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An Immodest Proposal

April 21st, 2011

By Brian Bagent I may be mistaken, but it has probably been a couple years since a trial-balloon was floated regarding implementing a Value-Added Tax (VAT) here in the States. With the way the budget, revenue, and debt are being discussed, it is bound to come up again as a means to “solve” the problems […]

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Tags: business, debt, Europe, Fair Tax, income tax, profit, taxes, U.S., VAT
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Are We There Yet?

March 30th, 2011

By Brian Bagent Every parent has heard this more times than we care to remember, but this isn’t about parenting. I’m talking about the days of the ultimate inversion. The set-up has been a long time coming, but I think we’re about there. Year before last, when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about constitutional authority […]

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Tags: Commerce Clause, Filburn, free trade, freedom, healthcare, Obamacare
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Observations from the Trenches

March 13th, 2011

By Brian Bagent The trenches of health care delivery, that is. Recently, I had three ladies in my care at the hospital where I work. One of them was just post-op for a prolapsed bowel (where part of your bowel goes inside itself, not unlike what your socks look like just after you take them […]

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Tags: dependency, drugs, ER, hospital, malingerer, Medicaid, narcotics, nurse
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No Constitutional Scholar

August 13th, 2010

By Brian Bagent Judge Susan Bolton must be impeached and removed from the bench. There is no other recourse for a federal judge who is so grossly ignorant of the Constitution. And I’m not even referring to the idiocy of her decision against Arizona’s SB 1070, I’m talking about the fact that she even made […]

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Tags: Constitution, federal, impeachment, judge, jurisdiction, states
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Lefty Media Bias? Say It Ain’t So!

July 23rd, 2010

By Brian Bagent I tune in to Rush Limbaugh every couple weeks or so. Earlier this week, he was nearly apoplectic over more discovered left-wing media bias. I had no idea what had set him off because he’s always railing against left-wing media bias. Well, I subscribe to The Media Research Center and get e-mails […]

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Tags: distortion, JournoList, leftist, lies, media bias, Palin, partisan, racism, Wright
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