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Entries for the ‘Personal Responsibility’ Category

Guns at Obama Events: Can I Point Out the Obvious?

Would it be the epitome of hubris for me to point out, despite the fact that a dozen protestors showed up at Obama’s Phoenix event on Monday armed with handguns, rifles and even an AR-15, that nobody was shot and nobody died?
Wouldn’t that be proof, even in a situation where a liberty-loving American might be [...]

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Taxpayers to Pay for Abortions Worldwide

Obama’s record on abortion, including partial-birth and “born alive” abortions, was well known during the campaign so it should come as no surprise that one of his first official acts was to commit the U.S. taxpayer to paying for abortions around the world. From the White House blog:
In addition, I look forward to working with [...]

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Proposed bill targets teen drivers on cell phones

While I normally eschew government regulation and increasing infringement on private property rights, I welcome a ban on cell phone use by teen drivers. But I want the restriction to apply to every driver, regardless of age.
Increasingly, I see drivers talking or texting on a cell phone doing the dumbest things in the most dangerous [...]

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It’s Personal Responsibility, Stupid

Too bad that liberals will never understand why… Homeowners who should never have received a mortgage are re-defaulting, even after having their loan terms renegotiated. Meanwhile, to “bail out” the homeowner in this economic downturn the Congress is considering…. buying and renegotiating loans for homeowners nearing or in default. Go figure.
“The results, I confess, were [...]

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Woman loses $400,000 in Nigerian e-mail scam

There are people who still fall for this? But now that I think about it, a majority of the nation’s voters fell for a similar scam on November 4….
Janella Spears of Sweet Home says she simply became curious when she received an e-mail promising her $20.5 million if she would only help out a long-lost [...]

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White Guilt Is Dead

According to census data, the black population in the U.S. is approximately 13%. That means, quite simply, that white folks elected Barack Obama to the highest office in the land. Sure, it wasn’t a landslide but Obama’s ascension puts to rest the notion that blacks have no opportunity to succeed and that it’s the white [...]

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