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By rochester_veteran
Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, had an interesting and informative article in the Wall Street Journal about Independent voters and where they stand. From Who Are the Independents, and What Are They Thinking?:
At this point, independents are significantly closer to Republicans than they are to Democrats on a host [...]

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By rochester_veteran
There was a good article on townhall.com by Brian Walsh about Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle and the NY 25th Congressional race:
Excerpt from: 2010 Race of the Day: Democrats’ Maffei Problem
Highlighting the growing concern over Maffei’s left-wing voting record and Republican candidate Ann Marie Buerkle’s broad appeal, Buerkle was endorsed by the Independence [...]

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By Howard Roarke
Ed Offley is a writer for several websites, notably Soldiers For The Truth, a site he helped found with Col. David Hackworth, plus he’s done work for Stars&Stripes and other forms of print media. When I first read this, it reminded me of a quote from Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence:
—And for the [...]

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By rochester_veteran
The Washington Post had an illuminating editorial published last evening. Titled “Obama’s diplomatic flop“, it points out Obama’ diplomatic failure concerning the sanctions on Iran.
During the campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama made light of what he saw as his predecessor-to-be’s lack of diplomatic skill. As Wednesday’s U.N. Security Council vote on sanctions over Iran’s nuclear [...]

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My good friend, John Woods, is organizing a bus trip to Washington DC for the Restoring Honor Rally. Tickets are $75 per seat and the buses will be leaving at 8:30pm (Eastview Mall) and 9:00pm (Marketplace Mall) on Friday, 8/27/2010, arriving in Washington DC at the Lincoln Memorial for the Rally at around 4:30–5:00am. The [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Last evening (5/17/2010) I had to work late and didn’t get home until just past 6:30pm. My wife had ABC World News on, usually a “no no” in our household. That’s by my wife’s rules, established during the Peter Jennings days, because ABC’s biased reporting would cause me to yell at the TV set! [...]

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This commentary by Edward Bernard Glick, originally was published in The Oregonian. He is a professor emeritus of political science at Temple University in Philadelphia.
We all have heard from the lefty “history according to Howard Zinn” crowd in this country and from other countries, that America is a racist and imperialist country. Although mistakes [...]

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I read this spot-on commentary by Dennis Prager yesterday (4/27/2010) and wrote to Dennis and asked permission to repost it here to RochesterConservative.com. We are experiencing these “racist” claims here in Rochester and our daily newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle’s OPINION page has been waging a relentless campaign of lies to malign the Tea Party [...]

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It’s about time we featured blues guitar virtuoso, Joe Bonamassa! From wikipedia:
Bonamassa was born in Utica, New York. He received his first guitar from his father at the age of 4, and by age 7 he was playing Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix tunes note for note. At the age of 11, during a [...]

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