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Labeling Obama Overrated as Politician
Adam Turner explains at RedState.com why he believes the 44th president gets too much credit for his political skills. My Red State colleague, Jeff Charles, has already reported on former…
Samuel J. Wurzelbacher
American conservative activist and commentator (1973–2023)
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Remembering How Joe the Plumber Saw Through Obama
David Harsanyi of the Federalist remembers a man who had fleeting fame on the political right late in the first decade of the 2000s. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as…
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City Journal addresses key question: Why progressives mislead
John McGinnis devotes a City Journal column to the perplexing questions of progressives’ perennially poor relationship with the truth. Progressivism’s vision of the role of the state conflicts with the…
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Joe the Plumber in ’08; Mark the Roofer in ’13
Remember Obama’s encounter with Joe the Plumber in 2008? It shed light on the different mindsets of a guy who has worked all his life and a guy who has…
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Obama (and other pols) love light rail
Randal O’Toole writes here about Obama’s support for a new light rail mass transit system in Detroit. Detroit is a dying city (thanks to decades of statism) and it already…
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Tax Departments Undercompensated?
Any attempt to achieve equity with broad brushstrokes is likely to be deemed unfair. So it is with Haywood County, which opted to perform a reval in the crushed housing…
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Barone analyzes last week’s Democratic congressional failures
Michael Barone‘s latest Washington Examiner article explores the reasons for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s failure to win enough votes for a 1,924-page spending bill and outgoing House Speaker Nancy…
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Gingrich says Americans can choose food stamps or paychecks
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich‘s latest Human Events column presents a stark choice for voters: In the 2008 campaign, President Obama gave us all a hint of his socialist…
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Another piece on Etheridge
My friend Ed Cline (an accomplished novelist who did not go to college, BTW), writes here about Etheridge’s great moment in the national eye. He’s very much in favor of…
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Let?s see your proof
In the latest Newsweek, Rana Foorohar offers this assessment of economists? efforts to explain ?our failed financial system?: For the first time in decades, the profession is rethinking all the…
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Obama’s soak the rich mentality
Jeff Jacoby exposes it in this Boston Globe column. In their frenzy to expand the size and power of the government, the Obamacrats ignore the fact that wealthy individuals do…
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Hawaii already has Obamacare lite — how’s it working out?
Not very well, writes Stephen Spruiell in this column. Maui is underserved with just one government-run hospital, but it fights against private competition. The wealthy can go to Oahu if…