Posts Tagged ‘spending’
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Foreign Aid On the Chopping Block
Posted on February 8, 2011
According to a Gallup poll released right before the President’s State of the Union Address, a majority of Americans said they favor cutting U.S. foreign aid, but more than 6...
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Struck Down
Posted on February 1, 2011
Health care was on my mind this weekend, mostly because a nasty little stomach virus hit my family hard. My son got it first on Friday, followed by my wife...
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Mish Mash
Posted on January 26, 2011
Like the audience that was arrayed in front of him, the President’s State of the Union address was all mixed up in ways that made it unconvincing and inauthentic. Congress...
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The Era of Big Government Is Over
Posted on January 24, 2011
In January of 1996, Bill Clinton proclaimed in his State of the Union Address, the “era of Big government is over.” Ah, if that only were the case. That remarkable...
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Symbolic?
Posted on January 20, 2011
The House of Representatives votes to repeal a massive, intrusive, expensive new health care law, and the press calls it symbolic. John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and, umm, (Harry Reid, the...
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