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[ 16 May 2012 ]
Video: New ad: “Justice for Sale”

The campaign ads are coming in hot and heavy today!

This ad, from the American Future Fund, focuses on Obama’s tight relationship with Wall Street, citing that relationship as one of the reasons why some on Wall Street have been able to get away …

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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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[ 1 May 2012 ]
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There are rumors circulating on Twitter claiming that Barack Obama is the only major party Presidential candidate ever to be endorsed by the Communist Party USA.  But are they true?

Not as far as we could discern.

Calls to the CPUSA headquarters went unanswered, but

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[ 23 Apr 2012 ]
Europa-Institut_graduation

Time is running out until colleges across the country fill their stadiums with the parents and families of graduates for commencement ceremonies.  Herds of students will pretend to listen as people who have already made it dispense platitudes about achievement, the future, and all sorts …

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[ 19 Apr 2012 ]
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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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[ 15 Apr 2012 ]
Video: A minarchist deontological libertarian AND a pre-Vatican II Catholic?

Gosh, that sounds an awful lot the the beginning of a very abstruse joke: “A minarchist deontological libertarian AND a pre-Vatican II Catholic walk into a bar . . .” But it isn’t. In fact, the minarchist deontological libertarian and a pre-Vatican II Catholic are the …

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[ 14 Apr 2012 ]
Video: Obama pays less tax than his secretary . . .

 . . . and why the Buffet Tax Would Pay Off Less Than 1% Of President Obama’s Debt

ABC’s Jake Tapper yesterday reported that . . .

President Obama’s secretary, Anita Decker Breckenridge, makes $95,000 a year. White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage tells ABC News that …

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[ 13 Apr 2012 ]
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By Dave Bailey

Have you noticed that the Occupy Wall Street crowd has specifically singled out bankers as the wealthy fat cats to be demonized?  This spotlight has always seemed strange to me, because wealth springs from many different industries, creating everything from software and telephone …

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[ 19 Mar 2012 ]
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission produced erroneous, political conclusion

The opponents of free markets are launching a full-court press:

The 2008 financial crisis “proved that financial markets are not self-regulating,” says political scientist Francis Fukuyama in a recent interview with the website TheBrowser:

“[Peter Wallison] lays it all at the door of Fannie and …

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[ 8 Mar 2012 ]
Worst recovery EVER

According to a new book by John Lott and Grover Norquist, this so-called recovery, in terms of jobs at least, is the worst in history—including even the Great Depression:

The Worst Recovery Ever. While this recession no doubt has been one of the worst …