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:21pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Big Labor, Big Government, Big Banks = Big Bankruptcy

  One of the biggest political myths that too many people still believe is that big business (banks in particular) supports conservative principles and/or conservative parties. Nonsense. Big business supports big business, and not much else. If their quarterly earning reports show a benefit selling rope to the Obama Administration for the [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:16pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Lou Dobbs announces for President in 2012

  Undecided which party, or as a 3rd party candidate Check out this video, and tell me this isn’t a campaign kick off speech. [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:49pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• A Gem from an Obituary

  I scan the WSJ quickly before I jump to the Op Ed page. Every once in a while I find a real gem of an article. Most of MBA/Lawyer types know of Peter Drucker. I must admit I’ve never heard of Russell Ackoff until today. Apparently, he was a very smart [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:08pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Political Correctness kills

  Can’t we just cut to the chase, and aggressively get in the face of the politically correct. Can’t we just look the soccer mom and oily education/government bureaucrats in the eye and accuse them of enabling murder. Here is my question to the politically correct. How can you live with yourselves? Shooting suspect’s [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:55pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• For every health care sob story…

  …There is one of these Health Reform’s Moral Hazard For years Dr. Linda Halderman operated a general surgery practice in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where she treated patients ranging from those with serious, life-threatening conditions to those seeking elective, cosmetic treatments. In a recent piece in Investors Business Daily, Halderman recounted the [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:13pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Ooohhhh No! There goes Kyoto! Go go, Gore-zilla

  And not a moment too soon! I guess Captain Planet is going to have to find another “Man-Bear-Pig” to crusade against. The Quiet Death of the Kyoto Protocol Reading the climate-change news in recent weeks, one might wonder who won the last election. The Obama administration has rejected the Kyoto Protocol (ensuring it [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:48pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Win the Future, Lose the “Union Agenda”

  It’s enjoyable to be ahead of the curve. Tuesday’s Biggest Loser: the Union Agenda But you missed seeing the guy who may have been the biggest loser of all—a man who according to recently released White House logs has been a guest in the White House 22 times since Barack Obama [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:14am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Don’t tell Tom Tancredo…

  …But people still like America. 700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently United States Tops Desired Destination Countries The United States is the top desired destination country for the 700 million adults who would like to relocate permanently to another country. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of these respondents, which translates to more than 165 [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:28am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Post election redux

  You’ve read plenty of election coverage, but I haven’t seen much mention of the effect Obama had on his party’s nominees. He went into Virginia about 2 weeks out, and Deeds dropped in the polls. Corzine was up by about 2 points when Obama started with the appearances and robo-calls. Corzine [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:24am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• “Only a Moderate can Lose”

  Conventional wisdom upset [Hence, the name of this blog...BTW] After Obama’s presidential election, a cottage industry of punditry sprang up to forge a new conventional wisdom. It goes something like this: The Republican Party has been discredited by the Bush presidency, congressional scandals and overspending. Worse, it is “out of touch” [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:32am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• In your heart, you just know it’s wrong

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  It must be awful to watch. Just awful. Think about the perverted zeal one must have to be aggressively pro-choice. Then think about our current president. Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound The former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas says she had a “change of [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:17am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• More Heavy Baggage for Jim Ryan

  From the SunTimes archives… Lawyers: Jim Ryan not worthy Defense attorneys in Nicarico case say he’s unfit to govern As DuPage County state’s attorney, Ryan prosecuted Rolando Cruz, Alejandro Hernandez and Stephen Buckley for the 1983 kidnap, rape and murder of Jeanine from her home near Naperville. When the state Supreme [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:44pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• If you’ve been making millions, do you really need a pension?

  If you search for ‘pension’ on this site, you will find mostly negative articles railing against the abuses enacted by the legislators purchased by public employee unions. You’ll also find that I question the entire industry built up behind the false notion that you have right to become unproductive at [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:18pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Junk Science at the White House

  This is a good read. So much for the left’s silly “reality-based” rhetoric. Of course, Man-made Global Warming is the biggest example of “junk science” of all. Junk Science Returns to the White House Regardless of your tribal affiliations, were you cautiously optimistic when our new president promised to “restore science to [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:02pm EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Rush’s Excellent Interview

  If you, like me, have had to defend Rush against the hate mongers who vilify him based upon “hearing” that he’s horrible, send them to Fox News Sunday’s site. Rush isn’t perfect. I’d like to see him start funding candidates and causes, just like the left’s billionaires fund their ideas, [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:30am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Thank you, Dede Scozzafava

  The text below the line is something I wrote prior to the recent news that Scozzafava endorsed the Democrat. What a skank. While it is good that she is out of the race, she is clearly a nasty person. This is merely more grist for the mill for those who think [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:07am EST
  by Bruno Behrend

