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'Austerity' Promotes Growth, Government Spending Doesn't
Nancy Pfotenhauer : Layering punitive new taxes on top of rampant spending would add economic insult to injury.
Mitt Romney’s Memory Hole
Robert Schlesinger: Mitt Romney frequently employs the "I don't remember but I won't deny it" defense.
Why Jamie Dimon Should Resign
James Rickards: Dimon presides over a corrupt institution that extracts wealth from the many and directs it to the few with no value added.
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It's funny what Mitt Romney can and cannot remember (or maybe that should be can and cannot "remember"), be it about bullying in high school, or cold, harsh behavior toward congregants in his church.
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The latest CBS News/New York Times poll shows President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a dead heat in the race for the White House.
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First, Mitt Romney was mean to a dog. And now, he was a childhood bully.
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Lakewood, COLO.—There were two equally queasy groups in the Colorado House of Representatives State Affairs Committee hearing room at the state capitol Monday night. One group was supporters and advocates for civil unions, hoping desperately for a last-minute change of heart by one of the Republicans on the committee. The other group was moderate Republicans, watching nervously as multimillionaire philanthropist Tim Gill and his lobbyist Ted Trimpa sat for the whole hearing.
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Let the great debate begin—no, not the one between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney, but between fearless free market economist and Mercatus scholar Veronique de Rugy and big government advocate and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. The question: Does the failure of European "austerity" measures mean the United States should eschew concerns about reckless spending and instead renew our romance with big spending, spiced this time with serious tax increases?
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A dozen years ago I was honored to be asked to give the commencement address at my daughter's graduation from high school. I was quite puffed up about it, until I realized I had to actually come up with something that a) wouldn't embarrass her, and b) actually might be the least bit moving or interesting. Then, of course, panic set in, and I did my best.
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