tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49377619360716592052012-02-12T11:39:59.666-05:00This blog is dedicated to the principles that I believe made The United States the most successful country in the history of the world. It is further dedicated to the desire and hope that we are smart enough to keep it. For now, it is a compilation of articles, columns and op-eds that I found to have interest or value. Hope you do as well. Please share your thoughts and opinions especially if you disagree. Just click on the "comment" link or e-mail me at stevemishket@comcast.net.Steve Mishkethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15416198873952023044noreply@blogger.comBlogger8191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937761936071659205.post-19493175412608145122012-02-08T09:25:00.000-05:002012-02-08T09:25:13.321-05:00

02/08/12 by RAND SIMBERG If Newt wants to redeem himself on this issue, he needs to reboot it with another speech, and not an off-the-cuff stream of consciousness that got him into trouble (as it so often does) at the Cape, but an actual prepared speech, laying out his vision, its benefits, and the actual estimated costs.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012Newt’s Plan, Mitt’s Morass Newt’s boldness trumps Mitt’s meekness. By Deroy Murdock Even at 15 percent, the rich will pay more than those less affluent. For argument’s sake, someone who earns $100,000 would pay $15,000 in taxes, while someone who makes $100 million would pay $15 million. Delicate calculations confirm that $15 million exceeds $15,000. The rich will pay many more

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January 25, 2012 by Michael Bargo Jr. Thank you Mr. President, for bringing up the issue of fairness.  I'm sure that's important to many people.  One curious thing, though, with regard to the application of "fairness" it seems that all the recommendations you have, are decided by the government.  Who decides what is fair? 

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January 23, 2012 By Johnny Alamo I'm constantly amazed that modern Democrats have evolved beyond living in caves.  I mean what other animal on this planet can disregard all common sense and logic and survive? 

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From Riehl World View blog 01/21/12 I'd rather go down fighting for what's right and what I believe in, than limp away like some over-compromised alleged conservative, but ultimately unprincipled clown, because when the call went out at what is widely considered to be a pivotal moment in American political history, I couldn't manage to stand up and be counted upon.

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By Peter Ferrara12/28/11How easily his great and solid conservative achievements are forgotten.He led us to victory before. Spectacular, historic victory. The strategy and content of his 1994 Contract with America propelled the Republicans to a 54-seat gain in 1994 to win control of the House of Representatives, which had been held by the Republicans for only two out of the previous 62  years.

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12/27/11 by John Hawkins It's fair to ask what a Republican who's not conservative and can't even carry his own state brings to the table for GOP primary voters. The answer is always the same; Mitt Romney is supposed to be "the most electable" candidate. This is a baffling argument because many people just seem to assume it's true, despite the plethora of evidence to the contrary.

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December 22, 2011 By Bruce Walker Is Gingrich the last best hope in our fight against imperialist leftism and its myriad clients?  He just might be.  In any event, this much is sure: if Republicans reject Gingrich because of his family problems, the way he makes his living, his presumed "failures" in policy in the past, or because he is so darned cocky, then we are making the same sort of

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December 20, 2011 By Thomas Sowell If Newt Gingrich were being nominated for sainthood, many of us would vote very differently from the way we would vote if he were being nominated for a political office.

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by Andrew C. McCarthy 12/17/11 This is an excellent defense of Newt as well as a good summation of the Republican candidates.  If we convince ourselves that conservative candidates, effectively arguing conservative ideas, cannot persuade a center-right country to reject the most radical Leftist ever to occupy the Oval Office — we are nowhere.

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December 16, 2011 By James Lewis One of the best things about debates is that both sides can call each other on logic or evidence.  But the attacks I've seen on Newt from soi-disant conservatives are launched without much logic or evidence at all. They seem silly beyond belief. 

