Archive for July, 2012
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Reagan, Not Bush
Posted on July 9, 2012
The Obama campaign is launching a two-pronged attack against the Republicans. First, they are hitting Mitt Romney for being a Swiss Banker. Second, the President is calling for an extension...
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Hobgoblins: Consistency in Romney’s Campaign
Posted on July 5, 2012
Everett Dirksen, the former Republican Leader and Illinois Senator, liked to quote Emerson’s famous quote from his essay “Self-Reliance”: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by...
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Mayberry
Posted on July 5, 2012
There is a reason that the main character in the Andy Griffith Show was named Andy Taylor. The TV series was fiction. Now that Andy Griffith died, his iconic show...
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America’s Religious Blind Spot: Scientology
Posted on July 2, 2012
Jesus Christ and L.Ron Hubbard have pretty much the same status under our tax code. Christ, a simple carpenter and Jewish rabbi, founded the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and the...
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Yankee Doodle: Political Parties
Posted on July 2, 2012
If Yankee Doodle, his pony and his feathered cap were to arrive in Washington, D.C., today, he would see a government just as the Founders envisioned it. Three branches of...
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