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Double trouble

Fewer jobs in U.S. do not dissuade illegal immigrants

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

Immigration activists and Hispanic groups are demanding that President Obama deliver on his promised comprehensive package of immigration reform.

The mouth that roared

Dubious deadlines are killing Obama's credibility

Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009

President Obama keeps roaring out deadlines like a lion - only later to meow like a little kitty.

The saga of going gaga

Obama is just not that into you

Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009

Norway stunned the world by awarding the coveted Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, who was nominated for the honor after being in office less than two weeks. But the award is in keeping with Europeans' behavior over these first nine months of Mr. Obama's presidency. They've gone gaga over the guy.

Guru America

The futility of Obama's celebrity in world affairs

Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009

President Obama last week flew to Copenhagen to persuade the International Olympic Committee to award the 2016 games to Chicago, his hometown. He and first lady Michelle Obama delivered their now well-known inspirational stories about their Chicago neighborhood experiences. They even had Oprah in tow, along with a number of other Chicago big shots.

Three dangerous stooges

World's madmen keep shouting nonsense and hate

Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009

Last week, three dictators - from Iran, Libya and Venezuela - delivered lunatic hate speeches at the General Assembly of the United Nations.

California dryin'

Fishy conservation tales

Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

California is in an uproar over water. Nearly a quarter-million acres' worth of contracted federal irrigation deliveries have been cut from the big farms of the west side of the San Joaquin Valley in central California. The water in large part is being diverted to the salty San Francisco Bay and the delta to improve marine ecology.

No rules in the arena?

Why Democrats suddenly hate hatred

Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009

It was certainly uncouth of Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, to scream out "You lie" at his commander-in-chief in the middle of President Obama's recent health care speech before a joint session of Congress.

Charles Rangel - sign of the times

Our rulers behave as if the rules don't apply to them

Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat and chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is becoming a metaphor for almost all the sins of our age.

The Second World War -- 70 years later

Assessing its causes and effects

Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009

Seventy years ago this week, on Sept. 1, 1939, the Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland. Thousands of books have been written about the war. And by now revisionist historians of revisionist historians engage in an endless cycle of disagreement over why the war started, how it ended and what it all meant.