Charles D said:
Ideally (as in the Founding Fathers), one of the reasons we form governments is to pool our skills and resources to produce those goods and services we cannot provide as individuals. Like any organized community of people, a government is prone over time to forget its original intent or [...]
With Thanksgiving weekend behind us all politically interested people can look forward to the Senate opening work on the healthcare bill. According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:
. . . senators {will} work on weekends if necessary to hammer out compromises on thorny issues like a government-run insurance plan, abortion coverage and holding down costs.
“The [...]
It’s a busy holiday time so I’ll spend more time quoting and less time expounding. Back in May, Jim DeMint expressed the very opinion I still hold about How Republicans Can Build a Big-Tent Party by holding to one key principle:
There is a question Republicans do need to ask: What is it that binds our [...]
One of my favorite parts of blogging is getting comments and discussion. I really like the tone of discussion that we have here, and sometimes I get comments that really make an impression on me. I finally decided to find a way to show those “best of the best” comments so that people who may [...]
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It’s never safe to focus so much on the present that we lose sight of the future. This seems to be what is happening with the push by some to codify a purity test within the GOP. If you have not heard about this I would sum it up like so – [...]
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When the TARP bill was first being discussed I made a statement that I would like to repeat about the TARP money:
[T]his should not be used as a windfall by Congress to fund some pet projects.
We have come to the point now where Congress is faced with the question of whether to extend [...]
