The level of debt and new spending is truly staggering on even an historic level. Never before have politicians been so crass in their desire to expand the federal government and limit individual liberties.
The ongoing U.N. global warming summit in Copenhagen was a circus of the absurd from its inception. With his triumphant keynote speech to wildly applauding sycophants, however, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez provided the perfect capstone clown act.
'Twas the week before Christmas, when Congress met, So eager they were, to pile on the debt; They knew it was wrong, deep down in their core, But golly gee whiz, they must spend, spend some more...
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"A U.S. government that has barred the phrase 'war on terror' has nonetheless acknowledged that a failed Christmas day bomb attack on an airliner was a terrorist attempt. Can we all now drop the pretense that we stopped fighting a war once Dick Cheney and George W. Bush left the White House?The attempt by 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab follows the alleged murders in Ft. Hood, Texas…[more] |
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—The Editors, The Wall Street Journal
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