Archive for March, 2013
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The Coming Nanny State
Posted on March 25, 2013
The welfare state begets the nanny state. I was thinking about this fact in the context of the Mayor of New York, the immigration debate and our national debt....
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The Iconoclast
Posted on March 21, 2013
According to Wikipedia, “An iconoclast is someone who engages in iconoclasm—destruction of religious symbols or, by extension, established dogma or conventions.” Rand Paul is the original Republican iconoclast. And his...
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Rocket-Science. Not.
Posted on March 21, 2013
This is not rocket science, people. Mitt Romney didn’t win the election because he couldn’t convince enough people that he would be a better President than Barack Obama. Had Mitt...
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Hindsight
Posted on March 20, 2013
Ten years. It has been a decade since America invaded Iraq. Historians will have a field day analyzing every aspect of this war, from beginning to end, and at every...
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Populism Run Amok
Posted on March 19, 2013
First published in The Hill. Andrew Jackson was our nation’s first populist president. He ran against the moneyed Eastern Establishment and abolished the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson...
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