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December 13, 2011 By Jay Clarke Newt Gingrich is a failure.  A flawed, failed, weak human being.  But then again, isn't everyone?  As human beings we all share the same, inherent defect.  We are not perfect.  We all sin.  With that in mind and for those who may feel that Newt Gingrich is not qualified to be president, based solely on his personal failings, a word from a very wise man.  "He who is

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November 18, 2011 By C. Edmund Wright In January of 2013, a deeply flawed human being will take the oath of office as president of the United States.  And he (or she) will do so based on the ballots of over 100 million deeply flawed voters.  This is what we call reality.

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by Matt Towery 11/17/11 To put it bluntly, the Newt I knew so very well in his prior life as an elected official and political operator hardly resembles the man I know now.The new Newt Gingrich rarely loses his temper, suffers fools easily, and cares about the more human and personal side of his longtime friends. He is genuinely kind.

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By Victor Davis Hanson 11/17/11 The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Images and ideas just pop in and out, without worry of inconsistency, contradiction, or hypocrisy. It’s a fascinating mish-mash of strange heroes and bogeymen, this imaginarium of our president.

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By William Jacobson 11/16/11 I’m supporting Newt Gingrich as the most conservative Republican who is electable and most qualified for the position of President.

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by Jeffery Lord11/15/11 But Churchill? America's Churchill?There are all manner of people -- including some conservatives -- who would faint dead away at the comparison.They shouldn't.

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by David Limbaugh 11/11/11 Today's liberals would have you believe they occupy the moral high ground on every political and cultural issue. But have you ever taken inventory of their double standards?

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By John Hawkins 11/01/12 Like everyone running, Newt Gingrich has his flaws, but given the state of the race, it's time to start giving Newt serious consideration.

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There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn't pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in this country. However, let me tell you some

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October 25, 2011 By Steve McCann Of the remaining viable candidates, there is only one who is not a part of the establishment, has laid out a viable plan to rescue the country, is not intimidated by the mainstream media or the Democrat smear machine, is knowledgeable of how to get drastic changes through the congressional legislative meat grinder, is more than capable of overwhelming Barack

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By Bob Maistros 10/23/11 Here I am defending presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan again, this time from charges that it would raise taxes on some lower- and middle-income taxpayers.Duh. If, as is the case with all too many Americans, you’re not paying any income taxes or very little — and suddenly you are paying nine percent plus a nine percent sales tax — then yes, you’re facing

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Who Knew Conservatives Loved the IRS?

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Is Santorum Wrong About 9-9-9?

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Keeping Our Eye on the Ball in 2012

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By Walter Williams 10/12/2011 Years ago it was easy to be a racist. All you had to be was a white person using some of the racial epithets that are routinely used in song and everyday speech by many of today’s blacks. Or you had to chant “two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to integrate” when a black student showed up for admission to your high school or college. Of course, there was that

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October 10, 2011 by Kyle-Anne Shiver We can all see Greece from our bedroom windows and Republicans must get their act together and start winning the propaganda war. PDQ.Here are five essentials that will turn the tide.

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September 9, 2011 By Peter Heck I think the 2012 election is a perfect time for Republicans to remind the American people of the wisdom of Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does." And as Bret Stephens accurately confirmed to readers in the Wall Street Journal not long ago, "the presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does."

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By John Goodman 09/03/11 A flat tax, a national sales tax or a value-added tax — at least in their pure forms — would all accomplish the right goal. And contrary to a lot of loose rhetoric, the changeover to a consumption tax is actually “progressive.” It would leave after-tax income more equal than it is today!

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by Paul Hollrah 08/10/11 Obama must not only be defeated in 2012, he and his policies must be totally repudiated in a landslide defeat.  We need a Rooster Cogburn-style Republican in the White House to undo all the damage Obama and his administration have done to America and get America back on the road to fiscal and social sanity again!  So let's stop thinking about it and talking about it

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The Wacky World of Liberal Fundamentalism

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By : Morgan Freeberg 08/22/11 Something’s going on lately. They’re acting all cornered, wounded, tender, defensive. Since the election of Nancy Pelosi back in ’06 they had been going back to being petty, childish, smug, snooty, “aggressively non-threatening NPR male” Alan-Alda peevish. Now they’re back to the way they were after the Bush v. Gore decision.

