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True Confessions

Stanton Samenow has worked with and written about criminals for decades. His book Inside the Criminal Mind is a good introduction to criminal psychology. Working with criminals who want to live as law abiding citizens, he addresses the lies they have accepted as truth. Some of these lies, such as “I won’t get caught” or [...]

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Debt Limit Debate: What’s Really Going On?

Watching TV while eating lunch today inspired this rant. Relevant ideas for your consideration: The budget “cuts” are compounded over ten years, but the debt ceiling raise is just until it gets used up again. So when they talk about “$2 Trillion in cuts and $2 Trillion in debt ceiling increase” what they mean is [...]

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Obama: “Americans Are Too Uninformed To Participate In The Budget Debate”

What arrogance; what ego. As a recruiting tool for Tea Party-minded folks, he’s too good to be true. Your fence-sitting friends need to see this.

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Republicans Cave; Debt Ceiling Will Be Raised

Bloomberg: “House Speaker John Boehner said he agrees that the U.S. debt limit must be raised and the government can’t be allowed to default on its debts, but he also said Democrats are not serious enough about trimming entitlement programs.” I imagine the discussion at the White House went something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-sSWkJUaQ&feature=related

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Open Letter to Senator Warner

Senator Warner, In your recent column in the Washington Post “Opinions” page, you made an argument that we need to cut spending and raise revenue now in order to cut the deficit. You also said that the budget is 25 percent of GDP and revenue is 15 percent of GDP which are respectively too high [...]

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Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead: Envisioning The Collapse Of The Federal Government

What will you do with your new-found liberty? Many of us will find it bracing and exhilarating. Many others will hate it with every fiber of their being. The basis for these very disparate reactions will be the same: you will be on your own. We had better be making provisions to save the Commonwealth [...]

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ACTION ALERT: Contact Leader Cantor’s office TODAY on the debt ceiling!

It’s being reported that a deal on the debt ceiling may come to a vote in the next 24-48 hours. Please contact Congressman Cantor’s office and tell him that you do NOT support raising the debt ceiling without following the “Cut, Cap, and Balance” proposal. Remember: NO RAISING of the debt ceiling without Cut, Cap, [...]

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Republicans: “Americans: We’re Getting Ready To Screw You In The Wrong Place, Really Hard”

That’s the message you should see whenever they say “We’re going to punt this problem until after the next election.” It means they are going to do something the voters really hate, and so they hope to be able to make you forget what they did by the time another two years passes. It means [...]

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New RTP Column: “The Daily Outrage”

With the steady onslaught of insanity being perpetrated on the taxpayers, we thought that you’d like to learn about some of the most egregious examples. As a result, we will be starting a new recurring column titled “The Daily Outrage”. Perhaps this will simply be cathartic for us, sharing the lunacy with supporters. Or maybe [...]

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Introducing The Sound Money Promotion Act, S. 1287

Want to stop deficit spending? Shut off the Fed’s printing presses because at this point, the Fed is buying most federal debt with dollars it printed up in the basement. The simple act of requiring money to be real would mean the presses would stop, since nothing with “real” value comes off a printing press. [...]

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