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Desperate-State
http://www.desperatestate.com
We are all in a desperate state. Conservative current events weblog.
- Added on: Sep 2nd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jon Williford
- Listed in: Republican Independent
- Tags: politics conservative obama taxes congress healthcare
Recent Posts
Help for Guatemalan orphans
Two years ago my sister and her husband adopted my nephew from Guatemala. While there were, and frankly still are, legitimate means to rescue Guatemalan orphans, the international adoption process was riddled with fraud, trafficking, and outright kid...
White House dismisses ‘climategate’
I haven’t commented on the “Climategate” investigation because I’ve been waiting to see how far it would go. And, unfortunately it seems to be going about as far as Obama’s birth certificate investigation. Here’s t...
Silencing the voice of opposition
Harry Truman once said, “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all ...
Beirut victims get denied again
Two weeks ago tomorrow was Veteran’s Day, and I missed this from the Boston Globe. On Veterans Day, Christine Devlin stood in the cold in Westwood for the unveiling of a new memorial to local soldiers lost overseas, including her son Michael, o...
Calling the old man home
Joseph “Newt” Williford, 1929-2009 My grandfather, the son of an eastern NC tobacco sharecropper, was a gruff old man with a big heart. He loved bluegrass music, especially when he was picking on his guitar or banjo; he loved NC State ath...
Bogus jobs, bogus statistics, real money
Yesterday, Watchdog.com broke the story about numerous bogus claims on the federal site Recovery.com, 30 new or saved jobs in Arizona’s 15th district; 25 jobs saved or created in Connecticut’s 42nd district, and the list can go on. Today,...
