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Liberal insider Ron Barber: “Putting politics aside?”

  Democrat Ron Barber is not letting any grass grown under his supposedly non-political feet.  Yesterday a Washington, D.C. fundraiser hosted by and headlining Nancy Pelosi collected checks from a virtual who’s who of liberal Washington interests. Among those funneling money into Barber’s campaign was none other than radical Raul Grijalva who actually advocated boycotting [...]

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Irony, Thy Name is Lugar

Richard Lugar does not even own a home in Indiana anymore. Despite this, someone thought it would be a good idea for his campaign to attack challenger Richard Mourdock for absenteeism. Seriously. The Lugar campaign has released the following ad, which you can judge on its own merits: The Mourdock campaign has responded: Since Richard [...]

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Unlocking Entrepreneurial Forces: States Can Spark Business Creation, Attract Venture Capital Investment, and Increase Job Growth by Eliminating Taxation of Capital Gains

This year, Arizona policymakers have a chance to do something that no other state with an income tax has done: eliminate the tax on capital gains. Arizona, like most states with an income tax, treats capital gains as “ordinary” income and taxes it at the same rate as all other income. But eight states – [...]

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Matt Yglesias and the Totally Awesome Energy Narrative

Dig the moats, unroll the concertina wire and man the battlements! With the looming possibility of $4.00 per gallon gasoline at the pump, the Left’s defense of President Obama’s disastrous energy policies has begun in earnest. Matt Yglesias unfurled the narrative at Slate.com: Out of Gas, The folly of blaming Obama for higher gas prices. [...]

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A Quantum of Tough

“We didn’t win by a lot but we won by enough, and that’s all that counts,” Romney said triumphantly. For once in Mitt Romney’s existence, he was too humble and self-effacing with regards to his victory in Michigan. He won a better victory than anyone seems willing to give the man credit for. Unlike the [...]

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Cane Toads, virtual schools, and unintended consequences

In 1935, Australia had a problem with beetles. The bugs were destroying the nation’s sugar cane crop, so, to combat the pests, lawmakers introduced over 100 Cane Toads to the continent. While the toads took care of the beetles, Australia now has 200 million Cane Toads and an ongoing problem controlling these amphibians. Cane Toads [...]

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With friends like John McCain….

Who needs enemies?  It sounds as though McCain may be campaigning for Barack Obama, again. We saw it in full bloom when McCain was the 2008 candidate and appeared to be going out of his way to aid the campaign of his opponent. H/T to commenter Doc

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Eric Holder explains why he should be fired over Operation Fast & Furious.

Inadvertently (via @vermontaigne): And here’s the transcript, just to reinforce the point: Congressman: Do you believe the program was a mistake? Holder: I think it was a good, it was a bad attempt at trying to deal with a very pernicious problem where guns are flowing from the United States to Mexico. It was, in [...]

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Wiki at War

Download audio here Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by James Carafano to discuss cyber warfare, social networking in a turbulent political age, and cyber crimes and terrorism. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and [...]

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Cane Toads, Virtual Schools, and Unintended Consequences

By Jonathan Butcher In 1935, Australia had a problem with beetles. The bugs were destroying the nation’s sugar cane crop, so, to combat the pests, lawmakers introduced over 100 Cane Toads to the continent. While the toads took care of the beetles, Australia now has 200 million Cane Toads and an ongoing problem controlling these [...]

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