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Bachmann’s Bad Civics
Fresh from her win at the Ames Straw Poll, Michele Bachmann went on Meet the Press Sunday morning. I cannot understand how any conservative can watch her and not be appalled by Rep. Bachmann’s...
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Bachmann’s Best Promise: $2 Gas
I have been quite critical of Michele Bachmann lately, but I will defend her whenever she is attacked unfairly. She has just promised that if elected she would bring the price of gas below $2 per...
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Unemployed for a Year. Who Speaks for Me?
I received The Call exactly a year ago at 11:30 a.m. EDT. That was a bit early. For almost nine years I had worked from my home in Charlotte, NC for a small company in California, so calls from the...
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Is the IMF Also Treasonous?
Does anybody want to start a pool on how long it will take for Republicans to denounce the IMF as a bunch of French socialists? At a conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the new IMF head Christine...
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Can Intrade Predict the 2016 Election Winners?
I completely agree with Eli Lehrer that the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee will be Romney. I also agree with his analysis of the reasons Republican nominations are decided on the question “Whose turn...
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Rubio’s False Bio: Why It Matters
The more I think about the Rubio scandal, the more I am troubled by it. It’s not just that having lived in the Soviet Union for a quarter century, I find it offensive when people falsely claim...
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GOP Should Champion Markets, Not the Rich
David Frum recently asked: “Who Burned the GOP Brand?” In that blog post, he lamented that voters overwhelmingly believe that Republicans in Congress favor the rich. Well, I think the divide between...
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The GOP Fumbles the Payroll Tax Cut
The Republicans have finally found a tax increase many of them can get behind. Unfortunately it’s the first middle class tax increase in decades. Make no mistake, failure to renew the payroll tax cut...
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Middle Class Taxpayers Still Lose
The recent fight over the extension of the payroll tax holiday has once again shown that the Republican Party does not particularly care about the middle class tax burden. The party is quite...
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Confirmed: The Ames Straw Poll is Useless
We have just received yet another confirmation of the virtual uselessness of the Ames Straw Poll. The proud winner of the straw poll, Michelle Bachmann came in sixth in the Iowa caucuses (and in fact...
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