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• Missouri’s Unemployment Compensation Problem

  
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  The Washington Post recently published an article that describes how states’ unemployment compensation funds are running dry in the recession. When a state has more unemployment claims than it can pay, it borrows the difference from the federal government. In all, 25 states — including Missouri — have ...
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• Arizona’s Coming Government Collapse – from Governor Jan Brewer

  
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  http://www.resistnet.com Dear Fellow Arizonan, We face a state fiscal crisis of unparalleled dimension – one that is going to sweep over every single person in this state as well as every business and every family. That is why I held an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday morning where I outlined for our ...
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• On Totalitarian Sentimentality: What It Is, And Why We Should Fight It

  
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  Mark Steyn, who frequently serves as a fill-in for Rush Limbaugh and recently has been filling-in for Sean Hannity on his television program, is a genuine treasure.  He manages to combine a riotous sense of humor with conservative wisdom and his own je ne sais quoi. Today, on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, Steyn ...
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• 2010 preview:

  
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  2010 is an election year and the government spending machine will be running full speed. The bulk of the stimulus package will be spent in 2010, Although most will go to social spending those dollars will still keep some parts of the economy from declining. Foreign interest rates will increase in greater numbers and ...
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• Its a Start

  
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  "I believe our nation is at a crossroads and I can no longer align myself with a party that continues to pursue legislation that is bad for our country, hurts our economy, and drives us further and further into debt." (Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith, speaking about his decision to leave the Democrat Party and ...
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• Obamacare numbers fall apart

  
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  Just when a leading “Blue Dog” Dem says he and his buddies will roll over on Obamacare so long as the cost numbers balance ( The Conservatives.com ), the numbers . . . become unbalanced ( Fox News  via The Corner ): Savings from Medicare touted by Democrats as a means to pay for the Senate health care bill ...
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• The Religion of Planned Parenthood

  
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• Will State Attorney Generals Take Action Against Sleazy "Health Care Bill" Deals?

  
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  Of course, the MSM will try and treat this story as an example of Republican obstruction and vindictiveness but the attorney generals of 7 states talking about the possible illegality of the "Nebraska compromise" (and, by implication, its unconstitutionality) is nevertheless an excellent move. For no matter how the ...
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• A third grader could recognize that this “market” is a manipulated, criminal fraud…

  
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  Folks wonder how massive job losses and massive losses in retirement savings are possible, but it’s right in front of everyone’s face… GDP goes up equals “gains” GDP revised down equals “gains” Asinine P/E’s equals “gains” Lower earnings/revenues equals “gains” Lower dollar equals “gains” ...
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• The Polls Are Quite Clear. So What?

  
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  LifeNews.com reports that a Quinnipiac University poll (just issued yesterday) shows that 72% of Americans oppose paying for abortions with their tax dollars under the government-run health care bill in Congress. Of course, this would be important news...if, that is, the Democrats in power gave a rip about the ...
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• Hello, Police? My Country Has Just Been Stolen From Me.

  
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  Robert Costa over at NROs "The Corner," has a very sobering pos t quoting Republican Senator Judd Gregg on the ugly "New American Era" that weve been shoved into. American government changed last night. “We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,” says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) in a ...
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• Of Sin Taxes, Substitute Goods, and Libertarian Paternalism

  
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  In a Reason article, “Have a Coke and a Tax: The economic case against soda taxes,” Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University explains that selective sin taxes are ineffectual because consumers tend to substitute one bad habit with another. De Rugy explains that soda taxes will be ...
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• Now is the time to slam Congress!

  
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  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h 58 Democrats and 2 independents (Lieberman and Sanders) have voted to close debate on the cancerous health care bill. This clears the way to pass the bill in the Senate, perhaps by Christmas Eve. Every member of Congress needs to hear your protest, including your House ...
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• Will Goyette’s “Meltdown” save your life?

  
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  When I happen upon a book or movie review I usually skip down to the final paragraph because I don’t really care about all the preliminaries. I just want to know the conclusion; therefore, I’m starting this review with my conclusion. Drop everything and start reading Charles Goyette’s “ The Dollar Meltdown: ...
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• In Ireland’s cuts, a ghost of America’s future?

  
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  Irelands drastic budget cutting has put it on the front lines of a global battle against runaway government spending, prompting some to ask if the United States will follow suit.
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• Gibson Empathizes with Obama: Holy God, What a Weight that Is on Your Shoulders

  
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  Bye, Bye, Charles Gibson, oh, bye, bye and again, bye,bye. From Newsbusters ; In his swan song interview with President Barack Obama, which consumed more than ten minutes of World News, ABCs Charles Gibson couldnt have provided a friendlier or more empathetic platform to Obama on the “weight” of sending troops ...
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• Video- President Obamas remarks on government efficiency

  
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• The Problem is Spending, not Deficits

  
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  Reckless spending increases under both Bush and Obama have resulted in unprecedented deficits, which is the reason for boosting the nation’s debt limit by an astounding $1.8 trillion. Government borrowing has become such a big issue that some politicians are proposing a deficit reduction commission, which may mean ...
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• "Obama is Possibly the Most Dangerous and Destructive President We Have Ever Had." (Nat Hentoff)

  
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  "I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had." (Nat Hentoff) Heres the interview John Whitehead did of the famed civil libertarian.
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• The U.S. Post Office Is Feasting On Your Tax Dollars

  
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  In a post from last week ("Ive Got A Bad Case of the Post Office Blues"), I described a few of my pet peeves with the modern U.S. Post Office. Heres one I hadnt heard about: The U.S. Postal Service spent more than $792,000 "without justification" on meals and events in one five-month period even as it reported ...
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