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Why Not a Real Party Platform?

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By Robert Bryce08/20/11 The wind-energy lobby has been masterly at garnering huge subsidies and mandates by claiming that its product is a “green” alternative to conventional electricity. But the hype has obscured a dirty little secret: When power demand is highest, wind energy’s output is generally low. The reverse is also true: Wind-energy production is usually highest during the middle of the

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By Green Lantern  08.19.11 Put forth a Republican job program before Labor Day just to show who's really on the job. Make it look like you're the President while the commander in chief is scouting the dunes on Martha's Vineyard. Everything you need is already out there on the Republican agenda. Just tie them up in a big package to show people what they can vote for in 2012.

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By John Hawkins 08/05/11 The simple reality is this: We are borrowing much, much, much more than we’re taking in and while raising taxes on the rich could erase a small fraction of the deficit, over the long haul, we’re going to either have to dramatically cut back what we’re spending or we’re going to have to dramatically raise taxes on everyone, including the middle-class.

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08/06/11 By John Goodman What’s happening isn’t that conservatives have all the good ideas or that they are smarter than liberals. What’s happening is that conservatives are trying to solve problems and liberals aren’t. Ironically, if liberals were equally intent on finding solutions, the two sides might agree 90% of the time!

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Articles: Obama's Failed Presidency

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Yes Dorothy, President Obama Is A Very Bad Wizard

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Tripling America’s Fuel Production - Robert Zubrin - National Review Online

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The Tea Party, Right About Everything

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Articles: Aunt Lucy Didn't Send the Sheriff

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The Half-Trillion Plan - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online

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Call His Bluff - HUMAN EVENTS

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Debt Ceiling: Worst-Case Scenario

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Articles: Obama's Final Solution

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The Constitution Matters - Thomas Sowell - National Review Online

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Why Newt?

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The Honor of Leftists and Conservatives

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06/10/2011 by Roger Hedgecock The voter rolls of this country are stuffed with illegal aliens, felons and dead people, who not only vote, they vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

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by John Hawkins 06/07/11 Responsibilities are the flip side of rights. In fact, the only reason we have rights at all is because there are people who fulfill their responsibilities. Yet, if you ask people what their responsibilities as Americans are, you'll usually get vacant expressions and maybe a mumbled statement about jury duty or paying taxes.

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June 4, 2011 By C. Steven Tucker The Obama administration states that the "individual responsibility" provision will prevent people from "gaming the system" by mandating that Americans (who can afford to do so) maintain basic health coverage.  This however, is where the proverbial rubber meets the road.  Since the IRS is specifically prohibited from levying criminal penalties on those who do not

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05/31/11 By William A. Levinson The world may indeed be a community but not all members of a community are equal.  The community's wife-beater and drug dealer are not the equals of the community's doctor, home builder, banker, or teacher.  Societies that abuse women and religious minorities under color of the ideology they call Islam are similarly not the equals of Euro-American and primarily

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May 28, 2011 By Sonny Palermo The Obama game plan for 2012 is revealed.  It will not be to run on his record, because a speech listing the meritorious accomplishments of his first four years could be delivered by a mute, sans teleprompter.  The goal will be to attack conservatives with cries of "racist" and "granny killers" in a campaign built upon subterfuge, slander, and misdirection, fueled

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By Roger Pol 5/24/11 Recent technological breakthroughs have opened up recoverable Reserves sufficient to supply America with natural gas probably for closer to 200 years, even at increased use levels. These breakthroughs create exciting new opportunities to reduce the use of oil-based fuel for personal transportation, replacing it with the now bountiful, American-produced natural gas instead.

