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A Better Solution to Citizens United

“Those who remain concerned about the issue of money in politics may be focused on the wrong tool.  What disturbs the proper representation is not money as much as restrictive ballot access laws.  Super pacs control the money but still lack the access and thus must use the parties as their vehicles.”

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Convenient Inequality

James Pethokoukis writes Obama’s big inequality speech: short on facts and vision in the AEIdeas: excerpt: Here’s the bottom line: America’s pro-market turn some three decades ago reversed what then seemed like unstoppable national decline. (Nations that didn’t make that

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The Government Mandates Higher Gas Prices and then Blames Oil Companies

  from Bloomberg Businessweek,  Why Abundant Oil Hasn’t Cut Gasoline Prices by Asjylyn Loder, Mario Parker, and Matthew Philips on March 28, 2013 excerpt: This year, the law requires U.S. refiners to blend 13.8 billion gallons of ethanol into the fuel

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