August 18, 2011 By Matt Patterson Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many
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AUGUST 17, 2011, Howard Buffett, a Nebraska congressman and father of Warren Buffett, on how taxes curtail economic independence, December 1956. From a speech by Howard Buffett, a congressman from Nebraska (and father of Warren Buffett), reprinted in the Freeman, December 1956: The last 40 years have seen a gigantic expansion of political power over
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AUGUST 16, 2011 In 1970, the future seemed to belong to Michigan’s example of big companies and big unions. Not anymore. By MICHAEL BARONE President Obama has kicked off a three-day bus tour of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, where the corn is high and at least some factories are spewing smoke. He’s holding town-hall meetings
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AUGUST 15, 2011 By severing the dollar’s convertibility to gold in 1971, the president ushered in a decade of inflation and economic stagnation. By LEWIS E. LEHRMAN On the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 13, 1971, high-ranking White House and Treasury Department officials gathered secretly in President Richard Nixon’s lodge at Camp David. Treasury Secretary John
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An Analysis of Rick Perry’s record as Governor of Texas http://peskytruth.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/rick-perrys-negatives/
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THE TELEGRAPH Rick Perry: the Paint Creek boy who would be king It is a pocket of rural America that has changed little in a century and is about as far removed from the bustle and marble monuments of Washington DC as one could imagine. Rick Perry speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Nguyen Cao Ky, 1930-2011 David DeVoss August 8, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 44 ‘When we moved to California, I got a new Cadillac Seville,” Nguyen Cao Ky told me back in 1990. “One day I was driving around, dressed in some old shorts and a T-shirt, when a motorcycle
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AUGUST 9, 2011 Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The downgrade uproar and even the market turmoil are signs that Americans aren’t about to accept economic decline gracefully. To adapt a famous phrase, a debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste During yesterday’s market meltdown, an old
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Jeffrey T. Kuhner Archive Friday, July 21, 2011Woes of Hanoi Jane: Dissed by the capitalist system she once condemned Hanoi Jane has been humbled. Recently, the home shopping channel QVC canceled a scheduled appearance by Jane Fonda. The actress was supposed to discuss her latest book, “Prime Time.” She is shocked and angry that QVC
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WOLF: Barack Obama’s pants on fire President told us a whopper about his mother’s health care By Dr. Milton R. Wolf Dr. Milton R. Wolf is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist and cousin of President Obama. He blogs at MiltonWolf.com. – The Washington Times Tuesday, July 19, 2011 I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a
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