Pithy Politics

Tele-Town Hall with Newt Gingrich

Tonight, 16-Feb-2012, I was able to speak one-on-one with Newt Gingrich during his Tele-Town Hall meeting. I was about the eighth caller out of the nine that he took questions from. Here is the gist of our conversation: First I thanked the Speaker for the opportunity to ask questions. I told him that “he had […]

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When CEOs mislead investors like Obama misleads taxpayers, they go to jail.

When CEOs mislead investors like Obama misleads taxpayers, they go to jail. History is full of cases when corporate leaders go to jail because they have duped investors by misrepresenting the financial condition of their company. Remember Bernie Madoff?Enron? Arthur Anderson? Global Crossing? WorldCom? But when a politician does it, he often gets praise from […]

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What is “the right to choose?”

What is the “right to choose?” It depends on your political philosophy. If you are conservative, it has to do with freedom and liberty. But in most cases if you are a liberal, it is just a hypocritical smoke-screen. Because if you are for a “woman’s right to choose”, but not for “school choice” and […]

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More ways for Obama to fundamentally transform America

Inspired by the great transformative steps already proposed, here are more transformations that Obama might consider: Eliminate kosher restaurants – the public health is at stake in the need to guarantee safe food preparations at restaurants. But the exceptions given by food inspectors to kosher establishments get in the way and are “establishment of religion.” […]

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What is Classical Liberalism?

“Classical Liberalism” is most closely aligned in the present day with Libertarianism. Usually when we speak of “Liberals”, especially in these pages, we mean pretty much the opposite of Classical Liberalism, which is Socialism. The following are the Ten Core Principals of Classical Liberalism: Liberty as the primary political value Individualism Skepticism about power Rule […]

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The new WMD: the catchphrase.

SOPA was killed by a catchphrase. It was killed by “SOPA = censorhship.” For a recent article on the subject, see today’s New York Times article by Cary Sherman, What Wikipedia Won’t Tell You. I probably agree with most of what is presented. The new WMD: the catchphrase. Yet I cannot stop from considering it […]

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Obama’s Economic Record

If you wonder about Obama’s economic record, it is dismal. Here are the facts:   For more information, see the original chart and description from the Unitied States Senate Republican Policy Committee

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Right to Choose

The “Right to Choose” is yet another appeal to moral high ground used by the left to advance its agenda. It is another case of picking a popular cause, but without really believing in the principle, but just as a means of manipulating and exploiting the gullible. Take “a woman’s right to choose.” This is […]

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Proof that Obama wants America to fail

With today’s rejection of the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline by the Obama administration, there is proof Obama wants America to fail: he does not really want to create jobs he does not really want America to have energy he does not really want America to be free of unfriendly, foreign energy suppliers he […]

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Frustrations with the National Republican Leadership

Only RINOs get to the top. It seems to me the Republican Party is structured to gather conservatives at the grassroots. But if you want to rise in the party, you have to go through a filtering process that guarantees that only RINOs will rise into positions of leadership. What do I mean by a […]

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