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Bill O'Connell
The Democrat Silly Season of Manufacturing Issues

  What do you do when you can’t run on your record? If you watch the Democrats you will find out. The answer is to manufacture bogus issues out of thin air and try to anger and scare people into [...]

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What’s the Buffett Rule on Spending and Investing?

  President Obama, always on the campaign trail, is now on the road trying to explain why his class warfare strategy is not class warfare. In his State of the Union address, he once again invoked the “Buffett Rule”, which [...]

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Congressman Tim Bishop Attacks Tea Party for Not Spending Enough

President Obama Speaking at Solyndra Congressman Tim Bishop has not been able to keep from spending, no matter what. The Postal Service has an $8.5 billion deficit, and Tim Bishop is out there fighting to keep an unneeded post office [...]

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Killing Two Progressive Myths

It is almost astounding to watch the news analysis programs after the latest jobs reports of the creation of a paltry 18,000 jobs and unemployment ticking up to 9.2%. Nearly lost in the data is that the news from prior [...]

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The Republicans Don’t Have a Plan!

How many times are we going to hear asinine comments like the following from Zack Burgess at the Philadelphia Tribune? After Monday’s debates it seemed at times as if the GOP was focused on bashing the president vs. dealing with [...]

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Dem Strategy for 2012: Hide Our Record, Demonize the Opposition

The most recent trial balloon was in New York’s 26th Congressional District special election. There Democrat Kathy Hochul ran on the demagoguery that Paul Ryan’s budget plan, which her Republican opponent Jane Corwin supported, meant the end of Medicare. Hochul [...]

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The Left Seeks New Lows in Fight Against Ryan’s Medicare Plan

We knew it was coming because the situation was so clear. Congressman Paul Ryan introduced a bold plan to deal with out of control government spending and the Democrats had no credible plan of their own. So what does one [...]

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Gas Prices Rise. It’s Time to Beat Up the Speculators Again

With gas prices on the rise, Bill O’Reilly, is once again targeting his favorite whipping boy, The Speculators. Like a 1940′s whodunit, we are told of those evil greedy speculators and how we need more government intervention to reign them [...]

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It’s the Spending, Stupid!

To no one’s surprise, President Obama followed his lame first attempt at a budget with the same tired class warfare “taxing the rich is the solution plan”. The problem is spending. This problem is not going to get fixed until [...]

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An Extremely, Extreme Budget by that Extremist Paul Ryan

Does Congressman not understand what is at stake here? Perhaps he does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwv5EbxXSmE But Senator Schumer has his marching orders from the Democratic caucus and those marching orders are to do nothing to get our spending under control but instead [...]

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The Stark Difference between Democrats and Republicans

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. – Barry Goldwater “I always use the word extreme, that’s what the caucus instructed me to do the other week, extreme cuts and all these riders, and Boehner’s in a box [...]

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Rand Paul Does Some Heavy Lifting

Maybe it was because he was trained as a medical doctor that Rand Paul knows that if you are going to lift something heavy you have to bend your knees and keep your back straight. Contrast that to the other [...]

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An Inconvenient Document

The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, [...]

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