Thursday, August 23, 2012

Catholic Republicans Gang Up On Protestant Todd Akin

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Laura Ingraham calls him a liar, Sean Hannity gives a prominent forum to Ann Coulter, who likens Akin to Eliot Spitzer and elsewhere calls h...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Old Republican Fools For Romney

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        The hoary fool, who many days Has struggled with continued sorrow, Renews his hope, and blindly lays The desp'rate bet upon tomo...

Ann Coulter Champions Exception For Abortion In Cases Of Rape On Hannity

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Why is it we hear the loudest shrieks for mortal sin from the mouths of Republican Roman Catholics?

The Voting-Third-Party Line of the Day from Forbes.com

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“ Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. ” -- John Quinc...

What Do Arguments For TARP And Arguments For Romney Have In Common?

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Fear.

The Growth In Income Inequality Wasn't A Bug, It Was A Feature Invented By Liberalism

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If you generally tax some income at one rate and other income at a lower one, what do you think would happen over a long period of time? Obv...

Paladins of Economics Eschew the Mob and Excuse the Fed

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So says Brian Domitrovic for Forbes, who thinks the Fed's bad habits are congenital. Domitrovic calls attention to the glaring omission ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Byron York Doesn't Get It: EVERY Toss Up State Matters If Romney Loses Florida

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Mitt Romney can take a loss in a New Hampshire or an Iowa, give or take, but if he loses in Florida he cannot. Romney absolutely must win in...

Mitt Romney Just Lost My Vote

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If anyone should quit the 2012 race it's Gov. Mitt Romney, not Rep. Todd Akin. Even with the clothespin on my nose I won't be able t...

Not Only Is Rep. Paul Ryan A Hypocritical Catholic, So Is Radio Talker Sean Hannity

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Just now he said he's fairly libertarian on the issue of contraceptives and doesn't object to their use by Americans. That's not...

Water Is Nineteen Times Rarer Than Gold

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"Bodies are much more rare and porous than is commonly believed: water is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence nineteen times rar...

Even On The Most Generous Interpretation Of The Data, Rep. Akin Of Missouri Is Right

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There are about 6 million pregnancies in the US every year. The wildest estimates of pregnancy resulting from rape range from as few as 200 ...

Romney/Ryan Response To Akin On Abortion Contradicts Roman Catholic Teaching

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Will Rep. Paul Ryan, a Roman Catholic, get a pass from the Roman Catholic Church for opposing its teaching on abortion? In response to the i...

"Valuations Remain Unusually Rich"

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So says John Hussman, here : Valuations remain unusually rich on our measures . . . it should be of some concern (though it is clearly not) ...
Monday, August 20, 2012

With "You Didn't Build That" Obama Revealed We're No Free Market Economy

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Barack The Builder-Thief Consider Sheldon Richman, here , emphasis added: "What we have—and have had for a long time—is corporatism, an...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Government Payments Like Social Security/Medicare Consume 89 Percent Of Tax Revenues

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The government collects only $2.66 trillion in taxes but spends $2.36 trillion just on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and ...

On 1/1/2011 Social Security/Medicare Payments Exceeded Revenues By $329 Billion

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Social insurance revenues were $906 billion on 1/1/11, but outlays for Social Security were $703 billion and for Medicare $532 billion on th...

Romney Has Ryan Reassuring On Medicare Because He Really Needs Florida To Win

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The projection ( here ) back in the second week of April was that 124 electoral college votes were up for grabs in 9 states, with Obama at 2...

Rep. Paul Ryan Rejects Conservatism For The Government Dependency Culture

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Quoted here : "When I think of Medicare, it's not just a program, it's not just a bunch of numbers, it's what my mom relies...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Rep. Paul Ryan And His Mother: This Is Not Conservatism

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This is Republicanism defending the welfare state. This is not conservatism.