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WARREN BUFFETT’S FATHER SPOKE OUT ABOUT DANGEROUS INCREASE IN GOVERNMENT POWER IN 1956

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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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EXXON, U.S. GOVERNMENT DUEL OVER OIL DISCOVERY

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AUGUST 18, 2011 By RUSSELL GOLD Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting with the U.S. government to keep control of one of its biggest oil discoveries ever, in a showdown where billions of dollars hang in the balance for both sides. The massive Gulf of Mexico discovery contains an estimated one billion barrels of recoverable oil,

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THE FALL OF THE MIDWEST ECONOMIC MODEL

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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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WASHINGTON ARRANGING THE CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC

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WALL STREET JOURNAL August 11, 2011 Emerson Electric CEO David Farr during an earnings call, Aug. 2: GDP in the U.S. grew in the first half less than 1%. . . . It’s not new news. We have to deal with it. We have a tradition in the company to deal with those things. Then

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A DOWNGRADE AWAKENING

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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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BARACK OBAMA’S PANTS ON FIRE

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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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KRAUTHAMMER – THE GRAND BARGAIN TO BE HAD

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NEWS&OBSERVER The grand bargain to be had By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group Published in: Other Views August 6, 2011 WASHINGTON Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional super-committee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere. I’m not so sure. There is a grand compromise to be had.

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