• Sarah Palin’s Revenge

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  Death Panels are back, so, just like Joe Wilson’s impolite and impolitic outburst (You Lie!), she was right. “Death Panels” Return: House Bill Has Potential Physician-Assisted Suicide Loophole WASHINGTON, D.C., October 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - They’re back. The provisions on advanced-planning directives labeled “death panels” by concerned observers have re-emerged in the [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Climate, like the stock market, will fluctuate

  The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up Added to the equations are such measurements as past temperatures, barometric pressure and sea salinity. Calculations about the influence of sunlight are entered. Then various projections of greenhouse-gas emissions are factored in. The computers run the equations and generate projections of [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:08pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Arnold going out with a Bang?

  You just gotta love this story. (make sure you click the image) While unfit for more tender readers, you will probably get a good laugh. It’s almost enough to wish Arnold weren’t term limited. But then, it is probably only term limits that gave us this gem. [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:52am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Your emotions are making me ill

  Well Well Well, even “experts” get it right once in while. Don’t Follow US in Treating ‘Emotions as Illness’-Expert SYDNEY—Australians are being urged to not follow the “American trend” of branding “emotions an illness” and then being coaxed into expensive therapies to rectify them. Associate Professor John Pead, from the Melbourne-based [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Rating the Investments - “War vs. Education”

  The article linked below is longer than most people have time to read, but it’s an important article nonetheless. I generally agree with its take, but challenge at least one point made. Death Cometh for the Greenback America’s debt-to-GDP ratio is slated to increase from 40.8 percent in 2008 to 70 percent [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:34am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• What if you could fix “warming” with a balloon and some hose?

  Let us take a time out from our gloating about the earth actually cooling the moment the sun stopped putting out massive energy to point out that even if the world were warming, we may soon be able to access technology that allowed us to simply cool the planet. Who knows, [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Obama incompetence driving the nation Right

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  On one hand, it’s easy to critique the Obama Administration. Few people expected them to mess up so many things so fast. You’d think that with the experience of Bill Clinton and 1994 so fresh, any campaign smart enough to run a cleverly crafted center-left campaign would be smart enough [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:19am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Ahh, the wonders of Ridicule

  It’s time to start calling this the “Nixonian” presidency. hat tip back yard conservative [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Our exceedingly naive (or worse) President

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  Apparently, Obama understands next to nothing about negotiation. It’s either that, or he just doesn’t care about promoting US interests. Despite Obama’s Concessions, Russia Remains Unhelpful on Iran: U.S. efforts are producing few results on nuclear problem (Joshua Kucera, October 26, 2009, US News) [W]ashington’s hopes took a hit last week. First, [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:17pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Obama’s most disgusting act

  Frankly, “disgusting” is too tepid a word. I think “evil” might be a tad too far, but if so, only by a little. That said, for those of us who knew from the beginning that Obama was nothing more than a well-spoken political hack for the extreme left, this single [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• There’s nothing wrong with being a “Denier”

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  Because denying the obviously absurd despite massive disinformation is the sign of a strong mind. Science Museum’s climate change poll backfires (David Barrett, 25 Oct 2009, Daily Telegraph) A poll by the Science Museum designed to convince the nation of the perils posed by climate change has backfired after being hijacked by [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Isn’t it the Republican that’s the “Spoiler?”

  You have a choice Republicans. You can nominate people with ideas and the drive to promote them, or you can lose votes to “spoilers” who have the audacity to run on those ideas. Here in Illinois, a recent poll on party identification had Dems at 45%, Independents at 28% and [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Talent?! What Talent!?

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  Please don’t take this post as an endorsement of Barack Obama’s absurd policy of setting CEO pay. It’s ridiculous policy, and there is plenty of evidence that it will backfire somehow and thus fail miserably. That said, I laugh out loud at the Conservative Talk Show Crowd and the Libertarian Policy [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:47pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Your Weekend Funny

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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• BaRod Obamavich

  I don’t know that I’m the first person to pinpoint Illinois’ Feudal “Patronage” system as the focal point of Illinois financial demise, as I’m sure reformers across the decades have tried to point out its dangers. That said, political patronage in Illinois has run its course, and it has become [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Adam Andrzejewski is Illinois’ Tim Pawlenty

  [Disclosure - I work for Adam's campaign. Not that I could write this about any of the other gentlemen in the race.] Candidates like Adam Andrzejewski, Tim Pawlenty and Mitch Daniels are pointing the way for the Republican Party. Candidates that run on the years of experience presiding over the [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:14am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Beat the Public Employee Unions bloody

