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President Bush Outwits Team Clinton 2007-07-08 23:05:00 Did President Bush pull a classic Machiavellian move to outmaneuver Team Clinton over last week's Fourth of July holiday? In my opinion, the timing of President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s prison term was no accident.The President was well aware that former President Clinton would be joining his wife on the fourth for her visit to Iowa in an attempt to raise her sagging poll numbers there. The President is also very aware of the former President’s own record on pardons. President Bush also correctly judged that Team Clinton would resort to defending their own pardon record as soon as the announcement of Libby’s commutation was made. Bill Clinton’s ego could not sit idly by while attacks on his pardon record were made. The Clintons fell right into this trap set by President Bush. The issue of Presidential pardons cannot help Madame Hillary’s White House ambitions.I ask the most strident Bill Clinton supporter to defend his use of pardons (his brother, terror ... President

The Great Pyramid is No Longer one of the 7 Great Wonders of the World by a “Consensus.” 2007-07-08 13:21:00 The New Open World Corporation just decided to create the New 7 Wonders of the World. The Top 7 were decided by about 100 million votes cast by the Internet and cell-phone text messages. If you may be wondering why they decided that the Internet and text messages were a good way to determine the winners, your guess is as good as mine. Actually, I would not have been surprised if they had asked the drug addicted rock stars from "Live Earth" to decide. Nevertheless, like most consensuses we have seen recently, facts and statistics are completely irrelevant. The new 7 Wonders of the World are the following: 1) The Great Wall of China; 2) Petra of Jordan; 3) Christ the Redeemer of Rio de Janeiro; 4) Manchu Picchu; 5) Chichen Itza of Mexico; 6) Rome’s Coliseum; and 7) The Taj Mahal. In case you noticed, the Great Pyramid is absent from the list. Other than being unexpected, the fact that the Pyramid is not on the list entirely destroys any credibility the contest attempted to o ...

The Department of Education: Destroying the Education System $67.2 Billion at a Time 2007-07-07 17:11:00 Conservatives have not been sufficient when conveying the need to get rid of the Department of Education. Instead of articulating why the Department of Education is destroying the education system in this Country, they manage to convince ignorant Americans that they are against education itself. This bureaucratic labyrinth known as the Department of Education has demonstrated that it serves only one purpose: To unnecessarily grow the size of government. If, hypothetically, the average taxpayer were to pay $1000 of his or her tax dollars toward education, here is a picture of what happens to that money. First, the money goes straight to Washington, D.C. Even if the taxpayer lives in Chicago, which is nowhere near Washington, it is totally irrelevant. Then the government workers take a huge cut, create an unworkable plan to fix problems they created, and send the money around the country. The money may never go back to the taxpayer’s district, a mere technicality. Subsequen ...