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Full Text Of Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism Speech (1910) & President Obama’s New “New Nationalism” Speech (2011) 0

Full Text Of Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism Speech (1910) & President Obama’s New “New Nationalism” Speech (2011)

CNN headlined President Obama’s speech from Osawatomie, Kansas Obama channels Roosevelt’s ‘New Nationalism’, referring to “Colonel” Teddy Roosevelt’s 1910 speech, also delivered in Osawatomie, during the opening ceremonies for the John Brown Memorial Park which...

Extending The 2011 Payroll Tax Cut? How To Make The GOP Cry Uncle. 0

Extending The 2011 Payroll Tax Cut? How To Make The GOP Cry Uncle.

Senator John Kyl (R-AZ), who adamantly opposes tax hikes, has found one he really wants to help inflate. How?  By not extending the 2011 payroll tax holiday, he – and the GOP – would  raise the...

The Latest GOP Supercommittee Proposal In A Pie Chart — Congressional Math Classes Needed. 0

The Latest GOP Supercommittee Proposal In A Pie Chart — Congressional Math Classes Needed.

Tonight, The Hill reports that the new GOP deficit reduction plan presented to the Democratic Supercommittee members is as popular as a hippie at a square dance, or less.  To say that Democrats were...

Let’s Move Congress To A Road With More Traffic 1

Let’s Move Congress To A Road With More Traffic

Over the last week an Indiana citizen’s letter to the editor got a not inconsiderable amount of attention. Mr. Tim Abbott, of Crown Point tried to set straight his government’s placement of deer crossings.  Tim wrote...

Herman Cain Surprises Meet The Press – Calls Himself Stupid! 0

Herman Cain Surprises Meet The Press – Calls Himself Stupid!

From: Meet the Press, October 16, 2011, transcript of a portion of the discussion between David Gregory and Herman Cain, arguably the front runner in the GOP presidential race for the party’s nomination.    ...

The White House Debt Ceiling Deal Fact Sheet – Will President Obama Be Named As An Unindicted Co-Conspirator? 0

The White House Debt Ceiling Deal Fact Sheet – Will President Obama Be Named As An Unindicted Co-Conspirator?

Here’s the official White House Fact Sheet: Bipartisan Debt Deal: A Win for the Economy and Budget Discipline, officially and graciously annotated for you by the staff of They Will Say ANYTHING!  We’re none...

White House Debt Summit Tomorrow — Will Obama Cave Or Pave? 0

White House Debt Summit Tomorrow — Will Obama Cave Or Pave?

Tomorrow morning President Obama hosts some friends and enemies at his big white house. They’ll powwow about bills for this and bills for that. Who’ll pay them?  Will we pay them at all?  Can we...

Happy 4th 2011!! WaPo’s EJ Dionne Challenges Tea Party Beliefs About The Declaration Of Independence. 0

Happy 4th 2011!! WaPo’s EJ Dionne Challenges Tea Party Beliefs About The Declaration Of Independence.

Happy 4th!!                         “Please click “Read More . . .” E.J. Dionne’s column today, What our Declaration really said, addresses two major beliefs of Tea Party political fundamentalists. Below is an excerpt from a column...

Here’s A Nasty Piece Of Work Channeling Ayn Rand. 0

Here’s A Nasty Piece Of Work Channeling Ayn Rand.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, 1908-2006 ………………………………. Dear Editor: Atlas...

Oil and Taxes Add to the Political Potboiler Mix 1

Oil and Taxes Add to the Political Potboiler Mix

The article below is a guest post by Phillip Donavan. In 2008, he created the Guide to Online Political Science Degree Programs as well as a Database of On Campus Accredited Political Science Degree...

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