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Our Fragile Democracy

Posted in Domestic Affairs, Politics, tagged , , , , , on December 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »

BECKLEY — Returning from vacation is always interesting.  If you’ve gone to new places, seen and done different things, those experiences can cause one to think.  My latest vacation brought to new light how fragile our little democracy has been and still is today.

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The Conservative Argument AGAINST Barack Obama’s Social Security Payroll Tax Holiday

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »

This one piece of the compromise plan also explains why growth after next year is likely to be weaker, not higher, than the current optimistic predictions. The problem is the nature of that growth. In the past century both parties and the economists behind them have focused on the business cycle, their theory being that [...]

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The Sayings of Chris Christie: Why I LOVE this Guy!

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Politics, tagged , , on December 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

ATLANTA— Check out Daniel Cirucci’s article in the Philadelphia Daily News, on the sayings of Chris Christie.  These things are so blunt- and so brilliant!    My favorite?  “Well then, you don’t have to do it.” (Christie’s answer to a teacher who complained about the hard work and “low pay” that went along with her job). I [...]

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More Evidence China’s Top-Down Statist Economic Regime May be Failing…

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , , on December 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

ATLANTA—  In an interesting twist, the Telegraph reports that the Royal Bank of Scotland has advised its clients to take out protection against the risk of a sovereign default by China as one of its top trades for 2011.  This may sound absolutely crazy, given that China has been leading the global recovery and averaging around [...]

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Should the WikiLeaks Culprit, Bradley Manning, be Executed?

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , on December 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »

ATLANTA—  Mike Huckabee has called for the WikiLeaks culprit to be tried for treason and executed, if found guilty.  This is the latest in a series of increasingly bold denouncements of the acts that resulted in the leakage of over 250,000 State Department documents via WikiLeaks.  Many people believe the acts have dealt a substantial blow [...]

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Hillary Clinton to Resign due to WikiLeaks Scandal!?

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, tagged , , , on November 30, 2010 | 32 Comments »

ATLANTA–  I am finding the fallout from the WikiLeaks document release to be utterly fascinating.  While most of the revelations have not been all that surprising, the increasing indications that Hillary Clinton may have skirted the edges of international law truly are.  Not three weeks ago, the media was openly discussing whether Hillary Clinton should challenge Barack [...]

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How a Former Reagan Advisor Proposes that Barack Obama Could Balance the U.S. Budget

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, tagged , , , , on November 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »

  ATLANTA— Martin Feldstein wrote a great column that was published over the weekend in the Washington Post about how Barack Obama and Congress could reduce the budget deficit without technically raising taxes.  To do so would require that Mr. Obama go after one of the holy grails of the U.S tax code: federal tax expenditures.  Tax expenditures cost the federal [...]

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