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A couple of days ago I wrote about the first principle of progressive thought.  That there are no unalienable rights given to us from our creator. In Mathew Spalding’s book, We Still Hold These Truths, he points out the second principle; one that is necessary for their first principle to make any sense.  This principle [...]

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Idea 8- Eliminate the Department of Education
We sometimes forget that many departments of the federal government have not been around that long.  The argument that we absolutely need these departments is quite ridiculous when you think about it.  I believe that we would be better off as a nation if we got rid of a [...]

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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
So perhaps we can now claim Obama is in fact insane.  Take these comments from Obama’s now infamous speech at Carnegie Mellon.  (or at least I am trying to make it that way as much as I am using it)
“So what was true [...]

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Before I get started with what I was planning on writing about, I have to give a quote of the day.  It was the best response to Obama’s oil spill speech that I heard and surprisingly enough it came from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann…here it is… “It was a great speech if you’ve been on another [...]

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Back in February or March the head of the CBO, Doug Elmendorf, admitted that they did not actually look at the stimulus’ effect on the economy when they boasted it had saved 1.5 million jobs.  So what did they do?  They used the prediction model again and passed that off as new results.  They basically [...]

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