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By rochester_veteran
Continuing today on the subject of Journolist, one of the people targeted was Fred Barnes who is the executive editor of the Weekly Standard and a commentator on Fox News Channel. From theDaily Caller:
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by [...]

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By rochester_veteran
The news has been breaking about the secretive Journolist, the listserv where liberal journalists tried to shield their favored Presidential candidate, Barack Obama and spiked the Jeremiah Wright story. The Daily Caller broke the story yesterday:
The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Oliver North had an article on the McChrystal Resignation published in TownHall.com today. Here’s an excerpt:
McChrystal’s firing has been likened to President Abraham Lincoln’s replacing George McClellan during the Civil War and President Harry Truman’s sacking Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War. Not accurate.
Both McClellan and MacArthur vocally opposed the stated [...]

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By rochester_veteran
An upcoming documentary by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is running promotional advertisements that tout Alex Jones as the leader of the “New Right” and the Tea Party Movement. Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media reports:
Radio host Alex Jones, who believes that 9/11 was a U.S. government plot and “inside job” conspiracy, is featured in Chris [...]

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By rochester_veteran
A recent Gallup Poll has found that Americans are giving Obama a thumbs down concerning his handling of the BP oil spill. From UPI:
More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill than of his overall job performance, a Gallup Poll indicated Tuesday.
Results indicated Obama’s rating for the oil [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Helen Thomas bared her soul the other day and told us how she really feels:

One doesn’t get more virulently anti-semitic than that and because of that, she was forced to resign.
I for one will weep no tears for Helen Thomas. She’s long been anti-Israel and anti-semitic and she’s about as liberal as they get. [...]

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By Howard Roarke
Our common border with Mexico has been a problem for decades, and politicians have dawdled on it, playing politics with what is in reality an economic, public safety, and national security issue. Until recently, the Federal Government had done little to secure the border, outside of a few fences and walls in urban [...]

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I have a case of writer’s block today, folks. Here’s a great commentary by Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily. RV
By Joseph Farah
WorldNetDaily
© 2010
I remember the day when editors in American newsrooms actually edited out politically loaded and biased adjectives that reflected badly and inaccurately on a particular side in a national debate.
I guess those days [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Kevin O’Brien of the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote a spot-on commentary, We’re worried about ‘backlash’ as the terrorists press our luck. Here’s an excerpt:
What’s it going to take for the American left to admit that, no matter how much we all wish it weren’t true, our Islamic enemies are trying to kill us?
It’s going [...]

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By rochester_veteran
There’s been a lot of hoopla lately about Arizona’s measures to reign in their problems with illegal immigration. How do Americans on the whole feel about illegal immigration and border issues? A recent Gallup Poll asked those questions . From CNS News:
A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted May 1-2 shows that 9 out of 10 [...]

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