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Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion

By admin | Published: May 31, 2010
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR By George Friedman On Sunday, Israeli naval forces intercepted the ships of a Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO) delivering humanitarian supplies to Gaza. Israel had demanded that the vessels not go directly to Gaza but instead dock in Israeli ports, where the supplies would be offloaded and delivered to Gaza. [...]
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Reconciliation: Abuse of Power?

By admin | Published: March 7, 2010
The Democrats plan to push ObamaCare through Congress via reconciliation, a parliamentary tool traditionally used for fast-tracking budget measures with only 50 votes. In the context of health care reform, the invocation of this tool is indeed an abuse of power. Even some Democratic proponents of the legislation would agree according to the Wall Street [...]
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Stimulus vs. Unemployment

By admin | Published: November 21, 2009
Not quite as advertised…
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Obama’s Entitled America

By admin | Published: November 20, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats are trying to sell their health reform plan by claiming that it will reduce the deficit. Apart from it being a terrible strategy to draw attention to our already out-of-control deficits, it is an absurdly inaccurate claim. The Congressional Budget Office has released a report directly contradicting [...]
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Israeli “Settlements” Not The Issue

By admin | Published: November 19, 2009
The left’s short-sighted preoccupation with Israeli “settlements” ignores the historic and strategic rationale behind them. For hundreds of years, Israel has traded land for peace; it has never worked. President Obama attempted to pressure the Israeli’s to end the development of these settlements. Many experts not only predicted that this policy would be a failure, [...]
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Liberal Bloggers Miss President Bush

By admin | Published: November 15, 2009
Hillbuzz.org, a left-leaning blog written by a gay couple out of Chicago, just ran a post thanking and praising the former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush for visiting the victims of the Ft. Hood attack at Walter Reed while criticizing President Obama for his lack of leadership after the attack and for not [...]
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Corporatism vs. Capitalism

By admin | Published: November 13, 2009
Ron Paul rightly points out that corporatism and greed are not principles of capitalism.
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Opinion in SMU Daily Campus

By admin | Published: November 5, 2009
SMU Daily Campus 11/5/09 In Charanya Krishnaswami’s defense of the Democratic health reform plan on Tuesday, she reiterates some common fallacious arguments that are misinformed, misrepresent the opposition, and frame the debate in a rather elementary fashion. Krishnaswami seems to believe that the “public option” will bring honest competition to the health insurance market. This could not [...]
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