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Split-Ticket Voting: Fear vs. Reality

Posted in politics, tagged ballot, candidate, Constitutional, Democrat, dialog, election, electorate, fear tactics, Green, independent, Libertarian, manipulation, media, myth, party, People's, politics, polling, polls, pollster, Populist, presidential, primary, Progressive, propaganda, pundit, race, Ralph Nader, Reform, Republican, spin tactics, split-ticket, splitting, spoiler, steal votes, strategists, third party, vote, voter turnout, voting, voting behavior on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It has been said that third-party candidates steal votes from mainstream candidates, even splitting tickets and costing presidential elections. Let’s think about this assumption for a moment. (more…)

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Is Ron Paul a Radical?

Posted in economy, politics, tagged 60 Minutes, accountant, Baby Boomers, bankruptcy, big government, borrowing, business, candidates, CDS, comptroller general, crude, currency, David Walker, debt, deficit, deflation, Democrat, devaluation, Dollar, economists, economy, election, energy, entitlements, Euro, fiscal, food, gasoline, globalism, Government Accountability Office, Greenspan, health care, housing bubble, inflation, investors, Iran, Iraq, lending, limited government, Medicare, monetary, mortgage crisis, oil, OPEC, Pakistan, presidential, price, recession, Republican, Ron Paul, Social Security, spending, Washington on January 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It has been called the “dirty little secret” that everyone in Washington knows.

“We suffer from a ‘fiscal cancer’. It is growing within us. And if we do not treat it, it can have catastrophic consequences for our country.”

Assume those are the words of Congressman Ron Paul, M.D.?

Think again. Those are the words of David Walker, top accountant in the nation.

The U.S. Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office hit the streets to warn Americans that the long-anticipated Economic Perfect Storm is not only brewing, it made landfall January 1, 2008. Walker began sounding an alarm last year “like an Old Testament prophet” according to CBS “60 Minutes”.

So is Congressman Paul an isolated alarmist — harping as he does on the precarious state of our “monetary system“? Or a modern-day Paul Revere? (more…)

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FOX News: We Decide 2008

Posted in media, politics, tagged 2008, bias, candidate, Clinton, debates, Edwards, Election Day, electoral, FOX News, Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, media, Obama, perception, politics, presidential, Richardson, Romney, Ron Paul, Ross Perot, Thompson, voting on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Did those of you who watched the Republican presidential debates this weekend notice? There was a notable dullness to Sunday’s FOX News Republican debate when compared to the much more lively ABC News debate hosted Saturday, January 5, 2008. (more…)

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