Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | May 16, 2012

  The Nanny State Environmental Police strikes again. A popular ice cream stand in Massachusetts, run for 26 years by longtime dairy farmer Mark Duffy, has been shut down because Duffy dared to make improvements without paying for government permits. Duffy is astounded, saying he has done countless repairs and improvements on the stand and [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 15, 2012

  What in the name of Zeus is Pres. Obama doing appearing on a daytime television show again? Doesn’t he have a JOB to do? So, dammit, do it, Mr. President. Stop campaigning and mugging for the TV cameras and begging for donations for oh, say, 72 hours and DO YOUR JOB. The American economy [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 15, 2012

  Pres. Barack Obama’s commencement speech yesterday to the Barnard College 2012 graduating class, a private women’s liberal arts college linked to his Columbia University and to his half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, wasn’t breathed in deeply, like life-giving oxygen, by all who heard it. At least one young woman, Ayèlet Pearl who is a junior at [...]

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