Which is it?

By quinersdiner | February 23, 2018

Wait a second. So it's okay for kids and pundits alike to say that GOP politicians are essentially accomplices to mass slaughter and the moral equivalent of mass murderers, but we have no right to judge an armed officer who stood idly by while kids were literally murdered? https://t.co/ogTUNkq3DC — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) February 22,…

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The Gingrich Solution

By quinersdiner | September 30, 2015

Newt Gingrich is a conservative visionary.

Democrats controlled the House of Representatives for 40 consecutive years. Mr. Gingrich came up with a campaign idea called the Contract with America which would empower voters.

Voters liked it and put Republicans in control of the House for a dozen years beginning in 1994.

Gingrich and his fellow Republicans produced remarkable results by reducing government spending and balancing the budget. As you can see in the chart above, federal spending as a percentage of GDP began to plummet when Gingrich became speaker. It began to climb again when he resigned from the Speakership in 1998.

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The importance of labels

By quinersdiner | March 26, 2013

It is now politically-incorrect to “label” people. I think this means that we’re not supposed to call someone a liberal when they’re a, well, a liberal. I understand. The liberal label is tainted…

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