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What We Need Most In A President
December 20, 2007
When it comes to the characteristics Americans consider most valuable in our next president, honesty and integrity are at the top of the list of attributes...
 
 
AMT Could Mean Higher Taxes for Millions of Families
December 14, 2007
Because Congress has not acted to extend the exemptions on the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), millions of middle to upper-middle class Americans now face the possibility of having to pay thousands of dollars in additional federal income taxes on their 200
 
 
Environmentalists Put Planet Before Family
December 7, 2007
Ten years ago, in an effort to save the planet, Toni Vernelli aborted her baby. Vernelli, a British woman who works for an environmental charity, believed bringing another child into the world would harm the planet...
 
 
Alabama's Children Cheated by Unreliable Standards
November 30, 2007
Cheating has always been a problem in school, but it is no longer just students cheating … state school systems are doing it, too...
 
 
Big Shocker: Secular Liberals Don’t Care…As Much
November 21, 2007
As a post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas column, it might be appropriate to think about our role in society and our responsibility to our community and to each other...
 
 
Lest We Forget …
November 16, 2007
Of all the officially observed American holidays, Thanksgiving is the one which obviously reveals our nation’s Judeo-Christian roots...
 
 
Liberals Mislead the Public on SCHIP
November 9, 2007
For the second time in a month the liberals in Congress passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill and once again, President Bush did the right thing and vetoed it...
 
 
LOST: Good for the U.N., Bad for the U.S.
November 2, 2007
On October 31, 2007, the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and sent it to the full Senate for ratification...
 
 
$weet Home Alabama
October 25, 2007
In the 1950s and 60s, thousands of Alabamians left their home state to “go up North” to find jobs. In fact, my dad and uncle moved their families to Michigan for manufacturing jobs that didn’t exist in Alabama...
 
 
SCHIP Veto Justified
October 19, 2007
Now that President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorization bill has been upheld, liberals are turning the propaganda machine loose on the President and Republicans in Congress...
 
 
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