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May 23, 2011 By Robert E. Dell and David G. Tuerck By taxing a wider base with a lower comprehensive average marginal rate, on the other hand, the FairTax encourages more new hiring and faster economic growth.  Several dynamic simulation studies suggest U.S. GDP could be 10% higher in a few years under the FairTax than under the current tax code.

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By Peter Ferrara 5/18/11 Before you write Newt off consider the following rather than one poorly expressed thought.

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May 17, 2011 By Jeff T. Allen The senators standing in front of the gas station would have you think such profit is the biggest chunk of your purchase price -- but it isn't even close.  The taxes on gasoline at retail amount to a national average of 47 cents per gallon (including federal taxes of 18 cents, state and local taxes of 18 cents, and sales/other taxes at retail of more than 10 cents).

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By DENNIS PRAGER 05/17/11 I assume that the type of person who reads columns such as this one has wondered at one time or another why, for thousands of years, there has been so much attention paid to Jews; and why, today, so much attention is paid to Israel, the lone Jewish state.How do most people explain this preoccupation? There is no fully rational explanation for the amount of attention

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May 12, 2011  WALTER RUSSELL MEAD By historical standards, the average American is actually ahead of his or her ancestors.  Today’s average Americans are smarter, more sophisticated, better educated, less racist and more tolerant than ever before.  Immigrants face less prejudice in the United States than ever before in our history.  Religious, ethnic and sexual minorities are more free to live

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By Abraham Katsman May 15, 2011 How hard is it to ask the next interviewer who assumes that Israel "occupies" Palestinian lands on what date the Palestinians gained sovereignty rights?  Or on what date the Jewish people and State of Israel lost their claims?  Or what is sacrosanct about an old armistice line, never recognized as an international border, between then-warring countries?  

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BY Bob Beauprez  05/13/11 If increasing our domestic supply is really a national objective, then this might not be the best time to send exactly the opposite message to the people that provide the capital to drill the wells. 

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May 11, 2011 By Matthew May A Cain candidacy would give conservative voters a break during October 2012 in the form of a candidate before whom we do not cringe in anticipatory dread during the presidential debates.  Cain would crush the president in a debate, and would do so as calmly.

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May 01, 2011 By Raymond Richman and Howard Richman How to Improve the Ryan Plan Congressman Ryan's plan is an excellent plan, but it could still be improved. We would suggest the following four additions: 1. Cut Discretionary Spending.2. Changing to Rollover Capital Gains Tax.3. Switch Transportation to Compressed Natural Gas.4. Add a Scaled Tariff

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By Andrew C. McCarthy 04/22/11 If Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, the federal government will still have more than enough money to fully service our debt. Next year, about 7 percent of all projected federal government expenditures will go to interest on our debt. Tax revenue is projected to cover at least 70 percent of all government expenditures. So, under any circumstances, there

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April 10, 2011 By Bill Costello If Brazil can become completely self-sufficient in oil, why can't America start becoming more self-sufficient?  America needs to make a change. What we should be importing from Brazil is its oil policy, not its oil.

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04/09/11 by Bill Weckesser If we had the political will to do so, we could throw the knock-out punch.  America's key to winning is cheap energy.  Simple solutions to complex problems.

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April 3, 2011 by William M. Briggs One man makes a shocking confession.

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April 02, 2011 By Bob Weir Today, there are euphemisms for just about every activity that, if given the specific title, would be deemed offensive to civil discourse, also known as polite conversation.

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by Jim Lacey 04/01/11 What’s wrong with it? Just about everything. Every alternative Obama has offered for expensive oil is more costly than oil itself.

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04/01/11 By STEPHEN MOORE More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined. We have moved decisively from a nation of makers to a nation of takers.

