Monthly Archives: February 2012

Greed’s Not the Problem: The Case for More (Not Fewer) Oil Companies

What I’m about to tell you flies smack in the face what you’ve probably already heard. Gas prices are not going up because of “corporate greed,” as the Occupy Wall Street movement and Congressman Bernie Sanders want you to believe.

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Your Turn: Who Should Be the Republican Nominee?

Yesterday I told you how I felt about some of our potential nominees. Now I want to know how you feel:

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Rick Santorum’s Dark Electoral Past

Most candidates have some “restless spirits” in their past that come back to haunt them in current elections. Rick Santorum, however, might have the worst ghost of all. While Rick is up in Michigan touting his ability to win over blue-collar workers (“Reagan

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Richard Lugar Fights for His (Political) Life

I paid a visit to politico today, and on the front page, in big letters, I see the headline: Richard Lugar, the Grandfather of the Indiana GOP, Fights for Reelection I didn’t realize Lugar’s battle for a record-setting seventh consecutive term

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Why the US Should NOT be a Democracy

Yeah, you read the headline right. The United States should not be a democracy. We actually never have been one, either. You might not know this, but you live in a constitutional republic, which is nothing like a democracy at

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