Americans Swallow Their Pride: Number Of Food Stamp Recipients Doubles!

by Mary Ann on September 2, 2010

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It was a hot summer day in 2008. She had just finished paying more than $150 for a bill of groceries at Kroger, and my friend Bonnie was frustrated and indignant. While waiting in line at the checkout register she had watched a woman at the front of the line fill a shopping cart with a large bill of groceries, then pay for it all with an EBT card—food stamps. [click to read more…]

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Five Bullets Through My Windshield: There’s A Moral To The Story.

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It was dark, around 8:00 p.m. on a Saturday night in December, a long time ago. Two men in a black ’67 Pontiac GTO cruised slowly through the busy parking lot of a suburban Atlanta shopping center until they spotted my car parked halfway down a row in front of a bookstore. A rifle barrel [...]

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How To Destroy America: The Indecency Of Lies And Hate

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Indecency. I can think of no other word to describe it. It is that ready willingness to debase one’s self by recklessly affronting the dignity of others, especially the weak and vulnerable. It is an embarrassment to decent people, people of good will, and it is becoming a national embarrassment for our country. It will [...]

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Barack Hussein Obama Is The Smartest Son-Of-A-Gun Who Ever Lived! He’s Smart, Smart, Smart, Smart, Smarrt!

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Barack Hussein Obama is the smartest son-of-a-gun who ever lived! Seriously. No kidding. He’s absolutely the smartest one. He’s smart, smart, smart, smart, smarrrt! Einstein, you say? Wouldn’t make a wart on Obama’s butt. How about Plato, Da Vinci, Emanuel Swedenborg or… Bobby Fisher? Pikers. Dullards. Dimwits. Stooges. Hey, what country did any of those [...]

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Third World America: A Shabby Testimony To The American Way

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On Wednesday, just two days ago, thousands of residents of south side Atlanta, Georgia (estimates released on Friday put the number as high as 30,000) stampeded around local housing authority officials set up in the parking lot of an East Point shopping mall. It was a crowd of people in need of affordable shelter, all [...]

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McDonald’s® Serves Up UnHappy Meals: Help Stop McCruelty

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People eat meat. They’ve been eating meat since the beginning of time, and they’re gonna keep on doing it. That’s fine with me. I’m not making a pitch for a vegetarian lifestyle, and I’m not condemning meat eaters. I’m one of them. If I were going to be a vegetarian I would likely make that [...]

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Socialism Strikes North Dakota… And Turns A Tidy Profit!

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Whatever provides the most services for the least cost. That’s what we want. Right? In the case of North Dakota, that would be a socialist bank. Yes sir, you heard me right. A pinko, liberal, fancy-word-for-commie, SOCIALIST bank! Right here on American soil. Not a penny of bailout money. Not a dollar of pension money  lost. [...]

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Feel The Hands On Your Throat? Scream Now!

by Mary Ann
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I’ll bet you’re in love with your cable television provider! No? Pshaw… of course you are! Who doesn’t love those cute little “bundles” of services that grow from cheap introductory rates to budget crushing monthly bills, and those ginormous early termination fees that are so effective at discouraging jailbreaks? And, you’ve gotta love the democratic [...]

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Thoughts Across The Breakfast Table: We Have Asked, And God Has Answered.

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Elemental things. Things at the very core of life. Things every moment combining in endless and mysterious permutations. Things that have brought me to this morning and for which every coming day will be lived. Things that swell my heart and ignite my spirit with joy and anticipation. These are the things sung by the [...]

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A Mosque At Ground Zero

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Sometimes it’s impossible to avoid offending people. We don’t want to give offense, but there’s just no reasonable way around it. We hope people will understand. We hope people will be reasonable, but sometimes they don’t and won’t. Take, for example, grocers and butchers. They certainly don’t want to offend any of their customers, but [...]

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Why I Don’t Trust The National Guard To Police The Mexican Border

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The Army National Guard. They’re the good guys, right? Competent, disciplined, more than adequately trained and dedicated to protecting the American people both “over there” and back here. That’s the image both the Pentagon and the White House want to paint, but I’ve gotta tell you what… I need a little more convincing. For starters, [...]

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New Tell-All Illustrated Guide Reveals: How To Pick Up The Girl Of Your Dreams!

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Okay, I know what you’re thinking. If you’re a guy, you’re jealous, and you’re asking yourself, “How does he do it? How does he keep a gorgeous woman on his arm and at his side year after year after year? What are his secrets?” Well, finally, on the pages of this blog I’m going to [...]

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Making Memories In A Mobile Home: Let’s Do It Again

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This isn’t the article I intended to write tonight. When I sat down at the iMac and opened the WordPress editor I had two articles in mind and hadn’t yet decided which I would write—one recalling certain aspects of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the other a story guaranteed to make Mary Ann [...]

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If You’re Fighting For My Freedom, Please Stop!

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This is a difficult subject to broach. People get very emotional about war. A lot of people really, really, really want the country to go to war, to be at war, to stay at war, and to fight the good fight, forever and ever, Amen. They want to exert maximum military might at all times [...]

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Women Have Breasts, And Facebook Doesn’t Like It.

by Mary Ann
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WARNING: This article deals with a mature subject and immature people. If you are offended by public discussion of common, everyday, innocuous things, you may want to avoid reading this and most other material. Women have breasts, and breasts have nipples. I have two of each, and if you’re a woman I’ll bet you do [...]

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