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What Does the Republican Party Want?

January 12th, 2013

By Dan Miller Reelection of its incumbents and power of course, but what else matters? Anything? An article by Scott Rasmussen published yesterday contends that Just a few days after reaching [the fiscal cliff] agreement, an inside-the-Beltway publication reported another area of bipartisan agreement. Politico explained that while Washington Democrats have always viewed GOP voters [...]

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Tags: Chavez, Congress, conservative, dependency, elections, liberal, Republican
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Cult of Personality: Who Comes to Mind?

January 7th, 2013

By Dan Miller North Korea, Venezuela and other countries have them. Instead of freedom they provide a benevolent hero to worship. The leader of a cult of personality has real power in his own right and/or is a front for others, some of whom are expendable if they might diminish the perceived glory of the leader. [...]

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Tags: cargo, cult, dependency, narcissistic, Obama, personality, worship
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Is the Republican Party Dead or Dying? Part I

November 10th, 2012

By Dan Miller Should we put it on life support and hope that it survives or attempt to displace it gradually with something better? Yesterday, I received a gracious e-mail from the Obama-Biden campaign thanking me personally for all that I had done: Friend – I hope you saw Jim’s note with the video of [...]

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Tags: Democrat, dependency, elections, Hispanics, parties, principles, Republican
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Two Democrats on an Escalator

October 27th, 2012

By Dan Miller This is too good not to post. Hat tip to Israel Matzav.

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Tags: Democrats, dependency, entitlement, helpless, liberals, satire, welfare
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Confidence that Romney/Ryan Will Win Is Good; Overconfidence Is Not

October 19th, 2012

By Dan Miller The news of late has been very good. That is not a valid reason to slack off. It is an excellent reason to push harder. According to recent reports, President Obama’s reelection seems to be increasingly unlikely and Governor Romney is beginning to look like our next President. It may be time [...]

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Tags: Chavez, dependency, election, fair, free, Obama, Romney, unions
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Chávez Got Reelected; What about the U.S. November Election?

October 8th, 2012

By Dan Miller Chávez is said to have got fifty-four percent of the vote. Assuming that he did, why and does it augur anything for our own election? Here are some thoughts from my favorite Venezuelan blogger, Daniel Duquenal (pseudonym) about yesterday’s election. A student of Venezuela, he lives and votes there. He also dislikes [...]

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Tags: corruption, dependency, election, Obama, racism, Romney, U.S., Venezuela
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Dependency, Civilization and Survival

September 4th, 2012

By Dan Miller Some dependence is necessary; too much can lead to the deaths of freedom and civilization. In our civilization, society provides many public resources unlikely to be provided by individuals except through taxation. Some public roads have been built by private individuals or groups of individuals without government financing; few have. There are [...]

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Tags: demand, dependence, dependency, politicians, power, supply, welfare
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Thank you, Government, for permitting success. Or something.

July 16th, 2012

By Dan Miller I was going to re-blog an article written by Mike at Make an Effort. I agree with what he said there. However, when I got to writing a short comment for the re-blog it quickly got too long. So, here it is. President Obama recently gave an historic address on business creation. [...]

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Tags: business, dependency, entrepreneur, free enterprise, government, private, success
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We Continue To Be Deprived of Our Most Sacred Human Rights

May 3rd, 2012

By Dan Miller Even the most essential of our human rights are being withheld by “our” government. Unless we fix the problems ourselves soon, the U.N. Human Rights Commission must intervene to bring truth, fairness, justice and the American Way for all. The United States Constitution Declaration of Independence states with great clarity, We hold [...]

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Tags: dependency, education, free, housing, human rights, Obamacare, satire
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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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