Author: Duane Lester

Duane Lester is co-founder of All American Blogger, and the primary writer. Following graduation, Duane entered the United States Navy as a journalist. He spent five years touring the world, reporting on local news and sports. Following his enlistment, Duane spent almost 10 years working with adjudicated youth in residential treatment environments. Duane discovered politics after September 11. He credits Erich "Mancow" Muller for opening his eyes to his conservative beliefs. Since then, Duane has devoured books and literature on politics, reading everything he can from Adam Smith to Larry Elder to Thomas Sowell. He refers to his style of politics as "conserva-tarian", a mixture of conservative and libertarian beliefs.

Heartbreaking: Vile Rep. Alan Grayson Lost $18 Million to Scam Artist

Posted on by Duane Lester

First of all – BREAKING: Rep. Alan Grayson is a filthy rich businessman! Also, he lost a ton of money to a con artist: U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida lost $18 million in a scheme that cheated him and about 120 other investors out of more than $35 million, according to court papers. The […]

 

Thanks Obama: Woman Whose Daughter Has Rare Neurological Disease Loses Health Insurance, Doctor and Hospital

Posted on by Duane Lester

“If you like your health care, you can keep it. Period.” Liar: A woman whose 17-year-old daughter with a rare neurological disease has undergone at least 86 surgeries since she was born and now she finds out she’s lost her insurance. She was paying over $1,800 a month and now that’s going up to $3,000 […]

 

Trash Talking Obamacare Banned in Pro-Obama California County Office

Posted on by Duane Lester

It used to be that you could voice your opinion in America. Not in Obama’s America: A California county has banned a veteran employee from criticizing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act because a coworker who overheard the criticism was offended. The employee is Norina Mooney, who has logged some 20 years of work […]

 

Obamacare Could Close Volunteer Fire Departments

Posted on by Duane Lester

Small towns don’t have full town fire departments. They have volunteers who show up when there’s a fire and do their best to save their neighbor’s property. That system is at risk, according to Rep. Lou Barletta: Barletta thinks that current policy requires companies to provide insurance to volunteer firefighters. “Forcing volunteer fire companies to […]

 

Democrats Demand Obama Stop Deporting Illegal Aliens

Posted on by Duane Lester

A bunch of Democrats sent a letter to President Obama, demanding he stop deporting illegal aliens. Well, they didn’t exactly call them illegal aliens, because that’s racist, or something. I think they said they were… While immigration reform is stalled in Congress, some members are calling on President Barack Obama to take the matter into […]

 

Libyan Parliament Creates Jeffersonian Style Republican Government…Just Kidding, It’s Sharia Law

Posted on by Duane Lester

The new Libyan Parliament voted, and the foundation of all Libyan law henceforth will be Sharia law: Libya’s national assembly voted on Wednesday to make Islamic law, or sharia, the source of all legislation, in an apparent bid by moderate Islamists to outflank ultra-conservative militants who have been gaining influence. Two years after the NATO-backed […]

 

Shameless: Harry Reid Continues “If You Like Your Insurance, You Can Keep It” Lie (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

You have got to see this: “That was so damaging, a lot of people said, for the President to go and say that you will be able to keep your coverage if you like it. There were thousands of people who found out that wasn’t possible,” Gillan correctly pointed out. Reid’s response? “What he said […]

 

Obama Commits More Taxpayer Money to Killing Birds By Windmill

Posted on by Duane Lester

Last month, Duke Energy Corporation was fined because their windmills are killing golden eagles. What’s shocking is not that windmills kill birds, but that the same federal government that’s shoveling tax-payer money into windmills is now fining companies when they kill birds. Now, despite the spinning wheels of death knocking one unsuspecting bird after another […]

 

Over 100 Years Later, Progressive Logic for Prohibition Being Used to Promote Action on Climate Change

