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• 5 things Newt would rather Florida voters forget

  
  Irreverent View — Authority: 103
  Don’t bet on Newt if beating Obama is goal By  Chris Ingram Just recently I made up my mind to vote for Mitt Romney for president. In assessing the rather weak field of GOP candidates, I believe Romney is the only one who has the experience, temperament, steady hand, and enough appeal to independents ...
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• Living off immoral earnings

  
  The price of everything — Authority: 92
  “The reality.. is that banks.. support a thick layer of second tier executives, as well as legions of pen-pushing, meeting-loving, middle- and back-office workers who are paid multiples of their worth and contribution, especially compared with other industries.” -       Financial Times’ Lex column, ...
  3 days ago

• Fire Walker Chronicles: Don’t Take The Money And Run

  
  Balloon Juice — Authority: 710
  Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker sure is endearing himself to voters this week as the recall effort has obtained nearly twice the signatures it needed to trigger an election.  His latest antics?  Becoming the latest GOP governor to turn down a federal grant to create a state health insurance exchange , all ...
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• Mitt’s biggest policy blunder

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 120
  Thursday night’s debate brought into focus the myth Mitt’s tried creating: that his health care reform plan was a free market work of art. Sen. Santorum exposed that myth beautifully with this exchange : KING: I want to bring Congressman Paul — bring you into the discussion in just a moment. But Senator ...
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• Stark Protectionism

  
  Common Sense with Paul Jacob - Brought to You by Citizens in Charge Foundation — Authority: 109
  The markets of the ancient world were often sewn up by kings and courts and priesthoods. In Egypt or Assyria or Rome, you had to pay off a guild to practice a trade, at least if yours was a common craft, and even ask permission of the sovereign. Closed entry was the norm, and it certainly contributed to the age’s ...
  1 week ago

• Obama’s Trade Agency Consolidation Proposal: Hope and Caution

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 758
  Clearly, the impact of President Obama’s proposal to consolidate parts of six trade agencies is tiny in comparison to the government’s $3.5 trillion in spending or its trillion-dollar-plus deficits. But if—and that is a big if, depending upon not-yet-available details—it represents a genuine step toward ...
  1 week ago

• What The Rude Pundit Said

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 121
  Christopher Dodd ruins his reputation : Go read about [SOPA and PIPA], if you havent, because its pretty insidious stuff , not just because of the governmental control, but because of the corporate power behind it.... Former Senator Chris Dodd, now head of the Motion Picture Association of America (motto: "You ...
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• Morning Bell: An Internet Blackout Over SOPA and PIPA

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 758
  As of midnight, Wikipedia is shut down for 24 hours, and hundreds of other popular websites have gone dark right along with it. They are standing together in protest of two controversial pieces of legislation that threaten Internet security and undermine the freedom of speech all in an effort to crack down on ...
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• Free Speech: An Unintended Victim of Protect IP and SOPA?

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 758
  Is Congress about to limit freedom of speech on the Internet? Two bills wending their way through the Senate and the House may do just that. The proposals , known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are aimed at stopping foreign-based Web sites from distributing copyrighted material, ...
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• How Dare Democrat Politicians and Their Academic Intelligent Elite Think They Can Run Free-Markets

  
  Consolidate Student Loans — Authority: 136
  You know, I just find it fascinating that the academic elite are advising democrats on how best to control, regulate, and tax free-markets. Mostly, I find this humorous because most of these folks have never run a business or participated in capitalism or free-markets. Once, I called in to C-Span and made mention of ...
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• You Have More Servants than the Sun King

  
  artdiamondblog.com — Authority: 110
  (p. 36) The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plate. It took a staggering 498 people to prepare each meal. He was rich because he consumed the work of other people, mainly in the form of their services. He was rich because other people did things for him. At ...
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• Calvin Coolidge and the Commercial Spirit

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 508
  Calvin Coolidge quipped shortly before his death, “I feel I no longer fit in with these times.” The words came not long before FDR’s ascendency to the presidency and not long after the upsurge of government activism that started in the Herbert Hoover administration. Coolidge, even for his time, was seen as old ...
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• In Europe, Reducing Spending Necessary, but Not Sufficient, to Restore Economic Freedom

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 758
  If the 2012 edition of Heritage’s Index of Economic Freedom has bad news for the United States, the news for Europe is not much better. The 43 nations of the European region did manage to lose less economic freedom than did the United States, but a decline is still a decline. And the European decline was ...
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• Barron’s Roundtable Blames Economic Malaise on Government Policies

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 758
  Barron’s published its year-end roundtable discussion with 10 money managers and financial market experts on Saturday. The star investors voiced their concerns about three government-related problems that threaten economic growth and prosperity in this country. 1. Cumbersome government regulations are holding ...
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• Morning Bell: South Carolinians Have a Right to Work

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 758
  This week, all eyes are on South Carolina as the Palmetto State votes on Saturday in the next Republican presidential primary contest. Jobs and the economy are rightly being debated by the entire political spectrum. It’s not the first time in the past year that South Carolina has been center stage when it comes to ...
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• The Richest One Percent in the World

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 419
  (click to enlarge) If you made as much as $34,000 last year, you are now part of the world’s richest 1%. World Bank economist Branko Milanovic puts it all in perspective: The true global middle class, falls far short of owning a home, having a car in a driveway, saving for retirement and sending [...]
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• Cheers for Sears

  
  Sleepless in Midland — Authority: 109
  The good news for Sears is that it plans to close a bunch of unprofitable stores, and hopefully that action will help the bottom line enough to allow it to cut prices and compete with Best Buy, Walmart, and online competitors. But what must really hurt is the highly public announcement that CIT Group Inc. would quit ...
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• Choosing Free Markets or Central Planning After Dollar Collapse

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  No matter the next President of the United States, Mr. President 2012 will preside over a bond market collapse, resulting in a collapse in government spending (consider when the US bond market and currency collapses, the US will no longer be able to borrow or print the difference between government spending and ...
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• Scribecast: Patrick Ruffini Explains SOPA’s Unintended Consequences

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 758
  Few issues before Congress have united online activists like the current debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House and its Senate companion, the PROTECT IP Act. Both bills attempt to address the theft of intellectual property. But critics say the legislation would do more harm than good . “The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Finally Seeing Dark at End of Tunnel, “Zany” Newt Retreats!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 142
  By John W. LillpopMitt Romney recently referred to Newt Gingrich, at one point a formidable Romney opponent, as “zany.” According to the dictionary, zany means, “one who plays the clown or fool in order to amuse others; a comically wild or eccen...
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