The Week That Was February 9, 2013 Quote of the Week The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil. Former Saudi oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani (NYT “The Breaking Point, Aug 21, 2005) ******************************* Number of the Week 2%…
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Understanding the Many Costs of Corporate Welfare
When Congress and President Obama in January came up with their beyond-the-lastminute deal to put off addressing the coming fiscal crisis, The Wall Street Journal turned the spotlight on a little-noticed, yet too typical aspect of Washington’s machinations: “The bill’s seedier underside is the $40 billion or so in tax payoffs to every crony capitalist…
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The stunning part of this story is that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty killed 60 of the attacking force. Once the compound was overrun, the attackers were incensed to discover that just two men had inflicted so much death and destruction. The news has been full of the attacks on our embassies throughout the Muslim…
Gary Wickert
Syria is a Domestic Problem
By Gary L. Wickert Gary Wickert is an author, trial lawyer and town of C e d a r b u r g Supervisor, who lives in Cedarburg with his wife, Lisa and two sons. He can be reached at garywickert@ameritech.net. The current uprising and civil war in Syria presents a very real dilemma for…
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The Necessity of Making the Moral Case Making the moral case. This is the secret of the Left’s political success, the political success of Obama. The moral case doesn’t have to be logical. The moral case does not have to make sense. The moral case is not required to be real or consistent or even…
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Education and Its Role in the Election
By Karen Schroeder This article originally appeared in Off the Grid News, December 21, 2012 Obama’s 2012 presidential win was shaped in the American classroom. Progressives, humanists, liberals, and Democrats dedicated to educating the electorate have been granted unfettered control to manipulate curricula in their favor. While each subject taught in schools and each type…