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The old GOP folks at home: Light-bulb wars

January 22, 2014 Willy Kessler Congress, Consumer issues, Energy, Politics, Republicans, Technology Leave a comment

After Mitt Romney’s humiliating defeat in 2012, many pundits explicitly or implicitly agreed with bloger Ted Frier who wrote that the GOP had deteriorated

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Heritage Foundation to Congress: “Don’t legislate. Scandal-gate.”

May 18, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Government, Obama, Politics One comment

This is what passes for “thinking” at the leading conservative “think tank,” the Heritage Foundation. Earlier this week [May 2013], the Heritage Foundation’s executive

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Ann Coulter wants me to be a Young Repub and stop Obama from ruining America

October 24, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Obama, Politics, Republicans 5 comments

I’m not young. And I’m not a Republican. So, Ann, you’re calling the wrong number. But I do appreciate the call—because it helps me

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Republican logic fail

July 3, 2012 Stacy Mergenthal Campaigns, Charity & Justice, Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, Employment, Government, Taxes Leave a comment

Something I don’t understand about GOP logic, if it can be called that, is the idea that public workers are just a useless drain

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