Opinion Forum

Many Will Vote Their Gut Feelings This Year – Or Something

September 23rd, 2012

By Dan Miller This Howard Stern show features interviews with some ordinary folk who are likely to vote their gut feelings this year, having nothing else to help them to decide. Maybe they are right and the pro-life “Obama-Ryan” ticket will eventually result in the prohibition of abortion and the capture of Osama bin-Laden.

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Tags: 2016: Obama, film, Howard Stern, ignorance, McCain, Palin, Ryan, voters
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Governments Rot When Their Citizens Let Them (Part II)

May 10th, 2011

By Dan Miller Just a few reasons we get the worst governments we are ready to tolerate. (Read part one here.) “Single issue” voters often lose sight of the bigger issues that embrace their often reasonable but always smaller ones. This makes it very difficult to get the country back to basics and deal adequately […]

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Tags: 2012, abortion, birthers, Constitution, election, single issue, Trump, voters
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Bad News and Worse News

April 19th, 2011

By Tom Carter Which do you want first — the bad news on the economy or the worse news? OK, the bad news is that our economy continues to swirl around the drain, and it’s inexorably glugging away. Witness, for example, that Standard & Poor’s has just affirmed the U.S. government’s AAA credit rating, but […]

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Tags: 2012, economy, election, partisanship, politicians, spending, taxes, voters
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