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Lee Wishing - who has written 7 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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Kind of Like Star Wars all Over Again

Posted on 09 July 2009

Remember SDI? There’s a good chance you don’t because as soon as Ronald Reagan announced his plan to develop a missile-defense system, his opponents mocked the program, calling it “Star Wars” rather than using the proper name, “Strategic Defense Initiative,”…

Something’s Rotten in Farrell

Posted on 24 June 2009

I wrote a few weeks ago about the struggle that a steel mill in my county is going through due to the AFL-CIO and its role in supporting the Buy American provision of the latest stimulus legislation. One of the AFL-CIO’s…

Buy American, but Exclude Farrell, Pa.

Posted on 04 June 2009

“Buy American” legislation preserves American jobs. Or does it? Buy American legislation is hurting people in my corner of America.

Farrell, Pa., named for the highly successful president of U.S. Steel (1911-1932), James A. Farrell, is a steel town located about…

The American Cause this Memorial Day

Posted on 21 May 2009

"Based upon our observations of American soldiers and their officers captured in this war, the following facts are evidenced,” a foreign intelligence officer wrote. "There is little knowledge or understanding, even among United States university graduates, of American political history…

Rush and Rick

Posted on 11 March 2009

I was in the third row as Rush Limbaugh spoke for nearly 90 minutes to a wildly exuberant audience as he closed this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. I was also in the third row to…

Breakfast in America

Posted on 14 February 2009

My wife and I tag-team to get our four kids ready for school in the morning. She manages the lunch-packing process and I make a hot breakfast. Rarely does a lively morning pass that I don’t gaze upon my children at the kitchen…

“‘Fed’ Up? Money Lessons for the New Year”

Posted on 24 January 2009

Could 2009 be the year the United States of America starts to go subprime? Just as subprime mortgages wrecked the economy in 2008, 2009 might be the year we begin to see problems associated with the debt that funds our…

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