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This 14-minute presentation delivered by British conservative David Cameron could be the most important 14 minutes that any modern conservative could spend.

Rush Limbaugh reads a seven-minute open-letter to President Barack Obama following the state of the union address.

Following is a collection of West Newsmagazine's New Year's resolutions:

- We resolve to always give locally-owned companies the opportunity to win our business.

It already is evident that the Obama administration believes it can control private companies, but does it now really believe it can control the media?

According to Bob McCarty, the self proclaimed "ultimate blogging machine," un-named union bosses are paying pro-Obama supporters $11 per hour to hold signs at the K&N rallies. Read McCarty's post here.

A story datelined O'Fallon, MO has appeared in the New York Times, telling a story of one woman's involvement with a Franciscan priest that led to the birth of her son.

Look out America, we might be getting another czar. This newest member to the fiefdom is dubbed the "Consumer Financial Czar" and would operate the newly-formed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. By our count, this would make the 28th czar in President Barack Obama's administration.

Thanks to the efforts of more people than I will be able to mention here, Chesterfield got a little better over the weekend.

Talk of smoking bans are flaring up all over the place. The latest hotbed of activity for this always controversial topic is our very own city of Wildwood. Just how controversial is a smoking ban? So controversial that it turns elected officials into Brett Favre.

On the morning of President Barack Obama's address to the nation last Wednesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that one of the main goals of the speech on health care reform would be to "speak clearly... to the American people."

The "buy-cott" (what a clever phrase) of the Town & Country Whole Foods store has drawn national attention. What's all the fuss about?

This week, I will forego this space and instead point everyone to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. The piece picks apart Maine's public insurance program and is written with such effectiveness, that it really is the must-read for the week.

The recent rash of very highly-publicized angry outbursts at town hall-style meetings across the country have shoved the debate about health care reform into a brand new arena. The discussion has become personal, including claims that protestors are brandishing "swastikas and symbols like that" and that the heated style of debate is "un-American."

Banks got one. Car companies got one. Even a few insurance companies got one. Now, it finally is time for the citizens to get their share of government benevolence - a sort of bailout package, if you will - by way of this year's sales tax holiday.

Shopping at locally-owned businesses is an antiquated theory, right? The free market dictates that the best business wins and grows larger and becomes national because that is what the customer wants - and the customer is always right.

When most people talk about taxes, they talk about the money taken out of their paycheck every two weeks. Are those taxes easy to understand? No, but they are up front and personal. They are obvious. 

What about the less obvious ways that people get taxed? What about cellular telephone bills, for instance?

A university professor named Geoffrey Nunberg once wrote that "nothing betrays the spirit of an age so precisely as the way it represents the future."

While President Barack Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame dominated national headlines, it was his lesser known speech at Arizona State University that provided the greatest insight into his personal philosophy.

The search for missing local legend IE Millstone is continuing, though police have been slowed by rising waters and debris in the Missouri River.

Lawrence Kudlow believes that President Obama's health plan will bankrupt the U.S.

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