Posted on by Duane Lester

Today at All American Blogger, I wrote about the 80 year anniversary of the freedom movement’s victory over progressivism when Prohibition was repealed. While it was overturned 80 years ago, the movement started way back in the 1800s. In my article, I quote two people. Historian William O’Neill and progressive advocate for Prohibition, James A. […]

 

Finally: Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC

Posted on by Duane Lester

Hateful host Martin Bashir announced his resignation from MSNBC today. Good riddance: Martin Bashir has learned something Alec Baldwin already knows: Even a cable news host can say too much. MSNBC announced Wednesday that Bashir, a commentator and host of the 4 p.m. hour, is leaving after an uproar over his remarks last month about […]

 

Texas Welfare Queen Vindicates Milton Friedman With Call to Local Radio Station (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

In his series “Free to Choose,” Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman explained how government handouts created a disincentive for people to seek employment. You can watch the entire episode here, or watch the video below: A caller to a KLBJ radio show exemplifies what Friedman warned about. Listen to this woman brag about getting […]

 

Unreal: Healthcare.gov Doesn’t Have Payment System, Government Just Guessing on Payments (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

The Obama Healthcare Exchange was built without a way to accept payments. Brilliant. So they’re asking insurance companies to “estimate” what policies will cost, and paying them based on those estimates. It’s all guesswork with taxpayer money: Weasel Zippers notes, “It gets worse.“

 

Health Care Expert Warns Americans Could Revolt Over Obama’s Ignoring of Laws (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

The Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon warned a House committee today that if the people believe the government’s not constrained to the law, they’ll decide they aren’t either: “There is one last thing to which the people can resort if the government does not respect the restrains that the constitution places on the government,” Cannon said. […]

 

Palin was Right: Woman Shocked to Discover Health Insurance Still Expensive Under Obamacare (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

Sarah Palin said, “…America is about to get ‘mugged by reality’ very soon, to paraphrase Irving Kristol.” “Far from providing more Americans with insurance, Obamacare is ironically hurting the very people it was sold to as some kind of health care savior,” she wrote. The mugging has begun: Binns had been trying to navigate the […]

 

Expert Says Healthcare.gov Security Worse After Fix

Posted on by Duane Lester

First we learn security wasn’t even built into Healthcare.gov to start with. Now, after they “fixed” the site, we learn it’s even worse: “It doesn’t appear that any security fixes were done at all,” David Kennedy, CEO of the online security firm TrustedSec, told the Washington Free Beacon. Kennedy said fundamental safeguards missing from Healthcare.gov […]

 

National Journal Calls for Obama to Fire Himself and His Team

Posted on by Duane Lester

The National Journal is a well known left of center magazine. And they are calling for a complete overhaul: President Obama needs to fire himself. Not literally, of course, but practically: He needs to shake up his team so thoroughly that the new blood imposes change on how he manages the federal bureaucracy and leads. […]

 

Liberal Theology: “When Jesus had those five loaves and two fishes, he didn’t charge food stamps.” (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

Liberals are all about the separation of church and state, until combining the two furthers the agenda, then they are all about it. Case in point: Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) told the Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC on Wednesday that Sharpton and the pope are “on the same wavelength.” McDermott’s observation on what he perceives […]

 

Obama Admin Organizes Young Followers Under Banner of “White House Youth,” Hitlarity Ensues

Posted on by Duane Lester

Apparently the White House Twitter admins don’t really know their history. : Otherwise, they’d probably have avoided the idea of calling young followers of President Barack Obama “#WHYouth.” At 8 pm ET: Join @kalpenn, @HealthCareTara and @YI_Care for a G+ Hangout on ACA & young people. Ask Qs w/ #WHYouth: https://t.co/rp05qcmfUG — Erin Lindsay (@Erin44) December […]

 

Set Toilet Paper on Fire? That’s a First Degree First Degree Terroristic Threat!

