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From the Wall Street Journal:

Who Pays for Cap and Trade?
Hint: They were promised a tax cut during the Obama campaign.

Cap and trade is the tax that dare not speak its name, and Democrats are hoping in particular that no one notices who would pay for their climate ambitions. With President Obama depending on vast new [...]

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Libertarian Party founder David Nolan has some interesting thoughts on the future of the Libertarian Party.
He sharply criticizes the job done by the Bob Barr campaign and calls for a re-radicalization of the LP.
Here are my thoughts on voting and the Barr campaign:
I ended up pulling the lever for Bob Barr, even though not voting [...]

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That’s what Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says:

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Given that Dr. Paul was the only Republican presidential candidate who warned us about this economic mess we were creating, I can’t help thinking about what could have been, had the time table on this economic disaster become apparent while the primary was still going.
Imagine if the bailout bill came before Congress a year ago, [...]

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Today the TSA unveiled new uniforms, with dark blue shirts and shiny gold badges (that replace an embroidered patch).
According to the TSA site, the new costume is designed to make TSA employees look more like an “officer” and less like a security “screener.”

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I didn’t attend the press conference(s) today, but I’ve read reports from a variety of sources (with varying points of view). Here are some random observations:

Did the McCain campaign really think that having Phil Gramm ask Ron Paul to endorse McCain was a good idea? (From what I can gather it was the dirty tactics [...]

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Even the RNC says the sham process conducted by the Nevada GOP wasn’t legitimate:
A key Republican committee says it is troubled by the “ineptness” of the Nevada GOP and called the state party’s attempt to choose delegates for next week’s national convention “flawed, inadequate and unacceptable.”
A ruling from the Republican National Committee panel said the [...]

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