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.

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

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“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 […]

 

Obamacare Could Close Volunteer Fire Departments

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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 […]

 

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

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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 […]

 

Obama Commits More Taxpayer Money to Killing Birds By Windmill

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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

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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. […]

 

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

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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 […]

 

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

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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)

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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

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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 […]

 

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

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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

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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!

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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 […]

 

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

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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…

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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 […]