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Who are ‘the uninsured?’

Today’s Washington Times editorial takes an eye-opening look into the Obama insinuation that America’s 45 million uninsured are middle-class families who simply can’t get health insurance unless Congress gives in to his proposed government takeover of health care. Click here to read the editorial, or pick up a copy of the Times if you live […]

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Barr: Despite crisis fad, sky’s not falling

Congressman Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, writes in this week’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution column on the media’s penchant for blowing isolated problems up into overhyped crises, and the government’s equally-overhyped response. You may read the full column by clicking here to to go the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website, or clicking here to go to […]

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The lights are on, but nobody’s home.

The Obama administration, convinced that lightbulbs and other uses of energy are destroying the planet, is considering imposing $646 billion in new "light switch" taxes on Americans to drive up utility bills and force people to use less electricity.  The American Council for Capital Formation, using the Energy Department’s own forecasting models, finds so-called "cap […]

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Six of the top ten Senate ‘porkers’ are Republican

Taxpayers for Common Sense released a database Monday of the 8,570 earmarks, totaling $7.7 billion, in the FY09 omnibus spending bill. Remember all that talk last week about Republicans "learning the error of their ways" and promising to embrace fiscal responsibility?  Well, it seems six of the ten biggest recepients of earmarks just happen to […]

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Libertarian Party of Washington State Convention scheduled March 28

For Immediate Release Sunday, February 1, 2009 The Libertarian Party of Washington will hold its state convention Sat., Mar. 28, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Issaquah. The convention opens at 9:00 a.m., with the business session beginning at 10:00 a.m. The convention will select a new Executive Committee, workshops on grassroots organizing, social media […]

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Bush Gets Ramos/Compean Commutation Right

When Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were arrested and convicted for crimes surrounding the 2005 shooting of drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, they became a symbol of the immigration problems facing the United States. They were given a prison sentence of more than 10 years for what some believed to be them "just […]

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