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Posted: Friday - Sept. 10, 2010
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Spending too many dollars
The federal government obviously is taxing and spending too many of your dollars — and having to borrow more, putting us all deeper in debt for many years to come.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 10, 2010
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Unemployment gets worse
About 54,000 more U.S. jobs disappeared in August, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 10, 2010
The ‘mind’ (?) of a suicide bomber
There are some people who are such strong believers in something that they are willing to give their lives if necessary.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 10, 2010
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U.S. troops in Iraq till 2016?
Iraq is a very painful, distasteful, frustrating, expensive — and deadly — subject for Americans.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 9, 2010
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Two reasons to reject recall
While some enthusiastic critics of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield have made a vigorous effort to force a vote to recall him from office in midterm, there are two very good reasons to reject such an effort.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 9, 2010
Chattanoogans avoid car crashes!
We’ll have to admit surprise — a very welcome surprise: Allstate Insurance Co. has reported that among motorists it insures in America’s 200 largest cities, Chattanoogans — yes, Chattanoogans — rank second, behind only residents of Fort Collins, Colo., for having the lowest rate of car crashes!
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 9, 2010
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More environmental terrorism
There have been numerous cases over the past several years of environmental extremists burning down labs that conduct animal research to which they object, or setting fires at car dealerships that sell vehicles the activists consider harmful to the environment.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 9, 2010
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Burning Quran is a bad idea
From time to time, demonstrators choose to burn something to show their approval or disapproval. It’s nearly always a bad idea.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 8, 2010
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Obama plans more taxes
The U.S. national debt is $13.4 trillion. The debt is growing, as the deficit for just this year will be well over $1.3 trillion.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 8, 2010
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Persuasion, not threats, vandalism
It was appalling when construction equipment at the future site of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn., near Nashville, was damaged by arson recently.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 8, 2010
The Blitz!
Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler had sent his mechanized army into Poland in 1939, beginning World War II.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 8, 2010
What’s good for the union goose ...
Big Labor often relies on the power to call a strike in order to cow employers into expanding employee pay and benefits.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 7, 2010
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‘If you like your health care’
It would be hard to count the number of times President Barack Obama and other supporters of ObamaCare socialized medicine have promised that you would be able to keep your health care plan if you like it.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 7, 2010
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Ugly racial pandering
We are resigned to the strident liberalism of the most powerful member of the U.S. Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. But even Reid “outdid himself” with some racially tinged remarks about Hispanics and Republicans.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 7, 2010
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U.N. indifference to savage attacks
Over a four-day period from late July into early August, rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo systematically raped more than 200 women — and four infant boys — in a remote area of that African nation.

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