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The New Front

November 12th, 2010 | Comments Off

by RightHandMan I remember being a young man and reading a chapter in Bernard Goldberg’s ground breaking book “Bias” called “How Bill Clinton Cured Homelessness”. The chapter showed how reporters for the major news networks purposely reported the homeless problem in America during the years when America had a republican president and then instantly stopped during the Clinton years. For instance, in 1990 when Bush was in office there were 71 stories done on the homeless on the four major news networks. In 1995, under Clinton, there were nine. During the Reagan years the number of homeless reported on these networks was outrageously exaggerated. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated 230,000 homeless. Those numbers didn’t stop CNN’s Candy Crowley to report 3 million, or NBC’s Jackie Nespral from reporting 5 million. The point … Read entire article »

Filed under: Avastin, Bill Clinton, Eric Cantor, George H.W. Bush, george w. bush, homelessness, National Institutes of Health, NIH, pharmaceutical companies, Roche Holding, Ronald Reagan, Washington Post

Failure to Lead

May 29th, 2010 | 4 Comments

by RightHandMan When more than half of the voting country came together and decided to elect a man with no executive experience and very little political experience into the biggest and toughest executive position in the world, we took a huge risk. That risk has proved to be disastrous. It isn’t that the President doesn’t have the political knowledge or means to be a good President, it is that he doesn’t know how to be a leader. Many of us saw this coming. At the time Senator Obama had done little in his short time as a U.S. and State Senator, had never really lead anything or anyone, and yet ran and won the biggest leadership role in the world. Even when Obama was in the Senate, he rarely took a firm … Read entire article »

Filed under: BP, george w. bush, lead, leadership, Obama, oil leak, voting present

Palin is Stupid and So Are You

May 2nd, 2010 | 5 Comments

by RightHandMan I was recently inspired to write a piece on the attitude toward the likes of Sarah Palin by a friend who displayed his distaste toward the woman. He is not alone in his sentiment when he calls her stupid and gawks at the crowds or attention she attracts. Democrats don’t understand her appeal because they don’t know how to be appealing. Is Palin’s voice annoying? Yes. Is she a graduate from an Ivy League school? No. Does she always give the correct political answer? In her words, “hell no!” – and there’s the rub. Palin gives answers that are congruent with her principles and the principles of those around her. She doesn’t just reverberate talking points like most politicians, she speaks her mind without always calculating the political outcome. Does … Read entire article »

Filed under: dumb, george w. bush, idiot, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, stupid, Tea Party

Reviving America

February 3rd, 2010 | 5 Comments

by Right Hand Man Just as it is natural for men to gradually give up their freedoms for less than it cost to get them, it is also natural for the pendulum of politics to take its given course in the other direction. 2008 proved to be the year of the democrats, and rightfully so. Republicans had abandoned their base, divorced their principles, and discarded their integrity. Never mind that the majority of the people considered themselves right of center, conservatism was buried in the court of politics. Such was the case for the Republican Party in 1976. Gerald Ford was the incumbent GOP president, but barely legitimate. The party was reeling from the Nixon fiasco, and there was little hope in site. The democrats held 61 seats in the Senate and … Read entire article »

Filed under: 1976, 1976 convention, Conservative, Freedom of Speech, george w. bush, jimmy carter, Ronald Reagan