The Political Inquirer

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This time of year is usually “down-time” for politics. Things get boring as people prepare for the ‘good news’ that starts during May and June. Right now is a really bad time, and I’ve gotten tired of it. The Hillary-Barack race has gone on far too long, leading to hatred on both sides. Republicans are [...]

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I hope Cindy Sheehan takes Nancy Pelosi’s seat with a 30% lead. Pelosi has become one of the most objectionable House members I have ever seen or read about in the history of this country, she needs to lose her seat. Pelosi has also been in the House for over twenty years–it’s time for her [...]

Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Election 2008, Politics | Tagged: Cindy Sheehan, Nancy Pelosi | 2 Comments »

Norm sent an article my way from TIME about the Bush administration appealing the classification of visitor’s logs as public information. I can’t speak for the opinions of others on the site but I feel that virtually everything our government does should be public information–especially visitor’s logs. What if the President were conspiring with leaders [...]

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Oil is going to hit $125\barrel, there really isn’t any way to avoid it if the government(s) continue to create problems with the way they are regulating the petroleum industry combined with the falling dollar. Interestingly enough, though, it appears Ron Paul was right on his push for gold. The price of oil in terms [...]

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This is an excerpt of the last chapter of Murray Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression. It is a vital summary of what his book set out to prove.
Mr. Hoover met the challenge of the Great Depression by acting quickly and decisively, indeed almost continuously throughout his term of office, putting into effect “the greatest program of [...]

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Given the New Deal’s powerful grounding in freedom and the striking advances it ushered in for most Americans, why was the right able to reverse the New Deal in just one generation?

Frances Moore Lappé’s tribute to the New Deal in The Nation is nothing short of a worship of government based in a profound ignorance [...]

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On Easter Sunday the number of deaths caused from the Iraq War comes to a total of 4,000. The AP article on the new record is incorrect in its analysis:
…a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.
The push for withdrawal has [...]

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Time has a piece on civil libertarians and domestic wiretapping: apparently most Americans really don’t care about either.
A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United States since 9/11 suggests that the majority of Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the [...]

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March 20th, 2008, marks the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces. The debate over whether we should withdrawal or not continues to this day, but it has begun to subside—one of the greatest dangers in American politics today. Media reporting on the war has gone down. The continuing failure of the [...]

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The House recently passed a new Democrat-backed version of the surveillance bill which laid out rules for listening in on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. However, the President has already vowed to veto the bill, saying “The American people understand the stakes in this struggle. They want their children to be [...]

Filed under: Congress, News, Politics | Tagged: immunity, privacy, Surveillance, telecom | 1 Comment »

Some good news for Murray Sabrin, a libertarian leaning Republican, now in a 2 man race for the Republican senate nomination, according to LRC:
Murray Sabrin’s opponent for the Republican nomination for US Senate in New Jersey made the mistake of debating him today before the Gloucester County GOP Executive Committee. Afterwards, the party brass endorsed [...]

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