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New Video: Tough Decisions

New Video: Tough Decisions For months the White House has maintained that any “balanced approach” to deficit reduction must include entitlement reform. President Obama has talked about the need to...

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What Happens to All That Tax Money? (Hint: Most of it goes to Social Security...

Long ago, Americans grew immune to reports of federal spending in the billions and then the trillions. It is almost impossible to shock taxpayers. Nevertheless, they do pause every year when they pay...

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Where Does Your Tax Dollar Go?

ICYMI, on Tax Day, Heritage provided a useful chart showing federal spending, by percent, laid out on an image of a dollar bill. As it happens, we at Western Free Press did the same thing last year....

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Arthur Brooks: If you care about the poor, you must support entitlement reform

There’s evidence, and then there’s supposition and rhetoric based on emotion without any data. The latter screams that anyone who calls for entitlement reform hates poor people and wants grandma to eat...

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Where Some Compromise, Others Have Conscience

The Arizona Republic recently ran a story suggesting Congress has lost the art of compromise. To make the point, they highlighted the recent votes in the House on the FARRM Bill. Claiming this bill was...

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Three Reasons to Fix Social Security Now!

This might be better titled Three reasons to scrap Social Security and start over with something that isn’t failed, insolvent, and completely coercive, or If you are young, you are getting totally...

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Voters Should Give Congress an Earful During August Recess

It’s Time to Demand Leadership From Boehner and McConnell Members of the House and Senate have left Washington and returned to their districts and states for the month-long August recess. For most, it...

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Take One Minute to “Remember the Days …”

Here’s a 1-minute excerpt from a Bill Whittle “Afterburner” video in which he calls on us to remember life before Obama. Wow. That’s a lot of fundamental change in only 5 years! One wonders what’s in...

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Does the collapse of Detroit herald the collapse of the nation?

If we do nothing, Detroit’s fate may befall the whole nation. Not all the problems are the same, but one of the biggest is: making promises that cannot possibly be kept. We did this video a while back,...

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Obama’s Lasting Legacy: Transforming America

A Nation of Dependents That Sustain the Democratic Party On the eve of the election in 2008, Barack Obama got lost in his own enthusiasm and revealed his agenda for the coming presidency when he said,...

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Chart: Detroit’s problems are nothing in comparison to the federal government’s!

Take a moment to understand the horrifying implications of this chart: (More from Heritage)      

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Is America the new Rome, and are libertarians geeks?

The first, a serious question, one which we ourselves explored a bit in Rome, America, and the Collapse of the Welfare State. The second—well, we’ll leave it to you to decide.

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We’re in the Matrix, and the Democrats are the Machines

Wake up, Neo. In the aftermath of the short-lived, but politically potent, government shutdown, we learned some shocking news: Democrats plan to try to use the leverage they (think) they gained from...

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Boiling Frogs

ObamaCare is merely the natural extension of the welfare state we’ve evolved into over the past century.  We now offer 99 weeks of unemployment insurance, which acts to discourage its recipients from...

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Obama’s Failed Central Planning

Many national economies are having trouble these days as they are either slowing down or not expanding. Remember, the only way to a successful economy is through continuous expansion. Two of the...

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America Is In Worse Fiscal Shape Than Detroit

By Greg Hunter, USAWatchdog.com Professor Laurence Kotlikoff Video Report Boston University Economics Professor, Laurence Kotlikoff, says, “The country is in worse fiscal shape by many miles than...

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Star Parker on Reforming Social Security

Parker’s got some interesting ideas on how to effect a transition in a way that would be harder for the media-Democrat axis to defeat. They don’t seem entirely fair, in that they give only a certain...

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By: CarlosJM

Yes siree Tedy! What this remarkable human being has done transcends football. That’s why he’d make a helluva head coach someday. Tone, any idea where one could find that ’95 game vs. ASU won by The...

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By: Anthony_Gimino

This link has UA-ASU highlights from 1982-2001, including a couple from 1995 (with the great Chuck Osborne sack and forced fumble that was returned for a TD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGFzfYt-YyM

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By: CarlosJM

Awesome! Oh to get that magic back…Coach RichRod wanting to win Arizona in recruiting, AD Byrne taking it to them where it counts — in their own backyard, Glendale, and alums like Bruschi winning a day...

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