For your reading pleasure and relaxation, here is this week’s edition of Friday Funnies. I have included more cartoons this time, trying to get a feel for what is a good number. The stars of this week’s cartoon event include President Obama and the Democrats, Michael Steele and the Republicans, Mitt Romney and Joe...
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Hasn’t this past week or so been a wild and woolly ride in the world of politics? I mean, we had all kinds of excitement, including a Republican win in the mostly liberal state of Massachusetts. Who would have thought Scott Brown could have ever pulled off his victory, but we have proof, as...
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As most of you know by now, My Take has added a second contributor. It is a decision I didn’t dream of making when I started blogging. Even though Mike and I disagree on some of the issues, I have not regretted that decision. For his first article, Mike chose to write about the...
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According to a press release from Mike Huckabee, his political action committee HuckPAC has raised just over $300,000 during the first six months of 2009. The email I received from them did a fairly good job at putting a good light on these somewhat low numbers. Their financial goal for 2009 was to raise...
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I learned this lesson long ago. There is nothing most people hate worse than a hypocrite. For someone to espouse a particular belief, point of view, philosophy, etc. and then for it to be discovered that they were secretly going against that belief all along is the ultimate insult and a real slap in...
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This post may come as a surprise to a lot of my readers, given the fact that I am not a big fan of Mitt Romney. Over the past several days, I have been hearing a lot about the speech he made recently at the Heritage Foundation and have read excerpts of the speech...
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Some may say this post is about two or three years early and they may very well be right, but this is something that has been on my mind for some time and I suppose now is as good a time as any to put pen to paper, so to speak. Yes, I understand...
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It is now official that Chip Saltsman has withdrawn his candidacy for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and in my opinion it is a sad day for the Republican Party. This leaves current Chairman Mike Duncan in the lead to retain his position and if that lead holds out, our party is...
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For twelve years, it has been a much watched program on FOX News, as conservative Sean Hannity and liberal Alan Colmes interviewed guests from across the country. They liked to call it the fair and balanced show of FOX News. Personally, I have watched very little of the program, since I don’t have a...
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Even though the general consensus of the public and the Senate seems to be against a bailout of the Big Three auto companies, certain members of the Senate seem determined to pass a compromise. Carl Levin, D-Mich and Kit Bond, R-MO called a news conference today to announce the plans. From FOX News: Warning...
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