Archive for the ‘Bad Decisions’ Category
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Andy Jackson and Ex-Im Bank
Posted on June 24, 2014
Fred Hochberg might want to read up on experiences of Nicholas Biddle. Biddle was the President of the Second National Bank, and at the urging of Henry Clay, he moved...
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Pete King’s GOP
Posted on June 24, 2014
This originally appeared in The Hill. Congressman Pete King (R-N.Y.), a familiar pugilist on cable television, took his message of a robust American foreign policy to New Hampshire for the...
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The C-Suite and the Ivory Tower
Posted on June 23, 2014
“How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks...
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Why is the Federal government so big anyway?
Posted on June 18, 2014
If you ever have any hopes of diminishing the power of Washington, you need to have an understanding as to why it has grown so large in the first place....
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The Dangers of Passive Power
Posted on June 13, 2014
Even before Richard Nixon resigned after Watergate, Congress had grown weary of the Vietnam War. Shortly after he was reelected in November of 1973, Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment by...
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