Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category
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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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It Started With Cortes
Posted on June 10, 2014
In a strange way, you can blame Hernan Cortes and his merry band of Conquistadors for the border crisis that has hit our southern border recently. El Salvador, Honduras and...
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The Moment Obama Lost the Senate?
Posted on June 4, 2014
Originally posted in WSJ The pen and the phone were the first clues that the president had already given up on his Senate majority....
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Don’t Do Stupid Shit
Posted on June 2, 2014
According the news reports, President Obama has come up with a simple way to describe his foreign policy philosophy: Don’t do stupid shit. It’s clever, in a Clintonian “it’s the...
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