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    Romney Exposes Inner Ayn Rand

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 3:30PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, entitlements, jospeh stiglitz, too big to fail, wall street, financialization, cato institute, barry goldwater, mormonism, christianity, poor, massachusetts, citizenship, atlas shrugged, ludwig von mises, plutocracy, capitalism, 47%, ayn rand, tea party, republican party, president obama, mitt romney, economics

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 11880 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Top Ten Koch Facts

    APRIL 10, 2012 3:35PM

    By Robert Greenwald


    Topics: brave new foundation, robert greenwald, koch brothers exposed, charles koch, david koch, koch industries, koch brothers, cato institute, cancer, keystone xl pipeline, climate change, alternet, new yorker, think progress, joseph stalin, house energy and commerce committee, native americans, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 7840 Views
    • 109 Comments
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    ObamaCare’s Day in Court: Reductio ad absurdum

    MARCH 28, 2012 2:10PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: chief justice roberts, roger pilon, cato institute, free market solutions to health care costs, ayn rand, rand paul, national public radio, nina totenberg, emtala, the emergency medical treatment and active labor act, supreme court review of the affordable care act, individual mandate, obamacare, affordable care act, health care reform, health care, public policy, law, justice alito, : justice scalia

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2549 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Koch Brothers v. Health Reform

    MARCH 26, 2012 3:41PM

    By Robert Greenwald


    Topics: open call, health care reform, landmark legal foundation, family research council, cato institute, freedom works, texas public policy foundation, pacific research institute, competitive enterprise institute, galen institute, claude r. lambe charitable foundation, national federation of independent business, koch brothers exposed, americans for prosperity, affordable care act, supreme court, rand paul, jim demint, michelle bachmann, jesse lava, brave new foundation, robert greenwald, david koch, charles koch, koch brothers

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 1456 Views
    • 62 Comments
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    Repeal & Replace…With What?

    NOVEMBER 24, 2010 8:27AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: empowering states to innovate act, ron wyden, scott brown, brown-wyden plan, deregulating health care, market-based health care reform, republican health care reform proposals, eliminating third party payers, hsas, health savings accounts, interstate insurance operations, tort reform, 2011 republican agenda, health care reform threatened, health care reform, cato institute, repeal and replace, politics, health, business

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 8712 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Double Dip: Will We Repeat 1937?

    MARCH 4, 2010 8:38AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: federal deficit, does pursuit of self-interest improve society?, john reed, john bogle, keynesians, paul volker, economic meltdown, mortgage crisis, foreclosures, unemployment, jobs, bill clinton, disenfranchised patriots, glass-steagall, jim bunning, wayback machine, sarah palin, mitt romney, ron paul, tim pawlenty, goldman sachs, bank bailouts, aig, tea party, cato institute, tarp, stimulus, commonwealth club of california, andrew leonard, larry summers, barack obama, nobel laureate in economics, dr. joseph stiglitz, recession of 1937, roosevelt, wpa, great depression, double dip recession, business, politics, finance, economics, roosevelt recession of 1937

    • Editor's Pick
    • 36 Ratings
    • 12781 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    Hated Roosevelt, Hate Obama: Paleoconservative Persuasions

    NOVEMBER 5, 2009 10:11AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: belief/religion, politics, albert jay nock, our enemy-the state, republican talking points, great depression, opposition to roosevelt, glen beck, michele bachmann, sarah palin, rush limbaugh, barack obama, cato institute, anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-libertarians, libertarian, frank chodorov, murray rothbard, william f. buckley jr., ayn rand, paleoconservatism, neocon, statism, anti-statism, conservative, praise god but get even, franz oppenheimer, conservatism, right wing, economic bailout, economic meltdown, “great recession”, herbert spencer

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    • 16 Ratings
    • 4235 Views
    • 123 Comments
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    Meet George Donnelly—He Wants to Show You His Gun

    OCTOBER 28, 2009 6:03PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: pennsylvania firearm owners association, second amendment, pistol-packing soccer mom, opencarry.org, handguns, meleanie hain, news, politics, open carry, gun control, george donnelly, plymouth pa cops assault me and terrorize my toddler son right outside my home, statism, anti-statism, anarcho-libertarian, putting out fire with gasoline, david bowie, plymouth pennsylvania police department, mothers against guns, culture wars, “disenfranchised patriots”, guns in parks, the legacy of ayn rand, cato institute, open carry activist, open carry movement, cato institute thugs, fashion forecast

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