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We Can Help America’s Children by Leveraging the “Awwww” Factor

By on December 21, 2012

I’m a big fan of Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and currently Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. I think he speaks for families and the middle class and he expresses the values I think are important in our country. In a recent article in at [...]

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Fiscal Cliff Talks: What Might Have Happened Between Boehner and Obama

By on December 19, 2012

Barack Obama: John! How’s it going? John Boehner: Can’t complain, Mr. President. Cigarette? BO: No, thanks, I quit. JB: Right. So. Played any golf lately? BO: No time. Big election. Shitshow in Libya. You know how it is. JB: I hear ya. (The men stare at each other thoughtfully) JB: So. The fiscal cliff. BO: [...]

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Guess What? There Is No Fiscal Cliff

By on November 26, 2012

Mayday! Mayday! Watch out! There is a “fiscal cliff!”  We’re headed straight for it! It will be the ruin of all America! Just as soon as the 2012 presidential election was over, media outlets had a huge vacuum to fill and nothing to fill it with, at least that’s what I have to assume since [...]

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Conservative Thoughts on The Fiscal Cliff & Foreign Aid

By on November 10, 2012

Last summer, in a last ditch attempt at spurring the budgetary super committee to action on the crushing federal deficit, an agreement was reached in Washington D.C. That agreement — known officially as the Budget Control Act, and unofficially as The Sequester – combined with impending tax hikes as a result of congress’ inability to [...]

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