  They have, after all, bankrupted entire states (CA and IL). It’s time to get up in their face, call them out for the rapacious entities they are, and show the electorate just how badly they have been reamed by these unions. Victory against Big Labor: Home health providers reject SEIU, AFSCME [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 8:29am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• A new “Contract with America” could be as easy as one simple bill

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  While I’ve been very busy working for Adam Andrzejewski’s election to the Illinois Governor’s office, I have been watching the national scene fairly closely. 2010 offers some obvious comparisons with 1994, but the landscape is much different and many of the players are very different as well. Some might debate the [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:07am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Barack Obama - Liar

  Small Group Now Leads Closed Negotiations on Health-Care Bill (Perry Bacon Jr., 10/18/09, Washington Post) Three months before he was elected president, Barack Obama vowed not only to reform health care but also to pass the legislation in an unprecedented way. “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table,” [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:13am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• A cartoon from the 50s lays it all out for you

  Dated to be sure, and a little hokey, but it lays it all for you right around the 2:45 mark. [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:03am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Calling Democrats “liars” on Health care bill is 100% accurate

  Linked below are 2 stories that prove conclusively that the Health Care Reforms running through Congress right now are guaranteed to slam our pocket books, hurt the economy, and cost 1000s, if not 10s of 1000s of jobs. These articles showcase 2 stories about the ACTUAL experiences of 2 states that [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 11:49am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Environmentalism as Religion

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  Environmentalism is nothing more than a religion. To be sure, it does attempt to fit itself into other religious ideals, as there is nothing wrong with being good steward of our environment. On the surface, therefore, Environmentalism does not appear as dogmatic or exclusive as Christianity or Islam. However, as [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 10:36am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Obama’s unconsititutional prize?

  This won’t become a big issue, but it is somewhat sublime that Obama accepting the award is un-Constitutional. If the Tea Party movement wants to have some fun, they should lobby that the money go into the Treasury. That’s better than goi…ng to one of Obama’s Alinsky-ite shock-troop organizations. An Unconstitutional [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:42pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Pass “Cap and Trade”, Bankrupt Nation

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  Do our friends on the left ever really think of the impact of their policies. As I’ve asked many times before, is there a reason why the US would want to be like Europe? Who Else Will Challenge Gore’s ‘Truth’? I asked Gore if he intends to correct the record. He [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:21pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Those crazy Swedish right-wing nutjobs

  The Education Revolution In Sweden, the educational landscape has been transformed by the advent of a sweeping choice program that allows anyone–groups of parents, civil society groups, and, most important, for-profit enterprises–to establish their own schools that would then receive per-pupil funding at roughly the same rate as state-run schools. If [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:36pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Health Plan actually damages Nation’s Health

  It’s hard to imagine a worse set of policy prescriptions than the Health Plan coming out of Congress. Redistributing health Health-care “reform,” that is, aims to shift costs and benefits of health insurance from some groups to others. And the losers are turning out to be less docile than politicians had hoped. All [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:24pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Laura Ingraham interviews Adam

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  Just FYI, Y’all. I’m a paid adviser to Adam Andrzejewski. I work mostly on Policy, but on other things too. I just figured you deserve transparency and disclosure on that issue. Adam Andrzejewski debuts on National Radio with Laura Ingraham MP3 File [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 6:39pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• CNN fact checked a comedy skit?

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  The people running CNN are complete idiots. There really is nothing more to say on the topic. [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• This is the perfect time to come up with a decent Agenda

  Parties Nearly Tied for Congress in 2010 Voter preferences for Congress split 46% Democratic vs. 44% Republican PRINCETON, NJ — Roughly a year before the 2010 midterm elections, Gallup finds the Republican and Democratic Parties nearly tied in the congressional ballot preferences of registered voters. Forty-six percent of registered voters say they [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?

  IL Republicans tainted by SEIU contributions Click the link and look at the list. If you wonder why the polls show independents out number Republicans in Illinois, you need go no further than that list. The Republican HOUSE AND SENATE Committees are on it, for Pete’s sake!! [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:25am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• I don’t give a damn about the “Gap”

  There are days when I think Maggie Thatcher surpassed Reagan. Furthermore, I believe that the Brits, while lacking our Bill of Rights, have a better system of vetting ideas and leaders. If you can’t withstand the crucible of the kind of debate you see in this video, you have no [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 1:12am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• If you have to say “Obama’s not a loser”…

  It a pretty sure thing that he’s a loser. “President Obama is no loser just because Chicago didn’t get 2016 Summer Olympics” Speaking of loser… The coming failure on Iran Obama’s Disastrous Foreign Policy Jimmy Carter can now rest easy [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 4:38pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• A catchy tune about “Death Panels”

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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 7:10pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• The Cottage Industry in “Bunker” videos

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  To bad this one ends too soon. [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 4:56pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• test post. is twitter working again?

