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Obama says “Typical White Person”!

Friday, March 21st, 2008
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Barack Obama describes his white grandmother as a “typical white person.”  Can you imagine the outrage if Hillary Clinton described someone as a “typical black person” or a “typical asian person”?  What if Hillary said something about Obama being a “typical black man”.     Geraldine Ferraro was castigated for her comment about “if [Barack] was [...]

Power-hungry Univ of Florida, Gainesville Police

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, media, rights | No Comments »

Power-hungry and abusive police arrest and taser a student asking John Kerry speech:
Look at those little Napoleon police. Pathetic officers.
Capt. Jeff Holcomb of the University Police Department and the officers involved should be fired.
see
http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20070918/NEWS/709180325/1007/NEWS
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ec_1190097717&p=1

Different Perspectives v.s. Evil

Monday, November 21st, 2005
big government, iraq, media | No Comments »

“Perspectives” , November 21, 2005
“The person on the other side is not evil — they just have a different perspective.” - Chris Mathews, NBC ‘journalist’ (Speech to political science students at the University of Toronto, November 20, 2005)
For anyone who believes that Chris Mathews ever had any credibility his statement Monday should disabused them of [...]

MSNBC’s Olbermann’s Errors and Bias

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
iraq, media | No Comments »

Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Olbermann’s Errors
MediaMatters.org quotes MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann finding a Family Research Council “flip-flop”. (http://mediamatters.org/items/200504260005). Unfortunately for anyone concerned with facts and truth, Olbermann ignores the ones that get in the way.
The facts missing from the article are quite illustrative of the bias of Olbermann and mediamatters.org.

Federal Government’s recent actions demonstrate a tremendous danger to free speech

Thursday, February 26th, 2004
First Amendment, big government, media, privacy, rights | No Comments »

Thursday, February 26, 2004
Censorship
The Federal Government’s recent actions on censorship demonstrate a tremendous danger to free speech.
Once you start down the path of the government deciding permissible content for radio (or TV, newspapers, or the internet) to air, the country is in very serious trouble. A company such as Clear Channel may decide it doesn’t [...]

Oklahoma’s Attorney General?!?!?!

Friday, December 19th, 2003
elections, media | No Comments »

Oklahoma Attorney General
“I have recently been made aware of a market practice known as ’short selling’ and am amazed that it is legal.” Drew Edmondson, Oklahoma Attorney General, Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2003.
What were the people of Oklahoma thinking electing someone as embarrassing and uneducated as this character?