Opinion Forum

Darwinism Is Needed

April 6th, 2012

By Dan Miller We need social Darwinism. Without it, we are likely to become extinct like the do-do bird. According to President Obama, the Ryan budget passed last week by the House of Representatives 228 to 191 with no Democrats supporting it is nothing but thinly veiled social Darwinism,” Mr. Obama said. “By gutting the […]

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Tags: budget, Greece, green energy, revenue, social darwinism, spending, taxes
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Supercommittee Deadlines

November 15th, 2011

By Tom Carter The Washington Post has published a series of charts showing the supercommittee’s deadlines and related actions and what happens if they’re all successfully met. It also shows what will happen, as specified in the Budget Control Act, if the deadlines aren’t met. This is the best brief summary I’ve seen. The Post […]

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Tags: budget, Congress, cuts, deadlines, defense, entitlements, supercommittee
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Budget Myths versus Reality

November 7th, 2011

By Tom Carter Robert J. Samuelson has been thinking and writing about business and economics for more than 40 years, but he isn’t an economist. That’s in his favor because he’s free to research and evaluate facts unencumbered by the vague theories and detachment from reality that plague economics, known for good reason as “the […]

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Tags: budget, Congress, conservative, default, liberal, myths, supercommittee
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Peace Beat

September 11th, 2011

By Jan Barry War drums began beating across America before the dust settled at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It’s an all-American tradition to march to the beat for military action, the fountain of flag waving excitement that produces legions of war correspondents, bugle-blaring headlines and armchair commandos in newsrooms. It is rare […]

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Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, budget, Iraq, Keller, peace, Pentagon, war
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President Obama Is Incompetent and the Unicorns He Rode In on Are Devious

July 26th, 2011

By Dan Miller Unfortunately, he remains the President and the supposed head of the Democrat Party still in control of the Senate. We need to get past the debt limit mess, soon. On July 23rd, as they had on July 22nd and previously, the debt limit talks collapsed yet again with President Obama insisting on […]

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Tags: border, budget, China, debt limit, Latin America, Middle East, satire, unions
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