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Are We Still Worthy of D-Day?

June 5th, 2013 11:17 pm
"Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the inside with sympathies for them. I trust my ability to determine who to mark for examination and so will you.” Saddam Hussein, Dictator, Iraq
 
  
June 5, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons  
 
          The only thing more frightening than the IRS targeting ordinary citizens is the sight of IRS civil service employees line dan...
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Targeting -- You Could Be Next!

May 22nd, 2013 11:15 pm
"To the President’s other men and women -- in the White House and elsewhere -- who took risks to provide us with confidential information. Without them there would have been no Watergate story told by the Washington Post.” Dedication, "All the President’s Men,” Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
 

May 22, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 

          I’ve been watching the hearings on the IRS and Benghazi on CSPAN and keeping up with coverage on all of Ob...
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The Buck Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

May 15th, 2013 11:14 pm
"To the President’s other men and women in the White House and elsewhere -- who took risks to provide us with confidential information. Without them there would have been no Watergate story told by the Washington Post.” "All the President’s Men” Dedication, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
 
May 15, 2013
 
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
 

          Threaten anyone with an IRS audit or tell them you have secretly monitored their phones and watch their faces.
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Not Every Dog Has His Day

May 8th, 2013 11:13 pm
"If you listen to the other side, you’d think it’s time to move on from this. They would agree with Secretary Clinton. They would say ‘what difference does it make?’ Well some of the family members I talked to before this hearing, I guarantee this hearing makes a difference today. We want to know who made some of these decisions and why they made some of these decisions.” 
- Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.), House Oversight Committee Hearings on Benghazi, May 8, 2013
 
 
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They Play By A Different Set Of Rules

April 24th, 2013 11:12 pm
"The lengths to which he will go to avoid telling us the truth about the enemy is becoming comical and certainly embarrassing…He will never use the word ‘jihadist…’ he refuses to use the word ‘Islamist…’Obama won’t touch it because he refuses to use any words that might imply a connection between radical Islam and terrorism, which as anybody who is over the age of nine knows is the single greatest cause of terror in the world today.” Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Columnist
 
 
 
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Potato, Potahto, Tomato, Tomahto

April 17th, 2013 11:10 pm
"What is freedom of expression? Without freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” Salman Rushdie
 
 
April 17, 2013

 

By: Linda Case Gibbons

 

          You probably found it hard to swallow when our own president told us, "you didn’t build that,” last July, but last week, MSNBC’s weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry topped that one and then some.

          Unabashed and fully backed by her network, Harris-Perry, took to the airwaves...

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Does Everyone Deserve A Second Chance?

April 10th, 2013 11:10 pm
"No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.” Cicero

April 10, 2013
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
          It’s not easy to earn the nickname "Hanoi Jane,” but Jane Fonda did.
          In 1972, Fonda, an anti-war activist, visited North Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War to express her solidarity with the Viet Cong.

          While there she sat on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and did radio broadcasts branding U.S. leaders as "war criminals.”

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Your Devils May Really Be Angels

April 3rd, 2013 11:09 pm
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson, Author and Lecturer
 
April 3, 2013
 
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons  
 
 
          Let’s face it, there are people in our lives that drive us crazy. It could be your boss, someone in your family or, heaven help us, a president.
 
          We compile facts and figures, dates and places. Our argumen...
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No Soup For You

March 27th, 2013 11:08 pm
"I’ve always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.” Dan Rather, Journalist
 
    

March 27, 2013

 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
 
          You’d be hard pressed to say Jesus Christ didn’t pay his fair share, and yet, as often happens with good guys, he didn’t get a fair shake.
 
          Sad to say, not much has changed. The good guys still take it in the neck, so that Christ‘s agonized cry...
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America's Self-Esteem Is Shot

March 20th, 2013 11:07 pm

"In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." Eleanor Roosevelt

 
March 20, 2013
 
 
By: Linda Case Gibbons
 
 
          In a kingdom not so long ago, there was a queen who wasn’t real sure of herself and as a result she made sure those around her were miserable.
 
          She’d had a lousy childhood, so she decided to...
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