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February 28, 2013

Obama brings the Sequestor Armegeddon over a Federal 2.4% cut; Non-criminals, says Press Secretary Jay Carney

Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney on “Special Report with Bret Baier”, 2/27: “As ICE made clear yesterday, the Agency release these low risk, non-criminal detainees under a less expensive form of monitoring to ensure that detention levels stay with ICE’s over all budget.” I dryly note that all of the illegal aliens being moved around …

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Notable Quote – James Gwartney and Richard Stroup

Similarly, the record of government planning in the United States is fraught with internal inconsistencies. The federal government both subsidizes tobacco growers and propagandizes against smoking. It pays some farmers not to produce grain products and, at the same time, subsidizes others with irrigation projects so they can grow more of the very same grain …

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Some People Stay In Rhode Island And Vote Democrat – This Is Known As ‘Bad Luck’

Riffing off the Heinlein Quote about reviling success and accepting tyranny, we have this gem via American Spectator about Apathy and Fear in the Ocean State. In Rhode Island, The ‘State of Corruption'{TM}, government has become so expensive, and so oppressive, and has so many dependents (current and former government employees exceed 20% of the …

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No Guns For Teachers

“I do not wish to give up the power of personal arms and be defenseless against those who will ever and always keep and bear arms those in crime and those in government.”   —Robert W. Burke This past Sunday, the Union Leader opined that armed security was necessary in our schools,however, the arming of teachers with …

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