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General News and Politics
By Jim Barber, Camp Verde, Arizona
Current news and political discussion
WHAT A SHOCK!
Last week the Obama administration asked banking executives "to offer advice on changing the government's role in the mortgage market".
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY
It was recently suggested by a reader of the AZ Republic that all adult citizens should have to vote or be punished for failing to do so. What a disaster.
Monday, August 23, 2010
HARROP'S ECONOMICS
Froma Harrop (Regulations Made Canada Fat and Happy, 8/12/10) says Canada has a consumer financial protection agency that protected its economy from financial and mortgage problems that have devastated our own economy.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
WHY DID OBAMA ENTER THE FRAY
People wonder why the president didn't stay out of the "ground-zero mosque" argument. I know the answer. He couldn't help himself. Anytime he gets in front of more than 3 Muslims he has an uncontrollable urge to apologize for Americans.
Friday, August 20, 2010
AN INSULT TO AMERICANS
How much more insulting to the American public can she get, insinuating that she wants an investigation into where the funds are coming from for those opposing the mosque being built in the shadow of ground zero.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
IS OL' TIM AT IT AGAIN?
Rasmussen Reports says "rumors have circulated that the Obama administration is considering a partial mortgage forgiveness plan to help those who owe more than their homes are worth." Is this another Timothy Geithner brainstorm????
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
WORDS
The left has become adept at deflection, using the tactic "If you can't change the fact, change the language". Thus, the descriptive "liberal", which has earned a bad name, becomes the more accommodating "progressive", the illegal alien becomes a "migrant without proper papers" and so on.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
THE CHINESE ECONOMY
Big grins on the faces of the left as it is announced that the economy of the largest communist country in the world has surpassed Japan and Germany to become the second largest economy in the world.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
SHAKING THE SLEEPING GIANT
Recent polls are showing that nearly 3 of 4 Americans believe the federal government has too much power. They show we have little trust in our politicians.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
ANEMIC RECOVERY NEARS DEATH
A recent AP story on the economy pointed out, almost in an accusatory manner, that the rich ($207,000 income and above) are not doing their share in helping the economy recover because they, like everyone else, have pulled back on their spending.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
A WIN FOR THE GOOD GUYS
The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd Amendment applies to state and local governments as well as the federal government
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
BRING IT ON!
It's easy to be disinterested when it's not your city besieged by drug runners and kidnappers.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
WHY SHOULD WE TRUST THEM?
Congressional approval has been in the toilet for several years - between 10%-20%. Their current leader, President Obama, has lost nearly 25 points on his approval rating since inauguration
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
REAL REFORM
The Arizona Interfaith Network (AIN) opinion piece (Immigration reform needed now, AZRep, 7/8/10) contained several statements that should be addressed.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
MELTDOWN
What an amazing 18 months. When Newt Gingrich led the GOP to victory in 1994 with the "Contract with America" they passed it all in a couple of months and America applauded.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
WHO'S RUNNING THE ASYLUM?
Shirley Sherrod, former administrator of the USDA office in Georgia, said that she was called three times by the head office in Washington while on her way back to her office from a conference and told that the administration wanted her to resign immediately.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
ENABLING IRRESPONSIBILITY
I loved San Francisco when I was stationed there in the late 1950s. It was clean, beautiful and full of vitality. Today, I am simply fascinated by how far a city can degenerate when official government policy seems to be "No individual is responsible for their own actions and guilt is collective."
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Gene Lyons and the truth
Gene Lyons article (What is the truth? Climategate burned by reality, Opinion, 7/14/10) was typical of those who defend the theory that man is causing the earth to warm - slightly below hysterical.
Monday, July 19, 2010
HOW MUCH HELP IS TOO MUCH?
How much help is too much? 3 days after the Deepwater Horizon exploded the Dutch and the British offered to send their best technology to help contain the spill.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
HOPE? CHANGE? WHERE?
We were promised , hope, change and the most transparent administration in history. Recently President Obama told us that there is "such a thing as too much information."
Sunday, June 27, 2010
SAY WHAT????
Are you kidding me? President Obama, in his news conference, was asked if he supports the boycott of Arizona being staged by pro-illegal immigrant groups. The president responded that, although he does not like the law, it is not his job, as president, to support boycotts.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
MANUFACTURED CRISIS
President Obama is widely viewed by world leaders as weak, inexperienced, apologetic of America's power. Taking full advantage, Turkish leaders with their own agenda, allowed a pro Palestinian "charity" group to precipitate a manufactured crisis that was a master-stroke of genius.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
INTERESTING EXPOSE'
The scam is so ingrained within our government that they have co-opted NASA and turned them from space exploration to "studying global warming
Sunday, June 27, 2010
THIS IS A PLAN?????
Robert Robb (National-security plan lacks focus, AZRep., Opinions, 6/2/10) is kind, to say the least, in describing the Obama national security plan as not "in the national interest."
Sunday, June 27, 2010
POINTING FINGERS
Should Obama be blamed for not being able to stop the oil rupture in the Gulf? Of course not. Does he have any culpability in the mess? Absolutely. We were promised change. No more "business as usual".
Sunday, June 27, 2010

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