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Unhappy Fiscal New Year

Rep. Jason Chaffetz | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Jason Chaffetz

Contrary to what some have told us in the past, deficits and debts do matter, and at the levels these debts have been accumulating, they matter a lot.

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Cheney's Right: Limbaugh's A Better Republican Than Powell

Ron Kuby | Posted 06.12.2009 | Comedy

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Ron Kuby

Powell wasted his time going to college and graduate school when he could have been out making real money. Limbaugh dropped out of college after only two semesters and never went back to those liberal-infested halls.

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Note to the GOP: Stop Shunning Social Inclusivity

Candace Straight | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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Candace Straight

The disconnect between the leadership and the base is so wide that any effort to keep centrist, women and younger voters in the Republican party is becoming impossible.

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Supply Side Economics and Generational Theft

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Republican Stimulus, Economic Stimulus Package, Fiscal Conservatives, Stimulus Package, George W. Bush, Generational Theft, Business News
Hale

Republicans have started to use the phrase "generational theft." I find this particularly interesting considering supply-side economics started the idea of massive government debt issuance.

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Calling Jindal's Bluff

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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Stuart Whatley

The desperation of the economic crisis and Jindal's own political ambitions certainly put him between a rock and a hard place.

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Why Barry Goldwater Couldn't Support Obama

Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

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Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.

In a previous post my niece CC implied that the Goldwater family would support Obama. I don't resent my niece's beliefs -- she is entitled to the freedom of choice. However, I do resent what she has done.

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Imagine America as Wasilla

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

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Stephen H. Dinan

Some of our national parks would be good candidates to sell at fire sale prices to developers who contribute to the McCain-Palin ticket. Do I hear $50 million for Yellowstone?

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Fox News No More, This Obamacon Had Enough

Logan Perkes | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home

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Logan Perkes

Sarah works hard to convert her fellow Republicans with her unique insider advantage. She realizes how the Republican message works, how it exploits fear. "It's all the same -- that terrorists are coming and we need to be on offense."

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Let's Add More Debt To the National Total

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business

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Hale

Anyone who is reporting the government's books are balanced has no idea what they are talking about -- and there are important reasons why this raising of the debt ceiling is so incredibly dangerous.

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Conservatism Is Dead; Long Live Liberalism? (Part II)

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

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Amitai Etzioni

The conservatives' well of ideas may well have run dry, but the American majority has hardly turned liberal. So could the most compelling ideas be neither conservative nor liberal but communitarian?

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