Tag Archives: Politics

November is Only Trenton

Posted on March 23, 2010 by

People need to stop using the R-word.  Just remember that we are right and they are wrong.  If we truly believe in the exceptionalism of our system we have to believe that we can win this historic struggle within that … Continue reading →

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American Up!

Posted on March 23, 2010 by

Somehow ObamaCare was successfully slimed through Congress and passed against the wishes of a majority of American citizens.  I’m still both stunned and furious at the manner in which our elected representatives thumbed their noses in the faces of the … Continue reading →

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Required Reading For Arguing With Statists

Posted on March 11, 2010 by
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Barack Obama: Poverty Pimp

Posted on March 10, 2010 by

[Hat tip to Mark Levin for this story] Writing in NRO, the well respected Robert Rector describes fundamental changes to the way that the government will measure poverty in America.  The current method of measuring poverty deals with purchasing power … Continue reading →

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Liberalism: Immoral, Not Just Wrong

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

In these challenging economic and political times, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the volume of new proposals and the accompanying focus group tested disinformation campaigns.  People often get so caught up in arguing the details of a program … Continue reading →

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Visualizing the National Debt

Posted on March 5, 2010 by

BillShrink has an interesting and informative visualization of the National Debt (i.e. Obama’s credit card in our names).  Click on the image to see it in a larger format over at BillShrink:

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Coincidence or Corruption?

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

This should be an outrage to every American who opposes corruption in government.  Just a couple of hours before the White House was to host 10 House Democrats who voted against ObamaCare, President Obama nominated the brother of one of the holdouts … Continue reading →

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Counterintuitive Thoughts on 2010

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

In the short video interview embedded below Scott Rasmussen estimates that in the 2010 elections the GOP will pick up 5 to 8 seats in the Senate and 25 to 30 seats in the House, which would result in the … Continue reading →

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Progressives and Willful Historical Ignorance

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

Hat tip to Dan Riehl for initially pointing me to this news story via Twitter.  You can follow Dan on Twitter here. Proposed changes to the North Carolina high school history curriculum have many people upset with critics correctly pointing … Continue reading →

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Keynesian Ideology and the Coming Crash

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

In an article at The American Spectator titled The Coming Crash of 2011, Peter Ferrara points out the historical failure of Keynesian governmental intrusion into the free market and contrasts the observed and expected results of Obama’s ideological policies with … Continue reading →

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