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Voters Have Had Enough Big Government

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Commentary by E.J. Smith A recent Pew Research study shows that 37% of voters identify themselves as independents, 29% as Republicans and 34% as Democrats. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll only a third of independents expressed affinity to the tea-party movement while 59% said they were not supporters. I expect affinity for the tea-party […]

Top 10 Reasons to Keep the Pressure On

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1. President Obama’s appearance on the cover of this month’s issue of Rolling Stone magazine captures the rock star mentality of the Washington elite. Their recession is different from yours since unemployment is much lower in the suburbs of the nation’s capital than in the rest of the country. It’s another case of poor judgment […]

Congress Already Took a Pledge

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Commentary by E.J. Smith There isn’t any doubt the government is off course. But the GOP’s 22 page “A Pledge to America” comes off like something put together during a weekend corporate retreat. A lot of kumbaya collaboration away from the pressures of the real world. And like many a retreat the idealism quickly falls […]

Independents Are Mad as Hell

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You know how you get a song stuck in your head and it drives you crazy? Well, lucky me, thanks to my daughter Izzy singing this morning while I was getting ready for work, I’ve had a song stuck in my head all day. She was happy about what she was wearing and excited about […]

Porkin’ Up the Defense Bill

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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the Pigs in the Senate – E.J. Smith You don’t need to look much beyond the Senate defense bill shenanigans to get why Americans are fed up with politicians in Washington. Since when did the left’s radical social issues, and that’s exactly what they are, become more important than the […]

It’s the Constitution, Stupid

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Just when you’re beginning to feel optimistic about the conservative movement’s chances in November, the weekly Gallup poll tracking congressional voting preferences by registered voters comes along and suddenly the Democrats and Republicans are tied at 46. Though this is only one week’s poll, it marks a shift after five consecutive weeks in which the […]

‘Victory’ in Iraq

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You and I know that there really isn’t anything to celebrate come Tuesday night when President Obama is expected to claim “victory” in Iraq during his primetime oval office address. A couple of questions come to mind: Will he even mention President Bush? And will he discuss the overwhelming strain on our men and woman serving our country for […]

The Alinsky Playboy Interview

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Playboy: Mobilizing middle-class America would seem quite a departure for you after years of working with poverty-stricken black and white slum dwellers. Do you expect suburbia to prove fertile ground for your organizational talents? Alinsky: Yes, and it’s shaping up as the most challenging fight of my career. And so the interview begins between Playboy […]

The Repaving of America

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How do you like the American Repaving and Redistribution Act so far? Pretty, isn’t it? These first two pictures are of the freshly laid blacktop sloppily poured along the off-ramp entering Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, where I grew up. Who is going to be walking here, nearly a mile out of town? The only destination here is […]

SEIU in the Governor’s Mansion

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Andy Stern’s replacement as president of SEIU is Mary Kay Henry. Henry said in her acceptance speech that the most important challenge for her organization is the race for governor in nine states this fall. California is one of those nine. The SEIU’s guy in the race is Jerry Brown. (He’s running against Meg Whitman). […]