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“I’m going to enjoy the time I’ve got left,” Johnson told friends when he left Washington in January, 1969, a worn old man at sixty, consumed by the bitter, often violent, five years of his presidency. He had never doubted that he could have won the 1968 election against Richard Nixon if he had chosen to run for another term. But in 1967 he launched a secret actuarial study on his life expectancy, supplying personal histories of all the males in the recent Johnson line, himself included. “The men in the Johnson family have a history of dying young,” he...

When I hear You Lie Obama promote his latest "Give-me-more-of-your-money-you-stupid-suckers-because-I-just-spent-all-of-your-money" speech, all I hear is DEBT, DEBT, DEBT ! I also wonder about Obama's SPENDAHOLIC need for an overwhelming desire to increase his DEBT GREED? These are matters that the recently appointed Congressional-Twelve-Steppers might be best suited to address. Admittedly, a standard Twelve-Step Program would be have had more experience than the "Con-12-Steppers." A test is coming this week as DEBT-GREEDY, You Lie Obama tries to milk $ 447,000,000,000.00 from an already Bankrupt US Congress. The main question is : "Why is so much money needed to fund free government-paid...

Last week John Kerry was off on a cross-country ballot-buying trip, stopping at a number of college campuses. Vote for me, he said to students, and I will reward you with a new government program that will provide — in exchange for a period of national service — a $4,000 tuition subsidy to each program participant, to be raised through the tax system, and therefore from others' financial resources. Unfortunately, there are two serious problems with this shameless vote-purchasing scheme: It is harmful to a free society, and it will not deliver the promised results. The ills of this proposal...