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Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire Global Financial System Is About To Crash? by Michael Synder

   2  2 Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On Monday, the price of gold had fallen … Continue reading

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Obituary. RIP the United States of America

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as … Continue reading

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“Overpaid and Underworked” Federal Employees… by Jason Richwine

“Overpaid and Underworked” Federal Employees? It’s Not Just a “Perception” Jason Richwine March 1, 2013 at 2:38 pm The Washington Post has a sympathetic article today on federal workers who consider themselves unfair victims of the sequester. Unfortunately, the article … Continue reading

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Busting 5 Myths About the Minimum Wage…by Amy Payne

  When someone says “minimum wage,” what comes to mind? Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying to feed several kids? While President Obama and other proponents of a higher minimum wage want you to … Continue reading

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Calvin Coolidge and the Moral Case for Economy by Amity Shlaes

Amity Shlaes, Author, Coolidge AMITY SHLAES is a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg, a director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, and a member of the board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. She has served as … Continue reading

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Carbon Tax Hallucinations…by Paul Driessen

Carbon Tax Hallucinations by Paul Driessen on February 19, 2013      Print This Post Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes and strong tornadoes are at or near their lowest ebb in decades. Global sea ice is back to normal, … Continue reading

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Calvin Coolidge: An Economic General Who Cut Taxes & Produced Surpluses

Mr. Merry, editor of the National Interest, is the author of “Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians. n 1920, Coolidge emerged as the running mate to Republican presidential candidate Warren Harding, an intellectually … Continue reading

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’2016: Obama’s America’ Movie Is Disturbingly Necessary « Scot Paulson, CBS Los Angeles

’2016: Obama’s America’ Movie Is Disturbingly Necessary   August 17, 2012 8:47 AM   Barack Obama (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/GettyImages)   Filed under Political Blog Conservative Related tags 2012, 2016: Obama’s America, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Conservative, Documentary, Economy, Mitt Romney, … Continue reading

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Ben Stein: Buy Homes, Not Stocks

Ben Stein: Buy Homes, Not Stocks Wednesday, 04 Apr 2012 07:51 AM By Dan Weil Homes represent a much better bargain than stocks at this point, says financial commentator Ben Stein, a Newsmax contributor. “The thing to buy now is … Continue reading

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