An Oklahoma Sheriff stands accused of running a sex-slave operation out of jail:
Michael Burgess surrendered to Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents and posted bond Wednesday night, hours after he resigned as Custer County sheriff amid 35 felony charges, including accusations of forcible oral sodomy, kidnapping, rape and perjury. Investigators said at one point Burgess [...]

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Here’s Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder on how to solve the mortgage crisis:
Pay close attention to the section that I bolded down below.  His entire “solution” centers around a.) a new large federal government organization (essentially an FDIC for the mortgage market) — call it the Department of Home Security (props to Bill Shughart), and b.) having that government [...]

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For my inaugural post I’m promoting myself, but oh well — I think readers will be interested in what I’m pushing. I have an article in the April 21 issue of The American Conservative (to which I have returned as an associate editor after my time as RP2008’s Internet Communications Coordinator) in which I recount [...]

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He says he isn’t running for Bush’s third term, but this report suggests otherwise:
This report from the reliable David Freddoso is the second time I have seen this same information (I take it more seriously now that Freddoso is reporting it), and it chafes me no end. Basically, it says that McCain won’t consider Mark [...]

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Watch this video of Ron Paul advisor Peter Schiff debating Art “Laffer Curve” Laffer back from 2006:

Looks like Laffer owes Schiff an apology (and $.01).
(via Tim Swanson)

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Once again, Republican Party elites try to keep Ron Paul supporters out. After all, the Republican party can’t have young, principled, excited activists around, can it?

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Obama’s elitist and ignorant remarks about the people of Pennsylvania are just the latest in what seems to be a long-standing trend within the liberal left.  The left (broadly defined) has a fundamental hypocrisy when it comes to greed:
They claim to decry greed, but when middle or lower class Americans (such as those Pennsylvanian towns where [...]

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You can tell a lot about a politician by what happens in their home district:
John McCain’s slate for important state convention delegates, was unable to muster the necessary votes to win in his own home district.
His list included three GOP precinct committeemen who had endorsed Democrat Janet Napolitano for governor and whose names appeared on [...]

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