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Category Archives: National Politics
Romney Buys CPAC
Share…and this just after Public Policy Polling shows Romney getting crushed by Santorum in national polling. From the polling data: Part of the reason for Santorum’s surge is his own high level of popularity. 64% of voters see him favorably to … Continue reading
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Barack Obama (In His Own Words)
Share“So let’s work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term. Let’s honor the conscience of … Continue reading
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The New Yorker: To What Ends Incarceration?
ShareGreat article in the New Yorker regarding America’s prisons and the sense of “timeless time” that pervades: That’s why no one who has been inside a prison, if only for a day, can ever forget the feeling. Time stops. A … Continue reading
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Is War With Iran On The Horizon?
ShareIt’s certainly starting to look that way, with Syria on the tipping point and an Iranian oil embargo in place, every day that ticks by puts the Iranian mullahs and the Syrian regime on softer footing. Here’s the additional catch: … Continue reading
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Courts to Harrisburg: Governments Don’t Go Bankrupt
Share…and good on the federal courts for forcing Harrisburg to make tough calls: The Susquehanna River city of 50,000 is saddled with about $300 million in debt tied to its nearly 40-year-old trash incinerator. Beset by environmental problems and fines … Continue reading
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WaPo: Fewer dinners mean meaner politics
Share…the problem of which, of course, is that the machines the politicians (and the media — Washington Post included) have spun up around themselves make this sort of “civility” an impossible task: Today, however, political purists from both sides openly … Continue reading
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So Much For The “Shrinking Middle Class” Argument
ShareFrom your friendly folks at First Things: Using some sophisticated statistical techniques, Burkhauser, Larrimore, and Simon then correct for these factors, and find that, using this more accurate measure of economic resources, the American middle class has done quite well … Continue reading
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LR.com: Walter Williams is Missing The Point…
Share I love reading Lew Rockwell’s daily e-mail. I don’t always agree with the articles he passes along, but they are always good for thought. This one just happens to be one with which I vehemently disagree, where Walter Williams … Continue reading
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The Feast Day of St. Thomas More
Share “Most would understand the phrase that the mind of More was like a diamond that a tyrant threw away into a ditch, because he could not break it.” — G.K. Chesterton Today is the feast day of St. Thomas … Continue reading
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Baja Arizona and State Secession
Share Every once in awhile, you hear the talk from Northern Virginia about how they pay more into state government than they get back, that Richmond bleeds them dry, and that they should secede from the Commonwealth writ large … Continue reading
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