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Posts in category "Politics"

The left, including Obama, abandons women in Afghanistan

Want to see a real “war on women?” Wait until 2014 when U.S and NATO forces effectively leave Afghanistan to the whims of the bloodthirsty Taliban. The savagery will make the alleged Republican sins against women — as politically motivated Democrats have charged — pale in comparison. The Taliban’s strict enforcement of Sharia law, or Islamic law, has resulted in what can... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
Tuesday at 11:45 am
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Obama's past behavior not an issue, but Romney's is?

Word that billionaire Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts planned to bankroll a campaign ad that highlighted the  race-baiting by President Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., has occasioned  wide-ranging and well-publicized denunciations, even from the apparent Republican nominee Mitt Romney. For some, Obama seemingly cannot escape his past. Same for Romney. Allegations that Romney bullied... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 18, 2012 at 4:03 am
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Barack Obama wins World War II

Well, no. But President Obama does equate what he has “accomplished” with the achievements of presidents as far back as Calvin Coolidge. Check this out: Many of President Obama’s fervent devotees are young enough not to have much memory of the political world before the arrival of The One. Coincidentally, Obama himself feels the same... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 15, 2012 at 8:48 pm
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Pro-Choice Activist Gets Prison for Sending Pro-Lifers Death Threats

Death threats don’t always come from the right, as this article in LifeNews.com points out. Father Frank Pavone , director of Priests for Life, made this observation: Pavone added, “From the point of view of my work as a pro-life leader, I also take this opportunity to point out that violence and threats of violence... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 15, 2012 at 3:08 pm
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The essence of marriage excludes gay couples

While the inevitability of same-sex marriage now is a given — the only question remaining is when — I’m still trying to locate the why. When President Barack Obama last week endorsed same-sex marriage, the perception grew that the only thing holding back the eventual, but certain, legalization of same-sex marriage is the resistance of... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 15, 2012 at 9:44 am
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Walker's 'divide and conquer' remark sets off tizzy fit

You would have thought that Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker had beheaded dozens of union members and left their bodies along a Mexican highway. His approach to taming the out-of-control public employee unions in Wisconsin (“divide and conquer”) has provoked tongue clucking and horror. “Scott Walker is finally honest about his secret plot to ‘divide... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 14, 2012 at 4:14 pm
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Huffington calls Obama's bin Laden ad 'despicable'

If liberal icon Arianna Huffington calls Obama’s new TV ad saying that he got Osama bin Laden and Mitt Romney might not have if he had been president, just how wacky can the ad be? She said: Appearing on “CBS This Morning,” she said, “Using the Osama bin Laden assassination, killing, the great news that we... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 2, 2012 at 6:31 pm
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Racial profiling not at the heart of the Arizona immigration case before the Supreme Court

Methinks that the federal challenge to the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, heard last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, is terribly misunderstood. For many folks, the state law — which helps enforce federal immigration laws already on the books — is about racial profiling. They argue that cops, for whatever reason, will target people who... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 1, 2012 at 4:12 pm
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The goofy Sarah Palin sculpture reminds me of Harold Washington in women's undies

Conservatives are riled over an ugly sculpture of Sarah Palin, now on exhibit at the Bridgeport Art Center. The sculpture, which has been on tour, features a gapping, yawling mouth in which a pig can be roasted. Conservatives also have been riled about the nude (full frontal) painting of  of Palin in the Old Town Ale... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 29, 2012 at 4:50 pm
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Why are those who yearn for moderate government called extremists?

Following the example of my sometimes debating partner, Tribune commentator Eric Zorn, I was skimming through my column archives and came across a Chicago Tribune column I liked when I wrote it, and still like. It was written two years ago, but applies today as much to America’s upset caused by the overreach of government... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 21, 2012 at 1:48 pm
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