Posted on by Duane Lester

So now, high school pranks earn you the label of “terrorist.” Awesome: Police say a 15-year-old freshman boy: faces a second-degree criminally negligent burning charge, a misdemeanor, and a first-degree terroristic threatening charge, a felony, after he: ignited: a roll of toilet paper in the bathroom of West High School Wednesday morning. Under Alaska law, a person causing […]

 

Not Racist: Obama Says He Can Look at Person’s Face and Tell If They’re an Immigrant (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

President Obama says he can look a man in the face and tell if he’s an immigrant. Good thing he’s not a Republican or that would be racist: Via Twitchy: So how does that work? Do people born in America have different faces from those not born in America? Or could he be talking about […]

 

Heartbreaking: MSNBC and CNN Lose Almost Half Their Audience in One Year

Posted on by Duane Lester

CNN and MSNBC took a beating over the last year, both channels shedding close to half of their audience: Data released Tuesday show CNN shedding 48 percent of total viewers since last November and MSNBC dropping 45 percent. The numbers were even worse in the all important demographic of people aged 25 to 54 as […]

 

Obamacare Event Gives Away Condoms As Prizes (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

A recent event at the: : University of Central Arkansas featured a pleasant young woman with “lots of Magnums.” “So when you’re leaving, you can stop by my table and I’ll give you whatever — condoms — that box has a bunch in it. Anyway … Our corporation, LA Corp … And I’m waiting on my dental […]

 

Ads Thanking Ted Cruz to Air During Thanksgiving NFL Games

Posted on by Duane Lester

While you are fighting the strong desire to drift off after Thanksgiving dinner, listen closely. That popping sound you hear will be liberal heads ASPLODING across Texas: A conservative group will air ads in Texas during Thanksgiving thanking Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for leading the fight against Obamacare. The ads will run during the […]

 

Parents Ignore Doctor’s Advice to Abort Brain Damaged Baby, Delivers Perfectly Healthy Girl

Posted on by Duane Lester

Liane and Iain Stooke were told their baby Miley was brain damaged. They were advised to abort her. They didn’t: The couple agonized over the decision and decided to give their little girl a chance at life – and their instinct paid off. Miley was born perfectly healthy – a shock to them after the […]

 

HealthCare.gov Programmed with a Queue – That’s Right, It’s a Website with a Line

Posted on by Duane Lester

I thought I’d seen exactly how bad the government was online when I went to IRS.gov and saw this: Unreal. Only the federal government would create a website to apply online and make it Monday – Friday, 7 am-10pm. pic.twitter.com/etbtqZiD3h — Duane Lester (@Bodhi1) November 16, 2013 But I underestimated the government’s ability to do […]

 

Now, About Those Death Panels…

Posted on by Duane Lester

Turns out, they were written into the bill: The Affordable Care Act contains provisions for “death panels,” which decide which critically-ill patients receive care and which won’t, according to Mark Halperin, senior political analyst for Time magazine. “It’s built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be […]

 

Hacker: Security Wasn’t Built Into Healthcare.gov (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

Unreal. A website devoted to collecting some of the most sensitive information on Americans, and they didn’t even build security into it: “When you develop a website, you develop it with security in mind. And it doesn’t appear to have happened this time,” said David Kennedy, a so-called “white hat” hacker who tests online security […]

 

Ben Stein: If Obamacare Were a Bank, Obama Would Be Charged With Criminal Fraud (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

Hat Tip to Gateway Pundit: “The president lied to us about every aspect of this… I’m getting kind of sick of him saying he didn’t know what was in his own bill. He didn’t know what happened in Benghazi. He didn’t know what happened in the US. If he didn’t know what was in his […]

 

Planets Aligning for Jacob Turk in Bid for Missouri’s Fifth District

Posted on by Duane Lester

On December 12, 2011, Jacob Turk entered Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, stood before a microphone and asked those who had gathered before him, “Has our economic outlook improved over the past year? Have we revived the job market? Has our national debt declined? Unfortunately, the answer to all three questions is No.” Turk […]