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Romney calls for ‘a new president’

By MIKE ALLEN Mitt Romney, speaking in New Hampshire on Saturday night for the first time since the midterms, plans a direct attack on President Barack Obama and what Romney has been calling “the Obama Misery Index.” Romney, in the unofficial kickoff of his Granite State campaign, will be keynoting the Carroll County Republican Lincoln-Reagan [...]

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Romney: Why tax cut is a bad deal

By: Mitt Romney USATODAY Death and taxes, it is said, are life’s only two certainties. But in the wake of President Obama’s tax compromise with congressional Republicans, only death retains the status of certainty: The future for taxes has been left up in the air. And uncertainty is not a friend of investment, growth and [...]

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They Hate Our Guts…..And they’re drunk on power.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD By: P.J. O’Rourke Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell [...]

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GOP Legislative Agenda for 2010

FOXNEWS Rank-and-file House Republicans get their first glimpse at the GOP legislative agenda tonight, one day before the leadership team showcases the plan during a press conference and small business roundtable at a lumber warehouse in suburban Virginia. The game plan is culled from the Republicans’ “America Speaking Out” initiative, which solicited the online input [...]

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How to be Poor

By:  Doctor Zero Extreme poverty is not a difficult condition to reach. All you have to do is remove yourself to a desolate wilderness area, and exert the minimum effort necessary to feed and shelter yourself. Any increase in activity, or human interaction, will make you less poor. It’s more difficult to become poor if [...]

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LEFT INSULTS BLACK AMERICANS

The reposted article below was sent to Solid Principles by a reader who is very active in Conservative causes. The article ties closely into a theme we have written about in the past. We believe that the Republican Party is the natural home for conservative blacks and Hispanics and that when we are successful in [...]

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Hector Maldonado, Candidate for U.S. Senate from Missouri

I had the opportunity to speak with Hector Maldonado at a meeting of Republican Party activists at the Grand Opening & Open House of the MOGOP (Missouri GOP) Victory 2010 Head Quarters in suburban St. Louis Co.  The offices were packed with party loyalists and many “newbies” who haven’t been active in politics in the [...]

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Liberals, Leftists and Laffer Curves

Our friend Jonathan Gardner from the FEDERAL WAY CONSERVATIVE weighs in with a brief tutorial on the Laffer Curve. I know our chances of getting anyone in the Obama administration to so much as look at the Laffer Curve is slim and to actually follow it’s dictates, to wit, refrain from raising taxes above an optimum [...]

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Sodom & Gomorra had nothing on ACORN

In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the latest on the wholesome, clean living, upright folks that work in some ACORN offices. This outfit needs to be completely defunded by Congress, the sooner the better. One more thought: If ACORN is any indication of how our tax dollars get spent, I want my money back. [...]

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