Articles Posted by Puzzleman
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--snip--Not only is the left's outrage ego-based, but it is rooted in greed. Take the left's centerpiece issue, social and economic justice. What do those flowery phrases actually mean, anyway? Aren't they just doublespeak for envy, coveting one's neighbor, and a gimme-gimme mentality? When an injustice serves progressive ideology, we see the outrage in full-color display. However, at other times, the silence is deafening -- or there is disingenuous posturing...
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) appeared on the Monday night edition of FOX News' "Hannity." Rep. Ryan goes through several charts that project our debt, shows spending in FY 2010 and what he will propose in the budget for the next fiscal year...
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The school board of Rhode Island's financially troubled capital city has voted to send termination letters to all of its nearly 2,000 teachers after city officials said the move would give them "maximum flexibility" to make budget cuts. State law requires school departments to notify teachers by March 1 if they'll be laid off the following school year...
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The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics has yielded a singular clarity.--snip-- Led by famously progressive Wisconsin — Scott Walker at the state level and Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan at the congressional level — a new generation of Republicans has looked at the debt and is crossing the Rubicon. Recklessly principled, they are putting the question to the nation: Are we a serious people?
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Here's a sad and revealing chronology about a U.S. president named Obama, a California company named Solyndra and, now, a congressional investigation into the administration's loan guarantee of $535 million in a failed green energy project that was supposed to create jobs. But it didn't...
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However, public sector "collective bargaining" is a bad joke, given that there are only chairs on one side of the bargaining table. The bigger universe of interested parties have zero representation in the process. There is no natural force working to keep costs in line...
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--snip-- "I feel that everybody has a learning curve, and I feel that the reason why I was willing to step out for him was because I believed in his integrity and I believed in his heart," the influential TV host said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in Chicago...
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He further declared that "State multiculturalism" dead, saying that it enables extremism, and fails to offer young people the clear alternative to radicalism -- traditional Western culture and values. He acknowledged that some Muslims plot world dominion and argued that the West's cultural weakness is enervating, inviting extremism and aggression...
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--snip--Today there is a global food shortage and skyrocketing prices. This has become the underlying factor in the riots in Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt, where up to 56% of a person's income is dedicated to the acquisition of food. These riots are now leading to the upheaval of governments and the very real possibility of the ascendancy of the radical elements into control...
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The victims of today's excessive government regulatory zeal face the same enemy confronted by the nation's Founders: unconstrained centralized power...
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It appears that upon leaving the Obama White House one undergoes an epiphany somewhat akin to St. Paul on the road to Damascus. This is particularly true for the economic team that the President chose. -- snip --It is always cathartic to realize the failure of one's actions and intentions; but in this case many millions of Americans are suffering and the prospect of severe economic upheaval in the not too distant future is a near certainty because of these failures.
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--snip--For the first time in a long time, the progressive movement is staring at the historical abyss. The 2010 election wasn't merely a "shellacking." It was an utter repudiation of a political movement which thought the 2008 election was enough of a mandate to step from behind the curtain and reveal who they truly are to the American electorate. What most American saw was an arrogance coupled with an anything goes a lust for power they found both appalling and frightening...
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--snip--To try to get America back on its feet, the Republicans in Congress need to keep things simple and be downright tough. The program needs to include 1) across-the-board serious budget cuts (10% plus a year) in every department; 2) refuse to fund ObamaCare, period; 3) stop so-called greenhouse gas regulation outright before it cripples American industry based on junk science; and 4) make individual liberty and its promotion the touchstone of any government program, thereby expanding the reach and appeal of the GOP and recalling it to its roots...
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