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McCann: Dismal jobs numbers

One of the most confusing and distorted statistics coming out of Washington today is the monthly unemployment situation.   More and more Americans are waking up to the reality of the job market when the curtain is drawn back and the actual situation … Continue reading

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McCann: Vampire Government: How the Left is Sucking the Life out of the Private Economy

The current financial debacle in Europe and the near-bankrupt status of the United Sates have been brought about by an obsessive loyalty to statist doctrine and an inability to admit failure — traits common to the left on both sides of the … Continue reading

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McCann: The Worst President Since Before the Civil War

Three years ago, the people of the United States elected someone who has turned out to be the worst president since the pre-Civil War era.  Barack Obama, whether in economic matters, domestic affairs or international relations, has been an abject … Continue reading

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McCann: Obama’s Failed Presidency (1)

There comes a time and a point in history which indelibly define a President.  Oftentimes the event may not be of major import in the greater scheme of things but the management of it is of such prominence that the … Continue reading

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McCann: Obama’s America – Prosperity Lost

President Obama, the fellow leftists in his administration, and the Congress, nearly none of whom have ever made a viable contribution to the Gross Domestic Product, are hell-bent on seizing complete control of the economy.  They are making the same … Continue reading

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McCann: The wages of appeasement (2)

Is ratification of the START Treaty akin to the appeasement reflected by the Munich Pact in 1938? No, it does not arbitrarily divide up a sovereign country in the hope of future peace, but it does reflect the same mindset … Continue reading

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McCann: Irish Sovereignty on the Brink

Ireland, a country to which nearly 40 million Americans can trace their ancestry, is on the brink of insolvency and a loss of sovereignty. In the 1990s and the early part of this decade, Ireland’s growth rate had earned it … Continue reading

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Ireland's Doleful Lesson

This past spring much of the world’s attention was focused on the financial dilemma in Greece. While the news managed to slightly penetrate the attention span of the average citizen of the United States, it was largely ignored. After all … Continue reading

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Gladiator Games

Throughout the ages, the elites of virtually every civilization have sought entertainment at the expense of the lives of animals and human beings. Whether it was the gladiator games in Rome, or the blood lust of the Aztecs, or countless … Continue reading

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The BP Shakedown

The Obama administration has just made certain that there will be minimal foreign or even domestic investment in the United States. Their shakedown and blackmail of BP has major corporate investors looking elsewhere for expansion and exploration. No company answerable … Continue reading

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Socialism's Downfall

Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and it will continue to do so despite the best efforts of the die-hard true believers in the Obama administration and the rest of the world. The most recent example of this … Continue reading

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