In praise of Paul Ryan’s budget

Some conservatives don’t like Paul Ryan’s budget because it doesn’t cut spending enough. Some liberals don’t like Paul Ryan’s budget because it doesn’t raise taxes enough. When both sides are sniping, that’s a good sign it’s a good budget …

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The big impression

Mitt Romney can fix our broken economy. That’s the big impression I’m left with from the Republican National Convention …

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The silence of the wolves

The focus has been on Republican treatment of rape victims, Romney tax returns, and how Republicans want to put blacks back in chains. Can you imagine such an unserious campaign? Can you imagine such silence on key issues in the face of such critical economic issues pressing America?

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Should we care about who and what influences our leaders?

We have a clue on what and whom influenced Barack Obama. His father was a socialist. He admired Saul Alinsky, author of “Rules for Radicals.” Other Obama influencers where the communist Frank Marshall Davis, Harvard’s anti-American Roberto Unger, and most notoriously, the America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright and terrorist, Bill Ayers. These are the philosophers and intellects who molded the mind of Barack Obama. Each is distinguished by his disdain for American values.

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Musings on the Iowa State Fair

Your humble blogger is a little bloated today. I will regale you on my diet at the Iowa State Fair in a moment. First, a little politics …

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Bipartisan support for Ryan’s Medicare solution

There is bi-partisan recognition that Medicare is unsustainable in its present form. Despite political rhetoric to the contrary, many of Congressman Paul Ryan’s solutions to the Medicare mess have been embraced by both sides of the aisle …

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The character chasm between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan

Where Paul Ryan shows guts, Joe Biden offers up gall. Where Paul Ryan sticks to Catholic principle, Joe Biden caves. Paul Ryan believes in the American Dream which by definition includes Life. Joe Biden believes in only one thing: winning the next election, even if it means jettisoning core principles.

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What the Paul Ryan Choice Brings Into Play Among Catholic Voters

With the choice of Paul Ryan as Romney’s running-mate, the 2012 presidential election will be the first in U.S. history with a Roman Catholic on both sides of the ballot. The contrast between the Catholicism of Vice President Biden and Congressman Ryan perfectly represents the ongoing debate about the Catholic vote going back to the Reagan years …

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