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The Tea Party Declares Victory; Obama has Delivered

3 August 2014 | Filed under: Political Commentary

The three core values of the Tea Party movement are Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. So state Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, founders of Tea Party Patriots, in their book Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution. To further make the point, they state that “Issues …

Krugman vs. Ferguson: What dustup?

22 August 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

I didn’t get my Newsweek in the mail until yesterday, after the Krugman vs Ferguson dispute had played out. But after reading the article in Newsweek (Why Obama Must Go), I’m thinking Niall Ferguson and Paul Krugman are more political pals than rivals. Describing the debt to GDP ratio as …

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