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The Gouverneur Times

www.gouverneurtimes.com Friday | November 20, 2009

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Michelle Malkin

When Big Labor
Bullies and
Volunteers Collide

Chuck Norris

Visiting Major
Nidal Hasan's Hospital

Michael Barone

Obama Bows to
The World...

Jackie Gingrich
Cushman

First a Failure
of Imagination,
Now a Lack of
Understanding

Oliver North

Suicide Pact

Diane Dimond

Our Lost
Children

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Michelle Malkin

When Big Labor Bullies and Volunteers Collide

The Boy Scouts' motto is: Be prepared. Who knew it meant preparing to defend themselves against purple-shirted union thuggery over community service? Kids, pay attention. This is a teachable moment for all of you on power, politics and Big Labor's culture of corruption. Last week at a city council meeting in Allentown, Pa., a top official of the local Service Employees International Union chapter ranted about 17-year-old Scout Kevin Anderson's park cleanup work. Anderson devoted some 200 hours to the job in order to earn an Eagle Scout badge. He picked up trash and helped clear a 1,000-foot walking path with fellow members of Boy Scouts Troop 301 of Center Valley. But SEIU's Nick Balzano gave them hell instead of thanks.{loadposition googlesky} Balzano disparaged altruistic efforts in city parks and asserted that "there is (sic) to be no volunteers" since his union members were laid off. He then issued a witch hunt threat: "We'll also be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who d...Full Story >>

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Oliver North

Suicide Pact

WASHINGTON — This week, while "the most traveled president in history" was on his latest foreign adventure and bowing to Japanese Emperor Akihito, the rest of the O-Team was busy kowtowing to political correctness. The headlines tell the story: "(Defense Secretary Robert) Gates Condemns Leaks on Fort Hood Investigation," and "Gates Says 'Shut Up' About Fort Hood." "Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Terror Trials in New York City for 9-11-01 Plotters." "Guantanamo Detainees to Illinois Prison." All three of these actions — the Gates outburst, the Holder decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 conspirators in a Manhattan federal court, and the plan to transfer nearly 200 radical Islamic terrorists to a state prison in western Illinois — have been decried as egregious examples of political correctness run amok. Actually, coming as they did — while Mr. Obama was on a meaningless, ceremonial Asian junket — the "package deal for terrorists" is much worse...Full Story >>

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Our Writers Say What's On Their Minds

Tim Janson

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Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine

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Timothy Knight

" Dierdre Scozzafava was supported by most Republicans against their better judgement, Dierdre Scozzaf... "

Patricia Ritchie

" To anyone who had lost hope in Albany’s ability to listen to the desperation of overtaxed and st... "

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Nathan Barker

" Conservative bloggers are singing a rousing round of "I Told You So's" this morning. Why? This mo... "

Timothy Knight

Dede Can't Decide on a Party

Dierdre Scozzafava was supported by most Republicans against their better judgement, Dierdre Scozzafava received over a million dollars from Republican committees, organizations, and PAC'S, and Dierdre Scozzafava decided to return the favor by endorsing a liberal Democrat, and sided with a Democratic takeover of a congressional district/area which has remained in Repubican control since before the Civil War. We should have seen this coming, as Scozzafava holds Progressive views in regards to abortion, homosexual marriage, financial policies, organized unions, financial bailouts, and received a 15% rating from the Conservative Party of New York in regards to her 2008 legislative voting record, the lowest among all Republicans. Scozzafava's congressional endorsements include the largest union in New York state, the New York State United Teachers, a Republican organization which supports female pro-abortion candidates, The Wish List, received endorsements from the ACORN associated Workin...Full Story >>

Michael Barone

Obama Bows, but the World Refuses to Bow Back

On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia last April and to the emperor of Japan last week, the world refuses to bow back. This is not how it was supposed to be. "I am absolutely certain that generations from now," he said on the night he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June 2008, "we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last best hope on earth."{loadposition googlesky} We're still working on a lot of that. The Democrats are having a problem passing a health care bill in the Senate (though somehow a lot of sick people are being cared...Full Story >>

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