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    Would you support going back to a gold standard like we had before money was fiat?

    Yes. Even a currency that was redeemable to some limit per year in gold -- would still be better than present.
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    Who else is sick of those who whine that Representatives and Senators

    "could make more in the private sector? Who else is sick of those who claim and whine that congresspersons "could make more in the private sector" as a way of excusing their constant raises and huge perpetual benefit packages? Well, then, go and try! Go make more money -- we do NOT want such...
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    Is Obama Using The Very Same ‘Politics of Fear’ That He Once Criticized?

    Is Obama Using The Very Same ‘Politics of Fear’ That He Once Criticized? Ryan Mauro writes today: Goodbye, grim warnings about terrorism. Hello, grim warnings about the economy. President Obama frequently railed against the Bush-era “politics of fear” on the campaign trail. In his inaugural...
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    Is it fair for Democrat operatives to conspire against and carry out a plan to

    bankrupt Alaska's Palin Family? Is it fair for Democratic operatives to conspire against and carry out a plan to bankrupt Alaska's Palin Family? Martin Knight writes today: "A group of Alaska liberals, with the apparent cooperation of members of the Alaska Democratic Party have been filing...
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    Is it fair for Democrat operatives to conspire against and carry out a plan

    to bankrupt Alaska's Palin Family? Is it fair for Democratic operatives to conspire against and carry out a plan to bankrupt Alaska's Palin Family? Martin Knight writes today: "A group of Alaska liberals, with the apparent cooperation of members of the Alaska Democratic Party have been filing...
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    Is it fair that elite liberal pundits are calling Sad Sack Obama a "Terrible Bore"?

    Is it fair that elite liberal pundits are calling Sad Sack Obama a "Terrible Bore"? Vanity Fair pundit eliter Micheal Wolff chops-up precious Obama: "Barack Obama Is a Terrible Bore" "That homespun bowling crap on Jay Leno, followed by the turgid, teachy fiscal policy lecture, together with...
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    i never heard you complain about Geithner in the last 8 years? You were...

    You did some research, that's good. The man was a Typhoid Mary -- and you're right, too many politicians and bureaucrats and elites in power were way out of bounds, or operating beyond their ability, in ethics and philosophy of managing other people's money. Carelessness of the modern...
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    Obama says he is a modern Abraham Lincoln, but is he more like Andrew Johnson?

    Wikipedia says today: " Johnson succeeded to the Presidency upon Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865. As president he took charge of Presidential Reconstruction – the first phase of Reconstruction – which lasted until the Radical Republicans gained control of Congress in the 1866...
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    Since Obama compares himself to Lincoln, should he listen closely to what

    Obama is such a yapper, yap yap yap, yap yap, yap yap. When. Do . You. Think. He. Has. Time. To. Listen? One man alone has Obama's ear, old Wormtongue, William Ayers, bomb-making husband of the alleged cop-killer, Dohrn. What could Lincoln have to say to Obama that Obama or Ayers could...
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    What makes you more angry: political correctness or people who scream political

    I don't bother getting angry anymore. Anger is a wildcard, not controllable, as unpredictably dangerous as a wildfire. But mostly ineffective. Terms change. "Legs" used to be profane. "That's sucks" used to be profane, more recently. But what I find to be torture is to see people not...
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    Has Obama earned any right to compare himself to Abraham Lincoln?

    Or is it just the hubris of a trophy hunter who has the defeated beast stuffed and mounted and the head hung on the wall fro all to see?
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