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Thomas Lucente: Recent poll on spying sounds death knell of USA

America is truly doomed. At least the idea of America, that experiment in self-government and liberty.

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Sunday 06/09/2013
Thomas Lucente: Sebelius gives preview of death panels
Updated: June 09, 2013 - 11:59 pm

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has to be the most coldhearted person in America.

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Sunday 05/26/2013
Thomas Lucente: If opposing Obama makes me a racist, then I am a racist
Posted: May 26, 2013

The audacity of the left never ceases to amaze me. No matter what kind of wrongdoing is involved, the vast majority of leftists continue to support their politicians and they come up with some of the flimsiest excuses ever.

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Sunday 05/19/2013
Thomas Lucente: What’s going on in Obama’s Washington?
Posted: May 19, 2013

I’m not one to toss the I-word (impeachment) around lightly. The current administration, however, is making it easier to call for that drastic step.

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Sunday 05/05/2013
Thomas Lucente: Abortion trial reveals hypocrisy of left
Posted: May 05, 2013

It has been three years since a drug raid on an abortion clinic in Philadelphia uncovered a house of horrors disguised as an abortion clinic.

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Sunday 04/28/2013
Thomas Lucente: American liberty died in Boston, where it was born
Updated: April 28, 2013 - 5:41 pm

The American liberty movement, with little argument, was pretty much born and nurtured in the environs of Boston. And that is apparently where it died.

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Sunday 04/21/2013
Thomas Lucente: Gun confiscation already underway
Posted: April 21, 2013

And so it begins.

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Sunday 04/14/2013
Thomas Lucente: Judge overstepped common sense in Plan B ruling
Updated: April 14, 2013 - 2:06 am

Of all the systems of government ever devised by man, ours has to be the best. At least, it would be if it operated the way it was supposed to operate.

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Sunday 03/31/2013
Thomas Lucente: Time to divorce marriage from the state
Posted: March 31, 2013

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments on same-sex marriage, all we can do is wait. The wheels of justice, after all, usually move at a snail’s pace.

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Sunday 03/24/2013
Thomas Lucente: Facebook photo leads to government threats
Posted: March 24, 2013

Yet, another story of government thuggery from the jackboot files.

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Sunday 03/17/2013
Thomas Lucente: Catholic Church has faced worse obstacles
Posted: March 17, 2013

In the wake of the selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I, there has a been a stream of commentary from American columnists, non-Catholics, telling us how the Church must change if it wants to remain viable.

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Sunday 03/10/2013
Thomas Lucente: Fourth Amendment under attack everywhere
Posted: March 10, 2013

Rarely does a week go by without some story of some court or government agency somewhere attacking the Fourth Amendment and its proscription against unreasonable searches and seizures.

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Sunday 02/24/2013
Thomas Lucente: Minimum-wage laws still make no economic sense
Posted: February 24, 2013

I don’t know whether President Barack Obama is simply oblivious to the basic laws of economics or he simply does not care, preferring instead to play politics while the economy burns — a sort of modern-day Nero with an economic fiddle.

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Sunday 02/17/2013
Thomas Lucente: Obama’s fairy tale: 29 new programs won’t add any debt
Updated: February 17, 2013 - 8:03 am

With four years of trillion-dollar deficits, a national debt equal to our gross domestic product, crushing unemployment, more than 1,400 days since a federal budget and a housing market that is still severely depressed, what does the president do?

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Sunday 02/10/2013
Thomas Lucente: Citizens should fear misuse of drones
Updated: February 10, 2013 - 12:37 am

It is still hard for some to fathom, but President Barack Obama believes he has the power to order the assassination of Americans abroad without trial.

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Sunday 02/03/2013
Thomas Lucente: Immigration deal a bandage on a chest wound
Updated: February 03, 2013 - 12:09 am

Here we go again. Another immigration plan that will go nowhere.

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Sunday 01/27/2013
Thomas Lucente: Foolish to think 'It can't happen here'
Posted: January 27, 2013

As the gun control debate rages on, I have taken some flak for stating, quite correctly, that the sole purpose of the Second Amendment is for the citizenry to protect itself from the government.

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Sunday 01/20/2013
Thomas Lucente: Turn off taxpayer spigot for Planned Parenthood
Updated: January 20, 2013 - 11:57 pm

What would you say if I told you there is an organization funded by the government that was responsible for 333,964 deaths in 2011?

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Sunday 01/06/2013
Thomas Lucente: A few resolutions for those in Washington
Updated: January 06, 2013 - 2:26 am

Being perfect (despite what my family, friends and co-workers say) I see no reason to make any New Year's resolutions for myself, except maybe to try to be less modest. So I decided to use the time that I could have spent pondering my resolutions in coming up with resolutions others should offer in order to make this world a better place.

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Sunday 12/30/2012
Thomas Lucente: Newspaper stunt put lives in danger
Updated: December 30, 2012 - 4:46 pm

When it comes to free speech and open government, I am largely a purist, or what First Amendment scholars would label an “absolutist,” a Justice Hugo Black on free-speech steroids, if you will.

