Politics Archive
NYT: Redistribution Of Wealth At Heart Of Health Care Bill
The bill is the most sweeping piece of federal legislation since Medicare was passed in 1965. It aims to smooth out one of the roughest edges in American society — the inability of many people to ...
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March Madness - Not The One You Are Thinking
There is a mad rush going on in Congress right now by the Democrats to assemble the 216 House votes necessary to pass the health care bill on which a vote could come as soon ...
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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
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.
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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
December 29, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Government, Macro Economics, Politics
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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