Archive for the ‘GOP’ Category
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Confidence Game
Posted on May 10, 2011
Politics is essentially a game of confidence. You vote for a candidate because you have confidence that that candidate can get the job done. Or you vote for a candidate...
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The Libertarians Are Coming
Posted on May 6, 2011
Ron Paul got some help last night from Gary Johnson in the first Republican Presidential primary debate in South Carolina, and the result was a completely different-looking GOP. Paul and...
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Conspiracy Theory
Posted on May 5, 2011
America loves conspiracy theories. Franklin Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened. The CIA killed Jack Kennedy. George Bush blew up the Twin Towers. The Trilateral Commission runs the...
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Shutdown Politics
Posted on April 8, 2011
I first got a chance to meet John Boehner when he came to the Congress in 1991. He entered the Congress with a bang, teaming up with the so-called “Gang...
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Act Like a Grown-Up
Posted on April 6, 2011
Yesterday, President Obama said that Congressional leaders should act like “grown-ups.” Good advice. I wish he would follow it. According to the dictionary definition, a grown-up is a “a fully...
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