Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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The Class of the 112th Congress
Posted on November 15, 2010
Over the last four decades, there have been four huge classes on incoming Freshmen members of the House that are historically notable. The Class of 1974 swooped in as Watergate...
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The Veteran’s Day Deficit Panel
Posted on November 11, 2010
It is altogether fitting and appropriate that the President’s deficit commission would start leaking its wish list on Veteran’s Day. After all, the number one issue facing America’s national security...
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Quantitative Easing
Posted on November 10, 2010
I am about as qualified to talk about the technical intricacies of the Federal Reserve as Ben Bernanke is qualified to talk about the MTV show “Jersey Shore”. But that...
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Bush Revisited
Posted on November 9, 2010
Let’s posit right now that George W. Bush loves his parents, his wife, his kids, his siblings, his Maker and America, and all of that love is a good thing,...
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The Art of Compromise
Posted on November 8, 2010
It was Benjamin Disraeli, the famous English Statesman, who said, “if you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.” By that reckoning, Mitch McConnell is very clever indeed. McConnell...
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