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March 04, 2011 By Steve McCann The United States is sitting on the world's largest untapped oil reserve. A natural resource that would not only mitigate the over $400 Billion sent overseas to other countries but could create untold millions of jobs and put the country on a sound financial footing. The untapped reserves are estimated up to 2.3 Trillion barrels, nearly three times the reserves

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February 23, 2011 by Peter Ferrara What we are witnessing in Wisconsin today is the total breakdown of democracy, and the collapse of the rule of law. The Democrat Party in the state has refused to abide by the results of the election last November, and so has shut down the state legislature. The government unions are breaking the law by going out on strike. The anti-democracy protestors in

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February 22, 2011 By Jeff T. Allen "Well, you see sir, you blamed greed for our troubles and you were right.  But the politicians just facilitate greed, taking their cut of course.  The real greed is yours.  Multiplied by tens of millions of people like you. When we force others to pay for what we enjoy, it leads to ruin, whether it's retirement, medical care, education, housing,

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February 22, 2011 By James Lewis Being the good cop has been our role for sixty years, ever since World War II; it's the single biggest reason we haven't had a World War III. Yet.   But Obama is now stopping the United States from being the good cop to keep the peace in the Middle East.

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February 19, 2011 By Ron Lipsman Immigrants once understood that they had embarked on a tough road, but that there was a pot of gold at the end -- if not for them, then for their children. Today's immigrants are taught to demand the gold immediately without earning it. But immigrants, illegal and legal, are not the main source of America's ills. Like most of our ailments, the immigration problem

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by Ernest Istook02/15/2011 This is an opportunity that should not be wasted.

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By Victor Volsky January 27, 2011 Oh, how I wish I were a Democrat -- for a little while, just to find out what it's like to live on easy street and do whatever one pleases without fear of accountability.  Paraphrasing that memorable line from the film Love Story, being a Democrat means never having to say you are sorry.

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By JASON L. RILEY01/22/11 Even in the antebellum era, when slaves often weren't permitted to wed, most black children lived with a biological mother and father. During Reconstruction and up until the 1940s, 75% to 85% of black children lived in two-parent families. Today, more than 70% of black children are born to single women. "The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn't

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by Dr. Jack Wheeler Thursday, 13 January 2011 This is absolutely brilliant. If Boehner pulls this off, it doesn't just make his bones - he will be the King of Washington DC.  Zero will be castrated.  President Eunuch.  His only possible hope for 2012 will be to work with the House and Senate Republicans in creating an environment for solid economic recovery that he can take credit for. So...

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January 18, 2011  By Gene Schwimmer   In any given month, the government's income dwarfs its debt-service obligations, which means that the government could simply pay all interest on Treasury bonds out of its cashflow.  Greg [Ip] hasn't run the numbers on principal maturities, but I'm pretty sure that they too could be covered out of cash receipts -- and when that happened, of course, the

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by Felix Salmon 01/13/11 Greg Ip makes a very important point today, which I haven’t seen made anywhere else*: even if the US debt ceiling isn’t lifted, that doesn’t mean the government will default.

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January 09, 2011 By Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman The biggest benefit of all would be to world freedom.  Currently, totalitarian China manipulates the dollar-yuan exchange rate while placing tariff and non-tariff import barriers against American products so that it can grow its trade surplus with the United States.  As a result, its economy grows at about 10% per year, while

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January 06, 2011 By William Sullivan Despite our reluctance to talk about it, there is absolutely no question that lavish public pensions are a crippling problem for our country. 

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By Alan FraserDecember 12, 2010 Rest assured our America, this experiment in democracy started over two centuries ago, will forever remain the "land of the free and home of the brave" so long as we never run out of tough young Americans who are willing to look beyond their own self-interest and comfortable lives, and go into the darkest and most dangerous places on earth to hunt down, and kill,

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November 18, 2010 By Selwyn Duke What I've expressed here is just common sense, but it will remain uncommon unless we experience a cultural transformation.  Until the politically correct must keep their death-cult ideology to themselves for fear of scorn, social ostracism and career destruction - the very tactics they've used to silence others - nothing will change.  We will continue to exhibit a

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November 12, 2010 By Randall Hoven Cutting spending to 2007 levels does not require defying the laws of physics, nor does it require grandma to eat dog food. Republican Paul Ryan, about to be chairman of the House budget committee, has a plan that will fix our budget and debt messes. Grandma could survive it; the CBO says so. The Cato Institute also has a few ideas. Even the deficit commission

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October 29,2010By Donald Lambro Anyone who thinks we can't cut the budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars has no idea how much a $3.5 trillion government is wasting each and every day. The time has come to put a stop to it.

