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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 15, 2012

  One of my newest guilty pleasures: History Channel’s “American Pickers.” The “picking travels” of the show’s amiable co-stars, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, is a fascinating whirlwind of rare, oft-times valuable Americana collectibles found in dilapidated barns, dirty basements, attics, sheds, closets, and countless other hiding places across the nation. Their feisty, tattooed assistant, [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 14, 2012

  When the troubled, green solar panel company Solyndra, Inc. in California was given a shady $535 million loan with taxpayer monies by Obama’s team before squandering it and going belly up last summer, who on earth dreamed that there were many more “Solyndras”, many more unorthodox, risky energy program loans given to Obama’s pals [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 5, 2012

  Conservative radio host/lawyer/patriot Mark Levin, “The Great One,” opens the segment below of this week’s radio show broadcast by making many hard-hitting points about the Iowa caucus and the will of voters. Levin criticizes “all knowing” pundits, including Karl Rove, who never admit their shortcomings, who act like they know how the GOP presidential [...]

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