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With the financial markets in disarray, nearly everyone has one eye on Washington and one eye on Wall Street. The tone of the current debate on Capitol Hill and the price tag being discussed are endemic of why Congress has an approval rating hovering below 10%. On paper, the financial crisis should help Barack Obama’s presidential aspiration but so far it has not. There is one question that

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There is nothing like a potential financial crisis six weeks before an election to focus the attention of politicians. The same people who routinely rely on “continuing resolutions” because they can’t pass their own annual budget on time are now falling all over themselves to toss hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at a problem largely of their own making. The current financial situation

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The son of Muslim-Syrian immigrants, Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin on a U.S. Navy scholarship in 1992. He practices internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix where he previously served as President of the Arizona Medical Association. He also chairs the Bioethics Committee for Banner Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. Dr. Jasser co-founded the

MTnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-22524243809611644132008-09-11T14:32:00.005-06:002008-09-11T15:24:03.983-06:00

....are often reduced to a simple question asked among friends and colleagues to reinforce the shared links that bind us. For a previous generation the question was about Pearl Harbor. For those of us with a few gray hairs it was John F. Kennedy. Now, the question is, “Where were you when you heard about the Twin Towers?”I ask you to join us in a prayer for those who perished on that dark day

MTnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-8794681433601190582008-09-01T11:12:00.007-06:002008-09-01T11:20:20.890-06:00

From his mountain hideout somewhere deep in the Tetons, Foster Friess was still smarting from his incorrect prediction that Senator John McCain would select Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota as his running mate. "He only picked Sarah Palin because she was a girl," he complained bitterly.Foster’s son, Stephen, has been trying to talk some sense into his father. “Dad, Dad, hold on...she's

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I predict Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will be named tomorrow as Senator McCain’s running mate. Visiting with him and his wife Mary at the Governor's mansion in St. Paul last night, he comes across as honest, sincere, down to earth, gracious, humorous and a person with natural compassion. Having, at the urging of his wife, converted from Catholic to Evangelical, he will electrify the

MTnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-32573402974575355372008-08-27T17:32:00.002-06:002008-08-27T17:40:29.899-06:00

With the Democratic National Convention in full swing and fawning media coverage for Barack Obama on the level of somewhere between a coronation and a beautification; it is a wonderful time to reflect on the Mainstream Media (MSM) and the way they view the two political parties. With well over 90% of the credentialed Washington press willing to admit they are Democrats, it is hardly surprising

MTnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-63049439017915772612008-08-21T16:08:00.003-06:002008-08-21T16:54:39.211-06:00

For the past few decades the once proud women’s movement in America has been in significant decline. Their reputation hit rock bottom during the Clinton – Lewinsky scandal when they chose political expediency over protecting vulnerable women in the workplace from being exploited by powerful men. The lukewarm condemnation of the antics of Bill Clinton exposed the National Organization of Women (

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In 2006 the Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress because they actively recruited candidates that were more mainstream and less liberal than the Democrat leadership. Thanks to having to defend 22 U.S. Senate seats, combined with a rash of retirements and assorted scandals, there is the possibility after this fall’s election the Democrats could get to the magic number of “60”

MTnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-13309627458696515552008-08-12T15:49:00.005-06:002008-08-12T16:04:22.986-06:00

Suppose Barack Obama wins the presidency and the Democrats get to the 60 votes necessary in the senate to stop a filibuster. The last time the Democrats had an unabashed liberal in the White House, control of the House and a filibuster proof Senate was after LBJ’s landslide victory over Goldwater in 1964. President Johnson’s coattails were long and for the next two years the Democrats held 67

MTnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-49377417542832278332008-08-07T09:43:00.002-06:002008-08-07T14:01:09.380-06:00

Herbert Meyer, famous for being the first to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union during his CIA career under Reagan, recently gave an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The audience was filled with CEOs of multi-national corporations. Meyer’s speech was titled, ‘What in the World is Going On? A Global Intelligence Briefing for CEOs’. Meyer is one of the most

MTnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-71390301977057833592008-08-01T07:58:00.001-06:002008-08-01T07:58:53.369-06:00

One of the pillars of Western Civilization is our Common Law. Unfortunately, Radical Islam is exploiting this great strength of our culture in a guerilla warfare campaign to undermine our way of life. They are using the courts’ system to silence their critics with an avalanche of lawsuits. The goal is not to necessarily win the case but to cow and intimidate anyone who may speak out against

MTnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-77432130963874967582008-07-24T07:36:00.024-06:002008-07-24T12:50:41.073-06:00

Everybody knows that the United States is the world’s biggest polluter. Everybody knows that if George W. Bush wasn’t standing in the way, the U.S. Senate would approve the Kyoto Protocol from the Framework Convention on Climate Change and in a few years the entire planet would be pollution free. Just ask Al Gore.Well, “Everybody” is wrong.Sometime last year China passed the United States as the

MTnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8997598130778002839.post-5004404510797117832008-07-16T07:43:00.002-06:002008-12-10T08:37:17.796-07:00

...and also inspired me. It angered me because America has lost its idealism, but it inspired me to join with others to restore the idealism I remember in the 50's and 60's - - - before the drug culture and the “me” generation began to change our society.I spent a long weekend in London meeting with a handful of prominent Iraqis, including two leading Shiite clerics. The group’s mission is to

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