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It’s about Smart Ideas, Stupid!

Today, the battle for power isn’t between right and left, big and small, conservative and liberal or even Republican and Democrat. Today’s battle for power is between those who want to debate smart ideas and those who want to distract you with stupid ones. Continue reading

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The Moral Bankruptcy of Rand Paul

Libertarianism is one of the “crazy uncles” of American Conservatism, along with Neoconservatism, Christian Law advocates and Militia paranoids. They all overlap somewhat in that they mostly attract angry older men, and that they all respect defeating over compromise. Lastly, of course, they all promote various versions of victimology wherein people who aren’t as successful as they’d planned to be can blame someone else. Continue reading

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Goldman Sachs: Guilty of NY Felony Gambling Law?

Forget the SEC lawsuits, the sharkskin suits at Goldman Sachs appear to have violated New York gambling law by acting as bookmakers, a Class “E” Felony punishable by up to four years in jail. In New York, a person who lost an asset to an illegal bet is entitled to get it back. So if Goldman Derivatives were illegal bets, everyone who’s investment lost value to a derivative scheme is eligible to recover it… Continue reading

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Republicans Favor Banks – Say Screw the Economy

An April 8 Zogby International Poll says it all. Two-thirds of Republicans don’t believe Congress should act to oversee the big financial institutions that recklessly profiteered us into world insolvency. Will bank regulation be the Republican Waterloo in November? Continue reading

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AEI – the “I” stands for “Ick”

When David Frum got the axe from American Enterprise Institute this week, I thought, “Well, he should have expected that.” I know a little about Washington “Think Tanks.” You see, I had a long, if peripheral, association with this particular one. There is very little thinking that goes on at most think tanks. I’d go so far as to describe them, mostly, as PR firms that claim nonprofit status to avoid paying taxes. Continue reading

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