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The Politics of Demographics

By Michael Bargo Jr. At first glance one might think that politicians get elected by studying the concerns of voters through focus groups and polls; then addressing those concerns with the goal of getting a plurality of votes. But since FDR, the government has been not just studying the concerns of voters, but has very […]

Coolidge: A Politician Uncannily Deserving of Respect

By Matthew May “Debt takes its toll.” So begins Coolidge, the magnificent new biography of the 30th president of the United States by bestselling author and free-market journalist Amity Shlaes. No writer is perhaps better-suited to write a biography of the fiscal sentinel Calvin Coolidge, and this biography is indeed a prequel to her masterpiece, […]

Consequence to cuts no one thought would happen

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not the first time that government economic engineering has produced a time bomb with a short fuse. Back in 2011, few lawmakers, if any, thought deep and indiscriminate spending cuts, totaling about $85 billion and now starting to kick in, were a smart idea. The across-the-board cuts, set up as a […]

GOP Must Not Cave to the Bully on His Sequestration

President Obama’s demagoguery and fear-mongering on his sequester cuts are breathtaking, even for him. Lest you think I am engaging in hyperbole, let me give you the dictionary definition of a demagogue. One definition is “a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.” Obama’s […]

Dont Watch the State of the Union: More Obama Lies Who Cares ?

I haven’t been able to pilfer an advance copy of the president’s State of the Union address, but I hereby offer some guesses as to what he’ll say tonight. The president will assert, against the evidence, that the state of our union is strong. He will boast that during his first term, we averted another […]

The Republicans’ Primary Problem - Ann Coulter

Having just lost an election, many Republicans are anxious to remake our party in the image of Democrats. The theory seems to be that whatever we’re doing isn’t working, so we better change everything. But in fact, whatever Republicans did in 2012 — other than an overly long primary fight — worked amazingly well, given […]

Thanks to Obama You Owe Additional $49,369 of National Debt

When Barack Hussein Obama first took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the national debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08. There were approximately 113,500,000 households in the US at the time, meaning that every household in America owned $93,628 of the national debt. Four years later, under Barack Hussein Obama, at the time of his second inauguration, the national […]

Unemployment at 23%, Not 7.8%

by Giacomo When the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports their monthly unemployment figures, they reflect only a certain portion of the overall unemployment numbers. Of the six different unemployment figures in their monthly report, only one gets all of the media attention. The BLS lists six categories of unemployment figures, but the media only looks […]

URGENT: How to beat Barack Obama’s executive order gun control

It is often said that the Second Amendment is the First Amendment. Without it there can be no others. The Obama Administration just announced plans to use as many as 23 new executive orders to weaken our Second Amendment. These new orders will chip away at our Constitutional right to possess and bare arms. From […]

Chuck Norris: Motivation To Prosper

On Nov. 29, 1766, Benjamin Franklin wrote for the London Chronicle: “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. — I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In […]

Obama’s $7 Million Hawaiian Vacation Is an Insult to Struggling Americans

By: Jim Hoft Back in January 2009, Barack Obama told Americans that, “Everyone must sacrifice… Everyone must have some skin in the game.” Well… Everyone but Barack and Michelle Obama. While Americans suffer through the worst economy since the Great Depression, the Obama family just blew $7 million on their latest Hawaiian vacation. The Telegraph […]

The Unequal State of America: Redistributing up

The federal government has emerged as one of the most potent factors driving income inequality in the United States - especially in the nation’s capital. In the town that launched the War on Poverty 48 years ago, the poor are getting poorer despite the government‘s help. And the rich are getting richer because of it. […]

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