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12/18/12 – French economist says U.S. abandoning it’s strengths Medved quoted the leading French economist who said that the U.S. still drives the world economic engine because of entrepreneurial spirit, the drive to innovate, and predictable taxes and regulations, but that the last few years they’ve forgotten these last 2 principles and have slowed.  They’ll revive when they return to these principles. 12/19/12 – Obama concern over gun control rather than fiscal cliff. Why doesn’t Obama put half the apparent energy he’s been putting into the school shooting and gun control into the fiscal cliff, spending, deficit & budget, rather than half-baked ridiculous offers.  He feels great urgency for the former, but has stated that the debt/deficit is of no near term concern – he’ll just kick that can down the road.  It’s not a pet liberal issue or concern they can play on for political advantage.  It’s the spending that buys them votes and keeps them in pow...

It’s coming down to the Aug. 2 wire for the national debt ceiling deadline, with a game of chicken between the spending reduction & budget balancing advocates (GOP) & tax revenue raising advocates (Democrats). Workable compromises are yet to materialize – notwithstanding the Senate “gang of 6.” Prince Harry has issued a royal decree that the “cut, cap & balance” legislation passed in the House of Representatives will not even be considered in the Senate. And royal highness Obama indicated he would veto such a bill. Not that he has any specific proposal of his own. But he does have plenty of wrath & indignation for what he says are basically politically motivated and obstructionist Republicans. Not that there might be any nobler motives among the GOP, or any political maneuvering and motives by Democrats. Compromise is always one-sided with Democrats. And his highness also commanded the leaders to appear before him to explain themselves. Why should Boehner give an...

Campaign 2010 is in now in full swing. Democrat die-hards and their media allies are pulling out all the stops and slinging mud . Incapable of taking on the real issues and defending their abysmal performance on the economy, etc., they have a whole army of information thugs digging up any dirt they can find on Republican and Tea Party candidates. More typical Leftist smear tactics. The things they’re coming up with clearly indicate their level of desperation. They ridicule O’Donnell for having hung out briefly in high school with friends dabbling in witchcraft, and say that’s beneath the dignity of Congress. And yet clowns like Al Franken and Steven Colbert are not? Or those who more than dabbled in drugs or terrorism in college, or more recently and to this day more than dabble in Marxism/socialism, such as a number of Obama’s cohorts? And for all their liberal tolerance and inclusiveness, are they really so willing to offend the Wicken vote? Maybe so, since they’re too smal...