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The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today that indicates politicians are going to fold on social security reform. Since we have been one of the only voices for personal retirement accounts recently, I guess we will have to roll up our sleeves and get down to business fighting “Democrats who don’t care and Republicans […]

Senator Tom Coburn is one of the few Senators who actually cares about fiscal restraint.
Today’s Opinion Journal has a good piece by John Fund about Sen. Coburn’s efforts here.
“By either staying home or not voting Republican, many voters were sending a message that they don’t want to give the spending favor factory that Congress had […]

Amity Shlaes has a great article at Bloomberg on Milton Friedman’s world wide legacy.
Today’s papers are filled with tributes to the scholarly contributions of Milton Friedman, who died yesterday at the age of 94.
They note how the great economist invented modern monetarism and vanquished orthodox Keynesianism with a single phrase: “Inflation is always and everywhere […]

Rep. John Shadegg has a great piece in NRO on the Republican Party.
What happened to our promises? Huge government entitlements threaten to bankrupt the federal budget, earmarks exploded and often appeared corrupt and self-serving even if they weren’t, and the budget process has not been reformed. Still, some Republicans were surprised when some of the […]

The Associated Press reports on presidential contenders for 2008.
Others who have raised significant funds are Guiliani and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. But both face questions about whether they can win support from Republican primary voters — Guiliani because of his liberal views on social issues including gay rights, gun control and legal abortion and […]

The Anniston Star has an editorial titled, Religious Right and Republicans: What is happening to GOP?
In it, they ask, “Was Armey right? Was the “thumpin’” the Republicans took the “electoral rout” he predicted?”
Read HERE to find out.
Excerpt:
Was Armey right? Was the “thumpin’” the Republicans took the “electoral rout” he predicted?
In a way it was.
Polls are […]

Armey discusses Guiliani as the Republican nominee for President.

Dick Armey appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show before the elections.
Here is the audio from that appearance.

Michael Medved has a great write up on potential minimum wage increases.
During the campaign, soon-to-be House Speaker Pelosi declared: “Republicans have never hesitated to cut taxes for the wealthiest few but they have refused to give America’s workers a raise for nearly a decade…. That’s immoral, and Democrats will take our nation in a new […]

Here is the link to the interview.
Excerpts:
Do the midterms show that Republicans have lost the political middle ground?
For now. The good news is they can very quickly get the middle of the spectrum back. Most of the big issues that face the American people require a substantial change in policy that the Democratic Party is […]