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Sunday 12/23/2012
Thomas Lucente: Gun control is about control, not guns
Updated: December 23, 2012 - 12:39 am

There is one truism that should not be forgotten in the national conversation on guns: Even if you repeal the Second Amendment it will have no affect on my God-given natural right to keep and bear arms.

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Sunday 12/16/2012
Thomas Lucente: Right to work about freedom, not union busting
Posted: December 16, 2012

I love how liberals are "pro-choice," unless, of course the "choice" is whether to join a union.

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Sunday 12/09/2012
Thomas Lucente: Obama tax plan would fund government for 8 days
Posted: December 09, 2012

Nothing says Christmas like a healthy dose of class warfare masquerading as governance. That is to be expected when you have a child running the White House.

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Sunday 11/25/2012
Thomas Lucente: GOP, Democrats need to become more libertarian
Updated: November 25, 2012 - 1:46 pm

I can’t help but laugh at many of my liberal friends in the aftermath of the presidential election. Not just them, but many so-called intelligent pundits have made laughable statements as well.

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Sunday 11/18/2012
Thomas Lucente: Auto bailout was about politics, not economics
Updated: November 18, 2012 - 4:14 pm

President Barack Obama’s claim that he “saved” the auto industry would be laughable if not for how many people actually believe it. But, alas, as the election proved, Democrats tend to do best when they misinform already uninformed voters.

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Sunday 11/11/2012
Thomas Lucente: Honor those serving by bringing them home
Updated: November 11, 2012 - 4:17 pm

Today is Veterans Day, the day the U.S. government sets aside to honor all the men and women who have served the United States in one of the armed forces.

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Sunday 10/28/2012
Thomas Lucente: Is Obama covering up incompetence or malfeasance in Benghazi?
Posted: October 28, 2012

President Barack Obama’s infamy continues to grow from the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, and the subsequent coverup.

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Sunday 10/21/2012
Thomas Lucente: Media-run debates rigged in Obama’s favor
Posted: October 21, 2012

I admit that liberal media bias is, most of the time, subtle. That is, your average consumer of news is not likely to even notice it. It is, for the most part, not even intentional, just sloppy craftsmanship. Or, at least, that is what I like to believe because the idea that the profession I have spent my life practicing is tainted is not a pleasant one.

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Sunday 10/14/2012
Thomas Lucente: Live free: Vote for Gary Johnson
Updated: October 14, 2012 - 3:57 pm

Anyone paying attention to the presidential campaign has to admit the former governor is the best candidate in the race.

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Sunday 10/07/2012
Thomas Lucente: Spanking of Obama not surprising
Updated: October 07, 2012 - 4:51 pm

By now, most of you have either seen, or heard about, the old-fashioned spanking Gov. Mitt Romney gave President Barack Obama Wednesday evening at the first of the joint news conferences ... er ... I mean debates.

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Sunday 09/30/2012
Thomas Lucente: Quintessential Catch-22 limits debates
Updated: September 30, 2012 - 1:09 pm

The presidential debates begin Wednesday. Unfortunately, Americans will only be receiving half the needed information.

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Sunday 09/23/2012
Thomas Lucente: A married Jesus changes nothing
Updated: September 23, 2012 - 12:11 am

I have long accepted the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was married and had at least one child.

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Sunday 09/16/2012
Thomas Lucente: Mideast violence shows Obama out of his league
Posted: September 16, 2012

President Barack Obama and his supporters like to claim he has foreign policy cred because the U.S. Navy happened to kill Osama bin Laden, an old man in his pajamas, on his watch.

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Wednesday 09/12/2012
Thomas Lucente: America quickly turning into police state
Posted: September 12, 2012

What is one sure sign that your government is slipping into a police state?

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Sunday 09/02/2012
Thomas Lucente: Godspeed, Neil Armstrong
Posted: September 02, 2012

As a child, I vaguely recall watching, sort of, men landing on the moon.

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Sunday 08/19/2012
Thomas Lucente: Ryan budget plan bad; Obama’s worse
Updated: August 19, 2012 - 1:12 am

In the days since Gov. Mitt Romney chose U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate on the GOP presidential ticket, liberals have been arguing just how awful Ryan’s budget proposal is, i.e., it will destroy Medicare, forcing seniors to spend their golden years in abject poverty, it will eliminated the middle class, and, as a side benefit, probably bring about the apocalypse.

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Sunday 08/05/2012
Thomas Lucente: Feds earn gold medal in fleecing citizens
Posted: August 05, 2012

"Dear Mr. Ryan Lochte,

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Sunday 07/29/2012
Thomas Lucente: Guns are last defense against tyranny
Updated: July 31, 2012 - 12:27 am

On July 16, a pizza delivery driver in Columbus, Ohio, was delivering a pizza when two men armed with shotguns approached him.

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