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Rand Paul’s race for US Senate in Kentucky has quickly come to exemplify everything that is right — and wrong — with the mainstream conservative movement. Let’s start with what’s right: as the son of the outspoken, anti-establishment Republican Congressman Ron Paul, eye surgeon Rand Paul entered a daunting GOP senate race promising to shake [...]
With its recent passage, Obamacare has quickly become to the Right what the Iraq war was to the Left-a disastrous and costly mistake heralding unprecedented government action, expansion and intrusion. Conservatives consider forcing Americans to purchase health insurance every bit as unconstitutional as liberals once considered the PATRIOT Act, and needless to say, anytime massive, [...]
Imagine Congress trying to pass an expensive and unpopular healthcare bill by twisting arms, cutting backroom deals, refusing transparency and politicians mysteriously changing their votes, only to finally pass the controversial legislation at the last hour by a paper thin margin. This is what happened in 2003 when the “Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization [...]
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It’s hard to imagine a politician more schizophrenic than Mitt Romney. As Massachusetts governor, Romney was pro-choice, supported amnesty for illegal aliens and was gay friendly. As a 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Romney became pro-life, opposed amnesty and gay marriage. In his new book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness,” Romney says hardly anything [...]
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When newly elected Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts attacked the Democrats healthcare plan during this week’s Republican address, Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said on ABC’s This Week: “Let me note that Senator Brown comes from a state that has a health care format in his state that is similar to the one we’re [...]
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The Oscar for Best Picture this year went to Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker,” and rightfully so. It was a great movie with a powerful message. But what message? Some critics said it was pro-war, while others declared it antiwar. Regardless of its political slant, one thing remains clear: “The Hurt Locker” is about war-and [...]
During a question and answer session at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, one man opined “One thing I’ve learned here at CPAC is that the ‘C’ actually doesn’t stand for ‘Libertarianism,’ it’s not ‘L’PAC.” When Congressman Ron Paul won the annual straw poll at CPAC, talk host Rush Limbaugh made a point to tell [...]
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When the City of Chicago banned all handguns recently, countless Americans rightly cried foul. When it looked like the Supreme Court might overturn the ban, gun-rights advocates cheered the decision. But while their heart is in the right place, their enthusiasm is not, as what gun-rights advocates are really cheering is the federal government assuming [...]
In 2007, USA Today reported. “Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It’s expanding by about $1.4 billion a day – or nearly $1 million a minute. What’s that mean to you? It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United [...]
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