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President Obama asked for them. By Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For nearly three months since the election, we have been warned by President Obama, his staff, and the media not to burden him with unreal expectations that no mere mortal could meet. But why then consciously borrow from Abraham Lincoln’s speeches? And why [...]

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DAMIAN PALETTA and DAVID ENRICH Wall Street Journal Barney Frank Goes to Bat for Lender, and It Gets an Infusion Troubled OneUnited Bank in Boston didn’t look much like a candidate for aid from the Treasury Department’s bank bailout fund last fall. The Treasury had said it would give money only to healthy banks, to [...]

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… As An Era Ends By Michael P. Tremoglie The Bulletin Unlike his predecessor, Bill Clinton, whose departure from the White House in 2001 was dubbed “the long good-bye” by the media for its egocentricity and for being ostentatious, President Bush’s departure was much like his presidency — unheralded and quiet. It was also characteristic [...]

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Seeing that today is Inauguration Day, I thought it would be fitting to post the videos of President Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address from January 20, 1981. Enjoy and reminisce! RV President Reagan’s First Inaugural Address- Jan. 20,1981 – Pt. 1 of 3 President Reagan’s First Inaugural Address- Jan. 20,1981 – Pt. 2 of 3 [...]

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By Efraim Karsh Middle East Strategic Information Why do citizens in democracies enthusiastically embrace a radical Islamist group that not only seeks the destruction of a fellow democracy but is overtly committed to the substitution of a world-wide Islamic caliphate (or umma) for the existing international order based on territorial nation states? Not because of [...]

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Keri Long from FreedomWorks gave me the heads up on this article. It’s about a lawsuit that FreedomWorks has filed over the constitutionality of the TARP program. RV By Debra Cassens Weiss ABA Journal Some conservative and libertarian groups maintain the $700 billion bailout law is an unconstitutional delegation of authority to the executive branch. [...]

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My good friend and RochesterConservative.com member, LeavingRoch, had a special request to feature something by Elvis for this week’s edition of RC Friday Night Blues. Excellent suggestion, LR! I’m an Elvis fan as well and I especially love his early stuff. When I searched youtube for Elvis, this video of him performing “Jail House Rock” [...]

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Last evening, President Bush gave his farewell address to the Nation. It was a classy and heart-felt address. You are a good man, President Bush, and you are leaving behind a safer nation! I wanted his address up on RochesterConservative.com for posterity sake, so here it is. RV

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By Andrew Roberts Telegraph.co.uk George W Bush’s supposed lack of intellect will be seen to be a myth Photo: AP “I think he’s a good president,” I told her, which seemed to dumbfound her, and wreck my chances of appearing on her show. In the avalanche of abuse and ridicule that we are witnessing in [...]

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Warning issued over drive for Constitution Convention By Bob Unruh WorldNetDaily Globalists are “salivating” over the possibility of a Constitutional Convention at which issues such as the 2nd Amendment could handily be dismissed, according to a leader who warns Virginia likely is the next target for the drive. “There is no question in my mind [...]

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