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Oh, nuts! It's secession talk again
Once upon a time, society had the decency to keep its nut jobs largely under wraps. We were like a giant Snickers bar. You knew the nuts were in there. But they were tucked safely away between the chocolate and the nougat. The Internet changed all...
Tags: Barack Obama, Ocoee, Executive Branch, Rick Perry, Government
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Compassionate conservatism redux
Jonah GoldbergI think I owe an apology to George W. Bush. William F. Buckley once noted that he was 19 when the Cold War began at the Yalta conference. The year the Berlin Wall came down, he became a senior citizen. In other words, he explained, anti-Communism was a...Tags: Republican Party, Interior Policy, Elections, Media Industry, Sociology
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Vibrancy Of Markets Vs. Suffocation Of Statism
The Hartford CourantThe presidential campaign, hitherto a plod through a torrent of words tedious beyond words, began to dance in Denver. There a masterfully prepared Mitt Romney completed a trifecta of tasks and unveiled an issue that, because it illustrates contemporary...Tags: Culture, Elections, Cato Corporation, Mitch Daniels, Social Sciences
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Romney's trifecta
Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign, hitherto a plod through a torrent of words tedious beyond words, began to dance in Denver. There, a masterfully prepared Mitt Romney completed a trifecta of tasks and unveiled an issue that, because it...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Cato Corporation, Elizabeth II, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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New ideas? GOP would rather just say 'no'
After declining to give details of the Romney-Ryan tax plan during a testy back-and-forth with host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, offered a novel excuse. He didn't want to put viewers...
Tags: Milton Friedman, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Elections
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For Mitt Romney and us, Ayn Rand is poor role model
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate has ramped up interest in the author/philosopher Ayn Rand. Ryan is backing away from her these days, mostly because of her atheism and other inconvenient social views, but he has proclaimed more...Tags: Republican Party, Unemployment, Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand, Personal Income
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Competing traditions toward human and civil rights
American VoicesOn the final evening of the Democratic National Convention, the blogger Andrew Sullivan posted a picture of Congressman Barney Frank kissing his spouse. Frank is openly gay and what is striking about the picture is a total absence of reticence, and the...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Same-Sex Marriage
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American Chronicler Gore Vidal Dies at Age 86
CNNLOS ANGELES -- Gore Vidal, the eclectic author who faithfully chronicled the major shifts and upheavals in the United States in books, essays and plays, has died. He was 86. Vidal died at his Los Angeles home Tuesday evening of complications from...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Pneumonia, Timothy McVeigh, The New York Times, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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The (not so) great pretender
Paul GreenbergHe was a minor figure in the freak show and dictionary of dysfunction that was American culture during the downhill years of the last century. And the more minor a figure, the better. Yet on his death at 86, another proof that the good die young, he still...Tags: Timothy McVeigh, Gore Vidal, Central Intelligence Agency, Obituaries, David Brooks
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Words of wisdom from 'The Best Man' himself Gore Vidal
Liz Smith"George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and the founders were almost to a man isolationists. We had a big country; it was new. We had a lot to do. We have no business fighting a war. It's none of our business. ... "The word democracy is never mentioned...Tags: The New York Times, Interior Policy, Music, Democracy, Richard Nixon
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Your Favorite Quotes
Blogging with Bill WhiteMy column Saturday contrasted the philosophies expressed by author/philosopher Ayn Rand and the heroes of her novels with the Harper Lee character Atticus Finch. Specifically, I cited something Finch said to his daughter in "To Kill a Mockingbird." "You...
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