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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:45am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Obama’s Vacuity

  When an American President get’s properly spanked by a French Leader, you know things are bad. It is going to be a long 3.3 years before we get a chance to chase this walking embarrassment out of the Oval Office. Obama’s French Lesson Sarkozy could not conceal his astonishment at Obama’s naïveté. [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:10am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Ridiculing the Left is better than screaming at them

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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 5:26pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Hmmm, This sounds familiar…

  First Read this article The Big Question: What is the Swedish schools model, and can UK education learn from it? How does the Swedish System work? Under the policy, which was first introduced in the 1990s, parents are given a sum of money (around the equivalent of £6,000 per pupil) that they can [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 3:18pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Beat them, bludgeon them, and kick them when they are down

  It’s always good to see teacher’s unions beaten down. More! Faster! [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• More evidence that we face a moral crisis…

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  …not a financial one. The Next Culture War Our current cultural politics are organized by the obsolete culture war, which has put secular liberals on one side and religious conservatives on the other. But the slide in economic morality afflicted Red and Blue America equally. If there is to be a movement [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 11:59am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Do we have to wait 3.3 more years to change it?

  The Obama Show - Time to change the channel. It’s all too apparent: Faced with the choice, President Obama prefers the comforts of celebrity to the duties of leadership. In addition to Letterman, there was his appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last March and his running commentary [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 9:21am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• PJTV should win awards for this.

  It’s not everyday you see an organization put out an 8 minute video that is at one time exceedingly accurate, and, at the same time, devastatingly effective propaganda. It even goes so far as to suggest next steps, which I immediately took. [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 2:31pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Yet another great Quote of the Day

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  This from my favorite blogger on this post. “The tragedy of humanism is the failure to recognize that freedom lies in the choice between Good and Evil, not in a right to decide which is which.” [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 10:00am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• By all means, let’s make America more like Sweden…

  “ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!??” I hear you scream. Well get this. Beyond the insults: Swedish Model 2.0 Since then, the notion of “Sweden” in some American discussions has been equal to “Socialism.” That is a stereotype, and – frankly – not true. Sweden has always been on the side of the market economy. [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 9:39am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Quote of the day

  I’m sitting there watching “The International,” and generally run-of-the-mill crime thriller, when a character in the movie states, “character is easier kept than recovered.” Good stuff. [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 11:03pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Our silly (but still dangerous) President

  Those who follow politics, policy, and culture, know that possibly the silliest people in America are school administrators. This is true at every school level. This class of people effortlessly combine the trifecta of some of the worst human traits, with the near perfect mix of bilious self-importance, political correctness, [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:34am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Our ridiculous (but still dangerous) President

  Those who follow politics, policy, and culture, know that possibly the silliest people in America are school administrators. This is true at every school level. This class of people effortlessly combine the trifecta of some of the worst human traits, with the near perfect mix of bilious self-importance, political correctness, [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:33am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Tuscon School District destroying America

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  If you want to know why this site takes a back seat to no one in attacking the vile public education system, it is because of stories like the one below. The people running our schools have a mindset that is so counter to the principles of this nation (not [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 7:55am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Global Warming - GET BEHIND IT!

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  Now that more and more of the world is starting to see the idiocy of the Anthropomorphic Global Warming theory, let’s pause a moment to understand just how awful global cooling would be. The left will attempt to blame Bush in any event. [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 2:31pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Decentralizing Electricity Production?

  What if the next power plant was “virtual,” and you had part of it in your basement? The Power Station in your Own Basement Green-energy provider Lichtblick and German automaker Volkswagen are joining forces and promising to stir up the energy market with an unusual plan. Instead of relying on massive energy [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:32am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Good luck when your Doctor goes on strike

  Never before have so few (Union Members) controlled so much, and so undeservedly. Now, we find that there are provisions tucked into the health care bill (both House and Senate versions) that unfairly empower Union Thugs at the expense of the rest of America. When will people wake up to the [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 8:58am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• After bankrupting entire industries and driving old people out of their homes…

  Why would Unions be popular? On Labor Day, support for unions plunges to all-time low This Labor Day brings word of a new Gallup poll showing that American public support for labor unions has taken a sharp dive in the last year and is at its lowest point since Gallup began polling [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 11:02pm EDT
  by Bruno Behrend

• Romney a worthless toad

  Number of comments: 1
  Mitt Romney will never become president. It’s just that simple. Sadly, like other millionaires, his ego is leading him astray. He’s thinking he can run again, and this keeps him from doing things that would be far more helpful for the party, namely, running for Kennedy’s Senate seat. Mitt Romney won’t [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 8:59am EDT
  by Bruno Behrend