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The Election is Over, the Results are In

from Investor’s Business Daily George Will writes 2014 College Grads Voted Obama And Now Suffer For It Excerpts: Ronald Reagan lightened the weight of government as measured by taxation and regulation. Obama has done the opposite. According to the annual...

Are Unions a Special Interest?

From The Weekly Standard, The Koch Brothers, Unions, and the Democratic Party’s Campaign Finance Delusions by Mark Hemingway. Excerpt: But how are lobbying efforts “preventing anti-union legislation” any different than Exxon lobbying to prevent...

Making the Impossible Seem Possible

The old saying that “politics is the art of the possible” is dead wrong. Politics is the art of making the impossible seem possible, and even plausible and desirable. That is how ObamaCare got passed. -Thomas Sowell in...

A Coalition of Conflicting Interests

Joel Kotkin writes The Three-Headed Democratic Party in New Geography: Excerpts: Today we can speak really of three Democratic parties, each with a separate class interest. Their divisions are as deep, perhaps more so, as that between the mainstream Republican Party...

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I have to confess I have always liked this song to the point of obsession.  My favorite verses: A self-ordained professor’s tongue Too serious to fool Spouted out that liberty Is just equality in school “Equality,” I spoke the word As if a wedding...