January 9, 2012
Divide A Nation: Whatever It Takes To Win The White House
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December 20, 2011
The Left-Right False Equivalence Media Failure
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November 30, 2011
Starve the Beast and a Slap on the Wrist
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November 26, 2011
America is a Center-Right Country?
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October 13, 2011
Who’s An Ideologue?
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September 29, 2011
It’s The Free Market, Stupid
Ronald Reagan, in his first inaugural speech, quipped the now famous line:
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September 26, 2011
Picking the Pockets of Herman Cain
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August 10, 2011
Obama Or The Market?
If you turn on the news it isn’t long before you will hear the standard Republican talking point that President Obama has not shown leadership in creating jobs and improving the economy. Wait a second, I thought it was ‘the market’ that created jobs? If Republicans and conservative Democrats resist the government initiatives — repairing our existing infrastructure and building new infrastructure to benefit this nation in the future — required to get the economy going then they share at least some, if not a majority, of the blame for the state of the economy right now. If ‘the market’ is our best hope then what leadership is Obama supposed to be showing? At a time when government should be spending money on projects that will be a catalyst for economic growth and that will benefit us for decades to come instead deficit hawks have won the messaging war. We may look back at this time in the future and wonder how we could have been so foolish.
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August 4, 2011
Bad Ideas Die Hard
As the economy increasingly begins to resemble the scene pictured below from Live Free or Die Hard (2007) we still have persistent calls for incredibly stupid ideas on how to fix the economy. Republicans in congress led the charge with stupid ideas and many Democrats appear to be complicit in the madness.
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August 1, 2011
Who Lost The Debt Debate?
A poll on cnn.com today asks: Which party won the debt debate? The more important question is: Who lost the debt debate? The answer would be simple, us! The average citizen. The fact that the country can be held hostage to the narrow ideology of a small group means we all lose. If this is what our politics is going to look like moving forward I don’t know how our democracy is going to fair. While it’s true that democracy does not always mean majority rule, I think it’s safe to say that a small group of narrowed-minded people that want to punish others for what they perceive as “leeching off the system” is not very democratic at all. It has increasingly become obvious to me that we have one party in this country that governs based on the best in people and we have another party that governs based on the worst in people. One party assumes everybody is looking to take advantage of the system. The other party does not. I don’t think I need to mention which one is which.
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