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Obamacare: a Budgetary Black Hole

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Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell writes, “In Washington there’s rarely a downside for doing the wrong thing. Instead, this could be like TARP. A reward for bad behavior.” Dan tells readers, “The big insurance companies got into bed with the White House, figuring it was a good idea for the federal government to coerce Americans into […]

Progressives Trash the Constitution

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In The Washington Post article “It’s time for Progressives to Reclaim the Constitution,” E. J. Dionne, Jr. concludes, “Those who would battle rising economic inequalities to create a robust middle class should insist that it’s they who are most loyal to the Constitution’s core purpose. Broadly shared well-being is essential to the framers’ promise that […]

Marching Toward Hell III

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Michael Scheuer, Ph.D., a 20-year veteran of the CIA, was chief of the bin Laden unit. In Marching Toward Hell, Michael refers to Woodrow Wilson as “a human scourge who is not often enough ranked with the twentieth century’s top bloodletters.” Since 9/11 the Bush administration, all of Congress, and the country’s bipartisan governing elite […]

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth Series II #5

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Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., has created one of the most vital books on the health of your family you will ever find, The 150 Healthiest Food on Earth. The lavishly illustrated, 358-page weighty tome gives you more vital information on foods that can keep your family healthy than any other publication I have ever come […]

Obama: Post WWII Worst

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A Quinnipiac University survey shows that President Barack Obama tops the list as the worst president since World War II . The survey shows that a plurality of voters nationwide say that the country would have been better off with Mitt Romney as president. How very strange that a man with a fine record as a […]

America’s Imperial Bribery

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AEI (neocon central) scholar Tom Donnelly is making the case for expanding the Ex-Im bank (against tea party wishes) to, in this case, use U.S. taxpayer’s dollars to subsidize Boeing airplane purchases for the United Arab Emirates. Sound a little fishy to you? Cato Institute director of foreign policy studies Justin Logan explains that cheap […]

Join the Jihad

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Yup, that is just what Barack Obama proposes for America. Has the man learned nothing over his two failed terms in office? Syria poses no threat to America. Syria has not attacked America. And Obama wants to print up $500 million to ostensibly arm and train rebels. Who are the rebels? As Pat Buchanan rightly […]

Iraq: Marvelous Phenomena

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Former CIA Chief of the bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer writes, For now, however, the beginning of wisdom is to look at what is going on in Iraq and Syria and see it clearly. In both places all of those folks that multiple U.S. administrations have identified as enemies of America are killing each other…. This […]

America’s #1 Think Tank

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The neocon centric American Enterprise Institute and the somewhat less, but still troubling, neocon-sphere Heritage Foundation quickly fall off the radar if you are a non-intervention, small-government-focused individual. Which leads me to the Cato Institute, co-founded by my friend and former CEO of the Cato Institute, Ed Crane. I subscribe to The Crane Report, and see […]

Putting Lipstick on the Iraq War Pig

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Editor’s Note: This piece originally was posted on February 5, 2014, but is back by popular demand. I am in print as against the Iraq war from day one. Former national security advisor Stephen Hadley makes the case that the Iraq war was indeed worth fighting. Here the Cato Institute’s Chris Preble outlines Mr. Hadley’s […]