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The Heritage Foundation is reporting that peoples dependence on the government has jumped. This from Waterbury Republican-American:
The Heritage Foundation has released its annual estimate of how much people in the United States have come to rely on government. In 2009, the index rose from 239 to 272, an increase of 13.6 percent. It was [...]

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The University of East Anglia, home of the now infamous Climatic Research Unit (CRU), recently commissioned an investigation of itself. From the Wall Street Journal:
Now a supposedly independent review of the evidence says, in effect, “nothing to see here.” Last week “The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review,” commissioned and paid for by the University [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Vice President Joe Biden was in Milwaukee, Wis. this past weekend and visited Kopp’s Frozen Custard and ordered an ice cream cone. Check out the following video to see yet another incident of his nastiness:

Yup, you heard that right. When Biden went to pay for the cone, the manager said, “Don’t worry, it’s on [...]

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Even though human induced (anthropogenic) global warming has been exposed as a hoax, the Obama administration will not give up on instituting legislation to tax Americans for it. This from Ben Lieberman of the NY Post
President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.
That’s a Harvard University study’s estimate of [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Bloomberg reported some disturbing news recently on the state of US debt:
President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.”
The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product [...]

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The Health Care Reform (NOT!) Bill, also known as Obamacare, is already showing it’s true face that we’ve warned you about. This from Terence P. Jeffrey of Human Events:
Remember the health care issue? Well, the fiscal consequences of the socialized medicine scheme enacted by President Barack Obama and Congress just two months ago are [...]

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This just takes the cake. Check out the following video from CNS News, where the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, assures aspiring artists that they can quit their jobs and concentrate on their art and taxpayers will pay for their health care coverage.

“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says [...]

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Albany, in it’s gluttonous fiscal ways, is coming after the Seneca Nation of Indians for cigarrette taxes. From Diana Louise Carter’s article in the D&C:
For over 25 years we’ve had various administrations and various legislatures promulgate regulations. It’s made a lot of lawyers rich and the state hasn’t collected a nickel,” said Syracuse attorney Joseph [...]

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Lorrie Goldstein wrote an informative article in the Toronto Star, “The ‘truthiness’ of those GM ads”. She starts her article explaining the origins of the word “truthiness”:
Political pundits owe a huge debt of gratitude to comedian Stephen Colbert for coining the word “truthiness” on The Colbert Report in 2005.
Because “truthiness,” defined by the [...]

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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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