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October 27, 2010  By James Lewis Something isn't right here. People usually don't vote for those who hate them and who constantly act in alliance with genocidal haters like Hamas and the Iranian fascisti. Something isn't right.

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October 24, 2010 By David Deming Conservatives have lost the battle for America. The country that many of us were born in has ceased to exist. And we have no one to blame but ourselves. Nothing can or will change until we come to terms with the grim reality of moral degeneration. And I have no hope that this can happen, save by some terrible trial.

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October 23, 2010 By Harold Witkov The truth is that some ideas are so powerful that they have a life of their own. Independent of the men who gave birth to them, these time-traveling ideas continue to influence the course of history. The American idea is such an idea. 

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By R.C. Marsh October 18, 2010 The average person is thirty times more likely to be attacked by a Muslim than a shark, and hundreds of times more likely to be killed by one. But it's not wrong to be "Sharkophobic," even though the risk is infinitely small. There are good reasons to fear sharks.

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October 16, 2010 By William Anderson Islam is a total system for the supervision and governance of human affairs. It comprises religion, politics, jurisprudence, military affairs, economics, culture, domestic relations, and every other aspect of life. It is the answer to all questions, albeit from the perspective of a seventh-century revelation. Its fundamental tenets may not be altered,

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October 12, 2010 By Stuart Schwartz The consensus is growing that the greatest failure of the modern presidency is no longer a self-absorbed, mean-spirited white guy who embraces dictators and tyrants, can't manage his way out of a paper bag, and blames everything from earthquakes in Pakistan to bedbugs at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on Israel. Rather, it is a self-absorbed,

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October 10, 2010 By John McLaughlin As researchers dig deeper into sources of climate change, we must seriously consider the concept of a molten Earth core fed by nuclear waste from a georeactor at its center emitting heat as well as the elements to form hydrocarbons creating petroleum.   With great heat (including an abundance of CO2) escaping the crust by mechanisms such as hydrothermal vents

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October 10, 2010 By Michael Zebulon The simple, inescapable reality is that -- far from facilitating peace -- diplomatic recognition of Palestinian statehood anywhere west of the River Jordan would constitute an open invitation to war -- and war of hemispheric, or greater, dimensions.  There.  I've said it.  (You saw it here first.)

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By Randall HovenOctober 07, 2010 In summary, the "bank bailout" was not a bailout and did not go to banks. The "capital injection" was from taxpayers and banks into the federal government so it could take over car companies and more home loans. We taxpayers, who will have forked over $179 B for this, are supposed to thank our government for saving us from catastrophe. The banks, who will have

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September 20, 2010 By Randall Hoven George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." What follows is my beginning of a list of ideas that some very intelligent people seem to believe.

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I'm Fed Up SEPTEMBER 10, 2010by MarDivPhoto This is a series of observations of things that have come to the point of really giving me concern about our society today. But before you dismiss me as just another angry old guy doing a lot of general complaining about the modern world that has passed me by, you might want to consider that a great many good things were done for this country through

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September 09, 2010 By Kyle-Anne Shiver For the record, anyone who has read the Koran understands well that political tyranny is inextricably woven into Islam's religious fiber. State-enabled terror is part and parcel of the religion of submission. The word "Islam" itself means "submission," and within every tenet of true Islam is the vociferous command to force this submission upon everyone. 

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