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Rick Santorum - WFT (What The Frack)

I'd like to urge Mitt Romney to disregard his fellow Republicans' warnings not to destroy Rick Santorum, and step up his attacks on Santorum's Washington insider status. Not because I'm a Romney fan. Far from it. It's just that it makes my job...

Obama’s Budget It’s More Than Math Calculations

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. The fact that President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget released Monday adds up mathematically is almost entirely beside the point. The real question — the one we’ll be debating all year — is whether it adds up...

Kicking Underdogs When They’re Down

Americans love an underdog. Maybe it’s an artifact of the American Revolution, when a rag-tag rabble of farmers and frontiersmen defeated the disciplined and well-provisioned military of the most powerful nation on earth. Even though the United States has usurped most...

Infrastructure And Manufacturing In The Presidents Budget

Saying the country can't "cut our way to growth," the President has some serious infrastructure money in his budget, along with serious help for America's manufacturers. This will create jobs and make our economy more competitive. Republicans are already blasting it...

At CPAC The Worst of Both Worlds

The Republican coalition, and indeed American conservatism itself over the past 30 years, has been characterized as an odd, almost unnatural pairing of "culture warrior" social conservatives and Ayn-Rand-fixated fiscal conservative, held together by little more that...

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