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Top Gun FP Client Note: Out Here In California

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Grotesque Front Page New York Times Hack Job On Tea Party Movement

February 16, 2010  ·  Category: Politics
When people start wearing guns to rallies, what's the next thing that happens? - Tony Stewart, a leading civil rights activist (according to the article), quoted in "Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse For Rebellion on Right", David ...
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The 1934 Midterm Elections

February 16, 2010  ·  Category: History, Politics
Expected to pick up a few score seats, the Republicans lost thirteen instead.  The voters elected a new House of 322 Democrats, 103 Republicans, and ten Progressives or Farmer-Laborites.  Never in the history of the ...
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Senator Bayh (D-Indiana) Will Not Seek Re-Election

February 16, 2010  ·  Category: Politics
There is too much partisianship and... too much narrow ideology [in Washington].  Even at a time of enormous national challenge, the people's business is not getting done. All of this and much more has led me ...
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Krugman: Learning From Europe

January 11, 2010  ·  Category: Macro Economics, Politics
The real lesson from Europe is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works. ..... So why do we get such a different picture from ...
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Senator Dodd Will Not Run For Re-Election

January 6, 2010  ·  Category: Politics
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LA Times Profile of Ron Paul

January 5, 2010  ·  Category: Macro Economics, Politics
A lot of good ideas were shoved aside because of the Depression and the rise of the Keynesian view of the world. - George Selgin, Professor of Economics, University of Georgia, quoted in "Ron Paul's ideas ...
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WSJ Documents Crisis And Leviathan, 2009

The frontier between the state and market has shifted.  The realm of the state has been enlarged. - Daniel Yergin, author of 1998's The Commanding Heights which chronicled the ascent of free market forces starting in ...
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The Incredible Life And Character Of Dave Bing

December 20, 2009  ·  Category: Culture and Current Events, Government, Politics, Sports
I finished basketball in 1978, then went into my own business in 1980 and did it for 29 years... Now I get to the end of that career and probably should have retired.  But there ...
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WSJ Front Page: GE Pursues Pot Of Government Stimulus Gold

The government has moved in next door, and it ain't leaving.  You could fight it if you want, but soceity wants change.  And government is not going away. - Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric, in June ...
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