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Thanks, ‘You Lie’ Guy!

By Michael Hinckley From A World Of Progress
Rarely do the impulsive actions of one party hand the opposition the next election on a silver platter.
In 1932, in an attempt to clear the Bonus Army from Anacostia Flats in Washington, D.C., Herbert Hoover sent in armored cars and troops led by Gen. Douglass MacArthur and Maj George Patton. Needless to say, Patton and MacArthur’s impulse to burn the Hooverville there and shoot WWI veterans was a disaster for Hoover; Franklin D. Roosevelt reportedly …

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Fox News: Fair and Balanced My Ass

By Andy Ostroy

So President Barack Obama on Wednesday night gave the most important speech of his presidency on an issue, health-care reform, which has taken center-stage in American politics over the past several months. Every single major network and cable-tv news network carried the prime-time address live…except the self-proclaimed Fair and Balanced Fox News.
How better to continue dumbing-down your audience than to censor what they see and hear that just might spoil their partisan delusion. Why give them another side of an issue? Why …