Scott Galupo

How Income Gap Ignorance Will Hurt Entitlement Reform

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A number of liberal writers have fastened onto survey data, forthcoming in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, showing public perceptions about wealth distribution that diverge significantly with economic reality.

Tags:: New Deal,; poverty,; deficit and national debt,; healthcare reform,; Medicare,; democratic party,; taxes,; Ronald Reagan,; healthcare,; Bill Clinton,; social security,; republican party

Why Voters Hate Washington Incumbents

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Jonah Goldberg and Will Cain have a nice dialogue up on the National Review Online, diagnosing the causes of the damage that congressional Democrats are going to sustain in November.

Tags:: 2010 election,; deficit and national debt,; healthcare reform,; Congress,; healthcare

Beck, Palin, O'Donnell, and the Tea Party Are the New Buchanans

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Last month’s “Restoring Honor” rally (“America today begins to turn back to God”) and the Delaware GOP primary victory of Christine O’Donnell (“We’re not trying to take back our country; we are our country”) reveal that the Tea Party movement isn’t really a revival of Goldwater Republicanism.

Tags:: unemployment,; Pat Buchanan,; 2010 election,; Christine O'Donnell,; Glenn Beck,; George H.W. Bush,; Congress,; economy,; democratic party,; Barack Obama,; George W. Bush,; immigration reform,; Newt Gingrich,; Ronald Reagan,; Sarah Palin,; republican party,; Tea Party

The Difference Between the Tea Party and the GOP Establishment

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Reason magazine’s Matt Welch asks a good question: What did Delaware’s GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell actually run on?

Tags:: Mike Castle,; Christine O'Donnell,; Paul Ryan,; Glenn Beck,; deficit and national debt,; healthcare reform,; energy policy and climate change,; Congress,; democratic party,; Sarah Palin,; healthcare,; republican party,; Tea Party

What If the Tea Party Gang Really Is Crazy?

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Here’s the question that keeps me bolt upright in bed: What if, as I suspect on good days, the Tea Party isn’t just a bloc of conventional conservatives in anti-authoritarian drag who, when tempers cool, will retake possession of their senses?

What if they’re really crazy?

Tags:: Constitution,; Abraham Lincoln,; George Washington,; George Will,; Arthur Schlesinger Jr.,; Glenn Beck,; government,; Barack Obama,; republican party,; Tea Party

How a Republican Majority Should Govern After the 2010 Election

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Democrats are in a state of panic. And Republicans are rightfully giddy about new ABC News/Washington Post poll numbers showing the GOP with huge advantages going into November's midterm elections.

Tags:: unemployment,; Peter Orszag,; Joe Miller,; 2010 election,; Hurricane Katrina,; Glenn Beck,; healthcare reform,; Congress,; economy,; Barack Obama,; George W. Bush,; Iraq war (2003-2011),; Newt Gingrich,; 2012 presidential election,; Ronald Reagan,; Sarah Palin,; healthcare,; Bill Clinton

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