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Obama’s big-government culture breeds scandals
Tweet Listen to the audio here: The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. The Obama administration has had a rough couple of weeks. CBS News headline: “Top Obama officials … Continue reading
The fiscal cliffs of insanity
Tweet “Do you want me to send you back to where I found you … UNEMPLOYED in GREENLAND?” Or perhaps “Princess Bride’s” Vizzini should have threatened Fezzik with unemployment in the United States. As the graphic below shows us, the … Continue reading
Dr. Moneylove or: How Al Gore Learned to Stop Capitalism and Love Government Connections
Tweet What happens when government begins to direct more and more of a country’s economy with the wealth it has taken from its people through taxation? China and Al Gore provide us examples. According to a Bloomberg report quoted by … Continue reading
Posted in Free market
Tagged capitalism, china, gore, Obama, wall street journal, washington post
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Behind progressives’ fixation with easy voting
Tweet A state judge has temporarily struck down parts of a Pennsylvania law requiring voters to show approved identification at their polling places. The state law requires all voters to show a picture ID prior to voting. This new court … Continue reading
Checking the integrity of Clinton's Obamacare assertions
Tweet Grace-Marie Turner, writing in National Review Online, does some fact-checking on former President Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention and finds he danced around the truth: Clinton did a deep dive into policy last night during his … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care
Tagged clinton, democrats, dnc, health care, medicare, Obama, Obamacare
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In context, liberal economic policies are still killing jobs
Tweet When considering what the dismal economic facts and realities of today mean for liberal economic policies and liberal thinking in general, one criticism I have encountered is a lack of consideration of the economic context in which those policies … Continue reading
Liberal economic policies are killing jobs (part 2)
Tweet As a follow-up to a previous blog post about how liberal public policies on a federal level are contributing to the pitiful number of job opportunities for low- and middle-income families since the end of the recession in 2009, … Continue reading
Posted in Limited Government
Tagged economy, employment, jobs, Obama, Obamacare, recession, unemployment
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Obama, North Carolina and the politics of marriage
Tweet The president has just announced that he thinks marriage should be redefined to include same-sex couples. This comes one day after the voters of North Carolina made that state the 31st to enact a constitutional amendment reaffirming the legal … Continue reading
Posted in Gay Rights, Marriage
Tagged Amendment 1, gay rights, marriage, North Carolina, Obama
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