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If you’re in high school or college please listen up. Have you ever considered why you think the way you do? Why you have the political opinions you do? Have you ever independently looked at what the conservative perspective is? If not, you should. The vast majority of people in the education [...]

Sooner or later all our tax dollars will have been put into the various pipelines to oblivion, and the topic of the day will switch from bailouts to climate change.  Climate change is an issue that progressives gather round with an unshakable righteousness, and it heavily animates their thinking and policy plans.  With the election [...]

Both President Obama and Michael Steele agree that the Republicans have no credibility when it comes to matters economic. I’d agree with that.  But conservatives have no such credibility issues.  Unfortunately, the terms Republican and Conservative are often used interchangeably, much like the terms Illegal Immigrant and Immigrant. But there are significant and defining differences [...]

President Obama refers often to “the failed policies of the past” without being specific. One assumes by context that he is speaking of tax cuts, which the progressives always generalize as “tax cuts for the rich”, which sounds ominous, unfair, and elitist. Damn those rich people! But this ignores the low unemployment and general [...]

Our economic outlook is grim and getting grimmer.  No matter what form the final so-called stimulus plan takes it will not convince the world’s investment money that the United States is a good place to invest long term.  Our budget deficit is disgusting and about to get downright revolting, and our national debt is off [...]