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California, net exporter… of residents

Erika Johnsen — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:41:42 +0000

Bleeding blue.

Pro golfer Phil Mickelson found himself in a heap of PR trouble for having the audacity to tell the simple truth about his motivations for looking for an out from California’s onerous tax-code additions, and he isn’t the only upper-income earner thinking about pursuing mitigating financial options — but the bulk of the mass exodus [...]

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Matthews: Obama’s second inaugural was just like Lincoln’s

Erika Johnsen — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:41:48 +0000

Historic.

Presented sans comment. Reminds me of another second inaugural — Lincoln’s. So much of Lincoln in that speech, the Gettysburg address to the second inaugural itself. I thought was interesting was an attempt to draw a balance. Of course, he’s a man of the progressive side, but, he tried to draw a balance there between [...]

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Say, who’s the real “extremist” here, anyhow?

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:41:16 +0000

Narratives.

Just for a quick addendum to Allahpundit’s earlier post on the Obama ‘I believe in redistribution’ audio that was making the rounds today: As AP already pointed out, it’s never a bad idea to remind voters of how President Obama’s mind works, but this isn’t brand new information. BuzzFeed just followed up with a whole [...]

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Obama’s Harvard law prof: “The president must be defeated” in 2012

Erika Johnsen — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:41:05 +0000

Financial confidence and food stamps.

While I often find myself aghast at President Obama’s displays of socialist/progressive leanings, there are plenty of really hardcore liberals who apparently think that President Obama hasn’t been progressive enough. Robert Unger — a bigtime Brazilian politician and former professor of Barack Obama’s at Harvard law, who also served as a frequent adviser to Obama [...]

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The Catholic controversy about the Paul Ryan budget

Tina Korbe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:26:27 +0000

Talk about trumped up.

Politically active progressive Catholics never expected this. They expected “Catholic social teaching” to be their trump card in every political debate — the magic phrase they uttered to somehow shame conservative Catholics into supporting this or that liberal initiative. What business did Paul Ryan have to use “Catholic social teaching” to justify his ideas? Yet, [...]

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Gingrich on numerous past occasions: FDR was the greatest president of the 20th century

Tina Korbe — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:40:20 +0000

The equivalent of Mitt Romney's "I'm a progressive."

If we’re all going to get in a tizzy over Mitt Romney’s past comments to the effect that he is a progressive, I think it only fair that we also work ourselves into a tizzy over some of Gingrich’s past comments — to wit, his repeated praise of big-government glorifier Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his warm [...]

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Obama’s BIG small-minded class warfare speech in Kansas doesn’t disappoint; Update: Video added

Tina Korbe — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:52:52 +0000

Transparent progressivism.

Today in Osawatomie, Kan., Barack Obama laid bare his progressive agenda, calling for more federal involvement in education, increased spending on infrastructure, an extension of the payroll tax cut and increased taxes on the rich. He even invoked Teddy “the Trustbuster” Roosevelt, who, if you’ll recall, became increasingly socialistic as the sun of his national [...]

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When “I Can” Becomes “You Must”

Jimmie Bise, Jr — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:45:35 +0000

It Isn't Fairness if You Have to Coerce It.

Breitbart’s news site has an interesting article about how nearly 2000 very rich people are lobbying the Democrats to raise taxes on “the rich”, defined as those people who make over $250,000 a year. Laying aside the issue of whether a small business owner who reports that income on an individual tax return (and there [...]

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