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President Obama has again realized he cant convince the American people about the merits of his big government agenda and will do what he does best: run roughshod over our Constitution and now try to impose his job-killing environmental agenda by executive order.

WASHINGTON -- When it comes to knock-knock jokes, it helps to be 5 years old: You can slap your head, roll your eyes, and run outside and play.

"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race." -- Justice Harry Blackmun, 1978

Celebrity chef Paula Deen seems to have run into a spot of trouble because she admitted that many years ago she used the word nigger.

WASHINGTON -- The headlines were immediate: All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman's trial.

Rainey Cawthon has been in the fuel distribution business since 1948. Lots of things have changed in our industry over the last 65 years.

On U.S. military intervention in Syria's civil war, where "both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line 'Allahu akbar' ... I say let Allah sort it out."So said Sarah Palin to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. And, as is not infrequently the case, she nailed it.

The following was the address given Wednesday at the nation's Capitol to the Tea Party Patriot Rally, "Audit the IRS" by Restore America's Voice Chairman Ken Hoagland.

-- All men are by nature equal, But differ greatly in the sequel. WASHINGTON -- A quarter of a millennium later, that couplet from a colonial American almanac defines an urgent challenge. Modern society increases how, and the predictability of how much, people differ in the sequel.