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It’s no accident that Austrian economics is newly popular. It provides the best explanation for the business cycle we just lived through.
But the resurgent popularity of Austrian economics may actually be hampering the ability of the Federal Reserve to reflate the economy with low interest rate policies. Businesses, now aware of the dangers of a [...]

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This is what the 2010 midterm elections will change about U.S. climate policy: Cap-and-trade was dead. Now it will be deader.
The Republican rout on Nov. 2 swept in dozens of new representatives and senators opposed to using a cap-and-trade scheme to tackle greenhouse gas emissions. By one estimate, almost half of GOP freshman legislators don’t even believe [...]

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If we learned anything from this year’s midterm elections, it was that the American public is fed up with Washington. Although results indicate the tide seems to be flowing towards Republicans, this election was more a referendum on the ineptitude of many incumbents. However, particular to us Kentuckians, the election positioned two members from Kentucky’s [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding his Balanced Budget Amendment resolution, which has been adopted by the Senate Republican Conference:
“Mr. President, I’d like to briefly draw attention to a resolution that the conference of Republican Senators and Senators-Elect adopted yesterday. One that I think [...]

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With 37 incoming members who also identify themselves as Tea Party politicians, it won’t be his affiliation that makes Sen.-Elect Rand Paul (R-Ky.) unique on Capitol Hill in January.
But it may be his excitement about working with a divided House and Senate that sets him apart.
In an interview with “Washington Unplugged,” this Republican from Kentucky [...]

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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) Tuesday rejected the assertion by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that calls for cuts in defense spending represent the rise of “protectionism and isolationism” within the Republican party.
At a conference Monday at the Foreign Policy Initiative, a conservative think tank, McCain said that he was worried about divisions within the Republican Party on the [...]

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Some Democrats read the election returns as symptoms of health because things could have been worse: “Happily, we have leprosy, not cholera.” But embracing the fallacy of false alternatives is not a step toward recuperation. Neither is continuing the attitude that Democrats adopted when passing Obamacare and that foretold their unhappy election: “No compromise with the [...]

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Below is an Op-Ed that mentions Dr. Paul in the Washington Examiner.
On Tuesday, the American people sent a clear message. Now is the time for politicians in Washington to make hard choices, live within our means and reduce the size of government.
Republicans have wisely described these results as a second chance rather than a mandate. [...]

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Robert Byrd’s Highways to Nowhere

Published on 12 July 2010 by RyanH in General News

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Robert Byrd’s Highways to Nowhere - Wall Street Journal
By BRIAN BOLDUC
‘His heart belonged to you,” President Obama told the hundreds of West Virginians who attended Robert Byrd’s funeral last week. “Making life better here was his only agenda.” Maybe so. But despite the $4 billion in pork that Byrd served his constituents over the past [...]

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Published on 28 June 2010 by RyanH in Events

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Today is our online Money Blast, where supporters are making online contributions by clicking here and donating now. Please consider making a contribution today to help send a true defender of the founding American principles to the United States Senate.
Once elected, Rand Paul will work to control out-of-control federal spending by pushing a Balanced-Budget Amendment; [...]

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