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[ 13 May 2012 ]
obama-stern

I’m sure I’m not the only person who periodically finds himself wondering if it’s all just a dream or if he’s found himself starring in one of the more bizarre episodes of ‘The Twilight Zone.”

For instance, Bret Baier reported that Joe Biden recently had the …

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[ 10 May 2012 ]
John-Maynard-Keynes

By Dick McDonald

Today’s Lead Editorial from the New York Times:

A Clear Warning From the Jobs Numbers

After the unmistakably weak employment report for April, it’s obvious that the economy will not heal itself without more government help.

The Democrats promote and the media parrot the insane …

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[ 9 May 2012 ]
solar panels

Catching up on some reading from last week that I was unable to squeeze in at the time, I ran across something I had forgotten. In Keeping nature exactly as is… forever, John Stossel reminded me of an important study done in 2009:

In Spain, …

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[ 8 May 2012 ]
blue-tarp

When surveying support for and opposition to government’s recent big-spending adventures, one finds a great variance in support for TARP vs. other efforts like the American Recovery and Relief Act (a.k.a. the $800 billion stimulus) and Obamacare. Simply put, you get a lot more people …

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[ 5 May 2012 ]
Video: AFP ad sparks controversy

The description of a recent ad put out by Americans for Prosperity sounds straightforward enough:

AFP’s “Wasteful Spending” ad holds President Obama accountable for sending billions of taxpayer dollars to “green energy” companies overseas, even while Americans suffer with rising energy prices and a lack of …

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[ 2 May 2012 ]
Video: Barack Obama destroys his one unequivocal success

What are President Obama’s signature achievements? One can quickly think of a list of his predecessors’. Whether you agree with them or not, a list of Bush’s and Clinton’s salient achievements will spring to mind rather quickly. But what are Obama’s?

Obamacare is loathed by many, …

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[ 26 Apr 2012 ]
fairy_tale

A colleague this morning hipped me to a short blog post from Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson on the subject of Keynesian stimulus. The question at hand in a previous of his blog posts was whether WWII was an example of an instance in …

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[ 22 Apr 2012 ]
obama_zero

Here’s David Harsanyi in Human Events:

It’s official: Obama, the Food-Stamp President

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office states that there are now almost 45 million Americans getting food stamps — or, officially, the more genteel Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

That’s …

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[ 19 Apr 2012 ]
obama_tyrant

Recently, the Obama campaign apparatus with the somewhat ironic name “Obama for America” sent out a letter to supporters attacking the candidate who is now the presumed winner of the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney. The letter is filled with misrepresentations and examples of projection that …

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[ 7 Apr 2012 ]
downgrade2_credit_debt

Okay, so downgrades of the United States’ credit rating do not happen every single day. But before the Obama era, they didn’t happen at all. Since Obama took office and the Democrats decided to start spending money that our grandchildren don’t have, we’ve  been downgraded …