In today’s (8/5/15) New York Times opinion section popular columnist and noted author Thomas Friedman wrote My Question for the Republican Presidential Debate a few excerpts: But can they (the GOP candidates) run, win and govern from the center-right when
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My first threshold for a candidate is their governing principles and philosophy; how they see the world. The last thing I want is a leader effective at getting things done when I am opposed to everything he wants to
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Would you vote to repeal the ACA? Would you vote to outlaw the asset forfeiture allowance? You you think the current drug laws perform some of the same functions as the old Jim Crow Laws? Would you vote to decriminalize
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from Scott Grannis at his blog, The California Beach Pundit, The $3 trillion cost of bad policies excerpt: The federal government borrowed $7.8 trillion over the course of the past seven years and handed most of the proceeds out in
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I think we miss the boat when we argue conspiracies, corruption, anti-science, authoritarians , etc. You will find more illumination in understanding precisely what the consensus is. And precisely what the models and the theory are and whether these theories
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from David Daley in Salon, Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” excerpt: I don’t demonize Fox News. At what point will liberals wake up to realize the
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from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: The decadent civilization has a million laws which it applies selectively. Its universal laws, inherited from a vigorous civilization, are so mired in legalisms as to be
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From Cafe Hayek, Uber vs Piketty by Don Boudreaux: Thomas Piketty famously argues that owners of capital grab ever-larger shares of wealth, and that the single best ‘solution’ to this alleged problem is a global tax on wealth and high
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