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George and Mitt Romney: Like Father, Like Son?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 31, 2012 Comment (3)In conservative political folklore, the 1964 election was a crushing defeat that laid the philosophical groundwork that ultimately led to Ronald Reagan's triumph.
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The 'Truths' Mitt Romney is Willing to Tell
Tweet Share on Facebook January 30, 2012 Comment (1)The great German filmmaker Werner Herzog has an illuminating formulation to describe his unorthodox way of making documentaries. There is, Herzog says, an "accountant's truth," and there is an "ecstatic truth."
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Sarah Palin's Newt Gingrich Embrace
Tweet Share on Facebook January 27, 2012 Comment (15)The circling of wagons against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been quite a spectacle. Establishment dinosaurs like former Sen. Bob Dole, the Reaganite grande dame Peggy Noonan, the moderate agoniste David Frum, the reclusive Web guerrilla Matt Drudge, even the flame-throwing Ann Coulter—rarely do you see such a diverse array of establishment and movement conservatives in such united opposition to someone who's at least nominally conservative.
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Why Newt Gingrich Can't Sustain Momentum
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2012 Comment (1)By now a clear pattern has emerged in the two-way race between former Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Romney is the center of gravity, while Gingrich experiences periodic boomlets of zeal-driven support that he can't sustain.
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Obama Win or Loss, Deficit Fix Will Still Require a Grand Bargain
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2012 Comment (1)Ross Douthat rightly calls out President Obama for proposing a bevy of costly new populist microinitiatives in his State of the Union address.
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The Evolving Fear of 'Big Government' and 'Big Business'
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2012 CommentI've got in front of me a fascinating little document, published in 1952 and now apparently out of out print, called Big Business: A New Era.
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Understanding Mitt Romney's Bain Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook January 23, 2012 Comment (4)The beauty of modern computational finance, or financial engineering, is how much wealth it can create beyond that which is produced through toil or invention.
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Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul Flub America’s Post-WWII Economic History
Tweet Share on Facebook January 20, 2012 Comment (44)There was a revealing moment in Thursday night's GOP debate in Charleston, S.C.
Rep. Ron Paul dilated on the problems of reintegrating veterans into a postwar economy:
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Why the 2012 GOPers Aren't Talking About Obamacare
Tweet Share on Facebook January 20, 2012 Comment (2)After more than a year's worth of ferocious opposition, it might seem odd to ask, but here it goes: If Republicans capture the White House and the Senate, how hard will they push for a full repeal of Obamacare?
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Bain Capital Can Still Hurt Mitt Romney in November
Tweet Share on Facebook January 18, 2012 Comment (1)Some conservatives are breathing a sigh of relief that the "Bain stuff"—former Gov. Mitt Romney's successful career in the private equity and venture capital industry—is coming out now, rather than in the general election, when President Obama could have sprung it on unsuspecting electorate.
